Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 November 1884 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner. THURSDAY, NOV. 27,1884, »BE& BurLER and Tom Graﬁy mu:;t Teel mighty mean just abeut this time

+ For over twenty years it has been ‘Capt. Mitchell. Now and henceforth ‘lt will be Judge Mitchell.

PeruAPs Hank Billings may conclude to preﬁpafe his resignation. We rather think he will have to go. :

THE cherished traditionlof Republi¢ans that their party alone could predominate has faded like the roses.

PANIEL MANNING will be the power|behind the throne. He is a capital adviser. and would make a fitst-class eabinet officer. : :

' PERHAPS Ben Butler is! waiting to see it Cleveland will offer him a place in the cabinet. The outlook for Benjamin dear is very blue. - o - THE majority of the people have formed themselves into a prohibition party—to prohibit the Republicars from remaining longer in power, ~ ®

It mo doubt caused Rev. Dr. Burchard to pender when he read what Mr. Blaine said about the expression, “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.”

Mz. BLAINE is not balf so much thought of now as he was before the election. Then his hoo' sold for ;$6.60. New he gets purchasers for $4.99. i ! ol :

-~ Too much corruption in the government, too manjy disreputable politicians and too .much Blaine are the eauses of the overthrow of the republican party. ¢

It 18 BAID that:Roscoe Conkling has a picture of Blaine hanging in hig bed room, and he winks-at the sad features of the tattooed man every time he jumps into bed. ' :

JouN H. BAKER spent six years in Congress. His partner, Capt. Mitchell, will, if he lives, spend six years on the supreme bench. That law firm may be considered lucky. -

‘MaJor CALKINS has concluded to locate in the city of Indianapolis and devote himself to the practice of law. That’s right, Major. Go to work and let politics alone for eight or twglve yoars, : . .. | -

CAPT. J. A.S. MITCHELL can take his seat as judge of the supreme court a 8 soon as he is ready Jto do so. Judge Hammond, who holds the position by appointment, vacates as soon as Capt. Mitchell qualifies. e

THE official yote of New York has beén canvassed by the State Board, and Cldveland’s plurality officially announced. Now if is to be hoped that the Republicans will stop claiming, pay their bets and keep quiet. P

Hox. Joun H. BAKER, the Goshen fanatic, will neither go to the U. S. Senate nor becoms a cabinet officer, a 8 he fondly dreamed some [time ago. John might make himselfuseful by organizing an expedition against the dreaded Mormons. °

* ‘THE Madison (Indiana) Herald gives numerous excelient reasons why. Hon. Wm. S. Holman should be mads Secretary of the lnterior under President Cleveland. The BANNER would heatily rejoice over Judge Holman’s selection to that position. o

'W. W. DUDLEY, late commissioner of pensions, is an awfully despised man, Even his old neighborsin Wayne county denounce Jbim. - It would be well for Dudley to go cut west and Join his old partner, Dorsey, in the bu#iness of-gmanufarctu_ring goap. .

. ‘JUDGE DAVID 8. GooDpING, well and favorably known to the peoplé of this county, wints to be Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, and the BANNER would like to see him make the riffle, Charley Jewett and Hugh D, McMullen are his competitors. ; L ‘

in Tug matter of offices we are in favor of evening things up. If the Reﬁublicgq:administrations have given any offices to Democrats let them be credited’ with so many. Then let the Demdcratic administration give the same number to Republicans. That is as fair as anything can. be,

THE Clevelgnd Plain Dealer says: “The Republ}cans seem disposed to take out their disappointment in vil--lainous abuse pf Conkling, old Parson Burchard and 'the Prohibitionists. * If this will take any of the keenness from the edge of their disappointment, we suppose the objects of their wrath will try and werry along,” :

. HERE AND THERE may 'be found a foolish Republican paper that talks of again running Blaine and Logan in 1888, but long befoye the time for making nominationgshall come/around public sentiment i the Republican party will render the re-nomination of Blaine utterly impossible. Mark the Prediction: me Blaine will never egain be nominated for the Presiden©y. He is 4 dead cock in the pit. |

Scort RAY. of the = Shelbytille Democrat, fitly remarks: “In whatever condition other men may leave public office, W, W. Dudley, of this

State, has gone out in shame. No i man ever yred a public position more - ignobly than he did the Pension Bureau. Its whole power was wielded for partisan purposes, with an utter . 'disregard of all considerations of de‘Bency or policy, - Dudley m"ay, therefore, retire to his well-earned shame with the assurance that the country knows and recognizes it.” . e

TaeY WANT A SoLip UnioN--To those Republicans who still fear that the South is mot sufficiently reconBtructed and does not feel kindly toward the cause of thorough unification, we respectfully commend the following: ; . S MONTGOMERY, ALA,, Nov. 21.—The bu- .. siness mén of Montgomery this evening | passed resolutions protesting against the “unfair, untruthful and partisan state- * ments” in the papers of the North in ref- - erence to the Bouthern people, = Southern " white people, the resolutions say, propose /| to protéct the negro in all his rights. “We -1 look not back to Appomattox, but forward - %o the great futare that awaits our com. - mon Union,” SR A e

WASHINGTON city will have to spread itself conaiderably on the fourth of March, in order to hold the people wlho will be there to see the inauguration ofCl. velaud 2.d 4n honest government. : LB

WiLL BLAINE attend the inauguration ot Grover Cleveland as President? Wait and see,’ Gen. Hancock attended the inauguration of his competitor, Gen. Garfisld. But then there is a vast difference between Hancock aud Blaine. - [ ) i

A SUPERSTITION EXPLODED.

An exchange calls to mind that ever since Gen. Liewis Cass' was defeated for the Presidency in 1848, it has been. a popular fallacy that no candidate whose sirname commenced with “C” could be elected 2&) that high office, and the prior defeat ¢s George Clinton and De Witt Clinton, both of New York, of William H.:Crawford, of#Georgia, and of Henry Clay was relied upon ds proof of the declaration. There was a great deal said in the Republican newspapers during ' the campalgn about the fatal influence of the magical lecter #C” on former Presidential candidates, whose names we have ‘mentioned, and the conclusion was arrived at, that, judging the future by the past, Cleveland was doomed to ‘defeat like Cass, Clay and the rest of the unfortunate letter “C” candidates. It is even said now,that in many parts of the country some of the more enthusiastic Blaing nyen weredfso jfirmly impressed with the truth of the theory, that they bet their money liberally against Cieveland on that circumstance alone, - It was a silly kind of fatalism and has been finally expleded by his election.’

COMMON SENSE

i We take pleasure in transferring to our columns thesfollowing from the Indianapolis News, an independent republican paper, which warmly advocated the election of Blaine and Logan: “A man who thinks thijs country would re-establish slavery ought tq be sent to the asylum for the feeble minded or to the insane hospital, and he who thinks this country would yote to saddle itself with the payment of pensions to gouthern coldiers, and of southern war claims ought to keep the other fellow company. The constitution can only te amended by proposal of a two-thirds 'yote of both houses of congress, or on application of three-fourths of the states by the legislatures thereof, or by conventions called in three-fourths of the states, and in any ease it must be rafified by legisiatures or conventions in three-fourths of the .stat'e‘b atter having two-thirds of the vote of congress. ‘Surely nothing tbe sun shines on is‘imbedded as irrevocably as these two fundamental laws. What plainer,imore convincing de.moﬁ,é;tra-' tion could the dullest intellect ask—but let's “proceed to busihess.”

SECTIONALISM

The Harrisburg Patriot says: There are a few.of the most-malevolent Republicans .who still persist in the insane delusion that this country is divided into sectional fragments. That is to say, they draw a line between the North.and South and make an analysis ‘of the vote of ona- gection against the other. !

‘lt is the pleasure of these malevolents to point to the fact that the majority of ths votes in the North were cast for one candidate. Of course in the narrow and constrained minds of this elass they are unable to.understand that when the war closed the chasm which separated ‘the sections was completely-filled and cbliterated.

If these malevolents li‘]e long enqugh and are able to learn anything they will discover that a citizen of the United'States has the same voice in the election of a president wliether he lives in Vermont or Texas. 'lf they ate unabls by reason of a want of intelligenes to make this discovery, their silly ravings about nationalism will never be noticed. In this hour of democratic victory, the democratic citizens can afford to bo tolerand even to the extent of overlooking the foolishness of these narrow minded fellows.

THE REAL CAUSE OF DEFEAT

The Blaine organs, since they havs been compelled to admit the eiection; of Grover Cleveland, find an interest-! ing if mot a pleasurable pastime in explaining the cause of repuf)lican defeat. DBy some it i 3 aseribed to 1.0. gan, by others to Blaine, but by none to.the real cause, It isof course very obvious that the nomination of Blaine at Chicago arrayed a considerable portion of his party against. him. It ig/ plain, too, that the prohibitionists contributed largely to the cause of the republican rout. ; But it was not so muach Logan nor Blaine nor the temperanee movement which brought about the result. The great reason of this defeat is to be' found among the peopie themselves. Successive presidential campaigns ‘have demonstrated the truth that the country is tired of and disgusted with: the giaring iniquities of republican rule. Under its deteriorating influences public credit is depressed, govern‘mental practices are .a dlsgrace and the honor of the republic crushed, : These distressing facts, as the Har-! risburg Patriot ‘well says, aroused s - widespread desire upon the part of ‘the people to get rid of such iniquities. /There Wwas popular confidence in Grover Cleveland aud his elevation to the presidendy is due te the fact that the belief was and is general that under a democratic administration! salutary changes would be made and that there wotld be a return to the honorable mode of conducting the government which ‘prevailed in- ear lier days. In? this belief the people will not be disappointed, - e \ et < s e ~ FOOL OR KNAVEY, | « The chaii'man of the republican national committee, Mr. Benjamin Franklin Jones, has fallen into despondency over the defeat of his dear friend Blaine, In a statement recently published in some of the republican papers Mr, Jones expresses the belie® that the dogs will have a feastin the vitals of the country, and within an amdzingly brief period -all that is] worth preserving of the government| will have been expunged from the| publiorecords. . o . __The particular malady under which{ Mr. Jones expects to seé the country} T A g 1 e

other words, that party having taken Advantage of BoobyJones’ monumental stupidity to defeat the machinations of Steohen B. Elkins, Mr. Jones Insists that they now proceed to divide the funds of the treasury among themselves, parcel gus the publiclands, and play smash generally with the property. of the people. : ~ Inthe beginning he is morally cer‘tain that the first act will be to peusion the rebel soid?;}ré from the puble treasury. Having himasolf been a beggarly public pinsioner for .years, of course his mind naturally turns to that form of depfetkng the treasury. He next r_emarks-Ltzhe giowing idea that the Southern people will ba paid for their slaves out of the funds collected from the people for public purPoses, and being a confirmsd idiot this thought is equally nlatm‘al and beeom-~ ing to bim. Happi? the measure of B.F. Jones has bden taken by the cotintry and what he says will have no influence for gqob or bad on the minds of anybody oluts,ide of lunatic asylvms, Pl g

AT WAS A|“DEAL? || That Gave Cleveland so mall a Mar- .‘ gin in New York. ! = © [Chicago Times.] The complete retnrns of the vote for Presidential elec ors in New York show that the total |[Republican vote in the State, outside| of | the city, ie actually less than it was in 1880. Here are’the figures: S . e . 1834, 1880, DemocratiC.ioc....veer. .1 |420946 411,496 Republcam: ...... cueai: oo SIBOOS 4753.814 Republican plurality..... 41,95‘5 i _Eﬁig It thus appears that the Democratic vote in New York. éxclusive of the c¢ity, has increased from 411,496 in 1880 to 429,946 in 1884, a gain of 18, 450, 'while the. Republican vote has, fallen from 473,814 in|lBBo to 471,905, a decrease of 1,909. The former therefore shows a gain of 448 per cent. In the city the figures for 1880 and for 1884 are as follows: , " 1884. _lBBO. Democratic coees . veilas o 183,157 123,015 Republican......L....ic... 0 90,003 8L Democratic plumsﬂit.y.. 5 ,023;— ; Tzs_s It will be observed gb the Repub-

lican gain in the eity i§ actually larger in proportion than that of the Democrats. The Republican vote has risen from 81,730 to 90,093, an increase of 8,363, or 10.23 per cent., while the Democratic vote has rigen from 123, 015 to 188,157, an increase of 10,142, or 8.24 per cent. Th& city returns show that the Blaine electors ran 24,~ 000 votes ahead of the Republican ticket for assemblymen and 30,000 ahead of the Republican candidates .for aldermen. The Cleveland electors, 'on the other hand, fell 14,000 below the Democratic candidates for assemblymen and 24,000 below the Democratie ticket for aldermen. The'Repdblican candidate for mayor recsived 45,000 fewer votes than the Blaine electors, while the two. Democratic candidates for mayor polled togethsar 48,000 more votes than the Cleveland electors. These figures seem to afford the most conclusive evidence of a corrupt deal between the party machines

of the metropolis, which resulted in the logs to the Cleveland ticket of something like 25,000. It was deubtless because of thig deal that the Blaine managers were 8o confident of carrying New York, and but .for the unexpected Democratic gaing in the country districts of the Sfate they ‘would certainly have realized their anticipations. '

Cleveland’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.

It wouid not be a bad ideafor every family that to-day sits down fo a thanksgiving dinner to have some member of the household read aloud the proclamation issued by Gov. Cleveland. Thke document is one that warraats a thoughtfyl perusal: -

State of New York, Proclagmation ojf Grover Cleveland, Goveraor: :

The people of ‘the State should permit neither their orvdinary oceupations and cargs, nor any unusual cause of exeitement to-divert their minds from & sober and humble acknéwledgment of their dependence on Almighty God for all that contributes to there happiness and contentment, and for ail that secures greatness and prosperity to our prozd Commonwealth. In accordance with the longcontinued custom, I heréby appoint and designate Thursday, the 27th day of November, 1884, to be specially observed as a day of thanksgiving and praise; let all the people of the State at that time forego their usual business and employmentcs, and ia their several places of worship give thanks to the Almighty God for all thathe hias done for them. Let the cheer of family reunions be hallowed by a tender remembrance of the love and watehful care of our Heavenly Father, and in the social gatherings of friends and neighibors let hearty good will and ‘tellowship be chastened by & confession of the kindness and merey of God. ‘

- Done af te Capitol, in the city of Albany. this Bth.day of November, in the year 1884 of our Lord. Y

- GROVER CLEVELAND, Govérner. DANIEL LAMONT, Private Sec’y. ' CLOBE CONTESTS.

In 1839 Edward Everett was defeated for governor of Massachusetts by ¢ majority. in 184) Pennsylvania only gave Harrison 349 majority oyer Van Buren on the official count. In 1844 Polk lost Tennessee, his native state,! by the cfficial count of 118 majority. Ia 1848 Johnson was electéd governor over Longstreet in Pennsylvania by 305 majority. In 1850 Horatic Seymour was defeated for governor of New York by Washington Hunt by 162 majopity and again in 1854 by Myron H. Clark by £O9. In 1879 Plaisted, democratie candidate for gpver-‘ nor of Maine, received 234 majority.,

HERE is Go?ernor- Hendricks, idea of civil service reform ‘23 expressed in hig speech at Brookiyn last Saturday night: : Do you ask me if { ata {n fayor of civil service reform? Of course lam in fayor of civil service reform., lam notin favor of a continuation of so many things that we have seen in some things that are past. The people are tired of it and they want a change. Doyou desire to know from me what eiwgl gervice I have confidence in? lam very free t 9 say to you people tonight that I am not pargieularly confident of success after a school-mastes’s examination. But I will tell you what { have confidence in. As it Wwas in the days of Andréw Jackson; let a true man come to be the President of the United States, and let true men %e called around him to aid him in the public selyice and let these men resolve that the only test of gualification for ofiice under them shall be honesty and fitness for the eervice, and you have eivil service reform. r aie e

‘ An Historie Parallel, | [Kansas City Timos.] i z Gen. Jackson had 219 electoral votes in 1832, Gov. Cleveland gets the same } number in 1884. History repeats itR A PR S, IR st

CLEVELAND LETTER.

The white frost lay over the ground like a shroud of gauze, and the dead leaves sank beneath our feet with an echo of summer lingering in the low rustle like the murmur of dyircg hopes, shivering beneath the white crust of external lining. We passed through the little village from whose few chimneys ngt the half yet told the household was awake. We did ot pause until at the top of -the “first hill,” a short but steep ascent, leading directly into the country, Here we looked back and down upon the little harlset whose inmates were just beginning to show sigos of life. At our laft, just at the hill, stood a little cottage, from whose vine covered doorway troopad out a crowd of youthful memories, flinging across my } frosted pathway, jewels which glit—tered, and lava which burned .upon the altar of “long ago.” At the right, acroes the narrow street, stood the old hotel, grim, gray, battered and worn io its cruel living.. But out from its darkened walls came the fair lface of a young girl, and the love, poetry and flowers of a beautiful youth, blossomed ont of the dead wood. She loved the good in life, avd the old hotel was the bane of her pure heart. But youthful tears could uot stay the father, grown old in sin, and she, the ‘idol of his heart, the one joy of the heartbroken wife. folded the drapery ’of life’s first promises about her slender form and laid down toa dreamless sleep. Years cams to brighten this &——another link—in the chain of memories of this little town, A little far‘ther onis the old church among the trees—it stands an index fioger pointing to the upward' path. How the gpirits come to our silent calll TFirst

the good old deacon, everybody loved, stood on the great stome door-step, and.emiled as in years gone by, upon the boys and giris gathered around him. How the years told upon the revered and beloved man. And after the brain kad closed its active work, the mind became palsied under old age-and care, he would be always in his pew at every service, and on one theme his mind never wandered—the theme of “God’s leve.” Another good deacon lays beside him, and many a white haired woman ; many a fresh, strong life, has passed out from that old gateway to “join the innumerable caravan,” and the beautiful thoughts of B. F. Taylor secmed a fitting trib ute to my “old chureh.”. “It i 3 years —-we dare not think how many—since then. and the prayers of David the son of Jesse ars ended, and the chioir scattered and gone—the girl with the blue eyes that sang alto, and the girl with the blaclé ayes that sang air; the eyes of oue like a June heaven at noon,.and ths other, like the same beaven at nigat.. "They both’ hiecame wives, and both became moth«rs; and both died. Who shall say they are not Binging Corinth still, where Ssbbath’s never wane, and congregatione never break up? There they sat, Sabbath after Sabbath, by the square column at the right of the leader, and to our young ears their tunes were the very soul of music. That column still bears their penciled names, as they wrote them in those duys of life’s June—before dreams of change bad oyercome their spirits like a summer’s cloud!” Through the silvery mist of tears I saw it all, frgm the deaqd past, the active present, and the “Beyond.” I joined bands with many ‘who had learnpad at least by letter, if notin spirit, to do the will of our “Father who art in Heaven.”

A way across a deep ravine, bejc‘md the threading creek, high on another hiil, lay the dear dead we write of. One simple shaft is bright with the first flush of sunrige, and we bow with deepest sorrow and pray that the dear | father whose name it “bears, may indeed be'ai'minispe;ing_ spirit” to me his wayward chijd. The tower of the oid home, a pillarin the “old chureb,” he'sleeps ai least tho sleep of forgetfulness of a life of hardegt pseg. But we his children, live to honor a name which indeed lived to do good—to serye God—and honor his fellowmen. This one pistyre blinds my faded eyes to lengeér vision, and I move on, leaving the place so full of spirit, with a heart too full for expression. : Mow the sun is just creeping above the trees. We reach the top of another great hill, and stop to feast upon the scens before us. Away at our gfeet the blue- waters of Erie gleam out zgajnst the morning sunlight like a streaming banuer stpung with jewala. Anofher hamlet nesties ,bégid'e} its banks—and copvent walls and church steepise, schoeis and stores, kumble homes and more pretentious residences, sparkle here and there, gems of man’s handier:ft, adorniug the framework of this most beautiful scene in nature. The gessiapt whirl of railway travel, the smoke of small tactories, the perfume of many yineyards laden with luscious fruit, broad meadows, and towering woodlands, all lagy before me, offering the incense of industry upen the sublime altar of Nature’s gref\t sx;p‘ply. ';:he' frost Js fagt fading beneath the adyanging rays of suniight, and we turn reluctantly away from a sesas a 0 fujl of peetry and song, so rich with the jewels of remeuibrance which sparkle upon Time’s well:ween rosary, the only beads we ever care to count, and as I pass on I pray:— "

I e ggne from peopled town! it passeth its gtréet thunder round My body, which yei Bea#s ne soand: ¥or now. another sound, apotliey yisicn, my soul’s sensos have, Bk O'er a hundred valleys deep, wherg the hills green shadows sleep, 3 Scarce known, because the valley trees cross those upland images— Ger a)gmdred hills, each other - watching to the westeyn ware— : 1 hiave trayelled,—f have fouug the silent, lene __ remembered ground, S 3 God,Goed| With a child's vojce { cry, weak, sad, - confidingiy~ God, God! Thou knowest eyelids raised not al- - ways up unto < Thy love, (a 8 none of ours are,) droop as ouss, o'er many a tear! 3 Thou knowest, though thy universe is broad, £wo Htilg tears suffice Gl To gover all, ;'f.&l‘?.‘? kH?VﬁSﬁr—meﬂ 'Who art so prodigalof . ; Bewtiy,--we are oft but stricken deer expiring nthe | ; e ' Woods—that care for #oie of those delight- _ some flowers 2 o ’m:@;_-‘d!e upo%a..(" 3 : ~—Browning, . %6 sun shines boldly out over the leafiess tress, and they seem to point wipr#.‘ skeleton fingers at my pleture 80 swittly drawn under the magie of these early hours. I travel over the road 60 paved with early rec%&;m w“’?

country people in their hard struggle with life and its cares. The dead leaves flutter carelessly at my lagging feet, the autumn breezs fans tenderly my tear stained cheek, and over all the low hpm of spirit voites chant the inward marching of ;he soul, as the body passes on to do the work 'of the external. The hum of bees, the perfums of yvineyards, the slow going farm wagons, all pass by us, and our feet get very tired before we rest once again in the home of our childhood. Undaer its low eaves we lay down the weight of care.and sorrow, and from the dear ones there, gather on a glad enfoldment of love and peace.’ ]

¢ The short day passes all too swiflly, and the shadows find us again upon the hills, but going down now, and as we descend we feel most forcibly the truth, that the ladder of life is getting very ‘short, and soon the last rung shall be reached, and we too, lie in the memory of the past. . The whirl of the train, the swift walk of a few moments, and we enter the gates of the Lodge—with an impetus born of a Bpirit we cannot repress—so we give the thought expression by these hasty lines, and we pause now to .spend a quiet evening with a friend who loves dearly to read and dream of those days when we both were young. But the autumn of life is upon us, and under the grim shadows of failing eyes and gray hairs, we can trace the outlﬁng:g a ﬁu.ture. springtime when the soul” shall ‘cease its wanderings, and the autumn of decay—the winter of ‘death—bring us the summer of endless Peace. A R.E.

IMPORTANCE OF -YOTING.

One Yote Eiects a Representative ‘i ' United States Senator and | : Annexes Texas. - | (Jeffergonville News.) ; Hon ‘Dan Blotcher, of Holmar, Scott county, says that the narrow margio by which Cleveland was elected illustrates favorable the importance of everybody vot'ing‘, and recalls a remarkable instance of the iufluence of the voter. It was in 1846 when Ham Davis was the Democratic candidate for the legirlature in that county. Just before the polls closed, Wm. H. English asked Mr. Blotcher if he knew any voters who had not voted. He said yes, “there was Wash Owens, but the durned bugger wouldn’t come because he had no boots.” Mr. English insisted that Blotcher shoald get O wens, so he started for him. Owens refused to come to the polls because he had no boots, but Blotcher by a deal of persuasion got Owens to start on the promise that he would lend him his boots. Accordingly, when the pair got within half a mile of Lexington, Bloteher pulled off his boots and loaned them'to Owens. In those days it was universally the custom to treat voters, and Owens received his dram and fifty cents and leaving Blotcher stauding barefoot in the corn field started for the polls. Hs voted and 1 then proceeded to invest his firty cents in Jersey lightning. The consequence ‘was that Oweas got gloriously drunk and forgot all about Blotcher’s boots. This was a modification of Daniel in the lion’s den. 1t was Daniel bare foot 1n the corn field, and he at length grew lonely, and started after Owens ‘with red vengeance in his eye. Of course it was using mild language to say that Blotcher was mad. But when the ballots ‘were counted and Hiram Davis was found tg be elected by a msjority of one, then [ncle Daniel’s wrath was changed to rejoicing. But this was not the only good result. In the contest for United States Senator, Edward C. Hannegan was elected by one majority, and Harnegan’s vote annexed Texas bLringing on the Mexican war. We doubt if ever a bootless Democrat before or afterwards exercised such an important influence oyer the destinies of his 'country. - It shoyld teach every man that thig vote is important,

Tug contrast beﬁveen Logan’s action since the election and that of Blaine is very marked and makes the Lilinois statesman far more respectable than the man from Maine.

THE Albien New Era has at last condescended to admit Grover Cleves land’s election to the Presidescy of the United States, But it was an awful hard thing for that oracle of Jingoism to yield so much to the truth, 5

Mg. BLAINE attributes his defeat to the rain which tumbled down rather maljcjously on election day and kept maoy Repyplicang at home. Perhaps Mr. Blaine ig right, Providence doubtless took good care to see that numerous thingsshogld bar away success. | D

Gov. HENDRICKS had a very agree—ablo interview with President elect Cleveland last Jatprday, What was said on that occasion ig noi likely to be made publig. The alleged reports of the conference that hava been sent out in some of the big dailies are mere guess-work, { - =

BLAINE'S PLURALITY in Michigan is ‘léss than §,006. What a coming down this 18" fropa the old-fashioned Republican majorities of 30,000, 40, 000 and £0,064. 4 few pore pulls will completely wipe out Xepublican ascendancy in Michigan and make it a reliably Demogratic State. ’

THE extraordinary majority that California gave Blaine is explained by the fact that the Pacifie railroad companijes exerted all their power to swell the Repiiblican yste. Blaine, it will be remembered, was always & willing, tool of grasping corporations, gnd it is not to be wondered, therefore, that they did all in their power to help the Maine corruptionist. But the wonder is that ihe peopls should allow themselyes to be misled in ihis manner, §o their own detriment and injury, =

IT 18 quite appagent that a certain class of Republicans are doing ail in their power to create discontent and 'to aggravate the present stagnation of‘bugingss. The blind worshipers of !J im Blaine pre foremogt jin ¢his pefarious business. They would like to pn%{sh the people for defeating the ‘Maine demagggue by making the pres-: | ent hard times a good dea) Harde;. ‘They may succeed for the immediate pregent, but in the spring, when Cleveland goes into office, there will be a change for the better. There will be a reviyal of buysiness in the near fu-

NEWS DIGEST, . ! %, I 1o Dnkota’s permanent school property

The report that the Canadian Pacific Railway had leased the Grand Trunk proves to be false. : ~_H. J. Jewett gives notice of his de: sire to be dropped from the directory of the Erie road. !

- So virulent is the hog cholera in Towa that the recent losses in Mills county -alone are estimated at $14,000. .

A grand ijury at New York on Wednesday indicted Sullivan and Greenfield for indulgipg-n a prize-fight. New He ;1){ ire experienced several further shocksof earthquake Sunday in varieds parts of the State.

C. V. Marshall, sheriff of Charlotte county, Virginia, was killed by a collision of trains near Keysville. Workmen boring for natural gas at Findlay, Ohio, struck a vein of crude petroleum &t a depth of 718 feet. C. M. Durham, mayor of Independence, lowa, and H. A. Perkins, of the Sioux City Journal, died Satur&ay. The legislature of Georgia re-elected Joseph E. Brown to the United States senate with but two dissenting votes.

A factory at Youngstown, OHio, is engaged in makirg mckelﬁ)latec_l _shingles for the New Orleans Exposition.

A grand jury at Chigago has indicted “Black Jack” Yattaw for the murder of aspecial constable on election day. Boston has at last organized an opposition gas company, which pledges %tsetlf to charge only $1.50 per'thousand eet. * Y

William A. Wood, the well-known reaper inventor, died Wednesday at Templeton, Massachusetts, aged’ 71 years. i . The United Statesdispatch-boat Dolphin, built by John Roach, broke down gn aétri_al trip off the eoast of Connecicut.

The sxigeﬁntendent of gublic instruction for Dakota reports f%%bthousand shildren enrolled in the s€hools last jummer. :

Robert Garrett, on t-aking the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio road, refused to accept an increase of - salary to $25,000. :

The nail factory and nail-plate mill of the North Chicago Rolling-Mill Company at Bay View, Wis., resumed work Monday. President Arthur has invited Cleveland to make the White House his home during his stay in Washington prior to March 4. :

William B. Fitch. anextensive dealer in stone at Kingston, New Yorg, has made an assignment to secure labilities of $150,000.

A land syndicate in Utah is having papers made ready to purchase sixty thousand acres of land from the Central Pacific road. : :

Six lives were lost by the e'xplosion of the boiler of the steamer Captain Sam, plyinF between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.

The corner-stone of a crematory temple was yesterday laid by Professor Felix Adler in a cemetery at Greenpoint, Long Island. :

The scaffold had been made ready at Quebec for the execution of Mrs. Boutel, when notice was received of a respite of eight days. L The Canadian government has decided not to take partin the New Orleans exposition, for lack of time to prepare exhibits. | ; After some weeks of hard work by the newspapers of Denver, the acting mayor has ordered the police to close all gambling-lhouses. During a democratic jubilee'at Hickman, Kentucky, a rocket set fire to a factory and caused the destruction of property valued at $lOO,OOO.

Fishermen at Milwaukee enter complaint that whitefish are being extirpated bg the pound and trap nets stretched all along the lakes.

Leading democrats of New York gathered in large numbers at Albany to witness the marriafe of Daniel Manning and Miss Mary M. Fryer. -

The mayor of Philadelphia - recommends to the council that the old liberty bell in Independence hall be sent to the New Orleans exposition, ,

The Baltimore and Ohio Teports a capital stock of $14,783,900, and an accumulated wehlth of $47,750,000. for which no share was ever issued. :

The New England society has been granted permission to glace in Central {Jark, New York, a statue representing he landing of the pilgrim fathers.

Caleb Butt, a married man of Toronto, has eloped to the United States with “Cé‘ﬁ)tain” Fisher, an Irish girl connected with the Salvation army.

The woolen-mills at Waukesha, Wisconsin, valued at $50,000. were Monday evening destroyed by fire, throwing ope hundred men out of employment. ' Tlﬁ grain commission firm of Grier Brothers, of St. Lonis, has failed, owing $7,000 on the corn exchange. Five &%xrs ago they were esstimatedg at $350,Thomas P. Dunn, a young cavalryman at Fort Leavenworth, who recently lost a near relative at Detroit, shot !‘:jmself through the heart with a carine. : : : Mrs. J. A. Garfield has secured the app‘c;_intmgnt of Congressman Tucker, of Virginia, as ¥uar ian for her minor c?i%dren of the family property in that state. 3 |

- J. N. Bruen, of Monmouth, Illinois, .iﬁglg known throughout the west Eom' is ’l‘arge' interests in lahd and cattle, died from a cold gontracted in Chicago. (e A cycl(sne whieh on Saturday night swept oyer two plantations just above New Orleans, “killed Mr. Mjalarat, brother-in-law of the French historian, Michelet. i :

Forty coal-miners, whenarraigned at ?Ya:shingpon, Pennsylvania, for interferm% with non-union workmen, made no defense, and were each fined 1 cent and costs.

Ah Kee, aChinaman, who shipped on g vessel at Calcutta and deserted in New York, has been ordered by a United States commissioner to leave the country. :

Maryland has shipped to the New Orleans exposition eight car-loads of exhibits, including four hundred pieces of native wood and two hundred specimens of stone. A

* Ighig deaths are reported of J onatkan K.‘“.Cooge'r, the ‘oldes} - me&nbe% 6f the bar at Peoria, Illinois, and" J ohn Fish: back, formerly owner of the Jndianapolis Nentinel. = : o .

The plow factory of 8. B. Buford & Co., at Rock Island, is-about ready to resume business with an increased capital, giving employment to over five }n_;_r'xdred men. o ; "A drunkard now enjoying the benefits of the x’vo&ﬁ%nsé atﬂiéamiﬂsmﬁ, Massachusetts, is one-of the heirs to gm lﬂfgﬁ estate of Asahel Buffum, of Linecoin, Illinpig, : ~_'The sentence of Koerner, the Indianapolis wife-murderer, has been commuted to lerisonment for life, at the request of all the judges of the supreme court, » « Mrs. Hopkins, wife of a farmer in Sardinig, }]?;zje County, N. ¥., whois. a '%a}ndmot er fxajs‘pldf),ed» with, (zeorge Wiley, aged' che'ntyft wree, one -of het pusband’s em‘;{'ﬂo pR: e Joseph Gook, xf y Nebraska murderer who was hanged by a ‘mob "af }3[}&6 “Hills and resuscifated by the sherif, has recovered sufficiently to permit his removal to Hed Cloud, Two men started in a gioop frep Victogia, l%ﬂitish Cogxmbig. g’itvhp!g cargo of nineteen Chinese, | who were to be emu%;fled into Washington territory, but all were drowned. : gon; James Speed, of Louisville, Y:_ Sms-am%{)ey»gauegal in Presideut Jincoln’s cabined, wag : gtackes Jw}; wmé;? while arguing a case, gausing great feais ag 10 his recovery, ~8. H. Black, a prosperous meggliant of Blossom Prairie, Texas, who was recently elected sheriff of Lamar county, ' 5.68 ab gﬁdnight Slmda{] called to the Hcr"oF s nge i shov don, “The ' Continenfal hotel, “aﬁl‘\’?‘?f ; akota, took fire av 3 'o’clock’ Mo 10t1iing ‘and was ‘sodn wholly consunied, '}‘)m'gJ;?tg '&ﬁd selg,a‘nts Were reseuied,” /16 10% ls apout §vsooo,° 3& Edinbohrlo.‘ Benﬁgﬁlv’:;iaﬁt 'in tggg: urday evening, a rallw akeman nam‘eyd C. B. \-%illiam\s fatally shot his yife then killed himself. For the past §#o yepps they had lived unhappily. Apall atogten feet mmmn.}vgcm for ypars has beep the ferror of Jefler: 80 "'f““f{" A_rkagxsas, was lagt’ week Kkilled with'a shot-gyp Mjss Dottie . Steck, of Bellwood, ennsylvagim | _The ¢ of %ag,ie Holcomb, a;i , on, ichi%a 1305 K 9 fmutger AT ';@r?u%fﬁ;g ly, hag -b:;wgeﬁ&tg 1y po ) ‘aceount ea ! %mfgmm prosecuting attorR e

counties of Virginia dand Kentuck, hundreds of human beings have re= cently died from a plague resembling Asiatic cliolera. - : N

. Proposals are solicited for the grading of fitty miles on the extension” of the Vanderbilt line in northwestern Nebraska, which will bring the roadbed toa point ninety miles south of Deadwood by July 15.

Postmaster General Hatton orders that unclaimed letters in envelopes upon which are hotel cards should not be returned to the mailing office unless there are the words ‘*Return to” in addition to the hotel card. :

Acute typhoid—dysenterg is the medical name given to the fatal s.pourge which has recently broken out in the western portions ot Virginia. [One hundred and fifty deaths have occurred in Wise County alone. : There were 258 failures in the United States and twenty-nine in Canada during the week ending Friday—a total increase of forty-one over the week previous. The increase is mostly in the Western and Southern States. An immense school of black-fish, ‘which made its ?pearancef inside Cape Cod, was gursue to Wellfleet bay by a fleet of whale-boats, representing every village from Dennis to Provincetown. The catch is valued at $25,000. i The sum of $150,600 has been subscribed b{’ Ca})tain A. T. Andress, Major R. W. McClaughry, and others to erect another ganorama" building in Chicago and produce a painting of the battle ot Shiloh next summer.” | = .

Leading business men of Boston met and adopted resolutions favoring a susFension of the coinage of silver dolars; the enactment of the senate bankruptey bill, and favorable action on the reciprocity treaty with Mexico.

Two thousand ‘Pemons assembléed in New York Tuesday evening to witness a glove/ contest between Sullivan and Greenfield. As the struggle quickly deﬁ{enetated into a desperate fight, the police arrested the combatants.

.Joel M. Vanarsdalen, a well-known lawyer of Philadelphid, died of paralvsis in the Eastern Apenitentlarg\\, of ennsylvania, where he was sent' for ten years for foxﬁing the will of a millionaire named Robert Whitaker. @'

:One of the jurors inthe Crouch murder case at Jackson, Michigan, has been prostrated by typhoid fever, forcing the court to take a recess. The other jurors make considerable complaint in regard to their quarters. The recorder of New York imposed a fine of $lOO and a sentence of thirty days in the city prison upon Rev. William H. Ramsecar, superintendent of the home for children, for sending two young girls out to beg provisions. David Eastman, of Harlem, Illinois, lost a $5,000 farm by betting on Blaine, and long after election day refused an offer of $4OO to. draw the wager. A yo;_un%lady of Cairo is said tohave won a husband by betting on Cleveland. The residents of Farmingzd_ale, Long Island, are excited over the alléged elopement of Mrs. . Elizabeth Baylis, aged seventy, with John Barnum, a good-looking ?foung peddler, with whose appearance she had been smitten.

- L. A, Senecal, the famous Canadian speculator, has suddenly withdrawn his suit for $lOO,OOO damages against the Toronto Mail. A royal comimission has been formed to inquire into his purchase of the North Shore railway.

lln the United States circuit court at New, York, Judge Shigman directed the jury to return a verdict for Secretary McCulloeh in the action brought by A. D. R. Lamar to recover $llO,OOO for eotton confiscated during the war. The governor of Virginia vetoed a bill which he claimed would place the whole election machinery of the state in the hands of the dominant party. The senate promptly passed the meas}:n'% -gver his objections by a vote of 22 09. : :

. J. L. Cranberry, a cletk in a wholesale house m Baltimore, lost $1,500 of his emf)loyer’s moneg while on a'spree. On fully recovering his equilibrium he was 50 _conscience-stricken as to Kkill hirps{;elf by severing an artery in his wrist. ? ; : .

An iron foundry and a flint-glass works at Pitisburg and three® cotton factories in New England announce that a reduction of 10 percent in wages will be made next month, unless a material change in the market becomes visible. :

Charles W. Farciot, formerly at' the head of a wire factory near Sandusky, Ohio, disappeared last June with $50,000 of the firm’s funds. A cablegram from Belgium announces his arrest in that country, and an officer will be sent for him. | In the matter of the estateof Wilbur E. Storey, of Chicago, the probate court allowed Eureka C. Storey to a][jY‘eal from its order appointing A.. L. latterson administrator-to-collect on her filing a bond for $20,000 within twenty days. : -

‘A strong non-gwartis_ag moyement is on foot in Ohio to do away with the October elections in that State, : Petitions are being circulated for signanatures and the subject will be "a’fb tated at this winter’s sessSion of the Legislature. . o “The Elba iron-works, at Pittsburg, have started u% after some months of suspension. he' mills at Sharon, Pennsylvania, have sto%ged for lack of orders. The strike in the lock-works at Branford, Connecticut, has been: amicably settled. ‘ ;

‘ There is %reat excitementatthe Mexican caﬁita in regard to the conversiou of the English debt. Crowds in the gfreet threatened Presidént Gonzalez "grith death and ‘marched to the resi‘dence of (General Piaz to make him state his position. @Goy. Hoadly, of Ohio,; has received -a communication from the Trades Assembly of Cincinnati, demanding the removal of the Pinkerton guards from the Hocking Valley. The (overnor, some months ago, stated that he had no sych power, : : ; The deaths are reported of Orrin Clark Richards, a scenic artist of Boston; Alexander K. Davis, lieutenant governor of Mississippi under Adelbert Ames, and 8. BR. Stimson, superintendent of the Northwestern car-works at . Stillwater, Minnesota. o ; Edward Morris, who swindled Chicago jewelers out of considerable property, is held in New York to awalt extradition papers from Governor Cleveland. The accused offered to hand over $lO,OOO worth of goods in lieu of lal], but was nof released. I - A street-car in _l?i%t’_sbui:g, cppta,ining twenty-three’ li)asseggerg, got' beyond. control on a hill in Penn ayenue, and dashed dowp against the horses with such serious effect that they were ghob to end their misery. Nearly every OCz, cupant of the car was bruised. K In Baltimore, Wednesday evening, Charles ;Jcopold was accepted by Miss Bessie Vinterbaper, a handsome brunette, A few mingtes afterward he drew a revlplye;' in a gareless manner, aceidentally shootin f;is betrothed in the side, with %obaﬁl_y fatal resujts. A citizen of Kershaw county, SBouth' Carolina, has sent to a federal marshal at Camden a steel plate for printing 2cent postage}stamtps of the old issue, | with a vignette of President Jackson. It wag found among the effects of a flead planter, and was well worn from ÜBBT 2 e e et s TR

- In the businesg office of the Cyronicle at San Franeisco, Wetdnesgay evening, Adolph Sg)reckels shot'M. H. DeYoung inthe lett arni and left shojldeér, on account o‘§ comments on the manage: ent of the Hawaiian Sugar cd&pany, ?pxeck_els jvas at gnce taken {o the sta-iop-house, Voo 8 ; A fire at ‘Hayerhill, Massachusetts, destroyed the Brickett building, cone taining several stores and a hotel. Some gentlemen escaped from the upr windows by a rope extemporized ?fom I)e,dc_lothes, and a babe was tied In a sheet and throwy gafely down to the firemens: o cvovoer Totie _The venerable .Ca?tmn Bassett, assistant doorkeeper of the senate oﬁamber at Washington, has received from Senator Mandarso? an application, for i,ogan’s sctegti, and rom_Se_lﬁ.)tor Datwe;l‘ ‘feiuesp to ke placed jn the seat of égg%ls Jameroxg' ’5%5; -’f§ o gajgé' Fene etons pias. -5 o o R Articles of incorporation have been E}le’ at gxdiuna ils, Ind:, in behalf ‘of Jle ,ja;gm m ggfgstggulﬁxr;mm u;xl | ay, Wwhich I 8 sgid 'to hidyeta tal: sto%k of 5& ,0& and w“cli gl‘o o_isa E to eonstruct a continuous line ‘through' lowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio; and F%gmtsglv nia, R ﬁ atner mgan, of Lpornhill, Ontayio,. e ) 10 ail a goarg agross s pow B} his ehi rcﬂxehte” by Duncan B%fgaggg, A.,Mmga ensued ‘af the gommence: {nento ~the aewiges,\lutﬁ _ nd he priest dragged the oLd:, n - ﬁg&; door mdthgewtgi?hwm such forge ag to fracture hig thigh, -~ = " = __F. H. Bignell, of Quebec, W onﬁ

Jater to be as large as Lake Superior, and that the Hud{sonngg compapy has for a century maintained an ageney on. its shores, and kept the fact from the - The live-stock - exchange of Chicago is ropresented in the national caftlemen’s convention at St. Louis by fortz—six:members. Ex-Governor Jghn Routt was ¢hosen permanent presxden& of the latter body. - A resolution was introduced to memoxiulize‘cdnﬁ;ess for a national trail from the Red River of the South to the northern boundary of the union. - L R R President-elect Clevéland, in an interview with a staff correspondent of the Baltimore American, is represented assaying thatin view of his small majority no one man or faction can elaim to have elected him, and that he accordingly owes no one man more than he owes another. He further informed the corresgonden,t‘that hé *‘expected to be pretty busy’ at Washington; but, alluding to the current:talk of a *‘clean sweep,” remarked that he: wasn’t much of a‘chopper.”” e T ‘The official count for thirty-six electors in New York apparently shows a: variation of only 106" votes as between the names borne on- the democratic ticket, and of but 84 votes as between those on the republican ticket. This: is in a total of 1;125,000 votes for the: two tickets. The democratic plmfalitg as between the lowest on the Clevelan ticket for electors.and 'the highest on the Blaine ticket is 1,043." In'the close vote of California, four.years a'%o,, it was found that one republican elector had been chosens ‘and in New Jersey. in 1860, Lincoln obtained a fractional part of the electoral vote. = That upon so large a ticket as one contfaining thir-ty-six names no serious ,break should oceur is somewhat remarkable, - -

o . “WASHINGTON. = The Treasury Department purchased 855,~ 000 ounces of silver for the New Orleans and Philadelphia Mints. o e L Admiral Porter recommends that the un finished monitors: be completed *as rams, and that four: heavy monitors of great speed, twenty torpedo boats, and one eruis ing iron-clad be built. 7= n Ll Some one has taken - pains’ to ascertain from the army register €lmt-durlngil?resi-dent Cleveland’s term there will be. retired Generals Hancoek; Pope, Augur, Sackett, Holabird, and Murray. Sk Senator Edmunds is said to be, pxelnaring legislation relative to-the Paeific railroads. The Senate Judiciary - Committee has the Funding act. uyder @ consideration, - and strong influences are at work to secure favorable: action-on the House bill; |-~ - The supreme court of the. United States: decides tnat it has no: jurisdiction in eases brought by citizens of ~ Virginia against an insuranee company to-recover losses sustained by fire on the evacuation of Rieh= mond by the confgderate armies. - - = Undismayed by:past failures, the friends of the Hennepin Canal project-will make a vigorous effort in the Forhy-nmth Congress to secure the necessary aid for this important work. As preliuinary to -this end, the commission-was reorganized Tuesday and new officers elected for thegensuing year, B, D. Money, a - congressman “from Mississippi, is named by -southern: and QCalifor;hia leaders for the postmaster generalship. He was offered 25,000’ by the Mexican government to make a compilation of our postal laws. - 1t 15 said that Judge Gresham pronounced him the best informed as to the postal service of any man in the country. The Commissioners to Sonth America did. not make public. their instructions before leaving, and the State Department declines to furnish them. Itis known, however, that-one of the instructions was -to prepare the way, if possibid; for commercial treaties. ‘The State Department. has already prepared drafts ol treaties with the differ ent South American . republies, which it is' hoped it will be possible to negotiate. . HITTING THE STAR:ROUTERS. °

- Postmaster General Hatton has issued an order which. strikes a heavy blow at the method of expediting star routes.” Instead of giving the contractor atditional compen= sation caleulated bg* the rule of three; new. bids will be invited unless the contractor.is willing to do the eXpedited "work without increase of pay. 'The ordér 4g .as follows: “Whenever it shall become necessary to increase -the speed upon: which the mail i 3 carried on any post-route, the <service shall be advertised for the reduced running time required, provided that the contractor, with the consent of his sureties, shall “have the option of continuing - service upen the.expedited running time without additional compensation.” e : e : = COUNTERFEIT MONEY. Chief Brooks, of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury.. Departiment, in his: annual report says; ‘*The events of the las§ year give evidence of a revival of 'the manufacture of ¢ounterfeit ipaper,moue?f, which was practxcally suspended during the years 1882 and 1883.” - He also sag‘fs that, although he reports - for the last yéar -the smallest percentage of circulation of counterfeit paper money since the first issue of such nioney, he is of the opinion that there is to-day in the-hands of " counterfeiters nearly 800;000 new spurious notes of the denominations -of $lO and $2O, which -have been produced since Jan. 1, 1884. - Mr. Brooksnotes with pleasure that, bankers are récognizing more fully the importance .of. branding as spurious all counterfeit money presented in the course of business. - i : THE PATENT OFFICE. «« =% F - The commissioner of patents,” Benjamin Butterworth, submits tha following annual report:’ Number of applications for patents received, ' 85,204 ; - applications for desizn Patetrts received, 1,225 apvlications for ressue patents regeived, 2443 applwa-tio*us for registration trade-marks, 1,077; applications for registration: labels; 975; total, 38,822, Caveats filed, 2,672; patents granted; including reissues and;demgns,- 22,822 trademarks registered, 903 labels registered,B33; total, 24,558, Patents withheld for non-pay-ment of final tees, 24,6133 patents expired, 10,2305 receipts from all Sources, $1,145,433, an inecrease of¥ $49,948 over the preceding rear; ~expenditures,. excluding printing, é901,413; surplus, $244019. There was an increase during 1884 over the number of applications for patents, designs,.etc., received during' the ?receding year of 3,088, The number of applications‘awaiting action by the office June 50, 1884, was: 9,&86, ‘an inerease of 5,087 over the “accumulated dpplications af the end of the preceding yeay, . - THE RAILWAY-MAIL BERVICE. .| .. -

- Superintendent Thompson of therailwaymail seryice, in hig annual_report, says of the Western. fast-mail trains: “It seems probable that.the Postmaster-General will -soon be able to have the fast mail arrive at Omaha much earlier than it now does, and haye a Sé)ecial eamier‘delweré'_ in - that eity and .at Council Bluffs ‘lmme mtel% on arrival and before -the close of the business day. 1t is also held that the mails gan be expedifed sa as ta arrive af San Francisco about 7-a, m., which will be equal tosaving one day between New York and San Fran--cisca. In'all of the fast serviee there was ' no increase in cost to the department, - The 1 Northern Pacific’s through mall train now . leayes St. Paul on thearrival of the fast mail, so that Portland, Ore., gets the Eastern mail one day earlier by reason of this fast service. lutermediate Pomts' are similarly benefited. - 'The Postmaster-General ~also made arrangements with the IHlinois Central Railroad Company whereby their through train connects both north and south at Mendota. " This serves lllinois from six to eight houys ear Her thagformerliy.” - . ! ANOTHER'INVEBIIGATION ‘PRODABLE, The report of Fourth' = Auditor Beardsley in the matter of the methxid of making putchases in the Navy D,e‘%‘ar_ ment wm,‘ﬁ)emf ogratic Gougr-essn%en ‘who are in tewn say, result In another investization intq the cons duct of naval affairs. The statements ofAuditor Beardsley are substantially the conclusions at which the Naval Court of Inquiry, organized by, Secretary Chandler to inqmi'elmm thie ffiaudf‘thli‘ih }:'lwff has deected, has aryived, ‘The only . difference is that Eeardslé}y, who isithe _agdnﬁng. é‘moe; of naval accpunts, has ‘made the, matter" piblic Hhi;e for fhe most part the proceeds ings of this Nayal Gowrt_of Inquiry - lm‘vgf been sgeyet, .Seomt¥y Chandler :does no talke fSsue with the Fourth Audiﬁir upor: any of his statements .or facts. -He ques tions s,ungxl{) whether it is g‘reper for a subordinate bureau officer of the Treasury to arraign the administration of -the Navy Department. ‘Mr. Chandler has not ap-. groved of the rescrt 1o the exlgencx ‘elausa or the making of purchases;: which is” thée. subject of so mueh criticism. It ‘seems’ to be a fact-that the naval bureauofficers have construed everything ag an exi n.e?, and have thus lg;xored‘th_e ger{ specific statutes as:tp adyerfisements gnd bids, - -

LIGHT-HOUSE SERVICH, In the annyal reportof the light-house board, $325,000 is asﬁedfgor lighting and the buoyage of rivers; slso,ooois necessary. to confinye worzi on the I;lghc-house ‘ap the northwest seal rock, off Point St. Georﬁe, Cal,. . It is recommended that the lighthouse district which embraces all the upper ‘lakes be .divided, the portion 'embracmé Lake Michigan and Green Bay to be set o am% calle& fhe lSevegtl& dils%ﬂc and é;liéal reainder fo'he ineludeq in phe prasent Jley: gzxth Aismc? anl.é Le known b ﬁxat n‘amgz. Itis also.suggested. that ' another li%ht'- . house district be:made by-dlviding .the i teenth district at Cairo, IIL, -leaving that portion of the Mississippi between the «mouth of the Ohio riverand New Orleans, {;nclufliled{ %eél %vte‘_ré SB4 S?gﬂrﬁte,%iﬂmc%to :be called the Bixteenth, with headquavter: at hPem his, st .»Lgoi' t.x%ra%af Vl6 prlntfpngfo'r the ngt%tggcal -%u; inelwlh‘ A supplies, repairs, salaries; expenses of lights vessels, b‘uo%tyig, and fog ‘signals, ete.; are $2,164,000. s images f§§ special gg TOPLis ations™ r&omﬂ: k} a{i h Hi u e it e, s i dight station, ighigan, sﬁo, v - Plpe iB- - light:station, %ﬁchiﬁgg, - $lO,OOO %" “waukee light sation, Wisconsin, $15,000; =St Miu_-y’s r(iiver rangwesf : éﬂ?lf)(i{rrft&, 31?.&(8‘ . ngel island: naj, Galli Guse Rt R AN i 3461 Destruction island | - stati Wasﬂington rel"ﬂ”"{m §85,000; supply Steamar, | §100.000; . bujlding: fqv lighthenss bosed, i The annual repart of the Fourth Auditor| L of the -il‘reasgf KAyt g Erow] 0g 6vil | In theexpenditure of money by, the Nayy | Jebartmout s X e aaia heiswt Fogiring Mol o behee it ST e D N S s R

‘puichasés made, The recan;}ydmow ?x“a%mm _in the Nayal Bnm;u / of Medicine and Surgery were ﬁmﬂy W cilitated b{ the perséstent determination of ' ‘the late ur%leon-. energl to. . nominally | make all purchases himself, while it was - practically impossible for him to {)etsoqally ; supervise the transactions tak n%h place _scores or hundreds of milés from the seat ‘of Government. Du,rinzfthe fiscal year 1853 f‘sugpl,i‘e.-s were purchased amounting to $2293,857, of which only $685.352 'Were__bo‘ught : upon advertisements and contracts. Three bureaus wholly neglected the law requiring advertising, and another—the one malgsgg the largest purchase of a!l-—onl(y adverti and contracted for 1 i)er cént of the goods and anaterials bought. About $1,000,000 avorth of open and exempt Eturcuaﬂes were made of six individuals or firms, one dealer going over $300,000, Under tlie act relating to materials for”pmlers hundreds of thouss ands of dollars’ worth have been boughf * ractically with no sompetition at all. Over: gw,ooo was gaigl during the year -as com-~ ‘missions to Seligman Bros., London, and. nearly $7,000 in interest, the former, in the . opinion of the auditor, being twice as much as it ought to be, and the <latter wholly unnecessary. ‘The report says: ; “The Tecently-aiscovered frauds in tl;g Bureauof Medicine and Surgery were mosgs ly committed upon the continuous hospital fund, whose large unexpended balance has furnished a temptation not exxstm% in the case o£ annual appropriations made by €ongress. . ; j 3 ; > * WINTER WHEAT, s In a great many of the states farmers have finished their fall woprk, and reliable estithatcs as to the amount of winter wheat soon can be made, 1t is rather early yet for returns, but insome of .the more southern states the state boards of - agriculture have already begun to get returns fromcorrespondents. S, W. Tallmadge, who is - in correspondénce with thie statisticians in nearly every state in the tinion, has reteived reports from thé boards of ’Virgini&‘rlno diana, Kansas, Ohip, and Michigan, The reports show a general, and in some instances, a large decrcai)e in a¢reage. : _Ramlolglr}larrh n, commissioner of agriculture for Virginia, reports the condiion nf the crop in that state: not very favorable.. The acreage is largely decreasced over that of the past year, i Alexander Herron, sectetary of tl{e state board ot agriculture of. Indiana, says there is a decrease in acreage from 25 to 33 per cent. The growing crops, however, ' are in fair condition. i 1y

- William Simms, recently of the state 7 board of agriculture of Kansas, has lyet to . receive the official figures of the fall sowing. Mr. Simms says, however, that they will show a very large decrease in the acreage. Crops in that state are looking well, asarule. Insome portions of the state considerable complaint'is ipade of ‘insects, vs{h}iﬁh are laying eggs at: the roots of the stalks. i S

* “Hon. Henry A. Conant, secretary. of state for Michigan, writes that the winter wheat in that state is in good * ¢ondition; on the whole, rather better than last year at this. date., 'The plants are’no healthier, but the ~to¥¥sr are larger. ' . | : 0 W. J. Chamberlain, secretary of ihe state board of agriculture of Ohio, thinks' the winter wheat sown this fall will not be' less than last year. The official figures are not yetreceived. . The presént condition of the growing crop is fair.- | 2 - ' THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT, - The annual report -of: the first assistant postmaster general shows that the number of postoffices established during the yearwas 3,414, an incl"l9”ase of~ 161 over the preceeding year. 1e nuimber discontinued was 1,260, a decrease of | 261 ; a net inerease ot 522 'The whole number of postofticeson June 30, 1884, was 50,01%,’an increase of 2,154, The number fiiled ;By presidential appointment was 2,323; the number filled by the appointment of the postmaster general was 47,604, During the. year 11,953 postmasters were appointed,. The net increase of postoffices during thé year,is much lar%er than any increase for several years past. The increase was divided among sections as follows: New England states, 49; five mid« dle states, 225; fourteemwsouthern stgtes and Indiari Territory, 1,070; ten states and six territories in the west and northwest, 707; three states and three territories on the Pacific slope, 8,104. The greatest increase in any of the /states or territories ~was 156 in Fexas.; The inerease in North Carolina was 126 and in Penmsylvania 124, The only decrease was m New Alexico. Comparing the number of postoffices.in_thé different states the six highest on June 80, were: Pennsylvania, 3,840; Neyw York, 8,122; Oliio, 2,707; llinois, 2,167; Virginia,-1,982; and Missouri, 1,968, Of the tertifories Dakota had the largestnumber, 837, excecding thie number in either Massachusetts, Maryland, or Squth Carolina. > :

It s recommended that . the free-delivery system be extended to places: of 10,600 inhabitants provided the l}gstal revenues amount to $lO,OOO yearly. The attention of congress is invited to the importance of ergcting buildings for postoflices in all citles of 20.000 inhabitants and upward.» { *The annaal report of . A. D, Hazen, third assistant postmaster géneral, shows the tos tal nuinber of postage-stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal-cards issued during the year wis /166,130,306, and their total value $41,515,877, There was a decrease in the -value of issues of ordinary postage-stamps of $1.220,735. The total decrease in the valne of all issued, including postul-cayﬁa‘ stamped-envelopes, postage-due stamps, ti wrappers was $1,397,442, The weight of second-class matter during the year, not includin% free circulation within the county of publications, was 94,479,607 gaounds‘, the ‘postage on which was ($1,880,592, an increase of $154,414 over the. previousiwyear. The whole number of pieces of undelivered mail matter received in the dead-leiter office, iicluding 278,645 pieces on hand, was 4,848,099, and of this number 81,479 were misdirected. "There were destroyed 2,539 477 letters, and 17,513 paicels of fruit, cake, -ete. Amonglefters opened, 13,052 contains ed money, and 19,015 Rmfts, gte; Of letters sent to fareign countries, 210,436 were returned as undeliverable, The total number of letters and parcels registered duving the ¥ear was -11,246,545; the amount of registry fees collected $957,059, an increase of $30,509, Theloss ofi registered letters during the year amounted to 1 out of every 21,795 {)ie'cesﬂ mailed. This is thesmallestaverage oss since the organization of the registry system. / 3 ;

: : TTOREIGN. __The death is announeed of Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, ofoLondon, who gave to the world a history-of his service in India for nearly half:a century. = a 3 Lot . Admiral Gourbet.telexraphs thai the appearance of (hinesa blockaderunners an thg coast of Formosa compelled him to ex= tend his line of vessels. s The conservatives of both hoyses of the British parliament held a meeting Tuesday, and resolved to pass 'the franchise bill on eondition that the government immediatelfr ‘produce a - satisfactory redistribution bill, .][n accordance with this agreenent the frans “chise measure passed to -second reading 1 -the house qft lords without division, et P O e . " GENERAL MARKETS. = CHICAGO. ’ - WareAT—Lower: Nov., i123/@733{c; Dec., 1B @7414c; Jan,, 3% @ 4. ] Corx—Lower; Nov., 393/@4oc; Year, 85X¢@86e: Jan., 344 'M‘égg. \ OArs—Lower; Nov., 253¢@23{c; Dec., B@ie. SR ’ § Provisions—Mess Pofk - lower: Year, [email protected]%¢ ; Jan.,[email protected] : Feb., [email protected]¢. Lard—Steadys; Nov., $6.821¢ %ﬁg%}g, Deec., [email protected]; January, $6.67%

CATTLE Market steady. -We guom: ' Chmcf to fanicy 5teer5..,.,.....,[email protected] E-food 0 ehoice steers. ) vuverinen 5.40:26.10 editm to fair 5teer5.........:.. 410415 Hogs—Market firm. Sales ranged from [email protected] for heavy: £[email protected] for light, Burrer—Steady. -We quote: Choice to Fancy Creaniery at 2628 @ 1b; ordinary to good do. 22@24c; ‘good to faney Dairy af 18@®0c; conimon to fair do. Ih@ife. :

: NEW YOREK, » . WarAr—Lower; ' No. 2 Dee.. 8014@ 805¢e; Jan,, 823¢@Rdic: Feb., s4§g@sz>xc. CORN—Quit; ‘Mixed Western Spot, 40 @4.9%0-.\ *P i, :

. MILWAUREE. .[l WnrAT—Lower; Nov., i2l{c: Deci, 1230} Jan., 18%c. CoßN—Fiim at 40}4’2(\%511' No., % - OATs—Fitm: No. 2 White. [2sBc.— Ryr—Strong: 5137 c for No. 1. -BARLEY— Higher at 521¢c for No. 2, - 7

[ ¢ CINUINNATL - /1y Fr_,oun-i}’ah; demand: Family £[email protected]. “YIIE6T+' it ‘at’ 0. CorN—Strong :a? ;89¢, - OArs—Wealk 8} 283{c. Ryr—Steady S4c. . PROVISIONS—Pork steady at $12.50.~ Lard firm_at 56.87}&. Bulk f[ents $5.12%¢ @6.87¢, DBacon §[email protected]%4, . + | A BT. LOVIS, 5 ; WrneaAr—Lower: No. 2 Red Nov., 75 g?ﬁc; Decembei 53 @765%c; Jan., T @7Bs¢c. ConrN--Lower:; 865@863%c Nov,; 33%(588. %@Dec. OArs—Lower; Noyember, Rdl{@dlsc; Year, R4Bc. RYE——(iu_let: 460, BARLEY—Steady at 60@i5e. VISIONS —Pork lower; §11.50. Dry Salt Meats quiet at %580, 590, 6.20. .acon steady at §7.95, .95, Lard—higher; $6.75.

BALTIMOR®E, L WrpAr—Western lower; No, 2 Wintep Red -Sngt nndC Nove:};l ber,d 7{@77 %4% :@})7\}?& ) 8@ 88{.: Conn—Mixed Year, 46@475c. ;lxér@f—t éestern White, 83w 2de:: Mixed: dov @32, - Ryn—Quiet ¢ 62465, i i BOSTON. s Voor.—ln iniproved demand; Ohio exrta ,3-12,; Mlchllyzan %«aee,qs 8063 ohx% delaiig 85@dbe; unwashdd wools 16@20¢; Califor: ‘ ‘nia spring 16@2c; fall 9@lBc; SRR - LIRONIER M;Aggm_‘ REPORT, . _ GRAIN AND SERDS.~Wheat, ambey 77 ; Rye, 60c; Oats,26e; Corn, 85c; flax seed, $1 25, timothy seed, $2 00; clover seed, $4 @O. - ThEnn e Pronvoe.—Hogs,live,B4 00t0$6 255 Shoulders,per pound, 10¢ ; Hams,l2¢} Bees Wax, 25c; Butter, 16@ Lard, 10c; Begs, 9 dov.,lB¢: Wool. 1, 20@ 80¢; rm-:»m: Tallow, 7¢; Ap ples, dried, 7¢; green. 70c.; Potatoes o Hav tame MUSG - Bymnofien -~