Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 June 1893 — Page 2

1 ftp fife* (Stottttttj §momt H. McC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, * • INDIANA. Mrs, Mary Nevins-Blaine and Dr. W. T Bull were quietly married in New York on the 80th. On the A7th the associated banks of New York held *35,489,935 in excess of the requirements of the 35-per-cent, rule. _____ Gen, Schofield of the United States army has asked the secretary of war for an additional number of officers to assist in guarding the World's fair grounds and buildings. Fully 4,000 men have been thrown out of employment on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road in the last few days. These discharges mean a saving of *7,000 a day to the company. The appeal of the prosecution from the verdict of "the New York presbytery acquitting Dr. Briggs of the charges against him was sustained by the general assembly, in session at Washington, on the 31st. Mgr. Persico, heretofore secretary to the sacred congregation of the propaganda, has been promoted to the office of prefect of the sacred congregation of indulgences and holy relics, in place of Cardinal Sepiacci, deceased. Business failures during the seven days ended on the ?d, number, for the-,, United States, 388; Canada, 31, a total of 359, as compared with 378 the week previous. . For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 198.

A swimming match has been arranged between McCusker, the American champion, and James Finney, of England, to swim one mile for £400 and the championship of the world. The race is to take place at Blackpool, Enland, on the 15th. Mbs. Jane Baumgardner, whose funeral occurred from her son's house in West Bridgewater, Pa., on the 29th, .was born on Christmas, 1786. Within the past year she made the clothes in Which she was buried, having laid th em away for that occasion. Her mind was clear to the last. There are big bare spaces in Machinery hall at the Columbian exposition which will never be filled with the exhibits for which the allotments were made. Austria was given 12,000 feet and Belgium nearly 20,000, but only an insignificant part of these sections have been filled. Failure of the natural gas supply has sounded the death knell of the boom at ^Findlay, O. All the glass manufacturers have signed an agreement to move their plants from the town not later than July 1, and it is expected that this exodus will take 4,000 people from the place. Because of the foul condition of the Vesuvius the navy department has abandoned the intention of sending her around from New York to the mouth of the St. Lawrence to convoy the Spanish caravels, and she has gone from Charlestown, Mass., to the Portsmouth navy yard to be docked. Secretary Hoke Smith has made a decision repealing a former order construing “disability not of service origin,” so as to limit it to disabilities pre-* venting the applicant from earning support by manual labor. It is believed this will reduce pension payments from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. Clearinghouse returns for seventyfive principal cities of the United States, as reported by Bradstreet’s, for the week ended on 1 the I2d, aggregated $899,124,352,of which amount New York city returned $489,210,562, Chicago. $85,173,091, Boston $74,580,306, Philadelphia $60,488,354 and St. Louis $19,186,555. Mrs. Carter B. Harrison died at North Bend,O.,on the 29th. She married Carter B. Harrison, the youngest son of President William Henry Harrison and uncle to ex-President Benjamin Harrison,in 1836, who died in 1889,leaving one daughter, now the wife of Col. D. W. McClung, at who house Mrs. Harrison has made her home for the last thirty years.

It is learned that the governor of Angora, in Asiatic Turkey, has advised the Turkish government to adjourn indefinitely the trials of the Armenians accused of treasonable conspiracy and sedition, or else to abandon them entirely and release all the prisoners. The advise is said to be prompted by a dread of scandalous revelations in the event of the cases going to trial. When the time for opening the bids for the bonds the Cherokee nation is to issue under government guaranty on account of the purchase of the Cherokee strip arrived, on the Slst,Chief Harris, Treasurer Starr and Delegates Lipe and Cunningham went to the treasury department to observe the opening, and were dismayed to find that not a single bid had been received. The trial of Judge Julius J. Dubose of the Memphis criminal court, that had been pending for several wfiWcs before the state senate at .NaSiville, Tenn., sitting as a court of impeachment, closed, on the 2d, and the defendant stands convicted. Three of the charges against him were sustained by large majorities. TJie findings of the court depose him from office. C. C. Stubtevant, the octogenarian, secretary of the Minneapolis (Minn.) chamber of commerce, died on the jiOth. He was thelast one of the forty persons who rode on the first railroad train that ever ran in Illinois. In 1824, "while in Boston, he attende'd & reception to Lafayette, and was introduced to the French statesman as a representative of Ohio, just then admitted to the Unio».

CURRENT ^TOPICS. THE HEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Requests from governors of states for regular troops to participate in and for* army officers to inspect- the annual encampments of the national guard are being received at the war department. Wisconsin broke the ice. The governor of that state wants the entire Third infantry, stationed at Fort Snelling, to participate in the militia encampment to be held at Camp Douglas. A dastardly attempt was made to burn a tenement 'in the heart of the Hebrew district of New York city early on the morning of the 28th, but discovery of the fire prevented a conflagration which would have imperiled the lives of 180 persons. Two men accused of incendiarism were arrested. Secretary Smith’s decision to adhere to the language of the pension act' of 1890, thereby saving about $20,000,000 per annum to the government, is looked upon with great satisfaction by the members of the recently-disbanded Farnham Post, 6. A. R., of New York, and is regarded by them as being in the nature of a vindication of their course in denouncing the abuses in the administration of the pension office. The rail, converting and blooiming departments and all the branches of the merchant mill, except the puddling department, of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Co. having shut down, 1,500 men are out. The cause of the closing is lack of orders. The Nancy Hanks, the fast Strain on the Central railroad, ran over and killed Rev. Wm. M. Graham and his wife a short distance from Milner, Ga., on the 28th. Near the scene of the accident is a ilittle country church in which all the people around hold union services, and Rev. Mr. Graham was the pastor. 5

During a bull ligh t at Getafe, near Madrid, on the 30th, a crowd of men and boys broke into the ring and worried the bulls. Two young men were gored to death and many others were injured. The spectators applauded and cheered while the hulls charged the men who were heating them. The Glasgow importers of Canadian cattle have sent word by cable to the exporters to stop shipping, as the delays, owing to the requirement by the board of agriculture that the cattle shall be slaughtered upon arrival, are ruinous to the trade. The president has appointed Col. George M. Sternberg to be surgeongeneral of the United States army, to succeed Gen. Sutherland, retired. James Dickson, aged 70, one of the wealthiest citizens of Mansfield, O., was struck and instantly killed, on the 29th, by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad. He had been dissipating for a week, and the accident is attributed to this cause. Patrick Culhane, employed at the McGregor boiler shops in Detroit, Mich., was hammering a piece of steel on an anvil, when it broke and part of Jt struck him in the left breast, penetrating almost to the heart, and causing his death in a few minutes. The rumored resignation. of David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford, Jr., university, is positively denied. President Greenhut of the Whisky trust spent the entire day of the 31st, in Chicago, in a fruitless effort.to negotiate a loan of several hundred thousand dollars. The Case Manufacturing Co.’s factory, James Watson, president, manufacturers of mill supplies, etc., and the J. D. Neil Manufacturing Co., carriage furnishings, at Columbus. O., were consumed by lire on the night of the 31st. The loss on both plants is $100,000. The Case company carries a good insurance and the Neil plant had $15,000. The new Palace of Industry which had just been completed in Rome, and about to be formally opened, was destroyed by fire on the 81st. Four firemen lost their lives at the fire, and their bodies -were consumed by the flames. The next meeting of the United Presbyterian general assembly will be held at Albany, Ore., commencing on the fourth Wednesday in August, 1S94. The board of missions will meet one week previously at Portland, Ore. The state department has received unofficial advices that President Sacaza of Nicaragua resigned, on the 30th, after signing terms of peaee. Sir Charles Russell concluded his argument in behalf of the British case before the Behring sea tribunal of arbitration on the 31st.

Walter S Beresford, the bogus Lord Beresford recently convicted of forgery at Rome, Ga., was taken to the penitentiary on the 81st. Comptroller Eckels, on the 31a.t, read the riot act to Ashley Mears, president of the two collapsed North Dakota banks. Mears was informed that neither bank would be permitted to resume, nor would any national bank company be allowed to organize in which Mears is a member. • News comes from Tarimoro, in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, of the death of Peter Arreola, aged 130 years. He was probably the oldest person in Mexico, if not in America. He has 220 living descendants, many of whom are prominent in Mexican affairs. The Spanish government has declared five days’ quarantine against all vessels arriving from Cette and Hamburg. Spanish consuls in France report that cholera prevails in Cette, a Mediterranean port. Several cases have ende* 1 fatally. Augustin Lazcaxo, one of the greatest^tatesmen of Mexico and chief magistrate of the state of Mexico, is dead. His demise occurred on the 81st, at his home in the city of Toluco. In the June number of the J<orth American Review appears a long article by Mr. Carnegie, predicting the union of all parts of the English-speakr ing world, setting forth the advantages which would result from it, and drawing a glowing picture of the power and influence which would be exerted upon the world at large by an An-glo-American combination.

George M. Van Leuven, Jr., held to the United States grand jury at Dubuque, la., in $2,OCO bonds on the charge of illegally receiving money for securing a pension, has begun suit for $20,000 damages against Pension Examiner E. E. Waite a*d Deputy United States Marshal E. W. Goodner for seizing his papers and the key to his vault. D. N. Morgan, of Connecticut, the new United States .treasurer, took the oath of office, on the 1st, and entered upon the discharge of his duties, relieving E. N. Nebeker, of Indiana. The committee appointed to count the money an the treasury assumed charge at midnight and began the count, which will take six weeks to complete. Thoma§ Sullivan, the New Zealand oarsman, has arrived in London. He is on his way to America, and will row all comers. The Plankinston bank of Milwaukee succumbed to a continued run, on the 1st, and closed its doors. The furnaces of the Rock Hill Coal and Iron Co., at Rock Hill, Pa., have been closed down indefinitely, owing to a strike of the employes, who demanded the reinstatement of several discharged leaders of the local labor union. A valuable exhibit of crude and refined derivatives of turpentine orcharding, refined resius and varnishes, displayed in the form of cubes, and oils and other biproducts. in jars, was destroyed. on the 1st. by the collapse of a portion of the flooring in the Government building at the World’s fair. The collection was from Alabama, and will be hard to replace.

Archbishoi* Ireland, of St. Paul, presided At the opening session of the World's congress of social purity in the Hall of Columbus at the Art palace, in Chicago, on the 3d. There was a large attendance, among those prominent being Mrs. Julia- Ward Howe, Baron Hernard D. Watterville, of Switzerland; Mrs. Lydia A. Prescott, of California, and Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army. a John Willis, an employ of the Buffalo (X. Y.) Furnace Co., entered a furnace, on the 1st, to clean it out, and the door, which fastens with a snap, closed behind him. When discovered, several hours later, and taken out he was almost asphyxiated by the fumes of carbonic acid gas. C. B. Jewell, superintendent of rainmaking for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co., began his rainmaking experiments, on the 1st, at Meade, Kas., where no rain had fallen for eight months. The result of the first few hours’ operations gave promise of complete success. It is stated on good authority that a general shutdown of the plate-glass factories of the country will take place soon, to last an indefinite period. Cause, overproduction and slack trade. The wage committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers met in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 3d, to formulate a scale for the year be.ginning July 1. One hundred and fifty cadets from the Michigan military academy at Orchard Lake arrived on the World’s fair grounds cjn the 3d. QNelson Crittenden, an employe of the Detroit Electric Light Co., was instantly killed, on the 3d, by an electric shock while at work without rubber gloves. The residence of F. G. Swehla, one and a half miles east of Wilson. Kas., was burned on the night of the 1st, and his two daughters perished in the flames, the elder, aged 30, sacrificing her life in a vain attempt to rescue her 3-year-old sister.

LATE NEWS ITEMS Comptroller EcVlks has had a circular printed containing the sections of the law defining the duties and obligations of bank directors. When a new bank is established a copy of this circular will be forwarded to each director. It also contains the penalties prescribed for neglect of duty. The comptroller says he will endeaTOr to make the bank directors understand that they are liable under the law for the fulfillment of their duty to stockholders and depositors. A suggestion has been made that Spain should cede the Canary islands, to Great Britain in exchange for Gibraltar, but the Spanish nswspapers concur in disapproving the proposition. The Madrid Epoca expresses the belief that Great Britain will ultimately cede Gibraltar to Spain if indemnified for the cost of the fortifications which Great Britain has constructed there. The exports, exclusive of specie, from the port of New York for the week ended on the 3d, were 58,473,955, of which 56,60S,748 were general merchandise and 51,864,207 dry goods. The imports for the week were 510,837,501, a falling off of 862,249 from the previous week. The exports of specie from the port of New York for the week ended on the 3d, were 57,298,402, of which 56,510,900 were gold and 5787,502 silver. Of this amount 56,510,900 gold and 5753,062 silver went to Europe and 584,000 silver went to South America. Twelve iicndbed children who are to sing at the World’s fair festival hall concerts during the next five months have been trained by Choral Director Tomlins for the 1 past three years, and are said to have attained the highest Standard of excellence. The discovery of 200cases of tinplate smuggled into East port. Me., leads the treasury ofBcials to think that the practice has been in operation for some time, and that the government has been defrauded of thousands of dollars thereby. The lace weavers of the Patchogue (L. I.) lace mills, who refused a proposed reduction of 20 per cent, in their wag'fes, struck on the Sd. The strike involves about 250 men who have been earning from 525 to 530 per week. President Cleveland returned to Washington from his fishing excusion to Cape Charles, Va., on the 3d, looking brown as a'berry and much refreshed physically and mentally. The National bank of Indianapolis, Ind.A will probably resume business about the ITth.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. THE STATE SCHOOL FUND Table Showing What Each County Pays In, What Each Receives and the Balances in the Treasury. The apportionment of the state school fund, as prepared by Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Glascock, has been given to the press. The following excerpt shows the number of children in each county and the amount received from the state. In many Cases the counties receive a great deal more .than they pay in, a state of things which leads to all the agitation over the distribution, and causes the padding of returns in order to swell the amount received to the size of the amount paid in. The figures are as follows:

COUNTIES.. fit D-63 H ■SS| s-fa tJ Esa > p oi fill WP ill Adams. 7,:-04 Allen. 25,931 Bartholomew. 9.1U4 Benton.4,225 Blackford. 3,998 Boone. 9,302 Brown. 3,8(9 Carroll. <5,520 Cass.. 10.259 Clark. 11612 Clay. 12.729 Clinton. 9,150 Crawford. 5.512 Daviess. 10,uc. Dearborn. 7.yti5 Decatur.' €.849 Dr Kalb. .I 7,7,K5 Dc‘:iware..:.. 11. 82 Dubois. 7,470 Elkhart. 13.055 Fayette. 4,121 Floyd. 11,276 Fountain. 6,997 Franklin. 6 288 Fulton. 5 959 Gibson. . 8.793 Grant. 12,390 Green. 8,896 Hamilton. 9,234 Hancock. 6,348 Harrison. 7,875 Hendricks__.: 7,302 Henry.. 7,746 Howard. 9.2831 Huntington. 8,882 Jackson. 8,961 Jasper. 3,929 Jay. 8,394 9,442 5.859 6.512 10,952 9.303 5.008 8,497 13,354 7,226 10,235 48.584 8,239 5,392 9,177 6,288 lrsso 6,309 2,981 7.175 1.662 5,371 5.530 6,590 7.079 6.835 6,-93 9.341 4.9 3 7,300 8,705 7.203 5,837 3,114 9.077 8.805 Jefferson..-. Jennings.. Johnson . Knox.. Koscii sko. Lacrange. Lake. LaPorte. Lawrence. Madison. Marion. Marshall. Martin. Miami. Monroe... Montgomery... Morgan. Newton. Noble.. Ohio. Orange. Owen. Parke. Perry... Pike.. Porter. Posey. Pulaski. Putnam. Randolph. Ripley. Rush. Scott. Shelby . Spencer.. Starke . ..... St. Joseph. Steuben . Sullivan. Switzerland... Tippecanoe_ Tipton. Union... Vanderburg... Vermillion. Vigo. Wabash. Warren.. Warriek. Washington... W ay ne... Wells. White ... Whitley. 15,3s:4.851 7,9 1 4,302 14,297 6,912 1,973 21,0 8 4,75<! 22.491 9 928 3.442 8,155 6.737 12,7(9 7.442 5,450 5,800 19,38a 14 46.766.00 17.470.20 11,565.94 5,870.32 15.282.41 2,803 21 12.388.30 22,222.t Hi 15.283 27 16.969.8 17,701 76 4,3ll.40i 13,28 $.4 15.101.3 12,32*0 13.447.91 18,766 4’ 9,082. .V 2?.761.PS 10 113. 17,341.73 10,412 48, 9, <51.07 11,243 45 15.122.20 23,264.54 11.957.25 15.467.45 12,819.12 7,141 98 13,852.82 16,703 55 15,19a9^ 15,744.(8 11.8 6.34 7.511.60 11.315.16 12.741.88 6.930.22 13,626.34 14.128.22 17.09j.68 9,784.67! 25,856.71 25.251.97 0638 29 26.9:8 15 136,882.44 14.749.53 4.39 ‘.84 14.147 12 8.434.08 19.( 38 87 10.133.45 8.962 74 15.675.89 2.292 95 5.608.30 6.540 48 41,529 77 5.6 1.74 7,723.00 14.062.26 13.877.67 5.805.79 17,21:2.42 18.386.48 11.427 07 17,718 39 2.8 *3 87 18,231.96 9 392.39 4.668 82 30,472.69 8,404.07 6.344 29 24.844 24 8.806.23 5,592.64 42.458.98 7.946 23 32 184.85 18.006.o6 8.557.77 8,5 9 31 9.041 64, 30.589.48 12,027 661 11.441.66 12,976.33! 812,78200 45.379.25 15,932 00 7.3935a 6,996 50 16.278.50 6.665.75 11,41000 17,95a25 20,97a 50 22.275.75 16.012 50 9,646-00 18, 3975 13.9:8.75 11.985.75 13,48650 20. < 93 50 13.072.60 *22,84625 7.211.75 19.733 10 12,244 75 II.00400 10.428.25 15.387.75 21,682 50 15.568.00 16.159.50 -11,109.00 13.781.25 12.778.50 13.555 50 16,215 25 15,54a 50. 15.651.75 6.875.75 14,689 r0 16,52a 50 10,25a 25 11,016 00 19.166.00 16.280.25 8.761 00 14.869.75 23.369.50 12.645.50 18.411.25 85.022.00 14.418.25 9,436.00 16,059 75 11.604.00 19.862.50 11.040.75 5,222 00 12.556 25 2,908 50 9,399.25, 9.677.50 11.532.50 12.388.25 11.961.25 11.362 75 16.346.75 8.63 J. 75 12.775.00 15.133.75 12,605 25 10.214.75 5.449.50 15.881.75 15.408.75 5,.18.59 26.929.00 8,489.25 13.826.75 7.528.50 25.019.75 12,096 00 3,452 75 36.764.00 8.312.50 39.364.50 i7,a;4.co 6.023.50 14.271.l5 11.783 75 22.310.75 13,02a ?.0 9.537.50 10.150.60 Total. 795,113 *1,415,003 97 *1,415 003.97 This apportionment leaves cash on hand as follows: Balance in treasury, SS,556.22; State Normal. $15,000; amount in state treasury, $17,338.30.

The summer residence of W. II. Lewis, near Laporte, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $8,000. The house was handsomely furnished. The house was unoccupied at the time of the fire. It is believed to have been set on fire by tramps. Frank Woley’s private bank at Ellettsville closed its doors a few days ago. A number of small depositors will lose. Eugene Dumont, the French windowjglass worker, who was struck on the head the other afternoon with a brick, at Hartford City, is dead. Dumont was the best of all jokers and his associates fired missiles at him in a playful manner. A brick struck him on the head, fracturing his skull. Robert H. Sipes, of Portland, aged 47, has constructed a ‘ wonderful clock, having over 100 moving figures which make changes every three minutes. Carl Bohn, driving a team of mules on a farm at Wheatland, near Vincennes, was thrown from the wagon, and becoming entangled in the lines, was dragged over the ground into a pond of water and was drowned. He sustained many bruises about his head and body. Farmer William Weriii.y, at Goshen dropped SMO to circus fakirs. At Goshen disbarment proceedings were begun in the circuit court against Hon. Henry C. Dodge, of Elkhart, by Henry C. Paterson, of Albion, assisted by Andrew Anderson, of South Bend. Despite assertions to the contrary, small-pox really exists at Alexandria, Wm. Barber and wife are in a very critical condition. Three houses in the suburbs have been quarantined, and while considerable solicitude is entertained by the board of health as to the future outlook, they hope, by adopting a stringent quarantine, to prevent the general spread of the disease. Welcome M, Cotran, Pan-handle* pumper at Amboy, committed suicide” by blowing out his brains. He was charged with a crime and preferred death to disgrace. Joseph Moeller, a Wabash township farmer was whitecapped near Portland by a few of his neighbors at an early hour the other morning. They went to the house, called him out and heat him terribly with clubs. loeller recognized his assailants and they were arrested. Walter Olds, chief justice of the supreme court of this state, will, it is reported, tender his resignation to the governor June 1. He will leave the supreme bench tu locate in Chicago

fHE PENSION PROBLEM. Pointed Paragraphs from the Pen of Gra H. V. Boynton—The Perplexities of the Problem—In Order that It Should be What It Purports to be, a Boll of Honor, the Frauds Must be Hunted Out and Dropped. Washington, June 4 —Gen. H. V. Boynton, over his own signature, speaks at length of pension reform in the Post. The following are extracts from his communication: ‘‘By the action of the highest officials of the G. A. R., quite as much as by the recent Orders of the new democratic secretary of the interior and the commissioner of pensions, the eountry has been brought face to face with the gravities and the .serious perplexities of the pension promem. “The discussion has been precipitated none too soon for the honor of honest and deserving pensioners; for the good name and fame of the Grand Army itself; for setting up a distinction between that patriotism which is as pure as any flag ever led to victory and that humiliation of patriotism which is found in the hot quest for undeserved pensions, and for relieving the country from such portion of the vast and fastgrowing pecuniary burden as may be proved unjust. “While, in its essence, the pension question is non-partisan, it is such an easy one to conjure with for the democrats. that the moment one of this party undertaker, to correct the abuses which .every fair man sees and admits, a general hue and cry is raised at once that the .democrats are at last wreaking their spite and their vengeance on the old soldiers. No one stops to think that a very large proportion of these old soldiers who went to war in 1861, when the question of pensions was not in the remotest thoughts of any of them, were democrats. Even democrats themselves forgot to make answer that a great company of the leading captains of the Union hosts— Grant, Sherman. Buell, George H.

Thomas, McClellan, Logan, liutler, Rosecrans, Franklin, Sickles, Slocum— an unending column of such men and their followers were democrats. And ever since the pension question became prominent both parties have nursed it and juggled with it to secure political advantage. And now, when it has become a burden which can not be ignored, and should’ not if it could; since pension expenditures are growing, and now nearly equal all the other ordinary appropriations together, it should not be treated as a partisan affair. '‘That the pension question has assumed a magnitude and an importance which compels attention from any administration which takes proper cognizance of the public interests is too clear to need argument. Not to give it careful and vigorous attention would be a grave neglect of executive duty. The examination ordered by the secretary of the interior strikes at the root of the trouble. It probably affords the most practicable way of testing the real condition of the pension roll. It will be tyne enough -to condemn it when the hand of the government, as a result of this proceeding, is unjustly laid upon a single deserving pensioner. No administration, and, above all, no < democratic administration can withstand the shock that Will come to it if any veteran, disabled by wounds or disease is the service, is dropped from the pension roll which he honors. On the otlmr hand, every deserving veteran suffers if unworthy pensioners are not dropped from what should be an uncontaminated roll of honor. “The reputation and honor of the Grand Army of the Republic are at stake in this matter. By the action of. its highest Officers it has tfeen committed to the remarkable proposition that Grand Army posts shall not openly discuss and uphold pension reform. It is idle to make answer to this charge by pleading technicalities. The Grand Army now owes it to itself to support a searching examination of the pension rolls. When this is done not only the Grand Army but the whole country can be relied upon to insist that none but unworthy cases shall be dropped from the rolls of honor. “Under the present widespread belief the pension roll can not be fully re-established as a roll of honor until such investigation has been.thoroughly and honestly made; and when the country is satisfied that the roll is a worthy one, and not until then, will the feeling pass away that pension expenditure is in considerable part an unjust burden.' /Republicans, especially republican veterans, have a high duty to perform in this matter. To neglect it will be a reflection upon their patriotism.”

A SMUGGLING SCHEME For Defrauding: the Government Oat of Revenue on Tin. Eastpokt, Me., June 4.—A scheme for defrauding the government out of revenue o» imported tin has been unearthed by Special Customs Inspector T. R. Simonton. Mr. S*monton boarded the schooner Eva N. when she put into port on Thui^lav, and discovered that there were in the hold 200 cases of tin plate upon which no duty had been paid, and which is valued at over $1,000. The merchandise had been smuggled across the St. Croix river into Eastport from Beaver Harbor, N. B. The tin is used chieflyAby the manufacturers of sardine boxes. Accident to the Cornwall Canal. Sew York, June 4.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Montreal says: Information has been received here of a serious break in the Cornwall canal. The report states tfiat notwithstanding every effort, the crevasse is hourly growing wider. This means the complete interruption of navigation by the St. Lawrence route, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Montreal. Should the present, washout end In the collapse of the canal, which is not impossible, the Columbus caravels can not reach Chicago hy way of the St. Lawrence .

F KOFESSIOXAIj cakw. V J T* KIME^ M. JX, Physician and Surgeon, PETEKSBUBG, ISD. 4^“Offlce in Bank building:,flrtit floor. WHfr be iound at office day or night. G^O. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, I5D.

Prompt Attention Given to all Bneinesi. * J“Offlce over Barrett & Son’s store. Francis B. Posit. Dewitt (). Chappell. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, 1st. Will practice in all the courts. Special at* tention given to all business. « A Notary Public constantly in the oft'oe jfc^Offlce-*-On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Ely. 8. G. Davenport ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. isyOffiee over J. R. Adams it Son’s drug frtore. Prompt attention given to all business. E. 1*. Richardson. A. IT. Tatlor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt?nttention given to al business. \ Notary Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter Building,,Eight h and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPlflER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Oilier* in rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter Buildin*'. Operations first-class. All wqrk warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, 0. V, S., PETERSBURG, IND Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instalments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULI.Y. He also keeps on hand a stock of (Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young % Co.’s Store. Machinist AND Blacksmith. I am prepared to do the best of work, wltk latlsi action guaranteed in all kinds of Black* smithing. Also Hosing and Reaping Machines Repaired in the best or wort;re amhlp 1 urnploy none but flret-claes wor cmen Do not go from home to get your n-ork, but call oi me at my shop on Main Strict, Petersburg Indiana. <> CHAS. VEECK.

TRUSTEES* NOTICES OF OFFICE DAY. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the oficj of trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY: All persons who have business with the office will take notice tha t I wilL attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties interested that 1 will attend at my office in Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having busines* with said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all partfes concerned that I will be at inv 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 residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. A*r*I>ositively no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. ■VTOTICK is hereby given to all parties conit cerned that I will attend \t my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the pffice of Trustee of Madison township. 4^Tl*ositively no business transacted except office days. JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given tc all persons interested that I will attend in my office IpVelpen, EVERY FRIDA Y, To transact business conueeted with the office of Trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with sa|d office will please take notice. ; . W. F. IlROCE, Trustee. givee to all persona ill a;tcnd at say office 'VTOTICE is hereby concerned that I wi ^ EVERY DAT To transact business connected with office of Trustee of Jeffertion township. 2k W. 2JASRIS, Trustee the