Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1890 — UNCLE SAM’S MAILS. [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM’S MAILS.

j Fostmaster General VVanainaker Makes Hi* Annual Report. Postmaster General Wanamaker has made • Ids annua! report. The most important j faragraphs touching tbe Post-office Depai-t----i went and its various ramifications are these which deal with the subjects of postal telegraph. postal savings batiks and 1 cent postage, Mr. Wanamaker’s position regarding a postal telegraph is well known. I It is a deep-rooted conviction with him thut ! such a syste i. would be of much greater licnefit to the American people than to leave the control of the telegraph service in the hands of a practical monopoly ,*any sided as this question is the Postmaster General has, he says, studied it from every F>int of view. His report shows that he las fully considered the arguments that lave been made against it. aud that he lietleves he has successfully- overthrown them ill. Upon the subject of postal savings banks the Postmaster General also treats at length. His report shows the adoption of such auxiliaries to be useful in several ways. Their establishment in small outlying communities w here savings banks do not exist will be. in the first place, an encouragement to thrift aud economy. Many millions of dollars will thus be saved annually that are now. in the atsence of a proper protection, needlessly wasted. The suggestion of 1-eent postage finds great favor in Mr. Wanamaker's eyes. The receipts from this source are r.ow about $38,000,000 annually. To divide the rate by one-half would make, in his opinion, a deficit of $19,000,000, a larger burden than the country is now prepared to stand. While upon this subject the Postmaster General explains that the business of the other executive departments, which is handled free, would, if it paid the usual postage, increase the revenue of the postal service about $8,000,000 a year, a sum sufficient to offset the present deficit of $0,000,000 and leave a handsome balance of $2,000,000 besides. HURTING BUSINESS. The Monetary Stringency Beginning to Have Its Effect. R. G. Dun &. Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The last broken week has not improved the business outlock. Tlie difficulty of obtaining commercial loans increases, not In New York only, but at most other points. Banks and other lenders from the largest to the smallest appear to have been induced by recent events to strengthen themselves. Merchants have grown more cautious about extending obligations, or making purchases which can be deferred, apprehending that retail buying may be cut down somewhat by reduced ability of some consumers, and by the disposition of others to economize in view of the extensively reported advance in prices. Meanwhile speculation has been reviving to an unhealthy extent in some directions on the theory that troubles are over and things will improve. The money markets are thus loaded with increased demands for carrying securities arid products at a time when trade especially needs more liberal supplies. At most of tlie interior markets money grows more stringent, and the scarcity begins to affect trade at important centers, though the volume of business is still large. The speculative markets have been advancing. Wheat has risen 6 1 4 cents, com and oats 4)4 cents, lard 15 cents per 100 pounds, aud coffee one-quarter of a cent, pork being unchanged, and oil one cent lower. Cotton has also yielded a sixteenth in view of crop prospects. The rise in breadstuffs has no increased foreign demand to justify it, but operators seem to have concluded that monetary difficulties are all over, and that they can carry all the grain until Europe Is forced to buy.

maky walker very sick. The Famous Woman I>octor Lying at the Point of Death. Dr. Mary E. Walker, known throughout the country for her eccentricities and as the only woman commissioned a surgeon of the United States army during the rebellion, lies dying at her farm five miles west of Oswego, N. Y. Or. Mary arrived from Washington last August. She had been sick in the Capital, ana her physicians directed that she be sent to her home. She Is troubled with heart failure, and the end Is looked for any moment. I>r. Walker Is a graduate of a Geneva, N. Y., medical college, and was admitted to practice in 1858. In 1861 she went to Washington and offered her services for the purpose of taking care of the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals. Her first duties were in the Indian hospital under Dr. Green. During the last year of the war she was in the Southwest with Colonel Dan McCook, and while there she was made a prisoner by Champ Ferguson, the guerrilla, and sent to Castle Thunder in Richmond, where she remained four months. In 1866 Dr. Walker visited Europe, hoping that her reformatory ideas would meet with more encouragement. She appeared upon the platform in St. Janies’ Hall dressed In a black silk tunic reaching a little below the knees and fitting the figure closely like a man's frock coat, black cloth trousers, her hair in curl;, and a bunch of flowers at her throat. 0 lANDERSONVILLE PRISON BOUGHT. The Famous Ground Now in the Possession of tlie Grand Army, The site of the old Anderscmville Prison Is now the property of F. S. Jones Post. G. A. R., of Macon, Ga. The purchase negotiations, which were begun a year ago, included eighty acres of land, on which were located the stockade, fortifications, rifle-pits, etc., of the historic prison. The land was bought from George Kennedy, a negro, and the purchase price was $1,500. In thirty days the work of converting the site Into a National G. A. R. Park will be begun. The money for this purpose has already been contributed by G. A. R. men In Georgia and elsewhere. The purchase will bo surrounded by a hundred-foot driveway, and a wide avenue will lead to the railroad station; walks, drives, fountains, and beds of flowers and rare scrubs and berries will be plentiful, and in the center on an elevation will be erected an elegant club house for the members' of the G. A. R. and their guests. Each point of special Interest will be marked by a special monument or building, and at Providence Spring a large amphitheater will be erected for the holding of Decoration-Day exercises. GOULD AS A LEGISLATOR. He Will Make an Attempt to Get Some Bills Passed by Congress. A concerted effort will be made tc amend the interstate commerce law during this session of Congress. Mr. Jay Gould is going to try his hand at legislation. His followers in Wall street arc betting that he will have as much success in manipulating Congress as ho has had in gathering in railroad stocks. Mr. Gould wants the law so amended that pooling can be re-es-tablished openly ar.d without the roads running the risks they do now by their secret arrangements. The apparent demand for this legislation comes from \h3 West. Permission to pool is said to be the only thing lacking to enable the Western roads to carry out Mr. Gould’s Ideas of a clearinghouse arrangement by which they will divide the business fairly and all of them make money. The signs are that the time is

not. favorable for this scheme. Senator Cullom is a Presidential candidate, and he is not going to run against the popalar sentiment in the West by legislating for tbe benefit of the trunk lines without any apparent gain to the shippers. In truth, the uprising of the Farmers’ Alliance Is likely to hear fruit In. legislation hostile to the corporations. PARNELL’S DEFIANCE. He Issue* a Manifesto Refusing to Resign the Leadership. The manifesto which Mr. Parnell, the Irish leader, promised to issue, dealing with all the questions involved In the present political crisis, has been made public. It definitely settles that Mr. Parnell will not voluntarily retire from the leadership of the Irish Parliamentary party. The manifesto is of great length and sets forth why, in Air. . Parnell’s opinion, it would be disastrous to the best Interests of the party lor him to withdraw at the present time. Mr. Parnell defies his political opponents, and appeals to the people of Ireland to sustain him in the stand he has taken. Mr. Parnell's supporters complain that after the Nationalist meeting on Wednesday, cable dispatches giving a misleading summary of the proceedings were sent privately to the Irish delegates In America. They assert that intrigues are on foot in the lobby of the House, of Commons to draw away Nessrs. Dillon and O’Brien and the other delegates from the support of Parnell. Tlie anti-Parnell * members of the National party are more hopeful and assert that private telegrams from Ireland show that the priests and the mass of people support them.

AFRAID OF THE INDIANS. Dakota Settlers Fleeing to the Towns for Safe'y. The lates - on the Indian scare in Dakota is the following dispatch from Dickinsm, N. D.: The Indian troubles are causing much alarm to settlers in remote places west of here. Citizens of Belfleid, twenty miles west, were surprised to see settlers with families coming frem all directions, they having heard that the Indians were camped on Grand River fifty miles soiith. A leading citizen has arrived here from Belfield to consult with the authorities and learn the truth of the situation. Your correspondent has good authority for saying that bands of Indians are congregating in the Grand River country, and they act suspiciously. A mass meeting will be held there and a delegation will be sent to confer with the Governor. This place Is contiguous to an extensive stock country. The ranchmen are several miles apart. Should Indians begin depredations they could cause great havoc. A mass meeting is called at the Court House here to take action toward securing protection, which is totally lacking at present. Fatal Explosion in Georgia. Tlie boiler of John H. Ackers & Co.’s steam sawmill at Scotland, Ga., exploded, killing three men and injuring four others. The killed are: Augustus Stinson of Angelica, Wis., Thomas Sammons and Adolphus McMillan. The wounded are: John H. McPhall of Atlanta. Andrew Cox, William Tompkins and James Daniels (colored). The boiler was blown a distance of seventy-five y ards. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

Fatal Electric Shock. Alfred Junior, a lineman of the Missouri Electric Light and Power Company, at Bt. Louis, lost his life on the Manchester road. He was on a pole at the time making a connection and was pulling what is called a pair of blocks to tighten a wire when his other hand came In contact with the other wire, the opposite wire of the same connection, and the current passed through his body. Not in the Trust. A member of the J. I. Case ThreshingMachine Company, of Racine, Wis„ stated that the company would not enter the talked-of trust of the threshing-machine companies of the United States. He also staled that he did not think the trust would mature for the reason that the desired amount of capital could not be raised. The company was not represented at the meeting in Chicago. Affairs of tlio Late Uen. Belknap. It. is understood that the accounts of the late Gen. W. W. Belknap are In had shape and that his widow Is in need of ready money. For that reason the Executive Council of lowa in allowing a few hundred dollars due Gen. Belknap as agent of lowa in pressing war claims, had the warrant issued to Mrs. Belknap Instead of the administrator of the estate. A Child Iturned to Death. The 3-year-old daughter of Wesley Penny was burned to death at Logansport, Ind. The father and mother were out milking when the child complained of being cold and went into the house to get warm. They were alarmed at her cries a few moments afterward, and rushing to the house.found her clothing in flames. She died from her injuries in two hours. Prospect of a Pig Lockout. Twenty-one shoe manufacturing firms in Rochester. N. Y., have signed an agreement by which they declare and publish their intention to discharge every union man in their employment unless the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union withdraws its opposition to the new last machine. This Is a radical step and promises to result in the biggest lockout ever known In Rochester. Joy Drove Her Crazy. A few days ago Minnie Kinsley, a young woman living at No. 86 North Clark street, Chicago, received a letter from Charles Bronbause of Prascott, Arizona. Charles declared his love for Minnie and proposed marriage. The young woman is now at the detention hospital. Sho was so overcome with joy that she lost her reason. A Majority for the Women. At the Ada Street M. E. Church, Chicago, a vote was taken on the admission of women as national delegates, which resulted in fifty-seven being recorded In favor of the question and thirty-two against. A remarkable feature of the voting was the strong opposition of the women to appointing their own sex as delegates. thinks the I o<lge Bill Will Pass. United States Senator Sanders, of Montana, says: “I do not believe the Republican House or Senate will recede one whit from the position already taken on the Federal election bill, and I believe the Senate will pass the measure as modifiod. It ought to pass, or else the Lord’s Prayer should be repealed.” Farmers Elect Officers. The Farmers’ Alliance of Colorado in State Convention elected officers as follows; President, M. L. Smith. Garland; Vi;e President, K. C. Tenny, Collins; Secretary and Treasurer, W. S. Star, Las Animas. Proceedings arc secret, and no report can be had until the Secretary sees fit to make It public. Diphtheria at Alton. The Alton (Ill.) Board of Education, .after a conference with the Board of Health, lias decided to close the schools on account of

j the prevalence of diphtheria and scariet- • fever. This decision Is generally conj detuned by conservative citizens, who conj sider the children safer In school than out. A quarantine of two weeks has been j established against returning scholars. Sale of the New York ••World.” Tlie New I ork World has been sold to a i syndicate of Philadelphians for $4,000,000. j The purchasers are In reality George W. j Childs, editor and owner of the Public Ledger. i and A. J. Drexel, the mUllonaire banker of j the Quaker City. The purchase price InI eludes the magnificent fourteen-story building just completed and into which the I IPorM moved recently. The building itself Is valued at $1,000,000, leaving a valuation of $3,000,000 for the good-will and plant of the newspaper with its evening edition. The new proprietors expect to assume possession Jan. 1. 1891. Diphtheria at Bloomington. For six weeks diphtheria has been prevalent in the southwestern part of Bloomington. 111., and several deaths have occurred. The disease has spread to an alarming extent throughout, the Third Ward, and the schools in that district have been closed on account of the prevalence of the malady. Final Figures on the Population. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, has presented a statement to the Secretary of the Interior, giving tbe population of the several States and Territories of the United States as finally determined. The verified population of the United States in 1890 is fixed at 02,622,250. Fainted at the Altar. A young Hebrew couple from Chicago called on the Rev. Arthur Pyser, rector of Racine College, and asked to be united in marriage. After the words had been pronounced the bride fainted. A doctor was summoned and soon restored the bride to consciousness.

Had Too Much Argentine Land. The failure of the hanking firm of Oostendorp. of Antwerp, has been announced. The firm’s liabilities amount to $1,500,000. Its assets consist largely of land in the Argentine republic. A large number of firms are affected by the failure. Stole a Million Frarcs. Deputy Ranaud, the managing director of the Banque d’Etat at Paris, who absconded and is said to have committed suicide, carried away with him 1,000,000 francs which had been subscribed for a loan to be issued by the municipality of Macon. Blackleg Among Cattle. A disease called blackleg has attacked the cattle near Paris, 111. A number of fine cattle have died. The disease manifests itself by lameness, and tbe animals die within twenty-four hours after being taken with it. Earthquake Scare Along the Danube. A violent shock of earthquake was felt throughout the Danube Valley. The inhabitants were panic-stricken and fled in terror from their houses. No serious damage is reported.