Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 October 1889 — Page 1

S. L MOUHT, Editor tad Proprietor. VOLUME XX. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right OFFICE, over J. B. YOTJHG & 00,'8 Store, Mala Street PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER il, 1889. NUMBER 24.

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rnorcsaioNAi. cakd*. E A. ELY, Attorney at Law, VElER-<nURO, IND. Ofllrr: Over J. It Adapt* A Son’* Drag Store. Hr in »lw> a raentlair oMhe Catted Hut,-* Collection A»a 'i niton. and give* prompt attention to every miUcr iu which lie id employed. It 1*. Rich ah mum. a. H. Tatum RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, PETKIIHBUHU, Ufa Prompt Attention given to nil h'Uln«»i A Notary l,ui»iur.ni*nily in the office, office In t'nrpenter lhm*lm*. m!j »n»I Alain. X" w. \\ vom Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG, INU |WOfl»c<>: Oirer J. It Young A Oo.*i Storo. I~H. LaMAUR, “ Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND., Will peortice la Ptke and adjoining eoun Hr* OAca: Montgomery'* budding. OSce hour* ila* and night. Hrlturaict *1 women and children n aiafUlty. Chronic and dtfllcult eaara aolletled. HEN BY FIELDS,« Insurance & Real Estate , AGENT, PETERSBUliU* . : : INDIANA. Ucgtit* u notnpanie* i cyretefd Prompt it tent on to t»usin*>«». Notary NuMmm atlwbtcd to. ReaeoDaMc ratca. Ottcti: flank Ituiblmg. EDWIN SMITH. ATTORNEY AT LAW, -A«»- . Real Estate Agent PETERSBURG. - • INDIANA. oniee, over Go* Prank'* atoro. Special at ■ teniion given to Collect :on», Buy In: an 1 Sell mg t.itn-l*. P.xnmimn.4 Ttilea aodPurnlaldnd ibtlnrlx ' ______ R. R. A J. T. K1ME. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, PETERSBURG. DID. Offin: In Hank Building: realdeoro on Seventh Street, ihiee *iJ»rr. MUth ot Main, ram promptly attended to. day or ntght. J. B. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND. OflJc* on Aral floor Carpenter Building

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of thn Dally Neva WAMIKSTOH MOT Its. Two of ib« outplay*! of IM Pension Office whose pension! wore reretad bore been officially requested to' refund to the Government the extra money paid to them on account of each reretlug. I It le the general impreeiion of official! ! at tb* Navy Department that the board of survey recently ordered on the Ossip* ! pee will report la favor of condemning 1 tbe vessel. A smtiro was held at Washington on the night of the Z3d to perfect an organ* iration for sacnriag the World’s Fair In that city. Cosavt, Lewis, lata of Tangier, baa given his statement of the Imprisonment affair to Secretary Blaine. Mo details of the hearing were published. Wii.uamG. Gresham, brother of United State* Circuit Jn Ig* W. Q. Gresham, has been appointed postmaster at St Peter, Minn. Tub annual report of the enpei vising In* epeotor of steam vessels shows that dor* ing fifteen years past the number of stsnm vessels In the United State* ha* increased f. on 3,886 to ft,733. The requireuientf of the United States sinking fund for the present ffscat year, •slimsted at (48,000,0001 have been met, tbe bonds purchased on tbe 34th bringing the tout of this fund np to the amount re* quired by law. Assistant Cater Banders of the bureau of navigation of the Treasury Department, has been ordered to duty In connection with the international maritime conference. Th* new Commissioner of Pensions made special his first pension case. It was the j application of a lady ninety-three year* old, t ie widow of a veteran of the war of 1811. Bhe called on the Commissioner . personally and he decided that her claims ! were strong enough to have tbe case made sje.-iai. The State Department's estimates for [ 1881-01 aggregate about *3,000,000. Tbe i principal new item Is $(.000 for new furniture tor the department rooms. TUB BAST. Low water has lnllloted much loss to | manufacturers In Wsstern Mew York. ' The cause was attributed to easterly winds blowing on the takes. Two young men were struck by en ex* I press train at Methuen, Mesa, tbe other I morning and Instantly killed. Thk (Episcopal convention had a very hnated discussion over a change in the ! marriage service making it read “they [ may abide together tn love” instead of “in t Thy love” The change was adopted. The typhoid symptoms among the Yale i student* at Mew Haven, Coo a., le causing | increased uneasiness, ^leveret men who | showed mild symptonre of typhoid fever i have been seat to thebr home* to recuperate.

rat tactions in me roiish L et hoi i< i Church at Plymouth, Pm, were In open hostilities recently. Onu* wore pointed ] at Bishop O’Hara, who attempted to take i possession of the pa re os aye. in the melee Coni table Melvin wai killed. Tan cable of a train of ooal care aa1 cendlng tVliheeharre i.Pa.) mountain | broke the other day when near the top. ■ The care ru'hed to the bottom end were i smashed. W. 1L Adame John Hoot and j Hugh Ferguson were taken lion the I wreck a) its, but totally t ort i rimo liana soviet, a Pole, waa banged : at Pottavllle, Fa., recently for the murder I of two women, which waa committed white ] he *»i cubbing a tana Tftc built made n raid on the oil market ] at PitUluigh, Pa., on the S31 and run the I price np tour cent*. I Kl Rio Ray, the celelirated two-year-old colt, was thought to be stricken with | pneumonia at Westchester, N. Y. Max Boxaa and Chris Ficken wore suffocated in bed nt New York recently, j The ga* had been left to eacape. Ihk round bouae and machine and re- ! pair ahopa at Caatle Shannon, Pm, were | destroyed by Are the other night, ceuaing SH«W loaa ; lax following amountn were pledge I to the New York W or Id’s Pair on the lltfa: C Vanderbilt, $100,000; New York Central i A Hudson River Railroad Company, flOO.OUUj Wagner Palace Car Company, $W,j .00; Joseph Pnlitacr, 150 000. Tug jury In the rase of Assemblyman j Smith, of Naw York City, charged with i bribery at election a. were unable to agree ] and were discharged. Thb Episcopal convention adjourned sine die at New York on the ttlb. Tub will of the lale K. O. Babbitt, the wealthy soap manufacturer of New York, ; ha* been probated. HU widow la left the | family: home and f400,000 cash In trust for their daughter Ida. Aaotber daugh’er. Lilia K. Babbitt, la left fSOOOUO cash and 1300,000 of New York Central & Hudson River railroad stock. An nut< piy baa been had on the body of William Bums, a saloon passenger on fba steamer Uond<\ who died oo the steatuei ’< arrive] at New York quarantine. It showed coec usively that Burns died ot yellow fever. Joel & Moobkhbad. a millionaire of Philadelphia, is dead. A it’rrtUBD Tascott was arrested at Heading. Pa., oe >h> 23 h lh> detective* were sure of their man. At the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Crueltv to Children, Chang Iwa, a Buffalo (N. Y.l launaryman. hat beta arrested for abducting two little girl* fiom their homes. Two children were fatally injured nt Franklin, Fa. They had found a dynamite bomb and were playing with it when tt exploded. Eight other children were eerioutly hurt. Qioatia Bsuocntn. aged twenty-one, working on a new Congregational cbarch at Newport, Va. recently tell eighty feet from the spire and was fatally Injured. Hon. Jiiiiui Mclliub. ex-Spoaker of the New York Assembly, died recently. He had been In poor health lor soma turns. Svsan B. Anthony Is hopeful of woman suffrage in the State of South Dakota. Iris >sported at Uuthrie that the Missouri Pacific system will he extended through Oklahoma. A panic t ccurred in a crowded factory on F-fth avenue, Chicago, recently, caused by the baraing of snlphur. Manyof the employes were rescued in a half-suffo-cated condition. Lbon Wait, a temp iron dealer of ^Cleveland, U, has assigned with $3(4000 'liabilities and email assets. The,Erie Railway Company lotos $31,0001 A block of frame houses in the Town of lisake, e suburb of Chicago, were das' roved l>y fire ibe other morning. Many people 1*4 narrow topee. Pension Aqbht Allen, of 8an Frandeco says the pension fraud cue growing cut of the raising of n check on Wei a Fargo A Co, is an eld one. having occurred ihree year* ego The check sit alfared from $18 to $1 SOft The culUy pensioner. Uaarv Metenif U serving n five years' term for the crime. The corooer’s jury at Clayton, St. LoaU County, Mo., over the killing of Frank J. Bowman bv tt M. Chambers returned a verdict of willful and feiooious shooting. Qvitb a heavy snow fell throughout Northern Michigan on the lid. Ah unknown nmtyraa found burned to l-a'h In ihePrndieion lodging bourn in OAlnth, Minn. _ lit t'mongo gas Imst has subscribed I«fi0u0 to the World’s Fair project for that rnly. Is jurv was rerup’nted October -vm*c„cei <W-« l

tad Hocking Valley Coal Company at Ohio have (truck tor recognition of their progressive ur ion. Mimas from along the Yukon irlrar la Alaaka who have arrived at San Fmnoleoo deny that there !• any tmth la the recent reporta of etaivatlon hi that section. Tn etrikin); switchman ot the Illinois Central railroad tn Chicago have returned to work, their grievance# having been Tn wheat grower# of the Minaieslppi valley met In oonventloo at 8t Louis on them Hannv M. Loin, the tax boodler of Bloomington. UL. haa been sentenced to one year In tike penitentiary. Hiatt storms around Loo via galea, Cat, have Inflicted considerable damage. A Decision of the Iowa Bnpreme Court extend# the “nnitanoe” feature ot the Prohibition law over the property of defendanta The brewerlee at Burlington, valued at 13110,000 ware therefore rendered valueleaa Bxvaaai, vessels went ashore In a bunch at WinneUt , Lake Michigan, the other night. The Bvaaatoa lifeboat wont to the rescue of tho crews. Tin large flooring mUl of the Is C Porter Milling Company at Winona. Minn* haa been burned to the ground. The capacity of the mill was 1.400 barrels daily. Lose, $100,0(0. with fair Insurano t. HnnnT M cNamasa, an editor of Guthrie, Ok., was horsewhipped by a Mrs. Haines recently because ot an offensive paragraph. A plot to release prisoners at Blag Bing has been frustrated. A UTTLtt daughter of Captain Michaels, of Montague, Mich., was burned to death In her fatbnr’s barn recently. The house was also consumed. A runiOHT engine running at full speed between Valparaiso and Haskells, lad* exploded s, crown sheet The Bremen, John Hadden,, was hurled from the cab over the tender against the first oar. The wheals of tke entire train cut hie body to pieces Engineer Thomas Callahan, was scalded In a horrible manner. Tun recent wheal growers' convention at St Louis, after tbs adoption of resolutions, elected the following officers: President Hon. Borman J. Dolman, ot Missouri, with the privilege ot naming hie own secretary; executive board, W. L. Scott and A. D. Noe, of Kentuohy; N. 1. Dolman aid U. 8. Hall, ot Mieaourt; E. H. Murphy and P. A. O’Dell, of Minnesota; D. H Green and J. T. McCaffrey, ot IUIaoie; Calvin Cole and George Gibson, of Oregon; vralter N. Allen and ex-Gover-nor Charles Robinson, of Kansas; J. A. Coates and D- A. Eppson, of Indiana; N. U Walker, of Tennessee, and H N. Bargent of Okies Gkouas Curtis nnd Charles Kimmlok have been held tor trial at Ashland, Wla, on the charge ot being principals In a prise flghl. Tan strike ot the switchmen at Evansvilla, led. , has ended In the defeat ot the men, many of whom have lost their places. Fifths farms near Fergus Falls, Minn., have been devastated by prairie fires. JUDOX I'mKKDEROASThas Issued warrants for the arrest of W. E, Kent nnd Thomas & Downey, Chicago Fifth ward politicians, I charged with procuring u change ot namesI of election judges by false re presentations. I Five hundred Chicago tailors struck on tbsMth. Tax Supreme Court of Illinois bns dsi elded that a railway company allowing newstoys on it« cars Is responsibls tor any damages that tkey may receive. This Is ' tbs first decision of its kind and is of great 1 importan .-e to railroad people. Tax examination of witaeasea In the | Cronin oese commenced at Chicago on the I 24th. Fima at Port Clinton, Ot, tbo other night i destroyed the lumber yard ot August ' Bpies & Co. and other property. Lose, j $100,000. Quirr powder was exploded in the bad ; of Osoar Steinberg, a sign painter, at ! Butte, Mont, while he was asleep the other night, and he wee fatally injured. ; Hia wife and son were arrested tor the ! crime.

A convgsnoii of perron* in tern ted in the mini* g Industry no* been called for Salt Lake City, Utah, November 10, to take >t pi to farce a chance of ruling In regard to leed-tilver ore if possible. Lswis A Bkach, agent of Ihe Cleveland * Marietta railway and of the American Kzpreu Company at Phil 11 pa burg. O., ha* disappeared, leaving an unknown short•I* 'I Haas trainmen io*t their live* in banting oil by a wreck and explosion on the Lake Krl>& Western at Kokomo recently. Their awful fate was the work of unknown miscreants who placed an obstruction on the iratck. Charles MqIlvajk, nineteen year* old, murderer of Christina W. Luca while commit!;! g burglary on the night of An-, gust 21-22 last, ha* b*en sentenced to death by electricity at Blag Bing prison In the week beginning December Ik At a Democratic meeting in Cincinnati recently Judge Thurman, while miking n speech, was overcome by weakness and bad to abruptly close. By the premature explosion of a cannon during n political meeting at Ztoesvill* a. William Nevitt waa blown fifty feet and fatally injured. Hav. ,1. W. Powell’s private bank at Fostorin, U, has closed its doois The assets and liabilities ar* each about $24,TUK SOUTH. Ki-ockk Christ* ax. a colored jockey, was killed on the Louisville & Nash villa near Bangor, Ala., recently by the can junipinit >be track. He was feeding his horses sit the time Three trainmen were tuidlr hurt; biz of the children in Ike Protestant Orphan Home at 8sn Antonio, Tez, recently drank poisoned milk. Two of them died. The remainder ware in a precarious condition. A nzronr that William Howard with a hundred nun was baeieging County Judge Lewis itus court house at Barlantown, Ky„ bus been confirmed. Howard is tbs man for whoa* arrest large rewards have been offered, both in Kentucky and MisTaadlrs: snow of the season fell at Cam* berlowJ, bid., and Baltimore on the Si Goviumoa Lzz. of Virginia, has resigned his position as president of the board Jf visi ors of the Confederate Soldiers’ dome at Richmond. JptMit Morris, of the United State* Oi trill Court cf Baltimore, bas decided that Hie sinking of oyster pirate boats by ibe Bind* vessels was perfectly ju-tillable. In Howard and Turner tael ions fousht recent ly at Harlan Ctonrt House, Ky. One man wo* kliisd nod «v* injured. - Bt the ezplosion of the boiler of a steam ooMon gin naar Pleasant Platan Art. tbs o’her day. Klaval and Alphonso Roberttan. brothers, were fatally and two other men serlon-ly hurt Ms.ton Bonn, ez-Trenaurer of Lcoitisua, las been indeted for the bond fraudk JUPOB1 JVPMA. KBIIMT, Te*., was kilted recently by bin team. He was caught between the boa and a tree and mangled to ' was t v'niyBfl A i-ua.'U r« union of the Ai I v sloti of lbs Traveler#’ Protection wan at Little Roth on tbo Earle wo corned the ' ‘ In I bn evening a ball A TMPrs' di

- BIWIMI. Richelieu Devot dropped from t M< loco tt Wolverhampton, England, recently, making the wonderful performanoe of ascending 14.000 feet and eocoeex fully dropping from that great hhlfefct holding to a parachute. Tn Grand Duke Nicholas of Rants, uncle of the Cser, U dying from a cancerous trouble of the ear. Tan Jesuit missionaries have been expelled from Uny amyembe, Zaneibar, and their mleslon destroyed. Taa miners of Belgium have demanded a 10 per cent increase In wages, with a strike as the alternative Kiokt tenants are threatened with eviction at Kaloarragh, County Donegal, Ireland. Cbamjm Beadlacoe, the English rad* ioal and free thinker, was reported critically sick on the 33d. 1 Tan office of general manager of the Union Pacific has been abolished. Taa German Reichstag was opened on them Tax Government bonds supposed to have been stolen in the City of Mexico have taruee up all right. It is stated that Kossuth will be naturalised as an Italian. ft Mr. Qusmm addressed a large gathering at Boutbport, England, recently. He was sanguine of Liberal success, but did not outline any fresh policy. Com Oncna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan, upon whose life au attempt « as made a few days ago. was more seriously wounded than was at first supposed. The wound, which was In the leg, assumed such a state that amputation was It is stated at Shanghai that the collapse of the railway seheme is doe to French Insistence upon the enforcement of an article in an old treaty entitling France to supply the personnel and material tor any Chinese railway. ▲a alliance is reported between the Chicago ft northwestern and the Union Pacific systems. The C. ft H. is under control of the Vanderbilts, and the report gave rise to considerable speculation. Taa King of the Netherlands will abdicate the title of King of Luxemburg in favor of the Duke of Nassau. Foum parsons were burned to death by the burning of the steamer Quin to in the bay of Quint*. Canada. Rilusu news has been received by Captain Wissman concerning Emin Pasha and Henry X. Stanley, Signor CaaaU and six Englishmen. They are all expected to arrive at Mwapwa at the latter part of November. Captain Wissman also says that he defeated a force of Insurgents near Somwe and killed seventy of them. Admiral Gilus reports from Montevideo that yellow fever is spreading in Brasil and is likely to give serious trouhle during the coming summer. Ax explosion of dynamite in Montreal Can., the other morning canted one deatiP and the serious injury of five other persona. Taa Russian Government has offered prises of 1000 francs and a large gold and several silver medals for the best essays on the part John Howard took In prison reforms, to be delivered at the fourth international prison congress in Russia next year. Lord Derbt, tn a speech at Liverpool, indorsed Mr. Gladstone** foreign policy. He deprecated alliances and said England had no business to assist Germany in keeping conquered provinces. Tax Parnell Commission recommenced at London on the 34th. Advices from Belle Isle and Labrador show continued destitution. KenvwoiiAjrs. .hocks were felt over a large part or Mexico the othaFfiay, but no damage was dona ~ The traders and manufaetarers of England are up in arms against the unjust charges of the railroads and the high handed treatment accorded shippers. A Cokservative defeated the Home Rule candidate at Brighton, England. Tbs vote was 7.133 to 4.635. Miss Wisitix Davis, daughter of the ex-Confederats President, will spend the winter In Europe Begun S3 failures (Dun’s report) for the seven daye ended October 34 numbered, including Canada. 335, compared with £64 the corresponding week of last year. Tax negroee concerned in the fatal rioting on Navaeea island. West Indies, have been landed at Baltimore and jailed. Jay Gould thinks that ths combination of railroads, as ofton mooted, ie not at i protent featlhia A esttle is reported to have taken place on the itland of 8aveii between the torcea of Malietoe and Tamasesn Which party won was not known* Michael Davitt asserts that ths Pigott forgeries were known to be forgeries by Mr, Houston, secretary of the Loyat and Patriotic Union, before they were published in the London Tiroes. Taa Japanese Cabinet has resigned.

The marriage of the Duke of Sparta j to the Princess Sophie of German* was , solemnised at Athens, on the 8Tth, in i the preeenoe of a magnificent assent- j Wage of royalty and oltiaens of scarcely j loss note1* Tans* Arabs have been executed at ! Owapa for the murder of Mr, Neilsou. ; an offloer of the German East Africa Company* ! Ton launching of the new steel j cruiser San Francisco was successfully accomplished, on the Htt, frosn the Onion Iron Works at San Franelsoo. Geokob A. Halsey, of Newark, N. J., has declined the appointment tendered him by the President to the vacancy in the Cherokee Commission caused by the death of General Hartrenft. In a speech at Chester, England, on the 9«th, Mr. Gladstone said the system of government in America combined that love of freedom and respect lor the law, which formed the surest elements of national greatness. The revolutionary statesmen of America. he declared, were the greatest of any epoch. The position ot the French in Madagascar has again become critical, and the Horns are preparing to repudiate the French protectorate. Aukangkmknts have been made in Washington for n public reception to Miss Clare Barton, president of the American National Bed Cross, on the evening of the ad, in honor of her return from her inborn at Johnstown, Pa. Is his forthcoming annual report Postmaster-General Wanamaker will recommead that post-ofBoes be established on the principal steamers that ply between the United States and Europe, similar to the postal service ret railway trains. This would greatly facilitate the delivery of mail mutter mi both aides the Atlantic. The Russian preen, in oammenting npen the steady increase in the efficiency of Germany's arms, urges the St. Petersburg Government tnadd largely to the ttkength of thejftanstanarfrontier. Cai-raw WioutaxiTs foroes In «un

■—.■~-ri. STATE INTELLIGENCE. Emslky Wright, the aged pioneer of Marion County and substantial tanner Indicted tor killing an unknown tramp, was released on *30,000 bonds, a tew days ago. scores ot his neighbors voluntoering to become surety. He could hare qualified in *100,000, It needful. The Identity ot the murdered man in likely never to be tound out. Hiram Roller, a well-known schoolteacher of Springfield Township, Allen County, tell from a tree and broke his back. He will be crippled tor life. Alonzo Berryman, ot Garfield, Montgomery County, has sued Union Township for $000, claiming that the typhoid fever in his family has been caused by the stagnant water in n pond in front ot his house. The pond was the result ot repairing the road. There are several cases of typhoid fever at Crawfords^ille, supposed to be the result of drinking out ot a well. Ik. Taylor, of the State Board of advises the discontinuance of Che use of the water. Miss Mollis Mobkri y, an Indiana school teacher whose license was revoked, has brought suit for 530,000 datnages. A movement is on foot at Indianapolis to secure the enforcement ot the Sunday law against all classes of business. Geurgk Scu lick wss convicted ot killing Dick Cisco, at Madison, and sentenced to the penitentiary tor fifteen years. Tux cholera is playing havoc among the hogs in Pall Creek Township, Madison County. Several farmua have lost their entire herd. Hiram Benuam, a prominent citlsen of T as well, and proprietor of the Taswell Saw Mills, wss killed at place by a huge tree falling upon him. He was forty years old and leaves a large family. In an effort to stop a runaway, horse at Munde, Jason Jenklnson, residing near De Soto, was thrown against s post. Two ribs were broken, his skull was fractured and he received Internal injuries. Saw Kkstinson, a boy of eighteen, was oonvlcted at Paoli of murder, and sentenced to prison for life. His crime was the cold-blooded murder of his step-father-in-law, at Hlllham, Dubois, County. The following fourth-class poetmastelb were appointed a few days ago: Boundary, Jay County, Rachel Mann; Romena, Owen County, Samuel Steele; Toto, Stark County, laaac R. Basoom. An odd double divorce suit was filed at Indianapolis s few days ago. Amanda Cook seeks a separation from John Cook, and Anna L. Farrell from Frank Farrell. The complaints show the plaintiffs are sisters. Both were married August 19, 1881', and both were deserted by their res]«otive husbands three days after marriage. Near Winchester, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, two mail pouches cut open at the bottom were found weighed down in tho dr* a creek. Postal officials have no knowledge of any missing pouches. At Linden Mrs. Annie Ramsdell fell to the bottom of the cellar stairs with s lamp in her hand. The concussion ot the tall left her unconscious, and the exploding lamp set fire to her clothing. She was burned to death before she was discovered. William H. Anperson, of. Delaware Township. Delaware County, has a goose covered with long liver oolored and white hair instead of feathers. He will send it to the Smithsonian Institute., The Indians Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons held sessions at Indianapolis a few days ago. Reports recived by the Indiana Board ot Health show that the school-houses in the State are poorly ventilated, and that their sanitary condition is bad. The National Wholesale Druggists' Association held its session at Indianapolis the other day. Henry Myeh, a. well-known farmer living near Jamestown, Boone County, had his neck broken by s runaway team. The Montgomery County Farmers Institute will be held at Crawfotdsville on November 5 and A At Corydon a large bull-dog owned by Isaac Mauck attacked Perry Wolfe, thir-teen-y ear-old son of Aaron Wolfe, and so badly lacerated him that it is feared be will die.

A strange cpmeraie is prevailing among hones in Laporte County. When first attacked their tongues become paralyzed, and neither food nor medicine can be foroed down their throats. They die of fever and starvation. The * disease has thus far proved fatal in every case. There is an electric light war in progress at Evansvill& The people will doubtless profit by it The board of Prison South directors have adjourned without leasing any convicts. They will meet again October 9&, when the contract for manufacturing shoes trill be let As George Walden, of EHettsv^lle, with him wife and child, were driving down a hill, the back strap broke, lotting the buggy again* the horse, which ran away. The buggy was overturned and the occupants tumbled out Mr. and Mia. Walden were seriously injured, and the child so badly hurt that it died in a few moments later in its mother’s arms. Jonathan Allen, aged sixty, living near EUettsville, met with a similar accident His injuries are internal, and his recovery is doubtful. He is wealthy, and the principal backer of Franklin College. s Two slick counterfeiters have been successfully working Saline City, Cory and other towns in the southern part of Clay County. Constables White and Crist, of Clay City, run them down new Cory, hut n*» being armed, fared badly. Both officers were severely cut, sad the counterfeiters are still at large. Mas. Cwas. Sirs and Mrs. Austin attempted to drive across the Monon railroad just north of Frankfort, and were •Miek by a passenger train and fatally injured. White feeding a straw-haler at burg, Chas. Fish was caught in the machine. and both his legs were broken, At Shelbyrille. David Sills was found guilty of murdering Edward Stanford, his brother-in-law, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. His brothers Jo® and Albert, indicted with

TALBfAGETS SERMON. Why God Sends Trouble and How It Does Good. » (CMofAdranlDr lUustrated-It Come* as a ChattnUit lafinmc to Bring C* Nearer to Ged-A Model Comforter. Eer. T. DeWltt Talmage delivered the t Mowing sermon in the Brooklyn Acad1 e ay of Music. His subject was * Trouble," and his text: God shaU wipe away all tears from their t yes.—Her. til. He said: Biding across a Western 1 rairie, wild flowers up to the hub of he carriage wheel, and while a long distance from any shelter, there came a i udden shower, and while the rain was ailing in torrents, the sun was shining is brightly as I ever saw it shine, and I ihought what a beautiful spectacle this is! So the tears of the Bible are not midnight storm, but rain on pansled prairies in Qod'a sweet and golden sunlight. Yon remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paul's tears, and Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy that is to spring from the sowing of tears. God mixes them. God rounds them. God shows them where to fall. God exhales them. A census is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they are born and as to the place of their grave. Tears of bad men are not kept. Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair clipped from his horses snd mules, and made a great ado about his grief; but in all the vases of Heaven there is not one of Alexander's tears. I speak of the tears of the good. Alas! me! they are falling all the time. In summer you sometimes hear the growling thunder, and you see there is a storm miles away; but you know from the drift of the clouds that it will not come anywhere near you. So, though it may be all bright around kbont us, there is a shower of troublo somewhere ail the time. Tears! Tears! What Is the use of them, anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all the people ire well and eternal strangers to pain • nd aches? What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor'wester? Why, when a ft mlly is put together, not have them ail stay, or, if they must be transplanted to make other homes, then have them al; live? the family record telling a story of marriages and births, but of no deuths. Why not have the harvests chase each other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It is easy enough to explain a smile, or a success, or s congratulation; but, come now, snd briny all your dictionaries and ail your philisophies and all your religions, and help me explain a tear. A chemist will tell rou that it is made up of salt and lime and other component parts; hut he miss as the chief ingredients—the acid of a mured life, the yiperine sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of a tool en heart. I will tell you what a tear is: it is agony in solution. Hoar me, then, while I discourse to you of the uses of trouble. First. His the design of trouble to keep this world from being too attractive. Something must be done to make us willing to quit this existence. If it were not for trouble this world would be a good enough heaven for me. You and I would be willing to take a lease ef this life for a hundred million years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholstered and pillared and chandeliered with such expense, no story of other worlds could enchant us. We would say: “I>t well enough alone. If you want to die and have your body disintegrated in uhe dust, and your soul go out on a celestial adventure, then you can go; but this world is good enough for me.” Yoi. might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at Paris and tell him to hasten off to the picture galleries of Venice and Florence. •‘Why,” he would say, “what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrandts am1. Rubens and Raphaels hero that I haven't looked at yet.”

Xio man wants to go out ot tins world, or >ut of any house, until he has shottet house. To cure this wish to stay he w. Rod must somehow create a dlsgu tt for our surroundings. Bow shall lie do it? Be can not afford to deface Hit horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel from the sunset, or to subtract an anther trc no the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette, or to drag the robes of the morning in mi re. You can not expect a Christopher Wren to mar his own St. Paul's Cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out til own “Last Judgment,” or a Handel to discord his “Israel in Egypt;’’ and ytu can not expect Rod to spoil the architecture and music of Ills own world. How, then, are are to he made wl lling to leave? Here is where trouble comes in. After a man has had a good dc al of trouble, he says: _ “Well, I am ready to go. If there is •a house somewhere whose roof doesn't 1c alt. I would like to lire there. If there is an atmosphere somewhere that does n it distress the Isifigs, I would like to breathe it If there is a society somev here where there is no tittle-tfittle, I sould like to lire there. If there is s home circle somewhere where I can f nd my lostfriends, I would like to go tier*.” « * He used to read the first part of the Httble chiefly, now he reads the last part the Bible chiefly. Why has he for Revelation? Ah! used to be anxious chiefly to know ■ this world was made, and all about geological construction. Now he is ■fly anxious to know how it looks, who live there, and how they dress, roads Revelation ten times now he reads Genesis once. The old “In the beginning God created arena and earth," does not thrill half as much as the other story: saw a new Heaven and a new earth." old man's hand trembles as he this apocalyptic leaf, and he has to take out his handkerchief to wipe his spectacles. That book of Revelation is a prospectus now of the into which he is to soon emigrate; the country in which he has lots laid out, and avenues opened, planted, and mansions built. The thought of that hie comes over me mightily, that if this house

>x£U •tier awhile you will be ready to go, It was not until Job had hoed worn out with bereavements and carbuncles and a pest of a wife that he wanted to see God. It was not Until the prodigal got tired of living among the hogs that he wanted to go to his father's house. Jhls the ministry of trouble to make ffls world worth less and Heaven w&th more. Again, it is the use of trouble to us feel our complete dependence iffwn Ged. King Alphonso said that if he had beeti present at the creation he could have made a hettfc# world than this. What a pity he was not preSStte! I do not know what God will do when some men die. Men think they can do any thing until God shows them they can do nothing at all. We lay our plans and we like to execute them. It looks big. God comes and takes us down. As Prometheus was assaulted by his enemy, when the lance struck him it opened a great swelling that bad threatened bis death, and he got welh So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon God until we get trouble. 1 was riding with my little child along the road, and she asked if she might drive. I said: “Certainly.” 1 handed over the reins to her, and 1 had to admire the glee with which she drove. But after awhile we met a team, and we had to turn out. The road was narrow, and it was sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins to me, and said: “I think you had better take charge of the horse.” So we are all children; and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power, jt looks big. But after awhile we meet some obstacle, and we have to ti and the road is narrow, and it is1 down on ^oth sides; and then willing that God should take the and drive. Ah' my friends, we set so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough. Can you not tell when you hear a man ray, whether he has had any trouble? can. The cadence, the phraseology indicate it. Why do women pray better than men? Because they have had more trouble. Before a man has had any trouble, his prayers are poetic, and begging away np among the sun, moon and stars, and gives the Lord a great doji of astronomical information that must he highly gratifying. He then comes on down gradually over beautiful tablelands to “forever, and ever, amen." But after a man has bad trouble, prayer is with him a taking hold of the arm of God and crying out for help, 1 have heard earnest prayers on two or three occasions that I rom ember. Once, on the Cincinnati express train, going at forty miles the hour, and the train jumped the track and we were near a chasm eighty feet deep, and the men who, a few minutes before, bad been swearing and blaspheming God, began to pull and jerk at the bell-rope and got up on the back of the seats and cried out: “O God, save us!”

There was another time, about eight hundred miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last life-boat had been split finer than kindling wood. They prayed then. Why is it you so often hear people, in reciting the last experience of some friend, say: “He made the most beautiful prayer I ever heard?” What makes it beautiful? It is the earnestness of it Oh, I tell you a man is in earnest when his stripped and naked soul wades out into the soundless, bottomless ooean of eternity. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependence upon God, We do not know our own weakness or God's strength until the last plank breaks. It is contemptible in us, when th«fa» is nothing else to take hold of, that we catch hold of God only. A man is unfortunate in business. He hss to raise a great deal of money, and raise it quickly. He borrows on word and note all he can borrow. After awhile he puts a mortgage on his house. After awhile he puts a second mortgage on his house. Then he puts a lien on his furniture, then he makes over his life insurance. Then he assigns air his property. Then he goes to his father-in-lsw and asks for help! Well, having failed everywhere, completely tailed, he gets down on his knees and says: "O Lord, I have tried every body and every thing, now help me out of this financial trouble.” He makes God the last resort Instead of the first resort. There are men who have paid ten cents on s dollar who oould have paid a hundred cents on s dollar it they had gone to God in time. Why, you do not know who the Lord is. He is not an autoorat seated far up in a palace, from which He emerges once a year, preceded by herald's swinging swords to clear the way. No. But a Father willing, at our call, to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. . ' I tell you what some of you business men make me think of. A young man goes off ftom home to earn his fortune. He goes with his mother's benediction. She hss large wealth, but he wants to make his own fortune. He goes far iway, falls sick, gets out of money. 3e sends for the hotel-keeper where he s staying, asking for lenience, and the inswer he gets is: “If you don't pay up Saturday night you’ll be removed to the lospital.” The young man sends to a sororade In the same building. No help. 3a writes to a banker who was a friend tf his deceased father. No relief. He rrites to an old schoolmate, but gets no telp. Saturday night comes, and he is noved to the hospital. Getting there, he 1$ frenzied with prief; and he borrows a sheet of paper Lad a postage stamp, and he sits down, iad he writes home, saying: “Dear uother, I am sick unto death. Come.” t is tea minutes of ten o’clock i letter. At ten o'clock the . She is five minutes from „ „r_She gets there in time to ive five minutes to spare. She wonders hy a train that can go thirty miles an

whom his mother comfort©th, so will I comfort you.” It is to thron us back upon an all-wmforting God that we have this ministry of tears. . Again; it is the use of trouble to capacitate us to* the office of sympathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by having water sprinkled on their hands, feet and head, andfo the sprinkling of tears people oro-WEk set apart to the office of sympathy. When we are in prosperity we like to have a great many young people around us, and laugh when they laugh, and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing; but when we have trouble we like to have plenty of old folks around. Why? They know bow to talk. Take ah aged mother, seventy years of age, and she la almost omnipotent in comfort. Why? She has been through it all. At seven o'clock in the mofning she goes over to ootnfort a young mother who has just lost her babe, You know on a well-spread table the food becomes more delicate at the last. I have fed you to-day with the bread of consolation. Let the table now be cleared, and let us set on tho chalice of Heaven. Let the King’s cup-bearers come in. Good-morning, Heaven! , “Oh,” says some critio in the audience, “the Bible contradicts itself. It intimates again and again that there are to be no tears in Heaven, and if there be no tears in Heaven ho v is it possible that God will wipe any away?” Jdsns had enough trial to make Him sympathetic with all trial. The shortest verse in the Bible tells the story: “Jesus wept.” The soar on the back of either hand, the scar on the arch of either foot, the row of scars along the line of the hair, will keep all Heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just the one to silence ail earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly grief. Gentle! Why, His step Is softer than the step of the dew. It will not he a tyrant bidding you to hush up your crying. It will he a Father who will take you on His left arm. His face gleaming Into yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand, He shall wipe away all tears from your eves. I lave noticed when the chi! iurt, and their niothe, lome, they always oo ort and syrnpaf" then ‘ * ~" get from comdiced their __ feht past e and to her, I am of no amount. So, when the soul comes up into eaven out of the wounds of this life, will not stop to look- for Paul, or loses, of David, or John. These did »ry well once,but now the soul shall rush ist, crying: “Where is Jesus? Where Jesus?” Dear Lord, what a magnlti>nt thing to die if Thou Shalt thus Wipe vay our tears. Methink it will take i some time to got used to Heaven; the uits of God without one speck; the esh pastures without one nettle; the ehestra without one snapped string; ie river of gladness without one torn ink; the solferinos. and the saffron of inrise and sunset swallowed up in the ernal day that beams from God’r nance! 'by should I wish to linger in the wild, hen Thou an waiting, Father, to — Thy child.

Still, ir we eouia get any tpprecmmm of what God has in reserve fayvC it would make us so homesiok wivwould bo unfit for our every-day work. Prof. Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put In my hands a meteoric stone—a stone thrown oil from some other world to this. How suggestive it was to me. And I have to tell you the best representations we have of Heaven are only terolites flung off from that world which rolls on, bearing the multitudes of the redeemed. We analyze these aerolites and find them orystalizations of tears. No wonder, flung off from Heaven . God shall wipe away ail tears from their eye*. . Have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in Heaven? How different it is when they get news there of a Christian's death from what it is here. It is the difference between embarkation and coming into port. Every thing depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christians death. If you stand on this side of the river you mourn that they go. If you stand on the other aide of the river you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference between a funeral on earth and a jubilee In Heaven—between requiem here and triumphal march there—parting hero and reunion there. Together! Have you thought of it? Not (me of your do _ land and another in a: _ together, in different rooms of house—the house of many Together! I never appreciated that much as when we laid away slumber my sister Sarah.i there in the village ceme around and said: “There is is mother, there is grandfa^ grandmother, there are wl kindred;” and I thought to gother in the grave—toge ‘ I am so impressed with the I do not think it is any fana some one is going from this _ next if you make them the , dispatches to your friends who saying: ‘•Give my love to my pare; my love to my children; give to my old comrades who are in _ ^ and tell them I am trying to fight the good fight of faith, and I will join them __*» fter awhile.” I believe the message will be dellvred; and I believe it will increase the ladnees of those who are before the irone. Together ate they, all their >ars gone. So trouble getting good sooty for them. All kings, queens, rinces and princesses. In 17M there as a bill offered in the English Parliament proposing to change the abnanae > that the 1st of March should come immediately after the 18th of February, at, oh, what a glorious change In the deodar when all the years of your are swallowed up In God!