Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 51, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 February 1884 — Page 1

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BLOOMWCTON, INDIANA. rubtieatlon OjJUt: "Ittgrtm Hoc," SirtA Strrel and C'Jl'V Avrmt.

A TfeTnlioan-"!PaTHr Oovotfcl to fcli Advancomont of t ;e "Loori-1 Tnfcrtf of Monroe Oountv.

iuntubJtshed A. !., 1836. .

1UA)0MINGT0N, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1884.

New Scries. VOL. XVI I. NO. 51.

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asMinfcusHnc. Both bird nl(tin (ale. And ooth belonged to ms; Yet im with heartfuleyes Tbe bird looked ore too aw. Within their tender depths Shone ever a wUd uoest; Krer against the bars It beat it bewMltul breast. I taid, I wOi make-Its caa Bo bright, and glad, and gay, WKb.aU that kvecan do. It Cannot choose bet atay. It Vain! With all my art. Still it w plain tome Thatevar wBh loarrmgeye ' My hn-d looked over the sss. Then I said, I will "hold it clow Sorely it is my richt I will keep this pfffl ooa tatne. If act bykvre, by siljttit. In Tain! Tnonsh vine tho pewe To hold or set it 1m-, Not mine to hold it heart That conld escape from me. Then I said. Be tree. O bird. To spread your beautiful wi-ica. Who car's for a son if. antess It's also the heart that sings? For the glance of ryes that abine. Jf r-hratna they also rons? For the snowiest breast, if ne'er It beat with the raise of ions? Wtdelopntsd the door: - Bat I taroed mv fac-5 a war. Foe men are weak sometimes. Whatever the wcrld may say. A thrill ol Joy ran.: oat From a happy, Mineral breast A flash of wines alaal My heart toM an the iwrs. Xybird will never come back: Yetwbysboold Iweesfl-dzh. Konrytbe-thhwlkmi - Eaa entered its native eky? "Twill never come back, I know; Bet who, bis love to prove. Is willing to be forurt. Stands on the height of Love.

Ichabod Turner's Uism ""Crooked crooked! crooked!" rang . out the sharp, peculiar, rimnonant Toioe, and the tall thin figure in seedy gat ments and flapping hat swayed to and fro on the stomp that had been selected for a rostrum. "AH things hare gone crooked in this world, and Pre come to get 'era straight to undo the snarls, give the power whereas belongs, and put men in their places. Oh fc h, 197 friends! The world is topsyturvy; the top's at the bottom and the bottom's at the top, and Fve come to torn

tilings right end Bp." The 6 o'clock whistle had sounded the close of another day's work at the hops, and the men, pouring ont from the various Emoke-stained archways, paused to listen. It was a motley group --some bedaubed with many colors from the paint-rooms, some with grimy hands and faces from foundry or machine shop, while further baok on the long platform that extended along the tnokwera gathered tiat inevitable adjunct of any crowd, the boys, and a sprinkling of women some 'of the latter with children in their arms. The speaker's excitement seemed to deepen as his audience increased. The keen eyes trader the old hat darted lightninglike glances here and there he gesticu

lated wiMiy and ms voice rose to a still higher pin. "Oh hh, yes! Look at me! I'm Ichabod Turner, and the mission I'm sent on is to? mend alt crookedness and tarn things right end np P The men seemed to find a grim pleasure in the harangue. They laughed as they exchanged comments. "Chosen a good point to begin at, eh, Jack?" questioned one. "I should say eo ! HeUJiave tough contract, even if he doesnl extend his territory. " "Coin' to set all tilings straight? It'll take a mightier man than yon to do that job. I wish to massy he'd begin it soon!" murmured an old woman on

platform, as she picked up her

1 and trudged on aeain.

Th two men looked aiteT her, and the elder shook his grizzled head. "Poor soul! No doubt things seem croaked enough to her her boy was crashed between the cars hvt year. Does seem as if somebody might inent away to get along with killing fewer brasnmeii." Jim Barclay, sauntering down the fang walk, stopped beside a bright young girl who had p rased for a noaneatea the outer edge of the crowd. "If that fellow would begin his work by aKermg the days and nights a little, or by means of enjoying them, I'd be obliged to him," he laughed. The girl turned with a little start of surprise and pleasure: "why, Jim;" then a glance at his lunch-basket brought the swift question, "you're not going ont to-night? "If s not your run. 1 must make it, though, they say. lVs an extra tram, and they are short of men, somehow off or disabled. I feel considerable disabled myself."' "Ton were out last night J" "And the night before, and nearly all yesterday. I didn't get in to-day until afternoon, and I was scarcely settled into a comfortable sleep before I was called, Tm not fit to go, that's a fact Dost worry, Dell.". He broke off his sentences abruptly, as he saw the shadow of anxiety on his companion's fa?r face "It doesn't hap- , pen so often. They're short, you see." "It oughtn't to happen at all," insisted Dell, indignantly. "I wouldn't go." "Then my head would come off at abort notice," laughed Jim. "We cant afford that." Pretty Dell flushed rosily. She knew so well what that meant There was a little house talked over and arranged to every detail of its simple furnishing, for which the two were olanhu when Jira should ottaur-his hopedfor promotion. "So, I won't insure any necks tonight, but m.take the risk of crushing a few other people's heads rather than the certainty of losing mv own," laughed Jim. "It's a pity that ' fellow, who is so sure of his mission, ronldnt

ten my brains right side up ; they feel

vrvuacu cuuugo. rUl OOttt WOtTV, DeH," he repeated, hnrriedlv. The crowd began to thin. Hungry men, swinging their empty dinner pails, presently found the prospect of supper more alluring than the stranger's promised maVtennmm. Jim looked at his watch and found he had not even five minutes to spare for a part of the homeward walk with Dell. He parted from her with a reluctant good-by, and she walked away alone. She had gone but a few steps, however, when she turned and looked back. "YoaH be careful, Jim? Don't let anything happen." 'Why, Dell!" He laughed, half touched, half wondering. I ongbtnt to have talked such nonsense. Don't be uneasy." Sbo smiled 'in answer, and the cloud lowly faded from her face as she walked on. A call for extra service tras no cause for tenons trouble all these exigencies were so familiar to lijjr. Bell and whistle, messenger and dispatch, with their always imperative and often unwelcome orders,' were part of her daily life. Sim would l o tired and wan out, of course. Tliat had happaced often, and would doubtless happen again, but her thoughts turned to

pleasanter pictures of the future, to-arranging once more that tiny house with its dainty rooms, which should be a very haven of rest to ono who came home weary. She paused on the lopg iron bridge and looked down on the network of tracks below, crossing and interlacing in a seemingly inextricable tangle. The gray twilight of the short autumn afternoon was already deepening toward night and the headlights of the engines passing and repassing as they changed from one track to another, shoqe out brilliantly. Men were running here and there, waviiu? their sic-

; nal lanterns and shouting hoarse orders

that to one uninitiated only mingled confusedly with the heavy breathing of the locomotives and the clangor of bells. Farther back, looming in rugged outlines against the faint rose of the western sky, were the great shops, grim and silent. The brown eves watching from the bridge presently discovered the figure they sought winding its way in and out among the trains. Ho did not look up, and the girl smiled at ibe thought of watching him, herself unobserved. Then her face grew grave and sweet, with a passing fancy that so, froia their height above the din and turmoil, the unseen angels looked down upon our mortal life. "Only, I suppose, all the tangles and bewilderments grow clear to them, as I am sure they do not to me," s te added, with a little sigh. "And then watching is of some use, while mine cannot help poor Jim." He had. some need of help as the evening wore on, though he but dimly realized it Getting everything in readiness for starting was harder work than usual. There was a dull pain in his eyes and a throbbing in his temples. "This trip's ratjup rough on yon, Jim?" remarked a nreman, half questioningly, half conimiseratin gly. "Bather I" Jim laughed faintly. Tm stiff and used up, but 111 get over it when we're fairly off, I expect."

When the station, with its dim and ! dancing lights, was left behind, however, and the long line stretched away . straight before hrm, his occupation be-

; came but a mere routine, so Treacherj ously familiar that it would scarcely hold his eyes or thoughts. Mechanically he attended to his engine, with his mind straying far away from it to Dell, nd then running oddly into a

contused memory of the speaker at the depot unto the swift movement of the polished rods before him seemed the motion of gesticulating arms and the sound in his ears resolved itself into a measured repetition of meaningless words, "Crooked and straight; right side up!" "Hello! Caught myself napping, I do believe! Jim Barclay, what are you about? See here, Bill" to his fireman "just keep an e-f"a on me, will you?" The young engineer shook himself, looked about him and stood stiffly erect He whistled a tune vigorously to assure himself that he was wide awake. What a drowsy, rocking motion the train had! Even the jar and rattle seemed to lull and stupefy, though he stood erect at his post He was glad this sort of work was nearly over, for he did not see how the desired promotion could be much longer delayed, and then such calls as this would be fewer. He was looking anxiously forward to the day when he could carry the longed-for tidings to DelL Dear little girl, how her face would brighten! What a cozy, happy home she would make ! and she said the curtains wouldn't cost anything, and the hammock on the porch to rest in. Lights? Queer where the lights came from, unless why, yes, almost to a station, of course. Dell must have pat a bright light in the window. Alas! Bill had climbed back over the tender to look after a suspected hot-box

on the after truck.

Shriek after shriek of warning from

a steam whistle aided the flashing sig

nal lights, and at last forced their

meaxung upon the benumbed brain. With a low cry of horror the engine

was reversed, but too late to avoid the

eraah thai followed as the two freight trains were piled upon each other in common wreck.

"What poBsessedyou to run in that fashion, man? Were yon drank or

crazy?" demanded more than one rough voice, as Jim stood by tho track.

But he only gazed, with blanched face at the scene before him, and answered them nothing. "Fortunately almost miraculously, it seemed no one was seriously injured," as the morning papers said, in chronicling the occurrence. Under the same glaring headlines they also commended the promptness of the company in dismissing "the engineer whose criminal carelessness caused the disaster, and who, as nearly as can be learned, was comfortably sleeping at bis post, and so neglectful of all signals!" These were the tidings that reached Dell, instead of the glad word for which she had waited. "What they say is tone, after a

zasnion,- said Jim, simply and sadly. "I was to blame for it and yet I wasn't for I was not fit to make the run, and I told them so." There was no one to chronicle his years of faithful service, or the "criminal carelessness," jf not cruelty, which had placed him in such a position ; but these things were well understood among the many workers in that railroad town, and they acknowledged to each other, with ready but helpless sympathy, that it was "rough on poor Jim." Rough it surely grew as the long days came and went and the hope of reinstatement grew dimmer. "All those missirfc men, who couldn't be found when I needed a single night's rest seem to have turned up once more, and

they can spare me indefinitely, he explained to Dell, with a pretense of jocularity that scarcely covered the bitterness. The brave little woman tried to comfort and encourage him, though the dancing light bad gone out of her brown eyes, and new grave lines were deepening about the young lips. The little house they had planned seemed so like the shadowy ghost of a dead hope that neither oared to talk of it any more, and, indeed, Dell's ingenuity found full occupation now in comoating the various wild schemes which Jim, in his desperation, was constantly forming. He had been away to look for employment, but business was dull everywhere at this season; and, moreover, grown up in that railroad town, where all interest and industry centered in the shops and tracks, he had belonged to the line from boyhood; he could do but one thing, and there was little chance for a situation elsewhere while the shadow of tho great corporation's disapproval seemed to follow him in all his efforts like a blighting frost. So4he bright autumn leaves dropped from the trees, leaving only brown and barren branches; the soft haze faded from the hills, and the narrow iron

track, stretching away over tho frozen earth toward the cold gray sky, looked to Dell's sorrowful eyes a fitting emblem of tho dreary "life road that lay before her. I "I'm going away to-morrow," Jim wns saying, as they passed slowly ovor tho bridge and. down toward the town, i "I've shown idiocy enough in v.-aiting here for any chance of just ice. I mo in ' to go as far West as I can mako my way, and I'll come back when Tvo some ! good word to bring if that time ever I comes."

It was useless to combat his purpose ; there was nothing better to ofl'or. Tho girl's wistful gaze strayed with a dreary persistency to the track again. What a hard, narrow road it was, stretching on to its cheerless goal tlio far-away wintry horizon! Down on the walk by the round-houso a knot of loungers had gatheii-d. Ichabod Turner's vauderings had brought him thither ag.iii'i the place seemed to hold some peculiar fascination for him and he was discoursing on his ..favorito theme. Suddeuly a movement and mnrmnr of excitement van through the crowd, and its numbers were speedily augment).- from various quarters of the building. Swiftly and unexpectedly the speaker hod turned, and with a single bound placed himself in tho cab of a locomotive that had for a moment been left untenanted. "It's steamed up) Off! off! Come ont of that!" shouted several voices. But Ichabod langhed hoarsely and waved his long arms triumphantly above his head. "I'm the only man on this continent that can run an engkie! I'm ordered to take this one and go and turn the world right side up ! Hurrah !" . Two or three persons rushed forward, but he caught up an iron bar and wielded it so vigorously that they wero obliged to fall back. Then, liko a flash, his hand seized tue throttle-lever, and the dangerous steed he had chosen began to show signs of life. "Pull him off!" "Lock the wheels !" rang out in conflicting orders. But the madman laughed again, his wild eyes gleaming like fire, and shook his

bar in threatening and defiance. "Touch me if you dare I'm sent to set the crooked straight. Here comes the millennium I Clear the track for the millennium !" And he was off. Swiftly as an arrow soma one darted through the crowd, ran along the track, and leaped on the engine, clinging, no one knew how, as it moved away. Dell found herself suddenly deserted, and could only move forward with the others, who were following with eyes of mingled admiration and horror the

athletic figure clinging and swinging as the speed increased until it finally forced its way into the cab. "What a terror to be left loose on the 1 'id! Who can tell what he will run iis to before he can be stopped 1" exclaimed one with a white face. "Jim Barolav'll manage him!" " Jini'll bo killed !" answered dissenting voices. Jim's unexpected appearance in the cab, meanwhile, had momentarily confused its occupant, who until then had not been aware of his presence. "Where did yon come from?" he demanded in suprise. "Flew down," panted Jim; 'sent to help you. But what on earth do yon mean by trying to start the millennium in broad daylight?" "Daylight?" repeated Ichabod, bewildered by an earnestness and assurance as fierce as his own. "Don't you know we must wait until the stars begin to fall? Besides, wo must go back and telegraph to all the world to clear the track for us." He was improving his companion's momentary confusion by gently edgiug into his place and crowding him back, while he urged the superior advantages of his own plan of proceeding. All the details of that brief, horrible ride Jim could never clearly recall; but with the engine once in his own hands he held nassession. and as soon as it was oos-

sible reversed it endeavoring the while to distract the other's attention by a t tream of explanations concerning their joint mission. The suggestion of clearing the track Beemed to suit Ichabod's crazed brain, and seizing the cord near him he clung to it so persistently that the shrieking, deafening steam-whistle drowned out all further efforts at conversation, and never ceased its terrifio din until they rolled back into the great yard. Officers, police, and train dispatchers had been hastily notified, only to find themselves helpless in the matter, and a line of anxious spectators watched the engine's return. Then, discovering for

the first time that his project was

toiled, or bent upon some new scheme

no one ccud tell which Ichabod

suddenly dropped the cord, and, before his companion could surmise his intention, leaped to the track. A moment later he was drawn from under

the cruel wheels and tenderly lifted. "Soendeth the first lesson," he mur

mured, and then all earthly tangles for him were over, and life's rough places

grew smootn and plain. . Jim was greeted with congratulations, praises, and questions on every side. "That was a brave deed of yours, sir a dangerous undertaking, very skiUfiiUy planned and executed," declared an officer of the road, with a congratulatory shake of the hand. "It far more than cancels that little misfortune of yours last fall. There is no telling where this thing might have ended but for you. Call around at the office in the morning, will you? We shall have something to say to you." "What does that mean ?" questioned eager Dell, as Jim made his way to her side. "It means that everything is all right again," answered Jim, with an odd smile playing about his lips. "Queer how soon a bit of success can change a great crimo into merely 'a little misfortune.'" The excitement was over, and the yard slowly settled back to its ordinary routine, but the young engineer and pretty Dell lingered for a last pitying, tender glance at the still form, reverently covered now. "For, whatever ho may havo been to the rest of the world, doar Jim, for us he fulfilled his mission," said the girl, softly. Kate W. Hamilton, in Our Continent. On tho Devonshire coast, in England, a sea grass (Porphura laoiniala) is collected and mado into bread by cleansing, boiling, chopping, mixing with a small portion of oatmeal and baking. This bread keens from four to eight days. Most of it is sent to the Welsh town of Swansea, where tho poorer people are fond of it ' Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your being casein adversity Zimm'emVan-

WEALTH OF THE STATE.

Information Concerning' the Social and Commercial Status of Indiana.

Valne of the Agricultural and Manufactured Products for 1883 Annual Report of Statistician Peelle,

(From tho Indianapolis Journal. Tho fifth annual report of tho Indiana Stnt'sticnl Aurora has boon f!l?d with iho Goveror hy W. A. Poollo. tho statistician. The report it quits voluminous, ami when printed will make a volume of more then flee hundred pnjros. It embraces sintistics relating to tho agriculture, mauuracUrlnjr, rallio ul and mineral Industries, ami 01 Gnomic oducuiio iftl, social, fauitary and criminal matters. AOIIlCI-I.TfnAI. STATISTICS. Tho year ltt8, iho ttttistioian says, was an unusual ono for agriculture. A cold and wot spring-, following an open and prolri-td winter, delayed planting- until a very lato date. Tho cool summer was favorable for the growth of wheat in upland, while 11 (rood deal of bottom land wheat bal to bo plowed up and planto-i In corn. Ira tho wholo, then, it must be f aid that corn and other crops were considerably retarded. It was not until July had well advanced that the outlook of the corn crop allowed a well-dcflned condition of hopofnlne!', and a rapid pro-Tress was not readied until August. In somo of tho southern counties, o. p . Posey, an excellent crop was harvo-tcd. The wheat crop shows an aroraee yiold or 10 fl-10 bushels per aero for the whole State. Hascd upon the reportsof S8d out of 1,017 township trustee.-, tho yield iu wheat on S,0(0.!!09 acres in l-3 was 31.tU5,5i3 busheis, against an area of S.Otfa.iH uorcsand a production of i6jt2.-t,('i3 bushels for l-2. The hifrhost yield for any ono county Is s:)!'.030 bushels, In Poey, but hor aroa of f 0,867 acres does not tm." o her average over 18 7-10 bushels per aero. The highest avcraso was attained by St. Joseph Com ty. which, on an aroa of 83,321 acres, produced t-10,589 bushels, an avera-fo of 18 7-10 bushels to the acre. Lagrange, with 17?i bushels, stands second, and Elkhart and Kosciusko show a fraction over 17. The nvot-ngointhlrty-cifi-htothereotmties ranges L-olow 10 bushels to Ibc aero; in ton counties It reached between 10 and 11 bushels; in ulno tountirs betweon 11 and IS; in five count os it sbows 18 bushels; in three counties between It and 15, and in two counties 10 bushels. Tho second tier of tho northern counties shows tho largest average, while some of the best wheat counties in previous years show a rc-markablo railing 03 in tho yield. Tho area in corn was -3.125,376 acres, against 3.3IS, 683 hist year, and tho production was 89.699,237 bushels, while in IMS it was 115,ABSi,797 bu6hels. Tho yield shows an avernsrc of only about 28 bushels to tho acre. In thirty counties tho average is about ?0 bushels, whilo in tony other counties it reaches between 20 and 0, and In a few bounties only it falls below 10 bushols to tho hero. Posey county shows tho highest average producing on an area of 4'MM acres 8.113,355 bushels, being 43 2-10 to the acre, while Vanderburg count), on an nrei of only 1,892 acres, produced 931,540 bushols.

making an average of 40 6-10. Knox county over ged 40 1-10 bushels or aero. Th area of oats was 450,288 acres, from which was harvested 19,567,789 bushels. This yield of oats in 18S3 was the lamest per acre ever grown in the Sute. Tho f amo Is true of plover and timothy. Ths aeroago in clover was 939,613 and tho tons produced wero 1,628,519. The aeroago In timothy was I.1B7,823, and 1,831.137 tons of bar wero produced. The Ir'sh potato crop Is by far the largest ever reported in the ft-ito. Tho urea wns 87,100 acres and tho yield was 8.851,413 bushels, against a yield uf 7,261,831 bushols in 1883. There are 11,487,814 rods of tllo drainage, wbilo in ls:i there wero 8,531,297 rods, whioh is a marked evidence of the appreciation and utilization of this important improvement in modern agriculture. The acreage of timbor land Is reported at 4.412,604. while in mS there were 4,5 5.000 acres, showlag that tho forests are rapidly disappearing. in tho dairy products the statistics show that during the year thero was a production or lS0,l0i,73 gallons of milk, 20.591,845 pounds of butter, and 912,710 pounds of cheese. The ar.'a of grazing hind was 1,778,232 acre, and the good hay crop has enabled fanners to increase their herds of live stock.

Thero aie 4-5.739 horses of all ages, 4 7,(179 J

mules, l.OW.gO'l cattle, or which 405,3t are milch cows; i.9U,8-.'0 stock boss, 1,001,763 grown sheep, and 482,599 lambs. Fully 30 per cent, of tho poach trees wero winter killed. With the exception of rtubo's. Pike, Posey, and foott counties, which show respectively six, seven and eight tenths of a full crop, tho peach crop was a failure, the average being loss than one tenth. In apples an average of 4 7-10 of a full crop was reached, while pears show a little ovor threetenths of a crop. Plums, quinces aud cherries average about two and throe-tenths. Siberian crab trees fall slightly be'ow onehalf, and grapes show a small portion over one-half. Th-i Uss In fruit trees during the last three years bas Icon more than made up by tho farmers. During 18 3, 624,3-!4 young pp!o trees wore piantod, while 4SU95 died. Of peach trees 313,055 were planted, and 2-J6.59!) died, showing a gain of 163,229 apple, and 80,485 peach trees. TUE MANlTACTl KlSa INTERESTS. In the statistics on inanufnctu;ing, it la shown that there are 12,412 establishments in the State, which havo a capital Invested of Sr-3,453,955. Tho value of the raw material used in lt-Kl was S.H-,!K)t.30s, and tho raluo of tho mtnufactured product f .. . : I n - B f .'. 1 ;o, .I.-..,

i x uui tuv mn ujiiii.'diu nw .1, .y-j Employment is g-h en to 78.910 persons. Tiufi

increase) in the number of establishments sln;e 1K80 has loen 1,214. There are 91 manufactories of agricultural implements, giving employment to 2,714 persons, and the valuo of their manufactured products is $4,875,792. There are 2,990 blacksmiths, and they earned $2,440,610. There are 1,271 boot and shoo manufacturers, and the valuo of 1 heir work was 91,456,059. Fifty breweries, giving employment to 716 persons, had a production valued at 82,748.853. The other classes of manufacturing, tbe number of persons employed, and the valuation of thoir production, wero as follows:

II n rr

is el

ts s

Brick kilns Caniage shops. Cigar shojs..... Cooper shops... Drain tile ' DlHliUcrtea ..."

Flouring and grist mills

...! DUO 8,016'ta,170,-77

iKl! l,ii a,U0H,7'J3 iftil t KV i nrj rivn

194 3M

S87 33

1SU

Foundries I 83!

Furniture. 308

Harness and saddles. . , Marble shons Photographers Planini; r.nd iron mills.. Stone quarrfe. Stove factories "Wauon factories

woolen nulls

wj;

i lKH

297 121 i

444

Merchant tailors ! 207

,-lflj .ft.,1

MlHcellanemiR.

I.-si,

1.786!

1,617 3741 2,581 1

3,315 5,3-B 1.117. .VJ8I 3091 2,4'.I5I 7451 2,196' 2,319! 1,476'

1,43:

1.26)1,630

1,416,779 l,l:M,515 2,iir.:i,07H 27,758,2:11 4,9(12,554 .92!),772 1,M2,116 802,706 3:13,727 4,61,254 655,085 4.970.200 8,145,857 2,45s,lflO

1,21.8,310

114(1. MyKH : 40.727,818

ECONOMIC STATISTICS. The statistics under tho elnssiQi-atlon of economic comprise statements of tho publio o.vpor.riiHiros of the dinVrcnt counties, tho public debt of the State and each county, together with considerable information regarding tho local and Slate governments. Tbuso statistics, the t-tat Jpticiuii says, nio more complete than ever b.-foro. although reports from only eighty-nine oountios wero received. An increase in tho o.iCDlit vires of forty-niuo counti03 is shown, whilo thirty-nine show a docreafo. Tho est limited population of the State in 1S83 Is 5,050,213. The salarios paid eountya oflicers nggrcgatn $401,361, tho expenses of grand and petit .juries wero 9347,407, and the cost of coroners" Inquests amounted to $0,119. The cost of making asnostinents and api i-alscmciits of property was 8167,100: for road vlowing rtnd surveying, $r.,8-8, while tl.o salaries of County SupoKntcndciits and the cost of teuohers Institutes aggregated $8.,58a Tho cost of criminals and prisoners in tbe county jails was $137,982; the maintenance of the poor, V89.801, and the expenses on account of tho Hate benevolent aud reformatory institutions wore $51,30. Now publio buildings wero erected at a cost of $539,601; tho expenditures In the repair or public buildiniis was $101,770, anil interest was paid on county bonds to tho amount of $171,7i3, whilo interest on gravel-roud bonds in tho sum of 888,750, and on county orders for 588,857, wore paid. Books and stationery for the county offices cost $175,076: newlridgos wero built at a total eost of 593,016, and tho ex-

.ures for repairs were S81.871. The

,1 eipeadUures made by all the

counties aggregate $5,230,766, In the statistics on taxation tbe totals on the duplicates for the didorent purposes are as follows: County tax, $1,253,514; township, $201,i3il: special school, $1. 455,510; road, $1,446,570; total Stato tax, $2,790,889; all other taxes, $2,-030,850-. total for all purposes, $11,780,596. Tho amount of delinquent taxes, with tbe penalty, interest, etc., Is $1,777,252. The total valuation of real and personal property Is ST97.M2.005. The total debt of the State Is f4,862,C0'.3i. TUS u aiuboau.-. The statistics on railroads show an asieased valuation of all property in the State of $53,4s0,9.2. During the year 3(1.75 miles of main track were built, and there are nor 5,240.15 miles of railroad in tbe State. Improvement: were inndo on the right of way at anoxpendltnic or ?1,318,528. Tho valuation of the rolling s.oi k is $10,742,228. Tbe number killed in n cidents which occurred during tho year from cm-os beyond tho ro itro' of tho railway companies was 17, and 84 were Injured. Those killed by their own carelessness numbered 101, and in urcd, ;'05. Tho c mount of damages recovered aggregated i3,9.V.f.0. SOC! At, STATISTICS. In 11-3 thore were 8 10M persons naturalized in Indiana. Of tl.ow 1,011 were fromGor many, t'07 from England and Wales. 207 from Fr -ace. 116 from In land, and 77 from S'Ot-

lanil. J ne divorces granud during tho yoir numbered 1,227, of which 730 were to tbe wife, ifil to iho husband, and 110 wero not stated. Tho decree in inot eases was granted

on we complaint of failure to provide and " neglect."

There aro 4,10! church organizations and 3,74 church buildings 111 tbe State. The to'al membership is 480,714. The valuo of the pr-nierty is SIS.590.95fl. "Ibe salaries paid the ministers aggregate $1,015,337. Tbe other chuteh expens. s amount t i S349,2S'2. Tho

missionary and otbercharitable contributions

during tho year agK'-cgatcd 5224,859. There are 22. 747 Sunday-scho'.ils, with an average

attendance ol 221,447 pupils. Ml8t'Kl.I.ASK(rs STATISTICS.

The vital and sanitary statistlca were

gat b red by tho State Board of Health, and are given in full In the last ret ort of Secretary F.Mer, flled with tho Governor. Tbe educational statistics aro obtained from State

Superintendent Iloloombe, and aro Included

in nts onictui report- A voluminous slato.-

meat, giving statistics relating to tho Nation

al and Stato banks, compiled from tho report

of (ho iiank Examiners. Is also aiuxnded.

There aro ninety-eight national banks in Indiana, and they have a capital stock amounting to the aggregate of $54,708,571.01. The

criminal statistics are not complete, many of

the County Clerks having failed to f urnb-h the

mrormatli-n solicited. It is shown, however.

that of 17,173 pcr-ons reported as prisoners in Jail, 1,576 were from Indiana, 1,510 were

from other States, aud 2,191 were reported as

lorciguojrs. Indiana Items. James IIavs, a farmer, living noar Petersburg, committed euioido.

Mtss I.ACit.i Montoomebv, of Princeton,

is under arrest, cliargoJ with Infanticide.

In a quarrel at Fort Way no, Harry Bowers,

aged 13. stabbed Charles Druhoff, II years

old, iu the back with a pookot-knife. Inflicting a fatal wound.

The people of Tcrre Hauto are generally compelling the telephone company to take

out the instrument In use in that city

The cause Is the oxactlons of the oxchanga

and the prico chargeJ.

William Gt-innsK. a plonoer of Marion

County, died at his residence, near Indian

f.pol 9. aged 88 years. The following day bis

wife, ton years younger, also died, It Is believed, from grief and tho shook occailonod by her husband's death. They had been

married sixty years. Tukouou the Influence of Postmaster Gen

eral Grcsbam and fenator Voorhecs, a pardon has been issued to Oscar Goodwin, who cmbozzled $15,000 while cashier of the Logansport National Bank, oad was sentenced to tbe India ua Penitentiary for five

years.

Jons Hay, a wealthy farmer living near

Lafayette, who disappeared in Chicago seven

teen years ago and was supposed to have boon murdered, turned up at his old home a few days ago. From tho facts that the courts declared him dead and settled his estate, tho lawyers aro somewhat befogged

regarding bis legal status.

BcatiETTE C. Piu, of Jefferson villo, whoss

age Is 4 years, celebrated with bis wife ths fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Pilo has been a resident of Clark County

nearly all bis long life, and of Jolfersonville

for more than half a century. He married

bis wifo in that city, she being his second.

Ho bos served as Mayor of Jefferson vllle, and Is esteemed as one among its most popular

citl.'ons. Jcfawmrtttc iSVtrs.

John Browning shot and killed Nathan

Hall, at Elklnsville, Brown county. Brown

ing fiod, but was arrested. Tbe parties wore

quarreling over the loss of a bog, when Brjwuing stabbed Hall in the back. While Hall was having his wound dt eased by a doctor. Browning again approached aud fired two slio'.s, ono of thotfi entering Hall's s'omach, killing him In a short time. Browning then lied. Threats aro made of lynohing him when ho is returuclts Elkinsvlllo, but ho has been takon to the jail at Nashville fot safoty. Drowning- is liable to be strunj up

at any moment.

Perry Mannis, who has been on trial at Terrs Hauto for ths murder of Mrs. Susanna Nelson, statod to bis attorney, that he was willing to taku a life sentence. The Judge

Instructed the jury accordingly, and a ver

dict to tbat effect was returned. Mannls,-

since his conviction, states that ha whs not the only ono concerned in tho murder. Man

nls was a preacher of the United Brethren church. Last fall he induced Mrs. Susanna

Nelson, an old widow of Anderson, lnd., to leave home with over $1,000 and start foi

Kansas City. She left home Sept. 6, and ths

latter part, of October her remains wen found iu a dark ravine fou miles from Terrs Haute. ManniSj.whe had beeu away from Anderson, returned with pleuty of money and some Jewolory which was identified at tb:old lady's'. A SLANOEtt suit was recently filed with ths County Olork at Shelby vllle that will attraol considerable attention before a settlement It

reached. Last month a small farm-house on tho farm of Mr. Allen Thomas, who Uvea more than three miles west of the city, caught fire from somo unknown cause and was entirely consumed. John Walker wat living In tbe house at the time, but at thi time of the Are his family wns iu Shclbyvillo. Mr. Walker brings suit against Mr. Thomas, and in bis complaint alleges that since tbe house was burned Mr. Thomas has told to different persons that Walkor dostroj-od the building by barning it. These allegations, Walker claims, havo injured his reputation and character, lleuco bo brings suit for Blander, claiming damages in tho sum ol $6,000. Mr. Thomas is countod among the rich men of the county. Ovuii 1,500,000 bogs wore sold last year iu Indiana, of a total valuo of $8,000,000, twice os much as tbo value of tho beef product, and a third more than tbo valuo of cattle and sheep combined. During the meeting of the State Swine-Breeders' Association, opinions wera advanced that the white hog was the best in tho market and found the readiest sale. Tbo Jersey red was tho poorest selling, whilo tbo Poland China could bo placed on tho markot earlier and at a groatcr weight than any otlior hog. A resolution passed re. quosting tho raombers of Congress from this Stato to uso their infiuenco to havo foroign restrictions removed from American porkTho following officers wore elected for the ensuing year: President, Dick Jones, Columbus; Vice President, Elinsloy Wright, New Augusta; Secretary, W. H. Harris, Indianapolis; Treasurer, I. N. Barker, Thorntownt Executive Committee, I. N. Cotton, Traders' Point; T. M. Reveal, CHnrmooti P. Ik Tbdmas, Botfvjjle.

RAGING WATERS.

Thousands of Persona Driven from Their Homes by the Bag-in fj Floods.

TARIFF LEGISLATION.

Xast Tear's Calamitous Visitation Repeated In Many Sections of the Country,

LABOB troubles.

Uarylaad Working-men lobbying for Favvorable legislation. A recent dispatch from Baltimore says; 'Agitation of laws for tho benefit of ths working classes is now at its height in this State. Gov. MoLano started the ball by

sending to tho Legislature a message advocating the passage of a bill making olght

hours a day's labor in all parts of the Stato, a bill to prevent children under 13 years of ago from working in factories, a bill to establish a bureau of labor statistics, a bill for tbo inspection of laot-

oiioi. and tho repeal of the conspiracy sot,

which prevents men trom combining to raise thoir wage. As scon as theGovcrnorsont In this mosfngo thero as a strong protest from manufacturers in all paits of tho State, particularly with reference to the eight hour bill.

On the other hand, tbo minors in tho Cumberland re -ion and the Knights of Labor In all parts of the Stato vigorously applaud the Governor, and are doinv their best to secure the passage of thore bills."

Fan River Weavers. The weavers of Pocastet mill struck last

week, and tbo mill was closed. It employed (00 bands, and has a pay-roll of $3,400 weekly. The Brown mill is also closed by a strike of 'he weavers. Thirteen mills are now shut down at Fall Blvcr. Tho Tccumseh Cor

poration has voiod to supplant mules by rlrur-

Splnulnir i'ramos. These frames are run by c Iris. Tho other mills are likely to tako tbe

s amo course. Tho strikers claim that the

lessening of tbe supply, and not reducing wages, is the only remedy lo Improvo the market and enhanco prices. The reduction

Is confined to operatives, while the salaries of

onicia's are untoucneu. una st, ii mg spinners complain of annoying surveillance. They havo Issuod an appeal for aid to the trades unions of New England.

..TT--cfc TT.i n it i.n lirrflnrvv rTiv.

Tho waters at Pittsburg ti and Alloghony rose !

to a greater height than at any iierlod since Feb. 10, 1832. immense damage was Inflicted by tho overflow. A Pittsburgh correspondent thus doscriro? the scenes: -'Tho twin cities present a spectacle uover before seen iu this city. Mile.) or valuable property and hundreds Of houses are under water, whilo Ovor llvo thousand ramlliosrro for the time without shelter. In tbts city tbo flooded district, from the Point to Sixth street, is almost ontliely inundated. wbilo along the banks of tbo Allegheny and Monougaho a rivers, for a distance of six miles, every house within two blocks of tho river is under water. The enuio is true of the South bide aud AHeghony City. Evoi-y iron mill, foundry, and (-lass factory in the two cities has beeu compelled to shut down, whilo all tho railroads excepting tbe Pennsylvania Central suspended traffic llct rccn Pittsburgh and A:lo;jhony travel by street car has been ccnplotoly shut off. No accurate figures can yet bo given as to tho damage, but tbo most conservative admit tbat it will mount up into the millions. A ca'm review of the situation this morning foun 1 between 5,000 and 0,000 buildings in tho two cities subraorced, and t'.-c residences of 33.000 people, 10,000 of whom aro notable to cocupy their houses. Fifteen thousand men ar-Jiomio-rnrlly thrown out of employment hy thestoppago of mills and factories. Those rendered bomelcs) by tho Pood aro being cared for in tbo public balls, whore bedding has boen furnished. So tar four deaths by drowning have occurred. The namos of the victims arc Thomas Kelly, John Jacobs, William Bowman, and Harvey Genung. a boy aged 11 year. The othors wero married and had families." WnKH.INfl. A correspondent at Wheoling. W. Va., thus describes the sienos witnessed thero at floodtide: "To attempt to ado piately lortray tho condltlou of ail airs In this city is beyond the ability of tho most girted of its citUens. One-half of the city is submerged, from 5,000 to 7,000 people aro rendered homeless, and tbe loss in money will reach from $75'J,0J0 to $1,000,000.

Thousands havo been driven from their homos, and are orowded indiscriminately to

gether in prirato rosiui-ucos, hoieis, ana

market houses, or are walking tbe streets without any shelter whatever. Wheeling island, comprising about MO acres, and con

taining a imputation or 4,500, is entirely under water, and the loss there alone la SI0J.000.

Several lives havo already been lost hero and

in surrounding towns. From Bonaire,

Brldgopoit. Wost Wheeling, and Martin's Forry, Ohio, and Fulton, Wollsburg, Ben-

wood, and Vnundsvllle, a , heartrending ao

counts of eulToring come. Some of these towns are entirely submerge!. West Wheeling, for lastance, not having a solitary house

out of water. Within a radius of fifteen

miles 20,090 people are homeless, and a

lo-s of $5,0(0 00) has been sustained. The river at Wheeling, ordinarily but 60) feet wide, is now swollen to a mile and a Quarter,

and this will giro some faint idea of tho

navoo and ruin wrought, ueatns by drown-

in r aro 10; orli d fiom several points." An

other correspondent teiorapnea trom tvnccilug that "fully :0.0i)0pcoplo were driven fnm their homes by tho llcod, but a third of those aro comfortably quartered at hotels or toardlng homes, or with their friends. Publio schools and churches havo been thrown open, and people arc housed and fed there. Ihcro bas boen more damage to property than ever l efore. It Is Imuoss.blo to esti

mate tho losses. Put they will aggregate over

51,000,000. The Baltimore and Ohio's wires aro all down, and telephone communication with all suburbs Is cut off. Tho water and gas works gave out, aud tbe city is in darkness. The streets of half tbo c ty are navipablo only in boats, and all sorts of improvised craft are plying as ferries. Many people aro oxposed on tbe Island, not a spot of which remains above water." CINCINNATI. A Cincinnati dispatch reports: "A worst flood than over stares Cincinnati in ths face, and wreck ar.druin is imminent. At 6 o'clock this evening tho river was over sivty feet and still going up. All the river front Is under water, and for squares back among ths wholesale houses and factories -the fin s are but, the wheels stilled, the men idle and Icrowdiiig tbo streets. Forewarned by the expcrienoo of last year, the wholesale houses thave removed tbe most of their goods. The ml lions of dollars of damage last year from this source will not be -repeated to that extent. How many E pie aro driven out of their homes by the d cannot now be estimated, but It will ch probably 20,000 in tho three oitles t ejfore noon to morrow, unless tho rising floods are checked. Already the relief committee is preparing to reed and house tho victims that are sure to present thcmsolve". The Council is preparing to anpropria'o SIOB.OOO tor relief. It is estimated that 5,000 buildings on the Cincinnati side have water on tho first floor, and 2.C00 on tho Kentucky side. There has been no loss of IKe and no great destruction of property. Tho most Eeriou loss is tbat arising from tbo suspension of business." OTIIEH POINTS. At New Albany, lnd., the plate glass-works were compelled to shut down In all the departments. Fifteen hundred to two thousand perfons arc thrown out of employment temporarily by tho stoppage of thoso works. A largo number of other manufactories along the river front had to jao work, throwing about 5,000 perscrrs out of employment. Notwithstanding tbe large number of persons in eniorccd idleness from t''-a flood there was but little suffering, and the city and county authorities were promptly relieving those who needed it. At Jeffersonvillo, four miles arovo New Albany, serious lofs was inflicted, nearly ail tho hoiisja in tbo town being under water. At Louisvillo, opposite Jeffersonvills, tho principal loss was in lumber, about 8,000,000 feet having been washod away. People living In the low sections took warning from their oxporlenco of last year, and moved out before tho flood came. Tho levee broke at Lawrenceburg, lnd., and inundated the town. The people had prepared themselves for tho watery Invasion, and consequently no serious losses ensued, beyond those entailed by a temporary suspension of business. Nearly all tho rivers throughout Ohio and Western Pennsylvania overflowed tbeir banks, Inflicting serious damage to town aad farm property along their banks.

3lr. Morrison's Bill-OpinIons as to Its Prospects of Success.

CWashhicttm Telegram. Mr. Morrison, speaking of the prospects of his bill, ooofirms the report that it was submitted to the Democratic, members of ths committee before he introduced It. He said: "They all expressed themselves as satisfied with It, with tbe reservation that In the discussions in the committee they might be disposed to submit some unimportant amendments. I do not consider myself so in-alllble that I oannot make mistakes. The bill la now In the committee for consideration. We are having some tables prepared which will show the rates or duty upon every article in the existing tariff and in tbe Morrill tariff bill, and what would be the eiTeet of tits bill which has just been introduced. ' Tho LepubHcans have not held any conference on tbe Morrison bill, but they will probably oppose It. Tbeir main argument la thst it is a suicidal policy to agitate tbe tariff quest on when business is depressed. A Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, who is an extreme protectionist, says the Morrison bill will be reported substantially in the form in which it was Introduced. Senator Beok Is quoted as saying thac if the House should pass tbo right kind of a bill be believes that It would also pass the Senate, and ho thinks the Morrison bill as fair a basis for committee action as could be obtained. MR. vonmsoN INTERVIEWED. New York" Telegram.! The Brooklyn Eagle pub'.ishoi an Interview from Washington with Mr. Morrison in re'atlon to the tariff prospeots. He says lhatthe bill is his own, but claims it should be styled a reduction of rates rather than a revision of tbe tariff. He it not satisfied with the scope of the bill, but prepared to launch something he believed could be floated through both Senate and House rather than risk the defeat of something more to his own liking, lie says be intends to get ail ths tariff reform ho can out of this Congress. He may fail to get anything, but he propes to go right along in what ho considers tho right direction.

THE REAGAN BILL. a Majority of the House Committee Opposed to It.

Washington Teletrraro.1 Tbe House committee whioh is dealing with tbe subject of Interstate commerce, bas been sitting dally for over a week. The debate thus far develops the. fact that a majority of tbe committee favors a commission and is opposed to the Reagan bill. The features of the Reagan bill which are most earnestly opposed are substantially these: 1. The section which provides that tbo informer or prosecutor or a case for any of the penal violations shall havo half of tho amount recovered. This, it is claimed, will encourage an organized raid of spies, informers, and tramps to molest tbe operations of a read, not In tho interest of the public, but for blackmail and personal interest. 2. That c ause which prohibits a greater ct-arge for a short than for a long haul, Con. ressman Davis claiming that this is especially directed against the West, and tbat ft will reduce the value of every form in tbe Northwest. 3. Tbat which prohibirs pooling of freights between comi atln-r points. The disposition of the committee seems to be to say nothing about it, ne.thor authorizing it nor prohibiting it. 4. The requirement to publish schedules which cannot be changed except on five days' notice. ( ongreseman Davis makes one point against this that tho Grand Trunk and the Lake Shore, w.th New York Central connection (neither of which routes can be a' ected bythu bill), could control all shipments from Chicago east; or, in other words, that tho other bnes would be subject to such a contract as these routes might impose upon them. IMPORTED LIBOR.

Its Degraded Condition Evils of tbe System. tWashlngton Dispatch to Cleveland Herald. For two or throe days the House Committee on Labor hare been engaged in taking testimony on tho importation, under contract, of foroign labor. Some forty witnesses have abeady been examined, representing trades unions In Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, and other States. The inquiry is with special reference to tho bill introduced early in the session by Representative Jtoran. Mr. Foran says tbe importation of foreign contract labor bas been growing within the past four or flvo years, until the evils of tht system havo become unbearable, and Justioe to our industrial classes demands a remedy by efficient legislation. The testimony taken here has disclosed tbe degraded condition, physically and morally, of tbo people who tome to this country from Italy, Francs Belgium, Hungary, and other countries by virtuo of these contracts, under which they are paid 40 per eat. its- wages than our own workmen. They live In 6qual!d poverty, ignoring in the habits of the sexes all ruios of decency and morality, and havo a most cemora'izlng effect upon the community in which they live. A notable illustration is atfordcu by tho wretched condition of 2,0.0 Hungarians employed by the coko maniifactuiers at Uniontown, Pa. Thoir watres are so small that (.very one who can earn a penny, man, woman, or child, must work. Cases wore cited of women being enpagod in thorollng coke up to within twenty-four h. ursof conflucmcnt. Large numbers of glaaj-blowers havo also been Imported, to the great injury of that branch of industry.

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THE FALL OF SINKAT.

Another Massacre in the Soudan by the False Prophet's Forces. Ulad- tone, Arraigned by the Tories la Parliament Defends His PoBej. The news of tho fall of Slnkat, and the masacroof the garrison, prodnoi i an excitement In England hardly oqu'.iol hy tfce Intel llgenco which preceded it but a fw days, of the disaster which overtook Bak-r Pasha's little army. In tho House ol I. H. .-'iii.xiiui y moved a vote of censure, h' b carried by more than two to ono. Whilo .he I . ry Lord wore reprehending tbe luck ons ;ial.-iono. tho Tories In tho House of Conim ns weft- bent on a similar object, but one h-.r i-.ore difficult of attainment. Tho motion or c -niro was mado by Sir Stafford Nortl.' -te. Mr ''wdstone rose to reply, amid a prolonrtd demonstration of applause. He stated tbat 1,000 men had been ordered to Suaklm- He denied that there bad been lncotisir-tenoy or vaclllaton, and declared that North' cote bad used the phrase hi lien of adopting any policy whatever. Gladstone denounced the idea of a reconquest of the Soudan, and said Gordon ' would restore the fo.uior rulers to their ancestral power usuried by Egypt." The Premier asked the House to acquit the Oorernmen, and concluded his speech. Ins ead of the acqutttal which had been generally expected, the debate was adjourned, an undoubted admission of tho weakness of tho pirty now In power. London cablegrams furnish the appended particulars of the Slnkat disaster: "The garrison made a sortio, and for a kmg time successfully repulsed the rebel attacks, bat at last tho attacking1 forces gained aa advantage and completely destroyed tbe garrison, except a few who were made prisoners. The fato of the women and chl dren is unknown. The streets or Saukbn present a heartrending appearance, being thronged with women whose weeping and walling gtvo unmistakable evidence of their distress and f orebod Ings. Further advices rega rdmg the fall of Slnkat relate thatTewflk Bey, despairing of further resisting the oci'aunl.t of the furious rebels, blow up the fortifications, spiked bis guns, and i-allled forth upon the enemy, and w.th the last (00 of hi- followers was cat to pieces. Seven racn-of-war belonptnrf to the channel squadron have been ordered to Egyptian waters. A correspondent at Bnakim (olographs: At last the beroio garrison of Slnkat have been butchered. For a fortnight thev have boen eating roots and tree leaves. It was a feeble band, indeed, which made the sortio to die amid the rebel horde. Tewflk Bey had harangued his men. sayfiuy that by lighting the? might stve thotns -Uos, but by remaining they must die from hunger in a few days. Flight was Impossible. The Jneo thus' animated with Towflk Bey's spirit .destroyed the military stores, exploded the magazine, filled their pouches to the utmost with cartridges, and issued forth six hundred strong against the rebels. Osman Dlgma'a hordes rushed to the attack. Towflk Bay and bis men fought nobly. For a long time they repulsed every attempt to break their ranks. Finally superior numbers prevailed, and with a tremendous rush the n bels burst through one of the sides of -tbo Fgyptlan sqoare. A general massacre ensued, and not a soul e5cp"i. According to latest reports there were only four sick men unable to take part in the sortie at Slnkat, and they wore spared by the refcels. Before the sortie a rebel sheik approached Sinkat, aud summoned TewSk Bey to surrender, saying his life would be Spared. The garrison answered defiantly, reviling- the rebels. Dur ng the sortie women and children followed In the rear of the soldiers. Large numbers of the rebels were killed. The robots are now massing In the vicinity of Suaklm. The Sinkat oootin-rent have joined tbe main body. The attack on Suaklm is believed to bo imminent. The Brit-sh Minisnr at Cairo telegraphs tbat after the battle tbo rebels entered Sinkat and pat every one to the sword." A correspondent at Caio says: -'The disaster to Baker Fasha's army causes nothing like the sonowwh'ob prevails among Englishmen here over the mtssscre at Smkafc. There is a universal feeling of humiliation and shame that the callant men of Slnkat were killed almost witnin sijht of the British ships." Tho Cabinet, says a London dispatch, am pain'ulty impressed. It fs probab'e that lame re-enforcements of troop and marines will be immediately dispatched to Egypt. Gen. Gordon telegraphs that he is still eat, guine of success. EQUALIZATION OF BOUNTIES. Interesting Facts and Fig-ares front the Books or the War Deaart-

POSTAL LAWS. Some Glaring Inconslateaefas, In a brief report mado by ths Committee on Fostotnccs and Post Roads of the Nations1 House of Representatives, regarding a bill In" troduced by a Mississippi member, regulating the rates of postage on second class mall matter, somo glaring Inconsistencies In the present postal laws are pointed out. Under these laws the publisher of a newspaper, in New Yora city, for example, can send his paper to a subscriber in Portland, Oregon, and have it taken from the pos:olBce thore by a lottcr-oarrter and delivered to the subscriber at his house at the rate of Scents per pound, without extra charge for delivery. Tbe publisher, however, can not put a copy of his paper in tho New York Postotlico, bavo it takon (hence by a carrier and delivered to a subscriber at his house In the city, except at tho rate of 1 cent per copy -an increase of several cents per copy. The Portland pub'isher, In tho same wny. la denied In his own oity tho low rats g i . on to tho New York publisher. A foreign newspaper can be brought to Washington by

steamer ana rauroa i. put; in mo cn-y office, given to a carrier, and by him deliverel to any address In Washington at thesame rate as domestic matter of the same class, or t cents per pound. The publisher of a Washington paper can not have his papor taken from tho same FostofBce, by the fame carrier, at tbo samo time, and delivered to the same address, without paying shout 8 cuts per pound, The committee recommends the passage or tho bill referred to, because It cures this patent fault in tho present law. THEY MEAN BUSINESS. Tho Hennepin Canal Hen at Work, and Confident of Success. The Hennepin canal men, says a Washing ton dispatch, aro organizing for an active aggressive campaign, and propose now to do some hard work. Tho loading lights of tho movement at a meeting last week divided up the field for tnls.ioriary labor. Tbo l rat step Is a thorough canvass of tho House of Representatives to find out who aro for, who are against, and who are indinorent to tho bill. When tills canvass is complete, there will bo on oiganI.o 1 ctloit to interest the IndllVcrcnt and convert the t pposlt on. Fach active and interested advocate in and out of Congress will be ass'gned to tbo duty of educating a givon number of those who are Ignorant of the iinportanco of tho scheme end persuading a given number of those wbo do not telioi e 'a its piaetlcabl'Ity or opposo it forothorroas ms. Tbe entire House of Beprcsen atlves will thus be tub.octcd to individual and personal influence, and the bill can be passed this way if at all. Its friends sve verv hopeful.

The Secretary of War recently sent to She Senate of the United States, hrt leply to a

resolution offered by Mr. Voorbess calling for information as to the number of soldiers who served one, two, and three years, respectively, in the Union army in the lata war, tho amount of bounty paid each olasa, and the approximate amount to be required to equalise the bounties of those who served In that war, a communication from the Adjutant General giving tbe inforraatloa asked for, and copies or letters to Congress in former years by the Paymaster General of theA rmy sotting forth tbe estimates of the amount to be required for the equalization of bounties. The Adjutant General's report gives the number of calis. ed men wbo enlisted for the various periods as follows: Three -fears... AS0,f4Slx months 30.4SI Two years 44,400' Four month . . . . . 41 One vear 891,753 One hundred days &MB? Nlno'moctba... 87S,SS1 Three months.. .,UM,4M Eight months.. 373!Sixty days : 2.045 With respeet to tho fnformation"fciked for in regard to bounties paid or the suss necessary to equalize the bounties of those wbo served, the Adjutant General says it cannot ho compiled from the records of his office. Ho calls attention, however, to the estimate submitted to Congress by the Paymaster General of the army in 1872, 1S74, 1876, 1878. and 1880. In tbe estimate submitted April 32, 1878, the Paymaster General states that op to that date tt ere had been paid In bounties to enlisted mn $385,917,82, and the Adjutant General states that since then there havo been paid ! bounties 1 2,22,567, makina- the total bounties paid to tbo date of the communication 9388,210,249. The first estimate or the amount required for the equalization of bounties made by the Paymaster General is dated Jan. 15, 1872. Itia based on tha provision of the bill tbea pending in Congress to give each enlisted man, or if dead to give to his heirs, a bounty at tha rate of $8.33 H per month for his term of service. Tbe Paymaster General estimated the cost at $187,273,105. He divides the enlisted men into three classes, as follows: First Class Enlisted men in the regular army who ontered the service between April 12, 1881, and April 19, 1885, and were honorably discharged, 46,379: average duratioa of servloe. twenty-nine months. Second Class Enlisted men of all classes who volunteered, including those -recognised for completing the Defenses of Washington and the slaves who enlisted or were drafted between April 12, 1861, and April 19, 1865. 2,234,421; deducting substitutes, 13,1 CO, and enlisted men from captured prisoners of war, 1.5PS. leaves a total of 2,l09,6W; average duration of service, 28.7 months. Third Class Enlisted men who en tared for not less than throe years and were discharged on account of wounds or while in the lino of duty. 59,500; average duration of aorvlca, 7.S months. Estimated cost of equalizing bounties of tho first class, $11,208,258; second class, S504,605,328: third class. $3,819,588; total, 9519,883,169. This sum, less the amount of bounties paid and then payable under tbo existing laws, equaling $382, 108,004, was $137,275,105. ' CHIPS,

Knolasb has S6S publio analysts of fool products. Tmtae are 80,000 more women than men ta Massachusetts: Montana has produced at toast $200,SOO,000 of gold since 188'. Ah organized band of river pirates Infest Portland, Oregon. Virginia will hold her next State regatta at Norfolk, on July 4, THE compilers of the Australian census report that Austral! oouid furnish 150.000 awn from SO to 40 oapa bio of bearing arms. The largest school in the world is probably the Jewish Frea School In Ssital fields, Loadon. lthaaadsllvtte:wosofov-arsMiia-Ua,