Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 December 1890 — Page 1

VOLUME XXI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1890. NUMBER 31. —..... ii .. .. .... .. ——.^----- -

DEMOCRAT IIABLY IN ADVANCE. AUVKKUslNu , B.V1KS: Oae square (8 Hues), one insertion..« 00 Bacti additional Insertion .. 00 A libei-ul reduction made on advertisements nnning three, six and twelve months. Legal and Transient advertsements must be iPSJd lor In advanoe. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. II. M. POMEROY. M. D., Physician and Surgeon Petebsdukg, Ind. _ WTU1 practice In city and adjacent country. Bneaaial attention given to Chronic Diseases, venerea; Diseases snrheaafully treated. Consultation tree. 0-0nice In secondstory «>r Hlsgen .Building, Main street, betweun «>f 111-gen Building, Seventh and Eighth. htuNcis b. Poskt. Dewitt Q. Chappell POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petebsbubu, Ind. d : r IV111 practice in all the courts. Special at tention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. JS-Offlce— On Urst floor Bank Building. E. A. ELY, Attorney at Law, Petebsbubg, Ind. *a-Offlce over M. B. Adams A Son’s Drug Store, lie Is also n member of the United States .Collection Association, and gives prompt attention to every matter in which mats engaged. *£. P. llicaardson. . A. H. Tatlojl RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petebsbubg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Kotary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth ami Main. ~EDWIN SJ5ITH, Attorney at Law AND Real Estate Agent, Petersburg, Ind, gaNJfllce over G us Frank’s store. S ioclal attention! given to Collections, Buying and Selling Lands, Examining Titles, Furnishing Abstract®, etc. R. R. KIME, j Petebsbubg, Ind. tivOfltce in Bank Building. Residence os Seventh street, three squares south of Main. C’ills promptly attended day or night 1 I. IL LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Offljo hi Montgomery Building. Office liours day mud night. C^Dlseuses of W<*inen and Children ^specialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. DENTISTRY. HARRIS, 33. J,

Resident Dentist, ; PETERSBURG, IND. J ALL WORK WARRANTED. 1 W. II. STONECIPHER, ;

Surgeon Dentist,, ^ PETERSBURG, IND. 1 Office In roomsS and 7 In Carpenter Building. Operations first-class. All work war- i ranted. Anesthetics used tor painless extraction ot tcotli. My appliances are ail new, and Indirect conformity with the latest Improvements used in Dentistry. I bare located permanently over P. C. Hammond db Son’s, where I Will do Bridge and Crown work a specialty. DR. JOHN D. LOETZ.ERICH, DENTIST The only shop In town run by white men. Work first-class. Satisfaction guaranteed. We make a specialty of children’s and also sf ladies’ hair cutting. Dyeing done to the satisfaction of alL CALL. JOHN LEE* VTOTICK Is hereby given that 1 will attend ,\ to tliu duties of the office of trustee of ’lay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. AH persons who have business with the ifflce will take notice that I will attend to msinesa on no other day. - M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. klOTICE Is herein given to all partlea In* 11 terested that I will attend at my office Fit Stendal, [ RV1IRY STAURDAY, lo transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having' businesi with said office will please take notice. OTICE I* hereby given to all parties eonearned that l will no at jny residence. EVERY TUESDAY. attend to business connected with the eeof Trustee of Monroe township. * GEORGE GRIM, Trustee HOE Is hereby given that I will be ut y residence EVERY THURSDAY ttend to business connected with the of Trustee of Logan township. Positively no- business-transacted axon office days. _ parties eonny residence ed with tbs

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News. CONGRESS. After routine business the Senate on the 15th passed; the bill enlarging the rights of homesteaders. It provides that settlers opposite unsurveyed lands, and unable, therefore, to take up less than 160 acres, may extend their holdings not to exceed ISO acres. After passing several public buildings bills, the elections bill came up and Mr. Vance spoke at length In opposition. Pendlngdebate on the amendment to strike out the “house to house” clause tho Senate adjourned_In tlie House Mr. KcKlnley reported a resolution, which was adopted, catlingon tine Secretary of the Treasury for the names of the several banks in which public money Is deposited, anil other information In relation thereto. The bill for the adjustment of Indian depredations claims was passed. The bill to appropriate $100,000 to erect a monit ment to the dead In the prison ship Brooklyn met with fierce opposition and was defeated. Adjourned. Onlt routine business occupied tbe attention of the Senate during the m srntiig hour on the 16th. Then the election bill came up In regular order and -Mr. Kenna addressed the Senate in opposition. Before concluding his remarks the Senate adjourned_In the House Mr. Mills (Tex.) offered a resolution for a holiday recess. The apportionment bill was called up by Mr. Durtnell (Minn.). A long discussion followed as to what time should be given for debate on the measure, and several members gave notice of proposed amendments. This continued until 15 o’clock, when tho previous question was demanded, but no quorum appeared and the House adjourned. After the morning hour in the Senate on the 17th the elections bill came up and debate continued until adjournment.The House debated at length and finally passed the apportionment bill by a vote of 137 yeas to 82 nays. No other business was transacted. In the Senate on the 18tli Mr. Sherman reported a bill against the contraction of the currency. The elections bill came up as tlie regular order and Senator Coke spoke at length in opposition and Senator Cullom in favor, who accepted the bill as the best that could be framed to meet the evils complained of, but he reserved the right to favor such amendments as he thought necessary. Senator Bate opposed the bill because he believed it struck down tin- freedom of the ballot. Pending his remarks the Senate adjourned—The House passed tho Senate hill amending tins Inter-State commerce act, and after a.squabble the Senate bill to place the American merchant marine on an cqtufl footing with that of other nations (the subsidy ; bill) was debated in committee until adjourn- j ment. * In the 8enut;e on the 19th Mr. Stanford, In a lengthy speech, advocated his bill Issuing money based upon land values, which shall be loaned at two per cent. The bill was referred. The printing deficiency bill was passed. Mr. Bate then resumed his argument against the elections bill. Mr. Gibson up posed the bill as unreasonable, and Mr. Stcwgrt opposed it because Its enforcement In the South would be disastrous to botli raeos. Adjourned... .'The House, after some lebate, agreed to the conference report conerring certain powers on the Baltimore A •otomac railroad in the District of Columns ; ulso the conference report as to the division of certain Sioux Indian lands in Datota, and then adjourned. WAS HINGTON NOTES. An irrigation bill is proposed by the Bouse committee. Tiie Senate has passed the Fargo, N. [)., and I Camden, Ark., public building lilts. The pension agents at Washington lave organized for a determined effort ;o defeat Representative Dockery’s imendment to the pension appropriation »ill decreasing their fees from 810 to 83 n increase cases. Senatob Sherman, from the Commitee on Foreign Relations, bap reported i bill providing that tbe McKinley tariff ict shall not bo' held to impede or imlair tbe force of any treaty between tho Jnited States and any other Uovernnent It was placed upon the calendar. The caucus of Republican Senators ,t Washington on the 17th agreed upon > financial measure. Steps were ulso aken to limi t debate on the elections >111. The kilting of Sitting Hull is likely o be aired in Congress, reports getLing .float that the Indian police were intruded to put an end to him. President Harrison is not satisfied vith the sufficiency of the financial Guarantee of the World’s Fair directors, md will defer issuing his proclamation mnouncing the fair to tbe world until be finances necessary for its complete iuccess are assured. Tre President has been so busy with >tber matters that he has not been able :o complete bis examinat'on of the papers in the cane of tho World’s Colum)ian Exposition. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Martin P. Kennard, assistant United States troas> irer at Boston; Allan T. Brinsms.de, United States attorney for the Northern listrict of Ohio; Frederick Collins, [Jnited States marshal for the Southern listrict of Mississippi. The War Department has issued an >rder increasing the reward for the ar•ebt of deserters by civil officers from 130 to 860.

Mrs. Seneca Fell, aged 65, and her franddaugbter were asphyxiated by coal fas in Philadelphia. Major-Geneual Terry, D. EL A., reared, died at his residence in New Haven, Conn., on the 16th. New York whs -visited by a terrible itorm and rainfall on the 17th. Jtex>rts from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland told of heavy snows and wind, musing much suffering and damage to jroperty. Tiie Lehigh Valley Coal Company has resumed operations at all their coll lores, which have> been closed for some lime past This will cause the employment of many thousands of persona Four Hungarian miners were killed by a fall of coal in the mines near Hazelton, Pa They were unmarried. Tub Clearfield (Pa) Bank has snsje tided. Curry . , _ Haverhill, Mass, has been destroyed :jj lira Loss, 180,000. The miners about Altoona, Pa, have leoided to demand increase in wages fanuary 1. The Orr dry goods house at Wilkes* aarre, Pa, has failed. The miners’ convention at Altoon^ Pa, announced that they would imm# liatelydemand an advance of five cents ier ton on all coal mined in Central Pennsylvania. Sixteen thousand men nay be affected. ■OIK WHET. The total deficit of ex-County Treadrer Little, of Fayette County, II I., has «en found to be $10,830. He resigned a September. As attempt is being made by E. and >. W. Norton, of Chicago, to manufactre tin-plate in. competition with (ho in-plate mafcers of Wales Before pr.ng they expect to have a largo actory. * Fifteen hundred Piute Indianu breaten troub’e in Inyo County, Cal. The Chicago grand jury has,begun at investigation of the lumpy >w beet _ HilwaukM

The Cad wallader tile and brick works at lrostor.a, O., burned recently. Loss (50,000, partially insured. The Union Pacific directors have ordered the suspension ot work on the' new line from Portland, Ore., to Seattle, Wash. Twelve hundred miners at. Rock Spr.ngs, Wyo., have struck because the Union Pac flo Company notified thorn that it proposed to pay hereafter by the day. TnE Chicago World’s Fair directors have accepted the ordinance of the city council appropriating (5,000,000 in bonds for the Fair. Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, has vetoed the IC ngfisher capital bill. Official returns from the Michigan election show that R E. Winans, Democrat, received 183,729 votes and James M. Turner, Republican, 172,205. The Democrats elected the entire State ticket and nine of the eleven Congressmen. The Huron National Bank, of Huron, & Dl, has suspended. It was reported at Rapid City, I)ak., on the 16th that hostile Indians had attacked the Sixth cavalry, killing two officers and fifty men. The Indians were repulsed with heavy loss. A co.nsidehAi.k shortage has been found in the accounts of Bart R Scott, treasurer of Ashland City, Wis., who died at Hot Spr ngs, Ark., recently. Charles Hussey, owner of the banks at Murray and Wallace, Idaho, has assigned because of lack of ready money. The assets are believed to be ample. The Spokane Falls (Wash.) National Bank has suspended. ' All the Union Pacifio switchmen at ' Rawlings, Wya, have struck out of sympatbv with the strikers at Ogden, Utah. t A stove trust was reported forming. Manu'acturers wero in secret conclave at Chicago recently. The private banking house of S. A. Kean & Co., t hicago, has suspended. Deposits amounted to 8600,000. TnE presidency of the Missouri University has been tendered to Prof. Jesse, of the Tu!ane University, New Orleans. The Perkins Lock Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland, O., has gone into the hands of a receiver. Apuil 0 next, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the G. A. R., will be held in Decatur, 111. Ik joint session the Idaho Legislature elected Governor George L. Sboup, W. J McConnell and Fred T. Dubois United States Senators—Shoup and McConnell to the short terms ending March 4, 1891, and March 4, 1893, and Dubois to the full term of six years from March next Four persons were killed and eight or ten injured by the wreck of the rear coach on a south-bound mail train near Massillon, O. The accident occurred at a trestle, the coach being tossed over and taking fire from the stove, which, however, was suppressed by the uninjured passengers and brakeman. One of a party of twelve Chinamen was killed by Inspector Finn while attempting to smuggle in near Port Townsend, Wash. Two murderers—Elmer Sharkey and Henry Hopp—were hanged in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, O., on the night of the 18th. Another murderer— Isaac Smith—was respited by Governor Campbell to March 20 on the intercession of Bishop Wetterburn and an attorney. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Costa is the name of the new Mexican Consul at Kansas City, Ma The freight handlers of Ludington, Mich., struck against a reduction of wages and trouble was expected. Three young women who were skating on the river at Aurora, I1L, broke through the ice and two of them were 1 drowned. Miss Kittie Rider was res- i cued. The other girls were daughters of Mrs. Kate Melcher. 1 Many people of San Francisco were neatly duped by two men who occupied i expensive offices and sold coaL at low 1 rates for future delivery. Tne coal never came. , i One man was killed and three others^) injured by the telescoping of a freight caboose by a passenger engine at Car- ! diff, Col. The next meeting of the American i Health Association will be held in Kan- : sas City, Mo., December, 1891. The Supreme Court of South Dakota, in a test c'ase. has decided that the box in which sealed bottles of liquor are shipped is the original package. Four Indian murderers were hanged together at Missoula, Mont, on the 19th.

XIUC SOUTH. In a difficulty at Pulaski, Tens., Town Marshal Charles II. Davis was shot and almost instantly killed by ex^ Policeman Joe Flippen. The Ohio stoamboat, of the Memphis & Cincinnatti Packing Company, waB sunk by a snag 130 miles above Mem* phis, Tenn. , Tiie Illinois Central machine shops at Water Valley, Miss., have been destroyed by fire. A merchant named Carlson was killed at the time. C Gii.lard. county comm ssioner, was assassinated at Bastrop, Tex., recently. He was a negro and defeated a white candidate at the election. Fourteen cars on the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas railway, loaded with TOO bales of cotton. Were destroyed by fire at Burns station, near New Orleans Mbs. Wuiteuaw Reid has been decorated with the order of "Shefkat” by the Sultan of Turkey. McGhee <£ Co., wholesale grocers and cotton factors of Rome, Ga, have assigned with $100,000 liabilities and ample assets The steamer Lake Washington burned near Monroe, La. Loss, 840,00a No one per shed. The American Marble Company, of Atlanta, Ga., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. Assets, $150,000; liabilities 1300,000. James Routt and Clifton Searcy, of Lawrenceburg, Ky., blew out the gas in a Louisville hotel One was found dead, the other dying. A pilot- boat has drifted ashore at Beaufort, & C, and as a heavygale had prevailed it was thought the pilots had been lost y ? The suit of Harry Marks editor of the London Financial News against General Butterfield fob libol, ended in a verdict of not guilty.^ Baron Hirsch, the Austrian financier, Is'organising a meeting, in Vienna in behalf of the Russian Jews The trial of Eyraud, the strangler, commenced at Paris on the 10th. Negotiations are in progress between Canada and Mexico looking to reciprocal trade A scrimmage occurred at Ballynakill, Ireland, on the 10th, between faqttons led by PsrnelUnd Dsvitt- Many priests to ok an active part Both i**der» end several others were hurt,

Tm: threatened strike of the 85,000 :otton mills operatives of Bolton, England, has been averted, tboemployers lonceding an advance in wages Mn Gladstone Is suffering from a ;old and is con&ned to bis house at Hawarden. , Tiie Louisville & Nashville Kailroad Company has obtained control of the Kentucky Central. Phables F. Mayick has been unanimously re-elected president of the Baltimore & Ohio A house in the native quarter of Bombay containing 100 inmates collapsed the other day. Thirty persons were killed and many injured. Tub returns issued by the French Board of Trade show that during the month of November the imports dosreased 6,978,000 francs, and the exTorts decreased 51,196,000 francs, as lompared with the corresponding month ast year. Tub London newspapers denounce the srlminal folly by which Parnell almost ost his eyesight at Castle Comer. At Haurnou, in llainadlt, Belgium, while a cage loaded with workmen was lescendingintoamine the rope snapped, precip'.tat ng the cage tcuthe bottom of the colliery. Eighteen* miners were' rilled. « Caiidinal Gibbons has written to the iewish Exponent a letter denouncing Russia tor that country’s treatment of the Jews. In the international championship ikating contest at Amsterdam, Joseph Donoghue, of Nowberg, N. Y., won the hree mile race for the amateur championship of Holland. He covered the Ijstanec in nine minutes and seventeen leconds. Adoi.1’11 Bf.lot, the French dramatist tnd author, is dead. Guf.k«k.]io, tho “Jack the Ripper’' of Mexico, has been convicted of eight nurders and fourteen criminal assaults, or which he was sentenced to death. Tub consort of Emperor William of Jermany has given birth to a son. Tub west-bound Halifax express went hrough St. Joseph bridge near Levis, Jue., recently. Five passengers were tilled and a number wounded. All the ra n went through except the engine tnd baggage car. Tub Royal Hotel at Margate, England, >urned recently. There were many ixciting escapes. AiiTuun Day, the wife murderer, has >een executed at Welland, Ont Ho vas from Rochester, N. Y., and pushed tis wife over the bank at the whirlpool it Niagara Falls on the Canadians.de fuly 12 lash Tub population of Vienna is estinated at 1,315,626 by the addition of erritory. General Manager Eauling, of the 'hicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway, ;ays that he has succeeded in reaching l settlement of tho demands made by rainmen on his road for an increase of vages. Concessions were granted on >oth sides. Tub London Times says that the Argentina Government is inclined to gciept the London proposals for the conversion of the cedullas by tho Issue of ‘150,000,000 worth of five pr ? oent gold mnds, not bearing interest till April, 894. . Business failures (Dun’s report) for be seven days ended December 18 lumbered 404, compared with 874 the irevious week and 342 the jorrespondng week of last year. Russia has increased her duty on igricultural machinery four per cent Babon Wissmann has recalled Em;n Jasha from the African interior for disibeying orders. It was thought, howver, that Emin would continue his narch to WadelaL Tub police prevented a fight between he opposing factions at Johnstown, reland, on the 19th. Pbof. Koch states that his lymph rill be sent to hospitals only. . It is said the Czar will not receive the uemorial on behalf of the Jews adopted iy the Guildhall meeting in London. Fivb coal heavers were' drowned at latifax, N. S., by a section of a wharf jiving way. Db. Pbtit has produced before the seciety of Practical Medicine, at Paris, specimens of a lymph invented by himislf which, he states will produce remits in tuberculos's identical with those produced by Dr. Koch’s lymph.

uiunn Ik the Senate, on the 20th, after the passage of a number of private pension bills in the morning hour, the Eederal Elections bill was taken up, and Mr. Spooner matte a long speech in support jf the measure..In the House a nujnber of conference reports on public buildings were agreed to. The Urgency Deficiency bill, with Senate amendments, was then discussed, and was finally returned to the Senate with all but one amendment—that relating to pay of Senate employes—agreed to. Giovonni Succi, successfully ended bis forty-five days’ fast in New York City on the 20th. During this remarkable period of abstaining from food .he irank twenty-one quarts of alkaline water and nine and a half quarts of 3roton water. His weight, which at the beginning of his fast was 147% pounds, was reduced to 104% pounds. Instead of the watermelon, with which Dr. Tanner terminated his great fast of forty days, Senor Succi’s first nourishment was a cup of cocoa. Timothy Harrington, the Parnellite member of the Parliamentary party recently seeking subscriptions in America, arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, on the Cunarder Aurania on the 20th. He was immediately . summoned to Kilkenny by Mr. Parnell for consultation. Senator Platt introduced a resolution, on the 20th, which was laid on the table, authorizing the President to purchase' a quantity of Dr. Koch’s lymph from the German Government and to obtain the formula for it, and appropriating $100,000 for that purpose. The Republican city convention of Brazil, Ind., on the 20th, nominated W. D. McCullough as the successor of Mayor Jacob Herr, who was recently deposed for inebriety. The Democrats nominated J. G. Acklemier, who served as Brazil’s first mayor. The New York Bacteriological Institute, comprising a Pasteur and Koch Jepartment for the treatment of hydrophobia and tuberculosis, filed articles of incorporation on the 20th. A bill has been introduced in the Senate to prohibit the sale of fire-arms and ammunition to Indians residing upon reservations. The Wells-Fargo Express Company declared a semi-annual dividend of four per cent, on the 20th. The death rate from small-pox in Guatemala and Han Salvador continues enormous. The finances at the Government of lean Salvador are in a bed condition. Tvphus fsver still rages in tbpCto of Henion, causing great buroo, * ■»

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Tint committee appointed to examine the accounts of Ex-Treasurer Wm. A. Scbuck, of Jennings County, report a shortage of $4,864.80 Schuck’s friends claim he will come out all right Frame. SioNs &Ca’s drygoods establishment at North Manchester, was entered by burglars, who stole ninetyseven pieces of silk and a fine overcoat Estimated loss over P1,000. Spencer County farmers are in luck this year, especially those having large quantities of com and potatoes. Eighty ear-loads of potatoes were shipped from there in November, and more than that quantity by river. It is estimated that the quantity sold will distribute fully $200,000 among the farmers this year. Augustus Dilt.man, a German resident of Terre Haute, committed suicide an account of sickness. At Tbrktpwn, Hiram Curtz died from the. effects of a kick given by Daniel Fritz, which broke the lower end of the spinal column. An explosion at the iEtna Powder Company's works, Miller, caused one death and injuries to several others. * IrfNViLLE Wai.i.ack is jailed at Milton, obarged with burning Klertie’s barn. Douglas Mosier, of Martinsville, went insane while teaching in the Cherokee Nation and was brpught home. At ^ainbridge, near Greencastle, Mrs. Charles Britton’s dress caught fire from a stove and she was burned to death. The attorneys appointed by the court to defend Preacher Pettit, at Lafayette, presented a bill for $6,000, agreed to compromise for S3,600, were offered $1,500, refused it, and will now sue the county for $10,000. Dr. Camden McKinney, Joe Elliott and Lawrence Show, alleged detectives, are under arrest at Newcastle, charged with kidnaping Henry Craig, whom they accused of horse-stealing. Craig was tried and acquitted. At Ft 'Wayne, Jas. Mease, Mervln Kubns’ pal, was bound over in the sum of $5,000 for shooting with in tent to kill Police Officer Kennelly. Being unable to give bail he was placed in the Whitley County jail at Columbia City. Both Kuhns and Kennelly are recovering rapidly. Three-fourths of the $100,000 to be raised to boom Lebanon has been subscribed. Finden Childers, a hermit of Brown township, Hancock County, committed suicide with a rope. John K. Robbins, or Pinnick, a boy of thirteen years, has disappeared, from his home at Chambe-rsburg, Orange County. An average of $1,000 per month comes to Boone County in the way Of pensions. It ranks third on Uncle Sam’s list in the State. Tiie farmers of Monroe township, Putnam County, have been suffering from the depredations of a wolf, and will organize a hunt. Joseph Fankboner, engineer at the Studehaker Wagon Works at Marion, lighted a match while inside of a boiler to see if the boiler had been cleaned properly. The gas which was used for fuel had escaped into the boiler, and an explosion followed, blowing the man out and burning him, it is feared, beyond recovery. Peter Massmann was crushed to death by a fall of slate in Watson’s mine, near Brazil. James Williams, a colored convict from Vanderberg county, in the Prison South, was fatally injured by the bursting of an emery wheel. Morris Cohn and his wife were convicted of arson at Dogansport Alex. Bivens killed a full-grown deer on his farm, two miles north of Bedford.

Mart Faulkner, colored, of Jeffersonville, did’t know a floiiert rifle was loaded. She will probably die. John G. Dantz was found dead in his chair at Laporte. lie lived alone. Martin G. Walters, of Valparaiso, committed suicide by taking Paris green. Fire in the Lowell school, near Columbus, was discovered by the teacher just in time to clear the room before the roof collapsed. Two policemen hada lively pistol battle with half a dozen tramps in the railroad yards at Greencastle, but no blood was spilled. Matthews & Hatland, of Indianapolis, have purchased two hundred-; acres of heavily-wooded land near Wheatland, and will convert the timber into lumber. The regulator of the Huntington Gas Company, near Warren, was blown up, and an intelligent employe who was looking for the leak with a lantern paid dearly for his folly. Orktown schools have been closed for the second time by scarlet fever.' J. Mount, living near Tipton, was killed by a north-bound Lake Erie passenger train at Atlanta. . Judge Jakes A. S. Mitcheli, of the State Supreme court, died at Goshen the other morning. He was the only Democratic member of tbe bench. The Orange County Poor Farm has been run during the past year at a net cost of seventy-seven cents per week for each inmate. Frank Ballinger, of Rome City, attempted to skate across the lake at that point and was drowned. * Judge Langdon, of Lafayette, has decided that a minor can not administer an oath where there is criminal liahility attached, and dismissed a man arrested on the charge of perjury in taking out a marriage license, where the license clerk was a minor. Sanderson Cayill returned to bis Ligonier home sifter a brief, unexplained absence of twenty-one years. The Marion County grand jury submitted its final report a few days ago, returning a large number of indictments. Mont and Oris Mabbett and Miss Minnie Mabbptt were indicted tor murder in the first degree tor tbe killing of the infant child of Miss Mabbett Judge Woods, of Indianapolis, has decided that insolvent corporations can not make their officers preferred creditors. j Malachi Salters, a young married man, was fatally shot at Montgomery, Daviess County, the other afternoon, while carelessly handling a shotgun, the entire charge passing through his body. A bill has been prepared to be introduced in the Indiana Legislature providing that children bom out of wedlock •hell take the father's heme, he supported and educated byfcjgi, and become »a ihelr teliU estate. ■ ' ■■ .. «.> ’ '"rf* t'A. * *►

TALMAGrE’S - SERMON. Joshua, the Warrior, and the Story of His Victories. A Night by the Waters of Merom—The Beautiful Traditions‘of the Past Recalled—The Pal] of Jericho and'the Capture of Al. Rev. X. DeWitt Talmage, still preaching on the Holy Lahd, delivered the following discourse in the Brooklyn Academy of Music and also in New York City, taking for his text: And when all these Icings were met together they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.— Joshua xl., 5. We are encamped to-night inpr'alestine by the waters of Merom. lifter a long march we have found our tents pitched, our fires kindled, and though far away from civilization, a variety of food that would not compromise a firstclass American hotel, for the most of our caravan start an hour and a • half earlier in the morning. We detain only two mules carrying so much of our baggage as we might accidentally need, and a tent for the noonday luncheon. The malarias around this Lake Merom are so poisonous that at any other time of the year encampment here is perilous, but this winter night the air is tonic and healthful. In this neighborhood Joshua fought his last great battle, The nations had banded themselves together to crush this Joshua, but along the banks of these waters Joshua left their carcasses. Indeedit is time that we more minutely examine this Joshua of whom we have in these discourses caught only a momentary glimpse, although he crossed and recrossed Palestine, and next to Jesus is the most stirring and mighty character whose foot ever touched the Holy Land. Moses was dead. A beautiful tradition says the Lord kissed him, and in that act drew forth the soul of the dying lawgiver. He had been buried, only one Person at the funeral, the same One who kissed him. But God never takes a man away from any place of usefulness but He has some one ready. The Lord does not go looking aroupd amid a great variety of candidates to find some one especially fitted for the vacated position. He makes a man for that place. Moses has passed off the stage,, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so Bolidly that all the ages echo with the tread. He was a magnificent fighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never fought unless God told him to fight. He got his military equipment from God, who' gave him the promise at the start: “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." God fulfilled this promise, although Joshua’s first battle was with the spring freshet; and the next with a stone wall; and the next, leading on a regiment of whipped cowaidsifand the next battle, against darkness, wheeling the sun and the moon into his battalion, and the last, against the king of terrors, death—five great victories. ^ .For the most part, when the General of an army starts out in a conflict he would like to have a small battle in order that he may get his courage up and he may rally his troops and get them drilled for greater conflicts; but this first undertaking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or the thundering down of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting and they poured doWn into the valley, and the whole valley

ites stand on one bank and they look across and see Joshua and the Isr aelites, and they laugh and say: “Aha! aha! they can not disturb us in time—until the freshets fall; it is impossible for them to reach us.” But after awhile they look across the water and they see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say, “What’s the matter now? Why, there must be a panic among these troops, and they are going to fly, or perhaps they are going to try to march across the River Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” But Joshua, the chieftain, looks at his army and cries: “Forward, march!” and they start for the bank of the Jordan. ' —. . One mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than, by an Almighty flat, Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on without getting their feet wet, over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank thirty or forty feet high, and having gained the other bank, they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing their praises of the God of Joshna. But you say: “Why didn’t those Canaanites, when they had such a splendid chance—standing on the top of the bank thirty or forty feet high—completely demolish those poor Israelites down in the river?” I will tell you why. God had made a promise and He was going to keep it. “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But this is no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command: * ‘Forward, march!” In the distance there is a long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is a city. Itisacity of arbors, a city with walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. It is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by Pompey, audit was afterward captured by Herod the Great, and it was afterward captured by the Mohammedans; but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram. There shall be only one weapon of war, and that a ram’s horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken and holes were pundtured in it, and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his fingers over this rude musical instrument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind ol weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude, rustic instruments, and they were to go around the city every day for six days—once a day for six days—and then on the seventh day they were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then, at the close of the seventh blowing of the rams’ horns on the seventh day, the peroration of the whole seen* was to be a shout st which those grcal walls should tumble from «*•*»• *

The seven priests with the rode musical instruments pass all around the city walls on the Test day, rad a failure. Not so much as a piece of plaster broke loose from the wall—not so much as a loosened rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost, front its plat 5. “There,” say the unbelieving Israelites, ‘‘didn’t I tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musical instruments and expecting in that way so destroy it! Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks because he has overthrown and destroyed the spring freshet he can overthrow the stone wall. Why, it is not philosophic- Don’t you see there is no relation between the blowing. of these musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall? It isn’t philosophy.” And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted, and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left hand, arguing it all out, and showing it was not possible that such a cause could produce such an effect A id I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of philosophy and caricature, and if Joshua had been nominated for any high military position he would not have got many votes. Joshua’s stock was down. The second day the priests blowing the musieal instruments go ar&und the city, and a failure; third day, and a failure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure. The seventh day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all around about, looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, and a failure. There is only one more thing to do, and that is to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitifh army straigtkening themselves up, filling their lungs for a vociferation such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has eome, and he cries put to his host: “Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city!” All the people begin to cry , “Down, Jericbo! down, Jericho!” and the long line of soliji masonry begins to quiver and to mclf|ad<l to rock. ,Sland from under! S Crash! go the walls, the towers, the palaces; the air blackened with the dust. The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canaanitcs commingle, and Joshua standing there in the debris of the wall hears a voice saying: “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But Joshua’s troops may not halt here. The command is: “Forward, march!” There is the City of Ai; it must he taken. How shall it, be taken? A scouting party comes back and says: “Joshua, we can do that without you; it is going to be_ a very easy job; you just stay here while we go and capture it.” They marched with a small regiment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one ye'll, and the Israelites run like reindeer. The Northern troops at Bull Bun did not make such rapid tame as these Israelites with the Canaaidtes after them. They never out such a sorry figure as when they were on ike retreat. Anybody that goes out in tha battles of God with only half a force, instead of your taking tire men of Ai, the men of Ai will take you. Look at the Church -of God on the retreat. The Borhesian cannibals ate up Munson, the missionary. “Fall back!’’ said a great many Christian people—“Fall back, 0 Church of God! Borneo will never be taken. Don’t you see the Bornesian cannibals have eaten up Munson, the missionary ?” Tyndall delivers his lecture at the University of Glasgow, and a great many people say: “Fall back, O Church of God! Don’t yon see that Christian philosophy is going to be overcome by worldly philosophy? Fall back.” Geology plunges its crowbar into the mountains, and there are a great many people who say: “Scientific investigation is going to overthrow the Mosaic account of the creation. Fall back!” Friends of the church have never had any right to fall back. Joshua falls on his face in chagrin. It is the only time you ever See the back of his head. He falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says: “Oh, Lord Goa, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver ns into the hand of the Araorites to destroy us? Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other,side of Jordan! For the Canaaniies and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round ana cut off our name from the earth.”

I am very glad Josana saw tnai. Before, it seemed as if he was a supernatural being, and therefore could not be an example to ns; but I find he is a man, he is only a man. Just as sometimes you find a man under severe opposition, or ia a bad-state (if physical health, or worn out with overwork, Iking down, and sighing about every thing being defeated. I am encouraged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in the dust. God comes and rouses him. How does He rouse liinV’ By complimentary apostrophe? No. He says: “Get thee up. Wherefore liect thou upon thy face?” Joshua rises, and I warrant you with a mortified look. But his old courage comes back. The fact was, that was not bis battle. If he had been in it he would have gone on to victory. He gathers his troops around him and says: “Now, let us go up and capture the City of Ai; let us go up right away.” „ They march on. He puts tl > a majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends comparatively small regiments up ia front of ^he city. The men of ii come out with a shout. The small regiment iof Israelites in stratagem fall back am; fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered, or seemingly scattered ogiments, Joshua stands on a roek—I sec his locks flying in the wind as he points his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rroh out fro* behind the rocks and take the oily, anditispattothe torch, and then these Israeliiies in the city march down, end the flying regiments of Israelites return, ai:d between these two waves of Israeliti.h prowess the men of Ai are destr oyed, ,od the Israelites gain the victory; ai d while I see the curling smoke of that destroyed city on the sky, and while hear the huzza of the Israelites and the groans of the Canaanites, Joshua h- are something lounder than it all, ringing ss®d echoing through his soul- “ her?, shall not any man bo able to stesttfl before thee all the days of thy life. But this ia no piaes fSfUsi host of Joshua to stop. “Fs? tifSOgi;' JL

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS KTeatly ED rn*»REASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! Parson* receiving i oopy of tbl* paper wtUl ibis notice c rossed In lead penoll are notified that the time of their subscription has expired. the city of Gibeon. It lias put itself under the protection of Joshua. ’They sent word. “There are five Kings after ns; they are going to destroy us; send troops, quick; send us help righj^fiway.” Joshua has a three days' march more than double quick. On the morning of the third (lay he is before the enemy. There are two long lines -of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, hut the Canaanites soon discover something. They say: “That is Joshua; that is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down, the stone wall and destroyed the city of At There is no use* fighting.” And they sound a retreat^ and as they begin to retreat* Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them over the rocks, and as those Canaanites with, the sprained ankles and gashed foreheads retreat, the catapults ofythe sky pour a volley of hailstones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens, with bullets of iron, pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Beth-horon. “Oh!” says Joshua, “this is Surely a victory.” “But do you not see the sun is going down? Those Amorites are going to get away, after all, and then they will come up some other time and bother us, and perhaps destroy us.” See, the sun is going dawn. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate! What is the matter with Joshna? •Has he fallen in an apoplectic fit? No, He is in prayer. Look out when a good man makes the Lord bis ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant with prayer, and looks at the descending sun over Gibeon and at the faint crescent of the moon, for you know the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other hand at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that God who shaped the worlds, he cries: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thon moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” They halted. Whether it was by refraction of the pun’s • rays, or by the stopping of the whole planetary system, I do not know, and do rot care. I leave it” to the Christian scientists to settle that question, while I tell you I have seen the same thir g: “What!” say you, “not the sun standing still?” Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and the sun sets at noon. But let a roan start out in battle for God and ' the truth, and against sin, and the day of his usefulness is prolonged and prolonged and prolonged. q But Joshua was not quite through. There was time for five funerals before the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral sermon? Massillon preached the funeralqjSermon over Lotiis XVI. Whowill preach thefuneral sermon of those five dead Kings—King of Jerusalem, King of Hebron, King of Jarmuth, King of Laehish, King of Eglon? Let it be by Joshua. Wbatis his text? What shall be the epitaph put on the door of the tomb? “There shall not, any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But before you- fasten up the door I want five mope Kings feeheaded and thrust in: King Alcohol, Fraud. King Lust, King Superstition, King lnfidelity. Let them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then fasten up the door J

1U1CVCI. - -- - _ and what shall the epitaph be? For all Christian philanthropists of all ages are going to come and! look at it. What shall the inscription be? “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But it is time for Joshua to go home. He is one hundred and ten years old. Washington went down the Potomac and Mount Vernon closed his days. Wellington died peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his greatest battle now. After one hundred and ten years he has to meet a King who has more subjects than all the present population of the earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre the graveyards and the cemeteries of the world, his chariot the world’s hearse—the King of Terrors. But, if thisisJoshua’sgreatest battle, it is going to be Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers his friends around him and gives his valedictory, and it is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. Andas you have heard a grandfather, or a great-grand-father, seated by the evening lire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktoufn, and then lift the crutch or staff as though it were a musket,.to fight, and show how the old battles were won—so Joshua gathers his friends around his dying couch, and tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he lies there, his white locks snowing down on his wrinkled forehead, I wonder if God has kept His promise all the way through. As he lies there he teUs the story one, two or three times—you have heard old people tell a story two or three times over * —and he answers: “I go the way of all the earth, and not* one,-word of the promise has failed, not one weird thereof has failed, all has come to pass, not one word thereof has failed.” And then he turns to his family, as a dying parent will, and says: “Choose now whom you will serve—the God of Israel or the God of the; Amorites. As for me and my house we will * serve the Lord. A dying parent cannot be reckless or thoughtless in regard to his children. Consent to part with them forever at the door of the tomb we can not. By the cradle in which that in-„ fancy was rocked, by the boson on which they first lay, hy the blood of the covenant, by the God or J oshua, itshall not be. We will not part; we can not part. Jehovah Jiren, we take Thee at Thy promise. “I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee.” Dead, the old chieftain must be laid out. Handle him very gently; that sacred bodyis over one hundred and ten years of age. Lay him out, stretch out those feet that walked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close those Ups which helped blow the blast at which the walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arm that Hfted the spear toward the doomed City of Ai Fold it right over the heart that exulted when the five Kings fell. But where shall we get ihe burnished granite for the headstone and the footstoneV I bethink myself noW, I imagine that for the head St shall be the sum that stood still upon Gibeon, and for ti e foot the moon thal steed still in the vriley of Ajalon. - Humility is the first lesson we learn from reflection, and self-distrust the first proof we give oT haring obtained a knowledge of man, -Don’t if uav ouau