Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 January 1885 — Page 2

The Ligonier Bamuer, ¢ 3 3 '- 5 J. B, STOLL, Editor. T e e THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1884. e ———————————rme GeneraL Haxcock has been invited by the inauguration commiftee to act as grand niarshal of Jthe occasion. . THE Northweste.rn- Christian Advocate says: “The old world had no cheap novels and no whisky dens. Here are two distinct perils of our day, two fountaing of poisonous streams, whose importance it would be difficult to exaggerate. Both are universal, in the sense that the dramshop invites any young man and the corrupt book may reach every boy and girl.” ¢

ENcLAND's relations with the continental powers is bécoming very strained, especiailly with Germany and France. Germany's séizure of New Guinea and other islands north of Australia, occupied in part by English settlers, will widen the breach. Reports indicate activity in Englisk navy yards, and thie together with secret Cabinet sessions, indicates ! matters as very grave, Wheat has also advanced on the English markets, . |

A grupiep EFrorT has been made to give currency to the impression ‘that General Grant)is in the depths of poverty, comparatively speaking. This is a mistake. The trust fund of $250,000 raised a few [years ago yields him an annual revenue of $15,000. This fund cannot be touched, so the income is certain. The agitation is over, raising $160,000,t0 pay his obligation to Vanderbilt, who will throw off £60,000 of it, so as to seciire to the General his relics, swords, and mementoes, and his wife's house, which are mortgaged to Vanderbilt. ' e

il e W e WP'ue BANNER regrets to learn from reliable sources at Washington that Chief Justice Waite, who has. been quite ill for more than six weeks, is gradually sinking, and that but slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. He was stricken' with paralysis last summer and about two monthg ago erysipelas attacked his face and head. He is in his sixty:ninth year, is regarded as a pure and upright judge, and his death would be greatly lamented. At the timeé of his appointment by President Grant he resided in Toledo, Ohio, and was born in Connecticut:

" Dr. Dro Lewis ig. widely known as an ardent adyocate of temperance. A short time since he wrote thus to the New York Tl‘libune; “T have recently been out to the Rocky mountains, and onmy way eastal got off the train at geveral of the large- cities in} Kansas and Jowa, and among other- things made inquiry into the practical benefits the public had received from the eénactment of prohibition laws. In places where I had been told an intexicating drink could not be ‘obtained for love or money at any store, I ’s;fl\t men reeling on the street.in an almost helpless state of drunkenness. - In Towa City prohibition is supposed -to be enforced. I saw from sevénty-five to one hundred kegs of beer delivercd on trucks from a brewery. For many reasons I believe in* temperdnce, but am of the opinion that prohibition is simply a wild theory ; that in practice it has not thet the claims of its§supporters; and as an aid to the cause of temperance it is a failure.” ; . [ |

Lor Wricar, the unscrupulous U. 8. ‘Marshal at Cincinnati, hag heen examined - before the congressianal committee appointed to-investigate his conduct, at the last October election, and swore, among other things, that he supplied his deputies with 4d<calibre bull-dog revolvers; that six ‘hundred of these came to him, by. express from New York, and that he “supposed” that they were sent to him by the republitan national committee from that city. Six hundredj ruffians, eachfarmed with a bulldog revolver, is the republican niethod of preventing fraud and presérving the peace at an election for ‘State officers and congressmen in Cincinnati. Wright was the first witness examined, and as there is a large batch to follow him, the notorious Powell Clayton being among /the number,” it is very possible, provided they tell the 'truth, that-the republican modus operandi in-canrying an election in Cincinnati may be fully exposed before the whole country. : = = o .o

DEATH OF SCHUYLER COLFAX,

Early last Tuesday the Postal Telegraph brought the news that ex-Vice President Colfax had died very suddenly, and toward evening the report ‘was verified by the press dispatches. He dropped dead in the Omaha depot at Mankato, Minn,, where he was waiting for the train to Huren, Dak., where he had an engagement to lecture. His death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. ° - b Schuyler Colfax was the seventeenth vice-president of the United States, and was born in New York city, March 23, 1823, In 1836 his family movei to St. Joseph county, this State. In 1841 his stepfather was elected auditor of the county and Colfax was appointed his deputy. Here hestudied law, lj;t_after serving.two - years as senate reporter for the Indianapolis Journal Lie moved to South Bend and started the Weekly Register. b A ;

In 1848 he was sent to Philadelphia as a delegate to the national wléig con: -vention, of which body he was elected secretary. He was defeated for Congress in 1851. In 1854 he was elected represemntative to Congress and was reelected for six following terms. He (was elected speaker of the thirty-eighth Congress and was re-elected speaker in 1865 and 1867. He was elected vicepresident in 1868 with Grant as President. In 1872 he was a ¢andidate for the same office before the republican national convention but was defeated by Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts.

A BUBINESS REVIVAL.,

All indications now point to a revival inllevery line of trade in commercial circles. Since New Years there ‘has been a gradual advance in grain, wheat particularly. ' The prospects of England becoming involved in complications and perhaps war with some of her continental Mhbg‘l has sent wheat up in the Liverpool market, ‘which has reached here. Hogs are also higher. This advance in produce will be encouraging b‘mmm% In manufacturing there is also a revival. " Tron mills in Pitlsburg _uc reswming and _giving employnieiit again to thousands. Factories in New

England are also starting up, and likewise the Virginia tobacco works. The lowest price paid in iron and steel has been 'reached and there will now be a reaction. Wages will probably not go up for some time, but employment will be given to the men who have been out of work for weeks, which will have a good effect on trade. : Reports indicate an increased demand for merchandise and business is generally firmer. Cellections are better and everything indicates: well. Manufacturers also have an increased demand for their goods. These favorable signsiwill bring out the dormant money now stored away into active use as live capital. All indications are for arevival in business. P '

THE REAGAN BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE. S

After a contest as vigorous as it was persistent, covering a period of nine years, that brajny . and jundaunted Texan, Gen. Reagan, managed to get his famous inter-State commerce bill through the. lower House of Congress by a good majority, last Thuisday. A bill of similar import has been pending in the Senate for some time, and 1t has been discussed so fully that there will be little excuse for delay in the consideration of the house bill when it comes before that body. Nevertheless, the hobby that. conld hold a measure in the popular branch so long is nét likely to be without influence in ‘the Senate, and ilt would be unsafe to predict the concurrence in the Reagan bill during the present short session. - The bill which has passed the House -deals with a-subject of vast consequence to the public. It isaptly remarked by ‘a contemporary that it would be almost impogssible to . frame and enact a law coyering interests so great and di-verse-as is contemplatéd in this bill, that was perfect in all its provisions. Even if the aim of each member of the body was to aid rather than retard the work, the attainment of such a result would be doubtful, while with a strong opposition bending its energies to bug-, den the bill with objectionable or useless, amendments, the difficulties are multiplied. These were some of the misfortunes that met the Reagan bill, and that it preserves so many useful features and contains so few objectionable ones is a tribute to ithe ability, fidelity and vigilance of its author and advocate. '

The Reagan bill as it has passed the House, and, will now present itself for considerfq‘tion in the Senate, is simply an anti-diserimination measure. It aims not only to prevent the pernicious and destructive practice of charging less, proportionately, for carriage of freight and passengers for long than for . short distances, but it provides againgt the equally evil custom of charging lower rates to one customer ‘than to another for a precisely similar service. . The trouble is that the measure can only be invoked for the protection of injured customers when the commerce is between people ¢f different States, or the carriage extends from one State into another. A State antidiscriminating bill of similar character would be infinitely . more desirable, for the disputed question of the right of Congress to legislate for“the government of State corporations would not then arise. If the right exists, however, its exercise in such a case is less objectionable than in any other. |

LABOR TROUBLE AT SUUTH BEND

A serious labor trouble has disturbed the peace of Bouth Bend during the early part of this week, caused by a formidable strike on the part of employés of the Oliver plow works.

It will be remembered that immediately after the late November election the Cliver plow works temporarily ceased work upon the plea that a change of administration would prove disastrons to the gencral business of the country. This doleful view seems to have been modified to some extent as the chagrin over the republican defeat passed away, and work on a small scale was resumed. Wages were materially. reduced. Employes whose 'wages werealready very low protested against this reduction and proceeded to the organizatien : of a labor union. Matters passed along quietly for weeks, the men whose wages had been reduced endeavoring to feed and clothe themselves and their families as best they could. o i

Finding themselves unable to subsist on their scanty wages, the Oliver employes organized a strike, the first ‘demonstration being made on Monday afternoon. All the employes of the shops were notified that the wages paid prior to the late election must be restored or work would have to stop. The fisual methods were resorted to for the accomplishment of this purpose. No wunderstanding or agreement having been effected between employers and employes,sfour or five hundred gtalwart workmen appeared at the Oliver plow works on Tuesday morning and gave notice that no one would ‘be permitted to enter the shops until the Olivers indicated a willingness to accede to the demand for better wages. No violence- would have resulted but for the impetuosity and indiscretion of Oliver partisans,. who imagined that the Polish, Hungarian ~and Swedish workingmen could be driven into subjection, Im this they calculated without their host. The strikers were determined and immeovable. They had set out to indicate what they comsidered their rights and were not to be frightened into a hasty stampede. The conciliatory counsel of a Polish priest contribnted very largely toward restraining ihe strikers from . riotous demongstrations. Beside a number of knock-downs and a few bruised heads no serious results grew out of the demonstration. About fifteen of the strikers were arrested and placed in jail, which was guarded by the milibary L

The Oliver works are indefinitely closed and comparative quiet has been restored. Work is not likely to be resumed. for some time. The strikers have made no hostile demonstrations since Tuesday forenoon. A company of veterans; from Elkhart has been on duty since Tuesday night.

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LETTER FROM DAKOQTA. ~ PEmmE, D.T,Deo. 4,'84. A. C. Haxdanbrook, aq,, Ligoniée, Inds, - My Goop FRrIEND -1 cau: jrce exs press my gratification upo#g'min g your very friendly and interesting lotter of the 224 ult, * * * Indiana is, for a fact, covered all over with glory severiteen feet deep, not only by ‘having chosen fifteen solid Cleveland and Hendricks electors; not only by electing Gray and the State ticket: not only by having secured the “sure pop ? return of your gallant, eloquent, able, distinguished Voorhees to the United States Senate, but above all in proving te the world that no amount of republican corruption funds could swerve Indiana Democrats and honest Independents from the ways of public virtue and patriotism. Democrats, to be sure, are everywhere jubilant, but some are more happy, like myself for instance, than others, because not afl_ of those opposed to Mr. Blaive really, verily believed that his eleetion would bave eventuated in the overthrow, the complets destructior. of the republic’ or al. best its restoration -only at the end .of an uprising and reyolution by the people to ejeet him by force from. the white house. ' Such was- my caudid opinion at the qutaa';t so frequently expressed orally and in print, and tha} opinien became absolute conviction fter Mr. Blaine’s inflammatory (may I not say incendiary and treasonable) utterances in his Augusta speech. When every foul scheme laid by that most corrupt rascal, Elkins, and his agsociates in crime against the people and their republic, not only with tke connivanee but glad approval, also, of their chief had failed; tens of thousands of their supporters in all parts of the countiry 'were: amazed upon reading the unequivocal, the indubitable evidence of Mr. Blaine’s vindietiveness, hate, and readiness at that moment to apply the torch, which, however, was quickly extinghished by the nation’s frown, and thus a whole people’s tears and blood were not required to, quench it, Pleass observe that I spell “nation” with a’ little n. if Mr. Blaine had been elected to the presidency he would never have yiclded it up, I believe, not to any man, certainly not to any political opponent. Alas, that se gifted, so intellectual an American should ke 8o vain, 80 ambitious, so. wicked! How many more Aaron Burrs are we to have, anyway ? : ' I willnow proceed to answer seria tim. Yes, siree, ‘“ilimes are hard here” as well as with you. The patient, discerning men out our way are not, however, at all discouraged, for they know it has been *‘jess so” along about the third year of the first settlements in all new countries. How could it be otherwise? While we have had to buy everything for our home consumptlon,even our flour, potatoes, &c., we have not produced anything for export, and consequently theccoun: try hereabouts was almost drained of money when our lands eame into market, and hence, under the present un wise policy which compels even actual settlers to enhance the value of public lands, what little cash was left among us was quickly abserbed by Uncle Sam’s already gorged treasury—a receptacle for precious things which our statesmen and financiérs are vainly trying to replete. “ Why should this be' thusly,” even under republican party rule? Why employ a swarm of officers to gather the hard-earned money of an over-taxed people into the national treasury where it is not needed, and then engage another gang to distribute among the million or more scheol districts, as some propose, or otherwise get rid of it? No wonder, 18 it, that the people are groaning under taxation? . ‘Excuse this divergence; but as I was going to say, next year our exports will so largely exceed cur imports, and 80 on year after year, until central Dakotiaps—those I mean who shall be at all industrious and frugal will, must, becoms “lousy with money.” (* * * This winter 'is te be the best time ever to come for investing in real es—taty here, Money is very scarce and many ‘owners of property that is destined to become very valuable, will, like myself, have hard scratching to pull through the winter, and lots and lands will be, offered at lower rates. than ever afterwards. | Don’t talk to Dakotaians, Mr. Al, about your damp, chilly Indiana weather, but come out here and look at the masons in their shirt sleeves laying brick and farmers plowing, &e., as they probably will for some weeks tocome. * * *

I bave not as yet delivered the pass up Salt river to Col. Laird, but will attend to that important duty very soon, You are right; he will never be postmaster any more, nor will any so-called Republican. 7hat is a literally defunct political organization, and the . astonishing diselosure of public stealings which a few months under Cleveland’s honest administration is to bring forth will- bury it beyond all power of resurrection. Zhat party’s name will be made, by simple truth, 8o edious that whoever may oppose the democracy four years hence none will he known as “Republicans” or Blaineites * * * e

1 will be glad to receive your acknowledgment, however brief, of the receipt of this, and meantime believe me to be, as I truly am, your friend, WILLIAM ASHLEY JONES.

Cleveland’s Administration.

‘Gov. Hill, in his message to the legislature, says; “It may be safely asserted that the administration of Gov. Cleveland for the two years past has more than met the just expectations of the people, and made its lasting impression ou the anaalg of the state, It has been brilliant in its sterling integrity, safe in its true conversatism, bold in its efforts for reform, faithful in its adherence to pledges, and vigilant in its epposition to corruption. - Its straight :forward and business-like conduet, united with unquestioned honesty of purpose, has won for it and himself the warm approval of his political friends, the simcere respect of his opponents, and the unswerving and unselfish support ‘of independent citizens everywhere. That he‘may meat with the same degree of success in the greater office to which he has been called is the earnoBt wish of all citizems of this State, and of every lover. of good govern: ment.”. { Sk o

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OUR NEIGHBORS.

{; Allent ' eounty “received - $29,57204 ‘¢ommon schook fand.. g ' /Lhe tax duplicate shows an assessed gxglﬁtx, i in LaGrange county of %6,-

N 0 e “The Columbia €ity fire department was a few weeks since reinforced with a fine team of horses for the engine.

The Fort Wayne Sentinel says that the Allen county delin(tuent-vtax list will be larger this year .than for several vears. : Lo

. James S%rks, a young man aged 20. living at Elkhart, was instantly killed ‘ at that jExlame last. Monday by: the cars onthe baks Shote -« oL Kuburn was visited by a destructive fire on Monday night of last week: A frame row was totally destroyed. - The loss is placed atsl2,ooo. :

The Little River stove ‘works, at Huntington, 6wned by. Cook & Simonton, burned Thursday morning. Loss, $10,000; insumnce,‘gi,f)OO. Diphtheria is raging at Ft. Wayne. Steuben county will erect a new “poor house’ next fall. Eleven thous%.n?’e gollars in bonds were lately nego--lated. >

‘The old Baltimore & Ohio earpenter shops at Garrett were burned last week. The building was‘one of the first put upin Garrett. Many of the employes lost all their tools at the fire. An attempt was made to assassinate Dr. M. L. Dick, at his residence near Pierceton, one night last week. Some miscreant tived at the doctor through the window and only missed him by a few inches. : :

Fort Wayne is going to put on airs. A company has Leen organized to rebuild the Mayer house at a cost of 9&150,060;‘ and now comes a company who are going to put up a $lO,OOO skating rink.

Benjamin Baker, one of the oldest and best - known farmers of Thorn Creek township, Whitley county, dropped dead last Thursday afternoon while carrying a pail of water. Heart disease was the cause. The total valuation for purposes of taxation in Ebkchart county is $14,902.249, upon which $21563985 in taxes is to be collected. The rate of taxation ranges from 1.07 in Jackson township to 2.45 in Millersburg corporation. The Fort Wayne Journal says that the result of the passage of the law for the election of school supahrintendents by the people would be the deteat of Mr. Jeremiah - Hillegass, whom the township trustees have kept in the office ever since it was created.

~ The Fort 'Wayne Sentinel says while digging a ditch at the headwaters ‘of tha St. Mary's river, near the town of St. Marys, lately, workmen unearthed a six-pound brass cannon, which is supposed to have been a part of the ordingnce of Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne's army at Fort Recovery, and used in defeating the Indians in the battle of 1794. Suit for $25,000 has been -brought against the Pennsylvania company in the superior court at Fort Wayne; by Michael Sullivan, locomotive engineer, for personal injuries received a few months since by a side rod on his (en gine breaking. He was running a special train/of two cars, carrying Miss Cassiday from the west to Philadelphia, called there by the death of her mother George Seott, who was arrested at Fort Wayne and placed in jail for stealing wheat from farmers, confessed to Sheriff Nelson that he and three others were the persons who wrecked the east-bound fast line No. 42 on the Wabash road, Wednesday evening,; Deceinber 31, at Prairie Switch, seven miles west of Fort Wayne.. The gang displaced the rails and kept 1n hiding near by, with the intention to rob wounded passengers. :

. Last Saturday afternoon Charles Koch, employed at the Bass foundry at Fort Wayne, met with a-horrible acci: dent, which may possibly prove fatal, or at all events may eripple him for life. When the blast was being run oft from the cupolas a ladel of molten iron, which was being carried on a tramway, for some reason upset and the seething contents’ were scattered on both the young man's legs. He was burned in a terrible manner from the hips down. Only a few months ago he was married and his young wife was almost distracted at the terrible occurrence.

INDItNA LEGISLATURE.

Orgzanization of Both Houses of the . General Assembly.

» Indiana’s law-making power assem- ' bled at Indianapolis last week and on Thursday the entire machinery was set in ulotion for the regular biennial run. Several days prior to the day fixed for the ‘assembling of the solons, the city of Indianapolis was full of legislators proper and “ mémbers of third House,” who came to take a hand inthe organization. Both branches of the Legislature being largely democratic, the number of seekers after minor positions in the gift of the Legislature was by no means small, and the offices of i’(he:i principal hotels were densely thronged with members of the Assembly and those seeking positions, to say nothing of the great crowd of spectators who' were present aslo kifrs-on. The hottest contest was for Sgp ker of the House, The leading candiddtés were Hon. David 8. Gooeding; of/ Hancock, and Hon. Charles L. Jewett, of Flayd.” The House caucus, held Wedne:day, decided between them by a vote of 19 to 42 in favor of Mr. Jewett, Tue Speaker-elect isa young man of fint ability and will make an excellent presiding officer. For clerk of the House, H. C, Darnell, of I"utnam, was chosen ; ‘assistant clerk,’J. F. Fanning, of Indianapolis. o ol

" There were sevén candidates before the House caucus for doorkeeper, but on the second ballot, Mr. Harry Fry, of Grant, was elected, ; 1., " . | Members of the Senate held a caucus the same evening to choose’between the various candidates who were seeking to. be chosen as secretaries, doorkeeper, etc. For chief secretary, A. J. Kelly, of Vigo, was elected, and H. C. Hufistetter, of Lawrence, for assistant secretary. Mr. Joe Cope, of Allen, was etected doorkeeper. . SPer ¥ | The following day the Legislature convened and was’ set in motion with the officers named. Thereisa determination on the {)art of the controlling party to accomplish as much good for theﬁeo'ph in the short time there iz for work, as possible. The Democrats have sufficient majority to make needed legislation easy. : j

Births inthe State,

The secretary of the State Board of Health has completed the compilation of birth returns as made by’ the local ‘health officers for the year emding-Oc-tober 31, 1884. According to the tables prepared 1n the health cfiice, the total pumber of births was-40,163,—21,117 were males and 19,046 - females. Of the total, 750 were colored, 401 being males and.3sB females. There were 444 paiva of fwins and 4 cases of frip-. lets. The fllegigimate births reached the onormous number of 5Y3, showing an increase of 164 over last year, The stiil bichs aggregated 616 pgainst 862 last year, at which time the total births smounted to 87,096, -The secretary;expresses the opinion that the jn:fmg i&mﬁgg%:mm of

TEMPERANCE COLUMN. (Conducteéd by the W. 0. T. U. of Ligonier.) ~— AR e ~ The Cbampion, organ of the beer, ‘wine anme of the north - west.'ls evidently badly Qa‘re‘d.‘ The following two editorials appeared in that journal last week. We give them to our readers and invite a ea'eful perusal of them. s | ' WARNING TO THE LIQUCR TRADE, Although the complete returns of the election are not yet at hand, this much we know that in- every state of the union the Prohibition candidates ‘have reeecived thousands of: votes, and with one or two exceptions—the allowance being made =~the vote for ‘the cranky Bt. John throws into the shade the sgelf-styled - workingmen'’s or people’s candidate, the irrepressib'e Bevjumin F. Butier. It reaches a total of over 200000 votes. A 8 milar strength of the prohibition elemsnt was developed by the votes cast for congressional, state exscutive, and legislative candidates. What of it? What is that to the liquor trade? 111; is exactly what the firing of the first cannon on Fort Sumpter, on the ; 12th day of April, 1861, was to the United States government: a solemn, forcible, defiant declaration of war, by the simultaneous opening of hos. tilitiés. There is no backing out now for either side! The prohibitionists have shown at this election that they now are enlisted for the war to its bitter end. They propose to crush the Jiquor truffic out of existenee, by fair means or foul, and they have good reason of being sanguine of success. Leok at their sweepipg victories: in Kansas and Towa, at their progress in Missouri, Geergia, Tennessee, Kentucky and lilinois, where local option apd high:licanse prevail, and at their steadlly growing strength in a dozen other states, such as Indiana, Ouio, Wisconsin, Michigau, Minnesota and others. Areiyou blind? Are you deaf? Are you the foolsof whom the Latin Poet said: Quaen Deus per deus perders volait prius dementat. Whom God wants to puaish, he first makes mad, (crazy.) It would ssem so’ indeed. ; {

The Prechibition flood is now sweeping over every state in the union, threatening soms of them,. ruining others.. It undermines the very foun: dation of every distillery and brewery and shakes like an earthquake every liquor warehouse and every saloon in the land. Do you not hear and feel the prohibitior waves beating against the very walls of your stores, your business plac:s, your family dwellings ?

When the Obio or Missouri rivers rise and overflow their bamks and cover the lands on both sides with debris and ruins, do the riparian inhabitants stand stupidly by to witness the falling down of their houses, barns and stables, the carrying off of their hens, cattle and grain? Do they smile, stick their heads in their breeches pockeis and say to one another: “Well, if my neighbors can stand it I can.” S :

Yet this is exactly the condition of the liquor deal¢rs and saleon Kkeppers bf almost everysstate of the union to-day—this is exactly how they act, how they speak. They can’t help sze ing the wave of Prohibition rolling onto them, they can’t help foreseeing tiie destruction and ruin which will follew, and yet: They quietly look on with their hands in their pockets, a cigar or pipe between their teeth, placidly saying: “Well, all we cando won’t help us any. What is the use of throwing our money -away for protective associations.” If others can stand it, I ¢an.” And the like. Once more we "call your! attention to your danger: There was mirth, reJoicing, carousing and revelry in the dining-hall of the Babylonian Monarch Belshazzar when the mysterious hand traced on tlie wall in firey characters the ominous words, “Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.” Neither the %‘Lng nOF the king's guests took nctice of the warning, and before morping they weére slaughtered, the royal palaces plundered and given a prey te the flames, and the Babylonian or Assyrian empire obliterated from the face of the 'earth. :

Saloonkeepers, liguor dealers,;krewers, distillers, beware! - The muster of the Prohibition hosts at the iate election is your “Mene, Tekel, Upbarsin.” Rouse yourselves from your, lethargy; form your protective phalanxes, fight for your rights, fight for your business, for your homes; but remember that while a child can easily break a siugls twig or a small stick, the most powerful man cannot break a bunch of rods tied tegether. In Union there is Strength. Uaited we stand, Divided we fall! ‘ = :

THE ENDURING IISSUE,

The election is over, and the smoke of the battle is disappearing; and as tha atmosphere is clearing up, we can see standing. forth® in glaring prominence, ome representative and distinctive fact, which it becomes the friends of personal liberty tb heed and keep prominently in wind, This fact is that there is a National Prohibition party orgamized in this ceuntry. which is bent upon carrying forward the temperance agitation to the bitter end. The party which voted for St. Johm for president “means business.,”. It is enlisted for war, and the fluctuations of presidential campaigas are mers subsidiary incidents in its grand crusade. It has enlisted in its bebalf several great. religious organizations, with their Sunday schoels and their attendant swaim of fanatics, and while the more conservative of these organizations stand firm against the inroads of frenzied agitation gnd morbid zeal, the fanatical churches with their powerful discipline constitute a great political power. . Outside of the demoeratic and republican parties, and to a certain extent independent of either, this_party of Prohitition looms up like a cloud in the horizon of personal liberty. Whether it shall asslmilate the republican party to itself, or proceed regardless thereof, is a, question therefore for the future to decide; but the principle of Prohibition hasa distinctive, organized embodiment, and is now and henceforth a political entity, which cannot in the {future be blinked or dodged. i

Let it then be understood that the battle of Freedom and Right on the part of these who desire to uphold personal liberty in this land, has Just fairly opened.. The issues are clearly made. Proscription stands -defiant, claiming to wield the scepter over men's eonscience, over their tastes, over their :incomings- and outgoings—in a word, c!al‘mh;g all that and even more than the Roundbghd: Puritans of England elaimed in that era of fanaticlsm whose waves of frenzy swept to destruction a republie founded with the best of intentions, and left a gorrupt monarchy in its place, o : 5 There can be {n this war no middle ground. Parties must adapt themselves to the situation, and stand or fall ag they enlist in the cauge of Liberty and Oppression, There may or ‘may mot be a readjustment of polilical lines; but there can be no readjust. ment of the issues. 2 ; ‘We counsel our friends to stand firm with faith in the future; with faith jn this great people, rvmj teady to do justice; with' faith inm our form. of governmeyt, and our con‘stitgtkiing, sﬁtat,utpu,dang courts. S.w;}ﬂ&l thus irm, and prepared tg do a at bggomy?obg gtizeﬁnﬁqw defend a?% mainigin our rights, we shall no fail. %nt, while you “trust in God” "KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY.i - New Zeland Sengsters. Madame Marle Cargndina, Musical m:% %“" Ington, T z’wﬁmw the Christohusch. Now Zeland TeleKEaph: vl have uased @t Jhcod’s Qil S e

‘George A. Sala, the Enﬁﬁsh journalist. landed at New York Tuesday, and will deliver Jectures. Six lives were lost at Marshfield, Oregon. by the explosion of the boiler of the tug Soi Thomas. o . Robert C. Haney, one of the pioneers of Milwaukee, .a wholesale hardware dealer, died Wednesday morning. William M. Evarts is said by the Albany Journal &cfhave a clear majority lor the New York senatorship. In a billiazd contest in Chicago Monday evening, Schaefer beat Slosson at the *‘champion game” by 800 to 589. - " Ben Butler has -brought suit for heav¥ damages against the Boston Herald for aitacking his war record. . Leland Sten ord can have the California senatorship for the asking. Balloting is to commence on January 20, A collision onthe Pensacola and Atlantie. road, near Chipley, Florida, caused severe injuries to six persons.

Twin boys born at Grand Haven on election duy are to be christened Grover Cleveland and Thomas Hendrieks.

The mayvor of New York reports the funded debt at .$92.047,0C0, and the rate of taxation will be nearly 2.35 per cent. -

A boa-constrictor eighteen feet long is said to have been found at Fisher Station, Indiana, frozen into. a solid knot. : z At'the January meeting of the Alton Horticultural sceiety the ' members reported plenty of peach buds for a good Crop. . ;

Captain C. W. Folger, only son of the Secretary of the treasury: died of ci('msﬁlmption,vSunday‘ at Geneva, New ork. ; ;

‘ Mine No. 5, of the liocking valley }mmperly. at Straitsvi le, Ohio, the arvest In that region, his been fired by strikers. : :

General Jackson’s day was celebrated by demovrutic b.nquets at Washineton, Boton, Celumbus, and Des Mo pes, . ;

Tue Muneir (Indiuns) Nutional bank has decided to go into voluntary liquidation this month, on the (xpiration of its charter. :

Nashville reports the burning of a freight and passenger depot and one hundred ioaded cars, the losses aggregating §150,000.

- James H. Bingh:m, formerly lieutenant guvernor of Wisconsin, died Thursday morning at Chippewa Falls, after a brief ilin: 8:. :

Canadian millers are petitioning the %overnment- to doubie the duty on merican flour, beciuse 200,000 barrels were impoerted last year. : The reduction ordered in the ironworks of Oliver Brothers at Pittsburgi will Place the wages of a number o employes #1.98 cente perday.

" The governor of, Ohio renews his recommcndation that in presidential years the election of state and county officers be held in November.

Joseph Runkin, who represents a Wisconsin district in congress, is: severely ill at Washington from what is believed to be Bright’s disease.

Enoch W. lastman, formerly lieutenant governor of lowa, author of the I)enal features of the prohibitary liquor aw, died.at Eldora cn Saturday.

The Denver chamber of commerce invites all friendly to the unlimited coinage of silver to meet in national gonventiou in that city on January 93 >

The widow of Mark Ilopkins,. the California railway promoter, propboses to construct at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a residence to cost $5,000,~ 000.

Under orders of the United States court, the'bankrupt Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis narrow-gauge road has geen restricted to one mixed train per av. % s 3 *

The suicide is regorted of Major Charles B. Brady, of St. Louis, formerly one of General McClellan’s bodyguard, leaving a wife and two daughers. L

The defendénts in the election fraud casesin Chicago intend to waive a trial by granger juries, and ask Judge Blodgett to decide upon their guilt or innocence., . ! Over one hundred citizens of Hazelton, Indiana, are searching the woods for a Mexican lion which escaped from a circus, last summer, at Allendale, Illinois. :

James F. Mallory, formex‘l{ prominent in the oyster trade in Maryland and Connecticut died at New Haven, of creeping paralysis, leaving a large fortune. e

Six large iron establishments at Pittsburg have resumed operations, after weeks of idleness, amf ofher concerns announce that they will soon follow suit. e

The legislature of Connecticut balloted for state officers Thursday, electing {he republican nominees of November, headed by 11-nry B. Harrison for governor. : .

Rain caused the flood in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to gain in_ force Tuesday. Tue scheme of sending tugs to break the ice gorge has been abandoned.

Tradesmen of Toronto, having been duped to the amount of $lO,OOO by a wan named Morris Long, tuke revenge by sending out the statement that he hasa glass eye. : : The mayor of Brooklyn reports that the big bridge must earn $225,000 per annum to provide the sinking fund for the construction bonds, and that it has failed to do so. i

James Tillinghast has resigned his connection with the New York Central road and the presidenoy of the Wagner Car company, to take effect at the end of this month,

Some fiend put a paper of poison in a coffee-pot used at a party in East Liverf)ool, Ohio, by which means a child lost its life and ten other persons were made violently ill.. General Grant has written to Cyrus W. Field declining to receive the Ipurse being made up for his benefit. He expresses the regret that he did not make the aumouncement earlier.

A train on the Indiana, Bloomington.and Western road was thrown into a ditch near Lilly, Illinois, Monday morning. Twelve persons in Ighe smok-ing-car were bruised or cut.

The government veterinary surgeon at Fort Yates reports that the horses and mules in that region are being destroyed by * wholesale by glanders, which is in its most violent form.

President Arthur has acce)’)ted the resignation of Paymaster William- }i, Smyth, who recently became intoxi= cated at Suvannah and temporarily dige appeared with government funds, ! The jury in the Crouch murder trial at Jackson, Michigan, after a consule tation of three hours, acquitted Daniel Holcomb. It isnot thou%ht probable that Jud Crouch will ever be tried.

A Baltimore journal shows that during the past vear there were organized in the southern states not less than 1,865 manufacturing enterprises, with an aggregate capital of $1¢5,000,000.

‘ Four hundred Oklahoma boomers are encamped at Stillwater, Indian | Territory. well armed and provisioned. W. S, Couch, their leader, sends word i that they will fight until everpowered. __Herman Mack, a prominent young Hebrew of Cincinnati, bookkeeper for a jo{{binz-house, hanged. himself en the stage at the Allemania club-rooms, -and was not diseovered for four days. ' David J. Clark, a son of one of the famous pionéers of Wisconsin, has been convieted of passing counterfeit bills and altering treasury notes. His counsel asked the mercy of the court. A train on the Long Island road wag - wrecked near Farmingdale by siriking “a switeli whicli had been purposely mis= placed. | Engineer Bertsell was killed agd Fireman Dotzell was fatally scald€y ooy - ; | _"ﬂi‘fhér postmaster at Pulaski, Illineis, appealed to Governor Hamilton for assistance in preventing the spread of small-pox, and the- state board -of health forwarded a supply of fresh vaccine. ’ . 1A store in - Woodward avenue, Detroit, was during ¥Friday robbed of dwenty-seven sealskin sacques, valued at over $7,000. The thieves threw agide a large number of an inferior ‘lﬁ'aﬁ'ty- L e ‘James Mason, for many ﬁears general counsel of the Lake Shore go § ~died at Baratoga pn §&nday;" dohn F: Morse, an iron mhgq‘ actnréy gnd pips | y‘r of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has passs edaway. s ! ijfebm* citi&;ns*«dt Louisyille ‘have d “‘if:}ﬂ ap the corpse of Morris Goldsticker was tb_% week res ‘moved from the potter’s fel ag& they s e e o sate Mever, a handsome young woman of Phgiix, New 3 Pl e 000 & Packaas of ueasnin sad o

% rounds}of paris green were found in her house. * e ~ Edward F. Lowe, sssistant general | freight agent of the Erie railway, who ‘has been twenty-seven ayears in the is_gploy of the company, died from ty- | phoid fever at his bome in Plainfield, New Jersey. : : o= " The steam-tug Dougherty exploded her boiier,:Sunday, near Elizabeth Pennsylvania, killing two men: and scalding three others. The smokestach was blown over a hill two hundred teet high. , . ; * The Cincinnati board of public works has ordeéred the preparation of abill to authorize the issue of $2.000,000 in bonds with which to repave the streets with granite or asphalt, the city tobear half the expense. Mrs. Funston. residing near. Galena, Illinois, was stricken with paralysis while buttoning a child’s shoe. She speedily recovered. with the \ex(-eFtiun | of her tongue, which she*is unabie to use in conversation. i In the office of O’Donovan Rossa, in New York, Frida;i an aﬂ'r%y occurred between Captain Thomas F. Phelan, of Kansas City, and Richard Short, leading Irish nationalists,both of whom were fatally mjured. : The Diaz administration has swe;gt the unpopular stamp law off the statute books of Mexico. Retail dealers can now draw their wallets and pay taxes a year in advance on the estimated amount of their sales. Hundreds of families along the Wabash and White Rivers, have been driven from their homes by the floods. Both streams sre overflowing their banks, and the country below' Vincennes, Ind., is in danger, Since the recent arrest of Miles Ogle. ‘the counterfeiter, at Memphis. oflicers of the secret service have traced out his plates and paper, and found $3O, 000,000 in bills near Louisville and %35, 000,00 at the-Cincinnati stock yards. The latest railway rumor in Chicago is to the effect that the St. Paul road is negotlating for the purchase of the Chicago, St. Louis and Western, now completed to Pekin, lliinois, with the intention of extending it to Kansas 1 City. . : ;

Mrs. T. K. Creamer, whose husband is prominent in political circles in New York city, made a desperate . attempt at suicide while visiting at Kankakee, Illinois. She swallowed nearl{. a teaspoonful of arsenic. but her life was saved. | : Dunean C. Ross, the athlete, has disposed of his saloon ‘in Cleveland - and applied for admission to a theological seminary at Toronto, with the intention of entering the ministry. - The death of his wife brought about the change. ; 5 Two men went out from Ontonagon, Michigin, last Monday, without matchies or food. to hunt deer. They were forced to kill their dch and eat the raw flesh, and had laid down to die when found by a searching party, Friday. e s Charles Pulliam, whose remainshave been tuken to Vincennes, Indiana, is said to have been a spotter for the Unjon Pacific road, and while acting as brakeman was knocked from the train at Abilene -by some person unknown.

Rumors affecting the solvency of C. P. Iluntington, the transcontinental railway magnate, are afloat in New York. Judge Lawrence has ordered a speedy trinl of three suits brought against him, iivolving a large amount of money. I Josceph Gillespie, who died Wednesday at Edwardsville. Illinois, purticipated in the Biack Hawk war in 1831, and as a lawyer:- was associated with Abraham Lincoin and General Shiélds. For twelve years he was judge of the Twenty-fourth circuit. s Governor Gray. of Indiana, was in-~ augurated Monday afternoon at the opera housé im Indianapolis, The democratic members of the house intend to }Ezjxss a resolution in_ favor of f)lacing . S. Grant and Fitz John orter on the retired list. Over twelve thousand potters. of New Jersey held a meeting at Trenton Tuesday, and decided not to accept the new price-list, which reduces wages 25 ¥er cent. It is said that seven manuacturers have determined to keep their men at the old prices. ' : Judge Blodgett lias decided that there is no reason for staying foreelosure ?ruceed’ings against the University of Chicago. = He showed that Stephen A. Douglas, when president of the board of trustees, executed a mortgage on the property for $25,000, i Another Orange outbreak isreported from -, Bay Roberts, Newfoundland. Hundreds of armed Orangemen paraded the streets Sunda]\{:‘, and the New York Redemptionist Fathers were besieged in their .dwellings Police aid was dispatched from St. Johns. . - The will of Daniel L. Wells, of Milwaukee, covering properiy valued at over $1,000,000 gives the Prospectavenue homestead and $lOO,OOO in cash to the widow, and provides for the payment of from $5,000 to $lO,OOO 10 each of seventeenrelatives or friends. - | The mayor of Dover, New Hampshire, notified the Salvation army that it must not parade with music. Cuptain Thompson defies all earthly dpower, and has sent to Maine for soldiers. The mayor has Fiven the police a quiet hint that some funerals are desirable, George Z.. Erwin was on Tuesday elected speaker of the New York assembly and Dennis McCarthy was chosen president of the senate. Governor Cleveland resigned his office, and Lieutenant Governor Hill was sworh in. ﬁ&n adjournment for one week was taKen. : : : The govemmenﬁ direclors of the Union Pacifieroad, in asking further tavors for that unpopular corporation, lay great stress upon the statement that its stock is owned mainly by investors, and that the new management is miking an honest effort toward reform. B :

Thirteen collieries near Scranton, Pa., were suspended Monday by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Deiaware & Hudson Companies. Abdtit 2,000 men and boys were thrown out of work, The companies say that the suspension will not- last more than two months, ] ‘ The liebrew citizens of Louisville persisted in their «ffort for the recovery of the'body of Morris Goldsticker, and found it on the dissecting-table at' the medienl coliege. It was then placs ed 1n a vau't at the Jewish cemetery to await the orders of his mbther, ‘a wealthy resident of New Orleans. - W. A. Haskell, of Des Moines, gave a chattel mortgage on his shoe store for $27.676 to covey a defieit in his accounts with the Capital City Buildir}ig assoeiation, and was then axrested, Alfred H. Oliver, cashier in the Easts ern raiiway office, at Boston, confesses having embezzled $§12,000 during the past eleven years, ¢ John J. Flynn, a dealer in boating tackle at Cincinnati, answered a matrimonial advertisement and engaged himself, on the strength of an aftractive photograph, to a widow in Missouri. When he found her an emaciat.d person with a consumptive cough, ke made remarks.which caused her to sue for $25,000 damages for breach of promnise. W. H. Vanderbilt, having yielded to the reql\]xest of General Grant. bought in all the real estate, war relics, and works of art mortgaged to him by the general, and presented- the entire. list to Mis. Grant, with the condition that on the death of the general all articles of historical value .shall become the pro\):ertg.of the nation, to be preserved - at Washington. : dnspector J. D. King, of the St=: office. departient, wiile in Kansas City, isceutiy, was ghawn the body of an unknown sm_cu;e; _which had been -embalmed by an undertaker as an advertisement, Mr, King tp::-oml!i)tly idens tified the 00175180 as thatof IFrank G. Martin, who last year embezzled $l,BOO in moneﬁvorders from the postoffice at Pierre, Dakotu, ; The American minister in London has been corupelled to extend his protqctigrll It?i tgo wﬁe and lcluldmgi ia 1{1837%« nam oks, appears n Migs Caroline ‘Slb‘an{’ of Buffalo, married the person named; yet she cherished a fear that his first wife was still living. Her suspicions were at last -confirmed Ly his confession, and mon--43 was advanced her to return to the United States with her three children. o the district court at Chicago, Thursduy, Judge blodgett overn fed the motioh & giagh the 3,‘», against Mackin, Bicl), and ofhele for the 1909‘3&*"?‘ on_fraud, and fixed ;&!hi}@tﬁ 2agtho date for trial. In 1&: cifeyit court of Cook gounty Judge *ég OGNS Vell % by ga.fw» ﬂi@, 3 A g I PR EMA S e %’wﬁﬁ?@m er, George SR e e %ﬂ«w o Pl G i oo ke

upon the Connecticut Legislature this {gar. This has occurred onee or twice fore in the history of the State, being rendered necessary by.a constitutional provision that a clear majority. shall be necvssary at the popular election for the choice of any State officer. A United States .Senator—presumably Orville H. Platt—will be elected by the Legislature January 2. S ‘The exhibition of an illustrated police newspaper in a couniry hotel in Michigun, about two wecks ago, was followed by remarks of «: commereial ‘traveler w Jiich caused a detective in the party to ask some q'uesx‘io'u‘svm an ‘unobtrusive manner.. . The s quiel was the arrest of D. T. Edingion, recently elected prosecutins attorney for Leelenaw coun%, chhi%:m, who proved to be David E. Swan, the defaulting cushier of the Northern Pacific at Si, Paal. ‘His shortageis $51,000. © @~ = o 0

Myra Clark Gaines, the heroine of the Gaines case, died Suturday at the residence of her sop-in-law, in: New Orleans. Mrs. Gaines was the daugh-. ter of Daniel Clark, the (irst representative in congress of [Louisiana, and the richest man in'the state at the time of his death. Mrs. Gaines was not informed of her parentage until she was & grown.woman. As soon as she knéw this she began her case for the recove ery ‘of her father’s' property. Thig case is probably the most extended and complicated litigation on record. It was commenced fully: half a century ago, and has been Degun anew seven times. argued before the supreme court of the state four times, before the supreme court ot the United States twice, and is bt fore. that body -to—da% Almost every prominent lawyer fro Daniel Webster and - Charles O’Conor down have been employed in. it, and fortunes have been expended.in carrying it on. . A ;

WASHINGTON,

For rifling Lieutenant Greely's piivate sapers, Sergeant Holtnorth las beéen reuced to the ranks in the sigial service,and will probably be disniissed. . .

Itis exgecte.vl that an’onslaught will be made in ongrof«; upon the Bureau of Animal Industry wihen an additional appropriation is asked for it. M mbers who do not believe much ih pieuro-pneumonia and kiudred diseases are ducidedly opposed to the bureau. i 3 & Advices from_ China-state that United States Minister Younyg an i Vineent Smith called upon Viceroy Li Hung Chang the other day and. offered to. contract for the collection of the Government revenues and to make all purchases for the Gévernment in consideration of thé: remuneration of 5 per cent. on the total amount of the transactions. Declined. s e i

Col. Pike, otfe of the “attorneys’ who are engaced in the . effort to breal . uP;the‘ SyStem of keasing Indian lands, says that it will be shown during the progress of the investization before the Senate ILudian Affairs Committee that the Interior Department at ‘Washington was in the ring,,t}lr&'h regalar gang was formed, that all competition was shut out; and that the leases were fraudulently I+sued. e Wi e Mr. Voorhees' bill amending the peasion laws provides that all pensions which hay% been or may be.granted in consequence o military: service’ rendered sinee March 4, 1861, shall commence from the dateof death or disability-because of whicl the pernsion is asked, and in the consjderation of pension cases a soltdier or sailor shall be presumed to have been sound physically at the time of enlistment, P

Democrats m Congress oppose the Slaanish treaty on the ground that Mr. Cleveland ought not to be hampered by a line of policy contained in dommercial treaties mapped out by the rctiring Administration. I'he proposed amendment -~ admitting -the Havana leaf frea of - duty, which was in tended to -pacify the tobacco "manufacturers, will not heip the treaty, since such a vrovision would at- once drouse the. bitter hostility of the tobacco-producers. G

Rezulations enfnrcimﬁthe recent decision of the Attorney-General in reference to the. relief of the whisky men wereissued by the Commissioner of Internal - Revenue at. Washington Tuesday. with tlie ap'i)roval‘ of the Secretary of the Treasury. The most important amendm -ut to the existing regulations consists in siriking out the words Mthiriy days” in the exportation bonds and substitut'ng such time, not to exceed seven months, as may be: rea’sonah{% required forexportation. Collectors-are also required to list and report’ monthly all. spirits which have remained in. warehouse more than three years. o ST

Representative Collins .introduced a motion it the House to suspend the rules and adopt the lesolution making the Senate bill to establish a uniforin systein of bankruptey laws a special order for Jan, 22. Mr. Benderson, of Fowa,'thouzht that the passage of the Lm\‘ell bill mizht save the country fromdisaster, Petitions in. support of the bill were presented from the businessmen of St. Louis, New: ‘York, and Baltimore. Mr.. Wiilis opposed the measure, saymg that its passage would create 5,000 new offices, an:'l . would open the door to fraud., M. Collins defended the bl against the attack of Mr. Willis. = His motion to suspend the rules and appoint a day for its cousideration was, however, lost. . .

“Congressmen m:nifest. a disposition to settle the Oklahoma question finally, eitlier by opening the country or:by adopting some effective measures to keep people from going. there” A ?arty of Senators called upon President Arthur the other day to obtain his views upon tire subject. ~ Mr. Arthur said that in his opinion it was right that intruders should be f(ept out, of the Lf[ndian country by foree of arms if necessary. Oklahoma ywas a smalil tract of a few hundred thousand aeres, surrounded on. all sides by Indian reservations. There wasno civil law there, and colfisions would almost inevitably occur between the Indians and ‘whites. If the tract was to be .opened to settlement the way should be prepared by the enactment of propet laws.:” . - ; {THE BARTHOLDI STATUE. Sens

Representative Nutting, from thee committee on library, lias presented for . printing and: lecommittal a favorable yepory on the joint resolution introduced by Mr. Cox, of New York, app-rofpuat_in%,-?olOOxOOO' to aid in the comﬁ)letiun— of the )pe estal for the statue of “Libetrty Eulightening theé World.” . 'The yeport says: “The statue was a magnificent gift from the peaple of France to cur whole people, and not to the people of New York, and it belongs to the people as anation. It would be arrogance for the state of New York topay for the pedestal and claim the statue as its own. T'he statue is a national symbol, .It is ‘national property, and ¢ongress should, in the opinion of your committee, finish whag has been begtin sb well?: . b iialfon e EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS, .- ‘l'he following figures ‘show the exports of breadstuffs for 1884, corresponding with 183, They show in a striking manner the fall in the price of wheat. We exported 10,000,000 bushels more in 1854 than in 1888, and got over $4,000,000 less for it. The flour shipuients are almost exactly thesame in gquality and more than $4,500,000 less in valua: e £ S ; ;. :INDIAN CORY, : .. . 2 . : Bushels, - Value. ‘December,lBB4.... 4814,6:3 8 2,413,087 December,lBB3.... 2,570,609 * - 1,81 443 Yeark1864......... 87,752,087« " 19,819 604" Year 1883...;..... G0;780.05¢ 58,970,826 3 i WIIEAIT, S December, 1884..,. 8261153 6,030,713 December, 1883,.., -5.281,65) 56,093 488 Yeay 1884..0,..... 194341 2 | 730527125 Year 1888, ...kee: 60,476,381 77482160 "WHEAT FLOURL -« o 5 g Dec, 1884(bb15)... 1,021,522~ ° 4,914,369 Dec, 1893 (bbls)... 897,225 =.5 014.834 Year 1584 bblsg...' 8,995,556 46,499,886 Year 1883 (bb's)... 8991194 | 51,701,542 Total value Dee, 1884..7,.1..../ 14,359,686 Total value Der, 1883 ........:. 13,0-8,118 Total value 6 mo. to Dee. 81, 7847 58,856,474 Total value 6 mo. to Dec, 81, ’B3 6,014,626 Total value year 1884........ .. 156,349,755 Total value year 1888........0..0 132,785,604

CONGRESSIONAL SENATE.

*JAN. s,—ln the Senate, a bill was offered by Mr. Beck providing for the formation of "4 revenue commission, to be composed of the Secretary of the I'reasury, ‘ex-officio, five members of the House of. Representa—tives, and three Senators, to report to Congress before the:second Mondag' in December.concerning changes or modifications in the tariff and internal-revenue laws which may be thought desirable. - A resolution was Introduced and referred - extending the thanks of Congress to the officers and crews of the Greely. relief expedition. ‘A bill was offered to amend the Revised Statutes relating to the leasing of Indian lands for grazing purposes, It xmulrea that all such leases shall be submit to the Secretary of the Interiar, and muio'ses a penals ty of $1 per head upon all cattle driven upon Indian lands except under lawful authqrit_é. Some, discussion conocerning the Inter-State Commercebill followed, = ° JAN, 6,~1n the Senate, Mr, Hawléy introduced a_ bill to establish ‘international copyright, - Consideration of the Oregon /Central Land Forfeiture bill being resumed; a long discussion ensued, at the conclusion of whieh the hill was passed. ; JAN. 7.—ln the Senate, the chair present~ ed a report by the Mississippi - River Comnmission that Captain Eads had maintained a channel in the South pass, A resolution was passed appropriating $50,000 to relieve the sufferings of destitute Indians. Mr. Plumb, in presenting a petition by .colonists in Ok]ahoma,, asked that Congress pronounce on the ooﬁpmwy'ot these lands by wliite settlers. . Dawes replied thatin the present condition of the me “the tract; could niot be opened to: settlement, ' Mr, Momll“q"?de ‘p'_speeeh-ln: ipposition” ta {3: ¢ ty treaties, . Im‘ debatg_on the Xi =S6ate Commerca bill Mr, - Ingalls said he Benaie was suspeeted by the people of 8 desire to do nothing on the subjeet. of 5 Dill poIREA to fams %’éﬁ%‘m e €d a bill re to fees oL pension elaimugen_tw emboﬂ%fng the same nﬁvmons a 8 those containjed {n the Pension bill rece:g-_ L’;@;&“ by tr%e oyse. After tltmq“ ate 1t was referred to the Pensions Come a:gm, 16 o.ution was offered reguw 1g the President ta communicate tg the i e anh l@g lcal :s; ;, b ng. Dy Gen, Sherman f? SRR R ST R st S ik f\ }E‘? W e e

__ JAN. 9.—ln the Senate, Mr. Morgan withdrew his motion m:a “the Oregon Central. Land-Forfeiture bill, which now 5095 .to the House. The i.tee on üblic Lands feported,tsvonbl{ ths bill to amend the Revised Statutes .relating to the ‘entry of coal-lands bg'oreducin tne price of such lands from $lO to_ $5 ) ¥ acre where the lands are more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and from $2O to 'l§lo where the lands are within this limit, The Inter-Staté Commeree bill was discussed at some l‘euah._ Senator Palmer introduced a bill to establish a Bureau of Public Health, to be charged with executing all health ‘Taws. . The bill directy that; the Commis- ! sioner in charge of the; buredu shall, with the aid of the Surgeons-General of the ~ army, navy, and marine hﬁ?})im service and the Commissioners of ucation and Agriculture, prepare a code of regulations for the sanitation of the army and navy, as well as of all merchant vessels sailing under the United States ﬁa‘%, all schools, and animals in transit from State to Stite. In conjunction with the President of the American Medical Asspciation the Commissioner is also instructed to . prepare a code of regulations for the practice of sar~ gery and midwifery. All goods designed or food, drink, wearing apparel, ete., so poisoned by adulteration as to be dangers gus :1;(.) human health are declared contraal 5

HOUSE.

" "JAN. s.—ln the House, Mr. Keifer moved to suspend therules and take up the Mexican Pension bill.. Therp was’ an animated . discussion, at the conclusion of which thie motion was rejected. Mr. Hiscock moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill abolishing the internal-revenue tax on tobacco and liquors distilled from fruit, This motion was also lost. Mr. Cex, of New York, offered a Dbill author.izinﬁ the use of the Bartholdi Statue as a lizhthou-e,and anoth~ er creating the office of Assistant Chief Sig- - nal Officer, ‘to be accompanied with the rank and pay of ColBnel. This position, it is understood, is intended for ll\Jieu.t. Greely. A bill was introduced by. Mr. Tucker ‘increasing -the number of Judges -of the United States Courts; another by Mr. English?roviding for the issue of one, two,and" five dollarsilver certificates; and another by Mr, Breckinridge ereating a River and Hars bor Department. T - JAN, 6.—A joint resolution app_roll)riating ~“’;50,000 for the support of destitute Indians’ {in Montana was-passed. . The House then fwent into Committee of-theAWhole and took w the ;’emion ‘Appropriation bill, Mr., arner, ‘of Ohio, attacked the pensionclaim agents, whom he compared qunfavers ably with pirates. . Messrs. Warner and Keifer indulged in some biting repartis. An anienidment to the bill pyoviding that no agent shall receive any fee fir his ser~ vices until theclaim is granted, and that such fee shall be $lO, except in'certain specified cases, was adopied. The bill passed. S e

- JAN. Ti—ln the Ilouse, there waspres sented from the Secretary of the Navy an estimate of $2,500,000 tor the erection of a gun foundry and the purchase of steel~ works for the manufadture ot heavy ordnance, Mr. O'Neiil’s motion to strike from the Inter-State Commerce bill (the section ’Fro{n’bitmg railroads from charging mors or a short than a long haul was voted down by 90 to 127. An amendnment was adopted giving federal courts'power to issue writs of mandamus compeliing railroad "eompanies to forward freight, - A resolution was adopted asking tlie Secretavy of the Navy t 0 report the cause of the death.of Cadet Frederick S. Strang, of Oregoi. who is alleged to have been fatally injired by hazing at Annapolis. AR

JAN. B—A biil was rep rted to the House by the Commitiee on. Appropr ations maling additional appropriaiior s for the naval sorviee for the fiscal ge:\r endinz June 30, 1885. It was referred to the Comaittee of the'Whole aud wil be called up to-mor-row, < The bill Isan entirely new one. The Inter-State Commerce bill was then passed by avote of 158 to 75 Initie Afabama contested-election cas¢ riso ntions were adopted unseating She ley (Dano 'l*.}) and* deciaring Craig (Repubd keaa ) eiccied/» T'he most important teatures bf tie fater-State Commerce bill, as pa-sed, are the following: Diserimmation hy freight rates is forbidden and likewlse ' disciiintnation . in the treatment of passengers.who pay. the same fare. The railroads are, fmwever. permigs ted to provide separale accoimnmodations ‘with equal facilities and eomforts for white and cu?oredf people. For personal tmusporm tation no oneis to be. charged more than three cents a mile, R bates or other advantages given to shippers are forbidden, as well as all freight-poeling arrangements. The railroads are not permitted to charge a f:‘eater ratq for a shorter than for a longer laul. . Schedules of freight rates must be printed by thé -companies and posted con~ spicnously, and copjes of the schedules must be duly filed. ~ The bill further provides that any person who may suffer thirough the violation 6¢f any of itsregulations shall be entitled to damages equal to ‘three times the ammount of the acthal injury sustained.” Infrinzement of the act is yendered punishable by a fin: not exceeding $2,000. 'The :prov.sions of the bill-apply only to transportation from one State to ans other, ‘They are not applicable to property carried for the United States at lawerrates than' for the general jublie, ner to the trausportation of arvioles at reduced rates “for charitable purposes; nor totransportation of property to or from public fairs-or exhibitions: : It will be noticed thatthe commission feature has been strieken eut of the bill. ; : [

JAN. 9.—A resolution was adopted by the House caliing upon thé Exeecutive for information relative to the arrest of T. R Moynahan, an American -citizen, by the Government of ;‘Mexico. .= Another, resolution was' passéd requesting information from the President concerning the Congo Conterence. Mr. Breekinridge introduced a bill for the appointmeat of a Southwestern River Commniission. | JAN. 10.—Proceedings in the House be= gan with a dispute between Messrs, Ran~ dall and Stockslazer, the fot'mer wrzing that the Naval Appropriation |biil shouwld ba pressed at onice to its passdge, and the lats ter advocating the claims ({)f fhe speocial or~ der in reference to publie buiklings. The Committee on Commuezea reported a bill authorizing experiments as to the practicability of lighting Iho navigable waters of the tvlnitedl States by electricity. The Nava} Appropriation bill reported by the Appropriations Committee, making provision for the six montius ending June 50, 1885, was passed. The Hoyse then went into Commitiee of the \Vlmli.:.. onthe Consujar and Diplomatic Appropriations bill. Incidental~ ly to the discussion which followed Mz, I¥ichelivu Robinson made a vigorous attack upon Ameriean dudes a‘nd‘s‘uoT)s‘., T e

: . FOREIGN! ; * President Grevy has ordered a medical Tepori on the mental condition of Louise Michel, whom he will pardon if she be *found insine, ~ Germany is workinz for contiol of the railreads o be cous.rneted in China, for which it offers the engiucers, material, and _money required. i : Information has been received Hy the London poiice that simultaneous attempts are to be made-by dynamiters to blow up the ‘Holborn Viaduet, - and. the Mansion House railway s:ation. ¢ : ——ie @ e i GENERAL MARKIEY, e CHICAGO, : WaEAT—Lawer: Jan,, 80147 Bi%e; Feb., - 8024@8035c: March, BllfwSl3¢e: Corx—Higher; Jan,, 381 Bi%c; Feb,, } Bidg@sTie: March, £74 3740, { i - OArs—Hgher: Jan,, [ 16)gw-63e; Feb., P6%@268fc.. . - . L -~ Provisions—Mess Pork lower: Jan., | sn.mgn.m; Feb,, €1180a11.80; March, [email protected]. Lard—Stendy; -Jan., ":‘6.77% | %g.ég% i Feb,, £6.82146i821¢; March, §6.90, l CArTLE Market steady.. We quote! - Clioice to fancy [email protected] - Good to choice 5teer5............. [email protected] - Medium to fair 5teer5..,......... 410490 Hoss—Market firm. 'Sales ranged from - $4.40@@4.€5 for heavy: ﬁ[email protected] for light. . _Burren—Steady. -We quote: Choice: to . - Fancy Creamery at 28430 ® 1b; ordinary | - to good id0.!25@2%c; goodto fancy Dairy at 18@@00; comnion to fair.do. 15@17e.

i NEW YORK. : \\'nm'r—-Higher; No. 2 Jan., 9K@ 925¢c; Feb., 933« 9414 t ; March, 953 @9s3¢c. CORN— Quiet; Blixed W estern' Spot, 50 @i3ige. i

, MILWAUKEE. ' o WnrAr—Lower:’ Jan., 191¢e; Feb., 93c, Corx—Fitm _at 87i4c for No, 2. OATS—= Firm: No. 2 White,. 268/c. Ryx- DPull: b 4: for No, 1. Bairky= Higher at 58 for N 0.2 - :

CINCINNATI.

Frovr—Fair demand: Family £4.00w4.10, WakaAr—Fim at 86e, ' CorN—Strong at 4%, Oars—Weak at 2. Rygp—Steady; 60c. ProvisioNs—Pork stemﬁ' at $12.00.— Lard finn at $7.00. Bulk Meats $4.750@ @8.50. Bacon $7.95@%.50.

; STULOVIS, - Whnrar—Higher: No. 2 Red Jan., [87% %87}@; February, 88@88ifc: March, ¥i¢. ConN--Lower; 8515@Shlgc January; 35l @Bs¢c. Feb. OArs—Lower: January, 2(@Tge; Feb,, 28e. - l.h‘lc—leet: 52¢,— -Banrrxy—Steady at 55@i5e. PROVISIONS - - =Pork lower; $i2.20. Dry b;nlt Meats quict ‘2l {6lO, 625, 6.50. - Baton steady at $7.12%¢, 7873, Lard—higher; €6.75. : - BALTIMORE. e WiarAT—Western higher: No. 2 Winter - Red Snot,r and January, 92@%®Rcy: Feb., 9@ 923, 'Conx—Mixcd Jan., 4 @aose Qarr=Western W hite, 86w 58:: Mixeu do., 3d@3s¢c. HY - Quict a 1 62«64, e

- The,removal of Prof. Sanborn of N, - H., after being pronounced incurable by a score of physichians, from ILjasVegas, N. M, to his home, was effect- S ed by administering Dr. Harter’s Iron Teonie, which has restored him to his former good heaith, 854 t | Woold! Weod! Wood!! ’ Wa need ten cords of good, drg‘Wood, and have more than that much due from ‘our wood subscribers. Do i - nanAN g e s e gl M@ﬁ%@m“»gm e