Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A train on the Baltimore aid Ohio railroad struck and killed four children ranging in ages from 5 to 17 years, near Connellsville, Pa. They had been out walking and were returning homo along the railroad track. At the point indicated they had stepped off the west to the east track to avoid a passing freight train, when the east-bound passenger train thundered around a curve and caught the party, crushing them to death. ' - Mr. Matthew Arnold made his first public appearance before the American people at Chickering hall. New York. He was welcomed by an immense audience for whose benefit he expatiated on the moral inferiority of the French people as compared with their • German neighbors. He presented his peculiar ideas on the subject of majorities, believing the mere preponderance of votes to be pernicious, and expressed but little sympathy with the American form of government as a whole....At a tannery in Allegheny City, where a deep vat was being dug, three men lost their lives from foul air. A small frame structure in New York- in - process of-demolition fell—white children were gathering kindling wood, killing two of them instantly, wounding another fatally, and injuring a carpenter seriously. ... Burglars took $7,000 in stamps and SSOO in cash from the postoffice at Haverhill, Mass. Four well-known citizens of Eric, Pa. —John W. Eyster, Frederick C. Kesley, Giles Russell and Charles Brown were caught in a storm while duck shooting in the bay, and drowned. Eyster had his life insured for $20,000. College rowdies, known as “Freshmen” and “Sophomores,” of the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, at Troy. N. Y., indulged in a row which damaged the building to some extent and seriously injured several of the participants. Both classes have teen suspended, and many students have left for their homes....lt is reported that the anthracite mines of t'- e Pennsylvania railroad are soon to be leased to a syndicate, headed by .Scott. which will send 3,000.000 from Buffalo and Erie each year... .Jos. McEneany, cashier of Thompson & Co.’s steel-works, at New York, has been arrested for embezzling $35,009, which he lost in betting on the races. Charles A. Mathews, one of the fifty-seven children of the thirteen-wived Isaac M. Singer, the late sewing-machine manufacturer, committed suicide in Philadelphia. He refused to bear his father’s name. Mr. Mathews was only 26 years old, and a refined gentleman. He was in possession of an Independent fortune. He was very sensitive on the subject of his parentage, and the slightest allusion to his father would fill him with mortification. For tha|; reason he generally avoided society.... Arthur B. Johnson, a prominent lawyer of Utica, N. Y., was fonnd dead in his office with a bullet in his breast. He had committed suicide.... Rachel Layton, colored, died at Trenton, N. J., aged 406.... A safe in the car-penter-shop of George Larkin, at. Bridgeport, Ct.,was blown open and robbed $6,000. THE WEST. In the case of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111., the jury rendered the following verdict: “In the matter of the inquisition on the body of Missouri Burns, deceased, held at Lincoln, 81., from Oct. 17 to Nov. 1, we, the undersigned jurors, sworn to inquire of the death of Missouri Burns, on oath do find that she came to her death by the means of a wound in the throat produced by some sharp Instrument in the hands of some person or persons to the jury unknown.”.... The Illinois and Michigan canal commission met in Chicago and reorganized by electing John C. Dore President. Addresses were delivered by Senator Cullom, Mayor Harrison, Congressmen Springer and Henderson, John C. Dore, William Bross, C. C. Bonney, and several others. It was resolved that the Government ought to conduct a waterway from the lakes to the Mississippi in the interest of cheaper transportation for the products of the Northwest. Nellie B. BailEy, 21 yeats old, well educated and good-looking, agreed to go to Texas with a rich Englishman named Clement Bothelmy and start a sheep ranch. In Indian Territory she shot and killed him, burned nis body, and took possession of his money, jewelry and outfit, in all worth $107,000. Then she started south, but was arrested, and is now in jail at Wichita, Kan. The woman formerly moved in good society in New York and New Jersey In a land case at Denver, Jpdge McCrary decided in favor of the cancellation of sixtyone patents fraudulently obtained in Colorado through the pre-emption law, although the title had passed into the hands of innocent parties... .Fourteen Federal Marshals and detectives had a desperate engagement at a station near Evansville, Ind., with a gang of counterfeiters, nine ol whom were captured, two of them being dangerously wounded.... Miss Aggie Hfil, claiming to be Mrs. Sharon, has brought suit for divorce against the California millionaire, asking a division of the community property and alimony Two children were suffocated at Middleton, Ohio, and a lady and her grandson at Cincinnati, by fires in theiPhouses. Mr. Dion Boucicault, the great Irish comedian, makes his appearance at McVicker’s theater, Chicago, this week, for the first time in several years. The “Shaughraun" will be given the first week, and the cast includes the talented author, Missfiadie Martinet, Miss Grace Thorne, Miss Edna Carev, S. Miller Kent, A- H. Forest, Gus Reynolds and F. Bret Harte, a son of the wellknown author; “The Colleen Bawn” will be played the week after. The report that Frank James is allowed to walk the streets of Gallatin, Mo., is untrue. He is not permitted in the jail yard unless accompanied by an officer.' Attachments were issued last week against the property of the Rock River Paper company, in Chicago, and the concern is now in the hands of the Sheriff. The company operated several paper mills in Illinois and Wisconsin. Investments in real estate, upon which they were unable to realize when pressed for „ money, was the cause of the collapse. The old, old story..... The St. Louis grand jury has returned indictments against Police Commissioners Dr. Lutz and David W. Caruth, for conspiracy; Henry 8. Newman, Commissioner of Labor Statistics; malfesanoe; Hugh G. Bradly, member of the Legislature* bribery; Warren F. MeCheeny, leader of the gamblers' ring, attempted bribery; and against Managing Editor Moore, of the PostDispatch, and F. D. White, a reporter on the same paper, for abstracting court records. The report censures Gov. Crittenden for granting pardons, particularly to convicted gamblers, and suggests that the pardoning power be taken out of the Governor's hands P. W. Parkhurst. Cashier of the Clyde bank, at Clyde, Ohio, is being looked for by the bank officials, and pending nis return the institution is closed to the depositors.... About, twenty stores, dwellings and barns were burned at Willoughby, Ohio, resulting ip a loss of $100,000; half insurance. ... ,Bx-Scnator Tabor secured a judgment in • Denver court for $20,000 against his former partner, William ■ H. Bush, whose claim for aid in securing a divorce was not allowed. The missing St. Loum* girl, Mary Churchill, was found in the. insane asylum, near Indianapolis, where she hired out to do laundry work. Thomas J. Gallagher, sporttag reporter Of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,

has been at work on the case for over a month, and at last traced the missing one to the above-mentioned place. She returned home with her father... .An express agent at Portage, Wis,, carried some money packages to a midnight train in an old sack, which caught on the door-fastening in the depot and ripped open, spilling its contents on the platform. He soon discovered his loss, blit was unar ble to recover an envelope containing $5(090....' Albert Aylward, the man who led the Boer forces in the war against the British, in the Transvaal, was locked up in a Chicago police station, charged with being drunk and disorderly. He could face the British bullets, but Clark street “booze” downed him.... The police of Sioux Falls, D. T., cut the electric wires, the company having disregarded an ord*er for the removal of the poles to the alleys... .A notorious counterfeiter known as Coiner, alias Faulkiier, was captured in Frenchtown, Harrison couhty, Ind. Orrin A. Carpenter charged with killing Zora Burns was arraigned for a hearing at Lincoln,lll., on Saturday, the 3d Inst., and demanded a change of venue from Justice Rudolph to Justice W. D. Wyatt. The prosecution demanded that the case be taken to Justice Maltby, and gained their point. Mr. Maltby, however, adjourned the case till Monday. A great crowd witnessed the proceedings, but the accused bore himself calmly, his blanched features being the result of confinement in prison. ....M. J. Bond, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) lumberman, has failed for $175,000.

THE SOUTH* A bull met a train on the Kentucky Central railroad and hung a baggage-qar and three locomotives out over an embankment. It was for the bull, however, a dear-bought and gory victory over the march of modern improvement... .The first bale of cottonever picked from the field by machinery is on exhibition at the Charleston Cotton exchange. Joe Holder, an industrious colored man, while herding his hogs near Toomsboro, Ga., surprised a couple of negro desperadoes skinning one of his swine, which they had stolen. Both of the thieves fled into the swainp. Going back to the settlement Holder enlisted the aid of a couple of white men in a search for the culprits. The morning's search proved fruitless, and the throe men laid down beneath a tree at noontime and went to:sleep. An hour later they were attacked by five armed negroes. In the encounter which followed, Holder and three of the were almost instantly killed.... Fire broke out in Garnet, Stubbs & Co.’s warehouse, at Savannah, Ga., consumed it, and, spreading, destroyed the Electric Light works, Tynan's foundry, and several wooden dwellings. Three thousand bales of cotton in the Garnet structure were burned. The total loss will reach $1,000,000... . .Mitchell Putnam, 103 years of age, traveled alone from Texas to South Carolina to see his former home. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and in thc*Texan struggle. The election excitement at Danville, Va., culminated in a bloody riot, in which five negroes and one white manwere killed and a number of whites and negroes hurt A big meeting of citizens was in progressed resolutions were passed denouncing Mahone. A negro who mixed in the crowd shoved a white bystander from the sidewalk. Both parties fell to blows, pistols were drawn, and firing began on both sides. Four of the negroes were killed and several wounded. A white youth, Walter Holland, son of a prominent tobacconist, was shot through the head and mortally 1 wounded. The melee became general. The firing drew crowds to the scene, and the Mayor at once ordered out the military to quell the fight. The negroes, however, i etired to the black quarter of the town before the soldiers arrived. The whole city was roused by the melee and the wildest excitement prevailed. One company of mililia at once cleared the streets and something like order was restored. Later in the evening a platoon-of soldiers was fired upon by the negroes ambuscaded in a house, but without fataleffect. Thehouse was surrounded and one negro captured. The soldiers * were fired upon by the negroes in different parts of the city..... At New Orleans William Sykes murdered the keeper of a brothel, named Kate Townsend, by plunging a large dirk into her chest five times. They had cohabited for twenty-live years, and had quarreled many times. The dead woman is said to have been worth $200,000....Mr5, Elizabeth B. Gibbs, widow of United States Surgeon Gibbs, threw herself from a railway’ car near Baltimore, Md., and was killed... .A fire at Algiers, La., destroyed twenty houses and other property. The total loss is placed at SIOO,OOO. • ■

WASHINGTON. In their report to the Secretary of the Interior, the Utah Commissioners declare that unless the Territorial Legislature shall adopt laws looking to the extirpation of polygamy (which it will not likely do) the commission will be prepared to recommend to Congress the most stringent enactments compatible with the limitations of the constitution which may be considered necessary for the suppression of so great an evil.... The Superintendent of the Railway Mail service reports 993 lines, and recommends an increase of $50,000 in the appropriation for cars and of $318,000 fOr clerks. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist Inst.: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents ......$ 4,970,000 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents.. 737,620,700 Three percents.. „„ Refunding certificates 332.850 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 '. ■ "I- ir.-ru” —■ Total Interest-bearing debt 51,312,446,050 Matured debt ...4,348,745 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes.. 347,739,816 Certificates of deposit.: 12,620,000 Gold and silver certificates 182,908,081 Fractional currency.... 6,990,303 Total without interest $549,258,200 Total debt (principa1)51,866,052,995 Totalinterest 9,801,243 Total cash in treasury 364,317,501 Debt, less cash in trea5ury.....;1,511,506,737 Decrease during Octub-r,... . 10,304,798 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881 39,584,470 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid,...s 2,698,375 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 4,348,745 Interest thereon 288,857 Gold and silver certificates 182,908,031 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit.. 12,620,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1 161,4-4,44’3 Total $364,347,501 . Available assets— Cash in treasury. 864,347,501 Bonds issued to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States— Princinal outstanding....,....s 64,6.3,512 Interest accrued, not yet naid. 1,2 >2,470 Interest paid by United States 69,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 17,056.755 1 By cash payments, 5 per cent net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41.510.138 One of Hallett Kilbourne’s dinners while he languished in a Washington dungeon under the accusation of contempt of one of the houses of Congress, cost $34.55... .The War department has ordered a court of inquiry to investigate the cause of the failure of the Greely relief expedition.— - . Commissioner McFarland states that over 19,000,000 acres of public lands and 400,000 acres of Indian lands were disposed of during the year, for which $11,713,883 was received. He recommends the repeal of the Pre-emption and Timber Culture laws, and the amendment of the Homestead law. He states that much valuable timber land on the Pacific coast is being taken up“by persons hired for that purpose. Postmasters in twenty of the largest cities report an average increase of over 6 per cent, in the amount received for stamps, Detroit alone showing a decrease* The Postmaster General has ordered that special wymfy shall hereafter be paid for their ex-

penses only tie sum actually disbursed... .11 is believed that the reduction in the rate ol letter postage will not lessen the net profit of the postoffice, counting in, however, the natural growth of the system.’.. .The Northern Pacific road has made arrangements with the Government for the free distribution ol carp from St. Paul to Portland... .It is estimated by the Commissioner of Pensions that $40,000,000- will be required for the payment qf pensions the next fiscal year. '

POLITICAL. CONGRESMAN ; ERMENTROUT was knocked doWn and badly mauled in a political fight at Readidg, Pa. After a long conference with President Arthur, John C. Now has decided to retain the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury. Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, devotes much space in his annual report to the arraignment of certain portions of the people wh6m he characterizes as factions, and makes a long argument in defense of his opposition to the efforts to create a new State. He asks Congress to provide for a Constitutional convention for Dakota. A Democratic Congressman is quoted as having said that it would not surprise him if the Speakership contest should last several days, in which event lie predicted the success of a dark horse. This estimation is based upon the expectation that Randall, Carlisle and Cox will remain in the field. GENERAL. The case against the Collector of Customs at Montreal for confiscating the works of Voltaire and Paine has been dismissed upon a technicality, the Judge not entering upon the merits of the suit... .A military guard will be stationed at the Government house, Ottawa, and the watch on the Parliament buildings is to be doubled,... With twenty-seven oil wells completed in October, there is a decrease of 319 barrels in the daily production. ■

A number of disasters are reported to the lake shipping. Two largo schooners laden with ore, the John B. Merrill, of Milwaukee, and the Sophia Minch, of Cleveland, went ashore near the latter port. The schooner Ketcham, of Chicago, went ashore hear Leland, Mich., and is probably a total loss; and the Homer H. Hine, abandoned by her crew, was driven on the rocks near Ambcrly, Ontario, and will be a total wreck.... The Directors of the Pennsylvania road have declared a semi-annual dividend of 4J4 per cent. Frank Cihckering, a lumber-dealer of Grand Rapids, Mich., is insolvent, with assets and liabilities estimated at SIOO,OOO each....A. J. Scott, a stock dealer at Paris, 111., has made an assignment to cover liabilities of $53,000.j. .J. B. Vogel & Co., merchant tailors at Fort Wayne, Ind., have been closed by the Sheriff....Kautner, organ manufacturer, and- R.- H. Savage, hat-maker, at Reading, Pa., are insolvent,.... Simon Lauterbach, shirt manufacturer, at New York, made an assignment, giving preferences for $120,000... .Business failures in the United States and Canada numbered 215 last week according to Dun’s report, three less than the week before:.. .The liabilities of the Rev. G. M. Pierce, of the Rocky Mountain Christian Advocate, Salt Lake City, are $38,000, with assets of SB,OOO. This is the largest failure for years in that section. Daigneau & Co., bark dealers, of St. Hyacinthe, Canada, the scene of a great fire eight years ago, have assigned, with liabilities estimated ata quarter of a million.... The Marquis of Lansdowne has received several letters threatening his life--—— FOREIGN. Cardinal ManJKng asserts that Bismarck is favorably inclined toward the Vatican, and will agree to any measures which will settle the difficulties between Prussia and the Pope.,.. Many deaths from fever and exposure are threatened in the districts recently wrecked by earthquakes unles help is given. Clothing, medicine, and building materials are mostly needed.... Cardinal Hohenlohe is on bad terms with the Vatican.

When twenty-five miles off Holyhead, in the Irish sea, the British steamers Alhambra-and Holyhead came into collision, and both sank. Thirteen seamen from the Alhambra and two from the Holyhead were lost, the rest of the passengers and crew escaping in safety... .The Prince qf Wales closed the Fisheries exposition at London in the presence of a vast assemblage. He sald the show had been very successful, the profits large, and hoped; the buildings might be kept standing, so that hygiene, inventions, and colonial exhibitions might be held in 1884, 1885, and 1886, respectively Rumors are published in that the explorer De Brazza was killed by a band of negroes in the Congo country... .It is assorted that Bismarck informed the Orleans Princes that Germany would not approve of their making claims to the Frence throne.... Hicks Pasha reports to the Khedive of Egypt that the False Prophet has probably been done up.

Regarding the London explosives, details show that the number injured is fully as large as first reported. It has also been determined that nitro-glycerine entered largely into the composition of the explosives used. ' The Irish in London are greatly excited, and are free to confess that the crime was planned by enemies of the National movement. O’Donovan Rossa-eWHns the Explosions were caused by Fenians, of whose movements he is aware. All the banks, public buildings and'prisons at Glasgow are carefully guarded against explosions. The explosive used at Frankfort-on-the-Maln was nitro-glycerine, which had been placed in eight small glass shells, perforated with holes. Orangemen at Londonderry, Ireland, seized the City hall to prevent the Lord Mayor of Dublin from making a Nationalist speech therein. When the procession escorting-" the Lord Mayor to his hotet> passed the building the Orangemen opened fire and also threw slates from the roof and windows, One man was killed and another man and boy were shot and dangerously wounded. The police dispersed a mob, which gathered after the Nationalist procession dispersed and stoned the windows of the City hall A French Admiral has seized a strip of the African coast 250 miles in length, including a dozen towns. Three men-of-war command the chief points, and troops will be stationed at other places. A number of failures among the British cotton merchants have followed closely after the big collapse of Morris Ranger. The latter’s liabilities reach the stupendous figures of $3,500.000-... .The betrothal of the Crown Prince of Portugal and the youngest daughter of the Austrian Emperor is announced.... Five hundred pounds reward is offered by the London authorities for information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of the persons who caused the explosion in the underground railway... .A Polish actor named Protowski, who was arrested at Dirschau, East Prussia, confessed that he was a Nihilist who had been selected by a band of conspirators to assasinate Prince Bismarck. „>. ■ The British Cabinet have decided that the dispute between China and France has reached the verge of open warfare. A London dispatch says the most explicit and positive instructions looking to a proper and thorough conservation of British interests hare been issued to all the departments.... The committee of the Austrian delegations, in its report recommending the adoption of the foreign estimates, says the German alliance was not formed for hostile purposes, and that Austria will endeavor to maintain peace with all nations..;. Fire, which broke out in Wylie & Lochead’s great warehouse in Glasgow,, spread with great rapidity and consumed several busincA structures, involving a loss of $3,000,000.* Many wounded persons* were taken to the hospitals... .The Rothschilds have advised the British Government that no Egyptian

loan could bp placed If the troops were en- ' tirely withdraw#. It has therefore been decided to maintain in Egypt an army of occupation of 4,000 men.... The latest accounts from Afghanistan show that the country is in a state of complete aaarchy; the exchequer is without funds, the troops are demoralized, and the Ameer is a meer plaything In the hands of the GMlzais. .... It is reported at Pari? that when the Malagassy Envoys reached Madagascar they were strangled... .Two hundred and forty cholera deaths occurred at Mecca in one week.... Moody and Sankey have began a series of meetings in a new iron hall specially • arranged for the purpose at Islington, London. The meetings are proving a great success.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In the Criminal court, at Gallatin, Mo., the indictment against Frank James for the murder Ibf Conductor Westfall was dismissed, and he was sent back to Jackson county to be tried for the Blue-cut train- ’ y” The whaling schooner Louisa, of New Bedford, Mass., foundered in the Arctic, "Sept. 22, by colliding with ice, and six men perished. . Officials of the Postoffice department object to the proposed reduction in the rates for drop letters on the ground that the local delivery now costs nearly as much as the revenue in several cities, while in others it is carried on at a positive loss. William Sexton, member of Pariiamcnf,Tn Ills address at Glasgow. bitterly denpuncedSirStafford Northcote for the character of the speeches made during his recent tour through Ireland, alleging that these addresses had caused the present revival of religious fanatieism in Ireland.; . .Lord Coleridge is again on English soil, and expresses himself as greatly pleased with his trip. A cyclone of terrific violence and attended by a loss estimated at nearly $200,000 passed over Springfield, Green county, Mo., killing five persons outright and injuring thirty more. The names of the dead are: Mrs. Andrew Arnqujst, Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Holberless, Mrs. Finnev, Miss Sallie Edmondson. The cyclone, approaching in the form of a cloud moving close to the earth, first struck the northwest part of the town—and passed in -an easterly course along the north part of the city, demolishing everything in its 300-feet-wide path. At Bridgetown, a suburb of Springfield, a watchman was killed' and several persons badly injured. At Brookline Station, several homes were demolished, cne_ person killed and several wounded. Tlirec miles west of Springfield a school-house in which there were fifty children was demolished, but only three persons were hurt. There were many other marvelous escapesA train on the IVabash, Pacific and St. Louis railroad, going East, was boarded at Danville Junction, 111., by four men, who went through one of the passenger cars with drawn revolvers and obtained about SBOO from the affrighted passengers, They left the train suddenly, just as it went out, and escaped. The same crowd, or a similar one, worked the train on the Indiana, Bloomington and Western road, which connects at Danville with the Wabash, by the pickpocket process, getting $1,200 and a check for $1,700 on the First National bank, of Clinton, 111. The check, an overcoat, and a number of pocket-books were afterward found alongside the track. John L. Sullivan and his troupe of boxers gave an exhibition at Danville the same evening, and it is supposed that the robbers were a crowd of Eastern cracks following along in Sullivan’s wake The Milan (Ill.) Paper company confessed judgment for $14,750 in favor of the Kock Island National bank, and then made an assignment..... Wetzell Brothers, lumbermen of Grand Rapids, Mich., >vho owe $i50;000, and Porter Byrne & Co., whose liabilities are notknown,have filed assignments Foekier Brothers,buggy-top makers at Dubuque, lowa, have falletTfor $70,0007 Assets small... .Rice & Messmore, private bankers at" Cadillac. Mich., have suspended: ...An assignment has been made by Hinman, Moody & Co., paper-dealers at Beloit. Wis. They claim assets equal to their liabilities.

Faith Cure.

The Rev. Dr. Hepworth, says The Truth Seeker, defines the faith care as “that religious.idiosyncrasy,” and says it is “the product of the emotional nature when it is swayed by an inexplicable mysticism and. becomes indifferent to such a low order of materials as facts and law.” He devotes an independent article to a consideration of recent cures claimed as miracles, and concludes: “Supppse my father to be attacked with typhoid fever, shall I resort at once to those means of recovery which have been providentially afforded, and which the educated physician is acquainted with, or shall I send for the officers of the church to make a prayer? I think I ought to do both, but especially to send for the doctor. The messenger who does my errand should go to the .physician first, and to the minister afterward. If either of them is out of town, I earnestly hope it may not be the doctor. If I ignore the agency of God in the cute of disease I am an Infidel; and if I ignore the fact that such an emergency in the skilled physician, I am without that ordinary common sense which the Lord expects me to use.”—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.

THE MARKET.

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CURSE OF THE NATION.

The Report of the Utah Commissioners < Submitted to Secretary Teller. Recounting the Year’s Operations and Hinting at Thunderbolts in Reserve. The Utah commission, composed of Alex. Ramsay, A. S. Paddock, G. L. Godfrey,. A. B. Carlton, and J. R. Pettigrew, have made their report to Secretary Teller. The clear intimation is that, unless the monogamic Mormon Legislature shall enact laws which will carry out the Edmunds act in the spirit and provide for the disfranchisethent of polygamists, the most severe legislation compatible -with the limitations of the constitution will be recommended. The Commissioners privately say that this reserve recommendation is the abolition of suffrage. They do not expect the Legislature will enact any such laws, so that it may be. presumed that the most important recommendations for the overthrow of polygamy will be made in a report next January or February. statement of the.former legislation of Congress in relation to bigamy or polygamy, the commission said: The duties of the commission appertain only to matters of registration, and election, and eligibility to office, while the punishment of the crime of polygamy is left, as under the former law, to the courts of justice. Under the AntiPolygamy act the commission had good success at the general election of August, 1883, in excludiii gpolygamists from the polls and as far as advised very little if any illegal votes have been cast in Utah since the commission took charge of the registration and elections in August, 1882. The enforcement of the present law against 12.000 polygamists who have been excluded from the polls shows the act has been fully and successfully’ executed. It is thought that the, discrimination between those Mormons who practice polygamy and those who do not, while not likely to have much effect upon elderly men who have already a plurality of wives, must have great weight on the young men of the Territory, many of whom are ambitious andl aspiring, and would not like voluntarily to embrace political ostracism. The very existence of a law disfranchising polygamists must tend to destroy their influence whenever it As understood it is to be .a permanent discrimination. The fact also that it will be necessary to the preservation of the political influence of the “People’s party” -(aw the Mormons style themselves) to have a large body of their members who are not polygamists, must tend in time to weaken the practice of polygamy, for every Mormon who takes but .one plural wife loses three votes for: ills party—his own and those of his two wives (woman suffrage being established by law in Utah). —--z, *

Concerning plurality of wives, that a doctrine and practice so odious throughout Christ, ndom should have been upheld so many years against the taws of Congress and the sentiments of the civilized world is one of the marvels of the nineteenth century, and can be scarcely appreciated, even by those familiar with the worlds ■ history in relation to the difficulties of Governments to control or suppress religious fanaticism. Certainly no Government can permit the Violation .of laws under the guise of religious freedom, and, while Congress may not legislate as to mere matters of opinion, yet it may denounce and punish as crimes those actions which are in violation of social duties onsubversive of good order. The right of Congress to sunpress this great evil is undoubted. It is equally plain the dignity and good name of this great Government among the nations of the earth demand such Congressional action as shall effectually eliminate this, "national disgrace. The commission renew the recommendations contained In the report of Nov. 17. 1882, notably the cue regarding .the enactment of a marrige law by Congress declaring all future marriages in the Territory null and void unless contracted and evidenced in the man her provided by the act. If the next Legislature shall fail to adopt measures in conformity with the provisions of the act of 1882 forthe suppression of polygamy, the commission ‘brill be prepared to recommend, and Congress certainly will not delay the adoption of the most stringent measures compatibtewith the limitations of the constitution that may be considered necessary for the suppression of this great evil.”

POSTAL AFFAIRS.

The Railway Mail Service—Postal Estimates for the Ensuing Year. Statistics from the Principal Free Delivery \ Supt. Thompson, of the Railway Mail Service, has submitted his annual report to Postmaster General Gresham. The number of railway post office lines in 1883 was 993, an increase of twenty-four ov.er 1882; the number of miles of route for which the railroads were paid was 109,827, an increase of 9,264 over 1882. The number of miles of railroads traveled by clerks was 86,180,430, an increase of 10,438,992. The number of pieces of mail matter handled was 3,981,582,280, an increase of 1,429,992 over the preceding year. The Superintendant asjts an increase of 8318,000 in the appropriation for the railway postal clerks, and $50,000 increase for the postal cars. The estimated amount of postal revenues for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, including $430,000 estimated receipts from the money-order business, is $47,404,078. The estimated expenditures for the same time are •8»O,0t52,l8». nue of $2,968,111. The estimate for the compensation of Postmasters next year is $12,250000, an increase of $3,000,000; for clerks in the postoffices, $4,900,600, an increase of $125,000; for free-delivery service, $300,000; railroad 1 mail transportation, $12,750,000, an increase of $1,050,000; steamboat routes, $625000, an increase of 825,000; star routes, 85,600,000, an increase of $3,500,060; railway postal service, $1,625,000, an increase of $50,000; and for railway costal clerks, $4,295,289, an increase of $318,169.

The annual report Of the Superintendent of the free delivery letter-carrier system shows that 1(44 offices, employing 3,680 carriers, were in operation at the close of ’the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883. During the year 1,324,627,701 pieces of mail matter were delivered and collected, an increase Of nearly 16 per cent, over the number of pieces handled the preceding year. The cost of the service for the year was $3,173,336, an increase of more than 29 per cent, over the cost for 1882. The average cost per piece for the matter handled was 2 4-10 mills, an increase of 'i-10 of a mill per piece over the cost the previous year. The excess of postage on local matter over the total cost of the service was $1,021,894. There were collected and delivered during the year 791,658,699 letters, 261,718,952 postal-cards, and 268,319,847 newspapers. The following table shows the aggregate number of pieces of mail matter handled at a number of the principal cities: Baltimore.... 39,212,496 New Orleans. 11,763,360 Boston 93,587,018: New York.... .258,890,064 Brooklyn 34,-615,417i0maha 4,6)8,633 Chicago 136,886,386 Philadelphia..l6o,o3o,9o9 Cincinnati.... 29,756.800 Pittsburgh... 15,111,853 Cleveland 20,150,678i5t. Louis 46,675,459 Columbus, 0.. 6,622,634 St. Pan! 9,193,215 Dayton. 0.... 5,436,442:5an Francisco 24,727,771 Detroit 18,015,463 Sanduskv, O. 492,597 s Indianapolis.. li,263,929:Springfield, O 2,135,759 Louisville..... 16,560,264|T0!ed®. 0 7,010,801 Milwaukee.... 13,858,372 Washington.. 15,231,674 ' Nashville. s,B3l,9o9|Zanesville, (h ,'1,503,626

GLEANINGS.

Gen. Grant denies that he’s a millionaire. It’s Fred. Ismail PAsha will live in Florence with his seven wives. . A Pittsburg man suicided because he bet on the Wrong horse in a race. James C. Godfrey, a wholesale merchant of Brooklyn, died from smoking cigarettes. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of the James boys, calls reporters “theological students of the newspaper press.” A dog in Washington county, Ohio, cured himself of a rattlesnake Site by burying himself up to the ears in mud.

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

Interesting Statistics from the Gen• end Land Office. Gen. Sherman’s Last Official Document. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Hon. N. C. McFarland, in his annual report, states that the disposals of public lands during the year embraced 10,030,769 acres, and Indian lands 399,235 acres, an Increase over 1882 of about 5,000,000 acres, and over 1881 of about 8,000,000 acres. The receipts from all sources in connection with disposals of public land were $11,088,479, and from sales of Indian lands $625,404, a total of $11,713,883. Public lands were disposed of as follows:

Acres Public sales 273.06? Private entrie5........... Pre-emption entries 2,2Bs ’Zl!! Mineral entries.'..... Homestead entries....;.... ... ~—-.8,1.1,914 Timber-culture entries.3,llo,93o Entries with military bounty land war- . rantsf 1 45,414 Entries with land-claim scrip 19,508 Total number of entries and filings posted during the year 251,685, aggregating 80,000,000 acres. The increase in number of claims recorded in 1883 wasss,s4Bover the year 1882. The Commissioner states that he is satisfied the pre-emption filings tire made or procured to be made to a great extent for speculative purposes. He renews the recommendation that the Pre-emption law lie repealed. The report recommends the amendment of the Homestead laws, requiring a period of not less than six months after the settlement of a claim has been placed on reeordbefore final proof shall be admitted, irrespective of the alleged time of residence prior to the entry. The report further recommends the total repeal of the Timber Culture law on acceunt of its inherent defects. The construction of 1,210 miles of land-grant railroad was reported during the year, making a total of 17,449 miles of road reported ascoustructed under all grants to June 30, 1883. The Commissioner asks that his salary be fixed at $5,000- aud for a moderate increase of the salaries of the principal officers and clerks of his department. The character and responsibility of the olliee, together with the fact that its business has increased 82 per cent since 1881, appears to the Commissioner to justify this request.

f FOREIGN MAILS. ~ ■ The Postmaster General has received the annual report of Judge Blaekfan, Superintendent of Foreign Mails. The total weight of mails dispatched to countries in the Postal union, with the exception of Canada, was 2.532.990 pounds, an increa-e of 329,114 pounds over the weight last year. Of the letter mail dispatched, 41 per eent. was sent to Great Britain and Ireland, 23 to Germany, 27 to other countries of Europe, and 9 per cent, to Postal union countries and colonies outside of Europe. The amount of letter mail dispatched last year .increased 77 per cent, over the (amount sent hi 1880. The printed matter increased 74 per cent, in the same time. The sum paid for sea transportation of mails was $316,522, an increase over the cost of 1882 of $38,358, or 58 per cent.’ over 1880. The estimated amount of postage collected in the United States on foreign mail matter was $2,078,913. .GEN. SHERMAN’S FINAL REPORT.

The last annual report. of Gen. Sherman la in the hands of the Secretary of War. The "army consists of 2,113 officers and 23,335 men —the figures being almost identical with those of last year. *- -r Gen. Sherman considers Crock’s Apache campaign a success. , Military education is treated at some length, and the opinion expressed that the Military academy at. West Point and the schools at Fortress Monroe and Leavenworth are among the best in tho worid. . : The Indians are regarded as substantially eliminated from the problem of tfie arniy. The railroad which used to follow in the rear, and now gobs forward with the picket-line iu the great battle of civilization with barbarism, has had a great influence. The recent completion o-f the last of four great transcontinental lines of railway has settled forever the Indian question, the army question, and • many others which have hitherto, troubled the country. The recommendation of last year is renewed that the strongest —posts be enlarged and the minor places abandoned. “ The soldier," says Gen. Sherman, “ must be treated as a fellow-man, Let him live in ■comfort, and he will respond to the call ot duty, even to death. When the soldier is employed as a carpenter, mechanic or laborer, it is only fair that he should be paid for such labor.” The opinion is expressed that it will be found wise to provide a common organization for all such arms of the service, and that Congress should provide for the transfer of regiments from remote to home sections after a fair period of service. In this connection particular attention is called to the case of the Twenty-first Infantry, which has been on the Pacific coast for fourteen years. GEN. DRUM’S REPORT. Adjt. Gen. Drum has submitted his annual report. He says the State militia has steadily improved in discipline, soldierly bearing and knowledge. Ho recommends the retirement on full pay of men who have faithfully served thirty-five years. It is suggested that increased pay for re-enlisting fie made to depend on immediate re-eiflistment In the same regiment, and that the man re<en listing be giun’.vl a furlough of one, two, of three months, according to the number oi terms he has already served. A bi-monthly settlement of the clothing accounts is recommended, and a statement made in this connection that the Government Jost SIO,OOO last year in Clothing overdrawn by deserters. Notwithstanding great efforts to fill the army to the authorized strength, it still lacks 2,149 men of the full quota.

HERE AND THERE.

Mahone is bald-headed and has grity whiskers. Irving, the actor, is a continual cigarette smoker. Matthew Arnold does not like American newspapers. - Thomas Nart is talking about starting an illustrated weekly. ' Next year’s crop of Mormon immigrants is estimated at 75,090. A rainbow was seen at night, recently, in Orange, Tex., while the moon Was oiut oi Sight. ■. May Forney, daughter of the late J. Forney, writes fashion articles for Philadelphia papers. Good butter retails in Tuscon, Arizona, at 54.2 K a pound, while eggs are in demand at 65 cents per dozen. On the person of a thief recently eflptured in Hartford, Ct., was found a dra'it for $1,028.55, dated June 24, 1844. An Arkansas editor announces that he is compelled to retire from his paper on account of being so afflicted with the gout. ’ “Game hash” is one of the dishes served at the Yellowstone Park hotel, but visitors are said to be somewhat suspicious of it. The authorities of Grand Rapids, Mich., have given orders to the undertakers to take funeral processions through the back streets. Lord Coleridge speaks of Nathaniel Hawthorne as “our grentest-writer, the master of an exquisite and ah absolutely perfect style.” The grave caved in nt a Hartford, (Ct..) fun Oral, the.otijer day, just as the collin was to be lowered, undjone of the bearers went withit. , Ex-Senator Gwin, although 78 years old* is as erupt and sturdy as an oak. Gen. Jackson appointed him United States Marshal for Mississippi fifty years ago. At Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Beecher told his audience that if he had been livieg In the s«uth at the oatbreak cl the war, he would undoubtedly have been a Confederate. A two fcot In jength wa» killed in Faj'else county, Ky., recently.