Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — Page 2

UljeJemocraticSeittinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Rev. Dr. John Brown, the oldest Episcopal minister of New York State, died last week at Newbnrg. He delivered an address of welcome to Lafayette in 1824. Three young English students at the Moody School at Greenfield, Mass., were drowned while bathing. Boston dispaches mention the discovery of a counterfeit dollar, differing only slightly from the genuine as to weight and thickness. The Rev. Charles Sharp, a Catholic priest, shot himself dead at Bloomfield, near Pittsburg, Pa. He was crazed by sickness. Samuel Roberts, late paymaster of Charles Parrish & Co., coal operators at Wllkesbarre, Pa., is reported a defaulter to the amount of ScO.OOO or $75,000. He surrendered his property to his employers, and a settlement has been effected. Ex-Congressman Henry M. Phillips died at Philadelphia, aged 73. Bannister’s shoe factory at Newark, N. J., was burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. An unknown sailor died of yellow fever in New York, the firsf case there. In celebrating his 75th birthday, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes received congratulatory telegrams from numerous friends in Europe and America. Responsible citizens of New York have repeatedly offered $1,000,000 for a horse-car franchise on Broadway. The late A. T. Stewart was successful in preventing encroachments upon that noted thoroughfare. The Council recently gave away the right, and Mayor Edson vetoed the ordinance and secure! an injunction in the courts. Interested parties caused the injunction to be dissolved, and the Council held a secret meeting and passed the charter over the veto.

WESTERN.

In a ball game at St Paul, Elmer Foster broke his arm in making the first pitch. The sympathy of the spectators took the form of a heavy purse. The Second National Bank of Xenia, Ohio, has suspended. J. S. Ankeney, its cashier, has been speculating heavily in grain, and his resignation was demanded. The capital of the institution was $150,000, and it reported a surplus of $30,000. The People’s Bank, St. Paul, was robbed of SIO,OOO. The money was taken from the safe by some person who must have known the combination. Dr. Salmon has submitted his report concerning the pleuropneumonia m Illinois to the Bureau of Animal Industry. If the infection shall be traced to the herd of Mr. Dye, an extensive Ohio speculator in Jersey cattle, he sayS it is probable the disease has been sown among animals of nearly every State in the Union. The malady is unquestionably pleuropneumonia. At O’Fallon, 111., after a quarrel about a dress, Mrs. Crowdber killed Mrs. Cormack with a steel file, and then so seriously injured herself with a knife that she died In a few hours. A jury in the Cook County Probate Court at Chicago, after listening to the medical and other testimony produced regarding Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times, pronounced that gentleman insane. The court appointed Mr. Austin L. Patterson, the present business manager of the Times, conservator of Mr. Storey’s property.

Wesley A. Lumm, while City Engineer at Sandusky, was Indicted for accepting bribes. He soon entered on a career of dissipation, which caused his wife to commit suicide, and he finished the sad chapter by ending his own days with morphine. Gov. Crosby, of Montana, says that the special agent sent by him to inquire into the condition of the Piegan Indians has just returned, and that he found they were dying of gradual starvation at the rate of one a day. The appropriations for this year only permits the agent to issue two pounds of beef and three pounds of bad flour per week. The Governor calls upon the Secretary of the Interior to assume the responsibility of issuing full rations until Congress meets in December. A Deputy Marshal in Kansas received information which led to the seizure of an illicit still near the village of Maxson, and the arrest of three men who had operated it for two years. Those sterling actors, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, make their reappearance this week at McVicker’s Theater, producing Jessup and Gill’s “Facts,” and their old favorite comedy, “Mighty Dollar.” -They are supported by an excellent company. A railroad car attached to a circus train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seventylive men were sleeping in the car at the time. Ten men perished, and several others were badly scorched. A dispatch from Denver gives the following particulars of the accident: “At 11 o’clock last night the train belonging to the Anglo-American circus, Mr. Orton proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping-car, in which seventy-five men, employed as roustabouts in the circus, were asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished and two more were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire was communicated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion.”

Evansville, Ind., was visited by a terrible wind, rain, and hail storm, lasting over an hour. The steamer Silverthorne, with steam up, had her chimneys blown overboard. The Josiah Throop' was badly wrecked. Many houses were ’ demolished, and roofs and chimneys blown off. The steamer Belmont was lost in the hurricane below Evansville, and ten or fifteen persons were drowned. Among the lost are Capt. John Smith, E. C. Roach and son. Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant and mother, and others unknown. The boat was valued at >15,000.

Striking miners at Snake Hollow, Ohio, commenced a riot at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, Aug. 31, by firing several Hundred shots at the guards. William Hare was kited and two others received serious wounds. A hopper worth >I,OOO was burned and the telegraph wires were cut. In response to a call by the Sheriff, Gov. Hoadly ordered the militia companies at Lancaster and New Lexington to be in readiness to march. State Veterinarian Stalker writes to the President of the lowa fair that he does not believe there is a single case of pleuropneumonia among cattle in lowa. Kehlor Brothers’ flouring-mills at Waterloo. 111., were destroyed by fire. The loss is about $150,000, the insurance about SIOO,OOO. Governor Crosby, of Montana, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, protests against the manner in which the Piegan Indians are being treated by the Government*

SOUTHERN.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Eastern Tennessee on the 26th of August. It lasted a minute and a half. Maggie Jones, of Baltimore, in filing abill of divorce, alleges that she believed she was marrying a bachelor of 60 years, but discovered at his residence nine grown children, eight of whom were older than herself. Berry Johnson (colored) for the murder of his wife was hanged at Shreveport, La. Schip Holly, a negro who murdered Luther Seely, a young white man, in January, was hanged at Tuscola, Ala. The local military were at the jail. Josh Berryman (colored) was hanged at Natchitoches, La., for the murder of Scott Carter (colored). Willie Williams, alias French, was hanged at Franklin, La., for the murder of William Burgess Feb. 3. As the black cap was drawn Williams shouted: “O, God! save me! 0, God! save me!” During the year ending Aug. 31 450,077 bales of cotton valued at $23,000,000 were received at Memphis. The cotton crop of South Carolina is in good condition. The picking season has already commenced. The product will be fully equal to that of last year.

WASHINGTON.

The Treasurer of the United States has forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana $21,000 free school bonds of the State captured at Baton Rouge in 1865 by Gen. Sheridan. The discovery has been made at Washington that in 1848 President Polk deeded to the monument association the ground on which the lofty marble column has been reared by the Government, and that the title still rests in the corporation.

POLITICAL.

Democratic Congressional conventions have nominated William H. Neece in the Eleventh District of Illinois, B. J. Hall in the First lowa, Judge Stanley Woodward In the Twelfth Pennsylvania, and George R. Yaple in the Fourth Michigan. The Democrats and Greenbackers in the Des Moines district of lowa placed in the field Judge W. H. McHenry for the long term and William Kivler for the short term. Hillsboro (Hl.) dispatch: “The Hon. George C. Christian, of Chicago, Chairman of the Prohibition State Central Committee, and the gentleman who nominated St. John in the Pittsburgh convention, was here yesterday working up the Prohibition cause in this section of the State. He said the prospects of the Prohibition party were very flatteringin this State. The committee had already had the names of 25,000 members who would vote the Prohibition ticket, State and national, and the canvass had barely commenced. He felt .confident that they would get 60,000 votes in Illinois. He said the Prohibition sentiment was strongest in the central and southern parts of the State.”

Edwin D. Bailey, Secretary of the National Committee of the American party, announces that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, nominated for President, will withdraw in favor of St. John. i The Illinois Greenback Convention, at Bloomington, nominated Jesse Harper, of Danville, for Governor, and adopted a resolution authorizing the State Central Committee of the party to fuse with any of the old parties which would give them seven Presidential electors. The Greenbackers and Anti-Monop-oiists of Wisconsin met in convention at Milwaukee, nominated W. L. Utley for Governor, and placed a full electoral ticket in the field. The Michigan Prohibitionists, in session at Detroit, nominated David Preston, a wealthy Detroit banker, for Governor. Thomas P. Fenlon has been nominated by the Democrats for Congress in the First Kansas District. Col. N. B. Eldredge was renominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers of the Second Michigan District. Congressman Isaac H. Stephenson was renominated by the Republicans of the Ninth Wisconsin District. Ethel Barksdale was nominated by the Dem- | ocrats of the Seventh Mississippi District. J. B. Yellowby was nominated by the Republicans and Independents. H. G. Thayer was nominated by the Republicans of the Thirteenth Indiana District. For the short term, to succeed Maj. Calkins, the Republican nominee for Governor of the State, John W. Reynolds was named. The Republicans of the First North Carolina District have nominated J. B. Respess for Congress. Richard Bishop was nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth Illinois District; E. H. Broaddus was named by the Prohibitionists or the Eleventh Illinois District; and James Keigwin was placed in the field by the Republicans of the Third Indiana District. George Ford has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Indiana District, R. T. Hubbard I y the Republicans of the Third Virginie, and Col. J. Edwards by the Republicans of the Fifth North Carolina.

The lowa Greenback State Convention met at Des Moines, counties being represented by 310 delegates, and performed one-half of the proposed fusion act mapped out in advance by the Democratic and Greenback State Central Committees. The following Presidential electors were nominated : At large, Daniel Campbell; First District, A. 8. Hunter; Fifth District, George Carter;

Seventh District, H. 8. Wilcox; Ninth Din trict, J. p. Halton, leaving the Eighth to be filled. The remainder, seven in number, they left for the Democrats to nominate when they meet in State convention. Judge E. L. Burton, a Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge; George Derr, of Union County, for State Treasurer; and James Dooley, of Keokuk, for Secretary of State. The last two are Green! ackers. A lengthy platform was adopted. The Kansas Greenbackers met in convention at Topeka, and nominated the following ticket: Governor, H. L. Phillips; Lieutenant Governor,'John W. Chief Justice, H. P. Vrooman; Associate, J. D. Mcßryan; Treasurer, H. F. Hefelbourn; Auditor, W. T. Wakefield; Attorney General, H. L. Brush; Secretary of State, J. C. Hibbard; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Fannie Randolph. Electors and a State Central Committee were also chosen. Gen. Butler called on Simon Cameron at Harrisburg, Pa., and addressed a grangers' picnic at Williams Grove, He is said to have decided on an aggressive campaign, and will speak four times in Pennsylvania. His badge is to be a red rose on a green leaf.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Canadian Government refuses to permit the exportation of American cattle to England on the plan proposed by the Freemen brothers, because of the risk of introducing disease. The United States steamer Kearsarge, at Gibraltar, has received direct orders from Washington to make a cruise along the north and west coast of Africa. The American Pharmaceutical Association, in session at Milwaukee, elected John Ingalls, of Georgia, President, andM. Maisch, of Pennsylvania, Secretary. * Lord Lapsdowne, Governor General of Canada, has received instructions from the British War Office to furnish 600 Canadian river men to take part in the Nile expedition to Khartoum for the relief of Gen. Gordon. The special duty of these men will be to take flat-bottomed boats up the Nile. Lord Lansdowne thinks he will have no trouble in securing the men. A storm in Manitoba injured fifty buildings in Winnipeg, destroyed a church, a paper mill, and the Canadian Pacific freight sheds at Portage la Prairie, and leveled the growing crops in a large territory. A terrible scene was enacted in Lima. the capital of Peru. Caceres, with his rabble, suddenly entered the city, and before the Government troops got the upper hand of the mob 150 persons were killed in the streets. About one thousand rifled letters, taken from a mail-bag in the station at Palmer, Mass., were found scattered over a hill near that village. A mail-pouch stolen at Lafayette, Ind., was discovered in a cornfield one mile outside the city, and $30,000 in drafts and money-orders were recovered. A private detective, who is working for a large reward, states that Capt. Howgate, the defaulting officer of the signal corps, spent the winter in Bermuda, and has been within a day’s ride of Washington ever since the spring opened. There are now in jail at Lima, Peru, 500 prisoners, including seventy officers, charged with participation in the rebellion led by Caceres. Mr. Thomas Sexton and Mr. William Redmond, the Irish members of Parliament who represented Mr. Parnell at the Irish,National League Convention at Boston, have sailed for home.

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Foo-Chow states that the French iron-clads resumed the attacks on the forts on the Min River, between its mouth and the arsenal, at an early hour on the morning of Aug. 2?. The forts at the Kinpai Pass offered a determined resistance, but the superiority of the French gunners soon began to tell on the works. Gun after gun was dislodged, until finally the Chinese became demoralized at the sight of the destruction going on an<f fled from the fortresses, leaving everything behind them. Admiral Courbet then directed his attack on the forts higher up the river and made short work of them, as the garrisons had become panic-stricken at the sight and fire of the fleet, and hastily abandoned the defenses, leaving the French masters of the whole line of fortifications on the Min River up to the arsenal. When the French had descended the river after the attack upon the forts the Chinese looted and burned the foreign quarter. Gen. Wolseley proposes to reach Dongola with the Gordon relief expedition by Nov. 7. He declares his confidence of accomplishing this programme. The relief party will consist of 7,000 men. Four hundred more river boats have been ordered. Seven men were killed in a coal-pit near Paisley Scotland. Gen. Millot, commander of the French forces in Tonquin, telegraphs that the Chinese are preparing an invasion of that region. The Viceroy of Canton has ordered all Frenchmen to leave his province. It is known that important telegrams from Pekin have been received at Shanghai, and there are reports in circulation that China is desirous of coming to an agreement with France. Alphonso Taft, the new American Minister to Russia, has arrived at St. Petersburg. Germany intends to raise a corps of veteran soldiers for colonial service, as the Prussian military system will not allow treops to be sent abroad. The funds required will be furnished by mercantile firms desiring protection. Another large sugar firm has failed in Vienna, with liabilities exceeding those of Weinricb, who failed for 84,000,000 the other day. The clergy of Spain have started a demonstration in every church in the country in favor of the temporal power of the Pope. Admiral Courbet officially reports the complete success of the operations against the forts along the Min River. The French loss, he says, was ten killed, thirteen seriously and twenty-eight slightly wounded. The Admiral commands the gallantry of his officers and seamen. King Alfonso, of Spain, is in wretched health on account of his excesses, and will not live long. The regency of Christine, it is thought, would be the signal for a revolu-

tlon, and this fact is said to be the secret of Alfonso's recent amicable overtures toward the offended Vatican. Frauds aggregating £BO,OOO, in which foreign officials of high rank are involved, have been developed in the treasury department of Egypt. The British expedition for the relief of Khartoum consists of 8,000 British troops, 2,500 Egyptians, and a flotilla of 950 river boats, manned by 400 Canadians, 300 Kroomen, and atout 2,000 Egyptians and Nubians. It is estimated that the cost will be about $40,000,000.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At a school election in Johnstown, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the pleasure of casting her first vote and aiding in the triumph of a lady trustee. Chief’ Justice E. H. English of the State Supreme Court of Arkansas died last week at Asheville, N. C. He was elected Chief Justice in 1854, 1860, and 1881. He was Grand Master of the Masonic order of Arkansas for twelve years. The aggregate of bank clearances of the twenty-seven leading cities of the United States shows a decrease of 25.7 per cent, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The decrease in New York was 29.5 per cent.; in Chicago, 23.6 per cent.; outside of New York, 15.4 per cent. Gen. Gordon, in a letter dated July 15, says Khartoum can hold out till the middle of November. The Egyptian rebels made an attack on Suakim, and nine of them were killed by passing over a concealed mine. Continued droughts in India are hurting the growing crops. Much anxiety prevails, as long droughts are generally succeeded by famine in that country. Twenty thousand artisans and workingmen were in the annual labor parade at New York, and later attended a number of picnics. Many of the trades displayed emblems of their calling; but the butchers, who intended to slaughter cattle on the route, were prevented from putting into practice their sanguinary project by Mr. Henry Bergh, aided by a squad of policemen. Arkansas voted for State and county officers and members of the Legislature on Monday, Sept. 1. The returns indicate the election of Simon P. Hughes, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by a majority of 40,000 or more. The Legislature will be largely Democratic. The constitutional amendment repudiating the State debt is believed to have been carried. Notwithstandinir a wery large vote was polled, the election was a peaceable and quiet one. The National Executive Committee of the National Labor party decided at New York to hold no convention, but issued a “declaration" indorsing the principles of the People’s party and its candidate, Gen. Butler. Following is the official statement of the public debt for August: Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents f 250.000.000 Four per cents 737.683,150 Three per cents 214,571,350 Refunding certificates 271,900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 51,216,526,490 Matured debt $14,188,585' Debt bearing no interest — Legal-tender notes 846,739,376 Certificates of deposit 14,420,000 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 Fractional currency 6,978,001 Total without interest $610,989,218 Total debt (principal)sl,B4l,7o4,2o3 Total Interest 10,351,844 Total cash in Treasury 414,541,952 Debt less cash in Trea5ury51,437,514,094 Decrease during August 8,542,852 Decrease since June 30, 1884 12,536,141 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $1,686,574 Debt on which interest has ceased. 14,188,585 Interest thereon 322,410 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 United States notes held for redemption certificates 14,420,000 Casq balance available 141,072,541 Total $414,541,952 Available assets— Cash in Treasury;.... $414,541,952 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding $64,G23,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by United States 63,099,504 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service, $18,148,923 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 44.295,381 Women jump at conclusions and generally hit; men reason things out logically and generally miss.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $7.00 @ 7.50 Hogs 6.00 @7.00 Floub—Extra 5.00 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 85 (in .87 No. 2 Red uo @ .92 Corn—No. 2 61 @ .02 Oats—White 36 @ .42 Pork—New Mess 18.25 @18.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 @ 7.25 Good Shipping 6.00 & 6.5 J Common to Fair 4.09 & 5.50 Hogs 6.25 @ 6.75 Flour —Fancy White Winter Ex 4.25 @4.75 Good to Choice Spring. 3.75 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 78 @ .79 No. 2 Red Winter 82 @ .83 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 25 & .26 Rye—No. 2 55 @ .56 Barley—No. 2 62 @ .63 Butter—Choice Creamery 19 & .20 Fine Dairy 15 @ .17 Cheese—Full Cream 09 @ .10 Skimmed Flat 05 @ .<)•» Eggs—Fresh 13 @ .11 Potatoes—New, per bu 40 @ .4". Pork—Mess 27.00 @27.50 Lard O7J4@ .0754 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 80 @ .82 Corn—No. 2... 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 25 @ .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 77 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 28 @ .so Barley—No. 2 Spring 54 @ .55 Pork—Mess 17.00 @17.50 Lard 7.25 & 7.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 81 @ .82 Corn—Mixed 48 @ .49. Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 Rye 50 @ .51 Pork—Mess 18.00 @l9.0 j CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 80 @ ,H Corn 53 @ .55 Oats—Mixed 28 @ .30 Pork—Mess 18.50 @19.00 Laisd 07?6@ .08 DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @6.00 Wheat—No 1 White 84 @ .85 Corn —Mixed 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 26 @ .31 Pork—New Mess 18.50 @19.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red, New 77 @ .79 Corn—Mixed.. 51 @ .53 Oats—Mixed 24 @ .25 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle-Best 6.25 @ 6.75 Fair 5.75 @ 6.25 Common 4.25 @ 4.75 Hogs 6.35 @ 6.75 Sheep 3.75 @ 4.50

HYDROPHOBIA IN ALABAMA.

Thirty-two Negroes, a Herd of Mules, and Several Dogs Attacked with the Dread Disease. [Eufaula (Ala.) telegram.] People are greatly excited in this section over the wholesale spread of pronounced hydrophobia on the plantation of Punch Doughtie, the freaks of whose mad mule were telegraphed day before yesterday. Dr. E. B. Johnson has just returned from the Doughtie plantation, where he had been summoned to attend the sudden sickness. He found thirty-two persons suffering with a disease which he at once pronounced to be hydrophobia in a mild form. All are negroes. Three of them are very sick — one in delirium and so low that the Doctor says he is liable to die at any time. Over three weeks ago a hog bitten by a dog died on Doughtie’s plantation, and the carcass was given to the negroes to make soap-grease. Instead of using it for this purpose, however, thirty-two negroes on the place and in its vicinity ate fresh pork, with the result stated. Mr. Doughtie says that July 15 one of his dogs went mad and bit a mule and several hogs. Aug. 13 the first hog died and was eaten by the negroes as stated. Two more died Aug. 13, one on the 22dand one on the 27th, and all were eaten except the last, by which time the disease had appeared. The mule first exhibited symptoms of madness on the nineteenth day after being bitten. Eleven days after the first hog was eaten ten of the parties were taken sick. Two days ago another dog was discovered to be mad and was killed after having bitten another mule. The first dog that went mad disappeared, and the whole neighborhood is in terror lest he went among the stock—cattle and hogs—throughout the county before dying, if he is yet dead. A few days ago when the symptoms broke out in a mule, Mr. Doughtie rode out, at the request of a field hand, to inspect the condition of the animal. On reaching the pasture where a dozen mules were the animal Mr. Doughtie was riding neighed, which attracted the attention of the other animals, and the sick one particularly, which immediately rushed on the mule and rider and seized the saddle of the animal with his teeth. Mr. Doughtie dismounted and succeeded in loosening the mad mule’s hold, but no sooner was this done than the influriated beast turned upon hie owner, who fled for his life, pursued by the mule. There was a desperate race of a quarter of a mile through undergrowth, and Mr. Doughtie only saved himself by dodging around saplings. A small stretch of clearing intervened between the woods and the hquse, and the terrified man took a life and death chonce on making it. Before leaving the woods the mule had bitten a piece of Mr. Doughtie’s coat, and, while maneuvering around the tree, the animal bit himself savagely in several places, tearing out a mouthful of flesh each time. The race for the house was a close one, and just as Mr. Doughtie reached the top of the fence the mule overtook him on a dead run, but instead of reaching his victim, struck his head against a fence-post in a wild rush and was knocked senseless. The mule was afterward killed by Mr. Doughtie. It is now reported that the whole herd of mules are affected, and will doubtless spread the disease among other animals in the neighborhood. The community is at a loss how to arrest the disease.

THE WHEAT YIELD.

A Final Estimate as to the Crop of the United States—A Total Production of 530,000,000 Bushels. [Milwaukee dispatch.] S. W. Tallmadge presents the following figures as a final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884. The figures are based on official reports made within a few days by the State Agricultural Departments and Statistical Agents of the different States and Territories. The report shows that the total production of winter wheat is 380,000,000 bushels, and the total of spring wheat is 150,000,000 bushels; total winter and spring, 530,000,000 bushels. This makes the total yield of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more than ever before produced, 130,000,000 more than last year’s crop, and 80,000,000 more than the average crop for the last five years. The departments all agree in reporting the quality as superior, and, where it has been thrashed, they say the yield has more than met their calculations. This applies especially to the spring wheat sections of lowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The quality of spring wheat was never better. The spring wheat harvest has been late, but the weather has been most favorable, and grain is being cared for in excellent condition. The following figures are given as to spring wheat: State. Bushels. State. Bushels. Minnesota.... 4' ,000,000 Wisconsin.... 21,000,000 10wa32,000,000 Nebraska..... 31,000,000 Total spring Dakota 25,000,000 wheatlso,ooo.ooo The following is the winter-wheat estimate: State. Bushels. State. Bushels. Kansas 48,000,00 j New Jersey... 2,000,000 California.... 45,000,000 Utah 2,000,000 Ohio 35,200,000 Arkansas 1,600,000 Indiana 35,000,000 Alabama 1,500,000 Missouri 33,000, OOOlDelaware 1,000,000 Illinois 33,000,000 ! New Mexico.. 1,000,000 Michluan 22,500, (100'Montana 1,000,000 Pennsylvania 22,500,00011dah0 1,000,000 Oregon 15,OOO.OOJlMaine 500,000 New York.... 13,000,000Arizona■ 500,000 Kentucky.... 12,OjO,oooMississipi.... 500,000 Maryland.... 9,ooo,OOOiVermont. 500,000 Tennessee.... 9,000,000 N. Hampshire . 200,000 Virginia 7,000,000 Nevada 200,000 N. Carolina .. 5,000,000 Wyoming.... 200,000 Texas 5,000,000 Connecticut.. 48,000 W. Virginia.. 4,ooo,ooo,Massachusets 25,000 Georgia 4,000,000 Louisiana.... 25,000 Washington.. 4,ooo,oooFlorida 10,000 Colorado 3,000,000 Rhode Island. 1,000 S. Carolina... 2,000,0001 Total winter3Bo,ooo,ooo Total winter and spring.... 530,000,000

Train Robbers Foiled in Texas.

The Mexican Central pay-car, which arrived here, yesterday evening was attacked by robbers at Lerdo, 500 miles south. A stone was thrown into the train, supposedly to stop it, when a great number of horsemen were seen riding slowly on the track ahead. The train had a guard of twenty men armed with Winchesters, and they immediately prepared for an attack, but the robbers seeing them fled. The Pullman car headquarters, at Paso del Norte, across the river from here, was robbed last night. The loss has not been ascertained. It consisted of money and Pullman supplies. T. C. Schneider, of Baltimore, has just finished a new micrometer, to measure the wave length of light. It is said to be the finest instmment of the kind in the world. The red flannel shirt which, tied to an oar, was used as a distress signal by the Greely party in the arctic regions, will be on exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition. Victor Hugo is such an ardent admirer of Rhea that he is almost persuaded to come to this country to see her again. Theodore Walrond has arranged to write the life of Deen Stanley.

THEY ACCEPT.

The Standard-Bearers of the Prohihi tionists Formally Notified of Their Nomination. St. John Bays His Party Works for th Nation’s Welfare Through tke People’s Homes. (Cuba (N. Y.) special] A Prohibition camp meeting, to last fiv days, is in progress at the circuit grounds a grove two miles from this village Th principal leaders and speakers of the Prohi bition movement are in attendance. An audi ence of 3,000 is in attendance. The exer cises this morning opened with music ant prayer, after which Prof. Dickey, Chair man of the Notification Committee, ad dressed the candidates, John P. St. Johi and William Daniel, as follows: Gentlemen : I ata to speak for the commit tee representing here to-day the national con vention of the Prohibition party, recently ii session at Pittsburgh. In harmony with politi cal usages, and in keeping with the dignity an< importance of the high position in which w shall endeavor to place you, we are here for th purpose of notifying you, in this official an< formal manner, of vour selection as can didates of the National Prohibition part; for the positions respectively of Presiden and Vice President of the United State! The convention which thus honored itse by so wise selections was no ordinar gathering. Men were there bowed under th weight of many years, who a generation ago me in the same hall to organize tor victory in wha seemed to some a hopeless cause, the battl against that other slavery. Young men wer there with the ardor of youth and the devotio; of heroes; women were there—Frances Wi)lar< and Mary Woodbridge, and Mrs. Burt and Mar Lathrop and Esther Hugh—representatives d the best brain and heart of American woman hood. It was a convention of earnest men an< pure women, who were there to express the opin ion that the Government ought to be a govern ment of the people and by the people, and not i government of the saloon and by the saloon an for the saloon. It was a convention liepresenting a powerfu constituency from all parts of our land, a con stituency composed of citizens grown tired o the spectacle of two old political parties rivalin each other in their eagerness to serve the liquo traffic, going dov4i upon their faces in the dus before the Moloch of men, and crying out, in th language of Scripture: “Am I not’thine assupo: which thou hast ridden?” I need not assure yo the Prohibition party will give you a mos ardent support. We may not succeed in electin you to the high positions for which you hav been named, but we shall enjov the prou satisfaction of knowing that our candidate were the only candidates, and our party was th only party, that ought to have succeeded. Ana now, gentlemen, in the name of th noblest manhood and the purest womanhood o America, I invoke the blessing of Almighty Goi to rest upon you, and may that divine powe which rules and overrules in the affairs of na tions and of men vouchsafe unto von sue measure of strength, and courage, and wisdoi as shall enable you to bear well the burden which the National Prohibition party, with su preme confidence, now lays upon you. Gov. St. John replied as follows: Mr Chairman and Members of Committee: In receiving this formal notice of my nomine tion for the highest office within the gift of th people by the national convention of the Pro hibition party, permit me, notwithstanding th distinction was neither sought nor desired b me, to assure you, in view of the unanimit with which it was given, of my high appreciatio: of the great honor it confers. There are mor political parties in the field to-day than ther are political issues. Upon the great question a to what shall be done with the traffic of intox eating liquors as a beverage, both the Dem< cratic and Republican parties are united in save of making the traffic permanent, while the Pro hibitlonists demand that it be forever place under the condemnation of the laws of the lane Thus an issue is clearly made, and I think it tb only one to-day that really reaches the heai and conscience of the citizens. Upon th! issue we go to the people, the source of all po lltical power. Let us appeal to reason rathe than to prejudice. Let those resort to persons

abuse and scandal who have nothing better t uphold their cause. The Prohibition party not organizing as a mere threat or menace, is the outgrowth of a rapidly increasing crysta lized sentiment against the great evil < the age; an evil that the old partit dare not attack, but against which th young party of the people, in detent of the homes of the nation, has entered upon warfare that shall never cease so long as the fla of our cojintry waves its protecting folds ove legalized dram-shops. In this struggle let U ever remember we are accountable to God; ths our duty to Him is paramount to our allegianc to any political party; that political ties wi never in His sight excuse a ballot for any part that does not stand up fearlessly for the righ The home will have nothing to fear if the pec pie vote as they pray. Mr. Daniel followed, and said: Mr. Chairman and members of the oemmitte* lam profoundly gratified for the honor con ferred upon me by selecting me as one of th standard bearers of this great reform move ment. I accept the nomination for the office o Vice President, and expect to do so more formal! by letter hereafter, knowing well that it is on of responsibility and involving no little of per sonal.sacrifice; and I appreciate this honor nc merely as a personal one but as a token of th appreciation by the convention of the Sarnes solid prohibition work that has been done i my native State of Maryland within the fe years past. I also appreciate it as an ind cation and desire of our brethren of the grei North and West to obliterate all sectional part lines and build up a grand Union party com posed of the best elements on both sides of th line in array against the worst, the represents tives of protection to homes warring against th saloons. This disposition is the more clear! evinced from the fact that I am the first perso selected since the war from a Southern State a a candidate for a national position, and I trui this action will be the harbinger of that reign C harmony, good-will, and unity throughout th land which a poet has described as The union of lakes, the union of lands. The union of States none can sever; The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union forever. Whatever may be the result of this effort, so fa as the precise number of votes polled is con cerned, I believe the agitation will be of im mense advantage to the cause and the country I believe the result will be to rivet the earnes thoughtful attention of the American peopl upon this liquor traffic, this gigantic crime o crimes, so as to cause the speedy adoption < such measures as will greatly hasten its over throw. The duty of the hour is to crystallt! and organize prohibition sentiment. We hav already entered into political action, and tlu having a standard to which we can rally, w shall more rapidly form whatever else of sent ment that may be needed than in any otiu way. I have to say in conclusion that I sha do all in my power now and henceforth to bea onward this Prohibition standard. The following was the Committee of No tification f Prof. Samuel Dickey of Mich igan, Chairman; Judge James Black, Penn sylvania; Prof. A. A. Hopkins, New/Yorl D. Shelton, Kansas; the Rev. John Rus sell, Michigan; Miss Frances Willard, Uli nois; the Hon. S. D. Hastings, Wisconsii George R. Scott, New York; Miss Mar Woodbridge, Ohio; the Hon. J. T. Turnei of Alabama.

THIS AND THAT.

Norway is the only place in Europ where ice water is placed in the railwa cars. It has been discovered that many 0 London’s famous meat pies are made of th flesh of dead horses. A Georgia man killed his sweetheai and then poisoned the melon patch in orde to get rid of the rest of the family. A shark eight and a half feet long an weighing 408 pounds was caught in th North River at New York recently. Combination salads are the latest They are made of a “little of everything, and nobody wants to be helped a secon time. Sharks are reported to be ascending th Hudson River in unusual numbers. Ai Albany paper thinks they are after the-sma] boys who bathe from the wharves of tha city. The Mormons are systematically coloniz ing Oneida County, Idaho Territory.