Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — Page 7

Rensselaer Republican. BY GEO. E. MARSHALL.

IRON AND STEEL.

The Depression Caused by Overproduction. The Situation Probably Not So Bad a* Represented. A number of iron and steel mills in all /arts of the country are to close down within a month or two for reasons which may be div.ded into two classes: first, the depression in the iron and steel traffic; and, second, the anticifxtionof free-trade legislation on the part of the next Congress. As to the latter consideration, Judge Keliey, of Pennsylvania, says that the next session of Congress can not extend beyond seventy days, a»d that even were the Committee on W ys and Means disposed to refo< m the tariff it w >uld be an impossibility to get a bill *ni ough n the time that would be left alter dispo ing ot the appropriation bills and the i undre ot measures that will necessarily en umber the Spe keris table. In reference t»the de r ssion n the business Ethan A. Hitchcock, Pre -i dent of the St Louis Ore and Ste 4 Company, says: The price of steel rails has fallen from S6O to $45 per ton, tad pig ir n on y trout $25.5 Jto $24. The fall in st el rails was due, he said, to overptod action. In one year the estimated capacity o J the steel mills of the United States bad increased 9J0,t00 tons. The probable demand for n xt year would be about 1,000,000 to I*, as against a possible outputof 2,150,00 J tons. If .he demand should prove to be 50 per cent of the capacity, all the mills could not work full time. Ana the probability was that nexG year there would be but litt e railroad build ng, and rails would be neededfor reconstruction and repair alone. G.oomy apprehensions are entertained by other firms. The manager of the Bethleh m (Pa.) Iron and Steel Works says the materials produced at his works are about as low as they c m go, and the outlook is a dull one. Gen. Lilly, of Mauch Chunk, says the business outloo < is gloomy, orders given for bar iron having been countermanded in a large number of instances, and there being uncertainty on all sides. The President of the Thomas Iron Company, in Pennsylvania, reports a similar condit.on of things at Catasaqua and Hokendauqua. The large works of the Lackawanna Company, ot Scranton, Pa, have shortened their time schedule. The laborers throughout the Lehigh valley are anxious about the future. These apprehensions are not shared, however, by all the manufacturers. The Tyrone (Pa.) forges resume operations next week, and will run on full time In Coatesville, Pa., though the proprietors consider the outlook gloomy, all the mills are busy and plenty of orders are on hand. The output of the Edgar Thompson steel works, Pittsburgh, has been reduced to two-thirds of their capacity, and the company say that among the manufacturers the question is the survival of the fittest, or, rather, the fattest pocket. They dbuld sell at $42 a ton if they could get coke and ore and wages down, but had never gone below $45. In Bridgeton, N. J., the iron foundries are very busy. The Cleveland (Ohio) rolling-mills are not to be shut down, and the Bay View works, near Milwaukee, which have not made any steel rails for some time and shut down the iron-rail mill three weeks ngo, will not be affected except through the sympathy inevitable to all lines of the iron business. The North Chicago, the Union Iron and Steel mills, the Joliet and the Vulcan mill of St Louis are still running, but will have a conference with their hands about Jan. 1 relative to wages for the ensuing year, when the employers will probably d mand a decrease of from 20 to 25 per cent, on present rates The trouble is attributed in Chicago to the Scranton company, which cut pr.ces from $45 to $42 a ton, since which time sales have been made at S4O, the price at which they are now quoted in Eastern circulars, and at which the President of tue Union Iron and Steel Company says they cannot be made here.

A Philadelphia di?p tch says: Thorough Inquiy all over the city and in all th* leading man it act urin ■ <ente a of tne State co not warrant the opinion tha t the iron and steel trade a in as had condition as has been represented. Indeed, James M. 8* ank, the Secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association, and one of the best-informed me i in the country, said to-day: “It has been gre nly exaggerated. Tae steel-rail industry is in a very depressed condition, and thed mandf roth rir n and steel products is not equal to the expectations of a few months ago, b t there is no occasion for a-iy excitement or alarm. Prices have been gradually declining since last spring; there nas been no sudden decline, not even in steel rails. Ido not believe that the present Congress, nor <he Congress which has just been elected, will be so unwise as greatly to reduct the duties upon iron and steel, and hence I feel entirely "hopeful of the future of those industries. Low prices are not necessarily an evil " A Washington dispatch states that it is believed there “by many Congressm n and . others who favor a revision of the tariff laws that the sensational reports of a general suspension of steel production are designed to influence Congress against any reduct on of the enormous measure Oi protection which the iron and steel interests already enjoy. Indications are not lacking io show that there is a good deal of , method and system in the attempt to (lighten the country into the conviction that nothing short of a prohibitory tariff will prevent a trenecal collapse oc the iron aud steel manufactories of the United States. 1 *

The force and power of habit, and especially the tobacco and whisky habit, are something marvelous. When children suck their thumbs we put asafetida on, tied with rags. Sometimes that stops the habit. It didn’t with me. Tor the sake of the thumb I swallowed the drug. In later years, when my little girl sweetheart said the other girls laughed at her because her beau. (10 years old) sucked his thumb, I stopped <of my own free will. Love was more potent than asafetida. Some children make odd faces and find it impossible to stop. I do. When I am nervous and excited—not that man should ■ever be the one or the other, but I occasionally am—l find myself winking -and blinking and screwing up my cheek. It relieves somethin?. I don’t know what, but it does. I have been told by ladies that other ladies thought I was winking at them, but life is too short for that kind of sport. I don’t do it and I never did. It’s habit. There

Habit.

are writers of mv acquaintance who can’t work unless they have a cigar in the mouth. I take dry smokes myself. Result—colic. Why ? Because the tobacco, being more or less chewed, -becomes moist, and, entering the stomach, raises the old Harry. Isn’t it so, doctor? Why, certainly. Other fellows tell me they would no more think of speeding a fast crab on the road without a c gar than of broiling their own baby for breakfast or even for lunch. Beware of habit.* I know men who think themselves gentlemen—yet they swear like pirates. Not that I ever saw a pirate or beard one indulge profanely, but that’s their reputation, and next to being rich is to be thought so. Swearing is a terribly low habit, yet tens of thousands swear. But see. Do they swear always and in all society? No not at all. They are in the habit of swearing here and there, but not everywhere. Ergo, it is a controllable habit, but still a habit.—Philadelphia Times. '

INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Interesting Figures from the Census Reports. Census Bulletin Na 801, recently issued from the Census Bureau at Washington, gives statistics of certain kinds of manufactures in this country, including agr|cifitural Implements, ammunition, boots and shoes, bricks and tiles, firearms, lumber sawed, and paper, and we condense these stat’stics into the following general particulars. In the matter of the manufacture and production of agricultural implements we have the following general results: Number of establishments 1,943 Capital invested .$62,109,663.9) Value of materials $31,531.17 Value of products $68,640,486.00 Paid for wages. $15,359,610,00 Persons employed— Males 38,313 Females over 15 years 73 Children 1,194 Total employed 39,580 Average yearly wages (312 days) $ 3 J 8.00 Dally average wages $1.24 In the manufacture of boots and shoes, not including custom work and repairing, we have the following details: Number of establishments 1,959 Capital invested $12,991,028.00 Value of materials $ 02,447,442.00 Value of products. $166,050,354.00 Paid for wages $43,001,438.00 Persons employed— Males 82,547 Females over is years 25,122 Children 3,493 Total employed 111,152 Average yearly wages $387.00 Average dally wages (312 days) $1.20 In the manufacture of bricks and tiles the following are the details returned by the census: Capital invested $28,673,616 Value of materials $ (,728,6 <4 Value of products $32, 3 ’,587 Paid for wages $1 <,444,532 Persons employed 66,155 Including children 7,055 Average yearly wages $204 Average dally wages, 65 cents. The reports of the manufacture of firearms show the followin' results: Capital invested $3,3 3,289 Value of materia’s $,781,316 Value of pr ducts $5,618,636 Paid for "ages Persons employed 4,847 The repo r- s of the lumber sawyers show the so lowing particulars of that industry: Capital Invested $181,186,122 Value of materials $146,155,385 Value of products $233, 6;,729 Paid for wages $11,845,971 Persons employed If > 956 Average annual wages $215 Average dally wages, 69 cents. The manufacturers of paper made the following returns of the re ;ult of their business during the census year. We g>ve the details of meir exhibit: Capital invested $46,241,202.00 Number of establishments 692 Materials used — Rags, tons 187.917 Old paper 87,840 Waste cotton 12,088 Manila stock 84,786 Corn stock.. 954 Straw 243,838 Esparto grass 264 Value of above materials $21,581,240.00 Chemicals $3,62-1,798.00 Other materials $7,039,497.00 Pulp purchased $1,681,762.00 Total value of materials $33,931,29 .00 Value of products $55,109,914.00 Persons employed, males 16,133 Females over 15 years 7,646 Children 649 Total employed 24,442 Paid for wages $8,524,855.00 Average yearly wages $329.00 Average daily wages $1.06 The iol'owing table >h ws the < apital invested, the number of hands emplo ed, the amount of w ges paid, the value of ma e ials used and the value of products for all the establishments of manufacturing in iustry, gas excepted, in each of the States and Territories mentioned, as returned in the census of 1880: Ip Pi hr i •••siuamqsnqviwjOTOqumH w,d ’° 6 SSSSg JO IdqUinU » m h M » -paXoiduio 21 OAoqv : £ sdpmiGj jo laquiuu ojhuoAy * _____ * h- co oo paXofduio sqinoX pu« mS 38838 uoipnqo joioquiuu omaoAy M NO O’ HX « Cfi 52** <DWX ifUJITIp sa»jM UJ P[Bd <junouiv [V)OX iomin _ 8 3 ionpord p

There are in San Frandisco four palatial houses worth together more than $3,000,000. Their owners, ex-Gov. Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mrs. Mark Hopkins and Mr. Colton, represent about $130,000,000. The magnificent structures stand unoccupied about teu months of each year.

REMOVED FOR CAUSE.

President Arthur Summarily • Bounces Severs! Washington Officials. They Are Charged with Improper Conduct in the Star-Route Cases.

[Washington Telegram.] A thunderbolt has fallen upon the starroute defendants, and the Government has atlast given undoubted evidence that It is very much in earnest in the prosecution. The President late this afternoon ordered the summary dismissal from office of Henry, United States Marshall of the' District; Ainger, Postmaster of Washington; Parker, Assistant Postmaster; Spencer, Government Director, and Helm, foreman of the Jiecord at the Government printing office. The charges made by the administration aga net these officials are these; That all of them have obstructed the a < ministration of lustioe in these cases, either by direct aid or >y public expressions of sympathy. As to Marshal Henrv, the accusation Is this: that, at an Interview in Cleveland during the progress of the star-route trial, he indulged in gross abuse of Mr. Bliss, spec al counse for the United S'ates, and declared that the Government had no case; that throughout the pro r-'as of the trial he expressed sympathy w th some of the defendants, particularly with Dutsey, who was a resident of bis own section in Ohio, and that he, when the panel from whicu the itiry was drawn was exhau<ted, so arranged it that talesman who would be satis.actory to the defense were chosen. As to Postmaster Ainger, the charge is that he, when Assistant Postmaster, wis impugned by two postoffice inspectors as to the certification of bogus bonds in the starroute cases, and that, whether these acts were true or not, the fact that Mr. Ainger is the proprietor of anewspaperin Michigan, and that during the last trial he wrote to his paper, over his own signature, denouncing the officers who bad instituted the prosecution, and de daring that the Government had no case, is regarded as sufficient cause lor his removal. As to Helm, the fact that he Is the business manager of the Critic, which has been virulent in its abuse o the Government pro-ecution, and of all who approve it, is considered sufficient cause for his removal from the position of foreman Of Government printing. Ex-Senator Spacer’s refusal to obey the summons of the court is assigned as the cause for his removal. These removals, announced just after dark, were a great, local sensation. [Another Telegram.] Scarcely anything but the removal o' the star-route sympathize s hasbe< n ta kedof in political circles to-day. The President’s a:tion is believed to be a pledge ot more vig rous measures in the prosecution of Brady, Dorsey, et a . Attorney General Brewster is warmed up for work, and an order has gone iorth to give no quarter. Rumors of other dismissals are as p[ency as blackberries. There are star-route sympathizers in almost every department of the Government, some of them occupying high post. tion«. The names of seventeen are in the hands ot the President, and their heads may be chopped off at anv moment District Attorney Corkhill and Public Printer Rounds are said to be among those marked for the ax.

The beheaded Marshal Henry was interviewed at Cleveland by a newspaper co< respondent and declared h mself the scapegoat selected to bear the burden of the failure of the star-raute prosecutions. He cited the fact that the two jurors selected by him had till the way through voted for conviction. Bob Ingersoll pronounces th ■ removals an effort to terrorize the jury. He declares Marshal Henry co be a* honest a man as ever lived, and rays there isn’t a word of truth in the letters of Brewster and Bliss. Postmaster Ainger, and his assistant, Parker, addressed a letter t > the President asking an investigation of their acts by a commission. He m, in an interview, says that he is a persecuted man, and proclaim* his belief in the nnocence 01 B<‘ady et ai.

CHIEF ENGINEER WRIGHT.

Ills River and Harbor Budget lor 1883-84 Gen. Wright, Chief of Engineers, in his an nual r eport to the Secretary of War, recommends the expenditure of the amounts mentioned below during the fiscal year ending June 30,1884: For the improvement of Western rivers and harbors* Mississippi river, between Illinois and Ohio rivers, $l,O o,ooo—the appropriation asked for to be applied to completing the works now progres ing, and beginning new works below Foster’s island;-removing snags from the Mississippi, from the mouth of tne Missouri to Vicksburg. $170,000; removing snags from the Missouri river, $108,000; for snagboat, to be used above Omaha, $80,000; survey of the Mssourl, from the mouth to Fort Benton, Montana, $50,000; improvement of the Missouri, from the mouth to Sioux City, $1,000,000; estimated amount required to complete existing project, $7,150,000; improving the Mississippi: From St Paul to Des Moines rapids, $750,000; from Dea Moines rapids to mouth of Illinois river, $500,000; res rvoirs upon headwaters of Mississippi, $500,000; Improvement Ohio river, $980,000; Duluth harbor, $100,000; harbor of refuge Milwaukee bay, $300,000; Wisconsin river, $500,000; Chicago harbor, $250,000; Illinois river, $225,000; Michigan City (Ind.) harbor, $200,000; Cleveland harbor, SBOO,OOO,

REPORT OF THE SUPERVISING ARCHITECT.

Supervising Architect James 0. Hill, of the Treasury Department, has submitted to the Secretary of the Trra«U'y his annual report for the yea” ended B*pt 80.188?. Theren rt *h w< the following am ante to have be<n ex ended upon the various public b dl'linge in t e West, and also the unexpended bdances of approp fattens remaining In the treasu y at the of the year: Amount Expended.' Balance. Ci ncinnati Custom House. •.*81,33i. 1 34 •»,54».86 Ch c<go Custom House... 18,601.81 23,339.86 < eve] nd Custom House. 8>,2'8.6t Kn. Citv Custo n House. 26 646.61 182,519.63 Li teR k. Custom House. 14,766,33 1,87«.82 Memphis Custom H >use.. 95,744.58 156,*13 10 Nashville Custom House . 61.296 81' 8.673.2" N. Orleans Custom House. 26,(29.58 69.6 w. 6 Pidu-ah Court House ... 65 291.43 K6,:.62.51 Pittsburgh Court House.. 70,9 991 262,«84.’ 9 St. L »nls Cus*om House.. 461,480.43 290,172.22 Toledo Custom House..,.. 60,370.91 19’,466 37 Topeka Custom House.... 67,404.48

Wonderful Juggling.

A Hindoo lecturing in Brooklyn said of the famous Indian jugglers: “They cab swallow a chain and make it clii k in their stomach, and also can swallow

a sword. The magic trick it one of t'reir best feats. They procure a small piece of wood, and, having plant ed it in the ground, they ask the bystander what fruit he would prefer. The juggler, wrapped in a sheet, will erouch to the earth, and through a rent in the garment one can see him cut himself with a razor under his arms and rub a piece of wood in his blood. The tree then comes forth, first as a sprout, then full of leaves, and finally bearing fruit.”

CURRENCY AND COIN.

Points from the Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. The report of the Comptroller of the Currency contains tables showing the amounts of United States bonds held by National banks, Stat’ banks, savings-banks and private bankers on the Ist of November, 1881, and al-o showing the amount and distribution of the coin and paper currency of the country at the same date. National banks held on Nov, 1,1882, as security for circulation and for public deposits and other purposes, s3’. 6,538,4 0 of interest-bearing bonds of the Un ted States. This, is nearly 8 0, 00,000 less than the amount he d oh Nov. I,IFBI, and about $7,000,00.) less than for the corresponding date In 1880. Bankin r asso iattons other than national ho dth ’ce bonds as follows: State bunks in twenty-one S ate<, $8,739,172: trust t ompanijH in five States, $16,’84,812; savings b nksin fifteen States, $237,786,442. There has be«n durii g the past year a decrease o übo t $2,000,000 n tue amount held by Si te banks and trust omnawes, and an increase of nearly $27,000, COj in the amounts held by savi gs banks. The amount held by geograpbl al dlvisio s by these nsFOo ations in rB2 was as follows: Eastern Sta es, $42,667,248; M ddle S ates, $197,1 5,239; Southern 8 ate», $268,36 >; Western States, SB,369,414; Pacific States, $20,020,175; total, 1263,460,426. These returns have been compil d from reports made by the officers of different States, w ich have been forwarded by them to the Comptroller. Interest-bearing funded debt ot the United States was in November last $1,418,080,200. The total amoant of bonds held by the national banks, State banks and savings banks at the nearest corresponding date that could be ascertained was $676,689,857, which amount Is not greatly less than one-half of the whole interest-bearing debt Similar facta have been also ascertained from returns made by State banks savings banks and private bankers to the Treasury Department for the purposes of taxation, showing that the banks and bankers ot the country, exclusive of national banks, he.d an average amount of United States bonds during six months ending May Ist last as foToo-s: Sivings banks, $ 42,(28 782; State banks and trust comranies, $28,211,480; private bankers, >14,870,745. The amount ot bonds given in the returns to ihe Comrulsidoner of Internal Revenue, which is the amount invested In United States bonds, and may Include premium as well as tne principal of bonds, is $16,6 <O,OOO more than the amount obtain-d from returns to State officers. The difference is small, and the amounts obtained from one source serve to coiroborate the general accuracy of the returns obtained >om the other. In referring to the distribution of coin and paper currency, tae Comptroller says: From Nov. 1, Ibßl, to Nov. 1, 1882, the production of gold by the mines of the United States is estimated at $43,859,021, and the ameuntof gold exported from the country In excess of the amount imported has been $36,122,586. The difference, $7,286,485, is the inorei se during the year. The Diroot or of the Mint estimates that $2,700,000 of this amount has been us d In the ai ts, leaving $4,586,485 as the increase in the stock of gold remaining in the country and available for circulation. The total excess 0. imports of gold over exports from the date of resumption to Nov. 1, 1882, has been $161,311578, and the total gold product of the mints of the United States for the ume period is estimated to have been $147/09,021. This is the first year since 1879 during which the exportation of gold has exceeded the importation. During the last two month September and O tober, 1882-the imports have,‘however, slightly exceeded the exports. The amount of standard silver dollars coined during the year has been $27,057,175, and the total amount coined upto Nov. 1, 1882, since the passage of the law of Feb. 28, 1878, authorizing their coinage, has been $128,829,880. The amount of gold coin held Sjr banks Jan. 1,1879, was $46,000,000. and on ov. 1,1882, $112,000,000. The amount of stiver coin held by these Institutions at the same date was respectively $6,00 * 000 and $8,000,000, and of currency $167,000,000 and $184,0u0,000. The gold coin held by the Treasurer on Jan. 1. 187-1, was $112,OCX),000, and on Nov. 1, 1882, $148,000,000; of silver at corresponding dates, $3 2,000,000 and $123 000,000; and of currency, $44,000,060 and $26,000,100, making the a gregate amount of coin and currency held by the banks and the treasury $552,447,478.

A MAIL MARVEL.

Initiating Cheap Postage —The Ehrlich Combination Letter and Envelope Adopted by the Government. [Washington Telegram.] The Postmaster General has taken a step which it is believed in some quarters will materially affect the future operat ons and reforms of the department This was in the conclusion of a contract with Mr. Leo Ehrlich, of St Louis, for the use of his recent ingenious invention of combinatbn letter-sheet and envelope. The contract was signed today. By the middle of January the Ehrlich invention wi.l be on sale at the principal postofiic *s in the country, in foe shape o a letter-sheet and enve ope and stamp, nil for Scen s, and a circu'ar letter and envelope >nd s amp for 1 cent, adding c ot o' paper. The unstamped artijle will fl id its way into the market th’ourh the s atloneiy wor.d. This is a return to the simplicity of correspondence as it was before envelopes w.-r < Invented, without returning to he disadvantages of sealing wax, tapers and wafers. Th ' single etter shee s ore manufactured w th frumm-d flaps, which, when the sh et is folded la> over the two open edges and eoure the missive. Tni Government stamp Is to be embossed on < ne of these flaps, which come < over like the flap m an envelope, and the whole thing is licked, stamped and sealed with the same motion. 'lhl- brings the stamp where he old wafers and real used to be, instead of being u on ihe upper right-hand corner. The Postmaster will not be compelled o apply the can'-ellatlon stamp, as the letters cannot be opened nor the embo sed stamp removed without destroying the stamp. While <he whole arrangement looks like a neat trick, the principal advantage i< its cheapness, both to the Government and to the general pub’io.

English officers say that each soldier in order to become a decent shot should every year fire 1,000 rounds with his rifle. That’s all very nice, but who wants to stay in a cellar while he is firing the 1,000.

ELECTION TABLES.

hb von or nsw toss. The complete official vote of New Tork for Governor at the recent election is herewith appended: Folgw, Cleveland, Connt’es. Rep. Dem. A’bany lo.sn 10,793 «llegany 3,718 3,778 Brxune «,9®s ' 5.000 CaVa augus 4,681 5,7» Caruga.....i 4, o« R,85» rhautanqui 4,803 6,807 Chemung 3,080 5,596 Chenange 3,913 4.3. W Cllnt- n 4,31» ssqi) Columbia 3,607 6,703 Cortla d. 3.996 3,' 11 D'’aware 4,331 4,596 Dn'chess 7, 21 8,875 J-rie 16,(08 18,743 Essex 2,948 2, no Fr-nlcUn. 3,074 9,294 £"lton 2,801 3,115 Genesee 3,898 \MB Greene. 3,808 4.4 M Hamilton 273 592 Herkimer.. 3,701 5,181 Jefferson <,483 7,190 Kings 96,195 66,381 Lew's. 3347 3,787 Livingston 3,65 > 3,966 Madison 8,512 4,328 Monroe 11,066 13.143 Montg mery....... 8,927 5,874 New York 47.714 195,345 Ni-igarn. 3,956 5,884 Oneida 8,741 13,674 Onondaga n,699 11,566 Ontario 4,675 5,271 Orange 6,541 8,878 Orleans.... 9,549 8,115 Oswego 6,876 6,758 Otsego 4,730 6,844 Putnam... 1.895 1,692 Queens 3,500 8.663 Rensselaer 10.468 18,713 Richmond 2,011 4,370 Rockland 1,778 8,076 St. Lawrence 9,284 5,290 Saratoga... 6,185 6,277 Schenectady 2,604 9,836 Schoharie 2,076 4,954 Schuyler : ,171 2,155 Seneca....- ; 2,701 3,618 Steuben 6,677 8,997 Suffolk 4,815 6,287 Sullivan 2,266 3,451 Tt0ca........,...„ 3,143 3J83 Tompkins 2,690 3JJI6 Ulster. 6,148 8.470 Warren 2,560 9,677 Washington 5,929 4,190 Wayne.... 4,254 4,296 Westchester 6,746 H,to6 Wyoming 2,120 2,900 Yates 2,501 2,073 TUls 342,303 686,294 Plurality 193,991 THB VOTE IN PENNSYLVANIA. The oboial returns from all the counties in ylvania s ow the following results: GOVEHNOR. Pattison. Democrat. 855,991 Beaver, Republican... J < 315,689 Stewart, Independent Republican 43,743 Armstrong, Greenbaqk-Labor 23,996 Pettit, Prohibition 5,196 Scattering..; 60 Pattison’s plurality 40,402 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOB. Black, Demooat ..353,642 Davi*. Republican 817,614 Duff, Independent Republican 43,677 Howard, Greenback-Labor 19,475 Williams, Prohibition 4,662 Scattering. 4,003 Black's plura'lty 86,028 CONGREHSMAN-AT-LABOB. Elliott, Democrat 361,043 Bronina, Republican 828,265 McMichael, Independent Republican 40,995 Lamblinaon. Greenback-Labor 20,4'i0 Pierce, Prohibition. 4,648 Scatt ring. 591 Elliott’s plurality 2T,788 KANSAS. The official returns of the election of Nov. 7 in Kansa«, as published by the Atchison Champion, gve John P St John, fd| Governor, 71,860 vote<; George W. Glick, democrat, 79,732 vote', tad Ch tries Robinson, 20,512. For Lieutenant Governor. D. W. Finney, Republican, received M,250 votes; Frank Bacon, Dem crut, 53,740, mid J. G. Bayne. 22,79 J. INDIANA. The vote of the State of Indiana cast at the la e election for Secretary was as follows: Total vote cast for Hawn, 210,169; for Myers, 22 ‘,978; Democrat'o p’urallty, 10,8 9. The v te cast for Leonard, National candidate, was 18,129. Th i total vote of the State was 44 ,276; total vote in 1880 was 47<>,672, a falling off of 26.396. The Republican vote has do r <asj<l 21,995 and the Demooratfo 4,514, while the National vote la Increased 14& ABKAN3A& Re’urns from the Congressional election In Aikamos, le«s one small county, show a total vote for Congressman-at-La'ge: Breckenridge, Democrat. 43,8‘(7: Cunningham, Greenhioker, 21,894. Total, 64,721, less than half the vote polled at the State election in September. rr.T.Twrw Complete official returns have been received by the Illinois Secretary of State from all the counties in the State of the late election, held Nov. 7. They give the following result For state Treasurer! mith, Republican, 254,542; Or mdorr, DemocrK 249,067. For Superintendent of Public Inßructlon, Strattan, Republican, 250,276; Democrat, 253,145: Smith’s plurality, 5,475; Raab’s plurality, 2,86 ft

AGRICULTURE.

Commissioner Loring's Annual Report. George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, in his annual report to the President, estmates the following as the grain yield for 1882: Bushels. Torn 1,636,0Q0,(i00 Wheat 410,OOO.K» Oats 470,000,000 Barley 46,000,000 Rye »,000,000 Buckwheat *. . 12,000,000 “The business of manufacturing sug»r from sorghum at the aepartment,” says the report, “having failed in 1881, and having furnished discouragement to those engaged in it, I have called upon sorghum manufacturers themselves for such information as they could furnish in an accurate manner for the benefit of the Industry they represent I have also made the same request of the manufacturers of sugar from beets. I have received assurances from nearly 100 manufacturers that they will contribute to this work, and feel confident I shall in this way receive a great amount of valuable information. I have endeavored, from the beginning of my connection with the department, so to condSMt the work performed here, as part of that interesting investigation into the values of sorghum now going on in the field of the farmer and the mill of the manufacturer and laboratory of the chemist, as to secure for what appears to be a growing industry all the Information which unprejudiced science and the best practical skill can provide: and I trust the knowledge I have gathered will, when published, be found to be of value. Two sites, both in Colorado, have been selected for artesian wells. In the forestry division increased activity has been shown, a special agent having been appointed to collect information west of the jfisrisslppt There are 124 theological Seminariee in the United States.