Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. B MARSHALL, 1 "- - Ptmiamt

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Ex-Jailer Merrick, of Carmel, N. J., convicted of manslaughter by beating a prisoner to death, has been sentenced to ton 1 ears’ penal servitude... .Four of William I. Hooper & Son’s cotton-dnck mills at Woodbury, Md., have closed down nntil September ar until the trade shows greater improvement Anthony Woolver, a wealthy farmer of Erie County, Pennsylvania, stood on the edge of the family veil and cut his throat With a razor. In falling to the bottom he was caught by projecting timbers and rescued, but died m two hours. He was aged 80 yean.

THE WEST.

The number of killed and drowned by the railroad disaster near Cunningham, Mo., June 30, is now stated to be fifteen, and as many wounded. The railroad authorities are retieent... .Samuel Young, a noted counterfeiter of Indiana, has been lodged in jail at Indianapolis. He was captured on a farm pear Barney, Mo., after a fight with Winchester rifles.,. .R. M. Cherrie & Go., pig-iron manufacturers, of Chicago, have foiled. The liabilities are placed at $350,000, the assets at $650,000. The bull-fight at Dodge City, Kan., on the national holiday, attracted six thousand persons, among them being many Texan cowboys. Two of the bulls showed sufficient combatativeness to interest the crowd. One of the Mexican matadores received what mav prove to be a fatal wound in the ribs... .Roger C. Guthrie, ex-City Marshal of Omaha, has been convicted of bribery after a protracted trial.... A windstorm swept over Macon, Sangamon, and Christian Counties, Illinois, which destroyed much property and severely injured a number of people... A mysterious dis; ease has within two weeks swept off fifteen hundred hogs in the vicinity of Vandalia, Dlinoiß....At Fond du Lac, Wis., the other night. Lawrence Connaughty struck William Puis over the head with a billiardcue. causing injuries from which the victim died next morning.

TIIE SOUTH.

Dr. Augustus Rohne, who died from sunstroke at Hot Springs, recently, was the first to suggest to Senator Logan the wisdom of establishing Government hospital for soldiers and Bailors... .Two probably fatal cases of sunstroke occurred on the 6th inst inrDallas, Tex., where the mercury registered 102 degrees in the shade, and the water supply is so low as to cause great alarm... .The premature discharge of • cannon at Centralia, Mo., killed two men. - ■ . - - .. ■

WASHINGTON.

Following is the last regular monthly statement of the public debt: Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-halt per centss 250.000.500 Four per cents... 737,661,700 Three per cents. 224,612,150 Refunding certificates 290,000 Navy pension fund 14.000,000 Total interest-bearing debt. 51,226,563,850 Matured debt ..$ 19,666,205 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tendernotes. 846,739.456 Certificates of deposit 12,385.000 Gold and silver certificates 218,204,351 Fractional currency 6,980,081 Total without interests 584,308,868 Total debt (principal). Total interest 11,507,240 Total cash in Treasury 391,985,928 Debt, less cash in Treasury 1,450,050,235 Decrease during June 9,217,256 Decrease of debt since June 30, 168 A-... 101,040,971 Current liabilities— - Interest dne and unpaid.s 1,505,718 Debt on which interest has ceased... 19,656,265 Interest thereon 3i7,214 Gold and silver certificates 218,204,351 U nlted States notes hel d for redemption 12,385,000 Cash balance available...... . $ 391,985,928 Available assets—<Mah in Treasury ... v ......$ 391.985.9 M Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 1,938,795 Interest paid by United States 61,166.798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 18,148,923 By cash payments, f per cent, net earnings. 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 42.356,676

POLITICAL.

The Illinois Democratic State Convention, in session at Peoria, nominated Carter H. Harrison for Governor, Henry Seiter for Lieutenant Governor, Michael J. Dougherty for Secretary of State, and Alfred Orendorff for Treasurer. John M. Palmer, William R Morrison, John C. BLvek, and Lambert Tree were chosen as delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention. The platform denounces the present high protective tariff as a masterpiece of injustice and false pretense, favors a'tariff for revenue only, and heartily approves of the course of William RZMorrison in his earnest efforts to reduce the tariff taxation.

GENERAL

The business quarter of Port Perry, Ontario, was swept away by fire, the loss being over $150,000... .The establishment of the Silver and Deming Manufacturing Company at Salem, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000; the insurance is $40,500. About 150 men are thrown out of employment by the fire. Rkcrxt deaths: The wife of Hear Admiral Amman, at Washington; at Indianapolis, Bev. J. D. Jones, Presbyterian, who during the war was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Regiment Infantry; at Saratoga, N. Y., James P. Dennison, proprietor of the Arlington Hotel. The destruction by fire of the Newark (Ohio) Machine Company’s works entailed a loss of about $500,000, with $200,000 insurance. .. .The propeller Philadelphia finished a trip from Chicago to Buffalo and return in six days, beating the record of the H. J. Jewett.

FOREIGN.

The German Government ha? given an English shipbuilding firm an order for the construction of * torpedo boat of enormous proportions—the largest ever built... .Bls

reported from Toulon that five persons afflicted with cholera have been cured by mhaling pure oxygen. The effect, it is said, is that immediate warmth is restored to the system and the pulse becomes normal The cure is the subject of general comment and investigation by physicians and surgeons. Some of ths leading patriots in China ore rousing the people io repudiate the recent Franco-Chinese treaty. France threatens that, in case China does not cany out the agreement fixed upon, she will demand a large indemnity. Rather than pay this, the Celestial Jingoes propose to go to war. • „

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

President Arthur has nominated the members of the oommission to investigate concerning the best means of establishing closer commercial relations between the United States and South American countries. The State Veterinarian of Kansas inspected the livery-stables in Leavenworth, and found twenty-five cases of glanders. He ordered the shooting of five horses, valued at $1,060... .Notwithstanding the prohibition law. the dietillers at Dubuque, lowa, are manufacturing as usual, and the saloons are openly selling liquors. The wholesale dealers are also busy, but they send out their packages in new shapes. —“ZEZZ A Toulon dispatch says: “Dr. Koch reports the cholera here as Asiatic, from the extreme East. He found the same microbes here as in Egypt and India. The intestines being the seat of danger, fumigation is useless. He says the cholera will reach Germany; it will go everywhere; hating a center like Toulon it must spread. \• •. In the French Chambers, Premier Ferry said that the attack on the French troops at Langson by Chinese regulars was an instance of base and foul treachery on the part of the latter, for which China will have to give immediate and complete satisfaction. A London Tune« dispatch from Dongola announces that the Mudir of that place defeated the Soudanese near Debbah recently, inflicting great loss upon themA jury at Dublin rendered a verdict in favor of William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, in the suit for £5,000 brought against him by Secretary Cornwall, of the postoffice. The secret service division of the Treasury Department has received advices that a new counterfeit $lO silver certificate has appeared in the West It is supposed to have been printed from a wood-cut, but is likely to deceive the ordinary judge of money. It is of the series of iBBO, G. W. Schofield, Register, James Gilfillan, Treasurer. The note is one-quarter inch shorter than the genuine paper, is composed of two thin layers with silk parallel lines and fiber placed between them. In the scroll on the back, where it should read, “And all public dues and when so received," the word “all” is entirely omitted, and the words “when so,” are read together as one word. The assignee of Grant & Ward, of New York, has filed an inventory showing liabilities of $16,792,647, actual assets of $67,174, and nominal assets of $27,139,098. He reports that they kept no journal or cash-book, had no complete list of assets, and rehypothecated large amounts of securities left with them as collateral for 10an5.... In the inter-collegiate regatta on Saratoga Lake the Pennsylvania University crew were the victors. The contest between the Pennsylvanians and the Cornell crew was dose and exciting. The Princeton crew came in third and the Columbias fourth.

Congress reached & final adjournment at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of July 7, During the morning all differences between the House and Senate on the appropriation bills, with the exception of the navy bill, were settled by mutual concessions. The House refused to recede from its position on the navy bill, and the Senate refused to yield? The measure did not pass. The last hours of the session were tame, comparatively speaking. President Arthur spent several hours in the Capitol signing the appropriation bills.

The “pic-nic pie” is the latest. Its dissimilarity from the ordinary common run of pies permits it to be used as a cushion until dinner time.—Cincinnati Merchant Traveler. Now that Oscar is married he will probably get over his Wilde ways. He won’t have time to put on knee breeches when he has to walk the floor with the baby all night. A great many young men get stoopefied during the summer months, judging from the time they spend on the steps of houses where there are goodlooking girls. ■■■ ■ ““""r The depth of poverty is reached when a mon cannot get a coat on his tongue.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves t 8.00 ® 9.50 HOGS 6.50 @ 7.00 Floub—Extra. 4.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago. .92 @ .98 Na 2 Red 95 & .966 Corn—Na 2 67 @ .59 Oats—White 36 @ .39 Pork—Mess 16.50 @17.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6,50 @7.00 Fair to Good 6.00 @6.50 Butchers’ 5.00 @ 5.50 Hogs aoo @ 5.50 FLOUR—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—Na 2Serine .82 @ .83 No. 2 Red Winter 93 @ .94 Corn—Na 2..........50 @ .51 Barley—Na 2. 6<i. @ .62 Butter—Choice Creamery 17)s@ .19 Fine Dairy. 13 @ J 5 Cheese—Full Cream. 06 @ .09 Skimmed Flat 04 @ .06 Eggs—Fresh. 14 @ .15 Potatoes—New, per br1..., 3.00 @3.50 PORK—Mess 19.25 @19.75 Lard 07 @ .(rtli TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2Rea... .87 @ .88)1 CORN—Na 2..., J 2 @ .54 Oats—Na 2. .i. .31 @ .33 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Na 2 .82 @ .83 Corn—Na 2 54 @ .56 Oats—Na 2 32 rt .34 BaRLET—Na 2. 57 @ .59 Pork—Mees 15.00 @15.50 Lard. 7.00 @ 7.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red. „. 98 @I.OO Corn—Mixed: .48 @ .49 Rte...... 56 9 A? Pork—Mess 18.00 @18.75 CINCINNATI Wheat—Na 2 Red .89 @ 91 Corn.* .56 @ .58 Oats—Mixed. . 32 @ .33 Pork—Mees.... 15.75 @16.25 Lard.....';..-.,.. .07 @ .otj, DETROIT. Flour , 6.00 @6.75 Wheat—No. 1 White. 1.00 @ 1.01 Corn—Mixed..... .51 @ .63 Oats—Na 2 Mixed .31 @ .83 Pork— Moes 18.50 @19.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 28ed........... 86 @ .88 Corn—Mixed....... A 0 @ .52 Oats—Mixed... JO @ A 2 V EAST LIBERTY. CATTLU-Beot 6.25 «• 6.75 Fair. AT* @ 6.5) Common.. 4.00 @ 4.60 Hogs. ... am @ 5.75 Sheep. 4.2* 9 at#

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What la Being Done by the National Legislature. The river and’harbor bill passed the Senate on the Ist inst. The bill as passed by the Senate appropriates $13,584,700. As it left the House it provided for an appropriation of $12,086,200. Bills were also passed to provide for a branch of the Soldiers’ Home west of the MfsBissippi; for the relief of soldiers improperly chai ged with desertion, and to grantapension of SSO per month to the widow ot Gen. James B. Steedman. It was agreed to refer to the Committee on Finance resolutions for the redemption of 10,000,000 trade dollgrs, and for an investigation into the condition of the banks m New York. In the House of Representatives, the Conference Committee on the naval appropriation bill announced its inability to agree, objection beii g made to the items for the new cruisers and to continue work on the monitors. The House voted to insist on its disagreement on both of these questions, and new oonferrees were appointed. The Conference Committee on the postoffioe appropriation bill reported a failure to, agree dn the items of railway mail clerks and for compensation to land-grant roads, but; the House voted to recede and accept the Senate’s decision. The fortification bill was discussed in the House again, Mr. Randall offered a bill embodying the views of the minority, and pending a vote to substitute tins for the bill reported by the majority. the House adjourned.

The Sepate passed the sundry oivll appropriation bill on the 2d hast., after striking out the clause providing salaries instead of fees for United States Marshals. The House, by a vote of 150 to 91. adopted the fortifications bill recommended by the minority of the committee which considered the measure. It appropriates $595,000. The majority recommended a bill appropriating $4,500,000. The President sent to the House a message vetoing the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter, the Attorney General having pronounced it unconstitutional. The House, on motion of Mr. Slocum, of New York, immediately passed the measure over the President’s veto by 168 to 78. The President, in his veto message, takes the same view as the Attorney General regarding the constitutionality of ithe bill. and says: There are other causes that deter me from giving this bill the sanction of my approval. The judgment of the court-martial by which more than twenty years since Gen. Fitz John Porter was tried and convicted, was pronounced by a tribunal composed of nine general officers of distinguished character and ability. Its investigation of the charges of which it found the accused guilty, was thorough and conscientious, and its findings and sentence in due course of law approved by Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States. Its legal competency, its jurisdiction of the accused and of trie subjects of accusation, the substantial regularity of all its proceedings, are matters which have never been brought in question. Its judgment, therefore, is final and conclusive in its character. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently declared that a ccurt-martlal such as this was, "is the organism provided by law and clothed with the duty of administering justice in this class of cases. Its judgments, when approved, rest on the same basis and are surrounded by the same considerations which give conclusiveness to the judgments of other tribunals, including as well the lowest as the highest.” It follows accordingly that when a lawfully constituted-court martial has duly declared its .findings audits sentence and the same has been duly approved, neither the President nor Congress has any power to set them aside. The existence of such a power is not openly asserted ,nor perhaps is it necessarily implied in the provisions of the bill which is before me, but .when its enacting clauses are read in the light .of the recitals of its preamble, it will be seen 'that H seeks in effect a practical annulment of the findings and sentence of a competent courtmartial. A conclusion at variance with these •findings has been reached after investigation by a board consisting of three officers of the army. 'This board was not created in pursuance of any statutory authority, and was powerless to compel the attendance of witnesses or to pronounce judgment which could be lawfully enforced. /The officers who composed it, in their report to the Secretary of War, dated March 19, 1879, state that in their opinion "Justice requires • such action as may be necessary to annul and set aside the findings and sentence of the court-martial in the case of Maj. Gen. Fitz;John Porter, and to restore him to the position of which their sentence deprived him, such restoration to take effect from the date of his dismissal from office. The provisions of the bill now under consideration are avowedly based on the assumption that the findings of the court-martial are found to be erroneous. But it will be. borne in mind that the invesrigation which is claimed to have resulted in this discovery was made many years after the event to whieh these findings related and under circumstances that made it impossible to reproduce the evidence on which they were based. It seems to me that the proposed legislation would establish a dangerous precedent, calculated to imperil in no sinall measure the binding force and effect of the judgments of the various tribunals established under onr Constitution and laws. I have already, in the exercise of the pardoning power with which the President is vested, remitted the continuing penalty that made it impossible for Fitz John Porter to hold an office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. But lam unwilling to give my sanction to any legislation which shall practically annul and set at naught the solemn and deliberate conclusions of the tribunal by which he was convicted, and of the President by whom the findings were examined and approved. The anti-Chlnese bill passed the Senate dh the 3d inst., by a vote of 43 to 12. The Senate, by a vote of 27 to 27, failed to nass the Fitz John •Porter bill over the President’s veto. A resolution was adopted for an inquiry into the capa*city of the steel-producing works in the United States and the tools in the navy-yards to furnish outfits for new vessels or guns for seacoast defenses. The bill to forfeit unearned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was passed, with an amendment to refer to the courts •the question of title after forfeiture. Jn the House of Representatives, the select committee made a report that William H. English was not guilty of a breach of privilege, while a minority declare that he lobbied ou the floor in the interest of his son. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the fortification appropriation bill, and appointed new oonferrees. An attempt to pass the Mexican pension bill was followed by” the loss of a quorum. } Bills to pension the widow of Gen. Ord, to increase the allowance to Mrs. "Frank P. Blair, and to authorize the retirement of Gen. Averill with the rank of Colonel passed the Senate on the 4th inst- The conferrees on the deficiency appropriation bill were reappointed, as the Ssnate insisted on its amendments. The postal telegraph bill was postponed for the session. The House of Representatives resumed consideration of the Mexican pension bill, and as a quorum was not present a call of the Honsc was ordered. A motion to recede from dis-igree-ment to the amendments made.by the Senate to the general deficiency appropriation bill was lost, and the conferrees were reappointed. The conference report on tho river and harbor appropriation was agreed to. In the Senate, July- 5,Mr. Logan made a freshdenialqfthechargejLhat.hswaaiirtarestsd in a large tract of land in New Mexico, unlawfully taken from the Zuni Indians. The interstate commerce bill was postponed until December. The Senate insisted on its amendment to the legislative appropriation bill reducing the number of customs and revenue collectors. A new conference was ordered, and the House finally surrendered. The report of the conference committee on the fortification bill was ag reed to. The House of Representatives refused to postpone for the session consideration of the Mexican pensions bill, by a vote of 63 to 135, and much time was consumed by filibustering. The conference committee on the consular appropriation bill reported disagreement on the item of $250,000 for the Nicaragua project, and a motion to recede therefrom was lost. At the evening session Mr. Browne proposed to lav aside the Mexican pensions bill, but Mr. Townshend objected. Both houses held sessions on Sunday, the 9th inst. Conference committees disposed of the fortification and sundry civil-service appropriation bills. The Senate finally yielded to the elimination of the item ot $25-'.wo tor the purchase of canal rights in Nicaragua, and the House receded from its disagreement to the salary system for court officials.

Something wrong in Ohio again A man refused to take S9OO back-pension money. Taking Ohio as a whole, she makes some of the most unexpected breaks of any the universe.— Feck’s Sun."

No MONEY is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.— Johnson.

New York’s various prisons now have 15,690 convicts in custody.

ILLINOIS DEMOOBATS.

They Meet in State Convention at Peoria. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, Nominated for Governor. The Illinois Democratic State Convention, which met at Peoria on the 2d of Jun£, was the largest ever held in the State. Nearly all the 1,400 delegates were in attendance, and 100 contestants were knocking at the doors for admission. John H. Oberly, Chairman of the State Central Committee, called the convention to order. Henry Q. Connelly, of Rock Island, was made Temporary Chairman, and Monrbe C. Crawford, of Union County, was chosen as permanent presiding officer. The following were chosen as Presidential electors: At large, O. B. Ficklin, of Coles, and William G. Ewing, of Cook. First District, J. W. Doane; Second, James T. Healy; Third, James H. Ward; Fourth, Harvey D. Colvin; Fifth, James Moran, of Lake; Sixth, John F. Smith, of Stephenson; Seventh, James K. Blish; Eighth, M. W. Shurtz; Ninth, George B. Harrington, of Iroquois; Tenth, George J. Wilson, of Peoria; Eleventh,William Prentiss; Twelfth, Henry Phillips, of Cass; Thirteenth, H. P. Shumway, of Christian; Fourteenth, W, T. Kirk; Fifteenth, James R. of Coles; Sixteenth, J. C. Allen, of Richland; Seventeenth; E. B. Buck; Eighteenth, G. W. Aiken, of Washington; Nineteenth, F. M. Youngblood, of Franklin; Twentieth, W. K. Murphy, of Perry. 8. Coming Judd, of the committee to select ddegates-at-large to the national convention and committeemen-at-large of the State Central Committee, reported as follows: Delegates-at-large—W. R. Morrison, John M. Palmer, J. C. Black, and Lambert Tree. Alternates—Thomas Merritt, M. C. McDonald, Thomas McNeely, and G. D. Henning. Members of the State Central Commit-tee-at-large—John H. Oberly and Joseph C. Mackin. ' 1 The district committees reported the members of the State Central Committee as follows: First District, A. W. Green, of Cook; Second, Frank Lawler, of Cook; Third. Patrick McCarthy, of Cook; Fourth, 8. B. Chase, of Cook; Fifth, S. L. Bignal, of Kane; Sixth, Mr. Frazier, of Carroll; Seventh, W. C. Green, of Whiteside; Eighth, J. C. Campbell, of La Salle; Ninth, R, S. Mcllduff, of Livingston; Tenth, no appointment made; Eleventh, U. R. Whittaker, of McDonough; Twelfth, Maurice Kelly, of Adams; Thirteenth, W. H. Clendennin, of Sangamon; Fourteenth, Wm. Fuller; of DeWitt; Fifteenth, A. J. Fryer, of Coles; Sixteenth, Judge Boggs, of Wayne; Seventeenth, W. Crouch, of Montgomery; Eighteenth, H. G. Wheeler, of St. Clair; Nineteenth, 8. L. Dwight, of Marion; Twentieth, R. J. Goddard, of Williamson. The Committee on Resolutions presented a lengthy platform, the reading at which was frequently interrupted by applause. It denounces protection, advocates a tariff for revenue only, and instructs the delegates to the national convention to vote as a unit on this question. It commends the work of Mr. Morrison in his efforts for horizontal reduction, and indorses the investigations of Springer. It advocates pensions for soldiers and sailors, opposes land-grabbing by foreigners or others for speculative purposes, and that forfeited grants should revert to the Government. It opposes competition between honest and convict labor, and fovors an eight-hour law. While willing to punish the sale of intoxicants to minors or inebriates, the platform decrees that sumptuary legislation on the enactment of the prohibitory law is fanatical, “destructive of the rights of freemen, and fraught with manifold evils.” At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Judd moved the adoption of the resolutions and called for the previous question. Mayor Harrison, rose and said that he desired to be heard before the question was put to a vote. He asked that the convention pause before adopting the resolutions as presented. He would move that the tariff question be referred to the national convention, which he had no doubt, would act wisely. He believed that taxation for protection was robbery. The only kind of tariff which was defensible was tariff for revenue. There were various shades of opinion on the tariff question in the Democratic party, and the Democrats of Illinois should not undertake to anticipate the wisdom of the assembled Democracy of the nation. The passage of this tariff plank at this time would endanger the success of the Democracy, State and national. He closed by moving to strike out all that part of the platform referring to the tariff. The Hon. W. R. Morrison opposed the motion. He hoped the gentleman who had preceded him would be nominated and elected Governor, but that his motion would be defeated.

Ex-Gov. Palmer said that if Mayor Harrison was not willing to run on this platform he should refuse the Gubernatorial nomination if .tendered by this convention. Mayor Harrison interrupted the speaker to say that he was misrepresenting his position. The Mayor said his motion was not to strike out the tariff plank, but merely the instruction to the Ulinois delegation to work in a certain way in the national convention.„ Intense excitement and great confusion followed, numerous speakers struggling for recognition at the same time. Finally it was decided to call the roll of the counties on the question of striking out the instruciMMi to. thoi -St ata - delegation. a& aaov«L by Harrison. This process was accompanied by cheers by the friends and opponents of the motion, as the chairmen announced the votes of their delegations for and against. At the opnclusion the result announced was: For striking out the instruction, 653; against, 623; majority in favor of striking out, 30. The platform, as amended, was then adopted by a’viva-voce vote. Gen. J. C. Black presented the name of Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, for the nomination for Governor, and the nomination was made by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket was then selected as fallows: For Lieutenant Governor, Henry Seiter, of St Clair. Secretary of State, Michael J. Dougherty, of Knox; State Treasurer, Alfred Orendorff, of Sangamon; Auditor of State, Walter A. Carlin, of Jersey; Attorney General, Robert McKinley, of Edgar.

SMALL TALK.

'Fiery Gizzard” is the name of a postoffice in Tennessee. Vermont school-teachers are prohibited by law from the use of tobacco. A man in Birmingham, England, proposes to live a month on cold tea. Baron Tennyson first made use of the phrase “Sweet girl graduates." King Alfonso has the consumption. He has long been a cigarette smoker. A Virginia cat is reported to be rearing two foxes along with her litter of kittens.

THE FISCAL YEAR.

State of the National Finances at Its ' Close-Some Interesting Figures. Seduction in Revenue for the Past Year as Compared with Preceding Twelve Months. [Washington telegram.] —: ■ The Government fiscal year closed on the 30th ult., and the public debt statement shows a reduction of $101,000,000, against a reduction of $138,000,000 during the previous year ending June 30, 1883. An examination of the interest-bearing debt shows, however, that the oatual reduction during the year has been nearly $112,000,000, which represents a permanent annual saving in the interest account of over $3,250,000. The one hundred and twenty-eighth call for 3 per cent, bonds matured June 30, and the $10,000,000 thus called were taken from the column of bonded debt, which will explain the apparent discrepancy between the aggregate reduction given in the debt statement and the actual amount of reduction in bonded debt for the year as given in these

dispatches. i The goH coin and bullion fund is now nearly $205,000,000, an increase siaqe June 1 of about $3,000,000; while, however, this fund shows an increase of $3,4)00,000 for the month, there has beeu-'a decrease in the amount of gold owned by the Treasury of $4,300,000, the outstanding gold certificates having increased since June 1 $12,000,000. The amount of these certificates now outstanding <js over $71,000,000, and the amount of gold in the Treasury not covered by certificates, $133,729,914.

The number of silver dollars now on hand $135,560,916, an increase of nearly $3,000,000 for the month, and since July 1, 1883, of $23,646,897. The amount of silver certificates outstanding is $96,420,000, thus leaving the number of silver dollars not covered by Certificates over $39,000,000, an increase ’since June 1 of nearly $4,000,000. The available cash in the Treasury is $139,887,439, a falling off of $8,000,000 since June 1, 1883. During the month the national banks withdrew $6,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds for redemption under the call, and deposited in their place $4,000,000 of higher rate bonds. The amount of bonds now held to secure national bank circulation is $334,000,000, against $357,000,000 one year ago, thus showing a withdrawal of bank circulation for the year of about $20,000,000. The contraction, however, in this portion of the circulating medium is more than compensated for in the increase of outstanding gold and silver certificates, during the past twelve months the increase in silver certificates having been nearly $24,000,000 and gold certificates over sll'ooo,ooo. The total receipts for the year were $348,000,000 against $398,000,000 for the preceding year, a difference of $50,000,000 in round numbers. During the discussion of the tariff bill in Congress it was estimated that the passage of the revenue bill then pending would work a reduction of about $70,000,000 per annum. The actual reduction in these two sources, as shown by figures reported to the Treasury Department, is a few thousand short of $42*000,000; the reduction in customs having been $19,000,000 and internal revenue $23,000,000. The following tyble shows receipts from all sources for the fiscal year compared with those for preceding fiscal year; 1884. 1883. Cu5t0m55195,827,291 $214,706,496 Internal revenue 122,004,499 144,720,369 Miscellaneous..... 30,086,944 38,860,716 ZT Total .$348466,734 $398,287,582 Expen di turesas follows: 1884. 1883. 0rdinary5134,915,689 $140,285,433 Pensions 56,008,995 66,012,573 Interest.. 54,578,894 | . I. .. ■' ■ ■ I I ■ ■!« T0ta1.5245,498,578 $265,408,187

THE TEMPERANCE ISSUE.

A Letter from Hon. Neal Dow. [Freeport till.) Dispatch.] It having been stated that the Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine, who was a candidate for the Presidency on the Prohibition ticket four years ago, would refuse to support the National Prohibition nominations this y ear, and work for the success of the Republican ticket, Russell J. Hazlett, of this city, who is the Grand Worthy Secretary of the Illinois Good Templars Grand Lodge, wrote to him for his views on the question of a third party. The following reply was received this afternoon: Portland, Me., June 27, 1884. R. J. Hazlett, Grand Worthy Secretary, Good Templars, Freeport, Hl.: Drab Sib: Your note of the 24th is received. The newspaper slip you send me correctly reports my views as to the wise action of the temperance men of Maine, Kansas and lowa. The Republican party in those States has steadily favored prolnbiti’on and has afforded the people an opportunity to put their will as to the liquor traffic into the constitution. I think it is for the interest of the temperance cause to show the country that the party has lost nothing in those States by such action. As to Ohio, Indiana, Ulinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania. New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, the temperance men owe the Republican party nothing, and it has no just claim whatever on them for help in any election. You ask me if it is really true that I look on tfie third party action with disfavor. So for from that, I am sure we can never win -in Miy othw way. r that the sooner we shall accomplish our purpose. Neal Dow.

CLIPPINGS.

Paper peach baskets are in use in Maryland. - . Alt, the Presidents since Lincoln have worn full beards, except President Arthur, whose whiskers have the English sideboard cut. David M. Stone, editor of the New York Journal ojbCommerce, has not been absent from his editorial chair for recreation for more than thirty years. A LADY in New York has just finished a silk quilt composed of 14,060 pieces, each about the size of a 10-cent piece. It took her seven years to complete the work, and it is valued at S6OO. „ Weston Kent, of Peoria, deposited SSO to the credit of a new-born babe, upon the agreement of the parents that the child should bear his name. The boy was christened Weston Kent Keith, and, when 21 years old, he will draw the SSO, with interest. Mr. A. Vaif Wagner, an American and a protege of the late Judah P. Benjamin, succeeds to the rooms, and possibly to part of the practice of the great barrister, but at present Mr. Charles Russell leads the London bar with an income of $75,000 from his practice. THE Emperor of China has ordered the destruction of $4,000,000 worth of opium

The Monster Tree of California.

As regard® the wonderful size of the Sequoia, that ts a matter which does not at* first fully come to one. 'lhe fact is that all the trees are so large that one fails to realize the magnitude of the giants. All have increased in proportion. It requires a mental calculation to convince one’s self that the transformation is something quite out of the common. It is only when you come to -walk in and out of the hollow trees and to circle round them and take a constitutional by walking alongside of a fallen giant, or perhaps (if it has done duty as a chimney before it came to grief), by riding up inside the hol--3w for a considerable distance, that yow' begin to understand their size. You do so best when, standing on the ground beside a prostrate tree lying buried in a ditch of its own making, you look up at a red wall rising perhaps fifteen or twenty ■ feet above your head, bulging outward considerable, and extending in a atrainght line for 300 feet along the ground, and tell yourself that it is only a tree! The owners of the beautiful groves near the hotel have erected tall ladders to enable people to climb on to some of these heights and walk along the fallen trees as if on garden terraces. It sounds cockney, but it is decidedly Sleasant to gain a view of the forest ’om an elevation of thirty feet, and it is not every one who can scale the red rampart without the aid of the ladder. If you choose to clamber along the upturned roots you may find an airy seat'some forty feet above the ground. This sounds high, but on further consideration you begin to marvel how such extraordinary small joots can ever have formed a fit pedestal for so ponderous a weight. They have literally no depth and a comparatively small spread, so that they have merely a superficial hold on the earth’s surface. Yet this slight support has enabled these huge bodies to resist the wild storms of many centuries. All the big trees of the district are concentrated in two groves, namely, the little forest gem of Calaveras, and a much larger belt known as the South Park Grove, on the Stanislaus River, about six miles further. In the Calaveras Grove all the Sequoias lie Jwithin an area of fifty acres, over which space altogether about 100 lie scattered singly or ingroups. Of these twenty attain a circumference of about eighty feet near the base, and one, which is distinguished as the Father of the Forest, is found to measure 110 feet round, it now lies prostrate, and has apparently done so for many a century, for the well-nigh imperishable wood is in part decayed, and long use as a chimney had burned out Its inside and destroyed its summit ere it felt The portion that still remains is like a long mountain, and two large archways have been out into the side of the said" mountain in order that those whose taste lies in that line may ride into the hollow trunk and come out by the further opening. It is estimated that the tree, when perfect, must have been about 450 feet in height. Of the trees now standing, four exceed 300 feet in height, and one measures 325. About twenty-five are said to exceed "250 feet. One can, perhaps, better realize what these sizes mean by finding the amount of house-room to be obtained within a hollow tree. Several, such as “Miner’s Camp” and “Pioneer Camp,” have been used as temporary homes. In the latter, fifty persons can find sitting room; others are used for stabling horsea— G. F. Gordon Cumming, in the Gentleman's Magazine.

A Minneapolis Flouring Mill.

In the largest mills the appointments and the work accomplished are on a stupenduous scale. The Pillsbury A, to which is accorded the distinction of being the largest flonring-mitl in the world, is a noble building, occupying a conspicuous site on the east side of the Mississippi. The walls are of limestone, of enormous thickness, as they must be to support the heavy machinery. Its capacity is 5,200 barrels of flour and about 180 tons of offal pet day. This is made from 24,000 bushels of wheat. The aggregate quantity of wheat taken to the mill and of flour and offal taken away, when it is running to its utmost capacity, makes 110 car loads daily. Four days’ product would load an ocean steamer. The mere handling of the wheat and product is no small problem, especially as the “roustabout” work and the packing are done in ten hours, though the mill runs day and night. The flour is packed and loaded at the rate of 520 barrels an hour, or more than eight per minute. A great many 280 pound sacks are used for exporting, and shipments are made daily to the principal European ports. The mill employs 200 men, is illuminated by a forty-light electric machine, has a complete fire apparatus, more than fifteen miles of belting, and many other things that excite the. wonder of visit©l? - f Glr the—vast bulk ®f machinery w hich it contains is supplied by two of the largest-sized turbines, each driven by a column of water twelve feet in diameter, falling fifty feet. Each turbine is set in a tube made of heavy plates of boiler-iron, through which the immense body of water plunges with terrific force. The impact is received at the bottom of the pit on a solid flooring made of a number of intersectng layers of twelve-inch timbers firmly bolted together and embedded into the sandstone with hydraulic cement. The two turbines generate three thousand horse-power, and the crown-wheel and pinion at the top of each weigh nine thousand pounds. The great velocity at which they revolve has caused several of these gears to fly into fragments, and they have recently been replaced with steel On the grinding-floor there are two hundred sets of rolls and twenty pair of mill-stones, and the other five floors are filled with machinery to correspond. The structure cost nearly a million of dollars. It is a great span from the mill used by the Israelites to the Pillsbury A mill of to-day. - . Jennie June conclules that two people cannot live in any style in New Fork on $4,000 a year. They might be happy, though, which is vastly more important than style. j 1