Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — Page 2

SljcfcniocraticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W. McEWEN, - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Reeord of the Week. EASTERN. Pleuro-pneumonia is reported to be ragiug among the cattle in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Two hunters shot into the packing house of the Ditmar Powder Works at Bay Chester, N. Y., causing an explosion, which blew four men into fragments and destroyed the structures. Small portions of the victims’ bodies were picked up 600 feet from the works. Nine cases of pleuro-pneumonia were discovered on the farm of William Chase, near Vienna, New Jersey. Three of them have already proved fatal. The socialists of New Haven, during an address by flerr Liebknecht, put out of tho hall a ltussian anarchist who interrupted the proceedings. Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania lias instructed the Attornoy General of the State to institute legal proceedings against the anthracite pool to prevent, the contemplated advance in tho price of coal after October 1.

WESTERN.

A. S. Gage & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods at Chicago, made an assignment to H. J. Macfarland, to forestall a levy by the First National Bank on a judgment for $06,843.75. The affair took place so suddenly that crowds of lady customers wore imprisoned for a time, for fear of the entrance of Deputy Sheriffs. Tho liabilities and assets are placed as high as SBOO,OOO.

Texas fever in an ugly form prevails near Docatur, IIL The quarantine established at tho Chicago distilloriee over infected cattle costs the Government about SIOO per day, and a special disbursing agont has been ordered on irrtm Washington. It is probable that the trouble will put an end to the practice of feeding cows at distilleries. A series of nine base-ball games has been arranged betwoen tho Chicago and St Louis Clubs for the championship of the world. P. F. Wallace, suspected of the murder of the Logan family, was taken from jail at Steelville, Missouri, and suspended for a time, but was hands 1 back to the officers on tho appeals of leading citizens. In his store at Bringliurst, Indiana, Mr. Kearns accidentally dropped a lighted cigar into a keg of powder. The explosion wrecked tho structure, killed a customer wounded two other persons, and made the inhab.tants believe that Wiggins’ earthquake had broken loose. Skrere & Wolf, dealers in sporting materials in San Francisco, failed with liabilities at $50,000. On a farm near Oxford, Ind., a stromr flow of natural gas waß encountered at a depth of 130 foot The Chicago company that bored the well has loased 1,500 acros surrounding it.

SOUTHERN.

Wiggins’ earthquakes and tornadoes failed to materialize on the 29th ult., much to tho relief and joy of tho people along the South Atlautic and Gulf oasts. With the exception of light shocks at Elizabethtown, Pa., and Petersburg, Va., and a “norther” in Texas and North Louisiana, there were no subterranean or meteorological disturbances whatever. A Charleston dispatch say 3: Wiggins prediction has had a marked effect <ll the emotional nature of tho negroes, and for the x-'ust four or live nights their churches haVe been tilled with crowded congregations of frenzied worshipers. The effect of the shocks on the superstitious negroes has been fearful, and they seem to have determined to be taken to heaven by Storm. Hundrods of converts are made every night, and the excitement is so great that many go into tranceH and have to be carried home on stretchers." Among the whites the religious sentiment has also been deeply .aroußed. » An Atlanta (G a.) telegram says: At daylight this morning the streets of Atlanta were filled with early risers. They found a cloudless sky but a chilly atmosphere. As noon passed and night was reached the people gave up their fears, and returned to their homes. The colored people kept up their religious meetings until to-night. Many of the merchants did not go to their places of business to-day, their families refusing to be left alone. Perhaps the best evidence of the fears of the people was the abstention of the school children. The non-attendance was greater than e\er before known, and the teachers report that the children who did attend might as well have staid at home. The many high buildings in the city were emptied of their inmates all day, who, upon one exouse or another, staid out until the dreaded hour for the event had passed. The Supreme Court of Virginia, in tho case of T. J. Cluverius, who stands convicted of the murder of Lillian Madison, at the old reservoir in Richmond, Ya., has denied the petition for a rehearing. Death by hanging will follow unless Executive clemency interposes. S. S. Hamilton, a prominent citizen, fell down stairs at Louisville, breaking his neck and causing instantaneous death. Charles Edwards, colored, who cut the throat of his mistress, was hanged at New Orleans. Frost damaged vegetation in certain sections of the South from 30 to 50 per cent. Matt O’Brien, a New Orleans tough, killed his brother Hugh in a bar-room. There have been thirty-one earthquake shocks at Charleston since Aug. 27.

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland has removed his office furniture and law library from Buffalo to Washington. Numerous letters received during last month by the Hydrographic Office at Washington from the officers of steam and sailing vessels bear testimony to the efficacy of pouring oil on the waters in storms, thq billows being speedily reduced to long and heavy bat harmless swells.

The public debt statement issued on the Ist insk shows the reduction of the public debt during the month of September to be $10,627,013, and total cash in the treasury $465,375,713. The following is a recapitulation of th 3 statement:

INTKBEST-BEABING DEBT. Bonds at per cent $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,760,900 Bonds at 3 per cent 115,164,30) Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 190,500 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal...... $1,181,757,312 Interest 11,906,811 Total $1,19 0,691,123 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCH MATURITY. Principal $6,908,735 Interest 291,051 Total $7,199,796 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738,391 Certificates of deposit 7,705,000 Gold certificates 84,691,*07 Silver certificates 95,387,112 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,953,702 Principal 541,476,012 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,731,232,051 Interest 12,137,872 Total $1,742,359,932 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 2)6,924,043 Less reserve held for redemption of U. S. notes 100,000,000 Total $306,924,043 Total debt less available cash item 551,495,445,888 Net cash in tho Treasury 67,896,321 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1886 $1,367,649,567 Debt less cash in Treasury Sept. 1, 1886... 1,738,176,58 p Decrease of debt during the month. $10,627,013 CASH IN TIIE TBKASUBY AVAILABLE FOB KEDUCTION OP PUBLIC DEBT. .Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $84,691,807 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 95,367,112 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,705,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 19,136,607 Fractional currency ‘ 3,517 Total available for reduction of the debt $206,924,043 BEBEBVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin $25,899,745 Minor coin 2)5,2)4 T Otal $2 ,195,039 Certificates held as cash o , 60,31(1 Net cash balance on hand 67,896,321 Total cash In Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account.. $405,375,713 Tho total of tho gold coin and bullion in tho Treasury Sept 30 was $24*2,609,018, as compared with $235,430,635 the 31st of the provious month. Tho net gold in the Treasury, after deducting gold certificates in Treasury cash and in circulation Sept. 30, was $157,917,211, as compared with $157,732,288 on the 31st of the previous month.

POLITICAL.

The Nebraska Republican Convention, which was presided over by Congressman A. S. Weaver, placed in tho field the following ticket: Governor. Gon. John M. Thayer; Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Shedd; Secretary of State, G. L Laws; Treasurer, C. H. Williard; Auditor, H. A. Babcock; Attorney General, William A. Luse; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Josoph Scott; Superintendent of Public Instruction, George B. Lano. The platform favors tho intelligent organization of tho wage-workers for all lawful purposes, but refuses to sanction anarchism or mob violence in the settlement of the differences between employes and employers; favors the regulation of interstate commerce by Congress; and demands a rovision of laws by which alions are allowed to own argo bodies of land.

Congressional nominations: Third Pennsylvania, Samuol J. ltandall, Democrat; Fourteenth Illinois, William Voorhees, Democrat; Eighteenth Illinois, W. H. Moore, Prohibitionist; Eleventh Michigan, John Power, Democrat; Tenth Tennessee, Zach Taylor, Bepublican; Second Louisiana, Major Andrew Hero, Bepublican; Third Now Jersey, William McMahon, Democrat; Seventh Massachusetts, Gen. William Coggswoll, Bepublican; Tenth Massachusetts, William W. Bice, Bepublican; First Louisiana, T. G. Wilkinson, Democrat; Third Louisiana, J. S. Davidson (colored), Bepublican; Thirty-fourth New York, W. G. Laidlaw, Bepublican; First Pennsylvania, John Chambers. Democrat; Second Pennsylvania, W. E. Thomas, Democrat; Fifth Pennsylvania, W. G. Smith, Democrat; Twenty-first Ohio, Martin A. Foran, Democrat; Twentieth Ohio, William Dorsey, Democrat; Eighteenth Ohio, W. H. Phelps, Democrat; Sixth Virginia, J. B. Page, Knights of Labor; Eighth Missouri, J. J. O’Neill, Democrat; Third Minnesota, J. L. McDonald, Democrat; Fourteenth New York, W. G. Stahlnecker, Democrat; First New Jersey, J. W. Woscott, Democrat; Fifteenth Ohio, A. J. Warner, Democrat; First Ohio, Benjamin Butterworth, Bepublican; Second Ohio, Charles E. Brown, Bepublican; Fourth Minnesota, Edmund Bice, Democrat; Twelfth Missouri, 0. H. Pitcher, Bepublican; First Wisconsin, James B. Doolittle, Democrat; First Illinois, Edgar Terhune, Democrat; Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania, 0. L. Jackson, Bepublican; Seventh South Carolina, Bobert Smalls, Bepublican; Twenty-seventh New York, N. W. Nutting, Bepublican; Eighth Tennessee, S. W. Hawkins, Bepublican; Third Minnesota, B. B. Herbert, Bepublican; Twenty-third New York, J. 8. Sherman, Bepublican; Fourth Kentucky, J. W. Lewis, Bepublican; Third Kentucky, John Shea, Democrat, and John E. Halsel, Democrat; Tenth Ohio, Frank H. Hurd, Democrat; Ninth Illinois, M. H. Peters, Democrat; Tenth Illinois, Julge McCulloch, Prohibitionist; Dakota Territory, M. H. Day, Democrat.

The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention at Worcester, which was presided over by Hon. Patrick A Collins, placed in the field the following ticket: Governor, John F. Andrew; Lieutenant Governor, Frank K. Foster; Secretary of State, J. R. Thayer; Treasurer, Lewis Warner; Auditor, William F. Cook; Attorney General, J. W. Corcoran. Tho platform strongly indorses President Cleveland; demands reform of the tariff; reaffirms the financial

policy of the Democratic platform of 1884; insists upon the defense of the right of American fishing; welcomes the new era of organized labor; commends the Democratic members of the Legislature for securing the passage of various acts in the interest of labor during the last Legislature; opposes contract labor in prisons and the importation of foreign contract labor to compete with domestic labor; sends a kindly greeting to Parnell, and deplores the death of such men as McClellan, Hendricks, Hancock, and Tilden. Treasury Department officials, says a Washington telegram, attach no importance to the rumor tha{ Senator McPherson has been offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury. Secretary Manning is certainly going back to the Treasury, having decided to remain as long as his health will permit The membeis of Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet accepted their appointments with the understanding that they would remain till the end of tho term.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Robert Harris was re-elected President The Illinois Midland Railroad was sold at Springfield, 111, under a decree of the United States Court The road is 141 miles long, and brought $1,120,250, of which $332,000 will bo paid in bonds of the road. The Borgs, of Now York, who represent the stockholders, were tho purchasers. All of the Northwestern roads will reduce passenger fares to three cents per mile Oct. 15.

MIS CELL ANEOUS. The total number of failures in the United States and Canada during the threo months ending Sep. 30 was 1,932, against 2,173 in the third quarter of 1885, a decrease of 241. Tho liabilit.es amount to $27,500,000, against $23,874,000 in the corresponding quarter of 1885. Gen. Miles is being criticised for his liberal terms to Geronimo and his band. The Wholesale Druggists’ National Association has authorized the formation of a mutual insurance company, and the members of the society in session at St. Paul agreed to insure for $36 *,OOO in tho now concern. The volcano peak of Pabloff Mountain, in Alaska, is in a state of eruption. Mariners report that dust was so thick from tho crater as to darken the sun, and decks of vessels were covered several inches deep with the black deposit During the present week Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the greatest American comedian, will appear at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, as Caleb Plummer and Mr. Goliglitly, in “The Cricket on the Hearth” and “Lend Me Five Shillings.” People visiting Chicago should not miss tho opportunity of seeing this grand actor in these delightful impersonations. The steamer Almeda ran from Sydney to San Francisco in twenty-three days six hours and thirty minutes—the best recorded time. John Fitzgerald, President of the Irish National League of America, has issued an address urging every branch to start an anti-eviction fund and send the contributions to Treasurer O’Reilly, at Detroit. The Collector of Customs at St. John, N. 8., compelled the Captain of the W aterford bark Orient to haul down the Irish flag which was floating at the masthead as his vessel sailed into the harbor.

FOREIGN.

Three hundred Spanish soldiers revolted in Madrid and created a great panic. In an encounter between the insurgents and the loyal troops several officers were killed and wounded. As a consequence of the outbreak martial law has been proclaimed. A spinners’ strike at Bnrnly, England, which caused the stoppage of 70,000 spindles, has terminated, tho workmen accepting a reduction of 5 per cent in wages. Eranz Adam, the historical painter, is dead. The Kussian ship Petrolea, built with sixteen hermetically-closed reservoirs to supply oil to Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Holland, has reached Lubeck with her first cargo. A band of discharged Chinese soldiers made a descent oh the leading pawnshop in HuchoDg and murdered the proprietor and forty-six of hiß employes. The robbers were all arrested ABerlin dispatch says that hoarfrosts prevail throughout Germany. Iu Bavaria heavy snowfalls are reported. Dissension has broken out between the only two German anarchist clubs in London and threatens to lead to violence. A deputation of more than one hundred prominent Bulgarians called upon Gen. Kaulbars at Sofia to induce him to modify his circular, especially his demand for a postponement of the elections for two months. When the General replied that they must carry out the wishes of the Czar, tho deputation withdrew in disgust The case of Edward Solomon, husband of Lillian Russell, who was arrested in London on the charge of bigamy, preferred by his first wife, Lily Grey, came up for hearing, and Solomon was remanded pending the arrival of witnesses from the United States. The Due d’Aumale has bequeathed the Chantilly estates to the French people. Joseph Chamberlain says that the intolerant actions of a certain section of the Liberals constitute the greatest obstacle to a reunion of the party. An explosion in a colliery near Wakefield, Eugland, caused the loss of twenty-four lives. Violent earthquake shocks are reported from Central Germany. Bulgaria has accepted the Czar’s terms, provided independence is guaranteed France and Russia have been urging the Porte to demand that England evacuate Egypt. Turkey rejects the overture, and maintains her alliance with England

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Up to Oct. 1 there had been shipped, in round numbers, 2,700,000 gross tons of ironore from the harbors of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Mayor Harrison, in his annual message to the Chicago Council, reports the bonded debt of the city at $12,695,500. The Police Department cost $1,079,374 for the year, the Fire Department $717,635, and the schools $2,062,808. With the improvements in progress at the Water-works, a capacity of 154,000,000 gallons per day will be reached. The buildings annually erected average fifteen miles in frontage. The death rate of 18.76 per 1,000 is the, lowest of any large city. There are eighteen patrol-wagons, twenty police stations, five police Courts, and 1,032 members of the force.

Justice Gordon decided in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, at Pittsburgh, that the store-order act of Juno 29, 1881, is unconstitutional and void, inasmuch as by it “persons are prevented from making their own contracts. ” In his opinion Judge Gordon says: “The act is an infringement alike of the rights of the employer and employe, and it is an insulting attempt to put the laborer under legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to the manhood but subservient to his rights as a citizen of the United States.” The decision caused a great deal of comment in Pittsburgh labor circles. The Labor Tribune advises every labor organization in the State to make a determined fight against the store-order system. John Costello, President of the Pittsburgh Miners’ Association, said: “The decision will be startling nows to the miners. They must necessarily begin a warfare against the pernicious system. ” The President directed the suspension of Berthold Greenebaum, United States Consul at Apia, Samoa. , Professor Wiley, the chemist of the Agricultural Department, who has charge of the sugar-making experiments at Fort Scott, telegraphs that ho has met with complote success in extracting saccharine matter from sorghum. The amount of United States currency outstanding is as follows: Old demand notes $ 57,375 United States notes, all issues (greenbacks).., , 346,631,016 One-year notes of 1863 36,3/5 Two-year notes of 1863 20,200 Compound interest notes 197,010 Fractional currency, all issues 15,329,640 Total $362,331,426 The amount of national bank notes outstanding is $303,082,437, a decrease during the last month of $1,317,308, and a decrease since October 1, 1885, of $13,970,367. This circulation is secured by $65,612,547 in lawful money and $.260,108,400 in bonds, as folloivs: Currency sixes, $3,576,000 ;4% per cents, $56,276,100 ; 4 per cents, $113,740,850; 3 per cents, $86,515,450. The amount of certificates outstanding is: Gold, $84,691,807; silver, $95,387,112, and currency, $7,705,000.

Mrs. T. D. Sullivan, wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and a deputation of Irish women presented Mr. Gladstone, at Hawarden, with the mammoth home-rule petition. It bore tho signatures of 500,000 Irish womea After Mrs. Sullivan had read the address of the Irish women, the Mayors of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Clonmel presented the freedom of their respective cities to tho exPremier, and thanked him for his chivalrous and splendid efforts to restore Ireland’s Parliament. Mr. Gladstone in reply said: “Whatever may be my condition the Irish people will always largely share my interest and my affection.”

The September fire loss in the United States and Canada was $6,500,000, a slight decrease from the average September loss of previous years. Up to October 1 the aggregate fire waste in 1886 was $83,000,000, against $71,500,000 for tho same period of 1885. At Hartford, Conn., Henry Hotchkiss, a musician, shot and killed his wife on a public street, and then fired a bullet into his own head, inflicting, however, only a slight wound.

THE MARKETS.

HEW YORK. Beeves 54.00 @ 5.60 Hogs 4.75 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 85 @ .86 No. 2 Bed... 84 @ .85 Corn No. 2. 46}$@ .47}$ Oats—White 35 @ .41}$ Pork—New Mess 11.00 @11.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.50 Good Shipping 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 3.00 @ 3.50 Hogs -Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 4.75 Flour—Extra Spring 4.25 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 74 @ .74)6 Corn—No. 2 .35 @ .36 Oats—No. 2 at @ .24}$ Butter—Choice Creamery 24 @ .26 Fine Dairy 18 @ .20 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. ,11}$@ .12 Full Cream, new 12 @ .12}$ Eggs—Fresh 16 @ .17 Potatoes—Early Bose, per bu.. .52 @ .55 Pork—Mess 8.75 @ 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 72 @ .73 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .36}$ Oats—No. 2 24 @ 25 Rye—No. 1 .53 @ .54 Pork—Mess 8.75 @ 9.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 .77 @ .77}$ Corn—No, 2 40 @ .40}$ Oats—No. 2 27 @ .27}$ DETROIT. Beef Cattle... 3.75 @5.25 Hogs 4.00 i«t 5.25 Sheep 350 @4.50 Wheat—Michigan Bed .76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 White 30 @ 31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 , 74 (« .75 Corn—Mixed.., 34 @ .34}$ Oats—Mixed 26}$@ .27 Pork—New Mess 9.50 @lO 00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2 39 @ .39}$ Oats—No. 2 28 @ .28}$ Pork—Mess 9.50 @IO.OO Live Hogs 4.00 @4 50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 82 @ .82}$ Corn—No. 2. 43 rai .44 Cattle 4.00 @4.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.25 @ 5.00 Hogs... 4.00 @ 4.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Mixed 74 @ .75 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .37}$ Oats—No. 2 26 @ .26}$ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.75 @ 550 Fair 4.00 @ 4.75 Common 3.25 @ 4.00 Hogs 4.75 @ 5.00 Sheep 3.75 @ 4.50

THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Struggle for the Base-Ball Championship Drawing to a Close. The Chicago and St. Louis Clubs the Winners in Their Respective. Leagues. [Chicago correspondence.] The Chicagos still hold the lead in the race for the League pennant, and that they will be the champions of 1886 is an assured fact. The New Yorks and Phliadelphias are making just as close a race for the third place as the two leaders did for first place. The Bostons and St. Louis are also engaged in a lively contest for fifth position, with chances in favor of Boston, who now holds that place. Following we give the schedule of the League and American Association, and some interesting records of League games: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Games Clubs— won. lost. i Chicago 84 29 Detroit 79 33 New York 67 41 Philadelphia 63 41 Boston 49 58 St. Louis 41 70 Kansas City 29 79 Washington 22 83 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Won. Lost. St. Louis 84 41 Pittsburg 7.1 54 Brooklyn 69 58 Louisville 65 81 Cineiuuati 58 66 Athletic 55 66 Metropolitan 48 72 Baltimore 43 75 WHITEWASHES. The record of ihe games wherein the opponents made nothing are as follows: At Chicago. Chicago, 11; Kansas City, 0. At Detroit. Detroit, 10; New York, 0. Detroit, 1; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Chicago, 4; Detroit, 0. At St. Louis. Kansas City, 2; St. Louis, 0. St. Louis, 5; Boston, 0. St. Louis, 6; Kansas C.tv, 0. Washington, 2; St. Louis, 0. Philadelphia, 1; St. Louis, 0. Chicago, 1; St. Louis, 0. _ St. Louis, 5; Kansas City, 0. St. Louis, 5; Kansas City, 0. At Kansas Citg. Philadelphia, 1; Kansas, City, 0. Kansas City, 7; Washington, 0. Philadelphia, 3; Kansas City, 0. At Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 3; Chicago, 0. Detroit, 3; Philadelphia, 0. Philadelphia, 3; St. Louis, 0. Philadelphia, 8; Washington, 0. Philadelphia, 7; Washington,©. Philadelphia, 5; Chicago, 0. At New York. Chicago, 4; New York, 0. New York, 3; Boston, 0. Philadelphia, 4; New York, 0. New York, 8; St. Louis, 0. Washington, 5; New York, 0. At Boston. Chicago, 9; Boston, 0. Boston, 2; New York, 0. Boston, 15; Washington, 0. At Washington. New York, 6; Washington, 0. Washington, 7; Chicago, 0. Chicago, 20; Washington, 0. Detioit, 9; Washington, 0. Kansas City, 2; Washington, 0. Chicago, 6; Washington, 0. Chicago, 11; Washington, 0. Notes of tlie Game. In Pittsburgh President Spalding is called the “Helmholder of the League.” The St. Louis Browns and Maroons will play a full series next month, the winner to take 60 per cent, and the loser 40 per cent, of the gate receipts. The Chicagos won every game at homo with the Eastern clubs, the last series, which is a remarkable achievement, equaled only by the St. Louis Browns, last season. Glasscock’s success with the St. Louis Club makes Duulap’s reputation as a captain sink into obscurity. Glasscock seems to have one faculty that Dunlap lacks—personal magnetism.

There is ono thing no one can deny, however much a column of figures may dazzle his eyes, and that is that when the Chicago Club enters the field they do so as a club and not as nine individual players. After the regular season is over a series will be played between the St. Louis Browns, champions of the American Association and the Chicagos, champions of the National League, for the championship of the world. The games are to be played in Chicago and St. Louis.

Roger Connor, the big first-baseman of the New Yorks, recently achieved the task he had set himself for three years past, of knocking a ball over the twentyfoot high right field fence at New' York. He landed it in the lot across One Hundred and Eleventh street, 450 feet fiom the home plate. This is the first time the feat has ever been accomplished, and it may not be repeated for a long time to come. It was undoubtedly the longest hit ever made in New York, and was made oil: of Eadbouru, of the Bostons.

GENERAL ARTHUR.

The Kx-Preshlent Sahl to Be Fatally 111. L Special from \Yashington.l A gentleman who had a high position under President Arthur’s administration, aud who recently visited him at New London, says that, while there is nothing in General Arthur’s condition to excite immediate apprehension, the fact is well known to General Arthur's friends, and better known to himself than to anyone else, that he is suffering from a disease of the kidneys from which he does not expect to recover. The progress of the disease has probably been somewhat stayed by medical treatment and careful nursing, but theie is only one result that is expected, or can he expected, and that result General Arthur awaits with resignatiou. This gentleman says ihat those who are the most in the confidence of the physician do not think that the ex-President can long Survive. It is quite certain that he has not been as much benefited by his visit to New London a s been honed-