Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 October 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XXII PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891. NUMBER 23. J. L. MOUNT, Editor ud Proprietor, "Our Motto is Honest £>eirotion to Principles ox kighu OFtlOE, over J. B. tOUJO & COM Store, Kofe Street.

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PROFK'SIQAAI. CARDS. J. T. BUMS, M. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. «arOffl«« In Bank building, first Boor. WIH •e found at office day or night. r*Axcix b. Pohet. Dnmocatmu rOSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind, Will practice In all the courts, special at* tentlon given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In tb« office. WOffloc— On Brat floor Bank Bnlldlng. b Bbr- 8. G. DavREPOBT. • A ELY & DAVENPORT. LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ikd. WOffice over J. B. Adams A Son's drug •tore. Prompt attention given to all boatB. r. Richardsor a. H. Tatlor RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ikd. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office In Garpenter Building, Eighth and Slain. DENTISTRY. -k K. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, 1ND. Office OTer J. B. Young's Store, Main Street 49-Offlce hours from 9 o’clock a. m. to 4 o'clock p. in. E. J. JiAERIS,

.In Stendal, __ _ EVERY STAUBDAY, To transact business connected with the office ot trustee of Lockhart township. All persona haring business with said office will please take notice. _ J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties con* eerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUE8DAY, To attehd to business connected with the office ot Trustee ot Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the offioeot Trustee ot Logan township. ^-Positively no_ business transected ex eept'oa office daya •' , SILAS KIRK, Troa Ni 'OTICE la hereby given to all parties eonberned that I will attend i' _ . I at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office ot Trustee ot Madison township. SOrPoaltlvely no business transacted except office daya _ _ _ JAMES BUMBLE, Trustee. xrc XV R OTICE is hereby given to all persons Interested that I will attend In my office In pen, EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office ot Trustee at Marlon township. All peisoas having business with sSId office will please take aotloe. W. r. BROOK. Trustee. XT OTICE is hereby given to nil persons IN concerned that I wJTl sttend at i — _ ny offios EVERY DAY To transact business connected with the •flee ot Trustee ol Jefferson township. E W. HARRIS, Trustee.

THE WOfiLD AT LABGR Summary of the Dally News The first steps toward the erection of a monument to Gen. Logan in Washington hare been taken. There is $163,000 available for the statue. Tan post office officials are greatly interested in the expeetei lessening of the work in the large poet offices of the country by the' introduction Of new stamping machines. Secretary Noble has ordered all the surveying corps and allotting agents in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation to disband until congress makes farther appropriations. This will delay the opening of these lands one year. Mrs. Harrison has written a letter encouraging the Chicago chapter of the Daughters of the Bcvolntion in their efforts to make a suitable exhibit of revolutionary relies at the world's fair. A statement prepared at the treasury department shows that the net gold balance in the treasury (coin and bullion) was $128,648,801, a loss of $3,876,421 since October 1. It is, however, $10,079,079 more than tho balance dune 30, when it reached its lowest point since January, 1888. Mr. White house, charge d'affaires of the American legation at Rome, cabled the state department that the Italian government had removed the restriction against swine products accompanied by certificate of inspection. The decree against the importation of live swine is still in force. Maj.-Gen. Schofield’s annual report recommends augmentation of the army. The annnat report of Brig-Gen. DuBarry, commisary-general of subsistence in the army, is mainly statistical, but it cou tains an interesting paragraph in regard to the necessity of having better cooks. Secretary Tract, himself a great horse fancier, thinks .trotters will yet go a mile in two minutes.

taking Ex-! It a Tbs noted telescope makers, Alvin G. & George B. Clark, of Cambridge, Mass., are to dissolve partnerships because George B., the senior member, is physically unable to continue in active business and desires to be relieved of all responsibility. Jonathan Steward, of Trenton, N. J., has made an assignment The liabilities foot up $329,000 and the assets about $185,000. The liabilities include numerous indorsements for the Trenton china and Star rubber companies, which failed a few months ago, and all the Twjton banks suffer. Sunday's steamers at New York it $1,530,000 in gold from Europe, the total returned to date $17,,000. here was a run on the Yonkers (N. ) savings bank. About 4,000 excited ipositors drew out $200,000 in a few mrs. :-Sbnator Ingam,s addressed a audience in Trom -nt temple, BoaGen! B. F. Butler introduced him. is stated in Pittsburgh, Pa., that Standard Oil Co. is to have opposiin. Sylvester Wilson, for abducting ibbie Sutherland, was sentenced at York to five years in the penitenand to pay a fine of $1,000. roHN Bardslky declares emphaticthat no power on earth can unseal lips. he Glendale Woolen mills. PittsId, Mass., have been destroyed by Loss, $200,000; insured. !aby Ruth Cleveland is- receiving jmerous and costly presents from all of the country. ’6 schooners of Gloucester, Mass., reported lost with a total of 36 lives. Iecretary Blaine said in Boston it he had never felt stronger than at mb His appetite was vigorous. lex. Huppk was on trial in Brooklyn killing Frank Kreschmar, who led Hiippe’s family out in the rain iile one child had pneumonia. national board of appraisers in York city has been hearing the case brought by the Woolen Maniturers* association to force highet ities on imported woolens riot was feared near Monongahola , Pa. The coal operators were ling the district with Huns and which greatly excited the -ikers. 'hr report that Ex-Senator Ingallf taken sick in Massachusetts wai i is take. THE WJKST. olorado capitalists propose to tun1 under the range of mountains at a pvenient spot and turn the Grand er to the eastern slope for irrigating Evangelical Lutheran conferi in Indianapolis has taken decisive on against the seceding faction. . shock of earthquake was felt in i county. Mo., and vicinityIrs. Ranslkt, whose husband she cued from an insane asylum at Cinnati and married, laughs at the i that she hypnotized him. ik Chicago city council proposes to

Hnpel all roads to elevate their tracks that city fourteen feet above the street level. Thousands of cigars, fraudulently stamped as made at 8t Augustine, Fla., have been sold at San Francisco. A. P. Carter, Hawaiian minister to the United States, is lying very ill in New York city. There is little hope for him. It was reported that the Burlington passenger train No 6, which left Chicago at 0 o’clock the previous evening was ditched between Burlington, la, and Galesburg on the morning of the 91st. The engineer and five passengers were killed. * At Kahoka, Mo, three confidence men were sent to the penitentiary for long terms. The silver question was ignored lit the resolutions adopted by the Transminiasippi congress at Omaha, Neb Bardweli.'s sash and door factory at Minneapolis, Mina, has been destroyed By fire. Loss, *100,000; insurance about-half. The night agent of the Chicago ft Northwestern railroad at Boone, la, was held up by a burglar who compelled him, at the point of a revolver, to surrender the company's funds in the office. Ah outbreak among the lltes of western Colorado over hunting rights is threatening. Troops have been sent to the scene. A sbttkb dog saved the life of a wounded hunter near Columbus, Ind., by running home for aid. AixbbtoN tried to break his record at Independence, la, but failed, making only S:10K8. P. Cohosh, the discoverer of the rich San Lazarus mine in San Pedro, N. M., has seized that property from the stockholders, who had placed as

I’ll Missouri valley vitrified briekmakers have formed a combine. A terrible threshing machine accident occurred on the Grandin farm, Mayville, N. IX The boiler burst and six men were killed. Owing to a fog on the K. G, St J. & G B., near Kansas City, Ms, a passenger and freight train met in collision. Engineer Saegcr was killed. Much loss was sustained. A yarn span by Murderer Benson was to the effect .that ..Mrs. Mettman killed herself in her home at Leavenworth, Kan., accidentally. The peculiar relations of all tike parties induced them to mutilate the remains and hide them on the river bank. Thk American Public Health association, lately in session at Kansas City, Ms, agreed to meet next in the City of Mexico. The Indiana alliance has indorsed the Ocala platform, snb-treasury feature and all. Henry Basse, a farmer, was found dead on the roadside near Grand Forks, N. D. Investigation showed he had drunk a quantity of carbolic acid in place op alcohol. MrA^ Mary Fountains was killed and'several others injured by a runaway near Elk Point, S. D. Andrew Wyman, the; driver, was drunk at the time. In a collision on a curve between two heavy freight trains, on a branch of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, near Lake City, la., both trains were wrecked. M. R. Hayden and George Stein, both brake men, were instantly killed. Eitgineers Collins and McAllister were probably fatally injured. W. H. Biddle, of, Butler county, was elected president of the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance, vice Frank McGrath. $piE United States grand jury at Sioux Falls, S. D., has indicted the managers of the Louisiana lottery. The government inspired the prosecution. Salton lake, Arizona, about which so much was said some time ago, is disappearing. Adelbert Goheen was hanged at midnight at Fergus Falls, Minn., for the murder of Boss Bray. *

THE SOUTH. The boiler of the Brookhaven (Miss.) Machine Ca exploded, instantly killing1 James Hoskins, fireman, and wonnding C. A. Woodbury. Hoskins' head was biown off. John Russ, a white man, was lynched at Columbus, La., for brutally murdering an aged negress Miss A lick Hecht threw herself from the top of the Washington monument in Baltimore, 155 feet high. She died instantly. Henry Silverman, a swindler with a long record, has been arrested at Sheffield, Ala Four of the Southern Pacific train robbers were captured at the 7 D ranch. Live Oak creek, about 100 miles north of Lantry, Tex., by Gapt Jones and posse. None of them offered, any resistance except John Flint, who, after a running fight of several minutes, committed suicide. The new 143,000 court house at Childress, Tex., was burned to the ground. It was supposed to be the work of incendiaries. All the county records of Childress and Cottle counties were a total loss and it will entail untold trouble to replace them. The California pacer Direct easily defeated Hal Pointer at the races at Nashville, Tenn. • Gildkboy Wells Griffin, United States consul to Sidney, New South Wales, died at Louisville, Ky., of Bright’s disease. He had been sick about three weeks. He was born in Louisville in 1841, and wns author and editor of several books. A frightful wreck occurred at St Johns station, Md., on the Baltimore A. Ohio The engineer and fireman were killed. Five others were injured, four fatally. * The monument erected to the memory of Henry W. Grady on one of the principal streets of Atlanta, GA, was unveiled on the 9tst in the presence of the governor of New York, the governor of Georgia and a large assemblage of southern people. The bank of Lewisburg, Tenn., has made an assignment The assets exceed the liabilities by more than 830,000. Difficult collections on account of tight money caused the assignment. The Transmississippi congress devoted a day to the silver coinage question. The final vote was for the free coinage of the American product only. The National Wholesale Druggists’ association at its meeting at Louisville, Ky., adopted a resolution calling on congress to pass a law "to protect the public from unscrupulous imitations and counterfeits of foods and medical preparations sold under trademarks.” sThe gin -belonging to the Sherman (Tex.) Oil A Cotton Ca, together with 350 bales of cotton, burned. Loss, $60,000; fully insured. The electric light plant was badly damaged. \ At Bessemer, Ala., Postmaster Samuel Mnllin jumped from his carriage while the horse was running away. His skull was fractured. The Farmers* Alliance of Florida numbers, according to the secretary, only 5,400—a decrease of over 8,300 in a year. _]_ GENERAL.

diocese without the consent of the government The archbishop is liable to a heavy fine as well' as a term of imprisonment Tub Associated press and the Western Union Telegraph Co. are at outs over the question of “leased wires,” the services of which the company has refused newspapers. Sokol trotted a mile in 9:0*if, beating Maud S.’s record of 9:03% made in 1888. Thb French senate tariff committee deckled in favor of a proposition to impose a duty of 35 francs per 100 kilos on salted meats of all kinds, including pork, ham and bacon, instead of one of 90 francs, which the chamber of deputies had already passed. A special cable dispatch from Managua, Nicaragua, says Don Fernando Gasman, the ex-president of the republic, k dead Sit death ia nuns rally refitted

Prof. Isaac C. Rduiu and party, who hare been exploring Alaska, hare reached Vancouver, B. C, in safety, excepting Thomas White, who was drowned. , . Tax tea ship Heels, bound lor San Francisco, has been lost at sea. A bad accident occurred between Brandon and Kenney stations on the Canadian Pacific in Manitoba. Two persons were killed and one seriously Injured. Tax Dutch steamer Edam, disabled at sea, has safely reached port Ex-Paxaixx Crispi, ot Italy, bitterly attacks the papacy in the North American Review. Borne under the pope, he says, was a gangrene spot which poisoned the whole body of the nation. Tax San Juan and Palaloopan rivers, Mexico, have overflowed and several towns are inundated. There is also great destruction of crops A Taxxx is a diphtheria epidemic in a Norwegian settlement near Marshalltown, lx Latxb returns showed that the liberals carried the elections in Chili by heavy majorities. Tax North German Lloyd Steamship Co. will open an experimental steamship line from New York to Genoa, Italy. Fiftv Albanians attacked a party of Montenegrins, who were traveling in the direction of the Servian frontier. Five of the Montenegrins were killed and one other of the same party was severely wounded. Tax Keel shut secret society has caused the walls of Woo Chang, a large city in the province ot Hoo Pee, On the Yang Tse Kiang, to be placarded with posters announcing that ail missionaries will soon be exterminated. Tax French cabinet has refused to accept the senate’s 25 franc duty on American salt meats. Fierce and destructive storms are reported in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Great Britain. Officials of the Vatican charge the Pantheon trouble to desperation of the monarchy and declare that the pope will never submit to the threats implied. Leaving Rome is not improbable and the holding ot the next conclave abroad is likely. Trees has been a rising in the province of Fukir, China. The rebels esptured a town, but later were expelled. Advices from Ascnncion, the capital of the republic of Paraguay, bring news of an attempt to overthrow President Juan G. Gonzales. The attempted revolution, however, was promptly suppressed by the troops loyal to the government.

uf me **,ouu seal sums cangot in Behring- sea this season 94,000 were taken by sixteen Nova Scotia scbo-m-ers fishing in that water. The results have been so encouraging that Nova Scotia capitalists are now fitting out a fleet. Mr. Gladstone has prepared an Irish home rule bill in such a shape that it can be announced at any time. It is said to be far more liberal than that of 1883 x '-Sw' " Clearing house returns for the week ended October 39 showed an average decrease of 3.5 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the decrease was 33 Diplomatic complications are not likely over the assault on American sailors in Valparaiso. The recent lynching in New Orleans is a case which placed the government in a position where the Chilian government is at present A battle took place in southern Manitoba recently between a band of full blood Indians and the Canadian police. One policeman and two Indians were killed. Several were wounded. Business failures (Dun’s review) for the seven days ended October 99 numbered 349, compared with 259 the previous week and 995 the corresponding week of last year. The arming of the Berlin police with carbines, which virtually converts them into a regular soldiery, is due to the great apprehension felt by the authorities that winter will be attended by great suffering among the poor and perhaps by consequent disturbances. Dr Doyle Glanville, the leader of the British South African expedition, is said to have died of exhaustion at Matabeland.

TUB LATEST. Minister Egan has been instructed to demand of the Chilian government: First, an indemnity in money to be paid to the families of the dead sailors of the Baltimore and to the families of such of the wounded as may die; second, the arrest and punishment of the participants in the assault, and, third, a suitable apology to the United States. The tone of the dispatch indicates that the administration will brook no delay in securing a settlement of the matter. The situation is regarded as one of extreme gravity. A serious cave-in in the levee at New Orleans is creating much alarm. It is in front of the French market, and extends from the Harrison steamship wharf to a point below the lugger land'ng. No measures for permanent relief have yet been taken, all parties interested looking to temporary measures., St Petersburg Novesti estimates *,000,000 people in Russia are utfood. Statistics prove conclnthat in many places speculators extortionate prices Corn meets and village koolaks, or usurers, charged with responsibility for the ion. St James Gaxette of London its against any such disposition of models of Nelson’s ship, the Vic- , and the Eddystone lighthouse, as make it possible for them to be to Chicago or elsewhere outside and. ont in the Hopkins-Searles case was concluded, on the 24th, the case was submitted without argument The court announced that the will was sustained, and counsel for the contestant gave notice of appeal Gee. John Palmer, commander-in-chief *of the grand army, will issue an order, after the November campaign, f<jrbidTdfhg members parading in processions- where confederate flags are carried. Judge Lea, of Little Rock, overruled the demurrer in the case of ex-Treus-urer Woodruff, of Arkansas, and the trial of the case began bn the 96th. The president it is understood, will treat the matter of pauper immigration with some vigor in his forthcoming annual message to congress. The Ulster (Ireland) linen trade is so prosperous that the wages of employes have bsen voluntarily increased by the employers. > The company and technical staff of Siwa”°*»wm »nrT«*s»

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Thebe is quite * sensation at Newark, twelve miles west of Bloomington, over what is thought to he a deliberate murder. About two weeks ago the body of Mrs. Clara Waggoner was found in a cistern the indications being that she had been dead for several hours. The remains were buried without an examination by the coroner, and since circumstances- have developed which aroused suspicion that a near relative put the woman out of the way to secure hor money and also because she was a burden, ns her mind was partially gone. The feeling has become so strong that the remains are to be exhumed and examined by an expert It is thought that the woman w&s chloroformed, and when dead was placed in the eistern with the idea that she had fallen in accidentally and killed herself. * * The roller-skating craze has again reached Crawfordsvillc. Thk suit of N. S. By ram, trustee, va the Etna Insurance Co., commenced at Indianapolis a- few days ago, is marked by unusually sensational featurea The suit is to recover $5,000 insurance on a stock of drygoods owned by Byram & Sullivan, desti-oyed by fire March 1. The defense of the insurance company is that the s tock was fired to get the insurance. The total insurance was 846,000, divided among eight or ten companies, and the same questions are involved in each claim. At Princeton Wm. Suit, a sevent-ec^ year-old horse-thief, was fined fifty dollars and given seven months in the county jail. Joseph Brown, a colored citiaen of El wood, while intoxicated, laid his head on the track at Muucie, but was saved from committing suicide by a pnsserby. Both Episcopal and German Methodists of Valparaiso are making efforts to establish churches in that city. Junes B. K. Higginbotham, of Frankfort, died from the effects of the Keeley treatment for drunkenness. Miss Lulu McCormick, w hile attend

MTO IU1UUUV3 lau, (UIJUUU »» tiu €» blacksnake whip, “whaltxi” an unknown dude who insulted her. At Little York, Washington county, Mr. John Shartell died at the age of 103 years. He was the step-fatlier of Eider Thomas Jones, of Seymour. Jeremiah Dugan, aged 59, residing three miles south of Shelbyville, died the other morning of congestion of the liver. He was a wealthy farmer, and prominent in local politics At the time of his death he was serving his third term as county surveyor. Wm.Lakiumoke, prominent farmer of Lake - township, Allen county, while driving Koine from church, the team ran away, throwing him out and injuring him so badly that he: died a few hours later. Wm. McIntirk, of Hartford City, has gathered two Crops from one cherrytree already this season, and now the prolific tree has blossomed out for the third time. The free kindergarten a,t New Albany has twenty-seven little tots in the school and is decidedly prosperous. Ralph Arnold was found dead at his home in Browpstown, with a bullet wound in his breast. No weapon could be found,'"and it is supposed he was murdered. Quails are quite plentiful in the state. A car-load of cotton on an eastbound freight train at Crawfordsville took fire from a spark from the engine and was burned. Mrs. Chas. A. Miller, of Crawfordsville, took first premium on applique lace at the St Louis fair. There were eight hundred enteries in this class. Joel Newsom hits been postmaster at Azalia, Bartholomew county, for thir-ty-two years, having been appointed by Buchanan in 1359. and serving ever since without a bieak. The arrest of Sam Harbin at Washington and his confession to the officers led to the arrest of Auditor Lavcllc, Aaron Burr Hawes and Basil Ledgerwood. A warrant, was also issued for the arrest of Mike Lavclle, a brother to the auditor, but he could not be found. Ledgerwood and Harbin were arraigned in court charged with arson, in burning the court house, and they pleaded guilty. Hawes’ and Lavelle’s plea was not guilty, and they were placed under $5,000 bond, which neither could give, and they were jailed. Both passionately insist; that they are innocent Auditor. Lavelle’s complicity in the case is credited to the alleged crooked condition of his books. The official canvass of the vote cast at the Indianapolis election, completed at a late hour the other night gives Sullivan’s plurality at 3,733, Abram's 685, Bnskirk 1,381. John Si.avin, a farmer of Daviess county, while ont hunting, accidentally shot himself, and died from the wounds.

Tipton is to be lighted with electricity. Thebe is t movement to build a street-car line from Seymour to Brownstown. eleven miles, it will cost $55,000. The Masonic lodge building at Sharpsville, Tipton county, was burned. Loss, $20,000. William M. Reeves, of Crawfords* ville, has been appointed district president of the Patriotic Sons of America .for the counties of Warren, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Fountain, Parke, Putnam and Vermillion. The fourth-class postmasters of Elkhart held aq animated meeting in Goshen, the other day, in which it was decided to present a vigorous memorial of their grievances to the department, chief of which is the insufficiency of their emolnmenta Messrs. Wilcox & Mtbbs have commenced the construction of their cathedral and window-glass factory at Red Key, and expect to have the same completed and ready for operation by the 1st of December. Ella Martin, of Evansville, got * verdict for $3.000 against Charles Collins, a mail agent on the E. & T. H. railroad, for breach of promise. Thieves got away with $1,100 worth of diamonds and jewelry from the residence of Simon Straus, at Ligonier. Charles A. Cross, of Bean Blossom, Brown county, while peeling tan bark the other mornitig, came upon a den containing seven rattlesnakes, made sluggish by a heavy frost Four were captured alive and three were killed. The four were sold for sixteen del ars and will he sent to Chicago. MM- Ann Meters, aged 50, and colored, of Columbus, wife of Isaac Meyers, a member of Company T. Fifth U. 8. Colored cavalry, has Ijeen granted a paufepotmMO.

TYPE-SETTING DEVICE. a Machine Invented by a Michigan Printer that, ir Its CUIms Prove WellFounded, will Materially Expedite the Production of Books and Newspapers. Muskegon, Mich., Oct 98.—Earth V. lteales, of this city, a'"J>radical printer has of late years been working on a typesetting device which he thinks he has practically completed, Bis invention consists of two separata machines. The first of these corresponds to a typewriter, and is operated by a compositor, who works from the copy. This, instead of being printed as a typewriter, it transforms to a strip of paper by perforations made by striking the keys on the finger board, the particular letters or characters being determined by the distance bf the perforation from a base line. When the copy has thns been trans- * ferred to the strip of paper the latter is taken to a second machine, which, working automatically by electricity, sets up the type, an as each line is composed impresses it into a matrix paper in a way that makes a perfect mold of the line. The matrix, paper moves along abtomatically as } the lines are composed until a moqhj^is obtained for a column. It Is then .reedy for the stereotyping process. The perforator can be operated as rapidly as a typewriter, oh which tin average speed is about fifty words a minnte. The automatic aligning and impressing machine will be capable of handling the matter turned off from two or three of the perforators. Tha capacity is equal to about twenty men at the case.

DEFRAUDING UNCLE SAM, * Species or Fraud on the Mail System °tha( Frequently Miscarries, the Head Letter Office Swallowing the Spoils— Uncle Sam’s Eyes Are Sharp. Washington, Oct 26.— Perhaps the most common device for defrauding the postal and customs revenue's of this and other countries is the inclosing of prohibited articles tfrith printed matter. Although a great variety of articles thus committed to the mails reaches the dead letter office, few are of such a character or value as to suggest a speculative purpose beyond the saving in postage. For the most part they are evidently intended to be gifts and testimonials of affection existing between familiei scattered which can" in the mails between postal tries except at letter ral can only be sent ugdi^ta^B^Bnditions in the dorm Gloves, ribbons, small pieces of Bilk, children’s shoes, jewelry of modest value, needlework, infants, garments, ties and stockings, are largely among the things found in newspapers, often accompanied.' by written communications which, while not disclosing the identity of the senders,' clearly indicated a purpose to evade the law. The great uncertainty of success, and the equally great probability that the receipt of this class of matter at. the dead letter office, if of domestic origin, insures its ultimate condemnation to the auction room, are evidently not clearly understood by its would-be friends. A THOUSAND DOLLARS. The Vicissitudes of a Package of Currency Kn Route from Milan, Tenn., to Latbam, —4S. The Survivor of a Burning Wreck, It Reaches Its Destination. Washington, Oct. 26.—October 14 last Mr. E. A. Collins, banker of Milan, Tenn., registered at his post office a package addressed to Latlian, Alexan- 1 der county, N. Y., containing a thousand dollars in currency. A serions train wreck occurred hear Steubenville, O., on the 16th instant. The mail which included this valuable package was on the ill-fated train, and largely shared the general destruction, which fire made more thorough. Fortunately, this package, badly scarred and crisped as to cover, remained quite intact as to inclosures, and was picked up by W.. R. Johnson, one of the brakemen of the train. Mr. Johnson immediately after the wreck delivered the package to Geo. F. Brown, chief dispatcher of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati A St. Louis railway, Columbus division, who in tarn handed it over to the custody of the post office at Steubenville. The package was from this office promptly forwarded to Mr. A. Burt, division superintendent railway mail service at Cincinnati, who delivered the same to the postmaster at Cincinnati, for transmittal to the dead letter office, where it was received by registered mail on the 22d. Information of its receipt was at once telegraphed to the sender, and in accordance with his instructions the package was forwarded to the owner.

A Swiss Town Wiped Oat. Paris, Oct. 26.—A most disastrous fire has destroyed the flourishing town of Meiringen, in the canton of Berne, Switzerland. The fire started in a house, and owing to a prevailing high wind, gained rapid headway, spreading furiously through the entire town. Despite every effort building after building was caught and crumbled. All the population, except the children, aged and helpless, joined in fighting . the flames, but the most heroic labor was in vain, and so swiftly did the fire leap from point to point that it was with the utmost difficulty that the workers avoided being caught in the fiery flood. , Post office, town hall, railroad station, hotels, shops and houses went down like stacks of hay. More than 3,000 people are homeless. The Men Shot by Order of Gen. Garda. Bio Grande Citt, Tex., Oct. 26.— Two of the men who were shot at midnight on October 10 at the Guardado de Arriba ranch so summarily by order of Gen. Garcia, because of their alleged revolutionary proclivities are now known to have been Juen Bazan and Jose Angel Vera, American citizens and voters in this county. John B. Richardson, American consul at Matamoras, Mexico, has announced that he will make a thorough investigation of, the killing,"and if the men were American citizens he will take further legal steps. Death of a Noted Divine. Minnkapoijb, Minn., Oct. 25.—Rev. H. Tiffany, D. D., pastor of the Henn-pin-avenue M. E. church, mid one of the most noted divines of the country, died at the parsonage of the church yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The death ca nc quietly, but with terrible suddenness. The illness of Dr. Tiffany was not believed to be serious and Friday night he was reported to be improving. The cause of death is not definitely known, but the doctor’s entire system seems to have collapsed Many friends will ®wn» Uie d«at!l gi thte brilliant mao* V , .s '

CHiO MUD-SLIN&ER& EmlenrUMa Cdndvet of lk« -K'! orated*' SipiiillaiU. When the Ohio campaign was opened She republicans were the first to dedare that the battie should be fought ?n living issues, that personalities thould to kept oat of the fight, in short, the campaign should be one of Education. It was not necessary to Retire the assent of the democrats to his as it Was known by republicans hat mud-slinging1 was not a habit of ‘emocrats. In one of his opening 'beeches Gov. Campbell spoke in the righest terms of Maj. McKinley, of his ■lerling honesty, of hi3 character as a public man and as a private citizen, fie feelingly expressed his admiration '*>r him and declared him to Jse his peryppal friend. It was not long, howler, before the republicans discovered their inability to cope with the democrats in a campaign of education. From I'rotection, their hobby, they shifted to silver. But on this, as on the tariff, 'hey were worsted by Gov. Campbell Fad his aids. Left without an issue, * anted from their protection breakwater, the disorganized, demoralized Republican army was fbreed to load its 1 mooth bores with mud and fire them ft Gov. Campbell. The guns were not 'Pained upon his character; no word ■ ?as uttered against -his honesty or inOgrity; no intimation that he had ; ommitted a disbqnest act during his fovernorsbip—'there was absolutely Nothing in Gov. Campbell's public or iJrivate life for the hard-pushed repub1 leans to assail Then they thought of lis financial condition. This, they rlaimed, was not such as a governor In s highly protected country should en!oy. He was not rich. He had not Invested his money in any of the monopolies fostered by the law of which hiB opponent was the creator. He was not Vealthy, but they averred ha was worse, ■han poor, that he was iu debt. Fabuous sums he was said to owe to bis irieuds. To Mr. Cleveland he was said So he indebted many thousand dollars, io Mr. Brice sixty-flva thousand dollars, to Mr. McLean fifteen thousand dollars, and to one Wilkinson, “a prominent Ohio politician,” seven thousand dollars.

Republican papers printed these stories without making any effort to iscertaic the trnth of them. Thus it teas that Got. Campbell decided to call j^^Jjtehw^swnply denied the from the stump, the press printed them as jWP5tl%th he i^esolved to defend himself. ' This is the method he took and a ?ery effective one it is, too: Columbus, O.. Oet k—Commercial Gazette, Cincinnati, O.: Un less you retract in year next s ;ae, in the broadest and clearest possible lanraase, the publication made by you this day, ind purporting to be copied from the New fork Recorder, I shall bring suit against yon ;o-morrow. The man whom you cal! Ralph W. SVIlSdnson, and to whom these monstrous lies tre attributed, 1 never heard of, 1 do not pro. lose to let you shield yourself behind some mythical person, or to*esoape because you are ittempting to ruin my credit and reputation as in honorable man by printing from papers In Slew York what you have not the hardihood to print direct Your meek editorial comment tolas is worse than would be a bold and open as sumption of responsibility. YOur screed taken rom tho New York Press the other day was tntrue and lib ideas, aa$ I shat 1 bring suit upon hat also unless you retract it. Jamas ri campbiu* A massage was sent by Mr. Campbell ;o his New York attorneys in reference io the Recorder and the Philadelphia Press which had printed similar stories, Bnt this is not all The men who tre conducting the campaign of educsiion for the republican party in Ohio solar forgot what little decency they nay hare possessed as to drag Mrs. Campbell, the governor’s wife, into the sampaign. No woman in Ohio stands tigher in like estimation of the people ban Mr-3. Campbell. The men who ire trying to daub Mr. Campbell with nnd surely might have had respect snough for their mothers and sisters to leave Mrs. Campbell alone. Bnt they did not, and the word was passed ilong the line and heralded by the irgans that Mrs Campbell was an extravagant woman. Think of what an issue that would nake if the republicans only pushed it. The governor's wife extravagant! What a subject for a stump speech! How the orator, could enlarge upon such a vital question! Ohio could be made a republican stats eternally by meb an issue. If there was any doubt about the sleet ion of Gov. Campbell the publication of these attacks on his financial condition removes it. The respectable members of the republican party will lot approve of such despicable methids to defeat o.a opponent—Chicago Slobe. SOLIDITY OF THE SOUTHWEST.

rha Farmer. BeirnicUug Against So. E»|ioliitio Oppression.— Strong- evidence of the vital forces at work in the industries and trade of the south is the fact that that section is low more prosperous than it has been ‘or several years, For the last year or fwo no portion of the eonntry has had t more trying ordeal or had more obstacles thrown in the way of its progFrom the day that the Seed congress was organised the south -was threatsned from Washington with a revolusionary enactment deliberately intended to create disorder, disturb conIdieace and cheek its growing industries. How many mitlions of dollars the south lost through this infamous neasure. put forward by the greedy >nd reckless political gamesters who liotated the policy of Reed’s congress, trill never he known; but the loss was real, and it was great , Before the force bill was out of the way a hurtful biow was struck at tho sotton interests of the south by the McKinley tariff, which not only imposed heavier burdens of taxation upon the cotton growers, but in a measure crippled their best customers by diminishing their ability to pay good prices for cotton. The increase in the duties Bn cotton goods for the benefit of New England mill owners made it necessary that European mill owners, who take nearly three-fourths of the crop should pay enough less for raw cotton to meet the increased tax on manufactured cotton goods. Directly and indirectly the McKinley tariff has made the cotton crop* of this year worth fifteen to twenty per cent, lesa than they would have been worth ij that tariff had not been passed. And yet in many portions of th* south the people are to-day' - on a ee ouver basin of prosperity than they were a year or two ago. The self denial, prudence arid foresight aeces sary to meet the difficulties of the pas! two years have home 'ogit’rcate fruii In greater tadapeisdsase and freedou from debt Having _‘ little money «they have $ mam UDCli iihesi4 | * '** r**v'°**?Wt :

lag little to waste they hare been economical. If they hare contributed les* to the prosperity of the north tl»ey hare made the most of every^ element of prosperity at home. The county and district fairs In Texas, more numerous, better attended and with better exhibits than ever before, tell their own story of substantial prosperity among the f timers, as well as of their keen interest in the finer points of farm economy. The Texas farmers hare not been spendingraoney freely because they hare not had the wherewith to spend, and borrowing has been difficult; but they hare been making some long strides towards becoming independent of borrowing. The results of the year’s saving and working in^rkansas are summed up in the statement that the farmers will this year owe less money when the crops are sold thamthey owed last year; that there "hare been more diversified farming, better methods, more home comforts, more public improvements and a general npbnilding throughout the state. The towns are improving faster than the country, but the rural districts are doing well.” * They and all farthers in the south and west will do vastly better after the depleting tariff taxes imposed for the sole benefit of a small hut greely class of monopolists are sponged-out, and the government at Washington restricted to its legitimate function of raising revenue for its own needs.— St Louis Republic. BLAINE'S LATEST DODGE. The Jingo Statesmen Perpetrates One of His Olct-Tima Trick*. Mr. Blaine attempts to spike the gun he himself loaded when he wrote his famous letter to Senator Fry about the McKinley bill. He now says that his condemnation of it was written before the reciprocity clause was put in. and that that removed all his objections.^/' Now it is to be said that the reciprocity clause of the bill is notoriously not what Mr. Blaine wanted it to be add tried to make it He wanted the duty on sugar left on, and one on hides put on, so that he, could actually have some concessions to offer instead of, as now, only a threat to make. He also adds that “the reciprocity provision is proving very useful, especially* in farm products^ and more particularly in the case of the two; articles mentioned in the paragraph quoted, pork and flour.” In this he differs from the last campaign document put forth by the bureau l of statistics, in which it is admitted ff that, “it is not to be expected that the results of the treaty with Brazil will be .very marked as yet.” He differs still more from the Dry Goods Economist, which says in its issue of October 17: “In the face of. a reciprocity treaty now in operation with Brazil, it will surprise most people to learn that exports of cotton cloth to that country ■ have fallen off nearly fifty per cent in value.” And the reduction on floor in Cuba is not yet in effect, while not a pound of pork has yet been exported to Germany under the new. i<mpeg£toa laws. But the letter will serveits main object, which undoubtedly was to show that Mr. Blaine does not propose to let the president steal his reciproo- > ity thunder, and that he by no means otwhea to -c as ble quantity.” politically. But what a strange state of things it is which makes it necessary for him to go intq^ an elaborate argument to prove that he is “not opposed to the McKinley bill,” when that hill is about all' there is to present-day republicanism!—N. Y.Vost.

POLITICAL OPINION. --Store prices are democratic arguments for wage-earners.—N. Y. World. -Maj. McKinley, did you ever stop to think that the 8200.000,000 excessive tariff taxes annually collected would be worth just 8200,000,000 to the people if left in the pockets of the rightful owners?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. -Mr. Blaine’s commendation of the McKinley law is simple enough. “Thelaw as McKinley made it,” he says, “was abominable. The law after I had tinkered it was admirable.” And from this the friends of the Ohio Napoleon argue that all men should vote for Me- J Kinley as the greatest of law-makersl > because Blaine has said it.—Chipagoa , Times. -JJ -A year ago Mr. McKinley could hardly find words strong enough to express his contempt and horror for cheapness. “Cheap clothes make a cheap man!” he cried. Now he is doing - his utmost to prove that his tariff baa actually brought about this very cheap- r ness. Thus he “wires In and wires out i and leaves the matter still in doubt whether the snake that made the track was going in or coming back.”—N. Y. World. -What conclusion must wqrldngmen come-to if, with an nnddffiable in-'— crease in the pri-'es of their necessities, they are not able to show n penny’s increase of wages? The only way that the defenders of war tariffs can prove their case as the protectors of American • labor Is to show pm increase of wages running parallel with the increased cost of living. If they cannot shew it what is the inevitable conclusion?— Boston Globe. -When one of the McKinley badges of “Ohio sheet steel and California tin” reached New York, the agent of Gordon & Dillwortb promptly ' telegraphed an order to Piqua for. ope thousand^ boxes of tin-plate. This is the answer:5- f' Piqua, O., Sept. *5, lHBl.-J. B. Reynold), New York: Thanks for inquiry, hut monte terae-ptate only mnd have sufficient order) from our regnlnr customers for the immediate fntnPA

Cincinnati Corrugating company. —St. Louis Republic. -The desperation of the republican campaign in Ohio is shown by Him fact that the bedraggled banner of the bloody shirt has again been thrown to the Ireese. Frantic sectionalism was to be expected of Fqraker; he knows no better. But when. ja. man like Sent star Sherman rants as he did in his Cincinnati speech, calling ^ Kfiite-a*-“rebel" and speaking of . the tariff reformers as “these southern men,” no further evidence is needed that the political desperadoes are beginning to perceive the shadows, of coming events in Ohio.—St. Louis Republic. ——The‘democratic part) has everything to gain and nothing to lose by the best ballot law that can be devised, and whatever its promises may be the republican party everywhere in practice opposes ballot reform. It h»s fought against the A istralian ballot in Pennsylvania; it is trying to nullify the ballot law of Ohio, and it has prevented the enactment of the Australian ballot in Iowa Tha effort to make Mr. Fasaett. the part aer of MattbA-.v 8Quay in the republican eanvass dit gpd the lieutenant oi Thomas C,