Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 January 1895 — Page 2

f I I,,,, ■ II ■! I IB. ■! I . .. €bf f ifet Couutg gmocrnt X. McO. 8TOOP8. Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. CURRENT COMMENT. The railroad construction in ISM was the smallest for twenty years. ‘Brazilian, soldiers recently burned a hospital and 120 sick rebels in it A PULQUE famine is threatened in Mexico. Pulque is the national drink. Local scientists of Findlay, O., have a project to produce natural gas by pumping air into the earth. Five horses are under inoculation in Washington City for the - purpose of producing blood serum for the cure of diphtheria.__^ The Kentucky state penitentiary yielded revenue to the state amount* ing to 857,836.66 during last year over and above all expenses. •r.. A western' newsjwiper said that Andrew Carnegie’s horror of dying rich has not prevented him from making another cut in the wages of his employes. It is said that the bequests of the late Senator Fair to public and charitable objects will not exceed 8125,000, which is quite a femall sum obt of an estate of 840,000.000. y ===== A Boston paper has sent a representative to travel through Maine and study the practical workings of prohibition in the1' state constitution. He has looked over Portland and^ found 400 drinking places, while Boston has 800.

A RECENT dispatch frbm Berlin said thht the administration of the navy had entirely forbidden the use pf wood in the building1, equipment or furnishing of men-of-war. The experience in the Value (China) engagement showed that wood was immediately set on fire by shells._*_' , John Burns, the English labor representative. in his address at "Washington recently read statistics showing that in the cities of Liverpool,, Glasgow and London a per capita debt has been changed to a per capita asset since the labor unions had taken a hand in municipal affairs._ Another military park that wi^ be appreciated by the whole people is Washington's Valley Forge camping ground. Pennsylvania has bought 317" acres there at a cost of $29,578, and will probably add 250 acres mote, to include all the old intrenchmenis, redoubts and approaches. Mrs. Eddy’s new church; of Christian Science will be dedicated fit Boston on the 6th. The entire cost of the ground and edifice is nearly $150,000. A tablet on the outside of the church says that it was erected as a testimonial to Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, “discovered and founder of Christian Science. ” Recent reports from Stewart, Ga., were, that in that and adjoining counties African immigration societies were being organized. Every colored tenant bn one Stewart county farm had joined an immigration club with the avowed intention of going whenever and wherever their leaders said. As the result of a clerical error in an election ballot Iowa will for the first time in its history, have a female justice of the peace, Mrs. L. E. Castle, of Callendar. The intention was to, nominate her hnsband, but by mistake his ! wife's initials we ire used . and she was elected. As there was no legal obstacle to her -filling the place, she was sworn in. i S_, , --- A 8TAGHE performance witnessed by more than thirty-four thousand persons in one day breaks the record, in this country at least. That was the number which attended the opening of Bolossy Kiralfy’s new spectacular entertainment, “The Orient,” at New "York recently. It was described as the most gorgeous spectacle ever given in a theater. A Danish inventor has constructed a series of nine aluminum globes, fitted with paddles for sailing in the air and spikes for traveling over ice, by which be proposes, at one stroke, to solve the problem of aerial navigation and to reach the north pole. The globes 'oeing hollow and 6 feet in diameter afford the necessary room for storage, with a minimum of weight. » John L. SurlivanV combination, known as “A True American,” practically disbanded at Paris, 111., on the 3d. Sullivan made an attempt to give an entertainment at the opera house but could not stand on the stage without support. He, was so abusive that seven members of the combination resigned their positions and the remainder departed for Monmouth.

Gen. Booth has commissioned Helen G. Schofield as a lieutenant in the Sal* ration army, to work among1 the lowest of the fallen women at San Francisco. She if. the daughter of Rev. L. M. Schofield, who was pastor of important Presbyterian churches in Cali* forma, and who is now in Chicago. She graduated with distinction from Mills seminary two years ago and Joined the Salvation army last April. Mob. Satolli has authorized the statement that the recent decree placing the ban of the church upon those Catholics who belong to the Odd Fellows, the Sons of Temperance and the Knights of Pythias was final. The congregation of cardinals had considered the matter and made the decree and his holiness had fully confirmed it, and the decree had been; transmitted to the archbishop and bishops of the United States, to be by them carried into effect. Mgr. Satolli made the explanation owing to astatement that the decree was not final, but was only a feeler

NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned By Telejjrapn and Mail. PEBSOm AND POLITICAL-Ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton was escorted to the capitol at Albany, _N. YL, by four companies of the national fruard on the 1st and took the oath of office as governor. He subsequently held a public reception in the executive mansion. Th e customary New Year's reception took p}ace at the white house. At 11 o’clock the president and Mrs. Cleveland and the ladies of the cabinet, who were; to assist Mrs. Cleveland in receiving. came down stairs to the blue room and the Marine band struck up the inaugural march. The diplomatic corps and the army and navy officers made a magnificent display in their brilliant uniforms. The usual programme was jfcpne through for thepdmission of the dmerent classesof officials in the order of their rank. The doors of the executive mansion were closed promptly at 3 o’clock. -» . The New York state legislature met and organized on the 2d by the election of the republican caucus nominees. Hamilton Fish was chosen speaker of the house. The inaugural message of Gov. Morton was read in both the senate and house. The charges against Charles D. Clark, recently appointed United States district judge, of taking fees from both parties to litigation, were heard by United States Circuit Judge Luston at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mr. Clark was completely exonerated. President Cleveland gave the annuaJ; state dinner to his cabinet on the night of the 3d.

senator L affert, of Louisiana, has introduced a bill “for the relief of the sugar producers,” providing for a bounty on the present year’s crop. . An organization of the Colorado state senate was effected on the 3d by a combination between the populists and the democrats. Congressman Burrows has been nominated for United States senator from Michigan on the second ballot by the republican caucus. Gov. Waite sent his last message to the Colorado legislature on the 4th. It was the longest document ever presented to the general assembly.of that state. f. Two thousand Kansans signed a petition presented to congress on the 4th by Mr. BrodeHck, asking for the suppression of the lottery business. Dir. George Marx, of the agricultural department at Washington, a well known entomologist and a^ world's* authority on spiders, is dead. The interest in the recent county elections throughout Georgia was reported slight; the results showing heavy democratic gains in all counties, many of. which were strongly populist in the last two elections. Out of 130 counties; the total number carried by populists will probably not exceedfifteen. The house committee on Indian affairs reported favorably the bill giving the secretary of the interior power to correct erroneous allotments in Oklahoma. The bill is in the line of a general law to meet conditions in the future as well as to correct mistakes made recently by the department. Everv member of congress received in his mail on the.4th a circular letter signed by the representatives maintained by the five civilized tribes, in which the labors and recommendations of the Dawes commission were subjected to severely unfavorable comment. The charge that the tribal governments were ineffective and corrupt was denied and congressmen were asked to use their influence to the end that the tribes might be heard exhaustively. _ MISCELLANEOUS. It was reported that William Bowers, marshal of the town of Gallup, N. M., had disappeared and that the citizens believed that he was the victim of foul play. His room indicated the presence of intruders during the night and the finding of his pistols, star and hat on the table was taken as proof that he had been murdered; Robert Gammon, who was a leading business man of Colorado for over twenty years; disappeared July 8 last, deserting his wife and eight children in Denver. It has just been learned thfit Gamiqon’s real name was Robert Flanders and that when, he came to this co untry in 1871 he deserted a large family in England. He is supposed to have re joined them. ; Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, has revoked his order issuing a warrant for the arrest of Henry M. Flagler, of the Standard Oil Co., upon the requisition of Gov. Hogg, of Texas.. He holds that the evidence is clear that Flagler is not a fugitive from justice of the state of Texas. The Indianapolis, IntL, board of health on the 4th reported nearly 4.000 cases of measles in that city and the physicians overcrowded with work. The doctors declared that it was the greatest epidemic ever known. Dun’s review of trade said that prices of commodities were at the lowest level ever known, and while production was much greater than a year ago consumption had not kept pace with the output. Both wheat and cotton were suffering from the accumulation of stocks, the ciops being large.

Ex-Gov. Sylvester Pexxoyer, of Oregon, has endowed. Williams college* Massachusetts, with, a scholarship of £14,500 in memory of his son, who died there last term. The money is to be used for the support of needy and deserving students, P preference » being given Oregon students when such are in college. The strike at the Homestead (Pa.) steel works has been Hi bout settled by the Carnegie $feel Co. agreeing to pay the employes Qf the 119-inch mill, the only department on strike, at the rate of $1.10 per ton, by which they can make $1.80 per day. Nearly the entire business portion of the village of Perrysville, O, was swept away oy fire early on the 2d. The loss was beayv |

Clearing bou se returns for the principal cities of the United States for the week ended January 4 showed an averagedocreaseps compared with the corresponding week last year of 4.6; in New York the decrease was 12; out* side New York the decrease was 4.1. Harriett Scott, the missing ex-treas-urer from O’Neill, Neb., was positively declared bj the sheriff of Fairmont* Minn., to have passed through that city on the 3d. bound east on a train. Orders were sent to arrest him. A kirk at the Southern Illinois Hospital for the Insane occurred early on the 4th. No lives were lost, the fire commencing in the roof giving ample time to get the patients out. The loss i was large. A vebv bad explosion of powder occurred at the Moyer works of the W. J. Rainey Co. at Union town. Pa., recently. At least six foreigners were seriously injured and one other fatally hart. The men carelessly handled a keg of powder and it exploded. The building was torn to pieces and the men were blown 50 yards in all directions. The failures for 1894 (Dun’s -report) were 13,885 in the United States and 1,856 in Canada. The liabilities. United ‘States, 8172.992. S56; Canada, 817,616,215. It has been ascertained that 322 fishermen belonging to Hull, Grimsby and Yardmouth were lost in the recent gale. Jv'bgk IlrsTEa, of Dubuque, la., has decided the A. O. U. \Y. case. His decision is against the “loyals,” the judge holding the order to be a life insurance company and not a secret society. The "rebels” refused to pay assessments for death losses in the south cansed by yellow fever in 1882. The suit was of great interest to several other*t>rders of the kind.

i wkn'ty-onk eoai mines in tne ruisburgh, Pa., districts were idle on the 4th and it seemed probable that many more would close down. The miners refused to work at the rates offered, claiming they could not make a living. The situation was growing serious. The new four-story brick block on Lake street. Cleveland. O., owned by the Cleveland Gas Light and Coke Co., was destroyed by fire on the 3d. The building was worth SCO,000 and the occupants probably suffered a loss of 5100.000 or more. ,■ On the recommendation of Post-master-General Bissell the president has issued an order extending the civil service regulations to ajl superintendents of stations in the post offices of the United States. The order takes effect immediately upon its promulgation. In Boston Raphaelo Mareno, 33 years old, was found dead in bed and Raphaelo Mareno, his cousin, and Raphaelo Sireno.Sr.,and Raphaelo Sireno. Jr., were found unconscious in their, rooms from inhaling illuminating gas which had escaped from a leaky main in a tenement house. Eight ' farmers, near Westbrook, Conn., caught two tramps who had assaulted a teacher who refused to give them money, stripped off their ragged clothing, tied them to a tree and gave each about twenty cuts With a whip -and ordered them to leave the neighborhood. , Seven persons were injured in a railroad wreck which occurred on the Philadelphia & Reading road a short distance below Germantown. Pa., on the 3d. The collision was between passenger trains. Both engines were badly smashed and two cars completely wrecked. By the explosion of sewer gas in the, basement 6f Eld ward Keeley’s saloon \ in Chicago the saloon was wrecked and eight men seriously injured. The Miller hotel at Lancaster, Ky., burned on the 1st and four people were cremated. The senate was not in session on the 5th.In the house the feature of the debate upon the currency bill was Mr. Cockran's two-hour speech, discussing the nature of money and currency, and declaring that the subject could not safely be treated as a party question. He thought th5» Baltimore plan the best proposed, but having np faith in its passage, would vote for the Coombs bill as a step in the right direction. Messrs. Catchings and Boatner spoke in,support of the bill and Mr. Lacy against it. At the conclusion of the debate a call for a democratic caueus, to be held on the 7th at 3 p. m., was read. " Tokio. Japan, correspondence of the United.Press per steamer- China, via San Francisco, January 6, says: Full investigation goes to show that considerable modification must be applied to the first reports circulated as to the needless ferocity qp the part of the section of Japanese troops and land transport corps engaged in the capture of Port Arthur, and adds that the Japanese indignantly deny that any soldier wittingly leveled rifle or raised sword against noncombatant civilian, still less against woman or child. Detective Pinkerton , has been placed in charge of the work of ascertaining the responsibility for the escape of desperadoes from the jail at St. Joseph, Mo,, New Year’s morning, as the Burlington railroad officials are determined to recapture Pat C. Rowe, who helped to hold up the Eli train. The man who passed revolvers tr the prisoners had been identified, and it was expected would be placed under arrest on the 7th.

News from Hawaii per steamer China, arrived at San Francisco on the 6th, says that Bash, Crick and Narvahi. three of the four conspirators arrested on December 8, were committed, .on the 24th, for trial by jury. Though their scheme was regarded as impracticable, the government regarded it in a serious light, and was determined to make a wholesome example of those implicated. , The interruption of foreign trade growing out of the alleged violation of treaty obligations with Germany in regard to beet sugar and consular prerogatives have become so alarming that President Cleveland, Secretary Gresham, Att’y-Gen. Olnej and Secretary Carlisle have taken the matter under serious consideration. \ On the 5th the banks of New York ' held f55.862.050 in excess of the require* meats of the 25-per-cent rule.

v CONGRESS. \ V. '■ f: alaC Business After the Holiday The senate met at noon oa the 3d frith a light attendance after the holiday recess. Sundry resolutions were offered and the resotil lim ill* If i Lodge calling for correspondence and information as to the delivery of two Japanese to the Chinese, was passed. Mr. Allen's resolution relating to the senate restaurant occasioned a liyely debate and the remniadt * of the session was occupied by Senator Mo: gan (Ala.) in a speech oa the Nicaragua canal bill....The house was more lively when called to order after the holiday recess. The galleries were crowded. After the call of committees for reports. Mr. Quigg (N. Y.) attempted to offer a resolution relating to salaries in the New York post office, but Mr. Sprinter, in eb&rge of the currency bill, cut him off with a motion to go Into committee of the whole for the further consideration of that bilL Accordingly the house went Into committee and the debate continued until- 4:43 o'clock when the bouse adjourned. Is the senate, on the 4th, after routine business bad been transacted. Mr. Lodge (Mass.) made an addres^ on bis resolution as to why the United States warships had been withdrawn from Honolulu. The resolution went over. A resolution was adopted making inquiry of the secretary of stabs as to whether ex-Secretary J. W. Foster had any connection with the American government in his mission to China and .1 a pan. —In the house the resignation of Mr. Fainter (Ky.) was presented and a bill was passed granting an Increase of pension to Hose* Brown, aged 103, a survivor of the war of 1313. The debate on the currency bill was then resumed and Mr. Hendrix (N. Y.) took the floor in opposition to the measure. A FAMOUS RIDE.

One of the Most Heroic Acte In the Annals ot American History. The story of how Oregon and Washington were saved to the American union, with all which that involved, is one that should be made familiar to all our people. It is one of the most heroic and significant incidents in American history. The guiding hand of divine providence is as plainly seen in it as in the history connectced with our Pilgrim fathers and their landing at Plymouth Rock. It is a par|. of our history thi t, makes one realize what is meant b;r ' ‘sacred history.” The government li t Washington might well erect soh4c noble monument to Marcus Whitman's memory. '* "t. There is a college out in Wal la Walla that bears his name, Whitman, college; let us hope that some time Home person or persons of wealth will hit! moved to aid the people, of that regie n to give it magnificent endowment so that it may worthily perpetuate, for airtime, the inspiring memory of a person who, at a moment of supreme significance, permitted himself to be inspired of God for a task that demanded in slant action, just then or never, and who so undauntedly obeyed the heavenly vision. There are men whose after-si »ht is admirable in its clearness; there are those j whose foresight is full of a certain inductive sagacity in reading the meaning of present day facts and in forecasting what effects current causes must have. And there are some men who are gifted with the instantaneous vision that sees what is,and,in the light of this, what is the instant duty of the moment, the moment of some almost infinitely far-reaching crisis. That horse-back ride in winter of four thousand miles across the Rocky mountains to Washington, a large part of the way over trackless wastes wher£ white men had never before been, that bold and insistent appeal to the president and secretary of state, Daniel Webster, not to surrender Oregon to the Hudson Bay Co. and to the British, j and then the marshaling of a great host of like-minded colonist s at the east whom he led back over the plains and the mountains, before ever a transcontinental railway had been dreamed of, constitute a pivotal incident in modern history, which it would be stolid and ignoble not to hold in shining and grateful memory. The timely heroism of other famous rides, as that of Paul Revere and of Sheridan at Winchester, have been duly celebrated in song, as other signal adventures have been in story; this one waits the hand of some one possessed of enough of the mingled historic and poetic imagination to feel the full meaning of such an incident and to put it into its true historic and literary setting. It is possible that the American board, whose missionary Whitman was—if it were not so much more intent on the making of history than in celebrating it—might do somewhat more than it has done to save from forgetfulness the story of how Oregon, if not also the rest of the Pacific coast, saved to the republic and to all the beneficence of the civilization our national union stands for.— Advance. '. „ " Strange. A good example of what is sarcastically called feminine logic is presented by a story told by a French paper. Monsieur X. a member of the chamber of deputies, is traveling with his wife.- They arrive at a seaside station and alight. The train passes on.. Presently madame becomes suddenly excited. “My umbrella! My umbrella! Where’s my umbrella?” * ■ ** - “Whew!” says the deputy; *1 left it on the train.” ‘•On the train! And to think that they entrust the affairs of t!h<e nation to a man who isn’t capable c f taking care of a woman’s umbrella!”—Youth’s Companion._ ’ A Geologist. Kitty—That Mr. Cashuuter is a regular matrimonial geologist.” Fannie—How? \ • “He’s always on the hirat for *th< rocks.’”—Detroit Free Press.

An Emergency. Mrs. Brand-New—I would like to get g first-class book on etiquette Mr. Brand-New — Any j»rticular point yon want to clear up? Mrs. Brand-New—Yes; hour to treat one’s inferiors. You knov , dear, it is only recently that we ha re had inferiors.—Puck. —To be a gentleman is to be honest, to be gentle, to be geo reus, to be brave, to be wise, and, p ssussing ail those qualities, to exercis* them in the most graceful out ware manner.— Thackeray.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A boon that will be asked by the editors of the state at the hands of the coming legislature will be an amelioration of the rigors of the Grubbs libel law. Indiana has the most oppressive libel law on the statute books of any state. Through its provisions the Indiana publishers aw? made the prey of any impecunious lawyer, and many unjust hardships have been inflicted by the enforcement of its provisions. At a meeting recently it was decided to ask the legislature to enact in place of the Grubbs law a statute that will be a virtual copy of the Minnesota law, which is conceded to be fair to the publishers as well as to the man who has a grievance. Farmland gas companies will raise rates. I Flora citizens are working: for a fair association. Frankfort saloonists pay strict attention to the law. Ei.khart has fourteen feeble-minded children in the Fort Wayne institution. Tebrk Hattk citizens get two loaves of bread for five cents. Bread was. The diphtheiria quarantine had just been raised off a family at Elkhart when they were attacked with scarlet fever. Da A. S. HorsTON, one of the bestknown physicians of the state, died at his home in Anderson, a few days ago, after a long illness of cancer of the stomach. He is beside being a physician a Sunday-school worker of national reputation, having attended the national conventions for the past several years and held national offices. Mrs. Peter Lyons, of Catlin, a village near Rockville, was burned to death. Her clothing caught fire from r the stove. The efforts of her aged husband to extinguish the fire were futile, and she ran into the yard, where all her clothing was burned from her. She was SO years old.

kUH.\ ii. hall., oi iiaporie, who mysteriously disappeared from South Chicago on the night of December 21, an<! was thohght to have been murdered, returned' home the other* night, much to the joy of his family, who mourned him as dead. He claims to have no recollection of his movements part of the time, and can giveMio satisfactory reason for his action. John Kearns was struck over the head by Joe Hanrahan at Indianapolis and his skull was fractured. A coupling pin was the weapon used. At Greenfield, Gus Morton, a horseman, his wife and three children were found unconscious in bed, fully clad. There is a mystery about the case. ’ Farmers in Steuben county say that there is not one-tenth of the woodchucks in the county now that there were before a bounty was given for their, scalps. There are only three counties in the state.Crawford, Orange and Vermillion, without any representatives in the school for feeble minded youths at Ft. Wayne. A terrible dynamite: explosion occurred the other afternoon at No. 1 mine belonging to the Brazil Block Coal Co., near Brazil. Several pounds of dynamite were placed around the smoke-stack of the engine-house to dry. Suddenly it exploded, tearing down the smoke-stack, demolishing the engine house and damaging several adjacent buildings. Four men were at work in the engine-room, but escaped serious injury. John Marshall Was slightly bruised. The explosion was heard throughout the city. The maiming of the engine stopped the fan, which forces air in the shaft course, consequently the miners were imprisoned for a short time in the mine with the air cut off from them. However, they succeeded in reaching the ladder and escaped death. - Jacob Goldman a^d wife, residing near the Midland steel works, Muncie, escaped from then* burning home, the other night, into the cold in their night clothes, to save their lives, and both were badly burned. - The irregular natural gas pressure in the stove had caused an explosion and when they awoke their bed was in flames. The hair was burned from both of their heads and both were badly burned besides. At Elkhart the pastor of a Congregational church left his pulpit and pitched a disorderly member of the congregation bodily out of the house. A commercial club will be formed at Princeton. Thornton has dedicated her new high school building. Mme. Jubber, the handsome young woman arrested by the government for fraudulent use of the mails at New Albany, has been transferred from the jail in Indianapolis to the state reformatory until the federal grand jury considers her case. E. C* Ruddy drove oyer an embankment near Cambridge City, and was killed. Clay county attorneys have organized a permanent association. Mrs. Frank Christman fell dead on the st reet at Frankfort. She had been making Christmas purchases for her children, and wag returning home. The new judge in the Lagrange circuit will not allow lawyers to sit in court with their legs piled up on a table in front of them. Hrnbt Stkin, of Niles, O., had his throat cut from ear to ear near Logansjiort by one of a gang of tramps, and will probably die.

jpr!:d UHMse, msiee ox oarwn township, Gibson county, was found dead in bed the other xnorning. fie died >f heart disease. His death gives the republicans a majority of trustees, and Means a republican county superintendent of schools next June. Geobge Robebts, who confessed to complicity in the wrecking of a passenger train on the Big Four railroad at Font met on the night of July 22. was tried at Terre Haute, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. In drawing a jury recently to serve is the Bartholomew circuit court .three men vere excused on account of being too old.

GROWING SERIOUS, Continental Eortfpe I'onbiairt Aeafwttfta Unit**! Staton twit Grow Error* at Ont loacrn* la Earn* tins Le^toUtlooto Cw tmventlon of latnrnatlwaal law~4Auun tary Umbam, Astorney-iiturml Olay and Secretary Carlisle la Consultation. Washington. Jan. 7.—E«ery indies tion points to a combined move on the part of continent*! European power* to resent the alleged violation of treaty provisions embodied in t-he discriminating doty leviedagainst Herman ti?et mi par because of the German bounties given to German sugar produce rounder tieripan law. • The German government especially is exhibiting remarkable ingenuity i» calling the attention of the baited States to the errors of its congress in enacting legislation in contravention to the principles of international- law,; , the most recent instance being a protest presented by the German ambassador against an'alleged unwarranted perversion of consular prerogatives. This new protest which has jnsfc been presented, caused a eon fore no* between Secretary Gresham, AttorneyGeneral Olney and Secretary Carlisle Saturday, after whish Secretary Gresham spent some time with the president, but it is not understood that a final conclusion as to the course of this government was reached. As far 9* can be definitely learned, Germany claims that the rights, privileges, immunities and duties of her consular agents' and those of the United States holding office in the respective countries are rigidly defined in the treaty of December 11, 1*71* which was negotiated and ratified, •olely for that purpose. However, congress has by the quarantine act of February 15, 1S93, and others, it is claimed, imposed duties upon- consuls in Germany which were not contemplated by the treaty and which are therefore in violation of the agreement bv the two countries.

The quarantine act, which the Gei*man government objects to, provides a fine of 85,000 for any vessel which shall enter or attempt to enter a port of the United States without a bill of health, signed by the American consul, or the medical officer of the American marine hospital service where such officer has been detailed by the president for the purpose at the foreign port from which the vessel cleared. .. It is also understood that Germany charges upon the United. States violations of the treaty obligations in the respect that treaties entered into with German countries, since incorporated into the German empire, gave to German citizens the right to “frequent all the coasts and countries of the United States without obstruction,'’ and “to reside and trade there with the same rights and ^privileges of the most favored nations.” £ Germany claim* that these treaties* though of ancient date, have been absolutely observed by the Herman empire hnd are now being violated by the United Stales. . Not only Belgium, but France, also* is following Germany's lead. A shipment of 800 cattle from the west to Bordeaux, France, is now in quarantine, in New York, because the French, consul refused to .certify to their immunity from “Texas fever” or some' other imaginary disease. So little trouble was anticipated with regard to shipments to France that bills of ladings on the cattle were discounted by New York hanks. Nevertheless, the cattle are still int New* Jersey stock yards, with small prospects of ever making an ocean Ci On all hands it is admitted^ that the interruption of foreign trade growingout of the alleged violation erf treaty obligations with Germany in regard tobeet sngar is growing to be a seriousmatter. „ v; - James M. Fur her Receives a Pardon asi * Returns to His Old Home. Denver, Col., Jam. 7.—Senor Miguel Latz, mayor of Magdalena, Mexico, prefect of the district of Sonora and confidential agent of President Diaz* crossed the international boundary line at El Paso Saturday, and about the same time Gov. Waite issued an unconditional" and free pardon to James ; M. Farber, SenorLatz, or J. M. Farber, j as hewill hereafter be known, has been, an alien from his* native country fortwenty years and has grown rich and. influential under the flag of Mexico. Farber is a Polish Jew, and in 1875 had.' a general store in La Yeta Pass, Col. A drunken halbbreed Mexican named) Perry one night broke down his front, door and Farber shot him through the heart. He was tried and convicted l*y a Mexican jury and sentenced to five* years’imprisonment. Shortly after landing in the penitentiary he made his escape, and aided by h|s friends reached the town of Tucson, and from there, went to Magdalena, Mexico, with a wealthy Mexican resident of that place, engaging in business with him. Farber was a member of the seventy-sixth New York regiment, and served at Gettysburg, although but twenty years old at the time the battle was fought. Lately bis health failed, anti desiring to return, to Colorado, his friends succeeded in obtaining a pardon for him. Among the people who signed the application for his pardon is Judge - Moses Hallett, of the United Staten, circuit court, the judge who passed the sentence on Farber twenty jaa.ro **<>• ■ip. AFTER TEWENTY YEARS. ,

A POST OFFICE CLERK Arrested ter Robbias the Mails and Cbo teased. New York, Jan. 7.—Frank I* Phitner, a post office clerk at station “A,* ’ was arrested Saturday inonunjcharged with robbing the mails. Whew arrested he had fifty tetters is his possession, all containing remittances^ Palmer confessed his guilt, and said he bad been robbing the mails for dr*months. United StsAes Commussioaer , Shields held him in $3,590 bail, and he prill be sentenced by Judge Benedict to-day