Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1883 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAKR. INDIANA. AE. MARSHALL, - “ PtnnJBHEB. i in 'i 1

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Excavations in Cole’s Hill, Plymouth, Mass., have opened the graves of two pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower, and who were buried during the first winter in America. They are the only graves of first settlers positively identified. Yale defeated Harvard at New York in the college championship foot-ball match. . „ .A ear at the, rear end of a passenger-train on the Boston, Barre and Gardner railroad, near North Worcester, MAs->., was precipitated Over an embankment a distance of twenty feet. Of the aixtyl people in the oar about forty were injured, several receiving fatal wounda. The Winchester Arms company, the Union Metal Cartridge company, and the cartridge manufactory at Lowell, Mass., have , combined for the purpose of controlling the cartridge interest of the country. These corporations employ about 5,000 persons Buffalo t his year shipped 1,250.000 tons of coal and received 64,150,000 bushels of grain by lake. Richard Wagner, employed in a mill at Dedham, Mass., iccently returned to Poland on a visit to his mother, and was sent to Siberia for having fled from Russian military service. THE WEST. No light has, up to this writing,’ been thrown on the massacre at Jackson, Mich., whieh bids fair to pass into history as one of the great criminal mysteries of the age. It is pretty well settled that the robbers got no such sum of money ($50,000 or thereabouts) as was at first reported, as Crouch had very little cash tn the house. It is probable that the only plunder they secured was the few hundred dollars which Polley, the bloviating visitor, exhibited in saloons and -among low company, previous to stopping at Crouch’s, and which piece of foolishness brought about his own death as well as that of his host and the entire family. An examination of the private papers and accounts of the murdered millionaire farmer reveals the fact that some title deeds and other important documents are missing, and there is a lively fight in prospect between the heirs of the dead man. Shelby, Ohio, a town near Crestline, reports an exciting and tragic man-hunt. Four burglars robbed a safe at New Washington, and escaped to Shelby with their plunder. The Marshal of the town attempted their arrest, but was shot twice seriously, not, however, before he had himself killed one of the burglars. Nearly the entire populace capable of bearing arms pur-’ sued the three villains. After a chase of two miles one of the citizens was killed by one of the burglars. Two miles further on this burglar was Captured. Another of the trio got a horse and made a remarkable retreat of about eleven miles, meeting many people, compelling them to yield np horses, vehicles and arms, but finally collidn g with a farmer's wagon and going down with a good deal of a smash up. While under the wreck the citizens arrived. The burglar appealed to them to spare his life on account of his mother, but he was riddled with bullets. Ihe fourth burglar was captured at Plymouth At Dixon, 111., Miss Eleita Lewis and two little girls were driving in a buggy when the horse ran into the rlverand all w'ere drOwned. The young lady was about 18 years of age and the little girls 5 and 9 years. They were nieces of Ira W. Lewis. Circuit Clerk of Lee county.., At Rushville, Ind., Eli Frank and Jacob Block, rival Hebrew clothierS, disputed, when a eon of the former fatally shot Frank, who rushed into a barber-shop, procured a razor, and, returning, cut Block in a fearful manner. Frank died in an hour; Block cannot recover, and his son is in jai1..... Billy Cotton, of St. Louis, while practicing for a match with Donovan at straight billiards, three balls, made a run of 719, beatlrg Schaefer’s record.... Judge Samuel L. Savidge, of the Tenth Nebraska District and Prof. J. H. Tice, the St. Louis weather prophet, have passed away.... Joseph Jewell was executed at St. Jose, Cal. After hanging some seconds, he cried out, “Oh!” but was pronounced dead in ten minotes. Right of way through Indian Territory is to be asked of Congress by the Gulf« Colorado and Santa Fe road, at a compensation of SSO per mils to the tribes owning the land. THE SOUTH Richmond Stuart, a colored man, was hanged at Shreveport, La., in presence of 4,000 persons, some of whom traveled hundreds of miles to witness the spectacle. ....Ambrose West, a negro, was bunglingly hanged at Macon, Ga., before 2,000 spectators, for the murder of James Monroe... .At Baltimore Mrs. John R. Riall cut the wrists of her two children, both girls, t|ged 3 years and 15 months, respectively, so that they bled to death, and then cut her own throat. Insanity is the alleged cause. WASHINGTON.

Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, ■Witt introduce a W In Congress at an early day providing for the limitation of the silver coinage to Si,ooo each year "until the free coinage of gold and silver as full legal tender Ahull be established at a common ratio by the leading commercial nations of Europe.” The public debt decreased during the month of November 81,721,676, and, dedueting the cash in the treasury, now aggregates >1,509,780,060. Appended is the official debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: Public debt: Foor and one-half per cents .. $ 250.000.000 Four per cents „ 737.624.uw Three per cents 293,093,250 Refunding certificates 318.450 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt 11.301,040.800 Matured debt «... 6.64.V35 Legal-tender notes. $ 346,739,816 Certificates of deposit 14,165,00.) Gold and silver certificates 187.715,731 Fractional currency 6,990,30 J Total without interest ......$ 555.910,850 Total debt (principal) ..$1863 596,955 Totalinterest. -. ...... i0>54’586 Total cash in treasury 864.766.513 Debt, less cash in treasury L 509.786 otw Decrease durins' November 1,721,676 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881 ' 41,306,146 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid 1,973,699 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 6,645 335 Interest thereon 321 sis Gold and silver certificates 187 715’7,11 V. ft notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 14.4< 5,000 Cash balance available 15 ',644,974 Total $ 364.766,518 Available assets— —■ Cash m treasury. ....... $ 854,766,513 Bonds issued to Pacific railway comymirw, muuwt p*y*tnc uy vhi ten Bt*te v Prtacinal outstanding $ 84.873.512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 1,615,‘»7 Interest paid by United States...... 69,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. ...$ 17,831,893 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings......; ... 655.198 Balance of Interest paid by United States 40.935.000 John G. Cablisle of Kentucky, was nominated for the Speakership of the House of Hepresentativea, by the Democratic •nucus, on the first ballot. The caucus was celled to order by Gen. Rosecrans. Geddes, •f Ohio, was chosen Chairman. The motion that voting be viva voce was lost, 104 to 82, *nd a motion to reconsider was lost, 113 to U, Morrison, or Illinois, nominated Car-

lisle; Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Rat;d ill; and Doitshoimer, of New York, Cox. On the first, ballot Carlisle receivefl 104 of the 188 votes, Randall 53 and Cox 32. On Randall’s motion Carlisle's nomination was made unanimous. Thirteen of New York's members voted for Cox and seven for Randall. Pennsylvania was solid for Randall, as was Connecticut, Maryland and Now Jersey. Carlisle’s strength was, to a great extent, in the South, which was not, however, solid. The three candidates then appeared and made speeches, the defeated ones promising to sustain Carlisle in every way. John B. Clarke, of Missouri, was nominated for Clerk; John P. I eedom, of Ohio, for Bcrgeunt-at-Arms; J. G. Wintersmith, of Texas, for Doorkeeper; Lycurgus Dalton, of Indiana, for Postmaster, and Rev. John S. Lindsay for Chaplain. In the Republican caucus sixty-seven members were present. Ex-Speaker Keifer and the entire list of incumbents were renominated. Hiscock. of New York, made a long speech opposing Keifer on the especial ground that he had,antagonized the press of the country, and the Republican party eould not afford to countenance him. There are 137 candidates for the position of second assistant doorkeeper, which pays $2,000 per annum. POLITICAL. Ex-Senator Blaine is out in a public letter, in whieh he unfolds a scheme of allied Federal or State taxation, which he claims he has long reflected upon, and the objections to which lie Is now fully prepared to hear. Mr. Blaine declares that both Protectionists and Free Traders in great numbers now desire the abolition of the entire internal system of Federal taxation. He believes that there will at once be an alliance of legislators in Congresswho hold entirely opposite views on the subject of protectton. but who will work together for free whisky, tobacco Snd other things which now afford internal revenue to the Government. But Mr. Blaine is opposed to free whisky. He believes such tax should always exist, to be collected by the nation and given to the States—for the States of themselves would be powerless to enforce such a levy. The money so raised should be paid to the States in the proportion of their population—that is, Illinois would paj’ the most and New York would get the most The gist of Mr. Blaine's plan is, first, to find that the nation can spare $86,(100.000 of tax on whisky- then to pay this sum to the States, and thereby lift that amount of tithes from farms, homesteads and shops. Mr. Blaine has figured the plan out and appends a table, two items of which show that under his apportionment of the $86,003,000 Illinois would get $5,285,000 and New Y0rk58,893,000. Such is a brief sketch of the leading features of Mr. Blaine’s scheme. Henry Watterson assures the readers of the Courier-Journal that Mr. Tilden is irreconcilably opposed to the old ticket, would not go to Washington to take the oath of office, and did not raise nis hund in the Speakership contest. New York and Titusville (Pa.) journals propose that the Republican National convention be held at Chautauqua, asserting that the accommodations uro all that could he desired. < GENERAL. While union services were progressing in the Maverick Street church, at East Boston, Mass., Thanksgiving Day, the Rev. Warren H. Cudworth, a Unitarian pastor, fpll dead while offering prayer. James L. Camp, PosTinaster at Dixon, 111., died of paralysis in the Methodist church at that place. ... .Hon. W. L. Grenty, ,a pioneer resident of Adrian, Mich., who was acting Governor of the State in 184", died at Eaton Rapids. Prof. S. K. Hoshour, prominent in Indiana for a half century as an educator and clergyman. passed away’ at the age of 80 years. W. E. Stevenson, ex-Governor of West Virginia, died at Parkersburg, after intense suffering. Commercial failures: B. F. Dow & Co., agricultural inplements, Peru, Ind., liabilities $150,000; J. B. Kirby & Co., tanners, % Rockcastle county, Ky„ liabilities $40,000; D. S. Wisehart, general merchant, Decatur, 111., liabilities heavy; W. B. Jarvis & Co., general merchants,- Greenville, N. C.. 1 abilities $t'0,000; George Ryall & Co., fancy goods, Chicago, liabilities $30,000; Albert Webb, flour and grain, Portland, Me; Tracy & Comstock, general •‘.ore, Oregon, Wis., liabilities $20,000; O. & Whitman & Co., Cadillac, Mich., liabilities $90,000; G. M. D. Littell & Co., canned goods. New York, liabilities $114,000; the Londonderry Iron and Steel company, Halifax, N. S., liabilities $172,000; Robert ifcKiin, cattle exporter, Hamilton, Ontario, liabilities $40,000; Samuel Isaac, clothing, Slattoon, 111., liabilities $60,000; C. Lameroux, furniture, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $35,003. A fire broke out in Farwell’s block on Market street, Chicago, and destroyed property to the value of $175,000. Frances Fairweather and Kittie Hilgert, two of the employes, lost their lives in trying to escape, one,by falling from the • fire-escape,” and the other by jumping from one of the windows in the general consternation. About Jhe same hour the office of the Evening Journal, on Dearborn street, * was partially destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at $150,000. Other fires of note are as follows: Gusky’s clothing store, Pittsburg, loss $30,003; four business houses at Centerville, Mo., loss $15,000; ten stores at Corning, Mich., loss $15,(100; the Masonic Temple, Sixth avenue, New York, loss $100,000: Hume’s sash and blind ■ factory, Oshkosh, Wis,, loss $50,000; Johnson’s lumber-yards, Menominee, Wis., loss $20,000. _ . ,

The forthcoming report of the New York Chamber of Commerce will show that the foreign,business of the United States duringthe fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, amounted to $1,607,330,140, an increase over the previous year of $ 10,258,340. The exports exceeded the imports $103,989,430. The value of the cotton exported was $247,328,721; of the bread stuff s, $208,040,850. FOREIGN. Baker Pasha will head the Egyptian army against the False Prophet... .The Madird Government has decreed that slaves in Cuba shall no longer be punished with stocks and fetters. It is claimed by De Lesseps that the Suez Cabal company can enlarge its excavation on its own*land without asking authority or aid. A convention has been concluded with English ship-owners to enlarge the cut, or dig a second canal... .Cotton fabrics rule strong in England, and the values of raw mateaials are hardening,.. .Vignaux won the six days’ billard match at Paris—3,ooo to 2,876 for Schaefer... .It is reported at. Vienna that the Ulema of Mecca has proclaimed El Mahdi an Impostor. The Hon. G. J. Goschen, of Ripon, has accepted the Speakership of the House of Commons. Speaker Brand retires on a £5,000 pension Ship-building on the Clyde is rapidly declining, owing to Jhe high price of material. The workmen have offered to accept a reduction of 5 per cent, in their wage?; but the builders are without Orders. ... .The proposition to include Ireland in the Franchise bill is gaining ground, and the next Parliament session, it is predicted, will be one full of surprises, collusion and confusionAM. Meagher, a Parnellite, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin Julius Payer, the Austin Arctic explorer, has just died in his 41st year. Aftts a trial lasting two days, Patrick O’Donnell, for the murder of Informer Carey, was convicted at London, and sentenced to be hanged Dec. 17. The closing hours of the trial were productive of some exciting incidents. The jury, says one account, retired at five minutes to 7, and until twenty minutes to 8 discussed as to whether they should return a verdict of murder or manslaughter. Three’ weie in favor of the latter. On the jury returning to court to ask the Judge the definition of the relative degrees of murder, the chances of O’Donnell’s escape from the gallows were accepted as favorable. The jury again retired. On returning after an hour to again consult with the Judge and to submit a question in regard to the law on manslaughter, the general conclusion was that O'Donnell was safe. When a verdict of willful murder was finally

recorded, there was strong disappointment. Two members of the jury’ held out against murder until they received the last explicit definition of the Judge. O’Donncil's behavior after sentence had becri passed . failed of dignity. He nsked the Judge tor permission to. make an address, which was refused. O'Donnell bad prepared a short speech. The refusal'enraged the prisoner, and ho cried: ,- ’To h—with thb Bri'is'i Government and all the bloodv —rr - who concocted this plot! Hurrah for the States!” The wardens then forced him fioui the dock. H!s oaths and cries were audible in the court from the corridors leading to the cells in the prison. There wa< a painful absente of sens ■ of the solemnity of the position. The manage ment Of the defense is considered weak.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

At Prescott, Arizona, Saturday, in Judge French’s court, after the Attorney ’eneral arid State’s Attorney had indulged in -n angry altercation, the defendant in* the pending suit, named McAtee, drew his knife and fatally stabbed an old man named Moore; then attacked Editor Beach, and was aboutto plunge his weapon into the court reporter when a bullet from a spectator's revolver penetrated his spine. McAtee and Moore are dead... .William Newell, of Eau Claire. Wis., has discovered a silver mine thirty-five miles from that city. Windows in the Episcopal church at Wex‘ord, Ireland, and in the houses of Protestants were broken Sunday by a mob. Ari at.empt was also made to burn the thesa’er, where services were being held, conducted by Major Whittle, of Chicaso. The mob burned all the-Bibles and hymn-books-Xtiey could find.. .All Europeans unwilling to einbi ace the faith of the False Prophet have fed northward from Khartoum.,.. .Cholera is epidemic in Foo Chow, China. A double frame house in Fifty-fourth street. New York, occupied by forty-seven families, was burned, three children perishing in the flames... .Salmon, the New Hampshire flend. has confessed the murder of Mrs. Ford and the Ruddy family at Laconia. The Newfoundland coast has again been visit 'd by a violent gale.. The waves were the highest ever known. In attempting to aid a vessel in distress, Capt. Brown anti seven men of the Dominion steamer Newfield perished off Halifax. Patents have been refused in Washington on clock dials having twenty-four hours on the face, it being known that in 1547 a watch was mode on the face of which the hours from 1 to 24 appeared on two concentric circles. The first session of the Forty-eighth Congress convened at Washington at noon, on Monday, the 3d day of December. The Senate was called to order by-Mr. Edmunds, the President pro tern., who administered the oath of office to twenty-tivc new or re-elected members. Handsome bouquets adorned the desks of Messrs. Voorhees, Harris, Logan, Man lerson, Blair and Wilson. A floral 11 ‘ce representing the doat-of-arms cf North Carolina was presented to Senator Ransom. A sword in red and white flowers stood on the desk of Senator Mahone, and three large baskets of flowers were sent to Senator Riddleberger. No business whatever was transacted. The House organized by the election of John G. Carlisle as Speaker, he receiving 191 votes against 112 for Keifer and 2 for Robinson, of Massachusetts. On being escorted to the chair Mr. Carlisle expressed his thanks for the honor conferred upon him, and asked the aid of members in facilitating business. He was presented by Kentucky ladies With a gavel in the shape ot George Washington's hatchet, composed of flowers and satin, with an inscription in illuminated letters. The House got into a wrangle over the Manning-Chalmcis certificate from Mississippi, and failed to.complete its organization.

A Story of Thaddeus Stevens.

It is related of Thaddeus Stevens that shortly after his removal to- Lancaster he heard of an old friend in York, a lawyer, who, pressed hard by necessity, had diverted to h"is own use S3OO due to a widow client, hoping soon to repay her. But “unmerciful di: a iter followed fast and followed faster,” until the poor fellow’s mental distress was actually killing him. Mr. Stevens hunted up the client, paid her from his own pocket the S3OO, obtained her receipt, and went to see his friend. “Halloa! old fellow, ”he exclaimed on entering his office, “you must wake up. Don’t be so downhearted. Say, don’t you suppose you’ve really gone and paid that woman and then forgotten it?” A despairing shake of the bowed head was the only reply. “Well, I believe you did, and I’m going to look through your papers ant see if I can’t find the receipt. ” Then he pretended to ransack some pigeon holes, and a moment later exclaimed: “Well, if you’re not the biggest fool I ever heard of! Look here, old man! What’s this?” So saying, he showed the receipt to his astonished friend, who thereupon recovered his spirits, and, happily, his fortunes also. .Afterwards he repaid Mr. Stevens, and the latter was- never able to find out how his generosity had been detected.— Philadelphia Press.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ s.«o @ 7.00 Hogs 4.50 @5.35 Floub—Superfine. 2.90 @3.50 Wheat—No. 1 White. 1.09 @1.0916 No. 2 Red 1.11 @1.11)4 Corn—No. 2 .63 @ .64)6 Oats—Nd. 238 @ .34 Pork—Mess.... 14.00 @14.25 Lard .08 @ .08)6 CHICAGO Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.10 @ 7.00 Common to Fair 4.40 @ 5.40 Medium to Fair 5.45 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.45 @ 5.50 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.50 GoodtoChoiceSpr'gEx 4.75 @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 97 @ .97)6 No. 2 Red Winter99l6@ 1-01 Corn—No. 2 55' 2 @ .55M Oats—No. 230 @ .31 Rye—No. 2157 @ .58 Barley—No. 265 @ .66. Butter—Choice Creamery...... .38 @ .40 Eggs—Fresn 2-5 @ .26 Pork—Mess 13.00 @14.00 Lard .v 5.08 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 96 @ .96% C0rn—N0.2...'.54 .55 Oats—No. 2 .29 @ .30 Rye—No. 255 @ .56 Barley—No. 2 62 @ .62)6 Pork—Mess 12.00 @13.00 Lard .08 @ .08)6 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red i.oi%@ 1.03 CERN—Mixed 46 ($5.46% . Oats—No. 2............ .2»%@ .29 Rye...... 53 @ .54 Pork—Mess 13.25 @13.60 Lard. 08 @.os% CINCiNNATL Wheat—Na 2 Red i.O4V@ 1.05 Corn... 50 @ .51 Oats 32 @.32% RiM. ... .... .mm 11x1 ,60- @ .6016 Pork—Mess......... 13.50 @14.00 Lard - 08 * TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red i.04%@ 1.05 . Corn.... 55 @ .55)6 Oats—No. 2 .81 ® DETROIT. F10ur.1............ 4.00 @6.75 Wheat—No. 1 White. LOS @1.05% Corn—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—Mixed. 32 @ .32% Pork—Mess 12.25 @12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2Red LO1)60 1.02 * C0rn—N0.2.... .52 @ .53 Oats—Mixed 30 @ .30% EAST LIBERTY. PA. CATTLE-8e5t........ 6.00 @6.25 Fair........... A . 5.50 @ 5.75 Common. 445,@5.50 I g°° B — @5» ‘5HEEP.......; 3.50 @4.50

LACONIA’S HORROR.

A Butchery Outdoing In Horror the Michigan Tragedy in a New Hampshire Village. Four Persona Terribly Mangled with a Hatchet, Three Being Killed. A quadruple murder of the moat atrocious description occurred the other day in the village of Laconia, N. H. The victims were James Buddy, a carpenter, 40 years old, bis little son, Lawrence, and a female visitor. The victims were either beheaded or mutilated in an unexampled manuer, and the house was set on Are. Mrs. Buddy escaped from the building in a dying condition and will not survive. Dispatches from Laconia furnish the following particulars of'the dreadful deed: The Ruddy family occupied a little cottage on the outskirts of the town. It was about 4 o’clock when a woman’s piercing sereams startled the quiet neighborhood. Mr. O. L. Andrews was first to reach the house. As he ran to the building.a woman, wounded and bleeding, plunged through a window and fell upon the ground at his feet. It was Mrs. Ruddy. “I;am ull cut to pieces! For God’s sake, take me somewhdre!” she piteously cried. Mr. Andrews carried her to the nearest house, and, returning, found smoke pouring from the windows. The firemen and police were quickly called, and other neighbors came to t‘,e rescue. Breaking into the dwelling they found one of the most frightful scenes on record. Two beds were blazing in adjoining rooms, the small of kerosene telling plainly enough the cause of the fierce flames. The fire was soon extinguished, and then it was seen that human bodies mutilated and 'charred occupied the beds. The bodies of Mr. Ruddy and his infant son lay in one room, and in the next was the body of a woman. Mr. Buddy lay upon his back. His head had been partially severed by a terrible blow, evidently from an ax. Upon his body were other horrible wounds. The boy, only a year old, had been beheaded by two blows of the same weapon. The body in the next room was that of Mrs. Ford, Salmon’s former landlady. It was also frightfully mutilated. An attempt had bdbn made to pack the, remains in a trunk which stood near .by. To facilitate this fiendish disposition ’of the body, the legs had been, chopped off at the knees. The head and body were so badly burned that the original injuries could" scarcely bo determined. Further search revealed in the corner of the room a broad-ax, which belonged, to the murdered man. It was covered with blood and hair, and told its own story. Mis. Buddy was at once. visited. She was unconscious, and for some time it was impossible to obtain any clew to the horror, but by great effort the physicians succeeded in restoring the dying woman so that she was able to speak a few words at a time. In the course of a few hours a statement was obtained, which apparently fastena the crime on Salmon. She said that that he came to the hopse with a trunk. Saturday afternoon, and asked to stop over night. The Buddys, knowing him somewhat, made no objection, especially since he said that his wife was out of town. He brought a pail with him. After the evening had been passed in ordinary conversation, the trunk was carried up into the back room, Salmon saying that be would explain about it in the morning, and then they retired. Salmon at his own request occupying the back room, and the Ruddys the front room. About midnight Salmon was heard walking about, and Mr. Ruddy went to his room. As he did not return, the wife got up and looked in. Both men were sitting on the bed talking, and there was an ax there. Later she heard them go into the kitchen. A little while- after, hearing something fall, she ran to the kitchen and saw her husband just drawing his last breath. Salmon attacked her with the ax, cutting off her left hand at the first blow, and then burying the helve in her shoulder, felling her to the floor. Just then the little boy cried out, and the murderer rushed in to quiet him. Said the mother: “I heard the blow which fell on him.” Mrs. Ruddy lay still on the floor, feigning death, while Salmon poured oil which he had brought with him over her and the others. As soon as he Ignited it he fled from the house. She then made her escape. Investigation develops the fact that Mrs. Ford had been killed at her own house, packed in the trunk, and taken over to the Ruddy bouse, and lends to the be? lief that Salmon endeavored to get Ruddy's help in disposing of it, and when refused killed him in order to prevent his secret becoming known. Salmon, who is 38 years old and a cook by trade, was arrested in Plymouth during the afternoon. He told a story which, if Mrs. Buddy bad died, might have cleared him, but he had blood-stains on his clothing, and appeared very nervous. He is safe in jail. James Ford was also arrested on suspicion of complicity in his wife’s murder, but popular feeling acquits him.

SAVING MANY LIVES.

Efficient Work of the Life-Saving Service During the Year. The annual report of General Superintendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving service, shows 194 stations in operation, of which 149 are on the Atlantic, thirty-seven on the lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Ky. The results of all the disasters within tho scope of ■The service fiscal yi'ar are summarized as follows: Total number of disasters. 4«1; total value of property involved. -$7,242,720; total value of property saved. $5,671,700; total value of property lost, $1,5.1,020; total numbdr of persorfs involved, 4,036; total number of persons saved, 4,017; total number of per sons lost, 19. The disasters of the past year exceeded those of the previous year by seventy-one, but the amount of property lost was considerably less. S nee the introduction of the system in 1871, 18.334 lives have been saved and property to the value of $23,737,052 recovered. Sup3rintendent Kimball attributes much the high efficiency of the service io its utter exemption from political influences, and states that this statute enacted in 1882, declaring it non-political, has made it an easy task for him to conduct lifesaving affairs yith sole reference to the public good.

BAD INDIANS.

A War of Extermination to be Waged Against the Apaches. [Telegram from Chihuahua, Mexico.] All frontiersmen of the mountain country of Arizona and New Mexico who have a grievance against the Apaches and other Indians are welcomed by Gov. Louis Terrazas to join the Indian annihilation army which is preparing to sweep the Sierra Madres from tho Peons Atlas mining-camp, directly west of this city, north to Arizona and Mexico. All Americans who oan roach here armed can share in the spo ls of scalps at $250 each, and in all captured animals, supplies and ammunition. The country to be traversed comprises the bonanza quartz mineral belt of our continent. If Gen. Crook watches well the borders he will have the desperado Apache tribes of the Sierra Madres in his grip within ninety days.

SMALL TALK.

Thebe are 60,000 gypsies in Hungary. Mexican manufacturers are making paper from the fibers of the cactus. Three thousand Americans and 12,000 English are now living in Paris. A Bowery lodging-house offers a lodging, smoking tobacco, soap, towels and the use of the tooth brush for 10 cents a. night. Newbern, Tenn., has a law that imposes a fine of not less/than $25 nor more than SSO on any person who goes into a saloon on Sunday. ■ “Liberty” street, in Milledgeville, Ga., leads from the penitentiary to the cemetery.

THE INTERIOR.

Animal Report of the Secretary of That i Deportment. The report of Secretary of the Interior Teller for the fiscal year ending June 30; 1883, is largely devoted to Indian affairs, and the remarks chiefly emphasize recommendations made in the report ot the preceding year. In substance the report is as follows: It says that there has been a very considerable improvement among the various Indian tribes, with but little dissatisfaction, and but one outbreak. and among the Apaches of Arizona. The amount appropriated in 1883 for Indians with whom there are no treaty engagements was $1,520,000. There is a marked improvement in Indian schools, and ft is suggested that half the children of school age be put in manual-labor schools. The Government ought to spend $2,500,000 during the coming year in order to educate 10,000 additional Indian youths. The Secretary urges, also, the creation of a contingent fund on which tne department might have a discretionary power, not to be used tor subsistence, but for aiding exceptional cases for civilizing purposes, such as employing farmers, mechanics and others to teach by practice the Indians to become farmers, mechanics, stock-rais-ers and general laborers. The salaries of agents should be increased. Each tribe should have a patent for the land the Government has guaranteed to it, leaving the Indians to determine the question of allotment for themselves. In regard to the leasing of Indian lands Congress should provide some system by which the unoccupied lands can be leased by the tribe er the department for the benefit of such tribes, and the money expended for the tribe without covering it into the treasury. Of the great Sioux Reservation, which contains 48,924 square miles, it is said: “If the conditions of the treaties of 1868 and 1876, together with those in the present agreement, are carried out in good faith on the part of the Government, the Indians will need no turther aid from the Government, and can readily be made self-sup-porting within the next ten years," The Secretary recommends that Gen. Crook’s prisoners of war should be removed from the agency to some point where there will be less danger of their escape, and where their evil influences will not be felt by the more peaceably disposed of the tribe. There are valuable coal and silver mines In the San Carlos Reservation which the Government should buy. The Crow Indians could be rendered self-sup-porting for a few years if 3,090,000 acres of their reservation were sold. It is recommended that an appropriation be made to settle Chief Moses and Ins band of Indians in Washington Territory, on the Colville Reservation, so that the Indians will abandon the Columbia Reservation, and thus throw open to settlement 2,357,120 acres. Gen. Miles estimates that this result, which was agreed upon by treaty with Moses in 1879, could be brought about by the expenditure of $85,009. Helen Hunt Jackson (”H. H.,” of the Century Magazine) .was employed by the Department of the Interior to investigate the condition of the “Mission" Indians of California. She and her associate found that those Indians, who are semi-civilized and attached to the Catholic church, number 2,907. They are slowly but surely disappearing, and have been barbarously treated by thb. Government, having been repeatedly dispossessed of their homes. Some provision should be made for them at once. The report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows that the disposal of public lands under all acts of Congress aggregates 19,430,032.80 acres, of which amount 339,235.91 acres were Indian lands, and 1,999,335.71 acres railroad sections under various acts of Congress. It is again recommended that the Pre-emption law should be repealed. The-Secretary further recommends that the Homestead law be so amended as to require a period of not less than six months after a settlement claim has been placed on record before final proof shall be admitted. This will prevent fraud. The necessity still exists for legislation in reference to lapsed railroad land-grants. The attention of Congress is invited to the taxation of railroad lands. The report of the Commissioner of Pensions .shows that at the close.of the last fiscal year there were 303,658 pensioners, classified as'follows : Army inva1id5f.,..198,648 Army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives.. 74,374 Navy invalids 2,468 Navy widows, minor children, and dependent Survivors of the war of 1812.., 4,831 Widows of those who served in the war of 1812 21,336 There were added during the year 38,162 new pensioners, an excess over the number added the previous year of 10,645, The Government should provide for the payment of pension money every month when it becomes due. The number of applications for patents re-. ceived was 32,845; number of patents granted, 21,185; receipts from all sources, $1,095,884; expenditures, $704,348, The increase in receipts of 1883 over 1882 was $165,020. Thpre is a large increase of Work in the office of the Commissioner of Education. The system of voluntary statistical information is the mostcomplete in existence. The General Government should supplement the work begun in the several States by affording to the State such financial aid as may be needed. The total indebtedness of the Several subsidized Pacific railroads to the United States is $123,845,605. The total credit for transportation and money paid into the treasuiy is $21,469,292. The necessity for a Government for Alaska is becoming very apparent. The total population of the Territory of Alaska is not far from 30,000. Of this number about 5,000 are Aleuts, who are not barbarians if they are not of the highest order of civilization. Before the cession by Rus-, sia good schools were maintained by them, but since the cession the schools have been discontinued, and the adult Aleut who received his education under the Russian Government and at its expense sees his children growing up without education. Suitable provision should be made for the education ot the children of the Aleuts, which can be done without great expense. It is reported that plural marriages have decreased in Utah since the passage ot the act under which tire Utah Commission is acting. The board shall not go out of existence until the Legislature shall have enacted such laws as shall prohibit all polygamists from participating in the election of public officers, or from holding any such office. It is not provided who shall determine the question whether the Legislature provided for the filling of said offices in accordance with the provisions of the said act or not. Any laws which may be passed should be submitted for the approval of Congress. In regard to the Yellowstone National Park it would seem to be necessary that more conVSUient and practicable means should be provided for the protection of person ana property within the park. The Superintendent is clothed with no authority in such matters.

THE SECRET SERVICE.

Abstract of the Report of Chief Brooks. James J. Brooks, Chief of the Secret-Service Division of the Treasury Department, reports that during-the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, 376 arrests were made by agents of the service. Of this number ninety-one were convicted and sentenced. The total fines assessed amount to $14,979. The counterfeit money captured and secured during the year was as follows: United States treasury notes, $25,486; National bank notes, $1,188; coin, $5,2+0; nickels, s9l; gold bangles (imitation ot the $1 gold coin, representative value), $92; flash notes, representative value, $6,452,381; gold trimmings, representative value, $56; genuine money, $3. The total expenditures for transportation, incidentals and services amounted to $66,415. In referring to the coinage of counterfeit coins, Mr. Brooks says that during the past year only one really dangerous counterfeit coin appeared, that of the standard dollar, which was almost identical with the genuine in weight, ring and appearance, vet having onlv about 30 per cent, of silver. He also says: "It is a matter for congratulation, both with the public and tr.is office, that for two years past there has not been put in Circulation a new counterfeit note. Mr. Brooks reports that in answer to his interrogatories recently submitted to the various national bank? throughout the country, with a view of aseerlainlng approximately the amount of counterfeit money in existence, he has received 1,447 replies, showing that if the counterfeit monev reported as tendered within two years was divided by the 1,447 banks, it would be but $5.25 to each. He says that, with a territory of 3,000,000 of square miles to cover, the present low condition of the manufacture and circulation of counterfeit money is remarkable, and speaks well for the intelligent skin, indfistry, arid faithfulness of the operatives of this service. Legislation necessary td suppress counterfeiting of the obligations ot foreign governments, for which there is now no law, is strongly recommended, and the report aUo nrgea that the manufacture and>vending of dies and molds for making counterfeit coin be made a Ctlme. ' . ■ . In Paris the ratio of suicide for every million inhabitants averages yearly 402, while in Naples it is only 34. The ratio for other cities is given as follows: Stockholm, 354; Copenhagen, 802; Vienna, 287; Brussels, 271; Dresden, 240; St. Petersburg, 206; Florence, 180 ; Berlin, 170; New York, 144; Genoa, 135; London, 87, and Rome, 74. It is said that the majority of suicides in New York are Germans.

AMERICAN COMMERCE.

Annual Report: from the Bureau of St»t is tics. The Chief of tiie Bureau of Statistics in his annual report of the foreign commerce of the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, says: The total value of the imports and exportsol merchandise during the year amounted to $R547,020,316, and was larger than during any previous yekr in the history of the country. The excess of the value of the exports of merchandise over that of the imports of merchandise was $100,658,488, as against a similar excess during the preceding fiscal year of $25,902,683. The value ol the exports of domestic merchandise during the last fiscal year was $804,223,632, as against $733,239,732 during the preceding year—an increase oi $70,983,900. ' . The value of the exports of cotton during the last fiscal yeas amounted to $247,328,721, as against $199,812,641 during the preceding fiscal year; the value of the exports of bread and breadstuffs amounts ! to $208,040,850, as against $182,670,528 during the preceding fiscal year; the value of the exports ot provisions amounted to $107,388,287, as against $120,655,701 during the preceding fiscal year, and the value of the exports of tobacco and manufactures thereof amounted to $22,095,229, as against $21,430,869 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of the exports of mineral oils during the last fiscal year amounted to $44,913,079, as against $51,232,706 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of the exports of products of manufacture from the Unitid Efates during the last fiscal year amounted to $211,899,001, as against $103,182,481 during the-preceding year, arid was larger than during any previous year in the history ot the country. The value ot. the exports of products of mining during the last fiscal year was $51,419,149, as against $56,278,887 during the preceding fiscal year; the value of exports of products of the forest was $9,976,143, as against $9,138,031 during the preceding fiscal year; and the value of the exports of products of the fisheries was $6,276,375, as against $6,197,752 during the preceding fiscal year.. The total value of the imports of merchandise into the United States during the last fiscal •year was $723,180,914, as against $724 639,574 during the preceding fiscal year, showing a falling Off of $1,458,660. The value of the imports ot sugar and molasses was $99,326,396; the value of the imports of wool and manufactures thereof was $55,224,283; the value of the imports of silk and manufactures thereof was $59,807,616; the value of the importations of chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medicine's was $43,126,287; the value of the imports of coffee was $42,050,513; the value of the imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof was $40,796,007; and the value of the imports of cotton goods was $36,853,689. These constituted, in the order mentione'd, the leading commodities and classes of commodities imported. The total exports of gold and silver amounted during the last fiscal' year to $31,820,333, as against $49,417,479 during the preceding fiscal year, and the total imports thereof amounted to $28,489,391, as against $42,472,390 during the preceding fiscal year. The excess of the exports of gold and silver over the imports thereof amounted to $3,330,942, as against a similar excess of $6,945,089 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of the foreign commerce of the United States with Great Britain and Ireland amounted during the last fiscal year to $614,046,793, constituting nearly 40 per cent, of the total value of our foreign commerce; with France, $156,671,387; with Germany, $123,547,657; with the West Indies, $121,609,923, and with the British North American Provinces, $91,321,129. The total number of immigrants arrived in the United States during the last fiscal year was 603,322, as against "88,992 during the preceding' fiscal year. During the last fiscal year 158,092 immigrants arrived from Great Britain and Ireland, 194,786 from Germany, 168,276 from all other countries in Europe. 79,241 from the British North American Provinces, and 8,031 from China. The immigration from China fell from 39,579 during the year ended June 30, 1880, to 8,031 during the year ended June 30, 1883. The total duties collected upon imports amounted, during the last fiscal year, to $2lO,- ■ 637,293, as against $216,138,616 during the preceding fiscal year, showing a falling riff of $5,501,6*28. The sailing tonnage of the United States the 30th of June last amounted to 2,822,293 tons, as against 2,810,108 tons the 30th of June, 1882, and the steam tonnage of the country amount-■ ed to 1,413,194 tons, as against 1,355,825 tons the 30th of June, 1882. The tonnage of American' vessels engaged in the foreign trade of the United States increased from 1,259,492 tons the 30th of June, 1882, to 1,269,681 tons the 30th of June, 1883; and the tonnage engaged in the coastwise trade, the whale fisheries, anti the cod and mackerel fisheries increased from 2,906,441 tons the 30th of June, 1882, to 2,965,806 tons the 30th of June, 1883. The. tonnage built* in the United States amounted to 265,430 tons during the year ended June 30, 1883, as against 282,269 tons built during the year ended June 30, 1882. _ In our commerce with foreign countries there is still a very large preponderance of foreign vessels employed. The tonnage of American vessels entered at seaports of the United States from foreign countries amonnted to 2.834.681 tons during the last fiscal year, as against 2,968,290 tons during the last fiscal year: and the tonnage of foreign vessels entered at seaports of the United States amounted to 10,526,176 tons, as against 11,688,209 tons during the preceding fiscal year. In 1866 the tonnage of American vessels entered at our seaports from foreign, countries amounted to 3,194,275 tons, and constituted 71)6 per cent ot the total tonnage entered, and in 1868, three years after the termination of the war, the tonnage of American vessels entered amounted to 2,465,695 tons and constituted 44.26 per cent, of the total tonnage entered, but of the total tonnage entered at seaports of the United States from foreign countries during the last fiscal year 79 per cent, consisted of foreign tonnage and only 21 per cent, of American tonnage. During the ten months ended Oct. 31, 1883, the average rates per bushel for the transportation of Wheat from Chicago to New York were: By lake. 9.16 cents; by lake and canal. 12 cents; and by "all-rail," 16.1 cents; as against the following average rates during the calendar year 1882—viz: By lake and canal, 8.7 cents; by lake and rail, 10.9 cents; and by “all-rail" 14.6 cents. The increase in. the average rates is due to the fact that the grain movement during the year 1883 has been much greater than during the year I 1882.

JUSTICE.

The Keport of Attorney General Brewster. The annual report of the Attorney General opens with a statement of the business of the Supreme court. At the close of the October term, 1881, there remained undisposed of on the appellate docket 836 causes and on the original docket 5. The number of causes docketed at the October term', 1882, were 434, of which 422 were on the appellate and 12 on the original docket, making the total number of causes on the docket at that term 1,275, of which 1,258 were on the appellate and 17 on the original docket. Of this number 874 were not disposed of, and of these 868 were on the appellate and 6 on the original docket. The number of cases actually brought under consideration was 284, of which 187 were argued orally and 97 submitted on printed arguments. Of the 390 cases on the appellate docket disposed of 185 were affirmed, 60 revised, 33 dismissed, 79 settled and dismissed under the ninth rule, 4 dismissed in vacation under the twenty-eighth rule, and in 8 questions certified to the court were answered. The total number of causes disposed of at the October term, 1882, in which the United States were interested is 74. Since the last report 772 salts, claiming upward of $9,000,000, have been brought against the United States, of which ten. claiming $1,256,046.26, were brought on transmission by the heads of departments under the act of March 3. 1883. chapter 116. There have also been brought fifty-one suits, claiming $162,155.17 against the District of Columbia under the act of June 16, 1880, as extended by the act of March 3,1883, chapter 95. The aggregate amount of judgments rendered in favor of the United States in civil suits during' the last year waft $1,735,820.63, and the amount actually collected on these judgments was $1,128,890.48, while $53,957.33 was obtained during the year on judgments rendered in former years for the United States, and $299,349.36 was otherwise realized in civil suits. The aggregate amount of fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed during the year in criminal prosecutions was $300,678.76, and the amount of these fines, forfeitures and penalties collected during the year was $65,817.76,whi1e $11,981.42 was realized on fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed in former years. The Attorney General urges the propriety ofthe concentration of convicts sentenced by United States courts in some one prison. The condition of the several penal institutions under Federal management is reported to be in the main satisfactory. Digging out tarantulas and their nests has become quite an industry in Santa Barbara, Cal. The insects are suffocated with gas, then stuffed, dried and fastened to a card. The retail price is 50 cents each, but many hundreds are sold wholesale for $3 or $4 per dozen.