Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

IE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, vil Bank is now open for the trtnskc|Of • genera! banking business. /tor and sell Town, Township and OIT Ordera. 26jy79tf PETEKSOX & HUFFMAN, HORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. fill practice in Adams and adjoining Especial attention given to colI,ins and lilies to real estate. Are NotS Public and draw deeds and mortgages il estate bought, sold and rented on rea»bls terms Office, rooms 1 and 2,1. C f building. 25jy7'Jtf - jffWLVATS J7' LAW, DECATUR.INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY at law, DECATVB, INDIANA. fllteml business promptly Attended Office up stAirs in Stone s building jior. U25n24 year 1. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in PATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, ipectncloH, cfco Repairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work

laughters, Wives, Mothers, ?/ A . U. 2lr. J. B. MARCHISf, UTICA, N Y. Dt-coviKEH <>r DR MARCHiarS TEKINE CATHOLICOS t POSITIVE CURE fOfi FEMALE COMPLAINTS. * Remedy wi I «c hi luirßieny with the nt mH um- «* and &)•»» imnud »»ely ri the abdominal aud uterin murt'w Hud ->rv the n to a hei'thy and -intujr condition. Dr. Marchi-i'a Uterine < atholic -n will cure ii'of the U’nmi, Leaecorrhcr i. Chronic In. a-na ion and Clo ratioa ol the womb, Inckteiu i-«ni rrhaze or Flood In 2. Painfif. >upprr*“vd it Irregn'ar Menrtrnitem. Kid' ey Comp'a’nt Nil- e?pec ally adapted to tne Chat ge »»f • ’f<‘. nd for pimph'et, «reeL A 1 l -te r o* i aniry an-wered A4dr»«*ai** «»*•• OR SALK Bl ALL DR I GGINT*. fr ?■ |! 5 ' per bottle. He “lire an<l »«k lor < »r. « liti't Uterine Cathobcnn Take tooth, r.

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The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J. HILL. Editor nnd Buainraa Manager. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. 57 PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DKCATUn. INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Pink 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charge* reasonable. Real dence en north aide of Monroe street, 4th bouse east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf ~ W. H. MYERS, - PricAr A* Stone Jlason ( ontrac'r DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kind* in his line. Persons conlemplaiii g building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v20n40m3. K N. WICKS. J. T. MKXRYMAN. yy ICKS <fc MERRYMAN, •Attorneys at Law AND Ileal Estate .Agents. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. I‘aXition, settlement of decedent's estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone's building—4th door. ▼ol, 25, no 24, yl DR. l< ITCH MILLE R will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of each month to treat all • hronic Diseases. Consultation free Call and see him. Alt letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua, Ohio, will leceive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case—v2sn36ly. Bf^©^Fu*F^ TboU9ftnds of k™™ fILIKJrtMP bLfl‘ re annually robbed ■ »^to>^ta»W of|lieir , ic|lms liTe , prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Impotent*}' (caused by excesses of any kina ) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, Lss of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the back, d mness of vision, pn mature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circular* with testlmonals free by mail. The I ill isolator is sold nt $1 per box, or six boxes for >5, by all druggists, or, will he sent fre? by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, 1 .fCIIEVEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Uhio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at Decatur

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1882.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. The fine residence of George Bailey, in Buffalo, was consumed by fire, involving a loss of 8150.000... .At Scranton, Pa., Mrs. James Ruddy, aftei removing from her burning house her children and invalid husband, w ent back to recover SM3 in gold from a bureau-drawer, and was burned to death. The petroleum gamblers of Pittsburgh, Bradford and other speculative centers have been going through a terrible experience recently. Under the pressure of the bear influences the market, wh ch had gone up to an unusually-high figure, took a sudden tumble, dropping from 11.05 to 86 cents m one day. The speculat »rs, who had forced up prices, found themselves overwhelmed in ruin. The excitement throughout the oil speculative regions was u pre-ce-dented. Mrs. Melville, whose case furnishes a strange parallel to that of Mrs. Scoville, was the heroine of a sensational episode in Brooklyn. Accomnan ed by her brother she went to Miss Sarah Capel's seminary, and carried off her daughter Maude. Th -ch Id had been placed there by Engineer Me ville. ....By the explosion of a tank a’ Greenpoint, Long island, the Brooklyn oil-works were damaged >IOO,OOO, andDe’rve’s refinery $60,000... .The wholesale price o coffee in New York is lower than has been known since the panic of 1857 Near Newburg, N. Y., a train on the Lehigh and Hudson railroad was wr eked. The engineer and fireman were scalded to death under the debris The body cf Dr. Lorenzo Ehrhart, of Allegheny City, I’a., was cremated at Washington, Pa., the process of incineration occupying two hours. The doctor was an earnest advocate of cremation as a means of disposing of the dead, and made arrangements in his will accordingly. THE WEST. The war among the Northwestern railroads culminated last week in the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul fixing the passenger rate at 50 cents between Chicago an I Rock Island, going both ways The Rock Island road retaliated by making the fare iromChicago to Cedar Rapids 50 cents, and t > Albert Lei >l. Freights from Chicago to Mankato and Sioux City were cut to 15 cents per 100 by the Ro k Island, Cedar Rapids, and Omaha lines.... Fire at Morris Minn., destroyed sev- rai business structures, including the Tribune offic •. Th loss is variously estimated irom >54,000t0 >150.000, with but proportionally small insurance... .The postoffice auih Titles s em to have >un against a ca*e of systematic mail-robbery soadioit as to battle inves' igation. The robbe: ies have occurred for several weeks in mails between Denver and Eastern cities, and without reckoning the thefts of money and valuables, the extent of which it is impossib e to correctly estimate, the losses in drafts, checks, moneyorders, etc., aggregate over >600,0U0. An early-morning fire in an Indianapolis boarding-house burned the establishment, and three domestics perished in the flames... .The County Poor-house near Davenport, lowa, was destroyed by fire, the sixteen inmates being safely removed. The large stove foundry of Bonnell, Duffy A Co., at Quincy, 111., wa* destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about SIOO,OOO Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, for many years an iflnuential member of Congress from Ohio, and a prominent figure in the politics of the country before and during the war. died the other day at his home in Hamilton, 0hi0... .William Wright and wife, residing near St. Louis, heard the report of a gun in their house while they were at work in a field. They soon discovered that their 6-year old son had playfully drawn a loaded shot-gun upon his younger sister, actually blowing away her head... .W. D. Hoyt, a telegraph operator at Leavenworth, quarreled over the wire with Mr. Bailey, Union Pacific train-dis-patcher at Lawrence. The latter refused to retract an offensive remark, and Hoyt traveled to Lawrence and shot him in the breast The schooner Collingwood was wrecked during the recent gale on Lake Michigan, fifteen miles northeast of Milwaukee. The particulars of the disaster are thrilling in the extreme. Four ot the crew, including the Captan, were lost The center-board chain parted, causing the board to drop down its full length. The additional strain proved too much for the old craft, which went to pieces. The sailors were left struggling m the water, and some of them went down. The three survivors had a terrible experience upon a raft One of them was rendered blind and insane, and died from the terrible exposure. They were rescu' d by the propeller Wisconsin, eight miles from Grand Haven. Two boys of Mrs. Nash, of St. Louis, whose complexions are decidedly dark, were recent y sent home from a public school as being of the negro race. The mother, a lady moving in good society, ha* previously proven that she is a Caucasian, but admksa litt e Indi.-n blood flows in her veins. Sonw of her chi dren are blondes. She is determined o contest the casein the courts.... Newbauer A Sons, o Milwaukee, one of the leading clothing firms of that city, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Depreciatio i in stock, indorsing for friends and the alleged peculations of a trusted employe are as<igne »s reasons for the failure, that it is feared will be followed by others.... Fiank James was taken from the jail at Independence to Kansas City, and arraigned in tne Criminal Court, where he pleaded not guilty to the robbery of the Independence Bank and the murder of Detective Wit her. His tria: was set for Jan. 22, an I he w;is taken back to Independence by the evening train. THE BUU tt The testimony of steamboat Captains and pilots before the Congressional River Commission at New Orleans was emphatically in favor of the outlet plan and against the extravagant levee system. Capt Leathers, who has been on the Mississippi longer than anv man now living, and whose practical knowledge of the subject is probably not exceeded by that of any man Jiving, is an earnest advocate of Ca;»t Cowdon’s p’an of drawing off the excess of water through natural outie!s prepared with especial reference to that result, and an equally earnest opponent of both the levee and the jetty gy sterna From the romantic region? of North Carolina, near Rockhill, comes the recitai of an extraordinary duel between two rivals in a love affair. They met in the road, armed respectively with an ax and a blu igeon. an 1 then and there fought it out to the death, the one with the club for his only weapon being killed by a frightful gash in the side, while the survivor was little better than detai when found. Petek Dick and Charles Roads, two Virginis 'Jerks with genteel aspirations, fought a desperate duel with knives in the hardware store where they were employed. Roa.te was shockingly mutilated in the region of the abdomen... .R. W. Barnwell formerly Senator from South Carolina, died at Columbia, in his 81st year. WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: The President and Cabinet are in favor of a reduction of taxes on tobacco and whisky and ’he a!>olition of all other internal-revenue duties, bringing down the receipts to >100,000,600 per annum. The Garfield Fair in the rotunda of the Capitol was opened by Piestdent Arthur, who made a few formal remarks expressive of his hope that the wishes of those who tad Inaugurated it would be realized. The for includes an art exhibit and a bazaar, and is a very creditable exhibition. The Department of Agriculture at Washington reports that, by reason of a clerical error in the department, the estima e f the yield of wheat in the abstract ot the

Commissioners* report was 100,000 000 bushels too small The estimated yield was 510,000,(MX) bushels, not 410,000,000. It is predicted at Washington that Judge French is to be removed from the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury, having been the object of attacks from manufactuier * di«sat iKti d with his tariff rulings ... .Thomas L Tulloch has been appointed Postmaster at Washington, in place of D. B. Ainger. Colgate Hoyt, of New York,has been appointed by Pre id ent Arthur Government Director of the Union Pacific Bai road, vice Spencer, removed... .Aven Pearson, of ( hicag , was pp inted Bm e in en lent «»f the CQiuiruiSMnai Record, to succeed Helm, lem ved. Gen. Henry’ L. Hazen, Chief of the Signal Service, predicts that the coming winter will be a mild one. His prediction is based upon a tho ou h examinat on of all indications in possess on ot the sign d office. Mr. Haz»m, in mnk ng th s prediction, disregards the as ertion ot meteoro ogists that a cool ‘Utnm r is invariably followed by a cold and stormy whiter. GENERAL. A furious wind storm prevailed on Lakes Huron a dEr e on th** 24th of November, causing many \\ recks of ves.-els. Fortunately th* re was little 10.-s of life. The business failures in the United Stat s and Canada, for the week ending Nov. 25, numbered 157, and were confin id princlEallvti the smaller class of traders. The astern States had eighteen ailures; Western, lorty-nine; S uthern, twenty ihr e; Middle, tw< nty-si\: P iciiic, eleven; Can ida, sixteen; a.id New York city, fourteen. The aggregate clearings reported by twenty-five clearing-houses for the week ending Nov. 28 reach- d the stupendous sum ui ci,o.) ■, i'.r.i, '.r.ry in s was an increase of more than S3bO,(XX»,(XX) over th*‘ previous Week, and has rarely, if ever, been equaled in the history of the American financial world. Ex- Attorney Genfral McVEAGHhas made public a letter addressed by him to President Arthur just before his retirement from the ' abinet In tliis letter Mr. MacVeagh insists upon the acceptance of his resignation, and gives his reasons for declining t<> rec<ni-ider it. He states that President Garfield became satisfied early in his administration of the enoimity of the star-route iniquities and was earnest in season and out of season to get to the bottom of the cases and secure the punishment of the guilty. The day before President Garfield was shot he directed Mr. MacVeagh to offer r Mr. Riddle the District Attorn whip, but this arrangement was prevented by the assassin's bullet FOREIGN. Gladstone denied in the British House of Commons that the Irish Arrears act was a failure, as the full benefits of its provisions ha I not yet become apparent Trevelyan, Secretary for Ireland, informed the House that the Government were doing their utmost to improve the cond.tion of the country, ami would see to it that distress would be alleviated in whatever district it made its apj earauce. In the Commons the procedure rule was carried by a vote of 82 to 26. It provides t hat if the Speaker believe that a mot ion to adjourn is made for the purpose of obstruction, he may put the question from the chair... .On the appeal of Great Britain, the Spanish Government will liberate the Cuban re;ugees seized near Ma ta, on the promi-e that they shall not return to Havana. The Khedive ordered a column to move to the Soudan to check the onward march of the False Prophet, but it is said the troops, well kuowing the dangerous charact-er of the expedition, and min Iful ol the fate of thousands of their comrade* who have been slaughtered by the barbaric legions of the pretended successor of Mohammed, refused to pre ceed unless they are given Arabi as their leader. The outlook is said to be gloomy in France from a variety of causes. Paris Is at fever heat, and some new and stirring development* in 'he political situa*ion cannot be much longer deferred. England watchea the progress of affairs with profound attention, but with too much skepticism as to the future of the republic... .English capitalists r-gard with disfavor the tricks of Wall s reet. The general condition ol English financial affairs is good, the only disturbing<cement being from N w York.... Detect vc ('ox w s fatally shot in the streets of Dubiin by a man named (hristophei Dow- ing. Detective last wood pursued the a-sassin and sh t him in the head, arm and hand, and he is not expected to re over It seems that a paitv of ten men had come out ot a public house frequented by Fenians, when they commenced to fire on the officers. Fourteen lives were lost by the sinking of the French steamer Cambronne, in the English Channel... .Fourteen persons were killed an 1 many wounded by the fall of a tram through a bridge at Fyvie, Scotland. Dennis Field, one of the jurymen who found a verdict of guilty against Hynes for murder, was passing along one of the main thoroughfares of Dublin at Yioon. A c; r < ontaining two men drove rapidly up, and one of the men jumped off and stab lied Field several times wiih a sword, inflicting •njuries which are expected to result fatal ly. It is believed that the murderers of Cox the detective, were lying in wait for a party of Judges wi o had been d ning togeth* rin Mountjoy Square. Several arrests have been made in connection with the affair. A m b attacked the Jervis Street Hospital. where Dolan, the murderer of Cox, was being i rented. The crowd was dispersed bv the police ami the hospital guarded.... Gambetta ac< identady shot himself in the hand at Paris.... ..Baron Manteufel, the Prussian statesm ;n, died at the age o 77.... .The Russ an police have arrested 180 students for revolutionary’ demonstrations. Troops fired into a gathering at Kazan University, and killed three. CHIEF EXC.IXEER WRIGHT. Hi*» River anil Harbor Budget for 1883-84. Gen. Wright, Chief of Engineers, tn his an nna report to the Secretary of War, recommends the expenditure of the amounts mentioned below during the fiscal year ending June 30,1881: For the improvement of Western rivers and harbors: Mississippi river, between U linois and Ohio rivers, 81,010,000—the appropriation asked for to be applied to completin'' the worksnowprogresdng.and beginning new works below Foster’s island: removing snags trom the Mississippi, from the mouth of tne Missouri to Vicksburg, $170,000; rent ving snags from the Missouri river, 8108.000; for snagboat, to be used above Omaha, 880,000; survey of the M ssouri, from the mouth to Fort Benton, Montana, $5'100,1; improvement of the M s’ouri, from the mouth to Sioux City, 81,000,000; estimated amount required tocompl de existing project. 87,150,000; improving the Mississippi: From St. Paul to Des Moines ra ids. 8750,000; from Des Moines rip ds to mouth ' f Illinois river, *50.1.000; ns rvoirs upon headwaters of M ssissippi, 8500,000; impr vement Ohio river, I'.SO.OOO; Duluth harbor, SlO >,lbO; harbor of refuge Milwaukee bay, 83.-0.000 ; Wisconsin river, *500,000; Chic igo harbor, 82-'.0,O.I0; 11l in .is river, *J2S,O(»'; Michigan City (Ind.) harbor, *200,000; Cleveland A estern nt m has been telling some Philailelphians how Western cities grow, lie . ays he went off into the mountains hunting, and, night coming on. he went to sleep in a tree, to be out ot reach of the wolves. He was awakened early next morning by some workmen, who told him to get down, and finish his nap on the Court House steps, as they wanted to turn that tree into a fl:ig-nol<‘ for the hotel across the way. He got down, and, while rubbing his eyes, was nearly run over by a streetcar, cud got his feet tangled in an elec-tric-ught wire.— Phila'.leiphia Newt.

REMOVED FOR CAUSE. President Arthur Summarily Bounces Several Washington Officials. They Are Charged with Improper Conduct hi the Star-Route Cases. [Washington Telegram.] A thunderbolt has fallen upon the starroute defendants, and the Government has at given undoubted evidence that it is very much in earnest in the prosecution. The President late this afternoon ordered | the summary dismissal from office of Henry, Un ted States Marshall of the District; Ainger, Postmaster of Washington; Parker, Assistant Postmaster; Spencer, Government Director, and Heim, foreman of 'he Record at the Government printing office The charges made by the administration a/a ns these officials are these-. That all of them have obstructed the a ministration cf ; justice m these cases, either by direct aid or by public expressions of sympathy. As to Marsha' Henrv, the accusation is this: that, at an interview in Cleveland during the progress of the star-route trial, he indulged in gross abuse of Mr. Bliss, spec a counse for the United 8 at s, an I de lared that the Government had no case; that throughout the pro r -ss of the trial he expressed sympathy w th some of the del endants. particularly with D rsev, who was a resident of his own sect : on in Ohio, and that he, when the panel from which the jury was drawn was exhau ted, so arranged it that talesman who would be satis i act oxy to the defense were chosen. As to Postmaster Ainger. the charge is j that he, when Assistant Postmaster, was impugned by two postoffice inspectors as to the certification of bogus bonds in the starroute cases, and that, whether these acts were true or not, the fact that Mr. Ainger is the proprietor of a newspaper in Michigan, and that during the last trial hewr- teto his paper, over his own signature, denouncing the had instituted the prosecution, and declaring that the Government had no case, is regarded as sufficient cause for his removal. As to Helm, the fact that he is the busi- j ness manager of the Critic, which has been virulent in its abuse ot the Government prosecution, and of all who approve it, is considered sufficient for his removal from the position of foreman of Government printing. Ex-Senator Spencer’s refusal to obey the summons of the court is assigned as the cause for his removal. These removals, announced just after dark, were a great local sensation. [Another Telegram.] Scarcely anything but the removal o c the ■tar-route sympathize! s has be n ta ked of in political circies t i-day. The President’s a•tion is believed to be a pledge <-t more vig rous measures in the prosecution of Brady, Dorsey, et a . Attorney General Brewster is warmed up for work, and au order has gone forth to give no quarter. I Bumors of other dismissals are as plenty as blackberries. There are star-route sympathizers in almost every department of the Government, some of them occupying high posl- | tion*. The names of seventeen are in the hands of the President, and their heads may be chopped off at any moment District Attorney Corkhill and Public Printer Rounds are said' to be among those marked for the ax. The beheaded Marshal Henry was interviewed at Cleveland by a newspaper correspondent, and declared h msolf the scapegoat selected to bear the burden of the failure of the stnr-raute prosecutions. He cited the fact that the two jurors selected by him had all the way through voted for conviction. Bob Ingersoll pronounces th removals an effort to terrorize the jury. He declares Marshal Henry to be a* horn st a man as ever lived, and says there isn’t a word of truth in the letters ot Brewster and Bliss. Postmaster Ainger, and his assistant, Parker, addressed a U tter t» the President asking an investigation of their acts by a commission. He m, in an interview’, says that he is a persecuted man, and proclaims his belief in the innocence ot Brady et al. PUBLIC PRINTING OFFICE. . Proposed General Engraving Establish, ment. Public Printer Rounds will recommend t< Congress that a photo-lithographic and general engraving establishment be added to the Government Prin ting Office. Al most ev erv one of the greater publications of the Government now involves more or less illustration.*. The drawings, with the copy, are simply sent to the Public Printer, with directions to issue the books. The result is that a large amount of the appropriation for the office is annually consumed in th s manner, about w’ ich there is a good deal of uncertainty un ler the present plan of doing the work. There eing no applianeesat the Govern men Printing Office <ox making lithographs, en ravings or maps, the Public Printer is oblig'd to advertise lot bids an 1 let the contrac to outs de p irties for doing the wor<. The result is very often that, owing to au understanding among rhe lithographers, of which there are not many estab ishments, or trom other causes, it is impossible to get a very low rate for the ws»rk whi his obliged to be done. The low est responsible bidders haying secured the contract, the pu lication of the volume then depends upon the promptness with w< i h they execute t eir agreement The Pu lie Printer may have all the type sei or even the letter press ready, an 1 then havs to wait weeks and perhaps mouths before the volume can be bound, owing to the delays in the d liverv or the illu trat ons. There are two great objects to be gained by the g vernment doing its own worK—cheapness and rapidity. AGRICULTURE. Commissioner Loring's Annual Report. George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, in his annual report to the President. estimates the following as the grain . yield for 1882: Bushels. f orn ...1,635,000,600 Wheat 7.7.*.7. 41‘JW. 00 Oats 470,060,000 Barley 45, 1 'oo.ooo p ve 20,00 ',OOO Buckwheat 1-» (,, X»,000 “The business of manufacturing sugar from sorghum at the < epartment,” says the report, “having failed in 1881. an 1 h ;vm<g furnished discouragement to those engaged in it, I have called upon sorghum manufacturers themselves for such information as they could furnish in an accurate manner for the benefit of the industry they represent. I have aso made the same request of the manufacturers of sugar from beets. I have received assurances from nearly’ 100 manufacturers that they will contribute to this work, and feel confident I shall in this wav receive a great amount of valuable information 1 have endeavored, from the beginning of my connection wth the‘ epartment, so to conduct the work perl nned here, as part of that interesting investigation into the values of s rghxnn now go»ng on m the field of the farmer and the mill of the manufacturerand laboratory of the chemist, as to secure for what appears to be a growing industry all the information which unprejudiced science and the l>est practical skill can prov.de; and I trust the knowledge 1 have gathered will, when published, oe found to be of value Two sites, both in Colorado, have been selected for artesian well a lu the forestry division increased activity has been shown,' a special agent having been api o nted to collect information west of tha Mississippi SL PERVISISG INSPECTOR DUMONT. Bis Report upon the steamboat Inspectiol Service. Supervising Inspec tor General Dumont, 1e his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 3d last, giv s the following statistics of the steamboat inspection service: Number of vessels inspected, 5,117; tonnage of sams 1,295,564; officers licensed, *A’.467. s-owiufi

| an increase over the previous ye ir in the | number of vess 1 s ol 338, in tonnage of 74.I 561, and toe number of licenced officers, 2,669. I I The total receipts fro r all sources during' I the y ar w re >279,889.30; total expendi- j ture-, $227,615.63; receipts over exp.m li-| tur s, $52,273 67. The total number of ac- 1 | cidents to sieim vessels during th ■ year, reI suiting in 1< ss or life were forty-on ■. L ves lost from a cidents to steam vess Is 205, oi I which but filty-stx wee lives of passengers. 1 Total persons car ied during the year, 354 - I 070,447. This number ivided by 2-i5, the number of lives 1 st, shows one life lo trc each 1,727,172 per ons carried, a* ag iiist o f life lo t in cacti 55,714 persons carrie 1 in the fifty-one years previous to the enactment ol the first efficient steamboat laws. In the year last-named ther were 39,000,000 p sseugers carried, and 700 l.ves lost. WORK AM) WARES. Some Useful and Interesting: Statistics ix Regard to Our Manufacturing Industries. Census Bulletin No. 301, recently issued from the Census Bureau at Washington, gives statistics of certain kinds of manufact- , ures in this country, including agricultural j implements, ammunition, boots and shoes, i bricks and tiles, firearms, lumber sawed, and j paper, and we condense these stat sties into I the following general particulars. In the I matter of the manufacture and production of agricultural implements we have the following general results: Number of establishments 1,943 Capital invested $62,109,A5*.0r. Value of materials 111,531.17 Vain of products $68,<>40,486.00 Paid for wages $15,359,610,00 Persons employed— Males 38,313 Females over 15 years 73 Children 1,194 Total employed 39,580 Average yearly wages (312 days) $ 358.00 J Daily average wages $1.24 In the manufacture of boots and shoes, 1 not including custom work and repairing, we have the following details: Number of establishments 1,959 Capital invested $12,991,028.00 Value of materials $ 02,44?,442.00 Value of products $166,050,354.00 Paid for wages $43,001,438.00 Persons employed— Males 82,547 Females over 15 years 25,122 Children 3,483 I Total employed 111,152 Average yearly wages $387.00 Average daily wages (312 days)..... $1.20 In the manufacture of bricks and tiles the following are the details returned by the census: Capital invested $2R,C73,616 j Value of materials $.‘,728,614 Value < f products $32,833,587 , Paid for wages $13,444,532 ] Persons employed 66,155 1 Including children 7.055 i Average yearly wages >204 Average daily wages, 65 cents. The reports of the manufacture of firearms show the following results: ! Capital invested $8,313,289 Value of materials $1,781,316 Value of pr iducts $5,618,636 Paid for wages $2,560,089 Persons employed 4,847 The repor-s ot the lumber sawyers show the to lowing particulars ot that industry: Capital iavested $181,186,122 ] I Value of materials $146,155,385 Value of products >233,‘67,729 1 Paid for wages $31,845,974 Persons employed 14L956 Average annual wages $215 Average daily wages, 69 cents. The manufacturers of paper made the fol- , lowing returns of the result of their busi- I ness during the census year. We give the d‘ t dis of their exhibit: Capital invested $46,241,202.00 ■ Number of establishments 692 j Materials used — Rags, tons 187.917 ' Old paper 87, *4O l Waste cotton 12,038 Manila stock 84,786 I Corn stock 954 Straw 243,838 I Value of above material-* $21,581,240.00 | Chemical* $3,628,798.00 i Other matcria's $7,<89,49'.00 j Pulp purchased $1,681,762.00 , Total value of materials $.33,931,29 .00 Value of product* $55,109,914.00 1 Person* employed, males 16,133 Females over 15 years 7,646 j Children 64.) Total employed 24,442 Paid for wages $8,524,855.00 Averaje yearly wages $329.00 Averaxe < 1 ail y w ages $ 1.06 The following table >h ws the capital invested, the number of hands employed, the I amount of w; ges paid, tne value of materials used and the value of products for all the establish m -nts of manufacturing in lustry, gas excepted, in each of the S.a es and Ter- , ri orie* mentioned, as leturned in the census of 1SS»: —il — ? 3 : • : : : I I / " -5 x oG?»c ’ •H3uauni*nq«isa jo xaqumi»; c -1 •- -X -1 Ii — *- —• x — — x c g ® M gt * PRIdBO >- - - "T 1 |• • • pa.£oi<taia s uro tgy dAoqa -■’•x s 'l vlu 1° atfaioAV I ~ .. - peA q Into si oAoqv ; ® 77-1 L~. ;< I SO|«IUOS jo joqianu uSrjoav . I poAoidtuo sqinoX pu* o c uujpipp jj-ioquma o.ujjjay 77 I an >A otp fiaunp | s&tBM <ll pjud guuoiu* [vqoj 11l I : ** S S =5 I pnpojd jo an pa at c* -• ix to I A MAIL MARVEL. Initiating Cheap Postage — The Ehrlich Combination Letter and Envelope Adopted by the Gov<*rmnent. [Washington Telegram.] The Postmaster General has taken a step which it is believed in some quarters will materially affect the future operations and reforms of the department This was in the conclusion of a contract with Mr. Leo Ehrlich, of St Louis, for the use of his recent ingenious invention of combinati m letter-sheet and envelope. The con:ract was sign rd to. day. By the middle of January the Ehrlich invention wid be on sale at the principal postoffic *s in the country, in the shape o a letter-sheet and enve ope and stamp, all for Svens, and a circular letter and enveope and s amp for 1 cent, adding c »st o' pat er. The unstamped arti le will ii 'd its way into the market thiou.’h the s ationery wor d. This is a return to the simplicity of correspondence as it was before envelopes w rinvented, without returni g to bedDadya 11 a<res of sealing wax, tapersand wafer*. Th single etter sh.ee s are manufactured w tb gummed flaps, which, when the s’l ct is folded, la? over the two open edges and entire the misdv*, £a * Goveram mt stamp is to beembo sed on one of these flaps, which come over like the flap on an envelope, an i the whole thii.g is licked, stamped and seal d with the sane motion. Thi * brin rs the stamp where he old wafers and f eal use I to l>e, instead of being u on the upp?r right-hand corner. Th* Postmaster will not be compelled o I apply the can -ellalion stamp, as the letter? cannot be opene * nor the embo Bed st imp removed withou d steoyin r the stamp. While'he whole arrangement look* lis- a neat trick, the prmcipa' a Lanta re b its cheapness, both to the Government and to the general public. A New York bride will receive among her presents an order for twenty tons of coal. I h practical-minded dona* I probably forgot that she would have » t husband to warm her cold feet on.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The National Grange. The Committee on Agriculture made the following report: Agriculture absorbs the labor of the people to a greater extent than any other industry, the proportion of our population thus en- ‘ gaged being about half, and, as the character of their labor does not periMl i idlers to enter, the proposition that ag- I ricnlture engages more time, thought and effort than all other industries will ' be accepted as true. It is also true that all this labor expended in the prodne- I tion of food and raiment has an object i i beyond mere subsistence of the laborers ! and others depending on them. That 1 object is the betterment of all persons j i employed in the field—competence foithe faithful, support for the feeble and infirm, education for all to the limit of capacity, especially that practical edu- ! cation which, in its application, ang- I ments the benefits flowing from labor. ; In short, social, intellectual and ma- : terial advancement, all in a large dei gree dependent upon the immense rei suits of labor. Beyond all this, as the sum of material blessings, the highest good for all people, peace, plenty, thrift, intelligence, morality, has intimate relations with prosperous agriculture. All these constitute the grand objects for which we strive. They are the blessings hidden in the soil and the rains and the air, separate as elements, which nothing but toil will combine into the useful products that feed, bless and clothe all people. • It is our province to supply the conditions by labor, through which nature transmutes these elements into products 1 that in their use lift mankind to the highest place of useful endeavor, if left free from arbitrary check. Such great good made possible through our labor, implies, also, great responsibility, from which there is no escape, except in faithful intelligent, persistent effort, that ends not with sowing and reaping, but blinds us to wise distribution of products, free from all tax beyond the elements of cost, carriage, handling and the fair profit that each branch o* labor is entitled to receive. That they are not thus free is a fact ‘ that excites just alarm, not only in the minds of intelligent farmers, who see present or prospective distress in all artificial burdens placed on their industry, but in the minds of men -w hose minds are moved by philanthropic considerations. Thes? burdens are seen in arbitrary exactions, imposed by men ■who establish charges for carrying based on the capacity of soil and products to yield profit in the service, rather than I on the cost of service—a power exercised in defiance of just rights inherent i in the persons whose faithful labor is ■ the primary claim to profits so diverted, a power wholly irresponsible until there shall be established, by the will of the people, laws defining the general relations between the various branches of I industry from the producer to the user. In another vsiy the products of our labor are made subject to hurtful fluctuations in prices, by which our rewards i are rendered uncertain, or even wholly . lost, so far as profits are concerned. It I is in the combinations of men who speculate in prices— men who are able to, and who do, employ vast sums of money to depress prices by ficticious purchases, at low rates, thus preventing real transactions at prices based ou natural conditions. This is nothing more, nothing less, than gambling, and, as a rule, we are compelled to pay the losses which ! constitute onr whole show in the transj action. Until correction of these wrongs I is made, and their recurrence prevented, our industry will continue tributary to the good of men and combinations of j men who regard justice with contempt J and whose deeds curse the world, whose touch is as a blight on our crops, whose hearts are chilled by avarice, whose instincts lean even to the thirtv pieces of silver, although they be the price of j suffering by those whose toil nature would reward by blessings to mank ind. We ask that gambling in the products of our labor be interdicted by law. It is no answer to say “it cannot be done.” Laws may be enacted to forbid the unholy traffic; and penalties for every violation or evasion be enforced. The will of the people, when exercised, moulds their character. Their w ill may make law even without statute enactj ment. AVhen we, as farmers, armed | with the elective franchise, resolve to j correct abuses, and, having resolved, proceed to act—the way w ill be open, and will have no tortuous direction. We wait for what? Because we doubt the justice of our claims ? Are we so abject that we do not recognize bond- . age as the synonym of degradation ? Is I it true that we have such pusalanimity of character that dare not obey thg law which makes self-preservation a press- ! ing condition of existence? Answer ■ will sometime be made, and if we have wisdom at all comparable with our patjence there will not be long delay. We have not designed to recount grievances with a purpose of exciting sympathy we do not deserve. For the disabilities placed on our industry we are chiefly responsible, inasmuch as i they can exist only by sufferance. While thought is inert there will be no I action to free our toil from the incubus that may neutralize the blessings of a most fruitful season, and with this danI ger always impending our free institu- ; tions based on equality of rights and privileges for all citizens are swiftly moving on untoward. When the chief industry of the land is the football of schemers, and burdened with taxes varied in kind and ruinous in extent, it is time to qualify patience by the dignity of action. Agriculture pays the civil list. It builds levees, opens artificial waterways, builds ships and railways, encourages and supports manufactures, it is the basis of foreign exchange —all this, indirectly, it may be. but none the 1 less really. All this it will continue to , do, at least, in its just share, but, when robbery begins, then let our protest be 1 made in tones that shall reverberate in every capital with such effect that no selfish or political ambition can stand against it. ’ How shall we as reprentatives of an industry thus wronged, an industry that meets with careful alacrity every real ’ obligation, organize for its defense? There can be but one way, and that is in wise political action, wholly free from that partisan bias against which the ; gates of this order are closed, and the s voice of the people recently emphasized » protest as the public never heard bei We violate bo principles of our order

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when we exercise ever right inherent in onr manhood and citizenship, but it is our right to make government and shape its policy so that it may dispense blessing, not curses. We ask no special privileges, no concessions; we offer no petitions and make no demands for favors; we want none, but we must have restoration of that equality which is the underlying principle of the government founded by our fathers, and this will not come without action on the part of the great body of our people engaged in agricultural pursuit ; hence our desire for immediate and effective organization for the special purpose already defined. Attainment can only be had througn wise legislative action, and that must come directly from our efforts, as it surely will, when we exercise the pow er we possess. Let us hasten to the work, and that the manner of preparation may be freed from all doubt, the following resolutions are submitted: Resolved, That in the exercise of the elective franchise we shall recognize allegiance to principle as the only safe rule of action. Resolved, That we repudiate all leadership in politics, except that which tends to the advancement of the material interest of all our people through the exercise of the virtues that dignify and ennoble citizenship. Resolved, That safe protection for our industry against organized extortion implies suitable and in some degree proportionate representation in State and national legislatures. Put Darden, Mississippi; C. G. Luce Michigan ;J. M. Blanton, Virginia; L. Rhone, Pennsylvania; J. L. Neal, Kentucky ; W. A. Armstrong, New York. Indiana'* Fducational Exhibit. Statistics which have been competed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and will be included in his forthcoming annual report, will show the following relative to the schools of the State: Number of school-houses — stone, 83; brick. 2.481; frame. G. 944; log, 48; total. 9,556; number of rooms, not recitation rooms, 2,282. Kstimated value of school-houses, including building grounds, seats, etc., $11,907,391.09; estimated value of school apparatus, viz,: globes, maps. etc.. $403,513.43: total estimated value of school property, $12,310,904.51. The special tax on each SIOO, 21 cents; special tax on each poll, 44 cents; total estimated special school tax, $1,235,359.06. Local tax for tuition assessed on each SIOO, 15 cents; local tax for tuition assessed on each poll, 33 cents. Number of volumes in township library, 274,257; number taken out during the year, 305,226; volumes added to library, 5,825. Amount paid trustees for managing educational matters. $89,392.37. Number of sohool-houses erected during the year, 303. \ nine of school-houses erected during the year, $354,439.81. Report of private schools —Number of private schools taught in public, etc., 365: male teachers, 167; female teachers, 441; number of pupils admitted within the year, 12,852; average daily attendance, 8,659; average cost of tuititon per pupil per month, $1.17. Number of township institutes during the year, 4,299. The New State House. The brick-work on the new State House has been stopped until after winter, and the walls will be placed under protection from the frosts. During the winter months a small number of workmen will be employed in preparing the stones to be placed in position next summer, and in putting up the iron work and marble columns of the upper corridor. The contractors have succeeded in pushing the w ork forward as rapidly as expected, and evervtliing is now in a condition quite satisfactory to the Board of Commissioners. No appropriation for additional improvements will be asked the Legislature, as the 2 cent annual tax will, it is thought, bo ample for the expenses during 1884 and 1885. The building will be roofed, it is thought, by the latter part of 1884, but the legislative halls will not be ready for use by the General Assembly of 1885, and it is not likely that the finishing tounches will be put upon the building before 1886, at least. A Bond of Acquaintance. A jolly crowd of commercial travelers sat in the reading room of a Chicago hotel, cracking jokes and tilling “ghost” stories, when in came a slapsided, gawky Hoosier, who, thinking himself unobserved, quietly ear down and took in all the fun. One of the boys, without calling anybody’s attention to the country man, casually remarked, as he pointed to a chum who was reading a paper: “I shouldn't think dim Bennett w ould sit there and pour over that old sheet. Why, if I was as rich as he is I d raise the roof right off this house.” The countryman's eyes fairly bulged out with wonder when he heard this allusion to the editor of such a big paper, and he slowly gathered himself up and shuffled toward the chair occupied by the alleged Bennett. Gazing at him curiously for a moment, ho said, in a faltering voice, “are you Mr. Bennett, the editor of the New York Herald?” The drummer looked up in amazement ; but, catching a wink from the rest of the boys, he quietly replied: “That's what people say.” “Gosh!” exclaimed the Hoosier. “Well, my lad.” benigmuitly said the pseudo editor, “what can I do for you?” “Why, sir,” murmured the almost paralyzed youth, “why, sir, my —my brother takes the Herald Do you know him ?” The supposed Bennett fainted, and the rest of the crowd went into hysterics. while the Hoosier didn’t stop walking until he struck the State line.— Drake's Travelers’ Mayatine. Over sixty years ago a mm name? George Scott, then working at th« blacksmith's trade in Chillicothe, Ohio, made a bicycle after his own rough model, and astonished the natives ol that place, then a village, by appearing on the streets with it. As in a man’s life, so in Ins studies 1 think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.— Pliny. The Toronto Globe says that the average expenses of the students in Toronto University for fees, board, . books, earner. clubs. someties, etc., are i but $250 each per academic wear of I thirty-one weeks.