Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. a B. MARSHALL, - - Pctijsheb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Patrick "William O’Brien, an Irish giant, and Christina D. Dunz, a German giantess, were made one at Pittsburgh the other day. In their present united state they have a combined height of fifteen feet three inches, and balance 540 pounds avoirdupois. Among the curious incidents of the ceremony was a wedding-cake nine feet in circumference, a ring weighing seventeen pennyweights, and a loaf of bread five feet 10ng.... t>n Pennsylvania soil, opposite Trenton, N. X, James Golden and Patrick Scullian fought aixtv-five rounds in two hours, both men being severely punished. Scullian was declared the victor on a f0u1... .G. M. D. Little & Co., dealers in canned goods at New York, have failed. Their debts aggregate SIOO,OOO. Stickney & Poor’s four-story brick spice mill at Charlestown Neck, Mass., was burned. Loss, $80,000: insurance, $64,000. John Chisholm was hanged at Newark, N. J., for killing his wife. The relatives of Chisholm were given his body on executing bonds that his funeral should be a private 0ne....H0n. John McKeon, United States District Attorney for Southern New York, is dead. Henry A. Slater, mate of the bark Northern Light, was taken from the hold of that craft at New York and taken before a Commissioner, charged with mutiny and attempted murder. Slater had been confined in a space which only admitted of a sitting posture for fifty-three days, was fed on maggoty buiscuits and was often left for days without water. After eating a hearty meal the man became delirious and is in a precarious condition.... Bernard Boland, who was sent to the Massachusetts penitentiary for life, on conviction Of murder, has been pardoned because of the discovery that the statutes will not permit a loy to be sent to State prison... .Mary O’Connor, who last year was employed in a mill in Philadelphia, leaped from a window during a fire, apd was permanently disable-1. She had just obtained a verdict for $10,00(1 damages. Details of a terrible human butchery comes from Laconia, N. H. Thomas Samon, * cook by trade, came to the house of James Buddy, a laborer, to board, bringing with him a heavy trunk. During the night he got up and killed Ruddy and a litt'e child with a hatchet, and assaulted Mrs. Ruddy with the same weapon. Thinking he had murdered her also, he saturated the _ bodies with kerosene, set them on fire, and escaped. Mrs. Ruddy alarmed the neighbors, who extinguished the lire, and, on Samoa’s room being searched, his trunk was found to contain the mangled remains of a Mrs. Ford, with whom he had been boarding. The fiend was arrested Near Roseland, N. J., a girl named Ihrete Jane Paullin was murdered in some underbrush with a razor, after having been assaulted, There is not the slightest e’ew to the perpetrator... .The Rev. William Mitchell, pastor of the Wtsiboro (Mass.) Congregational chmch, was arrested for stealing books. He offered SI,OOO to keep the matter quiet#... A train on the Central Vermont road demolished a wagon at Lanesville, killing four persons Burglars exploded the Pottsville (Pa. ) Postoffice safe and carried off $5,000. THE WEST. Creeks in Fredericktown and Piedmont,' in Southeastern Missouri, swelled by heavy rains, overflowed and swept away hnany dwellings. Two wouirn and three children were drowned. Gen. Augustus C. Dodge, one of the pioneers of lowa, died at his home in Burlington, where he; had resided since 1838, aged 71 years. The deceased was born in St. Genevieve county, Mo., in 1812, and was ta son of Gov. Dodge, of Wisconsin. Be was elected a Delegate in Congressfrom Jowa on the organization of the Territory, and served in that bodv three consecutive terms as Delegate and R?presentative. He Was elected to the United States Senate in 1848 and served in that body till 1855. He was appointed Minister to Spain by President Pierce, and served in that 'position till 1858. He was several times elected Mayor of Burlington..... A verdict has been returned by the Coroner's jury which has been investigating the disastrous collision on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, near Streator, 111. The jury find that the accident was due chiefly to the gross carelessness of ■William H. Doyle, the conductor, and Henry ,Young, engineer of the freight train, which was running at an excessive rate of speed. Another cause, as found by the jury, was the indiscretion of George Alexander, Superintendent, A. C. Miller, train-dispatcher, and Daniel Wedge, the local yardmaster, in Bending out a heavily-loaded train with defective brakes....A fire at Dixon, Cal-., destroyed the business part of the town., ■ The losses are reported at $250,000. ‘ The murder of Byron Sibley, a young telegraph ’Operator, at Marshall, Mich., another to the already long list of remarkable crimes of the day. Sibley, who was a, great favorite among the young people, was ordered to leave town by a husband who believed himself injured. The young man found it impracticable to romply, and made ,an appointment with someone unknown. At the meeting which followed the young man was killed by gunshot and left in the street. So much of the tragedy is known that the homicide cannot, and probably does not. hope to escape public attention or correctional procedure. (

Jhbee persons—two architects and a contractor —are by name charged with responsibility for the disaster at Madison, Wis. The Coroner's jury, by careful iteration, seem to hold that the building' was only in danger of collapse during erection, and tnat, had it lasted until complete, it would probably have possessed strength enough to thereafter stand alone. The two architects are blamed for their bad plans. The contractor is reprehended for not mending a pier when it gave evidence of weakness.,.. A Milwaukee telegram says that “ the propeller Manistee, which was last heard from at Ashland, on Lake Superior, is believed to have gone down in the Storm of Nov. 16. with twenty-flve persons on board. The tug Maythera found part of her cabin near Ontonagon. The Manistee was owned by Leopold if Austrian, of Chicago."....Corn in Kansas is said tote greatly imperiled by wet weather. At some points it will not be in condition to crib for weeks to come, and may (be rendered entirely unfit for shipping.... Ex-Senator George E. Spencer, of Alabama, was arrested at Austin, Nev., by order of Attorney General Brewster, for contempt of court in not appearing in the star-route cases. Horatio G. Billings, a veteran lumbermerchant of Chicago, has been-compelled to suspend payment on debts of >IOO.OOO. .. ..Flames destroyed a portion of the New Albany (Ind.) cotton and woolen mills, causing a loss of $140,003. Fire at Lima, Ohio, destroyed a livery stable, five barns, a bowling alley, and many outbuildings.... Heavy rains at Indianapolis flooded the northwestern quartorof that City, the damage aggregating $200,000. Water was three feet deep in Hickson's lumber-yard, and the railway tracks east of the Union depot were Submerged. Miss Emma Boxd ( of Taylorville, 111., who was growing nervous from fears of abduction, has been p’aced- by her paients in a Secure retreat. Hi t alleged assailants will be tried at Hillsboro in a few days. The trial of Montgomery, Clements

and Pettis, for the terrible outrage upon Miss Emma Bond, has beep set for trial in the Montgomery county. (Ill.) Circuit court Dec. 10. Miss Bond has greatly improved in health, but grows more nervous as the Qme for the trial approaches Bobbers entered the farm-house of James Crouch, near Jackson, Mich. The farmer, his daughter, her , husband, and a man from Pennsylvania, were smothered with chloroform, and killed with firearms. The visitor had displayed many thousands of dollars in Jackson, and had boasted that he meant to buy the best cattle in that region. Crouch had about $50,060 in the house, which was secured by the robbers. Two persons on the upper floor of the house were spared—a colored boy and a hired girl. They probably Heard the robbers, but dared make no noise. The house was seemingly guarded on the outside while the biitchery went on within.*..The propeller H. J. Jewett, loaded with' a cargo of merchandise valued at $50,000, was stranded on the rocks near Sand Beach, Mich., on Lake Huron. The boat is worth $250,000 A dispatch from Port Huron. Mich., says: “Of all the terrible sufferings that men have had from the effects of the recent storm, the crew of the barge lowa, now ashore near Gove island, have suffered the most. Capt. Williams is badly frozen, and is now lying in a small, dirty little fish-shanty awaiting death to relieve his sufferings, without the necessary food and medical aid. Others of the crew have their hands, feet, ears and other exposed parts of their bodies frozen. The wife and two children of Capt. Williams perished.” W. H. H. Burns, father of the murdered Zora, went to Lincoln. Hl., last week, tz> consult, as la Ing —iiisdaughter'stakingoff. Suspieioiis were aroused that mischief was meant toward Carpenter, but the latter shows no fear, and is alleged to be paying detectives large sums to secure clew’s. Public feeling is not changed, and the officials still believe that Carpenter is the guilty man.... At Marshall, Mich., the death of Byron M. Sibley, wh/b would have created a great sensation in that region but for the overshadowing character of the fourfold murder at Jackson, has resolved into a putative suicide.... .Masked burglars entered the house of Horace Alien) at Newton Falls. Ohio, and, after binding the Inmates, secured property valued at $711,000... .The attempt to reorganize the iron corporation at Youngstown, Ohio, known as Brown. Bonnell & Co., has failed... .Frank James, now in jail at Independence, Mo., is said to be dying of consumption. Messrs. Bates & Barron’s new play of.'Southern mountain life, “A Mountain Pink,” is the attraction at McVicker's theater, Chicago, this week. The cast includes Miss Louise Sylvester, Frank E. Aiken, Harry Hawk, Barry Maxwell. T. J. Langdon, .1. .J. Holland, L. P. Hicks, Harry Stoddard, Helen Sedgwick, Genevieve Rogers and Marie Lear. Followingthis will come a two w eeks’ engagement of John Stetson’s traveling company in “Pique” and “Divorce,’' thecast incTutHng Ml«s Sam. Jewett, Mr. -John Jack, and other well-known names. Walter S. Haines, a Chicago chemist. reports himself unable to discover traces of narcotic drugs in the stomach of the murdered Zora Burns. A dispatch from Lincoln. 111., says: “Since Carpenter was released tn bail expectation hasbeen direetedto the report of the Chicago chemist making an analysis of the internal organs of the late Zora Burns. The hope of discoveries from that quarter has proved delusive. Had the report been tte the effect that narcotics had be?n used, much of the suspicion would have been directly in another channel. But as the case now stands, public opinion here holds that Carpenter is under a still darker cloud. Since his release from JarTfie has said tnathe is as innocent as a babe unborn, but his refusal to prove this by testimony or even a statement, creates sentiment against him.’’ As an East-bound Southern Pacific passenger train passed a po'nt thirteen miles east of Duning, N. M., it was stopper! by a i party of seven cowboys, who opened fire on ■ the train About twenty shots w ere tired and Webster, the engineer, was killed. The robbers removed a plate and spread the rails, throw nL;the engine, mail-car, one coach, and the front end of a sleeper ir.im the track. The robbers hung around the track | until night and then lo"t. takI ing about $7Ol, from the express-car.... I Miss Hill, the alleged wife of Senator Sharon, and her attorney, have been indicted at S.in Francisco for foig ry. perjury and conspiracy. .. ..A company of the Third United State s infantry and the Marquette Chasseiirs have been sent to Iron mountain, Mich., to I prevent the destruction of pr< perty by striking miners. , THE SOUTH, A sub-committee of the Committee of Forty appointed to investigate the Danville (Va.J riot of the 3d qf November, reports that the negroes were the aggressors: that the election was free and fair, nnd that the colored citizens of Danville abstained from voting under advice of their party | leaders. A tornado passed over Arkansas and Southern Missouri, going northwestward, and reached as far north as Carmi, 111. At Melbourne. Ark., the funnel ruined many houses. The home of the Sheriff was demolished and the family buried in the debris, the Sheriff being killed and six people wounded. ~. .The Mississippi Valley bank of Vicksburg, Miss., has made an assignment. - tlie village of La Crosse, Ark. Onl'v six houses are left. Three persons'were killed and several were seriously injured. Andy Taylor, the last of the three brothers who became famous in the criminal annals of Tennessee, was hanged at Loudon, in that State, in the presence of 300 invited guests. He died as he had lived—a brutal, defiant villain. While on a train going from the Knoxville jail to Loudon, to meet his doom, the desperado slipped a revolver but of a guard’s pocket and got the muzzle to the head of the Sheriff. Mistaking the weapon for a self-cocker, he lost time and was knock® 1 down before he could raise the hammer. The rescue Of ’the elder Taylor, by his two brothers, involving the assassination of a Sheriff and the capture of a train with 100 passengers, the death of the two elder Taylors, and the killing of still another Sheriff, are matters of quite recent, but highly remarkable, h'story.

Mr. Keuffll and clerk were murdered n Keuffe's s tore at Feodor, Texas, by robbers, who obtained only $5.....An aged couple named King, living on a farm near Hickman, Ky., were killed with guns and knives, and the house robbed of $2,000.... A. J. Leo, a member of the Texas Legislature, died from a fly-bite in the face. A Little Rock dispatch says the trial in Howard county, Ark., of the colored rioters indicted for murdering Wyatt several months ago has just ended. Three of them have been sentenced to be hanged and twentynine to terms of imprisonment ranging frdm five to eighteen years. WASHINGTON; George Washington, a colored waiter in a restaurant at the National cap ital, recently assaulted a policeman with a shoe-knife. While on trial, the other day, for the offense, he stated that he mistook the officer for a medical student seeking hjs corpse, and said he- never entered a drug store without clinging tt> the counter, for fear of trap-d00r5.... President Arthur has appointed John R. Tanner, United States Marshal for the Southern district of Illinois. No more appropriations are to be asked by the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of making experiments in the production of sorghum-sugar; but instead the Commissioner will recommend that SI,OOO be allotted to each State for the pirreh asc Or lease of land on which sorghum is to be planted, with the hope of securing valua jlu

information as to thd climatic conditions of its growth Robert Murray has been appointed Surgeon General of the United States army. —_ ■- ■ - • Representative Cassidy, of Alabama, will introduce a bill early in the session providing for a record of marriages! in Utah and for the disfranchisement of women in the Territory... .President Arthur has appointed Lawrence Weldon, of Bloomington, 111., to fill the vacancy on the Court of Claims. ... . Sergt. Mason, Who was sent to prison for an attempt to kill Guiteau, has been pardoned by president Arthur. POLITICAL. The Congressional election to fill the vacancy in the First North Carolina district, caused by Mr. Pool’s death, resulted In the choice of Thomas G. Skinner, Democrat “Democratic Senators say that they will place no obstruction in the way of reorganization of the Senate. Senator Edmunds is quoted as saying that the Republicans will reorganize the Senate, and that Mahone will be treated as a Republican Senator and given the same consideration as any other Republican but no more, and that no special concessions will be made to him with regard to the Secretary of the Senate.” So telegraphs the‘Wa’shington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. A tariff-reform mass meeting in New York was presided over by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who pronounced the protective system terribly oppressive to tire poor men of the country. The main ack dresses were by David A. Wells ignd Henry' Watterson. Gen. Bosecran's has set on foot a scheme to organize the llemoeratic voters of the country in small groups and grand armies, with a chief for each division, and to collect 20 cents per year from every voter, giving the campaign committee an annual income of $1.500,000. GENERAL A dispatch from St. Johns, Newfound hind. says; -A hurricane from the north, which blew over the Newfoundland coast for three days, has worked terrible destruction to marine We and j roperty. The coast is str e .vn with the debris of wrecked vessels, and many dead bodies have been wa-hed ashore. His believe! that not less than fifty craft succumbed to the terrible blast, and tire totally lost, while the loss of life will reach, probably. sixty or seventy souls, it was ore of the worst gales ever experienced on the coast." For a number of years Brisco Sanchez, a famous Mexican brigand, has defied the law and terrorized the unprotected inhabitants. A few days ago he and his band were surrounded near Chianita, in Puebla. After a desperate resistance the- body of Sanchev wasJfound riddled with bullets, and his fonowers killed, although several were severely wounded, . The boilers o’ the tug Erie Belle exploded at Kincardine, Ontario, tearing the boat to atoms, killing four men and blowing eight others into the lake, whence they were rescued,... .Assignment has been made by Michels, Friedlander & Co.. of San Francisco and New. York, dealers in furnishing goods. Their liabilities are placed at $400,000 and their assets at $659,000. They have done business for thirty years, with an enviable record. Sharples’JSons & Co., of Quebec., lumber dealers, have asked an extension on liabilities of S7OO 000. The failures are announced of J. C. Farr, a lumber dealer of Hoboken',- N. J.. who owes $100,00). - and Of 877 Rothschild, a jeweler at Memphis, Tenn. A colored baby, belonging to a teacher in the {Southern States, has won tlie A ale cup for the class of 1881... .The failures in the United- States, for the week ending Nov. 21, according to the gospel of BrailHtieet’r, numbejied 2!8, which figure is 113 larger than during a November week in the hight of the Loom of 1881. All the railroads centering at Chicago. with the solitary exception of the Michigan Central, are runningtheir trains on tlie standard time—that of the ninetieth meridian. FOREIGN. In opening the Prussian Diet, Von Putkamer, Minister of the Interior, said the financial situation showed improvements, aijd stated the estimates of receipts and expenses for 1884-85 were placed respectively at 1,112,100,000 marks. A bill taxing incomes 1 from property and for the purchase of railtoads by the State wUlbe presented... .Poole, the Irish invincible, on a second trial, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death,._.. Chatles W. Siemens, the scientist and electrician, died in London from rupture of the heart. Dispatches from Cairo, Egypt, bring the intelligence that the army of Hidks Pasha, which left Khartoum, in Southern Egypt, in September, to punisn El Mahdi, the Falsa Prophet, instead of annihilating the forces pf that fanatic, as was reported, has been annihilated by them, only one person escaping to tell the story. The battle took place at El Obeid, a town in Kordofan, about 150 miles southeast of Khartoum, and within Fgyptiun territory. -It is said to have lasted t A l '£&4v ß - The. taree of ,Hwk^Ji«>i numbered 25,000 men, there being ten English officers in the command, was well armed, but It was overcome by superior numbers, though armed only with spears and swortis: The number of the palse Prophet’s army is stated at 300,000... .James Russell Lowell.. United Stalos minister to England, has been chosen Rector of the Scottish Univer’sityof St. Andrew’s, defeating a member of the British Parliament by 18 votes.... Following an Italian custom the brigands who captured the Duke of Cast lemon te have been paid $30,000 ransom... .Morris Ranger, the Liverpool cotton king, had unsecured liabilities of £BOO,OOO and assets £9,000. The Spanish Military Republican society threatens to inaugurate a revolution if the Government does not pass the Universal Suffrage bill at the next Parliamentary Session.

Edward Wolf, a Socialist, was arrested at Loudon for having infernal machines and explosive's in his residence, with which, it is alleged, he intended to destroy the German Embassy. Among his documents was a threatening letter to Count. Von Munster, the German Embassador.... The Nihilist organ stages, political prisoners in the Peter and Paul fortress, both men and women, are driven to insanity by barbarous treatment, and often kill themselves... .The Chinese Ambassador at Paris informed the British Foreign Secretary that war between France and China is certain. El Mahdi’s annihilation of the Egyptian army under Hicks Pasha has again brought the eastern question into a prominence which dwarfs even the importance of the Franco-Chinese difficulty. Mr. Gladstone's Government has receded from the idea of withdrawing the British fqrces from Egypt; and -has instructed Gen. Stf Evelyn Wood, the commander of the English forces there, that he may, in the event of El Mahdi's troops advaneing down the valley of the Nile, push forward his troops as far as Syrne, but no farther. This dees not satisfy the Egyptian Government, for the Khedive has informed. Gen. Wood and Sir Evelyn Baring,that Egypt will not consent to the abandonment of the Soudan to the False Prophet, and that if England will not undertake Its reconquest the Egyptian Government may be forced to demand the aid of other European Governments to accomplish that end. A still more singular phase of the situation is that France, which refused to act with England against Arabi Pasha, is said to be intriguing to re-establish the dual control, of France and England in Egyptian aflairs.... 1 The Chinese attacked Haid Zuong on the 11th, but were repulsed after seven hours’

fighting. The French lost twelve killed and wounded, and the hull of their gunboat »a» pierced in many places. The Chinese loss was heavy....A l-'rench man-of-war bombarded the unfortified town of Vohent'ar. on the north coast of Madagascar, without giving notice. Five British subjects were killled and much property belonging’to' neutrals destroyed.... A grand military review was held at Madrid in honor of the Crown Prince of Germany. Troops to the number of 15,000 were reviewed by King Alfonso and the German Crown Prince... .Orders have been issued postponing " the evacuation of Cairo by British troops.... Lord Overstone, who died last week in England. left £20,000,000 to his only daughter, the wife of Col. Lloyd Lindsay.

AWE-[?]NSP[?]R[?]NG GRANDEUR.

Magnificent Scenery in the Black Canon of the Gunnison River. Following the Gunnison river through its wide and beautiful valley in Colorado for a few miles, writes a traveler, the mountains seem to close in upon the track, and it enters one of the grandest gorges in the world, known as the black canon of the Gunnison. Here are beautiful cataracts, the water tumbling down from the mountain crags into the Gunnison river, over precipices from 1,500 to 2,000 feethigh. In one place is a dainty little cascade like the bridal veil at Niagara Falls—a slender thread of water pouring over the rock in fine spray, and falling into a little basin close to the track, which makes as beautiful a picture as can be seen anywhere. And what a magnificent Stream is the Gunnison! Its water is clear and cold, and the dark shadow s of the cliffs fall; ing upon it gives it a tint of beau iful green. Springing from a region white with eternal snows, like a thread of silver it burrows through the walls of rock whose pinnacles rise 2,000 and 3,000 feet high on either side, and is roofed in by a narrow strip oc unsullied blue sky—so narrow that one standing on the summit of one cliff could throw a stone across to the sunnnit of the other. Now the river frets and spunes and throws its foam, splashing in spray against the black rocks; again it giggles and gurgles in glee, laughs and roars at the triumph of having leaped over nature’s barriers; then tumbles headlong over a mighty rock, and with placid dignity flows along between the .great mountains, taking a fewmoments’ rest in its mad race to the sea. For fifty miles we follow the narrow chasm, steeped in the purple of a perpetual twilight. The solemn walls stand up 3,000 feet both sides of us, frowning down upon the intruders into their cloistered solitude. For a mile or two they are almost perpendicular, gray with the antique lichens that countless summers have gathered upon their purple fronts; then they are massed in broken columns standing upon a common base. Here a solitary pinaele soars upward toward the skylike a monstrous cathedral tower; there the rocks are thrown together helterskelter in piles half a mile high by some “reinbte”geblogical commotion* and again they close together and hug the current of the river for unbrokchj miles, 1 the shadows becoming -darker and gloomier. In places the hedges are hacked and torn, seared and split into great seams into which the earth has fallen, and a few sad and solitary spruce trees cling in a perilous existence. Often at a height which the sun’s rays can sometimes reach, but the wind is trever still, a tiny flower may be seen smiling with heroic fortitude, and a few feet away in a cleft in the rocks will be found an eagle’s nest. When night approaches the edges of the rocks that, standing out against the sky, cap catch the moonbeams will be fringed with a silvery phosphorescence. Looking up, one sees the narrow roof ■of sky with a fresco of stars;.looking down, there is the blackness of darkness immeasurable. An awe inspires one when he thinks that all this architectural grandeur, all these mighty chasms which would have required 1,000,000 men 1,000 years to have excavated, have been wrought by the simple agencies of water and wind and dust! These canons were not made by volcanic eruptions, the geologists tell us, but by agencies so simple as ■ those. More than one rough customer has never known how good he was until he had killed somebody and heard defended him sum'up his virtues.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.65 @6.60 H0g5...,,,., 4.25 @ 4.65 Flour—Superfine; ». 2.90 @ 3.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.09 @ 1.09% No. 2 Red 1.11 @1.11% Corn—No. 2.................: 60 @ .60% Oats—No. 2 . .33 @ .34 Pork—Mess 12.25 @13.00 Lard 08 @ .08)4 CHICAGO. . , Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6,10 @7.00 Common to Fair 4.40 @ 5.40 Medium to Fair 6.45 & 6.00 Hous 4.15 @ 5.26 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.50 Good' to Choice Spr’g Ex 4.75 & 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring... 96 @ .96)6 No. 2 Red Winter...... .98 @ .98% Corn —No. 2 50 @ .50)4 Oats—No. 2 ; 29 @ .29% Rye—No. 2 .. .57 @ .68 Barley—No. 2 - .61 @ •<& Butter—Choice Creamery 37 @ .40 Eggs—Fresh. .2> @ .26 Pork—Mess.., 11.90 @12.00 Lard 07%@ .07% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 95 @ .96% Corn —No. 2. 49%@ .49% OATS—No. 2 . 29 @ .29% Rye—No. 2 < 55 @ .66 BARLEY—No. 2 59 @ 59% Pork—Mess. . 11.53 @11.75 Lard 07%@ .07% i ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red. l.oi - @ 1.02 I Corn—Mixed 44%@ .46 I Oats—No. 2 28 @ -28% ’ rye . .53 @ ,53% i PORK—Mess. 19.C0 @12.50 i Lard..;. CINCINNATI Wheat—No. Red 1.04 @1.04'6 • C0rn..... so @ .51 ; 0at5...... —— • -30%@ .31 RYE 58 @ .59 Pork—Mess. ..... 11.50 @11.75 j Lard ... .w & Mi TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red LO3 @1.05 C0RN........ 52 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .31% DETROIT. FL0Ufi......... 4.00 @6.75 Wheat—Na 1 White. LO3 @ i.iBX Corn—No. i'. .....'. .53 @ .33)4 Oats—Mixed... .........S. .32 @ .32% Pork —Mess - 12.25 @12.50 . INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red LOt @ 1.01% C0bn—Na2........ -.53 @ .51% ( OATS—Mixed...,. '-J.---- 28 @ .29 J?. EAST LIBERTY. PA. Cattle—Best 5.50 © 5.60 , . Fair........ AS® @ 6AO Common 4.00 @ 4.75 I H0g5..x........ ................ 4.20 @ a.oo BffliK 1 .................,..,..,.,.. 3.50 9 4.50

THE CORN CROP.

The States of Illinois, Indiana and lowa Victimized by Squaw / 1 Winter; Not Enough Sound Corn Left in Those States to Supply Seed. The Chicago Tribune publishes copious reports of the condition of the cofh In the Northwest, which, if accurate, show that the farmers of Indiana, Illinois and lowa have much to complain of as regards this year’s crop of that cereal. In the three States named, with but a few exceptions, the corn is soft and fit, for nothing but feed, for which it is now being generally used. This was brought about by its being first frozen and then thawed out, when damp weather followed, preventing the corn hardening. This state of affairs is especially distressing in connection with the problem of ■where to secure good seed, for the experience of last season shows that Kansas seed ripens too late to be secure from the early frosts of this section* and that Nebraska peed is but a shade better. Ag to the corn crop of Kansas apd Nebraska, the farmers report an exceptional yield in qurfllty find quantity, which is practically secure from harm, the only- thing needed being favorable weather for cribbinir. The .Tribune, in a summarized review of its ,cxtensive reports says: The reports cover the States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas and Nebraska. The advices fiom the three States first named are, with’ a few local exceptions of similar character, and all are unanimous' in the statement that it is the poorest crop harvested in anany years. The discrepancy applies more to the quality than the quantity of giain raised. The corn was damp and soggy when the first frosts occurred, and as a result was frozen hard. Then came milder weather, which was followed by rains, and the corn thus had no chance to dryout and become hard and mature. The consequence is that a large percentage of the grain is soft and fit only as food for hogs and other stock. Large quantities of this soft corn will undoubtedly go to waste orr the approach of cold weather, as itoany farmers will have more of it than they can possibly use In feeding stock. The question of seed for next year will prove a ii.ost serious one, as theie will 4>e « large deficiency. Kansas will not be called on to supply the want, as there is general complaint that the grain gt Own this year from Kansas seed suffered proportionately more than any other. The reports from Kansas are of a partimnaHy—cheerful character. The State will harvest the largest crop ever grown, in, her -borders, and the grain is of an ■ extra"good quality. There Is a* decrease in production in certain localities, due conditions, but as_a whole, as stated a l ove, the crop is the ’arrest and also the best ever grown in the Stale. Many of the farmers, not_satlsilejl_wiilL- prevailingp ices, at e cribbing their- corn, and will , hold it for a rise. But a very small percentage of the crop in Nebraska a as injured by .frost, and the grain is hard, sound and in excellent shape in every respect.

DESOLATE HOMES.

Those of the Navigators Along the Chain of Lakes. A List of the Disasters Caused by the November Gales. During- the succession of recent storms on the chain of lakes, over fifty vessels were either stranded or foundered, and the sacrifice of life, so far as learned, Is In the neighborhood of ninety. Death and desolation have come into numerous homes, and a general gloom prevails marine circles all around the lakes. The losses to the underwriters are very heavy. Many of the stranded vessels will doubtless be rescued, but the losses will be great nevertheless. The gale—or rather series of gales—were the worst in every respect that have swept our inland lanes since 1867, as shown by the number of disasters that have occurred. A careful count shows that there were about fifty-eight vessels Which either went ashore or foundered and are a total loss.(The following‘“is a list of the disasters: ♦ Nature of Name accident. Value. Schr. Lilly E.... a ..... . .A5h0re..,.,.... .$ 8,000 Sohr. Chartcs Luling......Ashore. 9,000 ♦Schr. Ashtabula,.....,,Ashore.... - 9,000 Schooner Guiding Star. .Ashorev.. . 13 000 ♦Schr. Arab Foundered?;..... 9,0)0 Schr. George C. Finney ..Ashore.... 14,00'), ♦Schr. Elizabeth Jones.. Ashore 44,000 J. I. Case Ashore 56,000 ♦Schr. Clara Parker Ashore 31,000 ♦Schr LeadvilleAshore 32,000 ♦Siehr. Potomac Ashore 4,500 ♦Scbr. Lucy J. Cfark.. .Ashore. 14,000 Sohr. L. C. Butts Ashore 22,000 ♦Schr. KetchumAshore 5,000 ♦Schr. Lincoln Dall Ashore 5,000. Schr. H. I). Moore Ashore 7,000 ’Schr. Norman. .sAshore 5,0 0 Schr. Wallula.....Ashore 3,000 ♦Sc'ir. F.tzgerald .Ashore 32,000 ♦Suhr. bake St. Clair,,.. . Aslio.br*..-<BO9, ♦Schr ASrtiof-e 3,20" Schr. Trio Ashore. EOO Schr. Ne150n.....A5h0re........... 1,200 Schr. Wa ertown .Ashore 10,000 ♦Schr. J. B. Penfield ...Ashore...... 8,000 ♦Schr. Blazing Star.... .Ashore. 12,000 ♦Schr. Regu'atorAshore 4,000 Schr. H. F. Merry.. Ashore 8,000 Schr. Athenian.. Ashore 4,000 ♦Schr. Flying AHst......Ashore 11,000 ♦Schr. J. N. Carter Ashore 6,000 Schr, Maple Leaf. Ashore. 1,000 Schr. Mare E. Cook .... Ashore 4,000 Schr. Maria.. .Ashore. 4,000 Prop. Avon.. Ashore 15,000 ♦Prop. Fred Mercur.....Ashore 125,000 ♦Prop. H. C. Abeley.r...Foundered! 125,0(0 Prop. Nj-ack-Ashrle 160,000 Prop. Quebec. Ashore 90,000 Prop. Oneida...... Sunk 95,000 Tug Protection.. Ashore 7,000 Prop. AbyssiniaSunkllo,ooo ♦Prop. Milwaukee.' 10,000 Prop. Norman 8,000 ♦Schr. James Wade..... Sunk 15,000 Str. H. J. Jurett,Ashore 225,000 Str,Manitoba....Ashore .; 75,000 ♦Str. Manistee. .Sunk... 75.000 ♦Schr. Wabash......j...Sunk 10,000 The valuations of the vessels are simply approximated, and* include both hulls and cargoes. AU tho?e; not marked * have been released, or will be. The actual loss of life lesulting ftom thdse disasters aggregates uinetv-four perso'hS, while half tjiftt number of people have been drowned at different points on the lakes through the gales. This table does not take in the vessels which lost portions of their rigging, canvas, deck-loads, and met with minor mishaps, and these alone would form quite a comfortable sum.

ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

■Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, is just recoveripgffrom a serious illness. A cry comes up from Leadville for more clergymen to counterbalance her gamblers. Florida has 630 factories, working 2,749 hands, with a capital invested of $1,69".,000. Senator Anthowy is between two fires. One doctor is treating him for heart trouble and another for Bright’s disease. Matthew Arnold, instead of lecturing to the Yale students, read them some of his poems. Including two unpublished ones. A New York girl committed suicide by hanging herself in the garret, because her mother wanted her to assist in the housework. Mgr. Capel comes in for a good deal of abuse from a resident of Cleveland because he charged an admission fee to a Sunday discourse. ’ 1 Two Nevada cattle kings are worth SIOO.OQJ euch,a:.d ope of them signs his name -X.”

LAKE DISASTER.

Foundering of the Propeller Manistee, in Lake Superior. ll■ 1 ■ I Her Entire Grew of Thirty-five Find a Watery Grave. There seems to be no doubt that the pas-. senger propeller Manistee, belonging to Leopold & Austrian, of Chicago, has been lost In Lake Superior, and that every soul on board, about thirty-five in number, has perishedThe iU-starred vessel left Duluth on Saturday, Nov. 10, and, being caught in the furious gale that swept the lakes for several succeeding days, put into Bayfield harbor, where she laid until the following Friday, when she proceeded to Ontonagon. The unfortunate vessel, it is believed, encountered and succumbed to the fury of the second storm. Portions of wreckage \ave been found. There were only seven passengers on hoard at the time, all the others having been transferred at Bayfield to the City of Duluth, for Houghton. It is more than likely that all the crew have been lost, as nothing has been heard from them. The Manistee was built in Cleveland by E. W. Peck, in 1876. In 1878 she was cut in two and lengthened thirty feet and soon after was put on the Lake Superior trade. Lloyd gives her no rating and she was valued at $25,000. Sho was very low iu the water and had but little power for her Size. She carried 1,550 barrels of flour and 230 tons of feed. Her registered tonnage was 679 tons. The only particulars of the disaster so far received are embraced in the following telegram from Duluth: “The propeller Manistee, loaded with merchandise for Ontonagon, left Duluth Nov. 10. She was windbound at Bayfield till Thursday. She then transferred all her passengers to the City of Duluth, which was bound for Houghton, and cleared for Ontonagon at midnight. Nothing was heard from her until noon to-day, when the tug Maythem, which had been sent to look for her, returned. Last night, at a point forty-five miles northeast of Ontonagon, the tug picked up a bucket marked ‘Manistee,’ and a part of the pilot-house, it js supposed that the propeller foundered during the severe storm of last Friday. The wind was then from the Northwest and the thermometer briow zero. The tugs Maythem and Boutin are now looking for traces of the wreck or crew. It is not p: s tilde that the men could have escaped in ' small boats, and if the Manistee had drifted to the north shore she would have been seen and reported by the Canadian steamers coasting" there/ The propeller Ontario, which arrived at Fort Arthur j.o dav, sawnothing bf the Manistee, and there is no doubt that she is lost, with all on board. Following ate the names of her officers; John M’Kay, Captain; George M. Seaton, Purser; F. M.. Kilby, Steward: AndyMack, First Mate; Harry Smith, Second Mate; Fat Cullen, First Engineer; John Payne, Second Engineer; Ed Bowden, cook. There were about thirty-five souls on board, including pflicergv-Waiters.-sailars, chamberninids, and deck hands. A Hancock (M’c’i.) dispatch says: All hope of any of the Manistee's crew being saved is abandoned. The last seen of her was at 8:40 o’clock on the evening of Nov. 15. It a :'B thought hgr machinery broke down when well out at sea, and she beiame unmanageable. She was then beyond the shelter of the Apostle island, and, in the attempt to return, foundered. At Bayfield all passengers for Hancock were transferred, and only seven destined for Ontonagon remained on board. The crew ebnsisted of twenty-eight persdns, and the loss is therefore thirty-five. Capt. McKay was a skillful sailor and very popular on the lakes. He leaves a family, consisting Of a wife and daughter, who reside in Cleveland. The Manistee was considered a stauuch, seaworthy craft, arid had, bidden out many severe gales on Lake Superior.

PENSION FRAUDS.

A Motley Crowd of Sharpers Engaged in the Pension-Agency Business. Ex-Rebel Soldiers Induced to File Claims, and Fees Collected from Them. [iVishington Telegram.] Gen. Dudley lestificd before the grand jury that be was not aware that a certain attorney, whose flaming circulars were shown him, now practiced before his office. A reference to the city directory showed that the ’only man of this name was a shoemaker. A visit to the place revealed a store with an excellent stock of ladies’ slices. An inquiry lot- the proprietor brought answer -that he was in the back room. He was found in his shirtsleeves, with an apron and knife, with several workmen around him, busily engaged in making shoes. In reply to a question he said he was the person referred to, and to further inquiry whether he was a pension attorney he said he was. He said that any friend could safely be referred to him to prosecute his claim; that he had blanks, and that he would furnish those necessary to the case. Thereupon he took off his apron, laid down his shoes and knife, and going up-stairs sootireturned with the pension blanks. There was ho attorney's sign about the place, and nothing about .the inner indicate tfint he had any other | rofession than that of a shoemaker. It is also discovered that among those engaged in this business is a colored man, who when asked by the Commissioners for his profession or business Occupation other than that of a pension attorney, said, “Nothing more tiffin a rag-gatherer..” Among others practicing aa pension agents who answered this question were one minister, two editors, one publisher fall four unknown to the public), two farmers, one photographer, one dealer in hardware, two grocers, one pressman, one banker, one bank cashier, one tailoress, one copyist and one inventor. Several firms have been reported for filing the claims of Rebel soldiers for a variety of wounds and diseases resulting from military service as Confederates. In all cases tho declarations made on the Hanks required for Union soldiers plainly disclose that the applicant was a Rebel soldier. The only possible object In filing such cases Is to get the fee of these ignorant Confederates. The declaration of N. E. Hood, of South Carolina troops, states that he was honorably discharged at Appomatox April 9, 1865, received a gunshot wound at the battle Of the Wilderness, was treated in the hospitals of Lynchburg and Columbia, S. C., has resided since the war in Virginia, and ends with the statement required from all Union soldiers: “I have never been employed in the military or naval service of the United States otherwise than as set forth above.”

AMONG THE ANCIENTS.

The Cardinal Archbishop of New York Is 82. Maine papers announce the death of Mrs. Sallie Griffin, in Raymond, that State, at the age of 104 years. Isaac Martin is dead in Covington, Ky., aged 85. He was * highly esteemed citizen cf that county, where he was born and raised. - / Mitchell Putnam, 103 years of age, traveled alone from Texas tn South Carolina to see his former home. He was a soldier in ' the War of 1812 and in the Texan struggle. * Col. James Blackburn, a farmer of Edgar county. 111., has passed off at the age of 90.. He was the owner of 2,300 acres of land, and commanded a regiment in .the Blackhawk war. ‘ William L atham, who died at Bridgewater. Mass., recently, aged 80 years and 2 days, was one of the best informed antiquarians in the State on all topics connected with the early history ,of New England. " San Francisco papers complain that their city is being overrun with Chinese lepers.