Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 November 1884 — Page 1

W. F, OIGHT, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XV PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1884

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KiEWS IN BRIEF. 4 -»- i Compiled from Various Soartes,

•< V rKBSOSAl ADD POLITICAL. Ox the 1:1th Assistant Postmaster-Gen-eral Crosby took the oath of office and began the discharge of his duties. Colonel Burnside, recently indicted at ■Washington, D. C., for embezzling Postoffice Department funds, has been placed jin the Government Insane Asylum by order «of Secretary Teller. Gossips are again busy because President Arthur attended Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen at the opening of the new Grand Opera-house at Washington. The next Honse of Representatives will consist of 132 Democrats, 141 Republicans, ** one Greenbacker and one Fusionist. Democratic majority over all, thirty-nine. This shows a loss of nineteen Democrats and four Independents,, and a gain ot twenty - Republicans and one Fusionist. * Ox the I2th Major-General W. a HarDev, who is eighty-four years of age, was married in St. Louis, Mo., to Mrs. Marie fit. CJrr. v ^ TPhe new French Minister to Washington, M. Koustan, arrived in New York by *he steamer Normandie on the 11th. Ox the 11th John McCullough, the ^tragedian, left Chicago for St. Louis, and «t the depot kept the baggagemen in a ferment hunting up his wardrobe, saying he was to play “The Gladiator” that night jm St. Louis. It turned out that he only Jhad a valise. Friends in St. Louis were ‘notified. Chairman Daniel Manning of the New ^ or^ Democratic State Committee, is to be married on the 19th to Miss Mary MargaFryer, of Albany. They will sail for Europe on the following Saturday. * Rumors were again current in London on che l*th that £1 Mahdi had captured Khar*°<im and k lled G eneral Gordon. Ox the 12th Ormsby Phillips, one of the proprietors of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) IMsJxUcA, died suddenly. Cause, overwork. , President Arthur has appointed Caleb H. Barney Commissioner and Joseph H. Reynolds alternate Commissioner, to represent New Jersey at the New Orleans Exposition. Lord Lansdowne, Governor-General of "Canada, has refused to commute the sentence of Mrs. Boutelle, sentenced to be hanged at Quebec bn the 29th for poisoning Mrs. Savers, with whose husband she w as criminally intimate. The official canvass of the votes in New York was continued on the 12th. No material errors had thus far been encountered. A call has been received by Rev..Dr. C. L Goodeil, of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, St. Louis, Mo., to Washington, D. C., from tho Congregationalists of that *ity. . On the evening of the 12th Mme. Salchi made her first appearance this season at the Academy of Music, New York, and received a great ovation. It is intimated that Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Clarke will be appointed Commissioner, vice Dudley, resigned. The report of Dr. Salmon, chief of the » Bureau of Anima.l Industry, has been submitted Id the Commissioner of Agriculture. His report dwells largely upon the contagious diseases Atmong domestic animals, ■and contains many valuable suggestions. IRE canvassing the vote of New York was continued on the 13th, and according to reports received quite a number of •changes were made in the footings in the •first eight of the twenty-four Assembly Districts of New York County, caused by ■clerical and other errors, giving Mr. Blaine a net gain of S3! votes in those districts. Another dispatch, however, stated that “no change whatever” had been made. In view of such conflicting statements the necessity of awuiting patiently the report of the Board of Canvassers becomes more apparent. The official returns from the counties outside of New York show but lew and unim]>ortant changes from the original figures. Duncan C. Ross, the wrestler, has challenge* l any man in the world to a tussle. On the 13th Maxey Cobb and Neftta Medium, driven double, trotted a mile at New York in 2:15 3-4. The House of Lords passed the franchise bill to iits first mating on the 13th. A-Se niai. comes from Washington of the rumor that Mr. Astor, Minister to Austria, had tendered his resignation. On the 13th Miss Pearl Tyler, daughter of the late ex-ITssident Tyler, was united in marriage at Richmond, Va., with Win. Mnmford Ellis. On the l.'lSi Lieutenant Greely called at the War Department. He is gradually regaining his strength and will soon commence writing his report. It is intimated 11 at Secretary McCulloch in his forthcoming report to Congress will make some important recommendations in regard: to a revision of the tariff. John Gillespie, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is on his muscle art wants to meet either Sullivan or Mitchell, with gloves, within three weeks. If that challenge is not accepted he will later fight either of them with bare knuckle*, somewhere in the West

w ovum. Thk French tribunal which recently granted a decree of divorce to the Marquis de Caux, husliaad of Adelina Patti, condemned the diva to pay the costs of the suit. Os the 1 ttb ex-Congressman George W. Jones, of Fayetteville, Tenn., died in that city. , Thr Right Hon. George J. Shaw Lefevre baa been appoi nted Postmaster-General of Great Britain, vice Fawcett, deceased. Til* centennial anniversary ot the consecration of Bishop Sea bury (Episcopal) was celebrated in many of the Eastern cities on the 14th. Joan McCullough, the tragedian, arrived in Chicago on the 14th, from whence he stated his intention of proceeding to New York and organising a new company. Os the 14th, at the close of the canvass in New York County, fourteen Assembly ' Districts out of twenty-four had been finished, showing no material change from unofficial figures. Henry M. Stanley will attend the Congo Conference as the technical adviser of the American delegate. Ik the city oil Boston Cleveland’s plurality w 11,746. On the 14tb Win. A. Duncan, re-elected to Congress from the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District, died at Gettysburg. It its announced by the London Daily Jfm* that Matthew Arnold has resigned his poet in the Education Office, and proposes to begin a lengthened tour of the United States about Christmas. This critics present at the Paris Comique when Miss Van Zandt was obliged to retire from the stage recently, have farmed , a committee to learn the true character of the prima donna’s indisposition, with a view to protecting themselves from libel They said she was drank. Arthur has decided to apty Commissioner of Pensions O. G Clarke, to succeed Commissioner has received a letter Gordon on November be had learned of them urPower, the the french

Chair* AH A. P. Gorman «f the Democratic National Executive Committee, makes a statement denying that William H. Vanderbilt contributed any money to the Democratic campaign fund.

I CKIBES AND CASUALTIES. Ok the 10th news was received of the loss of the brig Julia E. Haskell, Captain Paine, in a hurricane off Caicos Island, while cat route to Balt imore with a cargo of piano. Six of the crew were lost. * At Albany, N. Y-, Ah Kay, a Chinaman, 1 found guilty of manslaughter in the third degree, was sentenced bydudge Peckham on the 11th to twenty years at hard labor in the Clinton Prison. Ok the night of the :11th the cargo of the steamer Nacoochie, bound from Savannah, 6a., to New York, was discovered on Are off Charleston, S. C. The hatches were closed, steam turned in and the boat headed' back. The passengers were transferred to the Tallahassee. Firs destroyed the German market building at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 20th. Ok the 12th, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, a fourteen year-old boy stripped his younger sister and roasted her on a red-hot stove, producing injuries that proved fatal. Ok the 12th Hippolite Gonzales was arrested in St. Louis, Ufa., on i charge of assault with intent to murder, committed in Hoboken, N. J. Ok the night of the 12th policeman Joseph Edgar was fatally shot at Newport, Ky., by a burglar who made his escape. Ok the 13th Rev. Henry Williamson, an Episcopal rector of Trenton, N. J., committed suicide. No cause assigned. Near Toledo, O., the magazine of a giant powder factory was blown ;up on the 13th by an explosion that was terrific, being felt over a radius of a hundred miles. Several men were injured. The residence of Captain John Morrow, at Mansfield, Pa., was entered by masked burglars on the night of the 12th, who bound and gagged the inmates and then plundered the domicile. While in a New York drinking room on the night of the 13th, with James Ryan, an actof, Lillie Ellis, of Brooklyn, N. Y-, was shot in the head. Ryan declares the woman killed herself. The case was under investigation. Ok the 14th James Rowe, of Rondout, N. Y-., went home to dinner, and finding the meal unprepared and 'his wife drunk, ‘kicked her to death. Ok the 14th Truman B. Handy, a wellknown commission merchant of Cincinnati, O-, was thrown from a buggy and suffered a fracture of the skull. Peter Lewis Orro shot his wife dead at Buffalo, N. Y., On the 14th. Doxey’s Opera-house at Anderson, Ind., burned on the night of the 14th. A large cotton-seed oil-mill at Monroe. La., burned oh the 14th. Loss, $100,000'. Ok the 14th fifteen persons were killed in a railway collision near the depot in Hanan, Germany. Ok the morning of the 14th a passenger train on the Houston & Texas Central Road was thrown diown an embankment near Hempstead, Tex. Several portions were killed and a number wounded. Ok the night of the 13th fire at the Grand Trank Railway Depot in Mount Clemens, Mick., destroyed five cars and property aggregating $25,000, most of it belonging to local merchants. Ok the 14th Mrs. Lily Dnnlap, of New York, was arrrested in St. Louis, Mo., charged with robbing a man of $123 alt the Everett House. Her husband was also taken in, being charged with complicity in the case. MISCELLANEOUS. Ik the British House of Commons the franchise bill passed its third reading on the 11th. On the 11th the Grand Trunk Railway notified its employes that a further reduce tion would be made of from five to eight per cent- in wages. At a meeting on the 12th the Western Nail Association reaffirmed the present card rate. The Chinese gunboat Feihoo is said to have been captured by the French. Ik Montreal, Can., diphtheria and typhoid fever prevail to .an alarming; extent. Reports received at the Department of Agriculture indicate a larger cotton crop this year than last. At the dose of the last fiscal year the number of pensioners on the rolls of the Government was 322,730; amount paid out for pensions during the year, $50,908,597; total amount disbursed for pensions since 1861, 316^34. During October the total value out domestic breadstuffs exported was$ll,541,H2, against $14,740,91)4 for the corresponding month of 1883. For the ten months ended October 31st, $120,808,017, and $143423,331 for the corresponding period of 1883. The total estimated yield of the juotato crop this year will exceed 190,000,000 bushels.

It Is said that some of the best corn raised this year comes from, what was formerly known as the great American desert, in the vicinity of the hundredth meridian. The French army in Touquin is said to be in a perilous position. Skirmishes are constantly occurring. There were forty-three deaths from cholera in Paris tinring the twenty-four hours ended the evening of the 12th. Two deaths in Toulon and several fresh cases reported. Or the United States coasts there are 722 lighthouses, and there are 1,018) movable river lights in: operation. The Dominion Government has declined to aid Canadians in making exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition. The report of the French Minister of Agriculture on the harvest returns for the year shows the following yield: Wheat, 111,1S1^43 hectolitres, against 103.753,420 in 1883. Rye, 25,487^0.1 hectolitres, against 24,84:V V>2 in 1883. Or the ]3th an earthquake shock was felt in New Hampshire. Fimr-eight deaths were reported from cholera in Paris during the twenty-four hours ended the evening of the 13th. The British War Office has order*! the formation of an irregular mounted farce of five hundred men, far service in Becliuanaland, South Africa. A DJUTCIERCT estimate has been issued by the British Government with reference to the cos* of tine Nile expedition. The army will require £1,800,000 more than was previously estimated, the navy £324,000. For the Bechuanis expedition the Government estimates that £075,000 will be required by the army, and £50,000 by the navy. Or the 12th the corporation of the city of Limerick, by an overwhelming minority, refused to pay any attention to the second writ for extra police tax. They also passed a resolution denouncing the Government for the appointment of George Bolton as Crown Solicitor of Ireland. At Buenos Ayres, in South America, another ease of cholera had occurred. Strictest quarantine is being observed at that part against all vessels coming from France. Ir the year 1886 the charters of 7M National banks with an aggregate cajdtai of

On the 13th the British Hons* of Com. mous passed the deficiency bill appropriating money to defnty the expenses of the Kile expedition. Thx Governor of Montana repents the population of that Territory as having increased 4,OW) during: the past year. On the loth the second annual convention of American Stockmen met at Chicago. The announcement is made by the British Consulate at New York that an Interna tional Inventions Exhibition will be held at London in 1885. It promises to be an event of great interest. At its session at Chicago on the 13th, the American Racing Association ordered that, hereafter no book-maker be allowed to

start or enter a horse. , The Secretary of the Treasury on the 13th received a petition from a number of prominent physicians Asking him to sect that old rags coming from foreign conntries are thoroughly disinfected before being received at United States! ports. Os the night of the 12th Governor St. John and C. M. Stone editor of the Johnsbury Caledonia*, and candidate for Governor cm the Independent ticket, were hung in effigy from . a telegraph pole at St. Johnsbury, Vt. Is various parts ef England a severe shock of earthquake was felt on the 14th. $fiK Mudir of Dongola in a late dispatch states that one of El Mahdi’s chief lieutenants is marching against Dongola with 12,000 men, and another with 0,000 men is advancing on the Kabbahish tribe. Os the 13th the Treasury Department purchased 370,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the New Orleans and Philadel - phia mints. Ox the 13th Governor Cleveland transmitted to the New York State Board of Health a communication from the National Board of Health on the subject of ehollera. Immediately on its receipt the State Board of Health apprised the local health officers that the rapid advance of the cholera in Europe threatens an invasion in this country, and asking the establishment and enforcement of quarantine. The semi-annual session of the merchant Travelers’ Protective Association began at Louisville, Ky., on the 14th. The Police Commissioners of New York have issued orders that no more glove fights will be allowed in that city. On the 14th delegates to the St. Louis Cattle Convention were reported as arriving: rapidly and numerous telegrams were received from parties en route. Indications point to a large attendance. October returns to the Dominion Government show that 11,71$ immigrants arrived in Canada during the month. Parisians have formed an anti-protec-tionist league. Recent cool weather is having a favorable effect in aiding in the suppression of cholera in Paris. The Treasury Department has issued an order prohibiting, on and after November 17th, the importation of old rags from all cholera-infected mediterranean and French ports. ^ The Government of Great Britain has sent 200 tons of torpedoes to protect coaling stations in China. Advices received at Paris on the 14th stated that the French forces were in possession of Tamsui. '\T On the 14th the joint executive committee of the, trunk line commission met in New York and decided to restore eastbound tariff rates as adopted last July. The men employed in Hoyt’s large shoe tetory, at Haverhill, Mass., quit work on e 14th because the proprietor refused to reinstate a dischiurged employe. One of the amusing features of a Democratic torchlight procession at Columbia, S. C., on the night of the 13th, was the ap■pearance of seventy commercial travelers in Mother Hubbard dresses. On the 14th, in the eighteen hours np to 6 p. m., fifty two new eases of eholera and twenty-one deaths wore reportedin Paris, and forty-eight new eases were reported between six o’clock and midnight. During the week ended the 14th there were 1S7 failures in the United States re*ported against MB in the preceding week, and 203,107 and 110 in the corresponding weeks of 1883,1882 and 1881 respectively. Returns for the month of October show that 30,441 immigrants arrived in this country, and 7,000 citiaens of the United States returned from abroad. For ten months ended October, 1884, the total number of immigrants coming to this country was 414,324, against 301,037 during the same period of last month.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thk Swaim court-martial met at Wash- ' Ington on the lath. Thk Northern Hospital for the Insane near Oshkosh, W is., burned on the 15th. Imports for the week ended the 15th, received at New York, amounted to $5,308,000 in value. Alfred Edmu nd Bichek, the celebrated Q erman traveler and naturalist, died on. the lath. Thos. B. Hani.y, the Cincinnati grtin. dealer who was injured by being thrown out of his buggy, died on the 15th. The genera] commission on the extension, of the Methodist Episcopal Church resumed its sessions at Philadelphia, Pa. , on the lath. , Thk official canvass of the vote in Ohio gives Blaine a plurality of $1,802. It is reported on good authority that, the Anamite auxiliaries of the French beheaded *>00 Chinese prisoners at Kep. The Canadian Parliament will be asked to incorporate a company that proposes to construct a canid between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. The plurality for Blaine in Kansas is; l-v'144*. Butler polled It,044 votes in the State and St. John 4,273. All of the Congressmen are Republicans. A business revival is reported among; the shoe factories of Lynn, Mass., and workmen are demanding increased wages.. The Board of Canvassers completed the coont in New York County on the loth. Cleveland’s plu rality in the State is over 1,000, taking the lowest vote for any Democratic elector over the highest Republican elector. This settles the question of tho Presidency. Onlt two of she delegates who will_ attend the Congo Conference have ever been in Africa. Mb. Blaine regards the official count in New York as practically settling tho J>res~ idential question. He will go to Washington next week where he will spend the winter with his family and resume warkon the second volume of his book. A dispatch from Shanghai to the London Times of t he 15th state.] that rumor, of the rail of famsui were current in that city. - Advices from Baku state that early in Novemlxrr conflicts between Christian! and Musselman’s, lasting two days, occurred at Salian. Firearms were used cm both jides and many persons were killed. The police ware utterly unable to rectors nrder. Robert McFhun, alias Brice, wan arrested in Lewisville, Ky., on the Kith charged with having forged the name of she Calcutta Tea Company to the amount ftf $15,000. Sergeant Webb, of the Calcutta (India) jiolice is awaiting the completion of extradition papers, to jake him Jack to India. 1

THE COUNT PROCEEDS.

The latest Ftgrres of the Official Count In the Empire State—Reported Galas ft>f lUaine In New York City—The Report Dcnied—TheFla U Footings Will TeU the Story. FIGURES FROM THE RETURNS* New York, November 14. The foltowfo 5 table shows the vote of all the counties in the State except New j York, in which eight Assembly Districts out of the tv enty-four have been canvassed, and e how unimportant rariatiou from the nnoffcial figures: COUNTY. Albany.. Allegheny. Broome.. Cattaraugus.... . Chautauqua.... Chemung.. , Chenango....... Clinton.. Columbia. Cortland.. Delaware.. Dutchess.. Erie.. . CLEVELAND. W7 BLAINE. Franklin... Fulton and; 11a nil ton (combined).......... Genesee..... Greene.. Herkimer........ Jefferson...• Kings... Lewis.. Livingston... Madison. Monroe.. Montgomery.... Niagara... 15,7«3 Oneida., Onondaga..... Ontario. Orange........ Orleans........ Oswego.. Otsego****. Putnam....... Queens.. Rensselaer.... Richmond. Rockland. St. Lawrence.. Saratoga.. Schnectady..., Schohahrie.... Schuyler. Seneca. Steuben. Suffolk. Sullivan. Tioga. Tompkins. Ulster. Warren........ Washington.. Wayne. Westchester.. Wyoming..... Vales..... W 30 it«a wt 1401 1>«57 %%3I8 85S 274 1438 1,403 I 1,398 54*4 4,8*» j 473 K2 | 570 1,»S j 97s ! 1>«24 i 1,4 30 ! 1,775 1jk» i 1,<M7 988 15 810 VJfd 7H 1452 1,741 * 9Z 3,727 730 121 ljm 2,542 5,7 7,101 2„3M 2SS 577 9S7 «s> 42S 59 784 5.115 2.115 1,252 1^73 TIK OFF1CIA1 CANVASS IN NEW YORK CITY. Sew York, November IS. Gains and osses in the returns oi the Board ol Canvassers so far as the canvass has been made, as compared with press returns sent out election Right, are as follows: FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Third Election District, Blaine gains ten votes. In th2 Sixteenth Election District Blaine losses one vote, and Cleveland loses forty-nine votes. SKCON » ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Third Election District, Cleveland gains three votes. Twelfth 1 lection District, Cleveland gains one vo' e. Fourteenth Election District, Cleveland loses one vote. Seventeenth Election District, Blaine gains seventy-eight votes, and Cleveland loses 155 voti s. THIRL ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Tenth Election District, Cleveland loses two votes; Twenty-llrst Election District, Clevela ad gains two votes; Twentythird Election District, Cleveland gains one vote; Twenty-sixth Election District, Blaine loses three votes. [Cleveland’s gain, seven; loss, 207; Blaine’s gain, eighty-eight; loss, four. Blaine’s net gain, 284.} IN THE FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, the Twelfth Election District, Cleveland loses ten votes. In the Twenty-first Election District Blaine gaines one vote. The Boani continued the canvass of the Fourth Assembly District, and proceeded to the Twenty-first Election District with no incident except an occasional change of county cltrks’ returns,-where the inspectors’ ret urns bore some clerical error ol omission or commission. The Board then commenced the canvass of th< Fifth Assembly District. When the Sixth Election .District had been complc -ed^ without any change, the Board at 12: >0 adjourned until 2:30 p. m. New York, November 14. Following is the Tribune's summary of the count up to this morning: “The work of counting he vote in this State still remains nnfini <hed. In fifty-two counties the result hi s been officially declared. In three other counties no material changes in the vote as already announced are anticipated. The counties still to be heard from are Erie, Franklin, Greene, Kings and Few York. In this city the canvass of the returns from the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth. Seventh and Eighth Assembly District-- was finished. Slight corrections were i vade in the districts canvassed on Wednesday.- As compared with the Associated 1‘ress returns there have been Kcpub ican gains so far in this city of 351. Tb ; reading of the returns from all the wart s of Kings County whs finished, anti the New Dots returns were discussed without action. The Butler vote in these fifty-five counties is 16,705 and the St. John vote 21.664. The official} Inrality for ’ittaine outside of New lok and Kiri-8 Is.46,972 Add remain: ns counties, unofficial, but as reported by t‘entity t'lerks.10,762 Apparent plurality for rilainc outside of New York *nd sings Counties....57,734 The Democrats claimed a plurality in New York and Kings County of.55,967 Which has r ot yet been reduced by the official eount more than.......... 351 At date this leaves Cleveland’s pluralities...,.58,606 Blaine's pluralities.... 57,734 Clevelai d's net pluralities.. , 872

THE GAINS DENIED. The canvass of the eight Assembly I>istricts so far in New York County shows absolutely no appreciable change in the figures at first reported in the press. Various ruino's got into circulation daring the day that gains were shown on one side or the other, but they were found to be entirely without foundation. Ktd at the Prohibitionists. Batavia, S. Y., November 13. Republicans of Genesee County lay the blame for Blaine’s reduced majority upon the Prohibitionists, and they are greatly incensed. They openly vow vengeance upon the Prohibitionists, and intimate that they • rill break up the cold water organization in this county. “We’ll show them next spring,” said a Republican, “by votin;; for license, giving them free whisky, si far as it is in our power to do so. We’l fill the streets with the staff,’! he contini ed, “ami let every man fill his cup as he pleases.” -~—---'-a That Banquet. i New York, November C. The 7Tj ics has a story of the transactions at the lat< Blaine banquet at Delmonico’B. It says 9 5,000 was paid in cash during the even ng, and amounts aggregating 9387,000 ■ t ore jotted down on memoranda signed by some wealthy men present. Russel] IS ige gave 91,000 and Gould 95,000, with a conditional promise of more. The TSmt t states that the Republican National Committee proceeded to run up large bill; t for the street parade that occnrred so »n after, but they had great difficulty m c ollectlng the amounts set down «*n paper god most of it still remain*

PENSIONS AND CROPS.

Dutlltjr and Agricaltoral Department Figures—Tho Number and Cost of the Nation's Pensioners—The Cotton, Cora and Potato Crops. IVasmhgtok, 1>. C.,November IS. Commissioner ol Pensions Dudley, in his annual report lor the last fiscal years, says that at the close ol the year there were 323,736 pensioners on the rolls classified as follows: 313,956 army Invalids; 75,836 army widows, minor children and dependent relatives; 8,618 navy invalids; 1,938 navy widows, minor children and dependent relatives; 3,898 survivors ol the war ol 1812, and 13,512 widows ol those who served in that war. During the year the names ol 35,413 pensioners were added to the roll and 16,315 were dropped for various causes, leaving a net increase to the number on the roll of 19,098. The amount paid for pensions during the year was 356,908,597. Since 1861 526,324 disability clainis and 323,462 death claims have been filed. Ol the invalid claims 272,624, and ol the death claims 213,082 have been allowed. At the rate claims have been filed for the past few years the close ol the year 1886 will undoubtedly show 1,000,000 claims filed for pensions since 1861. The total amount which has been disbursed to pensioners since 1861 is $678,346,834. So general bad been the complaint from applicants for pension ol inability to ascertain the whereabouts of company, ©fiicers and comrades, often defeating the, allowance-of a claim for want of testimony from these witnesses, and the comparative limited resources of the special examination service to supply the want iu the large number of eases of this character that the Commissioner deemed it necessary to inaugurate some method whereby the Post-office addresses of as large a number as possible v>f the surviving soldiers of the late war be procured and compiled into a permanent record convenient for reference. With this object in view, suitably prepared printed slips for name, rank, company, regiment and Post-office address were accordingly sent ont to Grand Army Republic Posts, and as early as April last a sufficient number had been completed and received so that their arrangement, according to militaiy service, coaid be commenced. In addition to this the examiners in the Pension Office were required to note the names of all witnesses who had been in the service which they met with in the examination of claims, so that from this source alone some 150,000 names were secured. It is expected that by January next there will be arranged and ready for immediate fifer a record of between 600,000 and 70b>'W»~natne».'The practical use of this record became immediately apparent as soon as reference conld be made to it, and the information furnished by it has proved of material service in the adjudication of claims, both as to expediting the work and the ascertainment of the necessary facts. Many instances arise which conld be cited, if necessary, showing the inability of claimants to procure material testimony for want of knowledge of their comrades’ whereabouts, which the information afforded by this record relieves, and often is the means of not only establishing the right to a pension, but of opening the way to defeat an unjost claim. The Commissioner observes that the system of settlement of pension claims has properly claimed foe serions consideration of Congress for foe past two sessions. It has not thus far been deemed wise to change this system, imperfect as it may seem in its o(>erations in some cases, anti remedial legislation has been proposed which should take from foe claimant some of the burdens which in their operations amount to a practical denial of his claim. On foe snhject of remedial legislation foe Commissioner contents himself by. briefly referring to and recommending the passage of foe bill embracing his recommendations reported to the Senate, and placed on foe calendar in May last, where it still remains. Crop JCeports. Washington, l>. C., November 13. The November returns of cotton to foe Department of Agriculture relate to the yield per acre, and show foe effects of foe long continued drought in reducing production. The lateness of killing frosts has less efft-ct than nsnal in enlarging foe yield, as foe vitality of the plants was too nearly exhausted to produce a top crop. The drought had not been broken at some points on foe Gulf coast at the date of relower turns. The indicated yield per acre is in nearly every State than in the census year, which was one of average production. The lowest yields are now as then in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. The T -duc.tion this year is very marked in Louisiana and Arkansas, the region of most productive cotton lands. The retarns by States indicate foe yield per acre as follows, foe figures being subject to modification by fuller returns: Virginia, 180 pounds; North Carolina, 175; South Carolina, 152; Georgia, 135; Florida, 105; Alabama, 130; Mississippi, 175; Louisiana, 190; Texas, 143; Arkansas, 200; Tennessee, 160. The indications point to a crop somewhat larger than that of 1883, gathered in unusually fine condition, of good color, unstained by storms and free from trash and dirt. The returns of foe rate ol yield of corn Indicate a product somewhat in excess of 1,600,000,000 bushels, or an average rate, a small fraction above twenty-six bushels per acre. The best yields are, as in 1883, in what has been designated foe great American desert. The “arid regions’’ in foe vicinity of foe hundredth meridian have produced heavy crops of maize of high quality. That line of longitude has ceased to be an absolute barrier to corn production, or general ■ farming. The quality of corn is better than in 1883, nearly everywhere, and in the Northern belt it is worth twentj-five to seventy-five percent, more. The potato crop is nearly an average yield, or ninety bushels per acre, and exceeds 190,000,000 bushels. Going to tho Mines—The Canadian Pacific. PoRTtAsn, Ore., November 13. Portland was yesterday placed in telegraphic communication with foe Eastern States by foe completion of a new line over foe Oregon Short Line. Flattering reports having been received here from the Crour d’Alene mines, large numbers of men are leaving daily for foe mines. Parties coming in from along foe line of the Canadian PaciAe Railroad say foe road is being rushed energetically, and bnt 270 miles yet remains uncompleted. A large force is employed at either end.

Uncle Sam's Gan Foundry Board. Fniuiufiu, FA., November IS. Members of the Gun Foundry Board of the United States Government went to the Bethlehem Iron Works, at Bethlehem, yesterday morning. They returned last evening. a There will be no further general conference with steel manufacturers, though the Board will continue to hold meetings at the rooms of the American Iron and Steel Association, for the purpose of talking with individuals with whom they have made engagements. The next place to be visited is the Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steelton, near Harrisburg, whither the Board will go on Friday morning.

THE CHINESE PROBLEM

tn California In Froma of Solution By the Colonization of Negroes From thr Sooth —The Success Thus Far Attained WarrzaU Farther Kflhrts la the Same Direction. St. Lol ls. Mo., November VS. Among the arrivals here this morning was K. M. Ownbey, Bakerfield, California. He stopped in the city to make arrangements with Col. Aglar for transportatfon over Use Northern Pacific of 1,100 negroes from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Bakerfield. Mr. Ownbey is the agent of llaggtn & f evis, two of the wealthiest men of the Golden State,who have a scheme for driving ont the Chinamen, the curse of the people. Said Mr. Ownbey: “Last spring I transport e 5 800 negroes from Tennessee, and the scheme proves a success. Mr. Haggin has 000,000 acres of magnificent farm land in Jiem Connty, upon which he had constantly employed 1,600 Chinamen. Each one cost ns $25 per month. THE CHINAMAN Is unbearable as a workman, for he i9 slow, canning, and a thief. Trniy, he is the curse of California. To supply his place Mr. Haggin undertook the scheme of colonizing negroes from the South. I have found no trouble in getting them. I make a written contract with them, giving men $12 a month and board, women $8 anil board, and bovs $« ami board. The 300 already colonized are perfectly satisfied. They are settled on the land in good houses, and draw their wages monthly. They Work under superintendents, farming, picking and preserving frnit,; working in dairies and raising cotton. As a specimen of this last industry—a novelty for California—we raised 300 bales of cotton this year. The result has been that we almost rid ourselves of the Chinamen. Indeed, so well known has our success become in Kem County that I have received orders for the colonizing of 10,000 negroes, whom I expect to obtain this winter. In the negro, California sees her only hope against the Chinaman.” » — , , « « ►. . . — PRETTY ROUGH USAGE. Two Passenger Coaches Derailed By Too Fast Running Around a Sharp Curve, ai d Completely Wrecked—Miraculous Escape of the Passengers From a Shocking Death —Several More or Less Injured. Denver, Col., November B. The passenger train on the Colorado Central running from Greymont to Denver was derailed yesterday while making a sharp curve. The third car left the track, pulling the last car with it. Both cars careened on their sides and then lolled over completely, the trucks being on top, in which petition they were I*m? ^fnljv sixty feet. Both cars were completely wrecked: 'Hie first car contained eleven passengers and the second twenty-five, all of whom were more 'or less hurt, but none of them fatally. Both coaches canght fire from the stoves, but the flames were extinguished by cool-headed passengers. As soon as the coaches stopped rolling the axes in the cars were seized and holes cut through the sides of the cars to permit the imprisoned passengers to escape. The most seriously injured are: George H. Smith, of Denver; seriously injured about the spine and arms. Clarence Stevens, of Idaho Springs; hand badly burned. Win. Stevens, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a brother of Clarence; burned about th« face. Conductor Anderson, who had charge of the train; serious spinal injuries. Among those slightly Injnred were: Judge John A. Couler, of Georgetown. Horace Bird, of the Huckjf Mountain News. II. G. Kirkpatrick, of Idaho Springs. • John R. Currier, of Denver. The injured people were brought to Denver. A too high rate of speed was the cause of the accident. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Twecty-Thrce Thousand Pounds of Dynamite and Three-Thousand Pounds of Powder Explode nnd Shock the Country fur a Hundred Miles Around Toledo—Several Men Injured and Much Property Destroyed. Toledo. O, November It This morning Toledo was startled by a shock which shook buildings, shattered glass ami created a panic in many schools. It was eansed by an explosion in the nitro-glycerine factory and storehouse of A. J. Hummel & Co., located about four miles up the river outside the city limits. Five men were at work in the establishment at the time. None were killed, but .all more or less injured. The result of the explosion in the vicinity is simply terrible. Large trees were twisted off ami the ground torn np. Everything presents a deplorable scene. Windows were shattered in the House of Refuge near by. In Perrysburg, five miles distant, windows were broken. The schooi-house walls were cracked and black-boards thrown to the floor. Everybody rushed out of their buildings. The shock was felt in. Detroit, and at various Canadian points across the lake, and as far cast 'as Cleveland. At each of these distant places it was supposed to be an earthquake. There were 23,000pounds of dynamite and 3,000 pounds of gunpowder stored in the magazine. Rnmrnel & Co, lose about $10,000./ No insurance. The damage throughout the city foots np many hundreds of dollars. It is impossible at this time to estimate it.

A Vitriol Thrower Sentenced. ^ PHiUDKLrBU, Pa., November 14. Annie Floyd, alias Van Seed, the girl who threw vitriol on the head and shoulders of Henry Myers, a liquor-dealer, on the night of September 17th, was up for trial yesterday. She claimed that she thought the bottle contained a “love powder,” which she threw over Henry so that she might win his affections bach to her. The judge said he had no doubt from the evidence that she threw the vitriol out of revenge, and imposed a sentence of three years’ imprisonment. Murdered In a Brothel. Cii ATTAVOOOA, Tkjsic., November IS. Meager particulars of a horrible affair near Meridian have just been received here. Thomas Bull, a locomotive engineer, while in an intoxicated condition, went into a house of ill-repute. He became involved in a difficulty with three men, and was knocked down, ami before he could regain Ins feet he was dealt a terific blow on the neck with an ax. There blow almost severed the head from the body. His neck was broken and both jugular veins were cut. The murderer escaped. The Illinois Militia. Chicago, Ha., November 14. The National Guard Association of Illinois, consisting of the officers of the State militia, met yesterday at Battery 1), in this city, Colonel Hamilton, of Quincy, in the chair; Captain Mosher, of Chicago, secretary. There were about 120 officers present, of whom 100 were from outside of Chicago. After preliminary talk, the association adjourned to await the arrival id other members. . It is expected that the meeting will recommend the amendment of the code so as to make the term of enlistment three instead of ffve years, and have a uniform. The State will ha naked to Increase the appropriation.

FIENDISH WORK. A Passenger Train m *fce llmsloa A Tr\na Central Railway Tbrows From the Tract hy Tramps—A Uozea fmm« Killed and Fifteen Injured—'The Train Completely WreekedCtacvsamt, nr, Rormliet ft Early yesterday morning the Northbound passenger train, on the Houston & Central Railway, was wrecked at Clear Creek Station, about three utiles south ®l Hempstead. Parties just from the scene d< scribe the wreck as being of the most appalling nature. It appears that the spikes had all been pulled and the fish plates loosened on a rail, which was misplaced suAclcnily to throw the train down a thirty-foot embankment. To all appearances, as seen from the locomotive in the glare of the headlight, the rail appeared all right. Going at a twenty-two-mile-an-bonr rate, the train which left Houston at 10:15 p. u. struck the treacherous rail, and in an instant locomotive, tender, baggage-car and eoachcs were piled up in a wreck at the foot of the embankment. Eight persons were kitted outright and fifteen wounded. Following is a list of tlK KtlXKU: E. F. Lsrris, baggage master, not yet recovered from the wreck. L. C. Cado/Ji, passenger agent of the Atlantic Coast Line. - Lamar Leaks, newsboy. Green Lewis, train porter. Uamp Thomas, Navaso'ia, wood contractor. A German lady and two children. There is a rumor that several emigrants are under the wreck, but it is not yet confirmed. TUB WOFSMJi. Loeraz McMullen, express agent; thigh bone fractured. Robert Victor, of Galveston; contusion of the face. C. L. Wallace, of Galveston; contusion of face. T. J. John, editor of the Advocate, Galveston; contusion of Slice. John Glass, Houston, scalp wound. E. A. Fa rland, Galveston, slight contusion. Daniel McEnnis, Marion, S. C., scalp wound. J. C. Peoples, Reagan, scalp wound. A. U. Jackson, Montgomery, Ala., scalp wound. 0. J. Cockrell, Reagan, scalp wonnd. Austin Greelock, Burison County, contusion of the back. 1. Massie, Georgia, slight contusion. N. W. Childress, Atlanta, concussion Of the back. William Massie, Georgia, slight concussion. John Edwards, Galveston, contusion of the nose. W. H. Barton, Houston, contusion of the leg. — Mrs. Efldj Galveston, hand injured.

A REIGN OF TERROR. Horrible Atrocities Comltted by a Mob In San Salvador—Mck, Wo«eo and Children Murdered and Houses Burned—'The Work •r blends. Panama, November M. The Mario Official of San Salvador says two hundred men assaulted the houses of Jesus Pareiles, Tomas Padilla and Captain Panehe in Nahnezalco, in the Department of Sonsouate, amt murdered them all, together with the wives and chiliren of the the first, mentioned. Subsequently they murdered the police captain and several others. The victims who perished number fourteen. The houses of Pareia, Padilla and Panehe were burned. The crimes were committed owing to a dispute as to the proprietorship of some lands. HORRIBLE ATROCITIES. Peace was restored in Cundinamarica and Santander owing to the active intervention of the Federal government. The town of Gnaduas, which was captured by the rebels, who snbsequentty laid down their aims, was the scene of many atrocities. A picket of twenty-five men who had defended the school-house for five hours were slaughtered after surrendering, The. body of the commander was subsequently exposed to the most terrible indignities. On the following day a number of houses were sacked and several were horned. Numerous assassinations of a fearful and cowardly character were perpetrated. One Is thus described: On the 5th, Lazaro, Angulo was murdered at liaizal under clrcireumstances which would *shock savages of the worst class. They seized him and tied his arms together and then pnt him on a horse, when he was immediately shot from behind. Directly he fell, and the horse also fell upon him. They gouged Ms eyes out, broke the joints of of Ms legs, broke Ms nose, chic and hones, and almost chopped him to pieces. THE COACHMAN'S BRIDE. Efforts to Induce Victoria SthrUIng, nee Morosini, to Ignore the Stage and Her Husband to Give Vo His Wife. Nuw Ion, November 14. No sooner had it been published that Victoria, the daughter ot Morosini, who married Ernest Scheliing, had signed a contract with Mr. Ambeig, of the Thalia Theater, to sing, than she again became besieged by emissaries from her father. In conversation with yonr correspondent yesterday, she said: “Ycsteiday afternoon a tall, fluelooking man called on a lady friend of ours and asked her if she did not want to make some money. She replied, •Yes, I would like to make a few thousands.’ He then told her that he. had $35,000 from a friend of Mr. Morosini, and that if she would use her influence with me to have me go home, or at least not to sing, she would be well paid. He told her he would give w< $10,000 cash If I would break the contract 1 made, go West and not sing for one year.” Here Ernest broke in with, “Tea, and and be also told her to ask me if 1 would not take $50,000 to leave my wife and let her go home. 2 sent word back I would not leave her for all the money that Jay Gould and Mr. Moro'slai are worth, and that all we wish is to be let alone. He la to call on car friend this afternoon for his answer sad ho wiB get it.”

A. N*w Amitrtou Federation. aEvTaH,K«T«mberll Venezuelan Consul, Arthur W Roudier, at Boston, returned from Guaiamsla yesterday. He described to* reporter the festivities of that country on the occasion at the meeting of the Presidents of Goatam&la, Salvador and Honduras, at which Venezuela and Costa Rica were also represented by ministers. The political future of all five governments. Consul Roudier raid, would be affected by the meeting. It was proposed that these countries should unite in one Central American Republic, with Bsnrecs as President. --;—- Suffering f®y Shi.- Fioaictaa Stout d M&y<>m>2fRwr W7&., ^orember 14Captain William Wilson, engaged-in the lumber business at this place, made an assignment yesterday; His MabSities are placed at fiSOO.OOO. Wilson has indorsed heavily for other corporations, and the aggregate smoact of soch claims was more than «e could meet without sacrificing his property. life personal assets are In excess of the liabilities by a considerable amount. His assignment was made unavoidable by the failure of the Pioneer Lumber Company; at fin Claire. Wilson has laeen one of the most prominent business men in borOs wy*tei-a Wisconsin.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The United States Methodist Episcopal Church has ninety-seven conferences and includes 25,000 clergy 1,850,000 members. —They are complaining in Texas all the professors for the State Unircr- , sity are chosen from other Stans, and that only the porters and bell-ringers are taken from home.—Chicago Journal. —The “Berlin Society for the Prop*Stion of Christianity Among the Jews’* s existed for sixty-four years, and was the instrument for' bringing one thousand children of Israel to the knowledge sf the Messiah. —Rev. James White was recently installed minister of the Presbyterian Church, Stoaebridge, Monaghan, Ireland, in succession to his father, who presided over the congregation for fifty-four years. The church was founded nearly two hundred years ago by Patrick Dunlop, from Kirkcowan. Scotland. ( —Out of S50 Congregational churches 'in Massachusetts, 163 have responsive reading in some form; in 100 the people unite with the pastor in repeating the Lord’s Prayer: in sixty-one there is chanting in some form, generally the “Gloryhe to the Father,’” and in ten the Apostles’Creed is repeated.—Boston Post. —The English Baptist Handbook for the current year reports that while the last ten years there has been a decrease in the number of Baptist churches in England the number of scholars in Baptist, Sunday-schools has increased by about 100,000. Its total number of scholars now is 437,187 over against 304,809 church members. —A missionary in Georgia writes; “In five years I have organised 2Si Sunday-schools with 1 teachers and scholars; visited and tided 84 schools, having 9,689 teachers and scholars; delivered 1,361 addresses; visited 6,385 families; distribute*! 3,401 Bibles and Testaments and other publications to the value of$902: traveled 24,890 miles in my own conveyance.”—N. Y. Examiner. —The librarian of the Young Men’s Christian Association in New York in thus quoted: “We are now keeping open on Sunday afternoon and evening, and the library at such times is well patronized. We give out no fiction, but restrict the reading to more substantialmatter, such as tne Bible, history and & theological treatises There is a demand for light reading, bat we do not respond to it” % ■ —A year ago, say the Congregational^. at the completion of fifty years from the -establishment of the first Congregational ehnrcLjn Australia, a grand jubilee was eelebrafeu-at. Sidney, and an effort was begun to raise a fund of $75,000 for denominational purposes.’ At the expiration of a year $90,000 has already been secured. The money is fo be used in paying debts on churches, and establishing a fund for aged and infirm ministers. &

WIT AHD WISDOM. —A kindness can never be concealed,, not even by repaying it. —If. all would realize that cruelty is as bitter to others as it is to themselves, '"here would be less of it practiced. —To be happy the passion must bet cheerful and gay, not gloomy and met-1 ancholv; a propensity to hope and yif is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.—Hume. —“ There is nothing impossible to the determined spirit,” says a philosopher. Evidently that philosopher never fried to reach up behind his shoulder to get hold of the end of a broken suspender. Somerville, Journal. —“ What* s the price of this two-foot ruleP’ asked a carpenter's boy in a hardware store, one morning. “Thirtysir cents,” was the reply. “ Well, it's too high. Why, I can set a much longer two-foot rule for half that.’ —“Have you any good reason why you won’t believe the witness?” asked the justice. “Yes, sir.” “Isn’t he honest In money matters?” “Yes, sir.’* “Doesn’t he pay his bills and keep his premises?” “Yes, sir.” “Then what is it?” “He’s a fisherman.”—N. F. Graphic. —“You can do anything, if you have patience,” said an uncle who had made a fortune to his nephew, who had nearly spent one. "Water may be carried in sieve, if you only wait.” “How long?” asked the penitent spendthrift. "Tfllitf “ ' freezes,” was the cold reply.— S’. Y. Independent. —On one of the first very warm days a little girl with a pretty but close sunbonnet on went out to “pick flowers.’* Her curly hair was clinging close to her pink, sweaty little forehead as she came in, clutching in her rosy fingers a few “innocents,” two or three half-grown violets, and some short grass. She threw off her sun-bonnet, and said: “Oh, mamma, it’s dwefful warm. I fink it’s mos’ time to jack fans.”—Harper’• —“Pa,” said a Boston urchin of S.. “couldn’t Daniel Webster knock out Sullivan in three • rounds?” The Boston father did not look surprised, as perhaps a New York father would, but said: “Not much, my lad.” “Was Dan an n. g. slugger, pa?” “Daniel Webster wasn’t a slugger at all, my What are yon talking about?™ boy. "He was a slugger! What did that man you were talking with call him the ‘great expounder’ for, then?” — Exckange. =o' —“I love your daughter, sir,*’ said a bashful swain to his steady company's parent before he had mentioned the subject to the girl. “I’m glad to hear you say so,” was the old gentleman's response. “Good; give me your hand on that!” exclaimed the pleasure-seek-er. “Well, hadn’t yon better ask my daughter for her's first?” was the wise suggestion. The young man decided that he had, and immediately sought the girl to see if he would suitor.--* Yenkett Statesman.

A Humming-Bird a Umbrella. In front at a window where I worked last summer was a butternut tree. A humming-bird built her neet on a limb that grew near the window, and we had an opportunity to watch her closely, aa we could look right into the nest from the window. One day there was a very heavy shower craning up, and wo thought we would see if she covered her young during the storm; bat when the first drops fell she came and took in her bill-one of two or three large hsws growing dose to the neet; then she I away. Chi looking at the leaf we f a hole init, and in tae side of '* was a small stick that the leaf i ened to or hooked on. After the i was over the old bird unhooked the lent and the perfectly dry. — if. A., m Sports-man,