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tor the fiscal year ended Jane 30, 1886, shows that the expenses of the bureau for the year were $763,207, or $201,987 less than the expenses of the preceding year. A large share of the saving was due to decrense in the work produced, but at least $125,000. may fairly be set down to the credit of the economies which have been made in the management of the bureau. His estimate of expenses for the next fiscal year—lßß7-88—call for SOOI,OOO, an increase of $106,000 over the appropriations for the current fiscal year. This increase is due to the increased quantity of engraving and printing which the various departments will require. Major Stine’s Bitle-Field Shrubbery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 7. — Major J. H. Stine, historian of the First Corps, left the city last night for bis old home at .Union City, where, on next Tuesday afternoon, he will participate in an historical evWnt of a peculiar character and unusual proportions. He has gathered from the most famous battle-fields of this country pieces of shrubbery, which he will have planted by aoted men from either army. The shrubbery was taken from its original soil within the past week, and shipped to Major Stine here, and then all was sent by express to Union City. It will be planted on his farm near that place. When the transplanting lakes place on Tuesday there will be some ceremony. A large number of invited guests are expected to be present, and the history of each shrub will be recited —or rather some history of the battle-field from which it was taken—as it is planted. Quite a number of interesting letters will be read from notables who were invited, but find it inconvenient to be present. After the planting there will boa lunch and social intercourse. The event will figure in the history of the First Corps, now in preparation by Major Stine. Some time next year he intends to have an arbor day at his farm, the occasion to be a big time, when thousands of those who fought under the stars and stripes alone will be there. There will be soldiers from both armies .present on Tuesday next. , The Indiana Senatorship. Washington Special. It is very probable that the scheme of the Democrats who favor the election of Governor Gray, of Indiana, to succeed Senator Harrison, will be nipped in the bud. Since the election of Colonel Robertson, Republican, to fill the vacancy in the Lieutenant-governorship caused by the appointment of Lieutenant-goveruor Manson to be collector of internal revenue, thus making Gray’s election to the Senate a political absurdity. and, therefore, out of the question, as it wouid leave the governorship to go to Robertson. Gray’s friends say that Manson has not vacated the office of Lieutenant-governor and will not give it up. Ex Senator McDonald, who is Senator Harrison’s prospective successor, and Gray’s rival for the Senate, is here, and says that it makes no difference whether Manson formally resigned the lieutenant-governorship or not, that his acceptance of the office of collector of internal revenue, and the fact that he entered upon the discharge of the duties of that office, is equivalent to a resignation. In connection with the proclamation of the Governor for the election of a Lieutenant-governor, Mr. McDon aid intends to conteat the matter if Gray’s friends insist upon Manson’s return to the lieu-tenant-governorship, and it is generally believed that McDonald’s position is right. Yoorhees the Scapegoat. Washington Special. The cause of the Democratic defeat in Indiana is laid at the door of Senator Voorbees, who, as the representative of the administration, has distributed the patronage of the State. The chairman of the Democratic committee in Delaware county said yesterday to a friend who arrived from Indiana to-night that Senator Voorhees, as the mouthpiece of the President in Indiana, had so decreased in popularity that if he were a candidate for a State office he would be defeated by 30,000. “There is no disguising the fact," he continued, “that Voorhees's championship of the President was daily weakening the strength of the the party.” The President Departs for Boston. Washington, Nor. 7.— The presidential party, en route to Boston, left here on the Pennsylvania railroad congressional express, at 3:50 p. M. to-day. A special car wae attached to the train for the accemmodation of the distinguished gentlemen. The President was accompanied by Secretaries Bayard, Whitney and Lamar, and Private Secretary Lamont

Harvard’s Celebration. Boston, Nov. 7.—Tbe observances of the 250th anniversary of tbe founding of the Harvard College, which were inaugurated on Friday, were continued to-day. The weather was clear, and immense audiences were in attendance upon the religious and musical exercises of the day and evening. The morning service, at 10:30 o’clock, in Appleton Chapel, was conducted by President Dwight, of Yale College, and Prof. C. C. Everett, dean of the Harvard facnlty of divinity. The Rev. Francis G. Peabody, Plummer professor, preached the sermon. At 4:30 p. m. a grand concert was given, in Sanders’s Theater, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Commemoration services were also held in Appleton Chapel, at 7:30 a. M., conducted by President McCosh. of Princeton College, aud Prof. Francis G. Peabody. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D. To-morrow will be the principal day of the celebration, when President Cleveland, Secretaries Endicott Lamar and Whitney, Governor Robinson and other dignitaries will be present. Losses by Fire. Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 7—At 3:30 o’clock, this morning, fire was discovered in the rear of the first floor of No. 66 First avenue, occupied .by the Pittsburg Fire-arms Company and the receiving department of the United Lines Telegraph Company. The loss to the fire-arms comgany is $5,000. The stock of Wanamaker & irown, clothiers, in an adjoining building, was damaged by fire and water to the amount of $15,000. The loss on the building is $2,000. Fire this morning entirely consumed Emil Winter's grease rendering establishment, McConwav & Torley’s foundry, and the Westinghouse Machine Company’s foundry. Loss, SBO,000; fully insured. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 7.—Fire was discovered this morning in the piano factory of William Hoffeckmer Son, and owing to a high wind that prevailed the place was totally destroyed. The damage on the stock and to the building will aggregate about $40,000; insured. Cleveland, 0., Nov. 7.— The Otis elevator ■was completely destroyed by fire last night Loss, $30,000; insurance not known. Publielier Elder and His Late Editor. New York, Nov. 7.— The Sun’s Utica correspondent says that publisher Elder, of Literary Life, was last week refused admittance to Miss Cleveland’s house, and a note from Miss Cleve land was handed him stating that hereafter all transactions between them would have to be done hrough a third party, a gentleman who is a friend of Miss Cleveland. Mr. Elder, tho dispatch says, was very coolly treated in the village, ami departed much discomfited. Among the reasons given by Miss Cleveland for severing her relations with the paper, it is stated, are Mr. Eider’s insertion of an article to which she objected, and her receipt of letters from George Parsons Lathrop and Edgar Fawcett, saying that they could not get their pay for articles furnished. Captain Hennebsrry, of the schooner City of Sheboygan, telegraphs to Chicago that his vessel has gone to the bottom. She is sunk in deep water, and is a total loss. The cook, a woman, was drowned Captain Henneberry and crew of seven men escaped in the yawl, and are now at Detour, the entrauce to the Sauite river. A confederate monument to mark the spot occupied by the Second Marvland Infantry dura - the bloody encounter of July 2, 1863. arrived in Gettysburg on Saturday, and was put in position. The monument will be dedicated Nov. 11). It is the first confederate monument ever erected on this battle-field. Sr. Jacob’s Oil cures toothache, headache and ♦very other ache.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Workingman Fatally Shot—A Fight Over Politics Verdict of Imprisonment Where Hanging Was Expected. INDIANA. A Horse Jockey Shoots Down a Laboring Man Without Provocation. Plymouth. Nov. 6. —A serious shooting affray occurred here this evening, which will probably result fatally to one Jacob Furney. Furney is a laboring man, and od returning from work this evening entered the saloon of Mike Spieshoffer to buy a cigar. After buying the cigar he was in the act of leaving, when he was accosted by one Billy Herring, alias Helmes, a jockey, who was displaying a revolver. Nothing serious was thought of this, but Herring remarked: “Furney, I would like to shoot you,” As no trouble occurred between the two, no attention was paid to the remark by any of the lookers-on, but on Furney replying, “Billy, I don’t think you would shoot me; would you?” he bad no more than finished the sentence than Holmes fired, striking Furney in the abdomen, which will result in his death. Holmes immediately left for parts unknown, and several vigilance committees are scouring the country for him. If he is caught he will be severely dealt with. The Spotswood-Hersliraan Affair. Kentland Gazette. In the Sentinel of Oct 26, on the fifth page, there appears the following article from Kentland: Kentland, Oct. 26.—John B. Spotswood, editor and proprietor of the Kentland Democrat, was shamefully attacked and beaten by William H. Horshraau, county superintendent of t-rra (Newton) county. Spotswood was working at his case in his office when Hershman came in and, without warnine. hit him a desperate blow, which felled him to the floor. Hershman is a young and powerful man, weighs about 225 pounds, while Spotswood is an old man, sickly, and will not weigh over ]25 pounds. The county superintendent took exceptions to an article in Spotswood's paner, wherein he stated that he (Hershman) received $1,101.56 per year for his services as county superintendent, a sum much too large, considering the population of the county and the amount of labor performed. The citizens aro indignant at the dastardly outrage, and there are whisperings of mob law, and a general demand on the superintendent to resign the office he has so shamefully disgraced. Every material statement of which is false. The facts are that Spotswood, Hershman, Strole, township trustee, and Pfrimmer, ex-trustee, were talking on the street about a certain official report that Spotswood had published the week before, and in order to examine the original manuscript they all repaired to Spotswood’s office. While there, Spotswood said that he (Hershman] was mixed up in a fraud. Then Hershman said, “I have a notion to hit you, Spotswood.” Spotswood, squarely facing him, said, “Hit away,” and then Hershman did hit him a slight blow. There was no further demonstration by either party, and all talk of “mob law’’ or asking Hershman to resign is false. The sympathies of the entire community, except the lying correspondent of the Sentinel, are with Hershman. He is a man whose character is above reproach, and well liked by a very large majority of the people of the county. The Democrat has for many years attacked Republican officials without cause, and without any regard for the truth, and decent Democrats as well as Republicans look upon this man Spotswood as a political scavenger. Fight Over Politics. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Nov. 7.—An election fight is reported here to-day from Xenia, Miami county. John Shaw and James Farrell, two prominent politicians, became en|ragajd in a controversy over the election, when Farrell knocked Shaw down and jumped on him with both feet, mangling his body. Farrell hastily left the town. Tbe fall extent of Shaw’s injuries is not yet known. Shaw is a Republican, and Farrell a Democrat.

Minor Notes. John Lozier, of Richmond, was found dead on Saturday from the effects of treatment for the morphine habit. The voters of Kuightatown have decided to erect a public building for town purposes, and its construction will be undertaken at once. John May, a pioneer resident of Lafayette, died on Saturday, after twenty-four hours’ illness. He was born in Rhenish Bavaria, in 1825, and came to America in 1852. Wrn. Idle, a farmer, driving from his place three miles south of Warsaw, to that city, was instantly killed under peculiar circumstances. While driving under a leaning tree in a patch of woods his head was struck by the tree and crushed. His neck was also broken. His body was not found until Saturday evening. Idle leaves a family, and was fifty-five years of age. The barn of Marcus Jones, at Summit Station, Clark county, caught fire and burned to the ground. In the ruins were found tbe charred remains of a man. It is supposed to have been a tramp who laid down to rest in the loft, and accidentally set fire to the hay. The property was not insured, and the loss will be about SBOO. A small gold ring was also found among the debris, and it is supposed to have belonged to the tramp. ILLINOIS. Verdict In the Ward Murder Case—The Finding Not Satisfactory to the Public. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Danville, Nov. 7.—The jury in the case ot Charles Ward, jr. t charged with the murder of Jacob Francis reached a verdict this morning at 10 o’clock, after being out seventeen hours, sentencing the accused to seventeen years iu the penitentiary. Ward is twenty-three years old, and Francis was twenty-one. They were broth-ers-in-law, marrying sisters, and both wore farmers. On May 20 last they met in a field in Oakwood township and quarreled over a trivial matter. The next morning Ward went to a neighbor’s and borrowed a shot-gun, on the pretense of shooting a weasel. He mounted his horse and went direct to where Francis was planting corn. When he arrived within hailing distance he ordered Franc’s to throw up his hands, as he was going to kill him. Jumping off his horse, he fired one load into Francis’s limbs and then advanced a few steps and fired the other load into the defenseless man’s abdomen, who expired in a few miuutes. The verdict is a surprise to everyone, as there never was a more deliberate, cold-blooded murder committed in the county than this. Nothing short of hanging was expected. Cattle Dying from Blackleg. Shklbyville, Nov. 7.— David Hudson, of Dry Point township, Shelby county, has lost 6even head of fine cattle from blackleg. Tho disease was epidemic in that region last winter, and its reappearance has caused widespread alarm among the farmers. Brief Mention. Rev. S. Hubberd; a prominent Universalist, of Clinton, has come out in a card renouncing that faith. Lewis Rodgers, a farmer residing near Tuscola, dropped dead in a field on Saturday while husking corn. Mrs. Phoebe Durnmer, widow of the intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, died on Friday morning at Jacksonville. In Boone county there areonty seventv schools, while one hundred and twenty persons ho'd teachers' certificates. At Mendota, Jacob Scholl, supposed to have been suffering from political excitement, walked in his sleep through his bed-room window and fell to the ground beneath, a distance of over

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twenty feet He received some very severe internal injuries, and grave doubts are entertained as to his recovery. Burglars entered the residence of Samuel Baxter, a prominent grain merchant of Mnrdock, and secured $1,300, which he had concealed in a drawer of a sewing-machine. The thief has not yet been apprehended. E. S. Burt and O. R. Burcbard (the Rockford Shirt Company) confessed judgment at Rockford on Friday, for $4,553. The creditors in Chicago and other places are believed to hare been frozen out Henry Minge, a wealthy farmer living near Matteson, was found dead in his burning barn on Friday morning, with his breast lacerated and bleeding, and his legs and one arm roasted by the flames. There are suspicions of foul play, while rainy believe it to be a case of suicide. Mrs. Susan Cousins, of Olathe, Kan., visiting her mother, Mrs. Margaret Caldwell, at Alton, committed suicide by jumping into a cistern at her mother’s house. She had been dead about half an hour when the body was discovered. Mental aberration was the cause. The deceased leaves a husband and one child. On Saturday a little son of Mr. J. B. Lonnsberrv, residing three miles south of Nokomis, was playing with a powder-flask which contained about half a pound of powder, when he threw it into a stove. The explosion which followed destroyed the sight of both eyes and burned him badly about the face, besides destroying the stove and demolishing the furniture iu the room. At Decatur Mrs. Ella Newell, the young wife of James H. Newell, a grocer, committeed suicide by taking two doses ot arsenic, one of which she swallowed in the presence of her husband. She got the poison on Tuesday, when she took the first dose, and since then until her death she had been in great agony. The verdict was death at her own hands. The couple were married a year aeo at Springfield. 11l The parents of Mrs. Newell reside at Homer, 111. Her age was twen-ty-three. HENRY GEORGE’S FRIENDS. Mass-Meeting at Cooper Union—All Taxation of Products To Be Abolished. New York, Nov. 6. —The reception to Henry George at Cooper Union, this evening, was attended by fully 4,000 people. John McMackin presided, and introduced as the first speaker James D. Quinn. He was followed by Prof. David Scott, who, in the course of his remarks, said that the new party, called “the -Labor party,” was going to stay, because it was a party of ideas, and no party of ideas can die out unless it cuts its own throat and commits suicide. He congratulated the workingmen upon their conduct during the recent canvass, and be rejoiced that he had been thrown in their midst. After a brief address by Samuel Gompers, James Redpatn was introduced, and in his remarks said that the last election had sounded the knell of class rule. He hoped to live to see Henry George elected President of the United States. (Great cheerine. | Henry George had stood for the masses against the classes, and no candidate had made such a stand as Henry George in the last election. He was going to be the Moses of the Labor party. After a brief speech by the Rev. Dr. Kramer, tbe following resolutions were read and adopted: We, the citizens of New York, who cast the ballots for Henry George iu the recent election, now. in massmeeting assembled, give greeting to all lovers of truth and justice throughout our country and over the world, and ask their co-operation and sympathy in carrying forward tbe good work here begun. In our nominal defeat, but actual victory, we hail the opening of anew era in American politics, the beginning of a struggle to purify our political methods, to establish the American Republic upon a firm basis of equal rights, and to apply the principles enunciated by our fathers to the social difficulties of our times. We reaffirm the principles set forth in the platform of the recent labor convention of this city as of general application to the whole country. We are citizens desirous of purging our political system of its corruption, and carrying into full effect the great principles of individual liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. We are upholders of social order, defenders of the true right of property, and advocates of that equal justice between man and man which is the euseuco of all true religion. We believe in the fatherhood of God and assert the brotherhood of man, and by arriving at the abolition of the wrongs which promote thievine and compel beggary, we desire to do away with all classes. We hold with Thomas Jefferson, that the earth belongs to the living, and that one generation cannot grant away the equal right of succeeding generations to its use. We hold that all that is produced by labor, whether of hand or head, belongs to the producer, and shouid be secured to him. We propose to abolish all taxation upon buildings, improvements, and other things of human production, and by taxing the value of land alone to provide for purjjoses of common necessity and benefit. In this way we propose to make it unprofitable for monopolizers to hold lands, mines, forests, or city lots which they are not putting to use, and bv this means to throw open to citizens who wish to make themselves homes or employ their labor in producing wealth, the abundant opportunities of which our common father has provided for all His children. W e declare war on that system which hands over £nblic w-orks to corporate control and permits such enificent agencies as tho railroad and the telegraph to be made the means of robbing the producer and of enabling railroad rings and stock gamblers to throttle business and dictate laws. Since the Republican jarty has outlived the days of its usefulness and the Democratic party has become but a corrupt machine, by the use of which, as shown in the last election, aristocrats and spoilsmen endeavor to defeat tho will of the people, we hereby declare that the time has come for an organization which shall be, in tbe true sense, republican, and in the true sense democratic, and be a real party of the people—a progressive democracy, which shall revive ana carry out the principles of Thomas Jefferson, and we call noon the district organizations of the city formed to support Henry George in the last election to continue their work and throw open the doors to new members. The resolutions closed by calling for the appointment of a central committee which shall take care of all correspondence. Henry George was then introduced, amid great cheering, waving of hats and handkerchiefs. He said: “Was there ever a party so defeated before? I would rather have one such defeat as this than ten thousand victories gained in the ordinary way. Well has it been said that this was labor’s Bunker Hill. It was not the end of the campaign; it was only the beginning. We have fought the first skirmish, and are now in for the war. I did not occept the nomination because 1 wanted the office. I accepted it because I wanted the fight, and so well did the fight go on that I at one time thought I would be elected. What frightened the politicians was the sixty eight thousand votes that we polled—and under what difficulties those votes were polled! It was a glorious victory, and it has brought a great principle into Ameriean politics. I am far better pleased that J am not to sit in the office at the City HalL” Mr. George said that he believed that it was better to improve the organization before obtaining power. The workingmen had shown their strength, and for that strength they will be respected. They wanted to continue in the good work, and the way to do it was by education. The Color Line at Little Rock. Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 7.—The color line came very prominently to the front in this city yesterday. The colored person is Willis McNair, a coal-black negro, and for a year past a barber in Little Rock. He was serving on a United States jury, and when tho jury went to J. W Knott’s restaurant for breakfast, the proprietor refused to admit the negro to his diningroom. which he runs for white people. The Capital Hotel restaurant also refused to furnish breakfast for McNair. When the facte were reported to Judge Caldwell, he made a speeeh from the bench, that the jurors were officers of the law, could not be separated, etc. They wore sent back, and the United States marshal instructed to accompany them and report to the court. Mr. Knott refused to admit the negro, and said he would never admit one to the white people’6 room. The Capital restaurant, however, took them in a body, and for the first time a negro enjoyed his repast at the leading hotel in the State, and among white people. The entire proceedings cause no little comment. “That tired feeling” from which you suffer so much, particularly in the morning, is entirely thrown off by Hood's Sarsaparilla.

LOST IN SIGHT OF THE SHOBE Foundering of United States Steamer Manhattan in Long Island Sound. The Vessel Goes to Sea in the Midst of a Furious Gale and Sinks at Once—TwentyFive Persons, All on Board, Lost. 'Special to tue Indianapolis Journal. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 7.—The United States steamer Manhattan, Lieutenant-com-mander Tozier in command, foundered and went to the bottom off southwest ledge, two miles outside of this harbor, at half past 9 o’clock this morning. At the time the vessel sunk there was a very heavy sea on, with a fierce gale blowing. The Manhattan came into this harbor some time during last night and anchored in the channel off the yacht club's house. Custom-house officials seem to know but very little about the vessel’s mission in these waters, but think that she was on special duty of some character, and mention the setting of buoys, examination of light-houses, or looking after coasting and trading vessels, to see that their papers were correctly made out, and that they were engaged in the trade sanctioned by their official papers. This morning, about 6 o’clock, three of the officers of the vessel came ashore in a small boat, and landed at Long wharf. They were on shore about one hour, and after getting the morning papers went aboard the steamer. Immediately after this tho Manhattan got under way and headed down the harbor. William Kane, an oysterman at Oyster Point, says to-night that he noticed the vessel pass out of the harbor and set a course toward the southwest, and that she pitched heavily in the sea. She shipped two or three seas, and apparently struggled very much in tbe sea. She then turned half around toward the eastward, and Kane says her condition grew*more labored. He ran to notify the tug office in this city, by telephone, to send assistance, and was gone but ten minutes. He was unable to raise the city, however, and when he returned the vessel was still struggling against both wind and tide. To all appearances the vessel could not be controlled by its wheel. Kane says ho then ran about forty feet across a warehouse floor to call his employer, and that when he returned, after an absence of not over two minutes, the Manhattan had disappeared from view. Not a vestage of her was to be seen, either to the naked eye or with the aid of glasses. Kane’s story is corroborated by James Smith, the proprietor of a hotel at South End, on the eastern shore, seven or eight miles from the point where Kane saw the vessel sink. Mr. Smith says that when he first saw her the Manhattan was on her side, shipping sea after sea, and finally careened over and went down in a very few minutes from the time he first noticed the vessel. Two or three other persons on the eastern shore, all at different points of observation, tell stories of the disaster that fully bear out those told by Smith and Kane. The tug Alert, of this port, went down the harbor about 11 o’clock thi3 morning, but on account of the extremely heavy sea and wind, could not go outside. She saw nothing in the way of wreckage, however. When the Manhattan sunk the tide was setting full out into the sound, and whatever wreckage there may have been would go directly out to sea. Late this afternoon quantities of biscuit and what looked like cabin timbers came ashore near Light house Point The Manhattan was a steam propeller of the third class, in the revenue marine service, 170 tons, carrying one gun. The shores are being patrolled to-night in search for bodies, but none have been discovered yet The other officers of the cutter were Second Lieut W. S. Holland, ex active officer; Third Lieut. J. C. Harris: Engineer James Ogdin, and Assistant Engineer Willits Pedrick.

A Howl from Away Back. Atlanta Constitution. If anything were needed to demonstrate the folly of the free traders the result in the districts where the issue has been made would be sufficient The difficulty is that this result affects the free-traders far less than it does the Democratic party. A Democratic loss ia a Republican gain. The free-traders are not hurt at all. They will go on with their stale arguments, and they will never be satisfied until they have succeeded in dividing the party in the States where unity is essential to success. This, of course, means Republican rule, instead of tree trade; but if the attitude of the free-traders mean anything, it means that they would rather sacrifice the party in all parts of the country than to postpone their long-winded discussions. A Wail. Philadelphia TP -ord. When the office-holder is prohibited by the order of tho administration from taking an active part in the working of his party machinery, there is no one else left in the political divisions to do the necessary work. Consequently the apathetic or the disgruntled partisan does not vote. A nomination for office under such conditions must lead to disaster at the polls. The political millennium is still a long way off. A True Woman. Boston Budget. In talking to his wife, tho other day, about the death of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, a gentleman of this city said: “What would you do if Mrs. Stewart had left you $1,000,000 in her will?” Tho lady mused for a moment and then replied: “Well, I wouldn’t make any more home-made bonnets.” Now Listen to This. New.Orleans States Miss Davis is the peer of Mrs. Cleveland in every respect, and were the latter lady to refuse to meet her for no othe? reason than that she is the daughter of Jefferson Davis, the South, in 1888, would administer a rebuke to Mr. Cleveland that he would not soon forget. A Change in the Spirit of Their Dreams. Cleveland Leader. Democratic free-trade organs are not quoting Henry George as much as they did a few months before election. They are perfectly willing to invoke the tariff or anything else which promises to suppress him in politics. Westward the Tide of Literaturo. Boston Record. It speaks somewhat for the Western drift of literary life that four of the Youth’s Companion prizes for best stories were taken respectively by Kansas, Washington Territory, Tennessee and Colorado writers. No Affidavits. New York Commercial Advertiser. “Mileage of the Circulation” is the title of an article in a medical paper. We did not read it, because we saw no accompanying affidavit from the foreman of the press-room. An Encouraging Sign. Minneapolis Tribune. For the first time in history that far-famed portion of Indiana, known as Posey county, has gons Republican. Verily, the world is growing better. _ Fraud in the Legislature. Spicial to Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. There is no doubt that the defeat of two of the Republican candidates for the Legislature in this county was due wholly to fraud and bribery.

The same is done In Vigo and St Joseph counties, and several others. Music is in the air, and the Republicans are fully determined to unearth all frauds and expose them. WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, > Office ok the Chief Signal Offiosp S Washington. Nov. 8, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours from 7 A. M. for Indiana —Fair weather; followed in northern portion by local rains; warmer. For Ohio—Fair weather, preceded by local rains or snow in the northern portion; warmer westerly winds. For Indiana and Illinois—Fair weather, followed by local rains in the northern portion; warmer winds, shifting to southerly. For Eastern Michigan—Fair weather in the southern portion; logal rains in the northert portion; warmer western winds, shifting to southerly. For Western Michigan— Local rains or snow; slightly warmer southerly winds. For Wisconsin—Fair weather, followed by local rains; slightly warmer southerly winds. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. Time. Bar. Thor. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6a. m... 30.09 ‘29 80 West Fair. * 2p. m... 30.15 37 51 NwestFair 10 p. M... 30.23 27 66 Nwest Clear Maximum temperature, 37; minimum temperature, 27. *Snow-fall too small to measure. General Observations. War Department, l Washington, Nov. 7, 10 p. m. > Observations taken at tne same moment of time at all stations. - - - ~ 5 Z r ®§. $ 2 3 5. trS, a STATIONS. 5 5 j § = 2 ff B • 25* : :®j ; g ; : r* : : s New York Citv..... 29.93 34 West Clear. Washington City... 30.02 34 Nwest Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 30.26 48 West Clear. New Orleans. La... 30.25 52 Calm Clear. Shreveport, La 30.25 54 Nwest Fair. Fort Smith, Ark... 30.19 45 Calm Clear. Little Rock, Ark... 30.20 47 Calm Fair. Galveston. Tex 30.28 60 N’east Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn 30.22 461 West Clear. Nashville. Tenn 30.23 37 Nwest Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.22 32 Vest Clear. Indianapolis. Ind... 30.23 28;Nwest Clear. Cincinnati, 0....... 30.19 33 Nwest Clear. Pittsburg. Pa 30.03 29 West .02 Clear. Oswego, N. Y 29.81 33; Nwest Cloudy. Toledo, 0 30.09 28 West ..... Clear. Escanaba, Mich.... 30.12 27 Nwest Cloudy. Marauette, Mich... 30.09 25 West Cloudy. Chicago. 11l 30.21 30 West Clear. Milwaukee, Wis 30.17 24'Nwest Clear. Duluth, Minn 30.10 28 S west Cloudv. fit. Paul. Minn 30.17 27 South Clear.' LaCrosse. Wis 29.23 30 West Clear. Davenport, la 30.24 30 Nwest Clear. Des Moines. la. 30.22 31 Calm Hazy. Keokuk, ia 30.26 31 Calm Clear. Cairo. 11l 730.25 37 N’east Clear. Springfield, 111 30.27 38 Calm Clear. St. Louis, Mo 30.25 35 North Clear. Lamar, Mo 30.25 40jS’east Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. 30.22 35 North Clear. Omaha. Neb 30.21 36jSouth Clear. Yankton, Dak 30.08 37 South Clear. Moorehead, Minn.. 30.01 29jSouth Clear. Bismarck. Dak 29.94 38'Seast ..... Clear. Fort Buford. Dak.. 29.80 40;Calm Clear. Ft.Assiniboine.M. T 29.82 43|Swest Clear. Fort Custer, Mont Dead wood. Dak 30.04 37; Sweat Clear. North Platte, Neb.. 30.11 42iN’east Clear. Denver, Col 30.01 34j South Fair. W. Las Animas. C01;29.98 41 East Clear. Dodge City, Kan.... 30.15 45 S’east Fair. Fort Elliott. Tex... 30.10 46 South Cloudy. Fort Sill. Ind. Tor.. 30.25 49 S’east Cloudy. Fort Davis. Tex 30.12 50 N’east Cloudy. El Paso, Tex 30.05 54 East Cloudy. Salt Lake City, U. T 30.04 42 S’east Cloudy. More Shocks at Charleston. Charleston, S. C., Nov. 7.—There was a moderately strong shook of earthquake f6lt here to-day about 11:04 o’clock A. M. It was preceded and accompanied by the usual rumbling sound and vibrations, in a somewhat milder form, however, than of late. This shock was of perhaps tan or twelve seconds’ duration, and was generally felt throughout the State, as far as telegraphic advices are received. This shock was followed, in about five minutes, by a second shock, which was quite moderate, however, and lasted only a few seconds.

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