Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 January 1885 — Page 2

)h 0_ is S At ittty - Che Ligonier Banner, ? ...}.._ bl L s eL L N | 3. K. McDONALD. Loeal Editor. b :...F::_"] e b ; ;ITHURSDAY.JAN. 1,1884. A H,ipm' and ptosperous New Year to all the patrons of Tur Baxxer is the ; six#cerc wish of ye editor. ' . . : A | et @ i, . Tue Indiana Legislature will meet next week. T'he contest for the Speak_ership isquite animated. Judge Gooding seems to be in the lead and will remain so if the demoeratic members comprehend the true interests of the party and of the State. « e | ARG RINRLo SPG R £y _ ¥, upon investigation, it should be * discovered that the proposed Nicaragua treaty is 1n the interest -of the United States, and that our commercinl interests. would theveby be promoted, . thére should be no hesitancy _ about its ratification by the. Senate. Phrty considerations shionld cut no figure ithe premises. ; : |

OxE THING may be setdownas a foregone conclusion, and, that is that j,ohr_m‘y McLean, of the CincinnatiEn-

uirey: will have no part in the fram- ' grg of Cleveland's cabinet. McLean & does mnot believe in’.Reform; hence 2 s*xould have no voice in shaéﬁing‘ the - policy of a Reform administration. . Bl ity OAP inesl | Gex. CarxanaX advjses Northerners \_L'ho contemplate visiting the New Or- . leans exposition not to do so before the - middle of January or February 1, and He thinks it will be the latter date bev ﬁore the exposition is in fair running - order. Prices for. bodrd, he says, are #im'ply frightful, hotel rates ranging - from #3.50 to $5 per day -and- restau- . rant prices in proportion. : | Jist BLarve savs he was told, while in

this State that five Democrats could not be found in Indiana who would “give him a fair hearing in his libel j:it. But the Indianapolis Times comes much nedrer the truth wlien it says, ‘gpeaking of the Sentinel publication: YThe Democrats in Indiana, as a mass, xid not indorse it, but repudiated it and its author.,” | ; :

f g e v Mg, James:G. BIjA-INE, havi.nig learned Lrom hard experienice. the jmgwiy that results from writing too }uﬁ?y letters, asks his friends “to diseredit utterly all and any alleged expressions from him which are not . made over his own : ?Pame." The trouble during the recent campaign was that expressions. made “over his own name” were more damaigi*h‘g than any that his—most ingenious lenemies could have-dinyvented, -

l.‘; Tue. Harrisburg Patriot aptly reginnrks that there 1s not much encouragement to people in ordinary circums Istancls to be told ~by Jay Gould that “1885 will be a money making year,” ’if the money is to be -made by the 1.\#;{1&1 Gould methods.. There is more comfort in.the expectation that an improved way of administering® the Qovernsent, which will soon be adopted, will insure o magre general and stable condition of prosperity among the people, ragardless of af} y advantage to the money kings. : o

Hizsey Wanp Brrcuer indulged in some plain and whelesome talk to Itis congregation last Sunday., In terse seutences he informed his hearérs that the part he took in the presidential contest was the prom pting of his judgment and conscience and that he had no regrets for having advocated the election of Grover Cleveland to thg _l’rexi«]cnoy. H i_s utterances were noble and manly. Henry Ward Bgucher is’ indeed a great man, and _the "ga,,t,tempt to boycott him for his independence will prove a signal failure, ; Pﬁfmcmth church will stand by her distinguished pastor despite thie waspish “thfeats of the disgruntled Blaineites, i ': |

Trxas, the largest state in the Union; is tojhave the largest but by no means the lostliest{ capitol in the Union. The corner stone of the structure will be laid March'2. It is pow found . that it will cost $3,000,000; and: the Chicago syndicate which took in payment for its construction a tract of land worth only $1,500,000 is said to be in a fair way to become ldnkrupt. Revival of commercial activity and judicious advertising, attracting .the attention of persons contemplating a change of location, might heljj the Chicago syndicate out of their dilemma. Texas ‘has a great future, and in course of’a ?eiy few years the value of land there will certainly be greatly enhanced. *

Biswor Huxtivaron, in a carefully prepared article.in the North Ameri‘can Review for January, deprecates dirt in politics, finding in the recent ‘political campaign a foreible illustration of his subject. _.“Nobody,” says the good bishop, *“is bettdr, wiser, hap(pier for all.the scandals.” There can ‘be no question that the republican managers are no/better for the personal aspersions they invented against Grover Cleyeland, but they are certainly wiser in the knowledge that defaming the private character of a - presidential candidate won't defeat him. It is very doubtful, however, whether this knowlé ‘edge has made them a particle ham’)i‘;exi, They are a disconsolate set of politicians. & é T e e

" Tre rerm of ‘Senator Hill, of Colorado, expires with the presex?.t. Congress. He has arrayed against him Seeretary of the Interior Teller, ex-Governor Routt, Chaffec and Tahor in his struggle for re-election to the United States Senate, He denies that he said he would spend $250,000 rather than be defeated; but ‘he will nat get off with less if he would overcome that combination of political and mining spequlators. It is notori~ous'that the Senatorship in Colorado is a matter of barter, im which the highest bidder carries off the prize. Such things are disgraceful in the extreme ‘and cannot be too speedily gliminated from our elective system. = i

Tur peatn of that neble philanthropist, Renben R. Springer, closes, as an exchapgeiaptly remarks, the career of a man who has striven with all his en: ergy and with- the liberal use of his money to make the worlg better and .to aid his fellow-man. His life was one of benevolence and his deeds are “as unperishable as the memory of man and the works of kis hands, There

are many such men in. the world—quiet and unassuming and yet doing al ~ possible good with as little ostentation ‘aB possible. They may die and their ‘ bodies e removed from sight, but their kindly faces are engraven in thousands of hearts, e

- Juvak Lowgy, the distinguished mermber of Congress from this distriet, is spending the holidays at his Home, Fort' Wayne. Tte Judge is occasionally -inicrviewed by gentlemen who miglt be induced to devote their time to the.pullic service, .~

Repusiicax PrAPERS‘: can’t get over their chagrin that, the last republican Secretary of the ?rea,sury should have taken a democratic view of the tariff. It will be remembered that Seceretary MeCulloch, taking a common sense, and not a party view of the matter, argued in his report that this conniry maust find a foreign market for her products, as a remedy for our tinancial “depression. Hd further argued that in order to .accomplish this, the present high rates of tariff inust be reduced. This our republican friends call Democratic doctrine, and deelare that Mr. Arthur’s party can never forgive him for appointing a Democrat to a place in his Cdbihﬁt. R 3 /

~ Purorricr of Sheriff of Erie county, N: Y., seems to be the ladder by which some men climb to high political honors. After holding that office Cleveland was elected Mayor of Buffalo, then Governor of New York, and while filling that position becomes President-elect of the United States. John B. Weber succeeded Gleveland as Sheriff and at the November election he was chosen to Congress over D, L. Lockwoodj the present Democratic member, who placed Clevelaad in nomination a 4, ‘the Chicggo Convention. Next December, when the new Conﬁ"gsﬁimeets, Washington will present the strange contrast between two exSheriffs of Erie county—one in the White House as President, and the other in the Capitol as Congressman. '

Gov. St. Joux is not disposed to silentlysubmit to the indignities heaped upon him by the exasperated ‘Blainites.: He lately wrote a letter- to. Rev. John €. Hanna, of Bloomington, lIL, wherein hé brands the statements so extensively published in the Blaine or-! gans that he was ready. to sell out to any party that paid his price as one of those malicious campaign lies_so persistent]y circulated during ‘the campaign. ~He adds that if he desired to sell his principles for money he could have done S 0 years ago, and that the warfare against the hquor- traffic will be as vigorously pushed as ever. Papers that supported the Maine corruptionist for the -Presidency ought to be the last to charge St. John with being a‘corrupt map. He is a thousand fold better and purer than James (. Blaine.

~l'ne Jay Gourp combination, it is reported, have opened a commission and -broker office in grand style in Washington, and by means of dinners and lunches . they intend to interest cdngressmen in their schemes, and endeavor to-defeat legislation directed at the forfeiture of subsidized lands granted to the Union . Pacitie raiiroad. The Evansville Courvier, in referring to this nfatfer, says “the people will be wise to keep an eye on their congressmen. Those who are in any manner susceptible to social and convivial infinence, and who are not entirely above suspicion, will bear watching. In the case of members whose sands of political life are almost: run out, there are millions in the op¢rations of congress this winter. Money will flow like. wa-ter-—{where it will do the mest good.””

Ax msbrerros of the stock of sixtyfour of the largest candy manufacturers in New Ydlfk'ciry-'lms jugt heen finished by the New York state sanitary bureau. In the goods manufactured By thirteen of this number poisonous coloring matter was discovered, chromate of lead being the principal poison found.. In the products of three manufacturers dealing -largely in sugaréd toys there was found chrome green, red lead, vermillion (bi-sulphu-ret of mercury) and burnt umber. One manufacturer, it was discovered, used a poisonous aniline color” known as arsenica fuchsine. A full report of the result of the inspections, the goods seized and the names of the manufac-turers-in - whose waves the poisonous matter ‘was found, has been sent to the board of health. = The report ought tobe made public. = . 1

AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.

Fort Wayne News (Blaine Rep,)

“TheNews believes that Mr. Blaine has made an unfortunate mistake in withdrawing' his libel suit. If the honor of bis family was falsely attacked by the Sentinel, it demanded redress fully as much after, as before election, Nor are the conditions of justice changed at all by the election of Clevéland. Mr. Blaine knew, when he brought his suit, that it would have to be tried by a jury of ‘Republicans and Democrats, and if be did not intend to push it to an issue, he should never have brought it. If any cloud now attaches to the family escutcheon, he alone is to blanie' for it. '

FOR THE TREATY.

The Nicaragua treaty evidently meets with great favor in the South. Senators frem that part of the Unien openly and’ soimewhat earnestly advocateits speedy ratification. Ina doubleleaded leader the New Orleans Picayune, speaking -of American policy ‘and the Nicaraguan freaty, says: “The country is ripe for an entirely new departure, one that is worthy of our great nation and one that will stamp itself oncthe whble history of North Americh. - We must adopt a policy of acquisition of territorial aggrandizement to the southward. It need not be accomygzshed‘by an armed invasion or inaugutated in blood. The Nicaragua treaty is the opening wedge. Let us drive that home, and by .investing one hundred millions of dollars in the ship canal there, secure the country. American enterprise ' will soon annex the whole of Central America from that base line.” ]

The Picayune’'s vigorous editorial concludes: “The sectional discord has happily ceased. The South is deeply interested in turning the tendency for enterprise and march of empire southward; and her statesmen, by at once championing a bold and brilliant policy in that direction, will open up a new end for the entire country, and map out a safe and short road to prosperity and the continued national' growt would insure tranquility at home 'would add to the. glory of our great Ire§nbh¢.’f b o | uch an ungualified endorsement 0 President Arthur’s favorite measur must be very gratifying to that gen LR b L gl tleman. He is reported as being quited anxious to secure the ratification of the| gt ol FC L sTR S bt U R

COMMON SENSE TALK BY 808 INGRR- , SOLL. - :

"The irreconcilable Republicans who have worked themselves up to the foolish notion that the country is doomed to destruction because a majority of the people preferred an honest, sincere and patriotic man to a blustering demagogue and huckstering politician, can get no crumbs of comfort out of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. - Whenever he is questioned in regard to the recent election he tells his republican friends plainly and candidly that they are mistakeén in their apprehensions. In speaking of the probable effect of Cleveland’s election upon the country he recently said:

It will have no particular effect. The Democrats are just as aunxious for good times as Republicans. They want good money. Responsibility will make them conservative. They want to succeed in 88, That will ‘make them prudent, and the probability is that Cleveland will do his level best to give the country a good administration. The probability is that he will succeed. Ido not think the woild is going to destruction because the Republican party is out of ofticial place. There are as many Republicans now as before election. They will all have influence, and that influence will be felt and respected by the Democratic party. If Cleveland does well it will be a fortunate thing for the whole country. It will show that the country is safe in the hands of either party. We want good government and we want to become civilized to that degree that beth parties can be trusted.”

THE NIgABAGUA TREATY, Tue Baxxgr fully agrees with an esteemed coniteniporary that there is not enough yet developed in regard to the Nicaragua treaty to warrant a decided opinion for or against a measure that involves such far reaching international interests, but the fact that objections are being bi'ogght againstit from English sources may lead to the conclusion from a commercial point of view, that American interests wiil not be injured by it. The London Times, in commenting upon the treaty, evidently detects a disadvantage to England in its provisions when it contends that the treaty

embraces a policy “which violates rights covered by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.” -It is not the duty of American diploma¢y to shield the interests of England, nor can it be expected that when the treaty making power of the country is exercised it should be directed to the advantage of other nations as against this. If a clear case should be made out that the terms of the' agreement with Nicaragua are in’‘contravention of previous stipulations with England as expressed in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the consideration of good faith in international contracts should act as a bar to the adoption of the treaty, but certainly not the mere consideration of English interests. What we want at this particular time is a thorough study of the treaty by the clearest and ablest minds of the conntry and patriotic, non-partisan action by the Senate

A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION,

The press is beginning to appreciate the necessity of making a determined demand for protecting the people against the exactions of railroad corporations. Even so couservative a paper as the Cleveland Plain Dealer is constrained to say: “Whether the Reagan bill be the best measure of the ikiud attainable, we are unable to say; but there is no doubt that it is a move ‘in the right direction. No one conversant with the tendency of railroad mo‘nopolies can have failed to see the necestity for regulation of some sort. The great producing interests of the icountry—the agricultural interests of the West, especially—are too much ‘dominated by these monopolies. The ‘companies water their stock and compel shippers and passengers to pay large dividends on fictitious shares. The public is the immediate sufferer from this evil. The Western farmer, tor instance, could get more than aliving return on his grain and produces if he_only paid freight rates gauged hy a fair interest on a legitimate: capital. The railroads must be dealt sguarely with, to be sure; they are too vital a factor in the national economy“to be unduly hampered. But there are selfevident evils that demand correction; and the Reagan bill is to some extent an embodiwent of that demand. It is for the interest of honestly managed railroads that something be done. Left to themselves the railroads will eat each other upin time. What with the construction of purely speculative parallel lines; constant rate fights; perpetual efforts of the big fish to gwallow the little ones; and the common habit of railway directorsto gamble in their own shares—to mention a few notorious evils—the innocent railroad investor never knows how long his stocks or bonds may be worth ,any-.‘ thing.” oo . ‘

BIG FISH SWALLOWING THE LITTIE.

One 'of the most theughtful and brainy members of the present Congress 15 Mr. Reagan, of Texas. In speaking with a newspaper reporter he remarked a short time since: “Times are getting closer and closer, and it is growing more difficult every day for poor people to earn a living.” s “But is not the country growing more ‘wealthy?” inquired the correéspondent. :

“Yes, but the wealth is being gobbled in more steadily and completely every year by the grinding monopolists. The poor people do not get along half as well as when I was a boy. Oh! there is no comparison, absolutely between now and then. There is too much distinction between men. Why, some people around here treat their fellows as though they were beasts. Men are sent to Congress who have no more care for some of their poor constitu - ents than if they were beasts of burden. I can remember when it was very respectabie to live and work on a farm. Now it seems only those who cannot get away from farms follow the avocation of farming. The work: and life of a farmer is belittled. Then ‘the monopolists have made it almost impossible’ for a farmer to make money. When I was a young man large families ‘were supported and educated micely and respectably on forty aeres. 1 know now of families that can scarcely keep up in rural ‘society ona quarter section of land, especially if they be a little in debt. Thée monopolies are taking our very hearts’ bleod.” ' el

Mr. Reagan is at present engéged in the laudable work of checking this ‘blood-sucking operation. . . 1 Pt e ‘ ~ —The rjler skating rink at ‘Kendallville is now epen to the publie and is proving & great attraction, ) : : i 1 g -

LET THE PEOPLE ELECT.

It will,_be!f remembered by the readers of Tne Baxxer that four years ago, ;ifmﬁédfntdy after the defeat of Gen. ‘Hancock for the Presidency, a number of Northern Indiana democratic editors met at’ Ft. Wayne and resolved, among other things, to favor the election of U. S. Senators by a direct vote of the people, instead of continuing the. present system of electing these officials by the State &egislatures. The movement then and there inaugurated met with a good deal of popular favor, ‘but like mamy other measures that ‘have from time to time been proposed it, too, has been pushed in the background by the excitement attending the usual political contests for party ascendancy. e : Recent events at Washington bid fair to awaken fresh interest in the proposed change. The reasons for a revival of the agitation of that question are tersely and pointedly set forth by the Evansville Courier: o The United States Senate is rapidly reaching that degree of assumed superiority calculated to provoke the charge that it is a jolly ass. When a United States Senator talks of sending a bill “down to the House,” as if the Senate ' were holding its session in the Dome ‘of the Capitol. it is not surprising that members of the House resent the conceit. < The fact is that the Senate, as now composed, is little more than a symposium of antiquated political 'humbugs and ignorant quick rich millionaires. A large majority of the Senators hold themselves to be superior, not only to the members of the House, but to' the Constitution, the laws and the sovereign J)eop}e. ‘A large proportion of them hold their seats by purchase. We find, therefore, as the Senate grows more punctilious in. asserting its “dignity,” it grows less formidable in brains. There probably has never (been a Yax‘liamentiary body in the history of the world so mean in ability and so arrogant in its pretensions as the United States Senate of today. With a half a dozen exceptions, perhaps, there is not-a Senator among the remainder who rises above the level of an ordinary stump sge;ker. There are a score or more members-of. the House better equipped for "the functions of a Senator than the very best twenty Senators now occupying seats in tbe Chamber. The remedy would seem to be, therefore, to choose United States Senators by a direct vote of the people, just as representatives are.chosen, Let them understand that they must go direct to the people for apd')roval, and we shall, at least, put an end to the ridiculous, if it were not dangerout, conceit with which a majority of Senatcrs now seem 1o be consumed, that they are responsible only to a few Legislators whose votes a verly small part of one year's senatorial salary will suffice to secure.

OUR NEI!IGHBORS.

Warsaw has a new roller mill

. The town of LaGrange is in debt. One hundred and twenty-six teachers are now cmployed in LaGrange county. John M. Kimsey was last week confirmed as postmaster at Waterloo by the Senate. =

Goshenites are again talking railroad. It is the same old stery, only on paper. : : _

The Northern Indiana Poultry Association will hold its next session in Fort Wayne in February. ; Diphfheria is raging at Aubur, DeKalb county, It is reported that four deaths occurred in dne day.

.The annual session of the Whitley county Teachers’ Institute was held at Columbia City, last week. A good attendance is reported.’ The Whitley county agricultural society is on the brink of dissolution. The fairs in that county have been failures for some years and the society is in bad financial shape. ] The wife of Hon. William Carr, of Columbia City was buried at that place last week. Mrs. Carr was one of the most well-known ladies in Whitley county. i The. traveling man who sued the town of Warsaw for damages sustained by running against an obstruction on the sidewalk wasawarded $5OO damages. The case was appealed to the supreme court. : :

- At Fort Wayne, one day last week, a ‘beautiful young -lady named Mamie Davis undertook to leave this wicked world by the morphine route. A stomach pump was brought into use and she is now upon earth nursing her troubles. : . :

The postoffice at Huntertown, a small place ten miles north of Fort Wayne, was broken into Sunday morning of last week and robbed og $l5 in stamps and money. Two stores were also rifled of about $2OO worth of goods. The thief was tracked in the snow to Fort Wayne where he was arrested. He gave his name as Frank ‘Wilson. .

- Four years ago David Rapp stole goods from Pret. Miles' store at Milford. He was arrested, but released on his father going his bail for $4OO. David then skxpged, and his father paid that sum, and thinking that settled it he returned, but was arrested and lodged in jail at Warsaw, while the $4OO increased the school fund.— Goshen Independent.

’ The total expense of the Butler trial 'and the execution.in this county cost, all told, the sum of $6,716.21. (§f this ‘amount Whitley county has only $5.00 to pay, that is for the coroner’s fees in taking charge of the body of Butler after death. The balance of $6,611.21 will all be collected back from Kosciusko county. We are unable at present to get an -itemized account of the expenses; however, the attorneys received about $2,200, the sher’if{ got. only $2OO for the execution ($5OO is the usuval fee) and $l5O for expenses ineident thereto. 'The balance of the expense was for jurors, bailiffs and nu%ert()us other expenses.—Columbia City ost. G % .

- During the past year the Lake Shore | has been suffering from the depredations' of thieves, Cars were broken into and cases of boots and shoes and other valuable merchandise was missed almost weekly. The railroad detectives at last struck a clew and it was found that the ‘goodsgwere missing always after passing Ggshen. A watch was at once instituted and the manner of operations discovered —that one of the thieves would secrete himself in a car and throw out such' boxes as: could be -easily handled as the train was Ipassing‘ the fair grounds at Goshen' The detectives traced the ‘guilty parties to. Apple Creek, Ohio, where they were[ found running a small store stocked with the stolen goods. They are all late citizens of Goshen, their names being Augustus Ginder, Lew Hershour and James Hanigan, the latter being an old brakeman. The LaGrange fair association is ‘about to give up the glost as would be inferred from the tone of an article in the Register of last week, in which the following appears: “The time has come when our county agricultural organizatlpu must be put upon a better oundation, or abandoned altogether,or it will go into that inevitable decay which now threatens it. The'reason for this lies in the activity of our neighbors, who are pushing similar organizations close ‘nPon our borders, with remarkable zeal and determination. The Ligonier and Kendallville societies, from their natural positions ~are;ﬁ%mruy stmnﬂ ﬁ:dhgmgem competitors, and as intimated by presi- | Eatßursh sl e mefnd P LaGrange society. =Of course it is to|

the financial interest of both those societies, that their sister organization in this county should - die. Should this occur, then both of those societies would draw a much heavier patr from this county than they now g Even an editor in this county s a stockholder in the Kendallville organization. It seems to us that the peo&e of this county can never consent that LaGrange county, one of the very best agricultural districts in the state, shall simply “be a tender to Noble county. & : S

Local Correspondence. A A A A A A e AP NN NN 2 WAWARA. ; ' UNCLE JOHN. > Frank Meek and wife are visiting the family of John-Meek. Ed. and Reme are looking for the mothers of these two orphans that were put on the Christmas tree. C.C. Cessel and family were in town Chbristmas. The dance at Springfisld was well attended by Wawakaites. John Fox thinks there is nothimg like home (at Wawaka.) { Gilly Miler was married to Miss Cook, of Li%‘onier. Christmas. Some of the voung folks had a high old time Christmas night. ; Mss Emma “ilunt, of Lagrange, was home visiting last Monday. : The girls say that they will pay Mr: John Roberts ic his own cvin mext Christmas. E E. Mummert is home op a visit from Ann Arbor, : The Christmas crossés was quitle a success.

The girls think that they were sent some good poetry. Charlie Dunn came uegr guing ivto the wrong house. Aydagt Maccall about it. : Thes. Teal is going to start a manufacturing establishment. Frank thioks he has got the de.dwood on ths girls, -

ROCIHESTER. i ; BY YOU NO. Gee. Purl, the great horse doctor of Goshev, came up here last Fiilay for a short stay. ; _Clint. McConnuell has returned from Illinois. He is looking well Somebody turned Jack Sullivan’s horse loose from the Ligonier square last Saturday night, which caused jhim to walk home. : |

-The river looks as though |t might get on a high. Lol Oscar Niles dropped in on his many friends last Friday from Illinois. Hre has been absent about four years. Married —Dec. 28, 1884, Mr. John Heltzell and Miss Ida Goth; both of Perry twp. We extend to the happy couple our {5, | John Fry and wife went to Michigan to visit his mother. Some of the g. o. p tried to sell the hickory pole at this::place for ax handies but were caught in the act. Wm. McKinney, of Bangor, Mich,, is visiting friends here. 2 Mr. Groves, of lllinois, is visitiog his sister, Mrs. Clint. McCounell. J. 8. Weaver has left the Rochester Mills and goue to Ryder's Milis.

WASHINGTON TWP, MILTON. Next institute one wevk from nexs Siaturday. Homer Irwin of near Urmus 18 visiung friends in Ohio. : The concert held at SBalem the other Sunday was a success. . C. M. Line is visiting in Peunsylva nu%v » - . A. and Mrs. L. S. Ciayton, of 'Mentone, are visiting here. The'literary at Ormus is in full operation and questions . are being ably discussed by several gentlemen of that vicinity. = _ ‘ .

The institute at Columbia City was well repreésented by the teachers of the vicinity of Hecla. The literary at Spangle's’ school house in Sparta twp. is progressing guccessfully, A. W. Wade being the present presiding officer. - The discus sion of ‘questions haye been indulged in by the following gentlemen: Jas. Stage, A. W. Wade, W. C. Hontz and Juhn Buckles. T

A company of young people were hugely entertained at the residsnce of Jolin Beers on Christmas night. It did ample justice to & fine supper con: sisting of many luxu-ies, oysters, etc. Two weddings have recently vccarred in which several of our young people were directly interested. On Christmas Miss Lizzie Hines was united to Mr. Cummins by the holy bonds of wedluck. Abdout the same time those solemn ties united Rev. Noah Myers to Miss Etta Moore of Sparta twp. We wish them a bright and useful future.

Society in this twp. is free from many evils that exist in other localities, but itis nut free from the evils of the pilferer. Lately a quantity ef grain was taken from the premises of Joseph Clayton by oue of those dirty, low-iife pests of society.

YORK TOWNSHIP. : BY M. M. E.E. ‘We wish you all a happy New Year. Bad day last Sunday for sleighing. The spelling at Pleasant Hill expect a good crowd. : Wm. and Ida Butz are speading their holidays at homae, Mr. Gesaman will teach singing at the Center. - There were writing schools organizéd at Oak Grove and Centennidl by Samusl Norris. i Charley Neufer will have but two days vacation at Wolcotiville. : The turkey roast at Andy Peffer’s was largely attended. - ; - The literary society was organizad at Pleasant Hill last week. . Dave Moore, of Wawaka, is living on Pucker Street. We are familiar with Brick Top and Junior since the Springfield hop. Mr. John Low of the Hawpatch was on our streets recently. . Ella Butz returned home from a visit on the Hawpatch Monday.

: "MENTONE. . | : BY DORA. 3 Happy new year to all. & Sleighing “done gone played out.” Our Christmas boat waz a success, No scarcity of water now. ! . Nvu complaizt from our merchanis yet. o S 5

~J. B. has our thanks for a copy of his South Bend Times.

Strong tal'c of incorporation, but we fear it is of short duration. ThLe press formerly used by the Bourbon Review. will no doubt: be brought to this place. ' Our “better one half” has appointed us ehief cook and gofie to see her ma for about two weeks, )

SBquire Eihler has been admitted te the bar of Kosciusko county and 1s full-fledged. 3 : : Jrsse and Emma Sellers, of Etna, are visiting friends and relatives in town during the holidays. A Mr. Hatch, of Argos, tikes poes: session of our hotel to-day. He comes well recommended and is an old haad at that business. s .

Friends from near Wilmot came down and assisted us in maintaining our supremacy over Turkey, on Xmas, Three of our boys have committed matrimony the past week. Dr. Stockbarger aud Miss Reed, of Cromwell, Jucob Deeter and Miss Bachman, of Syracuse, Samuel Good and a lady of Burkett. .Success to all. ‘ Dr. Stockbarger and his new bride will this week move to North Wabster, where he has lately bought a stock of drugs. We are sorry to lose the Doctor from among us. Quite & wreck occurred om the Nickle Plate, east of Fort Wayne, :::: ,Bnt‘m;ds{. between t’w’(’ !Ml:é ns, delaying our ever mail ket i ok DUr SVERIDE W

NEWS DIGEST:

A valuable depositof lead ore has been discovered near Galena, IIL A gas well of great force has develgﬁgd itself on a farm nedr Metropolis, Twelve thousand persons are regott—ed out of employment in Detroit, ‘Michigan. A An Arkansas farmer jis driving a large flock of turkeys 122 miles to the Little Rock market. - At Dallas, Texas, a stock firm Wednesday sold tive thousand head of cattle for $150,000 cash.

Snow has fallen heavily in the pineries of Wisconsin, and lumbering oper+ ations are beginning. ; A fruit-raiser near Saugatuck, Michigan, reports that he can find n 6 dead buds on his Crawford peach trees. . Ezekiel Morrison, one of the pioneers of La Porte, Indiana. and president of a national bank, died Saturday night. At Ballyduff, Ireland, a private: ‘vault was broken open and the coffin of Mrs. llilliers was thrown into a glen. ; The stexmship Oregon has erossed the Atlantic in six days six hours and fifty-two minutes, the quickest passage on record. : A boy of 7 was thrown down stairs at Nanticoke, Pa., by an angry schoolteacher, and so badly hurt that he has since died.

Jose Gomez, an attache of the Brazilian legation at Washington, has married Miss Louise Hateher, of Lafayette, Indiana.

Cameron’s large gainting of N iaﬁara in winter, for which $30,(00 was asked, has been purchased by H. H. Warner, of Rochester.

The great seal of Dakota has been transterred from Yankton to Bismarck, where the territorial legislature is to meet January 13. : Two of the Little Rock train-rob-bers were sentenced to the penitentiary, one being given six years and the other seven years. . :

Exports from the Port of New York for the week ended Tuesday, exciusive of s&%cie, were $6,429,000, against $7,845,000 the previous week.

While riding at anchor in the bay of New York the British ship Lornty, loaded with oil, was run into and sunk by the'steamship Cornwall. * | ' Hogs are dging in Southern Nebraska of a new disease. In the head of each animal that dies of the complaint a'large grub-worm is found. The premier of Manitoba has presented to the Dominion government a claim for $lO,OOO for expenses incurred in determining the boundary. . Nine aldermen of New York have ireceived summonses to appear before the grand jury, but they ieign ignorance of what-is desired of them.

Major L, H. Sanger, of the 11th infantry, einred suddenly at Amboy, Illinois. Captain H:mdz. of thenavy, died at Tarboro, North Carolina.

Cards have been issued at Gordonsville, Virginia, announcing the engagement of Willie Scott, 4 years of age, and Jennie Perry, 6 years old. Congressman Holman of Indiana says that McDeonald is the man to represent that State in the new Cal:inet. As for himself, he does not desire a place.

Customs officials at Montreal have seized $lO,OOO worth of Cuban and Mexican cigars, imported from New York at a serious undervaluation. <

John Cooper, having abandoned cotton manufacture at Nottingham, has arrived on this side with 140 of his employes to start a factory at Providence. In the trial of Matthew Millard, at Grand Rapids, Michi%an, char&ad with murde-rin%)his wife, the jury Wednesday brought in a verdict of not guilty. All the horses used on the stag;line between ' Bismarck and Fort Yates have been killed, because of an ‘out})reak of glandersin its most violent orm. .

Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, of New York, invited nearly three hundred children to a public hall and distributed among giegoxoclothing and toys to the value of

The Central elevator, at Dallas, Texas, was burned Friday evening, causing aloss of $BO,OOO. Two employes taire known to have perished in the ames. : = v ;

A false alarm of fire was given Thursday evening in a museum at New Haven. In the panic which ensued many %grsons had their clothing nearly torn off. ’

Henry A. Burr, a millionaire hat gnanufacturer, and Dr. William Darling, the Possessor of a famous anatomical eollection, expired Thursday, in New York.

It has been learned that Charles E. Stephens, of Chicago, who gambled away $23,000 of the funds of a coal company, of which he was cashier, hag gone to Canada. Colonel A. M. Beattie, one of the })ioneers of Montana, died at Helena rom the effect of wounds received in the army. His remains will be sent tg Rockford, Illinois. .

Mrs. Williams, living near Dahlgren, Illinois, while mentally disordered, threw one of her children into a well, and, fastening another to her clothing, also jumped in. . . - Sedgwick L. Plummer, a graduate of Harvard, died in the almshouse at Gardiner, Me. He was formerly editor of the Gardiner Transcript and was worth $50,000. : W. K. Ackerman, for many years Rresident of the Illinois Central. road, as been engaged to attend the general interests of the Baltimore and Ohio comipany in Chicago. The directors of the Oregon and California road, now completed in the former state for a length of 130 miles, have voted to transfer the property to the Central Pacific.

An. infernal' machine, containin ﬁfty-eifght cartridges of dynamite anﬁ a lot of giant powder, was found by a tragk-walker on the Jersey Central road, near Westfield. o After being lashed to the rigging of the barkentine OOEJ)hralm William five days without f or water, the Captain and crew were rescued by the life boats at Cape Hafteras. An officer of the New York poliee is said to have offered $l,OOO per annum to as many members of the Winnipeg force as desire to resign, to be place on the Broadway squad.

George W. Walker, a leading lawyer M.Virﬁinia, having suffered for gears from the amputation of his righ leg on the battle-field, killed himself wit a revolver at Heathville. :

Hermann E. Voss secured the arrest of his sister Amelia at New York, Wednesday, for tak(i)gg from a trust com(i)any’s box $lOO,OOO, in money 'and bonds belonging to him.

An unknown assassin, standing near a window in a residence at Lonpi;view, Kentucky, fired five shots in quick succession, killing Jacob Torian and fatal1y wounding Peter Adcock. . . J. M. Ballie, formerly a bookkeeper in the National Bank of America, at Chicago, where he embezzled $5,800, has been arrested in New Orleans, and will be taken back for trial.

William McKnight, a prominent business-man of Centralia, 111., told his pastor a month aﬁo that he would die early Christmas Day. He expired at 12:25 o’clock Christmas morning. Cornelius Aultman, of Canton. Ohio, well known throufhout,the country as a manufacturer of agricultural irmplements, died on Christmas evening, after entertaining a large party of friends.

The statement comes from the North--ern Pacific headquarters at St. Paul that the road has been continuously oFen to -Wallula Junction, the snow blockade being on the Oregon Navigation line.

Three hundred and ﬁftg men "are thrown out of employment by the conflagration which is raging in the Paintertown coal-mine near Irwin’s Pa. It may be several weeks before work can be resumed. %

The. Jackson, Mich., Interest and Deposit bank failed Wednesday morning. The deposits were principally comgnsed of the savings of watfeworkers, and the erash is surrounded with mystery. A egensioner of the war of 1812, named Thomas Van Volin, died at S&'racuse New York, at the age of 105. A dispatch from Titusville, Pa., records the death of Baltzer Gehr, in his 104th year, st , James Collinsd ticket agent of the Pan-Handle road at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, has disappeared with $lO,OOO. Part of the amount belonged to the railway company; the rest was borrowed from friends. C. B. Simmons, a prominent citizen of Louisville, § a defaulter to the ‘Lovisville ln&d la!:vmq;mad tt}»ir '811%; Enlocﬂmmm %‘%ﬁ:waﬁ for

General W. T. Sherman is in Philadelphia, where he asked A. J. Dfexel anJ) George W. Childs to aid in reseuing General Grant’s morggaged property. W.H. Vanderbilt offers to abate $60,000 of his claim. :

Isaac Wright, one of the most noted steamboat captains on the Ohid and ‘Mississippi rivers, who commanded government vessels during the Mexican war and the rebellion. died Tuesday at Troy, Indiana, aged 86 years. The north-bound express train on the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad was thrown off the track by obstructions near Purvis, Miss. A number of passengers were injured, and the engineer and fireman were killed.

J. C. McMath, whose term as prosecuting attorney for Clermont county, Ohib, is about to exglre, shows a clean hand as to his official accounts, but has transferred all hisg property to .meet losses sustained in speculation. - ; Four thousand coal-miners on the Monongahela River went out on a strike Mondng for an adwance of half a cent a bushel. The operators say they will close the mines indefinitely rather than accede to the demand. - While eight tramps were sleeping over the boiler-house of the coal company atLincoln, 111., Wednesday morning, the blow-off pipe exploded, the steam scalding the men in a. terrible axxanner, and fatally wounding two of em. ’

W. C. Harvey, express agent at Panora, lowa, undertook to carry home a $3,000 package Wednesday night, instead of leaving it in the safe at his office. He claims to have been shot in the arm by a robber, who escaped with the money. = Dr. Mary Walker created a panic in the Governor’s office at Albany Friday. She did not find Mr, Cleveland in, much to her regret, as she said, because she wished to apply for an office and to give him some advece about matrimony. : »

W. F. McArthur, district attorney for Winnebago, county, Wisconsin, was, on Tuesday, fatu.llf' shot by a cripple named Paul Steinel. an old resident of Neenah. The difficulty arose from a suit in whieh - McArthur was Steinel’s counsel, Gt

Jacob Avery, who alone operated a flouring-mill nearéGreenbush, lilinois, was on Saturday night found by his son in a condgion which showed that he had been caught by a shaft and pounded to a jelly, nothing but a boot being left on his body.

Nearly forty members of the democratic state central committee of Nebraska held a meeting ut Lincoln Tues: day evening. J. Sterling Morton urhged that the local democracy select’ their candidates for federal ofileés, and the plan was urged uj on the party. :

" A wedding-party at the house of Charles White. near Lexington, Ky., was interrupted by a gang of roughs, who perpetrated various indignities. Daniel lays, a tobaceo-grower, shot one of the intruders dead and wounded anotlier. The rest escaped. The passenger agents of the eastern trunk lines have agreed to withdraw to-day all I'ouud-'.1~i;) tickets from New York to Chicago. - The Northern Pacifie road recently sold to an eastern syndicate, for £100,0.0, twenty-seven s€ctions of land on the Jamestown branch. ; i

Rudolph Schicke. [ormerly bookkeeper for a Cineinnati notion louse, was arrested for the embezzlement of $l,OOO. Ile was permitted to step into an adjoining room, where he took cyanide of yotassinm, and in two minutes was a corpse. H: was to have been married \k’edneadav.

General T. O. Osborne, of Chicago, who for many years has beén minister to Buenos Af*res, caused the remains of A. C. Rodney, one of his predecessors in office, to be removed to the new Protestant cemetery, with the handscme monument donated by the Argentine government. Dr. G. M. Atkinson, prominent araong the medical fraternity of Brooklyn, lies at the point of death from blood poisoning, which produced paralysis and mental disorder. -He is. attended by six distinguished phﬁsicians, who regard bis case as one of the most remarkable on record.

Reports from Minneapolis indicate that there is not more than enouﬁh water-power, owing to the fall of the river, to drive half the mills of the city, There has been jn consequence a decreased output of flour. Mill-owners have formed a pool to reduce the flourproduction by one-third. : At Wausau, Wisconsin, Victor Debliz was butchered with an ax by his brother Frank. Both belonged to the Presbyterian church, and the murderer has for some time been trying the prayer cure upon his vietim, an invalid. The horrible deed was accompanied by shouts of religious frenzy. : < In consequence of a misunderstanding between the directors and the cashier of the Laporte, Ind., Savings Bank, the institution has gone into the hands of areceiver. The liabilities' are estimated at about s7s,ooo'and the asaets at $90,000. -Depositors are assured ahfi\lt they will be paid 100 cents on the ollar.- 1

In the supreme court of Massachusetts a jury found that Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, who left $2,000,000 for educational purposes, was. of sound mind, and that her will was drawn in proper shape. There was a tie on the. question whether Rav. Dr. Wilcox ‘exercised undue influence over the testator. ; !

In the<Miss Hill-Sharon case at San Francisco the }judge decided Wednesday that Miss Hili was Sharon’s wife under the laws of the State; that she was entitled fo a divorce on the ground of desertion, and also that she was entitled to a division of the ex-Senator’s .85(()) perty, estimated to be worth' $lO,000,000. : i

At a Christmas dance at: Miles City, ‘Montana, a man named Roberts was shot by & desperado named Sullivan. Officers trace<{) the murderer to a ranch fitteen miles distant, where, -in ‘resisting arrcst, he killed Doc Carlin’ and a child-with & Sharp’s rifle. He then made his way to Miles City and surrendered. : :

A fagt train: on the Baltimore and Ohio ro.:i.d‘jumﬁxé& the track, Monday morning, near Bremen, Indiana. ¥itteen persons were jujured, among them being Congressmen Saively of Indiana, Delegate-elect Gitford of . Dakota. Frederick© A. Wheeler ‘and wife of Baltimore, and J. W. Mills and wife of Chicago. | :

A fire in New York, early Tuesday morning. destroyed Harrigan & Hart’s Theatre Comique, on Broadway, : with all the&n*o_pertles. The loss is $200,000, and the insuranee recently expired through neglect. Four large business blocks at Cambrid%e, New York. valued with their contents at about $150,000, sere swept away by flames.’ Three masked robbers, dfter vainly searching the residence of Elias Martinpl, négr Wheeling, West Vir%)inia, applied red-hot pokers to ‘his back, burned off his hair with live coals, and at last enveloped him in straw and set it on fire. He was found nearly dead by neighbors,but has revived sutgcienb Iy to relate the story of his torture. -

In the fire at Racine eargr on Sunday morning, which destroyed the Blake opera-house and hotel, Russel S. Glover and wife, connected with the Thompson opera company, lost their lives. They were residents of New York. The property burned was valued at $145,660. 1t is feared that Mrs. Patrick, housekeeper of the hotel, perished in the flames. *

The recent arrest of W. J. Gallagher for election frauds in Chicago revealed his whereabouts to former acquaintances in Phi]adelghia, who immediate%y secured a true bill against him for orging notes i that city in 1882. An aglent of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania went to Springfield and obtained a warrant of arrest from Governor Hamilton which was served Tuesday morning. : &

Masked men entered the farm-house of Harvey Jackson, near Bloominﬁton, ' Ohie, du‘ring Monday night, bound the old man and his wife and dau%}lter, and demanded money. The robbers _next threw coal oil over Mrs. Jackson and threatened to fire it, when she revealed the hiding-place of $275. The victims were left bound on the floor ‘until nearly daylight, with the front, (}oors open to the piercing winds. An injunction of the,Su%reme Court was served “Pl(‘m the New York Board of Aldermen Tuesday restraining them from doing any thing whatever. The injunction was issued in an action brgught by William E. Demorest and others claiming to be aldermen of the city of New York to test the validity of the election and of the proceedings of the vgreaent board, 'lng Tammany m% ers declared the in%mction to be & device of the County Democracy to E:vqnt the board from confirming the Mayor’s pominations, .~ . Governor Cleveland T eg-ymniwg memw% gam&& 0 about three hund-

red ladies and-gent‘l’gmen whose -hospitality he had enioy ed at Albany, Troy, and Buffalo.» The visitors from the latter city arrived in the morning, and spent some hours in in‘sgecti’ng the state-house. Two sisters of Presillent Arthur assisted the sisters of the pres-ident-elect in receiving guests at the executive mansion. - Durinﬁ the day the claims of William H. Barnum to a seat in the cabinet were presented by a delegation from Connecticut. - In the probate court at Chicago Austin L. Patterson,was discharged from all responsibilit? as conservator of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, hisaccounts: being approved without question. Counsel lor Mrs. Storey then offered for probate an alleged will of August. 1879, and announced that the withess~ es thereto were present.. After pro longed argunient on both sides, Judge Knickerboeker refused to take any action until decision‘has been rendered by the circuit court on the appeal taken by Mrs. Farrand as to the refusal te probate the will of 1881, - - » 7@ Lo

"Accoiding to the report of E. R: Hutchins, Sulperinte‘ndent of Labor in the State of lowa, the nveraqe, yearly earning of the head of a family inthat State is §7BO, and the average family expenses only $4OO. This is §251 better showing than Illinois, $2Ol better t?gln Ohio, and,s4s3 better than Massachusetts. Five-sevenths of lowa’s workingmen own homes, while but onethird of Ohio’s and two-sevenths of Illinois’ workingmen enjloy a .similar Juxury, Carpenters in. lowa averaie $2.25 per day, masons §3.66, blacksmiths $2.80, painters $2.20, (,flasterers ; s:ll.t£}, harncssmakers $2, and laborers

WASHINGTON,

" Both Houses of Congress adjourned Wedaesday until Jan. 5. - fen L Although the excess of the assets of the United States Treasury over' demand liabilities exceeds $137,000,000, no bond call is to be made at present. . ot & ;

A compilation comfﬂeted by the Bureaa of Statistiez shows that the United States would lose 830,000,000 annually in duties if the Spanish treaty were ratified. . =~ It is suggested that the manner in which the Swalm court-martial is b‘:m%prﬂl_onged is due to the attractions which Waslington someL{ possesses for the. officers who eompose the court. 4 s : Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch says. that there is a disposition on theé part of banks and individuals throunghout the country to hoard legal-tender “notes ;in prefer‘ence to silver certificates. : ;

Some excitement has beén caused ‘in police circles at Washington by an attemnpt to break up a disreputable establishment in which a United States Senator was reported to be a rezular lodger. oy Frank Hurd, of Toledo; 0., mntendsto contest the election to Coxigiress of Jacob Rowmeis from that district on the ground, as it is said, that Romeis has never been naturalized and:is ineligible. *=~. . - : Friends of the late Secrétary Folger say that they will “an se My, Evarts’ eandidacy for the New York Senatorship b-eiuse Evarts declined tosupport Folgzer in his contest for the Governorship of New York. Sergeant Holtnorth, of the signal service, who was recently sent.to Nebraska by Secretary Lincoln insearch of Captain Howzate, is to be court-martfaled on charge of rifling the private papers of Licutenant. Greely. i S e It is said that the House Appmfwiations_ Committee fvill. disregard the Naval bill just passed by the Senate, and will frame'a regular bill for the next fiscal year. If the Senate does” not accept this an extra session ot_.Uongrgﬁg\vikl_{)e‘tgxlaYOidable. da

In all probability Mr. Vest’s inquiry éon=cerning the Nicaragua surveying party-will e voted down in the Senate. It is thought that Secretary Chandler would hardly have permitted the expéedition tostart had he not telt assured that Mr. Vest's ‘resolution would fail. - A e R R

One of the earliest subjects to be consids ered upon the reassembling -of -the ‘Senate will be the question of .discussing-the Spanish treaty in open session. ’l‘lpe.-Fo,l,'eiﬁx_ Affairs Committee, which has been deli erating upon the matter; is reported to be pretty-evenly divided coieerningit. -

An éxtra session of Congress is-thp_u%ht. not uilikely in view of the fact that the business before it can hardly .be finished: before tlie end of the present ‘session, = If, as seems likely, the two Hotises disagree irreconcilably on the Naval. Appropriation bill an extra session will be unavoidable. = = Colonel Chester, the.octogenarian who served Tennessee in the caracity of messenger todeliver the electoral vote, :is detained in this city by the.accidental inclosure of his commission in the official envelope containing the returns. -No one ' will consent to the breaking of the seal. S

Secretary Chandler Issaid to have informed Congressman Randall that the aps &ropriat;ious cohtemplated by the Senate aval bill are grossly inadequate and won'd embarrass thie service. Itis reported that. the House will regzard the Secretdry’s objections as a zood excuse ,for refusing to pass the bill.. - i In its supplementary report transmitted to the Senate by the Gun-Foundry Board: the 0(1)mion is expressed that ‘two gunfoundries should be established—one for the army and one for the navy—atacost of $l,000,000 each. The report also recommends an appropriation of $15,000,000 for -the purchase of steel, - . e s

In reply to an inquiry from a resident of. {{nnsas whether he could pre-empt land in ndian Territory, the secretary of the interior has written as follows: *There is no land withiu the boundaries. of Indian Territory subject to settlement, - Settlers who 2o into the terrifory now will simply lose time and money.” - . : . While the Senate was in exeécutive session Wednesday Mr. Edmunds sannounced that tue Electoral vote of several States had not been received, and - requested that the Governors of the delinquent States be notified that the period forreceiving the official returns of the late Presiduntial etection expires next Wednesday. - - S : Having come to the conclusion that Congress is not likely to increase. the insufficient appropriations already -made for the erection of some forty publie: buijdings in various parts of the country, ,Su.pervisin% Architect Bell has given noticd that he will at once proceed -with the erection of such cheap and unsatisfactory buildings as the money at his command will. allow. =.~ Secretary McCulloch has: obtained from the attorney-general and the solicior-gen-eral opinions that on the filing ot an exf)ortation bond there is no reason why Qistilled spirits may not be permitted - to remain in governnient wareliouses. t0r..% reasonable period after the expiration of' three years. This will affect, for perlmi)s -nine. months, the faxes on 27,000,000 gallons of whisky.

Jehn R. Mcl.ean, of the Cincinnati Ene quirer, says that Mr, Cleveland is. in line with lus party and proposes to act with it. Mr. Cleveland told him that he - had not gromised any man a place in_his Cabinet, {r. M¢Lean thought'that Garland, Ba)i?rd, Vilas, of Wisconsin. and Whitney, of New York, would all bz among the new President’s advisers, 4 ; v'

The river and harbor committee of the House of Representatives has decided to recomniend an appropriation of ..$3501000 to complete the improvement of the T ennessce river, and 1t is expected thata tye‘m' hence navigation will be opened Tom . Knoxville to the mouth. A revolution in the iron tradeis predicted when the depos-. its of ore and coal along the river ean: be reached by boats, . = . ; s

SecretaryFrelinghuyseu has sent to ths Senate Committee gn Foreign Relations a letter stating -that the negotiation of the Spanish treaty was ' undettaken in accordance with a policy whieh had received congressional sanction. He declares that there 15 o thought of the ammexation of Cuba, but that the treaty will give us all thie benefits of such absorption. He then arﬁues, against the objections of the sugar and tobaccointerests, * N R

Four hundred claims have _already been favorably considered by the Treasury. : DeEartment at Washington under. the recent Jourt of Claims decision allowing naval officers traveling in Europe on Government business mileage fees in- addition to their traveling expenses. Some. of the claims date back forty years, and Cog&ress will be called upon to anrogriate $500,000 to pay those already allowed. : An a%)propria‘tion of $7,000,000 for seaeoast defenses will be recommended to the House this vear by the Committee on Forti~ fications. The committee does not conecur in the recommendations of the Naval Ordnance Foundry Board, shich suggested the establisliment of gun-foundx_'ies by the Gov- - ernment. The joint-committee ‘appointed toinvestigate the manufacture of steel cannon is engaged in the preparation of an elaborate report. g i George U.- Rose, a minor _official of the Treasux?' Departmeut:i was origlna‘lly given a clerkship by General Garfield, ﬁ‘or-thh\-teen years he also served the Ohio ‘con=gressman as private secretary, devotinf his. evenings to _steuograggw work, receiving no compensation, and lngedismissed from his extra labors ten days before Garfield’s inauguration, In attemémng .recently te secure from Mrs, Garfield a fair allowance Tor his services, he discovered that General Swaim claimed to haye taken from him a receipt in full, the consideration being $230, less than $2 per month. Rose declares any such paper a forgery. = .- 5 w " A member of the Wasl_xmgton Monument Commission says that it is the Intention of the commission to have the address of Mr. | Wmml’OP for the ceremony of the comirrbg‘ tion of the monument if possible, and it is the wish of the commission that’em-. Wins throp shall name the gerson he 1d like | to have read it if he shall himself be unable to attend. 'Elm_sugﬁestlan has | - made to the commission that Robert C, Winthrop, Jr., be invited to read the address in the event_cg the inability of his father, and the G\Kfes, on hay mmelgd_wlth favors .\lesu ,mmt or 9 ... B i niemorial of John G.. Thompson, '?&ﬁ‘%ﬁ%’k’iﬁ%‘mw opriation tore: fenvling himself against ‘the: damage suit brought by ot Kilbour agtoad fo rocs | omimend to the full committee that Thomp- | Sou be given a ;va iﬂﬁ _cover his | giontiatds & 10 COLmILee a 6 the iast ges- : i e s UG SN e

ds?‘o,nis,ﬂowhbqw i e Th ,lm}{m'f itl ; treasury: is_in . The cash balance in the is inereasing somewhat, but very slowily. . The Egvemmcnt receipts for i;ecember _have en small, and part of the pension payments made Dec. 4 had to be taken out of this month’s - receig%, becauss. the whole amount of $17,000,000 eould not be Fmvidedi ; in November without making too large an increase in the Publie‘; ‘debt.. As it was, there was a small increase in the debt last month, Interest will take $5,000,000; or more, out of the treasury Jan. 1, so that there is no prospect of a bond ecall before February. s ; A REMARKABLE CANNON. . Dauring the recent debate on the navy bill, says a Washington telegram, Senator Morgan; of A!al_)amn.l related a curious incident of the skill exhibited by some of the Washington gun sharg in the manufacture of heavy ordnance. He lind been deseribing the way in whichh a gun about thirty feet long was constructed, and eontinued as follows: “When that gun was built at the navy yard in Washiufton eity, and theiy undertook to balance it on its hnnnlom t took, 48 I am informed, I‘4oo pounds on the end of that gun-to make it ba'ance. Asin gle gun or two. gunners with machinery could not raise that gun-to put it in line for action 1 battle. It has been hustled out of the navy down to Annapolis.”’ Senator Morgan expressed his determination te inquire further into the fate of this piece of ordnance. . Its recent history, if mnneventful, may be instructive.

"+~ LEASES OF INDIAN LANDS. Senator Vest’s resolution for an investigation of leases of Indian lands to cattle sompanies is believed in some quarters to have been intended more to compel some .of the cattle sompanies that succeeded lin. getting large leases to let Hunter and other: t. Louis cattle men in than to cause gen-. -eral investigation. Senator Vest, when he, offered his resolution. said that a few ?'ea'n ago constituents of his tried to get o lease, and the secretary of the interior retused to, approve it; but that sines then leases had been made, and the secretary protected the lesseas, thongh without formally approving theleases. Since that tine, however, Hun~ ter and his Rartner have secured leases for about a million acres in & different part ‘of Indian Territory from that where they first tried to get leases and aid not succeed. Sens ator Dawes and other clmmf)ions of the Indians have taken hold of the matter, and the prosgect is that after the houda{'i's a thoroug Inthi%g.uon will be made, wliich will'be as likely to hurt the St.” Louis - parties as any others. Senator Vest offered, in sl(lipporting his resolution, to furnish abundant information of bribery and cor‘ruption employed ta procure leases. L CONGRESSIONAILL i

SENATE.

DEkc. 22.—1 n the Senate, the -bill, providing for the appointment of a eommission to eéxamine into the liquor question was g:ssed for the fifth time. It "has not yet been acted uﬁon by the House. Mr. Halereported the House bill making temporary provision for the naval service, which was so modified as to cover the remaining half of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885.

Dxc. 23—11 n the Senate the Naval ApK)ropriltion bill xmkh)g}.l temporary provisn for the support of the nnvt' was passed in’the form suggested by the Uommitteeon Agpropriutions. The House resolution provi mgsfor & holiday. recess was amend by substituting the 24th for the 2th as th [ date when the recess should be%;n. A eony. eurrent resolution was submitted by Mr. Vest, ,provi_ditxég tLat Congressional speeehes. shall be printed as delivered. A mewerial - from the joint ‘eommercial associations of New Orleans was presented, protestin‘g' against the ratification of the Spanish treaty. The Naval -Appropriation bill as. pas3ed by the Senate is regarded as a con-. cession to the House, since it contains no. appropriation for guns and cruisers, and is. in faet nearly identical with the bill whieh the House sent to the Senate =t the end of the last session and which was then declined by the Senate.; It is not thought, - however, that the House will now ‘be willing to accept its own bill as returned to it | from the Seunate. "The House, tenacions of what 1t regards as its prerogatives, is jeal~ ous of the encroachment of the: Senate upon its funetions in the matter of origi-. nating appropriation bills, and is inélined; to resist this enroachment by obstrugtive: tuctics. Ttseems inclined to lét things drifs and to wait for the coming ot a' new order: of things to shed light upon the situation. " DEc. 24.—The Senate, without a quorum, went into executive session almost inmediately after the reading of the journal, and awaited in solemn secret conclave the action of the House on the amended naval bill and adjourtiment resolution. On being notified of- the House’s action thé Senate opened its doors and adjourned till Jan. 3. Ass thie House took no action on the Senate amended nayal appropriation bill, the ap~ propriation for the navy will lap on and af~" ter the 81st of December. Just before the adjournment of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Relations, through AMr. Pendleton, reported ntuvora‘bly the bill to restoré 'the balanee of the Chinese indemnity fund to China. - L

HOUSE.

Dxc. 24.—There wereless than & hundred members in the House.’ Mr. Randall called up the resolution for a hnli&ay recess, and’ the Senate amendment fixing the time from Dec. 24t0 Jan, 5, was concurred in, when the House adjourned to Jan 3, ;

FOREIGN.

A comuittee hasbeen selected at Berlin to raise a fund for Bismarck, as a national expression of confidence. _‘Russia intends to transfer her naval headquarters in the Black Sea from Nokolaier Lo Sebastopul. . The change will cost $7,000, 000, : ; A ‘cablegram from Leipsic ‘states that three 6f the anarchists who attempted the life of Eué?)eror William were sentenced to death, and two others wers condemned ta. ten years’ penal servitude. s L:ndon Truth states that at the recent: w 1 ence between the Czar of Russia and the aperor of Gerulanz- a marriage was irrauged between the Czarowitz Niecalas Alexandrovitch and a daughtér of Crown-, Prince Frederick William of Germany. -

‘With the permission of the Ssﬁmnish Gov-. srnment, the fact is now published that thesarthquake last Wednesday nearly destroy—ed six towns, in one of which two hundréd. %umm were killed by the first vibration.. he work of recovering corpses is interrapted by fresh shocks daily. Official re-. ports place the number killed in _the Prov--inces of Mnla.té-a and Granada, ‘which saf-. fered most from the earthquake, at 286. I'he population of the City of Granada is. sncamped in the Public squares. Over half’ “he inhabitants of Albunuelas were Kkilled aind Alhama i .mnostly inruins. - The shock: was not felt i the northern and northwest--an provinees. 3 s 7 et G 4 i GENERAL MARKETS.: -t -

CHICAGO.

. WeEAT—Higher: Dec., T134@333%c; Jan., ,?21&@73%&‘ Feb., 72%((_:74}%(:.' : | ry—Higher; Year, 385a853c; Jan., Mg@&}%:: Feb., 2414w@348{c. * ~OArs—Lower; Dec., s4%ad24¥c; - Jan., %}g@_%}gc., i : ROVIsIONS—Mess Pork higher: Jan., 510.82810.85; February, £10.85«10.95; Ma& [email protected]. Lard—o>teady: Jan., $6. %g._%; Feb., £[email protected];; March, §6.673¢ o £V, S CATTiE Market steady, We ghiote: Choice to faucy 5teer5............£[email protected] Good to choice 5teer5............. [email protected] Medium to fair 5teer5............ [email protected] Hoes—Market firm, Sales ranged from §[email protected] for heavy: $4.¢5@4:20 for light. .. BUTTER—Steady. -We quote: Choice to ‘Fancy Creamery at 27@59 @ 1b: ordinary | -to good do. 2"..@350; good to fancy Dairy at 18@20& commnion to fair do. 15@ifve. .

. - NEW YORK, WyvAr—Higher; No. 2 Jan., 81%D 823¢e; Feb., 883 ‘(4; 843¢e: March, s6a€63e.— &fg—‘()met; ixed! Western Spot, 48 C. - i 3

MILWAUKEE.

WneAT—Lower; Deec., 72¢; Jan., 72¥c: Feb., 12%e. CorN—Firm at 853 e for %o. % OATs—Firm: No. 2 Winte, 253g¢. Ryr—Strong: 52¢ for §a- 1L BARLEY—. Higher at 521¢c for No. o, e

CINCINNATL

Frour-Fair demand: Family [email protected].. WHEAT—Firm at 77c. Conrx—Strong at 40c, OATs—Weak at 28ige. Ryg—Steady s 85¢. ProvisioNs—Pork swadl at $11.50—. Lard firm at-$3.65. Bulk Meats §4.75@ @35.75, © Bacon §6.87¢@7.123¢,

ST. LOUIS, -WorAT—Higher: N 0.2 Red Dec., 80%" gio%c: January, 81%@83c: May, 883 Conn--Lower; 83@884c ~ Dec.; EXSRI it it len, e Cy y [ YE met: BARLEY-—SteM{y at 55@756. = PROVISIONS —Pork lower: $11.25. DGS% Salt Meats quiet nt £5.55. 565 ¢ 5.90. acon | steady at £6.75, 6.873¢. Lard—higher; §6.60..

o BALTIMORE. ed Sl Dok et Janinter 3 pot an ~ 80@ ¢; January, /'Bl}{@Bl%%.‘ CorN—Mixed Dec‘.‘d'l?ﬂh’c-— Oarc—\éstern White, 84w 86c: Mixed do., 82@38%¢c. RYE—Quict at 80u62. .

BOSTON, g . Woor.~ln good demand ; Ohio and Pennsylvania exrtas .?(?850; Michigan fleeces 80@8le; pulled 25@85¢ & } LIGONIER MARKET REPORT. - RAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheas. amber 71 ; Rye, 60c; Oats,2o6e; Corn, 85¢; flax seed, 81 25; timothyseed, $2 00; clover seed, $4 60. T g PrßODUOß.—Hogs,live,B4 00t0 86 25; Shoulders,per pound,loc; Hams,l2¢; Bees Wax, 25¢; Butter, 16@ Lard, 10¢; Eggs, ¥ d0z.,16¢; Wool, b, 209 30¢; Feathers,6oc; Tallow, 7o: Apples, dried, 7c; green,7o¢.; Potatoes 45c; Hay,tame.Bßso - - ~=Tus beat plaew I 8 town b pur- . . terhen &Mi{,% o L b S S D s TS e R oy SR IS SRt R