Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — Page 6

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. On conviction of criminal libel in a newspaper owned by him, Commodore W. J. Kountz, of Pittsburgh, was fined >SOO and sentenced to thirty days in jail. The rear car of a train went down an embankment at North Worcester, Mass. Fifteen persons were seriously injured, among them being Mrs. Arthur Farrar, of Chicago. Three large cartridge companies in New England have formed a syndicate which will control that interest throughout the United States. The Bankers and Merchants’ Telegraph company recorded a $10,000,000 mortgage at Lancaster, Pa., in favor of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust company. A. Oakey Hall has abandoned journalism in New York, and will go to London to practice law. An intimate friend of Samuel J. Tilden states that tpc latter’s Gramercy Park residence has been remodeled as a future gift to the public for a library, under three trustees. The property is valued at $1,000,000.'

WESTERN.

An affray between Jacob Block and Eli Frank, rival clothing merchants of Rushville, Ind., resulted in the death of Frank and the mortal wounding of Blcok. The Citizens’Association of Chicago—a self-constituted organization of leading citizens, that exercises a fatherly guardianship overt he city and looks after the welfare of the inhabitants —is again prodding up the theatrical managers cf that city, with a view of lessening the danger to audiences in case of fire. With one exception all the theatei g in Chicago are pronounced faulty in onerhspect or another, and some of them are veritable fire-traps. McVicker’s theater, which is built upon a plan that ought to be forced by law upan all builders of houses of amusement —that is, with a -wide alley upon both sides — has tome fifteen separate exits, and is so admirab’e in construction that the committee pla?es it at the head of all as the best buildng in the city to afford facilities for the safe dispersion of an audience. No light has, up to this writing, been thrown on the massacre at Jackson, Mich., which bids fair to pass into history as one or the great criminal mysteries of the age. It is pretty well settled that the robbers got nosuch sum of money ($50,000 or thereabouts) as was at first reported, as Crouch had very little cash in the house. It is probable that the only plunder they secured was the few hundred dollars which Polley, the bloviating visitor, exhibited in saloons and among low company, previous to stopping at Crouch’s, and which piece of foolishness brought about his own death as well as that of his host and the entire family. An examination Of the private papers and accounts of the murdered millionaire farmer reveals the fact that some title deeds and other important documents are missing, and there is a lively fight in prospect between the heirs of the dead man. A passenger on a Cincinnati street car, at a late hour of the night, got into an altercation with the conductor and driver, and shot them both. The driver is dead, but the conductor may recover. There were no witnesses of the tragedy. The passenger claims that he acted in self-defense. Prof. J. H. Tice, the weather prophet, died suddenly at his home in St. Louis. The wife of E. T. Johnson, a Special Pension Examiner for the district of East Tennessee, killed herself with a revolver in Indianapolis because her husband remained out all night. She was a woman of rare beauty and high culture, but is known to have been Insane. Four burglars refused to surrender to Marshal Suiter at Shelby, Ohio, and fired at him, wounding him severely. He shot one of the robbers dead, however. Then the other three started off, pursued by almost all the male citizens of the place. One fugitive turned and shot a pursuer dead, but the murderer was later captured and taken to Shelby. Another member Of the gang, after forcing people to give up their rigs, and making a desperate attempt to escape, met with a collision on the road, was thrown under a wqgon, and was riddled with the bullets of his pursuers before he could arise. The fourth robber was captured at Plymouth. The Atlantic and Pacific road has completed arrangements with English, capitalists for the sale of two tracts of land, each containing 1,000,000 acres, for $1,500,000 cash.

SOUTHERN.

Another sensational shooting affray is repot- ed from the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. Judge George Denny, a we’.lknown lawyer and liepublican politician, who was one of the counsel for the prosecution in the Phil Thompson murder trial at Harrodsburg, shot and k lled James H. Anderson, of Lancaster, a young man belonging to a highly ■respectable family. Mrs. Riall, of Baltimore, whose relations with her husband were unpleasant, killed two young children and nearly slaughtered herself with a razor.

WASHINGTON.

John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, was nominated for the Speakership of the House of Representative*, by the Democratic cauous,on the first ballot. The caucus was called to order by Gen. Kosecrans. Geddes, of Ohio, was chosen Chairman. The motion that voting be viva voce was carried, 101 to 82, and a motion to reconsider was lost, 113 to 75. Morrison, of Illinois, nominated Carlisle; Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Bandall, and Dorsheimer, of New York, Cox. Cn the first ballot Carlisle received 101 of the lfß votes, Bandall 52 and Cox 3.’. On Randall's mot on Carlisle’s nomination was made unanimous. Thirteen of New York's members voted for Cox and seven for Randall. Pennsylvania was solid for Randall, as was Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. Carlisle’s strength was, to a g- eat extent, in the Struth, which

= 1 ■ n .VI .... .... m. ■). • was not, however, solid. The three candidates then appeared and made speeches, the defeated ones promising to sustain Carlisle in every way. John B. Clarke, of Missouri, was nominated for Clerk; John P. Leedom, of Ohio, for B?rgeant-at-Arms; J. G. Wintersmith, of Texas, for Doorkeeper; Lycurgus Dalton, of Indiana, for Postmaster, and Rev. John S. Lindsay for Chaplain. In the Republican caucus sixty-seven members were present. Ex-Speaker Keifer and the entire list of incumbents were renominated. Hiscock, of New York, made a long speech opposing Keifer on the especial ground that he had antagonized the press of the country, and the Republican party could not afford to countenance him. There are 137 candidates for the position of second assistant doorkeeper, which pays $2,009 per annum. The public debt decreased during the month of November $1,721,078, and, deducting the cash in the treasury, now aggregates $1,509,785,060. Appended is the official debt statement issued on the Ist Inst: Public debt: Four and one-half per centss 250.000.000 Four per cents- 737.624,100 Three per cents 299,003,250 Refunding certificates . Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 51,301,040,800 Matured debt 6,643,385 Legal-tender notess 846,739,816 Certificates of deposit 14,165,000 Gold and silver certificates 187,715,731 Fractional currency 6,990,303 • Total without interests 555,910,850 Total debt (principa1)51,863,596,965 Total interest 10.954,586 Total cash in treasury... 364.766,513 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,509,785,060 Decrease during Novemb-r 1,721,676 Decrease of debt jsinoe June 30, 188 *. 41,- 06,146 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaids 1,973,699 Debt on which interest lias ceased.. 6,645,335 Interest thereon 321,815 Gold and silver certificates 187,715,731 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 14,4r5,000 Caso balance available 15 ,644,974 Totals 364,766,513 - Available assets— Cash m treasurys 3 >4,766,513 Bonds issued to Pacificrailway companies, interest payable by United (states— Principal outstandings 64,6 3,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 1,615,-87 Interest paid by United States 59,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation services 17,631,893 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings.... 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 40.935,000 Judge Keley has prepared for the House a bill limiting the coinage of silver dollars to SI,OOO per year until international arrangements for a double standard shall have been made.

POLITICAL.

Hon. W. M. Springer, of Illinois, announces himself a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, and claims three votes from his State. George L. Buffin (colored) has been confirmed as Justice of the Charlestown (Mass) District court. Cornell Jewett/ in a New Jersey weekly, is pushing H. A. W, Tabor for President of the United States. Ex-Senator Blaine is out in a public letter, in which he unfolds a scheme of allied Federal or State taxation, which he claims he has long reflected upon, and the objections to which he is now fully prepared to hear. Mr. Blaine declares that both Protectionists and Free Traders in great numbers now desire the abolition of the entire internal system of Federal taxation. He believes that there will at once be an allianoe of legislators in Congress who hold entirely opposite views on the subject of protection, but who will work together for free whisky, tobacco and other things which now afford internal revenue to the Government. But Mr. Blaine is opposed to free whisky. He believes such tax should always exist, to be collected by the nation and given to the States in the proportion of their population—that is, Illinois would pay the most and New York would get the most. The gist of Mr. Blaine’s plan is, first, to find that the nation can spare $86,000,000 of tax on whisky; then to pay this sum to .the States, and thereby lift that amount of tithes from farms, homesteads and shops. Mr. Blaine has figured the plan out and appends a table, two items of which show that under his apportionment of the $86,000,000 Illinois would get $5,285,000 and New York $8,893,000. Such is a brief sketch of the leading features of Mr. Blaine’s scheme. Recent elections in Spartansburg, Winnsboro, Orangeburg and Marion, S. C., turned on the question of license or no license. The no-license party succeeded through the co-operation of the colored voters.

MISCELLANEOUS. Fritz Rummel, a butcher employed at the Chicago Stock Yards, recently obtained a divorce from his wife in California and engaged himself to Emma Laveuve. She jilted him because of his intemperate habits, and the other evening he took her life and his own with a revolver. H. H. Allingham, a telegraph operator at Port Worth, Tex., and Miss Minnie Odell, employed in the Western Union office at St. John, New Brunswick, have for about eighteen months been using the wires con. siderably in making each other’s acquaintance. Lately an exchange of pictures took place, and soon afterward a proposal of marriage was sent and accepted over the wires. They met for the first time in a Chicago hotel one morning last week, and Rev. Mr. Barrows made them one. The Windsor—formerly the Stadt—theater, in the Bowery, New York, was destroyed by fire, together with the block in which it was situated, and buildings in the rear. The fire broke out after the audience quitted the house, so there were no accidents. The total loss will approximate 5500,000. A damage of $50,000 was incurred by flames in the Hotel Clifton, at Boston. Stickney’s shoe factory at Groveland, Mass., was destroyed by fire. The greater portion of the town of Ocala, Fla., was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Simpson’s woolen mills, at Salonville, Mass., worth $200,000, were reduced to ashes. Otbei- losses by fire: The Democrat office and Davidson’s furniture store, La Salle, 111., loss $30,000; thirty-odd stores at St. Faris, Ohio, loss $140,000; an elevator at Leavenworth, Kan., loss $65,000; the Tima building and four business houses at San Angela, Tex., loss, $45,000; the Lawrence hotel, at Cape Vincent, N. Y., loss, $75000; Gray's cotton warehouse, Baltimore, Md„ loss, $95,000; Meyer Brothers’ drug

4ore, Kansas City, Mo., loss. $175,000;■’» hotel and other buildings, at Cortland, N. Y., loss, $40,000. While attending Thanksgiving services at the Methodist Episcopal church at Dixon, Hl., James L. Camp died of apoplexy. As the Rev. Warren H. Cudworth was leading in prayer at a union service of Thanksgiving in Bcston he was seized with apoplexy and fell dead in the ’pulpit. Charles Nickleson, well known to horse-breeders throughout the country, died at Jackson, Mich. Other deaths chronicled are {Jioee of Hon. William L. Greenly, of Adrian, Mich.; ex-Gov. William E. Stevenson, of Virginia; Lieut. Col. George B. Carse, U. S. A., retired; and Prof. Samuel K. Hoshour, A. M., of Indianapolis, Ind., who celebrated his golden wedding in 1876. Richmond Stuart (colored) was hanged for murder at Shreveport, La. He led in prayer on the scaffold, and proclaimed his innocence. At the execution of Ambrose West, an 18-year-old negro, at Isabella Ga., the rope broke at the fall, causing the culprit to tumble under the gibbet. After an hour the youth was again placed on the trap, and death resulted speedily. Joseph Jewell, who was executed at San Jose, Cal., murdered M. P. Renowden to secure $24,009. Last week’s failures numbered 232, according to Bradstreet’s report. The number is very large, being forty-six in excess of the record for the game week in 1882, and seventy-four in excess of the record for the corresponding week in 1881. A fire broke out in Farwell’s block, on Market street, Chicago, and destroyed property to the value of $175,000. Frances Fairweather and Klttie Hilgert, two of the employes, lost their lives in trying to escape, one by falling from the “fire-escape,” and the other by jumping from one of the windows In the general consternation. About the same hour the office of the Evening Journal, on Dearborn street, was partially destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at $150,000. Other fires of note are as follows: Gusky’s clothing store, Pittsburg, loss $30,000; four business houses at Centreville, Mo., loss $15,000; ten stores at Corning, Mich., loss $15,000; the Masonic Temple, Sixth avenue, New York, loss $100,000; Hume’s sash and blind factory, Oshkosh, Wis., loss $50,000; Johnson’s lumber yards, Menominee, Wis., loss $20,000. Commercial failures: B'. F. Dow & Co., agricultural implements, Peru, Ind., liabilities $150,000; J. B. Kirby & Co., tanners, Rockcastle county, Ky., liabilities $40,000; D. S. Wisehart, general mbrehant, Decatur, 111., liabilities heavy; W. B. Jarvis & Co., general merchants, Greenville, N. C., liabilities $60,000; George Ryall & Co., fancy goods, Chicago, liabilities $30,000; Albert Webb, flour and grain, Portland, Me.; Tracy & Comstock, general store, Oregon, Wis., liabilities $20,003; O. S. Whitman & Co., Cadillac, Mich., liabilities $90,030; G. M. D. Littell & CO., canned gocdß. New York, liabilities $114,000; the Londonderry Iron and Steel Company, Halifax, Novia Scotia, liabilities $172,000; Robert McKuin, cattle exporter, Hamilton, Ontario, liabilities $40,000; Samuel Isaac, clothing, Mattoon, 111., liabilities $60,000; C. Lameroux, furniture, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $35,000.

FOREIGN.

In the Parliamentary contest for the city of Limerick MncMahon, the Parnellite candidate, had a majority over Spaight, Conservative, of 488 votes. By the failure of Dobie & Co., Glasgow shipbuilders, 1,200 men have been rendered idle. The French Cabinet Council has rescinded the decree forbidding the importation of American pork. The Dutch bark Judith was wrecked on the Norwegian coast, and fourteen persons perished. Twelve passengers and four seamen went down with the schooner Buso in the Gulf of Mexico. The Parnell fund amounts to £30,435, of which £25,820 was subscribed in Ireland. War between France and China is not now a sure thing. Nordenskiold is planning an expedition to the South Pole in 1885. Under a decision of Lord High Chancellor Selborne, declaring that Minister Lowell could not hold the Rectorship of St. Andrew’s, Mr. Lowell has resigned, and another election will be held. Four rascals agreed to blow up the German Embassy at London. Then each of the four went to the police and “informed,” laying claim to a reward. Wolff, the rogue who got caught first at this game, sets up the plea of a conspiracy against him. In the six days’ billiard contest at Paris, Vignaux, the Frenchman, defeated Schaefer, the American, by 124.

A new planet of the twelfth magnitude has been discovered by Baliza at Vienna. El Mahdi has been denounced as an impostor by the Ulema of Mecca. Rioting occurred at Newry, Ireland, between Orangemen and Nationalists, in which many persons were injured. trial at London of O’Donnell, the slayer of the Irish informer Carey, was of short duration, lasting only two days, and resulted in a verdict of murder and speedy sentence of death, to be carried into effect on Ae 17th of December. After the verdict of the jury had been read, the Judge asked O’Donnell if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed on him. He made no reply. The Judge then passed sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner now wanted to speak. The Judge, however, ordered his removal. The police seized him. O’Donnell held up his right hand, his fingers extended, and shouted; “Three cheers for old Ireland.’’ “Good-by, United States.” “To h—with the British and the British crown.” “It is a plot made by the crown.” The prisoner, shouting, cursing and struggling, was forcibly removed by the police amid most fearful confusion and the slamming of doors. This action of O’Donnell caused the greatest excitement and surprise, as he had previously gained the sympathy of the audience by his good behavior. The lower house of the Hungarian Parliament has passed a bill permitting civil marriages between Jews and Christians. Aiderman Meagher, a Parnellite, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. ■ The Orange lodges throughout Ireland continue to pass resolutions strongly condemning the suspension of Lord Rossmore.

. In the event of a war between China, and France England will co-operate with Germany to protect their mutual interests in China. ' ' Sir Charles Dilke has stated that three great measures will be introduced by the Government of which he Is a member during the next session of the British Parliament. These are the bill extending household franchise to the rural districts, a bill for the reform of the London municipal govern-, meat, and one restraining the London guilds, from disposing of their property pending future legislation.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Sa.jion, the Laconia (N. H.) butcher, has made a full confession. He says Mrs. Ford was killed in a drunken squabble; that he cut up the corpse, put it in the trunk and carried it to Ruddy’s to .dispose of, but, finding no opportunity, determined to murder the Ruddys and burn their bouse to conceal I is crime. A hurricane off the coast of Newfoundland caused much damage to shipping. The new government steamer Princess Louise was lost on the rocks with her captain and eight men. A pastoral by Cardinal McCabe, of Dublin, strongly denounces secret societies. Wexford, Ireland, was the scene of quite serious religious riots Sunday. The Austrian Consul telegraphs from Khartsum that but a third of Hicks Pasha’s forces were killed in the conflict at El Obeid, and that the remainder are encamped at Rahad, and demand reinforcements. A silver mine of great richness has •been discovered near Boyd, Wis., by William Newell. The Eau Claire Silver company is being organized to work the lead. Two women made a claim for the bodies of the burglars killed at Shelby, Ohio, at the Western Reserve College, Cleveland, whithe.- they had been conveyed. Mrs. Tom Roland was one of the parties, and obtained the corpse of her dead husband after identification; but the other woman, who would give no name, but claimed the robber was her brother, failed to obtain the corpse. A bill for the retirement of trade dollars has been prepared by Senator Warner Miller. Three colored children perished in a burning building in New York, their mother having locked them Indoors while she went out on an errand. The first session cf the F< rty-eighth Congress convened at Washington at noon, on Monday, the 3d day of December. The Senate was called to order by Mr. Edmunds, the President pro tem., who administered the o irh of office to twenty-five new or re-elected members. Handsome kouquets adorned the desks of Messrs. Voorhees, Harris, Logan, Man lerson, Blair and Wilson. A floral piece representing the coat-of-arms es Noith Carolina was presented to Senator Ransom., A sword in reel and white flowers stood on the desk of Sen itor Mahcne, and three large baskets of floWers were sent to Senator Riddlebcrger. No business -whatever was transacted. The House organized by the election of John G. Carlisle as Speaker, he receiving 194. vot”s against 112 for Keifer and 2 lor Robinson, of Massachusetts. On being eecarted to the chair Mr. Carlisle expressed his thanks for the honor confen ed upon him, and asked the aid of members in facilitating business. He was presented by Kentucky ladies with a gavel in the shape of George Washington’s hatchet, composed of flowers and satin, with an inscription in illuminated letters. The House got into a wrangle over the Manning-Chalmers certificate from Mississippi, and failed to complete its organization.

Origin of the Word Mississippi.

The Mississippi is a good instance of the variations through which some names have passed. Its original spelling, and the nearest approach to the Algonquin word, “the father of waters,” is Meche Sebe, a spelling still commonly used by the Louisiana Creoles. Tonti suggested Miche Sebfe, which is somewhat nearer to the present spelling. Father Laval still further modernized it into Michispi, which another father, Labatt, softened into Misispi, the first specimen of the present spelling. The only changes since have been to overload the word with consonants. Marquette added the first and some other explorer the second “s,” making it Mississipi, and so it remains in France to this day, with only one ‘ip.” The man who added the other has flever been discovered, but he must have Ween an American, for at the time of the purchase of Louisiana the name was generally spelled in the colony with a single “p.”— Magazine of American History. A fashion paper says “waists are to be full.” [Especially after dinner.]

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 5.00 @ 7.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.35 Floub—Superfine 2.90 @ 8.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.09 @ 1.09% No. 2 Red 1.11 @ 1.1114 Corn—No. 2 63 @ .64JS Oats—No. 2 38 @ .34 PORK—Mess 14.00 @14.25 Lard 68 @ .08% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.10 @ 7.00 Common to Fair 4.40 @ 5.40 Medium to Fair........ 5.45 @6.00 Hogs 4.45 @ 5.50 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @5.50 Good to Choice Spr’gEx 4.75 ,@ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 97 @ .97% No. 2 Red Winter 99%@ 1.01 Corn—No. 2 155%@ .55% 0at5—N0.2...... 30 @ .31 Rye—No. 2..... 57 @ .58 Barley—No. 2 65 @ .66 Butter—Choice Creamery 88 @ .40 Eggs—Fresh 25 @ .26 Pork—Mess 13.00 @14.00 Lard 08%@ .08% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 96 @ .96% Corn—No. 2 54 & .55 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 Rye—No. 2 55 @ .56 Barley—No. 2, 62 @ .62% Pork—Mess 12.00 @13.00 Labd ;. .08 @ .08% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01%@ 1.03 Corn—Mixed 46 @.46% Oats—No. 2 28% @ .29 Rye 53 @ .54 POBK—Mess 13.25 @13.60 Labd .*.. .08 @.08% CINCINNATI Wheat—Na 2 Red 1.04%@ 1.05 COBN 50 @ .51 Oats ?. 32 @.32% Rye so @ .60% POBK—Mess 13.50 @14.00 Labd TOLEDO. WHEAT—No. 2 Red Lo4%@ 1.06 C0rn..... 55 @ .55% Oats—Na 2 81 & .31% DETROIT. Floub 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 1 White. 1.05 @ 1.05% Corn—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—Mixed. 32 @ .32% POBK—Mess 12.25 @12.50 INDIAN APO LI 8. Wheat— Na 2 Red LOl%@ 1.02 Corn—No. 2. 52 @ .53 Oats—Mixed 30 @ .30% EAST LIBERTY. PA. Cattle—Best 6.c0 @ 6.25 . Fair..' 5.50 @ 5.75 Common 4.75 @ 5.50 Hogs 4.96 @ 5.50 Sheep 3.56 & 4.50

THE INTERIOR.

Aaaaal Itoport of the Secretary of That Department. The report of Secretary of the Interior Teller for the fiscal year ending June 80,1883, is largely devoted to Indian affairs, and the remarks chiefly emphasize recommendations made in the report of the preceding year. In substance the report is as follows: It says that there has been a very considerable improvement among the various Indian tribes, with but little dissatisfaction, and but one outbreak, and that among the Apaches of Arizona. The amount appropriated in 1883 for Indians with whom there are no treaty engagements was 81,520,000. ' There is a marked improvement in Indian schools, and it is suggested that half the children of school age be put in manual-labor schools. The Government ought to spend $2,600,000 during the coming year in order to educate 10,000 additional Indian youth* The Secretary urges, also, the creation of a contingent fund on which the department might have a discretionary power, not to be used for subsistence, but for aiding exceptional cases for civilizing purposes, such as employing farmers, mechanics and others to teach by practice the Indians to become farmers, mechanics, stock-rais-ers and general laborers. The salaries of agents should be increased. Each tribe should have a patent for the land the Government has guaranteed to it, leaving the Indians to determine the question of allotment for themselves. In regard to the leasing of Indian lands Congress should provide some system by which the unoccupied lands can be leased by the tribe or the department for the benefit of such tribes, and the money expended for the tribe without covering it into the treasury. Of the great Sioux Reservation, which contains 48,924 square miles, it is said: "If the conditions of the treaties of 1868 and 1878, together with those in the present agreement, are carried out in good faith on the part of the Government, the Indians will need no further aid from the Government, and can readily be made self-sup-porting within the next ten years." The Secretary recommends that Gen. Crook’s prisoners of war should be removed from the' agency to some point where there will be less danger of their escape, and where their evil influences will not be felt by the more peaceably disposed of the tribe. There are valuable coal and silver mines in the San Carlos Reservation which the Government should buy. The Crow Indians could be rendered self-sup-porting for a few years if 3,000,000 acres of their reservation were sold. It is recommended that an appropriation be made to settle Chief Moses and his band of Indians in Washington Territory, on the Colville Reservation, so that the Indians will abandon the Columbia Reservation, and thus throw open to settlement 2,367,120 acres. Gen. Miles estimates that this result, which was agreed upon by treaty with Moses in 1879, could be brought about bythe expenditure of $85,000. Helen Hunt Jackson C‘H. H., of the Century Magazine) was employed by the Department of the Interior to investigate the condition of the “ Mission" Indians of California. She and her associate found that those Indians, who are semi-civilized and attached to the Catholic church, number 2,907. They are slowly but surely disappearing, and have been barbarously treated by the Government, having been repeatedly dispossessed of their homes. Some provision should, be made for them at once. The report or the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows that the disposal of public lands under all acts of Congress aggregates 19,430,032.80 acres, of which amount 339,236.91 acres were Indian lands, and 1,999,385.71 acres railroad sections under various acts of Congress. It is again recommended that the Pre-emption law should be repealed. The Secretary further recommends that the Homestead law be so amended as to require a period of not less than six months after a settlement claim has been placed on record before final proof shall be admitted. This will prevent fraud. The necessity still exists for legislation in reference to lapsed railroad land-grants. The attention of Congress is invited to the taxation of railroad lands.

The report of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that at the close of the last fiscal year there Were 303,663 pensioners, classified as follows: Army invalidsl9B,64B Army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives 74,374 Navy invalids 2,468 Navy widows, minor children, and dependen t relatives 1,907 Survivors of the war of 1812 4,831 Widows of those who served in the war of 1812 21,336 There were added during the year 38,162 new pensioners! an excess over the number added the previous year of 10,645. The Government should provide for the payment of pension money every month when it becomes due. The number of applications for patents received was 32,845; number of patents granted, 21,185; receipts from all sources, $1,095,884; expenditures, $704,348, The increase in receipts of 1883 over 1882 was $165,020. There is a large increase of work in the office of the Commissioner of Education. The system of voluntary statistical information is the most complete in existence. The General Government should supplement the Work begun in the several States by affording to the State such financial aid as may be needed. The total indebtedness of the several subsidized Pacific railroads to the United States is $123,845,605. The total credit for transportation and money paid into the treasury is $21,469,292. The necessity for a Government for Alaska is becoming very apparent. The total population of the Territory of Alaska is npt far from 30,000. Of this number about 5,000 are Aleuts, who are not barbarians if they are not of the highest order of civilization. Before the cession by Russia good schools were maintained by them, but since the cession the schools have been discontinued, and the adult Aleut who received his education under the Russian Government and at its expense sees his children growing up without education. Suitable provision should be made for the education of the children of the Aleuts, which can be done without great expense. It is reported that plural marriages have decreased in Utah since the passage of the act under which the Utah Commission is acting. The board shall not go out of existence until the Legislature shall have enacted such laws as shall prohibit all polygamists from participating in the election of public officers, or from holding any such office. It is not provided who shall determine the question whether the Legislature provided for the filling of said offices in accordance with the provisions of the said act or not. Any laws which may be passed should be submitted for the approval of Congress. ’ In regard to the Yellowstone National Park it would sCem to be necessary that more convenient and practicable means should be provided for the protection of person and property within the park. The Superintendent is clothed with no authority in such matters.

THE SECRET SERVICE.

Abstract of the Report of Chief Brooks. James J. Brooks, Chief of the Secret-Service Division of the Treasury Department, reports that daring the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, 376 arrests were made by agents of the service. Of this number ninety-one were convicted and sentenced. The total fines assessed amount to (14,979. The counterfeit money captured and secured during the year was as follows: United States treasury notes, >25,486; National bank notes, >1,188; coin, $5,240; nickels, s9l; gold bangles (imitation of the $1 gold coin, representative value). $92; flash notes, representative value, $6,452,381; gold trimmings, representative value, $56? genuine money, $5. The total expenditures for transportation, incidentals and services amounted to $66,415. In referring to the coinage of counterfeit coins, Mr. Brooks says that during the past year only one really dangerous counterfeit coin appeared, that of the standard dollar, which was almost identical with the genuine in weight, ring and appearance, yet having only about 30 per cent, of silver. He also says: “It is a matter for conkratuulation, both with the public and t is office, that for two years past there has not been put in circulation a new coupterfeit note.” Mr. Brooks reports that in answer to his interrogatories recently submitted to the various national banks throughout the country, with a view of ascertaining approximately the amount of counterfeit money in existence, he has received 1,447 replies, showing that if the counterfeit monev reported as tendered within two years was divided by the 1,447 banks, it would be but $5.25 to each. He says that, with a territory of 3,000,000 of square miles to coyer, the present low condition of the manufacture and circulation of counterfeit money is remarkable, and speaks well for the intelligent skill, industry, and faithfulness of the operatives of this service. Legislation necessary to suppress counterfeiting of the obligations of foreign governments, for which there is now no law, is strongly recommended, and the report also urges that the manufacture and vending of dies and molds for making counterfeit coin be made a crime.

In Paris the ratio of suicide for every million inhabitants averages yearly 402, while in Naples it is only 34. The ratio for other cities is given as follows: Stockholm, 354; Copenhagen, 802; Vienna, 287; Brussels, 271; Dresden, 240; St. Petersburg, 206; Florence, 180; Berlin, 170; New York, 144; Genoa, 135; London, 87. and Rome, 74. It is said that the majority of suicides in New York are Germans.

AMERICAN COMMERCE.

Annual Report from the Bureau of Statistics. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in his annual report of the foreign commerce of the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, s*yu: , The total value of the Imports and exports of merchandise during the year amounted to $1,547,020,316, and was larger than during any previous year in the history of the country. The excess of the value of the exports of merchandise over that of the imports of merchandise was $100,658,488. as against a similar excess during the preceding fiscal year of $25,902,683. The value of the exports of domestic merchandise during the last fiscal year was $804,223,632, as against $733,239,732 during the preceding year*—an increase of $70,963,900. The value of the exports of cotton during the last fiscal year amounted to $247,328,721, as against $199,812,644 during the preceding fiscal year: the value of the exports of bread and oreadetuffs amounted to $208,040,850, as against $182,670,528 during the preceding fiscal year; the value of the exports of provisions amounted to $107,388,287, as against $120,655,701 during the preceding fiscal year, and the value of the exports of tobacco and manufactures thereof amounted to $22,095,229, as against $21,430,869 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of the exports of mineral oils during the last fiscal year amounted to $44,913,079, as against $51,232,706 during the preceding fiscal yea'. The value of the exports of products of manufacture from the United States during the last fiscal year amounted to $211,899,001, as against $103,132,481 during the preceding year, and was larger than during any previous year in the history of the country. The value of the exports of products of mining during the last fiscal year was $51,419,149, as against $56,278,887 during the preceding fiscal year; the value of exports of products of the forest was $9,976,143, as against $9,138,934 during the preceding fiscal year; and the value of the exports of products of the fisheries was $6,276,375, as against $6,197,752 during the preceding fiscal year. The total value of the imports of merchandise into the United States during the last fiscal year was $723,180,914, as against $724 639,574 during the preceding fiscal year, showing a falling Off Of $1,458,660. The value of the imports of sugar and molasses was $99,326,395; the value of the imports of -wool and manufactures thereof was $55,224,283; the value of the imports of silk and manufactures thereof was $59,807,616; the value of the importations of chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medicines was $43,126,287; the value of the Imports of coffee was $12,050,513; the value of the imports of Iron and steel and manufactures thereof was $40,796,007; and the value of the imports of cotton goods was $36,853,689. These constituted, in the order mentioned, the leading commodities and classes of commodities imported. The total .exports of gold and silver amounted during the last fiscal year to $31,820,333, as against $49,417,479 during the preceding fiscal year, and the total imports thereof amounted to $28,489,391, as against $42,472,390 during the preceding fiscal year. The excess of the exports of gold and silver over the imparts thereof amounted to $3,330,942, as against a similar excess of $6,945,089 during the preceding fiscal year.

The value of the foreign commerce of the United States with Great Britain and Ireland amounted during the last fiscal year to $614,046,793, constituting nearly 40 per cent, of the total value of our foreign commerce; with France, $156,671,387; with Germany, $123,547,657; with the West Indies, $121,609,923, and with the British North American Provinces, $91,321,129. The total number of immigrants arrived in the United States during the last fiscal year was 603,322, as against 788,992 during the preceding fiscal year. During the last fiscal year 158,092 immigrants arrived from Great Britain and Ireland, 194,786 from Germany, 168,276 from all other countries in Europe. 79,241 from the British North American Provinces, and 8,031 from China. The immigration from China fell from 39,679 during the year ended June 80, 1880, to 8,031 during the year ended June 30,1883. The total duties collected upon imports amounted, during the last fiscal year, to $210,637,293, as against $216,138,616 during the preceding fiscal year, showing a falling off of $5,501,628. The sailing tonnage of the United States the 30th of June last amounted to 2,822,293 tons, as against 2,810,108 tons the 30th of June, 1882, and the steam tonnage of the country amounted'to 1,413,194 tons, as against 1,355,825 tons the 30th of June, 1882. The tonnage of American vessels engaged in the foreign trade of the United States increased from 1,259,492 tons the 30th of June, 1882, to 1,269,681 tons the 30th of June, 1883; and the tonnage engaged in the coastwise trade, the whale fisheries, and the cod and mackerel fisheries Increased from 2,906,441 tons the 30th of June, 1882, to 2,965,806 tons the 30th of June, 1833. The tonnage built in the United States amounted to 265,430 tons during the year ended June 30,1883, as against 282,269 tons built during the year ended June 30,1882. In our commerce with foreign countries there is still a very large preponderance of foreign vessels employed. The tonnage of American vessels entered at seaports of the United States from foreign countries amounted to 2.834.681 tons during the last fiscal year, as against 2,968,290 tons during the last fiscal year: and the tonnage of foreign vessels entered at seaports of the United States amounted to 10,526,176 tons, as azainst 11,688,209 tons during the preceding fiscal year. v In 1865 the tonnage of American vessels entered at our seaports from foreign countries amounted to 3,194,275 tons, and constituted 71 & per cent, of the total tonnage entered, and in 1868, three years after the termination •of the war, the tonnage of American vessels entered amounted to 2,465,695 tons and constituted 44.26 per cent, of the total tonnage entered, but of the total tonnage entered at seaports of the United States from foreign countries during the last fiscal year 79 per cent, consisted of foreign tonnage and only 21 per cent of American tonnage. During the ten months ended Oct. 81, 1883, the average rates per bushel for the transportation of wheat from Chicago to New York were: By lake, 9.16 cents; by lake and canal. 12 cents: and by “all-rail," 16.1 cents; as against the following average rates during the calendar year 1882—viz: By lake and canal. 8,7 cents; by lake and rail, 10.9 cents; and by “all-rail" 14.6 cents. The increase in the average rates is due to the fact that the grain movement during the year 1883 has been much greater than during the year 1882.

JUSTICE.

The Report of Attorney General Brewster. The annual report of the Attorney General opens with a statement of the business of the Supreme court. At the close of the October term, 1881, there remained undisposed of on the appellate docket 836 causes and on the original docket 5. The number of causes docketed at the October term, 1882, were 434, of which 422 were on the appellate and 12 on the original docket, making the total number of causes on the docket at that term 1,275, of which 1,258 were on the appellate and 17 on the original docket. Of this number 874 were not disposed of, and of these 868 were on the appellate and 6 on the original docket. The number of cases actually, brought under consideration was 284, of which 1W were argued orally and 97 submitted on printed arguments. Of the 390 cases on the appellate docket disposed of 185 were affirmed, 60 revised, 33 dismissed, 79 settled and dismissed under the ninth rule, 4 dismissed in vacation under the twenty-eighth rule, and in 8 questions certified to the court were answered. The total number of causes disposed of at the October in which the United States were Interested is 74. Since the last report 772 suits, claiming upward of $9,000,000, have been brought against the United States, of which ten, claiming $1,256,046.26, were brought on transmission by the heads of departments under the act of March 3, 1883. chapter 116. There have also been brought fifty-one suits, claiming $162,155.17 against the District of Columbia under the act of June 16, 1880, as extended by the act of March 3,1883, chapter 95 The aggregate amount of judgments rendered in favor of the United States in civil suits during the last year was $1,735,820.63, and the amount actually collected on these judgments was $1,128,890.48, while $53,957.33 was’obtalned during the year on judgments rendered in former years for the United States, and $299,349.36 was otherwise realized in civil suits. The aggregate amount of fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed during the year in criminal prosecutions was $300,678.76, and the amount of those fines, forfeitures and penalties collected during the year was $65,817.76,whi1e $11,981.42 was realized on fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed in former years. The Attorney General urges the propriety of the concentration ot convicts sentenced by United States courts in some one prison. The condition of the several penal institutions under Federal management Is reported to be in the main satisfactory.

Digging out tarantulas and their nests has become quite an industry in Santa Barbara, Cal. The insects are suffocated with gas, then stuffed, dried and fastened to a card. The retail price is 50 cents each, but many hundreds are sold wholesale for $3 or $4 per dozen.