Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — Page 7

Glance Into [?]er of the Hab[?]ole Globe.

th® Important Political and ' Other Occurrences of the Tear. 4| ' % CHRONOLOGY OF 1884. JANUARY. The 3d, 4th, and sth days of the first month --of the year were noted for the coldest weather ever experienced In the Northwest. The lrigid wave extended Itself over nearly the entire North American Continent. The . more notable events of the month are as herewith recorded: The Egyptian Ministry resigned, because of the advice given the Khedive by England in relation to the 'Soudan rebellion. The Spanish Ministry re- - signed, and a new Cabinet was formed. Henry B. Payne and E. K. Wilson elected United States Senators from Ohio and Maryland. A statue of the late Gov. O. P. Morton* unveiled at Indianapolis. James Nutt acquitted of the murder of N. Ik Dukes, at Unlontown, Pa. William B. Allison re-elected U. S. Senator from lowa. Fred Douglass - married to a white woman at Washington. ■ Orrin A. Carpenter indicted for the murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111. Vignaux defeats Schaefer for the billiard champlon- • ship of the world, at Paris. The National House of Bepresentatives voted to abolish the iron-clad oath. The Sherman resolution -Of inquiry Into the Danville massacre and Copiah murder passed by the Senate.

FEBRUARY. The bill to restore Gen. Fitz-John Porter to the army passed the National House. Mr. Morrison introduces his new tariff bill in the House. British Parliament meets. Mr. Eradlaugh excluded from the House of Commons. The Egyptian forces in the Soudan meet«ith serious reverses. A horrible massacre took pluci in Tonquln; one priest, twenty-two catechists, and 215 Christians were put to death, and 103 mission houses were destroyed. The Texas Legislature met in extra session. J. C. S. Blackburn elected United States Senator from Kentucky. Hen. H W. T. Sherman placed on the retired list of the army. England dispatches re-enforce-ments to Egypt. Bloody affray between rival factions of gamblers at Hot Springs, Ark. The mysterious murder of Mr. and .Mrs. Willson, an aged and wealthy couple, nehr Chicago. The Lasker sympathy resolutions returned by Bismarck to the German Minister at Washington. A negro family murdered near Cincinnati, and their bodies sold to a medical college. The MoHierson bank circulation bill passes the United States .Senate. The people of Hot Springs, Ark., banish about thirty undesirable citizens. MARCH. The Egyptian rebels defeated by Gen. 'Graham’s rear. The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the constitutionality of the legal tender act ©F 1878. The British ■'Government presented to the United States, for the use of the Greely relief expedition, the steamer Alert. Treaty of peace between Chili and Peru ratified. The desperado, Frauk Kande, makes a murderous assault upon the oilicers of the Joliet Penitentiary. A bust of the poet Longfellow unveiled In Westminster Abbey, London. New York enacts a law prohibiting the making of contracts for the labor of convicts In the State ■pi isons. lowa enacts a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquors in the State. -A man named Glasscock, In Fauquier County, Va„ murders his wife and three children, and commits suicide. The Governor of California calls an extra session of the Btate Legislature. Excitement over the outbreak among Kansas cattle herds of a malady resembling the foot and mouth disease. Frank Kande the noted desperado, commits suicide in the Joliet Prison. Completion of the first railway lino connecting the American citle3 with the City of Mexico. Matthew Arnold sails for England. Excitement in the West growing out of gold discoveries In the -Coeur d’Alene regions. Ben Thompson and King Fisher, two noted desperadoes, killed In A theater at San Antonio, Tfx. Gov. Click calls an extra session of the Kansas Legislature. The French dol'eat the Chineso in 'Tonquln and capture Bac-Ninh. Orrin A. Carpenter acquitted at Petersburg, 111., for -the murder of Zora Burns. David J. Brewer, -of Kansas, appointed Judge of the Eighth Federal to eucceed Judge McCrary. ■Sections of Kentucky, Ohio, and South Carolina devastated by cyclones. Sevei e earthquake shocks at San Francisco. Minister Sargent ordered from Berlin to St. Petersburg, but declines the latter mission. Bloody riots in the oity of Cineinnati, in which nearly fifty people are killed. APRIL. The British troops withdrawn from Egypt. The Ohio Legislature enacts a liquor law providing for graded saloon licenses. The British Cabinet formally deoided against -establishing a protectorate over Egypt. John Jay Knox resigns the Comptrollership of the Treasury. The Queen of Tahiti makes a tour across the continent. Spanish troops in Cuba attack a band of forty-two insurgents and kill thirty of them. Pope Leo issues an -encyollcal letter denouncing seoret societies, and attributing all the trouble's of Italy to Masonry. Severe earthquake shocks in England Frank James, the Dandit, acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala. The New York Assembly, by a vote of -80 -to 63, defeated a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale pf liquor. Forest fires in the Catskiil Mountain region of New York and the Blue Mountains o's Pennsylvania wrought vast damage. MAY. Congress votes an appropriation of $1,000,- • 000 for the New Orleans Exposition, places Gen. Grant on the retired list, and kills the Morrison tariff bill An attempt In ttie British House of Commons to censure the ■ Gladstone ministry for not taking measures to rescue Gen. Gordon failed by a vote of 275 to 303. Two thousand men, women, and children, many of thorn refugees from Khar- • toom, massacred by Arabs in Sbendy. The failure of the Grants produces a great sensation In the financial world. Rev. Dr. Worthington, of Detroit, elected Bishop of Nebraska. A ■ statue of Martin Luther unveiled at Washington. National congress of wool-growers -at Chicago. The British House of Commons rejected the bill for a tunnel under the English Channel to France by a vote of 222 ■-to 34. The Methodist General Conlerence, in session at Philadelphia, elected as Bishops .Rev. W. X. Ninde, J. M. Walden, and W. F. Mallahen. The Greeley relief expedition sails on its errand of mercy. The American Forestry Congress met at Washington. Four men attempted to rob a bank at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and when the refused to deliver up the funds, shot the Cashier, George Geppert, dead, and fatally wounded the President, E. W. Payne; the robbers were caught and lynched. James R. Keene, one of the boldest speculators on the New York Stock Exchange, failed. Gharley Ford, who, with his brother, killed the bandit Jesse James, committod suicide by shooting himself through the heart. The National Greenback Convention met at Indianapolis on the 29th. and nominated for President Gen. B. Butler, of Massachusetts; for Vioe President, A. M. West, of Mississippi. - JUNE. Congress passed bills reducing the postage on newspapers and prohibiting Chinese subjects from importing opium into the United State*,. A treaty of peae4P between France and Annum signed. The Republican National Convention was held at Chicago, opening on the 3d. John B. Henderson, of Missouri, was chosen Permanent Chairman. On the 6th, James G. Blaine, of Maine, was nominated for President on the fourth ballot, -and John A. Logan, of Illinois, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots

m - ’ —! • n .i;_! - fr President were as follows: 1. Whole •Amber of votes oast, 818; necessary to a Choice, 410; for James G. Blaine, of Maine, 8841 t; for Chester A. Arthur, of Now York. 278;.f0r George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, 03; for John A. Logan, of Illinois, 63H; for John Sherman, of Ohio, 30; for Joseph B. Hawley, of Connecticut, 13; for Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, 4; for William T. Sherman, of Missouri, 2. 2. Whole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 849; Arthur, 276. Edmunds, Mi; Logan, 81; Sherman, 28; Hawley, 18; Linooln, 4; William T. Sherman, 8. r 3. Who'e number Of votes cast, 319; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 375; Arthur, 274; Edmunds, 69; Logan, 58; Sherman, 25: Hawley, 13; Lincoln, 8; William T. Sherman, 2. 4. Whole number of votes oast, 813; necessary to a choice,- 407; Blaine, 511; Arthur, 207; Edmunds, 41; Logan. 7; Hawley, 15; Lincoln, 2. The nomination was then made unanimous. Au attack on French troops by Chinese troops at Lang-son, In violation of the treaty, provoked a demand from France for a heavy war Indemnity. The cholera made its appearance in France,many deaths ooeuring at Toulon and Mar-ellles. The Pan-Presbyterian Council was held at Belfast, Ireland. General Igleslas resigned constitutional the act of the Legislature making It felony to keep a gambling house. Emperor William laid the foundation of the new German Parliament buildings at Berlin. Samuel J. Tilden wrote a letter (June 11) formally declining a nomination for the Presidency. Ex-Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, nominated for President of the United States by the American (Anti-Secret Society) party. Heavy rains in California damaged the wheat crop 25 per cent. Capt. Andrews, 93 years of age, completed his walk from South Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving in Boston in good condition. JULY. The Democratic National Convention was held at Chicago, opening on the Bth. W. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, was chosen Permanent Chairman. On the 11th, Grover Cleveland, of New York, was nominated for President on the second ballot, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots for President were as follows: First—Whole number of votes cast, 820; necessary to a ohoice, 547; for Grover Cleveland, of New York, 392; for Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. 188; for Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio, 88; for Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, 78; for Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, 56; for John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, 27; for Roswell P. Flower, of New York,' 4; for George Hoadly, of Ohio, 3; for Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, 1; for Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, 1. Second—Whole number of votes cast, 820; . necessary to a choice, 547; Cleveland, 684; Bayard, 8114; Thurman, 4; Randal, 4; McDonald, 1; Hendricks, 4514. The nomination was then made unanimous. The National Prohibition Convention met In Pittsburgh on the 23d, and nominated for President, ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, and for Vice-President William Daniel, of Maryland. Congress adjourned on the 7th of month. The President vetoed the Fitz-John Porter bill. It was passed over his veto by the House, but the Senate sustained the veto. The President nominated John A. Kasson to be Minister to Germany, Alphonso Taft to be Minister to Russia, John M. Francis to be Minister to Austria, Lewis Richmond to be Minister Resident to Portugal; Ward McAllister, Jr., to be,United States Judge of Alaska; and John Jarrett to be Comissloner of Labor. The Bartholdi statue was formally presented to the United States, Ministe) Morton receiving it in Paris. News of the rescue of Lieutenant A. W. Greely, the arctic explorer, and a number of his party by the relief expedition under command of Capt.Schley Cholera raged at Toulon and other oities m France, many persons falling victims to the epidemic. Serious afiti-Jewish riots in Algiers. Gen. Porflrio Diaz elected President of Mexico without opposition. France demanded an Indemnity of 250,000,000 francs from China for the Langsoiv affair. Premier Ferry ordered Admiral Courbet to seize the Chineso arsenal at the Presidency of Peru, and ordered a general election. General Diaz was elected President of Mexico. The Supreme Court of Tennessee declared Foucheon and hold it as security until the indemnity-was paid. The Greqly relief expedition returns from the arctic regions With Lieut. Greely and six of his surviving fellow-explorers, Seventeen others of the expedition perished from starvation, and one was lost while hunting seals. The corpses of twelve of the party were brought back, the remains of the other five having been swept out to sea by the winds. Greely and his surviving associates would 'have perished in forty eight hours but for the relief expedition, They won the honor of reaching the farthest known point to the northward. China makes preparations for war with France. Twenty horse-thieves hanged by cowboys in Montana. Don Rafael Zalvidiry Lazo, President of the Republic of San j Salvador, arrived at New York. Mr. D. L. Moody, the American evangelist, arrived in New York from London. Dr. Darnard, of Nashville, discovers a new comet. Near Chesterton, Md„ 2,000 men engaged in a riot at a negro camp-meeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally Injured, and a number of others seriously cut The President removes Gen. James Long* street from the Marshalship of Georgia. The National Prohibition Convention, after a two days’ session at Pittsburgh (June 23-24), nominated John P. St. John, of Kansas, for President and William Daniel, of Maryland, for Vice President. The VirginiaCourtof Appeals declared unconstitutional the act of the Legislature prohibiting school superintendents from taking part in politics. < AUGUST. The corner-stone of the pedestal for Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor. An earthquake ocourred In thirteen of the United States: The shock was felt from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and from the Atlantic coast to Ohio. Both bouses of the Parliament of Holland met in joint congress and passed, by a vote of 97 to 3, a bill naming Queen Emma regent during the minority of the Princess Wilhelmina. The British House of Commons passed the Irish Constabulary bill, and voted a credit of ±’300,000 for an expedition to relieve General Gordon. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, returned to England, having completed the work of establishing satisfactory trading stations along the Congo River from its mouth to Stanley Pool, 1,400 miles by river. State elections in Kentucky and Arkansas result in fuvor of the Democracy. China refuses to accede to the demands of France. Queen Victoria commissioned Earl Northbrook to proceed to Egypt and report on the condition of affairs in that unfortunate country. Utah county elections result in the success of the Mormon tickets all over the Territory. Capt. Payne and his band of invaders expelled from the Indian Territory by United Stutes soldiers. Severe earthquake shocks along the East Atlantic coast. Cowboys In Montana make another raid on the horse-thieves with whom that country is infested, and lynch twenty-eight of them. Admiral Lespes, with five vessels of the French squadron, bombarded and captured the town of Kelung, on the Island of Formosa. Charges of cannibalism in connection with the Greely expedition cause a sensation in the country. Hanlan, the oarsman, defeated in Australia by Beach, for the first time in years. Robert Bonner pays W. H. Vanderbilt $48,000 and becomes the owner of Maud S. Excitement among stockmen in the West over the outbreak of pleuro-pne.umonia at several points. The United States steamship Tallapoosa, with 140 officers and men on board, sunk off Martha’s Vineyard, by collision with the schooner James S. LowelL The lives of all but four persons were saved. The French fleet bombarded the Chinese port of Foo Chow, and the Chinese fleet at the niace was captured. China formally declared war on France on the 25th of August. Antl-Jewish riots reported in Western Russia.

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The Czar pardons a large number of Sihilista. Conference of the German, Busan, and Austrian Emperors In Poland* The Republican Presidential candidate brings suit for libel against the Indianapolis Sentinel. The cholera causes great destruction of life in the Italian cities. Capt. Ellsworth nominated for President bjr the American Political Alliance. Severe earthquake shocks were felt in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana on the 19th of the month. KxSenator James W. Nesmith, of Oregon, placed in an Inpane asylum. Judge Gresham of Indiana appointed

SEPTEMBER.

Secretary of the Treasury. From the outbreak of the cholera In Italy to Sept. 30, 13,320 persons were attacked and 9,58* died An election in Arkansas for Governor and other State officers resulted In the success of the Democratic ticket by more than 40,000 majority. The Vermont election resulted favorably to the Republicans by 20,000 majority. A German gunboat. In the name of the German Empire, takes possession of the west coast of Africa, between the 11th and 38th degrees south latitude, except Walrlseh B*yOCTOBER. j Elections were held in Ohio. West Virginia, and Georgia, the Republicans carrying Ohio, and the Democrats the other two States. Gen. Wm. A. Throop, a prominent ettizen of Detroit, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Near Kulllvan, lud., a shot was fired into the railway car occupied by Gov. John P. St. John, the Prohibition candidate for President. Tbe Governor of Kansas issued a proclamation prohibiting the introduction of Jersey cattle. At a national convention of “Drummers,” at Louisville, Joseph Mulhatton was nominated for President of the United States, and Z. T. Col.ier, of Ohio, for Vice President. The pacing horse Jdhnston made a mile in 2:0614, at Gen. Valentine Baker restored to his - rank in the British army. Rumors of the early marriage of President Arthur. John McCullough. the eminent tragedian, loses his mind and breaks down while playing upon the stage o(L McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The Mexican war veterans held their annual reunion at St. Louis. The Russian Government closed the University of Kieff for a year, and arrested 168 students because of their Nihilistic connections. The contest for the base ball championship of the United Stater' ended in favor of the Providence Club. The British Government annexes the southern shores of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. Hon. Justin S. Morrill re-elected United States Senator from Vermont. Nathaniel Mitchell, lynched at LaCrosse, Wls., for tbe murder of Frank A.Burton, President of a- Republican marchlDg club. William H. Vanderbilt gives $500,000 as a building fund to the New York College of Physlans and Surgeons. Arthur Orton, the “Tichborne claimant,” released from prison. The Pope affirms eight new cardinals. Sir Moses Montefiore, the HeTbrew philanthropist, celebrated hia 100th birthday on the 24th ot the month. The Ohio Supreme Court declared the Scott liquor tax statute unconstitutional. Great popular demonstration In London In favor of the abolition of the House of Lords. Col. Stewart and his party massacred by Arabs in the Soudan. Liberals successful at the Parliamentary election in Holland. William Jones, wfio attempted to kill Guiteau, the assassin, acquitted at Washington. A political riot at New Iberia, La., resulted in tbe killing of eighteen men. NOVEMBER. The most important event of the month was the Presidential election, which occurred on the 4th, after one of the hottest political campaigns In the history of the country. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, was elected President of the United States for four years, beginning on the 4th of March next, receiving 219 ’ electoral votes, against 182 cast fer James G. Blaine, the candidate of the Republican party. The excitement did not subside with the closing of the polls, as is usual, but was maintained for several days on account of the closeness of the vote in New York, many Republicans claiming that the official count of the vote of that State would elect Mr. Blaine. The canvass of the votes, which was not completed until two weeks after the balloting, showed a small plurality for Mr. Cleveland in New York. All parties at once conceded that he was elected, and the political excitement, which had been wrought up to a high pitch, at once abated. The Republicans were greatly incensed at the part piayed by Gov. John P. St. John, the Prohibitionist candidate for President, In the canvass, and the cold water leader was hanged in effigy in various parts of the country. Other notable occurrences of the month were as recorded below: The crofters on the island of Skye in an almost open state of rebellion against the landed proprietors. Cholera raged in Paris, carrying off many victims, and causing an exodus of those who could conveniently leave. Hugh McCulloch appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Earthquake shooks in New Hampshire and Canada. The National. Monument at Washington reached a height greater than any structure in the world. The mare Maud S. beat all records by trotting a mile in 1:09)4 at Lexington, Kentucky. The Legislature of Jamaica voted solidly against annexation to Canada. General W. S. Harney, the veteran soldier, causes a sensation by marrying his housekeeper. Indians make a raid into Presidio County, Texas, and murder a number of settlers. An exploring party In British Northwest Territory discover a lake of Immense size, abounding in fish. Joseph E. Brown re-elected Senator from Georgia. M. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, shot by Adolph Spreckels. DECEMBER. Congress assembled In annual session on Monday, the first day of the month. The World’s Exposition at New Orleans was opened on the 16th* to continue until the Ist of June. The electors chosen by the people on Nov. 4 diet at the various State capitals Dec. 3, and cast their votes for President and Vice President. James L. Pugh reelected United States Senator from Alabama. Fight between Americans and Mexicans over a copper mine In Sonora, several being killed on both sides. Gen. Porflrio Diaz enters upon his second term as President of the Republic of Mexico. Deadly affray between Diggs and Watkins, editors of rival newspapers at Vienna, Mo., In whioh Diggs is killed. Official announcement made of the complete cessation of cholera In France. Mr. Gladstone Introduces his redistribution bill in the British House of Commons. A coolie riot In the Island of Trinidad; the coolies fired upon and fifty of them wounded. The French Parliament enacts a law abolishing public executions in that country. The British Parliament passes a new suffrage bill, conferring franchise on 2,000,000 citizens. The Georgia Legislature passed a resolution authorizing the Clerk of the House to employ women to perforrh clerical work. A railway train stepped and the passengers robbed by bandits near Little Rock, Ark. Tbe great national monument was practically completed cm the 6th of the month. Wade Hampton re-elected U. 8. Senator from South Carolina. Attempt to blow Up London bridge with dynamite. Severe earthquake shocks startle the people of New Hampshire.

EXECUTIONS.

TRe Work of the Hangman In 1884. During the past year 135 felons expiated their crimes on the gallows in tbe United States and Canada, against 146 in 1883, and 114 in 1882. Of the bangings this year the Southern States contributed 97, or a little more than three-fourths. There were thirty-three executions in the Northern States and Terrw tories, and four in Canada. Arkansas and? Louisiana head thfiJ' vith fifteen victims each, Georgia f »xt, with fourteen. The record is as >ws; Y Alabama..., 9 North Carolina 6 Arkansas 18 Ohio. 8 Ca1if0rnia.....;.:... 4:Penn«ylvania. 9 Florida - 1 .South Carolina 6 Georgia 14 Tennessee 3 Illinois. 4 Texas 5 1ndiana........ l Virirmia l Kentucky 4 West Virginia 1 Louisiana... 16 Idaho 1 Maryland 2 Indian Territory.... 1 Mississippi £ 8 Utah..... 1 Missouri....,.: 7 Canada. 4. New Jersey 1; New York.. 4! Total 135

JUDGE LYNCH.

The Year’s Victims of Mob Vengeance. During the ya ar 1884, the large nulnber of 180 men were lynched in the United States and Territories. The number last year was 175, and in 1882 the victims of mob law numbered 57. Following is the record: Alabama 6 Oregon.. 8 Arkansas.... 7 Pennsylvania 2 Colorado 13 Tennessee 5 Georgia.. 3 Texas 12 111in0i5...., liVirglnia 2 Indiana. 2! West Virginia 2 10wa..:. 1 Wisconsin 3 Kansas. 7 Dakota 10 Kentucky 6 Montana. ...63 Louisiana UlNew Mexico 7* Maryland 1 Utah 1 Mississippi.... $4 Washington Ter..... 1 Missouri. 3 Wyoming 1 Nebraska lj North Carolina...... R Total IK

NO DEMAND FOR LABOR.

Review of the Industrial Situation in the Principal Manufacturing r-5 States of the Union. fNew York special to Chicago News.] Twenty columns of Bradalrccl'a space is occupied this week with the results of a most importantinvestigation into the general condition of the leading manufacturing industries of the United States. The inquiries embrace twenty-two States— Maryland. Virginia, West* Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and nil north thereof. There had been a general reduction of wages in industrial lines varying from 20 to 25 per cent., and, in some instances, to 30 per cent, taking the year through. In Borne lines the reductions are as low as 10 to 15 per cent Skilled workers" in specialties ore exempt or partially exempt from this:' The reduced forces at work range from S 3 per cent, at some points among iron workers to an average of 20 per cent, (against 1880) fdr the States reported, to 10 per cent among glass-workers; 17 per cent among tnbocco operatives; 16 per cent, woolen goods; 14 percent, bools and shoes; and 12$ per cent, among cotton workers. The reductions referred to do not include the shrinkage of clerical forces in mercantile houses. Among industrial wage-earuers tbe reductions in wages have been great where there have been no industrial organizations or weak ones. It must not be overlooked that at considerable share of the number reported now out of work will soon be busy again, stoppages of mills and factories in various lines being customary at this season. The record by States is as follows:

ill il* ; ffi iff Ss STXrES. : gP gSff ; * : ■’ : t. :co. ; Sp : ~o , , ... : 8? : Sf : erf New England 647,373 45,800 7 New York 631,533 94,475 18 New Jersey 196,038 10,000 8 Pennsylvania. 387,072 61,000 16 Maryland. 25,000 6,000 7 Virginia.... 40,184 6,000 13 West Virginia 14,411 2,000 14 Ohio 183,009 32,000 17 Indiana 69,508 8,345 12 Michigan 77,591 12,324 16 Illinois.. 144, <27 14,850 10 Minnesota 21,247 8,290 40 Nebraska and lowa 33,165 4,000 12 Missouri 64,000 6,070 9 Kentucky 37,391 7,295 19 Totals;... 2,452,749 316,249 13 Of the number reported displaced by tha depression in trade, less than 18,000 is reported due to strikes, or about 5 3-10 per cent. In the seventeen leading industrial cities the number reported dispensed with by striking is 177,115, or nearly 56 per cent, of the totaFreparted. They are distributed as follows: » • • fl • * §*| Isl CITIES. ♦i'S o- E egf «lo.u J- e,5 x ua & S 5 a P, New York. , 1 227,352 65,550 24 Philadelphia 185,527 40,000 21 Chicago 79,415 10,400 13 805t0n.... ... 69,213 4,500 7 6-10 Baltimore 66,338 2,000 3 6-10 Cincinnati 64,517 4,500 8 3-10 Brooklyn 47,687 4,850 10 3-10 St Louis 41,825 3,870 9 4-10 Pittsburg...,. 36,930 6,000 16 Troy and vicinity 22,434 8,200 37 Cleveland and vicinity. 21,724 8,600 39 Paterson 19,799 4,500 22 8-10 Buffalo 18,021 4,600 25 Loufcvllle 17,448 4,295 25 Detroit 10,110 9,950 62 Richmond 14,047 3.500 25 Wheeling 6,512 2,000 36 Total 923.799 177,115 19 1 ' r 1 ——

The employes in blast furnaces, rolling mills, steel works, forges and bloomaries, foundries, machine and locomotive works in the United State* in 1880 numbered 421,000, and in the States reported above 388,000. Returns indicate that at least 80,= 000 of such operatives have been dispensed with, or 20 6-10 per cent. Of operatives on clothing in New York, New England, Pennsylvania and Ohio, at least 35,000 fewer are at work now than a year ago, or over 27 per cent, of those in 1880. On cotton goods the decline in the number of operatives in New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is 20,000, or nearly 12£ per cent, of the total in 1880. On woolen goods the decline in New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is abont 24,000, or 16 per cent, of the total four years ago. In boots and shoes, so far as detailed, there are 18,000 fewer operatives at work than four years ago (8,000 temporarily in New Engmnd), or about 11 per cent, fewer than in 1880. This industry is, however, relatively less depressed than the others specified.* In New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and' Kentucky there are reported 13,000 fewer employes of tobacco manufacturers, or about 15 per cent of the total in 1880. In Paterson, N. J., there are 2,000 fewer silk operatives at work, or about 16 per cent, of tbe whole number in 1880. In Pennsylvania, Ohio, and* in St. Louis about 4,700 operatives in the glass factories have been laid off, being about 19 per cent, of the total employed in 1880.

THE PRESIDENT-ELECT.

His Future Movement*, (Albany special] Gov. .Cleveland will resign his oflice Jan. 6, and go to Buffalo on the Bth. On the 9th he will attends charity ball at the Genesee Honse, Buffalo, and then retum to this city, where he will remain until he goes to Washington. He has already engaged rooms, and after the 9th of January will be at home to all his fellow citizens. It is generally understood here, as elsewhere, that Senator Bayard may have a place in the Cabinet., but the President-elect has not yet determined whom else he will invite to his council board. He will probably take three members of the Cabinet from the East, two from the -South, and two from the Northwest. Of the two from ibe Northwest Indiana will furnish one and lllinoif or Wisconsin the other. President-elect Cleveland is much interested in the probable result of the Illinois Senatorial contest, but while freely expressing the hope that a Democrat may be elected; he carefully refuses to express a preference for either of the Democrats who have been named as cand: dates for tbe office. ♦ . ’

The New York Senatorship.

Tire Senatorial contest in this State.Ja creating ranch excitement amoug Republicans. president Arthur And Leri P. Morton are the most prominent candidates, with Evarts, Hiscock and others hopefully in the race. Morton is in the lead, and will probably be elected if a regular P.epnblican is chosen; but not a few Democrats and Independents and Stalwart Republicans hope a combination may be effected by which Mr. Conkling will be returned to the Senate. 1 * r — Hannibal Hamlin is about to write a book giving a history of his political life.

ORIGIN OF POPULAR PHRASES.

Fairy.—According to some authorities this word cornea from the Persian peri The word in English comes through the Arabian, in whose alphabet there is no p. In Arabic it therefore becomes feri, which word being introduced by the Crusaders, received the broader English sound, fairy. Other etymologists derive it from the Low Latin verb fato, fatare, from Latin faturu, fate, toenobant, In the France becomes faer, and from tbe verb tbe French made the noun faerie, an illusion. From this, it is said, the meaning gradually widened to ita present signification. Vindicate. —To justify, to avenge. The word has a remarkable etymon, Vindicint was a slave of the Vittelle, who informed tbe Senate of the conspiracy of the sons of Junius Brutns to restore Tarquin, for whioh service he was rewarded with liberty; hence the rod with which a slave was struck in manumission was called vindicta, a Vindicina rod; and to set free was in Latin vindicire in liberatem. Oneway of settling disputes was to give the litigants two rods, which they crossed as if iu fight, and the person whom the praetor vindicated broke the rod of hia opponent. These roils were called vindicffl, and hence vindicate, meaning to “justify.” To avenge ja simply to justify one’s self by punishing the wrongdoer. I’m a Dutchman if I Do.—A strong refusal.. During the rivalry between England and Holland the word Dutch was synonymous with all that was false and hateful, and when a man said* “I would rather be a Dutchman than do what you ask me,” he used the strongest term of refusal that words can express. Hammock.—This was orritrinally a North American Indian word. The following occurs in “Columbus’ First Voyage, quoted in Webster: “A great many indians came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton and hamecas, or nets, in which they sleep.” Sir Walter Baleigh, in “Discovery of Guiana," 1596, mentions “Cotton for the making of hamecas, which fire Indian beds.” Sir R. Hawkins, in his book entitled ‘ Voyage to South Sea,” says, “The Brazilians call their beds liamacas.” To Throw Dost in One’s Eyes.—To mislead. The allusion to a Mahometan practice of casting dust into the air for the sake of confounding the enemies of the faith. This was done by Mahomet on two or three occasions in the battle of Hovein; and the Koran refers to it when it says, “Neither didst thou, O Mahomet, cast dust into their eyes; but it was God who commanded them.” But the following incident will suffice: One day the Koreishits surrounded the honse of Mahomet, resolved to murder him. They peeped through the crevice of his chamber door and saw him lying asleep. Just at this moment his son-in-law, Ali, opened the door silently and threw into the air a handful of dust. Immediately the conspirators was confounded. They mistook Ali for Mahomet and Mahomet for Ali; allowed the prophet to walk throught their midst uninjued and laid hands on Ali. No sooner was Mahomet safe than their eyes were open and they saw their mistake. Dungeon.—A corruption of dominium (dominjum, contracted into domjum), that part of the castle in which the lord took his meals, and which dominated over the whole building. The underground story of this grand toWer was used as a prison, and persons of rank were confined in keep-tower itself, as being the strongest part of the castle. The word is sometimes spelt donjon, and at Canterbury (England) is a mound corruptly called the Dane John, on which formerly stood the donjon or keep of the castle. Chaucer, in “Canterbury Tales,” has: The ereto tour, that was so thikke and strong, ■Which ot castel was tlio chaef dongoun.

How Macaulay was Pestered.

We have been lately told how Lord Tennyson has been so troubled with tbe receipts of innumerable manuscripts and letters from strangers that he was long ago obliged to give np answering—even by secretary—such correspondeuce, or returning their literaary inclosnres. This reminds us that Macaulay, in the latter years of his life, was similarly pestered. He mentions in his journal a clergymen who wrote to him three times to ask him what the allusion to St. Cecilia meant in J»iß.account of the trial of Warring Hastings. He also received a communication from a Scottish gentleman, who said that he wished $0 publish a would be glad to come up to London and submit the MS. to the correction of the essayist and historian if the latter would remit him £SO! A cattle-painter likewise appealed to him “as he loved the fine arts, to hire or bny him a cow to paint from.” A schoolmaster at Cbeltanham, who published “a wretched pamphlet” on British India, full of errors, received a courteous no o from Macaulay pointing out two gross mistakes. When tbe schoolmaster published a new edition it was advertised as “revised and corrected by Lord Macaulay,”

The First Fly Fisher.

Tbe first and indeed tha only writer amongst the ancieuts, so far as we know, who makes mention of fiahing wr;h the artificial fly is Aelianos, who lived in the third century. In the fiftieth book of his history he says: .‘The Macedonians, who live on the banks of the River Astrams, which flows midway between Berea snd Thessalonia, are in the habit of catching a particular fish in that river by means of a fly called hippurus; a very singular inset it is—bold and troublesome like all its kind, in size a hornet, marked like a wasp, and buzzing like a bee.” From his account of these fish they must have been trout, and he exactly describes the method in which a trout feeds at present, "when one of .them sees the fly floating down toward him, he approaches, swimming gently under the water, fearing to movd the surface les* its prey should be scared. Then drawing nearer underneath, he snc-k* the fiv, as a wolf snatches a sheep from the fold, or an eagle a goose from, the farm-yard, and havihg done so disappears under the ripple.” *

A Strange Scene from Re{?]

“I have been Raveling • good many years "remarked a commerqiei salesman, “and have seen some queiflr fno denW, bnt tbe most peculiar sight lever sew was at » country towpi ia#Ohio. Out train drew up to the station, when I saw there quite a crowd, ; It didn’t seem to be a political Crowd, either. Looking closer I discovered that there were two crowds. At one end of the station stood a number of carriages. From them jumped a lot of welldressed, happy-looking people—young men and ladies. They bade good-by to a blushing young couple, ami there was much handshaking and kissing, peals of langhter and innocent jokes. It was a wedding party, and the happy couple were starting on their tour by palace car. “At the other end of the station the people seemed entirely different. They were exceedingly solemn. The men were silent and looked down to the ground, while the ladies were all in block, and most of them wore veils. The two parties did not seem to notice each other, st least they didn’t want to appear to recognize each other's presence, though they were only a few feet apart. This unhappy looking party stood abont a hearse, and as the train came to a stand-still I saw a coffin lifted from the baggage-ear and placed in it amid subdued weeping. At the same moment the wedded oonple were stepping aboard the palace car amid joyous laughter and friendly words of parting. - ~ . . _ “It was one of the most strange and impressive scenes from real life I ever witnessed. The contrast was dramatic. Bat that was not aU. Engaging in conversation with a gentleman who had come to the train there I learned that the coffin contained the remains of a younglady whose health had failed. She had been taken to Florida, but there was no air coaid restore her. said the gentleman, because she was dying of g broken heart. It was a love affair. A young man had won her and secured her promise to be his wife and then deserted her. I then spoke of the happy bridegroom back in the palace car. At this the gentleman closed his lips tightly, his hands clinched, and there was a strange look in his eves. T don’t wish him joy,’ he remarked, ‘that is the man that killed tbe poor girl in yonder coffin.” Chicago Herald “ Train Talk"

Names of the Fabrics.

Everything connected with one’s business is of importance. Very few dry goods men know the origin of the names of many of the goods they handle. These may seem trivial points," but they are of interest to the man who seeks to be thoroughly familiar with the merchandise in which he deals. For the information of snoh we give the derivation of the names of the following goods : Damask is from Damascus; satins, from Zavtown, in China; calico, from Calient, a town in India, formerly celebrated for its cotton cloth, and where calico was also printed. Muslin is named from Mesnl, in Asia; alpaca, from an animal of Per u, of the llama species, from whose wool the fabric is woven. Buckram takes its name from Bokhara. Fnstian comes from Fostat, a citySsf the Middle Ages, from which the modern Cairo is descended; taffeta and tabby, from a street in Bagdad; cambric, Irom Cambrai. Ganze has its name from Gaza; baize, from Bajac; dimity, from Damietta; and jeans, from Jean. Drag-1 get is derived from a city in Ireland, Drogheda. Duck comes from Torque, in Normandy. Blanket is called after Thomas Blankett, a famous clothier connected with the introduction of woolens into England abont 1340. Serge derives its name from Xerga, a Spanish name for a peculiar woolen blanket. Diaper is not from D* Y pres, as is sometimes stated, bnt from the Greek diaspron figured. Velvet is from the Italian velluto, wooly, (Latin, vel--Ins, a hide or pelt.) Shawl is the Sanskirt sala, floor; for shawls were first used as carpets and tapestry. Bandanna is from an Indian word, meaning to bind or tie, because they are tied in knots before dyeing. Chintz comes from the Hindn word chett Delaine is the French of “wool."

Pilfering the President’s Message.

Among other adventurers who figured at Washington early in 1862 was the Chevalier Wykoff, who was really collecting news for the New York Herald, but who professed to be the first gentleman on the land, and issued his edicts on all matters concerning society. At last he was summoned before a committee of the House of 1^ mm and asked from had obtained in advance a pojdrcm oj the Prudent’s message, wdicWjie tiauM telegraphed to his employ Notofl rietv with him was fame, andfhe mystesß riously refused to state frocJ whom hfl had received the document, /Laying thafl it came to him under an obligation ofl strict secrecy which he *elt himselfl bound to respect. It was rumored generally believt d that Wykoff obtained a sight at the message from Mrs. Linfl| coin, who used to take him to her carriage and listen attentively his accounts of European courts. President was much annoyed by Ihfl scandal and visited the committee coiHI fideutally, while General Sickles val active in arranging the afiair. WykoHg finally told the committee that the ffl formation wan furnished to him bifl| man named Watt, a gardner at White Honse, whose wife was JfoHg Lincoln’s waiting-maid, and his exnfHl nation was accepted. Congress t£jH| nothing with Watt, w!,o waa as a seeond lieutenant in - 1 tJ> u I'erk’f Poore, >n Boston HudijMm What 's in a Name. - “Matilda, what man was that yifl| were talking to ont at the gate iaHH night," said Mrs. Yerger to her colorfll help. 9H “He was my brudder. He ha? J(Hff| come to Austin from Injun Creek.” WBm. “ What's his name ?” ... “Peter Jones.” MSB “Hut your name is Snowball. * “Ves, you see Pete’s dene been tomM ried. Dut's de reason we hasn’t g.v HH same name no moah. Es bfl|§ married. I would hah some aWWtMHH too.”-r Texas Sifting r. , Mm