Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Page 3

THE SOLID SOUTH.

Fraud, Violence, and Murder Still Important Factors in Its PoliticsSixty Thousand Republican Voters Disfranchised in South Carolina Alone. Columbia (S. C.) Cor. Chicago Tribune. Northern Democrats claim that the grist for the Southern “outrage-mill” is a product of the fertile imagination of Republican editors. Even large numbers of Stalwart Republicans evince but a languid sentimentalism, which is based on half incredulity; they think that all that sort, of thing disappeared “long, long ago. ” Recent events, however, show that the shotgun, the pistol, and the lash are still important factors, in the polities of the “Solid South.” Within but a few weeks there have been the Danville massacre, the Kentucky tragedy, and the Mississippi Sheriffkilling. These three affairs, however, are completely put in the shade as to cold-blooded barbarity by the raid of Georgia Ku-Klux last July. The poor negroes who were dragged out of their beds and lashed and shot at had committed no offense beyond voting for the Hon. Emory Speer for Congress last November. There was a Lecomin r fitness in the fact that Mr. Speer was the Nemesis who avenged the wrongs of the negroes, he having been appointed United States District Attorney. These shocking cruelties occurred in a State whose proud boast is, jthat- she is the most progressive and most enlightened of aH the Southern States. many political outrages, they were not committed in the heat of passion, but coolly, deliberately, in the year of grace 1883, six or seven months following the election.

Mr. Speer convicted eight of the Ku-Klux. This fact has intensified the hatred of the Bourbons of South Carolina, engendered by his coming here from Georgia to assist District Attorney Melton in the election trials now in progress. As to South Carolina KuKluxism, its history has never been written, except in sketches. What has been made public of its operations warrants the statement that as thugs and torturers the Ku-Klux have never been surpassed. When Chief Justice Waite was down there a fe.w years ago he declared that he could not preside at another Ku-Klux trial. The details made him deathly sick. Here is a representative case: * A band of Ku-Klux made a midnight" raid on the residence of an old colored woman and her nephew. Despite the piteous pleadings of the . old woman, they dragged the nephew out of bed. “Gentlejnen,” he cried, “I’ve done nothing. I’ve not ’lectioneered since you whipped me three weeks ago, and I’ll never ’lectioneer any more!” “Why, you black son of a b—,” mockingly replied one of the Ku-Klux, “we’ve not come to whip you. Don’t be afraid o f that. We’ye on ly come to kill you—that’s all. ” Then out into the darkness they dragged him. They made him wade into the middle of the Broad river and kneel down on what they called “the holy stone.” The leader chose several of the gang to shoot at him from the bank. After enjoying the fun for some time one of the shooters got impatient and jumped into the river and rushed at the victim. Tearing liis mask from his face the Ku-Klux shouted, “You d—n black dog, I want you to see who killed you;” and then he literally shot the .face oft’ the negro.

“Now, auntie,” softly inquired one of the Judges at the trial—a pin could be heard drop in the court-room—“how did you recognize these men who came to your house and took your nephew out and killed him ?” “Why, Lor’, mas’r, I orter know ’em —I nussed ’em!” And it was God’s truth. Those men had suckled at that black® breast! Of course she recognized them. It may seem a hard thing to say, but it is al act: While Ku-Kluiism may not exist now as a regular organization land then, sqtain, it’s quite pcssiblethat it does), its .spirit is still abroad in South Carolina, stalking through the cotton fields and the pine forests at election times. Ah address has been issued State Executive Committee of the Union Republican party setting forth to their brethren of the nation how it came to pass that in a State having between 40,000 and 60,000 Republican ma ority the Hancock and English electors were awarded 54,241 majority over the Garfield and Arthur electors. That address has never been replied to. What happened at the last Presidential election, will probably happen in the next, unless the Republicans of South Carolina receive substantial support from the North. It should be borne in mind that ever since 1876 the election officials have been Democratic exclusively. The United States Supervisors in many places were driven from the polls 7 by violence. It would be tiresome to even enumerate the methods of fraud. But one Democratic paper in the State, the Beaufort Crescent, raised its voice to protest. It said: “There is one thing to be said of the Democracy of Beaufort county that unfortunately cannot be said of some others, and that is, they have not as yet learned to make one Democratic vote count as five, and five Republican Votes as one. Nor have we yet adopted the system by which ballots are substituted in the boxes for those which were originally placed there. Upon these little matters we are sadly deficient, which will account for the small showing we are able to make with 300 votes. “For ourselves, we had rather be afflicted with years of Republican misrule, trusting to the justice of our cause finally asserting itself, than to steal an election." With the. reigns of government firmly in their bands, and with com* plete control Of the election machinery, the Democrats st the —last —election called in their bloodhounds; but, as before, resorted to every imaginable form of fraud and intimidation. In South Carolina no Republican has any

right of citizenship that a Democrat is bound to respect. The Republican majority was wiped out in 1882—first," by intimidation and fraud in connection with the registration, and the Registration law itself is grossly unjust; secondly, by intimidation and fraud at the polls; and thirdly, by “counting out" —an art in which Southern Democrats are experts.

AN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN.

Important Caucus of Republicans to Organize a Congressional Campaign. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.) A -Very full ‘caucus of Republican Senators and Representatives was held in the House chamber, for the purpose of selecting a Congressional Campaign committee. Senator Edmunds presided. On taking the chair, he made a brief but forcible speech, in which he said the Republican party had not for fifteen years entered upon a campaign - under more favorable auspices or with brighter prospects of success. He expressed the utmost confidence in the result, believing that the party would presentan unbroken front, with harmony and good fueling all along the line. .In offering the resolu-. tions Senator Hoar also made a few remarks of a similar purport. The entire committee was not announced, some of the State delegations not being ready to report, but all existing vacancies will be filled atujnce. A meeting of the committee for organization will be held this week. It is proposed to take active measures at the ( very outset and make the campaign an aggressive one. The committee, as far as made up, is composed of gentlemen of the highest personal and political standing, and the important interests confided to them will be wisely and safely administered.

Two Issues.

Commenting on the defeat of Senator Pendleton because of his position on eivil-service reform, the Philadelphia Press says: Judged, therefore, by its own acts and the sayings of its own organs, the Democracy stands to-day for free trade and the spoils of office. It has made its position upon these two issues so plain that he who runs may read. It must go before the people on these two planks, the most important ones which will be incorporated in the political platforms of the year. No patty but the purblind Democracy would imagine that‘this Nation is now really to have its industries broken down after being laboriously built up, and to see a return to the spoils systems which, for fifty years, disgraced American politics. More reasonable than that these events should happen is it to suppose that the Democracy will find, as the Charleston News says, that, by its own acts, its fate in the Presidential battle has been “settled before the spring-time came, ” Republican Committee of Arrangements. Senator Sabin, Secretary Martin and Mr. John C. New are the committee of arrangements for the Chicago convention. They have already decided that the next convention shall not be hampered by such a crowd as filled the immense galleries on the last occasion. Then accommodations were provided for abput 15,000 visitors. It has been decided to limit the seats in the galleries to about 3,000. The body of the hall must give room for 823 delegates and the same number of alternates. It is the purpose of the committee to portion off a part of the Exposition hall in such a way as to afford room for the platform, the space required in front of it for the press, the delegates and alternates, and the gallery room included. This will allow a total attendance of about 5,000.

The Yazoo Tragedies.

No one believes the Fagan brothers, at Brookville, or those* four Africans, at Yazoo, would ever have been punished had they been white. It was the hellish hatred of their color that doomed them to death. These atrocities are but fresh illustrations and proofs that in the South there is one law for the white man and another for the block put it mtn-e rectly, there is no law at all—it is impunity for the whites and assassination for the blacks. And yet, when these iniamies are mentioned and commented on, the Democratic doughfaces of the North join their allies “down on the Yazoo” in raising the old screed and yell about “waving the bloody shirt.”— Fort Wayne Gazette.

The Democratic Bloody Shirt.

It is not the Republican editors who are waving the “bloody gdifmentthe solid South is waving it, covered with the blood of a score or more colored Republicans shot at Danville W. Va.; with the life-blood of “Print” Matthews, of Copiah county, Miss., H. C. Ellett. of Yazoo, Miss., and scores of others through the South who dared to vote, or express their intention of voting any ticket in opposition to the regular Bourbon nominees. They are flaunting it in the faces of every Northern Republican, saying, “"What are you going to do about it ?” and the Republican editors are only pointing it out to the, people of the North, that they may see how loathsome the thing is.— Versailles Republican.

Treatment of Bulbs.

An ounce of nitrate of soda dissolved in four gallons of waiter is said to be a good stimulant for bulbs, to be applied twice a week after the pots are tilled with roots and the flower spikes are fairly visible. A large handful of soot, or about a pint, tied up in a piece of old canvas and immersed in the same quantity of water for a day or two, will give an excellent stimulant; also good and safe is a quarter of a pound of fresh cow-dung mixed in a large garden pot vt water,“Hun usect as rncpiireti. Any of these stimulants will do good, as the whole of them applied alternately will benefit bulbs that needmore sustenance than the soil affords.— Floral World.

THE BAD BOY.

“Wish you a happy New Year, and I will take it in oranges,” said the bad boy as he smiled on the groceryman, and began filling his pockets with the luscious tropical fruit “Just you hold on,” said the groceryman, as he stopped the boy from taking any more. “Here’s a herring. When anybody wishes another a happy New Y’ear he should allow the victim the privilege of selecting the weapons*, as they do in a duej. Now, oranges are liable to give you the winter cholera, and if they did, I would be liable for damages; but you take this smoked herring and eat it, and I will take the chances/’ and the groceryman unloaded the boy’s pockets and handed him the herring. “Dear me, what a free-hearted old fellow you are,” said the boy, as he took off his mitten and began peeling the herring. “Here, you’d better take back the head and skin of this herring and give me a cracker, and then I will tell you what a brave man pa is.” . “Tell me about your pa. I haven’t heard anything from him. for a long time,” said the groceryman as he handed the .boy the cracker, and sat down on a half-bushel measure by the stove. “Well, you see, last night we got to talking about haunted houses, and pa said there was no such thing as a haunted house. He said whenever any unusual noise was heard in a house, instead of investigating it, people got scared and went around talking aliout the house being haunted, and before long everybody believed it, the reputation of the house was ruined, and everybody was nervous. Pa said that haunted houses was on a par with spiritualism, and people of sense never took any stock in either. He said if I ever heard

of a haunted house, to let him know and he would go through it and inves-. tigate it in the dark. 1 thought to myself, ‘boss, you can’t fool Hennery !’ and 1 laid for pa. That evening my chum’s cat came over to visit our cat, and when it was time to go to bed the two cats were sleeping by the stove, and pa told me I better put the cats outdoors and go to bed. So I took the cats up carefully and raised up the cover to the piano, and laid the cats down in the back side of the instrument, among the strings, and petted them, and they went to sleep, and I shut down the cover, and we all went to bed. Pa and ma sleep right over the parlor, and I sleep at the back of the house. Along about 2 o’clock in the morning, about the time cats usually get woke up and begin to prawl around, there was a faint scratching of toe-nails on the strings,and a yowl that sounded as though it came from the sewer. It was evidently music, such as you get at boarding-houses where a boarder practices on the piano for her board. I listened, and pretty soon there was two ‘meous’ and a ‘spit,’ and the strings acted- as though they were being walked on the wav a cat

does when she puts her paws up in your lap and lets her toenails go through your pants.l got up and went to pa’s room, and ma was setting up in bed with her nightcap off, her hair standing right up straight, and she was trying to get. pa to raise up and listen, but it wasn’t pa’s night to listen, and he put his head under the bedclotlies and tried to snore, but I knew pa was scared. I told pa that I wasn’t afraid, but I wished he would let me sleep on the lounge in his room, and pa raised up and wanted to know what the row was, and just then the cats in the piano seemed to have come together for their regular evening fight, and of all the music you ever heard, that beat everything. Pa listened and said it was somebody next door trying to play opera, but ma said something was in the house, and told pa the house was haunted, and for him to get up and investigate. Pa was kind of ’shamed to be afraid, so he got up, and all was still, and he got his pants on and went out in the hall, and just then the cats .got-to*fighting another round, and pa rushed into the bath-room and closed the door, and yelled for me to open the window and holler for the police. I got up and asked pa, through the door, if he was afraid, and he said no, he wasn’t afraid, but he thought, seeing he was in the bathroom, he would take a bath, and I told him if he was afraid I would go down and investigate, because there was no haunted house that had any terror for Hennery, and I went down and let the ’Cats out, and they got on the back fence, and had a real sociable time, and after it was all still, pa came out with a towel in bis hand and tried to make us believe he had taken a bath at 2 o’clock in the morning“with cold water. I don’t think it is right for a

father to try to deceive his little boy in that way. Pa must have washed himself real hard, for he was pale as a ghost when he came out of the bathroom, but he was paler still in the morning, when he found the piano full of cat hair. He thinks the air from the register blew into the piano. But lam sorry for pa, as he has had trouble enough trying to keep from failing, but he had to go to the wall. ” “What! You don’t tell me your father has failed?” said the groceryman, as he took down the ledger. “Great heavens! he owes me seven dollars,” and the man groaned. “Yes, pa says that is the only way he can make a dollar. I don’t know anything about the business of failing, but as near as I can get at it, by hearing pa and talk about it, there is money in it if it is worked right, and if I was in your place I vfould work an annual failure department into my business. The way to fail is- to get credit for all yon can, and sell for cash, and when you sell the best things, have somebody that you owe, a relative, or a fellow that you got confidence in, get on his ear and get out an attachment and close you up, or else make an assignment to a fellow that stands in with you, and let him offer the creditors 10 cents on a dollar in notes,- payable in six, twelve, and eighteen months. By the time six months are up, you can buy the first note for 50 cents on a dollar, and yon can fail again before the other note comes due. Pa says there is ' more money init than in running a bank, and he is awful anxious to have the thing fixed up in time for him and ma to go to Florida fcr the winter, so‘they can get " back in time to go

to Saratoga next summer. I asked pa if it was honest to fail, when ma had property enough in her name to pay all debts and have plenty left, and pa said he and ma Was two different persons. Gosh, I thought a man and his wife were one. Weil, a fellow learns something every day, don’t he? Say, yon would bo a total failure on general principles, and if I was in your place I would have some style about me and bust. You can never amount to anything gohig along the way yon do, and never getting ahead any. Let me tell pa’s lawyer that I can get him a job putting you through bankruptcy, on shares/’ “No, sir, never,” said the groceryman. “I have always paid a hundred cents on the dollar, and I always will. It is true I cannot put on much style, not as mnch as some I know who have failed, but I can look everybody in the face and—but, say. Hennery, you might tell your pa’s lawyer to come in here this afternoon, and I will have a talk with him. If failing is going to be the style, and a man isn’t going to amount to anything unless he has failed, and there is money in it, and your pay says it is honest and all right, I might conclude to fail once for luck, but keep it dark, ” and the groceryman began to look about the store at the old back number washboards, and wormy dried peaches, and things that were ■ not salable, and wondered if it wouldn’t be a good idea to fail and get rid of the old stock and buy a new one on trust, while Hennery went out to break the news to his pa’s lawyer that he had got another job for him. — peek’s Sun.

Circus-Riders.

A little boy known as Leo Carlo was brought into court in Philadelphia, to testify to his brutal ill-treatment by the manager of & circus. The child—whose real name aud parentage had been forgotten long ago—had been in the circus since his infancy, and was now im training for a bare-back rider. _ He charged that his master, as he called the manager, compelled him to ride an unbroken horse, that frequently threw him. Whenever this happened he was beaten, kicked, and at last the sharp spike with which elephants ure pricked was plunged into his body. During the course of the trial, many noteworthy sterns with regard to circuses were brought to light. It was stated that to become an acrobat a child must be put in training as early as its third year. The master stands over the child with a whip during each lesson.

A few years ago a similar case gave the public a glimpse behind the curtain of the circus tent. The “woman with the iron jaw,” who was noted for her enormous strength, had a child that she called her son, but had bought when he was a baby, and whom it was proved she systematically, starved and drugged with gin to keep him below a certain weight. There ure many o f our boy-readers in places who have been dazzled by tne glories of the traveling circus. The ring, glittering with lights, is fairy-land, and -the ilying creatures in velvet and spaugles, the happy creatures who dwell therein. These the boys envy with a fierce contempt of their own homes and work. They forget that the fun, in all shows, belongs to the audience, the work to the performers. There is, perhaps, no trade which requires harder or more constant manual labor than that of the circus-rider. His days are taken up with rehearsals, he travels all night, and lodges in the lowest inns. Tne mistake of the fall at which he laughs and the clown jokes, will be punished behind the curtain with a whipping, if the rider is a boy, or, if he is a man, by the profane curses of his employer, or by the lessening of his miserable wages. The white lead used in painting the face and head, in the case of two of the most celebrated of American clowns, brought on'a softening of the brain and death, and almost inevitably produces some kind of cerebral disease. Stick to your farm, boys, or your schools! There is no tempting Dead sea fruit so full of bitter ashes as the lives of these gaudy ereatures whom you so much envy.— Youth's Com panion.

India Rubber Trees.

The belt of land around the globe 500 miles south of the eqdator abounds in trees producing the gum of India rubber. They can be tapped for twenty successive seasons without injury; and the trees stand so close that one man can gather the sap of eight in a day, each tree yielding on an average three tablespoonfule daily. Forty-three thousand of these trees have been counted in a tract of country thirty miles long and eight miles wide. There are in America and Europe more than 150 manufactories of India rubber articles, employing some 500 operatives each, and consuming more than 10,000,000 pounds of gum per year, and the business is considered to be In its infancy. But to whatever extent it may increase, there will still be plenty of material to supply the demand.— Floral World.

Adulterants.

Glucose or corn-syrup has proved itself a great find for adulterators of foods, etc. It has found its way into beer, served as a substitute for bottled honev and maple syrup, and is largely used as an adulterant in sugars and syrups. The Boston Popular Science Aeics says anew field for its use has been found by the adulterators of milk, who are evidently delighted to find that glucose enables them to add water to milk without decreasing its specific gravity—thus escaping detection by the Jactometer test, which is the usaafStiff most ready test employed by inspectors —Dr. Foote’s Health Mon thly. Of the 162 members of the Illinois Constitutional convention of 1817, or, in other words, of the convention which framed the constitution of 1818, there are only thirty-six still living, not counting the three members of whom no traces can be found. The association of surveyors, formed the other day, will soon be without a survivor.

EXCHANGING VIEWS.

Meetings of Various Associations Connected with Agricultural Interests. Nebraska Horticulturists. The Horticultural Society held a three days' session at Lincoln. There was an interesting display of fruit. The Society was reported to be in a flourishing condition. • J Nebraska Agricultural Society. The Nebraska State Agricultural society held its annual meeting at the State capital. It was decided to hold the State fair at Omaha for one year only. The original proposition of Omaba was for a period of five years. The fair will be held the first week in September. Michigan Poultry Show. The annual exhibition of the Combined State and Central Michigan Poultry association was held at Battle Creek. About 400 entries were made by leading breeders in all parts of the State and a few outside. It is pronounced the largest and finest exhibition yet held in the Staaj. Cane-Growers In Council. The Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers’ association held its fifth annual meeting in St. Louis, the President, Col. Norman J. Cole- i man, in the chair. The attendance was larger I than in any previous years. In his address i the President congratulated the society on the achievements of the last year. The planting of cane was yearly extending, and the value of the sirup produced from the northern cane was fully $10,000,000. Bee-Keepers in Convention. The Northwestern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers’ association held a two days’ session in Freeport, 111. There was a large attendance ofo members. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, E. Whittlesey; vice president, Boscoe ■ Gammon; secretary, Jonathan Stewart, treasurer, B. Kleckner. The members engaged in the discussions with a great deal of interest. The next meeting of the association will .be held at Rockton, May 20, 1884.

Wisconsin Wool-Growers. The Wisconsin Sheep-Breeders' and WoolGrowers’ association held its annual meeting at Whitewater. The tariff on wool was debated, and the conclusion was that the tariff should be restored. 'Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, W. L. Parker, of Beaver Dam; Vice President, C. 8. Cleland, of Janesville; Secretary, H. J. Wilkenson, of White water; Corresponding Secretary, C.- K. Gibbs, of Whitewater; Treasurer, W. H. Hardy, of Genesee. Nebraska Farmers’ Alliance. The Nebraska State Farmers’ Alliance held a two days’session at Kearney. A platform was adopted declaring in favor of national and State legislation to regulate railway traffic, with both maximum and minimum rates; demanding the abolition of national banks and the substitution of currency by the Government direct; opposing protection and demanding a tariff for revenue only: asking Congress to reclaim all unearned land-grants and reserve the public domain for actual settlers; and opposing the acquirement of public lands by foreigners. Farmers and the Barbed Wire Monopoly. The lowa Farmers’ Protective Association, formed for the purpose of fighting the Washburn & Moen barbed-wire monopoly, convened at Des Moines last week. The association appears to be in a very satisfactory condition. The Secretary, in his annual report, expresses his opinion that henceforth the wire monopoly will devote its time and energy to a guerrilla warfare, seeking to make the litigation as expensive and vexatious as possible to the farmers. The farmers' responses to the appeals have been hearty and generous. - --i -:--: Minnesota Horticulturists. There was a large attendance at the Minnesota State Horticultural society meeting in Minneapolis. Col. Robertson, of St. Paul, spoke on the manner of cultivating the cottonwood tree. The Secretary read a paper from O. M. Lord, of Minnesota City, on native plums, which was discussed at great length by the members. F. G. Gould, of Excelsior, read a paper on “Blight in Fruit-Trees.” Mr. Pearce, of Lake Minnetonka, also presented a paper on the same subject, and Mr. Gideon one on “Blight—Cause and Cure.” The report of the Entomologist of the society, R. J. Mendenhall, of Minneapolis, was presented, followed by a paper by Mrs. H. B. Sargent, of Lake City, upon “A Beginning in Silkworm Culture in Minnesota.” lowa Millers. The lowa Millers’ association, in session at Des Moines, discussed the relative merits of buhrs and rollers. One old-style miller said he was making forty pounds of flour to the bushel and selling his tailings for feed. Roller millers gave their product as ranging from four and one-half to five bushels to the barrel, the cost of conversion being close to 50 cepts per barrel —the estimates, including power, help, interest, etc. Steam mills would use 6u to 100 pounds of soft coal to the barrel. The buhr and single-roller process' men claimed that the fait-roller process diminishes the nutriment value of the Bour, which was not answered by the others. Hon. 8. D. Nichols claimed also that winter wheat has more sustenance value than the hard wheat. Mr. Sharpe said the' main fault with the buhr millers was that they did not generally clean their grain so weil as those using rollers.

Illinois State Grange. About 300 Patrons of Husbandry were present at the annual meeting. In Springfield, of the Illinois State grange. The address of welcome was delivered by Col, C. F. Mills, of the State Agricultural department, which was followed by an address delivered by J. J. Woodman, Master ot the National grange, who in a very elaborate manner presented the aims and objects of the order. The committee appointed a year ago to visit the Industrial university at Champaign made a report in which they met the objections to the course of study and the alleged charges of inefficiency. A resolution . was adopted fixing Belleville as the next place of meeting. Gov. Hamilton tendered the delegatee a reception at the Executive mansion. The resolutions demand that the Bureau of Agriculture be made an Executive department, and its head a Cabinet officer. They recommend the establishment of experimental farms in the several counties of the State, or the addition of experimental’departments to county farms already existing. The report of transportation, which was adopted, asks the Illinois delegation in Congress to urge the enactment of laws to regulate commerce between the States, and to support a liberal measure for the construction of the Hennepin canal as an enterprise of national commercial importance for the Increase of transportation facilities, and the regulation of charges on traffic by rail.

CHIPS.

Citizens of Christian county. Ky., claim to have lost $750,000 in the Chicago grain market during the past winter. Teresa Tua, a young violinist, who has become famous by her performances in Germany, is the daughter of a cobbler who lived in Florence. The surprising sunsets which reached -around the world created superstitious fear in India, and numbers of holy wen went about preaching impending disaster. ’. 1 A Texas men has invented a machine for ,i washing dishes. —■ - —j

ASTONISHING DECLINE.

iiie Great Fall in Railway Stocks and Bonds Since 1881. Since July, 1881, says the New Fork Tribune, railway stocks and bonds have suffered an astonishing decline. Including only about half of the stocks alone that are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the loss in price since that time has been about SOOO,000,000. The following are a few of the most conspicuous examples: Stock Dec. Loss. New York Central .$ 89,428,800 29% $ 26,493,132 Lake Shore 49,486,500 39% 19,477,444 Michigan Central.. 29,u00,000 29 8,400,000 Canada 8 uthern .. 15,00,000 29% 4368,700 Northwestern 26.502,756 15% 4,207310 St. Paul 30,904,261 36% 11,241,402 Bnrlingt’nA-quincy 60,814,191 50% 35,430,702 Rock Island 41,690.000 30% 12,642,000 Denver & Rio G'd.. 35,000,000 88% 30,975,000 Union Pacific 60,854,105 60% 30,664,598 Missouri Pacific.... 30.00e.000 27% 8,212,500 Mo., Kan. <fc. Tex.. 46,606,000 31%’ 14.707,295 Texas & Pacific.... - 32,191,500 51% 16,659,099 Wabash, common.. 27,409,200 42% 11,648,910 Wabash, preferred. 23,034,2X166% 15,317,743 C., C„ C. * I .. 14,991,600 35% 6,289,780 Col.. Chic. & I. C... 13.960,823 29% 4,048,632 0hi0Mi55........ 20,000,009 23 4,600,000 Peoria, D. & E.. 8,400,000 43% 3,376,000 Ind., 81. & West... 10.000,w00 38% E. Tenn.. Va.&Ga, 27,500,000 15% 4,193,750 Hannibal <fc St. Jo. 9,168,700 54% 5,031,324 Louisville <fcNash.. 25.000,000 65% 16,281,250 Ontario A- Western. 60,113,982 22% 13,525,646 Erie 77,087,600 23% 18,019,225 Lackawanna 26,200,000 12 3,144,000 Western Unipn.... 80,ooo,(XX> 20 16,000,000 Central Pacific...,. 59,275.600 39% 23,265,634 Northern Pacific... 49,000,000 21 % 10,657,500 Nothem Pac., p’f'd. 4L749.463 36% 15,343,716 Oregon Navigation. 24,000,000 84% 20,280,000 Or.Transcoutlnent. 40,000,000 52% 21,100,000 T0ta1,32 5t0ck5.61,190,085,079 .... $424,924,226 The nominal value of all railway stocks in the country is about three times that of the companies quoted, and the decline in value since July, 1881, has been probably not less th an, $1,000,000,000. In addition, these great corporations have a still larger amount of bonds outstanding, though the " decline in these has not been on the whole so great. If it has been less than half as great—and this is apparently a safe estimate, judging from such securities as are quoted—the apparent loss in the valuation of securities within two years and a half has been over $1,500,000,000.

WHEAT.

Where It I» Raiied---The Principal Wheat-Producing Countries. J. R. Dodge, Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, has furnished a statement of the cereal products of Europe and other matters connected therewith, which is of general interest. This report Is especially valuable as showing the countries that come most largely into competition with the United States 'in supplying wheat. The crops for 1883 are in part estiinated, but the figures approximate accuracy. The comparison for the last two crop years is as follows: 1882, bushels. 1883, bushls. Austria 44,548,1*9 33,413,680 Hungary 186,481,263 77,762,989 Belgium 21,990,030 21,592,137 Denmark’ 4,803,667 4,500,000 France. 346,619,713 285,613,832 Germany 93,823,0*8 72,779,980 Great Britain 82,368,935 68,735,592 Ireland *,101,32* 2,559,65* Greece-.... 5,102,89* 5,102,894 1ta1y..1*2,259,*60 128,172,978 Netherlands 5,889,589 5,700,000 Portugal 7,200,000 9,000,000 Roumania 30,090,000 20,000,000 Russia 202,907,736 160,000,006 Servia. 6,810,768 *,500,000 Spain 85,134,600 120,000,000 Sweden 3,792,88* 3,351,862 Norway, 290,362 290,362 Switzerland 2,115,528 2,1*5,528 Turkey. *0,867,2f» 10,867,200 Total for Europe.. .1.370,167 JSO 1,066,088,686 The total crop in the United States for 1883 was 129,154.500 bushels. It is thus seen that the United States produces something over 20 per cent, as much wheat as the entire product of Europe. According to tne foregoing there was a deficiency in last year’s crop in Europe, as compared with 1882, of 200.000,000 bushels to round numbers. The deficiency in the United States was about 75,003,000 bnsheis. It will be observed that France was next to the United States in product, the yield being 285,613,832 bushels, yet it Imported largely, while Russia, which produced much less than France, exported heavily.

MARRIED HER FATHER.

A Locked Door in a Philadelphia Church Results in a Singular Ceremony, [Philadelphia Telegram,] The strange scene has been presented here of a clergyman of a fashionable church join' ing in matrimony a father and daughter. The details have just become known, and th« story is now the chief topic of society gossipInvitations were issued to a large number of Philadelphia’s most fashionable people to be present at the Church of the Epiphany to witness the marriage of Wilson Mitchell, a young society gentleman, to Miss Fanny Kessler, the daughter of Mr. John Kessler, Jr. The wedding had been arranged in the usual English atyiA, and the lyrfde wat to have been met at the church steps by the groom. i The groom was expected to come throdgh , the door of the vestry-room, but the door showed no signs of opening. The clergyman , evidently did not understand the situation, though it was evident from the ripple of excitement that something was wrong. The ' bride turned pale and clutched her father’s > hand convulsively. The awkwardness of the situation was increased when in solemn tones the minister began to read the marriage service. He bad reached the middle of the service when the door at the foot of the nave was thrown open, and Mr. Mitcbeli, attended by his best man, came rushing up the aisle. By some means the vestry door had been locked, and the two gentlemen were thus prevented from making their entrance. The ceremony was again begun, but the young lady received a severe shock. ■

BANKRUPTCY.

Prospects of Legislation by the Senate. A Washington correspondent telegraphs: A gentleman who has given some attention to the subject of bankruptcy legislation, pending the discussion now in progress before the committees, gives the following ss his views regarding the prospects of the passage of a bill: The Senate sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Hoar, Ingalls and Garland, .which has the matter under consideration, will probably submit to the full committee both the Lowell bill and the equity bill introduced by Mr. Ingalls. Mr. Hoar is the champion of the former, while Mr. Ingalls is, of course, in favor of his own measure, and Mr. Garland is opposed to any legislation on the subject.

The Deacon’s Mistake.

* A modest deaeon was onee invited to say grace at a certain dinner. Seeing a clerical-looking gentleman farther down the table, he thought it would be more becoming to ask him to say grace, so, turning to him, he said: “Won’t you ask a blessing?” The clerical-looking party put his hand to his ear and replied: “Speak louder; Pm so d deaf I can’t bear.” The deacon did not press him.— Boston Globe. AnocoMOTtvK is called “she” because it hu e spark-arrester. ~ ■ --