Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 April 1891 — Page 1

MOUNT, Editor and Eroprietor. XXI. Democrat “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.’ OFFICE, orar J. B. YOIJM & CO.’S Store, Main Street. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1891. NUMBER 4T.

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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. M. M. POMEROY. M. D . Physician and Surgeon PKTERSDURQ, Ind. ^Yill practice in city and adjacent country. Fpeciul attention given to Chronic Diseases. Venereal Diseases Successfully treated. Consultation free. Office in seeondstory « f lltsgen Building. Main street, between Seventh and Eighth. Francis U. I’oset. Dewitt Q. Chappell. P^SEV & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg. Ind. Will practice In all the courts. Special attention given ti all business. A Notary Public* constantly In the olticp. srOfflci^On first flour llunk Building. K. A. Ely. 8. g. Davenport ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. Jta-Ofliee over J. It. Adams A Son’s drug ttore. Prompt attention given to all bust* ness. K. 1’. Ricuakpsoh. A. II. Tatlor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Vrompt attention given to all business. A Notary l*ubl e constantly in the office. Office intCat^peliter Building. Eighth and Mhin. DENTISTRY. E. J. HARRIS,

Resident Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. W. Tl7 STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 and 7 in Carpenter Build* ins?. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used lor painless extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg* Ind. Will practice in Pike and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. 4S*Di*eases of Women and Children a specialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. 96000.00 a j-rar is being made by John R. Goodwin,'Troy,N.Y.,nt.>\oik for us. Header, you may not make as much, but we can teach you quickly kow to earn from 95 to 910 a day at the start, and more as you go ou. lloth senes, all -«ees. In nn.v j.art of [America, you can o. »a at home, girding ail your time,or S|>t» Uh-nts only to the work. Ail is new. Giv. / pay M Kt for every worker. We start you, furnishing everything. KAS1LY. SBKFLULY learned. lAUITClLAKS FiiLE. Address at once, STINSON * 10., 1UHTLAM), MA1NK. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat* mt business conducted for Moderate Fees. Our Office is Opposite U. S. Patent Office, tud we can secure patent in less time than those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo., with description. We advise, if patentable or not. free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet. “How to Obtain Patents,’* with names of actual events in your State, county, or town, sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. C. Snug Kttle fortunes hove bem mart* »t work for us, by Anna Cage, Austin, V'fcxas, and Jmo. Bonn, Toledo, Ohio. ■See cut. Others arc doing as well. Why Tniot you? Sonne earn over #500.00 is ■month. Yon can do the w-ork and liv« fat home, wherever you are. Even beginners are easily earning from f & to #!<>a day. Alleges. Weshow you how and start you. Can work in spare tima or all the time. Big money for workers. Failure unknown among them. _ NEW and wonderful. Particulars free. fl.UalleUA Co.,Box 8 80 .Portland, Main* THIS PAPER 18 ON FILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. "\TOTICE la hereby given that I will attend la to the duties of the office of tiustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persons who have business with the office will tuke notice that I will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to alt parties interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, . EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart towniblp. All persons baring business with said office will please take notice. J. S. BASSETT. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, . To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEOBGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. AF-Posltively no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trnktee. -yrOTICE is hereby given to all parties conil cerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. 46F*l*ositively no business transacted except office days , JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. NOTICE ia hereby given to all persons Interested that 1 will attend In my office In Vilpeu, EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. AH persons having business with said* office will please take notice. W _ W. F. BROCK, Wustee. TUrOtlCB ># hereby given to all persons J.v concerned that 1 will attend at my office EVERY DAY To transact business connected with th* pace of

THE WORli) AT LARGE, Bumniary of the Daily News WASHINGTON NOTES, Tne director of the United State! mint will soon issue circulars to artists calling for new designs for the new silver dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes. A reward of $500 will be paid for each design accepted. , The president has appointed Thomas F. Wilson, of Arizona, United States attorney for that territory. Owing to the prevalence of remarkably clever counterfeit $3 silver certificates the issue of the regular series oi $2 silver certificates has been suspended and arrangements are being made f.i the issue of a substitute. The original bears the portrait of Gen. Hancock and the substitute will have that of the late Secretary Windom. Gen. Ben Butler has sold to the government for $370,000 a granite building and the ground on which it stands ir Washington. _ ’■ The Lafayetto statue opposite the executive mansion at Washington hat been completed. Secretary Noble lias ordered all in traders out of the Sac and Fox, Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Iowa and Pot tawatomie Indian reservations and has instructed the soldiers to clear the entire country. He is bound to give every body a fair chance when these lands are open for settlement. Secretary Proctor and ex-Gov. J, Gregory Smith are among the promi nent Vermonters mentioned as Senatoi Edmunds’ successor. * ■ The case of Charles E. Kincaid, the newspaper correspondent indicted foi the shooting of ex-Representative Taul bee, of Kentucky, in February, 1S90. which had been on trial in the district criminal court at Washington for * couple of weeks, ended in acquittal. Senator John G. Carlisle, being asked in regard to himself as a presidential candidate, said: “Everybodj knows 11 am not a candidate. I appre ciate the high compliment paid me. ] don’t know whether the time has come for Mason and Dixon's line to disappeai from politics or not.” Ex-Governor Thomas C. Fi.ftchef. of Missouri, is very ill at his home ir Washington of pneumonia. Attorney-General Miller is confined to his residence by sickness. At a meeting in Washington reeentlj a national association of inventors wa> formed. Dr. Gatling, the inventor, was chosen president, and Gardner R. Hub bard, of Washington-; Prof. William A. Anthony, president of the American institute of engineers; Thomas Shaw, oi Philadelphia, and Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio, were elected vice presidents. ' Senator Morrill, of Vermont, deprecates reciprocity with Canada. THE EAST. The Lynn (Mass.) Central laboi union has indefinitely postponed action upon a request for co-operation between all labor and farmers’ adiance organizations. v The New York senate has passed a $200,000 world’s fair bill. The brickmakers of Trenton, N. J,, have sti-iick. against any reduction ol the wages scale for this year. William’ Harsh, the Iowa cattle dealer who disappeared suddenly from Chicago February 14, has written from Beverly, Mass., that he has been there ever since enjoying himself. Phineas T. Barnum, the great showman, died at Bridgeport, Conn., on the 7th in his 81st year. Senator Edmunds sent his resignation to the governor of Vermont on the 0th. ' - Rev. Edward, Dorr Griffin Prime, D. D., died at his rqsidbnce in New York City recently. For-moire than fifty-two years he was associated with his brother, Bev. S. Irena-ns Prime, D. D., in the editorial work of the New York Ob server. The New York Methodist conference has voted overwhelmingly that women should not be admitted to the general conference. Judge Barrett, in the court of oyer and terminer at New York, granted an application for a ten days’ stay of proceedings in the case of the New Haven railroad directors indicted for the Harlem tunnel accident. The overseers of Harvard college have voted against shortening the course of study. An official copy of the Newfoundland bait act has been received at Gloucester Mass., and read with great satisfaction by the fishermen and all interested. The morocco workers’ strike at Lynn, Mass., is ended. It has lasted since last August. One thousand men were affected and it was'a total failure. The steamship Caehmere, from Mediterranean ports, arrived off quarantine at New York on the 8th, having on board 1,600 Italian immigrants. This is the largest number of Italians ever brought to that port b£ one vesseL There was a case of contagious disease on board.

VMV/ VIU'J pici 1UUO lVi‘- 11CACVUUVU at Somerset, Pa., Dave Nicely made a confession that he was present at the time Umberger was killed, but that he had not fired the fatal shot Dave said that he had fired his revolver at the air in order to frighten the old farmer. He did not say who it was that had killed the old gentleman. Gus Phillips, the old time comedian, better known as “Oofty Gooft,” has been taken to St Vincent’s hospital at New York suffering with Bright’s disease and asthma. His condition was critical. Rev. Lvthhr H. Gulick, for nearly forty years a missionary in foreign lands, died at Springfield, Mass. He was the son of the pioneer missionary to the Sandwich Islands, Rev. Peter J. Gulick. Charles B. Stoughton, a pension agent has been fined $500 at New York for violating the pension laws in that he charged a soldier’s widow $1,000 for obtaining a pension for her of $2,300. The law provides that only a fee of $25 shall be charged. The well known playwright F. G. Meader, author of the “Canuck” and other notable pieces, diedat New York of pneumonia. The Central hotel, London, Conn., was destroyed by fire, and Michael Daily, aged 70, lost his life. The expert who has been examining the books of the Boston Water Power Co. finds that there was an bver issue of about 21.000 shares of stock, most of which is eight or ten years old. Capt. Loar and his 'deputies have been arrested charged with murder in the recent slaughter at the Moorewood soke works. The sj ■ / Dryden, from Rio Janeiro, Is in quarantine at New York with yellow fever on board. The number of cases has pot vet been wade known,

The Washington national bank of New York City is to go into voluntary liquidation. Three children of David Carroll died suddenly at Greensburg, Pa., and under suspicious circumstances. An inquest was held, when it was discovered poison had been given them. The other children were at the point of death. Carroll has only been married a few months to the m'Vher of the children. Ansa Dickinson has left New York for Goshep, N. Y., where she will undergo medical treatment. Some dozen or more children who had been playing in a vacant lot at Dubois, Pa., found-wild parsnip roots and ate them in mistake for the true vegetable. Two of the August Weigelman and of J. M. Boriger children died in terrible convulsions and several others were suffering. Mrs. Annie Besant. the English theosophist, socalist and philanthropist, author of “Fruits of Philosophy” and co-worker with the late Charles Bradlaugh, has arrived at New York. The New York Tribune celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on the 10th. THE. WEST. Tire United States cruiser San Francisco has sailed for Valparaiso, Chili, from San Francisco.’ By a runaway in Chicago C. E. Isley, representative of an iron company, was killed and Harry Randall badly in jured. The municipal election in Chicago was a much mixed-lip affair, both parties being split up and a socialist candid ate running. First returns said Cregier, democrat, was elected by a plurality of 6 votes. Later the election was claimed by the republicans with a plurality#of about 1,000 for Hempstead Washburne. The municipal election of St Louis favored the democrats. Rogers, democrat, has been elected mayor of Denver, Col. Patrick Brannigan, aged 103 years, died at his home in Hurley, IVis., on the 8th. He had perfect health and an excellent memory. He has lived in this country sixty years. Brannigan leaves 104 descendants, and has a record for voting for the tweny presidents since John Quiney Adams. Carter Harrison says he is going to retire from public life and will leave Chicago for good. An unknown man fatally stabbed the proprietor of a Chicago shooting gallery In. a dispute over a nickel. The construction department of the world’s fair is almost ready to receive bids for the exposition buildings. The Wisconsin house has passed the reapportionment bill and a resolution for the election of United States senators by a vote of the people. A bill appropriating $500,000 fora world's fair exhibit has been introduced in the Illinois legislature. Mariza S. Krukaxez, a Bohemian girl from Omaha, lighted a fire with kerosene at Pueblo, Col. The house was saved, but the girl died. The Chicago gas trust has decided to submit to the orders of the court. Wii,liam Wallace, postmaster of Indianapolis, lnd., died on the 9th. He was born in Brockville, lnd., in 1835. He was a son of the late Gov. David Wallace, brother of Gen. Lew Wallace, and was President Harrison’s first law partner. The first train to pass through the Grand Trunk railroad tunnel under the St. Clair river at Detroit, Mich., made the trip on the 9th, carrying a number of the road’s officials. Everything was pronounced satisfactory. There were demonstrations at both ends of the tunnel. The Cincinnati stock yards and adjoining buildings burned on the 9th. The loss was $350,000. The fire was caused by boys smoking. There was a bad wreck on the Wisconsin Central at Vernon recently. Thawing ground left the road bed weak and a freight train went off the track, killing engineer and fireman and fatally hurting a brakeman. William Bai.es was lynched at Kenton, O. He had murdered a policeman March 31. In a collision between passenger train No. 15 and a freight, eight miles ^west of Washington. Ia., on the Rock" Island both engines were badly wrecked. Frank Norton, engineer of the freight train, and his fireman, N. I. Wilson, were seriously injured. Other persons were also hurt. Greer county is having recognition in the United States court now in session at El Reno, Ok. On account of the dispute on the title between the United States and Texas, the Texas court in that county carefully avoids any questions involving title to land. Judge Seay has ruled that all offenses committed there are returnable to the federal court at El Reno. Christian 1‘riese, aged 75, and his wife, aged 73, were f und lying nearly naked on the floor of their home at Waukesha, Wis , the wife dead and the husband dying. It was supposed to be a double murder.

J. A. Tiiomad, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, has been arrested for forging a set of books ordered to be produced in court. The Augustine (Fla.) gas works hare been destroyed by fire. Loss, 565,000. Little-Rock, Ark., elected a democratic ticket, headed by H. L. Fletcher for mayor. Returns from towns in the state report the election of democratic officers. Fire in Stephensville, Tex., destroyed the entire south side of the square except the hotel. The loss was 550,000. Gen. Lucius J. Gartrell, ex-mem-ber of both the United States and the confederate congress, died at Atlanta, Ga., recently. Gov. Daniel G. Fowle died at Raleigh, N. C., suddenly on the 7th of heart failure. At Russellville, Ky., seven prisoners escaped from the jail by cutting a bar in a window. Four were murderers. For one of them, Jona Porter, who assassinated George W. Grill, a wealthy farmer, aw reward of 51,000 for arrest and conviction was offered. Judge Caldwell has been confined to his room at Little Rock, Ark., with a severe attack of la grippe for the past two weeks. Even though he recovers he will not be able to fill appointments on the circuit for many weeks. The ashes of the cremated remains of Judge Henry J. Stiles, of. Louisville, have been buried at Hopkinsville, Ky., in the grave of his first wife. Two shots were fired by an unknown assassin at Judge J. T. Carvin at midnight through the rear door of his office at Covington, Ky., without effect. The judge is unable to account for the attempt. < Gen. John R. Cooke died at Richmond, Va., recently. He was a native of Missouri. His sister married Gen. J. E. li. H eart, the famous confederate cavalryman

Robert Williams, convicted of murdering Rev. Mr. Hayes in November last, has been sentenced to be hanged at Little Rock, Ark., June 3. LieuT.-Gov. Thomas M. Holt has been sworn as governor of North Caro lina. CentrV Butler and Hampton Nelson were hanged at Sumter, S. C., for the murder of Capt. John M axev in January last Roth protested their inno* iCence. Capt Maxey was a prominent farmer and was shot down in the road by the murderers who were lying in ambush. _ ______ GENERAL. Baltimore, New York and Boston are preparing to send samples of goods to Brazil to stimulate trade. Reports from Japan are that-the late United States minister, John F. Swift died-of heart failure, due to influenza. Highest honors were paid his remains by the Japanese. . A man enveloped in a great overcoat was recently arrested near the person of the_ czar. On being searched a revolver and some poison was found. , The grand duke Michaelovitch, cousin of the czar, has heen privately married to the countess of Nuremberg. The sensational talk concerning Parnell’s relations with Mrs. O’Shea is that he has been privately married to Mrs. O’Shea’s eldest daughter since the divorce proceedings, and that as the young lady is. a ward in chancery he is liable to be prosecuted. The reported rupture between Henry Villard and 'the directors of the Deutsche bank of Berlin is denied. Three Hungarians who were engaged in the riot at the Edgar Thompaon steel works when the foreman, Michael Quinn, lost his life have been sentenced to be hanged, their appeal being rejected. This is the case which has received so much attention recently from socialists throught the country. According to statistics just published 152,413 persons emigrated from the British isles to the United States in 1890, while only 22,520 persons emigrated from the British isles to British America in the same year. The old Central Pacific directors were re-elected. It is announced that Mary Anderson had signed a contract with the late Lawrence Barrett to star under the latter's management next season. In an article in the Economic Review, Mr. John Rea contends that an experience of twenty-five years with the eight hour system in Victoria, Australia, shows that it has not affected wages or profits, but that it has given better home life to the working men. American Minister Foster was given a banquet recently at Madrid, Spain, by the Spanish premier. Three men were blqwn to pieces by an explosion of nitro-glycerine at Petrolia, Ont * The Argentine cabinet has signed a decree suspending until June next the payment of the deposits in the national and provincial banks and offering depositors the option of taking internal bonds in exchange for their deposits. In consequence of the Russian massing of trooph on the Galician and Silesian frontiers the. German government has decided to strengthen the eastern frontier garrisons. At a recent secret conference of the executive committeee of the National league of republican clubs it was decided by a vote, after a bitter fight, that the efforts of the league should be devoted to the’ renomination and reelection of President Harrison. A gigantic copper trust is proposed. Another sensation has been caused at St. Petersburg by the suicide of a hussar officer, who, it is rumored, was involved in the plot against the czar. The case is shrouded in mystery. The liberals won a sweeping victory in Prince Edward Island. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended April 9 numbered 243, compared with 243 the previous week and 209 the corresponding week of last year. General trade was not satisfactory. Details from the seat of the civil war in Chili are to the effect that Guilerlo Matta, the Chilian minister at Buenos Ayres, has declared his allegiance to the rebels and as a consequence he has been publicly denounced as a traitor.

THE LATEST. IIk.nry M. Stanley, the explorer, was the guest of Maj. J. B. Pond, at the New York Lotos club, on the evening of the 11th. The dinner was purely informal add private, and was given as a fitting climax to the tour of Stanley in this country. After a few remarks by Maj. Pond, Mr. Stanley made an appropriate response. Informal speeches were made by Chauncey M. Depew, Gov. G. B. Peck, of Wisconsin., Rev. Dr. Buckley and Richard Watson Gilder. The steamer Empressof Japan, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.’s new line of steamships, which is to connect with that railroad and ply between Vancouver, B. C., and Japan, left Liverpool, on the 11th, on a trip around the world, which she will complete before going into regular service. Every cabin was taken. The third and last ship of the same line, the Empress erf China, will leave Liverpool on a similar voyage about June 15. The steamer Angelica arrived at New York, on the llth, from Gibraltar, having on board 153 steerage and two saloon passengers of the steamer Utopia, which was lost off Gibraltar recently and many of her passengers drowned. The Angelica had a very rough passage, encountering a succession of gales and high seas, which delayed her three days in making port. Mrs. Agxe8 Paterson, of North An dover, Mass., aged 61 years, died, on the llth, from the effects of burns received while tending a brush fire in her garden, when her clothing caught fire, and before her husband and a passing grocery driver could extinguish the flames she was frightfully burned. A special order has been issued throughout the German army that no news shall be given to the press without the consent of the commanding officer. This is owing to the publicity given to arrests in the army in connection with the socialistic propaganda. A suit for $2,000 has been instituted against Dr. U. K. Mayo, of Boston, by Mrs. Jane S. Fowle. She charges that an apprentice in the office of Dr. Mayo pulled the wrong tooth while she was under the influence of laughing gas The strikes in Prague have assumed such a formidable character that it is very doubtful whether the building for the Bohemian national exhibition will be ready at the appointed time. The late Thomas Charles Baring left the bulk of his fortune at the absolute disposal of Baring Bros.,of London, until that company recover* from its pruoot difficulties.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Jumbo Roberts, of Kingsland, was showered with fragrant eggs at Ossien fdr playing married masher with young girls of that pl ace. Sii.as Strange and his ex-wife, Elizabeth, who have been estranged for fifteen years wefe remarried at Danville. Geo. W. Vailbi.e. a well-known business man of the west end, Madison,was found dead in his bed the other morning. Cause, heart disease. He was a crack shot, considered the best marksman in southern Indiana. Geo. Justice, said to be the oflly Choctaw Indian living in the state, died at his home in Claysburg, Clark county, the other morning. The following Indiana postmaster! were commissioned a few days ago: H? C. Jackson, English, Crawford county; F. H. Bade, Juliett, Marion county; J. B. Embleton, Swanington, Benton county. Mrs. Eliza Walker, of Brown county, was attacked by a rabid dog, and severely bitten through Ihe hand. A mad-stone was applied to the injured member .as soon as possible, and it is thought that no serious results will follow. The dog was killed, but not until it had bitten a number of cattle and hogs. i * The night telegraph operator at FortviHe; whose name is Scott, ejected three suspicious-looking characters from the depot. They afterwards attempted to assassinate him by shooting through the window. Mis$ Mui.lie Jackson, of Tipton, attempted suicide a few days ago, and her life was saved with difficulty. A Man living four miles east,of Crawfordsville was in that place recently for the first time in ten years, and he has lived in the same place during all this time. Philip Renting, a young man who lived in Jackson county, and who had never connected himself with any church, or made any religions demonstrations, a few days ago called for a Bible, selected a text and preached a most soul-stirring sermon. The effect of his words were to bring many worldly persons to a sense of their sins, lie had not closed his sermon longer than five hours when he suddenly dropped dead. Reports from a number of counties of the southern part of the state show that peaches, plums and pears have not been injured by the frost, and give promise of abundant yield. Oats and potatoes are a month behind the season, but wheat is in excellent condition. John Ahridge. seventeen years of age, was recently convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twio years in the penitentiary in Clark circuit courtOne year ago young ,\drjdge quarreled with \Vilham Gleason, a boy about his own age, struck him with a piece of iron, killing him instantly. The supreme court of Indiana the other day decided a novel case. A farmer sued the Lake Shore railroad for killing his cow. The cow caused a trifling railroad wreck, and the court decided that the owner of the cow should pay the railroad damages. An appeal was taken, but the decision is affirmed. Instead of getting damages the farmer bears the loss of his cow, has to pay for the injury of rolling stock, and settle the costs, amounting to $1,000. ' - | Johnson Ford, aged 70 years, living near Brownsburg, Hendricks county, is the father of twenty-three children, all of whom are living and residing in the state.

UU8. riEKWH, contractor .01 a Ivors train on the Grand Trunk road, was killed near Stillwell by falling betweer the cars.Francis ?Jurphy is conducting a temperance revival at Knightstown. The lifeless remains of Miss Sadie Haines, a popular young lady of Ligonier, was found floating in Elkhart river the other morning. She had had trouble with her lover and it is supposed that this so preyed upon her mind that she stole front the house at night and threw herself into tb' :.ver. . Increased facilities v .il be added to the Martinsfille schools this season to accommodate the rapid increase in school population. At Mitchell a young tough named Byers attempted to assassinate Rev. Dobson, a Methodist preacher, in the pnlpit, because of some Criticism that Byers did not like. Crawfordsvillk has $10,500 in the city treasury. On May 2 the fifth annual horse show will be held at Ladoga, Montgomery eounty. Mrs. May Maddox Boyse. of Richmond, a relative of George Washington, is dead. Her great grandmother was sister of Washington. Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois, the wellknown congressman, was the other day awarded a judgment in the circuit court at Delhi for $33,000 against the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad. The claim was for services rendered as agent in the sale of the, road’s bonds. Ed Alexander, 24, indefinitely postponed his wedding, set the other Wednesday, by shooting himself through the head at Amlerson. At Brazil, *olin llushner c-ut Chas. Alvies’ lung out in a saloon row. Capt. A. O. Mitchei.l, of Richmond, took corrosive sublimate for chloral by the mistake of a drug clerk for the grip and came very near losing his grip on Hfe thereby. Some years ago there died near Versailles a pioneer citizen named Blackwell. He was a very eccentric individual. The other day in looking through his papers his son William found a note directing the family where he had hidden $500 in gold, and on going to the place indicated a search revealed the hidden treasure. At Bloomington, Ward DeMarre, in a fit of insanity, cut his sick mother's throat as she lay in bed, and then his own. Both died. H. F. Munson, of Kokomo, took laudanum and cut his throat while suffering from typhoid fever, and will probably recover from all three. In the Scott circuit court, the other day, Joseph Howell was tried on the charge of having committed an assault with intent to kiU upon his brother-in-law, Frank Richey, last September. The jury returned a verdict sentencing him to state prison for two years and a fine of $1. Wabash college has received $5,000 from Wm. S. Hubbard, of Indianapolis, to be invested and the proceeds to be used in endowing the James Thomson professorship for the chair of botany. Thomas Bedford, of Hendlricks county, claims to be the oldest odd fell , tv. in that jte ir the oldest in the worltf

ITALY’S LATEST DEMAND WIU Not Alter the Cautions and DipU* lied Course of Our Government—The News Dispatch Scarcely Credited In Official Quarters. Washington, April 13.—The dispatch from Rome yesterday stating1 that it) the event of the Italian government not receiving a reply to its last communication to the American stite department with regard to "the New Orleans massacre by April 14; the minister of the United States, Mr, A. G. Porter, will be requested to withdraw from the country, was shown to the president yesterday afternoon. He declined to say anything on the subject, remarking that anything on this subject must come from'Secretary Blaine. Subsequently the president walked over to 'Secretary Blaine’s house and remained ■frith him for some time. Mr. Blaine is unwell and could not be seen. The impression in diplomatic circles is that the dispatch is not correct in assigning a date for United States Minister Porter's departure from Rome. A dispatch from Rome' Friday gave Mr. Porter only twenty-four hours to remain unless the United States government responded to Italy’s last note. Minister Porter Is kept fully advised of the progress being made by the United States in its investigation of the New Orleans affair. No report lias been received by the department of justice from the’ United States district attorney at New Orleans of the result of his investigation, but the attorney general is kept advised as to what progress he is making. Until the 1 matter is fully sifted it is not thought that any threats from Rome will cause this government to act in any other than a cautious and dignified manner. Mr. Blaine was seen last night in regard to the Rome dispatch, but said he had nothing to say in regard to it. GEN. JACKSON’S NIECE. Mrs. Davidson, a Niece of Old Hickory in .Needy Circumstances—A Visit to the White House—Cordially Received by the President and Put in the Way of Securing a Pension. Washington, April 12.—An elderly lady, Mrs. Colonel Davidson, called at the White house yesterday morning and met the president. Mrs. Davidson claims to be a niece of Gen. Jackson, andi remarked to Col. DInsmore that she had not entered the WhiAj house before since she was a girl, back in the 80s. She stated that she wad^^iecdy circumstances and had travels all the way from Oregon City upon charity contributions. Her destination is Norfolk, Va., hey old home. The president shook her cordially by the hand, and gave instructions to have transportation provided for her to Norfolk. Her husband was an oflieer in the Mexican, war, and Col. Dinsmore inquired if she drew a pension. She said she did not, and did not know how to apply for one. The kind-hearted colonel then escorted her to an attorney’s office, and an application was speedily prepared. During the recent floods in Oregon Mrs. Davidson’s only son was drowned, and her property, amounting to some thousands, was destroyed.

A RICH HAUL. Several Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Goods Recovered from a Fence House at Denver, Col. Denver, Col., April 12.—Late Friday night the police of this city raided a dwelling house on the corner of Thirtyfirst street and Maryland avenue, having cause to think that sofnething very crooked was going on therein. They were richly rewarded, for in the cellar was found a large assortment of stolen property of every conceivable description frop a church organ down to a whitewash brush. Three persons were found in the house and arrested. They are supposed to belong to an organized gang of hold-ups, sneak thieves and house-breakers which has been operating here for some time. The organ found wj>s stolen from a church in II armo'n. a suburb of Denver. A fifty-gal-lon barrel of molasses was fonnd buried six feet deep in the cellar. The value of the goods recovered aggregates several thousand dollars. THE TREASURERSHIP. E. H. Xebeeker, of Indiana, for United States Treasurer. W ashington, April 12.—United States Treasurer Huston and Mr. E. II. Nebecker arrived*here yesterday afternoon on the same train from Indianapolis. Nr. Nebecker went at once to the executive mansion, and. subsequently Mr. Nebecker, accompanied by Private Secretary Halford, called on Secretary Foster at the treasury departments Mr. Nebecker1 also had a conference with Assistant Secretary Whelpley about the business of the treasurer’s office. Mr. Huston, by invitation, dined with the president at 6 o’clock last eveningThe general understanding is that Mr. Nebecker has been offered andvhas accepted the position of United '’States treasurer and that the announcement will be officially made to-morrow. The Oldest United States Judge on His Deathbed. San Franiscco, April 12.—United States District Judge Hoffman, who is on his deathbed, was appointed in 1851. He was the first United States judge upon the Pacifie coast, and there is no other judge in the nation who has been on the bench forty years, the next longest judicial term being that of judge Wm. J. Allen, judge of the southern district of Illinois, who was apoointed April 18, 1855. Olf on Her Trip Around the World. London, April 12.—The steamer Empress of Japan, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.’s new line of steamships, which is to connect with that railroad and ply between Vancouver, B. C., and Japan, left Liverpool at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon on her trip around the world, which she will complete before going into regular service. Every cabin was taken. An opportunity will be afforded the passengers who sail from Liverpool of, visiting the ruins of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius.. The Empress of China, will leave Liverpool about June 15. A Demand for Reconveyance of Land to the United State*. Washington, April 13.—Secretary Noble Saturday instructed the commissioner of the general land office to make a demand upon the Dubuque & Pacific railroad for the reconveyance to the United States of all lands held to have been excepted from its grant of May 15, 1856. The lands in question lie within the state of Iowa and along the line of the road between Dubuque and Sioux City. They are declared to have been excepted from the grant by reason of existing preemption filings at the date o| the definite location o( the road.

* THE TARIFF IN RHYME. TH 5 FREE LIST. Albumen and Arsenic, Acorns and Aconite, Asbestos and Asses’ Skins, Ashes and Apatite; • Bolognas ^ud Bullion and Brimstone beside, Bladders and Bones, and Blood, if it’s dried? Cacao And Cora!, and Curry and Cutch, Civet and Cinnamon, Camphor and such. DiVi-Diri eomea next, and Dragon’s-b ood \i rare; Dear Diamonds follow for paupers to wear. Excrescences, Emory ore, Etchings, if old, Ergot and Ebony next we behold. Farmarttn \ Fashion plates. Fossil* from far, (Forgetful of Washington’s Fossils we are;) GranadlHa and Grasses and Glass, when i.*s * broken, Gems, Guano and Ginger,- and much mp'e unspoken; Hides arc free now. but In ninety and two Harrison's hand much mischief may do. Iridium hard und Ipecac queer, Ice, Insects and Indigo, have a place here; det. Jalap and Jasmine oil, JosS-stick apd Junk, • Just crowded together, and made free, “all bunk.” Kernel of palm oil, Kyrolith, Kelp, Ke -p up the free list the poor folks to help; Lac, Lemon-peel, Lava, the juice of the lime, Live Leeches and Lichens, a hard word to rhyme: Musk, Munjc-et and Manna the Hebrews that fed, Marshmallows and Meerschaum, Bfahogany red; Xeroli oil, Newspapers, Nuts from Br.izii, Nux-vomica, needed by those who are ill'; Orchids and Osmium, Ottar of roses. .Of use to the poor man, McKinley supposes; Pimento and Pumice and Puiu and Paste, Pepper, Plumbago and old Paper waste; Quinine for protectionist* quaking in pain. Quoits and Quill* for reformers’ stout muscles and brain; Regalia for Scholars, an ! Rag* for the nude, Railroad ties for the rich, Rattans for the rude Sauerkraut, Skele’ons, Sea-weed and Spice, Saffron. Spunk, Snails, and everyth ng nice; Turmeric, Turtles, Teeth, Tripoli. Thyme— The importing of these i3 not called a crime; Uranium oxide Dmbrella-s.icks, too, Uncle Sam's cruisers freely let through. Valonia, Verdigris, Vellum and Virus, Verily, verily, this will soon tire ns; Weeds, Whip-gut an$l Walking-sticks fit in just her*, Wax, Wafers and Whalebone also appear; X comes in the midst of the taxes of all, / X then to the free list we never can call? Yams—Yawning? Well, I am near through, Yet I must fin sh this catalogue tru“; Zaffer comes last on the free list so wrong, Zanies are tftey. who gave cause for this song, lb •' _ THE TAXED LIST. Astands for Anchors and Anvi’s and Axes, B is for Blankets; on these we pay taxes. Cottons. Coal, Carpet*, begin with a C. sir; *l>ress goods and Dye woods, neither are free, sir. E rthenwurc pays per cent five and fifty; Flannels and Flax, Fish, food for the thrifty. Glass to let light in. for light the blind care not. • Hardware and Harness and Hats—the poor wear not. Iron in forms I’d weary in telling. Jackets and Jois's. the l ist for my dwelling. Knives for th j boys, Knit-goods for mother; Linen, Lead, Leather and many another. M als. Milk and Metals, enough to bewilder, Needles tor seamstresses. Nails for the * builder. Oatmeal for living and Ox shoes for labor; Paper and Pens* making distant friends nei'ihbor. Quicksilver si vers rich l aron9 Pacific;' Rice for the poor pays a d’uty terr fic. Salr, Saws and Steel, Screws, Soda and Shipping. Tinned plate for workingmen, Tools for bo d gr pping. ' Ulsters to warm us arep idded with duties. Vegi t bles feed, Varnish make us all beauties. Wootens anti Wools, Wcod, Wire and Watches Xcelleht are as tariff tax blotches. Yarns 3 oil pay toll for when stockings are mended. Zephyr is*t>ne of them; mv yam is ended. —C. Howard Wli*on» in Puck.

A HOME MARKET STATE. How Farming is Declining in Massachusetts —Decrease or Population in Farming Towns—Why the Home Market Theory Does Not Help Che Farmer. The Massachusetts bureau of statistics of tabor has recently made a report oo abandoned farms in that state which conveys a striking practical proof of the falsity of the “home market theory” of the protectionists. That theory is that if you build up manufactures by protection you make agriculture all the more prosperous by furnishing the farmer a home market for his produce. This theory has a show of plausibility about it when put on paper; but actual experience in Massachusetts shows that this “home market theory” will not hold water, since the agricultural population of the state is decling as the manufacturing population grows. Several of the farming towns report as much as 20 per cent, of farm acreage abandoned, two towns as high as 23 per cent, and one even 32 per cent.' In Berkshire^ county five towns show 16 per cent, of all farms abandoned, and four towns in Franklin county returq 17 per cent, abandoned. The changes of population in the state are still more striking. The towns in each county can be divided into two groups, towns devoted mainly to manufactures and towns in which farming is the leading industry. In the county of Dukes both classes of towns have declined, but in the county of Barnstable the towns in which manufactures lead have decreased 53.61 per cent., whi'e those which depended entirely upon agriculture have increased 6.96 percent. These an; the only two counties in which agriculture has not lost as. compared With manufacturing. In Berkshire county the manufacturing towns increased 115.98 per cent., while the agricultural towns declined 35.41 per cent. In Bristol county the manufacturing towns increased 81.17 per cent, while the agricultural towns declined 8.68 per cent. In Essex county the towns reporting abandoned farms are all included in the manufacturing group,, and exhibit an increase of 38.63 per sent. In Franklin county the towns in the manufacturing group, increased 103.65 per cent., while the other towns declined 28.30 per cent In Hampden county the manufacturing towns increased 48.79 per cent, and the agricultural towns declined 26.67 percent In Hampshire county the increase in the manufacturing towns was 47.68 per cent., while the agricultural towns declined 80.17 per cent In Middlesex county the manufacturing towns gained 87.26 per cent, while the agricultural group lost 0.42 per cent In Norfolk county both classes gained, the gain being 37:99 per eent in the manufacturing towns and 17.4 per cent in the agricultural. In Plymouth county the manufacturing towns gained 14.47 . >r -cent and the agricultural lost 21.61 per cent. In Worcester county the manufacturing towns gained 41.81 per eent and the agricultural lost 13.75 per cent Massaehnssets is the greatest manufacturing state in the union in proportion to its size and population. If the “home market theory” can vindicate itself anywhere it. certainly ought to do bo in that- state. The mills are brought near to the farm, according to the ideal eet forth by the protectionists; and yet agriculture' is declining. As the young lawyer said, “there must be a screw loose in the state of Denmark.” The trouble with the “home market theory” is that while protection taxes the fanners in order to insurt greater profits to the manufacturer, i otfars to the f-rjner ao ewurantes what

ever io.u this i<oteoLt riinnufaetrarer v>ill pay >ne penny mure for farm produce than the foreigner will pay. j The boasted home, market for the products of the farm is simply a part of the great world’s market; and not only is it not a better market than the foreign market, brat the farmer seldom, knows whether he is selling for export ,or for the home market, for the price' will be the same in either case. Hence it is clear that for the farmer the home market is no better and no worse than the foreign market, except in the case of very perishable products. As protection then does yet make the home market any better t# him than the foreign market, does not give him better prices here than abroad, ft is clear .that when the benefits of protection are counted np the farmer "is not in it.” The ^manufacturer gets in most cases his higher prices, which the farmer .must pay; the farmer sells and must sell at world-market pi ’ and at these the manufacturer fills pantry. , And so farming in protected Massac chusetts is declining. Wool and Shoddy. The New York Dry Goods Economist has set on foot an investigation which will certainly result in finding out soma facts of great interest to the tariff bur* dened consumers of this country. This investigation is undertaken to show s that without using shoddy the manufacturers cannot supply the place of the worsted goods shut out by the McKinley law. The Economist says that until the manufacturers get free wool “clothiers will be compelled to manufacture their $15 suits out of pieces made of cotton and shoddy and a very small per centage of wool, and designers’ abilities will be employed not 10 much in producing an attractive fabric as in hiding the inferior yarns, by the use of as much good material as the price will admit.. Taxed wool is the greatest inducement to the use of 6hoddy, and in subsequent issues we shall endeavor to show how those woolen-manufac-turers who were the greatest advocates of the wool schedules in the McKinley act are among the largest users, < shoddy of our domestic manufacturer We are already the greatest sho " wearing nation on earth; and Mcf ley’s increase of the wool duties* have the effect of making us wear l shoddy than ever. A prominent manufacturer of Massachussetts. Arthur I. Lyman, of the Lowell Ma factoring Co., has recently stated a large part of the clothing of the pie is made of shoddy. It was gether natural that the shoddy earnestly supported the McKinley last year when it was under discussion As the statement is often made the protectionists that the manu fact- ’ urers do not want free wool, it is well to quote here Mr. Lyman’s indorsemeu of Cleveland’s free wool message, says: “President Cleveland’s message on free wool states so well the case of the whole people against the wool-graders’ selfish interests or the manufacturers’ ' selfish interests that I need only ask the people to read and consider Ji.-” i

Exporting; Coal. The uselessness of our duty on coal is shown by the fact that we ire exporting considerable quantities of coal. Only a few years ago we began exporting it to Cuba. In 1889 these exports amounted to 198,000 tons; and in 1890 I they reached 337,000 tons. Our total ex-1 ports to all countries last year amount- J ed to 1,931,000 tons, valued at 36,855,000. f Our imports, on the other hand, wer§» _ only 935,000 tons, worth $3,000,000. Th© ! duty on coal hurts nobody excep the people on the coast and the people"in New England, except when, as is usually the case, the home producers maintain a combination price. The removal of this duty of seventy-five cents a ton would prevent this trust met.' except at points removed from the sear ports; and New England and the Pa- ! cific states would have access to coal supples, which they very much need. As our exports are so far beyond imports it is preposterous to claim, as the protected mine-ownersdo, that the duty I is the only thing that enables us to operate our mines. Hour Farming Grows. The claim of the protectionists that the farmer gets the principal advantage out of the tariff is decidedly’ “cheeky” even for the pretectionists. If the principal advantage goes to the farmer then agriculture ought certainly to be increasing more rapidly than manufacturers, but this is far from being the case. The eminent statistician,. Mulihall, has shown that from 1859 to 1889 the population of the United. States increased 170 per cent., railroads nearly 1,609 per ceht., banking more than 900 per cent., steam power 085 per cent., manufactures 408 per cent, agriculture 253 per cent and shipping 74 per cent X —It seems that the growth of the deposits in the savings banks of the state have f allen to within a little of the vanishing point sinee the passage of the McKinley tariff. Before that time we were told, again and again, that protection was responsible for the great increase that has taken place in those deposits. Is overdone protection stopping their growth now? We don’t see why, cn the basis of the earlier argument, it is not fair to take that ground, but, to be candid, our belief is that protection had about as much to do with the matter in the one case as in the other, and that is very little, indeed.—Boston Herald. i > i x; —The tariff law aiming at the destruction of the ore smelting works along the Atlantic coast, and through them at the copper mines in the eastern and southern states, was not passed until early in 1869, and, accordingly, its effect on these industries had not begun to show itself at the lime the census of 1879 was taken. The average price of copper, which was 19% cents in 1861, rose to 23% cents, and from this point fell gradually, till in 1879 it reached 18% cents. _, —According to one. of the manufacturers of copper goods in Connecticut, the use of copper for nlectrical purposes is nearly onehalf of the total consumption of copper in the United States. The perfection of electrical apparatus in the United States cannot fail to give us the mar-" kets of the world in erecting plants; but if we continue to, handicap the man ufacturers of the necessary instrument by a high tariff, foreigners may wrest it from us. _A Kansas genius has invented an artificial egg that can not be detected • from the real article. He says that he can manufacture them at a cost of three cents per dozen. Is it not about timef for Mr. McKinley to get up a tariff t will protect the American hen f ‘ pauper labor” olKauM*.