Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — Page 6

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Permission has been granted to build a surface railway on Broadway, New York, from the Battery to Fifteenth street, the company agreeing to pay the city 3 per cent of its earningrs. Rev. Henry Williamson, of Trenton, N. J., went to the outskirts of the city and literally blew out his brains with a revolver. < Masked men robbed the house of Captain John Morrow, an invalid, at Mansfield, Pa., of SSOO and valuables. They bound and gagged Mrs. Morrow and a female friend in a brutal manner, and the former may not recover. Hereafter glove-fights will be prohibited by the police In Madison Square Gar den. New York. The hundredth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Seabury, of Connecticut, was commemorated, by appropriate Episcopal services in London, New York, and Hartford. The Vermont Legislature has elected Homer E. Boyce, Jonathan ltoss, H. H. Powers, W. G. Vesey, John W. Howell, and W. H. Walktr Supreme Court Judges, the firstnamed being Chief Justice. Congressman Wm. A. Duncan, Democrat, of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District, who was very low with consumption at the time of his re-election, died at his home in Gettysburg last week. Meyers & Cohen, dealers in cloaks, New York, have made an assignment, with preferences amounting to $39,000. After a strike of nine months, the coal miners of the Monongahcla valley hungry nnd half naked, are resuming work at the old rates. There are sixty or moro still in jail in Washington County.

WESTERN.

August Tuxhorn, a farmer near Me Pherson, Kan., was foiled in an attempt to kill his wife and four children. He then fired all the builnings on his place and blew out his brains. In the burned house was $4,000 In money. The Sae and Fox Indians have leased 200,000 acres of grazing lands to Kansas parties for ten years, at $40,000 per annum, the wire fencing to revert to the Indians at the expiration of the lease. Ten tons of giant powder in Rummers magazine, near Toledo, Ohio, was exploded by the detonation of a tub of nitroglycerine, which had been placed near a fire to thaw. The explosion was heard at Detroit, sixty miles away, and in the immediate district smashed windows, leveled fences and barns, and tore Umb3 from trees. In two schools near the scene a panic occurred, many children being bruised; and a spring wagon, containing four persons, was thrown into a ditch. An employe of the magazine was seriously burned, but will probably recover.

Sarah Earro, a colored woman of Chicago, baa been awarded damages of $6,650 against Frank Parmelee, for having her buggy overturned by an omnibus. The November crop report shows that 1,254,069 acres have been seeded to wheat in Michigan, and the condition of the plant Nov. 1 was 107 per cent. The Governor of Montana favors a reduction in the size of Indian reservations, and enters objections tc the leasing of lands by the red men. He recommends that no polygamistic Mormon be allowed the right of pre-emption. During a Democratic celebration at Wellington, Has., Mrs. John Schnarr was struck in the eye by a sky-rocket and instantly killed. Another rocket, carelessly placed, went driving into the offices of the Phillips Houbo, striking the night clerk in the mouth and coming out behind the ear. His condition is precarious. W. F. Hood, of Pittsburg, Pa., a guest of the hotel, was seriously wounded in the face. Judge Knickerbocker, of the Probate Court of Cook County, 111., refused to admit to probate the will of the late Wilbur F. Storey, made in 18&1, on the ground tbattbo testator was not then of sound mind, and appointed Austin L. Patterson administrator of the Storey estate, with power to collect. Counsel for Mrs. Storey*tobk an appeal. Many farmers in the vicinity of Fargo, Dakota, refuse to part with their No. 1 hard wheat at 48 cents per bushel, the lowest rate ever known In that region. A National Convention of cattle growers was held at Chicago last week, and was largely attended. A National Association was formed, and a committee appointed to attend the Bt. Louis convention with a view to bringing that body under the provisions of the organization. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the work of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and especially commending the ability and energy of Prof. Salmon, its chief.

After an absence of two years, the eminent tragedian, Mr. Lawrence Barrett, makes his reappearance at McVieker’s Theater, Chicago, this week, in a round of his favorite ro'.es. He opens in “Yorick’s Love,” whioh will he followed by “Hamlet,” “Hichelieu,” “Merchant of Venice," and “Julius Caesar.” Mr. Barrett hag surrounded himself with a strong supporting company of artists, including Mr. Louis James and Miss Marie Wainwright. The explosion of a barrel containing resin and turpentine, at No. 102 Quincy street, Chicago, severely burned Adam and Bunnell Poale, James Daley, Eddie and Maggie Burke, Anna Ward, and Steive Bassett, children living in the neighborhood. They were attempting to make a bonfire of the barrel, and some of them, it is thought, will die from their injuries. The entire business portion of Huron, Kan., was reduced to ashes, the loss being $40,000. Arrangements have been concluded between Schaefer and Slosson for two billiard matches In Chicago in January. Two tramps entered the house of a farmer named Danlon, at liesplainos, Cook County, dtabbed his wife to death, and fatally injured the farmer hlmaelf. Bobbery

was undoubtedly the miscreants' motive, but all they secured was $27. Owing to the meager description of their persons, no arrests have been or are likely to be made.

SOUTHERN.

A frightful railroad accident occurred at Hempstead, Texas, on the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The northbound express crashed through a bridge and into Clear Creek, drowning twelve of the passengers and wounding forty. Many of the dead were mangled beyond recognition. A dispatch from Austin, Tex., gives the following particulars of the shocking affair: “About two miles south of Hempstead the road crosses Clear Creek, where the embankments are high and the water deep. Here, about I o'clock in the morning, as the train came tearing along, the bridge gave way just os the engine and tender had gotten across, and the entire train, consisting of the express, baggage, and smoking cars, two coaches, and two sleepers, plunged into the river. The train was crowded with passengers, and the scene which ensued was horrible in the extreme. As the trembling timbers gave way, a dreadful shriek of horror from the terrified passengers was soon followed by the heartrending moans and cries of the wounded and the dying. The baggage and smoking cars were plunged beneath the water, the former twenty feet below the surface, while the others were almost submerged. Those who were unhurt joined in the work of rescuing women and children and the wounded, but in spite of the most heroic efforts more than a dozen were drowned. Darkness heightened the terrors of the scene. Many perished within easy reach of help. At the last accounts the bodies of twelve dead victims had been recovered. Forty persons wore wounded. Many of the dead were mangled beyond recognition, but none of their names were remembered. The fireman jumped the moment he saw the bridgo was falling, and landed on the embankment. His leg was broken. The engineer remained at his post and escaped unhurt. The conductor did not receive a scratch. Most of those Who were drowned were in the baggage nnd smoking cars, and among them was the baggage-master.”

Director General Burke, of the World’s Exposition, has issued a circular advising all exhibitors to ship exhibits at once, in order to guard against delays in transportation and be in time for the opening, Dec. 16. President Diaz, of Mexico, has notified the Director General of enormous shipments of tropical plants for the Exposition. The office of the Texas Express Company at Bryan. Tex., was burglarized of $10,850. The robbers escaped. J. Hadeker & Son, merchants, Canton, Miss., failed, with liabilities amounting to $75,000. A fire at Petersburg, Va., destroyed 1,200,000 pounds of sumac. The mill and building of the Eureka Cotton Seed Oil Company at Arkansas City, Ark., were burned. Estimated 1068, $200,000; partially insured. Twenty-five leading business bouses at Goldsboro, N. C., were wiped out by fire, causing a loss of $250,000. The fire resulted from a number of boys smoking cigarettes near a lot of cotton. When leaving the court-room at Dallas, Tex., a lawyer named Frank L. Irvine was stabbed In the back by a local politician named Fred Cullen. It appears tl r\t the latter was an unwilling witness in a murder trial.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary McCulloch has prepared a circular lu relation to the importation of old rags from infected ports, which modifies existing orders on tbatsubject so as to continue the embargo until further notice and to declare all French and Mediterranean ports to be infected. Secretary McCulloch is busily engaged in the preparatiou of his annual report to Congress. It is intimated he will make some important recommendations in regard to the revision--of the tariff, upon which BubJeotvhC is understood to have very decided views. In tho meantime, Assistant Secretary Coon is acting Secretary on all routine matters. The Secretary has requested the Comptroller of tho Currency and tho Treasurer of the United States to withhold their annual reports from publication until after the meeting of Congress. The President has promoted P. <jr. Clarke from First Assistant Commissioner to the position of Commissioner of Pensions, to succeed Col. Dudley, resigned. Secretary Teller has placed on filet the complaint against Col. Allen’s exhibition of Sitting Bull through the country, believing that the traveling will do the old Indian no harm, physical pr mental. Pension payments for November amount to $18,000,000. The State Department has instructed the Consuls at London and Paris to appoint medical examiners to inspectall vessels leaving English or French ports for this country, with a view to preventing the spreading of oholera. Secretary McCulloch has refused Gen. Adam Badeau’s application asking for an arbitrament by the Court of Claims of the Government’s claim against him for $12,000 in notarial fees, alleged to have been illegally retained, and the Solicitor of the Treasury has been instructed to begin proceedings to recover the amount in dispute.

POLITICAL.

Joseph Wright, Jr., of Babylon, L. 1., an enthusiastic Democrat, isebarged with locking up his aged father on election day to prevent him from voting for lllaine. One hundred and sixty members of the present Congress, or one-half (the whole number being 825), have been re-elected. Arkansas. Deluwaro, Kansas and Maine reelect their delegations entire. Georgia elects all but two of her old members. Eleven Representatives from Illinois are reelected. Just one-half of the New York delegation are new members. All but three Of the members-elect irom Wisconsin are new men. Indiana ro-elects four of her present Representatives. W. H. Wadsworth, a Republican, is elected to Congress,from the Ninth Kentucky District. The official returns place his majority at 102. Both propositions recently submitted to the voters of Illinois—the constitutional amendment enlarging the veto power and

the appropriation to complete the State House—have boon ratified by large majorities. Zachary Taylor turns up as a Con-gressman-elect from Tennessee. It is agreed that 7,000 Brooklyn Republicans who votod for Garfield cast their ballots for Cleveland. Hon. William R. Morrison is being talked of for Speaker of the next House of Hcpresentatives. None of the State officers of Connecticut having received a majority of the votes cast Nov. 4, tbo Republican Legislature must elect the entire State ticket. John P. St. John’s son traveled all the way from Washington to Kansas to vote against his father, whom ho characterizes as a blanked old fool. The electoral college will meet at Btato capitals, Dec. 3. Five newspaper men were elected in Now York City—two to the Assembly, two to Congress, and one to be Coroner.

Albany telegram: “Gov. Cleveland declines to be Interviewed as to the composition of his Cabinet. There are rumors that he will soon resign his position to Llout.. Gov. Hill, so that the latter can sign the credentials of electors. The continuous stream of oallcrs at the Capitol embarrasses the Governor in the discharge of his official duties.” The miners at Terrace, Utah, hanged George William Curtis in effigy. Rev. Mr. Bellamy, of Little Falls, New York, who spoke for St. John during the campaign, has l>een obliged to keep indoors because of in suits by his fellow-citizens, and will leave the place. Washington dispatch : “Advices received to-day from roliablo sources Indicate that a large majority of Republicans elected to the New York Legislature favor the selection of President Arthur for the United States Senate to succeed Senator Lapham. The President has nut as yet signified his intention to become a candidate, but it is believed he would accept If elected without solicitation on his part. An effort, however, is being made to induce the Democrats in the New York Legislature to fuse with Stalwart Republicans and choose Roscoe Conkling, but this proposition is not favorably received.” Hamilton County, including Cincinnati, voted: For Garfield, 35,447; for Hancock, 30,111; Garfield’s majority, 5,336. Total vote, 65,568. For Blaine, 38,744; for Cleveland, 33,248; Blaine’s plurality, 5,496. Total vote (including 318 for Butler and 176 for St. John), 72,486. Rev. Dr. W. H. Olin, formerly presiding elder In the Methodist Church for the Wyoming District, has been elected to the New York Legislature from Broome County. Belva Lockwood says that she has not done with politics. She is now agitating tho question of the appointment of women to the local School Board. The wheelbarrow betters are exhibiting themselves numerously. In the Petersburg (Va.) district P. Evans will contest James D. Brady’s eleotion, alleging fraud. Evans was Cameron’s candidate, and Brady represented the Mahoneites.

MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from Panama are to tho effect that laborers and machinery for the canal continue to arrive, and that 50,000 men will be employed during tho dry season. King & Upton’s glue-works, at Peabody, Mass., were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $90,000. One hundred and twenty-five men are thrown out of employment. Doxey’s Opera House, at Anderson, nd., went up in smoae, causing a loss of SBO,OOO. A Halifax (N. S.) special reports that while a Jife-boat with a crew of eleven wreckers, from tho steamer Inveralt, stranded on Pictou Island, was returning to shore, during a northerly gale, the craft was capsized and eight of the party drowDed. A man from shore, putting off in a dory to attempt the resoue of Iho others who were clinging to the upturned boat, lost an oar, drifted to tea,- and was lost. A Canadian company, which pro\poses to construct a canal between. Lakes Erie and St. Clair, has applied for articles of incorporation. •It. is reported at Toronto that the Canadian Pacific Railway has leased the Grand Trunk. It is understood that a favorable understanding has been arrived at between Sir Alexander Campbell, representing the Domin lon of Canada, and the Hon. Mr. Mowat, Premier of Ontario, as to the best steps to be taken for expropriating a n tho territory on the Canada aide of the Niagara liver between Suspension Bridge and the streets and Islands proposed to be set apart as the Canadian portion of the International Park, tind that the fruition oif the scheme will not be long delayed.

FOREIGN.

An International Inventions Exhibition will be held at London in 1886 under the patronage of the Queen, the Presidency of the Prince of Wales, and the management of an executive council composed of eminent Englishmen. It will be opened In May at the Royal Horticultural Gardens in South Kensington, and will remain open until the end of the year. A Hong Kong dispatch states that the situation of the French in Tonquln is daily becoming more serious. Frederick J. Allen, Vice President of the Dublin Young Ireland Society, charged with treason-lelony, has been committed for trial. According to a dispatch from Shanghai, the French forces have occupied Tamsul. Austria, it is said, is about to establish a penal colony on the African coast Christian Christianson, of California, died of cholera in Paris—the first American victim. Matthew Arnold is about to make another American tour. Alfred Edmond Brehan, a celebrated German traveler, is dead. Drunkenness is greatly on the increase in England, especla ly among women. The recent death of Baron Alexander von Stelglitz, the head of the Bank of St. Petersburg, is chronioled. He loft $75,000,000 to relatives and employes, including the gift of tho Petcrhoff Railway to Baron Fehleiscn. Slow progress attends the Nile expedition, the Canudian boatmen having ex-

perienoed great difficulty In ascending the cataracts. In the cholera plague the municipal authorities In Paris are glad to avail themselves of the servioes of the hitherto maligned Sisters of Mercy. They are to be seen wherever the disease appears. The American and English residents ot Paris have associated to asaist their countrymen, and for the establishing of soup kitchens. They say there is no need of fear from the cholera, and In a manifesto advise only the weak, intemperate and nervous to leave the city.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

A committee of the French Chamber of Deputies has reported In favor of the abolition of life Senatorsbips. In its review of the British grain trade, the Mark Lane Express says: “There were large imports of wheat last week from America. The trade is greatly depressed, and very little business is being transacted throughout the country.” As a train was crossing's bridge at Lancaster, Pa., a passenger loaning out of a car window was caught by a support, dragged out on the track, and instantly killed. Last week’s issue of standard silver dollars amounted to $488,991, against $338,998 for the corresponding week in 1883. Two members of the Swaim courtmartial—Paymaster General Rochester and Gen. Terry—were dropped on the strength of the defendant's objection that they were not impartial judges, and could not, therefore, sit in trial. A similar objection was urged against Gen. Schofield, but was overruled. Maryland has shipped to the New Orleans Exposition eight car-loads of ex" hibits, including 400 pieces of native woods and 200 specimens of stone. B. H. Black, Sheriff-elect of Lamar County, Texas, was called to the door of his residence by some unknown person, and shot dead. Robert McPhun, Director of the Calcutta (India) Tea Company, was arrested at Louisville, Ky., for forgeries on the company amounting to SIOO,OOO. An officer will take him back to the scene of his crimes. Washington special to Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.): “In response to inquiries as to what the probable policy of the Democrats will be at the approaching session of Congress, Representative. Randall, says: ‘ln my judgment there will be no tariff legislation Introduced by the Democrats in the last session of the Forty-eighth Congress. They will simply pass the regular appropriation bills and adjourn till the 4th day of March. I think that in the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress a tariff bill will be introduced and pressed for consideration similar to tho famous Morrison bill. In my judgment, such a bill would fail of passage. The business men of the country would oppose it, and Congress would fail to pass it.’ ” The official vote of Missouri is as follows: For President—Cleveland, 235,972; Fusion, 202,201; St. John, 1,500. Cleveland’s plurality, 33,711. For Governor—Marmaduke (Democrat), 219,015; Ford (Fusion), 207,893; Brooks (Prohibition), 10,449. Mar. maduke’s plurality, 11,122; majority, 573. Official vote of Pennsylvania : Ror President, Blaine, 473,804; Cleveland, 392,785; Butler, 17.002; St. John, 15,737. For Congress, at large: Osborne, Republican, 476,260; Davis, Democrat, 401,402; Atwood, Greenback, 9,684; Black, Prohibitionist, 10,471. The following is the official return of the Arkansas election for President and one Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Cleveland, 72,927; Blaine, 50,806; Butler, 1,847. Ghiof Justice—S. R. Cockerill, Dem., 72,215; M. W. Benjamin, Rep., 50,452. Cleveland’s majority, 22.121; Cockerill’s majority, 21,763. The Democratic Congressional majorities are: Dunn, 5,680; Breckenridfe, 2,563; Jones, 2,213; Rogers, 4,867; Peel, 0,384. The vote of 'Ohio, as officially cam vassed: Blaine, 400, Cleveland, 368,28 Q; ‘•Butler, 2,170; and St. John, 11,269. Blaine's plurality, 31,802. ”qomp lete vote of New Jersey foots Up: Cievelaiid, 127,783;’ Blaine, 133,378; ,§t. Cleveland, 4,401. Father Egan, of Thornhill, Ontario, saw fit to nail a board aoross a pew in his church, rented by Duncan McCague. A struggle ensued at the commencement of the services, last Sunday, and the priest dragged the old man to the door and threw him with such force as to fracture his thigh.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK UkEYfeS....'..*. £4.75 0 G. 73 HOOS 4.50 0 5.50 Flour—Extra 5.v0 0 5.5) No, ,2 Spring 81 0 .*2 No. 2 Red s> 0 .83},j Cork—No. 2.'. ,52 @ .53‘e OAT.-:—White 33 0 .37 * Point —New Mess 15.00 @15.50 CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. G. 50 @7.00 Good Shipping G.OO @ 6.50 Common to Fair 4.00 @5.0) UO'tS 4.50 01 5.00 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.00 @4.50 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.25 @3.75 Wheat—No. 2Spring 72 0 .73)4 No. 2 lied Winter. 74 @ .74 G Cork No. 2 .43 0 .45 Oats— No. 2 .21; @ .27 Rye—No. 2 50 @ .51 Barley —No. 2..... 58 0 .go Butter —Choice Creamery 24 @ .27 Fine Dairy 10 @ .21 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13)0 Skimmed Flat 09 @ .10 ” Eoos—Fresh. 20 @ .21 Potatoes—New, per bu 31) @ .35 Pork—Mess 11.75 0 12.25 Lard 07 @ .07)4 TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 Red 68 @ .70 Cork—No. 2 42 @ .44 OkTS—No. 2 26 0 .27, l 2 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 71 @ .73 Corn—No. 2 40 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 28 @ .30 Barley—No. 2 53 @ ,54’<> Pork—Mess n. 50 @iy.oo ' Lard 6.50 0 7.00 ST. LpUIS. Wheat—No. 2 75 @ ,7g Cork—M xed.... 37 0 .39 (>ats—Mixed 25 @ .27 NYE. 47 @ .49 Pork—Mess 12.25 @12.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .79 Corn 44- @ .45 Oats—Mixed 28 @ ,29'i Pork—Mess 13.25 @13.75 Lard 07 @ .0714 DETROIT. Flour... 5.00 @ g.SO Wheat—No. 1 White 77 @ .73 Corn—Mixed 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White 28 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 13.50 @14.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat— No. 2 Red, New 73 @ .76 Cork—Mixed 38 @ .39 Oats —Mixed 25 @ .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best c.oo @ 6.50 Fair .5.25 @5.75 Common 3,75 0 4.25 Hoos 4.50 @ 5.0) BHKEP 4.25 @ 6.75

INTERNAL TAXATION.

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The annual report of the Hon. Walter Evans, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1884, has been submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. The total receipts from all sources of internal revenue taxation for the year were $121,590,039, as compared to $144,553,344 for the year 1883, $146,523,273 for the year 1882, and $135,229,912 for the year 1881. It is estimated that $115,000,000 will be collected during the present fiscal year. The Commissioner says a falling off is anticipated in the present year that will follow from the diminished quantity of bourbon and rye whiskies produced in 1882, on which the tax will mature during the current fiscal year. Another cause contributing to the reduction of receipts will be the largely increased exportation of spirits in bond, on which, for various reasons, the owners cannot pay the tax. Something like 10,009,000 gallons have already been forced abroad during the current calendar year. A comparative statement of the receipts for the fiscal years 1883 and 1884 shows a decrease of $16,041,850 from tobacco, an increase of $2,536,610 from spirits, an increase of $31,184,338 from fermented liquors, and a decrease of $10,642,404 from the taxes under , the repealed laws an 4 penalties, making a total decrease of $22,963,305. The total expenses were a little less than 41-5 per cent of the amount collected. The Commissioner says the diminution of the gross receipts could not proportionately affect the cost of collection, as nearly the same force had to be retained. By comparing the receipts for the last fiscal year with those for the fiscal year immediately preceding it the decrease of revenue from tobacco was $16,041,849. There was an increase of 41 in the number of grain distilleries registered during the last fiscal year and a decrease of 18 in the number operated. The increase in the number registered occurs, as was the case in the preceding fiscal A year, in the class of distilleries having smaller capacities for the production pf spirits. In the class of larger distilleries a very decided reduction occurs, both in the number registered and the number operated. A comparative statement of the spirits of different kinds known to the trade remaining in the warehouse at the close of the fiscal years 1883 and 1884 shows that while there was an increase in the stock of alcohol, gin, highwines, and pure spirits, there was a decrease in other grades of spirits, principally in bourbon and rye whiskies, of 17,750,694 gallons. Nearly two-thirds was bourbon whisky. The quantity of spirits produced and deposited in the distillery warehouses during the fiscal year is greater than the production for the year 1883 by 1,422,431 gallons. The quantity of spirits withdrawn from distillery warehouses for the year is greater than the quantity withdrawn during the year 1883 by 2,901,387 gallons. The quantity of distilled spirits in the United States, except what may be in customs bonded warehouses, on Oct. 1,1884, was 96,810,521 gallons.

THE ARMY.

Sheridan’s.’.Recommendations Relative to State Troops, Rifle Practice, and Seaboard Defenses. The annual report of Lieut. Gen. Sheridan has been made, covering the period from hie assignment to the command of the army, Nov, 1, 1883, to Nov. 1, 1884. He says that during this time the entire territory under the supervision of troops has been unusually free from collisions, resulting in loss either of life or property, hit that the services of the military in the West cannot be safely dispensed with for many years to come. With liberal allowances of ammunition and better facilities for target practice than hitherto, much thought and attention has been given to rifle-firing. The high scores attained in the annual contests for army prizes the past season attest most gratifying progress in this vitally important branch of military instruction. The establishment of a higher grade of sharpshooters has developed many marksmen of wonderful skill in the use of the rifle for distances up to a thousand yards, and it would now be impossible for a close line of battle to stand np before a skirmish lino composed of .our qualified marksmen. The Lieutenant General expresses great interest in the National Guard of the States, and thinks Congress should designate the number of men each State should have, and provide for them arms and camp aod garrison equipage, under some wise method of accountability for this property, whenever State governments themselves appropriate substantial sums of money for the support of their respective military systems,in such manner that these sums cannot be affected by party legislation. Excepting for our ocean commerce and for our seaboard cities he does not think we should be much alarmed about the probability of war with foreign itwould require more than a million and a half of men to make a campaign on land against us. To transport from beyond the ocean that number of soldiers, with all their rafunitious of war, their cavalry, artillery, and infantry, even if not molested by us while in transit, would demand a large part of the all Europe. Ho earnestly invites immediate attention to the defenseless condition of seaboard cities, and urgently recommends the early beginning of a general system of soacoast fortifications to be constructed in accordance with the requirements involved by the latest improvem'ents in heavy artillery. “This nation,” he says, “isgrowing so rapidly that there are signs of other troubles which I hope will not occur, and which will probably not come upon us if both capital and labor will only be conservative. Still, it should be remembered destructive explosives are easily made, and that banks, United States sub-treasuries, public buildings and large mercantile houses can be"readily demolished, and the commerce of entire cities destroyed by an infuriated people with means carried with perfect safety to themselves in the pookets of their clothing.” Gen. Sheridan thinks Fort Riley, for all purposes of cavalry, should be made an establishment worthy of our great country.

Indians Rescue United States Prisoners.

fFort Smif.h (Ark.) telegram.J Deputy Marshal Mershon has just returned from Indian Territory, where he had a terrible encounter with Indians, who attacked his party and rescued thirty United States prisoners whom he had under arrest. Two of the attacking Indians were killed and several wounded. Two of the Mar, shal’s posse were seriously wounded. Nineteen prisoners were brought in by the Marshal and his deputies. Mr. Moody, the evaugelist, is conducting a revival at Troy, N. Y.

THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.

An Estimate of the New Cotton Crop—A Great Coni Yield. Dr. Salmon’s Advice to Farmers—Roseate Yievrs of the Business . Outlook. The Cotton Crop. The November returns of cotton to theDepartment of Agriculture, at Washington, relate to the yield per acre, and show theeffeets of the long-continued draught in reducing production. The lateness of killing frosts has less effect than usual in curtailiqg the yield, as the vitality of plinls was too nearly exhausted to produce a top crop* The drought had not been broken at some paints on the Gulf coast at the date of returns. The indicated yield per acre is lower in nearly every Slate than in the census year, which-gwas oneof average production. The lowest yields are now, as then, in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. The reduction this year is very marked in Louisianaand Arkansas, in the region es the most productive cotton lands. Returns by States indicate the yield per acre as follows, the figures being subject to modification by fuller returns: Virginia, 180 pounds; North Carolina, 175; South Carolina, 152; Georgia, 135; Florida, 105; Alabama, 130; Mississippi, 175; Louisiana, 190; Texas, 143; Arkansas, 200; Tennessee, 160. The indications point to a crop somewhat larges than in 1883, gathered in unusually fine condition, of good color, unstained by storms, and free irom trash and dirt. A Great Corn Crop. The November returns to the Department Agriculture, of the rate of yield of com indicate a product somewhat in excess of 1,800,000,000 buslmls,' on an averagerate a small fraction twenty-six bushels per acre. The best yields are, as in 1883, in what has been designated the great American desert The “arid regions" in the vicinity of the 100th meridian have produced heavy crops of maize of high quality. That line of longitude has ceased to be an absolute barrier to com production or general farming. The quality of com is better than in 1883 nearly everywhere, and in the Northern belt it is worth 25 to 75 per cent more. The potato crop is nearly an average yield, or ninety bushels per acre, and exceeds 190,000,000 bushels. Contagious Cattle Diseases—Dr. Salmon’sKeport. Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has submitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture a voluminous report upon the contagious diseases of animals, the report being the result of experiments and.investigations made by the veterinary division. Considerable space is given to the detailed history of the recent outbreak among cattle in Kansas, and to description of its symptoms. Dr. Salmon reaches the conclusion that the disease was ergotism, due to eating the fungus known as ergot. Upon the treatment and prevention of this disorder he says: When the first signs of this disorder appear the most important point to be attended to is to m’Uce a complete change of food and to see that it is of good quality, nutritious, and free from ergot. It would also be proper to give a dose of physic, in order to remove as much as possible the poison still contained in the digestive organs, and to follow this with soft food. In the most severe cases—those in which part of the limb is already lifeless—treat ment will avail but little. The greater number of cases, however, have not advanced to this stage when lameness is first noticed, and these will be greatly benefited by removing the cause and placing the animal under conditions favorable for resisting poison. Another condition believed by some to have much influence on the development of ergotism is the water supply. With plenty of water always at hand it is believed larger quantities of ergot may be taken for a longer time than when, the water supply is deficient. Don’t Get Deft. To show how rapidly this country is developing in resources and wealth, as well as in the ability to consume products, a contemporary adduces the following figures: In 1873 our population was about 40,000,000; now It Is 67,000,000. In 1873 we raised 281,000,000 bushels of wheat—the largest crop the country had produced np to that time. This year the wheat crop will be over 800,000,000. In 1873 our corn crop was 932,000,000 bushels: this year it will be 2,000,01)0,000— more than one-half greater than It was eleven years ago. In 1873 the oat crop amounted to 280,000,(XoO bushels; this year it will aggregate f. 00,000,000 bushels. This vast increase of production has been made in a little more than a decade, despite five or six years of depression during that period. All our material resources have kept a pace of development commensurate with our progress in soil production. Comment is unnecessary to show that it is useless lor the peoSle of this country to think that because thereas been a panic in the stock market and general decline of prices there is to be a long halt In the race of progress. The man who now sits down, and resolves to wait a few years before he undertakes a new enterprise, will get. left behind. The train will start and be out of sight while he is musing. Cheer Up and Brace Up. [From the New York Sun.] Now that the Presidential election is over, and all the rest of mankind at peace, why should not everybody return to his regular pursuits, and do what he can toward making everybody as happy ns he can? We have a boundless expanse of fertile soil, an abundance of food and clothing, a. great number of factories, with almost unlimited capacity for production, and the most extended system of cheap transportation in the world; and yet business is everywhere stagnant. Under the stimulation of the lowest prices known these twenty years, it is only reasonable that affairs should begin to revive, and they doubtless will, but the business men of the country can help it along by calmly considering the situation, and seeing how good it is after all. The Business Outlook. A well-informed business man from York, in speaking of the prospects for business during the remainder es the year, said that the merchants of New York, whocan disentangle their thoughts from the political excitement, are calculating the chances for some improvement in the mercantile business during the remainder of the year.

CLIPPINGS.

Will!am Johnson, a youth of Granville, W. Va., eloped with his foster mother, Mrs. Cole. Electric lights will be used at the-nexfc Easter festival for lighting up St. Peter’s Church, Rome. The advertisements of furnished houses to let in a Washington paper indicate that the lowest price a desirable house can be procured for is $75 a month, and the highest, $3,733. Chief Justice Waite has never missed a session of his court.