Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Page 2

Gljc JlcmocraticSentinfl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A resolution was offered in the Senate on the Bth Inst- by Hr. Hale, and adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a statement of the original cost of the vessels on the naval register. and the amount expended in repairs. Hr. Van Wyck presented a resolution forbiddSg the Secretary of tbe Interior to issue land patents to the New Orleans and Pacific road until Congress has determined the questions involved in the claims of tbe company. In response to a request of tbe Senate the Secretary of the Treasury submitted to that body official figures concerning tbe national debt. Tbe highwater mark was reached Aug. 81, 1865, w hen the nation owed $2,756,431,574 June 30, 1883, this colossal burden had been reduced to $1,551,094,207. The rednotion. including Interest and less cash in the Treasury, has amounted to Mr. Hnnt introduced a joint resolution for the appropriation of $1,000,000 to continue work on the Mississippi river improvements. Bills were introduced to erect public buildings at El Paso and Houston, Tex., and La Crosse, Wls.; to bridge the Mississippi at Memphis; to admit Washington Territory as a State; to regulate the sale and manufacture of liquors in the Territories, and to increase tbe pension of the widow of General Frank P. Blair. Mr. Beach offered a constitutional amendment providing for uniform laws on the subject of marriage and divoroe. The President submitted a message recommending an appropriation of $1,000,000 to continue the work of improving the Mississlpi river below Cairo. The President disc sent In a message on the Illinois canals. He recites the action of the Illinois General Assembly offering the Illinois and Miohigan canal to the United States Government and the recent action of Congress in directing a survey for the Hennepin canal, and commends the whole subject to the present National Legislature as a matter worthy of Its early consideration. Mit. Plumb presented a petition in the Senate, on the 9th Inst., from 200,090 veterans for a soldiers' home in Kansas. Mr. Anthony offered a resolution that the ‘committee on foreign relatlrns report on the expediency of legislation in retaliate n for the exclusion of American meats from foreign countries. Mr. Logan presented a petition for pensions for ex-prisoners of war. A resolution was adopted that the Attorney General furnish copies of reports on abuses •in the Federal courts in the Southern States. A bill was parsed to pay $6,000 to the parents of Lieut. Schwatka for land taken fora military reservation in 1850. In the House, Mr. Hasson introduced a resolution, which was nnanimou ly adopted, instructing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to ascertain whether the “ favored nation " clause in our treaties has been violated by.. Germany, France, or any other foreign Powers, and if so to report what may be deemed necessary in the way of retaliatory lcgisl ition. A bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was reported by the Military committee. A message from the President was received, submitting the report of the Mississippi River commission, and after a long debate the document was referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Mr. Bagley introduced a bin to appropriate $130,C00 toward the expense of placing the statue of Liberty In the harbor of New York. The House passed a reeolut'on of sorrow at the death of Edward Lasker, tbe German statesman. Mr Dawes introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 10th Inst., providing ior the establishment of a postal telegraph system by the Government. A communication was received from the Seoretary of the Interior, announcing depredations in the Yellowstone park. Mr. Plumb presented a petition with 1,500 signatures, asking that Oklahoma be opened to settlement. Four hills were introduced In relation to pensions and to soldiers. It was resolved to reqttfflrtne ocoveJmj-Y oitnc urtenor to suspend the issue of land patents to tbe New Orleans and Pacific Railroad company until Congress shall determine the claims of the corporation. A resolution by Mr. Voorhees was adopted directing the Secretary of Wax to inform the Senate of the amount of money required to equalize (he bounties of those who served in the late war. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill for the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi canal. In the House of Representatives, the oath was administered to Mr. Clardv, of Missouri. Mr. Ros-crans introduced a bill for the reliefof Col. Thomas Worthington, of Ohio. A resol Otfo i was offered callin r on the Secretary of State for information as to the irregular practices in the importation of goods and what legislation is necessary. A Joint resolution lor the immediate appropriation of $1,000,000 for. Mississippi river imrrovements was referred A resolution was adopted calling on th? Secretary of the Treasury to give his reasons for discontinuing the issue of silver certificates. The House adjourned until the 14th. A bill appropriating $1,000,000 to continue Improvements on the Mississippi river passed the Senate on the,l2th inst. Mr. Call introduced a measure to create a university of medicine at Washington, and setting aside $1,000,000 as a perpetual endowment. Mr. Edmunds handed in a bill for the relief of the •urvivors of he Jeannette expedition, and Mr. Call introduced one for the establishment of savings b.nks at all Presidential postofflees. Mr. Cullom spoke at length in regard to his bill to reo ganize the legislative power of Utah by means of a Governor and council of nine. After an executive session the Senate adjourned to Monday.

EASTERN.

In Montgomery county, Pa., Thomas Wicherly and Leonard Hoyle fought with hare flute for over an hour, for 8600, the former being the winner. Buffalo shipped last year by lake 1,497,388 tons of coal, a gain of 50 per cent, on the previous twelves months. The debt of New York city amounts to 892,546,000, a decrease of $3,595,000 during the past year. Dr. Tanner, the faster, accused of practicing Illegally by the physicians of .Lamestown, N. Y., has been vindicated by the courts. The cutting of the great diamond recently found in South Africa has been completed at Boston. The stone now weighs 77 carats. Mike Cleary, of New York, offers to fight any man in America for 81,000, with hard gloves, the fight to be in private, and has put up a forfeit of 8250. The farm-house of Michael Ulrich, near Harrisburg, Pa., proves to be a veritable bonanza, not less than 815,000 in coin and notes having been found secreted in various places within two months. A machine has been invented at Pittsburgh for manufacturing hob-nails, which has a capacity of one ton a day, and is ope* ratogby three men. The use of these much ilfiPs will throw thousands of men out of employment. The fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Cardinal MeCloskey was celebrated with great pomp 'ln the cathedral at New York. Ten Bishops and 300 priests were In attendance. The Cardinal is feeble In gait, butbis voice is still clear. '1

WESTERN.

In the Bchool-honse in which Emma Bond was so terribly treated, fifty citizens gathered to pass resolutions of respect toward the young lady, and to declare that justice was outraged by the acquittal of Montgomery, Pettis, and Clementi. The Dakota case, involving an attempt to bribe Gov. Ordway, has been dismissed, the prosecution being unable to produce their witnesses. Two hundred men, recently dis-

charged by the contractors on the Oregon railroad, indulged In a long debauch at Pendleton, and then held a mail train which refused to take them free to Portland. Gen. Miles sent a company of the First Infantry from Fort Walla Walla, and the mail oar was forwarded. Bartley Campbell’s new spectacular drama, “Siberia," with all the romantic scenery, is the attraction at MoVicker’s theater, Chicago, this week. On Monday, Jan. 28, the Mapleson Opera company opens at McVioker’s. It embraces a host of celebrated lyric artists, including tbe peerless Patti, Ger6ter, Nioolini, Galassi, and others of world-wide fame. Tbe orchards in the peach belt of Michigan passed uninjured through the severe weather. Ex-Senator Dorsey has been sued at Denver for $83,200, with Interest since 1873, for bills of exchange he signed as President of the Arkansas Central Hallway company about ten years ago. The Coroner’s jury at Belleville, 111., returned a verdict in which the management of the burned convent is blamed for the terrible loss of life, as the precautions required by the character of the building and tbe number of inmates were wholly neglected. The Jury say that dormitories should never be allowed above the second story la institutions of learning, and urge the necessity of legislative action on the subject.

SOUTHERN.

On W. G. Taylor’s plantatioa in Lenoir county, N. C., a colored family, comprising William Cook, his wife and six children, were burned to death by tbeir house taking fire. A telegram from Shelby, N. C., reports that a terrible and fata) knife combat took place about fifteen miles from that place. “For some years past a vendetta has existed between the Lepaugh and Bunyam families, both of whom have largo connections. Philip Lepaugh was this morning driving his wagon to a sawmill, when Oraige Runyam, accompanied by his father and brother, made an attack upon him. They pulled Lepaugh from his wagon and cut and backed him with bowie-knives, inflicting some terrible wounds. They left him for dead on the road. As they were fleeing* the wounded man’s two sons-in-law came up. They galloped after and overtook the Runyam party. A desperate hand-to-hand conflict ensued, in which every man engaged in the affray was mortally wounded." The wife of Col. H. Coulter Cabel was fatally burned at Richmond, Va., by her clothing takir~ fire from a grate. At Austin, Tex., in the midst of a banquet attended by members of the Texas Fence-Cutting Convention, a “terror" walked in, kickod over the table, and drove tbe banqueters into the street. In the Legislature of Texas a bill was introduced making justifiable homicide the killing of a man found cutting a fence. . The cattle men, in convention at Austin, declared against a herd law, but opposed the doctrine of free grass. A rise in the Elk river has caused a loss of SIOO,OOO to West Virginia lumberman. Bark, lumber, and staves unre beru swept away in large quantities. The Federal Government has been compelled to declare void an important levee contract in Tensas parish, La., and put thereon a sufficient number of laborers to finish the work before the spring rise.

WASHINGTON.

Bills have been introduced in Con-' gress for the erection of twenty-three public buildings in various localities at an aggregate oost of $2,080,000. The United States has filed in the Court of Claims a bill against the Union Pacific road for 8899,667, including 5 per cent, of the net earnings. Representative Horr, of Michigan, Chairman of the subcommittee on the Fortification bill, favors an appropriation of $3,000,000 for national defenses, setting aside $85,000 for torpedo experiments. Congressman Robinson's resolution calling for Information as to the clothes worn by American representatives at foreign oourts is said to have direct reference to James Bussell Lowell, “Sunset” Cox having reported that the Minister to the Court of St. James arrays himself in purple and fine linen, knee-breeches, and buokled shoes, contrary to the forms of republican dress as laid down by statute. The bill for the forfeiture of the Texas and Pacific land grant, estimated to be worth $40,00(1,000, will be the first one considered In oommittee. The annual report of the Attorney General recommends the abolition of the system of paying marshals and deputy marshals in fees. More than 100 bills have been introduced in the present Congress to extend the provisions of the Pension law. Commissioner Dudley says that under the existing law, if all claims were passed, it would take $1,295,729,000 to pay off the pensioners! Mr. Springer, of the Judiciary Investigating committee, thinks that the attorneys employed by the Government In the star-route trials did not do their full duty, and intimates that for valuable consideration some of the roost guilty of the star-routers were allowed to escape. Mr. Springer proposes to probe further into this matter.

POLITICAL.

At the Democratic legislative caucus In Columbus, Ohlo,, Henry B. Payne was selected as the nominee for Senator on the first ballot, he reoeivlng 48 votes, Durbin Ward 17, and George H. Pendleton 15. J. H. French having declined the position, Noah A. Plimpton has been elected Chairman of the Democratic Central committee of Massachusetts. Washington telegram: Circulars calling upon the recipients to statehowmuob they will be able to contribute toward the Indiana Republican campaign fnnd were last week distributed througfl the Fostofflce de partment. The matter was brodght to the attention of the Postmaster General, who pronounced it in violation of the law, and began an investigation. It was found that the circulars ware distributed through the captain of the watch, who received them from a stranger and was ignorant of their contents. Having satisfied himself of the innocence of the officer the Postmaster General dropped the matter. John Sherman refused to accept the

Presidency of tbe Northern Pacific root because Ms resignation from tbe Senate vould throw that body into the hands of the )emocrats. The Republican members of the 3 bio Legislature held a caucus at Columbus to select a candidate for Senator. The Cincnnati and Cleveland representatives refus'd to honor Gov. Foster, and it was resol rid to vote blank. A secret meeting of the lowa Democratic leaders and members of the Legiiature at Des Moines decided to oppose prohibition, but will prepare a bill fixing tbe miiinunn license at SSOO.

THE DEATH RECORD.

Judge Nelson Poe, an eminent jurist of Baltimore, and cousin of the late Edgar Allan Poe; Rev. Lawrence Walsh, of Boston, ex-Treasurer of the American (Irish, Land League; William Gerlach, a prominent and wealthy Milwaukeean; Col. George H. Slaughter, a pioneer of Wisconsin; at Galveston, Texas, Mrs. Campbell, wife of James Campbell, the trusted Lieutenant of the famous buccaneer, Lafltte; at Washington, Mrs. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of South Carolina; John Allison, father of Senator Allison, of Iowa; Herr Eduard Lasker, distinguished German statesman; Col. J. I. Kevin, editor of tbe Pittsburgh Leader; Mary, seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young; W. J. Wise, the wealthiest citizen of Vincennes, Ind.; Luke Clark, a veteran Fenian and exiled Irishman; Keshub Chunder Sen, a celebrated scholar and philosopher of India.

BUSINESS TROUBLES.

Following JB a record of tbe week's commercial failure#, as reported by telegraph: Wadsworth & Co., bankers, Ishpeming, Mich SIOO,OOO Sherman Bros., canned goods, Cincinnati. 75,000 A Wessells, St. Louis, Mich., real estate. 60,000 Furman A Fisher, grocers, Grand Rapids, Mictli 15,000 S. H. Morrell, banker, Lovlngton, 11l 40,000 W. M. Furbish, pianos, Portland, Me 27,000 A- Sigler, jewelry, Adrian, Mich 17,000 Henner & Moore, bankers, Morris, Minn. 100,000 Phelps A Co., Elmwood, 111., coal miners. 70,000 Goldsmith & Kuhn, dlamonds.New York. 60,000 M. H. Myers, dry goods, Cassopolls.Mich. 16,000 L. R. Slosson, dry goods, Catlettsburg, Ky 17,000 B. R. Smith, cotton broker, New York... UO.OOO Dietrich & Co., canvas bag rn’frs. San Francisco 378,000 MoClurg, Briggs A Co., dry goods, Toronto 100,008 Putnam A Phelps, tanners, North Leominster, Mass 73,000 Vorse A Fowler, agr'l implements, Des Moines 12,000 C. <fe R. Von Bermuth, importers. New York 150,000 L. J. Zeiner, clothfng, I ushuell. 111 15,003 Rosenfeld A Co., tobacco, Detroit 60,000 D. 8. Young, clothing, Wyandotte, Kau. 13,000 Baum Bros., willow-ware, New York.... 75,000 M. Wolf A Co., hats, New York 150,000 Hiram Brush, furniture, Chicago 15,000 Cragin Falls Paper Co., Cleveland 65,000 Francis & Vaugn, shoe manl’rs, Bt, John, N. B 40,000 James Murray, fancy goods, Montreal... 10,000 A J. Jacobs, general store, Henrietta,Tex. 27,000 Henry Vlllard, railway magnate Bernstein A Co., drygoods,Oshkosh, Wis. 17,000 National Paper Co., Rock Island. 20,000 J. Paddock, boots and shoes, Terre Haute. 25,000 Lynch Bros., hardware, Des Moines 25,000 Landorf A Adler, clothing, New York.... 61,U)0 Buck A Keech, candies,Cedar Rapids, la. 11,000 W. Simmons, hardware, Lockport, N. Y.. 10;00!l Williamson A Co., dry goods, Brantford, Canada., 25,000 White A Meyers, notions, Cincinnati.... 30,000 A A Anderson,jewelry, lahpemlug.Mich. 40,000 J. H. Dacns, general store, Ozark, Ark... 22,000 L Price, clothing, Mt. Sterling, lIL, 30,000 R. B. Ogilvie, dry goods, Madison, Wis.. 65,000 McLellond <s Greeuoogb, furniture, Chicago .j 15,000 Chancellor A Co., general store, Ennis, Texas . 30,000 Eben Sutton, woolen mnfr.. North Andover, Mass 100,000

MISCELLANEOUS.

Operations have been resumed in two iron-mills at McKeesport, Pa., and 1,000 men have been re-employed at the iron-works at Beading, the puddlers accepting a slight reduction. The Oregon Transcontinental company has deposited with the Farmers’ Loan and Trust oompany 91,500 shares each of Oregon Navigation and Northern Pacific common and preferred, in security for a loan for $8,000,000, to be used in meeting bills payable. The Mexican National Bank has declared a dividend of 6 per cent, and promises another of 8 per cent in March. Business failures in the United States for the week numbered 345, being sixty-three more than the preceding week and an increase of three over the corresponding period in 1883. The gallows has rid the world ol John Jarvis, who killed C. W. Bonnoy in Virginia; of Isaac Anderson, who murdered a planter named Owen Williams in South Carolina; of Stephen Richards, who slaughtered Thomas Nichols in California, and of Jerry Alexander, who slew Sam Fleming In Louisiana. The Panama Company has now 14,000 men employed on the work. Swine for breeding purposes from the Western States will be quarantined hereafter at Point Edwards, Canada, for three weeks. Emile Karst, the French Consul at St. Louis, says that the recent French proclamation against the importation of American pork was due to the rumor which reached France that 10,030 pbunds of diseased American meat was to be shipped to that country. The foreign exhibition at Boston, representing forty-six countries, is to be removed to Chicago during the summer.

FOREIGN.

English rule is now complete in Cairo. CHfford Lloyd, an ex-oppressor of the Trish, highly esteemed In London, is now Caliph of Alexandria. At a meeting of 4,000 unemployed persons at Balk) Leves, Prance, many violent speeches were delivered. It is reported that the tribes under El Mahdl have burned and sacked Holonan. They are now marching In great numbers against Pafaz. Franch is assured that England has “urged China to accept accomplished facts” and arrange terms of the Frenoh. This is undoubtedly part of the price which England pays for Egypt. The Frenoe press are advocating an organized effort against the prohibiten of the importation of American pork. The prohibition, it is estimated, will cost the French ports 100,000,000 francs, and deprive the working people, besides, of cheap and wholesome food- i ' The Grand orient of France has issued an appeal to all the lodges of Freemasons in the world, asking a renewal of unity between the Grand orient and all other branches of the Masonic rite. *

Th© Limerick branch of the National League passed a resolution in favor of conferring the freedom of the city upon Michael Davlttand Gray and Dawson, members of Parliament. When the Egyptians evacuate Khartoum and adjacent cities it is estimated tßst there will be 11,000 Christian and European victims of Moslem fanaticism, unless they can be immediately transported to Upper Egypt. A Nationalist meeting in County Fermanagh. which Blggar, M. P., was announoed to address, was prohibited by the authorities.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The people of Hillsboro, 111., have already subscribed S4OO for Miss Bond, and propose to doable the sum. Mr. Bond is confined to his bed by nervous prostration; his farm was heavily mortgaged to meet medical and legal expenses, and be will be compelled to leave it unless aided by tbe public. The inauguration of George Hoadly as Governor of Ohio was a quiet affair, only three political clubs being in attendance. The inaugural address recommends the establishment of a Board of Pardons and a graded license system. Count Herbert von Bismarck, the German Chancellor’s son, has been transferred from the London to the St. Petersburg embassy. Bismarck's organ says this is a new evidence of the friendly relations between Russia and Germany. Nearly 1,000 workmen in the three largest tobaoco factories at Petersburg, Va., have struck against a reduction of wages. The Produce exchange of Boston has passed resolutions urging upon the Massachusetts Congressional delegation the enactment of a retaliatory measure restricting or prohibiting the importation of French and German wine#. Highway robberies in Boston have recently grown so frequent that it is said to be unsafe to walk the public highways after dark. The weekly record of fires, where the loss was SIO,OOO and upward, Is as follows: Cincinnati, Ohio, Procter A Gamble's Soap works $250,000 Frankfort, Ind., Coulter’s block 75,000 Monticello, 111., grain elevator 16,000 Lucas, Ohio, Lemon’s store 40,000 Phelpston, Canada, music store 50,000 Selma, Ala., cotton warehouse....: 33,000 Montreal, Canada, Davis' cigar factory.. 140,000 Paducah, Ky., two grocery stores 10,000 Columbus, Ohio, county jail 15,000 Bay City, Mich., six small stores 22,000 Steubenville, Ohio, paper mill 50,000 Natchitoches, La., three general stores.. 75,000 Evansburg, Pa., hotel 15,000 Waupun, Wis., residence 10,000 Elgin, 111., barns and cattle 10.000 Butler, Ky., saw mill 13,000 Pittsburg, Kan., five stores 21,000 Stillwater, Minn., State prison shops.... 200,000 Chicago, 111., Fisk's millinery store 30,000 Monticello, Ind.. live stores 21,0C0 Ipswich, Mass., cloth mills 50,000 Boston, Mass., telephone offices 40,000 Trenton, Ga., four stores 15,000 Beloit, Wls., machinery warehouse 12,000 Nashville, Tenn., State prison shops.... 10,000 Newcastle, Del., woolen mi 115.... 30,000 Auburn. N. Y., railroad repair shops 25,000 Peoria, HI., confectionery store 16,000 Selma, Ala., ope a house 15,000 Toledo, Ohio, orphan asylum 12.000 Blunt, Dakota, three stores 15,000 Onalaska ,Wis., brewery 20,000 Ashtabula, Ohio, h0te1.... 20,000 Jonesboro, Ga., cotton warehouse 35,000 Maysvllle, Ind., stores and shops 20,000 Pueblo. CoL, Tivoli theater 15,000 Batesville, Ind., flonring-mIU 15,000 Milwaukee, Wls., grain elevator 20,000 New Martinsville, W. Va., flonring mill.. ls.coi Brazil, Ind., dwelling house 10,000 Tunnel Hill. Ga., stores and shops 15,060 New York city, coffin factory. 200,000 Meadville, Pa., Opera-house blocks.: 500,000 Joliet, 111., tile factory 15,000 Indianapolis, Ind., hominy mill ~. 18,000 Elmira, N. Y., tannery 26,000 Janesville, Wis., Baptist chnroh 40,000 New York city, three warehouses 35,000 Naples, HI., ten stores 35,000 Port Norris, N. J., Baptist cburch 25,000 Middleport, N. Y., Episcopal church.... 30,000 Chicago, HI., warehouse 20,000 Seligman, Mo., stores 30,000 Sheffield, Pa., hotel 15,000 Galesville, Wls., University building 25,000 Pittston, Pa., hotel 15,000 Columbus, Ga., female college 60,000 Akron, Ohio, flouring-mill 60,000 Baird, Texas, twelve stores 80,000 Mr. Anthony, having declined the honor of the Presidency pro tem. of the Senate, Mr. Edmunds was eleoted and sworn in Dec. I4 t Mr. Vest presented a petition from St. Louis pork-packers, asking for retaliatory du ies. A resolution was passed that the Secretary of the Treasury report the amounts of gold coin or bullion deposited in exchange for silver certificates, and whether there has been any refusal to receive gold for silver certificates. Mr. Hill spoke at length on his postal telegraph bill. In the House of Representatives, two bills to repeal the civil-service act were introduced. Mr. Belford offered a measure to reduce freight rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads 50 percent, from the tariff of last year. Mr. Elwood introduced a bill for a bank currency secured by gold and silver. and Mr. Dunham one for a Department of Commerce. Bills were also handed in to authorize bridges at St. Paul and Council Bluffs, to abolish postage on newspapers, to retire the trade dollar, to permit Confederate officers to serve in the army, and for a delegate in the House from Indian Territory.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORIC Beeves $7.25 @ 7.50 Hogs 6.60 @ 6.25 Flour—Superfine 4.00 @ 6.60 Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 1.05 @ 1.07 No. 2 Red I.o9Ji@ 1.14 CORN—No. 2. 66 @ .66 Oats—No. 2 39 @ .41 Poke—Mess... u. 25 @15.00 Lard 09 @ .09M CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.75 @7.25 Common to Fair. 4.50 @ 6.50 Medium to Fair 4.50 @ 6.75 Hogs 5.00 @ 6.25 l'XOL'ii-r anty White Winter Ex 6.00 @6.75 Good to Choice Winter.. 5.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring .93 @ .93?$ No.2Red Winter....... .99 @l.Ol Corn—No. 2 55 @ *.66 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .34 Rye—No. 2 58 @ .59 Barley—No 2 co @ .63 Butter—Choice^Creamery 33 @ .35 Eggs—Fresh 25 @ .26 Pork.—Mess 14.60 @14.75 Laud Milwaukee! ' ' 08,4(5) Wheat—No. 2 91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 55 @ .66 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .34 Bye—No. 2_ go & .62 Barley—No 2 59 @ .co Pore —Mess u. 25 @14.75 Lard 8.60 @ 9.00 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 1.03 ffl 1.04 Corn—Mixed 48 @ .50 Oats—No. 9 34 @ .35 Rye 55 @ .56 Pork—Mess... 14.50 @15.00 Lard ciA'ciNNAfi." m ' & '° 9 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn 52 @ .53 Oats 37 & .37J6 Rye ii .64 @ .66 Pork—Mess u.so @15.00 lA “ TOLEDO. "» * Wheat—No. 2 Red., 99 @1.05 Corn . 55 @ .56 0*"- ft ft'* DETROiT “• •“ Wheat—No. 1 White 1.02 @ i.oa Corn—No. 2 .54 @ a# Oats—Mixed..... 35 @ .36 Pork—Mess.... 15.25 @15.75 INDIAN APOLia Wheat—No. 2 Bed 99 @ 1.00 Corn—No. 2. 48 @ .4* LiBEBTipA. " * “ CATTTE—Best 6.00 @ 7.00 Fair 6.50 @ 6.00 Common 5.00 @ 6.00 Hops. , 5.7 s @6.26 BHEKF ....r; 8.00 @ 6.50

GRAND GRABS.

Contemplated Saids Upon the National Treasury. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune] The most dangerous attacks on the Treas" ury are the bills proposing addition# to the pension rolls. Each bill is backed up by petitions which apparently come from exsoldiers. The large part of them are collected by claim agents, one of whom has gathered 80,000 signatures of alleged soldiers asking for additional pension legislation. Aside from the general bills vouch involve by official calculation over $200,000,000 there have already been introduced nearly I.COO private pension bills. Many originate with attorneys, who send bundles of them to members, with a request to present "diem. They then charge those interested $26. Not one in ten of this class can ever pass. Many have no merit. Few sent in by c airn agents are ever followed further than the fee. The proposition to equalize bounties has been introduced by a dozen members. There have been several official calculations made of the amount which the passage of such a bill would require. The Paymaster General estimated that it would take as a minimum $157,000,000, and that the amount might run up to $163,000,000. No official calculation places the sum at less than $128,000,000. At least 350 additional clerks will be needed to make the settlement. The next scheme in the order of magnitude is the one for lemoving all limit upon granting arrears of pensions. This also Is strongly supported by petitions which pension agents have procured. A bill which is being urged with great persistence is the bill for pensioning all who were prisoners of war for two months; without regard to the question whether or not they suffered thereby in health, this is an insidious measure, since few politicians have the courage to take even an apparent stand against pensioning those who suffered as prisoners, and there are very many deserving cases. Added to these are the bills to pension all Who served fourteen days in tbo Mexican war, all who served in the various Indian wars, and the two extraordinary bills of Price, of Wisconsin, and Peters, of Kansas, one providing for pensioning all who served in the Union army upon their reaching the age of 45 years, and the other providing for pensioning all who served sixty days for the terms of their natural lives. For all except these last schemes there is a great pressure here. [Telegram to New York Herald.] Although the Forty-eighth Congress has been in actual session only three weeks, the bills already Introduced would, if enacted, absorb all the surplus revenues of the Government for several years to come. No regular appropriation bill has yet been repotted, but nearly every measure presented contains an appropriation direct, indefinite, implied, or oblique. An attempt has been made to classify the most important bills and estimate the probable amount involved, 60 that the public may see how their representatives in Congress would like to dispose of the public moneys. A recapitulation of the amounts proposed to be appropriated by the bills shows this staitling result: Public buildings and grounds .$ 12,000,000 River and harbor improvements...... 6,000,000 Public education 105,000,000 New bureaus, cmsßniseions, etc 1,000,000 Soldiers’ Home in Kansas 200,000 Equalizing bounties (official estimate) ;; 100.000,000 Pensions (estimated) 1 175,000,<«0 Prize money, etc 363.644 Deserters, nurses, etc. (estimated)... 2,250,000 Half-pay for Revolutionary officers (estimated) * 25,000,000 Depredations and spoliations (estimated) r. 10,000,000 Private bills (estimated) 25,000,000 State claims (estimated) 30,000,000 Drawbacks, rebates, etc 3,975,549 Miscellaneous Items (estimated)...... 5.000,000 Grand total $800,790,194

IS LOWELL A DUDE?

An Official Inquiry at Washington— Richelieu Robinson's Resolution. —» A resolution has been introduced in the House by Mr. Robinson, of New York, calling upon the Secretary of State for information regarding the dress of American representatives in foreign countries as thep'appear on public occasions. It has exclusive reference to Minister Lowell, who is reported to wear knee-breeches upon state and other occasions. When Sunset (ox returned from Europe he reported that Mr. Lowell was arrayed in knee-breeches and buckle shoes when he called upon him, and that our Minister made a vain but ineffectual attempt to hide his calves under a table. “What is the object of your resolution?" was asked of Mr. Boblnson. “It Is to ascertain if any of our representatives abroad are really acting like dudes,” he replied. “I am told that In some countries our ministers and consuls dress like fops, that they don fancy coats and big brass sabers and imagine themselves kings and princes.” “Have you any instances?” “Yes, sir. lam told that recently our Minister Lowell oould not be seen because he was dressing for a reception. It is said that our representative to Persia had to take off his boots not long since and approach the Pasha in his bare feet. Such proceedings are beneath the dignity .of an American citizen. He ought to have applied' his boot to the Pasha.” Mr. Robinson said that the United States would not tolerate any “monkey business,” as he put it, on the part of the representatives abroad; that there was a statute enacted in I£3B for the express purpose of requiring American Ambassadors to maintain the recognized customs and etiquette of their own country, and that if Mr. Lowell had been guilty of a violation of this law he ehould be recalled. . It is a matter of notice that Mr. Lowell is a subject of unfavorable comment in all quarters in Washington at this time. A leading Republican Senator said the other day that the aping tendencies of Mr. Lowell, which at first produced only ridicule, are likely to bo so seriously regarded in the end as to necessitate his recall. MINISTER liOWELU’S RECTORSHIP. (Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald.] Your correspondent has definitely ascertained that Minister Lowell received a polite, but peremptory notification from the Department of State that his acceptance of the Rectorship of St. Andrews was regarded as an act inconsistent with his obligations as the representative of the American Government at a foreign court. The letter to Mr. Lowell called his attention to the prohibition put upon American ambassadors as.to their acceptance of titles, honor, office, etc., from foreign potentates.

The Bonded Whisky Bill Boomed.

The friends of the Bonded Whisky bill, says a Washington correspondent, fear that it has fallen into unfriendly hands by its reference to the Committee of Ways and Means, but, under the rules, no other committee has jurisdiction of bills relating to taxation. They have only faint hope, fj*>in the reputed temper of the committee toward it, that It will be reported to the House. But if It should come baok with the indorsement of the Ways and Means Committee it would be met with fierce opposition by some of the strongest men in the House.

Cold-Wave Signals.

A Washington dispatch says the following will be inserted in the office regulations of the Signal Bureau by direction of Gen. Hazen: A white flag with a bjaok center will be used to indicate a wave is approaching. Whenever the anticipated temperature fall is decidedly below normal, the assistant in charge of the indications division will send telegrams to the observers at Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Nashville, and Cincinnati: ‘‘Hoist cold-wave Signals,” and will direct them lowered when the temperature has reached the minimum. The youth who waltzes well is the one who leads the whirled.—New Tork Journal.

NATIONAL BANKS.

Proposed Legislation by Congress position to tbe Sherman BBL , [Washington DispateAJ The Finance committees of tbe two hoi have entered upon the consideration of important subjects referred to them. 1 winter, when the bill extending the noth bank charters was passed, it was the gen opinion that the question of tbe existene the banks was settled for at least twe years, but, under existing conditions, time can be easily calculated when the b of the system will have reached its van rag point. Two conflicting propositions now before tbe Finance committees, looks to giving to the national banks a m stable basis; the object of the other is to timately supplant tbe present system treasury notes. Tbe Senate Finance committee has an discussion the bill of Mr. Sherman, which brief, proposes to allow national banks Issue circulation lo an amount within 10 cent, of the market value of the boi Provision is made that in the eventof shri age the Secretary of the Treasury shall b the power to call upon the banks to in good their margins. The meetings the committe have not been tended by all tbo members. Mo* Allison and Aldrich (Republicans) bav both been absent. Enough has been s« however, to show that the Democrats will pose the Sherman plan, while the Repu cans are not all prepared to support it- ’ Democrats are not prepared to go furt than to agree that the banks may issue cir lation equal to the par of the bonds. Thi an Increase of 10 per cent, over the exist law. They may also vote for some reduct of the tax on circulation. The Republic •f the committee are not all agreed to i plan of tbe Sherman bill. Senator Aldrich proposes to introduce a of his own which proyides for the exchai of the 4’s for 3’s, with the difference to pa : d in cash. Then he would allow the bai to issue circulation equal to 100 per cent.the value of the bonds, instead of 90 ] cent, as under existing law, or 90 per cent, the market value, as proposed by Sena Sherman. He thinks that a bfll like tbe < he will introduce will settle the bank! quest on favorably to the banks and tbeooi try for twenty-three years at least, which does not believe will be achieved by Mr. Sb man's proposition. The suggestion of the Secretary of Treasury, that an additional appropriat will be necessary If the printing of the and $2 notes is continued, will furnish a n text for the discussion of the financial qu tion. Some of the silver men indioate th purpose to take advantage of this suggest) to refuse an appropriation for the $1 and notes, the expectation being that if tb< notes shall be retired the effect will be force the silver dollar Into circulation. .

THE STAR ROUTE CASES.

Items from the Accounts of the Spec Counsel. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune. The statement of the expenditures of 1 Department of Justice iu the star-route cal has been furnished to the Senate in respoi to the resolution of Mr. Van Wyck. T document is about the size, shape and weig of an unabridged dictionary, without inch summary, or condensation, and with IJt clew to the vast mass of vouchers. But t bookkeeping methods are not so orude th the astounding extravagance of the Depa ment of Justice can be kept secret. T information shows how the Treasu can be plundered in the name of refor Brewster, Attorney-General, received SSJI as attorney in the star-route cases, the It voucher for $2,500 having been approved short time before he became Attorney-Gs eral. William A. Cook receives SI,OOO f services in the Howgate case. This did n result in disclosing the whereabouts of Ho gate. He also receives $6,000 in the sti route oases. The leading counsel in t star-route cases, who was paid the least, w Ker, of Philadelphia; yet the vouch® show that in 1883 he charged $29,000, which he received $21,000, an unsetti balance being in dispute. In i dition he receives $5,250 for his services the Kellogg case, although the case has n yet been brought to trial. The total char made by Ker tor the year’s work was $32,51 most of which has been paid. In addition this, the junior counsel, while drawing em mous fees, presents his board bills regu ar and the Attorney General approves one, f instance, of sixty-one days at $7 per di amounting to $427. Dick Merrick, who hi pens to live here, did not charge for boa but Ker and Bliss, besides drawing from ! to SIOO each per day, charged for everyth! apparently from a bootblack to a aha] Mr. Merrick charges his uniform rates 1 about SIOO a day and gets them. 6001 Bliss presents the champion fees and g< them allowed, but he has not secured all t money, owing to the fact that the approprl .tion was exhausted. The details of one his bills would revved as a model for a cha eery lawyer in the Jarndyoe suit. Heeharg for waking up in the morning, for eating k breakfast, for walking to court amd baok, fi the place where he sleeps, for the man wl brushes his coat, for the boy that brings h books. Bliss’ fees average 81C0 a day, at he crowds a great many days into a yea Bill Wood, the detective, gets small snm Allan Pinkerton gets larger ones, having t coived in about a year some SB,OOO for t services of his operatives. No names a furnished of the persons shadowed.

ORANGEISM IN IRELAND.

Kossmore and the Magistrates. I [London Dispatch.} M The agitation in Ireland based npon I.o* Rcssmore’s recent Orange protest, is brisk* maintained. Three-fourths of the magiH trates have already publicly placed then selves on record in opposition to the platfor* which Lord Ross mo re has laid down * the only one on which loyal IrlgjH men can stand. In the County Coifl alone 148 magistrates have dfl dared that loyalty and Orangetem are isl compatible, and that they will not be ccerofl into inaction or submission by the braggodfl eio of the anti-Catholio partisans. The oH ange societies are making arrangements » a series of meetings to be held in EnglaS and Scotland, but the efforts of the rival i* ligious factions to create ffl Ireland excite such small interest outside ■ that country that these meetings will probjH bly fall fiat. I

Cattle Diseases.

The Assistant Secretary of the Treasu* has transmitted to Congress the report of t3M Cattle commission, consisting of James La* E. F. Thayer, and J. H. Sanders. The cotfl mission recommend that the National Gofl ernment prevent shipment northward, out* the area infected with Texas fever, all cattfl whatsoever, excepting from thabeglrming * November to the beginning of March. v A spaniel belonging toWilPam H. Baylk* of Providence, saw a horse that had traok* loose from a hitching-post fall Into Dob isl Pond. The horSe was too bewildered to fl* its way out. The spaniel pi linked In.swtß to the horse, seized the bridle with hie teeS! and gradually polled the horse around ojH: guided him to the shore. .Em Mr. Alonzo - Haves, of Kittery, Me., fri* got to sprinkle meal on his horse's noon-dt* fodder. Presently he heard a great noise * the stable, and found the horse with the pfl of meal In his mouth, just lifting it into manger. ■ Great things are made from iron, but til often makes grater. fl