Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. (Cast. Gen.*' James D. Fessenden, a son of the late Senator from Maine, dropped dead in the street in Portland, The wife of Engineer Melville, having completely regained her sanity, has been released from the asylum at Norristown, Penn. Henry Draper, Professor of Analytic•af Chemistry in the University of New York, is dead. Daniel Ruffner, the Pennsylvania hermit, whose life was largely injured in graveyard insurance companies, wasfounl dead in his cabin near Reading, Pa. In excavating beneath the old church which so long seived New York for a po-t office, the workmen re tched two coffins wh ch < rumbled into dust, but a plate shows tthat the interment was made in 1813. Fire broke out in the Callender ’Building, at Providence, R. I, cutting off ,the egress of a number of male and fem le •employes of W. H. Robinson & Co., g Id chain makers, who were at work in the fourth story. Across a tifieen-foot alley was a two-story wooden structure, and to the roof of this many of the workpeople sp ang, suffering grievous inj ir.'es by the fall. Emma Gassett, Bessie Cobb and Thomas Mann fell between the build ngs; the two former were killed, and Mann had an arm and a leg broken. Mary McSorley fell on a picket-fence, and was shockingly mutilated. Another man bung from a telephone w re luntil rescued by a fireman. Five young ■women who jumped from the windows of ■the burning building to the roof below were fat lly injured. Col. William Henry McMahon, member of the Tariff Commission, died suddenly at his residence in New York. Capt. Nathan Appleton, of Boston, who has applied for a new charter for a Capo Cod Canal Company, states that Count <de Lesscps will be interested with him, as .also Gen. Turr, the Austrian engineer. The ■cut will require two years’ time and cost $8,000,0(0, and the estimated annual revenue therefrom is $250,003. West. Fred Diebblt, a rich and influential German saloon-keeper of (levela d, was convicted in ti e Police C< urt of viola ing the Hui d<y aw. Judge Solders I ned hi-m SIOO, and sentenced him to ten days in tue workhouse. George J. Reek, who killed James E. Anders n, at Eureka, Nev., a id was acquitted on the ground of se f-de en e, has brought suit for $25,000 damages against t io Enterprise, , beca .se, notw thstanding hs acquittal, it a j se te I he was a poltroon and a murderer. I. N. Collins served four hours in the Ohio penitentiary for illegal voting, when lie was liberated on a pardon from Gov. Foster

Douglas R. Halo and wife were arrested by the police at Milwaukee. MrsHale confessed to entering jewelry stores and purloining valuables. She is the exwife of the notorious Mike Weaver, now serving a term in the penitentiary. Hale at one time was manager of the Chicago Clearing House. The Northern Pacific road has closed a contract with a land syndicate for 300,000 acres cast of the Missouri at $4 per acre. There are 542 Odd Fellow lodges in Indiana, with a membership of 2,653. The amount expended for relief the past year was $37,738. The Grand Jury of the Third district of Utah found three indictments for polygamy under the Edmunds law, out of twenty cases presented to its notice. The District Attorney was unable to rid himself of two Mormons impaneling the jurors, and they are said to have given warning to witnesses. The systematic robbing of the mails between Denver and the East has been practice I for a long period, and the postoffi -e aut orities are at a loss as to where to locate the thefts. Drafts, cheeks and money orders to the amount of over $600,001 have disappeared, while the loss of money and valuables cannot be es'imated. Passenger fares over the Milwaukee arid St. Paul between Chicago and Rock Island were reduced the other day ,to 50 cents, and over the Rock Island road tickets were sold at $1 between Chicago and Albert Lea, Minn. A tierce war between these rival lines was what brought about the cut. The winter-wheat crop of Kansas is in excellent condition, and an immense yield is promised. South. W. H. Cunningham, a workman in the rolling-mills at Birmingham, Ala., leaped head foremost into the blast furnace, and was instantly consumed. A murderer in the Owensford (Ga.) jail, sentenced to hang, atta ke I and killed Jailer Bar on with an old chair, and then tied J.e w. s recaptured. A stage containing three passengers was sto ped near Campbellville, Ky., and the passengers and nrril bags robb d. At Somerville, Tenn., W. L. Sharpe killed his brother-in-law, James Burton, in a billiard hall with a shotgun. The crime was the npshot of a family dispute. Near Frostburg, Ky., a young man named Cook deliberately shot a Miss Austin, to whom he had been paying attentions. He jiext shot himself in the region of the heart and fell, but immediately sprung up again and tired twice through his head. Both died inside of five minutes. The Congressional committee appointed to investigate the needs of the Mis - sissippi river, smarting under the reproach of being a junketing party, declined a reception tendered by the people of New Orleans. The testimony of steamboat Captains and pilots before the committee was strongly in favor of Capt Cowden’s outlet •I p an of relief as aga nst the levee and jetty systems.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Tire new iron steamship H. J. Jewett lyade the run from Buffalo to Milwaukee, ' 850 rriiles, in two days fourteen hours and fifteen minutes, an average of nearly fourteen miles per hour. During the recent iron strikes the nail manufacturers of Wheeling set on foot a plan to dispense with the labor of over 5,000 puddlera Frank J. Herndon has now been sent to Pittsburgh to secure equipments for Bessemer works of the first class, and in time each nail mill will daily receive its allotment of steel plate, and puddled iron Will be largely a thing of the past. If th.e-.seheme succeeds, it will revolutionize . tfa® iron manufacturing business of the counts?Waflike preparations are being made by Brasil and the Argentine Republic, A

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

disp ited boundary is the cause of the impending trouble. The horse disease known as the glanders is spreading rapidly in Manitoba, and many cases have proved fa' at The Government will have all th 3 affected animals killed. A railroad car containing a number of laborers was thrown from the track at IndLn Pond, N. F., resulting in the instant dear®, of three men. Three others were fatally injured, and several were slightly bruised. The plaza in Monterey, Mexico, is lighted by electricity, and street cars have commenced running. An agreement for the exchange of money orders has been signed by the United States and Belgium, to go into effect Jan. 1. The Labor Congress, in session at Cleveland, voted to strike out the pro-tective-tariff plank from the platform. The tendency of some of the speeches was antagonistic to the Knights of Labor organization, and Socialistic organizations were denounced.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It has been rumored of late that Justice Bradley was to resign his seat on the Supreme bench to make room./or Secretary Folger, who in turn would leave a warm place for Conkling. Justice Bradley says there is no truth in the story as far as his intentions are concerned. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that during the month of October there arrived at the various ports of the United Sta'es 57,689 passengers, of whom 45,965 were immigrants, 8,367 citizens of the United States returned from abroad, and 3,357 aliens not intending to remain in the United States. Of this total number of immigrants there arrived from England and Wales, 7,659; Ireland, 3,415; Scotland; 1,055; Austria, 558; Belgium, 198; Bohemia, 481; Denmark, 596; France, 511; Germany, 17,693; Hungary, 963; Italy, 1,2.4; the Netherlands, 263; Norway, 1,161; Russia, 205; Folan I, 147; Sweden, 2,316; Switzerland, 859; Dominion of Canada, 6,4-16; and from all other countries, 215. The Judge Advocate General of the army decides that the failure of officers to pay their debts is not a violation of the 61st article of war. Congressman Hill, of New Jersey, expresses himself as certain that his bill reducing the postage from 3 to 2 cents will pass this session. An invention revolutionizing the envelope and stamp business has been ado. ted by th j Gove nment, and will be pit into practical use by the mid lie of January. It is nothing 1< ss than a letter-shc et, envelop and stamp combine 1, which can be closed together with a single “lick.” The public will be saved the price of envelope and per, as a contrivance, large enough for an Ordinary epistle, with stamp attache 1, will cost but Scents. There will a’so be is-ucd2 and 1 cent classes. Mr. Ehrlech, of Su Louis, is the inventor.

POLITICAL POINTS. Governor-elect Pattison, of Pennsylvania, deprecates any pageantry or demonstration on the day of his inauguration, and is determined, as far as lies in his power, to take the oath and assume his duties without any expenditure on the part of the State or its citizens. J. R. Chalmers filed a mandamus to compel Secretary of State Myers of Mississippi to credit him with the votes cast for “J. R. Chambliss” in Tate county. The Election Commissioners have sent an amended return, showing the ballots were cast for Qhalmers, and not for Chambliss. Senator Riddleburger, of Virginia, has been interviewed. “I shall,” he said, “act independently in all matters of legislation. I shall not tie myself to any party. I shall vote and demean myself in the Senate ■ so as to, in my judgment, best subserve my country, regardless of party or factions. My greatest desire is to see a united, happy and prosperous people. I have no enemies to punish or friends to reward. I belong to faction, and shall not hamper mysel. by joining in the disputes and differences of either party, but, remarked a while ago, exercise my own judgment on all questions, and vote accord ugly. ” The Brooklyn Republican General Committee parsed resolutions declaring that the administration had been rebuked by the electors for interfering n the po itics of the State and perpetrating frauds at th: Saratoga Convention. The prohibitive amendment in the Vermont Legislature failed to pass, receiving 118 votes, when 119 were necessary. Ihe S nate rejected th : House bill prohibiting the sale of cigars, cigaret es or tobacco. It is announced that Senator David Davis will not be a candidate for re-el ction. He is credited with Saying that he will retire to private life after his term expires.

FOREIGN NEWS. As the troops ordered from Egypt to the Soudan are deserting in large parties, orders have been issued to forward the arms and ammunition separately from the soldiers. The relations between Prussia and the Vatican have become strained by the nomination of Herr Henschke as a member of the superior ecclesiastical tribunal. It is taken as an indication that Germany intends to greatly reduce her concessions. The proposal to abolish the embassy to the Vatican was' rejected in the French Chamber of Deputies. The Portuguese Government has asked England to join in a protest against the French acquisition of the Congo river. ' One Sanders, a lunatic, was arraigned at London for send ng a letter to Premier Gladstone threatening his life. The case was continued. Broadley has withdrawn from the defense of Arabi Pasha, as he believes the commission is turning the trial into a farce, and has also violated the agreements made with him. Gladstone, in a letter, says he wants to s e more workingme i in Parliament and hopes they will be brought forward at ev ry opportunity. A meeting of the Irish National League was held atTu'lagb, Ireland, 10,000 people being p esent Sullivan and O’Kelly, m< mbers of Parliam nt. were the principal sp akers. O’Kelly in’i na'e* tha Ddvitt was endeavoring to dismember the Irish party and was v rtually stabbing the country in t e back. He would resign his seat in Par iam mt, he said, if the people wavered in their all glance to Parnell Ten years’ penal servitude is the sentence of William Brook-haw, who sent a threatening le ter to the Prince of Wale<. The appearance of the Emperor and Empre s of Russia In an open sledge in the

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,1882.

streets of St Petersburg caused much enthus asim among the populace. Wolseley and Seymour, respectively the mill ary and n val heroes of the 1 gyptian camp ign, are g zetted for the Br.tis'i peerage as a reward for their eminent s rvi-rea. Queen Victoria personally presented 370 decorations to officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves in Egypt. N arly all the me nbers of the royal family witnessed the ceremony. The steamer Wearmouth, from Quebec for Loudon, was wrecked during a snowstorm on Magdalen islan I. In attempting to reach the shore sixteen men were drowned. Seven persons have now been sentenced to death at Dublin for the murder of the Joyce fam ly. Four of the accu-ed pleaded guilty last week, with the expectation of receiving sentences of life imprisonment, but Judge Barry imposed the death penalty, and they will be hanged Dec. 15. The steamer Winton, with grain, from the Black sea, foundered off the coast of France, and thirty persons were drowned. The Egyptian Public Prosecutor has summarized and submitted to the Khedive the charges against Arabi, and they have been approved. They will be presented to Lord Dufferin, and the British Government will decide whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant a trial. x The German Government has prohibited the importation of American pork. Italy is moving for a new European conference to settle the Egyptian question The Spanish Cabinet will investigate the demand made by the United States for, indemnification of losses suffered by Americans during the Cuban insurrection, and will offer a just settlement. In the British House of Commons Glads one denied that the Airears of Rent bill had proven at' ilure. To full benefits of its provision-, Le sad, ha 1 not yet been ascertained. The Gov rnment did not intend to in’reduce a bill to extend the period for the payme tof the rent of 1881. He desired the decision of the Government to lie universally known. The procedure rul : was carried by a large majority.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The petrol dUm gamblers of Pittsburgh, Bradford and other specula'ive centers have been going through a terrible ex--1 cricnce recently. Under the pressure of th i bear ii fluei ccs the marker., which had gone up to an unusually -high figure, took a snd en tumble, dropping from $1.(5 to 86 cents in one d y. Tue speen'ators, who had forced ip pi ices, fount themselves overwhelm, din ruin. Ihe excitement throughout, the oil-speculative regie ns was unprecedented. The condition of the money market in New York ins; ired Secretary Folger to order the redemption of $ 10,(X 0,000 in l.onds 1 er week, without rebate of interest. A bloody conflict is in progress in Neva’a between the Washoe and P.ute Indians. A fierce storm swept the lower lake region on he 24th of November, and many vessels were wre ked or beach d. Gilbert W. Patrick, familiarly known as Gilpatri k, a famous jockey of the days before th; war, died the other day in New York. He rode Lexington four miles against time at New Orleans in 7:19%. The remains of Thurlow Weed were taken to Albany for interment. There has just died at Mehama, Ore., Mrs. Capt. John Smith, a daughter of William Morgan, who is alleged to have been murdered by members of the Masonic order in 1826. She steadily refused to give any information in regard to the tragedy. By the fall of a railway bridge at Bromley, near London, seven workmen who were breakfasting beneath were kil ed and several others injured. The business failures in the United States 'and C nala,-for the week ending Nov. 25, numbered 157, and were confin 'd prii ci pally to the snail r c'ass of trad rs. The Eastern States h d eigh een failures; W stem, forty-nine; Southern, twentythree; Middle, twenty- 1 ix; Pacific, eleven; Can: da, sixteen; and New York city, fourteen

PUBLIC PRINTER.

He Wants a General Engraving; Estali isliment Added to the Big Printing Office. Public Printer Rounds will recommend to Congress that a photo-lithographic and general engraving establishment be added to the Government Printing Office. Almost ev ery one of the greater publications of the Government now involves more or less illustrationo. 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 rhe, office is annually consumed in th s manner, about w ich there is a good deal of uncertainty under the present plan of doing the work. There being no appliances at t lie Government Printing Office ror making lithographs, engravings or maps, the Public Printer is obliged to advertise for bids and let the contract to outs de parties for doing the work. The result is very often that, owing to an understanding among the lithographers, of which there are not many estab ishments, or irom other causes, it is impossible to get a very low rate, for the work whi his oblisre Ito be done. The lowest respo isible bidders having secured the contnet, the publication of the voluin ? then depends upon the promptness with wii h they execute t leir agreement. The Pa lie Printer may have all the type set or even the letter press ready, an I then have to w lit weeks” an I perhaps months before the volume can be bound, owing to the delays ia the d ’livery or th 3 illu-trat ons. There are two great objects to be gained by the g vein no nt doing its own work—cheapno is an t rap di y.

BIG FIGURES.

Interesting Statistics liom the Census. A special-census bulletin recently issued presents the following s atistioal data respect ng the various manufacturing industries of the Country: The wholesale slaughtering and meat packing industry comprises 873 establishments, w ith a capital of $49,419,213, and emp'oys 27,397 hands. The anrual expenditure Jo/wages amounts to $10,508,530. Th cost of raw material of all kinds aggregates $267,738,902, and the va ue of manufactured product 5303,562,413. In agricul ur 1 implements the c pital invested is $62,109,668; value of materials i sed, $31,5 '1.170; amount of wages paid, $15,359,610; value.of manufactured products, $68,640,486. ' In boot all shoe manufacture there are 1,959 establishments, employing 111,152 hands; capita , $41.’.X)4,028; value of materias med, $10*2,442,442; wges, $43,001,438; value of manu actured produce, $166,050,350. ' . I i lumber the capital is $181,186,122; value of m terlals,s 146,155,385; products, $233,367,729; wages, 931,845,974 .In paper manufacture the capital is $46,241,202; materials, $31,931,297; value of pro- < nets, $55,109,014; amount paid for wages, $8,524,855.

“A Firm, Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THURLOW WEED.

The Distinguished Journalist and Politician Passes Away. Review of a Career of Unexampled Activity. Thurlow Weed died at New York on the morning of Nov 22, at the age of 85 years. He was conscious to the last, and expired •unrounded by weeping relatives and friends. No death struggle was apparent Mr. Weed was possessed of a remarkably strong and vigorous constitution, and to this can bi attributed the long years of his life. His physicians say that old age was his only infirmity, and the one that carried him off. Since 1877 Mr. Weed’s eyesight has een fa ling, and latterly he had been almost blind. Last August he was prostrated by a shill, and has since been declining. Mr. Weed leaves a considerable fortune invested in New York real estate, and in the stock of the Albmy Evening Journal. He had three daughters—Mrs. Barnes, of Albany;. Miss Harriett Weed, who was his c nstant companion and housekeeper since th j death of his wife, many years ago, and Mrs. Alden, of Morrisania. It is a curious Incident that some weeks before his death, although then in good health Mr. Weed had a presentiment that he was near his end. About four years ago a beautiful white clove flew into the window of h s chamber, and was adopted by him as a pet. It has been his constant companion, roosting upon the arm of his chair by day and upon the foot of his bed by night. He fed it with his own hands, and the gentle biid curiously enough would accept food from no one else. Some weeks ago he accidentally sat upon it, crushing out its innocent life, : nd his sorro w was as genuine as if he had lost an only child. The death of the bird affected him seriously, and he spoke* to his fr ends of a presentiment that he sho ild soon die, and mentioned his belie r ' in the poetical theory of trie ancients that the spiiitsof doves surrounded t e death-beds of the just. Thurlow Weed was bom in Cairo, N. Y., on the 15th day of November, 1797, and was the first-bom of paren's in lowly circumstances, and at an early -age he was compelled to work to aid himself and his family. At the age of 9 he worked for a blacksmith at ( at kill, N. Y , from whom he received a shilling a day and his board. He subsequent y worked in a tavern and sailed on a sloop as cook. At about this time young Weed’s father removed his family to Onondaga, where the bov found work with the Postmaster, who enabled him to receive six months’ shooling, the only tuition he ever enjoyed. In 1811 a paper, the Lynx, was started in Onondaga, to the fortunes of which he attached himself as a printer’s apprentice, at which business he served a year and a half, when his employer left the city. Weed continued to run the paper for several weeks. In 1812 he volunteered for service in the war as a private under Col. Petrie, and was ordered to Sackett’s Harbor. Before reaching that point he received a Quartermaster’s comm ssion, for which he ever after cberis'ied the kindliest feelings toward Col. Petrie, and when the latter met with reverses Mr. We'ed aided him materially. He served during three campaigns in the war and during the intervals worked at his trade in Utica and other cities of New York. After the war he was employed in Seymour’s printing office, New York city, where he became intimate with James, the eldest of the Harper brothers. Returning to the country he was married, and then embarked in the extremely-uncertain pursuit of publishing a country p per. The difficulties he encountered were numerous, but his industry and ability had their effect. His paper was called the AntiMasonic Enquirer. At that time there was great excitement over the opposition to Masonic institutions. In 1824 he was again found doing the work bf a journeyman printer in Albany. Political excitement was running high, and Martin Van Buren, DeWitt Clinto\ and others equally farm us in the politics of the State were there. Thurlow Weed here virtually began his career. His wonderful powers of management were first noted. In this campaign tie did the lion’s share of the work which resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams to the Presidency. Mr. Weed next removed to Rochester, where, while he sustained many reverses, his reputation as an editor steadily grew. Twice he was elected to the Assembly as an anti-Masonic representative, and his political influence was so widely felt that he soon came to be recognized as a lea 1 er, and to him was accorded the honor of the v.ctory which placed DeWitt Clinton in the gubernatorial chair of New York. In 1830 he was chosen to lead the Whigs against the Democratic party, which then controlled the affairs of the State, audit was through his efforts that the Democrats suffered iheir first defeat. He went to Albany and assumed editorial man igement of the Evening Journal, which soon gained a national reputation and influence. The political history of the State for forty years shows how he used his opportunities. He was prominent in secur rig the nomination of candidates Harrison, Taylor, Scott, Fremont and Linco n. When the Republican party was organized, Mr. Weed joined the young party, and early in tfie civil war he was sent to England, where he was instrumental in preventing that country and France from uniting in favor of the Confederacy. Mr. Weed acted in unity with the Republican party until the close of the war, when he sided with President Johnson in his reconstruction views, but his influence has always been thrown toward the advancement of Republican principles, and has b sen felt in every great political movement for the last half century.

RIVERS AND HARBORS.

Chief Engineer Wright’s Report. Gen. Wright, Chief of Engineers, in his an nual report to the Secretary of War, recommends the expenditure of the amounts mentioned below during the fiscal year ending June 30,1884: For the improvement of Western rivers and harbors: Mississippi river, between Illinois and Ohio rivers, $l,O 'o,ooo—the appropriation a«ked for to be applied to completing the worksnowprogres-ing,and beginning new works below Foster’s island; removing snags from the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to Vicksburg. $170,000; rein wing snags from the Missouri liver, $108,080;. for snagboat, to be used above Omaha, $80,000; survey of the M ssouri, from the mouth to Fort Benton, Montana, $50,009; improvement of the M'ssouri, from the mouth to Sioux City, $1,000,000; estimated amount required to complete existing project, $7,150,000; improving the Mississippi: From St Paul to Des Moines ra; ids, S7SO,(XX); from Des Moines rapids to mouth of Illinois river, $509,000; reservoirs upon headwaters of Mississippi, $500,000; improvement Ohio river, $980,000; Duluth harbor, $100,000; harbor of refuge Milwaukee bay, $300,000; Wisconsin river, $500,<MX); Chicago harbor, $250,000; Illinois river, $225,000; Michigan City (Ind.) harbor, $200,(XX); Cleveland harbor,' $300,000.

Some Interesting Figures.

It is no wonder that Americans take naturally to arithmetic. We love ciphering, because all the tables we compile reveal our great national prog ress. The census shows that while in 1870 we had 5,922,471 agriculturists, the number increased in 1880 to 10,710,000. In 1870 we had 2,707,421 manufacturers, which number increased in 1880 to 5,250,000. The wages in our manufacturing establishments increased from $378,878,960 in 1860 to $1,500,000,000 in 1880. Then look at the vast accumulation of property in this country. In 1800 the wealth of England was estimated at $9,000,000,000, while the United States was but little over $1,000,000,000. In 1880 the figures stood: Great Britain, $44,000,000,000; the United States, $55,500,000,000. These are gigantic sums and represent enor*

mous growth. The United States today is the richest nation on the globe, and its accumulations are the result not of economy, but of a wise manipulation of the forces of nature. Vast as has be n the accumulation of our wealth, it is nothing to what the future censuses will show, for it is not too extravagant to hope that by 1950 the United States will not only be the most populous nation in the world, but that its wealth will be greater than the accumulated riches, of all Europe.— Demorest's Monthly.

WORK AND WAGES.

Some Useful and Interesting Statistics in Regard to Our Manufacturing Industries. Census Bulletin No. 301, recently issued from the Census Bureau at Washington, gives statistics of certain kinds of manufactures in this country, including agricultural Implements, ammunition, boots and shoes, bricks and tiles, firearms, lumber sawed, and paper, and we condense these stat'stics into the following general particulars. In the matter of the manufacture and production of agricultural implements we have the following general results: Number of establishments 1,913 Capital invested $62,109,668.00 Value of materials $11,531.17 Valu' of products $68,640,486.00 Paid for wages $15,359,610,00 Persons employed— Males 38,313 Female’s over 15 years 73 Children 1,194 Total employed 39,580 Average yearly wages (312 day 5)...... $ 3°8.00 Daily average wages $1.24 In the manufacture of boots and shoes, 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 $ 02,447,442.00 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 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...- $28,673,616 Value of materials • $>,72®,634 Value of products Paid for wages $13,444,532 Persons employed 66,155 Including children 7,055 Average year I y 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 $',781,316 Value of products $5,618,636 Paid for v.ages ■ $2,660,0a9 Pers-ns employed 4,847 The repor-s of the lumber sawyers show the so lowing particulars of that industry: ( api tai invested $ 181,186,122 Value of materials ’. $146,155,385 Value of products $233, 6i,729 Paid for wages $11,845,971 Persons employed It ',956 Average annual wages $215 Average daily wages, 6!) cents. The ihauufacturefs of paper made the following r-tuins of the result of their business during the. census year. We gve the details of their exhibit: Capital invested $46,241,202.00 Number of establishments 692 M iterials used — Rags, tons 187,917 Old paper 87,“40 Waste cotton 12,088 Manila, stock 84,786 Com stock 954 Straw 243,838 Esparto grass 264 Value of above materials $21,581,240.00 Chemicals S3,C.2 J ,798.00 Other materials $7,039,497.00 Pulp put chased $1,681,762.00 'I otal value of materials $.13,931,29 .00 Value of products $55,109,914.00 Pei sons employed, males 16,133 Females over 15 years 7,646 Children 649 Total employed 24,442 Paid lor wages $8,524,855.00 Average yearly wages $329.00 Average daily wages $1.06 The 10l owing tabic .-h iws the < apital invested, the number of hands emplo ed, the amount of wages paid, the value of ma’e. ials used and the value of produces for all the establishments of manufacturing industry, gas excepted, in each of the States and Territories mentioned, as returned in the census of 1880:

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LORING’S REPORT.

The Crops of the Country. George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, in his annual report to the President, estimates the following as the grain yield for 1882: Bushels. '~0ri...; 1,635,000,600 Wheat 41',000,< 00 Oats 470,000,000 Barlev 45,000,000 Rye 20,000,000 Buckwheat 12,000,000 “The business of manufacturing sugar from sorghum at the cepartment,” says the report, “having failed in 1881, anl having 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 tor the benefit of the industry they represent I have a’so 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 way receive a great amount of valuable information I have endeavored, from the begirn ng of my connection w th the department, so to conduct the work performed here, as part of that interesting investigation into the values of sorghum now going on in the field of the farmer and thfc mill of the manufacturerand laboratory of the chemist, to secure for what appears to be a growing industry all the information which unprejudiced science and the best practical Skill can provide; and I trust the knowledge 1 have gathered will, when published, be found to be of value. Two sites, both in Colorado, have been selected for artesian wells In the forestry division increased activity has been shown, a special agent having been appointed to collect information west of the Mississippi

The total quantity of wine made in France during the year 1881 was 911,000,000 gallons, the value of which was about $320,000 000. A large proportion of the 5,000,000 beer glasses wed annually in Berlin comes from this country.

SENATOR BAYARD’S VIEWS.

Cause and Effect—Living Questions. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, was interviewed at Washington the other day relative to the results of the election and the future of parties. He said: “It is too early at this moment to estimate up all the consequences of this political inundation, or to tell precisely where the channels of future party action will be found. The country just now is something like Holland with-the dikes down, and the natural features of the landscape temporarily submerged. Believing in parties only as means to an end, my earnest hope is that the Democratic party, which has now had long training in adversity, may fully comprehend the situation, and not belittle itself by classifying the late election* as mere party triumphs. It matters little how the result was caused. It illustrates the power of the people, acting in their primary capacity as citizens at the polls, to relieve themselves from bad rulers and evil methods by the peaceful forms of election; and this vindicates the American principle of government. “The result now is to throw the control of the Governments of the group of central States —‘hose chief in wealth, population and political influence—under the control of the Democratic party. It is also gives to the same party the control of the next House of Representatives in Congress, and quite probably the Senate, as well; and in addition a strong probability, almost logical in its certainty, of adding the control of the executive branch in 1884. This a’l means a present promise of an entry by the Democratic party upon a long lease of public power; and to make this certain, and a blessing to the whole country, it is not Duly necessary that the party should be true to tlie principles upon which it was founded, and which if appl ed now to existing issues will be recognized as wise by men of all parties. “The civil-service reform must be taken up and completed, so as to prevent the public offices of the country from being any longer prostituted into being the mere spoils of party conquest. The tenure of the great body of these offices —which are simply ministerial in their nature—must depend solely upon efficiency and good behavior, and not upon the mere ebb and flow of the party power. This step alone, once resolutely taken, will clear the political atmosphere of much of its -present obscurity and danger. It will banish ‘ bossism ’ from our State and National politics, and allow the measures of statesmanship to replace official brokerage, by removing from the minds of tliQ corps of official servants of the country the periodical distress caused them by the fear of losing their means of livelihood, or of being bled by political assessments which every election bring« about. “I need say nothing of the, increased economy and efficiency of the public service that would fol'ow. The disposition and power so dangerously exhibited by the present Federi-l administra(ion to interfere in the local elections and government of the States would not only be discouraged but rendered almost impossible. Such disgraceful bargains as those lately made by the administration with Mahone in Virginia and Cash and Chalmers in Carolina and Mississippi would not again stain our political history, and centralization of power would also receive a much-needed and important check. Having thus put the machinery of administration upon a proper basis, the re-establishment of just and sound principles of taxation will become the most important duty of the Democratic party. Under the present conglomerated mass of tax laws the grossest injustice and class favoritism is accomplished. There is no task higher or more important than that of insisting that no law shall remain upon' the statute books under which the private property of one citizen is taken for the private use of another, public property for private use, or private propei ty for public use, without just compensation to the owner. “It is a mere summing up of the present system of tariff taxation to say that it accomplishes all three of these iniquitous and unwarranted results. War measures are inadmissible in time of peace. War taxes ought to be temporary only, whereas we now see that certain favored classes of our citizens have wrought themselves into the absurd belief that they have certain vested rights in the perpetuation of unequal taxes to their personal benefit upon the whole body of their fellow-countrymen. To state the the issue broadly, and yet accurately, the people of the United States are threatened with the substitution of a plutocracy instead of republicanism as the basis of their Government. “The reduction of taxation, the simplification of tax laws, the insistance upon the principle that revenue shall be the object and ‘ protection ’ only the incident of tax laws, are the arduous duties of the party assuming to administer the affairs of our Government. Under such an administration, founded upon such principles, and purified from the abuses and corrupt influences which have caused the Republican party to fall to pieces in the late elections, I can see a long course of growing prosperity, happiness and honor to our country, which will strengthen the cause of selfgovernment all over the civilized world.”

THE TARIFF ISSUE.

Views of J. S. Moore, the Parsee merchant.** Mr. J. S. Moore, of New York, was asked by an Evening Fo.s-/reporter: “What, in your opinion, v ill the Democratic party do with their recent vic tory ?” “Do you know, I am taking a very hopeful view of my party ? It is just a week since the greatest victory ever won by any party perched upon the Democratic banners, and yet we seem to bear it very modestly. We have seen no processions, no gunpowder wasted, no flags flying, and even those prominent men who have spoken pitched their tune remarkably low. Look at the demeanor of the hero of the battle —I mean of course Governor elect Cleveland. He seems not only to realize the great responsibility, but his behavior and utterances are wonderfully becoming, and elicit admiration from his former opponents, who feel satisfied that they supported him.” “So you believe that your party has

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learned wisdom, and is going to succeed ?” “I need not say how sincerely I hope it. The election of Speaker of the House of Representatives will test the wisdom of the Democratic party.” “Of course yon don’t wish to see Mr. Randall Speaker, on account of his protective proclivities ?” “I have nothing to say but in kindness of Mr. Randall. But, as an honest, well-meaning Democrat, I believe that the choice of Mr. Randall for Speaker of the House would be the surest defeat to Democratic success. Pray, how can it be otherwise ? Come what may, the country at least, from Maine to the Rio Grande, and from Banger to Puget sound, expects a square, fair tariff issue. Mr. Randall would be placed in a most embarrassing position. Do you think that this great question can now be treated with the same nostrums that have for years been offensive in the nostrils of the people?” “But have you seen what Mr. Randall says about the tariff and the internal revenue?” “Certainly I have; and let me show you how utterly impracticable Mr. Randall's nostrum is. The gentleman proposes to abolish the internal revenue en bloc, which leaves the whole revenue to be raised by the tariff. Now, what is the amount of revenue needed ? Mr. Randall says: ‘ After our public debt is paid in full our expenditures c m hardly be much below $200,000,000, and if this sum is levied in a business-like and inttllige t manner it will afford adequate protection to every industrial interest in the United States.’ Well, how are we to raise the revenue until our public deLt iff paid, which is some $08,000,000 or $70,000,000 more? As for raising $200,000,000 from customs, Pennsylvania will agree with Mr. Randall that it will afford ‘adequate protection to every industrial interest in the United States.’ But the people cannot be impressed longer by this tax. If it only meant $200,000,000, the burden would be light enough, but it means $1,000,000,000 additional burden that the people have to pay to protectionists. Beside, how can Mr. Randall raise $200,000,000 from the customs without imposing such war taxes as now are levied on sugar, salt, rice, woolens, window glass, spool thread and other luxuries of life? No, sir. This victory does not mean war taxes in time of peace. It does not mean blood taxes on the people’s medicines. It means a judicious reduction of our enormous tariff burdens in spite of steel-rail monopoly. It means a true simplifie ition of our swindling tariff system in spite of the upholders of the compound duties.” “So you don’t think Mr. Randall will be chosen as Speaker ?” “I really be'ieve Mr. Randall will be the mo t astonished man, when the time comes, to find what the sentiment of the people on this subject really is. After the election of a Speaker, Mr. Randall will be, a 3 he always has been, a most prominent leader, to which his experience and undoubted ability entitle him.” “I need hardly ask you if Mr. Carlisle is your choice?” “Mr. Carlisle, if chosen Speaker, will bring the tariff issue to the front, and I feel certain that the Democrats will go before the country in 1884 with a liberal tariff reduction; in fact, with a judicious and well-devised economic system. Of course, a Republican Senate may frustrate such a design, but it will only insure the Democrats still further victory. Being a tariff reformer, Inm indeed happy to see Mr. Morrison, of Illinois re-elected. This re-election alone goes ve\y far to insure succe-s to Mr. Carlisle, and promises *a vigorous tariff reform. ”

A FREE BALLOT.

It Is Found Numerously in Mimu so a—Republican Returns That Would Make the Worst Bulldozer in Hie South ISluHh. [From the Chicago Timos.] As nearly as can be found out, two Republicans were running for Congress in the upland district of Minnesota — Knute Nelson and Charles F. Kindred —differing only in the degree that each called the other a thief. Much bad language was whirled all along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad from Duluth to Moorhead. In such a contest the Democratic candidate, whose name was Barnum, stood no show. It was highly resolved that a Bepublicah should be elected, even though Nelson and Kindred “chawed up” one another in the conflict. The Governor of the State was moved to open up pollingplaces in unexplored regions. The returns from some of these are curious. Crow Wing county, that gave a population of 2,319 in the last census, now sends in a return of 2,379 votes—for Kindred, 2,153; Nelson, 174; Barnum, 52. Itasca county, away at the head waters of the Mississippi river, was counted for 124 in the census, and counts for 643 in the vote, viz.: Kindred, 633; Nelson, 2; Barnum, 8. In these and such as these counties Mr. Kindred evidently got in his work. But it must not be supposed Mr. Nelson was idle. He also had a business end of the district, and an eye to business. Ono of his counties (Norman) not named in the census, came up smiling with a vote of 1,046 for Nelson, who figures an election by 5,000 in the district. Chalmers or Mahone could certainly not have improved on these efforts to secure an exceedingly free ballot.

How Dana Sees it.

The New York Nun figures out the following result for 1884:

• democratic. I Electoral : Votes j Alabama., loj Arkansas 7| California 8. Connecticut 61 Delaware 81 Flor ria 4i Georgia 12 [ Indiana 15i Kentucky 13. Louisiana 8. Maryland s' Massachusetts 14 Michiua-- 13i Mississippi 91 Missouri 161 Nevada a New Jersey 9' New York North Car01ina....... Hi Ohio 23 i Pennsylvania 30’ South Carolina 9] Tennessee 12 Texas 13 West Virginia 6 Total 298

REPUBLICAN. Electoral Votes. Colorado 3 Illinois 22 10w,i.., .■ 13 Kansas 9 Maine 6 Minnesota i 7 Nebraska 5 New Hampshire 4 Orego i 4 Rhode Island 4 Vermont 4 Virginia 12 Wisconsin 11 Total 163

SUMMARY Total electoral votes ;..401 Majority ...... .201 Democratic electoral votes < .398 Republican aleetoral vStee .. <>>uu iu< <,

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THE. CONGRESSIONAL VOTE.

Tabulated Statement of the Vote Cast for Congressmen in Indiana. The following is the vote cast by counties and districts for Congressmen at the recent election. The returns are not yet complete in all the districts, as will.be seen by the table: FIRST DISTRICT. Wm. J. J. U. Hellman. Kleiner. Nesbit. Posey 1,990 2,6'20 s Gibson 2,5 1 2,473 3rt Vanderburg 4,478 4,855 78 Warrick 1,931 2,199 54 Pike •••• • • ■ ■ Spencer 2,147 2,375 97 Perry.l,s7s 1,804 .... SECOND DISTRICT. Thos. IL A. J. Cobb. HostcGer. Sullivan 2,191 1.599 Green 2,210 2,458 Knox 3,389 I,<W« Daviess...., 2,200 2,175 Martin 1,443 l> (i 9f Lawrence 1,045 Orange 1,479 1,247 Dubois THIRD DISTRICT. Wm. T. S. M. John O. Walker. Stock stager. Greene. Jackson 1,798 2,819 75 Jennings 1,702 1,010 05 Washington 1,300 1,994 Scott 718 1,004 Clark 8,550 2.283 F10vd1,045 2,858 172 Harrispn 1,014 2,183 231 Crawfordl,os4 1,415 101 T0ta112,537 17,172 675 Stockslager’s plurality 4,635 FOURTH DISTRICT. Wm. J. W. S. D. I’. Johnson. Holman. Thomas. Union 1,025 760 20 Decatur 2,327 1,370 55 Franklin 1,255 2,750 Ripley •••• Dearborn 1,588 3,<’41 20 Jeffersons,9o4 2,526 15 Ohio 634 585 , 5 Switzerland 1,494 1,506 101 FIFTH DISTRICT. C. C. Mat- R. Wa’son. lingfoid. Putnam 2,821. 2,071 Hendricks 2.0.53 1.065 Morgan 1,965 2,203 Johnsen 2,280 1,950 Owen 1,932 1,408 Monroe 1,615 1,775 Brown 1,362 414 Bartholomew 2,812 2,41'2 To a 116,851 13,295 Ma 1 son s majority 3,556 SIXTH DISTRICT. Thomas L. J. Thomi son • Brown. Pender. Smith. Delaware 3,025 1,761 105 Randolph 2.797 1,696 1 Henry 8,376 1,951 26'2 Wavne 5,155 3,346 230 Rush 2,509 2,170 60 Fayette 1,713 1,237 8 T0ta119,575 12,161 667 Brown’s plurality.... 7,414 SEVENTH DISTRICT. Stanton J. W. E. Robert Peelle. English. Medkirk. Marionl2 940 12.300 Hancock 1,694 2,129 66 Shelby 2,817 2,935 79 T0ta117,451 17,364 145 Peelle’s plurality.... 87 EIGHTH DISTRICT. R. B. F. John E. John W. Peirce. Lamb. Copner. Warren 1,587 813 131 Fountain 2,117 2,5105 402 Montgomery 3,250 3,550 183 Vermillion 1,450 1,239 172 Parke 2,390 1,824 221 Vigo....* 4,176 5,235 410 Clay 2,853 3,121 306 17,823 18,110 1,859 Lamb’s plurality.... 287 NINTH DISTRICT. Godlove Thos. B. R. F. S. Orth. Ward. Jacks. Tippecanoe..... 4,067 4,306 148 Clinton 2,485 2,931 152 Tipton 1.508 1,883 49 Boone 2,737 2,796 554 Hamilton 3,225 2,116 105 Madison .... .... TENTH DISTRICT. Mark L. Thos. J. Jas. N. DeMotte. Wood. Moore. Lake 1,813 1,775 109 Porter 1,973 1,691 233 Newton 1,030 668 158 Jasper 1,239 850 143 Pulaski 766 1,244 241 Fulton 1,805 1,895 1 Cass 2,547 3,824 163 Carroll 2,102 2,329 White 1,505 1,642 153 Benton 1,443 1,278 41 16,223 17,196 1,322 Wood’s plural ity.... 973 ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Geo. W. Jos. R. Evan Steele. Daily. Thomson. Miami 2,741 3,008 152 Wabash 3,449 2,141 59 Huntington 2,661 2,780 105 Wells 1,378 2.277 500 Adams 888 2,011 33 Howard 2,762 1,690 203 Grant 3,018 2,363 87 Blackford;.. .... .... Jay 2,242 2,291 161 TWELFTH DISTRICT. Wesley C. Robert Joseph , « Glasgow. Lowry. But'er. Lagrange l,7fi i 1,064 152 Stenlien 1,224 1,111 192 Noble, 2,701 2,f38 40 DeKalb 2,279 2,565 118 Whitley 1,899 2,175 43 Alien 3,760 7,433 70 T0ta1..13,<f23 16,986 615 Lowry’s plurality... 3,333 THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. W. H. J. H. Winter- Na- . * Calkins, botham. tional. liaporteu,« 3,689 4,008 139 S'. Joseph.. A. 4,372 3,868 523 Elkhart. 3,8'28 3,413 29 1 8 arke 411 <33 182 Marshall 1,906 2,46« 7co Kosciusko..... . 3,269 2,697 108 T0ta117,478 17,087 1,942 Calkins' plurality.. 3'.n

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Supervising Architect Hill’s Report. Supervising Architect James G. Hl ], of iho Treasury Department, bns submitted to ho Secretary of tho Tn n«u,y his annual rep rt for the year ended S ‘pt. 30, 1882. Th" roil rt sh ws the following am unts to have been ex ended upon the various . public buildings in t c West, and also the unexpended balances of approp iations remaining in the treasury nt the clo e of the year: Amount Expended. Balance. Ci ncinnati Custom House. f!3i,33i. 1 $4 ?,'45.85 Ch'cngo Custom House... 18,601.81 23,339 85 Cleveland Custom House. 8i,218.6'> iri.r.io ■ 8 K in. Citv Custom House. '.6 646.51 182,519.6) Littk Rk. Custom Bouse. 14,765,3) i,H7c.82 Memphis Custom Ii >use.. 95,744.58 15",,'<13 10 Nashville Custom House . 51,295 81 i'.G73.2> N Orleans Custom House. 26,129/8 f»6’>-'.is Padwah Court House .., 55 291.43 ."6/6>.5l Pittsburgh Court Hou^e.. 70,279.91 262,'34/9 St. Lonis Custom Hites . 461,48 1.43 29‘,172.22 Toledo. Custom Houee 50,370 91 19’,465 37 Topeka Custom House.... 57.404.48 93.3.9.47

A Gunpowder Engine.

A gunpowder engine has been patented in Germany by Herr Beck. In it a piston is forced to and fro in a horizontal cylinder by small quantities of powder ignited on either side alternately. Powder pans’are provided on the bottom within, on which, at the proper moment, powdet falls through passages from two holders which rest on distribution slides. Ttrtrigniting of the powder is effected by means of a spirit or gas flame from the cylinder cover, drawn in th rough an oblique aperture by the suction force of the piston. The access is regulated by slides. The gases of explosion are expelled through holes furnished with slides on the return of the pipton. The heavy residues are pushed t>v' the piston into bags, which ate emptied at intervals. It is claimed for the new motor that, with small occupied, space, it is very effective and easily set at work. The consumption of powder is conlpaiatively small, and the engine regulates itself. The danger is represented as slight. This season’s vests will furnish patches for next year’s trousers. Sweet are the uses of diversity.— Commercial