Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 December 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XXII. _PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1891._NUMBER 30.

liiSUKD BVSRY WB3NB3DAY. - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: - l^'r Six INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AUmUMKU EATSK I <» lines). I A liDeral reduction «utat tteee. Hi and Hreiw Lfcsi and Transient WIN

WOfflc* In Bank bonding, lint Boor. Be found at office day or night. *»*»» B. rossT. Dmnrrr q. ouimt POSEY * CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petjcrsbubg, In. Will practice la all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. WOffice— On lln| floor Bank Building. B. A. Elt. S. G. DlTKiron ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, PgTKBSBUBG, IHD. woffle* over J. R- Adams A Son's drug .Ibusi•tore. Prompt attention given to all t K P. Bichaudsok a. b. Tavlob RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Isd. Prompt attention given to all business. A Rotary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, 1NB. Office over J. B. Young’s Store, Hate Street MrOfflee hours from 9 o’clock t o. to 4 o’clock p. m. E. J. HAERIS,

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

Surgeon Dentist, r PETERSBURG, IND. Offlee in rooms* and T in Carpenter BuildIns. Operations drat-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction ot teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon 9 Petersburg, I nix Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Offlee in Montgomery Building. Offlee hours day and night. •9-Diseases of Women and Children a specialty- Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

THIS PAPER IS OH PILE IN CHICASO AND NEW YORI AT THE OPPICES OP A. I. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUSTEES* NOTICES OP OFFICE DAT. N OTICS la hereby gtren tbat I will attend iffice of trustee of _ to the duties of Clay township at __ EVES I UlV^kT. All persons who hare business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other day. M. If. GO WEN, Trustee. N< Jones Is hereby given to all parties In. forested that 4 will attend at my office In Stendsl, EVERY STAUBDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons haring business with said office will please take notice. J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. ' Nones Is hereby Riven to all parties e eerned thst I will be at my residence EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business eunnected ' i of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORUE GRIM. Trustee, rties ccar once V with the NOTICE It hereby given tbat I will be at njr residence _ EVERY THURSDAY TO attend-to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. jVFoattlvely no business transacted eaoept on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. N OnCE la hereby given to all parties eon - eernad that I will attend atmy residence EVERY MONDAY To transact bualness connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. rPosIttvely no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. XJOT1CE is hereby given (o nU persons tnXN teres ted that I will attend In my office in Velpen, EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the offioe of Trustee of Marlon township. AH r rsons having business with salt! office IIutil please take notice. ■ W. P. BROOK, Trustee. •VTOTIOE is hereby given i* conoerned that ! wtTlatlend at ay to all persons To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Jeferson townaiip. Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LABOR »u the Tth. In the senate the new members were sworn In. All the senators were present except Jones (Ark.), Jones (Not.', Bt tntord and Tanee. The credentials ot Senatorelect Hill (N. T ) were not presented. After disposing of preliminary motions the senate adjourned... .The house held a brief session, as members being present No rote- was taken for speaker and the house adjourns l antil Tuesday noon. Tbs senate met on the Sth and the oath was administered t> new members. lathe afternoon the senate was notified of the orgaol ration of the house and a committee appointed to waft on the president Adloomed_When the bouse met at noon it proceeded to choose ofB-ers. For speaker Ur. Holman nominated Charles F. Crisp, ot Georgia; Hr. Henderson nominated Thomas B. Seed, of Maine. and Mr. Slmp-on nominated Thomas G. Watson, of Georgia. Upon balloting Mr. Crisp was declared elected. Members were then sworn in. The organization of ihr house was then completed by the election of Mr. Kerr, of Pennsylvania, for clerk; Mr. Toder.of Ohio, for aergeant-at-arms; Turner; ot New YOHt, for door-' keeper; Dalton, of Indfann, for postmaster. The house appointed a committee to wait on the president and adjou-ned. Wbex the senate met on the Sth the president’s message was received and read and the body adjourned....The house received the message whieh was read and an adjournment taken until 8 iturday. When the senate‘met on the 10th revere! department reports and memorials were presented. Mr. Turple Introduced a bill providing for the election of United States senators by the peopls; Mr. P #w introduced n hill to amend the Immigration laws; Mr. Vest, a bill to prohibit monopoly in the transportation of eattle Mr. Pumb. to provide for free coinage of silver; Mr. Hawley, fo revive the grade of lieutenant-general; Mr. Feffer a resolution directing an inquiry as to the aetnal expenses attending the business of money-lending. Several other resolutions were offered and the s< natc adjourned_The house was not in session. Congress was not in session on the llth. WASHINGTON NOTES. ‘ The national democratic committee has decided to call a meeting at Washington January 31 to fix a time and place lor the national democratic convention. The correspondence concerning the American pork embargo of Germany has been made public. It shows that both sides made concessions. It was stated on excellent authority that Mr. Blaine bad decided not to be a candidate for the presidency—partly because of his health. It was also said that his silence was for the benefit of Mr. Harrison. At Albaugh’s opera boose, Washington, the other night, President Harrison and bis cabinet, with the dingle exception of Mr. Wanamaker, who never goes to the theater, occupied the four stage boxes to witness Stuart Robson’s production of “She Stoops to Conquer.” The president’s message was sent to congress qq the nth. It dealt with important questions ot the day, especially the Italian and Chilian complications, reciprocity, silver and finance. The department of agriculture reports the condition of growing wheat as 85. S. The reports generally are not favorable. Interesting statistics as to crop prices are given. Mr. Bates, commissioner of navigation, who has supervision of- the laws relating to vessels and seamen, has submitted his annual report to the secretary of the treasury. He states that oh almost all points the American shipyard excels the British in its productions. The annual report of Attorney-Gen-eral Miller is made pnhlic. He declares that the new court of appeals has not relieved the supreme court. The National Bar association has decided to meet at Washington every year for the future. An effort will he made to secure the prohibition national convention for Baltimore or Washington.

THE EAST. The eastern grain blockade is now complete. It is expected to last at least fire weeks and in the meantime there will be no grain shipments east. Sawdust on fire under the boilers of Lee, Holland & Ca’s planing mill, Buffalo, N. Y., caused an explosion. One man was killed and several injured. The grand jury of Beaver county. Pa., in the case of United States Senator M. S. Quay against the Beaver Star for criminal libel, has found a true bill against that newspaper. Tub fact that the majority of the members of the Union League club of New York are in favor of retaining, tjje republican character of the orgf ^ tion was clearly decided by aVote of 3 to 1. A frame building being e jeted for an ice house collapsed at Lehghton.Pa, and two men were killed .nd five seriously injured. The supreme court oi New Hampshire has declined to gVe a new trial to fs-tae Sa w telle,--jwademned for the murder of his brother Hiram. Gov. M. L. Stearns, of Florida, fell dead recently while visiting his wife’s mother at Palatine Bridge, near Canajoharie, N. Y. Mrs. Ci.evei.and Is reported to be quite ill at Lakewood, N. J. She is said to be a ghost of her former sell A proclamation has been issued by Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, announcing a reduction of the state debt during the year of $2,5S8 339. Abraham Backer, the well-known dealer in commercial paper of 885 Broadway, New York, who failed August S. with liabilities of several million dollars, died recently. He brooded greatly over his misfortune. - Me Bonner had Sunol ont the other morning with Ehired and drove the paV ap to the east drive*of Central park. New York, and down to the west dries. The mare beha ,«d with perfect sobriety. Once in a while she looked askance at a piece of statnarv. It is alleged in Boston that it has been almost positively determined that the Russell Sage dynamiter was Henry D. "Noreross, a noted broker of Somerville. Mass. The cattle owners of Wyoming axe reported to he at the mercy of a desperate band of outlaws Thousands of animals have been stolen. Jean Allioli, a wealthy Paris contractor, who disappeared recently, has been found In Chieago working for the world’s fair plaster decorative company at 18 a day. Senator Shrrman is said in Ohio to be four votes short of a majority for re-election, while Mr. Foraker is moving every thing possible to secure the place. Frank Miller upon his death-bed confessed to a murder committed in 1875, at Mason City, la., for which he had been tried and acquitted. “Joseph McKat,” an alleged California stage robber, has bean found to he the soq of Joaquin the f »mnus

It Is- reported that tire Cheyenne Indians in Montana hare resumed dancing and that trouble is expected. Two land boomers named Bnshneli bare absconded from St Paul owing thousands. They went through the form of assigning in November. Tim bride ot Jasper Pangbora eloped eleven days after tike wedding with another man, but has been captured at South Bend, lad. Tins miners in the Virginia (111.) Coal Col’s mine hare struck against a reduction. and the mine is closed down. John L Sullivan, the ebampion pugilist was badly beaten by Jack Ashton in a rough aad tumble fight in Sansalito, Cat Be was drunk. Rby. Ida P. Button suddenly lost her voice while preaching at Moline, lit John L. Sullivan will try the Keeley treatment at Dwight 111. Agent Purdy has befn acquitted of complicity in the Albta (la.) express robbery. Martin L Sargent, traffic manager of the Memphis route, died at Kansas City, Mo,, recently after a protracted sickness. He was bom iirc3oMfinati March, 1837. In a collision between two sections of a freight train near Merrimac, Wk, C. A. Stores, of Elgin, 111., was killed and N. True, fireman, was badly hurt Two Cherokee federal officers were ambushed and shot dead at a lonely spot the other night Fresh complications have arisen in the Chicago world’s fair management owing to the stand of the hoard of control in regard to state exhibits. James E. Moore, the Chicago agent of the Louisiana state lottery, was arrested in that city. The officers found a lot of lottery tickets hidden in the coal bin. Fi r* has swept the greater portion of Ardmore, I. T. The business center of Hew Richmond, Wis., has been swept by fire. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $10,000. Ik Williamsburg, la., a whole block in the business portion was burned. The loss was partially covered by insurance. Kit Carson, Jr, a son of the famous scout, killed bis father-in-law and mother-in-law near La Junta, Col, and made bis escape. Bis wife had left him because of bis drunkenness and eruelty. E xperts were on the stand all day on the 10th in the Graves case at Denver. Judge Maoou, of the defense, .caused a sensation by drinking out of the fatal bottle. Two women and an infant were instantly killed at Homewood, near Chicago, by a “Big Four” express train on the Blinois Central tracks and one woman just escaped a similar fate. Those killed were Mrs. Mary Witt and Mrs. Anna Gottschalk and the infant child of the latter. The sixteen alleged anarchists who were caught in the raid on Grief’s hall, Chicago, several weeks ago, and were fined and the fines remitted, have appealed their cases to the criminal court. The venerable Archbishop Kenrick, of St Louis, fell on the street recently and was badly hurt George S. Montgomery, a millionaire of Beulab, Cal., and his wife propose to join the Salvation army. ’ Burton Ford, aged 10 years, of Crystal, Mich, is missing and is believed to have been kidnaped. A collision occurred at Mountain Glen, near Murphysboro, 111., on the Mobile <& Ohio road between a freight train ind construction train. Four or five persons were reported killed. THE south. The members of the grand jury of San Antonio, TeE, have been sent to jail for contempt in summoning Judge King before them while he was on the bench E. Bauman, a merchant of Fort Worth, Tex., has filed a deed of trust for $197,081. s Bain has not fallen in Hidalgo, Se&pota and Starr counties, Texas, since April The anti-sub-treasury convention, called for Memphis, Tern., December 16 has been postponed to some future date.

ill SHOP uALLKUEK, OI W19 JUpiSCOpSl diocese of Louisiana, died of hear! failure at New Orleans, aged S3. The commissioner of immigration has ordered the deportation of five indigent Englishmen, who had attempted to land at New Orleans from the British steamship William Cliff, in violation of the immigration laws ~iwo' uesUr active fires occurred in Louisville, Ky., on the 9th.- In each the losses were heavy. In one four firemen were killed by falling walls and in the other ten or more persons perished. The defeat of Mills for speaker has caused a movement in Texas to send him to the senate. The boiler in the saw mill of T. P. Von Bracker, at Fredericksburg, Va., exploded, instantly killing Charles Tyson, engineer, badly wounding Philip and Hamilton Hudson and injuring Charles Saunders and W. R. Chalk. A complete list of the dead found in the ruins of the buildings of the Boone Paper Co. and the factory of Meene 4b Co., at Louisville, Ky., showed 14 dead. Nine other persons were injured. As a result of the confession of a negro , named Henry Seeber, that he alone was the murderer of Thornton Nance, the ten negroes under sentence to hang at Columbia, 8. C., will now he released. Seeber confesses because he does not want to see Innocent men suffer for his crime. * GENERAL. It is estimated that 13,000 persons were ill with influenza in Hamburg during the past week. The eldest son of the crown prince of Denmark is seriously ill with influenaa in Copenhagen. A hew |ast mail service will be established about December 15, placing St Louis within thirty-two hours of New York. The British court of appeals has decided that the insurance policy on the life of James Maybrick in favor of his wife, who is now serving a life sentence for hie alleged murder, must be paid to the trustees of the estate United States Minister Egan has refused to give up to Chili a refugee in his protection even when indicted by the Chilian congress. Da. 8ch Wenninger has strongly advised Prince Bismarck not to attend the session of the reiehstag. The Mexican government his been forced to give aid to the starving people in several states of that oountry. The two youngest sons of G«ap Gibson, of Pontipool, Onl, while slf - , n riding on the ice broke through: /nd were drowned. It is stated that the archbishop of Canterbury, England, will visit America next year and mt>ke a tour through i th* United States nnd Oapyia

Tu* influenza victims of Berlin are said to number 40,000, hot fatal eases bave bees few. In Hamburg, however, toe mortality has been great Kne George of Greece has been a»Ih the by smalt-pox. e French chat chamber of deputies a radical deputy, speaking for toe radial deputies’ union, gave notice of a motion that ^ government intro* dnoe n bill dealing with clerical associations ns n prelude to toe separation of ehureh and state. bave reduced toe bank rate of discount from 4 to SX per sent Ths gross value of the Into Mr. Parnell’s property is sworn at 855, S70 and toe net value at $31,300. Chanceiaor Capbtvt, of Germany, opened toe debate in toe reichstag on the treaties of .commerce. He explained their tenor and discussed farther exDetailb have been received of toe capture of the town of Telilme, China, by rebels. Horrible barbarities were ts .aa’- 'si-s-iti - v... IHili vUC oVUlfUra "I a ooeu uBTc DVCU closed on account of a serious infantOe epidemic. Within toe last three weeks thirty-one children have been attacked with scarlet fever and seventy-four with diphtheria A New volcanic island, 500 meters in length, has appeared southward of the island of Pantellaria in the Mediterranean, near toe submarine upheaval of n few months ago. Ths Malissori tribe from Albania have raided, bnrned Poschaul and Vrnngevce, villages in Servia and killed four of toe inhabitants, plundered toe houses of five hamlets and killed seven persons. China has demanded the withdrawal of the British posts at Nampoung. The government has declined to accede, bnt has instructed toe commander to do his utmost to avoid a collision. Chiu resented the reference Ho recent matters ih President Harrison’s message. A war like feeling was provoked, according to a New York World report It is announced from Campos, Brazil, that there was a revolt there against the Peixotto government Ten were killed and forty wounded in the conflict with the government troops. Australian influenza, similar to la grippe, has made its appearance in -California. ' In Oakland, Alameda and other towns hundreds are afflicted and many deaths are resulting from the disease. A terrible explosion took place in the Friekings-Hoffming pit at Hcnnadorf, in Silesia Germany, killing twenty miners and wounding a number of others. Seventeen British marine underwriters have withdrawn from the society of Lloyds, London, within a few weeks and the effect upon ship owners and shippers is not at all reassuring. Mr. Gladstone made an address to the liberal agricultural conference in London. He pledged reform measures Parnelute leaders have begun suit in London for toe appointment of n new trustee for the Paris fund, Justin McCarthy not being agreeable. It is denied from Chili that any proposition to suspend the Chilian legation at Washington has ever been made to toe congress of Chili British officers and Sepoy troops made an attack on tribesmen of India and defeated them after a hot fight. The president of Hayti has decided to issue a proclamation of general amnesty to political offenders. The clearing returns to Brack treat’s for the past week made a better showing than recently. » R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly trade review is even more cheerful than usual. Collections are improving and general business k good. Lord Dufferin has been appointed British ambassador t> France in toe place of the late Lord Lytton. Owing to toe drought, the grain crops -bave been lost over large areas in the Madras presidency. Famine prices for cereals prevail in four dktricts. A dispatch from Singapore states that a severe gale prevailed : at Hong Kong December 4. A large number of Chinese vessels were destroyed and hundreds of Chinese sailors and laborers drowned. European vessels sustained little damage.

THE I.1TRST. Sanfobd IIazen. aged TO, died at bis home in Ripon, Wis., on the 19th. Mr. Hazen was one of the eight hwlte* ^mpHsing the Hazen hand who accompanied The "iojr its journey fifty-one years ago in the campaign for William Henry Harrison, and thirty-one years ago played for Abraham Lincoln, and three years ago rendered their familiar “Tippecanoe” strains for Benjamin, Harrison. The brothers held a reunion at Ripon in July, 188a. • Since that time one other brother has died, leaving six of the noted band now living. Bishop Newman states that ata conference of leading Methodist divines held in Boston recently, the question of the adoption of the Wesley liturgy into the Methodist Episcopal church was thoroughly discussed and there was every probability that it would take place. A disastrous wind-storm which began at Los Angeles, Cal., on the 10th, raged with unceasing violence for two days Two persons were killed, several churches completely wreoked and a large number of buildings badly damaged. Rev. Father Swkbach, of Praire Dn Chien, Wis., received a cablegram from Rome, on the 13th, notifying him of his appointment as bishop of the La Crosse diooese to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bishop Flasch. Shortly after the Italian steamer Calabria left Genoa for Naples, bn the 19th, her boiler exploded and the vessel sank in a few minutes. She carried only six passengers, but it is not known how many lives were lost. William Merriam, #5 years of age, who was well known at all race courses, was found dead at his home in New York city on the 18th. Merriam lost all his money and is believed to have died of starvation. Her majesty’s ship Banterer, the missing gunboat concerning the whereabouts of which so much apprehension was felt that a cruiser was sent in search of her, arrival at Plymouth on the 14th. Lieut.-Gov. Schulz of Manitoba is seriously ill and is not expected to recover. He is one at the pioneers of Manitoba and was appointed governor in 1887. The London oonrt of appeals has granted the application of the marquis of Ailesbury for permission to sell Saverneke forest for £750,000. Prof. Geo. 0. Smith, for twenty-five dibTilo£SS N. the 13th. IU7'

INDIANA STATE NEWS. streets oI Logansport. A mounted policeman is kept on the watch to impound all stray animals. Thebe is an old farm-house near Washington visited by ghosts in a singular fashion. Every night a huge log is heard to roll along the roof and fa&tetfce ground with a' heavy hump, nothing to make the strange noise. The South Side pond, at Logansport, has been drained. It used to help the quinine business in that part of the country to a large extent The post office at Mount Etna, In Huntington county, was robbed of $100 in cash and stamps, A hew gas well at Alexandria, he* longing to the DePauws, is a gusher. Ice 'men about the northern Indiana lakes are preparing for business. The W. Cook Brewing Co.’s plant, at Evansville, burned. Loss $50,000. Mu.vcik young men have formed a club to promote matrimony. Members marrying receive $200. The Bock Oil and Natural-gas Co., of Winchester, will soon begin three gas wells about twelve miles west of that town. A number of the women of Winchester have organized a woman’s club,-the membership being limited to forty. For the current club year, ending in May, 1802, the general subject is American literature. - The stockholders of the Decatur County Agricultural society met recently and re-elected the old board of directors for another year. The initiative steps were taken toward the fair for the coming season, with probably spring and fall races each year hereafter. Clinton has a church lighted by electricity. s Many horses have died in Lake county from a disease resembling grip. The two-year-old child of Dora Tilley burned to death near Cloverdale. The life-saving crew at Michigan City has gone ont of commission for the season. Georoe Rickards, the young man who rented SQ0 acres of land of John Puckett, giving him forged notes, to the amount of $2,200, pleaded guilty to forgery the other evening and was sentenced to three years in prison at Tipton. An eighteen-month-old child of James Murphy met'its death'in a peculiar manner at the infirmary, Marion. A ten-year-old sister was carrying the child in her arms and accidentally dropped it. The head of the child struck the pavement Convulsions followed and a few hours after the child was dead. At Indianapolis the insurance companies which charged D. L. Sullivan with burning his store, and refused therefore to pay insurance, compromised for $32,000 All civil and libel suits are to he abandoned. Wild geese are being killed around Columbus. Van Arsdkl, the Monon saloon-keep-er who killed Dora Thorp with a beer glass last October at Monticello, was released the other day by the White circuit court on $15,000 hail His bondsmen are Miller Ward and ■ Joseph K. Wilson.

The new canning factory at Brownsbung will be co-operative. A small hurricane did some damage in and about Portland. Several houses were badly damaged by the storm at Tipton. Felix Bohannan, 86, and Miss Americas Legg, 18, were married near English the other night, at the home of the bride’s parents. Mr. Bohannan had reared the child, though her parents lived near by, they being poor and he rich, and he doubtless married her to le»ve m to her and avoid a will-breaking process _ •**«- his death. He is very weak, and the girl has always been his oomfort and only nurse, Shxlby vill* has a spinster Bociety. Incendiaries are are at work at New Albany. La grippe is epidemic in many parts of the state. Stories of finding pots of gold in this state are getting rather worm-1 eaten. Indianians in Washington held a meeting the other night to consider the advisability of making an effort to secure the national democratic convention for Indianapolis S. E. Morss, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, stated that the citizens would guarantee a sufficient amount of money to build a wigwam and to otherwise properly entertain visitors to the convention. Resolutions to that end were passed. Mas. John Sterling, an estimable lady of Columbus, unwell for a day or so, was left for a few minutes the other morning, and when the nurse returned she found her dead. An explosion of natural gas at Xenia, twelve miles south of Marion early the other morning, resulted in the destruction of Walters & Dale’s novelty works and Keyes A Cammock's handle works. The loss of the former is $6,000, of the latter $1,500. The former is covered by insurance. There is $100 insurance on ‘the latter. The De .Harity Block at Elwood, that burned, causing a loss of $30,000 will be rebuilt at once, Henry Shuler, of Gregg township, Morgan county, was cutting down s tree, when a dead limb fell on him, breaking his leg and injuring him internally. He will be crippled for life. The apple crop in the southern Indiana fruit belt last fall amounted to 250,000 barrels Valentine Marks, of South Bend, who 'suddenly lost his voice two yean ago, [awoke the other morning and found he eould talk as well as even Richard Newman, a quaint old man, formerly known as “Sassafras Diok,” whp resided near Milhonsen. left home several days ago to go to Napoleon. Not returning, search was instituted, and his body was found In s woods pasture, just over the line in Kipley county, partially devoured by the hogs Tb? manner of fcto death to not known -

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. President Harrison Communicates with Congress. A Berksw of the Work of the Departments and Other important Matters. Washisotos, Dec. A—On the assembling of the two houses of congress today, President Harrison’s message was delivered to each body by Secretary Pmden.. It was promptly placed in the hands of the reading clerks by the presiding officers and read. It is as follows: Tom Senate ain> HmttorBmistitumss: The reports of the heads of the several executive departments, required bylaw to be submitted to me, which are herewith transmitted, and the reports of the secretary of the treasury and the attorney-general, made directly to congress, furnish a comprehensive vtow of the administrative wort of the last fiscal year relating to internal affairs. It would be of great advantage if these reports could have an attentive perusal by every member of occgreaa and by all who take an interest in pobconscientious efforts which are given to .the conduct of our civil administration. vu stats uDuman. The work of the state department daring toe last year has been characterised by an unusual number of important negotiations and diplomatic resvSto Of a notable and beneficial character. Among these I__ “ - *- ‘ which have been HBHHi . in the exercise of the powers cc ferred by section 3 of the tariff law, with the republic of Brazil, with Spain tor its West India possessions, and withSanDomingo. Like negotiations with other countries have been much advanced, and it is hoped that before the close of the year further definitive trade arrangements of great value will he concluded. THE BJSHKING SKA QUESTION. In view of the reports which had been received as to the diminution of the seal herds in the Behring sea. I deemed it wise to propose to her majesty's government, in February last, that an agreement for a closed season should be made, pending the negotiations for arbitration seemed to be approaching a favorvrhich then seei_ . able conclusion. After much and delays, tor which this government responsible, an agreement was reached and signed on toe 15th of June, tor which Great Britain undertook, from that date, and until May 1,189a, to prohibit the kiBtng by her subjects of seals in the Behring sea and the government of the United -States during the same period to enforce its existing prohibition against peltage sealing and to limit the catch by the fur seal company upon the islands to7,500 skins. If this agreement could have been reached ember, in response to the strenuous endeavors of this government, it would have been more effective, bnt. coming as late as it did, H unquestionably resulted in greatly diminishing the destruction of the seals by the Canadian sealers. In my last annual message 1 stated that tbs basis of arbitration proposed by her majesty's government tor the adjustment of the longpending controversy as to the seal fisheries was not acceptable. 1 am glad now to be able to announce that terms satisfactory to this government have been agreed upon, and that an agreement as to toe arbitrators is ail that is necessary to the completion of the convention. FRONTIER DEMARCATION. Provision should he made for a joint demarcation iff the frontier line be"- ~ the United-States wherever i creasing border settlements, a _ the exact location of the water boundary in the straits and rivers. I should have been glad to announce some favorable disposition of the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venramfc. teaching the western frontier of BrSHGuiana. but the friendly efforts of toe United States in that direction have thus far been unavihag. MEAT INSPECTION. The law of the hast congress providing a system of inspection for our meats intended forexport, and clothing the president with power to exclude foreign products from our market hi case toe country sending them should perpetuate unjust discriminations against any product le ior a joint cemar- > betwaam£mada and ms, anci of the United States, placed this government in a position to effectively urge the removal ol such discriminations against our meats. It is gratifying to be aide to state that Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria and France, in the order named, have opened their ports to inspected American pork products. The removal of these restrictions in every instance was asked for ami given solely upon toe ground that we bad now provided a meat inspection that should be accepted as adequate to toe complete removal of the dangers, real or fanoied,which had been previously urged. Tim outlines of an'agreement have been reached with Germany, looking to equitable trade concessions in consideration of the continued free importation of her sugars, but the time' has not yet arrived when this correspondence can be summitted to congress. THE DISTURBANCES IN BRAWL. The recent political disturbances in the ro-ibbc-of Brazil have exoited regret and aolicide. The information we possessed was too meager to enable ns to form a satisfactory judgment of the causes leading to the temporary assumption of supreme power by President Fonseca; bnt this government did not fail to express to him its anxious solicitude for the peace of Brasil and for the maintenance of the bee political institutions which nad recently been established there, nor to offer our advice that great moderation should be observed in the clash of parties and toe contest for leadership. These counsels were received in the most friendly spirit .and the latest information is that constitutional government lms been re-estab-lished without bloodshed.

The lynching at New Orleans, ha March la$t. of eleven men of Italian nativity by a mob oi citizens was a most deplorable and discreditable incident. It did not, however, have its origin ia any general animosity to the Italian people, uoi in any disrespect to the government of Italy, with which onr relations were of the mod friendly character. The fury of the mob was directed against these men as the supposed participants or accessories in the mrnrder of a city officer. I do not allude to this as mitigating in any degree this offense against law and humanity, but mtly as affecting the international questions which grew ont of it. It was at once represented by the Italian minister that several ol those whose fives had been taken by^wmpt were Italian subjects, and a demands for the punishment of the partwipants and for an indemnity to the families of those who were tiled, ft tev~to h» regretted that the manner in which those claims were presented was not such as to promote a calm discussion of the qneatlpne invalved; hoi may well be attributed to the excitement and fuiinmation which the crime naturtlly evoked. The r*ww.yriui3-s««vqmment asm i*» obligations to foreigners domiciled here were fully stated in the correspondence, as well as its purpose to make an investigation of the affair with a view to determine whether there were present any circumstances that could, under such rules of duty as we had todicated, create an obligation upon the United States. The temporary absence of a minister plenipotentiary at thi capital has retarded the further correspondenee, but it is not doubted that a friendly conclusion is attainable. .. ' communication with this government so soon as it should have established its defacto character, which was done. During the pendency of this civil contest frequent indirect appeals were made to this government to extend belligerent rights to the insurgents and to give audience to their representatives. This was declined, jari that policy was pursued throughout, whith this government, when wrenched by civil war, so strenuously insisted upon on the part of EuroP^rhepresident here gives in detail the affair of the steamer Mata, concluding: ■ . A trial in the district court of the United States for the Southern district of California has recently resulted in a decision holding, among other things, that, inasmuch as the congressional party had not been recognized as a belligerent, the acts done m its interest could not be a violation of our neutrality laws. From this judgment the United States has appaated, not that the condemnation of the vessel tea matter of importance, but that we nuj know what the present state of our law is, tor if this construction of the statute is narect there is obvious necessity for revision and amendment. During, the progresa of the war in C hib this government tendered Its good offices to bring about a peaceful adjustment, and it was at one time bopedthat a good result might be readied; but in this we were disappointed. The instructions to our naval officers and to our minuter a1 Santiago, from the first to the last of this

aboard of officers of else Baltimore, and their retext shows that these assaults were unprovoked; that oar . men. wore oouductiug thesaselveaSa a peaceable ami orderly manner, and that some of the police of the city tookpert to toe assault and used their weapons with fatal effect, while a few others, with some wall-disposed oititoas, oadeavored to protect our men. Thirty-six of ocr sailors were arrested, said some of them, while being taken to prison, were ta-neliy beaten stud maltreated. The fact that they were all discharged, no criminal charge being lodged against any one of them, shows eery clearly that they were innocent of any breath of tha peace. So far as 3 hare yet been able to team no other explanation of this bloody work has been suggested than that it bad its ortgin in hortiliSy to these men as sailors of the United State, Wearing the uniform of ttear government, and net to any individual act or personal animosity. The attention of the Chilian government was at once called to this affair, and a statement of the facts obtained by the investigation we had conducted was submitted, accompanied by a request to be advised of acy other or qualifying facts to the possession of the Chilian government that might tend to relieve this affair of the appearance or an insult to this government. The Chilian government was also advised that if such qualifying facts dS not exist this government would confidently expect fail and prompt reparation. It is to bo regretted that the reply of the secretary for foreign affairs of the provincial government was couched to an offensive tone. To this no response has been made. This government is now awaiting the result of an investigation which has been conducted by the etiratesi court at Valparaiso. It is reported unofficially that the investigation is about completed, and it is expected that tho result will soon he communicated to this government, together with some adequate end satisfactory response to the note. by which the attention of Chib was ceiled to tin's incident. K these just expectations should be disappointed, or further needless delay intervene, I will, by a special message, bring this matter again, to the attention of congress for such action as may be necessary. The entire correspondence with njggpeeyvpnent of Chili will at annariy day be on the pending acts for the suppression of the slave traffic to Africa, and for the reform of the revenue tariff of the independent state of the Congo, left this government unable to exchange those acts on the date fixed, July ft, ISfi. A modus rivendi has been con eluded by which the power of theCongo state to levy duties on imports is left unimpaired, and, by agreement of all the signatories to the general stove trade act, the time for the exchange of ratifications on the part of the United States has been extended to February *11*® OCR milKOS WI«B CHINA. The late outbreak against foreigners to various parts of the Chinese empire has been a reuse of deep concern, in view of the numerous establishments of our citizens to the interior of that country. This government can do no less than insist upon a continuance of protective and pnnetory measures, which the Chinese government has heretofore applied. No mart will be omitted to protect our eitizenspeeeeahly so jouruteg to China, but recent unofficial totorenatirat indicates that what was at first regarded as an outbreak of mob violence against foreigners has assumed the larger form of an insurrection ^cltoS^nmiemhas declined to reveive Mr. Blair as the minister of the United States on the ground that, as a participant, while a senator, to the enactment or the matting legislation against the introduction of Chinese laborers, he aaa become unfriendly and objectionable to China, 1 have felt constrained to point oat to the Chinese government the untenabteness of this position which seems to rest as much oa the anaoceptaWhty of bur legislation, as on that of the person chosen and which, if admitted, would practically debar the selection of any representative so tong as the existing tews remain to fbree. You will be called upon to consider the expediency of making special prevtetou by tew for toe temporary admission of some Chinese artisans and laborers to connection with the exhibit of Chinese industries at toe approaching Columbian exposition. I regard it as desirable that toe Chinese exhibit he facilitated to Mery proper way.

to toe American residents. The government and people of Spain propose to celebrate the four hundredth aunivers&ry at the discoveryot which vrlT AapteuW and continue until the SIM of Dooemher, 1882. A cordial invitation has been extended to toe United States to take part in this commercial relation, and as Spain was one of toe first nations to tsepress toe intention to partoapaw to the Mforid^s Ctiumteaa exposition at Chicago, it jrooto to giro this its frienoiy promotton. THE SJcTKB'OOimNHSTAjL HA2KB04XK Surreys fer tile eoaneottMf links of toe protooted inter-continental railway are to progress, SotoaN to Mexico, but at various points along most difiScult jnrt—that through Ecuador ami toe southern part of Colombia. The reports of the engineers are very satisfactory, and show that no insoanocotable obstacles have been met with. Ot HtUXlCAK BOONBAHT. On November », l«8t, a treaty to concluded with Muxico resfKraaing theboundarrbetween to® two countries os described to toe treatiesof February 3, IMS, and December 30,186a. March ), 1839, a further treaty was negotiated to toefiiUto the carrying oat-of the principles of the treaty of H84, and to avSi the difficulties occasioned by reason of the changes and alterations that take niece fwwa natural causes to toe Bto Orande aadCmorado rivers in the portions thereof constituting toe boundary line between the two republics. The International boundary commission, provided tor by the treaty of MW. to have exclusive jurisdiction of any question that may arise, has been named by the Mexican government. An appropriation is necessary to enable toe United States to fulfill its treaty obligations in this re- ***** OB* UKU.T1CNS WITH HAWAII. Tim death of King Kalakaus in the United States afforded occasion to testify our frtendrtup tor Hawaii by couveying toe kfng s body to his own land to a naval vessel with afl due honors. The government of Ms successor, tfueen I-iBoukaiatm, is wsehtog to womete clooer commereiol relatkms with the United States. Surveys tor too much needan sub-manna cable trim our Fac too coast to Honolulu arein progress, and tola oateiyrise should have toe suiteable promotion of the two gevernmenta. * sstukvatiosaj. AnarnuTiUH. The arbttratfcwi treaty formulated by toe international American conference lapeea by reason of toe failure to exchange ratifications fully within the limit of time provided; but several at toe governments ooacamed hsve expressed * ■ fEblit

try. On the one hand, it vras considered that imports would so fad off as to leave the treasury banfcro.pt, and that the prices of articles entering into the living of tbepeople oronM he ao»nhanced asto disastrously affect their comfort loa^to "the^ei^aeturiwlT^Sia necessaries of life, including those most highly protected, would not be enhanced; thatTlabor would have a larger market and the products of the farm advanced in prices; while the treasury surplus and receipts would be adequate to me* the appropriations, including the large exceptional expenditures for the refunding to the states of the di»ct tax and the redemption of the i*a-per-cent, bonds. OPBBATION OP THB TABIFV LAW. length "Sto**.*"®^ IT t& *S? feeta of tha legislation to which I have referred; but a brief examination of the statistics of the treasury and a general glance at the state of business throughout the oountry ffldaefegffisaasiaMgagB affissssa-rt asr sag if everbefore, to the history <* the country has there been a time when the proceeds of one day’s labor or the product of one farmed wars would purchase so large an amount of those things that miter into the living of the masses of the people. I believe that a full text watdevelop thefaet that the tanfllact of the Fifty-first congress is very favorable in its avenge effect upon the prims of articles entering into oom^Duriug the twelve months from October,1, 1880, to September 30,1891, the total value of our foreign ooaameroe (imports and exports com v bined) was tl.T47,«*,««, which was the largest of any year to the history of the United «*es. The largest to any previous year was to M80,