Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Page 6

tljc JemocraticSentincl Mi ———— RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W McEWEN, - - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the We&, EASTERN. William P. Halleck, Federal Supervisor ot Elections in Brooklyn, was caught in the act of removing from the Court House two signal lanterns required as evidence in suits involving $90,000 for collision at sea. He was jailed in default of SI,OOO bait Burglars invaded the Adams Express Company’s office at Woonsocket, R. 1., and carred off SII,OOO in bonds and coupons, $4,000 in checks and notes, and SI,OOO in bank bills. Copious rains have nearly extinguished the forest fires in Southern New Jersey, which still smolder in the underbrush. The damage will reach $250,000. Mr. Mitchell Brewer drew a pail of water from his we 1 at Woo Ibury, L. 1., and, finding a green sediment at the bottom of thp pail, lnvest:gat?d matters, and found a package of parts green in the well. Thirty-six indictments have been found against Frank Fatterson, theatrical manager at Asbury Park, N. J., for forgeries aggregating $36,603. At Philadelphia, Mrs. Annie Logan, aged 28 years, killed her 3-year-old boy and herself. Bhe gave the little follow laudanum, and took a quantity herself, and then turning on the gas. so that its escape would suffocate them, laid down to die. Letters by her indicate tout poverty and the desertion of her husband led to the murder and suicide. A defective flue caused a fire in the warden's residence adjo ng the penitentiary at Pittsburg, which was damaged to the extent of $10,(100. The failure of S. Kopelowich Bros. & Co., jewelers at Syracuse, N. Y., w.th $70,000 liabll ties is announced. Internal revenue officers at Boston seized the Tremont brewery for making false returns, and arrested the proprietors. A wrestling match at New York, (Swiss style; 1 etween Frits Gownerhelm, 263 pounds, and August Schmidt, 170, ended in a draw. The iormer is known as the Swiss giant, and the latter is champion of Germany. Adams & Allen, dealers in woolens, in New York, made an assignment. The liabilities are put at $150,000. Burglars at Andover, Mass., took from the residence of Prof. Austin Phelps, SiO,«XO in bonds, and from the bouse of Prof. John P. Taylor securities valued at $35,000. All but $4,000 of the amount was found in hushes near the latter’s house.

WESTERN.

John Huschka, supposed to be insane, shot and killed his wife at Viroqua. Wig. He was captured and imprisoned, and ; at night hanged himself in his coll with his suspenders. John C. Vaughan, who founded the Cleveland Leader, and was once well known in journalism in thicago, recently returned from Kansas to end his days. Edwin Cow.es and Richard Smith secured h s admission to the Old Men’s Home in Cincinnati. At a point one mile west of Knoxville, Hl., a dastardly attempt was made to wreck the train conveying Gen. Logan and party to Peoria. Upon rounding a curve the engineer noticed an obstruction on the track. He put on the brakes, but did not succeed in bringing the train to a halt until the engine had run over two of lour ties that had been laid across the tracks t The electric lighting apparatus on the dome of the Court House at Wabash, Ind., was wrecked by a flock of wild geese, two of whom were killed by the shock. A dispatch from Atoka, Indian Territory, says the boilers inß. Scratches & Co.’s saw-mill exploded, killing three men, J. B. Oliver, Frank Choate, of Atoka, and John Radcliffe, the engineer, from Clayton, 111. The explosion was the result of carelessness. Flames swept away the great dry goods house of T. A. Chapman & Co., Milwaukee, causing a pecuniary loss of $500,000. It was the largest and finest dry goods emporium in the Cream City. During their fiscal year, ended Sept. 1, the Minneapolis flouring mills shipped 4,814,424 barrels of four, against 4,089,008 the previous year. The receipts of wheat for the same period amounted to 23,514,576 bushels, against 19,203,375 in 1882-43. While driving to market at Cleveland, Ohio, Charles Kimball fell asleep in his wagon. His horses became frightened near a crossing and dashed into a coal train, Kimball and his team being killed, four cars derailed, and a stretch of track torn np. A Hancock (Mich.) dispatch says: “The underground fire at the Calumet and Hecla mine continues to burn. All entrances to the mine are closed. No Hea can be formed of the progress of the fire or when it will be possible to resume work. As the entire population of the place depend wholly on the mine for support, and a large ma jority of them live from hand to mouth, it is feared there will be much sut!ering unless operations are resumed within a short time.” The shops of the Northern Road at Fort Howard, Wig., with n locomotive, five box cars, and 100 cords of wood, were burned, the loos being $25,000. The Chicago Daily News says: McVicker’s Theater will be the home of choice comedy during the present wook. The first three evenings of Mr. Joseph Jefferson’s stay will be devoted to that ever green Christmas story, “The Cricket on the Hearth,'* in which the genius of Dickens

finds a living presence in Mr. JeHerson's Caleb Plummer, and tbe amusing farce of “Lend Me Five Shillings.” The remainder of the week will be given up to “Kip Van Winkle.” The Supreme Court of lowa has decided that Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction in eases under the prohibitory law where tbe fine is fI,OOO or less. A Pole named Jan Wasielewsky was executed at ban Jone, Cal., for the murder Of his wife Daring his confinement he tried to starve himself, and on the scaffold he was completely overcome by fear. Circulars have been sent to the Gov-

ernors of a I the flutes'and Territories of the Uu on, requesting each to appoint one delegate-at-large to the National Cattlemen's Convention, to be held at St. Louis Nov. 17. The team of the Chicago Base Ball Club for 1885 will be as follows; A. C. Anson, captain and first base; Larry Corcoran, Charles Clarkson, and Joe Brown, pitchers; F. H. Flint, E. H. Sutcliffe, and Charles Marr, catchers; F. Pfeffer, second base; Tom Burns and O. P. Beard, short stops; M. Kelly, A. Dalrymple, A. Sunday. G. F. Gore, fielders; E. N. Williamson, third bgse. State Veterinarian Paaren went to Peoria, 111., last week, and after examination found four glandered horses, had them appraised, and killed. The sporting-goods store of A. G. Spalding & Bros., No. 106 Madison street, Chicago, was ruined by flames, which are believed to have originated from oiled rags. The firm lost goods valued at $125,(09, on which there was an insurance of SIIO,OOO.

SOUTHERN.

J. R. Dorsey, the Postmaster at Alpine, Ga., and a woman named Jane Wade were hanged by a mob on the same rope at Center, Ala., for the murder of Mrs. Mary Davis, a niece of Dorsey. The murder was one of the most atrocious ever committed in that section. While three men were examining a defect in the top of a coke oven near Tunnelton. W. Va., the oven caved in, letting the men drop into the fiery furnace. The oven was cleaned out after an hour's work, but no trace of the victims was found save Little lumps of metal, probably melted buttons or coins. John F. Pleasants, editor of a newspaper at Petersburg, Va., having been convicted of libel, was fined $5 and sentenced to one minute in jail. In St Tammany Parish, La., a few days ago, three persons were murdered, and a posse hanged four negroes who were implicated in the butchery. At Adairville, Ky., John M. Gilbert, a farmer, was shot and killed while outwalking, by an unknown assassin. Mrs. Johnson, sister-in-law of defaulting ex-Postmaster Johnson, of Grantsville, W. Va., mixed arsenic with sugar and gave it to her three children and then took It herself. She and two children died.

WASHINGTON.

Geu. Hazen, in his annual report on the operations of the Signal Service, states that during the past year no general storm has passed over the country without warning. H. D. Cooke & Co., private bankers of Washington, have suspended payment. The head of the house is a brother of Jay Cooke, and was formerly Governor of the District. The liabilities are said to be $140,001), mainly due to local creditors. The firm was interested in the Florida Canal Company and the Washington and Ohio Road. The Patent Examiners-in-Chief at Washington have made decisions in the telephone case of Bell, Edison, and others in favor of Beil, one decision involving the principal feature of the telephone.

POLITICAL.

The New York County Democracy have made the following nominations: For Mayor, William R. Grace; Contro ler, Edward D. Loew; President of the Board of Aldermen, Adolph L. Sanger; District Attorney, Randolph B. Martine; Coroner, Dr. Louis W. Schultzo; Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Henry Wilder Allen, Edward Patterson, and Alfred Wagstaff. The nominations have been indorsed by Irving Hall and the Democratic German organizations. A Columbus dispatch says the^ total vote cast in Ohio for the Republican and Democratic candidates for Secretary of Slate Oct. 14 was 771,737. Of this Gen. Robinson received 391,462, and Newman 380,275; Robinson's majority, 11,187. In the election for members of the City Council at Baltimore, the Democrats elected eighteen members and the Republicans two, the Democratic majority on the total vote reaching 9,597. The Republican County Convention m New York nominated Louis J. Phillips for Mayor, and other officers. Col. George Bliss criticised the ticket harshly, and was answered by John J. O’Brien, the discussion being animated, O’Brien asserting that Bliss had had a retainer from the County Democracy. *

Ben Butler, in a speech at Taunton, threatened to make speculation’ a penal offense when he gains the Presidency. The stalwart Republicans of Utica, the home of Roscoe Conkling, have issued a manifesto giving their reasons for opposing Blaine.

There are 401 votes in the Electoral College, divided among the several States as follows: Alabama Arkansas T.Missonri 16 California B!Nebraska 6 Colorado 3 Nevada 3 Connecticut C-New Hampshire 4 Delaware 3|New Jersey 9 Flor da 4 New York 36 Georgia 12 North Carolina 11 Illinois 22 Ohio 23 Indiana 15 Oregon.. 3 lowa is Pennsylvania 30 Kansas 9 Rhode Island 4 Kentucky 13|8outh Carolina 9 Louisiana 8 Tennessee 13 Maine cjTexas 13 Maryland B|Vermont 4 Massachusetts 14 Virginia 12 Michigan 13 West Virginia 6 Minnesota 7iWisconsin..< 11 „ Total 401 Necessary to a choice 201

Complete official returns of the October election in Ohio show the following footings: For Secretary of State—Robinson (Rep.), 391,599; Newman (Dem.), 880,275; Morris (Prohibitionist', 9,857; Herald (Greenbacker), 3,580. For Supreme Judge—Johnson (Rep.), 392,917; Mart n (Dem,), 378,963; Roseborough (Prohibitionist), 9,857;' Grogan (Greenbacker), 3,780. For Member of Board of Public Works—Flickinger (Rep.), 893,885; Bonfer (Dem.), 376,802; Kirkendall (Prohibitionist), 9,001; Ogd n (Greenbacker) 3,527.

The Republicans of Chicago organized a monster demonstration upon the occasion of Mr. Blaine’s visit to that city. The parade was a grand affair, the number of torch-bearers being estimated at 15,000 to 20,000. The marchers were reviewed by Mr. Blaine and Gen. Logan from a balcony of the Grand Pacific Hotel. Each of the candidates addressed a few remarks to the great multitude that had gathered in the street!. While the Republican parade was

march Ihg tlrofigh the streets shofit'ng for Blaine Mnd Lo -an, a great gathering of Democrats were listening to Daniel McSweeney and Mrs. Parnell in Battery D Armory. The Cleveland and Hendricks business men of New York had a monster parade in which there were supporters from the Stock, Produce, Cotton, Coffee, Mercantile, Petroleum, Mining, Maritime, Real Estate, Metal, Wino and Distillers', and the Builders* Exchanges, besides the down town merchants, lower Wall street, West and East Side merchants. Wall street clerks, jewelers, Columbia College, 'longshoremen and stevedores, and 5,000 dry-goods men. The total number of men in the parade was not far from 20,000. Mr. Logan addressed an audience of 20,000 Republicans at Bloomington. Gov. Hendricks spoke at Evansville, Ind., to a crowd estimated at 30,000 persons. The torchlight parade was six miles in length. A Democratic demonstration took the form of a barbecue at Grand Rapid*, Mich., where Senator Fondle ton, Gen. Rosecrans, and Gov. Begole entertained the people.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union met at St. Louis, Miss Frances E. Willard delivering the welcoming address, and later being elected President. The Credential Committee reported the largest gathering ever known at the opening session. The National Drug Association convened at St. Louis, 200 delegates, members of 127 firms, representing $40,060,000 invested, being present. William A. Gellatly.of New York, President of the association, occupied the chair. Express and -stock trains on the Grand Trunk Road collided at Point Claire Station, Canada. An engineer was ktl?d and a fireman and a commercial traveler were serious'y injured. The loss of property is estimated at SIOO,OOO, as many sheep were killed. The National Universaliut Convention was in session at Peoria, 111. Rov. J. D. W. Joy, of Boston, was chosen President. The first snowstorm of the season occurred on Thursday, Cct. 23. It wa< light in the West and Nor.hwest. In some portions of Canada the snow was six inches deep, and the flakes fell so thick on the lower lakes that vessels were compelled to lie to in the ft. Clair flats, blockading the passage between Lakes Erie and Huron. Business failures for the week numbered 234, sgainst 209 the preceding week, and the same number in the corresponding period of 1883. Bradstreet's Journal, in its commercial review for the week, says: “'fhe general feeling in the business community is one of continued depression. The volume of merchandise moved is smaller, and purchases from first hands continue to be restricted. The opinion is widely held that no revival in business of any permanency is likely to be experienced this year. Generally mercantile collections continue backward, and heavier houses are being called on to carry those which have reason to ask and receive extensiors. From almost all directions generally trade is reported quiet, except at the leading cities in Kansas, where the cooler weather has caused some buying, mainly of dry goods aud clothing.” The notable event of Sir Moses Montefiore attaining his 100th year Oct. 24 was celebrated throughout the civilized world by the Jewish inhabitants with great demonstrations of joy. Wherever groups of Hebrews were gathered together they discussed the grand character of the famous philanthropist, and there was not a man of them who did not feel a reflected pride from the honors which every nation in Europe bestowed upon the patriarch in the course- of hie long and honored career. J ohn Beckney, formerly keeper of a dance house in Helena, M. T., who died some time ago in Pennsjlvania, made a death-bed confession to the murder and robbery of John Penn, a wealthy liquor dea er of Montana, four years ago. George T. Jackson & Co., millers, failed at Augusta, Ga., liabilities SIOO,OOO. John A Shober, paper-maker, Lancaster, Pa., assigned, with liabilities amounting to $60,030; Adams & Allen, woolen dealers, New York, also assigned, Labilities $150,000.

FOREIGN.

The British Parliament reassembled on the 23d of October. After the reading of the Queen’s speech in the Commons, Gladstone gave notice he would ask priority be granted the franchise bill throughout the session.

A purse of £1,500 was made up in Dublin, by the Lord Mayor and others, for the benefit of the family of the late A. M. Sullivan, A fund of $50,000 will be raised for the family of the late A. M. Sullivan by the Irish people. Mr. Trevelyan has resigned his position us Chief Secretary of Ireland, aud has accepted that of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet, in succession to Mr. Dodson, who is raised to the Peerage. Mr. Trevelyan is succeeded in the Irish Secretaryship by Mr. Campbell-Benner-man, a Scotch member of Parliament, who has held a minor office. Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Harrington, two of the Parnellite members of Parliament, assert that they have proof that there was a conspiracy between the crown lawyers and the men who selected Dublin juries for the purpese of securing the conviction of persons charged with the Maamtrusna murders in Ireland.

A new Cabinet has been organized in Belgium with Bernaert, Minister of Agriculture of the retiring Cabinet, for Premier. It will be much more moderate than its predecessor. The Czar takes sides with the imprisoned Jews, and is reported as saying that any leniency on his part would bo a step in the right direction. His position creates considerable surprise. It is rumored that the English in-come-tax will be increased a penny to the pound sterling to defray the expenses of the Egyptian campaign. The British taxpayer is beginning to grumble. The ground of the battle of Austerlitz. is to be excavated on the strength of reports that the French commander burled chests there containing 1,000, ojo francs. King Alfonso has come to the relief of the poorer and unemp oyed classes in Madrid by ordering contracts fcr building 400 houses.

to be occupied by workingmen, and ten enormous Government school buildings, which will afford room for many hundreds of children. A monster demonstration against the British House of Lords took place in Hyde Park, London. Over 80,000 people were present. Speeches of a decidedly republican charat ter were mode. Lord Salisbury and the Tory leaders were vigorously abused, aud when the revolutionary “Marseillaise" was i layed there was tremendous applause. The demonstration created a profound impression at the Tory clubs.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The stables of ex-Gov. Tilden, at Greystone, N. Y., were burned, with sleighs, bay, gruin, ct?., the loss being $15,000. Mr. Tilden’s valet, and his family, narrowly escaped. It appears from the official statements of the British Government that Col. Stewart and his party came to their death when carrying out orders of Gen. Gordon, ia-ueJ contrary to the instructions of his Co eminent. Miss Emeline Burgner, a teacher in the | übiio schools of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by being thrown from a carriage. Col. Griffin Halstead, father of Murat Ha*steod, the well-known journalist, met his death in Butler County, Ohio, by falling into a ravine while driving ever a new road. He was in his 83d year. A coach containing several Italian immigrants, attached to a freight train on the Wabash Road, was wrecked and hurled down an embankment, near Taylorsville, 111., by a butting collision. Fourteen of the Italians were wounded, some dangerously. A package of $7,500 in currency recently disappeared from the office of the United States Express at Youngstown, Ohio. After a long and heroic struggle for life Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Times, died at his residence in that j city on the 27th of October. It was not with- I out warning to his family that the end came. 1 For months past he had lain a sufferer, and with mind and body worn by pain he passed away unconsciously, thus closing the career of one of the greatest, most vigorous, active journalists of his time. His illness dated back to a stroke of paralysis received several years since while traveling abroad. Mr. Storey was born in Vermont in 1819, and came West in 1838. Two fire-damp explosions occurred in the sixth flat of the Youngstown Coke Company’s mine, near Uniontown, Pa., Ina section where twenty-five men were at work, j Windows for miles around wore shattered, I and flames burst from all the openings. Six men were taken out—two dead, two fatally injured, and two slightly, but it was impossible to attempt the rescue of the others. The wailing of the wives and children of the unfortunate men is described as heartrending.

Finish What You Begin.

My old Great-grandmother Knox had a way of making her children finish their work. If they began a thing they must complete it. If they undertook to build a cob-house, they must not leave it until it was done, and nothing of work or play to which they set their hands would she allow them to abandon incomplete. I sometimes wish I had been trained in this way. How much of life is wasted in unfinished work! Many a man uses up his time in splendid beginnings. The labor devoted to commence ten things and leave them useless would finish five of them and make them profitable and useful. Finish your work; life is brief; time is short. Stop beginning forty things, and go back and finish four. Put patient, persistent toil into the matter, and, be assured, one completed undertaking will yield yourself more pleasure and the world more profit than a dozen fair plans of whieh people say, “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” “ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”— Anon.

“He Git Dar All de Same.”

At a negro church in the lower part of the county the following was sung as a hymn not long since: June bug got de golden wing. Li, htnin’ bug de flame; Bed bug got n > wing at all. But hs git dar all de sama Chorus—Nigger baby bow-legged. Nigger baby bow-legged. Nigger baby bow-legged, Kase he walk too soon. —Oglethorpe , Ga.) E' ho.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.50 @ 7.50 Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Flood—Extra 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring .83 @ .84 No. 2 Red 85 @ .86’6 Corn—No. 2 57 @ .58 Oats —White 34 & .38 Pork—New Mess 16.50 @17.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 7.00 @ 7.50 Good Shipping 6.00 & 0.50 Common to Fair 4.00 @5.00 Hoss 5.00 & 5.50 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.25 @4.75 Good to Choice Spring.. 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Sprinsr 73 @ .74 No. 2 Red Winter 74 @ .75 Corn—No. 2 42 @ 44 Oats—No; 2 25 @ ’.26 Rye—No. 2 ; ... .52 @ .53 Barley—No. 2 58 @ .60 Butter —Choice Creamery 27 @ .29 Fine Dairy ‘ 20 @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13J6 Skimmed Flat 08 @ .09 Eggs —Fresh. 21 @ .22 Potatoes—New, per bu 33 @ '33 Pork—Mess 15.50 @16.00 Lard @ .07 !£ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 @ 72 Corn—No. 2 50 @ ',52 Oats—Na 2 25 @ .26 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 71 @ 7214 Corn—No. 2 43 & .’SO Oats—No. 2 26 @ .28 Barley—No. 2 55 @ .57 Pork—Mess " 15.50 @lo’oo Lard 7.00 @ 7.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 @ .77 Corn—Mxed.... ' .41 @ ’42 Oats—Mixed ’26 @ ’27 R ye ---l- 50 @ .’52 Pork—Mess 15.25 @15.75 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Rea 78 @ .so Corn @ .51 Oats —Mixed 27 @ .28 Pork—Mess 15,50 @l6*oo Lard 07 @ .07W DETROIT. * Flour £-60 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White. 77 @ .78 Corn—Mixed 49 @ .50 Oats —No. 2 Mixed 28 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 18.00 @19’50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 lied. New 74 @ .75 Corn—Mixed 43 @ .45 Oats—Mixed... 25 @ 26 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 0.00 @ 00 Fair 5.50 @ 6.00 Common Loo @ 4.50 Hogs. 5.00 @ 5.50 Sheep.- 4.50 @ 5.0 j

THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Points from the Report of the Commisioner. i t The Commissioner of the General Land Office, says a Washington dispatch, has submitted his report of the operations of the office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1884. The sales, entries, and selections of public lands embraced 26,834,041 acres; Indian lands, 697,129 acres; total, 27,531,-’ I 170 acres—an increase over lhe year 1883 of : 8,101,137 acres, and over 1882 of 13,222.003 I acres. The receipts from the disposals of public lands were $11,840,993; from Indian lands, $938,137; total. $12,779,100—an increase over 1883 of $1,073,364, and an increase over 1882 of $1,392,750, to which is to be added $10,275 received for certified copies of records, making the total receipts for the year $12,789,405. The total number of entries and filings was 286,812, aggregating 40,625,000 acres, an increase over the preceding year of 60,724. The number of entries approved for patenting under the pre-emption and other laws was 60.276, an increase over the previous year of 6,429. The agricultural patents numbered 51,337, an increase of 855 over the preceding year. The number of private cash entries was 9,894, and 3,206,095 acres were sold under the pre-emption law, an increase of 920,385 acres over the preceding year. The receipts from cash sales were $10,302,582, an average of over $1.32 per acre; 3,118 tracts of land, embracing 200,002 acres, were sold at public sale at an average of $2.94 per acre. The Commissioner renews his recommendation that the pre-emption law be repealed, and deems it important that the homestead law be amended so as to require proof of actual residence and improvement for two years, before a homestead entry may be committed to cash payment. He recommends the repeal of the timber culture act, the act providing that lands covered by relinquishments shall be subject to entry immediately upon cancellation at the local office, the desert land law and the timber and stone land act, There were 1,076 miles of railroad constructed during the year under the various grants. The Commissioner suggests that a commission be appointed to examine and decide upon unsettled private land claims in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, and recommends the re-establ shment of the boundary line between Colorado and Utah, and the survey of the boundary line between Dakota and Montana and in Yellowstone Park. Thirty-two cases of illegal fencing of public kinds have have been reported, the area inclosed aggregating 4,431,980 acres. Twelve cases have been acted upon and suits recommended to compel the removal of the fences. A very large number of complaints remain uninvestigated for want of facilities. The Commissioner says that the portion of the public lands still rem lining should be economized for the use of actual settlers only. An act reserving the public lands, except mineral and timber reserves, for entry under the homestead law, with amendments to prevent evasion of its wise restrictions, would be a measure meeting this end. In conclusion, the Commissioner points out the necessity for the immediate adoption of some measure by which the natural forests may be preserved at the headwaters of important rivers and their tributaries, and in such other situations where their preservation is expedient for c’imatic effect and other good reasons of utility. He says there is no good reason why lands worth from $25 to SIOO per acre for timber should be sold for $1.25 and $2.50 per acre as at present, and he favors the withdrawal from sale or entry, under existing laws of all distinctively timber lands of the United States, until examination and appraisement can be made. After examination permanent timber reserves should be established where deemed desirable, aud provision made for the sale nt not less than the appraised value of the remainder.

PENSIONS.

Some Facts and Figures About the Pension Bureau. At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1881 the total number of persons on the pension rolls, including revolutionary pensioners, was 10,772, and the aggregate amount required to pay these pensioners was $1,034,600. In 1862 there were added 1.884 names, and notwithstanding this addition nt the close of that year there were but 8,159 names on the roll. This is explained by the fact that a large proportion of those on the pension lists prior to the rebellion took part in secession and were dropped from the pension rolls. The report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, shows the effect of the war of the rebellion on the pension rolls, the payment for that year rising to $4,985,474. From 1864 to the present time there has teen a steady on the rolls; the total number, according to the last official report, being 303,658. The amount of monev paid to pensions in 1863 was $1,025,140, and in 1883 it was $60,431,973.

Stabbed in a Ball-Room.

[Wheeling (W. Va) special.'] A bloody murder occurred at an early hour this morning at Martin’s Ferry, just opposite this city. A dance was in progress, and Benjamin Frazier and George Bleubach claimed the hand' of a girl for a waltz. Their quarrel was made intense by an old feud. Bleubach took the girl, who threw herself between them, when Frazier drew a huge knife, and, reaching over the girl, made°a lunge at his opponent, inflicting a fatal wound. Bluebach fell, and Frazier, throwing the girl aside, buried the blade in his enemy’s body. Others then interfered, and the dying man was borne out Two officers, it is said, saw the affair, but did not venture to interfere. The murderer went on with the dance for two hours, and then came to this city, and is somewhere here secreted. Bluebach died to-night

Poisoned Her Children and Herself.

[Wheeling (W. Va.) dispatch.] A terrible tragedy is reported from Calhoun County. Mrs. Johnson, while laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, poisoned herself and two of her step-chil-dren with arsenic. The poison was mixed with sugar. One of the children refused to eat, but she succeeded in inducing the others to partake of the compound, and they died in a few minutes. Mrs. Johnson then swallowed some of the mixture herself and soon died. Mbs. A. H. Reed, of Oshkosh, Wis., has begun suit against the Central Wisconsin Railroad for $10,060 damages, for injuries received by her husband a year ago, from his team taking fright at Mme. Modjeska’s private car, which blocked the street crossing. Alexander Graham Bell hopes to introduce generally into the deaf and dumb institutions the entire substitution of articulate conversation for the present system of sign language. Mr. Frelinohuysen denies the story that his daughter is to wed the President

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

Some Statistics of Interest to Voter*. —The Electoral and Popular Vote from 1820 to 1884. ?2> ; » I S 5° STATES. ?o: 2 'B® ?go Alabama 10!.... M) .... 10 io Arkansas 6! .... 6 P .... c 7 California. 6 0....1 1 5 8 Colorado, 3 3 ... J 3 .... 3 Connecticut e! .... 61 c .... 6 Delaware 3* .... 3g.... 3 s Fiori a 4 I .... .... 4 4 Georgia 11 .... HR.... 11 12 Illinois 211 21 ....] 21 .... 22 Indiana 15 .... 15t 15.... 15 lowa in 11....] ii.... 13 Kansa* 5] 5 ... I 5.... o Kentucky 12! .... 1M.... 12 13 Louisiana.-. 8i 8|....|(.... 8 8 Maine 7 7 ....] 7 .... a Maryland 8i ... 81.... 8 8Massachusetts 13| 13.... | 134....[ 14 Michigan 11 11.... u.... 13 Minnesota. 5 5.... 5.... 7 Mississippi 8 .... 8;.... 8 9 Missouri...... 15 .... 15*.... 15 16 Nebraska 8 31.... 3.... 5 Nevada 3 3 3’ 3 New Hampshire.... 5 5.... 5.... 4 New Jersey 9.... 9 .... 9 9 New Yora 35 .... 35 35.... 36 North Carolina 10j.... 10..... 10 11 Ohio 22 22 .... 22.... 23 Oregon, 3 3.... 31.... 3 Pennsylvania 29 29.... 29-.... 30 Rhode Island 4 4 .... 4 .... 4 South Caro ina 7 7 7 9 Tennessee 12 .... 12 .... 12 12 Texas 8 ... 8 .... 8 13 Vermont 5 5 .... 54. 4 Virginia. 11 ~.. 11 ... n 12 West Virginia 5 .... # .... 5 6 Wisconsin. 10 10.... 10 11 ■- < Total 369 185) 18u| 214 156 401 PRESIDENTIAL VOTE— FROM THE YEAR 1824 UNTIL THE YEAR 1830. . popular El<r Xr. Candidates. Party. vote, v’te 1824 Andrew Jackson Democrat ... 152,872 99 1824 John Q. Adams*. Federal 105-321 84 1824 W. H. Crawford. I Republican.. 44,282 41 1824 Henry Clay Republican.. 46,587 37 1828 Andrew Jackson Democrat.... 647,231 178 1828 Joan Q. Adams.. Federal 509,097 83 1882 Andrew Jackson Democrat.,.. 687,502 219 1832 Henry Clay (National hep 580,189 49 1832 John Flovd.......|Whig n 1832 William Wirt.... |W hig 7 183 MartinVanßuren Democrat... 761,549 1701836 W. H. Harrison.. Wnig (73 1834 Hugh L. White.. Whig „ 126 1836 Daniel Webster.. Whig 7J6,60t> > 1836. W. P. Mangum.. Whig (11 1840 MartinVanßuren Democrat... 1.128,702 47 1840 W. H. Harrison.|Whig *,275.017 234 1840 James G. Birney Liberal TJ459 .... 1844 James K. P01k... Democrat... 1.337,243 170 1844 Henry Clay (Whig 1.299,068 105 1844 James G. Birney (Liberal (Bjao .... 1848 Zachary Taylor.(Whig *,4160,101 1641 1848 Lewis Case Democrat... 1,220.541 127 1848 MartinVanßuren Free Sori.... 291,263 .... 18‘2 Franklin Pierce. Democrat... 5,601.474 254 1852,Wintield Scott.. IWhlg 1,386,578 42 1852 John P. Hale.... [Free 50i1.... 15<>,14!) .... 1856 James Buchanan I Democrat...p, B3^,l69l 174 1856 John C. Fremont R?publican.. 51,341,252 114 1856 Millard Fillmore American.... 874,534 8 iB6O A. Lincoln (Republican.. 1,866,362'180 1860 S. A. Douglas.... (Democrat. .. 1,875.157 72 1860 J.C.Breckinridge Democrat. .. 845,763 39 1860 John 8e11........ [Union. 589J581 12 1864 A. Lincoln Republican ..12,216J167 212 1864 G. B. McClellan. Democrat... 1.805,725 21 1868 U.S. Grant Republican..B,ols,o7l 214 1868 H. Sevmour.... Democrat... p,709,«13 80 18'2 U. S. Grant 'Republican.. 43,597,070 286 1872 Horace Greeley..'Liberal 12,884,1.79 .... 1872 Chas. O’Conor....iDemocrat.... 29,408 .... 1872 James 81ack.... Temp rance. 5,608 ..... 1876 R. B. Hayes (Republican.. 4,033,950 185 1876 Samuel J. Tilden Democrat... 4,284,885 184 1876 Peter Cooper.... Greenback .. 81,740 .... 1876 G. C. Smith .Prohibition.. 9,522 .... 1876 Scattering | 2,6:6 .... 1880 Jas. A Garfield. Republican.. 4,454,416 214 1880 W. S. Hancock.. Democrat ... 4,444,952 155 1880 J. B. Weaver.... Greenback .. 1880 Neal Dow Prohibition.. 10,305 .... ♦Adams chosen by the House of Representatives. Votes of the Central Northwestern Stites, 1880:

ILLINOIS. James A Garfield, Republican3lß.o37 W. 8. Hancock, Democrat277,32l J. B. Weaver, Green backer 26,358 Neal Dow, Prohibitionist 443 T0ta1622,156 Garfield's plurality 40,716 INDIANA. James A. Garfield232,l64 W. 8. Hanc0ck225,522 J. B. Weaker 12,986 T0ta1470,672 Garfield’s plurality 6,642 lOWA. James A Garfieldlß3,927 W. 8. Hancocklos,B4s J. B. Weaver 32,701 Neal Dow 592 T0ta1323,065 Garfield’s plurality 78,082 MICHIGAN. James A Garfield 185,541 W. 8. Hanc0ck.131,597 J. B. Weaver 34,895 Neal D0w....- 942 T0ta1352,775 Garfield’s plurality 53,744 MINNESOTA. James A. Garfield 93,903 W. 8. Hancock 53,305 J. B. Weaver 3,267 Neal Dow 286 T0ta1160,771 Garfield’s plurality 40,588 OHIO. James A. Garfield37s,o4B W. 8. Hancock34o,B2l J. B. Weaver 6,456 Neal Dow 2,616 T0ta1724,941 Garfield’s plurality 34.227 WISCONSIN. James A. Garfieldl44,4oo W. 8. Hancock 114.649 J. B. Weaver 7,986 Neal Dow 69 „ T0ta1267,104 Garfield’s plurality 29,751

Attacked by Road Agents.

[Helena (Montana) speciaU The coach which left here this morning for Boulder, forty miles south, was stopped by five armed men at the top of the Boulder lange. On board were Chief Justice D. S. Wade, District Attorney J. A. Johnson, E. W. Tolle, W. E. Cullen, Judge Chumasero, T. H. Carter, Rev. L. L. Wood, and Sheriff Cameron, of Meagher County. As soon as the robbers ordered a halt, Sheriff Cameron and several other members of the party opened fire, which the desperadoes returned. Charley Warfield, one of the rqbbers, was shot dead, and the others retreated, and took to the mountains. No one in the coach was hurt. Sheriff Cameron received a shot through his eoat. It is believed the attacking party wanted to rescue Neill Murphy, a road agent, now under arrest, who was supposed to be on the coach en route to Boulder for- trial. Murphy, however, was left in jail at Helena. This afternoon two posses of five well-armed men left for Beaver Creek, where they expect to intercept the desperadoes. Sheriff Cameron with another posse is following the trail from the point where the encounter took place. Poet Will M. Carleton was recently married, and has settled in Brooklyn. His wife’s Christian name is Betsy, but they are not reported as “out” so far. Mrs. Fletoheb Harper is soon to be married to her brother-in-law, Mr. James Harper, a member of the publishing house of Harper & Brothers. One of the pretty little parks in Washington is to be named in honor of the late Secretary of the Treasury Folger. Tennyson, the poet, has given Sculptor Sends a cast of his head.