Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Three boys at Rondout, N. Y., dared one another to venture upon thin ice. Ail ■were drowned. The Pittsburgh base ball team for nest season represents a cost of over $31,000, which includes $6,000 paid for the release of the Columbus players. This is said to be more money than was ever before paid for a base ball club in the United States. Feignespaugh’s brewery at Newark, X. J., was buroei, the loss reaching: SIOO,OOO. George W. Jones, of the New York Timex, reiterates his statement that the Grant fund of $250,000 in Wabash bonds has not tailed to pay interest; that the late Edwin D. Mortran guaranteed the principal of the subscription, and that the large estate of the latter is in no way involved.

The entertainment for the actors’ fund at New York netted SIO,OOO. Presidentelect Cleveland, who came from Albany to attend the performance, was the chief magnet, and his reception by the vast audience was very enthusiastic. Mr. Cleveland’s box was guarded by the police, for the purpose of excluding interviewers and politicians.

The Aldermen of New York have passed over the Mayor’s veto a resolution permuting the construction of a surface railroad in Broadway. A number of the pig-iron furnaces at Pittsburgh, Pa., will blow in during January, the stock on hand being lighter now than at any previous time for years. During the progress of a party at the residence of Farmer Young, of Stafford's Corners, Conn., some one attempted" to meddle with some dynamite cartridges that lay on the kitchen shelf. A terrific explosion followed. The house was blown to piecos. One of the guests was killed outright, and four more will die. Francis Murphy, the temperance revivalist, exhibits twenty-five hundred signatures to tho pledge as the result of a week’s work at Pittsburgh. During a terrible wind and rain storm at Trenton, N. J., fire broke out in the Home Rubber Company’s Works, which were entirely consumed, involving a loss of $50,000.

WESTERN.

Orrin A. Carpenter, once charged with the murder of Zora Burns at Lincoln, 111., a year ago, but subsequently tried and acquitted, was shot at tho other day in Lincoln by William H. Burns, tho father of tho murdered girl. Tho bullet missed its mark. The Federal Grand Jury at Omaha has indicted Register Parker, Col. W. H. Ashby, and three others for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the sale of Otoe Indian lands. Uhion Pacific’s earnings for October were $2,261,000, a decrease of $280,000 from the corresponding month of 188& Three Mormons have been convicted at Prescott, Arizona, of bigamy. This Is said to mean that Mormon rule in Arizona has petered out. Miss Lizzie May Ulmer, a charming young actress, who has recently risen to a high position in the dramatic profession, is underlined for a brief engagement at MoVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The Board of Agriculture, of Ohio, reports the condition of wheat at the present time as 93; rye, 89; ana Parley, 87. The area sown is figured at: Wheat, 74; ryo, 98; and barley, 93. The banking-house of Raymer, Seagrave & Co., of Toledo, has been compelled to suspend business, with liabilities of $400.-. 000. Its assets include the Erip 6treet railway, a cotton-mill, and a large number of new buildings. Two Bishops and three laymen of the Mormon Church were sentenced at Prescott, Arizona, for bigamy. Three are fined $5,500 each and must serve three years and' a half in prison, and two others will bo confined six months and fined SSOO. One of the two men has two wives and twelve children in destitute circumstances The J. I. Case Plow Company, of Itacine, Wis., has made an assignment for its creditors. The unsecured liabilities are from $60,000 to $70,000, and the assets nearly $70,000. The heaviest creditor is J. I. Case, President of the corapahy. Other large creditors are iron steel dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa. Nearly 100 deaths from small-pox have recently occurred in the village of Stoco, 100 miles east of Toronto, and other sufferers are dying for lack of attendance. George Snyder, a farmer of Darrtown, near Hamilton, Ontario, is in jail, accused of the murder of his mother, aged 75 years, the object being to secure a certain mortgage which she held on his farm. The death rate in Chicago for November was 16.8 to the I,ooo—the lowest of any of the largo cities of the world. It is rumored that the London Telegraph has purchased a large tract of land in tho Mojave desert, on the Pacific coast, to uso the yucca plant in the manufacture of paper, the pulp to he shipped to New Orleans for Liverpool.

SOUTHERN.

A negro named Perry was lynched at Sulphur Spring-.?, Texas, for the murder of farmer Jones and his wife, robbery being* his motive. Tho Georgia Legislature passed a resolution empowering the Clerk of the House to employ women to perform clerical work. In the debato the opening of every avenue of labor to women was fully indorsed. Fourteen bovs escaped from the House of Refuge at Louisville, Ky., by means of a rope made of Bhcets and blankets. In a dispute about a small sum at Neckesville, Texas, L. V. Simpson and Dr. Calhoun Lawrence shot each othor to death. The Senate of Alabama last ■week adopted a resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the Stats, and

solemnly expresoing the purpose of the white people to aid in tho education of colored children. Hill, Fontaine & Co., of Memphis, Tenn., estimate the cotton crop of this year at 5,683,000 bales. The frost of Oct. 24 resulted in a loss of ful y 100,000 bales. Masked robbers boarded a railroad train near Little Rock, Ark., and secured $6 ,000 in cash and valuables. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the robbers, and six men were soon captured in the city. Three of them were Identified. The plague in Wise County, Va., which swept off nearly three hundred persons, is decreasing in intensity. Fire swept away the business portion of the village of West Randolph, Va. The loss is estimated at $65,003, with $45,000 insurance,

WASHINGTON.

Congressman Cobb, of Indiana, says a Washington correspondent, will make an effort to pa'-s some additional land-grant forfeiture bills during the present session. There will be an effort made to pass the bankruptcy bill. Tho canal men are preparing for a fight to get their bills through this session. The hardest work will bo done by those interested In the Hennepin, the Ere, and tho Maryland and Delaware Canals. The? Nicaraguan Canal men will attempt to have some action taken by the House to the advancement of their interests. There will be an effort made also to pass tho bill restricting the coinage of silver dollars.

The Committee on Public Lands has ten forfeiture bills yet to report, but these will be ready in a few weeks. Tho Northern Pacific Railroad bill, if enacted, will take from that corporation no less than" 35,000,000 acres of land located west of Bismarck, in Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington Territories. These lands are worth $lO an acre upon an average, and their total value is all of $350,060,000. An English syndicate has offered to buy the whole tract for $350,000,000 If the title can be made good. Tho settlers upon these lands make bitter complaint that tho railroad no.v demands S2O and SBO an acre for their homesteads, although It was understood when they first located that the price should bo $3.60 an acre. They have cultivated the lands and greatly Improved them, and ure now asking that Congress shall grant them relief from the extortion of the railroad. Tho Atlantic and Pacific has 4,000,000 acres at stake, and the Texas Pacific 15,030,000, and tho other roads an aggregate of about 100,000,000. Several of these forfeiture bills passed the House at the last session, and now await action in tho Senate.

The annual report of William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, has been made pulie. In connection with tho statement that throe new ships had been successfully launched, the Secretary says it has been shown that American stool makers can readily furnish excellent material for ship-build-ing in large quantities. The Secretary points out that comparisons of speed between tho now cruisers and tho great transatlantic racing steamers are unfair because the latter attain their high speed only by the sacrifice or qualities essential to a ship of war, and adds that the former could overtake 96 per cent, of tho merchant steamers of the world. The report calls attention to tho necessity for torpedo boats, and rccommonds the construction of seven modern cruisers annually for the next ten years. Commenting on the present condition of the navy, Secretary Chandler says that the disproportion between the expenditures therefor, and tho results accomplished, is duo to the policy of attempting at groat cost to rehabilitate worn out structures undor the name of repairs. The report recommends the discontinuance of several navy-yards and workshops and certain improvements in the management of tho remainder, among these tho exclusion of politics, recites the history of tho recent arctic expeditions, comments at length upon the frauds connected with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, fixes the ordinary estimates at $17,292,601, and those for increasing the navy at $15,071,592, and, in conclusion, advocates Government encouragement for the development of our merchant marine, cither in tho shape ,of bounties upon construction or payment for carrying the mails.

The marble cap-stone and pyramidal apex of aluminium were set in place upon the Washington Monument on Saturday, the 6th of December, completing the tallest structure in the world created by human bands. The ceremonies were quite simple, the great calebration being reserved for Washington’s birthday. As soon as tho capstone was set the national flag was spread upon tho breeze at a height of COO feet, a battery of guns in the White House lot fired a salute; and the people on the platform 560 feet above the ground sang the “Star-Spangled Banner.” The Washington Monument Society, perched on the platform adopted a resolution congratulating the American people “ on the completion of an enduring monument of our Nation’s gratitude to the Father of his Country.”

POLITICAL.

Senator Edmunds talks of retiring from public life at the end of his present term in the Senate, and expresses much annoyance at the criticism of Vermont Republican newspapers for his refusal to take part in the late campaign. The New York Young Republican Club has voted to expunge from its rolls the names of persons who voted against Blaine and Logan.

The electoral colleges of the various States met at their respective capitals on Dec. 3, and went through the formality of voting for President and Vico President. The ballots used at Raleigh were miniature United States flags, made from s lie grown in North Carolina, The Indiana electors marched in a body to the residence of Mr. Hendricks. In the Illinois college Andrew Shuman drew the slip which carried the privilege of delivering the returns at Washington. The ballot-box used iu Connecticut was the silk hat of ex-Lieut. Gov. Loomis. Mark Hopkins presided over tho Massachusetts college. The electors of New Jersey unite! John P. Stockton for a Cabinet po ition. Among tho New York electors was Jacob Wind miller, 84 years of age, who marched with his associates to the Cnpito to congratulate Mr. Cleveland. Tho President of the college sent his per diem and mileage to the Little Sisters* of tho Poor in Albany. Neany every distinguished Democrat in West Virginia witnessed the proceedings of the college at Wheeling. At Lansing, George K. Stekotee was chosen to carry tho vote of Michigan to

Washington. The Tennessee college selected Robert I. Chester, the oldest Democrat in the State, as messenger. The Texas electors sent Cleveland a dispatch congratu ating him on his 128,000 majority in that State. The Kansas college adopted resolutions expressing confidence In tfe character and ability of Blaine and Logan, and those J. M. Miller messenger. At Des Moines, John Van Valkenburg was selected to carry the vote of lowa to the national capital. The Wisconsin college imposed this trust upon J. W. Ostrander. The Missouri electors sent a congratulatory telegram to Cleveland and chose John I. Martin as messenger.

The official vote of Texas was canvassed on the 2d inst., thus completing the list of States, and below we print the complete and authentic popular vote for President in all of the States of the Union:

2 tt ~08 * SB O a f P < m- . erf- „ a g o o States. p ? tr * a •• a Alabama 92,973 59,414 GlOi 762 Arkansas 72,927 60,8)5; l 847 California 88,'.07 100,8161 2,6491 ],975 Colorado 27,723 36,230} 761 j 1,958 Connecticut 67,182 65,898 2,494] 1,685 Delaware 17,054 12,768 55 i 6 Florida 31,769 28,031 72 Georgia 94,367 47,60.i| 184 125 Illinois 312,453 337,481 12,074 10,910 lildi na 244,990 238,463 3,024| 8,293 lowa *177,286 197,089 1,564'., Kansas 90,132 154,496 4,495} 16,346 Kentucky. 152,657 118,674 3,106 1,655 Louisiana. 62,546 46,347 338 120 Maine 62,140 72,209 2,160 3,953 Maryland 96,932 86,69!) 2,794 531 Massachusetts... 122,352 146,724 9,923 24,382 Michigan 1189,361 192,069 18,403 Minnesota 70,144 111,923 4,691' 3,87 Mississippi 76,510 43,509 Missouri 1235,989 202,925 2,153 Nebraska 64,354 ' 76,877 2,838 Nevada 5,577 7,193! New Hampshire. 35,166 43,166 1,573 652 New Jersey 127,784 123,432 6,155 3,494 New York 662,154 662,005 25,206, 17,004 North Carolina.. 142,900 125,070 425 10 Ohio. 308,280 400,082 11,069 5,179 Oregon 24,593 26,852 488 723 Pennsylvania.... 393,747 474,268 14,306 16,992 Rhode Island.... 12,391 19,030 928 422 South Carolina.. 69,890 21,733 Tennessee 133,270 124,090 1,131 957 Texas 223.208 88,353 3,511 3,321 Vermont 17,342 38,411 1,612 785 Virginia §145,437 139,356 143 West Virginia.... 67,317 63,036 939 805 Wisconsin... 146,477 161,157 7,656 4,598 Total 4,910,843 4,843,94-4 150,335 133,400 Cleveland’s plu. 66,899 Total vote 10,038,522 •Fusion—Cleveland and Butler electors. _ I Fusion—Cleveland and Butler electors; one Cleveland elector was voted tor separately» receiving 149,815 votes, and one Butler elector was vote l for separately, receiving 41,390 votes. IFusion—Blaine and Butler electors.

In an interview with a newspaper correspondent at Albany, Gov. Cleveland Is reported as saying: “I am not engaged in making Cabinets at the S resent time, the newspapers notwithstanding. iy time is continuously broken in upon by the visits of people from all parts of the country. 1 am glad to meet them, and I trust 1 meet them cordially; but the hints, the suggestions, the discussions, and the differences of opinion with which they and I am frequently credited originate in the brains of the newspaper correspondents.” “As, for &\ ample, your reported interview with Mr. Hendricks?” Interposed tho correspondent. “Ah. as to that,” said the Governor, his face clouding as he spoke, “th t was not simply false. It was mischievous and malicious. A man could go to sleep and dream of nothing more utterly, wholly false than that. 1 doubt, if two men, comparatively strangers, could ever give one another a more cordial greeting than was-the greeting between Hendricks and myself. We spoke together for barely fifteen minutes, and our intercourse was than friendly—it was warm and thoroughly cordial. I will not complain of any picture which any man chooses to draw’ of me from personal observation. If the visiting correspondent chooses to say that I wear a No. 3 hat and No. 10 shoes he is at liberty to do so. It is merely a question, then, whether his course is or is not in good taste; but when words are put into my mouth which I never uttered, and when I am accredited with statements which I never entertained, I must nut a stop to it. We are not used to that sort of thing here. I will not permit it. I have not the slightest disposition to cloud in mystery anything connected with my office, with-myself, or with my future course. There need be no guessing about it. It Senator This or Congressman That calls upon me it should furnish no occasion for any newspaper writer to build speculation upon specu ation till he reaches some startling conclusion. Let him come to me; I’ll tell him frankly all 1 have said."

It is said that after Mr. Cleveland's resignation of the Gubernatorial office he will extend an invitation to the Democratic party leaders to visit him in Buffalo. The most prominent Southern aspirants for Cabinet portfolios are Money of Mississippi, Garland of Arkansas, and Barbour of Virginia. The rest have dropped out.

MISCELLANEOUS.

There were 296 failures in the United States reported to Bradstrcet's during the week, against 237 in the preceding week, and 240, 247, and 169 in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882, and 1881, respectively. About 84 per cent were these of small traders, whose capital was less than $5,000. In tho principal trades they were’ as follows: General stores 58. grocers 31, clothing 26, hardware and agricultural implements 18, dry goods 12, liquors 12, manufacturers 10, shoes 9, tobacco and cigars 8, papers, hooks, and stationery 7, men’s furnishing goods 7, millinery 7, lumber and materials 7, grain and flour 7, furniture 7, fancy goods 7, drugs 7, hats 6, hotels and restaurants 6, markets and butchers 6, produce and provisions 6, jewelry 5, bakers and confectioners 4, harness 4, banks and bankers 3. The New York Sun, in a significant double-leaded editorial, discusses the question of “Our Coming National Currency,” and reaches the conclusion that the national bank currency must go, and give place to a Government currency of coin and paper money. The article notes carefully tho rapid decrease of the national hank circulation, and the more rapid increase In coin and coin certificates, and says:

“This will give us, by 1891, a grand total of $1,136,000,000 of government currency against not more than $100,000,000, and probably less, supplied by the banks. Of course, much may happen to modify or prevent this result. The conduct of men cannot be predicted so confidently as that of inanimate things. The legal tenders may be redeemed and withdrawn, the coinage of silver dollars -may be suspended and the supply of gold may be diminished at the mines or be drained away to foreign countries. The decrease of national bank circulation may, on the other hand, be checked by favoring legislation, hut the probabilities are greatly against these ewents, and, as ■we said at the outset, it is much more likely that national bank notes will be driven out of use altogether, and their place taken by an exclusively Government currency.”

FOREIGN.

The Mudir of Dongola has received news that the False Prophet Is dead and his followers dying fast. A deficit of 16,000,000 florins is shown In the Austrian budget. Some excitement is caused in London by rumors to the effect that Knglish merchant vossels arc fitting out, and loading with cargoes, intending to run the French blockade of tho Chinese porta French papers

express great indignation at the scheme, and say that the humiliation that was visited on England for her course in breaking the American blockade during the rebellion may be repeated. It is said that the English Government will not do*anything in the way of preventing the consummation of such a scheme unless there is a formal declaration of war between the two belligerents. The Judges of the English Court of Appeals have decided that Capt. Dudley and mate of the wrecked yacht Mignonette, who killed a boy in order to keep themselves alive, were guilty of murder.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a gale off Holyhead the steamer Packard, on its way from Cork to Liverpool, foundered. Thirty people were drowned. Another steamer, supposed to be the Alliance, of Cardiff, sank with all hands off Boscastle, England. George Opdyke & Co., New York bankers and brokers, have suspended. An issue of $10,000,000 of 5 per cent, bonds will shortly be made by the Lake Shore Itoad. The railroad agencies in New York are now selling only continuous trip tickets to Western points, in order to check scalping. Among the deaths in New York last week were 157 from consumption, 77 from pneumonia, and 42 from bronchitis, the largest week’s record of deaths from such diseases in the history of the Health Department. A pearl worth $17,000, supposed to be the largest ever found, has been shipped to London from Guaymas, Mexico. Clearing-house exchanges last week—sß6ll,773,l39—were $206,918,055 greater than the preceding week. As compared with the corresponding period in 1883, the falling off is $262,102,240.

The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the act of Congress levying upon vessels from foreign ports a tax of 50 cents for every passenger who is not a citizen, the money to be used Id taking care of immigrants.

Senator John Sherman favors the stoppage of the coinage of the silver dollar, or oise making it 470 grains, Instead of 41214, which would raise it to a gold standard and make it passable throughout the world. If this change were made, Mr. Sherman states that he believes the effect on trade would he magical. An assignment has been made at Itacine, Wis., by the J. I. Case Plow Company to Charles H. Lee, attorney for the J. I. Case Thrashing-Machino Works. The nominal value of the assets Is $668,000, and the liabilities are estimated at between $750,000 and SBOO,tOO. Apart from the indebtedness of the company to Mr. Case, its president, the debts amount to less than $70,000. The firm owes Mr. Case Individually $675,000.

Mb. Blair introduced a bill in the Senate, on the Bth inst., granting $50,000 to aid the Colored People’s Exposition, to be held at Chicago in 1885. Mr. Dolph called up the bill providing for the incorporation of the Spokane Falls and Cceur d’Alene Hallway Company in Idaho and Washington Territories. Mr. Harrison objected to the bill on the ground that the company would probably occupy all the passes through the mountain's and secure land enough to monopolize the public domain. Mr. Platt remarked that he did not approve of the practice in vogue of building railroads on paper. Certain amendments to the bill were agreed to depriving the company of the right to consolidate with other roads. Further consideration of the subject was postponed. A bill to refund to a Detroit firm $473 alleged to have been ille-, gaily exacted on malt imported from Canada was defeated, for the reason that protest was not made at the time of paying the duties. Mr. Mitchell read a letter from Gen. Grant declining to accept a pension, and requesting the withdrawal of the bill introduced in his behalf. A committee of conference was ordered on the bill forfeiting the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. In the House of Representatives the Speaker read a communication from the Postmaster General asking an appropriation of $100,00) for railroad postal service for the remainder of the current year. Tnis was referred, as well as the following bills: One by Mr. Townshend proposing a constitutional amendment providing that treaties shall be made by and with the consent of the House as well as that of the Senate; by Mr. Ryan, to open portions of Indian Territory to homestead settlement; another by Mr. Buckner to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars; and another by Mr. Robinson to restore the ceremonies attendant upon Presidential inaugurations to Jeffersonian simplicity. Mr. Cox offered a resolution asking the opinion of the Attorney General as to whether the eight-hour law should be considered as applicable to letter-carriers. A joint resolution was also Introduced by Mr. Cox proposing an appropriation of $100,003 for the completion of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. Mr. Warner offered a bill to prevent the contraction of, the currency, a $500,000 appropriation was proposed by Mr. O’Neill for the improvement of the Philadelphia harbor, and Mr. Ellis introduced a bill to erect a monument to the viotlms of the Greely expeditijft at a cost of $25,000. Some discussion of the interstate commerce bill followed, but no action was taken upon It.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $1.50 @ 7.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.00 Flour—Extra 4.r>o (&; c.oo Wheat—No. 2 Spring 81 @ .82 No. 2 Red S 2 ii« .85 Corn—No. 2 5; @ .57 Oak--—White 3:1 @ .38 lOltK—Ne.v Mess 12.75 @13.25 CHICAGO. Beeves—Cho'ce to Pr me Steers. 6.25 @ 6.-75 Good Shipping 5.25 @ 6.2.5 Common to Fair 3.50 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.75 @ 4.25 Flour -1 aticy White Winter Ex. 4.01 @ 4.50 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.2.5 @ 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73. @ .73)5 No. 2 Red Winter 74 @ .7.5 * CORN—No. 2 37 (at .38 Oats—No. 2 21 @ .25 RYE—No. 2 51 @ .52 Barley—No. 2 57 @ .55 Butte .—Choice Creamery 25 @ .27 Fine Dairy 19 @ .20' Cheese—Full t ream .12 © .13 Skimmed Flat -,08 @ .09)6 Eggs—Fresh .22 @ .23 Potatoes—New, per bu 38 @ .10 Pouk—Mess 11.25 @11.50 Lard 06>>4@ .07 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 @ .70 Cohn—No. 2 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .38 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No 2... 72 @ .72W Corn—No. 2 33 & .38 ' Oats—No. 2 26 @ .28 Barley—No. 2 49 @ .50 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.50 Lard 0.50 ® 6.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 75 @ .76 Corn—Mixed 34 @ .35 Oats—Mixed 26 @ .27 Rye @ .49 Pork—Mess 11.60 @12.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red I. ,74 @ .76 Corn 33 @ .3714 Oats—Mixed 28 @ .29 Pork—Mess 12.00 @12.50 Lard 06K>@ .OGM DETROIT. Flour 6.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 75 @ .77 Corn -Mixed 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 White 28 @ .23 PORK—Family 12.00 @12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red, New 71 @ .73 Corn—Mixed 33 @ .34 @ats—Mixed 25 @ .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 @ 6.5 V Fair 6.00 @ 6.53 Common 4.00 @ 4.60 Hogs 4.50 @3 4.75 Sheep 4.60 @ 5.00

UP IN THE CLOUDS.

Completion of the Great Washington National Monument [Washington special.] The booming of cannon and shrieking of steam whistles this afternoon announced to the people of Washington that the capstone of the Washington monument had been successfully laid. Shortly afterward the aluminium block which forms the apex of the pyramidal roof of the highest structure raised by human hands was set in its place, and an American flag was seen floating from the head of the stall' above it. The mortar in which the capstone rests was laid by Col. Casey and his assistants in the presence of a few spectators who had braved the storm of rain and wind to see the finishing touches given to the great obelisk which rears its head 555 feet above the earth. Col. Casey has been in charge of. the work during the last six years, and" no accident causing loss of life has happened daring that period, owing to the great care exercised. It was suggested that the laying of the capstone be deferred until the 14th inst., the ninety-fifth anniversary of Washington’s death, but as that day might be too inclement for work at such a height, and as it will fall ou Sunday, and as well as for other reasons, it was thought best that there should be no delay. The official ceremonies to mark the completion of the obelisk will take place Feb. 22, the 153 d anniversary of Washington’s birth. They will be under the direction of a joint commission of the Senate and House of Representatives, consisting of Senators Sherman, Morrill, Allison, Bayard, and Lamar, and Representatives Dorsheimer, Tucker, Reagan, Collins, Eldredge, Bingham, Cannon, and Laird. The commission will hold a meeting next week to arrange a programme for the occasion. When the corner-stone of the monument was laid, July 4, 1848, in the presence of President Polk, the Vice President, members of the Cabinet, Senators, Representatives, and a host of other distinguished persons, Robert C. Winthrop, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, delivered the oration. It is expected that he will deliver the inaugural address on the completion of the shaft next February. In 1854 the funds of the monument society were exhausted, the shaft having at that time reached the height of 175 feet, after an expenditure of $230,000. Subsequent difficulties with a rival society defeated efforts to obtain an appropriation from Congress, and the disappearance of a stone contributed by the Pope during the Know-. Nothing excitement shut off, to a great extent, contributions of money from private sources. It is expected that about two years more will be required for the final completion of of the interior and base of the obelisk. The monument itself, with its total height of 550 feet, far overtops every structure by human hands. The aluminium apex monument is engraved with inscriptions.

THE POSTAL SERVICE.

List of States in Which. It Returns a Profit to the Government. [Washington Dispatch.] During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, the postal service paid expenses and yielded a surplus in seventeen States and Territories, including, singularly enough, Alaska, where one would expect to find the postal service unrenumerative. The effect of reducing letter postage to 2 cents is that in the year ending June 30, 1884, the postal service paid for itself in only ten States and no Territories. The States in which the postal service paid for itself in 1883 and railed to do so in 1884 are Maine, Vermont, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, Dakota Territory, and the district of Alaska. The following table shows by States where the postal service paid for itself in 1883-4, and where it did not, With the amount or the excess of expenditures of receipts, as the case may be:

Excess of Excess of #x- receipts penses over over exStates and Territories. receipts, p’dit’res. Maine $48,328 $ New Hampshire 18,018 Vermont 33,909 Massachusetts, 916,906 Rhode Island. 124,638 Connecticut 135,643 New York 2,312,695 New Jersey X 143,517 Pennsylvania 660,677 Delaware 8,162 Maryland 125,862 Virginia 408,972 West Virginia.... 76,920 North Carolina 207,191 South Carolina 159,693 Georgia 320,202 Florida 133,291 • Ohio 845,404 Michigan 39,461 Indiana 294,052 Illinois 847,400 Wisconsin 160,835 lowa 871,407 Missouri...... 480,383 Kentucky 171,083 Tennessee : 111,210 Alabama 238,494 Mississippi 186,082 Arkansas 208,602 Louisiana 120,630 ...... Texas 431,334 .....[ California 471,188 Oregon 133,308 Minnesota 239,369 Kansas 362,276 Nebraska 596,411 .....’ Nevada 113,108 Colorado 277,615 Utah 180,996 New Mexico 111,366 .... Washington 110,892 ...... Dakota 39,007 Arizona 149,819 ....!. ‘ldaho 105,356 Wyoming 45,907 Montana. 62,653 Alaska 1,600 . District of Columbia 109,141 Indian Territory 42,086 . .

Total $8,291,942 $4,606,982 The Ohio man appears to have got a good deal more than his share of postal facilities, and he might reasonably be asked to buy more postage stamps or be content with fewer mails. The effect of reducing letter postage one-third was to reduce the gross postal receipts only 5 per cent, in Illinois.

CLIPPINGS.

Lorillard made $84,000 on the turf last year. Commercial travelers say the South is now the best place for their operations. It is quite the fashion in Paris to celebrate a divorce by a dinner, ball, or other festival. Mrs. Lucy Stone believes there will some day be a woman President of the United States. Of the forty-nine railways in Russia only four use stood, notwithstanding every line runs more or less through immense forests. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt, during the last year, has spent over SIO,OOO relieving old Staten Island friends of his whose homes were about to be sold on foreclosure of their mortgages. Sir Walter Raleigh once asked Queen Elizabeth to smoke his pipe. She tried it once, and only once. It is a significant faet that inside of a year sho ordered his head to be cut off. A German histologist says a man has a totally new brain every sixty days.

CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done toy the National Legislature. A bill to suspend the coinage of the silver dollar, and providing that there shall be no reissue of United States notes of a denomination less than $5, was introduced in the Senate on the 3d inst.. by Mr. McPherson, of New Jersey. The bill propose* that silver certificates shall be issued, redeemable on present?tion at the Treasury. Mr. Vest's resolution caUing for investigation into the leases of land made by Indians in Indian Territory was amended so as to include within the scope of the investigation the leases of lands in all Indian reservations. The resolution wa- then agreed to. Mr. SlaterStave notice of his intention to take up the bill declaring forfeited the unearned lands granted in aid of the construction of the Oregon Central Railroad. The House, on motion of Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, declined to accept the Senate’s amendments to the House bill forfeiting the unearned land-grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. The House went into committee of the whole on the bill making temporary provision for the naval service. Mr. Randall stated that the appropriation for the support of the navy for the current fiscal year was $15,636,160, a reduction of $258,268 on last year’s appropriation. The bill passed without amendment. Consideration of the interstate commerce bill was resumed. Mr. Seymour, a member of the Cofhmerce Committe, supported the bill. He thought Reagan’s substitute so strict as to interfere with the trade laws. Mr. Longa another member, favored the establishment o an Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Peters approved of the bill because it provided asrainst the perpetration of wrongs by railroad companies by unreasonable freight charges. Mb. Mitchell a bill In the Senate, on the 4th Inst., giving a pension of $5,000 a year to Gen. Grant. Mr. Cameron submitted a resolution, to lie over, to the effect that the Finance Committee be directed to inquire whether it shall be expedient to expend a portion of the surplus revenue for the purpose of reviving the shipping and export trade by allowing a rebate from tariff duties on foreign goods imported in ships built and owned in this country and by allowing a premium on American vessels. The interstate commerce bill was made • the special order for Thursday, the Uth. The President sent the following recommendations to the Senate: Otis P. G. Clarke, of Rhode Island, Commissioner of Pensions: Luther Harrison, of Pennsylvania, Assistant Commissioner General of the Land Office. Commissioners for Alaska—John G. Brady, of Alabama, to reside at Sitka; George P. Ihric, of Pennsylvania, to reside at Wrangel; Chester Seeber, of California, to reside at Ounalaska. The Senate confirmed William P. Dunwoody, of lowa, member of the National Board of Health; Frank Hatton, of lowa, Postmaster General; John Schuyler Crosby, of New York, First Assistant Postmaster General. In the House, Mr. Morrison introduced a bill direct-* ing tne Secretary of the Treasury in purchasing bonds of the United States to pay ont any money in the Treasury in excess of $100,000,000. Mr. Dunham introduced a bill to admit, free of duty, articles for the World’s Exposition to be held by the colored race in -Chicago in 1885. Mr. J. D. Taylor of Ohio offered a bill prohibit-, ing the removal of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine, or any widow, or dependent relative of the same, from any office in the civil service, except for specific causes. The House then resnmed consideration of the interstate commerce bill. Mr. Anderson supported the substitute offered by Mr. Reagan, though he did not think its pro-* visions quite strong enough to secure the people against railroad extortion. Mr. Shively approved of the Reagan substitute, but doubted the propriety of intrusting to such a commission as was proposed such unlimited powers. Several bills were introduced to repeal the laws authorizing the appointment of supervisors and deputy marshals at elections. Both houses adjourned to Monday, the Bth inst. ,

Count Rumford’s Dietetics.

In the formula for Rumford’s soup given in my last, it is stated that the bread should not be cooked, but added just before serving the soup. Like everything else «n his practical programmes, this was prescribed with 4 philosophical reason. His reasoning may have been fanciful sometimes, bul he never acted stupidly, as the vulai majority of mankind usually do, whei they blindly follow an established cus tom without knowing any reason for so doing, or even attempting to discover 1 a reason. In his essay on “The Pleasure of Eating and of the Means That May Be Employed for Increasing It,” he says: “The pleasure enjoyed in eating depends—first, on the agreeableness of the taste of the food; and, secondly, upon its power to affect the palate.. Now, there are many substances extremely cheap, by which very agreeable tastes may be given to food, particularly when the basis or nutritive substance of the food is tasteless; and th& effect of any kind of palatalble solid food (of meat, for instance), upon the organs of taste, may be increased almost indefinitely, by reducing the size of the particles of such food, and causing it to act upon the palate by a lai’ger surface. And if means be used to prevent its being swallowed too soon,

which may easily be done by mixing it with some hard and tasteless substance, such as crumbs of bread rendered hard by toasting, or anything else of that kind, by which a long mastication is rendered necessary, the enjoyment of eating may be greatly increased and prolonged.” He adds that “the idea of occupying a person a great while, and affording him much pleasure at the same time, in eating a small quantity of food, may perhaps appear ridiculous to some; hut those who consider the matter attentively will perceive that it is very important. It is, perhaps, as much so as anything that can employ the attention of the philosopher.”— W. Mattieu Williams, in Popular Science Monthly.

Metallic Soap.

Porter—“ Did yon ring, sah?” Hotel Guest—“ Yes; I want some soap.” “There is the soap on the washstand. sah.” “This? Do yon call this hard ball soap ?” “Best castile, sah. Don’t it feel like castile, sah?” “ Well, no; rather more like cast iron. —Philadelphia Call. The New York Medical Tribune calls attention to the fact that since the production of cider in New England had almost ceased, there has been a marked increase in rheumatism and stone. European observers have called attention to similar facts abroad. M. Dumont, while examining the statistics of a hospital in Normandy, found that in fiftynine years only four cases of stone had been admitted. The ordinary beverage !n Normandy is cider.

It’s a pretty difficult thing for a highschool girl to think of something to say when she goes to write a composition, but as soon as she gets out of school and while on tine way home she can say a whole newspaper full without thinking. Next to sound judgment, diamonds, and pearls are the rarest things to be met with.— De la Bruy ere. All children are wealthy at a very early age—that is, they have the rocks.