Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 June 1892 — Page 1

PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1, 1892 C. STOWS, riNialw.

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tention Siren to al] Business. oe over Barrett ® Son's store. Iltbacourts. Spaclal atari business. A Notary n the offloe. eg-Oflloe— Building.

"ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYER, Petersburg, Ind. *B-Offlco over J. It. Adams ft Son's drug ■tore. Prompt attention given to all business. is. P. Richardson. A. H. Tatlob RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention glveu to all bnslness. A Notary Public constantly In tho office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Haln. DENTISTRY. W. If. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, - PETERSBURG, IND. Office la roomsfl and 7 In Carpenter Build - In*. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anesthetics used tor painless extraction ot teeth. I E LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Inn. Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. O-DI.eases of Women and Children aspot elalty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, 0. V. $., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice'and the possession of a fine library and ease ot instruments, Mr. j Stone is well prepared to treat all diseases of Horses and Cattle STJGCKSSJr'tTJL.I.Y. Be also keeps cm hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prioee. Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

THIS 1PAPK3 IB OK FILE IK tamiiar ko vtotice fa £Y to the ‘ Offiy towns JL business, tuk> office to jy given that I will attend of the offloe of trustee of at Union on IT SATURDAY. Vho have business with the ' notice that I will attend to other day. M. M. GOWKN. Trustee; ereby given to all parties Inbat I will attend at my ofllce KBY STATJRDAY, oslnets connected with the of Lockhart township. All bnslnest with said office will BARRETT. Trustee. iby given to all parties oonwil l be at my residence. . JBY TUESDAY, business connected with the of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIB, Trustee. oiiomo jun mew yomk AT THE oihfICE8 OF „ A. It KELL0S6 NEWSPAPER CO.

to. hereby given that t wilt be at _Y THURSDAY _ badness connected with the «.—tee at Logan township. . Itlvely so business transacted sxA , | KIRK, Trustee. IS hereby given to that 1 will attend i EVERY EON Pi to all parties con. d at toy residence _ EONDAY business connected with the of Madison township, to business transacted ez< dan. JAMES BUMBLE, Trustee. i hereby given to sll persons Inthat I wilt attend in my offlee In EVERY FRIDAY, business connected with tbs i«te« of Marlon township. Al< vln* business with ssld o flics >n°W*F. BROCK, Trustee.

Th* growth of the bicycle habit is indicated hy the fact that Indiana manufactories alone expect to produce 75,00# new “wheels” this season. Th* gastronomic law that, oysters should not be eaten in the months without an “r” in them was laid down by a person named Butler nearly three hundred years ago. Th* Salvation Army believes in the use of printer’s ink. It publishes thirtyone weekly newspapers and five monthly magazines, with a total annual circulation of 45,000,000 copies. Prof. Riley, United States ethnologist, Bays that grasshoppers fried in butter taste very much like shrimps. So far as the “spring” in them is concerned they ought to taste like young and tender chickens. UnClxSam has lost and Mexicogained a strip of ground averaging a mile in width across the southwestern border. It came from an errin' in a survey and was not detected until after the treaty had closed the way for making a correction. It is arid land and is not likely to be of any large value until the climate changes or water is poured upon it by artificial means.

Tub plan for a great line of American steamships to Europe grows apace. The ships will start from an eastcrp point of Long Island and touch at the nearest point of land east of the Atlantic. Connection from New York and London to the points of arrival and departure will be by the fastest railway trains. The ocean transit will be made in much less time than heretofore. LkTrriA Tyler Semple, daughter of ex-President Tyler, and formerly a “lady of the white house,” is now, at 82, a friendless, penniless inmate of the Corcoran home for aged women in Washington. Almost within sight of the old home where she was courted and feted in the days of her youth and bellehood she sits and awaits the end with her grief and her memories for company. _ There is a remarkable tendency toward originality in suicide just now. One man harnessed a team to his neck and had his head pulled off. But he was outdone by the man who accomplished his taking off by choking himself with smoked beef. The amount of inventive genius and determination necessary for the adoption of methods so desperate would surely achieve success in any field more worthy of such enterprise._ Rev. Sheldon Jackson, in charge of the thirty-four government schools of Alaska, is sailing northward on the Bear to Siberia to purchase the five hundred reindeer which the government hopes to make the foundation of a new food supply for the half-starved Alaskans. The reindeer will first be putin charge of the brighter scholars of the sehool, and in time are expected to multiply and become the chief staple of Alaskan food. The old state house at Kingston, N. Y., in which the state constitution was framed and adopted, is now open for visitors, with Marius Schoopmaker employed by the state as keeper. Among the curiosities already displayed within its walls are a flax wheel used by Tennis Swart’s wife in 1787 and a dresser two hundred years old, once the property of Peter Marius Green, on the shelves of which are several pewter dishes used by old time Dutch people. The Johnstown relief commission has finished its work and rendered its accounts. The sum of nearly $3,000,000 was disbursed in caring for the victims of the Pennsylvania flood, burying the dead and restoring the town. The great disaster occurred three years ago the 31st of May. It was the monumental calamity of the country. But the mighty deluge of waters was matched by the flood of charity let loose in response to Johnstown’s appeal for help._ Howling Bear, an Indian prophet, of evil, predicts that within, two years the people of the whole country will be suffering for food and there will be a general famine over the country, when all the people will be without corn or wheat and the animals will die for want of grass. He says that he has been told by the Great Spirit to prepare for the time when his people will be hungry, and he is now advising them to lay up stores of corn in order to be ready when the famine comes. He should have been named HowlingIdiot. During the twelve months ended with last April 170 new national banks were added to the number previously in existence, increasing the total capital by $17,130,7)00. Of this number eightynine, with a capital of $3,630,000, were incorporated in the first half of the term. The number for the entire year is larger than that In 1885, 1886, or 1888, but falls below the 807 reported for the year ended with October, 1890, the capital stock of which was $36,250,000. Most of the new banks are incorporated in the west, there is not a territory unrepresented, and the six states admitted since 1888 gain fifteen new banka

Doubti.kss it will Surprise many to learn that the nursery or floral interests in the United States now reach a value of nearly $42,000,000 and claim an empire of over 170,000 acres. In the last ten years the popular love for flowers has grown to a remarkable extent. Its significance is more apparent when we remember that prior to 1800 there were but two nurseries in the United States. One of these was in New York, the other in Connecticut While there is nothing in the United States like the flower market in Covent Garden, the general price for flowers is one-third less in New York than in London. Accobding to the latest census bulletin, New York has 44,007 and New Jersey 8,205 superfluous fern ales—total for the two states, 47,802. On the other hand, Pennsylvania has a male majority of 74,043. Putting the three states together there are 27,280 persons who must perforce violate the doctrine that “it is not good for man to be alone,” unless drafts are made upon New EngThe entire population of the states is 12,700,770, of which 8,745,745 or nearly 33 per cent, are for- ' Jfew York’s foreign populaper cent of the whole, Pennaad New Jersey’s 88. always use in the morning 1

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. • FIFTY«ECOND CONGRESS. Monday, May 23.—In the senate an adverse report was made on the bill to prevent the transmission through the mails of publications containing principally police court reports and devoted chiefly to printing criminal news and lewd pictures In the house the river and harbor appropriation bill, with the senate amendments, was re-ferred-to the committee on rivers and harbors. Several District of Columbia hills were passed. Tuesday, May 24.—A bill was passed in the senate appropriating 950,000 for a public building at Owosso, Mich. A Joint resolution was reported directing the president to proclaim a general holiday commemorating the 400th' anniversary of the discovery of America on October 13,1892, and another proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States senators by popular vote, ftj the house a bill was introduced to admit free of duty glass windows imported for the use of churches. The senate amendments to the river and harbor bill were non-concurrcd in. Wednesday, May 25.—Bills were reported in the senate appropriating 3100,000 and 91.5,000 respectively for public puildings at Muscatine, la., and Muncie, Ind. The bill to provide for the punishment of violations of the treaty rights Of aliens was discussed. In the house the sundry civil bill was. taken up, the first item being the government exhibits at the world’s fair, and provisos were adopted that in no event shall the exhibits made by the government be open to the public on Sunday, and that no intoxicating liquors shall be sold on the grounds of the exposition. An amendment was adopted reducing the salary of the director general to $8,000, and that of the

secretary to S8.OD0. Thursday, May 88. —In the Eenatc a bill was introduced by Senator Peffer to increase the currency, to reduce the rates of interest and to establish a bureau of loans. Senator Stewart's _ free coinage bill was discussed. In the house a bill wasjjtroduced to amend the act to and commerce against and monopolies appropriation bill was furtb^HHpereu. FROM WASHINGTON. Tna visible supply of grain in the United States on the 83d was: Wheat, 30,607,000 bushels; corn, 8,878,000 bushels; oats, 8,868, 000 bushels; rye, 717,000 bushels; barley, 398,000 bushels. President Harrison proclaimed the treaty of commercial reciprocity between Austria-Hungary and the United States. THE EAST. Rabus, the famous horse so long king of the trotting turf, died of old age at Robert Bonner's barn near Tarry town, N. Y., aged 85 years. At Pittsburgh, Pa., Patrick Fitzpatrick was hanged tor the murder of Samuel Early, a steel roller, September 2, 1891. Fire destroyed Darflinger’s glass works at White Mills, Pa., the loss being 8100,000. In state convention at Trenton the New Jersey democrats instructed their delegation to Chicago to vote for Cleveland for president. The platform condemns the policy of free coinage of silver, and asserts that the democratic party should continue its battle for tariff reform. About 70,000 children marched in the annual parade of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Sunday-school union. Vermont prohibitionists in convention at Rutland nominated E. L. Allen, of Fair Haven, for governor. VflEST AND SOUTH. In Pemiscot county, Tenn., three families, consisting of twelve persons in all, were drowned by the flood Threefourths of the county was under water add assistance was urgently needed. T. O. Tinghom and wife and the daughter of Charles Pinckley were drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Arkansas l.hsss, Tex. The damage' done in Madison, St. Charles and Clair counties, 111., by the great floods will foot up $1,000,000. The Wisconsin, people’s party met in Milwaukee and nominated the following ticket: For, governor, C. M. Butt, Vernon; 'lieutenant governor, Martin Pattison, Douglas; secretary of state, Aaron Broughton, Green; treasurer, Alfred Monheimer, Manitowoc; attorney general, M. W. Stevens, Green Lake; railroad commissioner, Charles Hatch, Calumet; insurance commissioner, Eugene Low, Milwaukee; superintendent of public instruction, Miss Agnes Worl ley, Racine. At Eau Claire, Wls., Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, on trial for poisoning Bertha Erickson,, was found guilty of murder In the first degree. Ax appeal to the state of Illinois was issued by Gov. Fifer asking for food and clothing for the sufferers from the flood-.. He says thousands of men, women apd children have been driven from their hefoes and rendered destitute. >V,; * ' In seasipti At Chicago the National Association of Millers elected William Baundernon, of Milwaukee, as. president TwRlvx years ago Arthur Bisot escaped from the Indiana state prison under peonliar circumstances. He has surrendered himself. A LX ttie stores at Arkansas City, Ark., were flooded out and the tope of 'louses.*ere visible only on the back iM The bill providing that every passen{per railway train in Kentucky shall be provided with a separate coach for negroes has been signed by Gov.

jsrown. Ix session at Atlanta, Ga., the Brotherhood. of Locomotive Engineers reelected IP. M. Arthur grand chief engineer. ' 1 ~ Tax following congressional nominations were made: Ohio, Eighth district, I<. M. Strong (rep.); Fourteenth, R. G. Johnston (rep.); Sixteenth, Col. Poorman (rejn). Indiana, Fourth district, Kiev. A. J. Grime (pro.); Sixth, W. A. Spurgeon (pro.); Seventh, C. E. Boston Bktwxuk Cairo and Memphis the flood situation was serious, and it was estimated that 800 horses and mules and 8,000 bead of cattle had been drowned and that 700,000 acres of cultivated

AN incendiary fire at Wichita Falls, Tex., in the hardware store of J. CL Siegler caused a loss of $100,000. In a collision in midlake on Lake Michigan between the passenger steamers Pilgrim and Kainmasoo the latter went to the bottom and the former was badly damaged. No lives were lost. Tax Idaho democrats met at Pocatello and selected a delegation to the national convention instructed to labor for the nomination of men favorable to free silver. Democrats of Kentucky in convention at Louisville adopted a platform which demands a sound and stable currency composed of or reducible in gold and silver coin and declares that the delegates to the national convention go uninstructed except to use their best endeavors for the success of the democracy and its principles. A waterspout at Kinsman, Of, drowned six persons and destroyed buildings, stock and crops. In Charleston township, Mich., Gilbert Roswell, a farmer 03 years of age, killed his wife because she would not live with him, and then shot himself.

Washington democrats in convention at Vancouver strongly indorsed Cleveland, but refrained from instructing the delegates to Chicago. The Tennessee democrats in convention at Nashville elected delegates to Chicago instructed for Cleveland. Thb democrats of the Sixth Illinois district have nominated Rev. H. D. Den nis, of Rockford, for congress. At Lincoln, Neb., C. E. Montgomery, president of the German national bank and a wealthy citizen, was shot and instantly killed by W. H. Irvine, a former partner, who claimed that Montgomery had destroyed his home. In annual session at San Francisco the National Editorial association elected B. P. Brice, of Hudson, Wis., as president Prohibitionists in convention at Indianapolis nominated Rev. Aaron Worth, of Joy county, for governor of Indiana; C. W. Culbertson, of Shelby, for lieutenant governor, and James McCormack, of Princeton, for secretary of state. While walking on the street F. A. Bee, aged 76, for many years Chinese vice consul at San Francisco, dropped jlead. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the admission of Nebraska into the union was celebrated at Lincoln. The state treasurer estimates that there are from 13,000 to 15,000 persons in Illinois who have suffered from floods and need help: Ohio prohibitionists in state convention at Columbus placed a ticket in nomination. George L. Case, of Cleveland, was named for secretary of state. There were 700,000 acres of land under water between Cairo and Memphis, and the crops that were covered were estimated as follows: Wheat, 185,000 acres, $2,000,000; corn, 100,000 acres, $1,500,000; cotton, 100,000 acres, $3,000,0000; land washed ,away, 1,800 acres, $18,000; homes destroyed, $75,000; cattle drowned, $75,000. Total, $6,668,000. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A Lagos dispatch says that the Jebus made a sacrifice of 800 people, including many maidens, Tn order to propitiate the gods prior to battling with the British. . At Windsor castle Queen Victoria celebrated her 73d birthday. A month hence the fifty-seventh year of her reign will commence. a In Mexico a Mormon colony has been granted a tract of 100,000 acres in the state of Chihuahua. The steamship City of New York, which sailed from New York May 18, 11:85 a. m., was reported at Browhead 8 p. m. May 84. The days* runs in nautical miles were as follows: 458, 467, 470, 478, 473, 475 and 81 to Queenstown; total distance. 8,896 miles; average speed for the trip, 80.06 knots per hour. Her actual time from Sandy Hook lightship to Queenstown is six days,no hours, twenty minutes, which would be equal to five days, eighteen hours and twenty minutes over the more northerly course of 8,776 miles. Taking the distance into consideration. Ahis is the fastest east

ward passage on record. ■* At Serinagur, one of the capitals of Cashmere, in India, cholera was causing the death of 500 persons daily. LATER NEWS. The senate was not in session on the 28th.....In the house the day was devoted to consideration of the post office appropriation bill, upon which Mr. Kendall (dem.), oi Kentucky, among other speakers, delivered his initial speech, favoring the free coinage of silver, and Mr.. Watson (alliance), of Georgia, arraigned the democrats for failing to pass a silver bill and to repeal, the McKinley tariff law. Eari. Grey, the veteran English advocate of free trade and author of a recent pamphlet urging Canada to adopt free trade as an answer to the McKinley law, in a letter to the London Times, denounces as impracticable Lord Salisbury’s arguments at Hastings in favor of a tariff with a view to reciprocity. Scores of villages along the lower Mississippi and its southern tributaries have been wiped out by the floods. Business in many places is wholly suspended. Few correct .reports are sent out, it is said, because the people are afraid of scaring away possible investors. ■The authorities of Melbourne, have decided that all the statements written by Deeming, the wife-murderer, who was hanged there on the 21st, shall be destroyed. These include his letters to the press. Twenty dead at Wellington and eleven at Harper, with scores of others badly hurt, many of them dying, is the latest report of the deadly work of the Kansas cyclone. At the decoration day ceremonies at Riverside park, New York city. Gen. Porter announced that lie had enough money on sight to complete the Grant monument German sugar 'dealers complain that the American trust is “bearing” their market and threaten to retaliate with a trust of their own. The governor at Virginia has appointed Hon. Eppa Huston as United States senator to sucoeed John B. Barbour, deceased. Gen. Ralph Huckland died at Fremont O., on the 28th. He was born in 1212,” and was oonspicuous in the late

INDIANA STATE NEW& Maiuox denizens are becoming alarmed at the large leases of gas territory adjacent to that thriving city and will soon 'take steps to secure options on enough ground in the vicinity l» keep up its gas supply indefinitely. • H, C. Montgomery, of the Pineville, Ky.„ schools, has been elected superintendent of the Seymour schools. L The Ehrismans flouring mill, located In the eastern part of Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire early the other morning. Losb, tab,000; insurance, (10,000. The mill will not be rebuilt. 9TOCKMKN near Farmland are complaining of milk-sickness among sheep there, the first time in twelve years. Risv. Edward Fox, of the Seymour Baptist church, has resigned, and will return to Canada and enter upon missionary work. . -» Di5i.iLACox,nyoung woman of Bartholomew county, became deranged from rcHglousefithusiaem, thinking she could walk on the water, and had to be sent to the asylum for treatment. The ghost of Theobald Many, a wealthy Clark county resident, who

died less than a year ago, has taken to visiting his old home every Tuesday and Friday, and no one can he induced to live in the house. A National bank is to open at Sheridan. Waterloo claims to be square with the world. South Bend masons celebrated their 60th anniversary. Barbers in New Harmony have decided to close on Sunday. Oliver Hess is the new chief of tile Terre Haute fire department Reports are that wheat and oats are still, in good condition throughout the stale. The bank of Spieeland is something Spiueland citizens are proud of. A car-load of sheep was shipped from Crawfordsville recently, that averaged 1S5 pounds per head. Miss Emma Templin, an Anderson physician, will go to one of the English hospitals at Calcutta, India. Mbs. Rosa Beebe, of Huntington, who attempted suicide because Michael O’Herron jilted her on the eve of their wedding, will be married to David D. Murphy. — I,eo Bellhurst, a Frankfort merchant, fell dead in his store. Ezra T. Lee, ex-auditor of Huntington, has been sued for receiving unjust taxes. ^ Thomas Dawson and Sherman Clarksoil were drowned in Muscatatuck river, near North Vernon. ■ Dawson lost his life in an effort to save Clarkson. William Johnson, colored, got fifteen years for the murder of Sam Brown at New Albany. Albert Ballinger, a Seymour merchant, went suddenly insane and tried to beat out bis brains. Len. Morris’ third attempt to establish a saloon at Fairmount, resulted in his stock being destroyed, while he was put in jail. Anderson is to get the Arcade File works, which is to be moved, together with two hundred mechanics and their families, from Sing Sing, N. Y. Principal Taylor, of Columbus, has been sued for injuring the foot of a boy he chastised. Geo. S. Wygart, a wealthy man and former miner of South Bend, was swindled out of *7,000 by the gold brick racket. The wholesale grocery house of Horace,F. King, at Crawfordsville, was consumed by fire the other night. The fire department was called out but when it reached the building the interior of the large room was all in flames and the engines were of no avail. The loss will probably reach *5,000, fully covered by insurance. The boiler in the Anderson Dressed Beef Co.’s abattoir blew up the other morning, wrecking the building and causing a damage of *1,000. Ed Brooks was blown forty feet through the air, coming down h^ad first into a pile of offal and filth. No one else was injured. Anderson’s city debt is said to be *200,000. The Ft Wayne Rifles have new uniforms.

Tub electric line at Terre Haute is be* ing extended. A sale of Jersey cattle near Muncie netted over f0,000. Judge Thomas F. Davidson, of Crawfordsville, is head. The Ft Wayne Lutheran church has a now ¥4,200 organ. The Indiana Homeopathists met at Ind ianapolis and elected, officers. Anderson is to have another new factory which will make surgical chairs. The dynamoes of the Richmond electric road burned out, stopping the cars. John Babtbam, the oldest man in Huntington, is dead. Ho was 07. The remains of Mrs. Peckinpaugh, who suicided in New York, were interred in Bellefontaino cemetery at Mt Vernon. A Jeffersonville justice named Keiffwin is credited with marrying 7,000 runaway couples during his term as ’squire, A cat at Anderson is nursing a nest of young rabbits. Richard Foley, a Jeffersonville molder, rode in a refrigerator car from Indianapolis to Jeffersonville. He died from the effect The Ft Wayne police force is to be made non-partisan. | Te e excessive rains have caused great damage in eastern Indlpnh. Fajrmount gives the DcPauw Brothers ¥90,000 and all the land needed to build their glass works there. The democratic congressional convention of the Eighth district nominated Congressman Brookshire for the third time all the other candidates having withdrawn. The city council of Elwood has graniied a franchise for an electric street railroad. The syndicate who will erect the road is composed of Lewis Wallace, jr., nephew of Gen. Lew Wallace; Jndge Hatch, of Indianapolis, and B. R. Bussell, of Crawfordsvillo. Dr. Shbargbon, of Muncie, was

TRADE AND BUSINESS. B. 8. Dun At Co’s Weekly Review Reports a General Improvement In Business with Better Crop Prospects—'The Money Market Well Supplied and Easy—Labor Well Employed—Floods Interfering with Business In the River Districts of the South —Business Failures, Etc. New York, May 21.—R. G. Dion & Co.’s weekly review at trade says: The week has wrought a quick Improvement in business at many points. Foods still main some trouble and threaten more; country roads which nobody can travel, prevent distribution and collections, and fears of short crops in many quarters still check purchases. Bnt clearing weather throughout the greater part of the country has given a decided stimulus to trade and greatly changed crop prospects Other-conditions are generally favorable. Labor is quite, on the whole, well employed, with rather less interruption from strikes than Is usual at this season. The money markets are everywhere well supplied and easy, and at sev eral points an increasing demand is noticed. At Boston cotton mills are well supplied with orders and the export Inquiry Is larger, tne woolen business is satisfactory, while In boots and shoes orders are increasing and prices firmer. Rubber works are busy, wool fairly active, with more demand for domestic, and leather active with a slight advance. At Baltimore the southern trade holds out beyond expectations. At Philadelphia some activity is seen in wool, and while the carpet business Is unsatisfactory, knit goods works are busy with the outlook more promising than last year. There Is an increasing demand for dress goods, but iron is at the lowest price ever known. At Pittsburgh iron is a shade weaker, but the output of manufactured iron Is very regular though at low prices The window glass works will run to the end of June. Clothing business at Cincinnati for the year Is only a fair average, but business in general Is somewhat affected by the floods. Trade at Chicago has Increased, though the weather somewhat interfere, but general conditions are much better than a year ago. .The trade at Milwaukee is stimulated by the weather and the outlook is less gloomy. Cheering weather revives trade at Minneapolis and dealings are larger than a year ago, the flour output bsing 173,000 barrels, against 118,000, and the lumber trade excellent. At St. Paul trade Is dull. At Omaha, trade in groceries and in hardware iB active and Improved in dry goods and shoes. At Bt. Louis the floods have seriously embarrased trade, which is otherwise strong, and at Kansas City better weather brings improvement. At Denver improved weathers causes considerable gain. Trade is unsatisfactory at Little Rock, floods having done mneh damage in the lowlands, and dull at Memphis and Savannah. At Mew Orleans trade Is retarded by the floods and by a strike, and in all lines is quiet, with money in light demand. There is little new in the great industries, though other than standard brands of Iron are much depressed. Mo 1 southern hold • tag sofd at $14.50 at Philadelphia In some cases. Bar iron is irregular and plates demoralized, 1.77 cents having been quoted; bnt wire rods are firmer and mills are sold ahead. Implement makers have resumed their demands and the demand for structural iron Is large. Heavy sales of steel cotton ties have been made at 8

cents delivered, the lowest price ever known. Sales of wool continue moderate and limited to present needs, shearing being retarded by bad weather, but the dress goods mills have done a larger business than ever, and there is more encouragement in men's wear woolens. The cotton mills are doing more business than in any other year, and print cloths are firmer, for Stocks are low. Shipments of boots and shoes continue to exceed last year's and are bnt 3 per cent, below the highest ever known for the year thus far. Speculation in cotton has been active with sales of (>£0,000 bales, floods and bad weather tending to lessen production. Wheat is nearly half a cent higher, exports being nearly equal to wbeat receipts. A speculative corner makes the price of May corn fictitious and oats are a fraction higher, while pork products have risen a little and also oil Coffee is an eighth lower, copper unchanged, tin slightly advanced by speculation, and lead stronger at 4>4 cents. Sales agents have advanced the price of anthracite coal, though the business 1b very dull and lacks confidence. Nothing disturbs the money market The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days, number, for the United States, 185, and for Canada 13, or a total of 198; as compared with 193 last week and 175 the week previous to the last, and 3(7 for the corresponding week of last year. DEACON BEGS PARDON. Edward Parker Deacon, who Killed 51 Abellle at Cannes, Prance, Petitions President Carnot for Pardon. Pajus, May 28.—The Gaulois says that a petition to President Carnot from Mr. Edward Parker Deacon, asking for a pardon, has been presented, and that Deacon will probably be released on .TuIt 14, the Bastile anniversary. It is the rule in Franco that the president can not pardon a convicted person unless the latter has asked for the pardon, and a petition from Mr, Deacon was necessary'to enable the' president to act. This rule was departed from in the case of the duke of Orleans, who was sentenced to prison for coming to France in violation of the law which excludes the families of pretenders to the crown. President Carnot released the duke without having been petitioned by the latter for release, and Carnot was subject to considerable criticisim for his action at the time. Mr. Deacon, it is also stated, will probably prosecute his wife on the charge of adultery unless she gives up the children to him. The penalty for adultery in France is two. years in prison. Another Effort Being Made to Secure the Pardon of the Woman who Killed tier Child by Cruel Punishment. Dublin, May 28.—Another strenuous effort is being made to effect the release of Mrs. Anne Margaret Montagu, the wife of Hon. Robert Montagu, undergoing a sentence of one year’s imprisonment for the manslaughter of her 3The argument of Mrs. Montagu’s friends * is that she will become a mother in about two weeks, and they have procured the affidavit of a doctor to the effect that Mrs. Montagu’s accouchements are always severe, and that she ought to have home attendance under the circumstances. The affidavit and other pleas have been submitted to Lord Ashbourne, the chancellor of Ireland, who is giving them consideration. MRS. MONTAGU. year-old Mary Helen.

A Judicial Rebuke. Deb Moinks, la., May 88.—In the federal court in this city a jury acquitted John C. Newton, president of the DeB Moines & Kansas City railroad, of conspiracy to defraud the government. Newton immediately banquetted the jury at the Saverio hotel. This morning Jndge Woolsen reprimanded Newton, broadly intimating if he had tho power he would again put him on trial, and that if he had anticipated such conduct he would set the verdict aside. He then dishonorably discharged the entire jury from any further connection with the federal courts. Where Wee the Fool Killer f Yuba Citt, Cal., May 88.—A. H. Holland, a wealthy farmer, was driving with a stranger who called himself Judge Love, of San Jose, when they met another man who said he was an agent for the Louisiana lottery. He was willing to explain how the game could be beaten. Holland and the supposed judge each vfon. Then Holland drew •1,000 from the bank, “Judge Love” put up a like amount, the stranger coveted it It was all put in a tin box and the game began. Holland won. There was only some iron washers in tho box ho

THE SUBSIDY GRANT. Wisgracsro! kUUutle or the Republican I* .«}• Kvganllnf It. The joy o the republican protection organs ovei the action of congress in the matter of allowing a change of register for .be steamers of tfao Inman iue is one t f the must, amusing things jf the time. For if there ever was a distinct con iemaation of two of the pet theories of a party this action of congress hears hat relation to republican pets. It coi demos in the first place the system of n: vigation laws on the maintenance of i hich the -republicans bare particularly prided themselves as protective meai ares for American shipping and shipbn tders. Ami it contradicts emphaticall - the whole theory omvhieh the subsidy system of the last republican congi sss was founded and for which repc rlieans have had but one criticism sin :e—that the subsidy grant was not big inough. Under out system of navigation laws, the pride ai d boast of the republican party, the c urying trade of the world, including ot r own, has been given to ships of fo •eigts build. These laws have been cept up on the plea that if Americans t -ere permitted to buy ships abroad the t aipbuilders of tbi&country would he at t hopeless disadvantage because of th i higher prlceof labor in this country It has been shown, over and over a, airs, and on the testimony of America . shipbuilders themselves, that with fr e raw materials the builders here cou d compete with the builders any whe -e; but the great party of protection a id restriction has stuck to the tariff ai d insisted that the American flag sho' M be confined to our coasting trade. It ir, exceedingly funny, therefore, tc see this restrictive party clapping its hands over the practical repeal of th( antiquated and oppressive

navigation awa, notwithstanding the repeal origh ated with a democratic and tariff refori i congress. Had the house of represent stives done what it did in the matter < f its own motion without any request from vessel owners the g. o. p., we ve iture to say. would have howled itsel hoarse in denunciation of the act and demanded its defeat in the senate. But because it was asked for by leading nen of the very class in whose inter sst it has been pretended the laws weis maintained, the hypocritical old pari y has,to approve of the action of the d imocracy. The party of restriction and repression was, if possible, more ardent in support of tl e subsidy act than of the navigation 1 iws, and the ehief ground of . its supp< rt was that England and France and other countries of the old world were ; ranting subsidies. It was for this ret son, they contended, and not because if the navigation laws and the prohibit! re duties on raw materials that Englai d retained the carrying trade and hat the American who wished for i share therein was compelled to bui a British ship with a British register And since the subsidy was granted they have rejoiced over it as the salvai .on of the American carrying trade, re fretting only that the subsidy was not larger, so as to allow of competition in better terms with Great Britain. Am -now come the vessel owners, who on; "lit to be good judges, if anybody is a good judge of the subsidies, and say in so many words that those comp tition-destroying British subsidies ar I not as attractive as the American s ibsidies which have been sneered at a: altogether too low. If the pari y which got the reputation at one time i f being the party of great moral ideas iad any such thing in its, outfit as shs me it would blush at the exposure it i making o# itself in its rejoicing over he bill in the Inman line case.—Detro t Free Press. REPUB! 1CAN HYPOCRISY. I*he Party Tl it Poses as aa Aggregation of Saints. “The der ocrats never keep the pledges in th sir platforms, except those which they t iake in favor of the liquor traffic.” Th is speaks an organ which stands for re mblieanism whether it declare in fnv >r of a tariff for revenue only or for he maintenance of a war tariff even ai the expense of free whisky. The se ttence is an indication of the too gene -al tendency to hypocrisy and cant, 'l he organ thus offending quotes the tassage of a canal bill by the legislate re of Hew York and its veto by Gov. flower. Of the merits of the case the irgan is as ignorant as of other matter ; of daily occurrence. But it seeks opp rtunity to deceive a class of voters ap >inst whom it has raised the most in pudent outcry and asks that those i ’ho' have been denounced by it as enen ies of free schools should turn to the si pport of its hypocrisy because defeat las made change of position imps rat ve. Let this or{ -an of cant turn to the history of ia party and discover a single pledge made in the interest of the plain p ople that has been redeemed. It may commence at the earliest date and examine the frauds by which the many were cheated that the few migb; be enriched during the rebellion. A id it may follow through the promises if honest treatment of the war indebte tness down to the latest pronunclame: .to favoring the policy of maintaining the parity of gold and silver. It mt y look at a Belknap saved from disgrac > by the prompt acceptance of his re dgnation, and to a whisky ring whose prosecution resulted iu greater injur; to the faithful attorneys than to the ct initials, who had secured a pull close tc headquarters of justifce. It is time fer a cessation of this senseless pretense if a monopoly of decency lDy republics a organs. They have been sponsor! for the most craven sub

mission xo pc one enemies uy a party that professe: to stand for the best element of the p pulat ion. It has condoned the crimes of i, line of demagogues never matched in civilised history. It hen drawn to its inner councils every unclean pretender of piety and every blatant hypocrite who knows how to masquerade in stolen garments of decency. Whe a a republican organ can point to a single instance of party loyalty to pledges It will be time for them to chal edge the fair -utent of their opponet Is.—Chieagt! Times. THE HAifKSSOM OOhSSINE. tk< President Is Wo* a Choice Mot a HeCtWSltjr. The growlu r hostility to the renom1 nation of President Harrison is the strongest pn at possible of all that democratki speakers and the democratic press have charged of its faults, it* scandals, its veakness and its unpopnlarity. Two i mm tits ago it seemed ecrUin that the president Would be renominated, but as the time draws near when his administration must be submitted 1» the judgment of the people the party iresppnsible for bio ifl evidently willing <be take up with any candidate rather ifchan the one wko *&LXi onsJu thfi tWSWmmmi; !

risen administration an issue in the canvass. The republican party is well aware that it will be thrown on the defensive the moment it presents Harrison again for the suffrages of the people. and it is seeking out the antiquities and absurdities of the party in its effort to escape from a campagin in which the Harrison administration would be closely scrutinized. The perfunotory forms of approval of the administration in state platforms count for little by . comparison with the manifest desire of. the party to escape a test vote on the popularity of the administration. Hut willy niMy the republican party must try to carry President Harrison through another campaign. No president ever used federal appointments for personal purposes eshas Gen. Harrison, and these officeholders have a grip on delegations which cannot be shaken at Minneapolis. To be sure the patronage of New York state allbted to Thomas C. Piatt has been used against the president, but he had every reason to ex- ' pect such use of it, if he had even the ordinary knowledge of Mr. Platt’s record as the most eminent political ingrate of the times, llut Mr. Platt, whose hostility rests on his fantastically egotistic notion that he should have been appointed secretary Of the treasury, is a source of strength rather than of weakness to the president. Much as the republicans of New York have lost faith in Harrison, they have still less faith in Thomas C. Platt, and his hostility is the one factor that gives the president such suppoit as he now commands in this state. In Pennsylvania, the inherent weakness of the president is counteracted by the intense disgust with Senator Quay. The republican party would be glad to be rid of Harrison, but it would find vastly more enjoyment in thwarting Platt, Quay, Clarkson and Foraker than in depriving the president of his renomination. The president has shown the shrewdness of the sharp, selfish politician. Id those states that are not controlled by a big boss bis officeholders as a rale have secured delegations favorable to renomination, and in those states which are controlled by detested bosses he is availing himself of the bitter feeling against them to counteract his own unpopularity. The president has played his cards well to win the renomination in the face of almost certain defeat at the polls. The Harrison intrigue will prove quite as strong at Minneapolis as the conspiracy of his enemies.—Albany Argus __, . • '■ ; A REMARKABLE STATEMENT. ■» i ■ M 1 Ad Instance ot the lildiculous Claims os Republicans. The republicans of Illinois pledge their unfaltering support to such further restrictive tariff legislation as shall "guarantee to American workingmen immunity to the utmost from the . • cheapening and degrading influence of free trade/foreign competition.” The men who so pledge themselves are continually assuring the people in their speeches and through their press organs that this verv tariff legislation cheapens the tariffed aiUcles. They tell the workingman that their legislation protects him against the ■■‘cheapen‘influence of* free competition, and at the same time that it cheapens products of his labor, out of Hie of which hfs wages must come. The wasres ot the operative

woolen mill, for example, must out of the prices obtained for the goods produced. But . the McKinley organs tell him daily that the tariff taxes on imported woolen goods reduce the prices of the goods he helps to produce. How, then, can those taxes guarantee him against the cheapening influence of free competition? Tariff taxes cannot give him wages than he would get without them if they reduce the prices of his products. The tariffite states an untruth at one end or the other of his argument. Either a tariff tax raises the price of the product on which it is laid—the home as well as the foreign product— or it cannot raise the wages of the workman who makes the product. If it raises the price the tariffite States an untruth when he asserts that it lowers the price; if it lowers the price he states an untruth when he asserts that it gives the workman higher wages and protects him against “the cheapening and degrading influence of free trade foreign competition.” At one end or the other of the line the advocate of trade restriction states what is not true. And it is immaterial at which end. Bet him abandon either statement as false and the people will condemn his policy. On the one hand, they have no love for a policy which will compel them to pay exorbitant prices forever, and, on the other hand, they would reject a policy which they believed would unnaturally depress wages by depressing prices.— Chicago Herald. PARAGRAPHIC POINTER& -Through the republicans of this country there runs a ripple of applause for B. Harrison, but the strong undercurrent is a regular ta-ra-ra-boora-der-ay for J im Blaine.—St Paul Globe. -The number of business failures under the Harrison administration will average higher than in any other four years since the war. This is only one feature of the general Harrison admin- - istratioh average os a calamity.—St Louis Republic. -Your Uncle Benjamin has a soft, fat, satisfaction-guaranteed sinecure for the man who can insure him that he will be the proper person to push the button when the vast machinery at the world's fair is to be set going next year. Detroit Free Press. -Because the country has not been brought to the verge of starvation republican organs insist that the McKinley bill is a great blessing to us. Because the tax collector leaves a carpet on the floor he’s an angel of mercy. On such rot the voting material of the republican party is now feeding.—St. Paul Globe.

-Mr. Reed has been trying struct the voters of Rhode Island “what system of government i best to get a living in.” His i that the best system is the one i which the many are taxed for the1 fft of the few. The “shopping wo failed to appreciate this system, at people condemned it in 1880 by than 1,200,000 majority—N. Y. W< -Binding twine has been add the free list. Step by step the c cratio house, in pursuance of Chai Springer’s policy, is cutting inb McKinley sehetfhle of tariif antics the republican senate stands iu th of the people receiving relief. I not be long, however, until the | reverse the majority in the sen at then With a democratic preskier good time longed for will have *