Ligonier Banner., Volume 20, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 January 1886 — Page 2

&he Ligonier Hunner

THURSDAY, JAN.. 17,1880

- Coxeriss reassembled on Tuesday last and yesterday the session hegan in earnest. : { oA

Owixe to continued illness J. W. Cary has retired from his position .as General Ticket agent for the L. S. & M. S.R. R, and E. C. Luce has heen appointed to fill the vacancy. i

Ix this State there seems to be no difference of opinion among the ; newspapers upon the silver questisn. Republican and democratic organs alike stand qup manfully for thesilver dollar.

Irls shown by the Indianapolis Sen: tinel that Mr. Sherman had not been

in office as the: successor of Mr. Hendricks twenty-four hours before a clean democratic swéep was made and Republicans placed on .the watchin those senate offices which~Had”been filled by the late Vice-President. '

It ~xow looks as if France was about to enter an era of financial depression. During the past six years hundreds of millions of doilars have béen spent by the government for unnecessary public improvements, This expenditure created a false prosperity, and now the day of reckoning comes. It always does. -

Lasr Friday witnessed the inauguration of governors in two states, Fitzhugh Lee, at Richmond, Virginia, and David B. Hill, at Albany, New York. In both mstances the cerémonies incident. 'were very impressive, the Albany demonstration eclipsing any ever w,itnesséd in that great state.

Our minister in England now comes forward with the statement that there are no ~e§ta,tesjn,,chancery or otherwise awaiting American claimants. Now this should certainly have a good effect in silencing the many unscrupulous lawyers who have for mauny years been feeding upon the credulity of many of our people. At best all of these schemes in.the past-have turned out as visionary, | } e

~ Tre Onro legiclatureis now in session. On Monday last the lower house was organized by the Republicans and the senate was called to order by the democrati¢ lieutenanent governor and the officers who had been selected by the democratic caucusi installed: This is indeed a for tunate state of affairs for the people of that state asin all probability it will allow “buta small amount of partisan or worthless legislation. B

Oxz By onE the individuals who figured out the end of the world have been disappointed and the old thing moves along in the same old way. But a new man has come forward in the person of Dr. Seth Pancoast, of Philadelphia, with an opinion based on scientific research and gives it out that fbusiness will close in this mundaiee sphere in the year 2232. This is so far off that the ayerage reader will not be at all troubled over the possibilities of impending ‘evil. L

TrE Senatorial fight in Ohio is now absorbing the attention of the average Buckeye politician. Many rumors of plots and counter plots: to defeat John Sherman are daily bronght to light, but we will venture the prediction that, whilé the margin 1s very small, John Sherman will have votes to spare when it comes to the test. ‘The Democrats realize that it must be Jobn Sherman or some mediocre Republi - can, it 1s prefered] by many that the strong man go back to his seat, *

Tur stin among the many professional friends of Judge BE. V. Long, of the supreme court of New Mexico, as to who would be chosen clerk of the Supreme court of that territory, has been set at rest by that most desirable position being offered to and accepted by ‘Col. R. M. Johnson, of Goshen. Inour opinion Mr. Long could not have -made a better choice as Col. Johnson is a man of ‘wonderful mental and physical powers, and will be an ornament to. that important position.; The duties are of such & character :4s to require more than an average knowledge of legal lore which qualideation the appointee enjoys beyond any question. .

" ArtErß an elaborate reyiew of the distractéd and depressed condition of the European nation, the Chicago ,News well and truly remarks of our own country: “The new year dawns upon the United States as the most favored nation in the world. Business is reviving in every’'department. Our storehouses ‘and granariesare full to overflowing. We are free from all foreign entanglements. The public -healtf is good, and with reasonable care the‘ e is nothing to dread from foreign . pestilence.© We can look back on 1885 with grateful hearts and forward to 1886 with hope and confidence. Verily, this nation is the chosen of the Lord’s.”

Arter all the fuss- and feathers » about the Mayoralty felection in Chicago, last spring, the contest begun with so much bluster has mostignominious--ly flattened out. Wonderful stories ‘were told of what would be disclosed when the ballots were recounted and the public mind was about’ prepared to hear that Judge Smith had been defranded out of thousands of votes, but when cold figures and stern facts only gave him a gain of forty.votes he at once withdrew in disgust from ' the contest and now the committee of safe'ty are looking for a soft place in which to drop and alsé some way to explain the whemltou{;s of the $35,000 raised " to carry on'the contest. * In the meantime Carter H. Harrison is mayor of - Chicago. el s il

- Tme Washington correspondent of . the Indianapolis Sentinel writes that - “he believes that. Senator Voorhees will beable to have made the eonfirmation of every single appointment from Indiana, notwithstanding the howl from Republicans, and some Democrats, to theeffect that Senator Harrison would ‘ be able to control the entire republican side. of the Senate and defeat the confirmation. Semator Voorhees has many republican friends in the Senate who will give him their aid if it is found ' ary to solicit it. ! About the only : tonmtbh opposition that will be made, [am told, will come from gentlemen who were- possibly disappointed in mot, etting the offices they themselves had applied for. It isa pity that thereare ot more offices that all "puld be ac- , tommodated.” e

~ Trk veteran editor of the Richmond Democrat and the newly appointed postmaster of that ‘c&ty,’t" ‘James Elder, died very suddenly while seated at ‘his desk in the post-office last Thursday. Heart disease is given as the cause of his sudden death. Mr. Elder was a native of Pennsylvaniaénd has been-con-nected with the democratic press since 1840. Hisson, James I, Elder, was appointed to the place on Tuesday last.

Tur Tax-payers of Allen county are now all torn up over the discussion of the condition ‘of the county finances. For some years the county orders have not been redeemed on account of a lack of funds dnd now it is discovered that there is 3 floating debt of nearly $300,000 represented by outstanding county orders. - Tﬁese ‘promises to pay are drawing six per cent interest, and a move on the part of the county commissioners to fund the debt by issuing bonds has precepitated matters. To an outsider it does certainly seemfstrange that such a large amount of outstgnding orders were allowed to accumulate withont any proyision being made for thewr payment. - ik

: HiaS -~————-.oo———<~—j°i ‘ It mAxES us extremly weary to hear so. much about hungry Democrats and the seramble for offices; upon which subject our republican friends are still devoting a good share of ‘their time. Up to this time, ten months after the inauguration of a democratic President, only one-seventh of the offices have been given over into the hands of the victors. Many of these places were made vacant by resignations and it was obligatory upon® the administra‘ion to fill the offices. We are of the opinion. thatif things had been reversed, that is if the Republicans had come into power there would not now be a Damocratic postmaster in existance.. We are of the opinion that it is ‘about. -time to turn the rascals out. _ S

THE EIGHTY CENT DOLLAR HUMBUG. (Evansville Coun,er?,:”.; e The following paragraph’ from an editorial in the Chicago Times is a fair sample of the solemnity with which untruths come to be uctered by those who set themselves up as teachers of finance: “The workman'’s wages have already been fixed. He gets no more of the inferior pieces than he did of the superior ones; but the inferior ones will not fetch, as much and the workman is cheated out of the difference, The sub stitution of an 80-cent dollar for a 100cent dollar would at the outset reduce the workman’s wages from, say, $2 a day to $1.60 a day, and it would probably cost him all the loss incident toa strike to get his wages restored.”

~ The argument here made against the silver..dollar’ is, that it is of less value than 4 gold dollar, measured by the bullion value 1n each,” There is but 80 cents worth bf silver in the silver dollar, and 100 cents worth of gold in the gold dollar; therefore, when a workman receives $2 a day 1n silver dollars he is really getting an equivalent of but $1.60 mnfgold. 'This is the argument of-the Times, if we understand Its position.

But is it-true that s2lin silver are only worth to the laborer $1 60 in gold? Certainly mot. Every day's transactions in Chicago, or any other city'in the United States, proves that it is not true, The transactionsover the counter of the Chicago Times' business office daily prove.that it ‘is not true. If its subscription is $lO a year, $lO in silver pays for the Times for a year as surely as-$lO in gold. More than that, the cashier of the Times would undoubtedly show his contempt for the opinions of the editor of the Times by refusing to- accept $8 in gold for a year’s subscription, despite the editor’s assertion that %8 in gold is a full equivalent for $lO in silver. . ; :

- Every laboring man knows that his silver dollar is not an 80-cent dollar for the purpose of trade,but a hundredcent dollar as good as gold:. He'knows, as everybody else knows, .that in the United States a silver dollar will purchase just as much of the necessaries of life as a gold dollar, that it will pay just as much taxes, and discharge jsut as’ many debts. Intelligent men also know that it is not the value of the metal in either coin .that gives them the debt-paying, or purchasing, power, but’ the guarantee of the -government that they sball be received for all debts, public -and private. The gold in a ten dollar: gold piece would, in the form of bullion, have more value than the silver in $lO of silver, but thereis not ten dollars worth of virgin metal in either. Both are commodities until they receive the stamp of the government, and that stamp once given, there is no difference whatever in the value of coins of the same denomination, whether of white or f¥lellow metal for ths purposes of traffic. 4 :

- No merchant asks a_customer before giving him the price of the goods on his shelves, whether he desires to pay in gold or silver. Nobody refuses. payment for his goods in silver, or has a silver price and a gold price differing from each other. If the workman takes his $2 in silver to'the grocer on his way home from work, and invests it in famrijg supplies, he :gets precisely the sa weight and measure that he would get if he had paid for them in gold. . To illustrate in anothér way: A and B go together to'a grocer, and each buys $2 wortb of sugar. A ‘pays the grocer $2 in silver: B gives the grocer a $l6 gold piece and gets back $8 imichange. Both get precisely the same weight of sugar, The two metals when stamped by the government have precisely the same purchasing power, and as the everyday experience of everybody proves it, why should the Times and monometallic advocates attempt to convince the people to the cadtrary? - Theri isno such(ih'mg in existence as an eighty-cent dollar, and neyer will be as long ag the government has the power to enforce 513 iaws of congress and makes a legal tender of the dollar it coins.

~ We understand why the bankers, and other owners of gold, would have it otherwise. . We ‘understand why they would compel, even the government itself, to comé to their counters and pay them tribute before the power to exchange the fruits of labor ean be given to the people.” But it is not for the good ‘ of the people, or of laboring men that | thefv should be compelled by. any fiscal system to surrender the smallest frac‘tlon of their earnings to anybody, as payment for the privilege of exchanging the products of their labor. | The Courier believes, therefore, that the _medium of exchange called “moniey‘,”‘ should depend not at all upon its ‘inhergnt value, but. the guarantee of ‘the ‘government that issues it that it ), shall be réceived for taxes and debts.

CULLINGS FROM OTHER COLUMNS. Pith of the Press. ; 3 Y. i ; NO POSTAL TELEGRAPH. o It is a pretty well established fact that the government should leave to rivate enterprise the transaction of all Eusiness which the latter can. satisfac torilg perform for the public. This 'mag.be safely done where self-interest and competition cdmpel excellence and fair treatment.—New York World. CONVENTIONS SHOULD BE LATE. -Bome of the pe‘wggapers are already talking of rPoldmgt e next state convention. The vonvention oug;;t not be held until August or September. More campaign work can now be done in two months than could be done. in six months thirty years figo, and there is no legitimate excuse for long and wearisome political campaigns.— LaPorte Argus, ‘ ik i :

- THE INDIAN SCHOOL: o The growth of the Indian school at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., has been from eighty-four pupils in 1879 to only six shiort. of 500 at the Eresent time, The Indians now in the school represent thlirty;eiiht different tribes, and the ages of the students range from 7 to 24 years. The Agpaches have 50 representatives, the Sioux 88, the Arrapahoes and Cheyennes 24 each, The Omahas 111 and the Pueblos 89.—Kansas Qity Journal. i

- 5 SILVER AND GOLD. . = 'The financiers of New York and Boston ‘may as well make up their minds that the two metals will continue to be used as money. The thing for them to do is to devise somé plan b{ which that use may be made acceptable to all interests and to-all classes of the people. Tt is not worth while to excite sectional prejudices over a question like this, nor to arouse the far more dangerous passions which lie beneath the surface around us.—New York Sun. _

s NEVER BEFORE. - - Never befoer in history, it may. be safely said, did the conquored even, in civil%var administer upon the rewards paid for the conquerors. This unique spectacle is afforded by the sresenee ‘of Secrefiary Lamar at the head of the department of the Interior and consequently the arbitrator of Union pensions. Never before in history ditf the conquored s§)eak with enthusiasm of those rewards paid to the men who cortquered him; or declares that they might well be greater, and that they were the most sacred obliffations of the nation.—Detroit Free Press. .

'.° WE ARE SEVEN THOUSAND. Out of about 50,000 fourth-class postmasterships in the country the Democrats hold but 7,000, © Had the conditions been reversed—had a republican administration succeeded a democratic one—there would not now be a democratic postmaster ia office to tell the tale, -ﬁor would that have been the end of it. Republican 'Psalm-singers would have gone around months ago in sack-cloth and ashes asking forgiveness for not having been—able to smite the wicked Democrats even more expeditiously.—Boston Glabe. i

: A LAW THAT WILL TELL. : . Some of these days we will get a ligwor law, that no fool attorney, nor malicious one can misuse for the benefit of the law breakers whom it is designed to punish. If the Psalmist said in his haste, all men are liars, as the Good Book tells us -he did, it wouldn’t seem further out of the way for a Gentile of this generation to say in his wrath that ‘all our machinery of law is in league with the law-breaking liquor dealers. You may hang a man for murder, or at the ether end of the scale punish a hungry child for theft, easier than you shall pynish a saloon keeper for an open, {)alpable violation of the liguor law,—lndianapolis News. ;

.« PROHIBITION IN THE SOUTH. - . The northern - metropolitan papers are very much surprised at the growth and earnestness of Prohibition in the south.. They do not seem to understand ‘that it is the people who are making the prohibition fight and not a mere political affair; that, unlike the Maine, Towa and Nebraska Idea of'the law, which is merely a back door and drug store subterfuge,in the south prohibition does prohibit. There is no liquor law in the northern states enforced like the fourmile law in Tennessee. Even Kentucky 18 working in the matter and is fast assuming the lead as a. Prohibition state. Under theinfluence of this movement some of our worst counties have become among the most quiet and civilized.— Nashville Union. :

PARTISANSHIP A GLORIOUS THING. The truth is, this chatter about partisanship is imbecile. It originates with men who have no conception of the real duties of citizenship, .and who would haye no disposition to é)erform those : duties if t%ey did understand them. They are men whose chief ambition it is to constitute themselves a “balance of power” party. Too much pufted up wthh conceit to doa man's part in convincing and persuading men to accept their views, they denounce all who- do this necessary work as demagogues. Theéy are simply noisy nuisances. misplaced matter in our body politic, and a partisan like Mr, Hendricks was, is worth more to his country than ‘the whole ¢crowd of non-partisans.--New York Star. L :

~ COMPLIMENTS FROM A RERUBLICAN. “Judge McConnell, the young and talented associate justice who -distrib utes justiee in/the Fargo district, is making a record which promises to place him in the foremost rank of the jurists of the northwest. Since hisappointment, not many months ago,he has sentenced twenty-three criminals to the penitentiary in this city, and one of thegmost important murder trials=-in the history of the territory—that of Miller at Grand Forks —was most ably conducted by him during his first term of court in'that city. Inadministering justice he is expeditious and unswerving and in all his actions as a judge he has been a surprise, even{to his most enthusiastic admirers.”"—Bismarck, (Da ) Tribune (Rep) : ;

. CARRYING OUT HIS PROGRAMME. Since Mr. Cleveland has been Presi - dent we can not see that he has departed from the lines he had previously, laid down. No man, we think, has a right to complain that Mr. Cleveland, as President, has; in the slightest: respect failed to keep his promise as a candidate. The programme has been fullfilled in its spirit and its letter, and we_think it altogether wrong that any democrat should now complain. There is no proper occasion for either amazement or indighation toward the President. He is an upright man of clear principles and purposes, all ful}iy declared beforehand. Those who do not like his acts certainly have a right to criticise them, but tbeﬁ have no right to accuse him of anything looking toward treachery. If theﬁ are disappointed the fault is not his, but their own.— New York Sun. ‘

YES, SOME MORE PROTECTION. A gentleman named Louth, living in Pittsburg, has invented a process of converting old steel rails into nail plate which it is expected will decrease the cost of producing nails at least ten dollars a ton. So valuable was the discovery deemed that a syndicate was formed to purchase the patent, and Louth surrenders it on the payment toghim of $3OO a day for sixteen years. With this new Frocess of cheapening the production of nails, couple(i)e with the tariff of $25 per ton on cut nails, the manufacturers of that class of merchandise ought to be able to #oll up a few millions apiece in the course of time. Thne beauty of a protective tariff is that, no matter what improve - ments may be made in processes of manufactare, the public will derive no advantages therefrom. In spite of the Louth invention, il would not be surprising if the nailtmen should impor tune Congress this winter to give'tﬁgm aléittle more protection.— Chicago Herald. T AT R

Nothing Slow in This. Slowness is not a desirable quality in these business times. There is nothing slow about St. Jacobs Oil. It goes to the spot at onée and cures. No matter how serious the attack of rheumatism, how deep the cut, or how severe the wound, by its magical power it removes all pain. ’

. Settle Ups Settle Up, ' All persons knowinlg themselves fudebted to us are respectfully requested to call at once and. make settlement of their accounts. We musthave our money at once,. and take this method to ask our customers to settie what they may owe us. We are very thankful for your patronage, but must make our collections. : 19-tf - I BISTERHEN & SON.

Additional Local News.

~ MID"WEEK MUSINGS. = ~For many years, yea, many years I have been laboring under the impression that I could write for the Pa-, pers, and after much cogitating over the subject and no little coaxing upon the part of our whilom friend, the editor, I have consented to make my debut before the readers of what has always been a weekly visitor to the home of my childhocd. - Ido not enter ‘the task without misgiyings as tc the result, but I . feel that with considerable effort on my part and the kind indulgence of the many who will doubtless read my e¢ffusions from time to time I may be able to make at least a partial success of my undertaking. I do not expect to enter into any discussion of subjects not local and those that will not interest the average reader of this purveyor of news, neither, do I expect by hintor intnendo to ‘cast jany reflections upon the private life or affairs of any individual, holding as I do that the public printsof our day depart from their fisld where they enter the private life aud homes ot our citizens for food for scandal’s Longue. : o While my ideas may come in conflict with those of many of the readers, and perchance be antagonistic to those ef the editor himself, I will always endeavor to treat the subjects and persons as fairly as my consideration of one side of all subjects may allow. I will entertain any opinions contrary to mine, expressed in such a mannper as ‘to deserve notice, and will ac all times endeavor to meet any op position half way. Do not for a moment get the idea that I am going to devote my time and take up the valuable space of the BANNER tor the sole purpose of gratifying my own desire to see my twritings in print, or as I have heretofore intiniat.ed, to cause a gensation in society or cast reflections upon an enemy or bastow praise upon a friend, but for self culture’and what little I can do toward interesting mankind. I will endeavor to make my desertations short and to the point, keeping in mind the words of Pope: ’Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; : But, of the two less dangerous s offense - To tire our patience, than, mislead our sense, i Yol 3 % ok :

It might not be out of place for me to take notice of the one great question that now seems uppermost in the minds of theaverags inhabitant—that of a roller mill and the possibilities or proba‘?bility of anything growing out of the discussion of this interesting topic. Ycu may enter any of the stores of our town, where our people of the male -persuasion are wont to congregate, an@ you hear all of the changes rung upon this subjsct. About five out of ten take the position that water power as a profitable motor as a thing of the pas¢ where the possibilities are as construgcted as are found in the Rochester dam. They cite Goshen as an instance, giving it as a pointer that the largest ‘manufactoTies are there run by steam -power. Then, on the other hand, the five who favor the scheme of exlending the race are for‘tiﬁed wi.h various, and in some cases, pretty well considered arguments. They claim that the seven foot power oObtainable will do the work as regularly and much cheaper than steam can ’possibly be made to perform the work at hand. 1 will admis that there are certainly two sides to this most important question, and it only remains to be seen upon which side the monied interestsof our vicinity will array' itself. The people who 'can not furnish the “sinews of war” may talk and argue but what will the fellows who hold the strings to the money bags do, is the question of the hour. It the plan is feasible ‘the opportunity will not be allowed to slip, that is if some one sees an opening to better his financial condition.

A young lady remarked in my presence a few days ago that about all ‘the young men are leaving Ligonier, and the'query at once rose in my mind, why is it? It did not take many minutes however for me to come to a conclusion upon the subject, and not having answered the aferesaid young lady, I will take this opportunity to call attention to the causes that lead to the derth of young men in our town. There is none at present, nor has there been for some years any opportunity afforded to the young fellows growing up-among us to obtain employment. No manufacturing establishments to be supported, not even a saw mill that affords steady employment. The trades are full tooverflowing, and if a young man essays to learn a trade heis ¢iscouraged from the very start by the stories of no work and hard times. In another regard our town is peculiarly situated. Ouar merchants go out of town for their clerks and in that way drive Just as many young men from our midst. . In factthere is nothing here to attract a young man and everything to take him away. Will our people soon realize that our best young blood is daily going, never to be again part or parcel of our once well populated town?' Who can notf look back ten or fifteen yvars and feel that the changes since that time have not wrought much good to our community ?

It ig seldom if ever that I go into the saloons of our town but when I doI am a close observer, While I am .very liberal in my views upon the question of the treffic in liquor, I have about ecome to the conclusion that in a large measure the saloonists are to blame for the condition of public sentiment, and that it will continue to grow as long as those who are in the business will persist in violating the laws and to disregard the entreaties of interested friends. But, in this connection I might call atten—tion to the fact that the saloon keepers of this town have suddenly become very strict and have ente red into an agreement to not allow gaming in their establishments. No ‘card playing or dice throwing will be allowed, and we have heard that the contract is for one year. In other words, the individuals. who own the saloons haveagreed among themselves to not violate the law for one year, The cracksman who enters your house and steals your purse is kept from repeating the act by being confined ﬁl prison, but these offenders of the la not do so any, more for one year bc ;

causé ‘somebody else will not. That ‘contract should have contained several other clauses, providing for closed doors (back doors) on Sunday, the exclusion, of minors, the refusal of liguor to ‘men who are in the habit.of gettingintoxicated. In factit should ‘have contemplated a strict ‘compliance with the ‘statute under. which the permit to sell the stuff is granted, fiers ‘ *** i A

.An aged Democrat met me.on the street a few days ago and. calling my attention to the robust form of a well koown republican who - is in the ser: vice of his couniry in a capacity that makes him an excellent living, remarked, that he thought that he haa heard the boys doing some pretty enthusiastic yelling just after Clevelatd was declared elected, and the query has many times arose in his mirdwhat were the boys yelllr g about * Of course I went into detail to explain that eyen if we had only succeede 1 in keeping Jim Blaine out it was enough ‘to make the boys happy. But this did ‘notsatisfy our old friend, as was to be seen from his looks, and for his benefit I will append the following in rhyme that certainly will °give him the reasons as advanced by the fellows who fought for the cflices azd now fight to kéep them:

We know the people ruled us out, butstill we lingerin; = . = ; To loose the jobs we kept 80 long would surely be a sin, = We know our precious places well, have got the points down finé, & And can’t afford to die, or even te resign; : A For oh! you know, ' ‘ We donot want to go. . | We fought to geg_g_he offices, and fought to keep ‘them, too, =~ F FEel And did to help the party all that anxious men could do. : | We got them and we kept them, say for twenty years or more, e ‘Which gives us our prescriptive right to add . another score; ; _° 7 Andso, you know, & . We do not want to go. } We favor every true retorin, and that you need not doubt. But not the quite unpleasant kind . that wouid reform us out, : ‘We like reform that works upon the simple | ‘Mugwump plan, v Which means that no one must disturb a good ’ Republican. - : L For lo! you know, ke ‘ We do not want to go. ] The Democrats who want our jobs can scarcely be restrained, / But stronger yet is our desire to keep what we have gained, b As long as we are let alone we mean to stay and szay, To serve the Administration in a Civil-Serv;ce way. N :

And crow, you know, Because we do not go. : - My old friend may not be satisfied with the above, and I am sure I could name several others in my large circle of acquaintances that harbor an idea that the Democrats gre entitled to the places and shou!d have them—senti-mental-ity or no santimentality.

&olden Eagle Captured Near Goshen. Mi. J. D. Comstock, of Jefferson township, writes the Elkhart Review, giving the particanlars of how he eaptured an eagle a few days since,on his farm a few miles north of that place. He first discovered the eagle on a tree, but did not know what it was. Having a revolver with him, he fired, and wounded it in the wing, and when it attempted to fly, fell to the ground. After a stubborn fight, in which he was assisted by Charles Betts, he captured it, but says it “fought us fiercely in our attempts to capture it, striking with its wings, and threatening us with its beak and talons, whenever we came near, and it required- considerable strategy before we were enabled to seiza it, first by the tips of its long wings and then to- grasp it by the neck and iegs, thus securing ourselves from danger, The eagle had evidently just dined, for he.had not yet, as the vulgar would say “wiped off his chin,” his beak having traces of blood and flesh still upon it, which he probably smeared there while feasting off the sheep which were killed by the dogs. We took him- to the house, and he measured from tip to tip over six feet.” e :

Good Results in Every Case. .D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of {Jhattanooga, Tenn., writes, that he was seriously afflicted with a seyvere cold that settled on lungs: had tried many remedies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, did so and was entirely cured by useof a few bottle. Since which time heha: used it in his family for all Coughs and Colds with best results. This is the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this wonderful discovery. Trial bottles free at Will McDonald’s drug store. 5-11-Iy.

Ed Harrington, who is accused of taking improper liberties with little girls at Jonesville, Indiana, was taken to the woods Thursday night by a mob, given a terrible beating and warned to leave the country.

: An End to Bone Scraping. : Edwin Shepherd, of Harrisburg, 111., says:“Having received so much ‘benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it is my duty to let suffering humanity know it. Having had arunningsore on my leg for eight yeais; my doctors told ma I would have to havethe bone scraped or leg amputated. I used, instead, three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklens Arnica Salve, and my leg is now sound and we 11.,” Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents a bottle; and Bucklen’s. Arnica Salve at 25 c. per box by Wm. McDonald.

Rheumatism - 1t s an established fact that Hood’s Sarsaparilla has proven an invaluable remedy in many severe cases of rheumatism, effecting remarkable cures by its powerful action in correcting the acidity of the blood, which is the cause of the disease, and purifying and enriching the vital fluid. At is certainly fair to assume that what Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done for others it will do for you. Therefore, if you suffer the pains and aches of rheumatism, give this potent remedy a fair trial.

A Positive Cure. : “I was troubled very much with rheumatism in my hips, ankles, and wrists. I could hardly walk, and was confined to my bed a good deal of the times Being recommended to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, I ‘took four bottles and am perfectly well. 1 cheerfully recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla as one of the best blood purifiers in the ‘world.” W. F. Woop, Bloomington, Il e For Twenty Years \‘ I have been afflicted with rheumatism. Before 1883 I found no relief, but grew worse. I then began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and it did me more good than all the other medicihe I ever had.” 'H. T. BALcoM, Shirley, Mass, ““1 suffered from what the doctors called museuiar rheumatism. I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla and am entirely cured.” J. V. A. ProudFoOT, letter carrier, Chicago, 111, We shall be glad to send, free of charge. to all who may desire, a book containing many additional statements of cures by 5

Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for §6.: Made _only by C: I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. - 100 Doses One Dollar. R e L ey

NEWS DIGEST. - A golden eagle was wounded and captured near Elkbart, Indiana. : . Senator Fair purchased the South ny’aciﬂc ‘Coast railway for $5,000,000. . The legislature of Kentucky met Wednesday and elected Charles Offutt speaker. - / ~ Joseph C. Rankin, the Wisconsin congressman, lies at.the point of death in Washington. = ~ ‘A vein'of petroleum has béen discovered at Park Hill,"Ontario, 175 feet below the surface. - - Seic . Ira Fish, the first white settler inthe vicinity of Kal;u'%gzoq, “celebrated his golden wedding Wednesday. ~ = An eruption-of the volcano of Colima, Mexico, has caused %reat alarm among' the residents in that vicinity. ‘Workmen boring for gas at a village near Findlay, Ohio, struck a vein“of Jight petroleym at a depth of 780 feet. - “Jimmy” Kain; a notorious sporting character of Pitisburg, shot dead on the street a young mulatto named John Wright. 0 s ° _Compulsory vaccinalion is now the order of the day-inm Montreal, where. ' $llB,OOO has been spent in combating small-pox. . \H. G. Kemper, who kept a small grocery store in Barr street, Cincinati, was murdered Tuesday night for 50 cents. . 5 Peter B. Sweeney, oune of the old Tweed gang, arrived in New York Wednesday, agcompanied. by his wife apdson. ; e The:specie imported at New York last week was $584,985, while the exorts aggregated $142,168 in silver and '2’732 il gold. g ke " The railway track laid in the United States during the year just closed aggre{gated 3,113 miles, Missouri leading with 282 miles. . - < The unfinished Casino, on Connecticut avenue, Washington, is to be com-. i){leted by the did of L. Z. Leiter and obert Garrett. | The people of northern Colorado and Wyoming are pelitioning the Union Pacific company to reopen the Colorado Central road. | Jasger E. Sweet, who= fatally shot Dr. Waugh in Chicago, has been°fermally sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at Joliet. : ;

A collision on the Michigan Central road, near Carrollton, caused the death of Fireman F. Mooney and fatally injured Robert C. Mills. ol The tvaxpayers of Niles, Michigan, have voted to bond the city for $65.000 to erect -public buildings, in order to secure the county seat. _ ‘C. C. Buel, who expired Wednesday at Sterling, lilinois, served in the 14th lowa regiment and was a staff officer under General A. J. Smith. : A freight engine running backward in the yard at Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday night, killed James Turner, a nephew of Senator Brown. . "A tobacco factory in Quincy, Illinois, claims to be the first 1o adopt the eight-hour system of labor without changing the rate of wages. ' - Edward Livermore, formerly a stockbroker in New York, who owes $400,000, bas been lod%ed in jail under an execution against his person. % - A jury in the circuit court at Washington awarded Frank Sprin%man $12,000 for being: crippled for life on the Baltimore and Potomac road. The great strike of river colliers at Pittsburg is practically at an end. Two thousand men are at work at the reduced rate of 23 cents per bushet. - The postmaster at L.ag Lunas, New Mexico, after having refunded $4,028 of excessive compensation on stamp account, has been marked for removal. B. A. Olney,a millionaire of Watervliet, Michigan, fled to California to avoid service of papers in a slander suit for $50,000 brought by Mrs. Jaqg Morley. e Major Goodfellow, judge advocate of the d%pa‘rtment of the Missouri, who died Tuesday. at Fort Leavenworth, was a member of Dr. Kane’s Aretic expedition. T ]

A London correspondent represents that five hundred . Americans in that city are only kept alive by alms, and subscriptions for the unfortunate are daily cireulated. ‘ Two organ-grinders in New Orleans leaned against an electric-light pole in St. Charles street. One was. killed instantly, and the other had his head burned to a crisp. i A jury at Sidnef',‘ Nebraska, convicted James Rennolds of killing James and John Pinkston with an ax, at their’ homestead claim, . having disguised himself as a negro. 5 In the police court at Cincinnati, Oliver Doud Byron was convicted of violating the law prohibiting theatrical performances on Sunday. Sentence was not pronounced. J. L. French, who was recently a recruiting officer in Chicago, was arrested in Windsor, Ontario, for for§ing» checks. -He refuses to return and be treated as a deserter. ' : At the Gartside coal mine, near Bélleville, - Illinois, . early Saéurday morning, William Massey was shot through the head by an assassin, believed to be a woman. . St. Louis has a hair-dresser who has applied for a patent on an invention by which passengem and freight maf be received and discharged from railway trains in full motion.

Joseph C. Litzelman, a scion of one of the wealthiest families in Jasper countg, Illinois, is charged with havigﬁ forged paper amounting to $lO,OOO a left his family destitute. : | The striking miners of the second pool, near Pittsburf, have established a camp at Coal Valley, and will remajn in that vicinity to prevail upon those at work to join the strike. . Lieutenant Jones, of the 4th United States artillery, having overstaid his leave of absence abcut a week, shot himself dead at Fort Adams rathsr than suffer court-martial. J udﬁe Zane, .of Salt Lake, impos wpon Brigham Young Hampton a sentence of one year in the county jail, after scoring him with comments o! his course as a conspirator. - The people. of Oregon and the contiguous territories have already commenced to protest against the reductions in the mail service proposed by ‘Postmaster-General Vilas. *Pug” O’Leqry,.thﬁ murderer of his mlstx{:ess and his sistét in Chicago last fall, received a sentence of ‘forty years in Joliet prison at the hands of Jyudge Shepard, after pleading guilty. . Wilham Lester, the manager of Sullivan, the pugilist, has been arrested in New York for failing to support his ;mf?. He states that she threatened 'his life unless he gave her $lOO.

The commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal report a considerable decrease in receipts for the year, owing to the strike of ?uarrymen last. spring in the vicinity of Joliet. | The steamer W. D. Chipley was sunk’ in the Chattahoochee river, near Fort Gaines, Georgia, on Saturday night. Of fifty passengers on board the corpses of ' six havé been recovered. The Ohio Yacht club, or%;anized at Toledo bly‘ wholesale merchants -and %ram-,dea ers, has aﬁeed to purchase xuard Island, in Maumee bay, on which to erect an imposing club-house. A dining-room girl at Crestline, Ohio, named Dell Fahey, gave birth to an illegitimate child when unattended,. and flung it into a stove. The crime Bvash discovered by the odor of burning esh. Typhoid fever prevails in the penite‘ntiag at Albany, where there are | Beven hundred prisoners. Six deaths have occurred within the past week, and the hospital contains thirty serious cases. R. T. Cooney, belonging on_board the man-of-war Manhattan, lying off City Point, Virginia, gave away his watch and a diamond rmg. severdd an artery in his wrist, and slowly bled to death. The city of Pitisburg sold to one of its own ba.nkm%-houses 4 per cent. refunding bonds to. the amount of $3,100,000 at a premium of $5.67. The -proposals covered five times the amount desired. i it : ' The Ohio Central road, which was ’recentli sold under foreclosure, hag taken the title of the Kanawha and Ohio. All the offices of the road have been removed to Charleston, West Virgini&. 2 i “ Georgg_-Whit,co,mb‘, who_stole $l,OOO from the safe in the Northwestern { depot at Green Ba.*3 last month and i ‘matried a lady at Big Suamico, was | run down b{.a detective, and made a | full confession. : ] A fire in New Orleans Sunday consumed the Southern hotel, on the cor- | ner of Julia and v_Catonﬁ,elet streets, .ﬁgimgrly:occupied by grenemli lganks as ’ _headquarters. Inusician was | b ,eﬁg}w& o i - Maxwell, .the alleged murdersr of [

earth. = A woman has been summoned | fronHong Kong, : =@« . = Judge J. D. Caton, one of the famous | gi!oneers prvhmmms,‘ ﬁaﬁm suffered pl;tmmovh , :: Cg. catarac fromhxs - right eye by a Chicago surgeon, and | gaa %r:texs to spend some days in bed | in a darkened room. © = S - Thomas Green, of Palmyra, Wis consin, has refused food for the pas fifteen days, 1n order to become sanctified. Rev. William Pate claims to have eaten only on two occasions during the same period. ; e ‘The body of ’John'McCullou%h will | be finally interred at Philadelphia, although a lodge of Elks in St. Louis ‘has offered $lO,OOO with which to erect ‘a monument should the remains be transferred to that city. E The good name of aladg in Accomae county, Vin%gua, was called in %ues-» tion by areckless man. A _ring« ght with her affianced husband followed, with forty %pectators._the result being the death of the offender. Pasteur, of Paris, has eradfcated all gmptdms of hydrophobia from the Newark children:sent across the Atlantic by charitable lgeogle, and he has inoculated Messrs. Kaufman and Sattler, also from New Jersey. » Four colored laborers were killed at Mobile by a boiler explosion in the oil-| mills.. Two young men lost their lives by a similar accident at New Providence, Pennsylvania, where forty-seven j/animals were roasted alive.: A veterinary surgeon at Newark, New : Jersey, having received from New York the bodies of a dog and four cats afflicted with the rabies;has | inoculated a rabbit with the virus, and proposes to imitate Pasteur. - = . Three wooden dwellings erected in Boston in the' early part of the eighteenth century, from whose' windows a garty of British otlficers witnessed the ‘battle of Bunker Hill, aye being demolished to give place to gas-works. A coach containing® seven ladies and children was overturned near Burlington, Vermont, and was set on firp by the breaking of a kerosene lantern. ﬁll the ‘occupants were badly burned, rs. Revar receiving terrible injuries. William M. Price, who was chair‘man of the-Maryland democratic state .dommittee in the Garfield campaign, having' been' exonerated from the charge of writing the Morey letter, has’ been admitted to the bar at Pittsburg. During a misunderstanding at Ap--{»letoi], Wisconsin, Julia Giskie shot ’eter Armstrong dead and thre:tened the life of Policeman Gulden. She seemed to think they intended to force an entrance into her house at night. = William Dale, instructor:in' a gymnasium at Binghamton, New: York, swung seven—gound Indian clubs for four hours and fifty minutes. ' In & bicycle contest at Minneapolis, Woodside made 296 miles in twenty-eight hours. Edwin P. Linville, a highly-respected: citizen of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, died Monday from wounds in- | flicted long since by the Buzzard gang of burgliars, who tortured him until he revealed the hiding-place of his money. The Canadian minister of customs has decided that the patent-medicine firm of Ayer & Co.; of Lowell, Massachusetts, must paj duties of $150,000 on products entered within three years at several ports for below their real value. | - : Frank Roland has been arrested at Galesburg, Illinois, for taking $2,900 from the safe of an express company at Brinkley, Arkansas. About $2,000 of the amount and some missing “jew-elég‘-have been recovered and identifies : . o : Secretary Manning has erdered the dispatch from San Francisco of either the Rush or the Corwin, revenue steamers, in search of the missing whaler Amethgst.‘ The relief boat will put in .at Oonalaska for coal and other supplies. s The internal revenue receipts in the Peoria, 1111., district for December amounted to $1,189,423, and during the same time there were shipped. for export 1,435 packages. The collections for the six months ending Dec. 31st

were $8,188,333. ° ‘ . Extradition. papers have been forwarded to Canada for Lance Sergeant French, of the recruiting servige in Chicago, who forged indorsements on checks from the war department. His relatives are all wealthy and reputable citizens of Onio. . ~ The district attorney at Omaha has been instructed by the attorney general to commence civil and criminal groceedings _against ten persons who ‘have inclosed eighty theusand acres of public lands, having first given due notice to the offenders. : ~ Captain Howard, of the Connecticut militia, who commanded the Gatling guns used by the Canadian forces in the Riel rebellion, denies the rumor that hé scalped a dead Indian, but admits that he\cli{)")ed a Jock from the head of young White Cap. A The river improvement convention held at Kansas City passed resolutions recommending appropriations for - a light-house system from that wcity to Fort Benton, and the passage of a law declaring the Arkansas river navigable from Fort Riley to its mouth. i s ... The fact has just leaked out' that at El Paso a party of twelve men undertook to wreck with dynamite the Southern Pacific Tailroad bridge and rob the gassengers on the express train for San Francisco. The train was delayed un-

til daylight when the robbers- fled. A fourth attemgt has been made by unknown parties to destroyfhé ancient dike protecting fifteen hundred acres of meadow at Marshfield, Massachusetts. Thgee boxes of dynamite were exploded this time, but only fifteen fe%’]of the structure was blown out. . e Toledo, Cincinnati: and St Louis road was sold under foreclosure Wednesday.. The- St. Louis division went at $901,000 and the Toledosection at $600.000, the Seney syndicate being the purchasers. The entire system is to be reorganized as a standard-guage road. The setd-house of D. M. Ferry & Co., in Detroit, covering half a square on Brush street, was destroyed by fire Friday. 'The losses are estimated at $l,500,000. Four hundred persons were emploved in the building. Fire Captain Richard Filban was killed by a falling wall.' : The maximum estimate of the value of the estate left by William H. Vanderbilt did not exceed $200,000,000.. ' A statement, however, has been published ‘‘that a careful countof the securi?ies in the Vanderbilt safe in the vaulfs of the Lincoln National Bank shows an aggregate of $305,000,000.” - - 2 ~ The federal court at St. Louis is about to be presented with. the report of the master in the Wabash case, and’ a reorganization of that road may be expected 1n March. The liabilities on 1,561 miles of track are $43,654,675, and In a new deal the fixed charges would remain about $5 500,000 per annum. : . John B. Raymond, formérly delegate 1n congress from. Dakota, died Sunday ‘at Fargo, in_his 4lst year. He was a private in the Illinois regiment comlanded by John A. Logan; subsequeng‘y published the Pilot at Jackson, Mississippi, and was agpointed’ by President Hayes marshal of Dakota. A leak in the gas-mains at Kingston,* | Ontario, was allowed to continue until | several families were prostrated from ‘g‘ts effects. ¢ J. Sharp, an aged citizen, |is dead; his wife is still unconscious, and the fa_mi_lg of a shoemaker named Lavis ‘lB not expected to recover: | Many houses have been deserted tem|porarily. st i

| The attorney for B. Y. Hamfton,‘ ithe convicted conspirator of Salt Lake, gresented to the court a certificate rom a physician that the health of the loffender would he endangered by imprisonment. McMurrin, who attempted to assassinate Deiuty Marshal Col[lin, arose from a sick couch and dis|appeared. = |, An Italian residing in Victoria, Britiish Columbia, undertook to transport seven Chinamen to the shore of Washington territory. Seeing an American [revenue cutter in the distance, he dispatched his passengers one by one, theaved their corpses overboard, and met the. Yankee tars without the }twi.teh of a muscle. : | Christian Ritter, a furniture-dealer \at. Milwaukee, has caused the arrest of |Adolph Schoenleber, a wealthY Ger/man citizen, for criminal libel, and |will sue him for $lO,OOO damages.. It is believed that similar actions against | ;Schoenlebet will be commenced Abe C. Ness & Co. and Assemblyman John LeGrand, for writing libelous letters. . Suit has been brought by the Illinois ‘Central company fo restrain the. |Chic;}go,:~ Burlington and Northern [road rom condemning a narrow strip (of land opg'ostte Dubugque, contaihing I&hﬁ;’tgen :; les ogéah% Central’s trgcke; ‘which was gran y congress for a. 'railroad an_t!g public.highwag,'to be for-. ever free from charge for the transpor- | tation of federal property or troops.

at Topeka for gﬁe Chicaﬁo,xumas and Nebraska ratl\fag,‘ with a capital stock of $15,000,000, which: proposes to bnild a line and six branches aggregating seven hundred miles in length, Tpe’-mcorgqrators are closely identified with ‘the Rock Island road. The main track: is to run from Larkin, Kansas, -through nine counties, including Reno. William H. McNeil, president of the Lancaster National Bank "at Clifton, Massachusetts, disuppeared last Tuesda% evening, and has since been shown to be a defaulter for $100.600 or xore. He was also one of the receivers of a savings “bank, which had $60,000 on hand. He is known:to have invested large amounts in cattle cmeanies, and is believed to have -speculated recklesgly, ot i R ‘A gentleman recently -from California, in discussing the race to the ‘Pacific coast between the Burlington, Northwestern, and Santa Fe roads, ‘stat%es that the, former. has-secured an ‘'optipn on the California and Nevada road, with a terminus on the bay of San Francisco and rights ‘of = way .through the interior counties. It is not improbable that the Norihwestern will lease the Central Pacific, with which it expects toeconnect at Ogden within six months, as it is pushing’ westward at-the rate of a.mile per day. The Southern Pacific company is said to have'offered the.Santa Fg managers an opportunity to use its”tracks on very advantageous terms. . S A e WMo A

- |WASHINGTON. : ‘ ’gecretnry Manning has -issued ,a ecall for $10,000,000 of 3 per cent bouds, interest to cease on February 1. ; Ll James W. Wallaee, of Tennessee, and John G. Townshend, of Maryland, have been appointed Spicial Examiners in the Pension Office. - e e Thepublic débt decroas»l $989.640 during December. The portion bearing interest amounts to 81,260,778, 662, and the total IS LSS TR RIS, 0t e e George V. Brown, recently appointed at thev]aort of Negw York, is charsed by S, D, Phelps, a representative ¢onimerciil man of %hat.cit.y, wi:h incompetsney and. dishones!y. & # . = % & i o President Cleveland has' sent.to Senator: Voorhees a letter commeinding the movement for a monument to Vice President. Hendricks, and asking to be considered a contributor to the funmd. - : .. Commissioner-Sparis’ Iras sissned reculations modifying his recent radiéal orders as to claims for publhic lands.. He. cotnplains that gritieisms of his condyet cinanate from parties itoo deepky interest din hisdeeisions to be fgir. mad i :

The Cherokees ate said to ha areatly excited over-the bills infrodue-d in congress for the a'lotment of "lguds and the settiement of Ifdian Territory.” The Creeks and Seminoles are réady to sell part ot their domain Yo the whites o 2ese i aisatin o ~ In_giving the. reasons for his letter regarding the press; President Cleveland eited the falsehooi telezraphed from. San Francisco, causing great excitement, that he liad ‘sent troops to. protect'the Indians on- the San Carles reservation, . S

.The Sceretary of the Tieasury has issued a circular letter to the Colleetor of Customs extending the provistons of Article 1,138 of reculations of 1834, in-which. collecbors are given diseretionary, power to rémit the assessment of daties in cases where the dutiabie value of an importation is less than $l, 80 as to caover articles ‘contained in ‘passengers’ baggage where the amount of duties does not'exceed $2. @ e

President ‘Cleveland, at his New Year reception, was assisted by his sister and the wives of Secretaries Bayard, Manning, and Whitney, and of Postmastér Vilas,. Seecretary Lamar is on a holiday visit to-the south. Three neices of Samuel J. Tilden stood beside Miss Manning. Migs Cleveland was robed in crimson velvet. The diplomatic corps,outdid itself in.colors and decorations. Over six ~thousand persons shook -hands with the president.- -'*. .- = : Thomas. Aecton, ' stib-treasurer at. New York, was last f'fhnrsda§ ‘o¥lered to surrender his office to'N. C.: Jordan, treasurer ot the United States. He ‘at oncg solicited an opinion from George Bliss dnd Elihu Root, who advised him not to turn over his trust to. any person not nominated by the president and confirmed b§ the senate. le therefore sent I'véasurer Jordan a Kindly protest against his assumption of the eontrol of the oftice, But Mr. Jordan relieved the bondsmen by breaking the seals.and commencing business. et

The temperance people are going to try to get through congress this- session some measure that will restrict or prohibit thesale of liquor in. the district’of Columbia. "Two bills will be introduced, one providing for local option in the district and the other for a-high: license of probably $5OO. One or the other they think will pass.- The objection of ‘most of the mémbers to the first (I)roi)osmon is that the question to be decided by a vote of the residents; and there is a strong opposition in congress to anything that looks like the elective franchise in t%le district, experience having shown sem that the results had were far from Fatisfactory. - ; S Coean ' Although the authorities are unwilling to make public at this:juncture the reasons which prompted John Bizelow to decline the office of Assistant 'l'reasurer at New York, to which he was recentiy nominaied and immediately confirmed by the Senate, it is an olpen secret that the position was neither to his taste.nor seeking. Mr. BigeJow’s education and habits of life are entirely literary, and, at his advanced: age, monetary responsibility jis utterly: abhorrent. He naturally expected that if any Eublic office were tendered him it would ave been in the line of . his tistes and. experiences,. possibly a first elass diplomatie mission or the Collectorship of Cusioms at *New York. . = ° ST

o THE POSTAE DEFICIT Got At thé close .of the fiscal year‘,endin;é June. 80, 1885, Postmaster-General Vilas had to face a ‘deficit in his .departinent of $B,881,571, At the end of the fiscal year of 1884, under Arthwr’s admirfistration, there was .a deficit of $5,246,951, while for the previous year ending June - 30; 1833, " there was a net smc'Flus of $1,081,238. - "L'he largely increased déficit shich occurred last year is due to the reduction. in postage from 8 cents.to 2 cents, but:these figures evidently disturb Mr. Vilas. He has determined to make the defieit less next year b¥ retrenchment, and has largely reduced the -service in the far west. - From ‘l'hompson . Falls, Montana, to Eagle City, ldaho, the. service has been cut down from daily to tri-weekly. Pefitions are daily. arriving. from small places protesting.against any change.

: GENERAL STATIBTICS, & The estimate of the statistican of “the department of agriculture- for thie principal cereal erops of the year are c_om‘%mted,' and the agzrega,te bushels are as follows, in round millions: Corn, "1,636; wheat, 357; oats, 629.. The area. of corn is ’73600,00(’ acres; of wheat, 84,6.0,000; of oats, 23,000;000. 'The value,of corn averages nearly 33 cents 08511' bushel, and malkes an ageregate of $635,000,000—55,000.000 less. than the value of the Jast crop. “The decrease in the product of wheat-is 80 per cent., ‘and only=l7 li‘er cent. in valuation, which is $275,900,000. he valuation of oats' is $180,000,000. The reduction of wheat is mostly in the -valley of the Ohio; and in California. The states of Ohio, fndiana-. - Illinois, " Missouri.and Kansas last year produced 170,000,000 bushels; this year 80,000,000, a reduction of 90, 000,000 busliels. 'The production of all cereals is 53 bushels to eaelr inhabitant, and the aggregate volume is larger than in any former;year. Lo ey U :

. =4V PENSIONS, ~ The pension bureau is in receipt. of thousands of letters from all parts of the country indicating the existense of a widespread but erronous impression that the recent decision of the supreme court in the case of Mvs. Hattie A. Burnett vs. The United States would: bring -about -almost: total change in the rates of pensions allowed to widows of soldiers of the late war. The ‘decision, which was rendered by Justice Hanlan, on the contratliy, sustains the praetice of ‘the pension office. - Mrs.- Burnett’s husband, -Gen. Ward H. Burnett, whs allowed a pension of $72 a month bf' a special act of congress -on account of his totally helpless condition, due to wounds received during the Mexican war. The widow ‘was. allowed a pension of $3O in accordance with the provisions of the ¥enpral law. She, however, appealed to the court of claims, claiming the same awount per month that her husband had received. That courtin its decision TR 2 ]

; THE TREAS RY. - . . " The financial statement: for ote-halt of the fiscal year and three-fourths of the first year of the new administration has {)ust; been made up. The receipts for December, 1885, are nearly $3,000,000 greater than . for December, 1884, and for the six months sinee July 1 the receifpts of 1885 ‘aré nea,rlf7 $4,000,000 in excess of 1884 The expenditures for December, 1885, weré nearly $7,000,000 less than for December, *1884; and for the six months since July the ‘expenditures in 1885, “were $8,7:0,000 less 't_hag: in 1834, The excess.of receipts over exp®nditures in the last half of 1834 was $24.206,712," and for the last half of 1885 §36,720 A 7 a gain for 1885 of $12,523,505; For the half year the rec(%i&)ts from customs show *a gain of $8,250,000, internal revenue. over $2,000,000, and the miscellaneous receipts show a falling off of $1,750,000. The ordinary expenditures show a reduction of -$10,000,000 and the interest payments a reduction of $500,000, while the payment of gg{slons shows fn increase of nearly $2,(00,000. - saln

v USED THIS. LANGUAGE . The widow becomes entitled to a pension; not necessarily at the same rate her husband was entitled to, but the rate he ‘woutld ‘have been - entitled to if his 'claim were founded upon what im the pension law is technically called “‘total disability.” = The degree of disability bX'whicfb._hls pension was rated makes no difference with the widow’s right. After death all degrees of disability are considered b{) law one and the same—to - wit, “total disability,” . and. the rate of pension given to that grade becomes the rate of {)enslon for the widow. The pensions to’ living soldiers are granted acicording to their respective” incapacity to -Ferfonn manual labor, ‘When the disability 8 total, $3O a month is civen a 8: an: eqnivalent. A pension of $3O a mont'h,,the,sug posed .e(%uivalent‘ton “total disapility,” is granted the widow. ST et The decision of .the United States supreme eourt, which has been so much mise understood. .simlpiy affirms the judgment af the court of claims. and the :

mmbyreeelﬁ%d'tﬁémcﬁmﬁ% highest tribunal intheland. = © T ;' QOLD AND SILVER MOVEMENT., . = - The treasurer’s statement of the government assets and liabilities Indicates uo. great - change d-uru:ig ‘December in 'the - ‘amount of gold and silver owned by the government, ‘The net gold nwnedeobgv the . government on Dec. 31 was $147,001,808, and on Nov. 30 if was $146,391,435, an increase of §1,600,322 during the month, of $%7,792,952 in six months, and $20,645,255 sincs Mareh 1. Of silver dollars and bullio there was a slight falling off during December, .Of “this -item the goyernment owned $:6,3.5,765 on Dec. 81, which is 8113{ ; £67 less than a year ago. The decrease is all ‘in builion. There is an inecrease in the number of silver dollars'held. There is an . increase of -siiver dollars and bullion of $8.414,714 since July 1 and of $30,251,580 | since March 1. ‘These comparisons show that the movement of zold out of'the {freasury and of silver into it which was rapidly going on a year ago continued for the first - two or three months after the new administration came in, but spent the greater part of its force gbout the Ist of July, and since ‘that-additions have been made to the stock - of gold, and tne rate at’ which’ siiver was pilingu{)in the freasury vaults has been | materiaily reduced, uu il at last-for Decem= ber there was a simall diminution in the amount of siiver. g Y

= _ ~ THE INDIAN PROBLEM. - S[iecinl attention having been drawn to the Indian problem by the tréatment of the - subjeet in Secretary Lamnr’s annual repors, ~it has become a topic of frequent conversation among national legislators, and indiga--tions‘are that congress will adopt new and . earnest measures for seftlement of the ‘question. | Mr. Holman, of "Indiana, will soon submit to congress a report of the observa- ~ tions of the commission of which he was’ chairman, and he says :he will recommend .that the reservation system be abandoned,. with’a’few exesptions where it is impraeti--able now, and that & commssion be ap‘_}mmted- by the president to apportion the ands in seéveralty among the .members of ~tribes that are sufficiently advanced'in eivis Lization to justify the beiief that the plan would be successful. . Ch .. Senator Dawes, who has alwaysaffected a . Special guardianship of the weli-fare of the Indian raee, has come to the conclusion that the only way to solve the })mbh-m ig to. absorb the Indjans into the bogdy po itic and that the first step is to deal wfﬂ; themn asin- - dividuals, not as tribes. B : Senator Van Wyck has taken hold of the question.as he finds it in the lixdian Territory, and,prolpo‘scs that the mational government shall assume! (hréct authority, - thereby organizing the territory with a full corps of oivil officers, but he does not pro'Yose to interfere with the tribal courts and local Indian authorities. = 4 S Mr. Townsend, of llinois, has also made a move in the same direction, but would accomplish the object by diff:rent means, He says he regards the Indian problem ‘as one Cof the most important questions, prcssmﬁ' for intellizent congressionataction. Al the previous plans adopted bP'» the government have faiied to produce the desired results, but it has been demonstrated. that if Bl‘O])L‘[’ methods are adopted the Indians ean e civilized and made self-supnorting. .He says if they are taught how to labor and the vaiue of property they will not desivei to 'go on the'war-path, and ‘may in tinie become usetul mewmbers of society. A'he first step should be to make them eitiz ns. There are many million seves of land s2t apart to-the Indiang which ithey ean never us». The propear courseé to pursue, he.eays, is to break - up their tribal reiation, ;ut thni under the protection of the law, and . migke them amenable to its penalties, allot to each of them a sufficient quantity of iand to enable '111?111 by ‘incustrious habits to maintain themselves as individual members. of society, and dispose of the remainder of the land to actual settlers, and appropriate the proceeds of' the sales for their education and support,

- INOREIGN. . S A London cablegram . states that Russia and Austria have ordered from England large military stores. L s - Thesarmy of Peru has been reduced to 8,000 men.: In the late revolution Caceres commanded thrat n@mber and Igesias led 1,000,z ot ; : i . « The-German ci)nsu’l general at Shaughai reports that the-Chinese government has accepted the offer of Enplmld and American companies to furnish stgel rails. S 1t is stated by the Pall Mall Gazette that Gladstone is ready to entertain proposals from the marquis of Salisbury for joint action on the question of home rulé. s ‘Paris cablegrams report a wide breach between Grevy and Brisson. Whether De Freycinet will attempt to form a ministry’ is not yet known. 'Ths burning question is what shall be done with Tonquin and Madagaseai? Nt e s ey -Princess Colonna, of Pavis, nee Eva Mackay, gave birth to a son last week, A magnificent outfit for the infant has been received from San Francisco. The christening dress is entirely eomposed of antique point &’ Alencon, " : President Grevy declines to acespt the resignation of Brisson, the French premier. De Freyeinet will not attempt to form a cahinet, and it is probable that should Brisson insist on retirement Floguet or Goblet wiil be summoned to duty. : g

A branch of the army of the false prophet is-said to be advaneing to the northward of* Khartoum. The British troopsat the fort number seventeen thousand, and the de--. fenses of the Nile delta are in tine condi~ ¢ tion. General Stephenson is to take the field with a force of thirty thousand men. iThe whig peers of England, headed by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Hartington, announce their determinatien to make a hot fight against Gladstone’s home-rule measure for Ireiand. The chief point on which Gladstone and his ldie culleu,gﬁs differ is whether there shall be two cMmbers of parliament or one local legislature. A cabinet council is to behéldnext Saturday to discuss drafts of important measures. - - Reports have been received from reliable = sources, both in Bt. Petersburg and Vienna, to the effect that at both: those capitals the . fee[ingl’_is growing that'a war between Russia and Austria over the Batkan disputes is almost unavoidable. Active war prepara- : tions by both countries have been going on ever since the outbreak of hostilities be~ tween Servia and Bulgaria, and the Russian | and Austrian armies are actively and secretly arming in anticipation of war. Mueh color is given to these reports by the- heavy orders for stores and munitions of war placed by the agents of the, Russian and. . Austrian/governments in Londons

fei GENERAL MARKET=R, '_ CHICAGO. WarAT—Lower; Jan., 841¢@Sd%e; Feb., 8416« 855¢c; May, Misw9Po%e, - . . Corn—Lower; Jan., 36i{a86ics Feb., 86150 361¢c: May, 39}441400. e - OATs—Higher; Jan., 28%e8i4c; Feb., 28w 281 : < ' PRoVIsIONS—Mess Pork hicher: Jan., §9.97.:510.00; Feb., ' [email protected]; Ma.v; [email protected], T.ard—Higher; Jan., £6.02)4 ?59602%; Feb., §6.0714 6.07%; May, §6.30@ CATTL.E—Market steady. We aquote: ol Extra Choice Cait1e......... 0e5.55.40 1560 Good Shipping 5teer5..!.......... 4 50 . 4.85 “Medium steers. ..., ..., de i SHS a 420 . Hoes—Market firm. Sales ranged from §8.40 8,90 for light; $3.75. 4.05 for heavy. . ‘VOOL-—CO[)ﬁlﬁK}d firm and active, Sales: were readily effected at abeut the followjing range of prices: o t Wisconsin, Illinois, Miehigan, Indiana and . Kastern lowa. | - Coarse, tub, 22« 24c; Medium, tub, 2¥@3oc; Fine, unwashedx 17@22¢; Medium, unwashed, 22aRc; - Coarse, unwashed, 18@22c; Burry, -unwashed, 14612}60; Fine, washed, 28@a2c;. Medium, washed, 80@32¢: Coarse, Wwashed, 27%)280. e B : . Nebraska, Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas and : : : Westérn Nebraska, . Fme,aumvashed,. 16@?1c; Medinm, unWwashed, 18@?1c; Coarse, unwashed, 18@20c.

8 NEW YORK. WHEAT—Lower; No. 2 Jan., 91%@ L 9%c: | Feb, 931¢ - G3sc: May, 981{@98sc. éJIQRN-—Quiet; Mixed Western Spot, - 49@ e ! : - o MILWA UKEE. Wnear—Higher; January, S4c: May; 8057 c. Comv-—%irm; at 361¢¢ for No. 2.— OArs—Firm: No. 2 White, 275/c. RYE— Dull;sB%c for No. 1. . : i CINGENNATE - o ¢ . FLour—Fair demand; Family §[email protected]. WHEAT—Firm at 934 c. - CORN—Strong at 86c. OArs—Steady at 803 e. Ryr—Dull at.¢6c. " ProvisioNS—Pork steady at $lO.OO, Lard steadyat $6.00. Bulk Meats $3.85 0 4.90. Bacon $5.8714« 6.25. ot o B __WarAr—Lower; No. 2, Red, Jan., NRY@ (3} c; Feb., vdlgwadifc: Mas [email protected]%4. Corn—Higher: 883 u£Blge J{an. LA 36%?/(’ F;ezg.i t;()%'é’*‘ss"—L(}wer: cash, - ﬁ’?}gc. {{ K uiet; "ROVISIONS~Porg - higher; -§lO.OO. 'Lard $6.80. L

BALTIMORE. WanaT—Western higher: No. 2 Winter Red Spot and January, 863¢a863c; Feb., 885¢a8874¢c. CorN—Quiet; j‘an., 46 ddv%c; Feb., 455@4617c. OATs—Western WWhite, 86@88c; Mixed do., 84360, LIGONIE_R MARKET REPQRT, Corrected every Thursday Morning, AR NG sm A e kS A Wheativcisivineiii -86 Egaßiitiiiviivciwin 90 Rye. oo e B 0 HEBRMEr oo s 18 Oolan Lo B RN iBB Corn....iiceaeever B 0 || WOOL. ..\ vcuiein 21@80 Flax 5eed........ 110 || Feather 5............ 60 S| Sl 8 Blover ) Y Hogs; 1ave...3 75@4 00 || Apples, dried?.... 03" 5h0u1der5......... 07 || P0tat0e5.......... 30 Hams.......caon . 10 || Hay tame......... 8 00 'EE,EE PAPE&E“&%R&‘.‘&?}#%%‘:&G“; : Advertistog Burosu (08priice St where adyerting ! ELECTION NOTICE, & [ ——— i . LIGONIER LODGE, No. 185, F. &A, M) : i 'SECRETARY'S OFFICH, } .- Ligonier, Ind., December 7, 188, Bawglnegr;:ewg!er:aa. in the i%e%k“‘é of Flnlg : Trustees ptthislodx&’ vaxfg'ﬁgg i 8 hereb: g{ dven mmtonthglevmm&' * January 4th, 1886, i Tl ety doen St it wal gla T oty "G W, 1 MITORRLE: Seowy