Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 August 1885 — Page 1

m couirrr democrjt PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. i or svuscBimoNt FOrrariajreor ... For sk month*... For three months.. * »1» n M INVARIABLY^ Ml ADVANCE advertising rates > !*£!& <* oa® huertlon. .tl 0# 1 additional Insertion. CO A !fl>ei«l reduction made on advertisements rannliier three, six, and twelve months. •ssbvsssst' ss; ’ ‘ * • ' • f, * % _ , , . _ Pike County Democrat W. Pi OIGHT, Editor and Puhlishor. VOLUME XVL OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. _OITIOE, over 0. E. MOITGOMEBY’S Store, Main Street PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1885. NUMBER 15. PIKE CO0NTY OElHQCfttT job work: OF ALL KINDS | / ' Neatly SEASONABLE RATES. NOTICES Persons receivin* a com of this paper with this notice crossedln lead pencil arc notified that the time of their subscription haserpired.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ».**, POSEY A. i HONETCCTT. POSEY & HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Petersburg, lad. ■Will practice in alt the courts. Al! business «>tly attended to. A Notary Public coni' in the office. Office over Frank A > Hornbrook’s drugstore. S. P. RICHARDSON. A. M. TAYLOR. RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law Petersburg, no. Prompt attention given to alt business. A Notary Public CO istantty in the office. Office, over Adams A Sons drugstore. *• A. ELY. „ W, T. TOWNSEND. MART KLEINER EI.Y, TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Att’ys at taw & Real Estate Agts, Petersburg, Ikd. Office over Gus Franke's Store. Snecial attention iriven to Collections, buying and sellin« lands, examining Titles a id lurni-h r,r Abstracts. J. W. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ^Petersburg, Ind, ’ *. WH1 practice in all the courts. Special attention iriven to all business intrusted to his care. Ott'o \ over Barrett & Son ssioro. J.’ Jt. BOYLE. W. H. THOMPSON. DOYLE & THOMPSON, Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan Starauce Agts. Office, second Doer in Bank Building, corner -Main and Seventh Streets. Petersburg, - - Indiana. The b -t Fire and l ife Insurance Companies represented. Money to loan on ttrst mortgag* s at seven and eight per cent. Prompt atteuti in to collections, and all business intrusted to us.

4. R. ADAMS. C. H. ITLI.1X WIDER. ADAMS & FULLINWIDER, Physicians & Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. Office over Adams & Son's drug store. Office hours day and night J. li. DUNCAN. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, - IND. Office, over Bergen's City Drug Store. Office hours day and night. -----if A. R. BYKItS, M. D. WM. H. USE, M. D. BYERS LINK. Physicians and Surgeons PETERSBURG, IND. fSfOflk-e, over Hammond A Son’s Store-** DR.~ATlTcARliTON. Office, in Gus Frank's new building, corner Main and Seventh streets; res donee in Moses ♦'rank’s new dwelling in Profit's addition to Peteraburg. Treatment of Disease!! of Females & Children a Specialty Chronic and difficult cases solicited. Calls in the city or country promptly responded to day or night. 0. K. Shaving Salocn, J. E. TURNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - IND. Parties wishing work done at’ their r»sidbiicee will leave order* at the shop, in Dr Adams' new budding, rear of Adams A son s drug store. HOTELS. UNCO HOTEL, PETERSBURG, IND. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and first-class accommodations in every respect. C. M, ROWE, Proprietor. HYATT HOIJHE," Washington. Ind. CentraUy Located, and Accommodations First-class. J. M. FAULKNER, Proprietor. SHERWOOD HOUSE, WM. SHERWOOD, Pro,. E. A. FROST, Man. THBO. RTSSELL, Clerk. Cor. First and Locust Stre ts, EVANSVILLE, - - - IND. The Sherwo< d is centrally located, first c it in ail iU appointments, and the best and cheapest hotel in the city. Rates, *3 per day When at Washington Stop at tho MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Mrs. Laura Harris. Pi'oprietross. _Wm. H. Nkal, Manager. EMMETT HOTELS One square east of Court-hofise, cor. of Washington and New Jersey Sts., INDIANAPOLIS, - - IND. JAMES S. MORGAN, Pro,'r. RATES, $1.50 Per Pay,

MISCK1AANKOUS. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAR HAMMOND, Frop’r. Pictures Copied or Enlarged. All kinds of work done promptly and at reasonable rates. Call and examine his work. Gallery tu Eisert s new building, over the Post-ollke, Petersburg, Ind. Great Reduction In the price of ’ SADDLES, HAEHESS, ETC, ETC. The public is hereby in'orraed that 1 will seU my large stock of Saddles and Harness, and everything kept by me lower than ever sold In this place before If you Want anything in my line, don't f»tl to call on the as am I ottering special bat gains. FRED FEIEBSBUAiG. REU8S, INDIANA.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. ranom and pouticat. P::cs;dint Ci.crsi.Aitb arivei at U* destination, Prospect House, Upper Saranna Lake, tn the Adirondacks, on the 11th. Diw Sigmusdy, the noted Alpine trareler and author, was killed recently by fall ins over a precipice while attempting an Impossible feat. P. C Gooding, agent at Chicago for the Hectograph Company, of New York, is said to be a fugitive and short $1,500 In his accounts. Grcat military precaution is being taken to guard the Csar In his coming Tisit to the Emperors of Austria and Gsrmany. Nihilists are again beooming active. Thc Chicago Grant monument fund had exceed $10,000 on the 13th. Thc wife of G. W. Colbert, of Dawes Ferry, Ga., gave birth on the 11th te a twenty-five pound baby. It is the biggest, on record in Georgia. Ex-Govkrnor Mosis of South Carol lina is again In troupe at Boston, this time for obtaining money under fatso pretenses from Samuel C. Cobb, Fred. L Ames and oth rs. Hon. Robert Mallory' an ev-Con-gressman, died at Louitsritlo, Ky., on the 11th, of kidney trouble. Billy Borns, a ^famous burglar, was captured on the 12th at Detroit, Mioh. , Thc Marquis of Buoyooafanti, the explorer, and Mr. Cosmas, chief of the Equator station, have died on the Upper Congo. A petition is being circulated iin Massachusetts asking Secretary Bayard to use his influence in behalf of Riel on the ground that ho is an American citiaen. Charlcs Wright, of Wethersfield, Conn., seventy-years old, was found dead in his barn the night of the 11th. Mr. Wright was one of the leading botanists of the country. He was employed by the Government iu an expedition to Texas and Ariaona, and hai| also explored Cuba for the Spanish Government Mrs. Mark Pattisox, Sir Charles Dilke’s betrothed, publicly announces that she will stand by him. A judgment was entered tn (the Supreme Court of New Tore on the 12th against the insolvent firm of Grant Ss Ward for $31,381 in favor'of Elmer E. Whitaker. Miss Hclcn Hunt Jackson, the wellknown authoress, died in San Francisco, Cal., tbs evening of the 13th, of cancer lu the stomach.

The total amount received for the Grant Monument fund in Now York up to the evenin' of the 12th wits $3$.619. Kaiser William arrived at Potsdam on the 13th in good health. He was enthusiastically received. At Marseilles cholera has received a fresh impetus, owing to the extreme heat Jay Gould started on the 13th for a two-weeks’ cruise on the New Eagiand and Nova Scotia coast, in the yacht Atlanta. - On the 13th Postmaster-General Vilas left Washington for the West to take a vacation of three or four weeks. Attorney-General, Garland has decided that pension agents are not entitled to a fee for paying pension attorneys their dues. The law passed last winter fixing the compensation of pension agents repeals the laws previously iu force, which allowed them a fee of thirty cents in each case. On the 13th the golden wedding of Mr. and MrseEdward Langworthy was celebrated at Dubuque, la. Mr. and Mrs. Langworthy were the first couple joined in wedlock in Dubuque, and they have resided there ever since A reunion of ex-soldiers and sailors began at Caldwell, O., on the 13th, with a large attendance Ex-Governor Noyes. Hon. Joseph B. Foraker and others were expected. Tax Duke of Richmond has ho an appointed Secretary of State for Ireland. On the 13th the body of Lieutenant Edward Wallao Remey, U. S. N., who has been missing since February 17th, was found floating in the North River at New York. The body was terribly decomposed, and as it was lifted from the water the head fell off. General Edgerton, formerly of St Louis, Is one of a committee of three appointed to Inspect the New York Postoffice. Commodore Oscar G. Badger, recently relieved from the command of the Boston Navy Yard, has been placed on the retired list. On the 13th the appointments of foremen of the Brooklyn Navy Yard were made pubic. Seven Democrats were installed and three Republicans w ere reappointed. The presses will begin work on General Grant’s book in a few weeks Speculation Is still, rife at Washington as to who was the subject of the Presi- J dent’s recent famous letter. Reprcs ntativb Barry, of Michigan, has been arrested alt East Saginaw on charge of inciting a conspiracy. Sir John Kirk. British Consul-General in Zanslbar, is accused by the German press of intriguing against Germany. The appointment of CL P. Judd, as special agent of [the Labor Bureau has been revoked on account of his unfortunate weakness for horse flesh. The schedules of the assets and liabilities of John Roach have been filed. They show the liabilities of Mr; Roach to be $2,233,877.71. The nominal assets are stated to be $£>408,038.07, and the actnal assets $1,432,478.23. It is rumored that the Emperor and Empress of Russia, after the meeting at Kremsier, will go to Ymiuden to visit the Duke of Cumberland, and it Is likely they will meet the Princess of Wales there. United States Consul Mason, at Marseilles, in a cablegram to the Secretary of State, on the 14th, said the cholera in that place was Asiatic and very fatal, the deaths numbering forty da ly. The disease was spreading to the interior. Dr. Cyrus Edson seised 2,000 pounds of decayed fish and six tons of bad trait In the Hebrew market about Heater and Ladlow streets, New York, on the 14th. The staff wss damped st an offal dock. Cartwright, McCurdy & Co., prqprttors of the largest Youngstown (Q.) roll-ing-mills, signed the scale on the 14th, preparatory to a st art on the 16th. The Prohibition party of Massachusetts will place s State ticket in the field the coming election, and will hold its State convention at Worcester September 10th. Ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, will be present and address the convention. Archbishop Gibbons has received by special message from Rome, the papal bulls, annonoing the elevation to the dignity of monsignor of the Very R?v. Edward A. McColgan, Vicar-G mend of the Arehdioeese of Baltimore. This Is the first time that the title of monslgaor has been bestowed in tins Archdiocese

CRIMES ARID CASUALTUS. hni Di Couroxy «u killed and Thos. McCann and Mike Cutick itarioosly wounded on the lltii by the caring .of an earth bank at Loaia riilej Ky.

Miss Sowers, living n»nr Dallas, Tax., kindled a Are on the 11th with kerosene. She is dead and her mother and two state™ ware horned beyond recovery. Hire Stewart Ford, while leading a Holi t jin hall to their farm near St. Pool, Minn., on the 11th, were attacked by the animal and killed. Ter white men and two negroes, connected with a circus, committed a brutal assault on a country girl named Flora Morrison at Huntington, Pa., on the 11th.' Twshty-trree miners were killed by an accumulation of gas in a working of the West Bud Coal Company at Mocanaque, Fa., on the 11th. James Thompson, confined in jail at Clarion, Pa., for forgery, committed suicide on the 11th by banging himself in his ceil. Or the 12th Hamburghert’s tannery at Oswego Falls, N. Y., burned. Doss, $85,'»a The family of Daniel Ashbaugh were poisoned at Hew Philadelph a, Q., on the 12th, by eating toadstools. Thomas Skkkls was killed with a knife by a man named Lagrange, near Evansville, Ind,, oa the 12th. Or the 12th several persons were drowned and great damage was done by a waterspout near Dead wood, Dak. Or the 12th Frank and Jehu Donohue, were buried beneath a fall of earth in a stone quarry at Youngstown, O. Frank was killed and John was fatally injured. Or the 12th a cyclone struck the village of Norwood, N. Y., destroying several houses, taking off church steeples and demolishing one church edifice. Eight persons were killed and several fatally and otherwise injured. At Hoffman’s Ferry, near Amsterdam. N. Y., on tip 12.h, n cloud-burst washed < ut 600 yards of the New York Central Railway’s tracks, and played havoc with the fences and telegraph lines. The Kturtevaut Lumber Company, of Cleveland, O., lost $lt0,000 by the burning of their planing mill on the night of the 12th. Or the 13th James Horace Jones was hanged at Troy, N. Y., for wife murder. Or the 13 h Lewis Hartmann, n farmer of Fayette County, Indiana, committed suicide, and Morton Hull followed suit at Dubuque, la. Firs destroyed a number of tenement houses at Jersey City, N. J., on the 13th. Forty families were rendered homeless. Philippopoms, a city of Reumelia, was the scene of a great conflagration on the 13th. Forty-fire houses were burned to the ground and two persons lost their lives. The damage is Immense. Ik Humboldt County, Californio, on the 13ch Henry D. Benner, suspected of being the murderer of Amanda M. Towne, was taken from the Sheriff by a* mob and n.Itk knlUFa

A powder magazine on the outskirts ot Silver City, N. M., was struck by lightning on the 13th and seventy kegs ot powder exploded, doing considerable damage, to windows in the vicinity. The building was burned; but, strange to say, 6.000 pounds ot giant powder remained intact Os the 13th a storm of almost unprecedented severity visited Saratoga, N. T. Four inches of rain fell within six hours, doing an immense amount of damage. Several persons were prostrated by lightning. One man and a team ot horses were killed. The Craig Hotel at Dresden, O., was destroyed by fire ou the 14th. Henry Fries e, colored, was hanged at Catlettsburg, Ky., on the 14'h, for the murder of Chester Hounker last May. Thk Western Uuion Telegraph office at Cleveland, O., was destroyed by fire on the 14-h. Fjre at Franklin, O., on the 14th destroyed the agricultural warehouse of C. Eldridge. James J- Mblugas was found in Boston on the 14th suffering trom cuts, and died soon afterward. No clew to the assassin. WiiMiz and My - Man - Hamilton Chickasaw Indians, were convicted at Fuel; Smith on the 14th of murder In the Indian Territory. Rh.au Frantz, a notorious desperado, was captured at Middletown, Pa., on the 14th, and in trying to escape was mortally wounded by an officer, Forxpavgh’s circus was badly smashed up by a collision on the rail near Ottumwa, la., ou the 14th. Several persons were severely injured and considerable damage was done to property. MISCELLANEOUS. Paris advices from Toaquin state that 10,001 Christians have been massacred in the provinces of Biendb h and Phu Ten. The Coroner of Dubuque, la., is hunting for the body of a stranger who said he was going to commit suicide. The operations ot the National Geological Survey are to be investigated. Germany Is agitated over proposed stringent Government supervision in Russia over German firms engaged In haziness in the Czar's dominions. The Oklahoma bo tners who have been in camp at Caldwell, Kas., tor some months, are disbanding by order of Captain Couch. Bills in equity, praying tor an injunction to restrain the American Benefit Society and the American Benefit Association from doing business in violation of law were presented in the Suprome Court at Boston on the 11th. Tax exports of merchandise from the port of New York for the week ending the 11th were valued nt $1,448,381. A smart lawyer nt IiOagview, .Tex., got op n petition and had it extensively signed to have a prominent citizen hanged. Hts idea was to throw ridicule ou petitions in general, and he succeeded. Cholera statistics from Spain continue to be appalling. On the 10.h 8,010 new cases were reported and 1,313 deaths from the disease, but these figures by no means cover the full extent ot the ravages of the scourge, as they are Incomplete. Cholera has reached Odessa. Thers is a panic at Marseilles. Serious rioting occurred on the 13th at Bay City, Mich., among the strikers. A vein of natural gas has been struck near Port Col barn, Ontario. The half-yearly report of the Union Pacific Railway shtftrs a deficit ot $427,m.

1.H* Grand Council of the Loyal Orange Brotherhood began Its session at Toronto, Omt, on the 13th. It is reasserted that England and China hare formed an alliance against Russia. Frrnch protective legislation has failed to keep foreign sugar ont of that country. Russia has dispatched fifty torpedo boats to the Black Sea. A Tsaniau state of anarchy prevails la Kurd of an. There is a famine also at the place. In the twenty-four hours ended the morning of the 13th, 6,484 new cases of cholera and 3,109 deaths were imported from 678 towns In thirty-six provinces in Spain. This is the highest number o$rtlotims yet reported. A vorn of thanks for the services of the army and navy in Egypt was adopted hy the British Lords and Commons ora the 12th. Busina the week ended the 8th 130,000 hogs were handled by Western packers as against 106,000 a year ago. The total since March 1st is 8,280,0JO compared with 3,780,000 for a corresponding period last year.

ANOTHER scandal In high life In London is mad# public. A seducer was publicly flogged on the 12th by the victim's father; The bonded indebtedness of the Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company will be reduced from $1>,000,050 to $1,2)0,000 under the reorganisation scheme, lit the reorganisation of “the pension examining force a Missouri district has been established with headquarters at 3t Louis. Tbs Associated Bessemer Steel manufacturers held a meeting at Long Branch, N. J., on the 13th. Tm National Society of American Florists met in Cincinnati on the 12th. It was their first convention, and was quite largely attended. Texas has quarantined against Vera Crus, on account of yellow fever. The British Parliament was prorogued on the 14th. On the 13th the property of the Alabama Great Southern Railway was attached by creditors. The newspapers in France complain of the great number of German spies on tha frontier. • News comes from Montana Territory that grasshoppers of both the migratory and non-migratory species are swarming in that section, and that they are about moving east in large swarms. Small-pox has been officially declared epidemic at Montreal, Can. London adyiees say that a new Atlantic cable is projected. On the 13th there were 4,433 new case# of cholera reported throughout Spain, and 1,613 deaths from the disease; Gbrmant is reported to have occupied the Caroline Islands, which are claimed by Spain. The trotting race at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, on the 13th, between J. L Case’s brown stallion PhaUas and W. C. Francis’ bay gelding Harry Wilkes, for n purse of $4,000, was won by Wilkes, who took the first, second and fourth heats in 2:16, 2:20 and 2:13 3-1. A recknt hostile demonstration by the German fleet caused Z mat bar to weaken, and the German claims are now ackuowledged. The Wabash bondholders in England will institute foreclosure proceedings. The scheme contemplates the purchase of the property and to pay the debentureholders with new bond*. A protest has been entered by the French Chamber of Commerce to the Government against German pretensions on, the coast of Africa. Indications point to Egypt’s big cotton cron.

Texas is preparing to make vigorous war upon illegal grains. Tax British Parliament stands pro* rogued until October 21st The Southern Exposition at Louisville, Ky., was formally opened on the 15!h. England has prohibited the Importation of rags from'Fl-ance. Wist ward mails were delayed twelve hours on account of the recent washouts in the East There were 100 failures in the United States and Canada during the seven days ended the 14‘*h. Russia has sent fresh proposals to En • gland for the settlement of the Ztilftksr Pass dispute. The claims of German subjects to the protection of their home Government are acknowledged by the Sultan of ZunsU bar. The Government purchased 2 5,000 ounces of silver on the 14 h, for delivery at Philadelphia to coin into standard dollars. The people of Camden, N. J., are excited over a death from what is thought to be genuine Asiatic cholera, which occurred on the 14th. A syndicate of Council Bluffs (la.) citizens proposes to pay the whole expenses of the town if granted exclusive privileges in the matter of saloons and gambling houses. R a ports to Bradstreet’s show a more hopeful condition all over the country. There is improved trading .and better prices in dry good a The splendid crop prospects in the South makes the business outlook especially bright in that* section. The acting Secretary of the Treasury hat received a report from the Puperiniotendent of Public Buildings in New York to the effect that the Customhouse, Post-office and Appraiser’s office are each in a very bad condition and in great need of immediate and extensive repairs. LATE NEWS ITEMS. A light frost was observed in Northern Michigan on the morning of the 15th. Bat little damage resulted. lit the five years from July 1st, 188), to July 1st, 1886, the population of St. Paul, Minn., increased from 41,473 to 111,397, a gain of 69.9J4, or 138.6 per cent, la the same period Minneapolis increased from 40,887 to 129,300,*a gain of 83,313. or 175.5 par cent The Secretary of War has instructed General Miles, in command of the Department of the Missouri, to hold troops in readiness to enforce the President’s recent order in relation to cattlemen on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation. Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary of State, has sufficiently recovered from her recant Illness to proceed t6 a a. aside resort near Gloucester, Mass. HOgh M. Brooks,’alias Walter H. Lon-nox-Maxwell, at.asi T. C. D’Auguier, the alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis last Sunday, arrived in St. Louis from New Zealand on the morning of the 16th in the custody of Detectives Tracey and Badger, of St Louis. The total exports of specie from the port of New York during the week ended the 15th were 8350,522. Louis Henke, a member of the Atlanta (Ga.) base ball team, died oh the 15th from the result of a rupture of the liver sustained the day previous in running against the knee of first baseman Marr or the Naahvilie team, with whom the Atlanta! were playing. Christine Nilsson sailed from England on the 16th for a Scandinavian

There wore 4,810 new oases of cholera in Spain on the 16th and 1,804 deaths from the disease. Daring the same time there ware thirty-seven deaths from cholera in Marseilles. Tan Grand Army men of Ohio are considering a project to purchase the lot at Point Pltasnnt, Ot, on which stands the house In which General Grant was born. Ait audience of SO. 000 people attended the opening exercises ot the Bunthern Exposition at Louisville, Ky., on the night ot the 16th. Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, and Hiss Auguste Jackson Lawford, daughter of the late Henry Baring Lawford, ot )he Bengal (India) civil service, were privately married at the r esidence of the bride’s mother at Kensington on the 16th. Ihis was the alternative of a heavy breach of promise suit. Thx Adams Express Company threatens to bring suit for breach of 'contract it the Treasury Department transports the surplus silver irom Mew Orleans by oilier means than through them, they holding a valid contract executed by Secretary Sherman in February, 187a

CROP PROSPECTS* Report of the Department of Agrleeltore On Ute Condition of the Motoring Crop* —The Cotton Outlook Exceedingly Flat* -erluc—Aa Improvement In t orn—Other Crops. WA8HHM5TOX, D. C., August n.—The (•tuns at the Deportment of Agriculture make a slight Improvement ot the condition of cotton on the first ot Augiist, the general average being 96 1-3, a point only once exceeded In the August returns of ten years,, In 1880. The average in August, 1883, was 91, and only South Carolina and Alabama exceeded their present figures. The State averages are as lows.Virginia.9y Mississippi.101 North VarMIna.9e Louisiana.loti South Carolina.96 l exas.91 Georgia.160 Arkansas......... 91 llorlJa.... w.Tcnnessee.— 91 Alabama............... 9s| South Carolina, Louisiana and Tennessee have made no change; Florida has gained four points; Georgia and Alabama, three; Mississippi, two, and Arkansas, one. North Carolina has lost one; Virginia, three. The crop has a slight disadvantage. It is a few days late, especially in the Atlantic States. There has been little damage from drought, rain or insects. A few reports from Texas and occasionally one from more Eastern States indicate a lack of rain. A large number in the Gnlf States, including a few In Texas, mention an excess of moisture, which is iujnrions in flat lands. Shedding of forms and bolls with rust and blight are much less prevalent than usual. The caterpillar has as yet done no damage, though reported in several counties in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. It is rare in Mississippi, and is not reported in Arkansas and Tennessee. CORX. This crop has made some improvement since the last report The average stands four points lower than the standard of full condition aud indicates a yield, with seasonable moisture and favoring temperature hereafter, of twenty-six to twenty-seven bushels per acre. The average for August ot 1881 was the same, but fell three points daring the sixty days following, when the yield was twen-ty-six bushels In 1879 the average for Angnst was ninety-nine, and the ultimate yield as reported by the census was twenty-eight bushels. The increase has been:

New York.. T Vtrsrtnla... $ Alabama.. J Illinois. T Kansas........ T leva. North Carolina. 1 tieor-iia.. 3 Michigan. 5 Missouri. 3 Nebraska. 3 There has been a slight decline in Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Teuuessee, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. In the corn surplus States, the averages are: Ohio.. 9t> Indiana. 95 Illinois.......91 Iowa. 101 Nebraska..100 Missouri_........ 93 Kansas.99 Correspondents report droughts in some places; excess ol rain In Others, but we'l drained and deeply cultured land has suffered little from drought or supersaturation. Meteorological conditions have been generally favorable. The prospect has not been exceeded slace 1880. wnsAT. The moist and hot weather since the 15th of Jnly has cansed some damage to spring wheat In the Northwest, mainly in Wisconsin aud Minnesota. While generally noticed, Its effects are variously reported, prominent counties returning from 100 down to eighty-five, and in a few cases down to sixty, and to fortyeight in the case of Pierce County, Wisconsin. Most ol the great wheat counties in Minnesota report averages from seventy-five to ninety, though Dodge County ouly returns fifty. Some ol less importance make an average of 100. The reduction in prospective yield is greatest in Minnesota, amounting to nine points. *016 decline Is five in Missouri, four in Ohio and one in Dakota. There Is an Increase la the other Territories and in New England. The average decline is four points and Indicates a redaction of 6,000,000 bushels from the expectation on the 1st of July. No reports concerning the result of threshing of winter wheat are received, except in the South, lu Texas the outcome Is greater than was expected and higher rates of yield are reported. OTHER caors. The average for oats has declined from 97 to 96, which is fonr points higher than in August of last year. Rve averages 94, showing continued improvement since the 1st of Jane. Barley stauds as in the last report, at 93, which indicates about an average crop tor any series of five or ten years. There is an increase in the area of buckwheat and condition averages 93. A medium crop of hay Is assured by the average, 93. Tobacco makes a general average of 91. The average for potatoes is 93, against 97 last month. Report of the Commission to Central and South America. Washington, D. C., August 19.—The Commission to Central and Sou'h America has submitted reports on its visit to Rcnador, Venezuela and Guatemala. No reports will be made on Brazil or the Argentine Republic. Ecuador is not inclined to a reciprocity treaty or a common silver coin for the Central and South American States, bat favored a commercial congress of the countries. Ecuador holds that commerce with the Untied Stales is difficult owing to monopoly of ihe carrying trade. The Commission think that by proper means the UnKed States can get all the trade of Ecuador. Nothing was gleaned from Venezuela. Guatemala Is arranging a reciprocity treaty and favors a common silver coin. The Commission advocates a confederation of the five Central American States.

j3 lie Wants a Full Count. San Francisco, Cal., August 11.—A serious misunderstanding is reported to exist between tbe out-going and in coming administration of the United States Sub-Treasury in this city, regarding tire count of the money in the vaults. Mr. Brooks, the newly appointed Sub-Treas-urer, is willing to accept the count by weight, but Mr. Spaulding the present incumbent, insists on every piece being counted before the transfer is msde. There are $98,000,000 In the vanlts. To count it ail over would take from six to eight months. » • Decidedly Meddletome Berlin, August 11.—The Russian Minister of Finance has prepared a measure enacting a close Govertoment supervision of tbe affairs of all German firms carrying on manufacturing business within the Caar’s dominions. The bill will require that all the correspondence, both private and general, of these firms, shall be submitted to Bnsslan officials. The result of tbe enforcement of tho measure will be to expose German manufacturing Anna carrying on business in Russia, to having their affairs known and made use oi by dishonest and avaricious Russian bureaucrats.

SPECIAL DELIVERY. The Se« Postal Arrangement to bo Innag •rated la ItO Cities on October 1st—At Additional Ten-Cent Stamp Will Insure Immediate Delivery of Correspondence— Instructions to Postmasters. Washington, D. C., August IS.— Postmaster-General Vilas yesterday completed arrangements for the establish* meat of the special delivery of letters authorized by the last Congress at 630 Post-offices, and issued a circular lettei of instructions to Postmasters to govern this new feature of the postal service. The new system will go into operation on the 1st of nest October. The law authorized Its introduction at the discretion of the Postmaster-General In ail places containing more than 4,000 inhabitants. When the Postmas-teo-General first directed his attention to the matter he thought it best to introduce the system in only a few oi the large cities, but he finally determined to introduce it in all places allowed by law Bt placing the special ten-oeni stamp upon a letter, In addition to the regular postage, it will be delivered at once by a special carrier upon its arrival at the office of destination anywhere within the earner limits of a free delivery office, or within one mile of the Post-office at other than free delivery offices, which are designated ad special delivery offices, drop or local letters, bearing the special delivery stamp, will also be delivered by special carriers. The instructions issued to Postmaster: authorize the employ Kent of messenger hoys to perform the special delivery, at salaries not to exceed 930 per month. Substitute letter-carriers may also be utilized as messengers. The circular sent to Postmasters yesterday embraces a copy of the act authorizing the es* tablishment of the system, and very minute instructions and many suggestions respecting the introduction of it at each office, In concluding his circular, Mr. Vilas says: “You are earnestly enjoined to give your best judgment and diligent attention to this system of special delivery, now sought to be established by the Government. It is an object of great importance and general desire that the system should prove of high public utility. Although the ends sought by it are of unquestionable value, the system Introduced is necessarily an experiment, and its success depends largely upon the Postmaster, and its success or failure In any locality will indicate the Post* master’s official value.**

TORNADO SWEPT. Terzibl* Visitation In a New York YtllngeHoum and Cburehez Demolished, Eight Persons Killed and Others Injured — A Damaging Cloud-Burst. Utica, N. T., August IS.—About Are o’clock yesterday afternoon a tornado struck the village of Norwood, St Lawrence County. The streets were soon filled with flying roofs, trees, timbers, etc. Buildings went like feathers. AH the church steeples were blown down and one church was demolished. The schoolhouse and the large bridge over the Racquet River, owned by the Ogdensburg & - Lake Champlain Railroad Company, were destroyed. Many private residences were also blown down. Hailstones as lar ge as a man’s flat destroyed the growing crops. Several persons were killed, including four men working in the schoolhouse. Telegraphic communication Is interrupted. The storm lasted three minutes only. Among the killed aret ' Mrs. David Fitzgibbona. Mrs. Armstrong. John Martin, a prominent miller. Later reports say that eight persons were killed and as many more fatally Injured. Five hundred excursionists from Plattsburg to Ogdensburg are detained in the latter city on account of the giving way of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railway bridge. Troy, N. Y., August IS.—At five o’clock yesterday afternoon a. cloudburst occurred at Hoffman’s Ferry, eight miles from Amsterdam. The New York Central Railroad tracks were washed into the river for a distance of 600 feet, and telegraph poles and fences were prostrated for miles. Trains east and West were delayed, the passengers being transferred around the break. A large gang of laborers are at work preparing the damage The rain fell In sheets, destroying crops and inflicting serious damage in various ways. The loss is estimated at thousands of dollars. A GRANT MONUMENT. St. Louis Proposes to Honor the Memory of Her Former Citizen by a Fitting Hon* assent. St. Loots, Ma, August 19.—The prompt steps taken by the “Grant Funeral Pageant” Committee to establish a Grant Monument Association have excited the admiration of the general public, and every one is In thorough sympathy with the idea. There is little doubt now but that the appeals of the association will meet with a liberal and quick response. It Is the universal opinion on all hands that St Louts, In honoring Grant, does herself the greatest honor. The claim Is made on all sides that Grant belonged to St. Lonis more than to any other city In the Union. It was here that he was married; it was here that he formed hia life-long associations; his army career began here and when he left the army here it was that he came to reside. The citizens have always felt a strong interest in the man, and step by step as he rose to the highest position within the reach of an American citizen so step by step did that interest increase. In no city were the bulletin boards more anxiously scanned than here, and when at last the news came “Grant Is dead,” the citiaens with one accord determined to honor him.

lCwnlip of tile Union Pacific Railroad. New Yoek, Avgust 13.—The report ot the Union Pacific Railroad lor the six months ended June 20th, shows cross earnings, $11,224,330, an Increase ot 1230,713 over the same period ol last rear. Operating expenses, $7,949,6*4, tn increase ot $313,750. Met earnings, therefore, decrease $85,037. The deficit, after deducting Government requirements, Is $427,121. During the twelve months ended Jnue 30tb, the gross floating debt declined $1,268,527; net Boating debt declined $3,112,091; funded debt declined $2,067,047. Why the Inspectors Were Dismissed. Washington, D. C., August 18.—The recent action of the Treasury Department in reducing the tone of special inspectors of foreign steam vessels to one half the present number is due to thb fact that the inspection service has diminished in about that ratio sinee the force was originally organised by Secretary Folger. The number of steam vessels to be inspected is only one-halt of what it was when the Inspectors were appointed. This explanation is made at the Treasury Department, so that the fact that a number of officers were dismissed may be properly understood, and got considered as reflecting on them.

WHERE IT HITS. AUst at a Portion »t HwTtMpuMid Public Lauds Who, la Obedience tottt President’s Proclamation, WU1 Haeatc Down TMr Pences-Acre# By the Million Closed Against Settlers. Washington, D. C-, August ILr-The President’s proclamation regarding the unlawful fencing of the public domain Is a much severer blow to Us great cattle farms than the action taken In regard to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe strike. It •Reels the occupation of the public do mala In almost every portion of it. Among the companies and persons re* ported as having “Immense” or “very large” areas inclosed, but specific quantities not mentioned, are, the Dubuque, -Cimarron and Reneila Cattle Companies of New Mexico; the Carlislo Cattle Company, (English), in Colorado; the Marquis de Morales in Dakota; the Wyoming Cattle Company (Scoth) in Wyoming, and the Rankin Live-Stock Company in Nebraska. Several companies and persons in Montana and elsewhere are mentioned as having inciosnres, with no data as to areas. A large number of cases ia the several States and Territories west of the one hundredth meridian are reported, where the inciosnres range from 1,000 to $5,000 acres and upward. Hitherto the Land Office could only investigate thgge esses and report the facts to the Department of Justice, whose duty it was to order District Attorneys to prosecute persons guilty of unlawful fencing. A few cases have been investigated and suit was commenced against the Brighton Company. The new law, passed mainly through the efforts of Congressman Payson, oMlltnois, abbreviated proceedings very mneb, and allows the President to use the army if necessary to eject the trespassers, without carrying on several years’ litigation as a preliminary. The following is a list of the illegal inclosures of public lands of which the General Land Office has specific knowledge, which are affected by the President’s proclamation of yesterday:

Acres. 62.790 14,720 46,900 14,920 33,200 40,000 Urbejr Bros., Pueblo County, Col. John Boss, l*uoblo County, Col. John Ilorspcngcr, Pueblo County Col. Unktord Bros., Pueblo County, Col.. E. C. Tolie, Pueblo County, Col.... John G. lisas. Pueblo County, Col.... IHtniel Kees. Beut County, Col..'. 1,300 J. C. Jones, Bent County, Col. 1,200 Polk anti Andrews, Gent County, Col. 7,500 l>av id Degroff, Kl Paso, Col.... IO.SOO Cohort Douglass, Kl Paso, Col. 1,710 Allen A Link, Pars County, Col. 13,300 1L F. Spinney. Park County, Col.. 6,*.00 James Malloy, l as Animas, Col. 2,920 Poindexter A Orr, Beaver Mend County, Mont. 90,000 Charles Beaubln, Silver Bow Count}’, Mont. 4,600 i Solomon Jennings, Sliver Bow County, Mont_.7... T.800 James A. Campbell, Custer County, Mont.:.. 2,300 C. II. Hutton, Albany-County, Wyoming......... 9,000 Wm. \V altaee, JBeer Lodge. Mont. 4,300 Cbattelter, Thomas A Blake, Kingman and Harpers Counties, Kan.... 24,009 Wm. Burphy, Lander and Eureka Counties, Kev... 11,930 B&fael A Bradley, Lander County, Xev..... Crum A Zarrtes, Lander County, Nev. Andrew Benson, Eureka County, Nev... C. F. Coffee A Co-, Sioux Couuty, Nob. Clrele Bar Co., Sioux County, Sob.... War Bonnet Live Stock Co., Sioux County, Neb.. 5.279 Dakota Stock Co., Sioux County, Neb. 61,968 Ogden A Area, Sioux County, Utah. Thomas Ray, Sioux County, Utah.... Patrick Largy,-Sioux County. Mont.,, Northwestern Cattle Co., Sioux Co., Mont.................. 14.660 Martin Stevens, Bent County, Col..... 9,660 A. S. Polk, Bent County, Col.... 5.769 1,300 3,900 3,800 6,000 4.330 900 1.200 760 M. J. Hopkins, Bent County, Col...... 2,300 Columbia Cattle Co.. Beut Co., Col..., 3,000 H. S. Holly, Bent County, Col. 1,260 McLean Bros , Bent Couuty, Col. 2,000 Joseph Graham. Bent County, Col... 1,200 James Beatty, Bent County, Col. 21,060 A. J, Anderson, Bent County, Col..... 1,000 Humphrey Best, Bent County, CoL... 2,000 G. W. Swink, Bent County, Col. 9,000 J. W. Potter. Beat County, Col.. 4,300 McDaniels A Davis, Pueblo County, Col.... W. T. Burns, Las Animas County, Col., •'»*••••»*••**,«*.*,«*....... B. K. Kimberly, Arapahoe County, CoL.irT..... ..... D. X. Schafer. Arapahoe County, CoL 3^80 800 3,260 9,000 Salts have been instituted in the following cases: Arkansas Valley Land and Cattle Co., Colorado.. 1,000,006 Prairie Cattle Co., Colorado..1,600,000 Hall A Barela, Colorado... 38,000 Joshua 1L Anderson, Colorado. 3,600 Jones A Hess, Colorado.. 8,000 John Browers, Colorado. 200,000 Brighton Rancho, Nebraska. 125,000 Benj. Hershey, Nebraska. 391 Ira Nichols, Nebraska. 1,083 Mowell C. Kefth, Nebraska. 1,484 Burke A Sons, Colorado. 352 Total.............,....2*347,510 It is estimated that not less than 10,000,000 acres, in addition to lands mentioned in the above list, are Illegally inclosed, ol which the special agents ol the Department have not time to make examination and specific report. HEROIC TREATMENT. The West Virginia Method of Punishing Husbands Guilty of Cruelty to Their Wives—A Hundred Lashes, Well Laid on by Neighbors. Parkebsburg.W.Ya., August 12.—Th« region about Groove's Ran, Wirt founty, is overrun with excitement over another Red Men attack. One Elmore Creel, a farmer on Greeve's Ran, has been the subject for vengeance from the Red Men this time. He had been notoriously cruel to his family, and so general became the complaints that the vigilantes took him in hand last night. Creel was in bed when a squad of masked men broke Into his home and, overcoming his straggles, tied his hands, took hip to the y?rd and gave him a fearful thrashing with cowhides and hickory sticks. After whipping they untied him and let him go, after warning him that another visitation might be looked for if he was not kinder to his wife. Creel went to Wirt County Court-house and swore oat wsrraats for four of his neighbors, who were arrested sad gave hail for their appearance next Tuesday. About 100 lashes were laid on Creel's back.

St. Paui, Minn., August 12.—A dispatch lrotn Fort Benton, Mont., says: “Dumont and Dumas bare the sympathy and assistance ot the cowboys and other kindred spirits, and it is rumored that Dumont’s real mission here Is to organize a force of dare-derils, make a dash on Regina, stir up the natives, and return under the leadeiahlp of their former chief, Riel. It is no great distance from the boundary line to Regina, and the police force guarding the rebel leader is said to consist ot only fifty mounted police. The Amalgamated Association. Whkbuxg, W. Va., August 13.—The Amalgamated Association adjourned last evening, after electing Win. Wiehe President, Win. Martin Secretary, James Fenny Treasurer and Thomaa Johnson, ol Bridgeport; James C. Matt, of Youngstown, and P. F. Keeney, of Pittsburgh, trustees. Vice-Presidents were also elected, one tor eaoh of the six divisions ot the association. The salaries of the paid officers were redaoed ten per cent, and the question of the nailers and feeders read and indefinitely postponed. Three conventions—district, scale aud annual—wore merged into one, and meet vn the first Tuesday ol each year.

TERRIBLE STORMS. lk*lB|tre3M« tlw Ttmtwof IhmT«9 Sever* and IMmtln Storms—Railway Travel Sariooaly lapeM by Washouts— Fo«r Inobee ol R»ia la Six Hoar* at Sant, toe*—What the Lighting DM. Amstudam, N. T.t August IS.—Repairmen who endeavored to repair the damage done by the storm last night report that it was impossible to do anything toward relieving the 4 p. m. train, still held there by the break at Turnpike Bridge, which completely dislodged two passenger rails (Or a distance ol fifty to one hundred feet, though the freight tracks to this point arc intact About hail a mite farther on the entire tour tracks that cross between two large colverts, together with the culverts, are gone tor a distance of two hundred and fifty to three hundred feet, leaving the.Ues and rails wedged in with large '.trees, some of which are three feet in diameter, together with brnsh, corn and rye from neighboring farms, forming an artificial bridge. So strong was the force of the storm that the solid masonry of the cniverts is cracked and hangs in a threatening position. The soft bottom of the creek has been deepened so much that it will take plies thirty to forty feet In length to be of any nse, and tbe work of repair at this point will take weeks at least. The West Shore opposite here had its tracks engnlied in a land slide, and late last night telegraphed to Ft. JohnsonTitle tor steam shovels. An old employe on tbe road says that nothing in the nature of a washout as long as he remembers can compare with tbe force and destructiveness of last evenlng'n^storm on the New Y>«rkCentral. r'!‘' A young man in a bam time miles distant at tbe time reports having seen what he took to be a white streak of lightning about two yards thick and seventy-five long in the sky, then it turned into a sheet of water and struck the barn reaching from the ground fto the first story, the volnme of water turning the entire building around. Tbe damage to property there is something considerable. Trains this morning are running to the break and transferring passengers by iurnplke. a drrohee of thlflSh miles, to the other side, and will continue to do so for some days yet from present indications. Meantime all freights are at a standstill.

Saratoga, N. Y., August 14.—A terrific storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst over Saratoga and vicinity shortly before noon yesterday, and continued vrith scarcely any intermission until late in the afternoon. The races were postponed and all business was <3 totally suspended for several hours. The flagstaff on the tower of Grand Union llotel, 200 ffeet above the ground, was struck and epiluteced, but the electric light wires carried the thunderbolt off without further damage. A teamster driving two horses along a road about' a mile west of Saratoga was struck and instantly kilted, both his horses suffering the same fate. Telephone and telegraph wires were disabled, and the fiery discharges were dropping from the clouds everywhere. A party of gentlemen standing in he pavilion over the Vichy Springs, south of the village, were shocked and two oi them knocked over, bat fortunately they sustained little injury except that one of them had his hearing partially paralysed. Over lour inches of rain tell in about six hours. Saratoga has not been visited by such a storm since 1869.

A CURIOUS FREAK. Six Thousand Founds of Giant Fowdsf Goes Through an. Ordeal of Llthlnhil and Fire Unscathed. Silvsr City, N. M., August 14.—Shortly after one o’clock yesterday a load report, followed by the rattle of broken glass, startled the inhabitants of this city. One of the powder storehouses just west of the corporate limits had exploded. The powder house belonged to the hardware firm of Neff A Stereos, and contained between sixty and seventy kegs of black powder, besides some 6,000 pounds of giant powder. The building stood on a hill and was struck by lightning. Bursting into flames It burned in a few minutes, when the explosion of black powder. took plaee, the giant remaining unexploded, v an incident leading to much discussion and numerous attempts at explanation. Buildings situated on elevated points In and about the town were all more or less damaged. The Court-house suffered to the amount of about #800 in the item of window glass. The schoolhouse, half a mile from the powderbouse site, lost all its west windows. The damage throughout the town will probably reach $2,000, but no Uvea were lost. A CONVENIENCE Which Will be Appreciated by Traasstlsnt o Travelers—Baggage la Bond to Entry Port Nearest to Destination. New York, August IS.—The United States Treasury Department has authorized the American Express Company to receive the baggage of passengers from Europe upon arrival In New York to be forwarded immediately In bond, without examination to the principal ports ot entry in the United States and Canada, where the duties, If any, will be assessed. This win reltevp travelers from tbe delay and annoyance of the persewt system ot examination at tbe port of jgaw York. Hereafter when passengers are in a hurry tajg&put of New York, they have simply to go to the ship's purser any time before the ship arrives fn port and ask that their ultimate destination and description ot the baggage be written in the manifest of passengers which each ship must carry. Then as soon a# the ship reaches the pier the baggage must he pointed out to the agent of the American Express Company, who will ha tu waiting, and thereafter no further thonght need be given to It until It reaches Its destination.

A Questionable Proposition. New York, August IY—The Sun says. The basts of an arrangement between the Western Unton and Urn Baltimore A Ohio Telegraph Company, which Mr. John' Pender, acting lor Mr. Robert Garrett, proposed 10 the first named company was, tn substance, that the parties most largely interested In the two concerns should torm a syndicate which should purchase the Baltimore A Ohio lines at a price to be agreed upon, and sell them to the Western Union st a higher price, the members of the syndicate to divide the profits.” A Defiralttng Postmaster Captured. Washington, D. C., August 13.Assislant Attorney General Bryant, ol the Post-office Deportment says that Wm. Simpson, the defaulting Postmaster who absconded some time ago from Louisville, Col., has been captured by one of the new Post-office inspectors. Simpson is now detained at Denver on a charge of embezzlement. The evidence of his pnilt is complote, and the misappropriated money has been recovered. The United States Attorney in Colorado proposes to prosecute the case vigorously, as the postal service In that region has been much scandalised through the doing ol some ol tti? Postmasters.