Bloomington Progress, Volume 21, Number 46, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 January 1888 — Page 1

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Nttiod, Commercial, and Industrial Kens, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc

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The Winter Sap. By mid-October moat of the Kip Tan Winkles among . our brute creature have lain down for their winter nap. The toads and turtles have buried themselves in the earth. The woodebnek is in his liibernaculum, the skunk in his, the mole in his; and the black ear has his selected, and will go in when the snow come-. He does not like the looks of bis big tracks in the snow. They publish his goings and comings too plainly. The coon retires about the same time. The provident woodmiee and the chipmunk are laying bra supply of nuts or grain, the former ustwllT in decaved trees, the latter Ui

ute jrrouna. tw ni jwiai an

unusual disturbance in the woods near

where the chipmunk baa his den, will cause him to shift his quarters. One October, for many successive davs, I saw one carrying into his hole buckwheat which be had stolen from a near field. Ths hole was only a few rods from where we were getting out stone, and as our work progressed and the racket mad uproar increased, the chipmonk becanu alarmed. He ceased carrying in, and after much hesitating and darting about, and some prolonged absences, be began to carry out; he had determined to move; if the mountain fell, he as least would be away in time. So by mouthfula, or cheekiula, the grain'was transferred to a new place. He did not make a "bee to getit done, but carried it all himself, occupying several days, and making a trip every ten minutes. Insects also go into winter quarter, by or before this time; the bumble-bees hornet, and wasp. But here only royalty escapes; the queen-mother alone foresees the' night of winter coming and the morning of spring beyond. The rest of the tribe try gypsying for awhile, but perish in the first frosts. The present October I surprised the queen ' of the yellow-jackets in the woods looking out a suitable retreat. The royal dame was house-hunting, and on being disturbed by my inquisitive poking among the leaves, she got up and flew away with a slow, deep hum. Her body was nnuuially distended, whether with fat or eggs, I am unable to say. In September I took down the umt of the Hack hornet, aud found several large qneeos in it, but the workers ha.i all gone. The queens were evidently weathering the first frosts and storms here, and waiting for the Indian summer t' go forth and seek a permanent winter abode. If the covers could be taken off the fields and woods at this season, how many interesting facts of natural History would be revealed! The crickets, ants, bees, reptiles, animals, and forau-'htl know, the spiders and flies, asleep or getting ready to sleep in thair winter dormitories; the fires of life banked up and burning just enough to keep the spark over until a, .-ing. John Bur-rough.

A cablegiiam from Vienna says this has eo far been one of the severest winters on record here. Cases of death from the effects of exposure are reported daily. The water supply is beginning to fall. The ice in the l)annbe has reached Vienna. The Plattone See is frozen over for the first time in many years. By a premature blast four men were killed and seven seriously .injured while working on the new branch line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Laurel Bun. fa. The men are said to be Italians and the names could not be ascertained. Speaker Carlisle has announced his committees to Congress, A spas in- the central viaduct, being esnstracted at Oleveiand, and which eon nects the south side with the city proper, fell Friday. It was ninety feet long and eighty-five feet above the ground. A large car, on which there were supplies, woo pushed off the end' of the spun by the accident, and in falling, it knocked the braces and beams oat of place and the span went also. There were eight workmen on the span when it f etl. The killed were Harvey Bur'on and an unknown man. The wounded were: John Boarden, burned by

! steam on the hands and face; Eugene Han1 Ian, slightly injured; Alex Blank, injursd' ' internally, and Charles Arbe, engineer, Ini jured internally.

A iabge part of the business portion Of Yandalia, Michigan, was destroys d by fire. TH3 ship wrecked off the Irish coast ft ascertained to have been the American Bhip,

I Alfred B. Snow, which left San Francisco j for Liverpool August ill. 1 Ti E employes of Hibbard & Co.'a works,

Pittsburgh, Pa., struck against 10 percent, redaction in wages. The works have closed down and 3u.i men are idle. A daring highway robbery was committed on Anderson avenue, in one of the most fashionable and crowded sections of Pittsburgh, in broad day-light. The victim was young Miss Harper. She was on her way home, when two men assaulted her; alter knocking her dosn twice in succession, they grabbed her wallet and made off with it Several persons witnessed the robbery and started in pursuit of the highwaymen, who turned on their pursuers, covering them with their revolvers, and succeeded in escaping. The amount of the wallet was small, and Miss Harper nlsaliaklhr injured. Daxirl F. Bono, a BfSKenian employed en the Bay City and Alpena road, had his head crushed between two logs, near Pkonning, Mich. . He died in two hours. The Republican State Convention will ha held at Harris burg, Pa., April 25. Ami Baldwin, the late cashier of Fidelity National Bank, Cincinnati, died sud dealy at 3 o'clock -Thursday morning at Walnut Hills, Mr, Baldwin, was indicted with the other officers of the Fidelity Bank, but for some reason his bond was placed at $1,II00 and he was able to secure bondsmen and has not been in jail. He died from the effect of a stoke of paralysis. A flight train on the New River division of the Norfalk and Western Railroad, ran into a rock slide twenty-seven miles from Central, Va. The engine jumped the track, ran into the New River and disappeared. The engineer was drowned at his post, and the fireman was also killed. The employes at seven furnaces of Carnegie. Phillips & Co., at Braddock, Pa., have made a. demand lor a 10 per cent, advance in wages. The firm claims that the condition of the market will not justify the advance, and instead of an increase in

wages the men will have to accept a slight

reduction, several Hundred men are interested at the Lucy furnaces, owned by the same company. Mil. Powdeblt is not yet quite out of

danger. Dr. Allen told a correspondent

that his patient had disobeyed all orders and had applied himself too closely and too early to the duties of his oitice, and had completely exhausted himself at his desk. The doctor has given emphatic instructions that no one bo permitted to in

trude upon Mr. Powderly at present, and

has decided that the invalid must taKo a trip to the South, where he will be afforded an opportunity to recuperate.

The United States Law and Order

League will bold its sixth annual meeting

in Philadelphia on February 21 arsjt 22.

Fins Crape How It I Manufactured. "What's thatr A jobber in imported dry goods was

showing a visitor a piece of flimsy i are now passing thiou. h ihe op-urn

Two express tia'ua on tln Dutch State Hailroad col ided near Moppel, m Holland. Twenty-six persons were killed and many others wouudeJ. According to a cable dispatch. Presided Carnot instructed M. Herbette, tho French Ambassador at B vim, to assure Emperor Wlliam that while he remain at the head of the republic no French qovcrumont will be permitted to adopt n warlike policy. FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL - The Val street iiiaimates pronounce the year just closed one of weakness and low pr ; on the Stoek Exchange. The- following is a recapitulation of the debt statement (cents omitted) issued by the United State' Treasurer on the 3d inst: lSTi'.misT-BEamso debt. Bonds at 4"., psr cent 230,514.600 lionds at 4 p r cent 782,2,iW Kcfuudvng csrtiOeatos at 4 percent. 151,630 Nuvy poiwion'fu d at 3 per cent. . . . 14,000,000 Pacini: llailroad bonds ato percent. 64,C23,9U

Principal. Interest. . .

.M,04i,7!,7M ,. lii.Wl.SOl

Total $1,033,783,513 SKBT OS WHICH 1NI J MKST HAS CEASED SINGS MATURITY. Principal 3,I08,95S Interact 178,894

.Total ta,84i,347 1IF.BT lltAlUNa SO IXTKBXST. Old demand and legal-tender notes 346, 73,121 Certificates of depoait 6,a8Vj Gold certutcates tW,9.'li,05? Silver certificates I7818j5,4a iTaotional currency (leas S,375,Uat, estimated as lost or destroyed). . . 6,0t2,2U

rrinolpal 3V254,U TOTAL BBT. Friucipai 11,079,180,513 Interest. ll!,18J.HB

Total fl.691,380,705 Leas caoli items available for reduction of tbedobt 20.i,91S,424 Lees reserve held fox redemption of United States notes 100,000,009 Total 1195,919.421

Total debt less available cash

items.

Net conn in the Treasury. . .

..$1,295,441,231 GO.842,879

Debt loss eash In Treasury Jan. 1,

in Treasury lrec.

.flI-i2s,S98,40s

' 1,240,183,053

13S-

Debt less cash X, 1987

Deoreaae ot debt during tne month , 14,584,630 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1887. .- 53,830,&3S CASH IN THE TKEA9URY AVAII.ABI.H FOR THE REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding 830,784,057 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 170,855,423 V. S. notes bold for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 6,985,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 15,344,143 Fractional currency 790

- Total available 1336,919, 421 KESEBTB FUND. Eeld for redemption of V. 8. notes, acts January 14, 1S75, and July 12,1882. 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional silver coin f 21,327,523 Elinor coin ,"o.7isl

Total I 24,8S3,2S9

rortineates neia as casn...... iiv,47u,uoi

Ket cash balance on hand.

09,842,879

Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account. .1 527.U25.559 lhe great Reading strike promises to become a serums matter in the anthracite region. A telegram from Reading aays; Bad the strike on the Beading Boad proved successful and traffic been entirely paralyzed there could not have been more genuine alarm throughout the great industrial regions of the bchuylkill Valley than there is to-day. The proprietors of large furnaces aud Iron workfin this section prediot that If the mines are shut down for two ataxias the majority at the large mtaniisnments will be obliged to close owimi to the laok of a supply of coal Many of tneni have been running for weeks short of cool and most of them have less than a week's supply on hand. All the industrial cities and towns in this section ench as Heading, Birdsboro, Norristown, Pottstown, Hamburg, and smaller places, recohu their ooal over the Beading Railroad, aud, with tho stoppage of work at tho mines, trade will be entirely paralyzed. The members of tho Kniubts of Labor In this city, while refusing t.i strike, have promised the' Schuylkill mint financial support, the same as they are giving the men in tho Ibigh region. Thero is a movement on foot among the business men of this end of the Sohuylkill Valley to hold a meeting in this city and bring such pressure to boar npon President Corbln as to cause him to consent to arbitration of the miners' strike at least. It is arcuod that the immense industries

k of this section of the ftata cannot afford such a

fearful paralysis to business and trade The strike will not only throw ,Oi:0 miners out of employment bnt 30,000 ironworkers as well. Beading (Pi.) special: "An army ofSti.000 miners is idle In life Schuylkill aud L"lr:!i coal-fields. Behind them stands an army o 20U,iX) wives and children who have bcc.i depending upon them for their bread, mak lag in all a quarter of a million of people " FIRSAND ACCIDENTS. The greater part or the town of Hicks, villc, Ohio, was wiped out by fire. Tho 1 i to business men will reach SMXUXHl, and ihc inhabitants are suffering. Porter A Maereau's wholesale grocery house at Memphis, Ten.i., was destroyed by &re; loss, $'.K),0U0 A. H. & O. K. Jones' shoe factory at Siratford, N. H.,was burned, euiailing a Iohs of $S0,0Wt. The Lake Shore and Michigan Konthern dsj.o at Otsego, Allegan County, Mich., aui the li vens & Brace Iron Company's establish uk-ui, Kansas City, were likewise destroyed. Damage in the latter case is estimated at $100,K o. The loss by fire at Hounia, La., is osfimaic.l at 150.00a A collision on the Cincinnati Houthci n Railroad, at Louisville, Ky., resulted in tho death of seven persons and serious injury ' many others. A dreadful Hniash-np too., place on the New York, I'ennsvivania ami

black material that lo:ked

monlv lika common gauze. "Why do yon ask?' "I didn't know that you imported any goods of that description.

"Why, that is one of our staple : articles. That is a very tine quality of ! crape!' .-. j "The kind of grape that willows

wear? "The same. It has been washed in hot wa-er. That makes the change in its appearance." "How coahl it?" "Ill tell you. Crape is light, trausparent, plainly woven of hard silk of the natur il color. Its peculiar appearance is caused by the dyfin and dressing after it leavf the loom, (him is ad-led to the uvaterint, ami the threads,

owing to th ir stiffness, unweave the i twist they reeniv ? iu th mill, 'fids gives it its atievonneis. " I

"Doeaa t any kind of wetting hurt it?" "Yes, more r less, but it never looks like gaitK- until it is thoroughly soaked iu hot water. That is out- of our tests as to the 1 1 uah..- of the material and woi kmauship. If yon ever want to test any era- e that you may bny, you had betli-r take th- df-aifr's word instead of your own experiment, for onee "mute i.4 washed out. it . n never lie rejored." AVw York Muil and Ex-

(ittin ltfttlrnafl fiv tnilna uwat .t AfAR,! vill.

All leagues in tho country having for their ! -n. .t, vi. i:.;,j

object to secure the eniorcemeut of law are i . ..... ,t . . , , ji.. freight train. Both trams were two hour-

Thv. AVabash and the St. Louis and Chi- ! eago Railroads have entered into nn Agreement. - The Wabash is to Itave a direct line j from Springfield, I1R, to 1-t. Lonis, and . the Ht. Louis aud Chicago will have di- j rsct connections with Chicago and Toledo, j Pittsburgh specid: The tow-boat Little Bill, in attempting to pfiss through the narrow passage made by tho lowering of some of the wickets at Davis . Island dam, strnck one of the broken j wickets and knocked i: down, clearing the ) channel for a spnci' of 2'iO fret. Boats i

made

by lhe accident, and :-." m ,(i hi bushels of

coal wi 1 get out for sliipmeol to Cincinnati aud Louisville, iiibtcad of !,IMH) bushels as expected. No damage was done to the Little Bill by the li cky collision.

THE OLD WORLD.

The Xational Zeiluug. of Berlin,

Mi.iurc uu iu, pniutw m.n.i.vn, ""j "

vi'ion is the lemli ig of human what is let, making what is ' ti.em Mml'in,

m an Ger-

! many neither expects nor desires war. Prince i Bismarck has thrown into the scale the dei cisive word in favor ot peace. It is hardly

probable that Russia will be in a position to force a war upon Germany and her allies. The chances are, therefore, that peace will

! prevail, although this peace cannot be taken I as synonymous with the restoration of EuroI pean triBquillity a fact for whioli Russia

must answer to the world. Gladstone cxpressei the belief that peace will cont nuo throughout the wintor, but he is not so sure a to what tho spring will bring forth. The observaooe m 8k. Peter's, at Rome, on the 1st inst., of the Pope's jubilee, was moat enthusiastic. The Pontiff took part in the ceremonies, aud was greeted with shouts by the assembled worshipers. The occasion vaa suitably commomonvted in all parte of

! the world where the Pope's dominion is reoogj nised. A Cork dispatch reports that an 1,8 Mon i bark, believed to be an American vessel, has been wrecked at the entrance of Waterford (Ireland) harbor. iHer crnw, eonaioing of

twenty-nve persons, wi.ro ail drowned. A

large vessel was wn I'0 1 off iiunuant.ou and all hands are believed o be lost

late. Five porsons were killed instant y, ami sixteen badly injured. Anotltni- disastrous wreck took place at Kouts, lnd., on tho t'nicago and Atlantic Railroa L The second section of a freight train ran into tho iirsl iu a blinding snow-storm, and a fireman Iok hia life. Stoi'tigo warehotHe prupjrty alu ig mo Brooklyn water front amonnting m value to 10, 000,000 is about, to lie put into Iho coirinl of a colossal trnst Fully one-half tho foi c commerce of tlie port of Now York. will he involved. The residence of Alexander Pittton, ol Marion, Iud , was ba lly wrecked by a natn ral-gas explosion The building then took fire, and with its contents was destroyed. fSoveral of the inmates were IwJlv atuimel and Hinged, but all escaped in tbuir night elothes. A leak iu the natural-gas nuiii caused tho tronhlo. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. A special dispatch from Kt. Francis, Aik , says: William Herritf. who murderort liis yon wife and bur paramour near h uu, has bi iui hanged by a band of vigilantes. Aftc the tnnrder Horrtg set. nut toward the northern boundary lino, with the purpose, evidently, of oscaping into Missouri, mid making i.nKiuisas tlity or Ht. Louis. Directlv alter tho crime was discovered a posse of men set out to find him. They eau'bt him about four miles uortn ot Hector. When found he was aSleop under a lare trou. (to was informed that ho it: net die. sllu Ire mad no protest, in fact, be aald ho was willing ana ready; ho bod dmio nothing he had cause ti regret. His wife had been uutviie bi him and he had killed her lover, and this h'i rejjnr.le.i as justice. Regarding tlio sh otin;4 of his wile )i said he could offer nothing In tho w i.. of defense A recent telegram from WiMi ia, K t , says: "Charles Greon, a cattle dealer lion 'No Man's Land,' has arrived Here, and g:v somo details of th i capture and lyuuhing u tlie Kelly family, whoso horrible crimes, pub. lishod widely a fow day ago, were as ejua atrocious ai anything committed by th - Is dor family. Tbo Kelly family loft I heir ran noar Oak City, going south. A posse of ciiiEons started m pursuit, aud lound iliom 111 ', miles south, in Texas. The ol 1 man osra;, d but the son, Bill, was hanged, and the moth r and daughter were shot while the posse wuasdMVWjtef to santan then,"

The Unite I States Consul at Odessa has unearthed customs frauds iu wool invoices

shipped to this country amounting to 110,000,(00 or t15,OtU,000.

A special dispatch from Waverly, Iowa, says: ""The preliminary examination of M. B. Bill.ngs closed at Waverly on Tuesday. O. 0Miller, one of the leading attorneys of Waterloo, appeared for tho defense. After some preliminary discussion the State offered in evidence the documents which were taken from Billings when hs was arrested. They consisted of the decoy letters, the alleged confession, eta The defense objected to their admission, but the magistrate decided they were admissible, on the ground that Billings in hU evidence had voluntarily testified to their content. The counsel for tho defense then waived further examination, and Billings was bound over to the February term of the DUtriot Court without bail." Tho oases pending against the alleged murderers of the Bev. Dr. Haddock ware dismissed at Sioux City. Iowa, on tije motion of the State, all the lawyers for the people consenting. There were pending one indictment

for murder and one for conspiracy against ton defendants John Arensdorf, Fred Munohrath, Jr., Paul Leader, Harry Sherman, ' veeter Oanda, Albert Koshnitaki, H. Liavitt, George Troiber, Louis Plata and Henry Peters. Of these Arensdorf has been once acquitted of the murder, Koshnitzki and Leavitt secured immunity by testifying for the State, Fred Mnnchrath, Jr., has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for tbe.murder, and Troiber, Plath and Peters are fugitives. The dismissal of the indictments will not affect Munchrath or the list three named. miscUlan5usnote8. A negro watch-meeting at Fordtown, Alabama, wound up with a shooting-match iu which three persons were killed and several wounded. Tne recommendation to placs the Union Pacific iu the hands of a receiver oreated no alarm in Boston, where the owners live. The following of Gov. Pattison's suggestions, it was said would leaj to twenty years' litigation and setde nothing. A movement has been organised in North Carolina for securing a repeal of the tax on tobacco, and a delegation will be sent to Washington for that purpose. The saloon-keepers of St Paul are hereafter to be taxed tl.OOO for license. They are working up a scheme to consolidate tlu business of liquor-seliin:' on the ' trust" principle, the brewers to furnish the capital aud give employment to men only engaged iu the. business. The list of v.-torau of the war of 1812 has decreased to 1,069. while widows of veterans survive to the number of 11, 831, which indicates that the old soldiers very numerously took young women for wives. Senator lloarst, of California, will shortly introduce a bill to increase from SS to 125 per month the pensions of these surviving veterans. Special interest is now taken in Haekotistown's defaulter. ex-Mayor Cramer, says a li'lv.deio, X J., telegram. He not only swindled the business men, but. it now tnrns ont that b.3 was engigMt i sixteen womeu all of whom were sw.udie 1 out of money.

CONGRESS. Conobsss reassembled after the holiday re. oess on Wednesaay. Jan. 4. A reply to the President's tariff reduction message was delivered in the Senate by Mr. Sherman, whs urged that the President had intentionally ignored other methods of reducing the Treasury surplus lor the purpose of advocating such a reduction of customs taxation as would strike a severe blow as American, industry, beuatur Voorbeea spoke in defense of tne Provident' low-tariff views, Mr. Brown onered a resolution declaring that the practice of the (iovernment was correct for the nrst three-auarters of a century of its existence when it collected the necessary revenues at the ports or other boundaries by tariff, except in case of war or other great emergencies, when internal revenue or diroot-tax iaw were imposed, which were repealed as soon as tne emergency ceased ; also, that the present internal revenue laws were enacted as a war measure, and that it has now becttne the imperative duty of congress to enact appiopr.ate legislation for their leyeal at t..e earliest day practicable, lie asked that tne. resolution be laid on the tabs, and said that next Monday he would submit remarks upon it. Mr. Co Horn introduced a bill embracing several amendments to his postal telegraph measure. In the House a large number of bills were introduced, including the followliii! : by Mr. Symes, o., colorauo, for the removal or the southern Utes from Colorado to Utah ; by Mr. Browne, of Indiana, repealing the limitation on the arrMVs-of-pea. sion act; by Mr. Uovey, of Indiana, liir the payment of service pensions ; by ale lioiuiau, of Indiana, to maintain the purity of tbo ballot box ; by Mr. v saver, of Iowa, for the establishment uf a postal telegraph ; by Sir, Holmes, of Iowa, abolishing the duty on sugar; by Mr. Gear, of Iowa, to prohibit the purchase of goods manufactured wholly or in pait by convict labor ; by Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, to prevent a con ti action of the currancy and to increase the circulation of silver and silver certificates ; by Mr. It) an, of Kansas, aiypropriatiug Slw.onu for the erection of a rni nuiuc nt to the colored soldiers Killed in the late war ; by Mr. Morrill, i t Kansas, to abolish all distinctions on account of rank in pensions heeofter granted ; bv Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, to create the postal telegraph of the United States ; also, to reduce

letter i.Os.iage to one ceuv tuvumw, uy mi. Peters, of Kansas, for the deposit of gold and silver coin or bnilion as security for national bank circulation; by Mr. Wheeler, dispensing witb prool of loyalt , during the lute war as a condition of restoration or admission to the pbnsiou rolls In the case of any person otherwiae entitled thereto ; by Mr. Beed. of 11 nine, prpposing a constitutional amendment granting women the right ot sum-age; by Mr. Nelson, of 3Iinnasota, placiug sugar, coal, bnuip, aud manuta grass on tne free list. Kills were also iuirodneoil for the creation of publio buildings in Indiana,' at Kvansville i.ud Indianapolis ; in Iowa, at Firt podge and Sioux City; in Michigan, tt Kalkmazoo, Muskegon, Manistee, Bay City and l.anbiug ; at Pnlutn, at Milwaukeo, and at many vttiar cities. :iiie hundred and two public bills 'have been introduced. LATEST MARKET QIOTATIONS. NEW x'UUK.

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MILWAUKEE. Wiikat Cash Cuus No. a Oats No. 2 White.

Itvi: - No. 1 , Pons- Mess ST. LOUIS. Wheat- No. Kited

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MANY MILLIONS LOST. A Startling Exhibit of the Cost of Strikes and Lockouts in the United States.

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Common 3.25

Almost Humlrcd Million Dollars Wasted in Labor Conflicts During the Past Six Years.

Throe-fourths of All the Troubles is Illinois, Hew York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Ohio.

frozen stiff standing in the mud beside Wise's body, 'ibis is the first case of death from freezing ever hoard of in this region. ICtmlon (Wis., special.'; Gordon DsGrot, of Quinney, was found frozen to death, and his uncle, Dan De Grot, was found uucouscious in a farm yard three miles from Sto-kbridge, whither they had wandered while drunk. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION,

About 13,000 Miles of Track Laid During the fear 1887.

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I Washington special. I Commissioner Carroll D. Wright has submitted to the Secretary of the Interior the third annual report of the Bureau of Labor, which relates entirely to strikes aud lockouts for the period of six years ended Dec. SI, 1688. The report is regarded as of special importance, as it is the result of the first general investigation ever made by any nation of the faots concerning strikes and loi-kouts for any extended period of lime or for any wide extent of territory.

The report covers about Ytm printed pa and gives the details of each strike lockout occurring in the United btaics during the period named. It exhib.ts the facts belonging to each industrial trouble for each locality where trouble was found, without atteuipt ng to establish or decide tho connection between them. The following tabic hpwt the number of strikes oocumng during each of the last six years, and the number of establishments involved. Concerns Year. , Strikes. Involved. 1881 171 2,9i8 1832 45 2,105 1883 478 2,759 1881 443 2,307 18S5 045 2,'85 lb86.. MM 9,833 Totals 3,903 22,338 In 1887, the report says, there were, according to the best information obtainable, 85;! gsrikes, details of which are not available. The report shows that during tho six years covered by the investigation, New York had the largest number of establishments affected both by strikes and lockouts, there being for the former U,217 and for th latter 1,028. The building trades furnished 6,060 of the total number of establishments engaged in strikes. The total number of employes involved in the whole number of strikes for tho entire period is sbowu to

haveeen 1,318,1524. The number of employes originating the' strikes was 1,020,832. The number of employes in all establishments belore the strikes occurred was 1 ,61.2,045, while the whole number employed in the establishments involved alter the strikes was l,oa(i,2l7 a loss of 25,7iS. There were 10J,03 now employes engaged after the strikes, and 37.48J were brought from other places than those in which the strikes occurred. In 2,182 establishments lockouts were ordered during the period named. In these there were 173, Kilo employes before the lockouts occurred aud lo;f,43ti after the lookouts, while tho number actually looked out was 1511,548. There were l.'l,s7U new employes scoured at the close of the lockouts, and 5,(382 wero broucht from other places than those iu which the lockouts occurred. "It -should be remembered, however," says the report, "that these figures do not represent the actual number of individual establishments, or different employes engagej. r(s in many cases there have been two or more strikes or lockouts affecting the same establishment in the same year. In such cases the establishment and the number of employes engaged are duplicated." Of the whole number of employes itivolvod in strikes during the six years covered by the report, 88.00 per cent, were males aud 11.44 per cent, were females. Of those involved in lookouts during the same period 08.78 per cent, were males and 31.22 per cent, were females. An examination of the tables appended to the report shows that New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Illinois represent 74.74 per cent, of the whole number of establishments affected by strikes throughout the country, and U0.80 percent, of the lockouts. These five States, it is stated, contain 49 per ceut. of all the manufacturing establishments, and employ 58 per cent, of the capital involved in mercantile industries of the United States. Of the 22,330 establishments in which strikes occurred 18,342, or 82.12 per cent, of the whole strikes, were ordered by labor organizations, while of lhe 2,182 establishments in which lockouts occurred 1,753, or 80.31 per cent., were ordered by combinations of managers. Of the whole number of establishments subjected to strikes there were temporarily closed for business 13,433, or 60.19 per cent.; on account of lockouts, 62.60 per cent. The average duration of stoppage on account ot strikes was 23.1 days, and for lockouts 28 days. The results of the strikes, so far as gaming the objects sought are concerned, are shown to be as follows: Snocess followed in 1,047 cases, or4t;.5:t per cent, of the whole; partial success in 3,004, or 13.15 per cent, of the whole; ami failure followed in 8,1)10 eases, or i.i.S'j per cent, of the whole. By lockouts 564 establishments, or 25.8 per cent, of the whole, succeeded in gaining their points; l'.iO, or 8.71 per cent., partly succeeded, and 1,305, or 50.80 per ceut, failed. As to causes or objects of strikes, it is shown that increase of wages was the principal one, 42.14 per cent. The other leading causes are given as follows: For reduction of hours, 1U.45 per cent.; against redaction of wages, 7.70 per cent.; for increase of wages ni:d i eduction of hours, 7.57 per cent.; against increase of hours, 10.62 per cent.: total for the five lending causes, 77.83 per cent. All other causes, 23.17 per Cent. Disclaiming absolute accuracy, the report gives the losses of employes and employers resulting from strikes and lockonts as follows: Losses to strikers during the six years covered by the investigations, stfl.siti.KiS. Loss to employes through lockouts for the same period, $8, 132, 7 17, or a total wage loss to employes of $50,018,882. This loss occurred lor both strikes aud lookouts in 24,518 estnblishmeuts, or on an average loss of $-',445 to each establishment, or of nearly 40 to each striker involved. The assistance given to striktr-i during the same period, so for as ascertainable, amounts to $:l,325,05": to those suffering from lockouts, $1,105,538, or a total of $4,430,505. These n mounts, however, the Commissioner says, are undoubtedly loo low. The employers' losses through strikes for tho six years amom ted to $30,732,(153; through lockouts, $3,342,261. or a total loss to the establishments involved of $34,1('.1,!I14. The appended tables also show that the chief burden of strikes was borne by tuirteen i. dutrios, i,: Hoots nud shoi'S. 352 establishment!'; brick-making. 478; bui ding trades, (!,l 11; elolhing, 1,7;'.8; eooiwrage, 184; lood preparations, l,41'.i; furniture, l'.il ; lumber. 3.5; metals and metallic goods, 1,55; mtmug, 2.1MUI; stun-', 468; tobacco, 1,U2'.; transportalioii. 1,478. These represent Mi,:)") per ceut. of the whole number subjected to strikes. Besides completing the neld work for this report, and the compilation uf the information, tho bureau ha-- i-.trrii d ou almost to completion the investigation begun last year concerning the mora), physical, aud oconomioal conditions of the working women of great cities, and has continued its investigation into tbo cost of great staple products. It haB also undertaken, a -cording to Congressional in titictiou. the collection of statistic of murriage aud divorce in tho United sives. a report of whieh may be subtui t I.e.' m.' tl e close of the present session uf i jitr-ss. Froxeii to In . in. Austin (Teiasi uec ul , Henry Wise, a farmer, was found frozen to death ten miles from this city, lie b. d fallen from his wnguu iu crossing a wnddv

bottom and his head and shoulders were buried, in the mud Hts mule wr foqad

Tills Surpasses the Record of Any Preceding Tear in This Country,

I Chicago special,! The current number of the Ruttimy Age says' that the year 1887 has surpassed all other years in the extent of railway mileage con tracted in the United (States. When, six months ago, the prediction was node that the total new mileage for the year " would not be less than 10,000 miles, with the likelihood of surpassing the record of 1882 the year of greatest railway construction in the history of the country," it was not generally believed. Bnt the figures obtained by care f ul investigation throughout the year and confirmed by official inlormatien, now prove the prediction to hate been more than warranted. The retains thow that during 1887 no less than 12,724 miles of new main line track were added to the railway system of the United States, no account being taken in this of the hundreds of miles of side track built, nor of the thousands of miles of main track relaid. It i not improbable tuat some scattering additions may yet be received; so that it is safe to state that during 1887 nearly, if not quite, 13,000 miles of new maiu-line track were con structed. Thnse are truly astonishing figures. When in 1882, during a period ot extraordinary activity, 11,5U8 miles of new road were built, it was generally believed that these figures would not again be equaled. In the following year, lisSJ, the new construction fell to "6,741 miles; in 1884 to 3,825, and in 1885 to 3,608 miles. 1 he year 1886 witnessed a considerable revival of activity and 0,000 miles of new road were built; a greater mileage than in any

previous year with the exceptions of 1881 aud 1882; and now 1887 has witnessed the

building of more miles of railway than 1886 and 1885 combined, and not much less than 1885, 1884 and 1883 together. The following summary shows the detailed records of the number of lines and the mileage laid in each State and Territory during the year 1887: So. lines. M'la.i No. lines. X ii

31' Indiana i 115 23' Illinois 12 328 .. Wisconsin 11 363 6i Minnesota 0 193 .. Dakota 17 700 Iowa 10 332 y7i.N'ei rusha 17 1,101 15 Wyoming S 133 125 Montana. 7 818 . j.vansas 44 2,70 lsi Uj.nri 16 554 .a Indian Ter.... u 49.) cl Arkansas 8 153

184 Texas 19 1.05S

Maine 2

N. Hampshire. 1 Vermont Massachusetts 5 Connecticut ltbode Island. .. New York 8 New Jersey.... 2 Pennsylvania. 13 Delaware Maivland 1 West Virginia, 3 irgiuia 4 North Carolina 10 South Carolina 7 Uoorgi 8 Florida...- 10 Alabama 13 Mississippi.... 5 Iiouisiana 4 Tennessee ... 10 Kentucky 8 Ohio 14

Michigan..

Total In 42 States....

lOljColnrado 8 818

231. Now Mexieo... 1 4 l'j;i Kovada 515;Californla 14 S58 99 Idaho 8 54 05 Utah 1- 6 68'Arisona a 70 UW Oregon 4 48 155! Washington T. 3 10 j

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..364 12,724

BEOAPITUXATION. No. Lines. 1 New England States 8 5 Middle States 25 10 Southern States 81 5 Middle Western States 59 C Northwestern States 63 ('. Southwestern States, 101 7 Paclrlo States 27

12,7.14

42 of the 47 States totals 304

A TWENTY YEABS BEOOBD. For the purpose of comparison we reprint the following summary of track-lay. ing during each of the twenty years preceding 1887; Year. Miles., Year. Miles. 17 2,219:1877 2,J0 K63 2,97J'1878 2,629 1809 J.015 lo79 4,746 1S70 0,'(70'lfSJ 6,870 1871 7,379 1681 B.7U6 1872 f.iST )'1SS2 Il,3e8 1873 4,1197:1883 6,741 1874 2,117 ll 8,825 1875 1,711 ti3 3,608 1870 2,7121HS(i 9,0.0 The Hallway Age says: Xot only is the Aggregate mileage thus shown extraordinarily iireat, but the number of different lines constructed is seen to be surprisingly large, aggregating, after deducting for the duplicating of roads lying in two or more Slates, no less than 361 Hues. Of course the number of companies building these lines was very much less than this; but these fignres show that the new mileage is

; not made up chiefly by a few long lines, ' but consists of main lines and branches ramifying iu all direction.-; and supplying facilities for transportation to innumerable : commuuities aud to vastly extended rei gions. . What bas been the cost of this years work? Many of the lines have been built I through comparatively level countiy, ro- , quiring but -little grading and bridge- : building; but, ou the o:her hand, many other lines have been most t ostly; for exi am; le, those over the liocky Mountains iu , Colorado, the Southern l'ncitio extension in I Xorthern California, the Atchison's Kansas ! City and Chicago extension, the Nort era i l'aciti -'s work in the Cascade Mountains, i and others. Moreover, several of the comj panics have purchased costly terminal facilities in lare cities, while nearly all I have made extensive purchases of equipment. It is probably fair to assume that (he total cost of roadway, br dges, stationbuildings, terminal facilities, and equipment of these new lines averaged $25,000 i per mile; at wl.ieh rate it appears that not ' far from $325,000,000 have been expended ' ou the lines completed during the year. Hut oven this prodigious sum does not by any means covor nil tho outlay for new ennstruetiou, as n laive amount of grading and bridge-building bas been done on extensions where the track has not yet been . laid. I'Mitenlly the work ot the railway builder in 1887 has necessarily had n powerful inflneuee on the financial coudition of the country. The money which has thus been expended has temporarily employed a large unity of workmen, and ithasalsofurnishN , permanent employment to another great ! army, probably aggregating- at theaveiage 1 of five employes to a mile of road about 65,000 persons. An industry which in a ! single year furnishes permanent occupai liou for 05,t!0ii men, bes'dos temporary ' work for a still larger number, certainly promotes the prosperity of the people iu a wonderful degroe. Tho railway mileage of the Dnited States at the commencement of 1887 was Ktnted to be 137,;i8d m les. 1 ho extensions for the year here recorded increase it to 15(1,710 miles, and it may be said that, in round numbers, the United States to- : day has 151,000 miles of railway lines. ! This is indeed a wonder til record, and K gives impressive evidence of the enter- ' prise and prosperity of the people of this great republic.

Y0UN6 VOTERS, ATTENTION! Ooncise Statement of the Position Each Fatty Sustains Toward the Government.

What the Democratic Party Has Been in the Past It Bemains te This Day.

(From the New York TrtbUMd Thousands of young men are asking the question put by a correspondent iu the following letter: To the Editor of Ou Tribme Sin : Will you pleats inform me what ia the differ nee between a Hepublioau and a Democrat? Next year I snail be of ace aud shaiucast my first vote. A Veteran's Son. It is the same difference essent ally which has existed in the past between a Democrat and a Federalist, or between a Democrat and a Whin. From the foundation of the government there- have been two parties, one of which has desired lees and the other more legislation' on constructive issues of Natioul reform and progress. The Federalists desired So arm the 'National Government with requisite authority over tne States so as to insure its preservation. The Federalist Secretary of the. 'Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, proposed in one of his earliest reports a comprehensive scheme for the development of home industries, and the Whigs, in later times, under Henry Clay, became the champions of tariff legislation. Albert Gallatin, the first great Democratic financier, was a Tree Trader, and his party at every stage of its history has shown hostility to National industries. The Whigs and the Republicans have demanded unceasingly constructive legislation, for the nurture and maintenance of home manufactures. The Democrats have wanted no legisla

tion of this nature; and whenever a tariff

system has been established they have endeavored strenuously to overthrow it. The Bepubliean party was recruited from the ranks of the Whigs and Free Soilers, whose consciences revolted against slavery as a legalized institution in a free country, It demanded legislation against a system of human bondage dectading alike to masters and slaves. The Democratic party,' from the beginning of its history until the emancipation proclamation, was opposed to such legislation. When civil war burst npon the country it was still the defender of the slave-owning oligarchy; and precisely as it had opposed the Federalist doctrine of a strong, centralized National Government, it resisted coercion

of the Southern States in the first instance, and for four years, while the armies were in the field, was uniformly hostile to legislation for the vigorous and successful conduct of the war. The Morrill tariff, the legal-leader act, the -establishment of the National banks, emancipation and the constitutional amendments, the reconstruction policy and resumption were distinctively Bepubliean achievements in constructive legislation. The Democratic party was opposed to each and every demand for more leirUlalion. It wanted no legislation.

What the Demoeratio party has been in the past it remains to this day the party

mat w opposea heart ana soui to legisla

tion in behalf of national interests and

social and political reforms. Under Repub

lican taria legislation thousands or industries have been established, and American progress has become the marvel of Christendom. The Demoeratio party stands today for the repeal ot that legislation the foundation of the nation's present prosperity. The Republican party stands for the protection of those industries by legislation, and also for the protection of what should be the most sacred interest in the sight of every true man the American home. Since the Maine law was enacted, a generation ago, that party has been in sympathy with every legislative attempt for the restriction or suspension of the drink evil. In States where prohibition amendments have been carried the Republicans have supplied the votes. In States where high-license laws haye been proposed or enacted the same party has been the active agent of social reform. The Demoeratio party, true to its obs'ructive instincts, has been the unswerving opponent of legislation of any kind for the restriction of liquor traffio and the suppress on of intemperance and all the blighting evils of drink. It never was known to vote against a barrel of whisky. Before our young friend casta his first vote next year let let him' weigh well this fundamental difference between the party that wants legislation and the party Quit wants no legislation whenever issues involving the highest interests of the nation are raised. The Demo ratio party to-day is, as it has ever been, opposed to legislation by which national security, commercial prosperity, and social and political reform are promoted. The Bepubliean

.rty has always favored progressiva legis-

parti latio

i Dispute in the Order of Kuights ef Pythias, ; Philadelphia special. There is a dispute betweeti the Supreme ; Lodge of the United States and the I ennsylvania Orand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, i The latter claims the right of self-goveru-I ment lor itself aud the State lodges, which ' tho ! minor denies. The dispute may go to 1 tho eourls.

It is not so much the years we have spent as the use we have made of them i that will count when our life work is j leokojjed up.

A Definite Issue, Cleveland has settled one thing by his message; he has declared what shall be the issue to be decided by the Presidential campaign of 1888. It is to be the protective system of the country whether it is to be maintained or broken down. We give most hearty thanks to the President that he has compelled the Democracy to abandon their shifty, evasive attitude on the tariff, and that he has boldly interpreted the turgid, double-reading plank of the Demoeratio national platform of 1884 to mean a reduction of the tariff on a line which will break down its protective features and render it a tariff for revenue only. The Demoeratio party is to be consistent in its record. It is to continue to be the enemy of the best interests of the people and of oar nationality. Here is a clear-cut issue that must be met, and met squarely, by the Republican party. There must be no evasion of the real point. The Republican party is planted squarely on the principle of protection to American industries, and can await the shook of battle next November in the serene consciousness that tho majority of the people of the nation agree with it. This act of the President renders possible a new alignment. It puts the principle of protection on its trial before a jury of the Americau people. All other issues become subordinate, and the campaign w ill be fought out on the tariff. The friends of protection have nothing to fear, if they make good use of their time to enlighten the masses upon the question, and show olearlv that Cleveland s position necessarily means to reduce the stipend of every man who earns his own living by the work of his hands or of bis bra n; that it means a icduction all along the line to everybody in the country who works for wages,for hire, or for salary. There are always, in every community, a number of people who are more or loss

discontented witn existing eonaitions

"Whatever is, is wrong," seems to be the motto on which they act. They want "nrotfreBS." and are unmindful of the fact

' that mere change is not necessarily progress, but that it may be retrogressive just ! as often. There are thousauds of these j people in the United States to-day, who ' are too young to have actually experienced ' the evils under which the country labored ; in low tariff times, who favor the President's free trade policy simply because it ' ia something new, something different, i This is one of the four otasses of people I who will favor the breaking down of the i protective system. Tho other three are: 1 The importers and jobbers of foreign 1 goods, whose business will be enormously 1 increased and their profits correspond- : ingly enlarged and all others to whom an ! increase of imports would mean money profit. i The men of limited experience in actnal ; business, including professional men, the- ; orists.and dreamers, and a large timber of 1 other persons who are captivated by the showy theories of the Cobden Clnb propn- ; ganda, and adhere to free trade because ' they know no better. The mass of ignorant and unintelligent voters which has always been the peculiar

property of the Democratic party, who know nothing about the subject except what amkmhm, and iwvt,hansa Wftlittirians tail

then, and who will vote for anything that has the Democratic brand on it.

Of coarse the last class is the most nu

merous, though th third embraces a very large nnmber There are thousands of sincere but mistaken voters who are new inclined to vote with the Democrats on this

issue, because they do not understand it dearly. Hera is work tb do which must be done, and that promptly. The people must be aroused to the actual danger that men

aces us when tne enter executive of tne land devotes his entire message to this one issue, and practically demands of bis party friends in Congress that they shall pat his recommendation into the form of law. Let no Bepubliean waste one word won the Eastern mugwumps. They are free traders, almost to the hist man. Their feeling for Cleveland will now increase almost to the point of idolatry. They will vote a he directs, and they are definitely hast to the Republicans. Bnt the change in the situation gives us the certainty of carrying New Jersey and Connecticut on the tariff issue, ana New York also. The State, outside the city, is strongly Repablican and Paotsetioaiak Now let the hundred of Utonaandaof wagswagers in New Yo;k oity and Brooklyn hive demonstrated to -them clearly Uw'tMt ' that the striking down of the tariff means lower wag?s, less work, dnll times, stagnation, want and suffering, and the Empire State will roll up a majority for protection that will peralvce the Paesident The Democrats claim that they will carry the Northwest on the tariff issue. ' There rs not the slightest hope of that if the Republicans of those States do their dnty, and instruct the farmers of that section of the real effects that will follow revenue reduction. The prospects are bright for a sweeping Bepubliean victory on this issue. The one thing necessary is to concentrate the fight npon this one point, aad "edge the tinea with fire."- '1 oledo Blade, The Southern Issue, The colored orator and ex-Congressman, Hon. John B. Lynch, of Mississippi, will be scorned and derided by the Democratic press, of course, on account of his speesh in New York concern ing the suppression af the colored vote in the South. That is the only answer which such speeches reoeiv nowadays. The fa-la are no lon-er denied; tbey are simply laughed about in an insolent and boastful fashion by those who are responsible for them. It is very well known, as Mr. Lynch asserts, that bnt for the systematic process ' of fraud and violence by whkn the colored voters have been disfranchised by their former owners, "Mr. Cleveland could no more get the electoral votes of Mississippi. Louisiaua, and South Carolina than he could those of Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Ohio." They go through the forms of an election down there, but in the "practical sense, as Mir. Lynch declares, "the po la are closed as soon as the Democratic conventions are held." Only one party is reoogni.ed for any purpose in Southern politics, and on'y one race is granted the right to go to the ballot-box; in la :t, even white men find It unsafe and unprofitable to' vote unlosn they support the Democratic ticket. These things are notorious, and the Democratic party holds power by reason of them, and chuckles over them with "ghoulish glee," as if they were right and lawful and ered itable. There is nothing to be said in defense or

excuse of such a monstrous perversion of the principles and purposes of a republican

lorm ox government, una Btanonng reproach, not merely to Ute South, bnt to the whole oountry; and it can not be put aside with flippant and taunting remans about the waving of the bloody shirt. The majority of the American people believe in the sacredness of the Constitution and the enforcement of Its provisions in good faith all over the country; and they will certainly not much longer tolerate a condition of things in the South which makes a mockery of the supreme law of the land and enables

one political party to shut ont all others as

absolutely as it they naa no ngat to exist. If the particular States which pr ictic j tins infamous policy were alone subject to its effects, there might be some reason for treating the matter with inditferem.e; but the truth is that the evil extends to every State in the Union and involves wrongs which touch the very safety and integrity of the Government. There is a way to comEtl a change in this affair, and the Bepubcan party is bound in dnty and honor to insist npon having the remedy applied. The threadbare cry of bloody shirt can not distract -attention from facts and event which testify beyond oontradlotion that fair eleetions are unknown in the South. No other issue surpasses this in general importance; and it will have to be set led sooner or later, not by any sort of compromise,, but according to the strict demands of jtistioe, of honesty, and of loyalty. (jlog-Dewocrot. The felly af It. Senator Sherman brought the debate on Mr. Plumb's resolution to a focal point when he spoke of "the folly of some passages in tne President's message, notaldy the folly of endeavoring to create alarm because there was a surplus of $55,000,000 in the Treasury. " The Inter Oct out said something or the same kind on the day of the delivery of the message. Mr. Cleveland himself is to blame that there is such a surplus in the Treasury. Congress provided, as Mr. Sherman reminded the Senate, an appropriation of $14,HX),(K0 tor river and harbor improvements, it being

the opinion or ay. uievetana s cuter or tne department of engineers that nearly four times as much could be wisely and ptOJtably expended during the fiscal year. Mr. Oleveiand withheld his assent to the bill. Mr. Cleveland's personal following in Congress delayed the deficiency bill, with its appropriation of $5,000,000, beyoud the hour of legislative action. Bnt for the Presi- -dent and his Congressional toterie the surplus would have been less by $22,000,00 J. Nor is this all; his own Secretary of the Interior complains that that department has been conducted with direct loss of money to the Government and loss of time and money to laud buyers by reason of niggardly appropriations. A like watt is heard in the Postal Department The naval appropriations have been reduced, and also those for the military schools, lor the sole purpose of oreatiug a fictitious surplus which might be used as a means of creating alarm.' possibly panic, that might precipitate free-trade legislation. Nor ia this all; the amount of the surpb is has been exaggerated. Gross has bean n-ed as equivalent to net; a surplus of $140,000,000 bas been spoken of where only $66,000,000 remained alter liquidation ot claims. Bepubliean analysis of figures hss confirmed to the country that confidence wl.ieh the message of the President was calculated to destroy. It would really seem as it the Cobden-Calhoun-Cleveland free-

trade politicians had deliberately resolved to excite commercial terror, after having failed to convince commercial reason of the truth ot thoir fiscal dogmas. The Democratic party went into power, or rather into place, for as yet it has given no manifestation of power, upon a false alarm of danger from the Treasury surplus. It has not only failed to devise an original method of reduction, but has also failed to use the methods which tho Republican party left at its disposal. The Democratic party is incapable of making a safe and Sure reduction of either surplus or revenue. Its fictitious pan cea would certainly impoverish the country, and probably would increase the customs revenue. There is no difficulty in the way ot a quick and safe reduction of surplus and revenue other than the iucapa'-ity of the Democratic party and the willingness ot the Cobden Clubs to avail themselves of it. Chicago Jitter Ocean. Eugene Hiocins, having retired from the Treasury Department, is already booked ' for the pla e of Clerk of the lower bouse of tbo Maryland Legislature, HigginV record at Washington has made him glorious in the sight of tho Maryland Dentoo-raoy.--Philadelphia Hultetitt.

"Protection for American homes; protection for American ballots; protection for American industry, and wvteotma fat American itiseus,'' 4Vw ?w ff-ttnna,