Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1883 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. EL MARSHALL, - - PuBUMUPt

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE lAVA HORROR. The Greatest Disaster of Modorn Times—--75,000 People Perish 1b Bearing Wares. Seething Fire, or Snlphfroos Ashes. The greet volcanic eruption In Jars and the adjacent islands overtops in horror all the other calamities of this calamitous year, and in fts extent la unquestionably one of tho moot majestic as well as terrible manifestations of Mature known In modem times. London dispatches of tho 30th nit Are tho following additional details of the awful horror: Further particulars of the great volcanic eruption in Java which have lust reached here from Batavia show that the disaster eras even more widespread and disastrous than was reported. At norm Sunday the eruptions and shooks were supposed to have reached their heig.it, bnt late in the afternoon and in the evening the violence of the disturbance suddenly increased, and the island seemed to he about to be completely burled in lire and sulphurous ashes. At the same time enormous waves began to dash with great force upon the ohSres, coming In some plaess far np Into tho Interior, and great chssms opened in the earth and threatened to ingulf a large proporSos the people and buildings. About ght the most frightful scene of >k place. Suddenly enormous luminous l formed over the Ksndang range of mountains which skirt the southeast of the island. This oloud gradually increased In size until it formed a canopy of lurid red and whitish gray over a wide extent of territory. During this time the eruptions Increased, and streams of lava poured lnoessantly down the sides of the mountains into the valleys, sweeping everything before them. Here and there a stream of lava would enter an arm of the sea or come in contact with the water of a river. Then the. incandescent lava would suddenly produce boiling heat and rapid vaporization, but the superficial consolidation that almost instantly ensued wouldprevent any further contact with the water. The fissures that opened in this, their crust, as it solidified on the stream of lava, emitted torrents of. vapor extending high in the air aud making a tremendous seething sound, as if a thousand locomotives were simultaneously letting oIT steam. One of the most singular freaks of the eruption was the carrying in the midst of the molten lava of a bed of solid ice of enormous size which had been emitted from one of the craters. It was carried along by the current and landed on the extremity of point St. Nicholas, at the northeast corner of the island. The bed of ice was surrounded by a thick envelop of sand and scoriae, which are non-conductors of heat. It is supposed this ice had formed the cruet of some subterranean lake.

About 2 o'clock on Monday morning the great cloud suddenly broke into email sections and vanished. At the same time frightful rumblings were heard, and the columns of fire and smoke over the southeast corner of the Island ceased to ascend, while the craters in other parts of Java seemed to open their fiery throats still wider to let out the greatest quantity of lava, rocks, pumioe and ashes yet vomited forth. The hissing of the sea became so loud as to be almost deafening. The waves rushed up on the shore to an unprecedented height. When daylight came it was seen that an enormous traot of land had disappeared, covering an extent ot territory about fifty miles square. This section of the Island was not so densely populated as the other portions, and the loss of life was comparatively Bmall, although it must have aggregated fully 16,000 souls. The •ntire Kandang range of mountains, extending along the ooaet in a semi-circle for about sixtyfive miles, had gone out of sight. The waters of Weloome bay, the Sunda straits, and Pepper bay, on the east end of the Indian ocean, on the south, had rushed in and formed a sea of turbulent waters. The debris of the submerged and destroyed buildings was tossed hither' and thither on the water—the only sign left that there had once been inhabited land there. The town of Tanerang, within twenty-five miles of the city of Batavia, was swept awav by • lava streak, and fully half of the population, mostly, Javanese, numbering about 1,800, perished. At Speelwyk, near Point Salcis, the redhot rocks set fire to houses and swept away all the thickly-settled portion of the town. The river Jacatra, at the banks of which Batavia is situated, was so completely dammed by lava and debris that its course was changed. Flgellnlcnlg, was almost totally destroyed, and a large number of lives were lost there. The Island of Onius, five miles off the mouth of the Targerang river, and twenty miles east of Batavia, was oompletely inundated. Coataye, Claps and Tronwers islands, off the portion of Java which disappeared, are out of sight, and pot a vestige of them Is left. The aggregate loss of life must be fully 75,000, but the number of those who perished can never, of course, be aocuratelv known.

A London dispatch of the 31st nit says that after the sndden subsidence of the disturbance in the kingdom of Bantam, on Monday, the eruptions seemed to lose their force for a time, and the people of Batavia experienced a feeling of relief in the hope that the worst had been passed. The quieter conditions continued Until about 10 o’clock, when the craters once more began to send np great masses of destructive matter, although without the force of the former actions. The eruptions seemed to be more violent at night than during the dav. By 11 o’clock the Papandaylng, which is 7,034 feet high, was in a very active state of paroxysmal eruption. It was aooompanled by detonations said to have been heard many miles sway in Sumatra Three distinct columns of flame were seen to rise from the mountain to a vast height, and itH whole surface soon appeared as if covered with fiery lava streams, which spread to great distances on all sides. Stones fell for miles around, and the black fragmentary matter carried into the air caused total darkness. A whirlwind accompanied this eruption, by which house-roofs, trees and men and hortes were carried into the air. The quantity of ashes ejected was such as to cover the ground and roofs of houses at Denamo to the depth of several inches. Off Point Caay the floating pumioe on the sea formed a layer two feet thick, through which vessels forced their way with great difficulty. The rise of vapor produced the appearance of a column several thousand feet high, based on the edge of the crater. It appeared from a distance to consist of a mass of Innumerable globular clouds of extreme whiteness, resembling vast balls of cotton rolling one over the other as they ascended, Impelled by the presence of fresh supplies inoes•antly urged upward by the continued explosion. At a great height the column dilated horizontally, and spread into a dark and turbid circular cloud shaped like an Immense unbrella. Forked lightning of great vividness and beauty continually darted from different parts of the clouds. Suddenly the scene was changed. The mountain was split into seven parts without a moment's warning, and where Papandaylng had stood alone there were now seven distinct peaks looming np to a great height. In the seams opened could he seen great balls of molten matter. From the fissures poured clouds 4ft steam, and the black ejected laplllo flowed In steady streams and ran slowly down the mountain sides, forming beds 300 or 300 teet in extent. Exhalations of carbonic-acid .fas were so abundant that birds and animals large nnmbers were killed by It, and a few Homan beings lost their lives in the same way. This proved to be the turning point In the tornptfon, for the great fissures opened seemed to act as safety valves through which the .streams of lava gently flowed down Into the ▼alleys. The volcanic fires, though still burning at lest advices, had lost most of their fierceness, and the steam generated found vent without being forced through the comparative narrow months of the old craters. One of the queer Incidents was the sudden rising daring Tuesday forenoon of fourteen new volcanic mountains in the strait of Bnnda, forming a oomplete chain in almost a straight line between Point Bt. Nicholas on thf Javanese coast, and Hogs Point, on the coast of Sumatra, almost on the tops of what had been the Merak and Middle Islandß, which sank Into the. sqa on Monday. The scene on the island of Java when the sun dawned yesterday morning was beyond description. The worst horrors seem to have so far surpassed all comprehension that the ifillzens of Java and surrounding isjajidp ac;

Oueffhy the magnitude oT shes? nflrtbrtnndl and are helpless in the lace of the moat terrible calamity known to history. The number of the dead seems to be even greater than was at first reported. Indeed, many in Batavia think that the victims wfll number nearly 100,00 a The extent of the horror will never be fully known.

THE EAST.

A loose switch threw an express train off the track of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City (narrow gauge) railway at Pleasantville. Four passenger oars were wrecked and thirty persons were seriously injured....At Ocean Grove, N. J., Eleanor and May, aged 18 and 20 years, daughters of Lewis D. Vail, of Philadelphia, were drowned while bathing... .Prof. Stuart Phelps, of Northampton, Mass, was accidentally killed by his own gun at Chamberlain Lake, Me. A Texas steer broke loose from a herd while crossing one of the Charleston bridges to Boston Rethrew one workman in the air and another into the water, and dashed through Charlestown to East Cambridge and back again to Boston, finally plunging off a pier into the Charles river, whence he was lifted with a derrick and his throat oat Several persons, principally children, were gored and trampled on, some being fatally injured ....Stephen Harris, having been elected President of the Quidneck Company, of Rhode Island, went to Wm. Sprague and demanded possession. The ex-Benator said he would kill Harris if he attempted to seize the mill, and that hla men would make a corpse or anyone who went to the property in nls absence.... A fast train which left Boston came in collision with the fast New York express at Colchester, Vt Thirteen persons vrtfre Injured, some seriously, but none, it is thought, fatally.

THE WEST. Am lowa politician, says a Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, is authority for the statement that a Dee Moines law firm has speculated in the estate of the late B. F. Allen, and so manipulated the securities that the firm will make #I,OOO,(XXX The firm controls nearly all of the creditors’ claims, which were bought at from 1 to 5 cents on the dollar. The estate will probably realize 25 cents... .Edward F. Joslyn, eldest son of E & Joslyn, a leading lawyer of Elgin, HI, shot and killed jfiss Etta Buckingham in that city. Young Joslyn then shot himself, and fell dead beside the girL He was a widower with two children, 6 and 8 years of age. His victim was an employe in the Nolting House, where the crime was committed.... .The Executive Committee of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company has declared the usual quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on the preferred stock. The dividend will be payable Sept 27. Belle Harris, a polygamous wife at Salt Lake, refused to tell the Orand Jury the name of the father of her children, and has since served a term of three months In jail for contempt, and made herself a Mormon martyr. She was released the other day on the expiration of the term of coart, but has orders to appear again in December.... A warning from the Prosecuting Attorney at Atchison, Kan., caused Slade and Mitchell to cease training and to abandon the proposed prize-fight The managers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road gave notice to the people of Dodge City, Kan., that an effprt to reform the city must be made or the track and machine shops would pe removed. While several railway officials waited in a special car, the Council ordered the enforcement of the ordinances relative to gambling and prostitution, and passed another prohibiting music in dance-houses. ....Bv the explosion of the boiler of a thrashing-m&hine at Frankfort, Dakota, four men were killed and five others seriously injured... .Jason Downer, formerly Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, died at Milwaukee, leaving a fortune of #225,000.

THE SOUTH. Citizenß on both sides of the Rio Grande at El Paso have made np a purse of #SOO to secure the prize-fight between Slade and Mitchell. The Alcadeof Paso del Norte, Mexico, has given permission for a mill on that side of the river. A New Orleans Grand Jury has made a report which is causing a sensation in the Crescent City. The document sets forth that officeholders are corrupt, that vice advertises itself with electric lights that sluggers abound, that the food orthe city is contaminated through the filthiness of the markets, and that the capitalists evade their taxe& The building of a crematory is suggested in which to burn the dead bodies of victims of contagious disease. Esau Smith, a negro, sentenced to be hanged in October, 1875, but who escaped from jail and was not captured till last June, was executed for his cxime last Friday, at St Joseph, La. At Marshall, Texas, a party of white men went to the negro headquarters to witness the organization of a colored military company, and were halted and fired upon. Shooting then became goneral,after which the negroes lied. Three hundred white citizens organized and patrolled the town all night WASHINGTON. The foflowing is the public-debt statement for August: * Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents $ 21,404,650 Four and one-half per cents .. 250,000.000 Four per cents 737,010.550 Three per oents 305,529.000 Ref unding certificates 884.850 Navy pension fund j 14,000,000 'Total Interest-bearing debt $1,328,878,950 Matured debt 6,583,165 Legal-tender notes 845,739,891 Certificates ot deposit 12,146,000 Gold and silver certificates 175,644,721 Fractional currency 6,997,796 Total without Interest $541,527,408 Total debt (principal)..... $1,876,989,523 Total Interest * 11 033 227 Total cash In treasury sslsomwo Debt, less cash In treasury 1,535,5j5,765 Decrease during Angust g 671 851 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881. 14]572!'442 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 2 047 262 Debt on which Interest has ceased.. e’sss’ 165 Interest thereon. SYs'm Gold and silver certificates 175.644’721 U. 8. notes held for redemption of ’ certificates of deposit. 12,145,000 Cash balance available Aug. 1 151,730,400 . Total $351,503,986 Available assets— Cash m treasury 851,503,986 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding $ 64 6 3 612 Interest accrued, not yet paid....... 14s 235 Interest paid by United States 69,222!093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 17,009.223 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings * 566,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41,567,870

The collections of internal revenue for the first months of the fiscal years end? lag June 80,1862 and 1883, were am follows: Receipts, 1882, #11,875,577; In 1883, #9,161,948; decrease, #2,718,8961 The principal Items of decrease were manufactured tobacco, #1,064,685, and banks and bankers, #1,007;694. The principal items of increase were spirits distilled from materials other than apples, peaches or grapes, #490,915, and fermented liquors, #1461972.

POLITICAL. The State Democratic Convention of Nebraska, which met at Omaha, was presided over by Judge Kinney, of Otoe county. Ex-Judge James W. Savage was nominated for Justice of the State Supreme Court, and James W. Woodworth, of Douglas, Dr. jl E Daniels, of Madison county, and St. a V. Johnson, of Fillmore, were nominated for Regents of the State University. The Committee on Platform, the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Chairman, reaffirmed the platform of last year as in national politics and Incorporated several new planks, the whole being adopted without dissent The most important planks are these; L The Government of tho United States has no constitutions! or other right to impose taxes on the people except with the intent and result of getting money into the public treasury with whioh to pay the debts and provide tor the common defense and general welfare of the United States, and all tariff taxes called protective, laid with far different intent and result, ought to be utterly abolished. a. That ‘‘protection,’’ so-called, derives no part of its Impulse or maintenance from reasoning or common sense, bnt is wholly a scheme of a few selfish men for their own aggrandizement at the expense of the masses of the people, and. Uke the late River and Harbor bill Vetoed by President Arthur, the worse a protective tariff bill the more likely It is to be enacted, because the log-rolling for It is the fiercer and more ullMlWloM, Judge Hoadlt, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, was oompelled last week to leave for Philadelphia, being afflicted with malarial troubles and nervous prostration. He went through the advloe of hla family physician.... Congressman Carlisle, In an Interview at Frankfort, Ky., stated that he felt pretty confident of being elected Speaker of the next House of Representatives. He has now, he says, many more pledged votes than any other oandldate, and nearly enodgh to secure the nomination He thinks Randall has no chance.

GENERAL. “Samuel J. Tilden,” says a New York telegram, “apparently unmindful of the thousand and one things said about him and his Presidential aspirations, is jußt now assiduously devoting himself to yatohlng, and bids fair to blossom oat shortly as a first-class sailor. This fondness for yachting on the part of Tilden, which has been developed, it is said, by a number of sailing excursions made daring the present summer on one of the crack yachts of the New York Yacht Club, has taken a decided torn in the engagement of John Roach’s magnificent steam yacht, Yosemite, for the rest of the present season ” • The business failures throughout the United States and Canada, as reported to New York, for the seven days endind Sept 1. were 186. as compared with 165 the preceding week, showing an increase of 2L The failures were distributed as follows: . New England States, 26; Middle States, 20; Southern, 31; Western, 52; Pacific States and Territories, 22; Canada and Provinces, 28; New York City ,l.... Fire destroyed the planing-mill of Eldridge & Son, at Fort Howard, Wi&, valued, at #200,000; the Marcelin chemical works, located near Bridgeport, Ct, : worth #65,000. and the City foundry at Belleville, 18.... .Two “assisted” Irish Immigrants were sent back to Canada from Buffalo last week. They reported that 1,100 other “assists” came with them to Canada, and that it was the British Government's pur-i pose to ship from thereto the United States ... .Ten thousand men are employed on the Panama canal, and the company feel sure of opening it in live years. The sanitary condition of the workmen is excellent The fishing fleet at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland waß scattered by a fierce tempest that came suddenly and without warning. A schooner which narrowly escaped the fnry of the storm and rode into St Johns reports that for thirty miles of her course wreckage was encountered on every side. Many dories were seen bottom up, and oars, fish boards and other material in large quantities were passed from time to time. One French fishing-brig a 1 one lost four dories with all hands. A general estimate puts the lose of life at from sixty to eighty souls, while the damage to the fleet is incalculable. Articles for a 3,000-point balk-line bUliard match have been signed at New York by the representatives of Schaefer and Vignaux. The later won the battle-ground, and named the Grand Hotel case in Paris, While Schaefer desired to play in Chicago The gamewiU occupy five nights, and will be played late in November.

FOREIGN. Dispatches from Batavia report that fears of further eruptions in the Island of Java within the immediate future have subsided, and all the efforts of the Governmentand the people are concentrated on the work of burying the dead and preserving the health of the living. All along the shores from Point Lampon to the River Paquai e on the Northern coast, and from the River Tjmanderie to Tsipankok, on the southern coast, there ore found Corpses thickly strewn. In the forests of the interior from the River Tjiedom to the River Tjietarum, dead bodies' are lying a. short intervals apart, in some Instances partially buried in the sulphurous white mud or the hardened lava that flowed from the eruptive craters. Large forces of men are busy at work In all directions di. ging out bodies from beneath the beds of lava and rocks The Captain of a steamer which was in the Straits of Sunda during the eruptions reports that ashes feß on the deck of his vessel to the depth of eighteen inches He passed masses of floating pumice-stone seven feet in depth. Queen Victoria sent a bouquet of BUes and roses to be placed on Count de Chambord’s casket. The Papal nnnelo at Yienna consecrated the remains, and placed in the coffin a certificate of death. Three thousand Frenchmen journeyed to Frolißdorf to attend the funeral.... Mary Anderson made her debut before a London audience, and met with a warm reception. The play was “Ingomar,” and as Parthenia she received many recaßs.... Furtfcer arrests of conspirators implicated in the dynamite plots of lost spring have been mads Six men were apprehended in Glasgow, all Irish Two thousand peasants invaded the Hungarian town of Krapina to attack the Jews The troops fired upon them, kiiUng one man and wounding three. ... .At a meeting of Irishmen in London money was subsci ibed to pay an eminent solicitor to defend O’Donnell, who killed the informer Carey The foot-and-mouth disease is increasing alarmingly among the cattle in England.... Since the outbreak of the epidemic the total deaths in Egypt from cholera have reached 27,818... .Such is the condition of affairs in Zululand that Cetewayo demands protection by the British.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A bag and paper warehouse on Walnut street, Cincinnati, was gutted by fire. Three girls jumped from the third story, one breaking a leg and receiving Internal injuries. A man in attempting to escape felt unconscious on the stairway, and his headland face, were almost b rned to a cr sp A i reman ieii from a ladder, and a spectator was crushed again-1 a wall by a hook and ladder wagon and fatallv injured, l ive female era loyes < f the rag house sore missing, and it is feared they perished in the tame'. The total loss Is about #115,000.... A man who bo rded a train at Smithtield. Utah, covered eight passengers and two trainmen with a revolver, robbed them of their watches and money, and escaped in the darkness..,.Bedfield' and Tuttle, who robbed the Riverside stage and killed the exi res * mes -enger the night of Aug. 11. were hanged the other day at Florence. Arizona The comboys assembled In force, protesting against the hanging.... There were received in Chicago In one day 2,233 car-loads of grain, of which 1,: 0.» were corn. If placed in a straight line the procession would be fourteen miles In length. The Foreign Exposition in Boston was formally opened on the 3d, though still very incomplete. The Japanese exhibit, which is large and artistic, is attended by natives in their home costume. Among the pioducts of Ire and are a stone cross weighing five tons and a model of the treatystone of Limerick. Toe R jah who entertained Gen. Urant in India has sent a case of curious musical instruments. Music is furnished by the Victoria Rifles’ band, of MontreaL 1 There was a ..bloody encounter in Manchester, Clay county, Ky. Marshal Marcum, assisted by ex-Marshal A. J. Hacker, attempted to arrest Jud Links, when A Stivers interfered and mortally wouuded Hacker. Links fatally stabbed Marcum. As soon as they heard of Hacker's death his brothers armed themselves and shot and killed Stivers. Links was also shot and slightly wounded. In Santiago, Chili, a bill has been passed providing for interments in cemeteries regardless of creed, whereupon the ecclesiastical authorities threatened to curse the general cemetery as soon as the law is promulgated. In consequence, a large number of bodies have been disinterred and reburied in church chapels.

At a mass-meeting held at Cappalore, Ireland, Michael Davitt delivered an address, stating that by the tyrannical operations of landlordism in Ireland 6,000 householders had been deprived of their homes within Jhe quarter ending July L Davitt contended that the question of the complete abolition of landlordism m xst be kept before the people. The Land act, he stated, if not a failure at the present time, was rapidly becoming so, and not one-sixth of the tenant farmers of the country have yet succeeded in having their rents fixed. He urged the people to be resolute, calm, and not lose selt-control , .The obsequies of the Count de Chambord took place at •Goritz, Austria, in the presence of 50,000 foreigners. The funeral car was drawn by six horses, ; aud was followed by a vehicle laden with wreaths. Five thousand French Iroyalists were in the procession, and delegations of workmen from Paris and Lyons.... While a number of people were waiting for a train at Steglitz, Germany, an express dashed into their midst, killing thirty-nine persons The corpses were mutilated in a shocking manner.... .Serious auti-Jewish rioting took place at fchigetvar, Hungary, the mob committing terrible havoc upon property. One person was killed and four wounded.... .The Deuteronomy manuscripts have been officially declared forgeries, and efforts aie being made to trace the author, win is supposed to be a clever artist ahd counterfeiter of Moabitic characters ... .Near Naples, Italy, a flooded house crumbled, killing eleven inmatea ... .Ivan Tourgueneff, the Russian novelist, is dead. Henry Villard’s party of distinguished guests were given a gorgeous reception at St Paul and Minneapolis, both cities being arrayed in a wealth of decorations. The processions were large and unique, the different industries being repre- ■ sented in the ranks. At Minneapolis machinery in wagons was kept working during the entire route, grinding wheat, sawing logs and planing lumber. President Arthur and party joined the tourists at the latter city, and were welcomed with unbounded enthusiasm. In the Hotel Lafayette, at Lake Minnetonka, a banquet was given, the speeches being laudatory of the Northern Pacific system, the wonderful growth and resources of the Northwest, and compli-mentary-to the foreign guests. m

THE MARKET.

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FISH CULTURE.

Stocking Streams and Lakes with the Finny Tribe. J * Work of the United States Fish Com*. mission for the Past Tear.

[Washington Telegram to Chicago Times.] At the last session of Congress there was appropriated for carrying on the work of tiie United States Fish Commission in all its forms—for propagating fish, distributing them, studying them, at sea, with the assistance of steamers and steam launches, collecting statistics, preparing portraits of distinguished fish for the snnnzi report of the Commissioner, eta—#236,5001 Of course it is the stocking of rivers and lakes that attracts the most attention to the Commission, bnt this la far from being the whole or most expensive part of its work. The distribution of fish daring the past year Bbows ample preparations are being made by a wise ana liberal Government to supply future generations of Americana with unlimited supplies of brain food. For example take the autritration cf the highly-bone-lferous shad and herring, fith whose meat will certainly stimulate the mind if the eater has good luck and. does not get choked to v death with the bonea In the season of 18i3 there were sent oat by the commission 12,4c8.i00 shad and 6,850,000 herring. Of these 552,000 shad were pat into the Illinois river at Peoria, the same number were put In the same river at Havana, and haO.OOO herring were put into the same Stream at Peoria Then take that excellent article of food, the lake whitefißh. In the season of 1882-8 the Commission planted 20c,000 of them in the Minnesota watera and 400,000 in the Nebraska watera At Sulphur, Mich., 2,000,000 were put Into Lake Huron; at Grand Haven 2,000,000 were put Into Lake Michigan; at Alpena, Mich, 3,000,000 were put into Lake Huron; at North Point, Mich., 2,000,000 were put Into theßame lake; at Ludington, Mich., 2,000,000 were put into Lake* Michigan. Another 2,000,000 were put into the same lake at Petoskey. Then 2,000,00 * went into Huron at Black river, 4,COl),000 went inte Lake Michigan at Milwaukee and Kenosha, 2,000,060 went into Lake Huron at Oscoda. 2,000,000 went into Lake Superior at MarSuette, 100,000 were put into Long lake, [lch. Another 5,000, <XX> went into Lake SuWr at L’Anse. Lake Huron got another 000 at Partridge Point Lake MinhigM got another 2,000,000 at Michigamme. Tjdra Michigamme got 1,000.000, and Lake Michlfan came in for another 1,000,000 at Milwaoee.

In all, 45,750,000 whitefish fry and 11,960,000 whitefish eggs were distributed. The details already given Bhow that Lake Huron got 13,000,000 fish, Lake Michigan 11,000,000, and Lake Superior 4,000,000. There were also put into Lake Ontario 9,000,000, and into Lake Erie 6,000,000. The Commission’s station at Alpena supplied 32,101,000 of these little whitefish. Of the eggs, the Minnesota State Commission took halt The North Carolina State Commission took 225,000, the California State Commission 250,001 the Pennsylvania State Commission 2,000,000, and the New York State Commission I, Over 1,000,000 went to Gennany, and 200 000 to Paris. Of the total appropriation mentioned above, it is specified that #BO,OOO shall heap* plied to the production and distribution of carp. This iish was first sent South, where it matures more rapidly than in Northern waters. Already plenty of carp weighing from five to seven pounds are being caught in leathern ponds and lakes In the North they have not as yet had time to reach frying size. That the desire to cultivate them is rapidly increasing is shown by the fact that, in 1879,6,203 fish were given to 273 applicants in 181 localities; In iß<o, 81,443 fish were given to 1,374 applicants, in 717 localities. In addition to the numbers of fish given above, 4,741 in 1879 and 19,021 in 1880 were given to State Fish Commissions to 1831,145.696 fish were given to 5,758 applicants, and 1,244 poor appßcants never got n fish. In 1882, 2>9,188 fish were given to 9,872 appßcants, who Uved in 1,478 counties and 285 Congressional districts. This shown that last year the carp had been spread pretty thoroughly over the United Staten Of last year’s distribution, more than went to Kentucky, more than 22,(00 to Georgia, 15,000 to Missouri, 12,000 to Illinois; a few more to Indiana, and 10,000 to Mississippi. North Carolina got 25, COO, Ohio 11, Pennsylvania nearly 18,000, South Carolina 10.C00, Texas nearly 19,000, and Virginia 15,000. These are not all the fish cultivated by the Commission, but they are the principal ones The only purely ornamental fish that is cultivated is the goldfish in sevesal varie- ' ties. The Commission is experimenting with the golden ide, a German fish, like the carp; but more ornamental than useful It is alsos experimenting with the English trench, but has not yet got enough to distribute. In regard to the carp it should have bde» ■aid that it has taken about all the Commission could raise thus far to Bupply the individual appßcants, by whom the fish are put in private ponds, but the fish wUI live to rivers, and last year Mr. Marshall MacDonald, who has charge of the distribution of the fish, planted three lots in rivers The cost of producing a million shad used to be from #3U) to #SOO, but it is now only #6O. Shad, herring and whitefish are planted with no expense to any one. In the case of carp, the applicant must pay the express charges from the nearest point at which the Government carp-car stops Some other fish the Commission has produced in small quantities. Last year there were produced about l.OOO.tXXTPenobscot salmon, which were distributed in the Hudson river, and the streams of the and Delaware, and 200,000) California trout were produced and distributed in small lots among State Fish Commissions Some of the California trout were put into the head waters of the New, Potomac, Roanoake,-and Tennesee rivers, in an effort to naturalize them. Two hundred thousand brook trout were produced and distributed in the streams near the hatcheries Over 1,000,000 Lake trout were produced, most of whicM went into Michigan waters, though 101,000 of them went to Germany, and 50,000 to Francs Finafiy, there were 500,000 landlocked Salmon, which yyere distributed to 1 the waters of .New England and the Middle and extreme Western States

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Indians ride free in Nevada, but are restricted to platform cars. Butte county, Cal, has fiftv-nine Mongolian children under 17 years of age.. In Leake county Miss a number of mules died from eating oats with lice on them. A negro boy at Tuskegee, Ga., who is as black ai Erebus, has beautiful blue eyes An escaped alligator in the Miami is terrifying bathers from Dayton, Ohio, to Mlamiaburg. J. F. Muse, of Pascagoula, Miss, raised twenty barrels of onions on half an acre of ground. At Fort Mojave, Arizona, one night recently, the thermometer registered ll> Hn> grees at midnight.