Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 March 1892 — Page 1

“Our Motto is Honest [Devotion to Principles oi Right. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 16, 1892. flUMBER 43»

WHJNH3DAY. SUBSCRIPTION: .« a IN AD VAN Cl. iUVKKlIMNU BATES! square (S lines), one Insertion..U « IBach additional Insertion.. M A liheml redaction made on sdTsrtlsementa month* three, six end twelve months. Legal and Transient advertisements mast he .»e>d *or In advsava.

, / PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. flVOfflcc In Rank building, first floor. Will i bo found at ofiloa day or night. , GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW f PETERSBURG, IND. Pfernpt Attention Given to all Business. JWOffiee over Barrett * Son's store. I'MKIS B. POSET. llKWIlT Q. CHAPPELL, POSEY Jfc CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Laws Petersburg, I N'T). Will practice in nil the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly la the office. es~Offlcc—• On flrstfloor Bank Building. E. A. JSLX. S. G. DAVENPORT ELY & DAVENPORT, L4WYER, Petersburg, In». M-Offlcc over .1. R. Adams A Son'S drug store. Prompt attention given t<> i»ll business. K. p. Richardson. A. H. Tatlor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ini>. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the olllce. Ofllce In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. UKNTISTOT. W. H. STONECIPHER,

surgeon uentisi, PETERSBURG, IND. " ' Office In rooms6 and 7 In Carpenter Building. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Amesthotic* used tor painless extraction of teeth. M i. n. Lamar, hysician and Surgeon Peteiismuho, Inn. Will practice In l’lko and adjoining conntics. Office In Montgomery Building. Office unurs day and night. •S-Disedses ot Women and Children aape.jialty. Chronic and difficult eases solicited. NELSON STONE, 0. V. S.. PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESS SITTXlrTjY. He also beeps on band a stock of Condition Pow ders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

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TI1I8 PAPER 18 ON FILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT T1IE OFFICES OF A. N. KELL086 NEWSPAPER CO. imiSIEES' NOTICES OP OFFICE DAT. NOTICE la hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the office ol trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persona 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 all parties Interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the officejot trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. ' J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. OTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I wtllue at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my restdcnce EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan townsh Ip. gyrosltlvely no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. gap Positively no business transacted except office daya • V JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE le hereby given to all persons interested that I will attend In my office la Vdpeo, every FRIDAY, To traneect business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. AP perrons having business with said office will ploase take notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. XT OTICE le hereby given to all persons , oncerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAY m To Iraneaot buslnese connected with the offi c of Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LABOR Summary of tho Dally News, Washington notes. Representativ s John J. of Kentucky, died at Washiilgtttn rc>4 the night of the Ttfc. ttb was stricken with paralysis ih the morning. The remains were taken to West Liberty, Kj.-, his former home, for interment. Tub United States government has determined upon the manufacture of smokeless powder for use in both small arms fcnd heavy ordnance. Th£ king of Sw eden has written a ihtter intimating that he may visit the world’s fair In person. Mr IIollebkns, the new German minister to this country, was presented to the president on the 8th by Assistant Secretary Wharton. An executive session of the senate was held on the 8th to tohsider the arbitration treaty Skid it was referred to the committee on foreign relations. AS Gen. Schofield was driving to the war, state and naval bail ling recently his carriage was run ir.to by an express wagon. The wheels of the carriage were blocked and the carriage was overturned. It was found necessary to remove the general through the window, but fortunately he was not hurt beyond receiving a rather severe slinking up. THE remains of tho late Representative Kendall, of Kentucky, accompanied by the wife and son of the deceased and the senators and representatives appointed to attend the funeral in Kentucky, left' Washington oh the afternoon of the Olb. The president has sent to the senate the nomination of Jndson C. Clements, of Georgia, to be inter-state ct mmerce commissioner, vice Walter I* Bragg, deceased, and William Lindsay, declined. Congressman Harter, of Ohio, has written an open letter to Senator Hill calling upon him to define his position on the silver question. The commercial treaty between Spain and the United States has been ratified. The commercial treaty between the United States and France has been coa* eluded. The president and Mrs. Harrison entertained at dinner on the evening of the 10th Dr. Von HoHCnben-, the hew minister from Germany to the Unite d States. Judge J. W. Gbvgorv, of Garden City, Kan., made an argument the' other day before the house committee on irrigation of public lands, iq/ support of the bill to cure defects iry existing laws. Mrs. Potter Pai.mer made an address Mfore the special house committee on the world’s fair tho other day, urging favorable action on a biJ before the committee to appropriate ?1S5,00 J to be disbur eii directly by the board of lady managers of the exposition. Alliance congressmen will establish an alliance congressional campaign committee. Senator Hill will deliver the anniversary address at the commemoration of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence at Charlotte, N. G, May 29.

A nn Xtd9i< . There was a race war in the vicinity of shaft No a of the tunnel woik at Niagara Falls recently. It is in this neighborhood that the Italians, Hungarians, Poles and negroes, employee! on the great work, make their homer in many shanties. The riot svas be tween a gang of negroes and a gang ol Polacks. The Polacks were badly beaten. Charles Wall was hanged in the prison yard of the Wyoming county, Pa., jail at Tunkhanner on the 8th foi the murder of his wife. In his walk to the gallows Wall laughed and joked. He indulgod in profane remarks also. Jay Gould has given $35,070 to the university of the city of Now York. The gift was made a. few days after he gave his check for 510,007 to the Presbyterian extension committee. Guibkppe Civo, held for trial in New York revealed the fact that there exists there a desperate gang of Sicilian robbers under oath to steal. J. W. Harmony, of Uniontown, Pa, tried to burn his wife to death an I then cut his throat with a Harlow knife. Katie Pfueoler, the adopted daughter of Jacob Kookcr, of Surnney town. Pa, was called from school by f youug man of IS, on the 9th and forced into a carriage by two women accoin panying him, who drove off at a rapid rate, afterward boarding a train for Norristown. It is believed the abduction was p'annel by a relative whom the child had not seen for eleven years Pennsylvania Methodists are op posed to opening the world's fair oti Sunday. Prince John Sobiesk, grandson ol the king of Poland, was arrested at MtKisco, New York, recently with a hors* and wagon which he had stolen. The New Y- rk Produce exchange has stopped dealing in puts and calls THE WEST. At Sioux Falls, S. D., on the 7th the Baroness De Stcurs was granted a de - cree of divorce by Judge Aiken. The custody of the minor child, Margaret; Eugene Abel Vietorino Dc Steurs, it; given to the mother. Immediately after the fllingof the decree a marriage license was issued by the clerk of the court ■ permitting the marriage ol Mty-garct De Steurs and El iott Z horowski. The latter is a New Yorker of immense- wealth. At Covington, la., on the 7th, five hundred people witnessed a pugilistic encounter between Patsy Magnor, of Yankton, and Hilly O’Donne 1, a St Paul light-weight O’Donnell dealt him twelve blows in the -4*03 in the third round, finally sending him upon the ropes While down, O’Donnell struck him again and lost the fight on a foul. Toe Dexter stables at; Pueblo, Col., burned the other day awl twenty-three horses perished. Col. Louis Duestbow, the largest single holder of stock in the famous Granite mountain silver mine, died in St Louis the other day. He ruptured a blood vessel of the heart in stepping from a street car. An analysis of the wine sent to P. D. Armour by some unknown person one day last week shows that it contained laudanum, but not in sufficient quantities to endanger life. Mr. Armour thinks it was a plan to extort money from him.

There was a disastrous confiagation at West Superior, Wls., on the Ttth, when the Ailoues block, Corner of 1 Eighth End Tower, the finest apart- 1 ment house ih the city, was Completely Wiped out arid diuhteed families iren- ' acred homeless The building was 1 valued at $15,000 and. insured for $49,- 1 000. The total insurance of. tenants is : $16,000. The North Dakota state convention of the national prohibition party for 1 electing delegates to the presidential convention to be held in St. Louis June 1 87 met at Grand Forks on the 8ih. It resulted in a split in the party, the members of the Farmers* Alliance withdrawing. A wreck cccurred on the Creede branch of the Rio Grande the other day at Del Norte, in which several pttssedgers were injured. CilAm.ks MEtssish,. a street ear Cat driver, of Milwaukee, Wis., shot And probably fatally wounded his wife recently and then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause. A flic blizzard raged throughout the northwest on the 9th and 10th. Bishop Horstmanx formally assumed control of ’the diocese of Cleveland at St. John’s cathedral on the 0th. Am. the wall paper hangers of BL Louis, some dJO in number, struck the Other night without notice because their employers disregarded a request made December 14 last for pay bv the piece, which, in reality, means higher wages. PomCe inspectors sorted a warrant On to. SeUdder, at Chicago, who iS accused of murdering his mother-in-law, but who was sent to the deten-S tion hospital, pending an inquiry into his mental condition. On the 9th in the lower house of the Iowa state legislature the question of resubmission of prohibition to a vote of the people came up and the republicans favored it, while the democrats recommended indefinite postponement Resubmission carried—53 to 46—a strict party vote. W. B. TascoTT, the alleged ntnrderer of William Snell, Bf Chicago, is believed to be in Alaska. UeOrge Golds, of Sad Diego, Cat, shot hnd killed himSelf, being the second case Of suicide Over the failure of the California National bank. A rich gold strike has been reported front dear Sad hernardino, Cal. The Indiana state republican convention instructed the delegates to the national convention to vote for President Harrison’s renomination. Michaed Purtili, a Kansas City police officer, while off duty shot and mortally wounded Thomas McGrail, a saloon porter, on the 10th. The shooting is claimed to have been done in

Mucu damage was done throughout Iowa by the recent storm. Several schoolchildren were lost in the storm near St. Peter, Minn. William LinkdeK, the millionaire hanker and miller of St. Paul, Minh , died suddenly on the 10th of caticcr of the stomach. He was 3d years of B.ge. President Eliot, of Harvard college, gave an address at the university at lloulder, Col, on the 10th on elective education. The chapel was crowded and the discourse of President Eliot was cheered to the echo. A reception was held after the lecture. Mrs. Eliot was also present. A solid train of twenty-eight cars, containing 12,300 bushels of shelled corn, was made up at Bloomington, 111., and dispatched to the seaboard for shipment to Russia. It was all contributed by citizens of McLean county, 111. Tiie blizzard on the 10th did great damage throughout Minnesota and the Dakotas. Communication with Montana was cut off. The musicians’ union of St Louis is prepared to take issue with the United States government in the matter of allowing the Marine band, under Prof. Souse, to make a tour of the country, thereby coming in at least indirect competition with local talent. Reports of damage to winter wheat have been received from Kansas and Illinois. In the Iowa senate on the 11th the Australian ballot bill passed without a dissenting vote. It is different from the ballot bill passed in the house and will now go to that body again. Archbishop Ireland, of St Paul, is tc be made a cardinal. A coroner’s jury rendered a verdict to' the effect that police officer Pnrtill killed Thomas McQrail in self defense at Kansas City, Ma Rev. S. II. Warner, of the Oxford M. El church, of St Paul, Minn., has mysteriously disappeared. THE SOUTH. Fifty-five new industries were-es-tablished or incorporated in the south during the week ended March 4. The exodus of colored people from the neighborhood of Helena, Ark., to Oklahoma continues. Gen. O. O. Howard has been along the Mexican border in Texas, for the purpose, it is believed, of investigating the Garza campaign. Mrs. Annie Semmks, the widow of the late Adm. Raphael Se names, comin under of the confederate cruiser Alabama, died at her home in Mobile, Ala, in her 74th year. The news has been cabled to New Orleans that Ted Pritchard, the English champion, is willing to light Fitzsimmons. Most of the political talk at Raleigh, N. C., h# been on the third party, and this was brought about by L. L. Polk’s visit there. Ho slays he has severed his connection with the old political parties and Is now with the third party. He declares that the new party will sweep the west and claims 40,000 supporters in North Carolina. Three negroes, charged with having shut down a deputy sheriff, were taken from the jaikat Memphis on the 0th and riddled A ith bullets. The Te^as republican convention adopted resolutions indorsing President Harrison and a strong Harrison delegation to Minneapolis was elected. A negro brute, said to be the most noted criminal in the south, was taken from the jail at Hamburg, Tenu., and hanged recently. Hon. Henry Wattebson, in an interview, declared that Mr. Cleveland should not be nominated for president and that the democratic party should come west for its candidate f r president. On the Uth two more suits against the city of New Orleans were filed in the United States circuit court for 8110,1)00 each In behalf of the relatives of the Italians killed in the parish

OK.NKRAL. The new British steamer Massilchu*lt«j Capt Willl*tflsi arP'rfed at Swia«a oil the night Of ttio 1th, wheni She vlll load for New York 3,000 tons of in plate. This wi 1 be the largest shipnent of tin plates to the United States iipee the McKinley hill went into efecb The general elections for the nrovince of Quebec were held on the !th. A heavy vote was polled. The VIereier party sustained a rarst signal iefeat At the close of the polls the rote stood: Fifty-three Conservatives, Ifteen Mercierites, five Independents. The birthday of the oaar of Russia, which occurred on the 0th And which was observed with festivities At St Petersburg, was Also marked hr th8 afinching at Sebastopol of the tro# :lhd, George the Vietorims. of OJOOO oris. Another war ship, 13,000 tons; he largest is the Russian navy, will t>e launched at Nico'.aieff early in the touting summer. A heavy snowstorm prevailed on the )th in L ndon and many other parts of he United Kingdom. The municipal authorities of Leipsitfc. Germany, where there has been SO Much distress And discontent among the poor, largely due to a lack Of employment, announced that they will provide work for unemployed persons. Mr Edward P. Deacon, wfeo was under arrest at Wrasse.. Ffancej . for Shooting And hilling Abellle, his wifeS pahamotir, in the Hotel Splendide at Cannes, has been released on 10,000 francs bail. Mrs. Florence Ethel Osborne pleaded guilty to larcenv anl perjury in London and was sentenced to Line months’ imprisonment at hard labor. Emperor William has been confined to his bed with a cold. The pope sent a communication to the papers defending Archbish p Ireland against the attacks of his enemies. The floods were so severe in Spain that it took several days before railway and telegraphic communication tvfere restored. Thousands of starving laborers are :lamoring for work in different citieS >f Germany. All the London newspapers approved the verdict in the Osborne case. The Spanish anarchists tried for riot it Cadiz were acquitted. The pope has communicated to the newspaper Observator Romano a note lefending Most Rev. John Ireland, D. D., archbishop of St Paul, Minn., against the attacks made upon him by his enemies in the United States. Tiie Russian government, in order to alleviate as far as possible the distress among the peasants, is employing large numbers of them at Ninji, Novgorood, Orel Kazan and Tula in clearing off aver 3,000 acres of forestland. \ The next Russian military maneuvers, the scene of which will bo in the vicinity of Moscow, will be on a gigantic scale. Six army corps under liens. Dbruts.hoff and Dragoitiiroff will take part, besides the guards and other cavalrv, the whole reaching a total of 300,000 men. Fire damp exploded in a Belgian colliery on the 11th in a pit where nearly S00 men were at work. The number of the dca 1 is placed at 300. Another American sailor was stabbed in the streets of Valparaiso, The Standard oil trust, at its next meeting, will dissolve and will not organize in any way, but the company will not go out of business. It is said that Jay Gould abandoned his Mexican trip because he was afraid; of being kidnaped. The English liberals oppose Lord Salisbury’s position in the seal fisheries matter. The two British vessels seized in Behrigg sea last year for violating the terms of the modus vivendl and turned over to the British authorities for prosecution under that agreement, arc said to be among the vessels that have already started for the sealing grounds. These vessels are thp Otto and E E. Marwin. Lord Salisbury's delay in arranging for a renewal of the modus vivendi in the Behring sea matter has been a matter for private consideration by the leaders of the opposition in Grant Britain, resulting in a decision not to move in the matter until the policy of the government appears more definite,

THE LATEST. Thk senate was not in session on the 13th.In the house Mr. Coombs (N. Y.) moved to correct the journal, which stated that he had been arrested by the sergeant-at-arms and brought before the house. Mr. Bynum held that the arrest of members under a call was a rule of the house. It was the custom, and the sergeant-at-arms wassimply discharging his duty. After a vote of 71 to 51 against the motion, no quorum voting, the matter was dropped. Several executive communications were received and referred, and the house proceeded with bills: on the private calendar. At 3 o’clock, under special order, eulogies were delivered upon the late John R. Gamble, of South Oakota. The late awful calamity in Belgium has called general attention to the iSubject of female labor in the coal mines of that country. The employers prefer women as miners because they are more docile and work for somewhat lower wages than the men. They receive one franc and a half for twelve hours' work in some of the collieries; are mostly middle-aged women, but some are found in the coal pit as yoking as 14, and others as old as 60 years. The house committee on foreign affairs have decided not to include in their diplomatic and consular appropriation bill any appropriation for the bureau of American republics, but have referred this matter to the house committee on appropriations for action. Warden Browne, of Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison, has issued orders to the effect that no one connected with the prison shall hereafter Bn allowed to enter a saloon or any'other place where intoxicating liquors are sold. The police of Paris claim to have discovered a conspiracy to murder a number of judges and magistrates, and say that the recent explosion at 1he residence of Magistrate Benoist, was the beginning of the work. The house committee on territories has authorised a favorable report on the bill for the admission of New Mexico as a state; also a favorable report on the bill admitting Arisona to sta tehood. The department of agriculture has received information of a serious outbreak of the foot and month disease in Great Britain. The governor-general of Canada has issued a proclamation enfranchising the Indian population in British Columbia. The report that Minister Egan is to be transferred from Chili to Brasil is at tho state d6Dirtuft&t

GONGRESSIONAW. Kittiolhe ,at the . Pf ocSedln^ «* Houses tile Pniit Wftjlfc „ . . „,Ui) business was transacted in (bA senate op the 5th In the house, on motion of Mr. Otis, (Kan.) a resolution was adopted directing the committee on private land claims to investigate the Maxwell land grant in New Mexioo. Mr. TuckeiHVa.) reported a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment changing the date for commencing of the terms of senators and representatives from March 4 to December 31, and the term of office of the president from March 4 to April 30. The urgency deflency bill was then passed. Mr. Hatch called up the bill appropriating 1150,000 for carrying on the work of the bureau of animal industry. After an extended debate the bill passed and the house went iftto committee of the whole oil tiiS invalid jteiteidii hill. Before disposing of the bill the house adjourned. Petition* were predented th the Senate on the 7th for the closing of the world’s fair on Sunday. Mr. Sawyer introduced a bill authorizing the establishment of a postal telegraph service. Mr. Morgai^moved .to reconsider the vote on the Dubois contest in order thai.sotlthr era senators who were excluded under the act of 1866 might have the right to say something on the proper construction of the constitution. Laid aside. Mr. Call addressed the senate on his resolution in relation to railroads in Florida. The pure food bill was then discussed until adjournment. ...In the house the silver question ettme to the front on a motion to set apart three days for debate Ofl the Bland free'eoinag* btlii Match St 2& St A motion by tit. Tttcey to postpone to December 13 brougift on.S idng discussion in which the frte-coinago rich won at every point. The resell ihion sotting aifrfi three days lor consideration of the Bland bill was finally adopted by a vote of 190 to 01, and after passing the pension appropriation bill the Bouse adjourned. iii the senate oil the 8th Mr. Squire presented a memorial In regard to the seal fisheries frotfl the chamber of commerce of Port Townsend. Mr. Stanford introduced a resolution fixing the duty on opium at 85 per pound. Bills then passed to prohibit the sale of hre-arms. etc., to Indians on reservations; referring to the court of claims the ‘Tice meter" claim; appropriating 8300,000 for a public building at Spokane Fal Is: appropriating 5.75,000 for two revenue cutters for service on the lakes; to establish a military post near Little Rock, Ark., and several other local bills. The pure food bill was then further considered, amended and ordered printed for final passage. The death of Representative Kendall, of Kentucky, wdS announced, resolutions adopted and the senate adjourned. _When the house met the death of Mr. Kendal! (KyO was announced, a Committee appointed to attend the funeral and the house adjourned. Ik the senate on the 9t.i Mr. Hale, from the naval committee, reported the .bill to further ilicrease the naval department by the Increase of battle ships. Mr. .Cullom. by request, introduced a bill to test the science of spelling and to establish a spelling school in the world's fair at Chicago. The bill appropriating 8181,039 to compensate the Crow and other Indians, etc., passed. The pure food bill was then taken up and passed and the senate adjourned_In the house the tariff debate commenced in committee of the whole, Mr. McMillin (Tenn.) speaking at length in favor of tariff reform and Mr. Dingley (Me ) defending the McKinley bill At the conclusion of the speeches the house adjourned. Sbvkkal local bills passed the senate on the 10th and a resolution offered by Mr. Morgan asking for copies of correspondence in regard to the Venezuelan award was adopted Mr. Teller offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the secretary of the treasury for Information as to the amount of treasury notes Issued under the act of July 14,1899, etc. The agricultural meat inspection bill was passed, and pending discussion on the hill for the erection of piiblic buildings in towns where tfic post office receipts are 83,099 the senate adjourned _During the morning hour the house, on motion of Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, passed a joint resolution authorizing the loan of ensigns, flags, etc., for the purpose of decorating the streets of Washington on the occasion of the Grand Army encampment. Immediately there after tho house resolved itself into committee of the whole on the free wool bill, and Mr. Dingley, of Maine, resumed his argument against the measure. Debatt? was continued at length when the committee rose and the house adjourned. In tho senate on the 11th Mr. Stewart Introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that no person shall hold ihe office of president more than four years or part thereof. Referred. Mr. Dolph addressed the senate cn Mr Stanford’s bill to provide a sound currency. He opposed the sub-treasury p an. After discussing the post office bill and passing the urgency deficiency hill the senate adjourned, until Monday ... The house aguin considered the free wool bill in committee of the whole, the day being devoted to debate. During the debate Messrs. Ray (N Y.) and Meridoth (Va,l had a spat of a personal nature. At the evening session pension bills were considered.

FIVE YEARS* PENAL SERVITUDE. A Sentence renounced Upon a Member of London, March 12.—At the Old Hailey to-day, a sentence was passed that will, without doubt, result in another expulsion from the house of commons, making the third member of the present parliament who has been unceremoniously expelled. The first was Capt. Verney. who was expelled upon his conviction for procuring a girl for immoral purposes; the second who was El ward Decobay, who fled the.coantry to escape arrest on a charge of gross immorality; the third will be Gc-orge Woodgate Hastings; member for the Bromsgrove division of Worchoscershire, who was to-day sentenced to five years' penal servitude on his plea of guilty on the charge of misappropriating $30,000. Mr. Hastings is a liberal unionist and is 06 years old. Frozen to Death In Sight of Help. Devil’s Lake, N. D., Mircli 13.—TV. M. Griflin, a farmer living near this city, was found frozen to death half a mile fcpm .town. Griflin was returning from the farm- and was caught in the blizzard. A mile from town he abandoned his team and started to walk to the city. One ox was found dead near the wagon. The deceased leaves a wife and three small children. Other abandoned teams are reported and searching parties are out in alt dii cctions. __ t hlld Scalded In Soft Soap. Lincoln, III., March 13.—A few miles in the country a little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Balph Geyerts fell into a tub of boiling soft soap. The screams of the child called the mother to the spot, and in extricating the litt'e one she suffered terrible burns. The child’s flesh was severely burnei, causing death within a few hour^ The mother’s mind is affected over the awful affair. Kkw Haven,Conn., March Tly-Threo men entered the home of Albert Denslow, in Hamden, near here, bound Denslow and a man named Monk, tied the hands of Mrs Emily Johnson, Denslow’s sister, and carried her in an adjoining bed room where they repeatedly assaulted her. One of the men has been arrested. Mrs. Johnson's injuries are serious. The Kaiser In a Yacht Race. London, March 13.—It is reported that Emperor William will personally sail his ? acht Meteor for the queen’s cup in the Cowes regatta ABOUT BIROS AND ANIMALS. A good camel wiU travel one hundred miles a day for ten days. While Billy Smith’s hounds were rnnning h mink recently a lnrjo hawk swooped down and caught the mink and carried it off, writes a Hix (Ga.) correspondent. A Bio owl tried to carry away a dog at a lumber camp on the Machine river,' Maine, but was captured by one of the logging hretv after a lively fight. Thei owl was a warrior, its head being fulli the British Parliament. Crime of Three Men.

TALMAGE’S SEliMON. A Practical iieewen BraWn fToni 6S » Obscufe Snb^ec^.’ The Giants All are Competed in Sleet Obstructing Our Paths In Life— We Must be Prepared for Them. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage drew a practical lesson from the story of the (riant, Og,king of Bashan.in a recent sermon in the Brooklyn tabernacle. His text was: Only Og, king of Bsshad, remained of the remnant Sf giants; behold his bedstead was d bedstedd t>f .Him; Is it not in ftabbath of the children of Ammbrit Sine cubits was .the length thereof, and fonr cubits the breadta Of it.—Deuteronomy, ill., 11. The story of friants is mixed with my t!i. William the Conqueror was said to have been df bTSr-lSWerlng attitude, but, when in after-time hiiS ioiti'o tVaS opened, his bones indicated that life ttafi been physically of only ordinary size. Roland the hero was said to have been of astounding statue, but when his sepulcher was examined his armor was fount! only large enough to fit an ordinary man.- Alexander the Great had helmets aiid shields of eHOrlttOtiS size, made (itid left Ainfing the people whom ho had conquered; so' as to’ givt? the impression that he was a giant, although he was rather under than over the usual height of ae man. But that in other days and lands there were real giants is authentic. One of the guards of the duke of Brunswick was eight and a half feet high. In a museum in London is the skeleton of Charles Birne, eight feet and four Inches in statue. The Emperor Mnximin was over eight feet Pliny tells of a giant nine feet high, and two other giants nine and a half feet high. So I am not incredulous when 1 come to my text, and find King Og a giant and the size of Ills bedstead, turning the cubits of the test into feet—the bedstead of Og, the king, must have been abtltit thirteen and A half ’ ffeet icriijtf. Judging from that, the giant who Occupied it was probably about eleven feet id statUre, or nearly twice the Average human size. There was no need of rabbinical writers trying to account for the presence of this giant King Og, as they did, by sayiug that he came down from the other side of the flood, being tall enough t6 wade the Waters beside Noah's ark,or that he rode on top of the ark, the passengers inside the ark datfy providing him with food. There was nothing supernatural about him. He was simply a monster in size. Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds of. gold, and Sardanapalns had one hundred and fifty bedsteads of gold burned up with jMin; but this bedstead of nA text waff>f iron—everything sacrificed for strength to hold this excessive avoirdupois, this Alp of bone and flesh. No wonder this conch Was kept as a curiosity Jit Rabbatli, and people went from far and near to see it, just SS flow people go to museums to behold the armor of the ancients. You say what a fighter this giant, King Og, must have been. No doubt of it. I suppose the size of his sword and breast-plate corresponded to the size of his bedstead, and his stride across the battle-field, and the full stroke of his arm must have been appalling. With an armed host lie comes down todrive baek the Israelites, who are marching on from Egypt to Canaan. We have no particulars of the

battle, but I think the Israelites trembled when they saw this monster of a man moving down to crnsh them. Alas for the Israelites! Will their troubles never cease? What can five and a half feet high do against this warrior of eleven feet, and what can short swords do against sword whose gleam iiust have been like a flash of lightning?/The battle of Edroi opened. Moses and his army met the giant and his army. The LonV of Hosts descended into the fight, and the gigantic strides that Og had made when advancing into the battle were more than equaled by the gigantic strides with which he retreated. Huzza for triumphant Israel! Sixty fortified cities surrendered to them. A land of indescribable opulence comes into their possession, and all that is left of the giant king is the iron bedstead. “Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it.” Why did not the Bible give ns the size : of the giant instead of the size of the bedstead? Why did it not indicate that the man was eleven feet high instead of telling us that his conch was thirteen feet and a half long? No doubt among other things it was to teach us that you can judge of a'man by his surroundings. Show me a man’s associates, show me a man’s books, show me a man’s home and I will tell you what he is without you telling me one word about him. You can only tell a man according to the old adage: “By the company he keeps,” by the books he reads, by the pictures he admires, by the church he attends, by the places he visits. Moral giants and moral pigmies. intellectual giants or physicrjl pigmies, may be judged by their surrounding. That man has been thirty years faithful in attendance upon churches and prayer meetings and Sun-day-schools, and putting himself among i intense religions associations. He may have his imperfections, but he is a very good man. Great in his religious stature. That other man has been for thirty years among influepces intensely worldly, and he has shut himself out from all other influences, and his religious stature is that of a dwarf. No man ever has been or can be independent of his surroundings, social, intellectual, moral, religions. The Bible indicates the length of the giant by the length of his bedstead. Let no man say: “I will be good,” and yet keep evil surroundings. Let no man say: “I will be faithful as a Christian,” and yet consort chiefly with worldlings. Yon are proposing an everlasting impossibility. When a man departs this life yon can tell what has been his influence in a community for good by those who mourn (or Him, and by how sincere and long-continued are the regrets of his taking off. There may not be no pomp or obsequies, and no pretense at epitaplieology, but you can tell how high he was in consecration, and how high in usefulness by how long is his shadow when he comes to lie down. What is true of individuals is true of cities and nations. Show me the free libraries and schools of a city, and I will tell you the intelligence of its people. Show me its gallery of painting and sculpture, and I will tell you the artistic advancement of its citizens. Show me its churches, and I will tell you the moral and religions status of the place. From the fact that Og’s bedstead was thirteen and one-half feet long, I conclude the giant himself was about eleven feet higlit. But let no om tar fbfe though, t* induce*} b,

reader to unfavorable environments, f. man can make h‘s own bedstead. Chatiirey and Hugh Miller were born stonemasons, but the one became an immortal sculptor, Ufld the other, a ebthsikh scientist whose b»me will never die- Ttffnfir. the ptsinler, in whose praise John Spslrfri Expended the greatest genius of Nut Hie, was the son cf a barber who advertise “U penny a share" w. Prideaux, one irt the greatest scholars of SR time, earning his way through college by Sfehtiring pots and pm The late Judge Bradley worked his own way up from a charcoal burner to the bench of the supreme court of tne United States. Yes, a man can decide the sise of his pvyri, bedstead. Notice,- furthermore, that even giants ibUsi rc'St Such enormous physical endowment oh the part of King Og might suggest thd ftjpiteity so stride across all fatigue and omit sliittF her.- ?fb. He required an iron bedstead, tJiaatS must rest Not appreciating that litt, how many of the giants yearly break' dotvit. Giants in business, giants Jri art,- giants th eloquence, giants in ustfftffiJCss. They live not out more than half thdlt days. They try to escape the consequences of overwork by a voyage across the Bea or a sail In a summer yacht,' or call oiii physicians for relief from insomnia; bt restoration of unstrung nerves, or ikt arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is What this giant of my text resorted Ur—an iron bedstead. Let no one think, bedafene he has great strength of body or mind, that he Can afford to trifle with his unugtftri gifts. The Commercial world, the literary WOrid; the artistic world, the political world, the feligiorts World, are all the time aquake with the crash of falling giants. King Og, no doubt, had Jkthrone. King Og, no doubt, had a crown,"but the Bible never mentions his crown. King Og, no doubt, had a -scepter, but the Bible* does not mention his scepter. Yet one of the largest verses of the Bible Is taken tip in describing his bedstead. Sti (iod, all «p and down the Biblfe, honors asleep. Ada iff, With his head oh !i pillow of Edenie roses, has liis slum oer blest b£ a Divine gift of beautiful companionship.- Jacob, with, his head on a pillow of rofir, has his sleep glorified with a ladder filled with descending and ascending angels. Christ, with pillow mode out of the folded-tip cOrti Of >i fisherman, honors slumber in the bach pfirt of the storm

The only ease of accident to sleep mentioned in the Bible was when Eutychus fell from a window during a sermon of Paul,' who had preached tintil midulght, bnt that was not so much a condemnation of sleep as a censure of long sermons. More sleep is what the world wants. Economize in everything bat sleep. William H. Seward, the renowned secretrry of state, in the midst of his overmastering toils longed for the capacity to rest, writing In his memorandum hook: *‘l have never found blit one invaluable recipe for having a good night's rest, and that is to have been restless and sleepless the night before.” When President John Quincy Adams and the distinguished Josiah Quincy went to hear Judge Story lecture on law to his students, and, when invited to sit beside the Judge and both fell asleep, the judge appropriately pointed to them, and said to his students: ‘‘Behold the evil effects of early rising.” In Bible times, when people arose at the voice of the bird, they retired at the time the bird puts his head under his wing. One of our national sins is robbery of sleep. Walter Scott was so urgent about this duty of slumber, that when arriving at a hotel where there was no room to sleep in except that in which there was a corpse, inquired if the deceased had died of a contagious disease, and, when assured he had not, took the other bed in the room and fell asleep in the profoundest slumber. Those of small endurance must certainly require rest if even the giant needs an irbn bedstead. Notice, furthermore, that God’s people on the way to Canaan need not be surprised if they confront some sort of a giant. Had not the Israelitish host had trouble enough already? No! Bed sea not enough. Water famine not enough. Long marches not enough. Opposition by enemies of ordinary stature not enough. They must meet Og, the giant of the iron bedstead. Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it” Why not iet these Israelites go smoothly into Canaan without this gigantic opposition. Oh, they needed to have their courage and faith further tested and developed! And blessed the inan, who in our time, in his march toward the promised land, does not meet more than one giant. Do not conclude that you are not on the way to Canaan because of this obstacle. As well might the Israelites conclude they were not on the way to the promised land because they met Og, th|e giant. Standing in your way is some evil propensity, some social persecution, some business misfortune, some physical distress. Not one of you but meets a giant whtjC would like to hew yan in twain. Higherqpthan eleven feet this Og darkens the sky, and the rattle of his buckler stuns the ear. But, yon are going to get the victory, as did the Israelites. In" the e of the God of Moses and David and Joshua and Paul, charge on him, and you will leave his carcass In the wilderness. You want a battle shout! lake that with which David, the five-footer, assailed Goliath, the nine-footer, when that giant cried, with stinging contempt both in manner and intonation: “Come to me, and 1 will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field;” and David looked up at the monster of braggadocio, and defiantly replied: “Thou eomest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield; bnt I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee unto mine hand; and I will smite thee and take thine head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day nnto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that these is s'God in Israel.” Then David, with probably three swirls ot the siing about bis head, got it into sufficient momentum and let fly, till the cranium of the giant broke in and he fell dead, and David leaped on the carcass, one foot on his chest and the other on his head* and that was the last of the PhiHstiue. Bathe save yon get the right battle ,t you utter It with the

is a conan armed upon it * Christ: "If What a dasplant yon can possibly ivili fi!e« t him? He ia not eh iigh, hut, a lifindred feet high, stead is as long as the continent. Hie ume is Doubt. His common food ia in*' 5del books, and skeptical leCtthres, and Ministers who do not know Whether lire Bible is inspired at all or inspired in Spots, and Christians who are more Ihfidel than Christian. Yon will never rc»*b the promised land unless yon slay that giant. Kill Doubt or Doubt wili kill yon. How to overcome this giant? f'rkw for faith, go with people whohavw faith, read everything that encourages faith, acedd as you wonld ship fever and small-poX the people who lack faith. In this battle against King* Og use pot for weapons the crutch of a limping Christian, or the sharp pen of s controversalist, but the sword of truth, which is the word of God. The word ‘lif ’ is made up of the same number ofletters as the word "Og,” and it is just he big a giant If the Bible be true. If tin? sonl be immortal. If Christ be God. If ottt belief and behavior here decide our fttlore destiny. It If. If. I hate that word, "if.” Noah Webster says it junction; I say it is giant. Satan breathed curse when he said to thou be the Son of God." tardly and infamous “if.” Against that giant “if' hurl Job’s “I know” and Paul’s “I know.” “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” “I know in whom f hate believed.” Down with the “it” and up With “I know.” Oh, thatgaint doUbt i4 shell a cruel giant! It attacks many is the fast hour. It could not let my mother alone even in her dying moments. After a life of holiness and consecrat ion, such as I never heard of id anyone else, she said to my father: "Father, what if, after all, our prayers and straggles should go for nothing?” Why could she not, after all the trials and sickness, and bereavements of a long life and the infirmities of old age, be allowed to go without such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder I have a grudge against the old monster? If I could I would give him a bigger bounce than Satan got when, hurled out of HeaverfJ the first, thing he struck was the bottom of perdition. ^Another impression from my subject: The march of the o^urch can not be impeded by gigantic opposition. That Israelitish host led on by Moses was the church, and when Og, the giant— him of the iron bedstead—came out, against him with another host—n fresh host against one that seemed worn out--things must have looked bad for Israel. No account is given of the bedstead of Moses, except that in lvjiicli he first slept—the one cradle of aquatic vegetation of the Nile, where the wife of Ghenepbres, the king, found the floating babe, and having no children other own, adopted him. Moses of ordiaary size, against Og of extraordinary dimensions. Besides that, Og was backed up by sixty fortified cities. Moses was backed up seemingly by nothing but the desert that had worn him and his aymy into a group of undiscjplined and exhausted stragglers. But the Israelites trium phed. If yon spell the name of Og backward you turn itjnto the word ‘'go." and Og was |urned backward and made to go. With Og’s downfall all the sixty cities surrendered. Nothing was left of the giant except his iron bedstead, which was kept in a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and stout he once was. So shall the last giant of opposition in tlie church’s march succumb. Not sixty cities captured, but alFfhC cities. Not only on one side of Jordan, hut on both sides«-of all the rivers. The day is coming. Hear it all ye who are doing something for the conquest of the world, for God and the truth, the time will come when, as there was nothing lelt of Og, the giant, but the iron bedstead kdpt at Rabbath as a curiosity, there will he nothing left of the giants, of iniquity, except something for the relic huntenvto examine. Which of the giants will be the last slain 1 know not, but there will he a museum somewhere to hold the relics of what they once were. A rusted sword Will be hung up the only 1 lie of the giant war. A demijohn—the only relic of the giant of inebriation. A roulette ball—the only relic of the the giant of hazard. A pictured certificate of watered stock—the only relie

Bible promises prophesy the latter, and eo I cheer you who are the troops of God, and though many things are dark now, like Alexander, I review the army by torchlight, and I give yon the watchward which Martin Luther proclaimed: ‘"The Lord of Hosts!” Whatever your work and wherever, you work for God—forward! Yon in your way, and I in my way. With holy pluck fight on, with something of the strength of Thomas Troubridge, who al Inkermann bad one leg shot off and the foot of the other leg, and wher they proposed . to carry him of! the field replied: “No; I dc not move until the battle ii won.” Whatever be the rocking of the when asked if she A as not afraid, said “No; I am glad that I have a God wht can shake the world.” Whether youi work be to teach a Sabbath class, 01 nurse an invalid, or reform a wan derer, or print a tract, or train a householder bear the querulousnesi of senility, or cheer the disheartened, or lead a soul to Clfrist, know that by fidelity you may help hasten the tim« when the world shall be snowed nndei with white lily and incarnadined with red rose. And now, I bargain wit! you that we will come back some day from our superstellar abode to se« how • the world looks when ' it shall be fully emparadised—its lan tear wept, its last wound healed its last snackle broken, its last desen gardenined, its last giant of iniquity defeated. And when we land may it b« somewhere near this spot of earth where we have together toiled am struggled for the kingdom of God, am may it he about this hour in the bigl U* gluts v V* uwvwn ‘“fy broken knife—tke only relic of the giant of assassination. A yellow copy of Tom Paine—the only relic of the giant unbelief. And that museum will do for the later ages of the world What the iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earlier ages. Do you not see it makes all the difference in the world whether we are fighting on to a miserable defeat, or toward a final victory? All the