Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. * 6. & MARSHALL, ~ Publish**

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Mbs. Hows, of Woman’s Bank notoriety, who served three years for swindling the depositors, has again started a similar institution in Boston, offering $7 a month interest oh SIOO, with three months’ interest in advance... .While a Salvation Army meeting was in progress at Saco, Me., an incendiary fired the hall, bat prompt aotion in dismissing the audience averted a panic. ....Hotel-keepers in New York are excited to the utmost over, several daring robberies of rooms, the plunder amounting to thousands of dollars. A NEGRO named Howard Sullivan was executed at Salem, N. J., for the murder of a white girl named Ella Watson. Stephen Young, living near Dover, N. H., gave a party the other night There was some dynamite for blasting purposes on a shelf, and one of the party, to scare the rest, fired a revolver. The jar caused an explosion of the dynamite, and the house was blown to atoms and burned np. One person, a Frenchman employed by Young, was killed outright and seven wounded. Bonds to the amount of $50,000 and a large amount of railroad stock were destroyed. Miss Sadie Greenfield, of Rochester, was Wows through a window and her head cut open. Several of those injured will probably die. A bain and wind storm of unusual severity passed over Eastern Pennsylvania and New York, unroofing houses and barns, and destroying telegraph wires and doing much damage to other property. In New York City the front wall of the Adams Express Company’s office, on Fifth avenue, was blown down. At Pittsburgh three S’rsons were fatally injured... .The Home übber Works at Trenton, N. J., wero burned, involving a loss of $70,000.

THE WEST.

At Lincoln, 111., the other day, the lather of Zora Bums fired a shot at O. A. . Carpenter, who was tried and acquitted of the girl’s murder. The bullet struck an iron column, and Carpenter was escorted home by friends. Tre Toledo (Ohio) Produce Exchange has adopted an address to the railway managers of the country urging that freight charges are too high, and that in view of the decreased values of "Western products there should be a revision and readjustment of rates. Near Knoxville, Ohio, Wm. Reynolds’ wagon, containing his three children, left its fastenings on a hillside and dashed down the incline; coming in collision with a great rock. Two of the children were killed, but the third escaped with slight injuries. At Prescott, Arizona, Judge Howard sentenced the convicted polyamists, Ammon M. Tenny, Bishop P. J. Christoffer» son, and C. I. Kemp, to pay a fine of SSOO each and be imprisoned three years and six months in the United States Houße of Correction at Detroit, Mich. Kemp leaves two wives and twelve children in destitute circumstances. He desired to plead guilty, but was prevented under pain of excommunication from the Mormon Church. The sentences of Bishops Wm. J. Flake and Jas. F. Skonsen, who pleaded guilty, were SSOO fine each and six months’ confinement in the Yuma Penitentiary.... Seagrave & Co., private bankers at Toledo, Ohio, have failed. The deposits do not exceed SIO,OOO, and the unsecured liabilities are said to reach $150,000. A sensation was caused in Lafayette, Ind., in the course of a lecture by Col. Ingersoll. The Hon. John A. Stein protested against the blasphemy of the lecturer. He so informed him. and with several friends arose and left the ha 11... .The Rev, W. H. Tibbals, of the Methodist Cburch, Paw Paw, Mich., resigned owing to political differences with the congregation, he having advocated prohibition during the campaign... .A. O. Roach, a Republican of Waterloo, Wis., wheeled a barrow twenty miles to Madison, in payment of an election bet. The J. I. Case Plow Company, of Racine, Wis., has made an assignment in favor of its creditors. The unsecured liabilities are from $60,000 to $70,000, and the assets nearly $70,000, The heaviest creditor is J. I. Case, President of the company. Other large creditors are iron and steel dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE SOUTH.

A negro named Perry was lynched at Sulphur Springs, Texas, for the murder of farmer Jones and his wife, robbery being his motive. If the Spanish treaty is ratified, it is claimed that Key West will be a ruined town. Seven thousand persons employed in the cigar factories will be rendered idle, while the loss to property will be $2,000,000. ....The family of Andrew Maqn, a cattledealer at Fort Spring. W. Va., were poisoned, the drug having been placed in milk. Two persons have died, four are beyond recovery, three are seriously ill, and four others are out of danger. This is the third attempt, it is alleged, to poison Mr. Mann’s family. The senate of Alabama last week adopted a resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the State, and solemly expressing the purpose of the white people to aid in me education of colored children. difficulty between the Sauls and Basham families at Gatesville, Texas, six persons were wounded, Dr. Sauls, Henry Basham, and A. Sauls being fatally shot. Masked robbers boarded a railroad train near Little Rock, Ark., and secured $6,000 in cash and valuables. Bloodhounds were put on the track of the robbers, and six nien were soon captured in the city. Three of them were identified. The correspondent of the Courier-Jour-nal, Louisville, who has investigated the pestilence caused by drought in the mountainous regions of Kentucky and Virginia, reports that up to date 2,045 deaths have occurred.

WASHINGTOL

The Chairman of the House Committee on Public Lands states that the Pacific Bailroads have pooled their issues and plaaed a strong lobby on duty. The Northern Pacific forfeiture bill is likely to be the first one Drought up, and its passage will restore to the public domain a tract for which au English syndicate is said to have offered $350,000,000..... Civil-Service Commissioners Thowan and Gregory de-

clare that there is no intention to jsxtond the soppe of the-', civil-service rules 1 so as to incline a much larger number of ’Government officials than at present Postmaster Gene rap Hatton says that the $266,764 asked by him for special facilities if secured will be spent in fast mail service from Boston south along the Atlantic seaboard.

A Washington telegram says: “It seems to have Bettled down to a certainty that this will be a working session, and that much important matter before the House and in the committees will be disposed of during the winter. Mt. Buckner says the Banking and Currency Committee will try to pass through the House some bill to secure a national-bank system and avert financial depression. He expects to meet with opposition, but says something must be done. Whatever action is taken, however, will have to be before the loth, for after that time it will be too late to get a day assigned/’ ATU conference of Republican politicians in New York, it was decided to send James D. Warren to Washington to learn whether President Arthur desires to make the race for Senator openly or by proxy. The annual report of William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, has been made public. In connection with the statement that three new ships have been successfully launched, the Secretary says it has been shown that American steel jnakers can readily furnish excellent material for shipbuilding in large quantities. The Secretary points out that comparisons of speed between the new cruisers and the great transatlantic racing steamers are unfair lie ause the latter attain their high speed only “by the sacrifice of qualities essential to a ship of war, and adds that the formes could overtake 56 per cent, of the merchant steamers of the world. The report calls attention to the necessity for torpedo harts, and recommends the construction of seven modem cruisers annually for the next ten years. Commenting on the present condition of the navy, Secretary Chandler says that the disproportion between the expenditures therefor, and the results accomplished, is due to the policy of attempting at great cost to rehabilitate worn-out structures under the name of repairs. The report recommends the discontinuance of several navy-yards and workshops and certain improvements in the management of the remainder, among these the exclusion of politics, recites the histoiy of the recent arctic * expeditious, comments at length upon the frauds connected with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, fixes the ordinary estimates at $17,292,601, and those for increasing the navy at $15,071,592, and, in conclusion, advocates Government encouragement for the development of our merchant marine, either in the shape of bounties upon construction Or payment for carrying the mails. Attorney General Brewster has decided that it is illegal to approve plans foj public buildings where the expenditure required for their erection is clearly greater than the appropriation made by Congress. This decision applies to proposed public buildings at Leavenworth, Minneapolis, and Dodge City.... On Saturday, Dec. 6, the American flag was unfurled from a staff on the top of the Washington Monument as the signal of the completion of the work, which was commenced in 1848. The total weight of the monument is 160,000,000 pounds. The total cost was $1,150,000 It is claimed by Mr. Springer that the Senate will pass, his bill to do away with the fee system of paying United States Marshals and Attorneys when it is revised and put in better shape The internal-reve-nue collections for the first quarter of the fiscal year of 1885 were $38,375,676. Congressman Money says he has reason for believing that the Senate would accept the cheap telegraphic correspondence bill now before the House as a substitute for the postal telegraph bill.

POLITICAL.

An Albany correspondent recently interviewed President-elect Cleveland, nnd reports as follows: I take the liberty of opening doors upon a personal interview had with the Presidentelect. The public—notably that portion of the Democratic party aspiring to Federal position or employment—is curious to know what will be the width and celerity of the Cleveland broom. I have sought to measure it and time it. Two things may be accepted as facts: One that the Cleveland hand will hold the stick, and the-othei that the hand is fully as patriotic as partisan. "Onr national opposition to the Republican party methods is largely against the morbid partisanship which has respected party truculency more than fitness for public service.” is the substance of Cleveland’s argument without literally quoting him. So, while he will give the country a Democratic administration, he evidently does not purpose copying one of the most objectionable features of the dethroned party by a precipitate and indiscriminate sweeping out of placeholders, merely for* party's sa'ie. I look upon it that only the first step has been taken,” said Gov. Cleveland to me, “in the reform contemplated by the election. Purity in official station and prosperity for the people are the demands upon the incoming administration. The confusion that would follow an immediate turning out of all the present officeholders and clerks of the Government is not properly estimated, perhaps by those who would clamor for such a policy. Reform and not revolution is the need of the republic." During a conversation of considerable length the remarks of the President-elect were onlv cumulative evidence of an intention to act upon the principle ontlined in the quotation. There was nothing of the headstrong nor the pretender in his manner, but any amount of conviction and determination. While the character of the interview precludes Its publication In detail, there is easily a deduction from it which is submitted for the benefit of interested parties. My deduction is that Grover Cleveland will be the people's, and not the politicians', man. The electoral colleges of the various States met at their respective capitals on Wednesday, Dec. 3, and went through the formality of voting for President and Vice President The ballots used at Raleigh were miniature United States flags made from silk grown in North Carolina. The Indiana electors marched to the residence of Mr. Hendricks. In the Illinois college Andrew Shuman drew the slip which carried the privilege of delivering the returns at Washington. The ballot-box used In Connecticut was the silk hat of ex-Lieut Gov. Loomis. Mark Hopkins presided over the Massachusetts College. The electors of New Jersey united in recommending John P. Stoekton for a Cabinet position. Among the New York electors was Jacob Windmiller,. 84 years of age, who marched with his associates to the Capital to congratulate Mr. Cleveland. The President of the college sent his per diem and mileage to the Little Sisters of the Poor in Albany. Nearly every distinguished Democrat' in West Virginia witnessed the proceedings of the college at Wheeling. At Lansing, George K. Steketee was chosen to carry the vote of Michigan to Washington. The Tennessee college selected Robert L Chester, the oldest Democrat in the State, as messenger. The Texas electors sent Cleveland a disparch congratulating him on his 128,000 majority in that State. The Kansas college adopted resolutions expressing confidence in the character and ability of Blaine and Logan, and chose J. M. Miller messenger; At Des Moines, John Van Valkenborg was selected to cany the vote

of lowa to the national capital. The Wisconsin college imposed this trust upon J. W. Ostrander The Missouri Electors sent a congratulating telegram to GleVeland and chose Jphn I. Martin as messenger. The official vote of Texas was canvassed on the 2d inst., thus completing the list of States, and below we print the complete and authentic popular vote for President in aH-of the States of the Union:

2 3 3 . M ◄ S* t* (S P Q States. g ? tr r P* : f : Alabama... 92,973 59,444 610 762 Arkansas.. 72,927 50,895 ....... 1847 California 88,307 100,816 2,640 1,975 Colorado. 27,723 36,290 761 1,958 Connecticut 67,182 65,898 2,494 1,685 Delaware ........ 17,054 12,768 55 6 Florida. 31,769 28,031 72 Georgia 94,567 47,603 184 125 Illinois 312,450 337,481 12,074 10,910 1ndiana.......... 244,990 238.463 3,028 8,293 10wa... *177,286 197,089 1;564 .. Kansas..... 90,132 154,406 4,495 16,346 Kentucky. 152,657 118,674 3,106 1,655 Louisiana 62,546 46,347 338 120 Maine ........... 52,140 72,209 2,160 3,953 Maryland. 96,932 85,699 2,794 531 Massachusetts... 122,352 146,724 9,923 24,382 Michigan 1189,361 192,669 18,403 Minnesota 70,144 111,923 4,691 3,587 Mississippi 76,510 43,509 .' .. Missouri §235,989 202,925 2,153 . Nebraska ; . 64,354 76,877 2,858 Nevada..... 5,577 7,193 New Hampshire. 33,166 43,166 1,573 552 New Jersey.... .. 127,781 123,432 6,155 3,494 New York 563,154 562,005 25,206 17,004 North Carolina.. 1*2,900 125,070 425 10 0hi0...,,.,,..... 368,280 400,082 11,069 5,179 Oregon 24,593 . 26,852 488 723 Pennsylvania.... 393,747 474,268 14,306 16,992’ Rhode JBland.... 12,391 19,030 928 422 South Carolina.. 69,890 21,733 .. Tennessee....... 133,270 124,090 1,131 957 Texas 223.208 88,353 3,511 3,321 Vermont 17,342 88.411 1,612 785 Virginia. §145,497 _139,356 143 West Virginia.... 67,317 63,036 939 805 Wisconsin 146,477 161,157 7,65 G 4,598 Total . 4,910,843 4,843,944 150,365 133.400 “Cleveland's pin. 66,8991,.... ....1 77, .. rnrr... TotaLvote. (10,038,522 ♦Fusion—Cleveland and Butler electors. ■(Fusion—Cleveland and Butler electors; one Cleveland elector was voted for separately, receiving 149.835 votes, aijd one Butler elector was voted ior Separately, deceiving 41,390 votes. SFusion —Blaine and Butler electors. Boston telegram: The Journal,~o£ this city, asserts that on the Friday preceding the election a Republican leader (understood to be Levi P. Morion! besought Senator Edmunds, who was in New York at the time, to write a simple statement that he believed Cleveland’s election would be unfavorable to the public interest. The Vermont Senator wanted to know to whom he should address the note. His interlocutor answered: “To me. I will see that it is properly used.” The Senator pointedly refused to do what was asked, in spite of Mr. Morton’s appeal that it would probably be of enough avail to turn the rote of New York to Blaine, saying quietly: “I should be misunderstood.” The Senatorial contest in California has narrowed down to George C. Perkins and Aaron A. Sargent, with the probabilities in favor of the latter. John P. Jones has no opposition.in Nevada, but the prediction is made that J. \V. Mackey will displace James Fair two years hence.

GENERAL.

During November the fire losses in the United States amounted to $7,000,000, nnd for eleven months of 1884 the loss is placed at $101,000,000. There were 296 failures in the United States reported during the week, against 237 in the preceeding week, and 246, 247, and 169 in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882, and 1881, respectively. About 84 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. The general commercial situation throughout the United States during the past week as reported by telegraph to Bradstreet’s shows no material evidences of improvement. In the face of the continued depression, the somewhat surprising fact is noted that at several important points the general feeling in trade circles is mbre buoyant, and that greater confidence exists in the outlook for business in the new year. Tangible data for this view are not furnished. .. .Solomon Forres and Joso Manuel Soto were .executed at Salinas, Cal., for murdering a Chinaman; and Cook Teets, a blind man was hanged at Owen Sound, Ontario, for killing his wife to secure the insurance on her life.... Twelve Chinamen are supposed to have been drowned in an attempt to make their way along the coast from Foul Bay, British Columbia, to Washington Territory. The New York Sun, in a significant double-leaded editorial, discusses the question of “Our Coming National Currency,” nnd reaches the conclusion that the national bank currency must go, and give place to a Government currency of coin and paper money. The article notes carefully the rapid decrease of the national bank circulation, and the more rapid increase in coin and coin certificates, and says: , "This will give us, by 1891,'a grand total of t 1 .136,000,000 of government currency against not more than $100,000,000, and probably less, supplied by the banks. Of course, much may happen to modify or prevent this result The conduct of men cannot be predicted so confidently as that of inanimate things. The legal tenders may be redeemed and withdrawn, the coinage of silver dollars may be suspended and the supply of gold may be diminished at the mines or be drained away to foreign countries. The decrease of national bank circulation may, on the other hand, be checked by favoring legislation, but the probabilities are greatly against these events, and, as we said at the outset, it is much more likely that national bank notes will be driven out of use altogether, and their place taken by an exclusively Government currency.” George Sntder, of Darrtown, Ont, killed his aged mother with a shovel and buried herein a ravine, to obtain SIOO which he had paid her os interest on a mortgage. ... .Fire destroyed $50,000 worth of property at West Randolph, Vt.; Butterfield & Crabb’s saw-mill at Alpena, Mich., with 275,000 feet of lumber; loss, $35,000.

FOREIGN.

The condition of affaires in Spain is believed to be worse than at any time since the killing of Gen. Prim in 1680. The situation is one of riots and conspiracies, trade is at a standstill, cholera is raging, the treasury is bankrupt, and a revolution is impending.... China will continue the war against France and will secure 15,000 re-enforcements. Premier Ferrv has abandoned all hopes of a successful issue of the mediation between China and France. , Protests against the proposed increase of the French duty on grain have been made by Russia and the United States. • The rumor is telegraphed from Egypt that the false prophet of the Soudan is dead, and that his army is dispersing... .A Brussels dispatch states that Nicholas Fish, United States Minister to Belgium, has resigned. 1 It is stated by the London Times that business in India has been unsettled by the prospect of a repeal of the law es the United States for the compulsory coinage of silver dollars... The Piimellites expect to be able to return eighty-five members as soon as the redistribution bill goes into effect.... During Novemberßritish imports decreased!

compared with November last year, £5,774,000. The exports for November decreased £2,350,000, compared with November last year... .Austria and Italy are threatening reprisals on French products on account of the law passed by the French Government imposing a tax on imports of grain. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge in pronouncing the decision of the Conrt of Apr peals in the case of Capt Dudley and the mate of the wrecked yacht Mignonette, who killed the boy Parker to keep themselves alive, said that all the Judges agreed that the act of the prisoners amounted to murder, and the conviction must be affirmed.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A pearl weighing sixty-three carats, and valued at $17,000, was recently purchased for S9O from an Indian at Guaymas, Mexico, and has been shipped to London. A dispatch from Alexandria says De Lepseps has obtained from tho Egyptian Government concessions for a fresh water canal from Hagazig to Port Said. ...The steamers Alliance and Pochard : foundered off the coast of England, causing the loss of sixty or more lives. A wrestling match for S6OO and the mixed wrestling championship of the world between Duncan C. Ross and Tom Cannon took place in San Francisco. Cannon won the first fall, catch as catch can, in 11| minutes; the second round, side-hold, was won by Ross in 2 minutes; the third, sidehold, by Ross in 3! minutes; the fourth, Graeco-Roman, by Cannon in 9 minutes; the fifth, collar-and-elbow, by Ross in 11 minutes. As Ross won three out of five, the match was decided in his favor... .The J. I. Case Plow Company, of Racine, having been served with foreign attachments, executed an assignment to Charles H. Lee, who gave bond in the sum of $675,000. The liabilities may prove to be SBOO,OOO, Mr. Case being the heaviest creditor. Two thousand cigarmakers have been thrown out of employment by the shutting down of the Straiton & Storm factory in _New York. Work will not recommence until the question of the Spanish treaty in regard to the West India trade is settled.. .. At Frankfort Plains, J., unknown men opened the grave of Zachariah H. Price, broke the casket, and were engaged in removing the corpse when they were frightened away. As Mr. Price was well known throughout the State, it is thought the intended -to hold his body for a reward.... George Opdyke & Co., bankers and brokers, of New York, have failed. In response to the request of Gen. Grant United States Senator Mitchell has withdrawn his bill proposing to confer a pension on the great military leader... .News has been received by President Arthur of the successful negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Guatemala, San Salvador and the United States of Colombia... .Postmaster General Hatton has sent a letter to the Senate recommending that the postoffices shall be supplied with a larger clerical force.

Mr. Blair introduced a bill in the Senate, on the Bth Inst., granting $60,000 to aid the Colored People’s Exposition, to be held at Chicago m 1885. Mr. Dolph called up the bill providing for the incorporation of the Spokane Falls and Coeur d'Alene Railway Company in Idaho and Washington Territories. Mr. Harrison objected to the bill on the ground that the company would probably occupy all the passes through-“the —mountains and secure land enough to monopolize the public domain. Mr. Platt remarked that he did not approve .of the practice in vogue of building railroads on paper. Certain amendments to the bill were agreed to depriving the company of the right to consolidate with other roads. Further consideration of the subject was postponed. A bill to refund to a Detroit firm $473 alleged to have been Illegally exacted on malt Imported from Canada was defeated, for the reason that protest was not made at the time of paying the duties. Mr. Mitchell read a letter from 'Gen. Grant declining to accept a penslou, and requesting the withdrawal of the bill introduced in his behalf. A committee of conference was ordered on the bill forfeiting the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. In the Honse of Representatives the Speaker read a communication from the Postmaster General asking an appropriation of $100,00) for railroad postal service for the remainder of the cuirent year. This was referred, as well as the following bills: One by Mr. Townshend proposing a constitutional amendment providing that treaties shall be made by and with the consent of the House as well as that of the Senate; by Mr. Ryan, to open portions of Indian Territory to homestead settlement; another bj Mr. Buckner to suspend the coinage of- standard silyer dollars; and another by Mr. Robinson to restore the ceremonies attendant upon Presidential inaugurations to Jeffersonian simplicity. Mr. Cox offered a resolution asking the opinion of the Attorney General as to whether the eight-hour law should be considered as applicable to letter-carriers. A joint resolution was also introduced by Mr. Cox proposing an appropriation of $100,00) for the completion of file Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. Mr. Warner offered a bill to prevent the contraction of the currency, a $500,000 appropriation was proposed by Mr. O'Neill for the improvement of the Philadelphia harbor, and Mr. Ellis introduced a bill to erect a monument to the victims of the Greely expedition at a cost of $26,000. Some discussion of the interstate commerce bill followed, but no action was taken upon it.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves. *4.50 <a 7.00 Hogs 4.50 & 5.00 Flour—Extra. 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. a Spring si <a .sa No. 2 Red 82 i«i .85 Corn—No. a... .. .56 @ .57 Oats—White 38 @ .38 1 ORE—New Mess 12.75 @13.21 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.25 @6.75 Good Shipping 5.25 @ 6.25 Common to Fair. 3.50 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.75 @4.25 Flour -Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.00 @ 4.50 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.21 @ 3.7} Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 @ .73 1 * No. 2 .Red Winter 74 @ .75 Cobs—No. 2 37 t® .38 Oats—No. 2 24 ffl .25 Rye—No. 2 51 @ .52 Barley—No. 2 57 @ .58 Butte . —Choice Creamery .25 @ .27 Fine Dairy - 10 @ .20 Cheese—Full L ream. 12 @ .13 Skimmed F1at......... .08 (/' .ooii Egos—Freah .22 @ .23 Potatoeraiew, per bn... ;8 @ .40 Pork —Mess 11.25 @11.50 Lard 06?4@ 07 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 68 @ .70 Corn—No. 2 .38 @ .30 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .38 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No 2 73 @ .72 v. Corn—No. 2 35 @ .38 Oats—No. 2..., 26 @ .2* Barley—No. 2 49 & .50 Pork—Mess 11.Wo @ILSO Lard......... 6,50 @ 6.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 75 @ .76 Corn—Mixed .34 @ .35 Oats—Mixed. 26 @ .27 RVE. .48 @ .49 Pork—Mess..: 11.50 @I2OO CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 74 @ .76 Cohn .36 @ .37% Oats—Mixed 28 @ .29 Pork—Mess 1200 @1250 Lard 06v,@ .oo« - DETROIT. Flour i. 5.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White. .75 @ .77 Corn-Mixed 40 & .41 Oats—No. 2 White ; 28 @ .2) Pork—Family .1200 @1250 f INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red. New. 71 @ .73 CORN-T1ixed.. ................... .33 @ .34 Oats—Mixed „ .25 @ .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best. .. 6.00 @ 6.5> Fair.... ........ 5.00 @s.s> C0mm0n.......*...... 4.00 <94.50 Hogs... 4,50 4.75 Sheep..; .... 4.10 @5.00

UP IN. THE CLOUDS.

Completion of the Great Washington Hational Monument [Washington special.] The booming of cannon and shrieking of steam whistles this afternoon announced to the people of Washington that the capstone of the Washington monument had been successfully laid. Shortly afterward the aluminium block which forms the apex of the pyramidal roof of the highest structure raised by human hands was set in its place, ivnd an American flag was seen floating from the head of the staff above it The mortar in which the capstone rests was laid by Col. Casey and his assistants in the presence of a few spectators who had braved the storm of rain and wind to see the finishing touches given t 6 the great obelisk which rears its head 555 feet above the earth. Col. Casey has been in charge of the work during the last six years, and no accident cansing loss of life has happened during that period, owing to the great care exercised. It was suggested that the laying of the capstone be deferred until the 14th inst., the ninety-fifth anniversary of Washington’s death, but as that day might be too inclement for work at such a height, and as it will fall on Sunday, and as well as for other reasons, it was thought best that there should be no delay. The official ceremonies to mark the completion of the obelisk will take place Fob. 22, the 153 d anniversary of Washington’s birth. They will be under the direction of a joint commission of the Senate and Honse of Representatives, consisting of Senators Sherman, Morrill, Allison, Bayard, and Lamar, and Representatives Dorsheinier, Tucker, Reagan, Collins, Eldredge, Bingham, Cannon, and Laird. The commission will hold a meeting next week to arrange a programme for the occasion. When the corner-stone of the monument was laid, July 4, 1848, in the presence of President Polk, the Vice President, members of the Cabinet, Senators, Representatives, and a host of other distinguished persons, Robert C. Winthrop, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, delivered the oration. It is expected that he will deliver the inaugural address on the completion of the shaft next February. In 1854 the funds of the monument society were exhausted, the shaft having at that time reached the height of 175 feet, after an expenditure of $230,000. Subsequent difficulties with a rival society defeated efforts to obtain an appropriation from Congress, and the disappearance of a stone contributed by the Pope during the Know-Nothing excitement shut off, to a great extent, contributions of money from private souraes. It is expected that about two years more will be required for the final completion of of the interior and base of the obelisk. The monument itself, with its total height of 550 feet, far overtops every structure by human hands. The aluminium apex monument is engraved with inscriptions.

THE POSTAL SERVICE.

List of States in ’Which.lt Returns a Frofij to the Government. [Washington Dispatch.] During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, the postal service paid expenses and yielded a surplus in seventeen States aud j Territories, including, singularly enough, Alaska, where one would expect to find the postal service uurenumerative. The effect of reducing letter postage to 2 cents is that in the year ending June 30,1884, the postal service paid for itself in only ten States and no Territories The States in which the postal service paid for itself in 1883 and failed to do so in 1884 are Maine, Vermont, | Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, Dakota Territory, and the district of Alaska. The following table shows by States where the i postal service paid for itself in 1883-4, and where it did not, with the amount of the excess of expenditures of receipts, as the case may be:

Excess of Excess of ex- reeeipts pensea over over exBtates and Territories. receipts, p'dit’res. Maine , $48,328 $ New Hampshire 18,038 Vermont 33,909 Massachusetts. ..Tv........... ...... 916,906 Rhode Island. 124,638 Connecticut 135,643 New York.... 2.312,695 New Jersey. 143,517 Pennsylvania 560,677 De1aware.,................... ..... 8,162 Maryland 125,862 ...... Virginia 408,972 West Virginia. 76,920 ...... North Carolina 207,191 South Carolina 159,693 Georgia 320,202 Florida. . 133,294 Ohio 845,404 Michigan 39,461 Indiana.. j 294,062 Illinois 347,400 Wisconsin. 160,836 lowa 371,407 Missouri 480,383 Kentucky 171,089 Tennessee 111,210 Alabama . 238,494 Mississippi. 186,082 ...... Arkansas........ 208,602 L0ui5iana.................... 120,660 Texas 431,334 California. 471,188 Oregon 133,308 Minnesota 299,369 Kansas. 362.276 Nebraska 596,411 Nevada...., 113,108 Colorado 277,615 Utah. 180,996 New Mexico 111,366 Washington 110,892 Dakota 39,007 Arizona 149,819 Idaho 106,356 Wyoming;' 44,907 Montana. 62,653 Alaska. 1,600 ...... District of Columbia. 109,141 Indian Territory 42,086 Total $8,291,942 $4,606,982 The Ohio man appears to have got a good deal more than his share of postal facilities, and he might reasonably be asked to buy more postage stamps or be content with fewer mails. The effect of reducing letter postage one-third was to rednee the gross postal receipts only 5 per cent, in Hlinois.

CLIPPINGS.

Lorillabd made $84,000 on the turf last year. , ■ Commercial travelers say the South is now the best place for their operations. It is quite the fashion in Paris to celebrate a divorce by a dinner, ball, or other festival. Mbs. Lucy Stone believes there will some day be a woman President of the United States, Of the forty-nine Tail ways in Bnssia only four use wood, notwithstanding every line runs more or less through immense forests. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt, daring the last year, has spent over SIO,OOO relieving old Staten Island friends of his whose homes were about to be sold on foreclosure of their mortgages. Sib Walter Raleigh once asked Queen Elizabeth to smoke his pipe. She tried it once, and only once. It is a significant fact that inside cf a year she ordered his hard, to be cut off. A Gebman histologist says a man has a totally new brain every sixty days.

CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. A bill to suspend the coinage of the silver dollar, and providing that there- shall be no reissue of United States notes of a denomination less than $5, was introduced in the Senate on the 3d inst.. by Mr. McPherson, of New Jersey. The Mil proposes that silver certificates shall be Issued, redeemable on presentation at the Treasury. Mr. Vest's resolution calling for investigation into the leases of land made by Indians in Indian Territory was amended so as to include within the scope of the investigation the leases of lands in all Indian reservations. The resolution was then agreed to. Mr. Slater gave notice of his intention to take np the bill declaring forfeited the unearned lands granted m aid of the construction of the Oregon Central Railroad. The Honse, on motion of Mr. «obb, of Indiana, declined to accept the Senate's amendments to the House bul forfeiting the unearned land-grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. The House went into committee of the whole on tfie bill making temporary provision for the naval service. Mr. Randall stated that the appropriation for the support of the navy for the current fiscal .Year was $15,636,160, a reduction off $256,268 on last year’s appropriation. The bill passed without . amendment. Consideration of tho Interstate commerce bill was resumed. Mr. Seymour, a member of the Commerce Committe, supported the bilL He thought Reagan’s substitute so strict as to interfere with the trade laws. Mr. Long, another member, favored the establishment of an Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Peters approved of the bill because it provided against the perpetration of wrongs by railroad companies by unreasonable freight charges. Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill in the Senate, oh the 4th inst., giving a pension of $5,000 a year to Gen. Grant. Mr. Cameron submitted a resolution, to lie over, to the effect that the Finance Committee be directed to inquire whether it shall be expedient to expend a portion of the surplus revenue for the purpose of reviving the shipping and export trade by allowing a rebate from tariff duties on foreign goods imported in ships built and owned in this country and by allowing a premium on American vessels. The interstate commerce bill was made the special order for Thursday, the 11th. The President sent the following recommendations to the Senate: Otis P. G. Clarke, of Rhode Island, Commissioner of Pensions: Luther Harrison, of Pennsylvania, Assistant Commissioner General of the Land Office. Commissioners for Alaska —John G. Brady, of Alabama, to reside at Sitka; George P. Ibric, of Pennsylvania, to reside at Wrangel; Chester Seeber, of California, to reside at Ounalaska. The Senate confirmed William P. Dunwoody, of lowa, member of the National Board of Health: Frank Hatton, of lowa, Postmaster General; John Schuyler Crosby, of New York, First Assistant Postmaster General. In the House, Mr. Morrison introduced a bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury in purchasing bonds of the United States to pay out any money in the Treasury in excess of $100,000,000. Mr. Dunham introduced a bill tp admit, free of duty, articles for the World's Exposition to be held by the colored race in Chicago in 1885. Mr. J. D. Taylor of Ohio offered a bill prohibiting the removal of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine, or any widow or dependent relative of the same, from any office in the civil service, except for specific causes. The Honse then resumed consideration of the interstate commerce bill. Mr. Anderson supported the substitute offered by Mr. Reagan, though he did not think its provisions quite strong enough to secure the people against railroad extortion. Mr. Bhively approved of the Reagan substitute, but doubted the propriety of intrusting to such a commission as was proposed such unlimited powers. ' Several bills were introduced to repeal the laws authorizing the appointment of supervisors and deputy marshals at elections. Both houses adjourned to Monday, the Bth inst.

Count Romford’s Dietetics.

In the formula for Rnmford’s soup given in my last, it is stated that the bread should not be cooked, but added just before serving the soup. Like everything else in his practical programmes, this was prescribed with a philosophical reason. His reasoning may have been fanciful sometimes, but he never acted stupidly, as the vnlar s majority of mankind usually do, when they blindly follow an established custom without knowing any reason for so doing, or even attempting to discover a reason. In his essay on “The Pleasure of Eating and of the Means That May Be Employed for Increasing It,” he says: “The pleasure enjoyed in eating depends—first, on the agreeableness of the taste of the food; and, secondly, upon its power to affect the palate. Now, there are many substances extremely cheap, by which very agreeable tastes may be given to food, particularly when the basis or nutritive substance of the food is tasteless; and the effect of any kind of palatable solid food (of meat, for instance), upon the organs of taste, may be increased almost indefinitely, by reducing the size of tho particles of such food, and causing it to act upon the palate by a larger surface. And if means be used to prevent its being swallowed too soon, which may easily be done by mixing it •with some hard and tasteless substance, such as crumbs of bread rendered hard by toasting, or anything else of that kind, by which a long mastication is rendered necessary, the enjoyment of eating may be greatly increased and prolonged." He adds that “the idea of occupying a person a great while, and affording him much pleasure at the same time, in eating a small quantity of food, may perhaps appear ridiculous to some; but*,those who consider the matter attentively will perceive that it is very important. It is, perhaps, as much so as anything that can employ the attention of the philosopher.”—lK Mattieu Williams, in Popular Science Monthly.

Metallic Heap.

Porter—" Did you ring, Bah?” Hotel Guest—" Yes; I want some soap.” , "There is the soap on the washstand, sah.” "This ? Do you call this hard ball soap ?” "Best castile, sah. Don’t it feel like castile, sah?” •*. “Well, no; rather more like cast iron.” —Philadelphia Call. The New. York Medical Tribune calls attention to the fact that since the production of cider in New England had almost ceased, there has been a marked increase in rheumatism and stone. European observers have called attention to similar facts abroad. M. Dumont, while examining the statistics of a hospital in Normandy, found that in fiftynine years only four cases of stone had been admitted. The ordinary beverage in Normandy is cider. i It’s a pretty difficult thing for a highschool girl to think of something to say when she goes to write a composition, but as soon as she gets oat of school and while on the way home she can say a whole newspaper full without thinking- . V Ne3iT to sound judgment, diamonds, and pearls are the rarest things to be met with.— De la Bruy ere. All children are wealthy at a very earlv age —that ir, they have the rtocks.