Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 November 1879 — Page 2

i ¥ ’ Che Figonier Banner, 5 J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. | ' THE OLD WORLD. 'lgm visit of the Princess Louise to London is said to have for its object the colonization of Manitoba and Northwestern. Canada. A company has been formed, under the title of the Lake Winnipeg Land and Colonization Associgtion, to give aid and informa‘tion to emigrants. _ Coadtee T e It was reported at Berlin on the 18th that Russia had advised Turkey to ask all the: signatories to the treaty of 1856 to dispatch squadrons to the Dardanelles in case the English fleet entered the Straits. The whole of the St. Petersburg press was violent in its tone on the question. i g | i It was officially denied in London on ‘the 18th that England’s ultimatum had been “gent to the Porte; that the Channel fleet had been ordered to be in readiness to proceed from Malta to the Turkish waters in four days; that England had demanded from Turkey the cession of a port - in the Black Sea, and that aleague of Balkan provinces had ' been formed. . . c e’

. A LoNDON telegram of the 19th says the (tovernment had resolved to squelch sedition in Ireland and, while doing everything it possibly ecould to diminish and relieve distress, would not. perm‘h agitators to carry out their treasonable programme. Several persons had already been arrested for the use of language tending'to a breach of the peace, and there was considerable excitement throughout Ireland in consequence. Among those arrested was James Daly, editor of the Connaught Telegraph. - . Tue Irish Home-Rule Executive (Qommittee adopted resolutions on the 19th’ denouncing the British Government for eausing the arrest of Davwitt, Daly and Killen for defending the rights of the Irish tenantry. - It is said the Directors of the Bremen Steamship line have decided to refuse trans-. portation on their vessels to a class of heavy French silks which are so weighted with chemicals and oils as to cause danger of spontaneous combustion. i = A LoxpoN telegram of the 20th says the iron steamer Pallas, from Copenhagen for Amsterdam, had foundered off HeimsKirk, and that thirty persons perished. "~ PARKHALL, near Evesham, Eng., the seat of the Earl of Yarmouth, burned on the 20th. Loss, $BOO,OOO. e : TaE King of Abyssinia demanded on the 20th that his right to Soudan and Nubia be acknowledged, and also that he be paid two million pounds sterling. He refused to make any other treaty. f : The inquiry into the conduct of the ex-Ameer Yakoob Khan and his-ministers in connection with the massacre of -the British Embassy terminated on the 20th, and the report of the Commission of Inquiry was forwarded to the Vic'erog of India. Nothinghad transpired to alter the unfavorable opinions current regarding the Ameer’s course. ! THOMAS FLAHERTY, a farmer residing at Monasterredan, near Ballaghderen, County Sligo,” Ireland, was dragged out of bed on the night of the 20th, by a party of twenty men with their faces disguised. Having blindfolded their victim, they took him about fifty yards from the house, cut off a piece of his right ear, beat him unmercifully with a piece of bush, took away his gun, and there left him. He alleges the -cause of the outrage to be that he had paid his rent before it was due. : Lo

Loxpox dispatches of the 21st represent the agitation in Ireland as rapidly increasing. The Government had directed a regiment of dragoons stationed at Manchester to prepare for immediate departure, and the troops scattered throughout Ireland had been ordered to concentrate at Sligo, where the parties lately arrested for seditious utterances are confined, and where there are ominous threats of an attempted rescue. On the evening of the 21st an immense meeting was held in Dublin, at which resolutinns were adopted denouncing the Government for the arrest of Daly, Killen and Davitt., The arrest of Parnell, the Home-Rule member of Parliament, was threatened. : pe it A LoxponN dispatch of the 23d an‘nounces the death of the widow of Charles Dickens. : L THE Irish agitators lately imprisoned. at Sligo express themselves as confident of acquittal if unprejudiced juries be given them. « Uping THERE were numerous meetings held throughout England and Ireland on ‘the 22d and 23d, at all of which resolutions were passed protesting against the ilvnp'risonment of Dayitt, Daly and Killen. - THE Countess’ de Montijo, the mother of Eugenie, the ex-Empress of France, died at Madrid, Spain, on the 22d. Rumors were afloat in India on the 23d that a bloody conflict had taken place in Burmah between the natives and the European residents, and that a great number of lives had been sacrificed. - e ACCORDING to a Cabul dispatch of the 21st the Afghan leader of the insurgents had crossed the Balkh frontier and taken refuge with the Russians. - : AII'NEW scheme for the construction of the Turkish army has been inaugurated by the Sublimé Porte. The plan eontemplates compulsory universal military service, to be performed by every able-bodied subject of the Sultan, men to serve two years in the infantry, three years in the eavalry and five years in the reserve. !

THE NEW WORLD. ATt Andover, Mass., on the 18th two young gons of Mrs. H. P. Beard were burned to death by a fire which én ineendiary started in a room they oceupied. . THE failure of the wellknown Chicago music firm of A. Reed & Sons was announced on the 18th. o CALLS were issued on the 18th for a meeting in Washington on the Bth of January . mnext of the Union Greenback National Committee, Chairman and members of the various State Committees, representatives of Greenback and Labor organizations, and editors of newspapers throughout the country friendly to the principles of ihe Greenback and Labor organizations, to decide upon the time and place for holding a National Conventfon. THE agent sent by our Government to see if the leading Powers would take the inittative in calling an International Monetary Conference has returned to Washington. His misgion proved unsuccessful. o CHARLES G. BossE, the book-keeper of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire surance - Company’s Bank at Milwaukee, has been arrested upon .the charge of embezzling the funds of the bank. It is stated that the pecJRSUORE pave beon opntinued during 4 perlod

of ten years, and that the moneys abstracted will aggregate $200,000. Experts are engaged upon the books, striving to fathom the mystery of his balances and understand his methods of abstraction. | THE ceremony of unveiling the statue of General George H. Thomas, erected in ‘Washington and presented to the Nation, through the President, by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, was duly and impressively performed at the National Capital on the 19th., The gathering in the city was very large, and many distinguished personages, civic and military, participated in the proceedings. The oration was delivered by Judge Stanley Matthews, and at its conclusion he formally presented the statue to the people -of the United States, through the President, and President Hayes accepted the same in a few brief and appropriate remarks. The public buildings were illuminated with electric lights in the evening, and the neighboring streets were thronged with people. Short speeches were made by Generals Sherman, Garfield, President Hayes, and others. GENERAL and Mrs. Grant ‘arrived at their home in'Galena on the evening of the 19th, having left Chicago in a special car on the morning of that day. They will remain at their home until their departure, in De cember, for Washington, via Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, ete. THE Merchants’ Association at Boston has recently appointed a committee to co-operate with other organizations in an effort to secure the enactment of a National Bankruot law,

TaE California Republican State Central Committee recently’ telegraphed to the President and Secretary of the National Republican Committee, asking that the place of George C. Gorham on the National Committee, as representative of California, be declared vacant on account of his action during the recent State campaign. : AN unusually heavy fall of snow occurred at Augusta, Ga., on the 19th. It snowed steadily for over three hours. THE steamer Algeria, from Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 19th, with £330,735 in specie on board. On the same day the steamer Gallert brought $BOO,OOO in French gold coin. ; ) ABOUT two o’clock on the morning of the 20th the Leadville (Col.) vigilantes took a foot-pad named Patrick Stewart and Ed Frokishaw, a notorious desperado and lot jumper, from the jail, and hung them until they were dead. % AN Augusta (Maine) dispatch of the 20th says that proceedings had been instituted before the Supreme Court by two of the Republican Senators-elect to restrain the Governor and Council frqm interference with the returns of the late election. . : AT the session in Washington on the 20th of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President—General Phil. H. Sheridan. Vice-Presidents—General Underwood, Massachusetts; General Barnum, New York; General Cramer, New Jersey; General Negley, Pennsylvania; General Duffield, Michigan; Colonel Hobson, Kentucky; Captain E. E. Rhum, Tennessee; General Morgan, Illinois; General Streight, Indiana; General Meyer, Ohio; Colonel Johnston, Wisconsin; Colonel Conover, Missouri; General Martin, Kansas; Captain Wood Minnesota; and Captain Selleck, lowa. Recording Secretary—Captain Steel. Corresponding Secretary—General Cist. Treasurer—General Fullerton. Toledo was selected as the place for) the next meeting of the Society. . THE following circular has been issued by the Commissioner of Pensions:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, . PENSION OFFICE, % WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 1879. To Pension Claimants and their Attome%;s: To enable this office to dispateh with better 'faciQty the rapidly-increasing current business;a change in the system of arranging records and files has been made, which will render it necessary that all inquiries for the condition of pension claims on account of service rendered after March 4, 1861, should contain the name of the soldier who performed military service, with his State, company and regiment, as well as the number of the claim or pension certificate, as the case may be. Inquiries which do not contain the above information will not be answered, except in special cases where failure to furnish it is explained. , J. A. BENTLEY, Commissioner of Pensions. TeE will of Rev. Dr. Joseph P. Thompson, who died in Berlin, contains a clause bequeathing to Mrs. Sara DeLand, of Grand Rapids, Mich., the sum of 3,000 marks and certain pictures and books. THE following was the vote cast in Wisconsin at the recent election for Governor: Smith, Rep., 100,533; Jenkins, Dem., 75,039; May, Greenback, 12,995; Bloomfield, Temperance, 387; scattering, 57. Total vote, 189,011. - Smith’s plurality, 25,494. QN the evening of the 20th Dennis Kearney was arrested in San Francisco, upon the charge of attempting to break up a public meeting, and held to bail in the sum of $2OO. ‘ v CHIEF OURAY, in a speech before the White River Ute Commission, an account of which was received on the 20th, explained the tergiversation of the Indian witnesses. He Baid it was because they believed that a plot had been set for their capture. They hadsince learned that this was not so, and he believed they would hereafter testify truthfully. In response to the request that the further investigation in relation to the White River affair be prosecuted at Washington, Secretary Schurz. telegraphed, on the 20th, acceding to the request, provided the guilty parties in the massacre be first pointed out and surrendered, and stated that, if this were not done, the whole tribe would be considered guilty of the crime, and treated accordingly.. g

. A RECENT ‘Washington dispatch states that the Secretary of the Interior would soon issue acircular for the information ‘of parties desiring to register their trade-marks, to the effect that the Federal statute upon the subject, by recent deecision of the Bupreme Court, is declared unconstitutional, and that Patent-Office registra‘tion is consequently ineffectual as a means of protection; but that the Department will, however, continue to register trade-marks for persons so desiring. ; THE case of the Post-Office Department against the lottery establishments is to be settled by the Supreme Court on an agreed case. ’ g PrESIDENT HAYES, on the 22d, signed the commission of Colonel John Hay as Assistant Secretary of State. - THE Governor and Couneil of Maine gave notice on the 22d that they would bé in #ession from the Ist to the 18th of December, for the purpose of examining official election returns, and candidates elaiming frregularities or other causes presumed to vitiate their election would have reasonable oppertunity to be ieard personally or by duly-authorized gounscl, - G Fearg were entertained in Washing‘ton on the 28d that the Ute Commission would not be successful. It was asserted that the authorities apprehended that the savages were only seeking to gain time in the ‘hope that wintery weather would soon make

‘military operations impossible and enable them to scatter so effectually before spring that it will be impossible to 'find and identify them. i - THE colonial forces have recently obtained several decisive wictories over the Cuban insurgents, o e - NEws was received on the 23d that the Chilians had made a descent on the Peruvian coast and captured Pisagua, after a severe ficht. The Peruvian army had retired inland, followed by the invaders. NEws was received at Denver on the 21st, from Los Pinos; to the effect that Chief Ouray had told the Commissioners that he would be able to establish Mormon complicity in the White River troubles. Tt was his belief that representativesof Mormons had been in communication with Jack for a long time. The Commission intended to sift this matter to the bottom. Ouray says he had resorted to his last peaceable method for intercession on behalf of the White River Utes: He had convinced them of personal safety while they testify, and of justice thereafter; that none of the innocent would suffer. If they refused to appear and testify truly he would call his friends to his standard at Uncompahgre, and treat with the Government direct, securing the punishment of the White River Utes at the discretion of the Department.

Irish Match-Making. WHILE the landlady was at work, two old men strolled in for refreshment. One of them was evidently a small farmer. He wore his hat pulled down over his eyes, and appeared occupied by a matter of some weight. Talking to him earnestly and in a low tone, his companion, an old fellow with a shabby hat, /shin])(v breeches and much-worn shoes, looked about him with cunnin eyes for the most .retired nook, ang pulling out an old stool, said, ¢ Sit ye there, man, and we'll have a pint and a talk.” | The colorless potheen was served them, and each drank a tumblerful of it as if it had been water. : ¢« Now, man,”’ said the smaller and older of the two, ¢ why not make a match between them? %e is a smart lad, and she is a fine girl, God bless her! Just say what you will give her, and we can have done with it before the game is out.”’ : “Well,” said the farmer, after pulling and cracking all his fingers, 1 have no’‘thought of being mean. I will give her a cabin, a quarter acre of land, with the potatoes tilled and brought to the door.”” ' . There was silence on the other side. I will give her a fine feather-bed.” ¢ Very good, very %god,” said he with the cunning eyes. ‘“ We'llhave another pint.”” They were served with the fiery liquid, and smacking their lips over it, declared it the best. ¢ The players must be near through.” The farmer, staring in the bottom of the cup, added, ““I will give her fifteen pounds in gold.” I _ - A short quick laugh from his companion was the response: ¢ That’s very good, man; you are doing well, God bless you!” ¢ Her mother will give her the best of petticoats—and #that is about all.”’ “And enough’ it is, if her mother would not forget the old silver beads, so that she can prepare her soul for Heaven when the end comes.”’

<« What, then,”’ said the other, a little defiantly, ¢¢ has your boy got?” ° ¢ Drawing his stool closer, .and fixing his little gray eyes on the old man, he said, ¢“Sorra @ ha'penny; but he’s a good lad for all that, and can knock as much work out of a day as any boy in the country, and in afight can bate anybody that stands before him.” It isn’t a fighting man I want for my daughter,” responded the farmer, testily; <‘ there’s little good comes of it.”’ ““Well, well, he need not do that same, but he’s good for it if wantin’.” “I’ll not stand for money, as he's a nate, tidy boy;”’ the farmer was somewhat mollified. ¢ I'll buy him a boat, and he can knock his living out of it.” ““Long life to ye! Shall it be next Thursday? I'll stop to-night to'see the priest and have it all ready.””" : To my horror, the farmer now called for another pint, with which they sealed their bargain.—J. L. Cloud, in Harper's Magazine for December. T

A Mother’s Pathetic] Story of How Her Little Boy Was ‘Saved, A woMAN who lives in Ashville, Ala., writes to the & gis, of that place, of the rescue of her little three-year-old boy from drowning. The child fell down a well the dark depth of which was thirty feet. The mother saw him %O down. She says: ¢‘On veaching the well I was just in time to see him rise to the top of the water. I was alone, save three other little children, whom I sent for help. I had, amid all the anguish of my soul, presence of mind enough to let the bucket down and tell him to take hold of it, which he did. After some minutes he let loose from weakness, sank -again, except his little head. I lowered the bucket lower, telling him to take hold of the rope. He ran his hand throu%il a ring tied on for the purpose of sinking the bucket, and caught the pail, and there he held on for one and a half hours, begging me all the time in his baby talk to come down and help him out. I would say: ‘Hold on, Bogbie.’ ‘T will,” he WOl]fd reply. At length a lady came to my assistance, and we took a rope and made a noose on the end of it, and letting it down told him what to do. He put his foot through the noose and drew it up around his knee. I asked him if he could hold on. He said he could hold on to the bucket, ‘daw me out.” He holdin%‘ on to the bucket, the rope around his e%, I telling him not to let go, we drew him up until I could reach iis little shivering hands. Thus I saved my little baby from drowning. Safe to my breast I clapsed his litt%e shivering body, and praised God for His mercies.”? : »

—An American trade paper says that, although free Americans may not be aware of the fact, it is incontestibly true that their fashions ara set for them by the Prince of Wales, who is entirely arbiter elegantiarum in matters of this sort for Anglo-Saxondom — only the Americans copy his royal highness about a year too late. ;

- —The woman quebtion-_“Why did you stay out till this unseemly hour, sir?”’—Buffalo Express.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. ¢ O e——— ’ - Mgs. JosePH BATES, of Lafayette, while endeavoring to get her son away from a lot of quarrelsome boys, was struck on the head by a stone, and knocked senseless. ANDREW ISABEL, a laborer on the Logansport & Térre Haute Railroad, was run over -and instantly killed by a gravel train the other night, near Darlington. AT La Porte on the 16th, Frank Windisch was fatally hurt while unloading logs. Both legs were broken. THE next meeting of the State Blue Ribbon Temperanee Convention will be held at Indianapolis on the third Thursday in November, 1880. : FArMERS around Indianapolis complain of gypsy and other thieves who plunder their fields and farm-yards, and are talking of organizing rifle clubs. o J. C. JorpaN, a Fortville druggist, has been locked up at Greenfield for attempting to shoot his wife while under the influence of liquor. Tauge house of Jacob Hess, seven miles north of Elkhart; was entered by burglars on the night of the 18th, and robbed of $2OO cash and $4OO in notes. ' .

ON one of the large stones uséd for the foundation of the new Court-House at Franklin were found numerous human tratks-plain-ly defined and unmistakable. The question is, who were the people that, wearing shoes with fashionable high heels and well-rounded shanks, . made their tracks in the soft blue clay, that afterward solidified into stone? TuE Evansville Courier says that there is considerable of a negro immigration into the State at present, and insists that the movement has political significance. o ' THE measles are prevailing widely in Fayette County. One of the grades in the Connersville schools 'has been decreased in attendance from seventy to seventeen by the presence of the disease among the children. A Carnovic priest of Morris, Ripley County, is‘under arrest for brutally beating three children of his church, who acted as pallbearers at the funeral of a Protestant child three years old. THE starch factories at Madison have been compelled to shut down on account of the scarcity of corn, and the lack of railroad transportation for the same. JUuDGE BIDDLE declines to be a candidate for re-election to the Supreme Bench, it is said. : e ROBERT ADAMS, a coal-miner, was killed at Brazil the other night by coal train No. 15, while making a running switch. No blame is attached to the train men. JOSEPHINE SMALLEY, daughter of W. H. Smalley, of Brockport, recently attempted suicide by cutting her throat with a butcherknife. Failing in this she procured a revolver and fired a ball at her head, making a dangerous wound. Notwithstanding both these wounds, it is thought she will recover. It is reported that young Barnes, who left Indianapolis recently, an alleged defaulter to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, is in lowa, occupying a comfortable berth in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. ‘ A MOVEMENT is said to be on foot to make Rev. Charles N. Sims President of Asbury University. AT the meeting of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of Indiana on the 20th thie proposition to abolish the semi-annual fommunication was voted down. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: Grand Repre sentatives to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, - Enoch Cox, Delphi, and W. R. Myers, Anderson; Grand Master, D. W. La Follette New Albany; Deputy Grand Master, Will Cumback, Greensburg; Grand Warden, N. P. Richmond, Kokomo; Grand Secretary, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; Grand Treasurer, T. P. Hughey, Indianapolis. The Grand Master made the following appointments: Chaplain, Rev. 8. W. McNaughton; Grand Marshal, John A. Keene; Conductor, James A. Baker; Grand Guardian, C. H. Hannee. PArTIES in Indianapolis who made a night of it watching for Tice’s meteors declare that there was a good display between 3:30 and 5:30 on the morning of the 13th.. The principal of the Washington High School avers that he counted 190 of them. Mr. Dawson, the selfeducated astronomer of Spiceland, also observed a number. : :

EvANSVILLE is taking much interest in a revived scheme for a railroad via Seymour to Bellefontaine—a road which, if built, they say, will be to Southern Indiana what the Wabash is to the northern part of the State. _ A MARRIED woman living near Shelbyville has been arrested for burning the residence of a neighbor, in the absence of the family, and first plundering the house. , REPORTS from several portions of Indiana show that the Hessian fly has not, as was supposed, damaged the growing wheat. JouN W. JoxEs, a young attorney of Greenfield, while walking through a graveyard, stepped into an open grave and broke his right leg. ! ; TyprOlD fever and typhoid pneumonia are becoming prevalent around Bloomington. ARTHUR DOGGETT, a young man living several miles south-east of Shelbyville in Rush County, was shot while out hunting the other day, and fatally injured. His gun was resting on the ground and in some manner was discharged, sending a load of -shof into. his brain and destroying h is right eye. THE case of Eunice Barns vs. Nancy E. Clem lis about to be tried at Martinsville. Mrs. Barns claims the recovery of money which Mrs. Clem obtained from her on the false pretense that it was forthe Auditor and Treasurer of Boone County, to enable them to make up deficits in their accounts. ReceENTLY there have been several cases of elopement in Indiana, in which the men have been colored and the women white. And now comes a German saloon-keeper of Vanderburg County, and charges a colored man with stealing the affections of his wife. It is believed that the first annual report of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics will show at least seventy-five per cent. of answers to questions sent out. The Massachusetts Bureau the first year only got ten per cent. of answers. e 5 THE following are the current prices for leading staples in Indianapolis: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 37@38c; Oats, 381 @33c; Lard, 63%@63{c; Hogs, [email protected]. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, $1.20 @1.23; Corn, 87@39¢c; Oats, 84@35c; Rye, 79@80c; Bariey No. 2, 93@9c; Pork, $11.06 @11.10; Lard, 634@63{c; Hogs, [email protected].

~—There is no need of skirmishing around a bookstore in search of a present for your wife. A bank-book will always be acceptable. : .

—Nothing seems imEossible in this scientific age, unlessit be to secure the payment of borrowed money.—-Detroit Free Press. . ; ‘

—The Illinois Lutheran Synod has instructed its ministers not to administer baptism by immersion. .

—Autumn tree song—¢We would not leaf alway.’ ' :

4 Postmaster-General Key’s Annual Res port. ‘ ; WASHINGTON, November 18. * The annual rerort of Postmaster-General Key is mad%(‘mb ic to-day. Large ?ortions of it are devoted to the presentation of statistical information already published in the abstracts of reports of his subordinate officers. RAILWAY SERVICE. Tne Rostmaster-General renews the recommendation contained in his last report for the enactment of a law readjusting the compensa~ tion of railroads for carrying mail upon a basis of space, speed and frequency, supplemented by the weight of the mails carried. The railf»j‘ road companies have as a general thing neg-: lected to furnish statistics of receipts, expenditures, etc., as requested. The recommendation is made that the appropriation to enable ‘the Postmaster-General to obtain the ;n,‘oper. facilities for the prompt transmission of mails by railroad be increased this year to $400,000. The cost of railway service on the 30th of June, 1879, was at the rate of §9,692,5:0 per annum, an increase over the cost of the service during the preceding year-of $125,995. This increase does not, however, represent the actual rate of increase in the service, as account must be taken of a reduction of five per cent. in the rate of compensation from July 1, 1878, made under the act of June 17, 18i8. The amount of this deduction is, in round numbers, = $400,000, making,c witn the $125,995, an increase of $525,995 for 1879 over 1878, being little less than 5.5 per cent. The general increase of business all over the country, and the reasonable certainty that the present Yrosperity will continue for some years, wili require the appropriation for the railway service for the next fiscal year to be increased to at least $10,000,000, and the estimate is accordingly placed at that sum. The estimate for the railway post-office car service for 1881 is placed at $1,350,000. The PostmasterGeneral earnestly renews the recommendation of last tyear for a reclassification of the employes of the Railway Mail Service by the General Superintendent of that service. THE ‘ STAR’’ ROUTES.

General Key reports that the operation of the present laws 'regula.ting the increase of compensation for increased speed and incresed frequency of service upon ‘* star routes’ (i. e., all those whereon the mails are transported by horses and ordinary: vehicles,) results in great loss to the Government, and recommends legislation to enable him to retrench in this direction. : The estimates #or * star’” service the next fiscal year contemplate the continuance of the Present efficient service in other States, and a‘ggely increased mail facilities in the States of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama. The total amount ‘asked for ‘“star” service the next fiscal year is $71,375,000. The estimates for inland mail service by steamboats is $900,000. FAST MAIL SERVICE. The report continues: ‘* The efforts of the Department to establish a fast mail service with Havana via Cedar Keys and Key W est, in order to meet the demands of commerce, have failed for several years on account of the insufficiency of the comlgensation allowed by law for such service. the Postmaster-Gen-eral were' authorized to contract for service between Havana and the United States ports mentioned at a sufficient rate of pay to secure the necessary speed and fre?uency, the commerce of the country would be greatly benefited. I believe that a general law should be passed authorizing contracts for cau%ing mails between the United States and vi{ne est Indian and South American ports iz merican-built steamers carrying American flags, at a fixed minimum and maximum price, the amount to be expended regulated bfi' annual appropriations; or the service might be thrown open to competition, the same as the ‘gtar’ service. The adoytion of such service by Congress would enable this country to control the profitable commerce with South America and the West Indies, which is now almost monopolized by Great Britain.” LOTTERIES. In regard to the use of mails by lettery comganies, the Postmaster-General suggests that Sections 3,229 and 4,041, Revised Statutes, be amended by striking out the word ‘ frauédulent’’ preceding the word * lotter?"’ in each section, which will make the legisiation more harmonious and effective. 1t would aid the Department in the execution of the intent of the law if the provision of Section 2,939 requiring the return to the writers of registered let-~ ters addressed to such schemes were in terms extended to include all letters so addressed. The circulars recently issued u&)on_this subject are given, and reference is'made to a case now Eendmg in the United States Circuit Court at ouisville, which, when decided, says General Key, “I will avail myself of the decision to communicate further the views of this Department upon the question. Whether an individual may forfeit his right to use the mails for legitimate purposes by voluntarily mingling such correspondence with prohibited matter so that the Departmert must carry both or neither is a question upon which additional legislation might render the purpose of the statute altogether unquestionable. The carriage by mail of newspapers containing lottery advertisements soliciting violations -of the Postal laws renders the successful enforcement of the statute now in force still more difficult.” - :

THE NEW POSTAGE: RATES. General Key reports that the law providing for a new classification of mail- matter, an adjusting the rates of postage thereor, passed at the last session of the Forty-fifth Congress, has given universal satisfaction. ! : PROTECTION TO POSTMASTERS. Under the heading of ‘‘Protection to Postmasters in person and property,” the report gays: ‘I deerire respectfully tocall your atten= cion to the fact that there is no United States statute imposing a penalty on any one for assaulting or molesting a postmaster in the discharge of his official duties, as in the case of revenue officers, and I earnestly request that Congress be urged to pass such a statute.” In conndction with a suit recently decided against Postmaster James, of New York, for alleged infringement of letters-fi)afent in the use of canceling stamps, General Key says an accounting in the case is now being taken; but as other postmasters are liable to be subjected to expense in the same manner, because these stamps have been in use at all the principal post-offices of the country for the last ten years, he desires to call attention to the fact that there 18 no provision of Federal law to secure *‘ certificates of pr‘(])bable cause” to United States officials other ‘than officials in cases of adverse judgments for acts done in their official capacity. “In the present instance Mr. James, as postmaster, uses the canceling stamps furnished by the Des:aft?ment. The Court adjudges him to have infringed a patent by such use. The judgment for damages i 8 against him 'Fersonally. In like cases the property of the Treasury officials is protected by law from levy. I submit that similar protection is due to all Government employes when acting in “the line of their duty.” L DUTIABLE %mm ETC. The report recommends: that' the provision of Section 17 of the act of March 3, 1879, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury and Post-master-General to adopt regulations for delivery to addresses in the United States of dutiable books, with the collection of customs duties thereon, be extended to embrace all articles of dutiable matter received in the mails from foreign countries. : The Postmaster-General recommends legislation to enable the Department to adopt a -general regulation of the Postal Union relative to the payment of limited indemnity for registered articles lost or destroyed in the postal service. - : ; PAY OF CLERKS. The report goes on to say that * the increasing demands of the postal service call for a large increase in the appropriation for the payment of clerks in the post-offices. The estimate, $3,650,000, for this item is' greatly below the actual need f(g the service. Ihaveso: estimated, however, because I did not desire to increase the growing disparity betweenthe revenues and the expenditures of the Department. To provide a less sum for the smployment of clerks than I have estimated for will cripple the work of the post-offices, and in many instances delay the transmission of mails.” 3 THE FREE DELIVERY SERVICE. The free-delivery service is mentioned as having obtained great success, but the Post-master-General remarks that with larger af)ropriations more frequent deliveries could B‘e secured, and such improvement he believes would meet with universal commendation in the larger cities. A deficiency -of about $24,900 is reported in the funds available to pay the lettgr—ca.rriers’ increased salaries authorIzed by the act of last February, and Congress is requested to supply it. : i : ' THE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS of interest made dre, in brief, that Congrese should provide at the next session for superseding at the earliest possible date the maillocks now in use by others of new and improved atterns (for which purpose an estimate of, §6150 000 is submit;tng; that the Public Printer atrthorized to print & new edition of the codifled Postal laws and regulations, to be sold to the Bublic at cost; that o,uthm_'lg beg{‘ven to the Department to contract for the publication of a monthly Postal Guide for a term of five years. : oy SR b T

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Pension Report. A | v WASHINGTON, November 211. - J. A. Bentley, Commissioner of Pensions, has comgleted his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. It shows that on the 30th of June last there were 242,755 persons in the United States receiving pensions from the Government. The pension-list-is now larger than at any previous time, The . present list is composed of 125,150 army invalid gensi_oners, 81,174 army Wiéows, children and | dependent relatives, 1,844 navy invalids, 1,772 navy widows, etc., 11,~ 621 surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, and 21,194 widows of deceased soldiers of that war. Durmg{ithe year 31,346 new names were added to the list, and 908 names which had previouslfi been dropped from the rolls, mainly from fai ure for three years to claim their pensions, . were restored, and 13,497 were, for yarious . reasons, dropped. e s - The aggregate amount of one year’s pension to all pensioners on the rolls is' $25,493,742.15, but the actual annual payment exceeds that. sum by several million dollars. This arises: from the fact that nearly all the newly-admit-ted army and navy cases have several years’ accrued pension due at the time of admission,. whbich is paid at the first payment. - : G During the year the stt ?g.ayment to new ensioners amounted to 5,763,758, of which ¥4,375.147 was paid to armfi and navy invalid widows, etc., and $7,388,611 to survivors and widows of the war of 1812. The first Yaymenb of Fe‘nsioners of the war of 1812 will rapidly fall off, while a material increase may be ex- . pected in the army and’ na;'ly: cases for several years, owing to the removal of the limitation upon the commencement of pensions by the acts of Jan. 25 and March 3, 1879. b o The above-named acts were passed after theestimates for the pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1850, were submitted, and were not, therefore, taken- intg account when the appropriation was made, and there will be a - deficiency in the pension appropriation for the current fyear, a&neaag as can now be esti~ mated, as follows: $5,000,000 army pensions - and $30,000 navy pensions, which should be } provided for, in order that-the pensions for the June quarter m'ag):)e prom_ptlly mpaid. There were on the 80th of June 136,645 unsete tled claims for arrears, an increase over last year of 16,258. 'l'o them areto be added about 40,000 old claims which were revived by the Arrears act of -January 25, 1879, or called up - from the rejected files since that date, for fur--ther consideration, and these, with the new ; claims filed since the close of the year in excess of the number settled, added to the num--g&r 0%160wn by the record, will aggregate fully Since the passage of the Arrears act new invalid, widows, minor children and dependent relatives’ claims have been filed at an unprecedented rate, the invalid claims being more than double the rate of the receipts -at any previous period except in 1866, and the widows’ class exceeds any year since %36;, and twice as numerous as any year since--71, == It is estimated that at the close. of the year there will be not léss than 250,000 unsettled cases before the office. S An -examination into the papers in the cases of 500 pensioners whose names have been dropped from the rolls within the last three years and four months, because the pensions have been obtdined by fraud, shows the following: 229 invalids established their cases by producing 1,581 affidavits and certificates, of which 1233 were false. .Of the latter, 291 were made by officers, 179 by ‘comrades, and 763 by other . persons. Two hundred and seventy-one pensions of widows, minor children and dependent relatives were estab--lished and allowed upon 2,816 certificates and affidavits, of which 1,850 were false. Ninety-. five of the latter were made by officers, 69 by - comrades and 1,687 by other persons. ae It is also ascertained that at least 96 for--geries were committed in the 500 cases. Therehad been paid to these &ensionerg before the discovery of their frauds $547,225. : % Estimated Government Expenses. WASHINGTON, November 18, The printing of detailed estimates for the fiscal gear‘ending June 30, 1881, has been com--pleted. The estimates of the- amounts re--quired for expenditure under the War Depart~ment aggregate $29,321,794 for the military establishment, and $7,557,834 for public .works of various kinds, including about $5,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, $1,000,000 for sea-coast fortifications, $774,000 for buildings in and around Washington, -and $657,000 for arsenal. - ; - The cost of the naval establishment is estimated at $14,509,148. 5 0E 3 The estimates for the Indian service foot up $4,992,846; for foreign intercourse, $1,185.135; for salaries and expenses of Collectors of Internal Revenue, $4,075,000; for expenses of the mints and assay offices, - $1,203,810; for salaries and expenses of the Treasury Department proper, $2,661,672; for the Interior Department proper, $2,145,774; for deficit in postal revenues, $7,712,0)0; for construction of new lighthouses, beacons and flag signals, $674,000; for new Government buildings throughout the country, &2.247.00); for Judicial salaries and expenses of - courts, £3,250.000; for pensions, $32,044,000: for salaries’ and expenses of the two Houses of Congress (about), §2,800,000; for the salaries of President and: Vice- - President and expenses of the Executive office, %93,64&1, for expenses of the tenth census, $2,--Tklx;bg-rand aggregate of estimates is $136,347,129. The total amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal (%ear:was $162,404,648, which included $25.0 0,000 for arrears of gensions and about $3,000,000 for the District of Columbia. : ; No estimates for either of these purposesare submitted in the book of estimates this year.

-Zadkiel, the British prophet, in his almanac for 1880, intimates that the stars will have mere or less to do with the affairs of -this country the coming: year. In March, owing to some malefic conjunction of the planets, ¢‘ the President will find ample scope for the exercise of all his moderation, wisdom and patience, for polities will be very lively and embittered in America, and United States soldiers will have to take to the war-path.”” There will be feverish excitement in New York in May, and ““the marshaling of troops will rouse the martial instincts of the American people,’’ this unfortunate state of affairs being caused by ¢ the square of Mars and éatum.” Eclipses are also tosbring us bad harvests and other troubles.

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