Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — Page 2

W JtmocraticSentinel ■■ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ■ ■ 1 «■. J. W. McEWEN, - - - PtWLtSHEB.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS. The Elections in Ohio and West Virginia—The One Republican, the Other Democratic. Ohio. The election in Ohio on Tuesday, Oct. 14, wax for Secretary of State, a Judge of the Supremo Court, a member ot the Board of Public Works, members of Congress, and county officers. The returns, as sent out by the Associated Press on the m aning after the election, indicated a Republican majority of 15,000 to 17,000. Later returns from the same source, however, cut these down to about 10,0 0. A press dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says: Complete but unofficial returns reduce the Republican majority close to 10,Uoo. Republicans claim it will be over that some, and Democrats that 'it will be less. It is thought that the official -count will make it about eleven thousand, which reverses the Democratic majority of last year, but does not show any such cyclone as was claimed on the night of election. Democrats say they will .make the fight for November with as much vigor as ever. The following private dispatch by a member of the Republican State Committee has just been sent to Dudley at Washington: *Sixty-five counties show a net Republican gain of 31,544. Deducting Hoadly’s majority of last year, it leaves 9,013. Ido not believe the remaining twenty-threecounties will more than bring this up to 10,000. Allen, .Ashland, Crawford, Darke, Mercer, Monroe, Paulding, Pickaway, Pike, and Richland show Democratic gains over last year.” By close calls the Democrats carry all the close and doubtful district* except that ot Frank Hurd, who is beaten. The Congressmen-elect are as follows: Democrats — Republicans—3. James E. Campbell. 1. Benj. Butterworth. 4. Chas. M. Anderson. 2. Charles E. Brown. 5. B“njamin Le Fevre. 8. John Little. 6. William D. Hill. 9. William C. Cooper. 7. George E. Seney. 10. Jacob liomeiss. 11. Wm W. Ellsberry. 12. Albt. C. Thompson. 13. Jos. H. Outhwaite. 11. Chas. H. Grosvenor. 15. Beriah Wilkins. 18. Isaac H. Taylor. 16. George W. Geddes. 19. Ezra B. Taylor. 17. Ad. J. Warner. 20. Wm. McKinley, Jr. 2b Martin A. Foran. A press dispatch from Cincinnati says: The returns received from all parts of the State are uniform in showing an increased vote. In many places the increase is very marked. Another feature shown is that the people are more than ordinarily arrayed in the two great pirties. Both the Greenback and Prohibition vote are 'comparatively insignificant, and the vote was as distinctly marked as if the Presidential ticket had been before the people. A matter of gre it 'surprise is the large vote received by the Republican candidate for Judge of the Supreme I Court. There was gener 1 belief that he would fall far 'below the rest of the ticket, owing to dissatisfaction among the saloon men on account of his opinions on the Scott liquor law. On the contrary, it appears he has been carried fully up with the remainder of the ticket, and here in Hamilton County his vote is greater tlia.ii that tor Robinson. The unexpected feature of the election is the ■German vote, which was cast largely for the Republican ticket. Hamilton, Cuyahoga, Lucas, Montgomery and Erie Counties, which embrace large Teutonic populations, show heavy Republican gains. In fact, they turned the tide and gave the victory to that party. Hamilton County alone shows a gain ot 5,000 on the vote of last year. Cuyahoga sliows a gain of nearly 3,000, Lucas a gain of over 2,000, and Montgomery a gain of 1,7440. Both the Democratic and Republican press here agree that the election in Cincinnati was the bloodiest that has ever been held here. The Democratic papers assert that the thousand United States Deputy Marshals were employed mainly in intimidating honest voters, while the Republican press construes the conduct of the police force and the deputy sheriffs in a similar manner, comparing it to the Mississippi policy. West Virginia. An Associated Press dispatch from Wheeling says: Returns are still very scarce and unsatisfactory. Chairman Cowden, of the State Republican Committee, concedes the State to the Democrats by 3,000. < e says the returns are coming in so slowly he can hardly form an approximate idea of the real status in the State. J. S. Miller, Democratic State Committeeman in this city, claims the State by 6,500. Chairman Leonard, Democrat, telegraphs Irom Parkersburg that the State has gone 10,000. Baker, of the National Democratic Committee, places it at from 3,000 to 5,000. Wood County gives Maxwell, Republican candidate for Governor, 1,000. Harri- .. sou County, Maxwell’s home, gives 800 majority. The Republicans have made gains all over the State, but not enough to overcome the Democratic majority of four years ago. Later Election Returns. OHIO. A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch save: Official returns were received at the Republican headquarters to-night from Ashtabula and Wood Counties, these being the last to report, and they complete the list. The revised figures give Robinson a plurality of 11,421. This shows a Republican gain of 26,053, and a Democratic gain of 2,102. In sixty-six counties the Republicans made all their gains, and the , Democrats in the rest. The Republican gains in the rural districts are equal to their plurality. Chairman Oglevee concedes the election of Ellsbury. Democrat, in the Eleventh Dis rict. The delegation to Congress will stand eleven Democratic and ten Republican. WEST VIRGINIA. A Wheeling telegram says: State Auditor Miller has official and unofficial returns and close estimates from forty-two of the fiftv-four counties, which give a Democratic majority for W ilson of 7,109. The seven counties to hear from will increase this to 8,000. The Register claims 7,000 for Wilson—a gain over the combined Republican and Greenback vote of 1880 of 3,700. Chairman Cowden, of the Republican State Committee, says the back counties are showing heavy Republican gains and predicts less than 5,000 for Wilsou. Still Later Election Figures. OHIO. A Columbus telegram says: “Almost complete returns are in from the official counts of the County Clerks. From these and reliable semi-official sources the Republican pluralities arc: For Secretary of State, 11,321; Supreme Judge, 15,450; Member of Board of Public Works, 17,473. The Prohibition vote will be from 8,000 to 10,000, and the Greenback-labor vote about 2,000, with a total vote of over 750,000.” WEST VIRGINIA. A Wheeling dispatch says: As far as heard from twenty-eight counties in this State give Democratic majorities of 12,133; twenty-two counties give Republican majorities of 9,277; Democratic majority, 2,856, with four counties to hear from, which may increase the Democratic majority 1,200. The Democratic plurality in 1880 was 16.136, and 3,100 over Republicans and Greenbackers. This year the Republicans and Greenbackers fused. It appears, however, that Democratic Greenbackers, in most counties, went back to their party, and Republican Greenbackers did the same.

EASTERN.

Snow fell in various parts of New Hampshire on the 16th inst. Marion Jackson and Jack Newburn, local pugilists, fought a prize-fight at Pittsburgh, with bare knuckles, for a purse of 8300, resulting in favor of Jackson in the fifteenth rcund. Both men were severely punished. Frank E. Bean, an ice dealer in Bockland County, New York, secured judgment for 875,000 against the West Shore Boad for breach of contract. An express train on the Boston and Albany Boad was wrecked near Kinderhook, N. Y. Halls were placed across the track at this point, and the train was moving at the rate of forty miles per hour at the time of the'accident. The engineer and fireman were badly injured, and three other train hands sustained injuries. James Wormley, the proprietor of tho Wormley Hotel at Washington, D. C., a well-known and wealthy colered man, died in

Boston, after a lingering illness. He was Bom in Washington sixty-four years ago. At Brooklyn two 4-story business buildings were destroyed by fire, involving .a lose of $300,000.

WESTERN.

At La Crosse, Wis., Frank A. Burton was shot dead on Fourth street by a river man named Nathaniel MitchelL The assassin fired seven times, the first shot proving fatal. He was soon placed in jail, about which thousands of citizens gathered and demanded him. The doors were forced and the murderer lynched before midnight. Burton was a leading business man, and President of the Blaine and Logan Club. He leaves a wife and three children.

John W. Harrison, of St. Louis, has been appointed receiver of the Carbondale ■Coal and Coke Company, which owns extensive coal mines in Jackson County, Illinois, and operates ninety miles of railroad. Including capital stock, the liabilities of the concern are $851,000. The woolen-mills of Cornwell Broth■ers, near Ann Arbor, Mich., valued at $45,000, were burned last week. A fire at Montague, Mich- burned the opera-house and Ripley's block, the losses aggregating SBO,OOO.

At Aberdeen, D. T., Judge Spence, who had just announced himself as an independent candidate for the Probate Bench, met John L. Drake, of the Dakota Pioneer, ■and demanded an apology for a personal attack, at the same time drawing a revolver. The editor wrenched the weapon from the Judge’s hands, and beat him into insensibility with the butt of it. The farmers in the vicinity of Fargo, Dakota, are holding their grain, as only 55 cents is offered for No. 1 hard wheat. The Coroner’s jury on the Mitchell lynching ease at LaCrosse, returned a verdict that he was hanged by persons unknown to the jury. Willie Webster, a 15-year-old bootblack, confessed at St. louis that he was one •of the six that caused the lumber-yard fires at Cleveland. Richard J. Waddy, a stovemolder at Leavenworth, fatally shot his wife and a woman found in her company, and then killed himself. Mrs. Waddy was thoroughly depraved. . On the New Albany Road, near Putnamvillc, Ind., some miscreant caused a wrecta, which seriously injured all the train employes. The cars took fire and were totally consumed, the loss being $30,000.

SOUTHERN.

The town of Bannersville, Ga., was entirely destroyed by fire the loss being estimated at $400,000. Details are limited, as the telegraph offices are in ruins. Busenbaum’s stable at Meridian, Miss., was destroyed by fire, and forty horses were burned to death. In the Court House at Louisville, Judge Hargis and Col. Bennett H. Young had an interchange of epithets, which led to a rough-and-tumble light. Friends of both parties Interfered in time to prevent bloodshed. G. B. Gerold, County Judge of Waco, Tex., adjourned his court for five minutes for a fight with an attorney named T. A. Blair. After friends had stopped the contest the court calmly resumed its session. The boiler of Isaac Wehrmas’ sawmill, in Tyler County, Wis.,. exploded the other morning, instantly killing John and William Warden, and five other men, two of them fatally. The name of the wounded are George Katzbeau, Henry Johnson, Michael Anderson, Jacob Stewart, and a Polander, name unknown. AH of"these were horribly scalded, in addition to being wounded by flying missiles.

WASHINGTON.

President Arthur has appointed Frank Hatton Postmaster General. The oath was administered by James Lawrenson, who has performed the same office for twenty-two Postmaster Generals, beginning with Postmaster General Wyckliffe, of Kentucky, in 1841. Gen. Benjamin Alvord, U. S. A. (retired), died last week in Washington. Lieut. Gen. Sheridan will act as Secretary of War during the absencs of Scretary Lincoln.

POLITICAL.

Gov. Cleveland left Albany for New York in company with his private secretary, Col. Lamont, and Maj. Banks. He was warmly greeted by a Democratic gathering at Poughkeepsie, where he had a brief interview with ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. At New York he was welcomed by a Democratic committee consisting of ex-Senator Barnum, Congressman Hewitt, Senator Gorman, ex-Mayor Grace, Eugene Kelly, and others. Gov. Cleveland refused a public reception, and was driven directly to his hotel, where he retired to his rooms. In the evening the business men of New York held a Democratic rally at the Academy of Music, to which deep interest was added by the presence of Gov. Cleveland. The meeting was addressed by Gov. Cleveland, Henry Ward Beecher and other notables, and a letter was read from Gov. Tilden.

A special train bearing Mr. Blaine and his party left Grand Rapids, Mich., at 9:30 on the morning of Oct. 16. The train made brief stops at Holland, St. Johns, Owosso, and other points, where Mr. Blaine addressed the great gatherings which turned out to welcome him. He stopped nearly an hour at Muskegon, where he spoke on the tariff question to a large audience. The party stayed at East Saginaw during the night, and Mr. Blaine was accorded an enthusiastic reception in the evening. Gen. Fremont, who accompanied the party, was introduced by Mr. Biaine as the first Republican candidate, and made a short speech.

Gov. Cleveland visited Brooklyn on the 16th Inst., and was given an enthusiastic welcome. Therp was a large procession in his honor. The Governor attended a barbecue at Ridgewood Park In the afternoon. Several large oxen, scores of sheep and hundreds of fowls were roasted and spread before the assembled thousands. After the feast theie was speaking from five different stands by Gov. Cleveland, Gov.‘Hendricks, Gen. McClellan, Govs. Waller of Connecticut, Pattison of Pennsylvania, McLane of Maryland, and Abbett of New Jersey, Congressmen

Randall, Hewitt, and Cox, Senator Jonas of Louisiana, ex-fenatoir Wallace of Pennsylvania, Gen. Franz Sigel, and many others. The anti-fusion Greenbackers of lowa held a stormy State convention at Cedar Rapids, but adjourned without making nominations, sixteen of the, delegates favoring partial fusion.

Gov. Cleveland, accompanied by his private secretary, Col. D. 8. Lamont, Mayor Banka of Albany, and some of the State officers, left the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on the afternoon of Oct. 17, to take the train for Albany. “The Governor,” says a press dispatch, “was anxious to keep the time of his departure private, as he desired to leave without any demonstration. He had not got half a block from the entrance, however, when he was recognized, and irom that point to the depot he was repeatedly cheered. The train arrived at Albany at 7:45 p.m. The party drove immediately to the Executive Mansion. The crowd at the depot cheered heartily as he walked to his carriage., The Governor ex proceed himself very much impressed with the magnitude of the demonstrations in New York and Brooklyn. Before leaving New York Gov. Cleveland had a conference with the Democratic managers and John Kelly, the latter assuring him of the hearty support of Tammany.”

Mr. Blaine left East Saginaw, Mich., on the forenoon of Oct. 17. At Bay City he addressed 15,000 Republicans from a stand in the eity park. Gen. Fremont and Senator Palmer also spoke. At Flint Mr. Blaine was welcomed by a gathering of 8,000 enthusiastic supporters. At this point ho denied very emphatically that he had ever been a Know-Nothing, or that he sympathized with the Know-Nothing organization. He declared himself opposed to the exportation to the United States by foreign countries of their paupers and criminals He said he was most emphatically against the importation of foreign laborers, under contract, to compete with home labor. Mr. Blaine addressed large and enthusiastic assemblages at Lapeer, Pontiac, Port Huron, and other points. He expressed great, satis faction at the enthusiasm of bis reception in Michigan.

Mr. Blaine spent Saturday Oct. 18, along the line of the Michigan Central Railroad in Michigan. At Ann Arbor he was met by 1,200 University students, and spoke to them briefly. At Jackson he spoke from a flat-car to a large crowd on the tariff question. Short stops were made at Albion, Battle Creek, Marshall, and Dowagiac. The Republican candidate then entered Indiana. At South Rend a number of manufacturing establishments were represented in a large procession, to which Mr. Blaine spoke on the tariff issue. After the demonstration he went to the residence of the Hon. Clem Studebaker. Accompanied by his host he attended church at the Milburn Chapel, after which he and bis son Walker visited Mr. Blaine’s aunt, Mrs. Phelan, and his cousin, Mother Angela, at St. Mary’s Academy. Later he visited Notre Dame University and made an address to the students, being presented by the Rev. Father Walsh. Mr. Blaine took supper with the students. The Citizens’ Committee of New York has reorganized and renominated Wiliam It. Grace for Mayor. The Bepublicans of Wyoming have nominated F. E. Warren, of Cheyenne, for delegate to Congress. William M. Tilden, a second cousin of Samuel J. Tilden, has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats in the First Congressional District of Missouri.

Miscellaneous. During the week there were 209 business failures in the Unitel States, four less than the previous week, but twenty-nine greater than for the corresponding period of 1883. Bradstreet's Journal in its commercial summary for the week says: “The distribution of merchandise throughout the United during the past week has been somewhat interfered with at the North by the interest in and the excitement attendant upon the Ohio election. This is not thought to have had a marked effect, and special dispatches from leading business centers confirm previous reports that general trade throughout the United States is decidedly dull. At no point is much if any change looked for prior to the general election, and from New England a number of dealers are of the opinion that no revival need be looked for until February or March next.” Stockholders of the Metropolitan National Bank at New York have been asked to permit the concern to go into liquidation. The bank is sound, but the general feeling among financiers is that it is losing money. The railway laborers and whisky sellers hold sway in Michipicoton, a Canadian town on Lake Superior, and are driving out the respectable population. They have broken the jail and let the prisoners escape, and have killed two constables. Grant, Barfoot & Co., lithographers of Toronto, has made an assignment, with liabilities amounting to about 810,003. The clearing-house receipts of the leading cities of the United States last week show a decrease as compared with the corresponding week of last year of 36.5 per cent. Fire destroyed twelve stores in Edgefield, S. C., valued at 8100,000; the box factory of Benton, Nichols & Co., at New Haven, worth 820,000, and tho saw-mills of W. A. Stocker & Co. and Taylor & Co., at Easton, Pa.

FOREIGN.

Alexander M. Sullivan, one of the most noted Irishmen of the century, has just died in Dublin after a protracted illness. Paul Lacroix, a French novelist and antiquary, has just died at Paris. English election agents say that the Government redistribution scheme, if persisted in, will be ruinous to the fortunes of the Liberal party. It is expected that Great Britain’s difficulty with the Boers will bo settled without recourse to arms.. The British Government has decided to expend £1,600,000 on its fortifications in Aden, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The .depression in English shipbuilding continues. Forty ocean steamers are lying idle in the docks at Sunderland, and most of the shipyards are closed. The Paris correspondent of. the London Telegraph states positively that the Chinese Government offered, through the

Washington Government, to pay the French 5,00P,000 francs for their losses. The Irish National League is becoming alarmed at the spread of the labor agitation in Waterford, and have begun taking steps to counteract its effect. The French Minister o£ War strongly opposed the proposal to demolish the Paris fortifications erected under Theirs, and use their sites for building purposes. 1 Six officers of the Russian army and two women were executed in the citadel at St. Petersburg, for political offenses, in presence of U>e members of the Czar's cabinet.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

An arrangement for the exchange of mail matter of domestic rates of postage has been concluded between the Mexican Minister at Washington and Postmaster General Hatton. Stepen Van Horn, a young man of Toledo, 0., worth $150,000, has been sued for divorce by a young lady known as Miss Sallie St. John, who alleges a secret marriage and abandonment. The Blaine- Sentinel libel suit at Indianapolis, Ind., has been set for trial Dec. S 3. Madame Boulet, of Montreal, the mother of six children, has been sentenced to the gallows for the murder of Mrs. Carbin by poison. An hotel, a block of brick stor*3, and several dwellings at Arnprior, Ont., were burned, the loss reaching SOO,OOO. Fire in Gamby, Jones & Co.’s establishment at New York damaged the build ng and stock $76,100. Gen. De Lisle advises the French Government that an effective force of 20,000 men will be necessary to continue offensive operalions in Tonquin. Orton, the Tichborne claimant, lias been discharged from prison. He received a ticket-of-leave requiring him to report monthly to the authorities. The Sheriff at Senatobia, Miss., with the aid of a single deputy, fought off a mob intent upon lynching two colored prisoners who had been sentenced to long terms in the penitentiary. Near Nolensville, Williamson County, Tenn., two young girls tried to frighten a young man who was hunting by playing ghosts. He lired both barrels of his gun, killing the girls instantly. Through carelessness almost criminal, the gas was left on in the vaults of the Canal Bank, near Elmira, N. Y., the other night. John Arnot, the President, with a lighted candle in his hand, threw open the doors the next morning, and was blown across the room against the counter, receiving painful injuries. Every window in the bank was blown out, even the office door being shattered. The cotton-mills at Fall River,Mass., have shut down. It is reported'that 10,000 people are out of employment there. Gov. Cleveland was assaulted in the streets of Albany by a man named Boone, who, in connection with his wife, had been expelled from the Executive Mansion for creating a disturbance. Fire in Carthage and East Carthage, N. Y., destroyed 200 dwellings, three churches, the hotel, and opera house, an academy and schoolhouse, and some mills and factories, the loss being estimated at $1,000,000. Numbers of people were rendered homeless, and but few houses are left standing. The boiler of a threshing engine, run by a carpenter, exploded at Beltrami, Minn., killing five men instantly, and mangling and scalding three others.

Keep ’Em Both Busy.

“You seem to be very busy nowadays,” said Mr. Korner Lopher to Mr. Wilson. “O, yes,” said Wilson, evidently ai> noyed by the bore. “But you haven’t got a regular job?” said Lopher. “I know it,” said Wilson. “Then how can you be so busy ?” inquired Lopher. “I’ll tell you how, said Wilson. “In fact, I’ll tell how we both can be busy. ” “How?” asked Lopher. “This way, and we won’t interfere with each other,” answered Wilson. “You mind your own business and I’ll mind mine.”— New York Truth. When you measure aught, give full measure and weight with a just balance. One hour of equity is better than seventy years of devotion.— The Koran.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. 3EEVES $5.00 @ 7.25 Ho.IS 5.50 @ 6.60 Flour—Extra... 5.50 & 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 82 @ .83 No. 2 Red 85 @ .87 JTN-No. 2 60 @ .61 Oats—White ; 31 @ .37 1-ORK—New Mess 16.75 @17.25 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to I'iiine Steers. 7.00 @ 7.50 Good Shipping 6.00 @ 6.50 Common to Fair 4.00 @5.00 Hois 5.00 & 5.50 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.25 @ 4.75 Good to Choice Spring.. 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 74 @ .75 No. 2 Red Waiter 76 & .79 Corn—No. 2 51 @ .52 Oat.-—No. 2 25 @ .26 Rye—No. 2 53 @ .55 Barley—No. 2 58 @ .60 Butter—Choice Creamery 27 @ .29 Fine Dairy ' 20 @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .1314 Skimmed Flat 08 @ .09 * Eggs—Fresh 19 @ ,20 Potatoes—New, per bu 32 @ ,:-.5 Pork—Mess 16.25 in 16.75 Lard 07 @ .07$ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 71 @ .72 Corn—No. 2 48 @ .50 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 72 @ .74 Corn—No. 2 .48 @ .50 Oats—No. 2 28 & .30 Barley—No. 2 .56 @ .57 Pork—Mess 15.50 @16.00 Lard 7.00 @ 7.50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 78 @ .80 Cohn—M xed 48 @ .49 ats—No. '2 25 @ .26 Rye 50 @ .52 Pork—Mess 16.50 @17.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 79 @ .81 Corn 53 @ .55 Oats—Mixed 27 @ .29 Pork—Mess 16.25 @16.75 Lard 07 @ .07W DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White. 76 @ .78 Corn—Mixed .54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 28 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 18.00 @18.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat —No. 2 Red, New 74 @ .76 Corn—Mixed ; 47 @ .49 Oats—Mixed 25 @ .26 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 @ 6.50 Fair 5.50 @6.00 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 6.50 @ 7.09 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.0 >

THE CROPS.

The National Agricultural Bureau’s Heport for the Month of October. [Washington telegram.] October returns for corn give an average higher for its condition than in any of the past five years, but not so high as in any of the remarkable corn years from 1875 to 1879, inclusive. The general average is 93, which is very nearly an average of any series of ten years, and indicates about twenty-six bushels per acre on a breadth approximating 70,000,000 acres. The region between the Mississippi, and the Rocky Mountain slope again presents the highest figures, which in every State rise a little above the normal standard of full condition. No State east of the Mississippi returns a condition as high as 100. The lowest figures are in West Virginia, 73; Ohio, 74; Louisiana, 74; Texas, 80; and South Carolina, 83. The reduction in these States was caused by drought. There is complaint of drought in the Ohio Valley and in the Atlantic and Gulf States, but not sufficiently severe to reduce seriously the yields. The early planted com is everywhere matured. Late plantings in the Southern States suffered for want of summer rains, and will be light and not well filled. Very little injury has been done by frosts. There was frost in Vermont on the 25th of .August, and in several border States about the middle of September, with slight injury to late corn. The damage by chinch-bugs and other insects has been slight. WHEAT. The wheat crop will exceed that of last year by about 100,009,000 bushels. Threshing is slow and late, with results thus far confirming indications in former reports. The yield per acre will average about thirteen and omMhird bushels. The quality of the present wheat crop is generally very good, especially in the Eastern and Middle States. On the western slope of the Alleghenies, and in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, some depreciation in quality is noted. In Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, and Kansas the average for the entire breadth is 96. RYE, OATS, ETC. The indicated yield of rye is about twelve bushels per acre; quality supericr. The yield of oats is little above the average, yielding about twenty-seven bushels per acre, and making a crop approximating 570.000,000 bushels of good quality. The barley crop makes a yield of nearly twenty-three bushels per acre, and a product exceeding 50,600,000 bushels of average quality. The condition of buckwheat averages 87, indicating a crop slightly under the average. The condition of the potato crop is represented by 88, five points lower than in October last year, two points lower than in 1879 and 1882, and the same as in 1880.

DAKOTA’S EXHIBIT.

Arrival of the Dakota Car of Products at Milwaukee. [Milwaukee Sentinel.] The “product car” containing samples of grain and vegetable products grown in Central and Southern Dakota arrived at the Union Depot The car is an ordinary passenger coach, with the seats removed and with shelves encircling the interior. The outer sides of the car are decorated with oil paintings representing the Dakota harvest fields and South Dakota landscape views. The exhibits are from Clay, Union, Lincoln, Yankton, Bon Homme, and other - counties in Dakota reached by the St. Paul Railway. The car will go from Chicago to Detroit, Buffalo, New England, and the Canadas. After an absence of two months in the East, the car will be taken to New Orleans for exhibition at the World’s Fair.

The interior of the coach presented a very attractive appearance. The roof was tastefully trimmed with flox, grasses and grains, wrought into numerous designs and artistically arranged. Eight underneath the roof were eight or nine different varieties of corn in the ear—yellow dent, yellow flint, white flint, strawberry, etc. The white flint com grows to the length of inches. Below the corn display are the shelves containing specimens of Dakota vegetables. There are sweet potatoes weighing three pounds, from Yankton; Irish potatoes grown in Elk Point, Union County; cucumbers, egg plant, water and musk melons, squashes, beets, cabbage, and all kinds of fruit. A display is also made of- preserves from Sioux Falls, consisting of plums, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, currants. The vegetables, many of them, are of monstrous size. Several of the beets weigh from 17 to 20 pounds, and are grown in Brown County. On the floor are sweet pumpkins weighing 80 pounds, a watermelon from Yankton weighing 32 pounds, and other samples of vegetables of far more than the usual weight. The largest is a squash, raised by O. V. Knowles, at Karam, Lincoln County. Its circumference is 8 feet and 1 inch, and its weight 185 pounds. There are also samples of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and flax, of superior quality. The spare room in the car is occupied by exhibits of bunch grass, 7 feet high, timothy with heads 6 inches Jong, blue-joint grass 7| feet high, and red-top 5 feet high. A show is also made of peanuts grown in Yanktoii. They grow upon vines like potatoes, and are dug from the ground. There are specimens of Sioux Falls granite, very hard, and capable of a fine polish, as smooth as marble.

There also arrived at the Union Depot a locomotive and tender, constructed entirely of wheat, oats, and evergreen sprigs. The locomotive is eight feet in length, and every feature of the ordinary railway engine is reproduced in miniature. The cowcatcher, bell, whistle, j drive-wheels, steam-chest, piston-rods, beadlight, and everything else, are all there. The figures “39" are painted upon tie headlight, denoting that Dakota will be file thirty-ninth State when admitted to the Union. Accompanying the locomotive is ii baggage car and sleeper, perfect in form, and constructed of Dakota grains and grass s. The whole is the work of Win. Sibben, Aberdeen, and has occupied his time i>r about three weeks. P is a very creditt t>le display of ingenuity, taste, and patieni e. Among the curious crowd of names in the recent applicants for pensions are Pilgrim Crazyions, ajPennsylvania pedagogue, Christly Crow, a colored preacher; Torment Twist. Chrireian Bible, John Drinklager, Beason Tiijg, D. Slatecipher, and Skye Leaf. 1 The Societe Fraiklin is an association of France for promot ig the establishment of popular libraries, deriving its name, of course, from our <Ln Benjamin Franklin. It has just distribited its annual prizes. M. Benan has ompleted his history of the Jewish people.

HANGED FOR HIS CRIME

A Business Man at LaCrosse, Wis., Murdered by a Dastardly Ruffian. The People Break the Jail, Take Out the Assassin, and Show Him No ’Mercy. [La Crosse (Wls.) special.] F. A. Burton, President of the Blaine an t Logan Club here, was shot dead by a ruffian named Nathaniel Mitchell, but generally known as "Scotty," at 8 o’clock this evening, while the Republicans were forming in nrocession on Main street. Seven shots were tired in quick succession, Tne murderer was arrested and hurried to jail before the immense crowd could realize what had occurred. As soon as the fact was made known there was the most intense excitement, and hundreds of men in uniform, and carrying torches hurried to the Court Hou-e yard and demanded that the prisoner be handed over to them. Sheriff Scott, Chief ot Police Clark, and a posse ot police at the jail door tried to calm the infuriated multitude. At 13:30 p. m. the officers were not able to stay the mob, which refused to listen to argument. From 9 o’clock to 10 the Court House yard and square presented a scene ot great fury. The mob increased In numbers until the entire space on three sides of the jail was a dense mass of humanity, demanding that the murderer be hung. The torches of the men Hared above the sea of heads, and the white plumes moved resolutely about the square. The best citizens in the place were present, and watched the fearful scene with blanched laces, but with no expression of sympathy. Tlhere were hundreds of women in the thoroughfares and the walks about the Jail. The excitement grew steadily in force, and the demand at last found leaders with cool heads, who went methodically about taking the man from prison and lynching him. Beams were procured, and in a short time the heavily bolted and barred doors on the Fourth street side of the jail were battered in by the crowd, who poured into the first-fioo* rooms. The sheriff and assistants succeed in clearing the room the firstand second time, but on the third rush the mob overpowered them and held its ground. The interior wooden doors of the cooking department yielded like so many pieces of plate glass. In the meantime the heavy oak door leading to the main stairway on the west side was battered down, and the crowd was placed in full possession of the main corridor. While this was going on the crowd became almost colossal about the place, but aside from the rush or the men at the jail the best of order prevailed. There were no drunken men in the mob, the whole work being done by resolutefellows who decided to make the murderer pay the death penalty before they left the square. Once in the corridor, sledge-hammeis wereused to break in the .heavy iron doors, two in number, that intervened between there and the cell-room. These soon yielded, and as each advance was made the crowd on the outside was apprised, and constant cheers of encouragement went up. The prisoner had been confined in ci 11 No. 3 on the lower corridor, and the crowd had little trouble in finding him He was taken from the cell and dragged into the yard. He was identified as the man who did the shooting. and the officers, when appealed to, declared they had the right man. W hen he appeared from the jail-door, held up by the men who had him in charge, there was a long, peculiar yell that went through the trees and streets, maxing every one for blocks away realize without further assurance that the awful retribution had been completed. Numerous men were soon climbing to the branches of the trees, and in a minute a tree was selected. A rope was thrown to a man sitting on the tir-t strong limb. He quickly attached it, and everything was made ready for the execution. At this point in the proceedings there was a pause. Among the leaders were some whe wanted the murderer to make a statement, while others, more impetuous, urged immediate action. The murderer declined to say anything except that he was the man who shot Burton. At this juncture the cry went round “Pull him up 1” “Hang him!” “Don’t let him live a minute longer.” It was understood that the Light Guard Company of the Third Regiment Wisconsin National Guards had been ordered out to charge the mob, and there was an impression that the execution would be prevented. The mob seized the rope and made a strong pull, but the ruffian freed his hands and the rope broke before he was raised from the ground. In less than five minutes a new rope was thrown over the heads ot the crowd and fell within a few feet of the executioner. This was adjusted, the prisoner’s hands and arms firmly tied, and in another moment he was hanging in the air with his face closely pressed against the limb of the tree. The scenes of the night will probably never be experienced again in LaCrosse. Words fail to express the darkness and intensity of the gloom that has settled like a pall over the community, '■ not only for the fearful act of the assassin, which has taken away one of the best and most highly esteemed young men of Wisconsin, but for the bloody incidents th&t succeeded. The body of the/loomed man was left hanging only a few minutes when it was taken down lifeless and left in charge of the Sheriff.

When the excitement was at the highest and the first successful rush had been made on the jail door the fire bells rang out an alarm which was made general, and this, added to the steady roll of voices from the direction of the Court House, made the night one of awful features. What citizens first thought was an alarm for help at the court-yard or a rallying signal by the mob proved to be a genuine alarm, and the department was called to extinguish a burning workshop and storehouse connected with the Northwestern foundry and machine shops. The tire was soon extinguished, and that part of the crowd which had been drawn from the scene of the lynching returned again to the Court House Square, where they remained until the last act was completed. The body of Mr. Burton was taken immediately after the murder to the drug store of T. H. Spence, where an examination showed life to be extinct, every shot having taken effect. Those who stood near the scene of the murder say the man advanced fromtbe crowd on the sidewalk to within a few feet of his victim and fired the first bullet into his back. Mr. Burton fell to the pavement, and the murderer followed with six shots into his body and head. He then threw the revolver at his victim and gave him a kick, saying: “That is the son of a that knows me anti that I have been looking for,” or words to that effect. All this was done in a moment’s time and before any one oould realize what had happened. The body of Mr. Burton was removed from the drug store to his home during the evening. One bullet passed through the head, two through the lungs, and two into the abdomen, any one 01 which would have been fatal. In searching for a motive for the act the only plausible theory that is yet advanced is that two years ago, when Mr. Burton was acting surveyor sf customs at this port, this man was frequently importuning for a hospital certificate so that he could spend his time at the hospital at the expense of the river men. Mr. Burton told him to go to work and stop drinking, and he would not need the benefits of the marine physician. Another theory is that Mitchell thought he was killing another man. Mr. Burton was a broker and commission, merchant. The motive of the murderer is not known. He is said to have been a desperate character, who has followed the river for a living. He has served a term in the State’s prison. After throwing the first revolver at his victim it was found that he had another in his pocket, but tie was arrested before he had an opportunity to use it. The Republicans were to have celebrated the Ohio victory to-night with a parade, fireworks, and speeches, but the scene changed to me of terrible excitement of a far different character.

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Mr. Samuel Eliot, son of President Eliot, has been appointed a proctor at Harvard. Ben Butler was born Nov. 5,1818, and he will celebrate his birthday the morning after election. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is to be at the head of the woman’s department in the New Orleans Exhibition. The Hanlon-Beach rowing race on the Paramatta Bi ver, Sidney, N. S. W., was witnessed by 70,000 people. William H. Vanderbilt has sent his check for SSOO “for the benefit of disabled policemen and the families of deceased members of the force” in New York. A volcanic tree is reported to exist in the Japanese village of Ono. It is sixty feet high, with a girth of ten feet, and said to be centuries old. Every day a white smokelike mist issues from the top, lasting from early afternoon till evening. Robert Browning, the aged poet, is said to have decided to visit this country.