Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTEIXIGENOE. Kmc. It stormed at intervals last week at New York, and then there was a copious rain, which will probably have the offect of averting the water famine. There is a prospect that the New Yorkers may be enabled to take baths without going to Brooklyn, and that the saloonkeepers can take down the placards advising customers to use water moderately. The extensive brewery of Mayer & Bachman, at Clifton, Staten Island, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $500,000, and hundreds of employes are idle. The Mechanics’ National Bank of Newark, N. J., for many years regarded one of the most stable financial institutions in the State of New Jersey, suspended payment. Its cashier, Oscar L. Baldwin, was arrested a few hours afterward, and confessed that he was entirely to blame for the suspension; that he had misapplied $2,000,000 of the funds of the bank. Like most men in his position he was “ completely prostrated” by the fact that his rascality was found out His explanation is that in 1873 he began to makedoans to C. Nugent & Co., morocco manufacturers of Newark, asking neither the sanction of the bank Directors nor security from Nugent & Co. Having begun, he says be fult that he was in the power of the firm, and made loans to them whenever they wanted, sometimes loaning them as high as $50,000 a month without any security whatever. The Nugent firm promised that all loans would be made good, that it had plenty of property, and also assured him that there would be no trouble. Baldwin's story will do to investigate. It is evident he has not told the whole truth. He affects great sorrow for his sins, and says he is ready to go to the penitentiary to ekpiate them.

Under the inspiration of Mrs. Ballou, the evangelist, the authorities of North Bennington, Vt., quietly raided seven saloons, spilling all their liquors in the streets. The Bostonians are going into the world’s fair business with earnest energy. A circular is to bo sent out to prominent merchants and manufacturers, and subscription books are to be opened in a few days. At the Home for Aged Women in Boston, Mrs. Emma W. Skelton passed away at nearly 104 years of age. "VV eat. Secretary Windom is said to have proposed to President Garfield at Leng Branch the week before the latter w'as shot, a plan of civil-service reform for the Treasury Department. This plan, which met with the approval of the late President, proposed to allot to each State a number of appointments ; the appointment of a committee of thiee in each State before whom candidates for the places should be examined at least once a year, the examination to be so conducted as to test the experience and capacity of the applicants ; appointments to be made from among those who stood highest on the list, according as vacancies to which the State of the applicants was entitled occurred. It was also contemplated that, other things b( ing equal, soldiers, their widows and children should have a preference. The wreck of the steamer Jennie Gilchrist floated down tbe Mississippi to Buffalo, and lodged against a tree. The corpse of William Wendt, of Cordova, was found in the cabin. The body of Mrs. Mary J. Camp was recovered twelve miles below Davenport. 0. F. Johnson, of Moline, 111., and John McCall, of Le Claire, lowa, are known to have perished making thirteen victims. Tiiree young men in a saloon at St. Louis got into a dispute, when one of them, Henderson, in trying to shoot at his comrades, struck two bystanders, one of whom has since died and the other is in a critical condition. At the residence of Hon. W. H. H. Muir, hear Lawrenceville, 111., Albert Nichols killed John Tenehan, his rival for the hand of a servant girl. The Minnesota House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the adjustment of tiie old bonded debt by a vote of 77 to 29. Rough estimates of the damage caused by the recent flood along the Mississippi river, between Keokuk, lowa, and Louisiana, Mo., place the total at $2,930,000.

Gov. Cullom lias issued a proclamation prohibiting the importation of cattle into Illinois from ten counties of Pennsylvania, thirteen counties of New Jersey, five counties of Maryland, three of New York, one of Connecticut and one of Delaware, unless accompanied by a certificate of health signed by a duly-authorized veterinary surgeon. Gov. Cullom gives as his leason for the. proclamation his belief that pleitro-pneumonia exists in the districts herein named. Mrs. Garfield has removed to Cleveland, where she will occupy for the winter one of the handsomest residences on Euclid avenue. Her health is excellent. Mrs. Garfield went to Painesville last week and took out letters of administration, the bondsmen being Revenue Collector Streator and Postmaster Sherwin, of Cleveland. The main property is tho house at Washington and the farm at Mentor. The life insurance of $50,090 has been equally divided between the widow and family. Snow fell at various points throughout tbe Northwest on the 3d of November.

POINTS. The President has appointed Clifford Stratham I’o.-tmister at Lynchburg, Ya., in place of Wilson, suspended, in accordance with the programme arranged by the last Senatorial caucus. Congressman J. 0. Burrows, of Michigan, announces himself a candidate for the Speakership, and has already commenced an active canvass. Secretary Blaine is credited with saying that he believes that President Arthur’s Cabinet after the Ist of January will be a Grant Cabinet from top to bottom. He seems to tbiuk that ex-Senator Frelinghuysen will succeed him as Secretary of State, at latest by the Ist of January. Mr. Blaine wiU recommend no more Consular appointments. He will leave that matter to his successor. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Drum, in his annual report to the General of the Army, says the losses of the army during the year were : Deaths, 248 ; discharges, 6,564 ; desertions, 2,361 ; total, 9,173. The number of recruits assigned was 3,895 ; the number of soldiers re-enlisted, 1,964; total, 5,769. This shows an increase of 1,260 discharges, 13 deaths and 318 desertions. The General recommends a change in the method of promotion to the rank of field officers below the rank of Colonel, and this end he thinks can only be attained by promotion in the army instead of by commission in a particular regiment. Lieut. Hoxie, of the Engineer Corps, in a report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, recommends the reclamation of the Potomac Flats, which would be of great Hvautege from a iwitary point of view. He

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also has a scheme for removing all steam tracks from the streets of the capital city and placing them on elevated railroads or under ground. The estimates for expenditures by the United States Postal Department for the current fiscal year are $43,661,300. The estimates of the postal revenue are $42,741,722, thus leaving only a deficiency of $19,578 to be supplied by taxation. An insane man called at the White House to see Dr. John Noethng, who the Holy Spirit, he said, had told him was President of the United States. The guard saw at once that he was a crank, and tried to induce him to leave. He refused, and was then arrested, but not without a fierce struggle, however. A six-shooter was found in his pocket. Following is the regular monthly public-debt statement, issued at Washington on the Ist inst.:

Six per cent bonds, extendeds 161,876,080 Five per cents, extended 401,504,900 Four and one-half per cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four oer cent, bonds 738,749,750 Refunding certificates 598,050 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 51,566,728,750 Matured debt 13,746 305 Legal tenderss 846,741,056 Certificates of deposit... 8,310,000 Gold and silver certificates 71,535,590 Fractional currency 7,093,151 Total without interest. 433,679,791 Total debt 52,014,154,853 Total interest 12,340,584 Cash in treasury 240,960,971 Debt less cash in trea5ury51,785,534,466 Decrease during October 13,321,548 Decrease since June 30, 1881 55,064,348 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid.s 2,041,671 Debt on which interest has ceased 13,746,303 Interest thereon 833,955 Gold and silver certificates 71,535,570 United Hiates notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 8,310,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1,*1881.... 144,493,448 Totals 240,960,971 Available assets— Cash in treasurys 240,960,971 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal oijtstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,292,476 Interest paid by United States 71,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid oy transportation of mails 14,662,941 By cash payments of o per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance, of interest paid by the United States 86,149,132 Coined during October— Eagles 6-48,506 Half-eagles 755,004 Stacdard silver dollars 2,350,004 Cents 4,t50,00( Col. George Cowie, Chief of the Diplomatic and Consular Division of the Fifth Auditor’s office, has been removed. His resignation was asked for by Fifth Auditor Alexander, who is of the opinion that Cowio improperly recommended the payment of certain consular claims. Cowie refused to resign, and was removed.

It is reported from Washington that Defrees, the Public Printer, is making a vigorous .effort to be retained, but will probably be compelled to give place to 8. P. Rounds, of Chicago. Geh. Joseph K. McCammon, of Philadelphia, has been appointed Auditor of Railroad Accounts, to succeed Theophilus French. It is said that Chauncey I Filley, of St. Louis, will be appointed Postmaster Generamn January, and that the Secretaryship of the Interior lies between cx-Senators Chaffo3 and Sargent. Since the sth of March stai-route reductions amounted to about $1,000,000.

Another “ crank” turned up at Washington, the other day, who claimed that he had been elected Vice President of the United States and that David Davis had usurped the place. President Arthur has called the attention of Acting Secretary of the Treasury French to the loose system of bank examinations. He says the Newark defalcation shows that the Bank Examiners are cither inefficient or tlieir inspection of the banks is merely nominal. This indicates a purpose on tbe part of the President to have the examinations mean something for the future. Dr. Walsh, the editor of a medical journal at Washington, D. C., is out in an editorial in which he maintains that President Garfield’s wound was not necessarily fatal, and in which he disputes many of the statements of Dr. Bliss—among others that the President wished Bliss to have the management of- tho case. Walsh prints a letter from Dr. Lincoln charging Bliss with ignorance of the nature of the wound and unskillful treatment during tho first days after the shooting, and with excluding other physicians through jealousy. Walsh claims that the late President wished Dr. Baxter to take charge of the case, but that Bliss maneuvered to exclude him.

The thieving on Government timbered reservations in the South is to be stopped. An effort will be made at the next session of Congress to secure the admission of Dakota into the Union as a State. The Treasury Department will take steps to ascertain if there is any ground for the boom in Confederate bonds. The annual report of the Pension Bureau shows that on the 30th of June last there were in the United States 268,830 pensioners, being 18,028 more than there were in June, 1880. The total amount paid for pensions during the year was $49,723,147, of which $20,954,180 was paid for accrued pensions covering periods dating back to the date of the discharge of the soldier who collected, or his widow or children.

United States Treasurer Gilfillan’s report for the fiscal year ending June 30 of this ■year shows an increase in receipts over those of the previous year from every source. In customs, an increase of $11,637,611; internal revenue, $11,255,011 ; sales of public lands, $1,185,356; miscellaneous sources, $3,177,702. The total increase was $27,255,681. During the year there was a reduction in expenditures of $6,930,070, thus making an increase in the surplus revenue of $34,185,751. The net revenues for the last year were $360,782,292, and the net expenditures $260,712,887. Of the excess $90,872,261 was expended in the reduction of the public debt

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Mrs. Bethune, of Halifax, N. 8., accidentally ignited her clothing at a stove, and rolled on the floor to extinguish the flames. Her babe crawled toward her and both perished. A man in Cincinnati asked Arnold •Hammerschmidt for a chew of tobacco, and, on being refused, struck him on the head with a dray-pin, inflicting a wound that will probably prove fa tab William Duckett was fined $75,000 by Judge Johnston, of the Quebec Court of Review, for having taken his seat and voted in the Quebec Legislature as a member from one of the electoral districts without having the legal qualiflcaticns for membership. A feud at Lagrange, Ohio, ended by William McHenry stabbing Harry West to death and William Nelson fatally cutting Douglas Dougherty. The United States war-ship Alliance has arrived at Halifax trom a fruitless cruise of four months in the Arctic seas in search of the Jeannette, T ' r '-, ...

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1881.

It appears that the cause of the recent active purchase of old Confederate bonds is the fact that a considerable sum remains in the Bank of England to the credit of the ex-Oon-f©derate States. It is rumored that the British Government has decided to distribute the amount pro rata to the Confederate bondholders ; also, that Secretary Blaine would address a note on the subject to the English Government At Washington these relics are selling at $2.50 per SI,OOO and at $2 in Philadelphia. Mexican advices report a terrible storm in the harbor of Manzanillo, in which four large ships and all tbe small craft in the harbor were lost, and a number of houses and stores wrecked. The Pacific Mail steamer due had not arrived. Large amounts of Confederate bonds have been purchased at Augusta, Ga., at from $lO to sll per SI,OOO. Adelina Patti arrived at New York last week. She was welcomed by a large company of friends who went down the bay to meet her, and wbo presented her with an address, to which she replied in French. Richard Leonard, of St. Augustin, Quebec, who had attained tbe age of 109 years, was burned to death in his cabin while lighting a fire with shavings.

FOREIGN NEWS. The steamer Calcutta, from Melbourne for Sydney, foundered at sea during a gale. All on board, twenty-two persons, perished. The British ship Omba, from Batavia for Melbourne, foundered in the same gale. All hands were lost. President Grevy has offered M. Gambetta a Cabinet position and the latter has accepted. It is expected, that he will choose the office of President of the Council, and that Leon Say will be Minister of Finance, De Freycinet Minister of War, and Jules Ferry Minister of Public Instruction. Manila, the capital of the Philippine islands, suffered a loss of $1,000,000 by a conflagration last month. Archbishop McCabe, in a pastoral just issued, decides that the Parnell “no-rent” order is Communism, and opposed to the laws of God, the teachings of the church, and of common honesty. Surcog & Debbas, a Paris firm dealing largely in Egyptian securities, have failed for 5,000,000 francs. On account of a serious disturbance at Belmullet, Ireland, a military force has been forwarded, and the work-house has been converted into barracks. The first decision under the Land act was given at Monaghan, where the Commissioners reduced the rent by 50 shillings for the next fifteen years. Sexton has been released from prison on account of illhealth. The Government has traced out the man who conveyed Parnell’s manifesto from Kilmainham jail. The Freeman's Journal, which has all along favored the Land Court, predicts that it will fail, because of the overwhelming mass of business. The City Council of Waterford has conferred the freedom of that place on John Dillon. The editor of a French paper published at Cairo stated in his journal that Mohommed was a false prophet. His paper has been suppressed. The Sheik decreed that he should die, but he sought the protection of the French Consul, who sent him to France to avoid the threatened doom. The Austrian Government has appointed Herr J. von Schoeffer Minister to Washington. In the municipal elections held ! hroughout England the Tories made large ■.rains, owing to Irish voters supporting the Tory candidates, or refusing to support the Liberals.

Fresh reports of threatening letters Ind Nihilistic proclamations come from St Petersburg. It is said that the police burst open the door of a residence, and seized a man and woman engaged in preparing explosives. The Pall Mall Gazette emphatically lonics that there is any money in the Bank of Rugland to the credit of the late Confederate States of America available for the payment of Confederate bonds. The Gazette doubts if i here is a penny in any British bank available ?or such a purpose. It also says that the recent speculation in Confederate bonds is without substantial foundation. The first complete railway train passed through the St. Gothard tufinel in fifty minutes. The Nihilists threaten to prevent the coronation of the Czar unless he grants speciied concessions. The Ladies’ Land League met in Dublin without interference, and formed themselves into a political prisoners’ aid society. A daughter of the late John Stuart Mill, in addressing the Ladies’ Land League in Dublin, expressed the opinion that only in Turkey could such atrocities be possible as are now being committed in Ireland.

A farmer in Galway was shot dead while entering his house. Two men have been arrested. It is supposed the man was murdered because he paid his rent. He had been “boycotted” for this offense some time ago. The London Daily News claims that the Confederate liabilities long ago absorbed what money they had in the Bank of England, and hoped there would be no more agitation on the subject. Tne principal journals of London continue to demonstrate the impossibility of any return from Confederate bonds, and the price has fallen materially within a few days.

EXTRA SENATORIAL SESSION.

On the opening of the Senate, on Saturday, Oct 29, Mr. Hill, of Georgia, offered a resolution that appointments to Federal offices ought not to be made for the purpose of influencing elections in the States, but objection was made to its consideration. In executive session, several Senators who had ' been arrested for absenting themselves were arraigned and reprimanded. Messrs. Sherman and Bayard were appointed to wait on the President and learn if he had any further business to place before the Senate. On their return fronj the Executive Mansion Mr. Bayard offered a resolution of thanks to President pro tern. Davis, which passed unanimously, and an adjournment sine die took place; Mr. Davis acknowledged the. compliment in a few words. The Senate confirmed John L. Beveridge as United States Assistant Treasurer at Chicago; Sydney H. Ritch, as Surveyor of Customs at Port Jefferson, N. Y.; Frederick Knefler. Penslon Agent at Indianapolis; M. C. Eltster, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana; Chales Payson, of Massachusetts. Charge d’Affaires in Denmark. Consuls General—Ferdinand Vogler, of Ohio, at Frankfort; Simo u Wolf, of the District of Columbia, at Cairo. Consuls—Silas P. Hubbell, of New York, at St. Johnjs, Quebec; George W. Roosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Bordeaux ; Jesse H. Moore, of Illinois, at Callao ; Charles Kahlo, of Indiana, at Sydney ; J. A. Leonard, of Minnesota, at Leith, John 8. Robeson, of Tennessee, at Tripoli; Volney W. Smith, of Ai kansas, at St. Thomas; William P. Pierce, of Georgia, at Cienfuegos Collectors of Customs—John A. Tibbits, District of New London, Ct.; Charles T. Osborn. District of Superior, Mich. Surveyors General —Jacques A. Gia, of Louisiana; John 8. Harns, of Montana, Register of Wills, Diitriol oi

“A Firm Adherence to goFrect Principles.”

Columbia—Hiram J. Ramsdell. Postmasters— John M. Patton, at Villisca, Iowa; Mrs. Jane Baldwin, at Council Bluffs; E. R. Hastings, at Carroll City. lowa.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is stated in a Washington dispatch that the order of the War Department, rescinding its order for a court-martial to try Mason for the attempt upon Guiteau’s life, has caused considerable comment, some intimal ing that its purpose was to let Mason off without trial. At the War Department the officers say that evidence going to show that Mason is really insane has been submitted. Upon receiving this the Department recalled the order for the courtmartial, and directed that Mason be placed under medical surviellence, with a view of ascertaining whether or not he is insane. He is now in charge of surgeons at the Arsenal, who are keeping a close watch upon him. If they report him insane he will bo sent to the Government Asylum without trial : but, if they report him sane, another court martial will be ordered to try him. The President has designated Nov. 24 as a day of national thanksgiving. John W. Foster, Minister to Russia, has tendered his resignation. A furious snow-storm raged in parts of New York and throughout the New England States, on the sth inst, A foot of snow fell in the northern part of St. Lawrence county, New York, and there were snow-squalls along the Hudson. The Catskills were covered with snow. Eight inches fell in Northeastern Ontario. The collapse of the Mechanics’ National Bank at Newark served to develop ti e fact that Harry B. Marchbank retired from a corresponding clerkship, two years ago, with a deficit of $50,000 in his accounts. He is in the custody of a Deputy Marshal. The Minnesota House of Representatives has adopted articles of impeachment against Judge Cox, and appointed a committee of five to present charges. Apaches are depredating in the Saturipa district of Sonora, where they killed live men, two women and a child. Mrs. Garfield has written to Mr. A. 8. Solomons, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the National Garfield Memorial Hospital project, expressing satisfaction at the proposal, and saying that the project is one which would be gratifying to him in whose honor it is intended. She promises to contribute to the accomplishment of the project in a worthy manner. Wendell Phillips is wanted by the I,and League to preach lhe no-rent doctrine in Ireland. Ho e’oqnently dt lines, on the sce-rc of his health. France lias asked explanation of the arrest in Rusria of three Frenchmen. Great inundations have occurred in Hungary and Serrii. The sub-commission of the Land Court at Belfast has given judgment in fifteen cases, mali ig mateiiil reductions in all but one. On many of the Irish estates the tenants tell the landlords they will not pay a penny till Parnell is released. Archbishop Croko, of Cashel, replying to an address of the branch Land League, advised the tenants to tender fa'r rent. If refused tbe fault would not be for their country's sake, endure insults and injuries. Ho declared the Government had established a reign of terror. The Treasury Department offers to purchase extended bonds to the amount of $2,000,000 each Wednesday until further notice.

A STEAMER SMASHED.

Tlic War Eagle Kuns Against a Bridge at Keokuk and Breaks It Into Fragments. Keokuk, lowa, Nov. 5. At 7 o’clock last evening shrill and continued whistling at the Keokuk and Hamilton bridge, followed by the ringing of fire bells, drew hundreds of people to the levee to find that a steamboat load of passengers had miraculously escaped death. The palatial passengerpacket War Eagle in attempting to pass through the draw was completely baffled by the eddies and cross currents and swung around against the bridge, breaking out one span and entailing a loss of $150,000 to the bridge. Several Jives were lost, but the names cannot at present bo learned. The head clerk of the War Eagle makes the following statement: Capt. Jerry Wood was in command. Hiram Beadle and William 'Jibbles were the pilots, and both were in the pilot-house, though it was Beadle’s watch. I had just eaten supper and went back into the cabin to talk to some ladies I knew. I heard the whistle blow for the bridge and the bells ring to check headway. Knowing that it was customary co drop inside the long pier, I felt no uneasiness until the alarm whistle blew twice, which meant to back her round. About that time William Holmes, third clerk, came through the cabin, in which there were only ten or twelve ladies, the remnant being on the outside at the bridge. He threw up his hand and passed out the starboard gangway. I paid no attention to him, knowing he was easily alarmed in emergencies, but in a few minutes he returned and signaled me. I then excused myself hurriedly and went to him. He said : “ She’s gone this time.” I ran out the larboard gangwayon to the larboard guard forward of the bar-ber-shop, and saw that we were broadside to the bridge and that the boat was backing strong. I instantly rushed into the cabin and gave the alarm. I caught hold of one lady and cried out to the rest to follow me, as the boat was going to strike the bridge. We all passed out the after-door on to the starboard guard, reaching there just as the crash came. I kept calling to the passengers, who seemed bewildered, to get on the hurricane deck. They not seeming to understand I led the way, and they followed. As soon as the boat struck the bridge the span gave way with a fearful crash, and I felt considerably relieved, knowing that the chances for saving life would now be much better. I looked forward and saw that the boat was leaning on the west pier, her stem having cleared the east pier where the break in the bridge occurred, and that the people were climbing from the boat onto the bridge. I took one ladv and ran forward on the larboard side down the steps abreast of the smokestacks, and assisted in passing the passengers out upon the bridge until the boat swung off. One lady refused to go. Seeing that a greater part of the passengers had escaped and were safe, the second clerk, Alex. Robinson, and mvself determined to stay with the boat. In* short time she swung clear of the bridge, and we went down on the lower deck to see if she was making water or not.' Some one had been in the hold and reported that she was, but not very fast. I ran up stairs and quieted the fears of the few remaining ladies on the boat, and got all forward, so that in case we went down we could * get off without much trouble. The boat then floated with the current with her bead down stream to a point a few hundred yards below the elevator, where, with the aid of one .Wheel and the assistance of parties who came in a skiff and took a line ashore, she was made fast resting on the railroad track, which is covered with water, the river on the outside being about fifteen feet deep. The dredge-boat W. D. Smith came down and held her stern in until she was securely fastened.

No line in England carries the number of passengers, or carries them so cheaply and pays so large a dividend, as the underground railroad of London. The passengers numbered 110,000,000. Several of the underground aud overground railways carry workmen twelve miles a day for 2 cents, thus enabling them to enjoy cheap houses ans country air,

NATIONAL FINANCES.

Abstract of Treasurer Gilfillan’s Yearly Report. , The report of- United States Treasurer Gilflllan for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, shows an increase in the receipts over those for 1880 from every source. Increase in customs, $11,637,611; internal revenue, $11,255,011; sales of public lands, $1,185,356; miscellaneous sources, $3,177,702; total increase, $27,255,681, which, added to the net redaction of $6,930,070 in expenditures, makes an increase in the surplus revenue of $34,185,751. The net revenues were $360,782,292, and the net expenditures $260,712,887. The excess of the receipts over payments was $100,069,404, of which $90,872,261 was expended in the redemption of the public debt. The balance in the treasury increased $48,C 67.603, from $203,791,321 at the beginning, to $252,458,925 at the end of the fiscal year. The amount expended on account of interest and premium on the public debt ran down from 498,652.895 m 1880 to $83,569,989, a reduction of $14,982,905. The balance standing to the credit of disbursing officers and agents of the United States with various offices of the treasury, June 30, 1881, was $24,936,307. The receipts for the fiscal year on account of the Postoffice Department were $39,757,664, and the expenditures $38,544,935, of which amounts $24,702,703 were received and expended directly by Postmasters. The unavailable funds in the treasury amount to $20,521,632, an increase since the last report, - by reason of taking up certain items previously carried in cash. At the close of the year there was held by the Treasurer in United States bonds $360,505,900 as security for the circulation of national banks, and $15,295,500 as security for public deposits in national-bank depositories. During the year $276,899,700 in bonds was deposited for these purposes, and $277,527,350 withdrawn, exceeding by far the transactions of any former year. CURRENCY OUTSTANDING. The amount of United States currencv outstanding at the close of the year was $362,539,437 ; redeemed during the year, $71,069,974. Total redemptions since first issue of currency, $2,300,141,073. United States bonds amounting to $85,304,050 have been retired during the year. The aggregate retired by purchase, redemption, conversion and exchange, from March 11, 1869, to the close of the fiscal year, was $1,983,344,800. Coupons from United States bonds of the value of $22,797,667 were paid during the year, and quarterly interest on registered stock funded loans, amounting to $44,455,790, was paid by means of 395,105 checks. National-bank notes received for redemption during the year, $59,650,259. Tho aggregate redemptions, under act June 20,1874, have been $1,099,634,772. OLD AND SILVER. Comparing the condition of the treasury Sept. 30, 1881, with the condition the same day last year, the most striking changes are the increase in gold coin and bullion and standard silver dollars on hand, and in silver certificates outstand ng. Deducting gold certificates actually outstanding, the gold belonging to the Government Sept. 30, the last four years, was $112,602,622 in 1878. $154,987,371''in 1879, $128,160,085 in 1880, and $169,552,746 in 1881. The gross amount of gold and silver coin and bullion held by tho treasury, without regard to obligations outstanding against it, ranged from $163,969,444, in 1878, to $222,807,368, in 1879. to $214,303,215, in 1880, and $269,706,998, in 1881. Theincrense last year was $55.4'10,000, of which $39,150,000 was in gold, and $16,250,000 in silver. The increase in gold was greater and in silver less last year than any year since the coinage of tbe standard silver dollar began. Tbe United States notes on hand slightly increased last year, notwithstanding the urgent public demand for circulation. The amount on hand above the amount required for payment of clearing-house certificates is $20,000,000, against $18,000,000 a year ago. The practice the past year has been to make 10 per cent, of all payments in silver dollars or certificates, 40 per cent in gold coin and 50 per cent, in notes. To this rule there is one important exception. Under an arrangement between the treasury and the New York Clearing House all payments by the treasury to this institution, aggregating $275,000,000 a year, mu-t be made in gold coin or United States notes, Standard silver dollars not being receivable under its rules, although silver certificates are now being paid it by the treasury to some extent in large denominations, in lieu of gold coin, for use in the payment of customs dues. Aside from any personal views as to the expediency es reviving the silver dollar, the Treasurer says it would seem unwise for any branch of the Government to encourage an arrangement by which coin, which the law has made full legal tender, is discredited. The gross assets of the Government, including funds held for redemption of gold, silver and currency certificates, is $331,981,210, having increased more than $64,000,000 last year, and larger than on the corresponding date in any year since 1878. The increase is due in chief part to deposits on account of silver certificates, which amounted to $45,600,000. THE RESERVE FUND. In referring to tho reserve held for the redemption of United States notes, the Treasurer says: There is no provision in the law requiring specie reserve for redemption of United States notes. In the preparation for the resumption of specie payments a fund was created in the treasury under section 3, Resumption act of 1875, by the sale of $95,500,000 in bonds, and the accumulation of surplus revenue to protect outstanding notes. The amount of this fund has never been definitely fixed, but it has been maintained at about 40 per cent, of United States notes outstanding. It has usually been assumed that a reserve of 40 per cent is sufficient for the protection of United States notes, but, under the method of computation, the reserve is not merely 40 pet cent, of liability represenied by United States notes, but also 100 per cent, of all other liabilities. So far as go’a, silver and clearing-house certificates are concerned, it is necessary, under the laws authorizing their issue, that their full amount should be set aside in gold, silver and United States notes, respectively, as funds for their redemption, but as to other liabilities there is no such obligation as this, and it is submitted no higher reserve is required for thair protection than is required for the protection of United States notes. In the changed condition of trade and commerce, unless some calamity shall overtake the nation, there seems to be no probability of a run upon the reserve of the treasury. The total demand for coin in the redemption of United States notes aggregated since redemption but $12,029,086, and no notes whatever have been presented for redemption since February, 1881. THE SPECIE RESERVE. Should there ever be a run on the specie reserves of the treasury, United States notes will be made the basis of demand, and not the other matured obligations, which compose the very varied current liabilities of the Government. The excels over demand for liabilities of the Government, other than United States notes, is shown by a tabulated statement to be $146,443,491. Considering these liabilities as a whole, the Treasurer says; “It is dear that whatever percentage the reserve will protect United States notes will protect tbe other liabilities. The Treasurer does not attempt to say what this percentage should be, but is of the opinion that a uniform percentage should be fixed for all current liabilities other than the three classes for certificates, and the excese of cash in the treasury should be expended, from time to time, in the purchase or redemption of the public debt, according to some definite and publicly-announced plan. Should tills be done the policy of tbe department would cease to be the subject of speculation and influence in the treasury, and the money market would be reduced to a minimum. During the last two years 'there has been a steady increase in outstanding notes of denominations of S2O and under, and a proportionate decrease in notes of higher denominations, hundreds alone excepted. STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS. The total amount of standard silver dollars coined to Sept. 30, 1881, under the act of Feb. 28, 1878, is $98,322,705, of which nearly 34 per cent, is in circulation and the remainder in the treasury. The amount coined but year was $27,753,955, of which $9,589,420 went into circulation and the remainder are in the treasury.

World-Famed Books.

England has given to the world four beaks which are immortal. They have traveled through the world, have been read by nrllions, have been translated in many different languages, and still are marching down the years to enrich and bless the generations. Their story is of deepest interest, and around each cluster fragrant and pleasant memories. Bupyun the sturdy non-confpnnist,

sending from the walls of Bedford jail his unique book. Baxter, warmly loved and fiercely hated, also imprisoned for Iris religious views, giving us his “Saint’s Rest,” which has blessed a multitude of waiting souls. De Foe, who for his principles was now in the closet of the King," and then in the dreary dungeons of Newgate, whose “Robißson|Crusoe”has stolen the hours of sleep from millions ; and Issac Watte, whose hymns will be sung so long as church walls and cathedral towers stand. All have a bold upon the English-speaking race that can never be broken.—<S'. S. Bridgman.

WASHINGTON’S FUNERAL.

Ceremonies at the Obsequies of the Nation’s First President. [From tho Ulster County (N. Y.) Gazette, Jan. 4, 1800.] George Town, Dec. 20. On Wednesday last the mortal part of Washington the Great, the father of his country and the friend of man, was consignedto the tomb with solemn honors and funeral pomp. A multitude of persons assembled from miles around at Mount Vernon, the choice abode and last residence of the illustrious chief. There were the groves —the spacious avenues, the beautiful and sublime scenes, the noble mansion —but, alas I the august inhabitant was now no more. His mortal part -was there, indeed; but ah I how affecting ! how awful the spectacle of such ■worth and greatness, thus, to mortal eyes, fallen! Yes I fallen! fallen I

In tho long and lofty portico, where oft the hero walked in all his glory, now lay the shrouded corpse. The countenance, now composed and sereue, seemed to express rhe dignity of the spirit which lately dwelt in that lifeless form. Then those who paid the last sad honors to the benefactor of his country took an impressive, a farewell view. On the ornament at the head of the coffin was inscribed * ‘ Surge ad Judicium,” about the middle of the coffin, “ Gloria Deo,” and on the silver plate ;

1 GENERAL ■ GEORGE WASHINGTON. : • Departed thia Life on the 14th December, : ■ 1799, Aet. 68. 1 Between 3 and 4 o’clock the sound oi artillery from a vessel in the river firing minute" guns awoke afresh our solemn sorrow—the corpse was moved—a band of music with mournful melody melting the soul into all the tenderness of woe. The procession moved in the following order : Cavalry and infantry guard, with arms reversed. Music. Clergy. The General’s horse, with his saddle, holsters and pistols. Col. Simms. :1 CoL Gilpin. Col. Ramsey. ; corpse. ; Col. Marstellu. 001. Payne. •. • 1 Col. Little. Mourners. Masonic brethren. Citizens.

When the procession had arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn on the banks of the Potomac, where the family vault is placed, the cavalry halted, tbe infantry marched toward the mound and formed their lines, the clergy, the Masonic brothers and the citizens descended to the vault, and the funeral services of the church were performed. The firing was repeated from the vessel in the river, and the sounds echoed from the woods and fields around. Three general discharges by the infantry, the cavalry and eleven pieces of artillery, which lined the banks of the Potomac back of the vault, paid the last tribute to the Commander-in-Chief of the armies of the United States and to the departed hero. The sun was now setting. Alas ! The son of glory was set forever. But no I The name of Washington, the American General and President, shall triumph over death I The unclouded brightness of his glory will illumine the future ages!

Bananas.

Of late years the banana trade has increased wonderfully. Formerly they were only shipped during what was termed the regular season, arriving here between May and August. But as bananas could be planted in the tropics during any month in she year, and thus grown and ripened every month, planters were induced to try the experiment, and now, as is well-known, bananas are seen on sale in our city markets, every week in the year. Unlike other tropical fruits wc get it in its perfection. It is not a whit better eaten fresh picked from the tree, than it is when brought here after having been picked green and then allowed weeks to ripen at sea and on shore. It rather improves while other tropical fruits are spoiling, and is never better than, when half blackened and looking too soft and far gone to be fit to eat, it “peels” at a touch, and leaves a delicious fruity pulp to be enjoyed deliberately. A true child of the sun, it grows on the most tropical-looking of all trees. The great, green, herbaceous trunk, looking like an exaggerated, and over-succulent corn stalk, grown into the dimensions of a moderate-sized pear tree, is crowned by its wealth of drooping and enormously long broad leaves—the whole having an expression more characteristically and self-evidently tropical than all that an ice bear expresses of polar life. The fruit grows upon the top of a trunk, which latter ranges from eight to fifteen feet in height; each fruitful stalk bearing one bunch of bananas, resembling, in position and hanging, ft sunflower in the height of its summer glory. The trees have the property of keeping the soil moist around them, and have, therefore, been planted in proximity to coffee trees in Venezuela, where long droughts occur. As that country cannot consume all the fruit, it has begun to export extensively. With so many new sources of supply, we may be quite certain that our markets will be well stocked with bananas, and at low prices during their season. They are a perishable fruit, and must be disposed of quickly; hence the advisability of low prices and ready sales.

A Spanish City at Night.

As the shades of evening descend, this whole street, illumined with lamps, torches, and parti-illumined with lanterns, becomes a fairy scene. The cases are then crowded to repletion ; youthful eyes flash love at each other over glasses of snowy Horchatas ; old men sip their spiced cognac and dream of the isles of blessed, and fiery polititians rave and stamp and seem ready to tear each other to pieces. Here a group of artists discuss a picture ; there a couple of padres are trying their hands at cards ; here is a young militaire, fresh from Madrid, covered with spangles and as gay as a peacock ; and there in that corner—can you believe your eyes I the veritable" old beggfu 1 that you just

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saw in the street, investing the piesta that you gave him in a nightcap of invigorating cordial. Every rank in society is represented; every variety of color and costume flashes out beneath those brilliant lights, while your ears are assailed by the din of voices, the tinkling of glasses, the sharp click of the dice on the marble table, intermingled with the strains of delicious music. This is De las Siarpes by night. Would you not like to see it ? It is a phantasmagoria of splendor; it is a babel of confusion ;it is a page from the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments ” supplemented by sundry passages from the “ Hero de la Mancha.”

That Boy of Gallagher’s.

The circumstances were as follows: Mr. Gallagher had to take a train that left at six o’clock, so he arose about daylight to breakfast, and thought he had better put on some thick boots instead of the light shoes he wore in the evening. Now, it seems that Gallagher’s son had worn the old man’s boot while roller skating, and had left skates on the boots, and in the darkness Gallagher did not notice this fact as he pulled the boots on, though he thought they felt heavy. He then groped his way to the head of the stairs, the skates making no trouble on the carpet. Then he started down stairs. He got there dreadfully sudden. He was terribly annoyed as he picked himself up, and said very wicked things as he' started for the diningroom. Breakfast was laid, but only a dim light was burning. Immediately he set foot on the polished floor his feet flew into the air and his head came down with terrible force. The wild yell that he gave brought his wife and moth-er-in-law in from the kitchen. He rose to his feet, but they immediately started off in different directions, and after wrenching his spine and knee joints terribly in trying to control them, they got away, and he jarred the spinal column as he went down. “Land of gracious! this floor is oiled,” he roared, as he began to make efforts to rise. “Have you apoplexy or have you been drinking?” asked his wife, as he strove to assist him to get up. “You hold your jaw, you idiot!” he replied, and then she let go of him sort of sudden, and down he went, bruising himself in six places. “Gosh,” “tunket,” “drat,” and “durn,” were words called into requisition to relieve his mind that time, and he told his mother-in-law, who had fallen laughing into a chair, that he hoped she would meet cows every, time she went out. Then he essayed to rise once more, and got upon his feet. The skates began to slip, but he struggled like a hero, and clutched the air wildly to keep his balance. No use. As he fell forward he wildly grabbed the table-cloth, and as a result yanked the entire breakfast down upon him. The hot tea scalded him, the pepper got into his eyes, the mustard into his mouth and the eggs all over him. His cries were fearful. They hauled him from the debris and started to put him to bed when they discovered the rollers. Mr. Gallagher was terribly used up, but he started at once to find his son, and the lad’s sighing over his great grief was heard blocks away.

How Poor Boys may Become Successful Men.

You want some good advice. It has ruined many a man, but may not harm you, because you will not follow it. Rise early; be abstemious; be frugal; attend to your own business and never trust it to another; be not afraid to work, and diligently, too, with your own hands; treat every one with civility and respect; good manners insure success; accomplish what you undertake; decide, then persevere; diligence and industry overcome all difficulties; never be mean—rather give than take the odd shilling; never postpone till to morrow what can be done to-day; never anticipate wealth from any source but labor jhonesty is not only the best policy, but the only policy; commence at the first round and keep climbing; make your word as good as your bond; seek knowledge to plan, enterprise to execute, honesty to govern all; never trade beyond your stock; never give too large credit; time is money; make few promises; keep your secrets; live within your income; sobriety above all things; luck is a word that does not apply to a successful man; not too much caution —slow but sure is the thing; the highest monuments are built piece by piece; step by step we mount the pyramids; be bold—be resolute when the clouds gather, difficulties are surmounted by opposition; eelf-confidence, selfreliance is your capital; your conscience the best monitor; never be over-sangu-ine, but do not underrate your own abilities; don’t be discouraged; ninetynine may say no, the hundredth, yes: take off your coat: roll up your sleeves, don’t be afraid of manual labor! America is large enough for all—strike out for the west—the sea-shore cities are too crowded; the best letter of introduction is your own energy: lean on yourself when you walk; keep good company; the Spaniards say, if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas; keep out of politics unless you are sure to win—you are never sure to win, so look out.

The Curse of Mormonism.

Here is a horrible story told by a correspondent of the Eureka Leader of what he saw at Ogden, a railroad town in Utah, where a number of Swedish immigrants, were waiting to take the train to Brigham City : I was looking on with great curiosity, when I discovered a tow-headed, buxom girl weeping bitterly. Two or three old women were scolding at her, and a withered up old Mormon stood with his arm around her. He finally coaxed her off to his wagon, she screaming and crying that she would not marry him, and he never letting go of her until he sat her down upon the wagon-tongue. A girl was following them. I halted her and asked what was the trouble. She said that this girl was pledged to the old man and that he had paid her passage out; and now she did not want to marry him because he already had a wife and seven children. I asked if she would be forced to do so. The girl replied : “Of eourse she will. They have pledged her to him. ” Poor thing ! the last that I saw of her she was struggling to get away from him, and the withered old fellow was holding on with both arms around her. It is sickening to think of such doings in a civilized land. Dark as that girl’s mind was, she had some grains of virtue and some delicate instincts. The despair pictured on her face showed that. There is a terrible account for our country to settle with that poor girl. England was lately stirred with indignation because girls were found to be inveigled from London to Belgium for immoral purposes; but what was done there a few times is done here a thousand times, and yet our country does not dynamite the evil of cord /StcUwnan. £.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

A street railway company has been organized in Vincennes. South Bend claims itself entitled to have free postal delivery. A lady 75 years of age was married a few days ago at New Jackson county has organized a sosiety for the protection of fish and giime. Jay county is taking the lead in the organization of marnage benefit companies. Trains of the Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line now run from Delphi to a few miles out of Chicago. * The Jeffeisonville Council has grunted a right of way for a street-railway company throughout the city. The excellent coal fields which abound in the southwestern corner of the State are being extensively worked. Owen Blackmore, aged 88, a soldier or the War of 1812 and a pensioner, died at the residence of his son David, near Kingston. Miss Overpeok, of Clinton, committed suicide by poison because she was not allowed to marry the object of her affections. People who live in the neighborhcxxl of Vienna, Scott county, are very positive that gold does exist in paying quantities in that township. Bev. Newton Burwell, of Wells county, while hunting a few days ago, captured alive au albino squirrel with white fur and pink eyes. Robert S. Ruston, an old resident of Evansvelle, died a few days since. In 1865, as the result of an ac ident, he suffered the amputation of both arms. A Jennings county farmer has sent to Indianapolis a peanut plant on which there arc twenty-six large and well-de-veloped nuts, as proof that the peanut can be successfully grown iu Indiana.

County Sheriffs in Indiana are said to have fallen into the reprehensible practice of taking criminals to the State prison one at a time when several are on hand, and might all be taken at the same time. . u The store of R. W. Akiu’fl Sons, at Carlisle, was entered by burglars, and a gold watch and $2,100 in money taken from the safe. The firm offer a reward of SSOO for the return of the property and the conviction of the thieves. A crowd of several thousand persons assembled at New Alban v, recently, t > witness the laying of the first steel rail westward on th • iS I ’. Louis Air-Line road and the corner-stone ceremonial of the Kentucky and Indiana bridge. Argus Dean, the famous peach grower of Clark county, has closed his accounts of sales and shipments of peaches made by him the present year. He states that the net profits of his crop aggregate the large sum of $27,600.

While a little daughter of Samuel Fanning, of North Manchester, was carrying an infant child > cross the floor, she stumbled and fell, throwing the baby into a tub of hot water. The baby was horribly scalded, and died a few’ hours later. The will of the late Samuel Shigley, of Clinton county, disposing of some $30,000, is called in question by two minor heirs, who claim to have been deprived of any share in their grandfather’s estate through the machinations of their aunts. Jacob Kitt, of Huntington county, died aged 102 years. Mr. Kitt was born in Yorktown, Pa., and came to this State thirty-five years ago. His oldestchild is 78 years. Mr. Kitt was by far the oldest man iu Huutington county, if not in Indiana.

The Eviinsville Gouricr has been sued for $25,000, the libel consisting of a charge that one Wetkins F. Nesbi tt and others had def auded the city of Evansville out of its just proportion of stock of the Cincinnati, Rockport and Southwestern railroad. A poor old French woman, who has lived in the outskirts of Evansville for many years, died alone and friendless a few days since. She was known there as Mrs. Asher, but from documents found after her death it is thought that she was of noble ancestry. Some two years ago the Ford PlateGlass Works' of Jeffersonville suddenly changed owners one night, and at the same time changed its name to the Jeffersonville Plate-Glass Works. By this transfer ihe large stockholders wiped out the smaller ones, who have now instituted proceedings to upset the whole transaction.

Fort Wayne Sentinel: Sinbe the law went into effect there has scarcely been a person brought before the Mayor for disorderly conduct. They have all been converted into square, unadulterated drunks, because there is a fee of $1 for every arrest made for State offenses, of which drunkenness is one, and disorderly conduct is not. Burglars entered the store of Dr. Fowler, in Lockport, about ten miles south of Terre Haute, drilled Open the safe, and extracted nearly $2,Q00 in money belonging to Brill & Connelly, grain dealers, who kept their money in the safe there over night. As soon as the money was secured the thieves set fire to the building and decamped. The store and stock were totally destroyed. Loss about $4,000. Delana E. Williamson, while.pleading a case in the Putnam Circuit /Court, called the prosecuting witness a liar. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal for Williamson’s client, but added the following clause: “We, the regular impaneled jury, being men who love decency and courtesy toward our Jellowmen, do say that D. E. Williamson did, without any cause whatever, call a lady, Mrs. Saunders, a liar. We do say that we denounce all such conduct, and Jrespectfully suggest that he be reprimanded by the court.”

A cord of stone, three bushels of lime and a cubic yard of sand yvill lay one hundred cubic feet of will. Five courses of brick will lay on® foot in height on a chimney. Nine bricks in a course will make flue eight inches wide and twenty inches long, and flight bricks in a course will make a flue eight inches wide and sixteen inches long. Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair will make enough mortar to plaster one hundred square yards. One-fifth more siding and flooring is needed than the. ndmer of square feet of surface to be covered, because of the lap in the siding and matching of floor. One thousand laths will cover seventy yards of surface,'bra eleven pounds of lath nails will nail them on. Qne thousand shingles laidfou%inches to the weather will cover one/ntndred square feet of surface, and five 3 founds of shingle nails will fasten them <n. Arabia* scale armor was saasetimei, made of thin plates of horq, >