Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — Page 2

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, j. W. McEWEN, - - - Publishxe.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. On the Long Island railroad, near Montauk Junction, N. Y., a collision between passenger trains occurred, by which two persons were killed and eight wounded. Hugh J. Hastings, proprietor of the New York Commercial Advertiser, died at Monmouth, N. J., of paralysis of the heart He was €3 years old. Among the pall-bearers at the funeral of Hugh J. Hastings, in New York, were President Arthur, Secretary Folger, Roscoe Conkling, W. H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Hugh J. Jewett, Samuel Sloan, Gen. Eckert and I&ac W. England. Some miners who were discharged at Hazelton, Pa, threatened to destroy the property of the company. They fought the constabulary with pistols, a woman and girl being killed and several officers and miners injured. Rain and frost have ruined a large portion of the Vermont hop crop Fire at Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed W. A Boylin & Co.’shat works, Charles E. Everett’s novelty straw-hat factory, and two rear frame buildings, involving a loss of $135,003 Prof. Swift, Director of Warner Observatory, at Rochester, is reported to have discovered a comet in the constellation Draco For a purse of $2,000, to beat the record of 2:14, Jay-Eye-See, at Narragansett Park, Providence, trotted the mile in 2:10%. He showed no signs of distress at the finish. William Rockafeller’s team, Cleora and Independence, are reported to have made a 2:17 record on the Charter Oak Park track, at Hartford, Ct

WESTERN.

Margaret Mather’s engagement at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, has financially exceeded that of last year. Her “Juliet” nights have been the most profitable ones ever known in the theater. The Madison Square Company, with “Esmeralda,” succeeds Miss Mather at McVicker’s. The cast is a strong one, including Joseph Wheelock, Ben. Maginley and Kate Denin. John McCullough begins an engagement at the theater on the 24th inst Burglars blew open the safe in Fitzgerald & Wilson’s faro bank at Detroit and carried off $4,000. At Muncie, Ind., a $5,000 package was taken from the United States Express safe. At Hartford, Dakota, while descending a flight of stairs in his house, Herman Divers and a child were killed by lightning. Charles McConnell, aged 21, second baseman of the North Manchester (Ind.) base-ball club, was killed by colliding with another player in a game at Wabash. The town of Jacksonville, Ala., was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss is SSO, COO. Barbara Miller, a colored woman, was hanged at Richmond, Va, for aiding Henry Lee to kill her husband last February. It appears that they placed the corpse on the railway track, as if accident had befallen him, and the company paid the expenses of the funeral S. S. Connett, a pork-packer of St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide by leaping from a tree with a rope halter around his neck. Fifty-two thousand more hogs have been slaughtered at Chicago since March 1 than were killed in the same time last year. The summer’s figures are 1,452,000. The Agricultural Department of Illinois reports the wheat crop the smallest recorded for the past twenty-five seasons, while the price at harvest time has only been higher twice in ten years. The Assessors report 7,304,596 acres planted to corn, and the crop is from ten to twenty days late in maturing. A Tombstone despatch reports that eight Apaches appeared at Antelope Springs, Arizona, mounted on barebacked horses, and killed George Ward. Twenty armed citizens of Tombstone went in pursuit of the savages. Col. Terrazas, of the Mexican army, was organizing a force to pursue the hostiles to the mountains. Two Mormon elders, engaged iu preaching near Laurel, Ind., abducted the young daughter of a man who had entertained them, and baptized her into their church. She could hardly be persuaded to return to her family. Over ICO citizens took the elders to the woods at midnight and coated them witn tar and feathers, threatening them with lynching if they did not leave at once. Judge Edgarton has decided, at Yankton, that the Dakota Capital Commission is not a legal organization.

SOUTHERN.

In Dinwiddie and adjacent counties in Virginia forest fires have destroyed valuable timber, and in some instances wheat fields have been consumed Fire at Fort Smith, Ark., destroyed $75,000 worth of property in the business section A State Convention of Tennessee farmers, held at Nashville, adopted a resolution declaring it to be the duty of Congress to constitute the Agricultural Bureau of the Government a separate Department of Agriculture with the rank and position of a Cabinet office. Another resolution asks Congress to pass laws to prevent the spread of contagious diseases to which live stock are liable. A further resolution asks the next Legislature to enact a law allowing any freeholder to kill dogs found on his land Maj. Hurlock, a mill-owner of Trinity, Texas, and his young son were mortally wounded in an affray with an employe named Roseman. Drought has destroyed the peanut crop in Virginia, entailing a loss of $200,000.

In some sections enough will be raised for seed next year. Judge Mayo, of Westmoreland county, himself dead while on board the steamer Virginia, near Fortress Monroe. He told a clergyman who accompanied him about his political disagreements with hi* sons, one of whom is a member of Congress elect, and said he felt like ending his troubles by blowing out his brains.

WASHINGTON.

Washington telegram: “Postmaster General Gresham, the only Cabinet officer who has remained in Washington any considerable portion of the summer, has a large budget to call to the attention of the President, and it is quite probable that a number of Postmasters will be removed. Among them are some Postmasters who being proprietors of country newspapers have inserted the latest advertisement of a lottery company, which sharply attacks the Postoffice Department and the Administration on account of recent decisions excluding lottery letters from the mails In view of the successful evasion of the recent order of the Postmaster General against lotteries, it is expected, too, that another order, more stringent than the former one, will soon be promulgated.” President Arthur has decided to appoint a commission to examine all conditions of hog-raising, to settle the rumors of disease among American swine. The President will choose one man, the Chicago Board of Trade one and the Agricultural Department two. A Washington telegram of the 13th inst says: “Additional telegraphic reports from State Agents of the Agricultural Department have been received from Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Dakota. They show that the frosts since the Ist inst have damaged the corn crop in those States from 5 to 15 per cent, the greatest injury having occurred in Ohio. Notwithstanding this the ptatistican of the department says that the 2,500,000 acres increase over last year’s planting will probably keep the total yield from falling below 1,600,000,000 bushels. The total for last year was 1,625,000,000 bushels, so the decrease will not, he says, be serious enough to cause a short supply.” A Washington correspondent telegraphs: President Arthur left for New York Friday, and does not expect to return much before Oct 10, unless specially called back. The President has had the time hang very heavy on his hands since his return. There are no politicians in town; none of the Justices of the Supreme Court are here; the society people are slow in coming back; the hotels are as quiet as grave-yards; even the office-seekers stay away. Sunset Cox came on here to work on the Speakership, but he could not find a man in town with a vote, or any influence, so lie fled upon a very short notice. Washington officials decided not to send a search-and-aid party this winter to the Greely expedition, and the men. will be compelled to subsist as best they can until the middle of next summer. Many are disposed to think, with Simon Cameron, that if the North pole was discovered we would not know what to do with it Some of Lieut Garlington's friends are disposed to think that his critics have been unnecessarily and unwarrantedly severe on him. They express confidence that a full knowledge of all the facts in his case will vindicate his courses

POLITICAL.

Wendell Phillips has informed the Greenback leaders of Massachusetts that he can no longer support Ben Butler for office, as hopes for the Presidency have caused the latter to abandon the interests of the people. Wendell Philips denies that he has become dissatisfied with the methods and administration of Gov. Butler. Blaine denies the remarks recently credited to him, viz: That Butler would again be elected Governor of Massachusetts, and later win the Presidential contest for the Democrats. Mr. Blaine says the reverse of this are the views he holds. Senator Garland, of Arkansas, who has arrived in Washington for the season, says that his State will send a solid McDonald delegation to the next Presidential convention. A bill is before the Legislature of New Hampshire to incorporate the Southern Pacific Company, by which any railroad or steamboat line in the United States may be purchased. The incorporators are Leland Stanford’s attorney, M. Hopkins, and Chas Crocker. The county Democracy of New York declined the invitation of Tammany and Irving halls to unite in the election of delegates to the State Convention. The New Jersey Democrats, in convention at Trenton, nominated Leon Abbott for Governor, but the friends of Andrew Albright declared in the convention that they would bolt the ticket. Excerpts from the platform: The people should only be taxed so much as is absolutely indispensable for the frugal conduct of their public affairs; not one cent for surplus, and no unnecessary taxation. We favor the entire abolition of the present system of internal taxation, the nursery of spoils and Informers, a menace to the freedom of elections, the source of the greatest corruption, and an intolerable and unnecessary burden upon the taxpayers We insist that the public lands shall be reserved to actual settlers—not another acre for subsidies; that the dignity of American labor shall be defended, as also the rights of American citizens abroad and at home. We favor tariff for revenue, limited to the necessary expenditure of the Government, and so adjusted as to give protection and encouragement to home productive industry and labor, without producing or fostering monopolies The Dakota Constitutional Convention has resolved to make the name of the new State South Dakota, in deference to the protest of the Fargo meeting. Woman suffrage was rejected by 36 to 64.

MISCELLANEOUS. John Roach testified before the Senate Committee on Labor that materials for ships are as cheap here as in England, but labor is better rewarded on this side of the Atlantia Ship-building is the most profit-

able industry of England to-day, and her merchant fleet last year earned $400,000,000. He thought the labor question could be solved by the Government transporting emigrants to the West and giving them land. The steamer Proteus, in command of Lieut. Garlington, which sailed to the Arctic regions in search of the Greely exploring expedition, was crushed in the ice at the entrance to Smith’s sound, July 23. The party made their way to the relief Yantic, and were taken to St John’s, N. F. Grave fears are felt for the safety of the Greely Arctic expedition. No effeective aid can possibly be sent them before next summer, and meanwhile they must face the perils of hunger, cold and disease. Lieut Dsnenhower, of Jeannette fame, is anxious to lead a rescuing party. The great project for consolidating the Southern Pacific system and Louisiana and Texas railways have been incorporated by the New Hampshire Senate. Mrs. Garoux, of East Templeton, Ontario, left two childrenin her house while she went a short distance to milk a cow. On returning she found flames leaping out of the windows, and nearly lost her life in the vain effort to save the little ones. The business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept 15 numbered 186—six less than the preceding week,' and a decrease of three when compared with corresponding period in 1882. —ln a very comprehensive statement, embracing replies from seventy-live leading mercantile and manufacturing cities of the Union, .Bradstreet's shows that the manufacturing industries of the United States are enjoying a better business than might have been supposed. It appears that with the exception of a few lines of industry orders are being received by manufacturers quite up to the standard of former years, and in many branches in excess thereof On the whole, the industries appear to be moderately well employed, though at narrow margins of profit Orders are small, but frequent, and promise to continue in good number This is a healthful condition at least—Dun’s Commercial Agency reports business throughout the country generally satisfactory, and the fall trade is quietly progressing, with a large volume of sales in most all staples A New York telegram reports that “the drygoods men have done a better business The speculators’ occupation returned with the series of frosts, and the bank clearings larger in consequence.” The seventy-third anniversary of Mexican independence was celebrated Sept 16 at the capital of the republic. The procession of troops and civic societies occupied four hours in passing a given point The Directors of the Exchange Bank of Montreal held a meeting the other night and resolved to go into liquidation immediately, to meet the demands of bankers holding temporary loans. The Dominion Government has a deposit of $750,0001 < Tilden’s next yacht trip will be southward. It is said that he intends to go as far as Rio Janeiro.

FOREIGN.

The political situation in Eastern Europe is extremely critical The agents of the Czar are creating great agitation on the Bulgarian frontier. It is believed that Russia is already jealous of Austria’s pretensions, and an alliance between Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Montenegro are extremely probable. Admiral Pierre, who recently returned to France from Madagascar, died in Paris last week. The cholera quarantine has been re • moved from the Suez Canal, and traffic has resumed its usual course. It is said that the arrival of the outgoing French troops at Port Said will be taken by China as the signal for an invasion of Tonquin. A mob at Canton, China, burned the houses of European merchants, and also destroyed some of the wharves, but offered no violence to the persons of foreigners. A body of Chinese troops dispersed the rioters. Henri Conscience, an eminent novelist of Antwerp, is dead. A Berlin cablegram states that under no conditions wiH Germany consent to act as arbitrator between France and China Marquis Tseng says his Government will not give up the suzerainty over Anam. It is stated that both France and China earnestly desire peace England is trying her utmost to secure harmony. A plot to kill King Alfonso while in Paris was frustrated by the police. Michael Davitt is very ill at Dublin engagements to address the National League meetings in the various parts of Ireland, with inflammation of the lungs. His sickness necessitates the cancellation of all his The quatre-centenary of the birth of Martin Luther was celebrated on the 13th inst, at Wittenberg, Germany. Over 1,000 clergymen attended service with the Crown Prince. A larfrel wreath was placed upon Luther’s grave Admiral Sir Richard Collinson and Dutton Coon, the literary, art and dramatic critic, are dead Parnell has paid off the mortgage on his estates, amounting to £13,000, from the proceeds of the Parnell testimonial fund A dispatch from Hong Kong states that a battle has taken place between the French forces and the “Black Flags,” lasting eight hours The engagement took place between Hanoi and Sontay, near Bed River. The French forces lost two officers and fifty men The loss of the Black Flags is estimated to be between 500 and 600. Hanoi is the town where the French have been holding their garrison since the previous engagement at Sontay, awaiting reinforcements. Anti-Jewish disturbances still continue in parts of Hungary, Many lives were lost in consequence of the floods which prevail in some portions of Italy. The first long electric tramway in the world has just been opened in Ireland, to run from Portrush to the Giant’s causeway. The nice little story about Mary Anderson snubbing the Prince of Wales was manufactured from whole cloth. Seven Chinese gunboats are anchored near the English and French men-of-war at

Onton Placards have been posted threatening to destroy the property of Europeans shotid the Government pay indemnity for losses by the recent riot. An active autumn campaign is anticipated for England and Ireland. The extreme radicals are preparing to contest all the great boroughs in England at the next election, and the Parnellites are stumping Ireland with a view of returning enough Home Eulers to enable Parnell to hold the balance and dictate his own terms. A cable dispatch denies the reported Illness of Michael Davltt.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Prof. Dodge, the Statistician of the National Agricultural Department, is of the opinion that the corn crop will probably be as great as that of 1882. The damage to the corn in lowa by the early frosts has, according to trustworthy railway reports, been much overestimated —A Southern cotton expert estimates the yield of that staple for 1883 at not ab0ve5,250,000 balea The crop has been seriously damaged by drought and by the pestiferous cotton worm.—lt is found by reports received at the Agricultural Department in Washington from the tobaccogrowing districts that the tobacco crop in the New England States, New Yook, Penns.vlvania and Wisconsin has greatly suffered from the recent frosts. At the best, not three-fourths of the crop in the States mentioned will be harvested Pool Commissioner Albert Fink appeared as a witness before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. He believes the pooling system necessary to the existence of any railway service whatever. The growth of this necessity he instanced by stating that when he began as Pool Commissioner he represented but five roads, all running east and west Two associations similar to the one which he controls now exist in the West, covering territory not occupied by the Eastern pool Pooling on a grand scale began in 1875 in the South. But for the water routes. Mr. Fink admitted, it would go very hard with the people, as the pinch which shippers now get at the close of navigation would be an all-destroying grip but that the dread of something after springtime puzzles the magnates’ will The gospel according to Fink is, that when competition between individuals becomes ruinous it stops itself; but when corporations get into such a fight it cannot be stopped by the mere ruin of the properties involved Competition must bS eliminated in order to make the business of transportation possible. Mr. Pink pronounced the scheme of Governmental purchase and control of the railroads the wildest folly imaginable. To a question as to whether the people could not be relieved of their causes of complaint, Mr. Fink grimly responded that so long as the people were charged anything at all they would remain obdurate. Dispatches from Marshall, Texas, state that the white farmers in the vicinity of Longview are terribly excited over a raid believed to be contemplated by the negroes. Planters were guarding their families in ginhouses, and arms were being secured for every white man. The Secretary of the Navy has placed the steamship Despatch at the disposal of the Corean Embassy. Junius Brutus Booth, the actor and theatrical manager, died at his home in Manchester, Mass. Dr. Stintzing, a professor in the University of Bonn, met his death while attempting to climb the Alps. The Cape Government has demanded of Cetawayo and his followers a surrender in ten days, or troops will be sent to bring him in. Alleging that the French language has been used in Alsace-Lorraine to agitate restoration to France, Gen. Manteuffel has ordered that only the German tongue shall be used by the judicial and municipal authorities after this year. There was a mass-meeting of the Irish National League at Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, at which over 50,CC0 persons were present Thomas Power O’Connor, member of Parliament for Galway, delivered a stirring speech in favor of home rule for Ireland. The meeting adopted resolutions declaring that the Irish National League will never cease its efforts until a native Irish Parliament is established. The steam-barge Oakland, lumber laden, from Bay City for Erie, foundered off Conneaut, and four of the crew were lost

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 4.60 @ 6.60 Hogs 5.35 @ 5.85 Flour—Superfine 3.40 @ 3.85 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.09 @ 1.09% - No. 2 Red 1.12%@ 1.12% Corn—No. 2 61%@ .62 Oats—No. 2 33%@ .34% Pork—Mess 12.75 «t 13.00 Lard 08%@ .08% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.00 & 6.40 Common to Fair. 4.20 & 4.80 Medium to Fair 5.10 @ 5.65 Hogs 4.75 @ 5.45 Flour —Fancy White Winter Ex 5.50 @5.75 Good to Choice Spr’g Ex 5.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 95 @ .95% No. 2 Red Winter 1.02%@ 1.03 Corn—No. 2. 50%@ .50?$ Oats—Na 2 27 @ .27% Rye—No. 2 sf>%@ .57 Barley—No. 2 53%@ .60 Butter—Choice Creamery 24 @ .25 Eggs—Fresh 20 @ .20% Pork—Mess..: 11.20 @11.25 Lard 08 @ .0856 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. % 94%@ .95 Corn—No. 2 58 @ .59 Oats--No. 2 27%@ .28 Rye—No. 2 56 @ .66% Barley—No. 2 63%@ .64 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.25 Lard 08 @ .08% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 @ 1.01% Corn—Mixed 47%@ .47% Oats—No. 2 25%@ .25% Rye 52%@ .52% Pork—Mess ILBS @11.90 Lard 07%@ .07% CINCINNATL Wheat—Na 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn 52%@ .53 Oats 28%@ .29 Rye. 56 @ .56% Pork—Mess. 12.00 @12.25 Lard 07%@ .08 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.04% Corn 54 @ .54% Oats—No. 2 29 & .29% DETROIT. Flour '. 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—Na 1 White... 1.05%@ 1.06% Corn—No. 2 51%@ .52 Oats—Mixed 29 @ .29% Pobk—Mess 13.00 @13.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. a Red 1.00%@ i.ot Cobn—No. 2 48 @ .49 Oats—Mixed.....! 26%@ .27 EAST LIBERTY, PACattle—Best 6.00 @ 6.35 Fair 5.60 @ 5.85 Common * 4.00' @ 5.25 Hogs 5.20 @ 5.40 Sheep...; 4.00 @ 4.60

THE CROPS.

The Department of Agriculture at Washington Reports a Reduced Average Crop Cohdition. Estimated Yield of the Leading Cereals in the States of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. The Southern Cotton Crop—An Estimate of the Kansas Wheat Yield, THE CORN CROP. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT REPORTS. The September returns to the Departanent of Agriculture at Washington indicate a lower condition of corn than in August, in every section of the country, and in nearly every State. The only gains in the W est are in Missouri, Kansas and N<Araska, where a ■light improvement is indicated. Minnesota stands as in August; Arkansas made a gain of one point, and Georgia and Alabama remain as iu August, but all other cotton States show a heavy decline of figures, and is also much reduced for each of the Middle Staten The corn surplus States show changes as follows: Per cent. Ohio, a reduction of fr0m..89 to 82 Michigan, a reduction of from€B to 60 Indiana, a reduction of fr0m.....95 to 85 Illinois, a reduction of fromß6 to 82 lowa, a reduction of fromßs to 80 Increase in Missouriß3 to 84 Increase in Kansas .■99 to 101 Increase in Nebraskaß4 to 87 Decline in New York9o to 77 Decline in Pennsylvania 99 to 89 The general average condition on the Ist of September was 84, a decrease of 5 points during the last month. The cause of this reduction, so nearly universal, is drought, which is reported from every State of the Atlantic coast. Gulf coast, and the Ohio valley and beyond the Mississippi to the crest of the divide between that river and the Missouri. Between the Ohio river and the lakes the distribution of rain has been unequal, in a few places in excess, while a deficiency is generally reported. The crop is nearly everywhere late, •requiring one to two weeks longer season than usual to mature. Where Kansas and Missouri seed was planted in the more Northern territory, the crop is still later, causing much apprehension as to ripening. While planting was late and the early season too wet, with drought following, average temperature of the summer has been low, making a full yield an impossibility. Telegraphic communication with State agents up to the 12th of September shows the recent frosts damaged corn north of the fortieth parallel. The Ohio agent places the injury in that State at 20 per cent The Indiana agent estimates the loss at 20 per cent, in the northern section, and sin the middle belt The loss is heavy in Wisconsin and Minnesota. There is also some injury in New York and Pennsylvania. While the damage cannot yet be clearly determined, it is certain that frosts have already reduced the general crop below 10, though much of the heaviest corn of the West is beyond serious injury. The “condition of wheat where harvested,’ as reported in these returns, averages 83, which indicates a product of 17 per cent less than the yield of last year, or a loss of 88,000,000 bushels. The crop of oats will be large, the general ■verage being 99. The promise for potatoes is good, and is represented by 95, three points higher than the reported average in September, 1882.

COTTON. JTHE CROP IN DANGER. The September cotton returns to the Department of Agriculture are less favorable than those of August The principal cause of the injury is drought which has reduced the prospect in every State except Florida and Tennessee. The decline has been greatest in Texas. In North Carolina ana Virginia the temperature has been too low at night with serious drought The Gulf States report a more or less general prevalence of the caterpillar and ball-worm at many pointa The general average condition of the crop is reduced to 74. State averages are as follows: Virginia 72; Mississippi.7s North Carolina7B;Louisiana77 South Carolina7B Texas 67 Georgia7o Arkansas...Bo Florida 93 Tennesseeß9 Alabama 76 In September, 1879, the general average condition was 85r, in 1881 it was 70. It was 92 in the, great crop years of 1880 and 1882. In some counties the drought continues; in others the recent rains ..caused some improvement. Bust has appeared very generally, and is most threatening in the driest districts. NEW ENGLAND. SPLENDID SHOWING FOR ALL KINDS OF CEREALS. The crop returns from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, says a Boston dispatch, show a fair condition. The probable yield of Maine will be as follows: Wheat, 712,598; oats, 761,713; barley, 293 277; buckwheat, 300,000; and rye, 30,0j0 bushels. In Vermont grain of all kinds looks finely. It is estimated that the yield of the principal crops will be: Potatoes, 85,603,000; oats, 8,098,000; wheat, 312,010; corn, 2,056,060; barley, 173,590; and buckwheat, 370,000 bushela The season has been favorable for the production of butter and cheese, though wool will probably fall below the average. In New Hampshire the i eturns indicate a large yield of cereals and potatoes The following is the estimate: Coin, 1,325,121; oats, 1,072,141; barley, 77,287; wheat, 174,806; rye, 35.093; and potatoes, 3,480,000 bushels. WISCONSIN. DAMAGE BY FROST TO CORN AND TOBACCO. Advices received in Milwaukee from all sections of the tobacco region indicates that about one-third of the crop had been cut before frosts, and the rest is so seriously hurt that the entire crop will be about onehalf. Tne upper and tender and choicer leaves were chiefly destroyed, while the bottoms were not materially hurt The frosts were stronger in Rock than in Dane, the proximity of the lakes iu the latter county proving beneficial Corn may also be summarized as injured £0 per cent, in the two counties. KANSAS. THE ESTIMATED WHEAT CROP. Mr. William Sims, Secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, sends out the following: This Board is no way connected with the statement purporting to come from this department, that the State will produce 35,060,000 bushels of wheat. Our last estimate of the wheat crop of Kansas for 1183 la about 29,060,000 bushels, or 7,600,000 bushels short of last year. - This is our latest estimate, and we believe it to be nearly correct

GENERAL NOTES.

Corliss, the engine man, is building engines for the first Chinese cotton-mill. Iron ore of the finest quality is said to have been discovered in Bath county, Ky. The colored Masons of Savannah, Ga., have commenced the erection of a Masonic Hall at a cost of f .0,100. 111-tempered folks who think the telephone is always to blame, may be described as victims of a Hello-cination. It is strange, yet true, that no matter how much you batter at a knot, when you batter it out you always leave the knot hole.

CRUSHED BY ICE.

Another Arctic Expedition Gome to Grief. rhe Steamer Proteus, Carrying the Greely Explorers, Wrecked. [Washington Dispatch.] The Acting Secretary of the Navy received the following dispatch from the commander of the Yantic, giving particulars of the disaster to the Proteus, and the rescue of her crew by the Yantic > St. John, N. F., Sept Ki. W. E. Chandler, Secretly of the Navy: The United States steamer Yantic has arrived here, bringing Capt. Pike and the crew ot the Proteus, Lieut. Garlington and the Greely relief party, all well. The Proteus was crushed in the ice six miles north ot Cape Sabine, on July 23. The crew and the relief party, after depositing the records at Littleton island and PandoraHarbor, retreated southward In six beats to Uppernavlk, suffering much hardship In Melville bay. The Yantic reached Littleton Island on Aug. 3 without much difficulty, found the records, and immediately proceeded southwardly, searching the coast and island, thoroughly down to Sumner's island. The ice then closed in and we could not get around or through, and were obliged to retreatunder the lea pf Northumberland island. On the 9th, a southward gale having Loosened the pack, we were able to get through, and continued the search. The coast about Cape York is tilled with ice packed close, so that we could not get within twenty miles of land. On the 10th, having ice in all directions but southeast proceeded to Uppernavlk, and sent fifteen days” rations to Lesainsack, and a whaleboat to Cape Shakelton. On the 22d sailed for a coal mine, thence to God Haven. On the Slat Lieut. Colwell arrived in a launch, having been thirty-nine days in an open boat. He had separated from us under orders at Cape York. Sailed the same day for Uppernavlk, and found the relief party had arrived there. On Sept 2 proceeded homeward, and had a rough passage. Frank Wilder, Commander. The Proteus was a steam sailer, well adapted for Arctio work. She took Capt Greely and his party to Lady Franklin Bay over two years ago. The Greely expedition was to be conducted on a plan conceived by Capt Howgate. A depot was established at Lady Franklin bay, and the party were to move northward, establishing smaller depots for service on the return trip. In this way it was thought many of the dangers and hardships of-Arctic exploration would be avoided. The party had supplies to last about two years, by which time it was expected Capt Greely and his men would have returned to the starting point to await a vessel to bring them home. Nothing has been heard of Greely s party since the Proteus left them. Ail effort was made to reach them last season by a vessel sent out under tire direction of the War Department, but it was unsuccessful The vessel could not get through the loe, and came back without accomplishing anything. At the last session of Congress an appropriation of SBO,OOO was made to send out a search party for Greely. It took shape in the disastrous putting forth of the Proteus. The news or the loss of the vessel naturally created considerable comment in the Navy and War Departmenta Lieut Oasciare, of the Signal Corps, immediately upon receipt of the information had an interview with Commodore English, acting Secretary of the Navy, and Commodore Walker, chief of the Bureau of Navigation. The matter was thoroughly discussed. The feasibility of ordering the Yantic to go to the relief of the Greely was talked over. Various expedients to relieve the people at Lady Franklin bay were mentioned. An earnest desire to do something was expressed. One conclusion, and that of a disheartening character, was reached that itwas too late in the season to send any vessel into the Arctic, as it would be impossible for her to get anywhere near Greely’s party on account of the ice. Commodore Walker says: “Nd vessel in. the navy, no vessel in the world could reach Greely before next summer. He and. his party are in a bad fix. The result of this relief expedition must throw a damper on. Arctic exploration. No one knows whether Greely and his men are alive or dead. Their supplies must be exhausted by this time.’ Prompt action is necessary in the cause of humanity, but old naval officers shake their heads ominously when the matter isdiscussed. Said one officer: “This, in my opinion, will settle the whole question of Arctic expedltiona The loss of the Jeannette ana the burning of the Rogers, that was sent to find her, and the loss of the Proteus piles it up too high, even if the fate of previous expeditions was not fresh in the mind of the public; Of course, an effort will be made to relieve Greely and his party, but that will be the last Arctic expedition for many years for which money will come from £he treasury of the United States. ” The Yantic accompanied the Proteus as convoy, but was not to go further north than Littleton’s island, when the latter wa» to push her way through the ice. When th© Navy Department ordered the Yantic to thatduty there was an outcry in certain quarters about the recklessness of sending a relief party, and then giving the vessel carrying that party a convoy. It has, however, turned out a fortunate precaution. If th© Yantic had not been near the Proteus when she was crushed in the ice there certainly would have been some loss of life. Indeed, it is extremely doubtful whether any of the relief party would have escaped.

BLOODY AFFRAY.

A Terrible Fight in the Dark Between Drunken Herders. [Denver Telegram.] The details of a bloody affray which occurred at McLain ranch, Elbert county, Sunday night, in which eight cowboys were engaged, have just reached the city. Sunday afternoon all went to Agate Station, on the Kansas Pacific road, and falling in with companions opened festivities by taking several drinks. Thence they rode to a neighboring ranch where they obtained a supply of liquor, and started for home. On the way two, named Rossiter and McKever, engaged in an angry dispute about a trivial matter, and all repaired to the herder’s quarters to settle the difficulty. As soon as they got inside the men clinched. Both fell to the ground fighting desperately, their oompanions urging them on. Tables and benches were removed, and in the ring improvised the mt n beat and tore each other with the ferocity of tigers. The on-lookers in t’ e excitement madly howled and danced about, brandishing revolvers and encouraging their favorite in the fight It was a blood-curdling sight While the orgie was at the highest the oillamp was knocked from its place. The room was in darkness. Men ran upon each other, and in a minute after the light had been extinguished the melee was general. The door was locked, and there being no means of egress each man was for himself. Amid resounding blows and curses a pistol-shot rang out and the death-cry of the victim paralyzed whatever of reason was left in the party. Almost before the cry left the lips of the unfortunate man there was a wild fusilade. In a moment, when by fitful flashes the gloom was lifted, there was a bloody scene; Rossiter was dead. The two Jones’ were weltering in their blood. Three others were wounded, some fatally. Beilins and McKeever were the only ones not injured. They fled, and have not yet been apprehended.

GENERAL NOTES.

Thoreau, says a writer in the Independent, had a contempt for the religious; and he thought the D. D.’s of small importance beside the chickadeedees. It is rumored that Charles Reade, the famous English novelist., is engaged in writing a series of lives at the patriarchs of scripture. Lord Ronald Gower in his book says that Disraeli had an impassive face, and‘Roden Noel says that it was like a mask. The Rev. M. Newman Hall still hopes to visit the United Staten