Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Gen. Martin, Citizens’ candidate, was elected Mayor of Boston, defeating O’Brien, Democrat. The National Republican committee, at its meeting tn Washington, elected Senator D. M. Babin, of Minnesota, Chairman, vice Marshall Jewell, deceased, selected Chicago as the place and June 8 as the date for holding the next Republican convention. Several leading politicians of New Orleans have been placed In the Parish pris. on on charge of murder in connection with the recent political riots. MeCalteb formerly City Attorney, was released on $20,000 bail. The Missouri Republican State Committee met at. St. Ixntis, and called the State Convention to lie held at Sedalia Aprils, 1884, to select delegates to the National Republican Convention at Chicago. Both houses of the Virginia Legislature have passed a resolution, instructing the Virginia Senators an.d requesting the Representatives in Congress to secure the unconditional and immediate abolition of the internal revenue system.

that has been cribbed is in a worse condition than for many years. The proportion of unmerchantable eorn is therefore large. The final estimate of the quantity produced will fall a few millions short of the indications of previous returns, "or twenty-three bushels per acre. This estimate relates only to quantity, and makes no discount for inferior quality, which seriously increases the practical shortage. Losses from packing in masses or injury to soft corn from mild and wet weather are treated as after-harvest considerations. An investigation will be made as to the extent of such injury. Wheat—The aggregate slightly exceeds 400,000,000 bushels. Oats—The crop is about 4 per cent, larger than last year, and exceeds 500,000,000 bushels. The yield of rye and barley is little less than in 1882. Buckwheat is reduced more than one-third. Returns from the South point to a cotton crop of about 6,000,000 bales. It is possible the cotton movement of the year may pass that limit. The Union Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago, Milwauke and St. Paul railroads have formed an agree ment for twenty-five years to divide the through business between Ogden and Chicago. It Is considered one of the most important railroad contracts for many years. By it the lowa pool is at an end, and, though other Western roads, it is said, are at liberty to enter the alliance, the three roads chiefly concerned plainly have the bulge so strong that the rest cannot probably get in on satisfactory terms, and the result, as forecast, will be a damaging war on nearly all sorts of Western business, involving breaks in the Colorado pool and possibly the Northwestern and Southwestern traffic associations. Mrs. John Howie, of Homerville, New Brunswick, gave birth to four boys, three of whom are still living. Rich gold and copper discoveries are reported in the Roekys near Podmore, in the British possessions. Business failures in the United States for the week numbered 249, against 246 the preceding week, and 230 for the corresponding period in 1882. , The Indiana State grange, recently in session at Indianapolis, selected Columbus as the place for holding the next convention, and the second Tuesday in December, 1884, as the time. A determination was expressed to put more vigor into the workings of the order hereafter. The Financial committee reported a balance in the treasury, after paying all Indebtedness, of >1,720. The Wisconsin State grange, in session at Madison, elected the following officers; Worthy Master, S. C. Carr, Milton Junction; Worthy Overseer, M. Anderson, Cross Plains; Worthy Lecturer, Aaron Broughton, Evansville; Worthy Steward, R. A. Williams, Hillsboro; Worthy Assistant Steward, W. A. Sprague, Reedsburg; Worthy Chaplain, S. N. Jones, Fennimore; Worthy Treasurer, Miss Hattie M. Huxley, Neenah; Worthy Gatekeeper, Enoch Wood, Black Earth; Worthy Ceres, Mrs. £l. E. Huxley, Neenah; Worthy Pomona, Mrs. S. C. Carr, Milton Junction; Worthy Flora, Mrs. A. Broughton, Evansville; Worthy Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. W. A. Sprague,Reedsburg.—The Pennsylvania Grange, in session at Harrisburg, adopted resolutions favorimr the introduction of additional instruction pertaining to agriculture in the public schools; urging that the State College be restored to a technical school cf agriculture; that corporations claiming immunities as common carriers be forbidden by law to discriminate in freight rates, and that taxation be equalized. The schooner Mary Ann Hulbert, which carried fifteen railway laborers and a crew of five men, foundered off St. Ignaceisland, Lake Superior.