Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 January 1885 — Page 2

RN R Y e The Ligowier Buanuer, E Rol ﬁﬁ E’;’Eﬁ e ¥ THURSDAY, JAN. 8, !‘3884. ' Tug Indiana Legislature meets to - day. Gov. Gray will be inangurated next Monday. Il e —— ey e Tue Averack republican official fails on mature reflection to find much comfort in the Clevelaﬂd;ﬂletter. i " Taxixe Texas and Kansas as a guide the Wellsboro Giazette reasons that po litical affiliations are governed by circumstances. i : Tue Erie Herald thinks that untaxed raw material would enable Pennsylvania iron makers to. compete with the south and the warld. / " Tue Baxxer is still of the opinion that a graduated income tax is what this country needs to put a stop, to the concentration of the capital into the hands of the few [ . ¢ -—l——q_‘.’i——-“—.—‘_ AxD 50 old Ben Butler is not going to write a book. Sorry he has abandoned the project. Old Ben is an interesting subject for a book, hut somebody else ought to do, the writing. :

Tue descent of Mr. Randall intoan Alabama iron mine with a miner’s lamp on his hat must have greatly impréssed the south with the interest-he is taking in the development of her mineral resources, ' S

Hopes are entertained that the coal monopoly may be broken up before long. The combination -is a *powerful one, but the people have been so outrageously fleeced that it surely ‘c‘ém'nqi last mach longer. '~ i

A corrox factory at Columbia, South Carolina, employing only seven: oﬂeratives, declared last year a dividend of 40 per cent. It was no doubt managed onibusiness principles that didn’t require the protection of a high tariff.

! ee b b coarammed f Waex a millionaire iron manfactarer declares himself in faver of the doctrine of the socialists, there is some cause~for believing that things are moveing, - Fair wages is the most efficienit cure for discontent among the laboring classes, Socialism isvisionary and impracticable: : - ;

SoMe of President Arthur’s friends are going to a great deal of trouble to prove that he really. wanted Blaine elected to the Presidency. President Arthur skowld tell his friends to let up on that sort of vindication. People generally will think a good deal more of Arthur by haxing it understood that he was not overly anxious for Blaine's suceesy. ‘ : ¢

JAx Gourp, the famous railroad king, i said to draw the very comfortable ‘income of $2,500,000 a year from his various investments. His fortune is said to have shrunk “forty or fifty millions” within the past two years, but it is believed that he will be able to “skin ,along” on what he has left and escape the poor house some time longer. Shrinkages don't materially hurt Jay Gould, but they Jo,hurt, ‘his vietims—those Who invest their money in his watered stock. i

Tug¥t. Wayne Sentinel states “the sppreme court commission of which Hon. W. G. Colerick is a member expires by limitation of law in April. The Jjudges themselves cannot keep up with the work and the legislature must take some action in the premises.- In the event that the office will be prolonged Judge Colerick will be reappointed to thé pasition Lie now honors.” Mr. Colerick, we understand, "ias proyed an,industrious commissioner and a very capable expounder of statutory law. |

Tae “Rev.” Mud-Ball, of Buffalo, N. Y., brazenly believed that his infamy had advertised him into profitable prominence as a lecturer; but he tried itin Tremont Temple, Boston, Thursday night of last week, and the republican Transcript, of that city, advises him that his evening]s experience sho'd make him understmﬁ_ that the people have no further use for him, “even asa cariosity.” Such fellows as Ball should be made to feel the full force of public contempt. ‘He is a ‘disgrace to the clergy. : gt

#WE ARE GRATIFIED to learn that it is now proposed to pass a bill in the New York Legislature requiring the local election in New York city to be held in’ the spring instead of in the fall. Many assemblymen are reported as favoring such a law, The country is not much interested in the. squabbles of New “York politics, but something ought to be. done to prevent the swapping over the local offices of that city from deciding the election £or President of the Unitéd, States as nearly happened last month. Four years ago the gallant Hancock suffered greatly from the effect of the disgraceful “deal” entered into between the political hucksters who have grown opulent by engaging: in dickers of this character.

GOV, ST. JOEN AGAIN.

The republican organs will keep on fooling with St. John until somebody -is hurt, and that somebody is not likely to be Bt. John nor either of his immediate followers. These : republican sheets centinue to charge St. John with having sold out to the Democrat, tho’ so far mot a particle of evidenge has been farnished to substantiate the allegation. In view of this shabby treatment Mr. Bt. John is beginning to manifest & disposition to strike back. Re“ferring to the repeated and direct charges of treachery and venality preferred by Mr. J, B. McGullagh, of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Gov. St. John says: ° ‘ : : “Mr. McCullagh is reported to have said that he knew I did not get all the money Il‘ “wag’ promised by the Democrats, becausé I have been writing letters about it since. T hereby request all persons having any such letters or any evidence that any such letters weie ever written to at once send them to Mr. McCullagh for publication. - “Now, in conclusion, I heneby "request that every letter wﬁwy‘z:,by,me to the regublican committee” or any mb«%*bﬂmu charge of T has been guilty of a very grea economy | s e e Tt ) fllgt” o L e

_ RANDALL'S TARIFF VIEWS, In his speech ‘at TLiederkranz Hall, Louisville, on the occasion of his visit to that city, the Hon, Samuel J. Randall thus epitomized his views on the subjectiof taviit and revenue: ! “Now, there are three classes of thinkers in the United States. There is the high protective tariffadvocate. A high protective tariff leads to monopoly and to class legislation, which, as a representative of the pedple; I have in my hunmble way always resisted. The next ‘class is that body of the people who theorize on the subject of tariff legislation. They do not take the time to enter into details. While a high protective prohibitory tariff leads to the creation of monopoly, free trade invites you to direct taxation, and that, I consider, is not a means of raising revenue to which the American people will ever submit. There ‘is another class, of which I claim to be an humble member, who favor an incidental, or com-‘mon-sense tariff, determined upon business requirements, and determined to maintain an interchange of commodities between two countries by conditions that exist in each. And there is no other way, in my judgment, to adjust the ‘matter. " This is not a new declaration ‘on my part, for if people who ave inter}estcd in my proposition in that particular have examined my record, they would have found a distinct and unqualified declaration in the direction I have stated.” |

: ANOTHER TREATY. Three important treaties have been made recently by.the Arthur administration. Two of these—the Spanish and Nicaraguan—have been alluded to and briefly explained by Tue Baxykr. The third treaty, with the Republic of San Domingo, - also lies before the Senate, and like the others is a step toward a new commercial policy that should be secuzed as speedily as possible. The treaty with San Domingo will give us great’ commercial benefits with that island and make another foreign market for our natural and manufactured productions, San Domingo is a fertile island, producing the same things as Cuba, coffee, sugar, tobacco, fruits and other tropical preducts. ¢The treaty gives us free access to everything that grows andoffers great inducements to send our products in return. The benefits of the treaty are obvious.

- Besides these there is another feature that will have important results. The treaty provides for an American coaling station at Samana, one of the best ports of San Domingo, on the eastern side of the island, and with a splendid haebor. Its importance will be especially great if the Nicaragian canal is built. Sawmana will then become a half-way station between the Atlantic and Pacific ports, and a natural stopping place. An American colony will be located there, and it will become the center of a new West India trade.

» These treaties are a most important thing to the interests of this country, and especially the commercial. They contain the promises of anew era when our sails will again whiten the seas: and we shall be the leaders, commercially as well as politically, over American States. = -

. ' SCATHING BUT TRUE. These who know the Hon. Charles H. Reéve, of Plymouth, know that he never does things by halves. When he speaks or writes he generally says something, and he always means exactly what he says. i In a recent issue of the Indianapolis Sentinel Mr. Reeve publishes a scathing review of Mr. Blaine's pusillanimous conduct in thé matter of his vaunted libel suit against the Sentinel. If we had the space at our command we would' republish the entire letter, It shows up Mr. Blaine in his true character and vindicates the State of Indiana ‘most gloriously against the cowardly attack made upon its people. f'he following extracts-wall give the reader a fair idea of the skiltfal manner in ‘which Mr. Reeve dissects/the Maine ‘demagogue: ¢ » ~ “In Blaine's orders t¢ his attorneys to sue for libel, and in{his subsequent utterances, he disclaimad all care for anything.said about himself. He considered himself libel-proof. But it was his wife and children #ho had been libeled. They were the€ ones to be yindicated. It was thesé he wished to have shielded by justice. The wronged wife and mother and the innocent, ¢hildren were placed by him (in his own name and person) before the Bar ofi justice in Indigna, and there he kept them (on paper) with stricken hearts and uplifted hands, asking'of the national judge and of Indiana citizensas jurors, acting under oath, an honest finding and jjndg- . ment according to the law and the evidence. And Blaine was ready to give his life to obtain justice for them, if they could not obtain it otherwise.,

“After pdsing thus for months while he published to the world such a tale as gave the direct lie to every former assertion, and showed thatno actual libel had been publislied about him "or his family, he directs his counsel to withdraw his wife and children, take dowm their raised hands, wipe away their tears, remove them from the court (being still there in his own name land‘ person only), and ask for nothing except leave to withdraw, and that the judge will enter of record that-they do lthis for reasons which he furnishes.”

GOV. CLEVELAND ON CIVIL SERVICE.

The letter of President-elect Cleveland to Hon. George William Curtis, Carl Schurz and others, bearing upon civil service reform, has elicited the warmest commendation from all who are not worshipers of thespoils system. The democratic and independent republican press cordially endorse the manly utterances of Mr. Cleveland, Thisis eminently proper. As a contemporary remarks, the civil service law is the statate of the land, and as such must be regarded and obeyed until it shallbe repealed. Democrats in Congress voted to make it a law; the mational cbnvenai tion at Chicago that nominated Grover. Cleveland for President endorsed it and pledged it the support of the party; and not, only that, but sinee Governor Cleveland has been the Execntive of the State of New York, the Legislature there has passed a law to establish civi service in the State, which the Governor approved and appointed a commission to carry out its provisions. No one could reasonably expect anything else Besides, it should be borne in mind that | Jhe il Mevite. law pdeiaine ey 1 N AT e ey

other government offices where fifty or more persons are employed. It does not, we believe, affect a single office in the State of Indiana, outside of Indianapolis. ' b (st - He intimates that in many cases changes will not be made until the commission of the present incumbent expires. But while doing this he strikes terror to the heart of many a republican officeholder when he declares, as he does, that “many now helding official positions have forfeited all just claim to retention, because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard to their duty of the people, and because instead of being decent public servants they ;hgve proved themselves foffensivg' partisans and unscrupulous ananipulators . of local party manage--Iment. - The lessons of the past should ‘be unlearned, and such officials as well as their successors should be taught ’that the efficiency, fitness and devotion to public duty are the conditions of their continuance in public place, and that the quiet and unobtrusive exercise of individual palitical rights a reasonable measure of their party service.” This means that the republican officebolders who have made themselves obnoxious by their party zeal, must prepare to walk the plank: .

A SHIP RAILRO:D.

* A Gigantic Scheme.

égrbpos bf the Nicaraugua tréaty, the Scientific American makes prominent in its last number the project of a ship railroad, the aim‘of which is to accomplish the same end that the Nicaraugua canal has in view—the transit of the isthmus by ships The superiority of the railroad is put forward prominently and the arguments in this behalf seem to be potent. The ship railroad is the idea of Eads; the Mississipp: jetties engineer. It is ot generally known, or if it is, the factis overlooked by the general public ‘that such a scheme has been in view for some years, and that steps had been taken towards its accomplish--ment, = After much consideration the site of this transisthmian thoroughfare was located in the southernmost part of Mexico, at Tehauntepee, where the isthmus is about 130 miles in width. A favorable grade and bottom were here found. The physical character of the oceans, also, was found to be welli adapted to make the route a success, It isalso a more direct route to fthe Pacific of the great bulk of trade,jbeing about 1,200 miles less in distance from New York to San Francisco or to the Sandwich Tslands than by the proposed Nicarauguan route. Also for several hundred miles on either side of the last named ronte, the sea liesin a dead calm for the greater poirtion of the time, and hundreds of miles must be traversed before the’trade winds are reached. When it is recalled that three fourths of the carrying trade is done by sailing vessels, the ahsence of | the propelling power is a “very serioms drawback.. At Tehauntepec the trade winds prevail so that a ship in this latitude is never becalmed. These facts make the disparity of time between the two. routes much greater than the difference in distance would indicate. Again, the estimated cost of the two projects differ as greatly as do the advantages—the railroad one hundred millions, the canal two huudred millions of dollars. The railroad route has been surveyed, concessions from Mexico having’ been obtained. Government aid is npt asked, but of course a rival thoroughfare would greatly damage, nf mot destroy its prospects, and the project is prominently put forward now at great length, with much particularity of text, and all the details illustrated profusely, with a view evidently of defeating the Nicarauguan canal treaty. Of course no company could be formed for sucha gigantic scheme when an almost certainty existed that a rival enterprise would rob it of its income. - : : It is circulated that -the ‘vaiiroad would yield grosy earnings to -the amount of $20,000,000- annually, and that fifty per cent. would pay its running expenses, leaving ten per cent. net earnings on the investment.

The details of the road and its operation, with the manner of loading the ship —that is, putting ‘the ship on wheels—are novel and entertaining. Space forbids the attempt here, beyond giying the reader a general idea. On an unusually solid roadbed are placed ‘three tracks, and on these an immense truck, so built as to carry a large ship without strain or dama.g% of any kind. The vessel rests upon cushioned standards. At the edge of the water there is a lock in which a pontoon is fixed, and which, when floating shows on its deck an elongation of the three tracks of the road proper. The truck is, run upon this pontoon, the air of the air chamberg with which it is provided is then exhausted, being driyen out by the admission of water, and the pontoon bearing the truck sinks. The ship.s brought forward over it, placed in proper position, when the water from the chambers is removed, air admitted, and the whole rises to the surface, the ship standing high above the level of the road. By a proper dgvice the standards on which the sﬁip rests are regulated by hydraulic pressure, each to bear its proper load, so that no undue strain falls upon any part. When all is ready powerful locomotives, n(i)on each track couple to the truck, and the great leviathan of the deep— . :

PT T i S And with wave and whirlwind wregtile— With the smell of salt upon: her, and the blue waters dripping from her rounded sides, walks, not upon, but awsly froin the billows, “like a thing oflife’s =« 0 T

Thirty bours suffice to put her across-the isthmus and ixte her native jelement again. : There are no curves in the track—the manner of building the truck making this impracticable. Where the “direstion of the track changes, turn tables are placed, and huge affairs these are, for the truck is fourhundred feet in length, and the engines of fourteen pairs of drivers. When the whole “procession” gets on, a stationary engine turns the table to the new Xirection, and all move off again. iA; these turn tables switches are made, and npon these the truck may be ron, wherethe yegse] may stand,. shonld reﬁairs be necessary, thus snbserving the purpose of a dry .dOﬁk. | * The engineering skill of the projector of this grand seheme 8 _beyond %;mstwn. and while the work is huge in proportwon—almost sgbhgae in its greatness—he has no doubt of its practicability. If the canal treaty is not m:{ared into by the government, the railyoad scheme is not an improbable gvsnt_. The needs 6f pommerce, the demands of trade for cheap ang speedy tramsif hetween remote points —the speculative manis a{q&;. people and 'the restless activity of the engineer, .ﬂmgtigs and will serye to gomell & ﬂﬂm sisth ,31 Wmt g&% Aloroughtare of Wﬂ vod yearling eolts. L ARG R EORS, S MRS R R T R T S

OUR NEIGHBORS.

_Horse thieves have been doing congiderable work in Allen county lately.

Austin Bros, boot and shoe dealersat Auburn have failed. There liabilties are large. : L . The clothms house of Sam, Pete & Max at Fort Wayne was closed by the sheriff last Saturday. ‘

~ Fort Wayne now has another daily paper Itiscalled the Advocate and comes out 1n the evening,'s ’

A few daés ago a little child of E C. Reyber, of Garrett, swallowed four arsenic pills. Prompt medical aid saved the child’slife, . ; ;

! In DeKalb county the rate of taxation is 6524 cents for county purposes ‘The total tax levied ranges from 1.41 to 2.31 upon each $lOO valuation. - Buzzard, the horse thief who was cap‘tured at Chivago Junction, Ohio, was ‘tried in the DeKalb Circuit Court last week and sent to the penitentiary for lonq year: . SRR -

At Fort Wayne one day last week an old man named John Kellsy attempted suicide by cutting his throat. The gash was sewed up and he will probably recover. A fellow named Dunham recently discharged at Garrett, commited suicide last week by taking morphine. He left a wife and several small children in destitute circumstances.

In Whitley county the rate of taxation for ‘this yearis 4015 cents upon $lOO for county purposes, and the total taxes for the several townships ranges from 1.16 to 1.51.0 n each $lOO. At the last meeting ‘of the Elkhart county commissioners court, . bills amounting to $10,230,12 were allowed. Of this amount, $3,124.48 has "been expended by the different townships for the benefit of the poor during the present winter.

7. A rabbit’ was killed over in Kosciusko county the other day. ~While preparing the animal for cooking it was noticed that there was a peculiar movement in the fiesh and mieroscopical examination disclosed the fact that it was alive with trichinea.

The LaGrange®Standard says that there have been only 88 marriage licenses issued by the clerk during the late year, in that county. During the same time, however, only seven divorces were granted. The clerk. collected, during the year, fines amounting to $302. The Columbia City Post says that ca far as we have been able to ascertain there were just 86 hickory poles raised in‘this county during the campaign. Just the size of the increase of our Democratic majority. and we hope the boys will more than double it the next time.

A young fellow named John Coffries, living at Butler. was killed. between thiat place and Waterloo lately while stealing a ride on a freight train. He lost his balance and fell between the cars, about fifteen cars passed over his body and it was mangled nearly beyond recognition.. s In. Steuben County the taxes are pretty high. For county purposes 7915 centsupon each $lOO is collected while the townshipassesments are made upoyp the basis of from 1.95 to 2.76 upon each $lOO. The tax payers.of Angola have to pay $3.75 upon every $lOO and $3.50 upon each poll. ‘

"~ Some months since while John IR. Mather and Geo. M, Calburn werée driving along the streets of Elkbart, there vehicles collided and in the stashup the latter gentleman was badly injured. Last- week he stied Mather for #%5,000 damnages but the jury brought in a verdict' for th: defendant finding that the plaintiff was not blameless, G The citizens of De Kalb county are becoming alive to the worth of drainage. The report of the surveyor of that county shows the following figur‘es: Number of miles of ditch laid out, out in the year 1884, 962; estimated cost of same, $60,000; number of miles accepted during the year 1884, 82.6; estimated cost of same, $33516; total number of miles considered, 178.8; total cost of same, $63.546; mileage for the year approximated, 9,400.

A frieght train going east Saturday while ‘passing through Columbia City, ran over Christian Krumm. He was walking on one of the tracks and stepped over on to the track on which the train was moving, expecting to avoid it. He was horribly crushed and only lived a short time. He was sixty-seven years of age and was an inmate of the Whitley Co. Poor House, and was out on a short vacation and was on his way home. He was a widower. He leaves several grown-up children. ;

- The Fort Wayne National Bank goes out of existence January 24, on account of expiration of charter, after an existence of twenty years. It will be succeeded by a new organization, to be called “Old National Bank,” as its predecessors date from the days of the old State Bank of Indiana, it being a branch of that bank, Secretal("y MeCulloch at one time being president of it. The Old National Bank will commence, business on January 24, and its gﬂi_clt\ars will be the same as the expiring ank. s -

'On Thursday morning of |last week a destructive fire broke out at Goshen, The warehouses of E. W.. Walker's manufacturing establishment were discovered on fire. The buildings were full of finished work, nearly all of ‘which was destroyed. The ])oss' will not fall much below $12,000. The fire was no doubt the work of an incendiary. Some of the largest manufactur-| ing establishments in the city are 10-| cated in that vicinity, and had the fire gota good start many thousands of dollars would have been swallowed up. Billy Boyle, the Allen county murderer, was last week denied a new frial by the court and sentenced to state prison for life in conformity with the verdict of the jury in his late trial, He will be the ninth “life man” from Allen county in the Northern Indiana prison. ’the others are Buell Webster who murdered the Boitet family, Louis “Hibbler who killed his wife, Wall, the negro, who killed Cronkhite; Perry Traty and Waldo Dunham who killed O'Brien, Bill Crance who killed Jonah Carson, Bill Baker who killed William Howells, and John Snurr who killed John Meyer, ... - :

~ Thousands Say So. : Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kansas, writes: “I never hesitate to recom - mend your Electric Bitters ‘o'my customers; they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are the purest and best medicine known and will positively cure Liver and Kidney complaints. Purify the blood and regulats the bowels. No family can atfgrd to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. 8. Scott & Son.

A Grand Combination of Newspapers. We will send the BANNER and the Boston Weekly Globe, one year, for only $275. The Boston Weekly Globe is the Great Democratic Newspaper of New Eogland. 8 pages, 56 columus; It has the best Farming Department, the best Ladies’ Department, the best Short Stories, the best General Miscellany, and 81l the newg. ; Address, Tpe BAwN®RE, | : Ligonier, Ind.

- Farm For Sale, o Fario ponsisting ot eighty acres, gbout 40 acreg under {;pltwaﬂop, ahout 35 acres, tigiher, very little wet §roun ,g 2 pll bhe cuttivated, = Good ?w.e ling, ew?ale. w{ orchard; and well of water, Will sell a a bargain + Address or call en . P, G. AusrlN, ggcla, W hitley Co., Ind, Dec. 18, 1884.-88.wg. - : e e Al i g 4 18t oF Letiers emainipg In the Post Office at Ligonier ﬁﬂnzgggm week ' o’. g v B, ko Parm-%grﬁoa.}m ve letters will please sa; M bbb e Linostor, Tad - FLOooparenp, Py M. | ; W;’v, j&‘i&é&sﬁéx

OUR SCHOOL LEPORT, What the Pross Has to Say About It. Weo ackuowlege the receiyt of a nicely printed and foely executed copy of the Septenriat Report of the Ligoaler Public Sehools, bearing the imprint of Stoll, . McDonald & Co. —Waierloo Press.

Wee are indebted to soms one for a copy of the Septemnial report of the Ligonier Puablic Schools, 1877-84, The work was done at the” Banner. cffice, ard is.a model of mechanical execution.—Goshen Times. vy

- We are in receipt of the Septennial Report of the Ligonier Public Schools, a bandsomely printed pamphlet of 00 pages, from the prese of Stoll, McDonale & Co, of the Ligonier BANNER. —Mishawaka Eaterprise. = -

Stoll, McDonald & Co., of the Lige’ nier BANNER, have issued the Septennial report of the condition of the public schools there and the work displays niu,cg mechanical and artistic skill.—Michigan City Disya'ch,

Stell, McDonald & Co., of the Ligo - nier BANNER bave our thanks fora copy of the School Roport. It is & geat job, and shows that Prof. Luke has taker great paiuns in building up the schools of Ligonier.-—(Goshen Democrat. .

A copy of the annual report of the Ligonier schools hag been received at this cffice. The ty’igraphical work on the pamphlet is first class in every particular, and bears the impriat of Stoll, Mc¢Donald & Co.—Huntington Herald.

The Ligonter BANNER cflice’ favors us with a copy of the Septennial“ Report of the Ligonier Pubiic Schools, a

90 page quarto, printed at the;BANNER office. It is u very creditable piece of work, botbh for Prof. Luke and the prinfers.—Lagrange Standard. ;

We are in rece’pt of the septennial I€port of the Lig: nier public schoo's, a handscms ninety- eight page pamphiet lately gotten cut by the Banner. It is a neat pices of work and reflects much credit on tte office from which it was issued.—Huntiugton Damocrat,

- We are in receipt of the “Septeaniel report of the Ligonier publie tchcos’ with the cempliments of Stol', McDorald & Co., of the. Ligonier Banuer, printers. It is a ninety page pamphllet and an excellent j b both as regards the typography and press work —North Manchester Journal.:

We acknowlege an exceedingly neat token of rememberance from the Ligouier BANNER cflice in the shape ofa Septennial Report of the Ligonier Schuols. It is a perfect beauty in typographical peatness and iasdicates that Prof. Luke is an educator worthy the moss hearty endorsment.—Lagrange Democrat. 4

- The Journal-acknowledges a reeeipt of a copy of the Septennial report of the Lidonier Public Schools. It is a book cortaining about one hundred pages neatly printed and bound. The work was done at the Ligonier BANNER ¢ffice and reflects credit upoa its -publishers as itls gotten up in the highest siyle of the printersart.—Fort Wayne Journal!

We acknowledge the receipt -of a copy of the Septennial Report of the Ligonier Pablic Schools. It was printed at the office of Stoll, McDonald & Co. publishers of the Ligonier BANNER, and exeeuted in the highest degree of the printer's arf. = From the report we conclude that Ligonier has every reason to be preud of her publie schools.—South Whitley Maghnet,

Through the politeness of the publishers, Stoll, McDonald & Co, we have been furnshed with a copy of the Septennial Report of the Ligonier Schools. The book is .a neatly gotten up work of over ninety pages. The information.furnished in the book is valuable and will undoubtedly beread by the -patrons of the schools .with much satisfaction, —Kendallville News.

We are in receipt'of the Septennial Report of the Ligonier Pablic Szhools 1877 84. The work is doneia a very artistic manner by Stoll, M Donald & Ce. The atalogue is tha work of D. D. Luke, S aperintendent of the Ligonier public schools. Tha total enumeration of 1884 gives the towna school pepulation of 819. . Two scheol buildings have beea erectel at a cost of $20,00). —Eikhart Independent.

The Educational Weekly, published at Indianapolis and edited by J. M. Alectt, superintendent of the Green Castle Schools, has this to say: D. D, Luke sends u 3 his Annual Beport of the Public Bchools of. Ligonier, a pamphlet of 90 pages done up in exqnisite taste, Luke’s-Analysis of the Course of study is worthy a wide reading and by his permission we shall publish cepious extracts from it for the benefit of the readers of the Weekly. Ligonier isto be congratulated in being able to secure the continued services of D. D. Luke.

We have received the Septennial ‘ Report of the Ligonier Public Schools, which not orly shows a ereditable state of affairs, so far as the educational interests of the place are concerned, but has given our old friends, Stoll & Me=Donald, the propriotors of the BANNER at that place, a chance to' display their typographical skill, witich théy have improved to the tullest extent of the “art preseryative,” The pamphlet reflects great credit on their skill, and goes to prove what we have often said, that many of the country: printing hous_éa can and do excel those ¢f

the larger cities.—Warsaw 7173(711'@1111."

~ We are under obligations,, to the Ligonier BANNER for a copy of the fine’eatalogue recently issued by these: enterpriging pripters, for the public, schools of thaf town, Jt is a fne spec-: imen of the printer's art and does the

office great credit for the neat and’ tagty manter of which it giyes proufs, in ali ity detaily. We wopder why the authorities there did not give the job to Burford, of Indlanapolls. He would have butfchered it up for twice ibe mopey #ag wopld haye been . glad of the change. Qr, haye they found opt| that printing can be done at home much better and just, a 8 cheap.— AuR bt o T —@Gall at Jiorr’s furgiture rooms and Wmmm”, e

. NEWS DIGEST. ' Colonel J. M*Frye, father of the -senator {tom Mainesdied Bhursday-ad Lewiston. at thegeot 82 | o A prohibitery lig@or orGimince Has lﬁone mto effeci a ot Speihgs, Ar-. ‘Kansas, with a limifo! two yefirs, . Samuel Wade, & bank pgesident at Alton, Illinois, who has several times been mayor of the city, died Friday. J. G. Serugham, teller in a national bank at Lexington, Kentucky, :s a defaulter for $OO,OOO. and has fied to CanO Uol S Wl A Augusta, Georgia, demolished a brick buﬂgding' and severely wounded three m 2 - e ,ik ( (“. '7“!’ ¢ PkAkG X AT G golved to strike 1t a reduction be made in wadtsy . .R . 2 At Tirm g ngeadabania, S &]} I I idall ins ' miné yhie as-am average daily ontput of twentyfive:hundre ~~n AO3 B g? §oi Dr. J-IF B ivdieds F riday i i dialiapelis, and, in ag M‘z \is reqtest, his bodv wa . direetly te thedisseeting-table. -6 L 2 1 ]Agn irew Eul:’ﬁfe he E founder of the: zoelogical garden. bf Cincinnati, died- “‘ yheart *’M €,54 ‘day.lea'vi inga :, NS A Y - TheGrand Army of ﬁﬂ)e _Republic | grave ot it Carson. . Laos cot : r-’l.; 4?* BeLEY B L 7 B 1 Dr. John-Maxa g ‘who: was-Jodged in jail -‘tsg‘:m%ﬁ |, Ohiowfor éo‘is%m ing his three g,(,‘nifggﬁplgghters, anged himself in his celi. . The liquor triflic has been resumed &t Des Mioines by o leading -hotel - and theordinary number of saloems, while a byencry is in full lflzast. T .

A, venep ble citgn: of.»Trenton; New Jersey, named Isaac Allen, felj in thie snow frpm a stroke of apoplexy, and was frozen to death.

+The.amputation of a toe developed bl_ood-poisoniuﬁ. which caused the death of Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, of Brooklyn, in his 60th year..

The funeral of Russell Hancock, the only son of Gen. W. 8. Hancoek, took place Friday at Bt. Louis, the remains being placed in.the family vault.

The Northern Pacific road has :completed its Wisconsini @livision between Ashland and Superiot,“amd will put on reg %_éml dy s monthe, . - Noeﬁ s : a § York 45y of age andheld j erty valued welllup in the millions, has married her stepsou; 21'§ears old. . James Greenwood,” of Chippewa, Ontario, while attempting torow across Niagara river, broke an oar in midstream and was carried over the falls. Fire sweq}; away fourteen buildings at Pierre, Dakota, valued at £40.000, and seven stores and a hotel at Hopl(f&l)lsville, Kentucky, the loss being $75,-

Abner Coburn.ex-governorof Maine, died Suixday %vmﬁrﬁz a&S@& whe gan aged 82 years. His iilness was c u;u“w fd at.the session .of the eleetoral eol= Differences pf opinion as to the-wis-dom of pu«ying ¢ommissions bids fair 1o defer indefinitely therestoration of east-Lound passenger rates from Chieago, i O ;

Tlhere is every probability that the passenger rates eastward from Chicago are alout to take a 'dro?. as the differentials to the weaker lines have expired. Yoaek : At Jackson, Michigan, a hack containing Jud Crouch, the murderer. was demolished and the horses killed by a locomotive, but the passenger escaped uninjured. a

Iron manufacturers in the Mahonin Valley have agreed upon a reduction o{i 10 per.cent in the wages of all emp.oyes except members of the Amalgamated Association. ,

The coal walls of Bristol tunnel, one Lthousand teet long, near New Lexington, Ohio, were set on fire by incendiaries, and its speedy destruction seems quite certain.

Rev. Mr. Newman, of Ripon, Wisconsin, will probably be called to the Vulpit of the Congregational ¢hurch:in Vashington, a comittee having made the selection. . %

S:muel McMaster, superintendent of the Homestakes gold mines at Deadwood, and prominent in the political circles of Dakota,died in San Francisco, leaving §250,000. ! : _ At Dallas, Texas. on Sunday evening, a dauchter of Belle Boyd, the famous confederate spy, was {married to Ray Chartaris, who claims to be a Britisli nobleman.

John S. Wise, a_republican member of congress from Virginia, will probably be calied to the law professorship of the state university. He is a son of Henry A. Wise. 2

- The money paekage lost by the Adams Express company at’ Indianapolis was in some mysterious manner replaged in the safe, probably by the frightened thief. - o S A package of $3,800 inicurrency, cons,i,tmgr}’by ﬁ'bank;i’goyriaianapoligfo:wé treasurer of theUnited States, was abstracted between the express office and the railway station. A A historical sermon was preached in Buffalo: Sunday evening by -Bishop Coxe, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of hig election. He is vigoroys at 67 years of age. -

_The pope has made known his intentionto confer a mark of distinction ‘u€>on Miss Caldwell, of Virginia. who ten-dered-§800,060 to found a Catholie university in New York, ; | _Dr. Shillock, of Chaska, Minnesota,. }11:13 lﬁeggl m‘renséedfflcg gr?&e—robbing. | His brother and a fello w-student: were forced by the sheriff to aﬁeﬁﬁma corpse on the road. Ty o alg . Louis Fedder, night watchman ‘at & spoke factory in Bloomington, Indiana, was murdered for money early Sunday m‘orninf;, his skull having,K been, crushed with a spoke. ;

Dr. Tauszky, of New York,an exert in cases of insanity, attempted to Eili his wilfﬂeg agd l\sigxseaf.»eaﬂ 013}2@ day morning, bub sucoeeded only in inflicting sevet%‘:gunﬁﬁ; TN 01 i Coburn & Ewing, 6 "Kiﬂgas sas City, hHave paid SBUG,9§;’J for the mﬂﬁ ranch ;. the Pan-handle of Texas which comprises 100,000 acres of land and 25,000 head of cattle. e | U. 8. Grant, Jr., testified in . a New. York court that the day sueceeding the %.Ollap_se of the; family banking-house erdinand Ward made to him 3’ full confession of his rascality. ot

“Captain David Nye, ‘& railiyay sups erinter;dent, drogpe&” dead” ab San Francisco, from héart disease, Judg Asa Norton, an old residentof (oshen, Indiana, also died suddenly, LOae One of the Buzzard gang of outlaw 3 was arrested at Columbia, Peénnsylvania, while attempting to steal a ride on a train. In a satchel he carried twenty-eight stolen watches, - -~ - ' Four young men of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, procured half ‘a galton of alcohol at a.drug store and drank it all. Two of them died the mnext day; the others are suffering greatly. =~ Cplonel Hateh is-organizing ap exgigir‘i.rﬁ; gﬁe‘ﬁ%@nﬁ%{gf‘g& posbd bE & ~Lxglopsfé)f c%valr%' udbt BRa g ,: to - yemoye. ano Sant %(}gr‘s%fbm Indian Territory,™ g : “AUSt. Louisnevg'sgnaper; fera” can” vass of the factories of 'that city, . estimates ; the ?umber of nnemplgﬁedv persons ‘at fiftéen ‘thousand. skilled workmen and nine. thous:;,gd‘gjay%]gbgr% Ol it wn s wnaigr o f s B . The police in Philadelphia - learnedthat Mas. A,meha;(}ném] has fol years: iR il Vet e%é Among her pupils Wag ber 10-year-old. soui.‘ & 'n-_. £ % i Eiaand wvg Beven locomotive engineers em l‘oy-'+ ed by the mxfmymmﬁ fdih'b‘sﬂfgompany ha;;e %discharged for a cop iracy with.the § TK) ;,zﬂe' Wu,my SR TRO 59,0004 urighcbes Y. A colony of three thousand Finns is .aboutgo.}ge«f? Bhidhed fg;%% k county, Mich }? A;aprré & e%xc{ﬁg +gpard haye- J bk iada’ﬁ feson the. way To Mfe?» * s P i o RN SRy T 3% « Arpolice ﬁenmtb*'oc einnati; gmd Mil.ﬂlet; ‘has been Qex;hﬂhw‘;ﬁ? ne year in jail isonin 3 Kdglj!! ettt L e ree s n oid i 4 defrayd ‘them' gf' thelr votes, F el AP £ITN ) o U T Bl 07, e DOTE, D Y h,".z,s'\ Jing e rachel of W. Ki Ackerman; containimgs nnifal passes over 4. h '-;.'..f'w.;ﬂ?“ "w pdeavoring to bage them teel plwed. s b} £ w 0 B b v . Fhie nppearanca of an yfections dis: m*’iwt%g iy e vetimiont 1 detioNter Bl st} | wﬂ@*mg*w 1 . LAWAra ooaspeea, wno Kuied sias’

ton, Illinois, five years ‘_a%o;,, hm iflardoned’ from Joliet by sGovm‘ tamiho,n, who was one of his courisel aty ). e g P 'i hz do “,ea o 1 of e Win te g illay al-88r-g8 i ngl ume jowille 36 degrees 0, wililedSt s water, "Minnesoaiged a temperaturetior: 504 de: grees below. f@sﬁ At a recent ball in the “isolated IHlinois county of Calhoun; a young blood was so nearly crazed by jealousy as to fire both barrel; of his—sho.tgulr]l mtotthe dencers. wounding seven of them, two SV TSR RE et e IR _Captain ITowgate, the defaulting sig-nal-service officer,’ was on Saturday ﬁmordsbprg, New Mexico, en a mining-camp in the Burro i man who served seven A " e AR L S John Ga a&ll L. . ray-haired citizen of N i _£ompelled to 18k admi use, besause of the delay of savings bank ofdecers over the ng‘hi@ b%ok{ represenﬂ $207600. YL Wi @ W serv&lﬁfo&n' érm«s in the MissoliTi legislature, was recentgb‘mﬁwq. to death in his house in zdrK county.” He had ‘ence made his escape, but ran back into the house to save 4 valued relie. -

Near Blakesburg, Towa, on Monday evening, a party of ' citizens hanged Pleasant Anderson for the murder of Christian = MeAllister. é[e was last vear acquitted of the crifne by a jury tn Mahuska county. ! Jolin :Me€ulough, the unfortunate actor, came very near being crushed to jeathrin a railway station in Philadelphia, New Year’s nigh& A colored coachman saved his life by lifting him upon a car platform. g __H. H. Chalmers, associate judge of the supreme court of Mississippi, died of apoplexy on Saturday night. John How, who was three times mayor of St. Louis in its early days, passed away at Saun Fraucisco. : Suit . against the Alton road for $25,000 damages has been commenced by Fred Souther. of Bloomington, Illinois, who has just attained his majori- ‘ ty. Fifteen years ago his legs were cut off by an Alton engine. | St. George Best, of Cincinnati, after being sentenced to three years in the Fenitentiary for disseminating obscene iterature, swallowed poison in the court room, and was only saved-by the beroie efforts of physicians.

The court-house at Moorfield, West Virginia, was on Saturday the sc:ne of a bloody fight on” the Cgues’cion of who had been legally elected county clerk. A Strong guard is on duty, and all saloons have been closed. | ; In the United States district court at Cinecinnati, five men were sent to jail for {rom one to six months for illegal voting, and two others were given a halt year eaeh for hindering citizens. from depasiting their ballots. The Union Pacific oflicials having deeided to lay some additional sidetracks on the lowa side of thel Missouri river, a dispatch waspronoptly sent out from Couneil-Biufls that Omaha was to be abandoned by the road. .= Jolin M. Palmer states that-he is not a candidate for senator from Illinois, as lie has been honored with the presideney of the Southdown Sheenassociation and an eleetion as delegate to the hoz-convention at Washington. - ! The corporators off the Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ institute at -Boston are abélt 10 deelare it imsolvent: Tt owns a $400,000 building on Hunts ington avenue, covering eight acres, and it has a floating debt of $75,000,

‘Mrs, Mary E. Cody was arrested in Detroitfor forging the name of her mother to a note for $259 and drawin% the currency from the First Nationa bank. Sheis a step-daughter of Sol ‘White, of the Canadian parliament.

Notwithstanding the great diminution in the water-?ower of Minneapolis, the mills for the Fast week manufactured 95,600 barrels of flour. Patent gades have within ten days risen 25 o 48‘cents, and other kinds 15. to 20 cents. | s

N earliall the 'regublicnn candidates for speaker of the New York assembly are . actively canvassing at Albany. Theodore Roosevelt is endeavoring fo form a combination in the interest of S}X.ﬂliam M. Evarts for the senatorhip. ] T

The Illinois railway commission held a meeting at Springfield Monday, to hear arguments by officers of various roads against a reduction in fryight rates, and to listen to petitions from citizens against the continuance of discrimination. ;

Detectives at Grafton, West Virginia, - ascertained that the recent ‘wrecking of a Eassenger train, was the work of Mrs. M. Blake. who sought revenge for the arrest of her husband on charge of robbing cars. She confessed her erime. :

© William -8. Demﬁ', assistant postmaster at Remus, Michigan, was arrested on New Year’s day for gpening registered letters. He promptly Eleaded guilty, when arraigned at L rand Rapids, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. . & George W. Childs of Philadelphia, states that $lOO,OOO could easily be raised to save .General Grant’s property, but it would again be seized by creditors of Grant & Ward. Measures are certain to be taken to rescue the general’s personal trophies, Miyrs. Emma 11. Wallace, hailing from Chicago, lias brought suit in New York to recover one-thirtieth of the real estate held by Trinity churech. She: offers to . settle’ for $4.000,000 cash. Her father, Cornelius D. Thorpe, spent $60,000 in similar litigation.

. The New. Year reception held by President Arthur is saitf to have been the most notable: of his series as'to style: and numbers. Goyernotr Cleveland stood at his desk for two hours and shook hands with a vast multitude ofe;&.eopie presented by his ‘military staff,. Dt hi s seiia

The Northwestern Traveling Men’s association, at a meeting held in Chicago, elected J. C. Miller president and T 8 m:;e&e(ary “There are over 3400 - bers, ‘and ‘during the gast ﬁyear sl4§,o§)\o . was disbursed in enefits, leaving about $20,000 in the gash-box. ] ' ~Joseph F. Tucker, who made a ‘ational reputation durin% his connection with the Illinois Central road, has been offered the vicespresidency of the Erie compuny. Daniel :Ms -qzoynton, genyalacent in Chicagg of the Wisconsin E}entml road, died of hemorrhage of the brain, -+ 7RG ' .

The low prices pyevailing for farm ‘products have brought about a marked revival of mim’é)g in the (alena lead region, Ilundyeds of tfarmers I;lxir'e prospecti r taking.out ore..in 1= ngi(f}or L\’%%gz)ns}kggld S’%\Al’icgStrazi]--lioacis of.dry bore are. daily shipped ifrom

| Bishop Gilmour; of, Cleveland, some | months ago ‘elosed ' St. Prokop’s Bohfmi&:{) church for rebelllious _ncis,ftgnd plared: g@m ; dn charge.. "Kifteen w«?ijen*,eﬁgjxiﬁ-b the c%n‘gregation Sunday, attacked-tliree policemen with stoni€s and elubs, régaining possession of-the parspnage. - s T e Canta i o £l avho gdied in Dens ol B Sl e 2o kne he A eair public through his confinetgent iy a Massachnsetfs in-sane-asylum at the request of his” wife andson. In® his will the old man ignored his family and left $5,000 for a freé library in Malden. | Di-—~ls ~Moody- -has - opened- revival meetings at R g_;i\ﬁn&n’d, Virgtiniai. being rewarded with largecengregations: _Heé i ti he ,ﬁ%‘i-%migggq-sgr expre gt thivionts” st JieB ana Jatkson other than of higl “tespect. The chasgesorigated with a -citizen of Richmond pamed R.; D, Core, . . W, H, Bmyth, an armdy paymasgter, Who.‘nqcentlyr‘dmg};mure from Bavannah.with- 85,600 of ‘government. funds, made'his appearanée 'in Washington Friday and paid up the deﬂci‘encé‘ explining that he was‘on a spree Clristmas and became lost fo all. consciousﬁ;@nulhe found hxmseltcpﬂ) New '. FeARR E ¥ ~ & : % 3 _ Evelyn Wintworth, known as ‘‘the ‘ißussfﬁx{; countess,” asked a police juse ‘tiqa_;leyliumala{ter a. warrant for the .agr:ts of %ﬁ.%%gdwgnt:&; & .‘mi. nent member of ‘the. board : clin g&é that they were ma ez Fia%ai’ag; puy ber, an ’}s)l:4 h : s abopt o 0. tfrﬁe’ -apﬂe en- | ter cajj. , 2 ' ’“ ’4"' e ‘“" " » ‘:»q g of General Grant, g nd,foa.:\, him com- | DIFFSE pioken doyn ’&ﬁ*&ﬁ o T | prebased ta ot st -ios wos o | slioaday, Sosetogn placed. by . soto | b ks e e sttt sl b SOl okl o 6

track near Qrafton, West Virginia. Eh®'engine of an approaching passenger train was made to turn a somersaul g the engineer-and fireman, The mail agent and three. passengers werg severely hurt: P e A review of the iron trade, just completed by the secretary of the Americantlron & Steel -association, shows. that the demand for leading articles of iren and steel during the year 1884 was less than in 1883. Prices have fallen enormously, with but little tendency to tecovery. Better days for ‘the.iron manufactnrer are not expeeted until the condition of the farmers improves. Times are hard in Kansas. .Corn is selling as low as 10 cents a bushel, and farmers are using it for fuel. . Trade is dull and the banks have shut their ‘ngoqgtywup in their vaults. Millers re"fuse fo reduce the priee” of flour and ‘the.railroads help to keep the : country poor by charging the same ‘price for tal_{ingy grain to market as when wheat was worth $1.25 a busliel and corn was bringing 40 to 60 cents.: A petition -has been filed: in, the United States Court at St. Louis asking that the lease of the Wabash to the [ron Mountain road, dated 'April 9, 1883; the mortgage for $10,000,000 made to the Mercantile Trust company of New Yok, and the guaranty of the Rayment of said mortgage by the Iron Mountain® road be annnlled on the ground of illegality; the "petition alleging that the board of directors which instituted the proceedings was not legally elected, . . . ; <

E ~ WASHINGTON. ’ i A howl is. being raised by ‘the . Government of Haﬁti,' concerning “the’ occupation! by an American company of a guano island whieh Hayti clains as its.own property. = Congressman Bland, Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, says he will oppose the Buckner bill sto‘)ping'the cbinage of silver. dollars and will fayor a measure providing for free and unlimited coinfage of luoth silver-and gold. Col. Steyenson, of the Bureau of Ethnology, whorecently spent several meonths in. the West, brought back the: largest and: most diverse collection of -objeets illustrating the home life, industries, and: relighous customs of the Pueblo Indians ever before made. They will be sent to the New Orleans Exposition. L i % CGounsel for the Government in. the suits of the Union Pacific Road against the United States as to the moneys withheld for tllxe trausportation -of supplies expresses the opinion that the decisionof the Court of Claims will be against the railroad. In any event. anappeal will be taken. The amount involved is $3,000,000, - !

. Attorney-Genéral Brewster has refused to accede to the demand of - United States Supervisor Rowe, of New -Jeérsey, forsix and a haif and seven dalys’ }nf for the services of United States Marshals and Supervisors during the redent - election ‘in that State. Mr. Brewster declines to pay for more than three days. -The matter will probably bs taken to the Court of Claims. Taxes will fall due this year on 14,594,406 gallons of whisky. It is denied that ‘the. opinion of the Attorney-General, if carried into_effect, wiil necessarily . extend the bonded Yeriod,--butthav\v.lusky-men say that they will be satisfied if the = intent._of the opinion is earried out: - Secretary McCulloch is said to be iti favor - of extendsng relief to the whisky interests.” Gen. Raum, exsCommissioner of Internal Revenue, says that the plan proposed is an easy way out. of‘the diffieulty. The United:States, lre de-~ clares, will not lose a dollar of revenue,

' It is not -expected that the Conference . Committee to which the bill * forfeiting the Atlantic & Pacific land-grant was referred will come toan agreement. Representative Cobb says that tlie Senate-will ‘not do anything with the land-grant forfeifure bills because there are “too many’ friends of the railroads in ‘that body. . The Senate will probably insist upon an amendment - referring the bills in every case to the courts, which means that thiere will be no_ legisla~ tion on thé subject.. ST i

Neither France nor Germany shows any: disposition to maintain friendly commercial relations with the United. Sta‘es. France is trying to increase the tariff- on American .cereals, and Germany ;is now endeavoring to strike a blow at our petroleum export in the interest of the Russian oil-wells. The Government railways runhing from Germany to Russia haye given 'S'E)ecmlf advans tages for the transportation of Russian - pes troleum, and " now it is prolposed by Ger~ many te lay a tax upon barrels .which. con~ tain the American produect. ek ; In: auditing -the -accounts of = soldiers’. homes, and in order to ereéditthem with the fines and forfeitires arising from desertions from the army, the “Second Auditor of the Freasury has just completed a revision of the records of desertions from ‘the regular army since 1814,"showing that in the seventy years elapsing sinee that date 100,000 desertions have been recorded. The nuinber of desertions from the regular army since the war of 1512 is thus shown to.have been; twice as great as its largest peace establishment and fourtiifies as large as its present strength. : i Sk

No agreement - has been reached.. by the conference committee appoiited to reconcile the difference between the two Houses of Congress concerning the Eléctoral-Count bill,; and it is: not ex[)ecte'd that any satisfactory conclusion will be arrived'at. Representative Eaton, a member of the conference committee, says that he will never consent to the bill whicix was approved by the Senate. It makes thé Senate the arbiter of every disputed \)m’ut, . Mr. Eaton declares, and-if it should become’a law the result of thé recent Presidential election gould be annuiled by the Upper House. | THE COTTON CROPg i Thé December: cotton _report -of the Department of Agriculture indicates a smaller vield than the returns of the econditionsin z)ctober. The . October -average ‘was 64, against 68 in 1883, 88in the great harvest of 1882, and €6 in the disastrous season of 1881, 'T'he returns of thecondition in Octobet and the ({)rodmt in December have been unusually divergent tlis year, The first indieated a larger ¢crop than last year; the latter a product slightly less, or about 98 per cent, The comparative dechne is in states westof Alabama. | The eomparison with last year is as ffolloYs-f “North Carolina 101, South Carolina 107, Georgia 101, Florida 103, Allabama 105, Mississipplx 04, Louisiana 98, Texas /89, Arkansas 99, Tennessee 101, . Applying the percentages to qur figures for the crop ot 1883 @heyhnalcate a prooo(}’nct of 398,000 bales in North Carolina, 502,008:in South Carolina, 560,000 in Georgia, ¢O,OOO in Florida, 663,000 in . Alabama, 847,000 in Mississippi, 450,000 in" Lionisiana. 9974000 in Texas, 513,000. in Arkansas, and 314,000 in Tennessee. - The remaining territory will probably give - about 50,000 bales. This makes an aggregate of 5,580,000 bales. Thesefigures are. provi_sional, and maf be slightly modified by future reiu.as.. -It is gossib‘le that the general tﬁsa{apolntment at he outcome of the middieand top erop has made the December returns unusually conseryative, but it is.cectain that the rate of yield wltia,.be.much./below the average.

’ THE PUBLIC DERT. S The debt statement shows an inerease of the public obligations during December of $641,884," The decrease since June 30, 1884, is 831,501,864, This slight increase following upon a like showing for’ the .month of November, attracts general * attention, Many -explanations are offered. by publie men, who assume that there _lsl S .“’t‘i]lmﬁ serioug ifY the situation, cand tmg it ind ates the general depression now - existing I ghroqglxout the country,. An examization &f' the raceipty and expenditures of the averninent as gompared with the corresponding period last year sl}ow-s that. this view is gx‘-eatg' exaggerated, : 'The decrense in therpublic debt in Decexxfbel‘ & year azo was lass than $2,000,000 and -the expendis tures were $12,000,000, This year the ine crease Is $500,000, but expenditures are $22,000,000, - This ‘increase in expenditures is accounted for mainly (l))&éthe carrying over from November of $8,000,000 -for “pensions which, for the corresponding ‘month last year, only required $2,800,000, . It- should not be inferred from this, however, that there is any increase in pension “‘paynients for the fiscal gea‘n __'Fhus far they arein fact less by $300,000 than fer" the corregs gondlng half of last year, bu‘i-, mﬁ have een distrihutet dﬂ{sneuﬂy throygh the quarters. . The receipts show 3 falling off of $2,000,000 for ghe nionth,-and fhe depiession in business for sgme manthg Ra.st as . had an effect on the revenues, The total revenues for the firat half of“the last fiscal gear were nearly $176,000,000, as ‘agains¢ - $161,000,000 for the corresponding ‘half of the gresent fiscal year, a decrease of $14,000,000, §9,000,000 of which occutred in customs receipts. . Notwlthstalldin% this‘ fall--ing off in receipts tho%(?ublic;de t has ge,en decreased over “$30,000,000, and. ver fﬁ'-. oot bonds eey cunlee) gt ~whichl is mdking yery good progress in | ¥ ‘ m'ﬁ’:‘ '&AUQUM%QN-. A S e o

The inauguration. committee desire that all organizations intending “$o visit Washington 01} the 4th 0§ Maﬁcﬁ shouhieoommun’ icate tg f 19 comniitieg the number of persons iyocluded m the organization, their in« tended stopping-place,and other particulars, s 0 that positions in the lime of the procession may be reserved for them, and other necessary arrangements made. ~The Albaiy Jackson - corps, numberin s?venty men, and a band ?t twe t,lyeﬁ‘rq ng\* clans, haye signlﬁﬁd the _h‘%e‘ on (fq ax':;\d_ the, inauguration] tﬁiq fm 8 applied for ma?e% i flia Jing; " "The cqnamandam Veritos tha the ¢ has tendered an escort from Albauy%p%?ash nglonto the president-elect, who.ls a life member of the organization, but that no reply has yet been - reeeived. ‘l'he -committee on public order emeas,a deterx;nimlﬁon;to h&ve Fennsylviiia ayenye, fyom s the ck&li ol to ithe “Wwhite house,” elaaved of all' yehicles and- Qbstn};:t;ionﬁé the §i 5 that ihg Sw«!asm iy not b n’&‘ﬁt&m iiten’ abgko the fnangural bal will ' f.a,, prominent feature of the occasian, and is expected to surpass anything of the kind ever attempted in shis country, Work is progressing rapidly. on tha siotr. Juiicing, and ghe erand butl-piont” Wil it oa j “3" 5 mple! (A 15 é,:vﬁg esurtiof the Btiilding, wh tﬂm ‘ iwer u};} & }; gol, 18 816 eetg; hree tlrs. o Sormdpra sl fonqunded by T e magnifi¢e nt stract Ire m Oppar tunity for deco “,**ﬁi § e des i be- e S ihittee gun it Betann th et *w%@%P g ootV E DA WO SIS RING - SUESty oßny |

RAT 7OIW R SR RPN it SR B R K S NI R eAR S X e s = i FSR R S ee e s ets will be limitéd | 51% yelve thousand. Quite T 1 al ratii :, ns"_o . the ";‘7—"_' y for: ‘ the bonor of %ﬁ%ﬁmwm the bal} ? ’ Dodswortly’s band, of New York; the Gers' ‘manie orehestra, of Philadelphia, and the Mavine - band, of this em{. are the most Kmnunen; “com ‘mﬁs‘. T'he committee has-practicaliy. dmd 1o havetlires bands, one stationed in tiie center of the hall for dance musie, and the others for promenade MuUsiG A s e CLEVELAND'S REPLY TO TilE LEAGU¥. The following letter, dated from the National Civil Sorvice Reform Leasue, WAS sent to President-clect Cleveland. It is signed by George William Curtlgnlpt-esiﬂeut. & and Wiliiam Potts, secretary, and by John / Jay, Morefield Storey, J. Hall Pleasants, W W. Montgomery, -Everptt P. 'Wheeler, Frederic Cromywell, Morrill ,Wl{mn.,‘ Jr., Carl Schurz, Silas W Burt, A. R.-MacDon-ough, Witjjam .Canéy' Sanger, William W. Aiken, Executive Comumittee. The letter is as follows: = - : : *“We have the horfor to address you on behalf of the National Civil Service Reform League, an association composed of citizens of all parties, whose sole ,‘Fm'pose 15 indieated by its name, and which takes no part whatever in party controversy. The vast increase in the number of persons en-. ‘gaged in the “civil service and the grave mischiefs and dangers arising from general. proscription in the service which for half a ‘century has followed thie change of party control of- the nationalindministration, have produced so profound an impression upon the public mind that the first eﬁeitiv‘e steps toward reform were taken with the co-op-eration of both parties iu the Yassa’ga o the reform act of Jan: 16, 183, The - abuses.which that act seeks to correct, how= - ever, are so Strongly intrenched in the tra- ' | ditions and usa%es of both parties that there is natuvally a - wides‘)read anx_iety lest the party change in the national ’ executive effected by the late election should show them to be insuperable: but, believing, as we do, that the reformed systemn cannot be held to be securely estabhished until it has safely passed the ordeal ~of such party changes, and recalling with satisfaction and confidence your public ex- - - pressions favorable to reform and your official acts as Chief Executive of the State of New York, we confidenily eommend the cause to your patriotic care in the exercise of the great power with which the Amer- . ican %eople have intrusted ron.-" . To this President-elect Cleveland replied - as follows from Albany: “Your communi-' cation addressed to me on behalf of the National Civil Service Reform League, has ~been receiyed. - That practical reform in the civil service is demanded is abundantly established by the fact that the statute re- - ferred to 1n your commuanication to secure such result had been passed in Congress, with the assent: of both political parties, and by the further fact that a sentiment .is gonerally prevalent aimong patriotic people - calling for a fair and honest enforeement of -the law which has been thus enacted.. I regard myself pledged to this because m?' ¢ conception of -the true Demoecratic faith and public duty requires that this and all other statutes shouid,be. in good faith and without evasion, enforced, and because in the many utterances. made prior to my election as President, approved by the party |to which I belong, and which I have no disposition to disclaim, I have, in effect, prom- { 13ed the people that this should be done. I am not unmindful of the fact, to which you refer, that many of our: citize#s fear that ' the recent party change in the national executive may demonstaate that the abuses which have grown upin the civil service arg ineradicable. I know they are deeply rooted and that the spoils system has been supposed to be [intimately related to sue- . cess in the maintenance of party organiza--tion, and 1 ani not sure that.thosé who profess.to be friends of that reform will stand. firmly among its advocates when they find it obstructing their way to patronage and place. But, fully appreciating the trust committed to my charge, no such- consideration shall cause a relax.tion on my part of “an earnest effort to enforce this law. There isa class of government positions which are, not.within the letter of civil service statute, but which are so disconnected with thre policy of -an administration that removal therefrom of present incumbents, in my opinion, should not be made during the ters for whieh they were appointed solely on partisau grounds and for the purpese. of ])utring in their places those who are in pottical accord with the appointing power. But many now holding positions have forfeited all just claim to retention, because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard to their dutg to the people, and because, -instead of being decent public servants. they have proved .themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipu'ators of local party managenient. The lessons of the past should be unlearn= ed, and such officials, as well as their sueccessors, should be taught that efiiciency, fit= ‘ness, and devotion to public duty are condttions of their continuance in publie places, and that the quiet and unobirusive exercise of individual political richts is the .reasonable measure of their partg service. . “If X-were addressing none but party friends I should decm it entirely proper to remind them that though the coming administration is to be Democratic, a due regard for the people’s interest does not per- | mit faithful party work to be always rewarded by appointment to office, and to say to them that wliile Democrats may expect’ all proper consideration, selections for ofs fice not esnbraced within the eivil service } rules will be based upon suflicient inquiry as to fitness,: instituted by. thiose. charged f with that duty, rather than upon persistent importunity or self-solicited recommenda~ | tions on behalf .of candidates for appoint ment. 4 : :

S FORLIGNC S - Italian newspapers bewail the extentof the emigration-fever among the peasantry, and say ‘that Italy is Deing drained of its most productive factors, { ; General Wolseley has received a note with General Gordon’s private seal, dated at Khartoum, December 14, stating that the ‘city was able to hold out, . ‘l'he police of London were hoaxed by a bag containing two })oumls of iron filings, with a fuse attached, which was placed un~ der an arch at the Waterioo depot. - General Camgenuu resigned the French war portfaiior because the prime minister insisted upen sen:ing more reinforcements to Tonquin, General Liewa 1 will probably be his sucecessor.. - g The want of troops. for Tonquin caused the French government to forward to all its consuls notices re«lnles;illg conscripts to join their regiments. 'l'be vice consul at x\gon—treal has discovercd several: persons liable to military duty, but tliey refuse to return to Europe, ; : Earthquakes continue to wreak their venzeance upon the Spanish p2ople, the estimated loss of life sincs Christmas being two thousand. DMost of the citizens of Velez have encamped outside the limits, King Alfonso has sugscribed $6,000 toward the reliet funds’started in. Madrid, Malaga, and Granada. ¢

' GENERAL MARKETS. = : i CHIGAGO. ' * WarAT—Higher: Jan., 7i¥a79%c; Feb,, "B@i9%c: March, 183 80%e. Corn—Higher; Jan., £4% aB43{c; Feb., 34%@36¢: March, 351 86ic. { OATs—Lower; JAn., 25}gubi{c; Feb., es%@Bge. (T : ‘ . Provisione—ess Pork higher: Jan., [email protected]: Feb., £11.5215a11:423¢: M., SIL4TI @155, lard—Sieady: Jai, ss.gg%u‘ = e ey R RILL o rahy - G %g_'gg;{?‘ebfl mß.Q{}«_,@G.@;.j}g.i Mawh,. :36. g Cguqfi.n Market steady, We quote: £loice to fancy [email protected] Good 10 CLOICE STELS. . ... \.sinsns 5.25@ED Medium to fair 5teer5............ 400a4.75 Hocs—Market firm, 'Snlesmng?éd: from §[email protected] for heavy: Si [email protected] for light. _BurrEn—Steady, ~We quote: Choice 'to Fancy Creamery at €B/ 80.% 1; ordinary to good do. ®s@?27c;-good-to fancy Dairy at 18@f0c; commion o g’air‘do. 15@1%¢. :

NEW YORE.

WnrAT—Higher; No. 2 Jan., 8848 863¢c; Feb., 59%5 9044 c; March, 9_l}§@ Rlge. (L;?(J;N- Quiet; Mixed Western Spot, 49 aibe, 1 & g

e MILWAUKER. L NS%’ Wnrar—Higher: Jan,, 183 c; Feb.,lB¢cy Cox:N——Fnjx‘xi'l:%c% "S'i_?fc f(')rf ﬁo. 2, UATE— Firm: No, 2 White, 253 c. Ryi—Dull: ofc for No. 1, Barrey—Higher at 594 for No, 2 X : L CINCINNATL _ Flrour—Fair demand: Family [email protected]. WaeAT—Firm. at Blc. CorN—Strong at , 39c. Oars—Weak at 20¢, lh'E—#?teddy: 56¢. PROVISIONS—Dork steady at $11,50.— o Lard fitm at $7.50. Bulk Meats $4.62%@ @545, Bacon [email protected]%, Sete s BT LR g VaraT—kigher:. No. 2 Red Jan.. 8t | %é}{e; Eebﬁﬁwuy, B¥3¢@B7%c: May, 9035 : }% 'Lonnr%ower.; BR3g@BBc Janwary; %a%ﬁfc Ig‘e Oars—Lower: Jan,, eo@2bige; Fob 2be. Rx‘m"-'-%et; 48c— BARLE}‘--SteaJy at sB@T3e, PROVISIONS =Pork Jowers $i1.75. Dxﬁasut Meats quiet At $5.80. 590, 6.1 b. iacon steady at §6.75, 1.00. Lard—higher; £6.62%. -

: ' ' BALTIMORE. : ‘ WrrAT—Western higher: No. 2 Winter. Red agnot: ande.ia rx?aﬁfé?}s@ 87i{c; ‘Fe!;\., S Conv—Mixed i, dtk@vie Fym-— Vestern White, 8«%33&: Mixed 0., 92@sse. Ryr—Quict at 00404, ) | EOSTON. - Syl Woor—Steady; Ohié and Pennsylvania extras 81@s5c; Michigan fleeces 30@31c:‘ .(z)cmlbl%gl and (&u}}}i{l‘lg‘ 32@3&5{:; ohlqi,ee ey o_delaine; 86l<@dYe; OITIA" 5] : Sl ik ‘ @ i o ¥ - At LIGONIER MARKET REPORT. URAIN AND SEEDS.— W heas, amber 80 ; Rye, soe,:,.,;om.2q;scorﬁn,}§sc§ flax seed, 8125; fimothysved, 92 90; tlaversged, 84 591 el [FRODUGE—Hogs,Iive 84006083 75; Shoulders,per pound,loc; Hams,l2¢; Boes Wax, 250; Butter, 15@ Lard, Soc: Rgse, B d0r.900; Wool b, 0@ B 4 Hay ten mueas o TOSSRONE