Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — Page 2

$De BcmocraticScntinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Snmmary 1 EASTERN. In Allegheny City, Pa., an employe in Kiefer & Stlefel’s tannery descended a well to ascertain the depth of the water. Finding: the foul air was choking: him, he cried out, and two other men went to his assistance, who were also overcome. When the three men were brought to the surface they were dead. At Narraganset Park, Providence, R. L, the trotter H. B. Winship made a mile with a running mate in the remarkable time of 2:10«. The creditors of F. Shaw & Brothers, of Boston, unanimously rejected an offer of 33 Si per cent, in compromise, and Instruct a committee to proceed by civil or criminal suits to secure 60 per cent. During October the convicts in Sing Sing penitentiary earned $20,677.74, while the expenses were only $16,641.29. The Pennsylvania Railroad company is about to lease its anthracite coal mines to a syndicate, headed by William L. Scott, of Erie, who will send the coal west from Erie and Buffalo. It is stated that the railway corporation will get $1 per ton for all the ooal mined. A desperate combat took place between Freshmen and Sophomore classes at the Polytechnic institute at Troy, N. Y., the only wonder being that several were not killed. Both parties have been suspended until the damage to the building is paid. Joseph McEneany, cashier of a steelworks in New York, embezzled $36,090 and squandered it in racing pools. Rachel Leyton, a colored woman, died at Trenton, N. J., at the very ripe age of 106 years. A farmer at West Millcreek, Pa., took SII,OOO in currency from his safe and concealed it in the parlor stove, where it was destroyed when he lighted a fire. Eliza Kemer, 16 years of age, an inmate of the almshouse at Erie, Pa., nurses like a babe, and has only the mental capacity of one, her mental progress having been stopped by an attack of brain fever when an infant. The case is creating a wide interest among the physicians of the locality. Arthur B. Johnson, a lawyer and politician of Utica, N. Y., killed himself in his office with a revolver, his body being discovered by a notorious woman with whom he lived. He leaves a wife and four children. President Arthur appointed Johnson a Commissioner to examine a section of the Northern Pacific railway.

WESTERN.

After a determined fight, United States Marshal R. S. Foster and a posse of detectives captured nine counterfeiters at Steinville, Pike county, Ind., and took them to Indianapolis. In the conflict one of the criminals was shot in the lung, another through the hand, and a bullet passed through the hat of a third. Four well-known citizens of Erie, Pa. —John W. Eyster, Frederick C. Kelsey, Giles Bussell and Charles Brown were caught in a storm while duck shooting in the bay, and drowned. Eyster had his life inensured for $20,000. It has for some time been charged that certain city officials of St. Louis, Mo , were in collusion with the gamblers, policy dealers-and other disreputable classes, by which the latter were permitted to ply their unlawful vocations unmolested. The matter reached a culmination last week in the indictment by the grand jury of Police Commissioners Caruth and Lutz,r.the State Commissioner of Labor Statistics, a member of the Legislature, two editors, and several other parties. The grand jury censures the Governor of Missouri for granting pardons. ' Col. Frank P. Pond, of Morgan county, Ohio, author of the Pond Liquor law, is dead. Willoughby, Ohio, a little town twenty miles east of Cleveland, was almost totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of not less than SIOO,OOO. Senator Tabor’s case at Denver against his ex-confidential adviser, W. H. Bush, was decided, the jury awarding Tabor $20,000. Bush’s counter-claims for $28,800 for aiding Tabor to secure a divorce and other matters were ignored. Secretary Frelinghuysen, in answer to the committee of Irishmen, states that the department in Washington will extend to Avenger O’Donnell all the protection to which he is entitled if it shall be shown that he is an American citizen. If he is mot such a citizen the American Government will make no direct representations whatever. M. J. Bond, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) lumberman, has failed for $175,000. Orrin A. Carpenter charged with killing Zora Burns was arraigned for a hearing at Lincoln, 111., on Saturday, the 3d inst., and demanded a change of venue from Justice Budolph to Justice W. D. Wyatt. The prose--cution demanded that the case be taken to Justice Maltby, and gained their point. Mr. Maltby, however, adjourned the case till Monday. A great crowd witnessed the proceedings, but the accused bore himself calmly, his blanched features being the result of confinement in prison. At Princeton, Wis., the young non of Fayette Whittemore was found in the river, with his throat cut. The disappearance of H. L. Eisen, the Milwaukee clothier, has been followed by the failure of his firm, whose liabilities are $83,000. The city authorities of Sioux Falls, D. T., cut down the telephone poles in that city recently ordered removed by the council, which mandate the company disregarded. The round-house and repair shops of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad, located near Dayton, Ohic, were totally destroyed by fire; loss, $75,000. T J. Gallagher, a St. Louis journalist, found the missing Mary Churchill at work In the laundry of an insane asylum three miles from Indianapolis, She stated that she left home alone. Faulkner, the leading counterfeiter

of Southern Indiana, who rived In what might be termed a log fort at Frenohtown, was deceived Into entertaining and instructing a detective, who captured both him and his wife by a ruse. Faulkner made double eagles which would deceive the most expert cashiers.

SOUTHERN.

The first bale of cotton ever picked by machinery, is on exhibition at Charleston, aC. It is declared equal to the hand-picked staple. In a fight between negro thieves and a posse of three law-and-order citizens, near Toomsboro, Go., three of the former and one of the latter were slain. / Hon. Armistead Bart, one of the oldest and ablest lawyers in South Carolina, died suddenly In his office at Abbeville. He was a member of Congress from 1843 to 1863. A fire at Savannah, Ga., which had its origin in the large cotton warehouse of Garnett, Stubbs & Co., destroyed the warehouse, containing 3,000 bales of cotton, and 1,3«0 houses, covering an area of a half mile square, causing a loss of at least five lives, and probably eight or ten. The loss is placed at nearly $1,000,000, and the insurance at not half that amount. Unknown assassins fired a volley of bullets through a circus tent at New Edinburg, Ark., killing a contortionist in the ring. Kate Townsend, a notorious woman of New Orleans, La., was stabbed to death by Treville Sykes, who had been his victim’s putative husband for twenty years. The tragedy occurred in an elegant mansion owned by the woman. She was worth $200,000. Sykes is in jail. The woman was ten times out with a huge bowie-knife, each of six of the wounds being fatal in its character. Three squares of wooden buildings in Algiers, La., were burned, the loss being $9,000. The warehouse of R. B. Hutchcraft, at Paris, Ky., valued, with Its contents, at $50,000, was wiped out by fire. A street fight occurred at Danville, Va., between blacks and whites, in which five of the former were killed and two white men wounded, one mortally, The beginning of the conflict was the beating by one ot the citizens of a negro who abused another negro for apologizing for an apparent rudeness, and spoke roughly about the citizen. Some of both colors interfered, and a pistol was knocked out of the hands of one white man and exploded. Just then the report reached an assembly of white citizens, in session about political matters, that a conflict was going on In the street. They came out In a body, and both classes formed in separate crowds. Some of each crowd were armed. A number of negroes approaching the white crowd called out, “Shoot, you, we had as soon settle this thing now as any other time.” Just then somebody in the white crowd called out “fire I” and the firing began. The negroes returned the fire and ran off, some firing as they ran. All the stores were closed immediately, and the alarm bell was sounded and the people came out with arms. The Town Sergeant came out soon after with one of the military companies and commanded the people in the name of the Commonwealth to go home, and the streets were soon cleared.

WASHINGTON.

The Utah commission, in its second annual report, argues that the influence of polygamists is destroyed by the law disfranchising them. Ten suits have been instituted by Mormons against the members of the commission for being deprived of the right to register and vote. The receipts and expenditures of the Government for the past few months indicate a reduction of the surplus revenue by only $34,000,0000 per annum, despite the reductions made by the last Congress; but the income is lessened at the rate of $60,000,000 per year, about equally divided between customs and internal revenue. The War Department has issued a special order appointing a court of inquiry to investigate the cause of the failure of the Greely relief expedition. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents $ 4,970,006 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.620,700 Three per cents 305,529.000 Refunding certificates 332.850 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,312,446,050 Matured debt 4,348,745 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 847,739,816 Certificates of deposit 12,620,000 Gold and silver certificates 182,908,081 Fractional currency 6,990,303 Total without interest $549,258,200 Total debt (principal) $1,866,052,995 Total interest 9,801,243 Total cash in treasury. 364,*347*501 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,511,506 737 Decrease during October 10 304 798 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881 39^584 i 470 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 2,698,375 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 4,348*745 Interest thereon ’288*857 Gold and silver certificates 182,908 031 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,620,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1 161 ,4*4,443 . £otal $864,347,501 Available assets— Cash m treasury 864,347,501 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding , $ 64JP3 jij Interest accrued, not yet paid. 1 202*470 Interest paid by United States 69*.222^093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 17,056.755 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 666,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41.510,138 Secretary Folger went home to vote. No bond call will be made for some time to come. Comptroller Knox has refused to authorize a national bank in Indian Territory, on the ground that the applicants were non-residents of the country. The following is the condition of the United States treasury. f Gold coin and bullion $210,630,064 Silver dollars and bullion 121112,61 1 Fractional silver coin.. 26,764,f65 United States notes 61,855, 051 Total .$410,262,281 Certificates outstanding: Gold. •.....< ......!. $52,491,476 Silver 86,740,129 Currency 13,055,000

POLITICAL.

Mifflin E. Bell, of Des Moines, lowa, has been appointed Supervising Architect of toe Treasury at Washington. In a quarrel at Reading, Pa., about

local politics. Congressman Ennentrout was knocked down in the street and beaten by George Smith, a Democratic loader. The Speakership canvass is now one of toe principal topics of interest in Washington. Carlisle, Cox and Randall are all working like beavers. A Democratic member said toe other day he would not be surprised to see toe contest over toe Speakership protracted for several days, and in tLat event a dark horse he believes wijl win.

MISCELLANEOUS. Holmes and Bracken, the alleged dynamiters, were committed for trial at Halifax, bail being refused. Thomas Walls & Sons, commission merchants at Toronto, Ontario, have failed for SBO,OOO. Eighty fine horses from the late national show in New York have been sold at auction at an average price of S3OO each. In a dispute at Hamilton, Ontario, about toe proper manner of entering goods, J. F. Hazelton, toe United States consul, was knocked down with a chair by a wool mer Chant named H. F. Long. The Government of Canada has accepted a loan of $15,000,000 at 4 per cent, from the Pacific railway syndicate, and will guarantee a 3 per cent, dividend for ten years on toe stock of the road. The schooner Sophia Minch, valued at $24,000, went aground near the east pier at Cleveland, and was scuttled. The schooner Arab was beached at St. Joseph, Micb. The steamer City of Toronto was burned at Pori Colborne, and toe steamer Oneida was wrecked on a rook in the St. Lawrence. Considerable excitement has been created by the announcement that work on the Rocky Mountain division of the Canadian Pacific railroad would be suspended for two years, owing to the difficulty of selecting a suitable pass. It is believed that this suspension will retard the work at least four years. A mercantile agency in Now York reports 215 failures during the week in th« United States and Canada. Creditors havt closed the Chicago office of the Rock llivei company; liabilities, $500,000. The Chicago boot and shoe house of Brainard & Servey, with liabilities of $12,000, was taken In charge by the Sheriff. F. E. Blackman, a tobacconist in Chicago, whose debts are $17,000, has made an assignment. The Marquis of Lansdowne has been in receipt of several letters threatening hit life. , Daigneau & Co., bark dealers at St Hyacinthe, P. Q., have failed for $250,000.

FOREIGN.

Regarding the London explosions, details show that the number injured is fully os large as first reported. It has also been determined that nitro-glycerine entered largely into the composition of the explosives used. The Irish in London are greatly excited, and are free to confess that the crime was planned by enemies of the National movement. O’Donovan Rossa claims the explosions were caused by Fenians, of whose movements he it aware. All the banks, public buildings and prisons at Glasgow are carefully guarded against explosions. The explosivo used al Frankfort-on-the-Main was nitro-glycerine, which had been placed in eight small glass shells, perforated with holes. The Lord Mayor of Dublin was announced to speak in the City hall at Londondeiry, but a crowd of Orangemen took possession of it and declared they would hold it. An immense procession of Nationalists escorted the Lord Mayor past the building, when the Orangeman thew stones from the roof and windows and wounded a man and a boy. A mob then stoned the City hall, and the militia were called out. The Mayor ol Londondery issued a proclamation appealing to the people to keep the peace. The Prince of Wales, in closing the International Fisheries exhibition at London, announced that the substantial surplus would be devoted to improving the condition of the fishermen. He expressed the hope that hygienic and inventors’ expositions would be held soon, and said he proposed to have a colonial exhibition in 1886. France does not intend to provoke hostilities with China, but will not renew negotiations; its forces are firmly planted in Tonquin. It is thought, in the meantime, that England will make endeavors to avert a war. Court circles on the Continent are now excited over the rumored betrothal of the Crown Prince Carlos of Portugal to the Archduchess Marla Valeria, youngest daughter of the Emperor of Austria. Prince Bismark Las entirely regained his former strength. King Alfonso has the rheumatism. The Princess Albert of Prussia has sprained her ankle. A man named Piotrowski has been arrested in Prussia for having undertaken to murder Bismarck for the Nihilists, and has confessed his guilt. Cablegrams announce the suspension of Carver, Derbyshire &f Co., merchants oi London and Manchester, with liabilities of £120,000, and of Hollinshead, Titley & Co., cotton brokers of Liverpool, who owe £IOO,000. Moody has begun a mission of six months in London, in an iron chapel seating 5,000 persons. There were 240 deaths from cholera at Meoca last week. It was Deßrazza’s brother who was killed in the Congo country, and not the explorer himself. The German Government has offered to mediate between the ruler of Bub garia and the Czar. A conflagration in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, destroyed over $2,000,000 worth of property, mainly warehouses. The peasants about Belgrade have grown violent, and troops have been forwarded to disarm them and martial law declared. Bismarck has been compelled to abandon cigars and wine, but Emperor William continues to enjoy life. It is asserted that the Malagassy Envoys who recently returned from a visit to Europe and America and the Prime Minister have been murdered. Great Britain has sounded the Brazilian and the United States Governments to ascertain whether they would meditate between France and Chino. A Committee of the Austro-Hungar*

lan Delegations, or Parliament, in reporting favorably on plans for additional military expenditures, enlarges on the value of a good fighting rfllianoe with Germany—all In the Interests of peace. An investigation . into the circumstanoes which led,to the recent explosions in the London underground railway Is asked for in order to ascertain whether there is any semblance of truth in the boasts of O’Donovan Rosa and his dynamite friends that it was their work. Public feeling against Irish secret societies runs very high In England Just now over the matter.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the Criminal court, at Gallatin, Mo., the indictment against Frank James for the murder of Conductor Westfall was dismissed, and he was sent bock to Jackson county to Le tried for the Blue-out trainrobbery. A passenger train on’the Wabash, Pacific and St. Louis railroad was boarded at Danville Junction, In Illinois, by four men, who went through one of the passenger cars with drawn revolvers, and obtained SBOO from the affrighted passengers. They left the train suddenly, Just as it pulled out, and no trace has been found of them. The same crowd, Or a similar one, worked a train on the Indiana, Bloomington and .Western road, which connects at Danville with the Wabash, by the pickpocket process, getting $1,200 and a check for $1,700 on the First National bank of Clinton, 111. One old man was awakened by a severe shaking, and while arising In his seat the oontent* in his pookets were changing bands. Several others were treated in the same manner in a great deal less time than it takes to write it, and before the train got under way the robbers had held up several men for various amounts. It is rumored that the Princess Amelie, eldest daughter of the Comte de Paris, will marry the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. The Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise have arrived in Liverpool, where the corporation presented an address. The MarquiS made a reply, warmly eulogizing the Canadians, and referring to their friendly relations with the people of the United States. A section of Southwest Missouri was visited by a terrific cyclone, spreading ruin in Its course. It was the old-fashioned fun-nel-shaped cloud nowjso familiar in the West and South. It strode across the Ozark mountains like a roaring giant, and, coming upon the city of Springfield In its course, seized upon it with a relentless grip, and crushed it* outlying suburbs like an egg-shell. When the storm had passed it was found that four were killed and thirty wounded, and that damage to property had been caused amounting to not less than $260,000. The names of the killed at Springfield are Mrs. Andrew Arnquest, Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Tinney and Miss Sallie Edmundson. About thirty persons were injured, some of them quite seriously. The track of the tornado was an average of 100 yards wide. Occasionally it would bound over a building directly in its path, but geuerally it made a clean sweep, leaving utter destruction In Its narrow trail. North ol Springfield Mrs. Dunlap was killed and some half a dozen people were wounded. Near Brookline Mrs. Halbertos was killed. A school-house, In which were fifty children, was blown to pieces, but singularly enough ho one was killed. The fifty-two children were pushed out in the storm by their teacher, and a moment after the house was de mollshed to its foundation. The Iron seats were blown 200 yards. About twenty-five children were slightly Injured. Ten oi twelve persons were in a farm-house that was torn in pieces, and one or two ol them were badly hurt. It is estimated that not less than $200,000 worth of property was destroyed by the blow.

Porter, Byrne & Co., lumbermen al Grand Rapids, Mich., have made an assignment. Hintnan, Moody & Co., wholesale paper merchants, Beloit, Wis., have made no assignment. William Swinburne, the pioneer locomotive builder, died at Paterson, N. J„ las week. Cullen Haynes, his wife, and three children were poisoned at Topton, Pa., bj eating bologna sausage. By the fall of a coal-pile at St. John’s, Newfoundland, two men were killed and four others were seriously injured. J. C. Bancroft Davis, late of the United States Court of Claims, has been ap pointed Official Reporter of the United States Supreme Court at Washington, vice Judge Otto, resigned.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 4.60 @ 6.60 Hogs 4.75 @6.25 Flour—Superfine. 3.10 @ 3.60 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.03 @ 1.09% No. 2 Red 1.08 @ 1.08)4 Coen—No. 2 56%@ .57% Oats—No. 2 33%@ .34)4 Pork—Mess 11.25 @11.50 Lard 07%@ .7% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.50 @ 7.00 Common to Fair 4.30 @ 5.20 Medium to Fair 6.25 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.20 @ 6.05 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.50 Good to Choice Spr’g Ex 4.75 @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Sprint 90 @ .93% No. 2 Red Winter 99 @ .99% Coen—No. 2 47 @ .475$ Oats—No. 2 27%@ .28 Rye—No. 2 55 @ .55% Barley—No. 2 59 @ .60 Butter—Choice Creamery 26 @ .28 Eggs—Fresh 24 @ .25 Pork—Mess 10.30 @10.35 Lard 07 %@ .07% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 92 @ .92% Coen—No. 2 49 @ .4914 Oats—No. 2 27%@ .28 Rye—No. 2 54%@ 55 Barley—No. 2 59%@ .60 Pobk—Mess 10.10 @10.20 Laed 07 @ .07% ST. LOUIS. Wheat?—No. 2 Red 1.00%@ 1.01% Cobn—Mixed 4i«@ .44% Oats—No. 2 25%@ .26% Rye... .52%® .53 Pork—Mess 10.00 @ll.OO Laed 07 @ .07% „ r cincinNatl Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Coen 48 @ .49 Oats- * a»%@ .30 • • ;«»»•• **>• ..*••••. ....t 63 @ .58% POKE—MdSS. 11.25 @11.50 laed.. @ .07% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92%@ .92% _ DETROIT. * FL°1%....... 4.00 @6.75 WhealT-No. 1 White. LO3 @ 1.03% Cobn-N0.2 51 @ .51% Oats—Mixed. 29%@ .30 Pobk—Mess ..... 12.25 @12.50 „ ’ . INDIAN APOLIB. Wheat—No. 2 Red 99%@ 1.00 Cobh—No. 2. 47 @ .4714 Oats—Mixed....... 28 @ .28&

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Interesting Statistics from the General Land Office. Gen. Sherman’s last Official Document The Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Hon. N. C. McFarland, In his annual report, states that the disposals of public lands during the year embraced 10,030,700 acres, and Indian lands 399,235 acres, an increase over 1882 of about 5,000,000 acres, and over 1881 of about 8,000,000 acres. The receipts from all sources in connection with disposals of publio land were $11,088,479, and from sales of Indian lands $026,404, a total of $11,713,883. Public lands were disposed of as follows: Acres Public sales 273.069 Private entries., 2.179,986 Pre-emption entries, 2,286,710 Mineral entries 31,620 Homestead entries 8,171,914 Timber-culture entries 3,110,930 Entries with military bounty land warrants 45,414 Entries with land-claim scrip 1u,606 Total number of entries and filings posted during the year 251,685, aggregating 30,000,000 acres. The increase in number of claims recorded in 1883 was 55,548 over the year 1882. The Commissioner states that he is satisfied the pre-emption filings are made or procured to be made to a great extent for speculative purposes. He renews the recommendation that the Pre-emption law be repealed. The report recommends the amendment of the Homestead laws, requiring a period of not less than six months after the settlement of a claim has been plaoed on record before final proof shall be admitted, irrespective of the alleged time of residence prior to the entry. The report further recommends the total repeal of the Timber Culture law on account of its inherent defects. The construction of 1,210 miles of land-grant railroad was reported during the year, making a total of 17,449 miles of road reported as constructed under all grants to June 80, 1883. The Commissioner asks that his salary be fixed at $5,000 and for a moderate increase of the salaries of the principal officers and clerks of his department. The character and responsibility of the office, together with the fact that its business has increased 82 per cent since 1881, appears to the Commissioner to justify this request. FOREIGN MAILS. The Postmaster General has received the annual report of Judge Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign Malls. The total weight of mails dispatched to countries In the Postal union, with the exception of Canada, was 2,532,990 pounds, an increase of 329,114 pounds over the weight last year. Of the letter mall dispatched, 41 per cent, was sent to Great .Britain and Ireland, 23 to Germany, 27 to other countries of Europe, and 9 per cent, to Postal union countries and colonies outside of Europe. The amount of letter mail dispatched last year increased 77 per cent, over the amount sent In 1880. The printed matter increased 74 per cent. In the same time. The sum paid for sea transportation of malls was $316,522, an Increase over the cost of 1882 of $36,368, or 68 per cent, over 1880. The estimated amount of postage collected in the United States on foreign mall matter was $2,078,918. GEN. SHERMAN’S FINAL REPORT. The last annual report of Gen. Sherman la in the hands of the Secretary of War. The army consists of 2,143 officers and 23,335 men —the figures being almost identical with those of last year. Gen. Sherman considers Crook’s Apache campaign a success. Military education Is treated at some length, and the opinion expressed that the Military academy at West Point and the schools at Fortress Monroe and Leavenworth are among the best in the world. The Indians are regarded as substantially eliminated from the problem of the army. The railroad which used to follow In the rear, and now goes forward with the picket-tine in the great battle of civilization with barbarism, has had a great influence. The recent completion of the last of four great transcontinental lines of railway has settled forever the Indian question, the army question, and many others which have hitherto troubled the country. Tho recommendation of last year is renewed that the strongest posts be enlarged and the minor places abandoned. “ Tho soldier,” says Gen. Sherman, “ must be treated as a fellow-man. Let him live in comfort, and he will respond to tho call of duty, even to death. When the soldier is employed as a carpenter, mechanic or laborer, it is only fair that he should be paid for such labor.” The opinion is expressed that it will be found wise to provide a common organization for all such arms of tho service, and that Congress should provide for the transfer of regiments from remote to home sections after a fair period of service. In this connection particular attention is called to the case of the Twenty-first infantry, which has been on the Pacific coast for fourteen years. «EN. DRUM’S REPORT. Adjt. Gen. Drum has submitted his annual report. He says the State militia has steadily improved in discipline, soldierly bearing and knowledge. He recommends the retirement on full pay of men who have faithfully served thirty-five years. It Is suggested that increased pay for re-enlisting be made to depend on ImmecNate re-enlistment in the same regiment, and that the man reenlisting be granted a furlough of one, two, of three months, according to the number of terms he has already served. A bi-monthly settlement of the clothing accounts is recommended, and a statement made in this connection that the Government lost SIO,OOO last year in clothing overdrawn by deserters. Notwithstanding great efforts to fill the army to the authorized strength, it still lacks 2,149 men of the full quota.

HERE AND THERE.

Mahone is bald-headed and has fray whiskers. Irving, the actor, is a continual cigarette smoker. Matthew Arnold does not like American newspapers. Thomas Nast is talking about starting an illustrated weekly. Next year’s crop of Mormon immigrants is estimated at 75,000. A rainbow was seen at night, reoently, in Orange, Tex., while the moon was out Of Sight. May Forney, daughter of the late J. W, “Forney, writes fashion articles for Philadelphia papers. Good butter retails in Tuscon, Arizona, at $4.25 a pound, while eggs are in demand at6s cents per dozen. On the person of a thief recently captured in Hartford, Ct., was found a draft for $1,028.55, dated June 24, 1844. An Arkansas editor announces that he is compelled to retire from his paper on account of being so afflicted with the gout. “Game hash’’ is one of the dishes served at the Yellowstone Park hotel, but visitors are said to be semowhat suspicious of it. The authorities of Grand Rapids, Mich., have given orders to the undertakers to take funeral processions through the back streets. Lord Coleridge speaks of Nathaniel Hawthorne as “our greatest writer, the master of an exquisite and an absolutely perfect stylo.” The grave caved in at a Hartford, (Qt.,) funeral, the other day, just as the coffin was to be lowered, and one of the bearers went with it. Ex-Senator Gwin, although 78 years oldis as erect and sturdy as an oak. Gen. Jackson appointed him United States Marshal for Mississippi fifty years ago. At Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Beecher told his audience that if he had been living in tbe South at the outbreak Of the war, be would undoubtedly have been a Confederate. A fox-squirrel two feet in length was killed ia Fayette county, Ky., recently.

CURSE OF THE NATION.

rhe Report of the Utah Commi*sionen» Submitted to Secretary Teller. Recounting the Tear’s Operations and Hinting at Thunderbolts in Besom. The Utah commission, composed of Alex, Ramsay, A. 8. Paddock, G. L. Godfrey, A. B. Carlton, and J. R. Pettigrew, have made their report to Secretary Teller. The clear intimation is that, unless the monogamic Mormon Legislature shall enact laws which will carryout the Edmunds act In the spirit and provide for the disfranchisement of polygamists, the most severe legislation compatible with the limitations of the constitution will be recommended. The Commissioners privately say that this reserve recommendation is the abolition of suffrage. They do not expect the Legislature will enact any such laws, so that It may be presumed that the most important recommendations for the overthrow of polygamy will be made in a report next January or February. After making a statement of the fdrmer legislation of Congress in relation to bigamy or polygamy, the commission said: The duties of the commission appertain only to matters of registration, and election, and eligibility to office, while the punishment of thecrime of polygamy is Wt, as under the former law, to the courts of justice. Under the AntiPolygamy act the commission had good suoces* at the general election of August, 1883, In excluding polygamists from the polls, and as far as advised very little If any illegal votes havebeen cast in Utah since the commission took charge of the registration and elections in August, 1882. The enforcement of the present law against 12.000 polygamists who have been excluded from the polls shows the act ha* been fully and successfully executed. It Is thought that the discrimination between those Mormons who practice polygamy and those who do not, while not likely to have much effect upon elderly men who have already a plurality of wives, must have great weight on the young men of the Territory, many of whom are ambitious apd aspiring, and would not like voluntarily to embrace political ostracism. The very existence Of a law disfranchising polygamists must tend to destroy their influence whenever it is understood it le to be a permanent discrimination. The fact also that it will be necessary to the preservation of the political influence of the "People's party" (as the Mormons style themselves) to have a large body of their members who are not polygamists, must tend In time to weaken the practice of polygamy, for every Mormon who takes but one plural wife loses three votes lor his party—his own and those of his two wives (woman suffrage being established by law In Utah). • Concerning plurality of wives, that a doctrine and practice so odious throughout Christendom should have been upheld so many years against the laws of Congress and the sentiments of thecivilized world is one of the marvels of the nineteenth century, and can be scarcely appreciated, even by those familiar with the world’shistory in relation to the difficulties of Governments to control or supposes religious fanaticism. Certainly no Government can permit the violation of laws under the guise of religions freedom, and, while Congress may not legislate as to mere matters of opinion, yet it may denounce and ‘punish as crimes those actionswhich are In violation of social duties or subversive of good order. The right of Congress to ennpress this great evil is undoubted. It i» equally plain the dignity and good name of thisgreat Government among the nations of the earth demand such Congressional action as shall effectually eliminate this national disgrace. The commission renow the recommendations contained in the report of Nov. 17/1882,. notably the one regarding the enactment of a marrige law by Congress declaring all fut>ure marriages In the Territory null and vold> unless contracted and evidenced in the man ner provided by the act. If the next Legislature shall fail to adopt measures in conformity with the provisions of the act of 1882 forthe suppression of polygamy, the commission “will be prepared to recommend, and Congress certainly will not delay the adoption of the most stringent measures compatible with the limitations Of the constitution that may be considered necessary for the of this great evil.”

POSTAL AFFAIRS.

The Railway Mail Service—Postal Estimates for the Ensuing Year. Statistics from the Principal Free Delivery Offices. Supt. Thompson, of the Railway Mail Service, has submitted his annual report to Postmaster General Gresham. JThe number of railway post office lines in 1883 was 993, an increase of twenty-four over 1882; the pumber of miles of route for which the railroads were paid wks 109,827, an increase of 9,264 over 1882. The number of miles of railroads traveled by clerks was 86,180,430, an increase of 10,438,992. The number of pieces of mail matter handled was 3,981,682,280, an increase of 1,429,992 over the preceding year. The Superintendant asks an increase of $318,000 in the appropriation for the railway postal clerks, and $60,000 increase for the postal cars. The estimated amount of postal revenue* for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, including $430,600 estimated receipts from the money-order business, is $47,104,078. The estimated expenditures for the same time are $50,062,189, leaving a deficiency in the revenue of $2,968,111. The estimate for tbe compensation of Postmasters next year is $12,250000, an increase of $3,000,000; for clerks in the postoffices, $4,900,000, an Increase of $125,000; for free-delivery service, $300,000; railroad mail transportation, $12,750,000, an increase of $1,050,000; steamboat routes, $625000, an increase of $26,000; star routes, $5,600,000, an increase of $3,500,000; railway postal service, $1,625,000, an increase of $60,000; and for railway uostal clerks, $4,295,289, an increase of $318,169. The annual report of the Superintendent of the free delivery letter-carrier system shows that 104 offices, employing 3,‘680 carriers, were in operation at the close of the fiscal yeai ended June 30, 1883. During the yeai 1,324,627,701 pieces of mail matter were delivered and collected, an increase of nearly 16 per cent, over the number of pieces handled the preceding year. Tne cost of the service for the year was $3,173,336, an increase of more than 28 per oent. over the cost for 1882. The average cost per piece for the matter handled was 2 4-10 mills, an increase of 1-10 of a mill pei piece over the cost the previous year. The excess of postage on local matter over tbe total oost of the service was $1,021,894. There were collected and delivered during the yeai 791,658,699 letters, 261,718,952 postal-cards, and 268,819,847 newspapers. The following table shows the aggregate number of pieces of mail matter handled at a number of the principal cities: Baltimore.... 39,212,496 New Orleans. 11,763,360 Boston. 93,587,018 New York.... .268,890,064 Brooklyn 84,815,447 Omaha. 4,«>8,683 Chicago. 136,886,.186 Philadelphia..l6o,o3o,9o* Cincinnati.... 29,756,300 Pittsburgh... 15,111,853 Cleveland..... 20,150,678 St. Louis 46,675,4*9 Columbus, 0.. 6.622,834 St. Paul 9,193,216 Dayton, 0.... 6,436,442 San Francisco 24,727,771 Detroit 18,015,463'Sandusky, O. 192,597 Indianapolis.. 11,263,929 Springfield, O 2,135,759 Louisville..... 16,560,964T01ed0.0 7,010,801 Milwaukee.... 13.868,872 Washington.. 16,231,674 Nashville. 5,831.909 Zanesville, O. 1,503,624

GLEANINGS.

Gen. Grant denies that he’s a millionaire. It’s Fred. Ismail Pasha will live in Florenoe with hti seven wives. A Pittsburg man suicided because be bet on the wrong borse. in a raoe. James C. Godfrey, a wholesale merchant of Brooklyn, died from smoking cigarettes. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of the James boys, calls reporters “theological students of the newspaper press.” A dog in Washington county, Ohio, cured himself of a rattlesnake bite by burying himself up to the ears in mud.