Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — Page 2

3emocraticScntiuci RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J w. McEWEN, - - - Publishes.

THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue cf the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized. Intelligence ty Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World. THZ VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. BLOOD SHED FOIt EI!IN\ Sir. O’Biieit’it Coachman Sliot—Ah Orange Mob. Armed with lfevolvers, Attempt the Irish Editor’s Life. Another desperate attempt upon the life of William O’Bren, the brave Irish editor, was mtde by Orangemen at Hamilton, Canada, the particulars of which are embraced in the follow, ng dispatch from tliat city: When Mr. O Brien camo forward to address the meeting there was another ovation. His voice was weak and he spoke with evident pain. "I cannot raise my \oico very hifjh to night,” he said, “and I must leave the lion's share of the talking to mv sturdy friend, Mr. Kilbride.” Then he delivered, in the same low, intense tones, a brief but scathing indictment of his •opponents in Canada. While Mr. O’Brien was talking an Orange crowd that had gathered outside the rink set np a yell like that which had startled the Kingston meeting. Chief of Police McKinnon stepped forward, and, taking the riot act from his pocket, ominously explained its provisions to the crowd. He was cheered by a few but groaned at by many. The stem attitude of the authorities, however, had a wholesome effect upon the mob and they gradually melted aw ay. A telegram of sympathy from a number of Mr. O’Brien’s Parliamentary colleagues having been read, Mr. Kilbride made an eloquent statement of the wrongs of the Luggacurran tenants. Mr. O’Brien left the skating-rink a few moments before the meeting was concluded. He emerged through a side exit on McNab street in company with Messrs. Kilbride, McMahon, and lioche. Here a mob of young Orangemen had gathered, and as Mr. O'Brien and his friends made their appearance commenced hooting and yelling at them. The latter immediately entered a close carriage which was in waiting and drove down McNab street, followed by the mob. Beside the driver eat a Nationalist named T. P. O’Brien. As the carriage dashed out into Market Square there were a number of firecrackers let off, followed almost immediately by several discharges of revolvers. The driver, John Nelson, at the same instant turned to O’Brien, exclaiming: "O’Brien, I am shot!” Nelson dropped the reins, and, on examination, it was found ho had been struck in the left wrist by a bullet. T. P. O’Brien seized tho reiUH, and the whip was plied fast, tout the sharp ring of the revolvers continued, ©ight shots in all being fired. One grazed O’Brien’s hat, and another struck the panel of the carriage. As they reached the door of the hotel the crowd, which was close to them, fired a volley of rotten oggs, followed by curses and groans. The police, who were drawn up in front of the hotel, had a sharp tussle with the paob in trying to keep them back. McMahon struggled through the window of the carriage, as the door could not be opened, and with a revolver in his hand covered O’Brien’s retreat into the hotel. Nelson was removed to the hospital, whore the bullet was extracted from his wrist by Dr. Jas. White, who pronounces the wound a sorious one. Flashes from the Wires. Edmund von Tilly, a professor of languages, who committed suicide at New York, left a request that his body be cremated. Ex-Senator Thurman declares that under no circumstances would he accept a nomination for Governor of Ohio. * A fire caused by a cat overturning a lamp in a store destroyed the business portion of Detroy, a suburban village near Detroit. Commercial Matters. Cattle are stiil declining at the Chicago stock-yards, under liberal receipts, and prices are remarkably low, the best beeves selling for [email protected] per 100 pounds. Over ‘.1,000 head were received Monday. Twenty-three thousand hogs were received at Chicago. Prices were off 5 cents per 100 pounds, the best selling for $5.15. Butter ruled active in Elgin, IIL, Monday, at 17 cents. The stock of wheat at the present time amounts to 43,018,407 bushels, against 37,814,315 bushels a year ago. Following are the latest market quotations :

NEW YORK. Cattle 8 4.50 .a 5.50 Hogs 525 @ 5.75 Wheat-No. 1 White 97y>@ .08^ No. a Red 90 "@ .97 Corn—No. a 48 @ .49 Oath—White 88 @ .41 I’ork—New Mess 10.00 @ 10.50 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to l’riuie Steers 4.75 @5.03 Medium 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 3.75 @ 4.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.75 iu 5.25 Floor—Winter Wheat 4.25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring.. 87 @ .8) Corn—No. 2 88'.'. <$ .39 Oats—No. 2 J .25% 0 .20% Butter—Choice Creamery 17 @ .18 Fine Dairy 13 ;«* .h; Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddars. .1094(5 .1114 Full Cream, flats 12*4 ai .12% Eggs—Fresh Potatoes—Choice, new 75 @ !s5 Pork-Mess 22.25 m 22.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 82 @ .83 Corn—No. 3 37% 4 .38% Oats—No. 2 White 30 @ .30 % Rye—No. 1 56 & .58 Pork—Mess 14.25 @14.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 :83};i@ .87 Corn—Mixed 33 @ ,38}£ Oats—Mixed 27 @ .28 Pork—New Mess 11.25 @IL7S TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 89 @ .83’$ Corn—No. 2 41 @ .41’$ Oats .30 @ .30% DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.25 @5.00 Hogs 3.59 @4 50 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—Michigan led 89 @ .90 Corn—No. 2. 42 @ .42’3 Oats—White ..." ’32 @ 33 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2. Red \... .87%@ .88% Corn—No. 2 41U, 401, Oats—No. 2 31 ~@ |sa Pork-Mbss 15.25 @15.75 Live Hogs 4.50 @ 525 « BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 W’hite 91 @ .94 Corn-No. 2 Yellow 4i @ .45 C&TTLE 1 4.25 @5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beep Cattle 3.75 @5.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.25 Sheep 2.*25 @4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 84'/. @ .85 Corn—No. 2 38)5 <5 .39 Oats—No. 2 Miked 28 @ ,28 m EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.75 @ 5.00 Fair 4.50 @ 4.75 Common 4.25 <ft 4.50 H 005... 4.75 @ 5.25 Sheep... 3.75 & 4.25

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN BTATES. Archbishop Corrigan, of New Yerk, in a public address in that city, denounced Henry George’s land theory as “a fallacy against both philosophy and common sense, and as against the teachings of the Catholic Church.” He also stigmatized as “error” the idea that the Pope has the right to command and be obeyed only in matters of faith and morals. Henry George will, doubtless, fire another nine-column paragraph at the Archbish' p. Colonel Feed D. Grant has been appointed by Governor Hill Quarantine Commissioner at New York City. Mme. Januaschek, after her performance at Newport, R. L, Wednesday-night, and while visiting one of the members of her company in the Perry House, fell down a flight of fourteen steps, breaking one of the bones of her right forearm and badly bruising her whole body. The accident will cause the abandonment of all her engagements for the rest of the season. Mme. Janauschek will be obliged to remain indoors for a long time. Charles B. Reynolds, an ex-preacher, was fined $25 in a Morristown (N. J. ) court for blasphemy. The defendant was indicted under a statue passed 100 years ago, but was given a jury trial and was defended by Col. R. G. lugersolL Reynolds circulated a pamphlet attacking God. The theaters in Philadelphia are baroly paying expenses. There is a war among the Knights of Labor in New York.

THE WESTERN STATES.

The shock of an explosion of nitroglycerine, at Spirit Like, Minn., was distinctly felt at Duluth, eight miles distant from the scene, and in Oneonta, five miles distant, panes of glass were broken. In the vicinity of the works nine houses and as many barns were either demolished or wrecked, aud trees were shredded. The loss is s4\ooo. An improvement in the condition of the wheat and rye crops in Illinois is reported. A sleeper on the Denver and Rio Grande’s Salt Lake express was derailed near Salida, Col., and Grace Leslie, leading lady of Kate Castleton’s troupe, was killed. A fire at Adrian, Mich., destroyed SBO,OOO worth of property. A lady wearing a celluloid bustle seated herself in a passenger car at Roann, Ind., in close proximity to a burning cigar stump. The lady survives, although she is disfigured for life, while the celluloid bustle is a complete wreck, • About two thousand people are sufferers from the fire that destroyed the town of Lake Linden, Michigan. One person was burned to death. Appeals for aid are made on behalf of the victims. A Detroit dispatch says “the town of Ironwood, Michigan, is threatened with destruction, and many villages and towns on the Gogebic range are also in danger. Forest fires are still prevailing in various parts of the Northern Peninsula, aud the aggregate lossea will reach high into the millions. ” A fire at Cannon Falls, Minn., almost destroyed the business portion, and did over SIOO,OOO damage. Two lives were lost, and $03,000 damage done by fire at Erie, Pa. The thirteen citizens of Indianapolis indicted for election frauds have been placed under bonds of SI,OCO each. A good flow of natural gas has been struck at Butler, Ind. A Petoskey (Mich.) special says: “Ten men went out for a sail in Little Traverse Bay Sunday afternoon. Their boat was capized by a squall and five of them were drowned. Those who lost their lives were L W. Cole and son Fred, Marion Trip, Dennis Stark, and George Wise, all residents of Petoskey. Tho other five clung to the wreck and were rescued. Boats are out searching for the bodies. ”

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A passenger traiu ill South Carolina was stopped by the myriads of caterpillare on the tracks. Judge Kelly, the well-known Pennsylvania Congressman, who' has just returned from a Southern'tour, expresses surprise and delight with what he saw. He says: Everywhere throughout the mineral regions of the South enterprise and prosperity are mo'ing hand in hand. Nor is this prosperity of the New South confined to its mineral regions. Though the poverty and listnessness which characterized the poor people of the South still prevail to a considerable extent in her cotton-fields, there is a large leaven of enterprise and improvement which is rapidly curing that. The agriculturists of the New South—those who have caught the spirit of.progress—do not longer plow their fields with single-mule plows. They have learned the value of deep plowing. They continue to grow some cotton, but not upon the surface of exhausted fields, and they diversify their crops. lam speaking now of the progressive agriculturists, the representatives of the New South. Instead of one crop of cotton, they have fields of wheat, rye, clover, and other crops, and, to save their old-time guano bills, as they called bills for manufactured fertilizers, they turn under green crops and aid that with manure from sleek and well-fed herds of cattle. The great boom of the South is near at haud, and it will not 'be confined to the mineral regions of that richest section of our country, but will include the agricultural regions as well. r l he general cattle “round-up” is progressing at Quantah, Texas, with a more successful “gather” than fpr years pa-«r.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A Washington special to the Chicago News says: “Ex-Congressman Amos Townsend, of Cleveland, tells me that there is a truce between the Sherman and the Foster men in Ohio, and that the latter will support John Sherman for tho Presidential nomination. Mr. Townsend thinks there wall be no division of sentiment in Ohio this time, that the friends of Mr. Blaine there will give a hearty allegiance to Sherman, and that all the Republican leaders will work together sincerely for the latter’s nomination. While Foster does not love Sherman any more than he ever did, Townsend thinks ho will take hold heartily this time and pull his share of the load The Foraker sentiment is strong in Ohio, but tho young Governor w.ll abide his time and not try to run as Garfield did, as a dark horse.” 1 1 The President has appointed Major J.

L Rath bone of California to be Consul General of the United States at Paris. Major Rath bone was born in Albany, N. Y., of which city his father was Mayor. He was educated at West Point, and served for several years on the staff of Major General Schofield. After resigning from the army fifteen years ago, he located in California, where he became one of the foremost citizens of the Golden State. Michigan’s Senate has passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to manufacture oleomargarine in the State George H. Nott has been appointed Postmaster at New Orleans. A joint resolution to stand by the Riddleberger law has passed the Virginia Legislature Samuel Pasco, Democrat, has been elected United States Senator from Florida.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The President has approved an application from the Secretary of the Interior to the War Department for a detail of a troop of cavalry to be stationed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, to aid the civil authorities in enforcing the proclamation of the President forbidding tho fencing of the public domain and directing the removal of such unlawful fencing. The request was made upon the representation that parties in Wyoming had neglected and refused to comply with the terms of the President’s proclamation. The wife of United States Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, died at Washington. The Secretary of tho Treasury has issued a call lor all tho 3 per cent United States bonds still outstanding, about $17,000,000. The select committee of the Senate appointed to investigate alleged abuses in the appointment and removal of Indian traders has returned to Washington. Senator Platt, the Chairman, says tho committee discovered a bad state of affairs, and the committee will unanimously recommend that Indian traderships be no longer bestowed as rewards for political services. The President has issued an order changing and consolidating internal revenue disti-icts, by which twenty-two collecting districts are abolished, saving the Government $103,000 annually.

THE RAILROADS.

A San i rancisco dispatch says the transcontinental roads will join in the “boycott” against the Americau connections of the Canadian Pacific Roads. The net income of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad for 1886 was 98,080,309.07. There is every prospect of a thorough demoralization in Western railway rates soon. Tho Burlington and Northern, which has local business, threatens to cut the through rate, St. Paul to Chicago, and the Milwaukee and St Paul will retaliate by making a cut on the Omaha business. Iu that event a general war would ensue.

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday says: “The lockout of workmen engaged in the building trades continues unabated, and competent authorities estimate that the army of idle men numbers 25,000. The employers seem to be rock-rooted in the stand which they have taken, and, while they regret the untoward condit on of affairs at the most favorablo portion of the building seasoD, insist that until the mechanics recede from their unwarrantable demands in relation to the hiring of non-uuiou labor and the employment of apprentices it would bo useless to attempt a patched-up peace. The German contingent of the Bricklayers’ Union does not seem to be sat sfied with the situation of affairs.” The shoemakers’ lockout at Haverhill, Mass , affecting 3,090 men, has been settled. A strike ass -cting 2,000 brick-makers was inaugurated at Pittsburgh on Friday. The strike of the coke-workers at Everson, Pa., culminated in an attack by several hundred strikers upon the non-union men who were working at the ovens. The riot was caused by the attempts of the operators to save over 959,009 worth of coke in the ovens. Five persons were severely injured. It is understood that the rioters will be rigorously prosecuted.

THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION.

In response to the request of General J. C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, on behalf of the inmates of the National Homes for Disabled Yolunteer Soldiers for half-fare rates when traveling from one home to another, the Interstate Commission lias made a long written reply. In presenting Ihe case Gea Black said this had been the habit of the roads before the passage of the law, and that the trunk lines were willing to continue the practice, but that some other lines wanted to first have a ruling by the Commissioa After setting forth these facts the opinion says: The meritorious character of this application and the patriotic and humane reasons urged in support of it are lully appreciated and admitted. But the Commission is not referred to any provision of the uct that authorize s it to make un order or express an opinion on an ex-parte application of this nature. In the absence of such authority, an order or opinion would have no validity or weight whatever The fourth section of tho act, relating to long and short hauls is the only one that copiers discretionary powers upon the Commission to make orders lor relief in special cases, anil then only upon the application of 1 arriers. The twenty-second section of the act defines theenses in the transportation of propertv and persons to which tho act si all not apply, and ministers of religion and officers and employes of railroads are iho only persons specified. The statute as enacte 1 must be deemed to express tile deliberate will of the lawmaking body, and the commission is powerless to enlarge or restrict the 6copo. Nor can a construction bo given to it not warranted by language adopted. The trunk lines, according to the petition, have taken the responsibilitV of assuming that the allowance of the halfrates desired does not constitute unjust discrimination. Every enrrier has tne same right to assume its own construction of this provision. The commission can not prematurely impose any construction upon a carrier, however much some particular constrm tion may be desired. Construction is a judicial act involved in thexlocision of some controverted question. With the highest respect for yourself and those you represent, the ccmmishicn regrets that it has 110 power to comply with the requests of the petition. *

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Enormous sums of money are being collected throughout Germany for the purpose of propagating the Protestant faith in Italy. Letters from Emin Bey, dated last

November, received by Dr. Junker, the Russian explorer, reported the routes between Uganda and Wadelai open. Dr. Junker thiuks this fact assures the success of Stanley’s relief expedition, barring accidents. A Bucharest telegram says that Roumania is fortifying rapidly under the supervision of German officers. The royal commission appointed to investigate the alleged corruption in the British war office has made a report exonerating the accused officials, but recommending various administrative reforma M. Victor Koning, the husband of a French actress, has fought a duel with M. Lacour, a Paris journalist, who had reflected upon the latter’s reputation. The editor was slightly wounded. It is stated that no foreign officers will be invited to witness the maneuvers of the Russian troops this year. Fierce gales are reported in various parts of England and Scotland. Many wrecks are said to have occurred on the coasts. The convention between England and Turkey provides that the British will evacuate Egypt three years henca If, after that time, internal troubles arise in Egypt, British and Turkish troops shall reoccupy the country jointly or separately, as the two governments may agree upon. No other Power shall be allowed to intervene in Egyptian affairs. The State Council of France has granted the prayer of Prince Murat for restoration to the army. Similar appeals from the Orleans princes were denied.

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

William O’Brien, the fearless Irish agitator, was again the victim of a cowardly attempt’at murder in Kingston, Ontario. The would-be assassins were, however, foiled by the prompt action of some friends, who hurried him from the scene to a place of safety beforet be attacking party knew what had happened. A dispatch from Kingston gives the following particulars of the disgraceful affair: Mr O’Brien delivered his address at the rink, and it was just as he emerged from that building that the attempt upon his life was made. The night was very dark. On reaching the sidewalk he was confronted by a large crowd, who had for some time been cheering for Lansdowne and groaning for the agitator. He had no sooner appeared than some cried “Here he is,” and the mob began to surge in his direction. Several stones were thrown. In a twinkling O’Brien was rushed around the cormer and disappeared. Tho crowd, disappointed of their expected prey, moved down to the Burnett House and awaited O’Brien’s arrival, but he came not. Several windows in the hotel were smashed. Mr. O’Brien was seen afterward. He was in a friendly house. When he left the hall his hat was changed and he was rushed into a gateway and saved. He was unhurt, but much agitated. He says his escape was miraculous ; that it was a deliberate attempt to murder him. When his hat was changed he was about to receive a blow from a bludgeon. He was struck on the head by a stone. The Mayor offered him military protection after the row, but he declined it. Nobody knew where O’Brien was till 11 o'clock, when Peter Delvin came down to the Burnett House, where Mayor Carson was, and told him that O’Brien was in his house. Mayor Carson went ttiere and escorted O Brien to the Burnett Housa. Mr. O’Brien said: “When I came from the rink I heard cries of ‘There he is!’ and ‘Kill him!’ Stones began to be thrown instantly, and a small one hit me in the back of the neck. Mr. Hogan changed hats with me. Just before the change was made I happened to turn my head and saw a big ruffian raising a club over me. The blow did not descend upon me, and I don’t know who got it. We were surged along until we came to Newman’s house, and then Hogan, who almost held me in his arms, pushed me across the stoop of the house into an alleyway. From this alleyway we got into the kitchen of a man who Is, I am told, a rod-hot Orangeman, Donnelly. We waited there until the street was comparatively clear, and then we went down to Mr. Devlin’s house. When Mayor Carson came to the house he offered to escort me to the hotel with the military, who were under arms in their barracks. I told him that the-time for the military to be called outwas wheh the mob was collecting, and that I declined their protection now. ” The business failures during the week numbered for the United Stateß 152, for Canada 28; total, 180; against 167 the week previous, and 167 for tho corresponding week last year. Failures in the South are very light, and in other sections of the country are below the average, perhaps, except in the Pacific States and Canada, where they are on the increase. William O’Brien and Dennis Kilbride, the Irish Nationalists who have been making matters so warm in the Dominion for a week past, reached Niagara Falls on Saturday night, says a dispatch from that point They received a warm welcome when they landed on American soil, and it continued all the way to Niagara. Mr. O’Brien is considerably injured by the attacks oa him, and may be compelled to quit speaking for several days. A reporter who visited him at his hotel says:

It was with apparent difficulty that Mr. O'Brien spoke. “The whole of my left side,” he said, speaking at times almost in a whisper, “is suffering considerably from a contusion in the left rib received from the mob in Toronto. It gave me no trouble for a day or two, but has been gradually developing into pleurisy. Dr. Doyle, of Syracuse, who examined it last night, says that the lower portion of the lung is seriously affected by contusion. For a,.couple of days I have scarcely been able to Prove with ease or use my voice. My other injuries have mostly disappeared. One was from a stone with which I was struck on the shoulder-blade in Toronto and another from a blow behind the ear sustained in Kingston.” Bradstreet's review of the wheat market for the last week notes favorable rainfalls in ihe Mississippi and Missouri Valleys. Millers complain of d fficulty in obtaining winter wheat, and hence cannot fill orders for winter wheat flour. During the week there was an active export movement of wheat and flour to Europo from the Atlantic seaports, and according to careful calculation a reserve of only 85,000,(L0 bushels of wheat will be carried over to the next crop season. Every housekeeper in the laud is deeply interested just now in the unprecedented rise in the price of coffee, says a Philadelphia dispatch. In tho wholesale markets this berry is double the price per pound of what it was a year ago—a fact of momeut when it is considere i that even at the old price our national coffee bill was something like $65,000,000 a year. The reason for this rise in the price of coffee is tho prospective short crop that is to come on July 1 next It will not exceed 3,250,000 bags, while a full crop would be double that The crops for two years past have been below the average. Our coffee supply comes from Brazil, the little that we get from Java, Maracaibo, and the East Indies not being sufficient to affect the market In the least Rio rules ihe coffee world, as China does that of its companion, tea.

GOLD AND SILVER.

Report of the Director of the Mint on the Production of the Pr3ciou3 Metals. [Washington special.] The report of the Director of tbe Mint on the production of the precious metals in the United Sta'es for the calendar year 1886 is in press, and will soon be ready for distribution. The Director estimates the production of the United States to have been in 1886: Gold, $35,000,000; silver, $51,000,000. The value of the silver in the above estimate is calculated at the coinage ra'e of silver in United. States silver dollars—namely, $1.2029 • per ounce fine. The production of silver was | 39,445,312 fine ounces of the commercial value, at the average price of silver duiing the year (namely, about $1 per fine ounce), of $39,445,312' The production of gold shows an increase over the= prior year of $3,200,000. The production of silver is slightly le6B than in 1885. A tabular statement shows that the production of silver in the United States haslargely increased from 1880, when it was $39,200,000, to $51,(100,000 in 1886. The year’s production of gpld has approximated the maximum of t e last seven veors, the. product of 1880, which reached ‘536,000,000, against $35.000,(1C0 in 1886. Colorado maintains first rank as thfr larpest producer of tbe precious metals in the United States, the value of its p: oduclion of gold and silver having been over $20,000,t00 during the last year. California yields second place to Montana with a production of nearly $17,000,000, against $16,000,000 by the former. '1 he production of Nevada and New Mexico has decreased, while that of the other States has remained almost constant. Texas, for the first time, is added to the list of producing States, with a production of $200,000 in silver. The annual supply of silver from the mines of the world has largely increased in the last fourteen years, the period covered by the marked decline in the market f rice of silver, and has doubled since 1872; that is, from $62,609,000 in that year to $124,000,000 in 1886. During the calendar year 1380 the changes in the price of silver were very marked. Opening Jan. 2, 1886, at 40 15-16 pence per ounce, British standard, the fluctuations were slight until April, when commenced a rapid decline, which continued until July 31, when the price of silver reached 42 pence, remaining at that price until Aug. 10, when an advance took place which continued until Nov. 20, when the price reached 47 pence, but remained at that point only a short time. The closing quotation Dec. 31 was 46£ pence. The average price for the year was 45.374 pence, equivalent to 99.465 cents per ounce fine. The price of silver at tho present time is 43f pence per ounce, British standard, equivalent to 95.6 cents per ounce fine. The value of the gold deposited at the mints of the United States during the calendar year 1883 was $79,057,818, of which over $21,000,000 consisted of foreign bullion and over $9,000,000 foreign coin. The deposits and purchases of silver amounted to $39,086,070. The coinage executed at the mints during the calendar year consisted of 63,739,966 pieces, of the face value of $61,375,438. The number of silver dollars coined was 31,423,886, on which the seigniorage was $7,095,361.34. The Director estimates the stock of coin in the United States Jan. 2, 1887, to have been, in round figures, gold, $560,600,000; silver, $324,006,600; total, $884,000,000. In addition to the stock of coin, the Government owned gold and silver bullion in the mint awaiting coinage of the value of gold, $81,409,000; silver, $7,000,000; total. $88,400,600; a total of metallic stock on Jan. 1, 1887, of gold, $341,400,000; silver, $331,800,000; total, $973,200,000. The Director presents official figures to show that of the stock of gold coin estimated to have been in the United States the first of tbe present year, there was in the Treasury of the United States and in the national and State banks and in circulation on the Pacific slope $360,000,000, leaving $2(10,000,000 in the hands of the people and in the banks and savings institutions of the United States east of the Sierra Nevadas (other than national banks and the 849 State hanks Which reported to the Controller of the Currency). The stock and ownership of gold and silver coins in the United States, Jan. 1. 1887, are given as follows: United States Treasury, $186,901,494; national banks, $166,993,556; State and other banks and private individuals, $531,156,804; total, $885,051,854. The total stock of paper and metallic money in the United States—the paper all either redeemable in coin or secured by bonds redeemable in coin—amounted, Jan. 1, 1887, to $1,879,919,935.

THE CROPS.

Rain in Some Localities, but Badly Heeded as a Rule —Injury from Chinch-Bugs. [Chicago special.] . The following crop summary was compiled by the Farmers’ Review: Our reSorts again show that some localities have een favored with beneficial rains, but, as was the case at the date of our former report, the majority of the counties in all of the Western States, except perhaps Missouri and Kentucky, need rain. Dakota is apparently in better condition as regards the crops than any State reporting. Thirteen counties in Illinois report an average condition in winter wheat of 90 per cent. Damage by chinch-bugs is reported in some counties, while rain is needed in others. Ten counties in Indiana report the condition of winter wheat at an average of 85 per cent. The reports from the State are on the whole good. The weather in Michigan still continues very dry. Pastures are short from lack of of raiu. Twelve counties in Ohio report the average condition of winter wheat as low as 66 per cent. Eight counties in Wisconsin reprot an average condition of 85 per cent. Rain is badly needed. In lowa the average condition of winter and spring wheat is 100 per cent, and prospects are good. Chinchbags are injuring the winter wheat in many Kansas couuties, while others are from the insect. Wheat is in good condition in Kentucky and rain plentiful. Spring wheat is in very fine condition in Minnesota. In Missouri eleven counties report the average condition of winter wheat at 91 per cent. Local rains have fallen in Nebraska during the past week, and wheat is in a iair condition./ j