Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 December 1884 — Page 2

/ . ;e M The Ligewier Bamner. J. B. STOLL, Editor. W THURSDAY, DEC. 4,1884. i SENATOR LOGAN'S case seems to be hopeless, and it looks now as it he would go out of politics for good next March. ; Gl & . Ayt . REvVISED and official figures of the vote of Indiana show that Cleveland polled 244,992; Blaine, 238,480 Butler, 8,716; St. John, 3,078; Cleyeland’s plurality, 6,512. B i y R eR s ; SENATOR VOORHEES is doing his utmess to secure the Attorney-Gener-alship for his friend; Joseph E. McDonald. The chances for Uncle Joe _are said to be very favorable. GROVER CLEVELAND, it is stated, l;vlll'ruign_ the govermorship of New York on the 6th of Japuary. He will be succeeded by Lieut. Governor D. B. Hill, who is also a bachelor and a very excellent man, A piece of sponge cake made by a Vassar girl has been presented to President-elect Cleveland. It is_ said that Mr. Cleveland prizes it highly, “and will use it as a paper Weight when he goes to the White House.

TuE little renegade who edits_the South Bend Register denounces the newly elected Vice President, Thomas A. Hendricks, as a *blooming as 3.” 1t takes a wonderful; intellect to crush a man of Mr, Hendricks’ ability in this cruel manner. . ;

MAJoRr CALXINS, it would seem, is not the poor man he was represented to be during the campaign. It is now reported that the Major has bought a $11,200« residence, in the city of Indianapolis and that his family will at once occupy thesame, . ° el & e EvERY time Mr. St. John finds himself familiarly alluded to in the Re: publican journals .as a “detestable besst,” he takes up a glass of water, turns towards Maine, with one corner of his left eye pulled down apd murmurs, “Here’s lookin’ at yer.”: . -Mr. BLAINE, it appears, is not devo'ting much ef his time to preparing for his famous libel suit agaipst the Indianapolis Sentinel. Is there anybody running at large who really believes that the suit will be prosecuted with vigorcand determination, if at all? < e s :

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ReV. DR. BURCHARD, of “Rum, Ro manism and Rebellion” fame, asked in a sermon the other Sunday why he wasn’t in heaven. It is just possible that there. is some indignant and irreconcilable Blaineite ready fo declare that it is beeause the reverend doctor ought to be in the other place.

DEMOCRATS, and especially Democratic newspapers, ought not to permit cunning and spiteful_liepljbl’lcan organs to inveigle them into an acrimonious discussion of the civil service fssue, ' There is no occesion for such discussion. President Cleveland will manage that mattex to the satisfaetion of all friends of good government.

Wi M. SINGERLY, editor,of- the Philadelphia | Record, has just completed a magnificent barn on his farm in Montgomery county, Pa., at an expense of $20,000. The Recordl§ the most pronounced anti-protection journal in Pennsylvania and, strange enough; has the largest ;pircuiation of any paper in the state of Pennsylvamia. Its profits are enormous. :

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Tae New York Medical Times says that since the production of cider in New England has fallen off there has been a marked increagse in’ rheumatism and stone. European ctj;servérs have ealled attention to similar facts abroad. The records of a hospital in Normandy, where the ordinary beverage is cider, show - that only four cases of stone were received in fiftynine years, ~ R i

SINCE Alabama iron masters supply the Philadelphia market with iron four dollars per ‘ton .cheaper than a similar 'article can be furnished by the protected Barons of Pennsylvania, it has suddenly.dawned upon the minds of the latter that the tariff on raw material ought to be speedily taken off. When the selfish hon- polists of the Old Keystone clamor for Tevenue reduction, it can no longer be doubted that protection does not protect, - : i :

THERE is an almost universal desire that Samuel J. Tilden should attend

‘the inauguration of Cleveland on the fourth of March. It would be a -Bource of great satisfaction to.thousands of Democrats throughout the country to see the grand old patrict and statesman at the national capital on this interesting occasion, The en thusiasm that - his presence would awaken is beyond the power of imagnative descriptiomé o

' TuE BLAINE ORGANS, having ridf‘dled St. John with-their odorous bullets, are now devoting their attention "o exposing the “treachery and meanmess” of Sen. Edmunds, President Arthur, Sen. Conkling, Postmaster-Gene-ral Hatton and even Genéral Gresham for respectfully declining to tear up the ground in order to accomplish the election of the Maine demagogue. The woods seem to be full of sueh “traitors” to the “grand old party.”

CONGRESSMAN MITCHELL, of ‘Connecticut, is quoted as authority for the statement that at the recent election many of the New England manufact- . urers forced their employes, under " penalty of dismissal, to vote the Blaine ticket, even compelling them to show their ballots to the bosses before depositing them. He declares » positively ‘that this sort of coercion was boldly resorted to in his district, It might be well for Mr. Blaine, who has 80 much to say about “a free ballot and & fajr count,” to look into the charges made by Congressman Mitcholl. There is little doubt that, not! anly in the New England states, but in other portions of the north, a good many of the beneficiaries of the liconsed system of ?ullagilon known as Protection, brought undue pressure to bear upon their employes to - influence their votes, and there would seem to ~ be as much oceasion for indignation at their course as'there is over the supposititions bulldoring at the South, ;‘5«& Mr. Biaine o loudly laments. - Do noies Coulial el e

- PRESIDENT A‘nimm’s pointed and positive refusal to become a party to the contemplated steal of the electoral vote of New JYcrla:. doubtless aceounts fur the vicious attacks upon that gentleman bﬂ the Chicago Tribune and other devoted crgans of the Msaine demagogue. ‘

- A NuMBER 0f Democratic newspaper mep in Northern Indiana are und‘er{tl:)ud to be applicants for the appointment of postmaster of their respective ‘towns or cities. Among tb?se whe have ;‘avowed themsélves as such are W.H. Norton, of the Eikhart Sentinel; F. J. Zimmerman,of the Warsaw Unpion; Platt McDonald, of the Plymouth Democrat; Engelbert Zimmerman, of the Valparaiso Mesgenger; Col. Charles A. Zollinger, of the Ft. Wayne Journal, and J. F. Snyder, of tbe'Lagramge Democrat. There are doubtless others of the fraternity who will come to the front when the time- for “turning the rascals out” shall pome around.

| IN THE STATD old city of ‘Lancaster, Pa., a very strong public sentiment'has led to the construction of a cremation furnace. - The first body cremated thergin was that of a German lady from New Jersey. In referringto the opposition that still exists againat this innovation, the [iancaster Intelligencer says: “When it shall soon bave béen determined that cremation is the sanitary, sensible- and economical mode of disposing of the dead, and one after another of those: whom the community respect for good.”s_ense and good morals yields to and embraces the new method, it will be forgotten or it will be remembered ounly to be wondered at that cremation was ever opposed on sentimental jor religious grounds” 0 -00 l

THE NEW SOUTH

It is tersely and lexpressively remarked by the Dubuque Herald that one of the creations of the Republican party has been themeans of indirectly deteating it.” In the height of their power they have conferred suffrage.on the negroes of the-South and through Republican officials 'have held that new vote to themselves.. But the superior civilization and the intelligence of the South revolted against what threatened to be a negro domination. The whites all turned Democrats as opposed to negro repnblicanism, and for three successive presidential contests have thrown the vote of the South solidly for .the Democratic nominees, : [ L .

Republican defeat will break up the Republican party of the South, at least ag it has existed till now. There will no longer Be Republican officials to lead the negre vete where they please. | DPemocrats will -take their places. The negro vote will be turned astray and will drift and wander till they acquire pelitical connections of their own. They will separate on the questions and issues of politics. A great many think Democratic success will break the solid South. It is more than likely, The Republicannegro party there will disintegrate. The motive that has held the majority of the people of the South to the Democratic party thus disappearing; these people -will divide on different political issues, The tariff will play a prominent part in tending towards this, and other issues will come up. In the old times the South was divided politically, the Whigs being very strong. ¥nthe new times to come it wiil| hikety be divided again. The dominant class will drift apart on political questions, and the negroes, who have no capacity for organization, will follow the whites. - i

The break may not come before the uext presidential election, but it is very likely that it will. If the Republican party continues ag the chief opponeat of the Demoaocratic, we axay expect several of the southern states to vote with them jin 1888. If the Prohibition party comes to the front, as is perhaps likely, it may earry 2 southern state or two. . ;

This politica! break in the-South will be a good tbing for it and the country. [t will tend to entirely ob literate the old war feelings and prejudices that every at this late day rankle in the bosoms- of ma'ny Bepublicans. It will tend”to unite the . different parts of the country by closer bonds, | But of course the same changes that may divide the South politically will nave a reflex effect on the North The North is not solid, and if the South . breaks up will become more divided. ' What the Democrats may lose in the-South they expect to gain and more than gain in the West and Northwest. In 1888 the Democratic chances for carrying Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio are very good. The solid Northwest will be broken as well as the solid South. s

Aud thus in this as in cthegreapects the election of ‘Cleveland wili have good effects.- The late Democratic victory mesdns a new and regenerated South. The reconstruction has just begun. The last twenty years have been a standscill for the South, Politically and economieally it will now begin to stride rapidly forward.

OPEN THE BOOKS.

It will be remembered that it was freely asserted in political and official circles at Washington, after the electoral commigsion had shamefully and in violation of law, justice and decency given the Presidenecy to B. B. Hayes, that had Mr. Tilden been declared elected, many of the books in the treasury department would have been destroyed. The long continued and high-handed system of stealing which. has been conducted under republican administrations has been so palpable thiat there is a general and emphatic desire among the people to have the treasury books opened and the enormity of the frauds made public, It was this fact which caused consternation among the office holders at Washing—f ton in 1876, 'T'hey knew that the evidences of their venality were easily, discoverable in the treagury accounts, and they lived in abject misery until they learned that the will of the people had been thwarted. Now again ‘there I 8 guaking among the dishonest officials, and this time the verdict of ‘the people stauds, The winds have borne the slogan of Vice President Hendricks. “open the books,” from Indiana tothe national capital, and the public has taken up the cry. It will be one of the chief duties of the

A BOLD SCHEME

To Steal the Yote of the State of New . Yogk for Blaine. -

Though nipped in the bud and successfully frustrated, in consequence of the determination of the demecratic managers, it deserves to be put on record that a bold scheme had been concocted to steal the vote of the Empire ‘State and thus secure the triumph of James G. Blaine., = The particuiars of the plet are thus narrated by the vigilant and intelligent Washington correspondent of the Chicago Herald:

“Let me tell you something that is very much to President Arthur’s cred- | it,” said a member of the National Democratic Committee to a Datly News correspondent this evening. ‘On Wednesday night, Nov. sth, the Blaine Republicans in New Yo:k be came very uneasy over the outiook, and called on the President to assist in gpome way—how Ido not Know—to. put New York in the Blaine column. He listened to them, and when they had stated their wishes he replizd: ‘I do not see what I can do. My own opiniop is that the D.mocrats have carried the State. Everything indi cates 1t vhus far, I would not interfere if I could, and I trust no person | who claims to be a friend of mine will lenc himself to any scheme to thwart the will of the people.’ Just before leaviég New York the President learned that Mr. William H. Robertson, collec:or of the port, had gone up into Westchester on a political mis—sion. | ‘He'said to a friend: ‘Tell Mr. Robertson to keep out of this busi ness., I do not wish or do not care [either one or the other of these words were used] to remove him from Office atpresent, but he holds his position to discharge an important service to the government and not to tinker in politics, and he will serve his vwn interestslby attending strictly to the busi ness of his office and letting some one else|do the dirty work of politica.”” [ — eee——— / WHY NOT BE JOLLY?

It is painfully apparent that there are|to be found in the locality a govdly nuyober of Republicans who capnot reconcile themselves to the defeat of ~thd republican party. Haviog for years been taught to look upon their political adversaries with contempt and hatred, the unhappiness of these unfortunate and disconsolate partisans can hardly be deemed surprising or unnatural. But there is a time for all things. Such unhappily constituted people must finally get over their pouting and snorting by accepting the inevitable, . To ‘help them along in getting into a beftetr frame of mind THE BANNER advises them to pguder over these sensible words uttered by the New York World:

- Mark Tapley took a philosophical view of life, although the gift came to him by ndture, and if a man had called him a philosopher he might have thought an insult was intended an | knocked the offender down.

It ig the truest kind of philosophy to be jolly under troubles, disappointments ' and difficulties. = This was Mark’s rule. | Would not the defeated Republicane be -wise 1f they endsavored to mak,’erTaﬁys of liemselves instead of idiots?™ e

1t is said that the quarreds of lovers are the renewal of love. On the same principle, getting into power after a lohg exclusion is the intensification of jollification, |ls it not worth while for the Republicans to go out, if only that they may feel the supreme gratification of getting back again? That is if they s§er do get back.. An amiable, loving husband once explained his periodical guarrels with his wife by the statement that he eould not ‘withstand the temptation: of the intense pleasure of the reconciliation,

' ‘Ever since election our Republican friends have been as savage as wild boars and a¥ gloomy as undertakers. They have taken delight onrly in the bluster of Blaine and the pronunciamentos -of Jones. Why not accept the inevitable with good grace,congratulate Cleveland and be jolly once again? . This is the seasibis goyrse to pursue. "All their snarling and gayagery cannot change the verdict of the people or keep them in offica. They can net reverse the election, but by being jolly-they can atleast save their digestion. :

A GAME NOT WORTH THE CANDLE,

[lndianapolis Sentinel.]

l Unpsolicited advice is usually a thankless oﬁering. Still, when we see friends turning inte a boggy road, we feel impeiled to hail them and admonish them against pursuing that route, There are to-day & half million young Democrats who are about fo stari down a very boggy lane. We want a, word with the boys before they take { their first step.. At the further end of ‘thelane i 3 & number of political offices and cleriships, byt oply one to about five applicants, §o, of each ' group of five of you, four are doomed to disappointment. The odds of the ‘game, 80 to speak, are four against ons. Now, any gambler will tell you that only a very valuable prize is worth risking money op with so many chances against you. Of the higher and more lucrative offices of the Government we here omit mention; it 1s only the older and more distinguished .men who will ‘be reaching for them. But of the under offices and clerkships we unhesitatingly say they are likely to prove a curse rather than a blessing to the young Democrats who ootain them. As for any honor connected with them there is fully as! much in the driving of a horse-car. The average department clerk at Washington is a very small cog in an enormous machine. Your recognition would be as satisfactory were you tagged and labeled and known by your number, as are hack drivers in the larger cities. You are in an atmosphere of jealousy., Your chances for promotion is as one to one thousand. You are subject to the caprice of politicians gnd the overbearings of political official heads. JFor the $9OO or $1,200 salary you have a fgr greater expense of living than you have been accystomed to, and even if you are four years in the position you will have nothing saved up at the end of the geriod. Every day spent in such empioy and every evening lived in the artificial life of Washington further incapacitates you, in a business way and socially, for'other occupation. The man who fs fampiliar with Washington clerkships will adyige his brother or friend to' seek employment any. where elge than there. )

The same objection applies. in less degres, to all minor political positions, The young man-who 18 gcompetent for & political clerical work is comipetent: for commercial or industrial work which is safer in its tepure and qualifying, rather than disqualifying, for businegs affairs. Of course the pelitical clerkships paust he flled, but those who obtain them are legs fo bhe gongratulated than the active, sarnest young men who have the good sense tolabor in other fields.

‘AT LAST the official figures of Indiana on the presidential candidates have been definitely and accurately ascertained. The Cleveland electors received 244,992 votes, the Blaine electors 238,480 votes, the Butler electors 8716 and the St. John electors 3,018, Cleveland’s plurality, 6,612. The plurality for Gray over Calkins was 7,393. . it

“HonN. Wy. R MorrilsoN fraely con fesses that he would like to succeed John A. Logan in the United Stat:s Senate. Quite natural. © If THE BANNER bad the determination of that matter it would select either Gen. John C. Black or John H. Oberly. Both are progressive Democrats and thoroughly honest aacd capable men. Morrison is a good man, but hardly the equal of eitber Blick or Oberly in point of broad statesmanship.

DEMAGOGUE BLAINE VS. PATRIOT CLEVELAND, »

Nothing ' could wore forcibly and l eloquently demonstrate the wisdom of the people in preferring Cleveland to Blaine than the wild ranting of the latter on the ona hand and the quiet dignity with which the former wears his: victory, on the othe: Ever since the people voled him into retirement, Blaine has been fussing and fretting like a caged beast. While by his direct instruction the public was kept in anxiety and suspense over the close vote in New York, he sent over the wires incendiary messages inciting lawlessness and fraud, and when the _cold and unchangeable figures of the ‘empire commonw®ith :fAoally. put to }éhame the false pretense set up ian his behalf he managed to have himselt serenaded by his immediate friends at Augusta, for ¢he special purpose of enabling him to deliver himself of an nnpatriotic, incendiary and mischiev—ous barangus. During all that time Grover Cleveland pursued the even teuor of his course, faithfully and industriously performing his official ‘duties in the most peaceful and dignified manner, ;

It is aptly remarked by an esteemed coutemporary that the manner of the men in this impertant erisis in t,'heiri lives illustrates their character. The one is itritable, impudent - and desperate. His ambition goes beyord the bounds of reason.. Law fails to restrain his paisious and carcless of the ‘cous*equen,ces' he invokes the spirit of rebellion to gratify his appetite for power. The other in manly and dignified silence accepts the honor heaped on him and by every token givaes evi: dence that, appreciating it to the full. he will not tarnish it by word or act. After contemplating the picture which the conduct of the two men painte, who-can doubt that the people voted wissly ? Is there any law abiding and peace loving citizen who would not choose the manly bearing of Claveland in preference to the incendiary ranting of Blaine as an example for the youth of the country toimitate? Certainly not, and if the vote were to be taken tomorrow in the face of the light which has been thrown on the character of these men by their conduct, the majority in favoer of Cleve; land would be so overwhelming that there would be no occasion for awaiting the official count to determine the result. ' ,

A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES

Undey the aboye caption a Pennsyl-. vania paper publishes a eommpniga: tion from a commercial traveler who seems, to have thoroughly informed bimself in regard to the workings'ot our present high protective laws. After showing the evils brought upon the laboring classes of Pennsylvania by the greed and avarice of the protected Barong, the writer procecds to Bayi i) ¥

“The legitimate outeome of this system of robbing Peter to pay Paul is seen in the presen’ depression in prices and wages. 'All these taxes must be paid finally by tbe consumer. ‘This the consumer doés as loag a 3 he is able, but the day of reckoning comes, ‘and under this false system of taxa tion the manufacturer finds to his "sorrow that the ability of the consu~mer o pay has lessened, aod that he, ‘the solyent manufacturer, must com‘pete in the hime market with insolvent congerns which are obliged to sell their wares at any sacrifice. ‘'he robbefy to which eur citizens have beén subjected by unwise aund vicious tariff laws is fearfui. On the item of sugar and molasses, of which this country produces only about-one-eighth the amount we consume aunnually, there fias been an annual custom house toll of $46,000,00Q for the past fourteen years. Somefimes the sum was less on the fage of the returps, butif we indd the cost of gollection gpng other ‘necessary and unnecessary expanses, we may safely say $46,000,000 per an‘npum. This amount would pay for all the colleges and universities in the TUnjted States, with all- the grounds and apparatys and leave a surplus of $3,600,000, in 18®G there were forty~nine sugar refining establishments in the United Btates, em | ploying 411 told but 6,000 employes, who received in wages in thirteen years, $69,000,000, In the meantime the people weére robbed at the custom houses for the benefit of sugar monopolists the enormous sum of $551,000, 000, and yet we producs less sugar and molasses by one-haif than we did in 1853 and 1854, [ might and eould go on thtopgh fhe whole list of tariff, robbery, but the recent electign has kiiled it gnd not all the so-called Democratic journais with their Whig editors, nor all the pseudo Democratic congressmen with federal antecedents can hope to animate the corpse “That foot is not gsleep, it is dead.”

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A farmer by the pame of Milton Jackson was killed on the Lake Shore rgilrgad pear Auburn last Wednesday by being run oyer by a Ealn. He was walking npon the track and failed to hear the whistle, 7 : J

_IOUR NEIGHBORS.

Street venders are taxed five dollars per day at Goshen. : A piece of copper weighing twenty pounds was found near Mishawaka lately. : Goshen will soon have what it has long seught after—a postal telegraph office. . . ]

A snide Uncle Tom’s Cabin party has been doing up the theatre goers at Fort Wayne, 0

The Goshen cieamery turns out 200 pounds of butter daily. The product is all shipped to the large cities as the prices are too high for the home market. :

The horse stolen from Solomon Miller near Goshen some weeks ago was recovered pear Anderson, this state, last week.' The thief, a young fellow named Haocoek, was also captured. Geo. Densmore, who attempted to commit rape upon the person of Miss Cook a! LuGrange last summer was found guilty last Saturday and sentenced to five years in the northern prison. § 4

The cage of Thos. Ellison et. al., against the “Nickel Plate” railroad at Ft. Wayne for injuries received by Mrs. E lison in an accident at the G. R & L crossing last summer is attracting a great deai of atteation. The lady died soon after the accident and her heirs now ask $25,000 damages.

The wholesale grocery house of Huestis & Hamilton, at Fort Wayne. closed business Siturday, after a ca—reer of twenty-five years. Both members of the firm retire from business wealthy, and the closing up of their business has been in progress for six months. Their traveling men ail found other situations.

Pleasant Lake was eonsiderably excited and worked up some dags ago over a report made current that Wm. Carter had atten:pted to outrage a little girl about eleven years of age Carter was arrested and lodged in jai at Fort Wayne, where he will await his trial. The prisoner is a man some thirty five or forty years of age and has a wifd and two children at Pleasant Lake. .

- For many years an important lawsBi't 1 &: been engrossing the attention of Allen and Whitley county courts. At the time the P.F.W.&C.R R. was coastructed thraa acres of valuable land near the city of Fort Wayue were confiscated by the company. The three acres yield=d abodt $35,000 worth of grayel for which amount the plaintiffs, the sMcSwinney heirs, git judgment in the Whitley circuit court. It was afterwards appealed and three different trials have been held, all resulting in favor of the heirs. Last ‘week the Pennsylvania company set‘tled the suit by paying $59,500, which awount will pay ail costs and the original amount sued for. : ;

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UNION BiBLICAL SEMINARY, } DAYTON, 0., Nov. 27, 1884,

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on which 1t is situated a delightful ‘view may be had of the surroundings and of the soldires’ home, which lies 'a mile and one-quarter to the west. 'The seminary is flourishing splendidly aud its future prospects are bright. There js a goodly number of students in attendance from yarjous states, all assembled for. one eommon purpose. To say that I am well pleased with the institution is only a mild expression of my feelings, The faeulty consists of well ‘trained and systematic .instructors who are kind and obliging, making one feel at home. The citizeps a 8 a whole are in sympathy with the school. The library is a well chosen selection of classical and biblical works of the most profound scholars. Que work of great antiguity which I shall mention is the Polyglott bible, an edition of seven volumes and containing over '7,000 pages, printed in 1656 in six different languages. - This work was purchased last year iu phicago at a cost of $2OO. It is highly p'rig;:d, ag but few schools in the gouniry are fayoyed with it. In connection with the library is the reading room where a score of the best papers and magazines published are to be found and here I might read’ to hegrt’s content; but I canuot, for lessons must be laarned, | . The two literary societies afford ample.opportunity for improvement in this line, G ‘

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NEWS DIGEST. The VermoOnt House defeated the 11!'.00;:2&11-0ptmn Liquor-License bill—l 23 James L. Pugh, Democrat, has been re-elected United States Senator from Alabama. " A coal vein has been discovered fifty feet below the surface at Galesburg, Illinois: : Four men broke jail at Indian:i{):lis by climbing on a ladder to a ventilator in the roof. S _ i Edward H. Ludlow, the veteran real estate dealer of New York, passed away Friday. ; The chief of ¥olice:at St. Paul forestalled a hard-glove fight by arresting the prineipals. Henry Ivison, the well-known publisher of New York, died Wednesday,: in his 7T7th year. | { e Near Elizabeth, Kentucky, sevén men were killed by the explosion of a-saw-mill boiler.’ ~ The wife 8f Hon. Alexander Ramsey, of St. Paul, died Saturday, after .prolonged illness. The Freneh cabinet council has decided to increase the duty on grain about 20 cents per bushel. [

- The Chergeb council, now in session, has pdssed a bill excluding all white persons from the naivion.

- The body of Hugh Campbell, a brother of the chief of police of Brooklyn, was found in the Gowanus canal. A flouring-mill erected ?@Adrian, Michigan. in 1829, by A. J. Comstock, was on Tuesday swept away by flames. ~ John King, the successor of Hugh J. Jewett in the Erie Railroad, was elected head of the new Board of Directors. .

Chief Bushyhead has vetoed the bill recently passed by the Cherokee council to exclude all white people {frem the nation. "

By the fall of a scaffold on a’ Baptist chureh in Lee avenue, Brooklyn, one slater was killed and another was fatally h_urt'__ 13 7 5

- D. L. Payne, for some Xears the leader of the Oklahoma raiders, died at the breakfast-table of a hotel in Wellington, Xansas.

- Joseph Bush, a gallant officer who was retired from the army with the rank of major, died Sunday at Somerville, Massachusetts. :

Seven men in jail at Helena, Arkansas, concealed themselves behind a door, and made their escape by knocking the jailer senseless. :

. Norman L. Jarvis, a resident of Monmouth, Illinois, steps to the front to claim the honor of having heard Lafayette speak in 1824 Another company of Oklahoma raiders is said to- be forming at Emporia, Kansas, with the intention of crossitig ‘the border at Ilunnewell.

" The barks of New York hold $42,267,000 in oxcess of legal requirements, the weekl: - statement showing a gain of $2,021,030 in the reserve.

. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of J. C. Pusey, chief clerk of the Kansas penitentiary, who is charged with the embezzlement of $7.000. - . Since the election Ben DButler has leased to the Senate, for. committeerooms, one of his granite houses on Capitol hill, at $lO,OOO per annuin.

A policeman in Brooklyn picked up in the street a man stupidly drunk and nearly frozen, in whose ?ockets were found a full outfit of burglars’ tools.

A gentleman in New York, Sunday, after witnessing a panic caused by a mad dog, calmly seized the animal by }(he;fneck and cut its throat with a penmife. o ¥

Of six men who undertook to cross the railway track at San Rafael, California, two were killed, one was fatally injured, and the fourth had an arm broken. . :

The annuai message of - Président Arthur has been largely placed in %’pe, which is ke{)t locke(f in a vault, Public Printer Rounds reading the proofs himself. : : :

Mrs. John Mulliken, a wealthy resident of Boston, sold peanuts at a booth on the common for twelye hours, on an election bet, ans realized $lOO for eharity, / Freight trains on the Chesapeake road collided near Henning’s Station, Tennessee, killing an engineer -and brakeman and burying two firemen in the ruins.

The secretary 'of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain'has arrived in Chicago to ﬁrocure the extradition of Joseph Raeside for using false pedigrees. ’

. Governor Cleveland intends to tender his resignation to the legislature Jannary 6, and to remain the gpest of Governor Hill at the executive mansion until March 1, :

The body of Augustine O’Connor, son of Judge O’Connor, of Aberdeen, Ala., was found lying, frightfully man%:led, on the Mobile & Ohio track near gypt Station, Miss. =

" Benjamin T. Cable purchased at assignee’s sale the stock and appliances of the Buford plow works at ﬁock Island for $92,000, and will assume .a mortgage of $103,000.

L'he superintendent of the Canadian Pacitic road g.romi.ae.s to kel twenty housand men at work 3!l the winter on construction, and to complete the road by October next, In the county court at Angola, Indiana, Judge Mcßride instructed the grand jury to indict. every person shown to have wagered money on the result of the election.

- By a combination of the republicans and Tammanyites in the New York Board of aldermen, John McClave and Stephen B. French were confirmed as police commissioners. 8

. William Parss, a farmer near Chestexr, New ¥ ork, opened-his door at nidnifghg to heay a megsage about a sigk relative. Two men seized him and secured a watch and $1,500, '

At Philadelphia, Solomon K. Grimly, who pleaded guilty to receivinggreater compensation than allowed by ‘law in procuring a pension, was sentenced to pay a fine of $350 and costs. The cutting off of revenue from saoon licenses leaves Des Moines emharrassed ‘or means to run the city oyeinment: 4 baxll§‘o£etpd tp shaye a Jupe warrantfor $30,600.° 0 °°

The recent flogging of a prisoner at Winnipeg by order of Attorney General Miller forced the government to demand, the latter’s resignation, and he will giye up his office this wee%'. Jobé} e dog of Chicago, hag presented to the Merchants! ‘exchiangd qf Bt, Louis a I&l_au for in#broying the Illinois a{ld Michigan canal, and will probably seeure ifg indorsement, Nick Ames, 17 years of age, who hag beecome notorious ag the boy burglay of Wisconsin, was recently o_ar)»tured in a dug-out near Galena, Illinois, and taken back to Lancaster for trial.

Dr. F. H. O’Connor, who has kept a drug store in Keokuk for the past twenty years, made an attempt to end his days with laudanum, and, fou%hl: {:.lie pßysiciang who tried to gave his MO o e W. W. Crawford, who married Miss Katé McCann at Lexington, Ky., was arrested at the instance of the bride’s rothey pn information from Colums, O alloging thas I has 5 wifo ere, ! : Gershom G. Mott, a resident of Bordentown, New Jersey, who was a colonel I the Mexican war and a major general in the southern confligt, dropBed, dead in the street in New York T Lokl sand so) Ogshal Lhe federal grand jury at Omahahag indicted fifteen gersons for fraud in connection with the sale of QOtoe Indian reservation lands, by which the red men were defrauded to the amount of igm,mo. 'we men epgaged in digging roots om'an’ iS]ag'd;ggtgé "Bti:’a,quéggiln% ’lpver are said {0 have undarthed a metal box containing $20,000 in’ gold ‘doubloons; §1§.00.0 lgilepggn silver,’and $l,OOO in siall going, = : ‘ An gttempt is being made in Baltiz ?ore; to-ghow thflt\lekes Bogth killed ; naelgent Linecoln because of the lats er's failure to pardon Captain John ates Beall, who was shot as a conederate spy, e Samuel Wannamaker, the forger, i was taken into court at Youngstown, | )‘hto, og 5& ggtre,tche,rito, rleceiv.e 12. S%ilnep pf 6ary’ sonmen e ﬂ)ﬁ y%aﬂf % a§§ ﬁm Ag{l} goo "w'eq.kﬂtg lsehisth ‘\_'w A * R¥ s Amemb'e; ‘of tlt;e Sxaith faglla of aha aped from the peniteéntiary S inins Rt e sitisdns of Find, ay atp greatly alarmed at the prospect 1 h‘gt mmmﬁe Jfhere with hig A mab at g:aenmm Washington Terri o%refns d fo_permit the county '@g Bl Sl m%??d men was the . 3 RERRRSEOE s e "11\»" 4 :‘-‘.—;§'7'¢.,.L_-s=,,:.:’—l‘3s.[";‘ eLo Tl A i

W. W. Beckett, a hardware mer_-l chant of Sherbrooke, Province of Quebece, whose liabilities are over $lOO,OOO, has mgzde an assignment. He is a heayy indorser for the New Brunswick bobbin faetory. ! W. P. Rend & Co., of Chicago, have obtained from the federal court at Cincinnati a mandatory order requiring the Hocking Valley road to furnish at once such cars as are necessary tocarry coal mined by the firm. Eighteen masked citizens of ‘Anne Arundel cgunt&, Maryland, took from a deputy sheriff and strung up a colored burglar named George Briscoe, who had repeatedly been. warned to leave the neighborhood. )

An a[;rreement for the speedy restoration of eastward rates has beensigned by all the general&asenger agents at Chicago, and will be sent at once tothe managers for approval. The differential rate was placed at $l. Rev. John Maxwell, of Springfield, Ohio, rendered’ miserable by ﬁqve'rt»y, %oisoned his four children and himself, he eﬂegt was fatal on the little ones,. but he récovered sufficiently to permit of his being lodged in jail. Bell Mann, formerly a reputable druggist in Chicago, has gone to Washington to undergo trial on an indictment for swindling the government by means of fraudulent vouchers for medicalsupplies to the navy. The Mexican government has ¢aused & thorough investigation to be made as to the lynching of Lucian Padillo at Crete, Nebraska, for assaulting a child, and will probably demand that the Iynchers be brought to justice. At Monmouth, Illinois, a Texan ‘named H. R. Thompson, who had sustained heavx. losses by the failure of the Firgt National bank, fired five shots at ‘B. T. O. Hubbard, the defaulting cashier, without hitting him. In 1867 the Fort Wayne road persisted in taking gravel irom a pit in

Allen county, indiana, claimed by T. W. Swmne{. After prolonged litifation the railway company has paid a judgment for $59,000 for the trespass.

A court at Albany has' affirmed the gudgmgnt rendered against Frank R. herwin of a fine of $5OO and Imprisonment for two years in the «xiemtentiary. He escaped to New MexXxico by geplositing $3,000 in court in lieu of al. :

A statue of George Brown, the founder of The Globe, was on Tuesday unveiled in Queen’s park, Toronto, by Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, Itwill be. remembered that Mr. Brown was fatally shot by a discharged employe four years ago.

Senator Conger, of Michigan, will resign his seat in the Senate the latter part of December to accept a judicial appointment at Washington. The Legislature of Michigan, which willbe called upon to eléct his suceessor, is Republican. 5 Lo LS

Governor Cleveland receives a vast number of visitors. He has announced that he will accept no invitations to public demonstrations., About thirty canes have been forced upon' him, but a dog sent from Brooklyn was promptly returned. E i

Walter Young, a .aminer employed near P:ttsburg, who some months a%o became totall§ blind, has returned to work, and, with the aid of a son of 14 years, manages to earn a living for the family. He fought at Baliklava in the English army. ; : : The joint' executive committee of the Associated Press, after investigatingcharges of partisanship in campaign dispatches and the election returng, reports that no improper influence has been permitted to enter into the management. e Madame Annecke, who ended her days in Milwaukee on Tuesday night,' fought as a private soldier in the German revolution of 1848, Since her arrival in the United States she has founded a female seminary and written several books. :

Dr. A. G. llayéood has resigned the presidency of a Georgia col)eqe to become agent of the educational fund of $1,000,000 or more left by John F, Slater, of Norwigch, Connecticut,. A northern gentleman recently gave $25, 000 to mory college, ;

Miss Laura G. Clancy, an actress who recently died in Baltimore, left instructions for the cremation of her body, which will be carried out next week at Liancaster, Pennsylvania.. The ashes are to be placed in the graves of her mother and sister.

Jud%e David Davis will deliver the annual address at the meeting of the Illinois State Bar Associa%xon at Springfield Jan. 13 and 14, and the Hon, E. B. Washburne will deliver an oration on the life and public services of the laté Isaac N, Arpold, °~ * '

The National bark at Middletown, New York, closed its doors Friday, on account of unsecured advances made by PresidentiKing to a grain dealer at Indianapolis - named Benjamin D. Brown. The capital ot the .bank is $200,000 and the surplus $115,000. -« - The wives of a number of leading citizens of Montreal wrote to Lady Lansdowne urging her to intercede with the governor general for a commutation of Mrs. Boutel’s death-sen-tence. The latest dispatches report that ghe is to be imprisoned for life. The only saloon in Bladensburg, ©Ohio, wag an Saturday night invaded by a party of cifizens, one of whom threw a stone, vyhicil fractured ' the skull of the proprietor and caused his speedy death, All liquors to be found were poured into the streetand burned.

- A few days ago near Plainesville, Tenn., while John Henry, a splendid young fellow, was watching'a neighbor chopping wood, the latter’s ax flew from the handle and struck youn§ Henry on the head, crushing the skulk The young man is believed to be dying.

Joe Lane, a counterfeiter who recently eéscaped from jail af Madison, Wisconsin, has forwarded from the Jumber regions to the federal authorities an aceceptable bond for his appearance whenever wanted, with the statetr)nqxllt that he had to go home to get ail. ; ; L >

A refining firm at Cleveland has sued ihe Lake Sliore road for $lOO,OOO damges, sustained through discrimination in favor of the Standard Oil company. The general freight agent admitted on the witgess-stand' thaj the monopoly was given lpwer rates because of larger sh(i)pmentvs. ; he X harles Newbold, a married coachman in Detroit, who eloped to Toledo with the daughter of -C. J. :Whitney has been convicted of bigamy, and' will doybtless be ,'geu,tenqedg 10, aew‘(&u years in the Qlio penitentiary. ieclaims to' be the genuine Bir Roger Tichborne, ; ¢ Charles T. Goodwin, the head of a cracker manufacturing flrm *fn New York which yegently failed, becams insane and left his home in Port Chegter. His wife and the neighbors pursued him, and found his eorpse with the entrails torn out and his head and right arm eutoff, =« o 7 §

l In the circuit court at Chicago, in the mau}kr of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, Judge Tuley appointed Horace A. Hurlbut regéiver'af the : Fimes; With an order that therg be no ghange of policy or of the businesg or editoria management. The ‘amount of bon - was fixed at $500,000. o o Becky Jones, the New York hougekeeper wha ;‘efl}seq to testify 111] the Hammersly will case, is not:’likely to gain her freedom by a petition. If apears that the moyement originated %n‘h erdinpand Ward, the bapking swindler, who employed counsel {0 gee sure ecky’a release, . Another *last spike” was driven Tuesday afternoon, and the country now has four transcontinental lines, The latest addition was formed by the connection at Huntington, Ore., of the Oreggn R:éilway.tf%ﬂléavigation SChon%; pany’s system with the Oregon Shoxt‘pigg%ﬁ.phe%nion .Eaai;?c&, B | . B “ A telegraph lineman at work in Brooklgn say that something gaq befallen his fellow-workman eighty feet boye, and made the a%cent in time to fash hig ta the pole before he became: ynconscious from a nervous fit, A oliceman then found a fireman’s see{)iondal ladder, and the sufferer was rescued, =2 S " Two rolling-mills in Pittsbmg, whﬁ:h have been suspended for several weeks, will resume‘oxigrations next. Monadaﬁ #dfa.ctory at ngiswick, »l%aine, will dyce w : - cent: a sewi ma&ﬁge ggs 'y d% Péfmgep}u?t:‘ Eﬁﬁ negtietit, will s§u§; down until , ahuarﬁi and a wire il at Easton, Pennsyl: Va&l;; will resume wotk,a% cut ;w&ge%, constitutes the net earnings of the 'ngmmﬁo‘s, mmgﬁng; 1}? der the Thufman sty and g‘&t %ﬁ‘éﬁ% om: sgpuion 101 the (zovern: L 10/ pay ?ﬁ?gma for oaiwﬁaug the ma&:gge , § --twn‘ggesupm,o.» argueg before the :;}lni Bg%ﬁt%xgﬂ laims. The awyers b il ng yesterday and wi‘l'{ykw it up for th&axtmm

week‘.s'!" 5 e & g : o One of the questions which is bein% agitated before the Plenaxg Couneil at Baltimore is that of mixe x_nargw?s.j 1t is probable that the council will forbid the solemnization of marriages between Catholics and Protestants in the churches unless by special dispensation from the Pogs, and it may go even farther and forbid them altogetheronpain of excommunication: Tenie The Lancaster (Pa.) crematorium built by the Lancaster- Cremation .and Funeral-Reform Society, was dedicated Tuesday afternoon. .The body of " Mrs. T'rederica Beseler of Jersey City, for some time dead, was then reduced to ashes in a little over an hour. A number of agplications for cremation have already been received from different parts of the country. . . -

Large orders for railroad supplies have caused animproved feeling among iron men at Pittsburg. A reduction of 8 per cent. in wages has been -ordered by a carpet company at Clinton, Massachusetts. A car Pet factory at ankers, New York, shut down for an indefinite - period. The: Pennsylvania company will reduce ‘the number- of its employes and leave wages: at the present figure. = - LTy 7

.é& :lni)stoins inspeqtclnt from thca-gtg, aide two special treasury agents seized ya't New York about $gi5.00(3 worth of jewelry in possession of. Edward Morris, of Vienna, who recently swindled Chicago merchants out of considerable sums.” The goods were forfeited to the Government as smugEled. "Morris proves to have been ‘a Dburglar in-Vienna; where his. picture adorns the rogues’ gallery. He has been digcharged from ‘arrest, as Governor Cleveland deemed the evidence insuficient for extradicion. .

WASHINGTON.

Sergeant Brainard, of the Greely party, was strongly indorsed for one of the v_a.canf second lieutenancies, but will be disapBointed. The places were filled 'Wednesday y others, one being the stepson of Attor-ney-General Breswster. ©=~ - o ‘ Secretary ‘Lincoln reports that during the past );far no soldier has fired a musket at: an Indian. 'He states vhat constant hand~ ling of the rolls in. the office of the adjutant general has made their recopying necessary, a task which will require . the services of one hundred -clerks for three years. B e SR

Attorney General Brewster; in his annual report, states that the indifference -of . residents of the District of -Columbia to the piundering of the treasury prévents the con= viction of thieves at the frands of local juries, and he recommends -that the jurisdiction of the federal courts of Maryland be extended over-the Distriet. e

No definite arrangements have been made for the celebration of the completion of the Washington "Monument: "excegt' to- invite Rohert C. Winthrop of Massachusetts to bﬁ the orator. The oration will ‘be delivered in the hall of the Houseof Representatives. There¢ are nine stones yeb to be putin pl.:ice,«when the work wllL be finished. This will be done some time next week. - The requisition -of the: commissioner of gensious for $17,000,000 this month can not. e met without making an ‘.a%parent increase in’ the public debt for this month.: The treasury officials.are not willing-to have this happen, and the commissioner - will have to wait till next month for partof his money. Tlie: government recei; t% iniNo-. vember are sinaller than in any.ogh, Tmonth’ OL theyear. oy SOnEa e %

THE LETTER-CARRIER SYSTEM.

The report of the-First Assistant -Post-master-General urging the extension of the letter-carrier system will meet with strong opposition fram {he Representatives of the rural distriets, ¥t was with great difficulty. at the last session that-an appropriation could be secured for a further small inerease in the letter-carrier service, and .notice was then served by the Representatives, partieularly from.tlie Southern districts, tkat any further effortto extend the carrier systrem tocities and towns would be resisted unless the star-route systenm should also be extended. U LT R S R

THIE SPANIST: TREATY.

The.movement wiiich will he started here in opposition to the ratification of the. Sroposed Spanish treaty will; it is expected,be also directed towards the abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty, The parties” who desire that the Hawaiian treaty shall end and that the Spanish treaty shall not- bégin. are the same. The opponents of:the Hawailan treaty include-the suzar-planters of Jamatca #id Louisiana, some of ' the sugar-refin-ers of the Exst, and a_large proportion of: the gopnlatlon of the Pacific Slope.. - When the treaty was ratified in 1875 it was argued: that the result would be-an annual subsidy of several hundred thousand: dollars te the plgnters of the Sandwich ' Islands, without reducing the cost of sugar to the consumer of California. As the. Hawaiian product when first imported is unfit for use, it passes into the hands of Claus Spreckels, who, besides being the largest owner of sugargrowing territory wirhin the islands, has a monopolf' of the refining business on the Pacific Slope. Califorina people maintain that, owing to conbinations as' to railroad. treights, they do not -obtain the sugar any cheaper than - they did beforeé the:-treaty: that, in fact, some of the inferior grades of gugar have cost more:in - California than in the Eastern Siates. T'aey also say that véry few of the products of the Pacific Statesare exported to Hawaii, as, the plantations are all worked-by Chinese ¢aolies, who live upon Chinese rice and haveno use for: American produets, S ke o

OUR FINANCES,

The "annual report- of United States Treasurer Wyman shows that the revenues of the Goverament were less than in 1883 by $49,76%,712, "The de¢crease 'in recejpts from customns *was §19,689,007, in receipts from internal revenue $23,134,296, and in receipts from miscellaneous sources $8,849, 8. F{’om the ageregate of '-these, lteén;a #ould be deducted an increaseof $1,554, n rgeeipts from fhesales of public lands, eaying the net reduction’ as stated above, The net expenditures aggrezated $244,125+ 244—a decrease.from the amount in 1883 of $21,281,803. The sunly_lus' applicable to the reduction of the public debt .amounted. to $104,304,625—a dagrease at’-$28,485, 618 from that of the previous year, - "['lie items of exPenditures showing a decrease are as fol-ows:-On aecount of thre' War Department, $9,481,779;: Interior Department, $11,469;9365 llnterest on - public debt, 34,581,75é. There was an increase of $2,242.411 in the ‘expenditures on account of the ecivil and miscellaneous list and $2,009,164 in the expenditures on aceount of the Nﬂ‘,’ﬁ’ Depart: ment. Disbursing »okﬂlc.:e.rs,q'%‘ -the United tates had tq theip eredit on the- hooks of he ‘H'reasury at the close af, the yoar $32,+ 468,080, . The statement of assets and lias hilities for Sept, 30, 1584, shows the general balance was reduced . fvom . $168,2582,463 in 1883 to $149,525,063 in 1884—a reduction of $183,707,400, U R PR e

CIVIL-SERVICE TESTS.

|| The civil-service: commission finds it is .| grinding outa supply of elerical material that is somewhat in excess of . thé@démand. | ‘Therefore it will in future examinations rg- | ‘duce the number wha pass successfulﬁ' by, | being sontewhat less liberal in the marking; | The*nmindmitun will not 'at present he ade vanced from 65 per ¢ent:, but: the markers. will be - g little more severe in the credits they give., The re:ult: will be to' raise.the . avei'a%e capacty of .thelisf of eligibles, The change wilt make it eéasier for persons well qualified for the soyernment service e -| get plages¢ and g liitie: wore diflicult for those gf inferior sapacity: The scholastio tests gre nat severe. and one-does not hava to be:a'graduate ot Harvard, or -even a recent graduate Irom 4 high sehool,” in order -} to pass: but he has to have some capacity: || for thinking and expressing ‘himself. One of the regular tesis 18 the writing ‘of a short. letter on a subjeat named by the examiner, The .subf'ec,t ig generally an easy one, but knowledge of it is_ not ~».l'e%lu‘tred'q . 'The information and opinlons 1n the letter do not count. The sole object is to test the appli- | cant’s ability to express himself. In a re‘cent examination a very intelligent-appear-: ing young .man gave up - in despair, ‘and refused even ‘toattempt the exercisp, He said he never.could write 2 ‘letter, and'if was o(f no. yso “for hin &o' qzrx. : i‘hqu%?-/ marked zerq 6h tha, hé might Rnswer oth er questions' wéll enough to get an appoints ment, but for the future the examiners da not mean that a general average shall save | a candidate who won't even try the difficult -intellectual feat of writing a letter, . THE WHISKY MEN, 2 Althouﬁh thete are indications that an earnesf effort will be made this winter to extend the bonded period for the benefit of {yersons who are carrying stocks of spirits, he occagion for any ‘such relief _ishmpxdly diminishing, Exportation has &fforded somg relief, and is now goinf; on at the rate of about 20 per cent. above the exportation for the grevnous year, Dur,h;ggthe first seven months of 1885, 24,617,592 gallons will have to be withdrawn, but: during the lastfive months of the year only *‘2,17%,594 %?‘llons will have to be withdrawn, making 26,781,186 gallons for the year. Dugxg he first segen months q& 8&3:‘13,_&09,1 gallong wx%(l) ‘h XGI%%VIN withdrawn. - -The'tatal amount to bé withdrawn ih 1885 1s less than 40 per (:enti of the average amount withe| drawn and- tax paid, exclusive of the amount withdrawn from export durim; the | five years 1880-4, 8o that with a restricted grqg]‘;:tlou_ for: the next six months the difculties the whisky men have ‘been complaining of for the last two years will be gratty well over. The ‘internal revenue. ureau was favorable.to the extension of relief to the distillers, but it Isnow believed in the bureau that the speeial . occasion for | i'eé'i;et laai:tpa%s%lb If.th the'-;gx‘ on whlsk{hla, | left ung urbed © next eongress, the | ,b?g(.iedTpgrrod‘ig_l?kelyttg" be:on& ,1.:1;159% nite. acen doeg n &{0 Da i aos i Tha bankcet. 110 b trug | of all the other . drticles on which internal | teve;mfo.mxea were levied. The eoiyo _ the internal remn&ﬂme%m: e | ehuhen Fig ib, Sot ol spirits could be bonded indefinitely, distil- | 161 couid ke foil adyantag saf Jow prices | ;ﬁwiﬂ,ﬁb; s.‘g} ) Q:”L f 8. - “ui ma .i; Oae | 4 g systemy that 18 | wa %é’?smmsﬁ; oducing Tegion, - | - Dora 3 10LWAIG0E 1 im ~10 (hay City | PeE R gffi*i;‘x " SRI Gt e e st D

T mmmm';ﬁ&%m o SARL. i AL 1S 1 - GINR _npbn*g‘e‘u%tetﬁm* of the eommission will %ua;ify,an& enter upon his duties. 'There - as beezxn extraordinary delay in the 'ﬂf. 3 pointment of - this Commissioner, 8 E)lnt_ which was rat.seda that Jarrett, hav1g been nominated and confirmed, but the commission lot having been issued to him, the President jeould not make anew apa?intment. has been overruled by the At rney-General. The friends of someof _the other candidates raised this question. ‘hoping to defeat the appointment of any of their rivals until Congress should meet. The . President under no. circumstances would dssue the commission t 6 Jarrett. ‘He regarded the speech of Jarrett attackmg : him pe:rsona.ll:{t -as an_offense which coul unot be overlooked. Mr. Fahrenbatch was supported for the position by Secretary - Telﬂer and Commissioner Butterworth. Mr. Frel'mghua'sen had a candidate for the lace, -and was very ipemiatent in urgm{: gim—so persistent, in fact, that the President was ,obhied to inform the Secretary of State that he had adopted the policy of not permitting one department to interferg in the domestic affairs of another, and that he kunew no reason why he should violate this rule. for the first time in the case of Mr. Teller. - Mr. Fahrenbatch has been in the steamboat service for some time. Helis a -practical machinist and mechanical en%; ‘neer, and has for years been conspicuous labor organizations. The burean will be at. onece nrganized, and it is gossmle that the labor troubles in the Hocking Valley will receive its early attention. Amon%lthe disappointed candidates are David ealg -of ‘the New York Bureau of Labor Statistics, - Gotwin Moody of Massachusetts, Thomas -B. Connery, and Charles T. Hill, Statistician of the State Department. . ¢ THE NATIONAI. BANKS. " 'The annnal réport of the comptroller of the currency shows that during the year - Nov. 1, 1884, 191 banks have been organized, with an aggregate ca%ital of $16,042,230, Circalating notes have 'ﬁn issued to thesa | new associations amoun¥ing to $3,866,230. These banks are located by geographica& divisions as follows: Eastern states, 1 banks, with a _caPital of $810,000; middle states, 25, capital $1.812,250; southern states, 30, capital $2,991,000; western states? 102, c:;&l)tal $%,905,880; Pacific states, b, capital $380,000; territories, 19, ca})iml $1,143,« ~ 000. Since the establishment of the national banking system, Feb. 25,1863, there have been organized 3,261 national banks. The: total number in existence. Nov. 1, 1884, is 2,671, the largest number in operation at any one time. Elceven national banks,with an :K;gr%gate calpital of $1,285,000, have failed and been placed in the hands of res ceivers during the year. The different items of résources angd liabilities, as tabulated indicate that the busis ness of national banks during the past eleven -years has genemll{' increased. = The items of United States Londs and citcula~ tion thereon have decreased during the past -two years. © The agurezate habilities of national banks to depositors and - correspondents were reduced during the year upwardg of $94,000,000. This reduction of liabilities alxl the general reduction of loansby banks; .whiich amounted to over $63,000,000 during the year, the comptroller says, was doubt- | less oceasioned by financial troubles in May { and a general depressien of business, During the same period the national banks increased their cash resources by about $21,000,000 in sgj‘ci‘e, and $11,000,000 in legal tenders and United States celtificates of des gosit forthe same. The total numher of anks still in operation, organized under the act of June 3, 1864, and provigions of the Revised Statutes and their periods of sues cession, whieh will terminate, unless heres after'renewed during years previous to 1900, is-1,488, with a capital of $82L461,145, and a circulation of $194,745,305, 2L o BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS., -~ 'The following bills relating to the tariff are awaiting consideration in committee of the whole in the house, having been 'favorably reported by the committee on ways and means: 3 Y - To amend the act to prevent the importation of spurious and adulterat:d goods. To abolish the diseriminating dutyon works of art by foreign artists, 2 To refund duties' upon- goods on ship~. board when the taritf act of March 3, 1883, went intoeffect, = | il

"Fo modify existing laws relating to duties on imports and the collection of the | revenue, - i 5

The last-named bill is the one prepared ab the treasury department and reported by Mr. Hewitt, of New York, June 25, g ‘T'he bill to carry into effect thé Mexican recx})rqcit¥' treaty is also on the calenday, The McPherson bill, which authorizes na« tional banks to issue circulation.equul to the par value of bonds deposited, passed the senate, Feb, 26, and is on the speaier’s ta~ ble; but a bill'in identically the same language is No, 83 on the house ecalendar, If at any time a motion should prevail that the house go into . committee of the whole on revenue bills, the first one to be taken up would be Mr. Green’s bill for the relief of fruit-growers, whieh repeals the tax upon fruit brandy. The consideration of this would involve discussion of the whole internal revenue system. f i . The modified and amend&il %owell bank-; ruptey bill passed the senate atthelast ses- ' sion and lies. on the speaker’ table. Its * opponents admit that a majority of the house is in favor of the bill, and 1t will be passed’if it can be reached in due course on the calendar. 'T'his is unlikely, and the OB; ponents of the bill are numerous enough to, {n‘event a suspension of the rules in ifs behalf. There is small prospect, therefore,o% its passige, Sl : The Hoar bill tf.} regulate the connting of the eleotoral ballot is alse on the speaker’s table, and while the democrats do_not especially object to it tliey will certainly not ‘pass 1t at the Yresent time. The next congress will not have the same exciise for ignoring the subject, but the nextelection will then be too far off to make the electoral vote a matter of interest. . At the beginning of an administration neither party can be induced to take much interest-in the presidential count. Just before a Ig‘eneral' election, or the casting of . the "electoral vote, one party or the otheris sure to be afraid of any change. The bill which Nix. Eaton, of Connecticut, offers as a substis. tute for the Hoar bill conld nng; get through the house even; and the senaie would never Qiscuss if, G

_ - FOREIGN. ‘ _A court in London refused to grant an in- - junction to restrain the Great Eastern from sailing for New Orleans. ; Fhe late duke of Brunswick :bequeathed to the duke of Camberland an ¥ron safe in his villa at Heitzin , which was found to contain coin and currency to.the amount of $500,000. - ; ‘ The French chamber of deputies voted “Tonquin credits aggregating 59,000,000 franes, which will permit the sending of 5,000 fresh troops and several eruisers. During the debate Clemengeay gaid Bismarck is a mest dangq¥o_r\s éuem)}‘, but is still moré dangatous ag a friend, ; : e GENERAL MARKETS. o % P CHICAGO; WarAT—Higher: Nov., 133%@73%e; Dec., "8%@8%c; Jan., Wy @i%de. .t &g(gtgs;LOWfr; No;ri; 3.2{;(235%0; Year, Si{@ c: Jan.,, 3414@34%ec. : \ (?A'rs—*Lower; Nov,erguber, 25@25& Ded,, - 25@?25%e. : : £ Provisions—Mess Pork lawer: Year, £10.67@10,673¢; Jan., [email protected]; ¥eb., | [email protected]%¢.” “Lard—Steady; Nov., $6.80 F g?gg, Dee., §[email protected]%; January, £6.795 00,19, o CATTLE Market steady. We quote: | Clioice to fancy [email protected] Good to choice 5teer5............. [email protected] Medium to fair 5teer5............ [email protected] Hoes—Market firm, Sales panged from §[email protected] for heavy: [email protected] for light, . BurtEßr—Steady, =We quote: Choice to Faney Creamery at 26@28 ® 1b; ordinary to good do. 22@24c; good to fancy Dairy at 18@20c;_conimon to fair do. 15@17c. , ' NEW YORK. st : WaEAT—Lower; No.'2 Dec., Sl¥@ 813¢c;* Jan., 833 @S4ifc; Feb., S 6( $635c.— - { CORN—Quiet; Mixed Western Spot, 45 @slc, i : i . MILWAUKEE. | 'HEAT-5LO' wer; Nov., 12%{c: Dec., 723¢1 Jan., 18ke! CorN—Firm a% 39{c for No. 2 Oars—Firm: No. 2 \*lhite‘ 24—~ Ryr—Strong: 5%¢ for No. 1. BARLEY—- | Higher at 52%c for No, 2.~ - ot CINCINNATI, f FLourß—Fair demand: Family [email protected] | WrnAr—Firm at TB¢ CorN—Strong at. 88c. . OATs—Weak at 29¢. Ryr—Steady; i‘Sc.d It’inovlsx';oxgg-s—oPorl;3 sltle;agi at $12.25.— ard firm a .80, eats $6. @6.00. Bacon [email protected]? el 00@ L © ST. LOUIS. G - WnarAT—Lower: No. 2 Red Nov., 75 gjs ¢; December, 16@76xc; Jan.. 78§ d 3%48 kc. CorN--Lbwer: 3614@361c Nov.; 33%c Dec. OATs—Lower: November, Sﬁé&xc; Year, 25c. Rm—leet: 47%c, B.&)xx.xr—bteady at eogv_'zsc. ROVISIONS —Pork lower; $ll.OO. Salt Meats quiet at 570, 580, 010 Pecon steady at §7.50, 7.75. Lard—Dbigher; $6.87%. = -“' .~ BALTIMORE. VarAr—Western lgwer: No, 2 Winte Red Bpot an‘cy eﬁpwﬁu?en TBk @Tde; eo:' 79%@19‘6. CorN—Mixed Year.&;f{@‘-i%c.—-— OAvo--\\ estern White, 8%a88c: Mixed do., S¢@sle. Jiye—Quiet ai 6265, o i BOETeNL . Woor—ln improved demand; Ohio exrta 84c; Michizan fleeces 30c; Ohio delaine 'Bs@36e; unwashed wools 16@20¢; California spring 16@23c; fall 9@lBc. ' S LIGONIER MARKET REPORT, 7'y Bye, $00; Oate ges o, Jocy 715 Bye, 60c; Oats,26e; m?&q;: flax seed, 8135, timdthyaeed, 82 00; clover seed, 84 90. L _ PrODUCE.—Hogs,live,B4 00t0$6 253 Shoulders,per pound,loc; Hams,l3¢;. s -.m;-;i:gsssg. TR loe L oo ﬁ“'* R d0z.,16¢; Wool. Ib, 209 80c} Feathers,go¢; Tallow, 7c; Ap- . ples, dﬁbﬁ,‘h} en. 70c.; Potatoes 4scy me BB L o e ahb areatsiy S Treatise and $2,00 frial bottle free to Tit - 3 real Ise_and &y‘,n LR, Y @ﬁw‘% & 3 "ﬁt