Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Q, E. MARSHALL, "T- - Ppmumopl

THE HEWS CONDENSED.

VBX» EAST* Coincident with the knocking out of Slade, John L Sullivan started a whisky saloon in Boston. On the opening night 10,000 Bostonians, blown with pride and flown with insolence and wine, were present Between twenty-five and fifty of the police, including most of the officers, officiated as “bouncers.”.... The extensive wool house of Wright, Wooster & Ca, of Boston , has made an assignment to one of Its employes, with liabilities believed to be very large W. 0. <fc R. M. Silaby, tanners at Troy, N. H., have auspend*ed payment There was a serious run on the Second National Bank at Elmira, N. Y., on rumors that President Pratt had lost large amonntedn pork speculations.... Nathaniel Smith Richardson, 1). D., editor of the Church Guardian, in New York city, was found deed in his bed, at his residence in Bridgeport Cr. He was born at Middlebury, Ct, in the year 1810, and graduated at Yale in 1884. As a teacher his work at Racine College, Wia, shows him to have been eminently successful, both as an instructor and a disciplinarian.... The New England Telegraph Company, which purposes to run wires from New York through. various cities eastward to Bangor, Me, has been incorporated... .The warehouse and stables of the Knickerbocker loe Company, of Philadelphia, were burned Two thousand tons of ioe were r'estroyed nut forty-three horses were suffocated. In the steel warehouse of Hussey, Howe A Co., at Pittsburgh, a rack supporting 500 tons of metal gave way, killing two mien and injuring three others. Henby Clews, John B. Alley, Frederick D. Grant, and other directors of a Mexican mining company are charged in New York by Eliphalet Nott with fraudulent transactions affecting $25,000,000 of the stock The case is in the courts, and certain demurrers and appeals of the acoused have been denied....At Hamburg. Pa, Oscar Miller, aged 18, put five bullets into different parts of bis anatomy when Kate Stambach, 16 years old, refused to marry him. William Henby Ostbandeb was hanged at Utica, N. Y., for the murder of his brother, George Lyman Ostrander, Dec. 2d 1880 t Upon the scaffold he did not want any one to pray for him. Prayer was offered however, after whioh Ostrander spoke for three or four minutes in a rambling manner, claiming his innocence, saying that He had not haa a fair trial, and denouncing the people of the county for hanging him. He was frequently profane and obscene Ending with an oath, he said: “But as for hanging me, yon can do it life Is of no good to me” Before the execution Ostrander told his spiritual adviser he did not forgive his relatives, and would not ask God to forgive him. A fibe at Vineyard Haven, Mass., destroyed property consisting of stores and summer of the estimated value of $200,000... .The'large tannery of the Costello Brothers at Camden. N. J., was destroyed by ffre. Loss $100,000; insurance $60,000. ... .Near Dernier Station, Pa, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, three men who, were walking on the track were killed by an express train. . % THE WEST. Pbesident Abthub remained at Fort Washakie one day, and held a council with the head men of the Arapahoe and Shoshone tribes of Indiana Propositions were made to the Indians looking to a complete change in their method of life, and a transfer or their control from the Interior to this War Department A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who witnessed this most notable council, telegraphs as follows: “Next to the President sat the great Chiqf of the Snakes. Washakie, and near by Black Goal, of the Arapahoea The Secretary of War reclined on a cushion from an ambulance, a silent bat Interested spectator. Gen. Sheridan flitted about as one thoroughly accustomed to such scenes. Long before the time of convening the dusky horde peered curiously at the powerful visitor, the squaws making many gestures of approbation of his stalwart form. When all was ready Chief Washakie lit the peace-pipe and handed it to the President The latter drew a short whiff and passed the pipe o,ver to Chief Black Coal. After the leaders had smoked to each other’s eternal welfare Washakie spoke. He assured the Great Father of his perpetual friendship of his loug-buried hatchet, and the industry of his tribe. He extended to his pale-face visitors the hospitality of the reservation, with its abundance of fish and g&ma The startling Indian policy of Gen. Sheridan was then presented to the tribe. He proposed to do away with all reservations as such, and Indian agencies and agents. In the pla-e of the lands thus taken the Government would issue bonds bearing interest toe same as any other Government bonda These bonds would be issued in payment for all property lost, and the interest paid *emi-annually. Under this act the Indians would be obliged to take up homesteads and Hve on the interest of the bonds, and the product of the farms thus secured. The interest on the bonds would be payable at certain convenient forts by United States officials, in the same way as the army is paid. This would effectually release the Indians from the control of the Interior Department and place them absolutely at the mercy of the Department of Wat There would be no agencies, but the citizens would be protected by existing lines of forts. Gen. Sheridan claimed tout nearly all the Indian troubles of toe last few years have arisen through toe corruption of Indian agents. Under his method toe' Indians would held responsible as citizens, and would be liable to both civil and military law in the district in which they reside. He claimed that the Government would be benefited by the issuanoe of bonds, and the Indians would secure all that is due them tinder the present system. In fact, the latter would receive more than they do now, as so much is absorbed in passing through different hands. ” A treasury official at San Francisco states that $6,000,000 worth of opium within ten year* been smuggled into that port, Government officers receiving SO per cent of the amount. He says $1,000,000 worth of toe drug can be brought in at a time... .The San Francisco Board of Health has declared all Asiatic ports infected with cholera, and vessels arriving therefrom must remain at quarantine until examined. Thebe was a great flurry in Indianapolis financial circles last week, caused by the embarrassment of toe First National Bank and toe Indiana Banking Uompany, both of which closed their doom The former bank jqpopened within a few hours, a powerful syndicate coming to its ala. The stockholders decided to increase the capital stock by $400,000, the present owners of stock to doable their amounts or sell <mt at 50 cents on the dollar, and the former

ment resulted ip a return of business circles, and merchants m«H» their daily deposits. L. P. Taylor, a conductor on the Union Pacific read, died in Omaha from toe effects of a snider bite on the 1ip.... The Peninsular Manufacturing Company, of Muskegon. Mich., has lost its factory and lumber supply by fixe, wiping oat $25,0001 At Canon City, CoL, L. E. Watkins, charged with cattle-stealing, was forcibly taken from the Sheriff by an armed mob of cowboys, shot to death, and his body hanged from the timbers of a bridge in the suburbs of the town.... The Cit>y National Bank of Lawxenoebnxg Ind., has suspended. The assets are supposed to greatly exceed the liabilities, and a speedy resumption is anticipated.... The sum of 2*0.000 and 160 acres of land have been pledged by the people of Mitchell to establish the University of Dakota.... In the outskirts of linooln, Neb., shxee bays and a dofr, which accompanied them, were killed by lightning. „ .Twelve men were killed by an accident in the Northern Pacific tunnel it Bezeman, Montana. A stage was stopped near Riverside, Arizona, by robbers, who killed the express messenger and secured $3,200 in coin. Another ,«tage was plundered near Prescott, bat toe amount taken is not known... .News has been received at Role valley of a terrible affair among the Shoshone Indiana A buck murdered his squaw, breaking her legs and arms, and then buried her alive The tribe took the murderer, tied his hands, threw'Win on his back, and tied his feet to a. tree. A rope was coiled about his neck, and stout bucks slowly pulled at each end till he was choked to death. THE SOUTH. L. L. Conbad, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, whose father was Secretary of War under President Filmore, was shot dead by his insane wife, who was suffering terribly from neuralgia of the stomach. The Coroner's jury finds that the lady Intended to commit suicide and had no intention of injuring her husband... .Cotton-worms have ravaged whole fields in the vicinity of Austin, Texas, and on many plantations not a quarter crop will be made. A negro woman living near Austin, Texas, became enraged at her 8-year-old daughter and ploked her up and dashed her against a large tree. She repeated this several times, and then took the almost lifeless form into the house and, throwing it on the floor, stamped it with her feet She threatened to kill the other children if they informed on her, and sent word to one of the neighbors that the child had died of a spider bite.,.. D, Swlgert, the Kentucky turfman, has purchased Prince Charlie, toe famous English racer, who has won in 200 contests, and will bring him across the Atlantic....A fire in Baltimore swept off a tinware factory, a synagogue, and twenty houses, causing a

A M. Lyon & Co.’s tobaoco-factory, William A Waldron’s manufactory of tobaco machinery, aqd G. P. Hawes A Ca’s saw and file works, at Richmond, Ya. were burned. Loss about $25,000; insurance $15,000.... A cotton-factory, two tobacco-fac-tories, a tobacco warehouse, and several outhouses were burned at Danville, Tn, causing a loss of $150,000.... Three blocks of residences at Meridian, Miss, valued at $30,000, were swept away by fire A Jackson (Miss.) telegram reports that “at Slay’s railroad camp, Amite oounty, three negroes who supplied the contractors with hands and then caused them to desert, were caught and hanged to trees” The reunion of Federal and Confederate veterans on the battle-field of Wilson’s Creek, in Missouri, passed off withont an unpleasant incident Many of the tattered flags were displayed, among them the stars andffiars of the Third Arkansas regiment The Kimball House, at Atlanta, Ga., one of the largest hotels ot the South, has been entirely destroyed by firs There were about 200 guests in the house when the lire broke out All escaped with tbe loss of wearing apparel and other personal effects The building cost $60j,000. The total loss Is placed at $1,000,090, and the insurance at about $200,000. Gen. Bob Toombs owned a large interest in the hotel and is a heavy loser, as he was uninsured.... In Miller county, Ga, Joseph Fulford, with the aid of a negro, beat his wife to death and sunk tbe body in a creek. A mob forced a confession from the colored accomplice and then hanged both to a tree near the jail at Colquitt WASHINGTON. The last call for bonds brought in only SIOO,OOO out of $80,000,000 embraced. Interest is payable to Oct L Next in order come the 8 per cents, which are redeemable at the pleasure of the Government... The Internal Revenue Bureau, says a Washinton dispatch, has been quietly investigating the subject of the adulteration of beer, and the result of these inquiries has developed such surprising facts that the officials consider It a public duty to do ail in their power to i revent such praobioes A tircular has been issued to' all brewers of the country, requiring them to send to Washingoon a statement of all ai tides used in the manufacture of their beer. An attache of the Mexican Legation at Washington says a commercial treaty has been recently Bigned between this country and Mexico, containing no offensive and defensive provisions The widespread dissatisfaction of the lower classes in Mexloo In regard to the American railway projects, he says, has totaly disappeared, ana capital from the United States is welcomed by all Thebe is a general complaint from'all parts of the oountry against the continued increase of' worn and mutilated coin which now circulates In business circles It is said that there is more defective coin circulated in the United Statqs than In any other country in the world. England, France and other foreign powers appropriate a certain sum annually for the preservation of their circulating As soon as a piece of coin becomes disfigured or worn to a certain extent it is replaced by a new coin, thus keeping in circulation only money that is in good condition. Officials of the Treasury Department state that it would not cost the Government more than $15,000 or $20,000 a year to keep our coin in first-class oondition....Patent Commissioner Marble has resigned. According to the August returns to the National Department of Agrionlture, the average condition of spring wheat is 97, the same as in 1883, bat higher than any previous August-since 1877. There has been an Improvement in the appearance of the cornfields during the month of J uly. In Illinois It is measured by a single point. In the main there has been a retrograde movement on account of drought ‘i he condition is now 89 per oent of a perfect crop. The yield will probably be about twenty-five bushels per acre, or about 1.700,000,000 bushels The condition Is six points higher than last year, bnt lower than

from 18TO to 1889, The cAp is delayed by cod nights. The oondition of oats is rapre sentedoy IOOt In the North toe highoonnow 10L The prospects are best in the Central States. The average condition of tobacco is 88, Pennsylvania wftfa 26, and Wisconsin MX The cotton returns ars lees farm-able than in July. The oondition is lower in every State except Virginia aad Tennessee: The general average has fallen to 84. Florida leads with an average of 93. The caterpillars are numerous in the GulfCoast States Tons of arsenic have been applied to avert the destruction feared from the worms. Col. Seaton, Superintendent of the Census Bureau, found that the appropriation was running so low that half his olerks must be dismissed. Placing in a hat slips containing the name of eadk employe, he ordered a blind-folded boy to draw out eighty-five names for a vacation. POLITICAL At the State Convention of the National party of New Jersey, held at Asbury Park, a platform was presented for adoption. The document expressed opposition to all monopolies, favored control bv the Government, of all railway and telegraph lines, equal taxation, universal suffrage, and submitting to toe popular vote an amendment to toe State constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. A warn discussion followed over* the clause favoring woman suffrage. Mm Marie Howland, a delegate, arose to speak, bat began crying and sat down. The platform was finally adopted as read, with the exception of the temperance plank. A resolution expressing sympathy with too striking telegraph operators was passed. Benjamin Urner, of Union ooanty, was nominated for Governor. GENERAL. An extraordinary crime is reported Greysboro, Nova Scotia, where a deaf, dumb and blind girl was murdered by unknown hands. Gilmour's steam saw-mill, near Hull, Quebec, was destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Richakd M. Hunt’s design for the pedestal of Bartholdi’s statue of liberty has been accepted by the committee... .According to the Bradstreet, there were 168 business failures in the United States the week ending Aug. 11, being an increase of thirteen over' the proceeding week, and seventythree more than in the corresponding week in 1882. Mb. Morgan, the United States Minister to Mexico, noticed that the Fourth of July last toe usual courtesy of displaying the flag from the legation flag-staff was omitted by the German Embassador at the Mexican capital In a sharp note he called attention to the matter, and the flag was promptly unfurled. In the note to toe representative of the Fatherland, Mr Morgan, saief he would consider it a personal insult if the customary oourtesy were omitted. He received no reply to this note, but Independence day was duly honored.... The Austrian Polar expedition, after spending a year in the Arctic regions and securing a rich assortment of photographs, has reached Drentheim... .The Grand Trunk road and its allies have arranged to ran passenger trains from Boston to Chicago in forty hours. '

FOREIGN. A cable - dispatch from Constantinople announces the discovery of Noah’s ark. “It appears,” says the dispatoh, “that some Turkish Commissioners appointed to investigate the question of avalanches on Mount Ararat suddenly came upon a gigantic structure of very dark wood protruding from a glacier. They made inqmries of the inhabitants These had seen it for six years, but had been afraid to approach it because a spirit of -fierce aspect had been seen looking out of the upper window. Tbe Turkish Commissioners, however, are. bold men, not deterred by such trifles, and they determined to reach it. Situated as it ww among the fastnesses of one of the glens of Mount Ararat, it was a work of enormous difficulty, and it was only after Incredible hardships that they succeeded. The ark, one will be glad to hear, was in a good state of preservation, although the angles observe, not the bow or stern—had been a good deal broken in its descent They recognized it at once. There was an Englishman among them who had presumably read his Bible, and he saw it was made of the ancient gopher wood of Scripture, which, as every one knows, grows only on toe plains of the Euphrates Effecting aa entrance Into the structure, which was painted brown, they found that the admiralty requirements for the conveyance of horses had been carried out, and the interior was divided into partitions fifteen feet high Into three of these only could they get, tbe others be-, ing full of ice, and bow far the ark extended into the glacier they could not telL If, however, on being uncovered it turns out to be 800 cubits long it will go hard with disbelievers in the Book of Genesis ” A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg says; “The populace of EkaterinoA slav are determined to drive the Jews out of the place. Not punished sufficiently for the riots last week, during which seventy men were killed and over 100 wounded, a fresh mob gathered last night and started for the Jewish quarters They were met by a company of Cotspcks and ordered back. Refusing to obey, and making threatening demonstrations, a charge was made A fierce onslaught ensued. When the mob was finally beaten, over ICO corpses lay on the ground.”....A Cairo dispatch reports the cholera subsiding In that city—only, however, for want of material—and increasing at Alexandria and other paits of Egypt.... A meeting to further emigration, over which Earl Shaftesbury presided, the Archbishop of Canterbury being also present, resolved at London that 200.100 persons should be sent to Canada and the colonies, the state to buy them farms, taking a mortgage for security. It is proposed to send lo,coo families to Canada next spring.,.. A riot against English doctors at Alexandria was qnelled by troops The old cry of “Death to Christians!” was repeated oh the streets... .Hartmtnn. the Nihilist, is making preparations in London for a Socialist Congress Austria is now completing the gobble of Bosnia and Herzegovina began six years ago. This is the final outcome of the uprising of Herzegovina, which, small as it was leu to the defeat of Servia, the carnage of Plevna and Shtpka pass, the robbery of Roumanla, and the Congress of Berlin.... In the elections throughout Franoe last Sunday for members of toe Counoils-Generale seventy-one districts return Republicans and twenty-three Conservatives, a Republican net gain of two... .The English doctors sent to Egypt, who had experience in India in toe oholera epidemics, report that the disease now prevailing in Egypt is of a distinctly different character from the Asiatic cholera.... Cetewayo, the Zulu chieftain, recently re» ported killed, is alive and we 11... .Through the persistent efforts of the Princess of Wales, a bill has passed the House of Commons making pigeon-shooting illegal

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The wife of United States Senator W. B. Allison, while suffering from an insane attack, drowned Herself in toe Mississippi at Dubuque, Low* Mm Alltom left home In the afternoon, telling her servant that she W»» going to one of the near neighbom Instead of this, however, taking her gossamer on her arm, toe watt in an opposite direction toward toe oonntry, where toe has been accustomed to take almost daily walk* 1$ is ascertained that toe wandered around in the outskirts Of toe city daring the afternoon, where she was seen by several persons walking timidly and somewhat excited. Nst returning by 9 o'clock from the place where toe was supposed to be, the alarm was given, and a search was maintained daring toe entire night The following morning her body was discovered in the river, about a mile below the city. She had out up her gossamer, placed. some stones in it, and tied them securely about her neck; then wafted deliberately into toe river, about thirty-five feet from toe land, laid down and drowned herself where the water was only two and a half feet deep. Mm Allison was of a highly nervous temperament, and daring the past two or three yearn hat suffered from and beon treated for mental diseases While at a water-cure establishment in Western New York in 1881 under medical treatment, toe attempted suicide in much the same manner, bat was fortunately rescued. She was a niece mid adopted daughter of tbe late Senator Grimes, of lowa, and has been married for ten yearn She had no children. * Almost a panic prevailed on the New York Stock Exchange on toe 18th Inst The transactions aggregated 581,000 shares. The bears started a raid on Oregon and Transcontinental, which was driven from 66W to 59, and followed It up by forcing Northern Pacific down 4 points Everything on the list suffered serious depreciation Omaha common stock fell off 5 points, and Rook Island was hammered to 117%. One or two brokers failed during the day. The excitement whioh agitated toe New York speculators spread to Chicago, and there was a marked drop in the prices of provisions and oereals. A remarkably well-executed $5 gold piece, which actually contained $468 worth of gold, was stopped in toe Boston subtreasury a few days ago. It is said to have been so well executed as to place experts at variance and to make it a difficult question to determine whether it was made from a die or by superior casting... .Prof. Peters, of Litchfield Observatory, near Utica, N. Y., announces the discovery of another “asteroid.” It has a bright light of the ninth magnitude (very small), ana appears to move so rapidly that it must be a close neighbor of the earth. The street-oar officials of St. Louis, Ha, were arraigned on charge of violating the Sunday law, but the jurors decided that toe charters of the companies forced them to ran every day, and that oars had become a necessity to the publlo... .President Soto was again in Chicago. He informed a newsgatherer that-one of the principal objects of his visit to America was to secure investments of money in the Honduras Interoceanlc railroad..... The Sheriff of Hutchinson, Kan., rescued a ' murderer, named Texas Bill from toe hands ! of a mob of sixty men, who had battered down the jail doors and were about to haye a lynching.... The Indiana Banking Company, of Indianapolis, decided not to continue business,, and appointed John Landers receiver. .. .The 81aae-Mitchell prize-fight Is announced to take place at Yinita, Indian Territory. After the desperate attempts of the : liquor interest to secure an extension of the bonded period, the public will be surprised ! to learn that whisky is scarce in the market, and selling for 28 cents in advance of the tax, and that toe Western distillers have instructions from the pool to mash all they cap 5e11.... The museum managers of the United States held a convention in Pitts- I burgh to arrange plans for controlling the salaries and movements of all the human curiosities now in the country. The mutilated remains of four white ! men were found in a railroad camp on the j Cincinnati Southern road, near Cumberland Falls. Term. The theory Is that the men fought a double duel over cards....Atßal- | timore, Mayor Plckney Whyte, Thomas W. Campbell, Charles B. Slingluff, Sam- 1 uel Hannah, Samuel W. Register and Burt E Smith, comprising the Board of Fire Commissioners, nave been indicted i for conniving at frauds In the purchase of ' materials for the fire department. The affair creates, much excitement in the city j ... .Four hor-e-thieves who raided a camp- j meeting in Monroe oounty, Ga., were pursued into Mississippi and lynched.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $6.00 @6.85 Hogs 4.50 @ 6.40 Flour—Superfine 3.85 @ 4.40 Wheat—No. l White 1.0e%@ 1.09 No. 2 Red 1.12)2® M 3 Corn—No. 2..’ 6294@ .63)$ OATS—No. 2 41 & .41)2 Pork—Mess 15.25 @15.60 Lard B%@ .8% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 5.90 @ ,6.25 Common to Fair 4.00 @ 6.15 Medium to Fair 6.35 @ 5.75 Hogs 6.10 @ 6.25 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.50 @6.00 Good to Choice Sur’g Ex. 5.00 @6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.02 @ i.U3% No. 2 Red Winter 1.09 @ 1.10 Corn—No. 2 50 %@ .61 Oats—No. 2 26)4@ .26% Rye—No. 2 60 @ .61 Barley—No. 2 63 @ .65 Butter—Choice Creamery 19 @ .20 Eggs—Fresh. n @ .17% Pork—Mess... 12.75 @12.80% Lard s%@ . 8% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 LO2 ® 1.02% Corn—No.2 51%@ .52 OaTs—No 29 @ .31 Rye—No. 2 .. .5« @ ,59 Barley—No. 2.<. 60 @ .61 Pork—Mess 12.50 @12.60 Lard «)4@ . 8% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @ i.o6si COBN-Mlxed..... 46M@ .47% Oats—No. 2 25%@ .26% SSk'Ur’ 87 ca l • 87^ PpßX—Mess..., 12.25 @13.40 Lard . Bj*@ . 8 % ' CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red i.07%@ 1.08 UOBN v 50 @ .51 2*™ 28 @ .29 Pork—Mess 16.25 @15.60 Lard....... g . gu TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2 Red j.ll @lu "OetKoYt: • ” 19 •”* Flour* 4.00 @ &76 Whea7V-.no. 1 White 1.05%@ 1.0944 CBrn—No. 2 53 %@ 64 OATB-Mlxed. 35 @ .86 Pork—Mess 18.00 @15.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat* -No. 2 Rea 1,05 @ L 0644 :Ssg :g eAst liberty; pa. Cattle—Best.. 6.66 @6.85 Fair 5.15 @ e. 50 C0mm0n.....; 4.70 @6.00 gOUB. ,6.9 p @6.10 BHSHCF.....V. @6.80

THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Facts Showing How Rapidly the Newer State* and Territories Are Being Populated. Dakota Take* the Lead ia the Amount of Land Taken by Aetna! Settler ■T" ■ A Good Showing Abo Made bj the Soother* States, So Long - Neglected. [Washington Telegram to toe Chicago Inter11.OoeanJ An official statement, furnished by the Commissioner of the General Office, dhows something of the marvelous rapidity with which toe newer States and Territorial. are becoming populated, and toe enoraon* drafts which are being made upon the public domain in order to satisfy the requirements Of actual settlers. It also indicates that the public lands remaining in tin Southern States, which had been so long neglected, ore rapidly coming under settlement- The statement includes the mote Important transfers of public lauds in the following States and Dakota, Florida, Kansas. Louisiana, Minnesota, Mlsetesippi, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. As Omnnared with the year end* ed June 30, 1882. the statement shows an increase of 85,217 in theonunber of entries (cash sales, original homestead entries and timber-culture entries) and 8,60 ,843 in the number of acres entered. The amount received from cato sales increased from $3,313,834 In 1882 to $7.564449 in 1883, or more than 128 per cent. In 1882 the number of pre-emption ond other filings and of applications to purchase mineral, timber and ■tone lands in the same States and Territories was 29,080, and the amount of fees received, $64,668; in 1883 the number and amount were respectively 43,591 and $91,848. The amount of fees and commissions paid on acoount of original homestead entries in 1882 was $456,661; in 1888 it was $572,60ft Dakota, of course, takes the lead, both ia the amount of land taken by actual settlers and in the amount sold for cash. In that Territory toe number of homestead entries increased from 14,156, covering 2,218,26$ •ores, to 28,491, oovering 3,267.227 acres. The Dumber of timber-culture entries ran up from 9,368, covering 1,44,6.532 acres, to 11.566, covering I,7i&s£9 acres, and the cato sales Increased from 678.388 acres at $977,. MZ t0L.518,091 acres at $8,109,387. Probably toe history of no State or Territory* con furnish a parallel to .these figures In Florida thp cash sales increased from 128,872’acres at $158,037, to 221,853 acres, at $341,554, and the Uuxnbdr of original homestead entries from 191,033 acres to 212,895 The public lands Of Kansas have been pretty closely culled, and. although toe cash sales Increased from 90,962 acres at sllß,683 to 159.144 acres at $189,329, toe homestead entries fell off from 537,349 acres to 608,781 acres, and the timber-culture entries , decreased from 278,053 acres to 237,860 acres* In Louslana the cato sales decreased front 867,465 acres at $462,000 to 855,230 acres as $448,816. but the homestead entries ran up from 872, oovering 117,703 acres, to 985, covering 124,650 acres, ana the timber-culture entries Increased from 1,004 acres to 7,754 acres In Minnesota there was a decided increase in cash sales from 318,465 acres at $482,I 369 to 739,345 acres at $1,324,976, but there was a falling off in original homestead en» I tries' from 588,343 acres to 431,872 acres, and in timber - culture entries from 176,741 acres to 122,750 acres The homestead settlers of this State are rapidly acquiring patents for their farms after five years of settlement, as also is the casein i Kansas In Minnesota they received patent* ' to 285,238 acres this year against 245,686 last year. In Kansas the*amount in 1888 I was (.03,081 acres, against 4997.00 inlßß2. There were no entries in Mississippi under the Timber-Culture act, but the cash sales increased from 219,45 > acres at $274,820 to 849,562 acres at $440,1C2, and -the original homestead dhtries from 138,488 acres to 167,079 acres. Nebraska still has a large area of fertile publlo lands whioh are open to settlement. In that State the number of original homestead entries in 1882 was 8,2*3, oovering 471,939 acres; in 1883 there were 4,728 entries, covering 716,508 acres. The cato sales increased from 112,575 acres at $143,758 to 190,628 acres at $511,677, and the number of timber-culture entries ran up lrom 2,086, covering 298,520 acres, to 3,216, covering 478,204 acres. In Oregon the cash sales increased from 52,819 acres at $85,560, to 59,666 acres at $123,503; but the homestead entries fell off from 153,58-1 acres to 111,v?.> acres, and the timber-culture entries from 88,038 acres to 35,463 acres in Washington Territory, however, there was a remarkable increase, not only in cash sales, but in homes toed and timber culture entries The cash increased from 71,244 acres at $102,345, to 251,086 acres at $571,446; the original homestead entries from 231.132 Seres to 386,778 acres, and the timber-culture entries from 67,52 Acres ts 143,412 acres In Wisconsin, while the cash sales fell off from 348,596 acres, at $5)6,538, to 812,574 acres at $501,165, the original homestead entries increased from 879, Covering 98,478 acres, to 962, oover.ng 111,707 acres While the foregoing figures do not cover all toe States and Tenitorles In whioh unoccupied lands are still open to settlement, they are believed to show 'fairly the enormous growth in population of the new States and Territories generally, for they include the Territories in which about threefourths of the- public land sales and entries were made last year. In the South the entries in Alahnmn an( j Arkansas will probably show as great an increase relatively as In tho.e Southern States forwhich tbe official figures are given It isknown, too, that during the paat year tyere has been a large lnbrease of immigration to New Mexico, Utah, Montana other Territories, and consequently a very large Increase In tbe amount of publlo land which has come into the possession of actual settlers

PERSONAL.

0 Bishop Green, of Miaateinpi, though nearly 60 yean old, in hale and hearty. 3 Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wears clothe* of the fashion of twenty-five yean ago. Annie Louise Cast is not a woman-suffra-Stat Sheswrltes: “I do not ask for a ballot, lough very life were at stake.” Mdulk. de la Bamee, better known aa "Ouida* is strictly seclnded by her friends. A cloud has obscured her mind. Db. Tanner, “the starveris living nett Chautauqua, N. Y. His iAitator, Gri scorn, seems to have retired to private life The Duke of Sutherland and Sir Thomas Braasey hold United States bonds as as investment to the amount of |s,ooQ,oooeach. Jane Gbat Swishhelm stlU retains the Srathful roses of health In her faoe, bnf tey have gone from her aheeks Into htt