Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. 1 RENSSELAER, INDIANA. «B. MARSHALL, - PtrerWMß.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TMEKAirr. The new city directory of Now York indicates that the population ®f the metropolis now is at least 1,553,000, being about 50,000 more than a year ago. Edward A. Boyd and George H. Boyd, father and sori, convicted of defrauding the Government by illegally importing plateglass, were sentenced at New father to two years in prison and the son to pay a fine of $1,000... .The failure of the Westmoreland County Coal and Coke Company, of Greensburg, Pa., with liabilities of several thousand dollars, is announced.... The trial of Mrs. Yseult Dudley for shooting O’Donovan Rosea resulted in her acquittal on the ground of insanity... .The produce exports from New York last week were valued at $6,915,587. .. .Snow fell in Greene County, New York, on the 30th ult . Kelly, a negro, and Murphy, a white man, fought fifty-seven rounds with bare knuckles near Westfield, Mass., the negro knocking his opponent unconscious in the ‘ last round. John L. Sullivan was referee, and the stakes were $500... .James Russell Lowell has presented to the library of Harvard College a valuable collection of rare picked up by him during his eight years’ sojourn in Europe. Henry Ward Beecher announced in Plymouth Church last Sunday that the series of sermons he has been preachiug on evolution would be discontinued until next fall, when he would preach on such subjects as the “Miracles,” “Prayer,” “The Atonement,” “The Divine Savior Jesus.” and “Immortality.”.... The much-adver-tised national encampment at Philadelphia has proved a failure, and fears are expressed among the participants that the prizes Will not be paid.... .Hanlan and Lee rowed three miles, with a turn, at Sylvia Lake, St. Lawrence County, New York, the former winning easily in fifteen minutes twenty-two seconds.

THE WEST.

The sensation of the week in Chicago has been the great strike of the conductors and drivers of the West Division Horse Railway Company, causing a total suspension of street car traffic on the West Side, embracipg over half the population of the city. Public sympathy was entirely with the strikers, and attempts to run the cars were met with determined resistance on the part of the populace. The company would start cars out from the barns guarded by squads of police and Deputy Sheriffs, but vast crowds wquld block the tracks, drive the men frdm the platforms, and return the cars to the barns or turn them upside down in the streets. Several of the drivers and conductors were assaulted with stones and clubs and severely injured, and a number of the strikers arrested on charges of riot and disorderly conduct. At one time Mayor Harrison appeared on the scene aud attempted to reason with the mob, but he was compelled to beat a hasty retreat Omnibuses, express wagons, and other conveyances did a large business in carrying passengers. Azari, Silvestri, and Gelardi, three of the five Italians implicated in the Caruso murder at Chicago, were convicted and the death penalty fixed by the jury. , Mercurio Mid Bova were declared not guilty. The murder was one of the most fiendish in the criminal annals of Chicago. The victim was a friend, companion, and fellow-countryman of the assassins. While he was being shaved by one of them, two others threw a rope over the neck of the unsuspecting man, and, after choking him till life was extinct, hurried out, purchased a large trunk, and packed the remains into it. They then shouldered the ghastly freight, went into the street, hired an express wagon, carted the body to the depot and shipped it to Pittsburgh. Two of the murderers were arrested in New York while in the net of purchasing passage to Italy with money taken from the clothes of their victim.... The trial of Joseph C, Mackin, of Chicago, for perjury in connection with the recent electien fraud inquiry, resulted in a verdict of guilty, and a sentence of five years' imprisonment in the Penitentiary. .4 In the United States Circuit Court at Keokuk, lowa, Thomas Thatcher, of New York, was appointed receiver of the Missouri, lowa and Nebraska Railroad, one of the lines recently severed from the Wabash system. At Springfield, 111., Gen. John McNulta was appointed receiver of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway, vice Judge Howland, of Indianapolis.... At Peshtigo, Wisconsin, twentyfive buildings were destroyed by fire, the losses aggregating $75,000. Babcock <fc Co.’s shingle-mill and 60,000 feet of lumber at Manistee, Mich., were burned, with a loss of $45,000 .The only son of Mr. Thomas Kilpatrick,'a Cleveland dry goods merchant, who was? suffering from diphtheria, was killed by a leading druggist ordering a stronger dose of medicine than called for in the prescription.... The settlers in the neighborhood of Durango, Colo., fear trouble with the Indians, and are asking for protection. Gen. Auger thinks that the troubles with the Colorado Utes have been brought on by the cowboys and that they have been greatly exaggerated. Indian Commissioner Atkins expresses the opinion that the sensational reports recently sent cut were in pursuance of a scheme to dispossess the Utes of their reservation lands.... Heavy rainstorms visited Eastern Kansas and Western" Missouri last week. The work, of gathering the wheat crop is brought to a standstill, and he damage is reported as great.... The Secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture estimates the wheat yield of the State .this year fit 12,233,385 bushels. Gold and silver coins valued at $1,600 have been unearthed on a farm .near Racine, Ohio, including a number of old and rare American and foreign pieces. There have been traditions of buried treasure in the neighborhood since its earliest settlement. ...Meetings held by Mormon missionaries at rural school-houses in Wabash County,. Indiana, have been broken up by indignant citizens, who riddled the doors and Windows of the build* ings with stones. No converts were made...... Fire in the Future City oil-works at St. Louis entailed a loss of $50,000. Three firemen were badly burned while fighting the flames. Afire at Morristown, Shelby County, Ind., destroyed most of the business houses in the village. A fire at Green Bay, Wis., destroyed the Opera House and several other buildings. The little city of Stoughton, Wis., was visited last week by a most destructive conflagration. It is estimated that over $60d,000 worth of property was de-

stroyed. Thirteen' large tobacco warehouses. the Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul Railwav Company's depot, and several small buildings, together with most of their contents, were burned. The fire originated in the old hay-press building used as a tobacco warehouse. About one hundred cars were ip the yard at the time, many of which were burned. The cars greatly hampered the fire brigade and the citizens in their efforts to subdue the flames. The total loss of tobacco is nearly eleven thousand cases, wprth about fifty dollars a case. The. losses are .quite , well covered by insurance.

THE SOUTHS.

John Martin, one of the two escaped negroes implicated in the outrage and murder of Mrs. Hazell, at Elkhart, Texas, was taken out of the Grayson - County Jail and lynched. This makes six victims of Judge Lynch for the murder of Mrs. Hazell. Eighteen horse-thieves have been hanged in Texas in two weeks, and detectives are hunting others with bloodhounds. ;.. .Acolored mob at Adams Station, Miss., lynched Ben Holt, a negro, who had killed his wife. ANdre J. Dumont, the most influential colored Republican leader in Louisiana, committed suicide at New Orleans by blowing out his brains. He was an-ex-State Senator, had served in every Republican national convention since the close of the war, and was until recently naval officer at New Orleans. Near • 'Waldron, Texas, a waterspout struck a freight train, deluging the engineer, fireman, and brakemen, who abandoned the train and climbed trees fust in time to avoid a wave of water eight feet high and fully one hundred feet wide.... A case of yellow fever was last week discovered in New Orleans, the patient, who is convalescent, being a native of the city.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Whitney has revoked the order requiring naval officers attached to cruising vessels to leave their families at their fixed places of abode... .The Government expenditures during the fiscal year ending the 30th ult. were $310,000,000, about $7,500,000 lees than the estimates. The reduction of the public debt was about $58,000,000. The commission of Charles 0. Olson, recently appointed to take testimony in Europe for the Court of Alabama Claims, has been revoked, proof having been submitted that he made corrupt overtures to Congressman Leopold Morse in connection with his application for the Gothenburg consulate.... The reduction in the public debt during June was $8,993,993.75. The total receipts for the fiscal year ended June 30 were $322,59!),776.13; expenditures, $262,788,452.42. The receipts of the preceding fiscal year were $348,519,869.92; expenditures, $244,126,244.34. The announcement is made that Mr, Keiley, recently appointed Minister to Aus-tria-Hungary, will not be recalled. He will go to Vienna, and if the Austrian government refuses to receive him the United States will remain unrepresented at that capital. The call for a statement of the condition of the national banks at the clo-e of business July 1 contains for the first time a note to bank officials asking that under the head of specie they report the amount of silver dollars separately, instead of the aggregate, as always has been done. This request is made with a view to getting accurate statistics as to the location of silver..... Land Commissioner Sparks has made a complate list of cases where the public -lands have been improperly fenced, and in every instance the parties have been notified to remove the fences... .It is reported that in case the Astrian Government refuses to recognize Minister Keiley officially, James Fenner Lee, of Maryland, Secretary of the Legation, will be authorized to perform the duties of Minister.

POLTICAL.

The following appointments by the President are announced from Washington: William W. Rockhill, of Maryland, to beSecretaryoftheLegation of-the. United States to China; Charles Denby, Jr., of Indiana, son of the new Minister to China, to be second Secretary of the Legation of the United States to China; William Dorsheimer to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Martin T. McMahon, to be United States Marshal for the same District; Benjamin F. Jonas, of Louisiana, to be Collector of Customs for the District of New Orleans; E. S. Wilson, of Jackson, Miss, the editor and proprietor of the New Jfississippiaif, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Evanston, Wyoming; James B. Hayes, of Wisconsin, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Idaho. To be Marshals of the United States—William L. Cabel, of Texas, for the Northern District of Texas; James M. Liddell, for the Northern District of Mississippi. To be Attorneys of the United Stites—Robert S. Shields, of Ohio, for the Northern District of Ohio; Charles B. Pearce, of Texas, for the Northern District of Texas. To be Postmasters—Mattie K. Chisman, at Hampton, Va.; Bartholomew Tristman, at Marion, Ohio; Thomas H. Beale, at Hamilton, N. Y.; Samuel M. Childs, at Atlantic, Iowa; Horace F. Alexander, at Ludington, Mich.; M. A. Barnett, at Madison, Ind. The President has appointed Edward Duffy Postmaster at Ann Arbor, Michigan; Joseph H. Gillespie, Surveyor of Customs for the port of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Darius H. Ingraham, of Maine; Consul of the United States at Cadiz; James Tanner Lee, of Maryland, Secretary of Legation of the United States to Austria-Hungary; and Nathan B. Gatchel, Appraiser of Merchandise in the District of Buffalo Ccreek, New York. The Prohibitionists of Ohio met in State Convention at Springfield, over 600 delegates being in attendance.- B. S. Higley, of Mahoning County, presided. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, Dr. A. B. Leonard, of Springfield; Lieutenant Governor, Prof. W. G. Frost, of Lorain County; Supreme Judge, Gideon Stewart, of Huron County; Treasurer, John H. Danner, of Stark County; Attorney General. A. T. Clevinger, of Clinton County; Board of Public Works, J. Sf'Tfeville, of Hardin County. The platform dem nds a prohibition amendment and opposes license tax or regulation of the liquor traffic;' says friends of prohibition should not be controlled by either of the old parties, because both have shown themselves subservient io the liquor interest; declares riim power must be vanquished by a new party devoted ' expressly to that purpose; describes the two wings of the great liquor party, one as advocating a license, and the other taxation and regulation Of the liquor traffic, leaving no loyal citizen any alternative except tp join the Prohibition party; favors moral suasion as a means of reform; favors civil-seivice reform; full protection to

th® ballot; wants divorce based on divine law; expresses sympathy for the negro race; opposes violent changes in the tariff; indorses the voters’ union memorial; favors the civil Sabbath, and. recognizes civil government as ordained by God. Lambert Tree, of Chicago, has been appointed Minister to Belgium; Samuel T. Hauser, of Helena, M. T., Governor of the Territory of Montana;, ex-Congressman Stevenson, of Illinois, First Assistant Postmaster General, to succeed Malcolm Hay, of Pennsylvania, resigned on account of ill-health; John E. Lamb, United States District Attoin y for the District of Indiana.

GENERAL.

The Mexican Governmentlhas announced its plan for the consolidation of tjie entire national debt in bonds to bear interest at 3 per cent, after 1890. The Maximilian debt will be repudiated. ... Dun’s Agency reports failures for the six months'ended June 30 as 6,004, against 5,510 for the corresponding period of 1884. The liabilities for the half year just ended, however, are but $74,000,000, while in 1884 they aggregated $124,000,000. / Big Beab and a number of his braves were captured near Carleton by the Canadian mounted police... .Riel, the halfbreed chieftain, has written a letter expressing a desire to be tried before the Supreme Court of Lower Canada. He denies that he incited the recent rebellion in the Northwest Territory, and says that he was absent when the people resolved to take up arms....Dp. Walter H. Lenox Maxwell, who murdered C. Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel, in St Louis, is in the custody of officers from the latter city, who expect to sail from Auckland, New Zealand, July 21. The trip will take about four weeks. Independence! Day was celebrated in the usual way throughout the country. In Chicago 25,000 people attended the Washington Park races, and 20,000 more assembled at the Base Ball Park to witness the contests between the Chicago and New York clubs. At Washington the President spent most of the day at the White House, attending to business. Minister Phelps’ reception at- London was attended by 500 Americans and many distinguished foreigners. In the evening Cyrus W. Field gave' a banquet, attended, among others, by Minister Phelps, Senator Edmunds, the Duke of Argyll, and John Bright. A monument erected by the people of Bloomington, Illinois, over the grave of the litte singer, Marie Litta, was unveiled in the presence of ten thousand people, exSenator David Davis presiding over the ceremonies. A memorial monument to General Garfield was unveiled at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, At the Tammany celebration in New York, a letter was read from President Cleveland in which he expressed the conviction that “if the present, administration meets the intelligent approval of the people, this result of itself should insure an harmonious party, united in Jeffersonian Democracy. In the intercollegiate boat-race at Worcester, Mass., the Cornell Crew came in first,, Brown second, Bowdoin third, and Pennsylvania last. The national flag hung at half-mast from the most prominent buildings in Salt Lake, including the City Hall, Court House, and Mormon Tabernacle. Angry protests were made by Gentile citizens, and a riot seemed inevitable when the flags on the City Hall and Court House were run up to full mast. The other flags remained at halfmast until nightfall. The use of fireworks and pistols caused the usual number of accidents. At La Harpe. 111,, while Charley Comstock, aged 16, was endeavoring to discharge a toy cannon, a premature explosion took place, badly burning the lad about the head and face. A few moments afterward he went to his home, seized a revolver, and shot himself through the heart. At Oakland, lowa, while -the races were in progress, a running horse plunged into the crowd, injuring fifteen people. At Yankton, Dakota, Marcus Johnson, while dancing, suddenly fell to the floor and expired of heart disease. 'The information is telegfaphed from Mount MacGregor that General Grant’s physicians made another emamination of their patient’s throat, but found no special change. He was informed that the growing weakness indicated that exhaustion vvould be thefinal result. ; . . . The Generrtrff city residence and cottage at Long Branch are both offered for sale. It is accepted as a sad fact that the General can not now live long, and the plan of Mrs. Grant is to retire into some private home and live upon the income from the endowment fund and whatever may come from the sale of Gen. Grant’s book. Visitors at Mount MacGregor are so numerous as to have become a great annoyance to the family of the dying hero. Latest reports from the United States of Colombia indicate a critical condition of affairs there. There is danger that the inuoSansts may take Bogota, the capital, and the Government forces, while temporarily successful, do not appear equal to the task of crushing the rebellion at once... .It is reported that English and German business houses in Mexico are throwing obstacles in the way of closer commercial relations be_tween Americans and Mexicans, and in consequence much ill-feeling has been caused.

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Teheran states that 1,000 persons are at the Transcaspian Bail way. Warlike preparations ai e still being continued by Bussia. Humors are in circulation l in the bazaars of Teheran that war will probably occur after the Transcaspian Eailway is completed to Merve, in Turkomania. The Eppsians are bridging the Eiver Murghab, on the confines' of Afghanistan. Eight hundred Eussian soldiers are at Old Sarakhs. The Persians are fortifying Persian Sarahks and building barracks there for troops... .The Queen has conferred the order of Victoria and Albert upon the Countess Spacer. Et. Hon. Edward Gibson takes the title of Lord Ashbourne. Two membebs of the Salisbury government have made significant speeches in England. Lord Arthur William Hill declared that coercion laws for Irela id were needless; that the existing land act was a failure, and that he would support the land franchise bill proposed by the Gladstone ministry. Lord John Manners, Postmaster General, promised that the new Cabinet would try to restore order in Egypt and to terminate the tension in the Afghan frontier which threatens India; also to increase the efficacy” of local administration.... Blue Grass, formerly owned by J. E. Keene, won the race for the Northumberland plate, worth 1,000 sovereigns, at Newcastle, England. The success of the Tories in recent Parliamentary elections, and their activity ip. preparations fpr coming elections, have alarmed the Liberals, whb had thought to win an easy victory oyer their opponents. The Liberals, thoroughly aroused to the necessities of their situation, propose, un-

det the advice of Gladstone and Chamberlain, to appoint a National Campaign Committee to direct the entire canvass, upon a matured and uniform plan, instead of the disjointed and anarehial method heretofore in vogue. Jt is reported that Gladstone, notwithstanding tumors and ztalk to the contrary, evinces a willingness to return to office... .Toyama. Japan, was visited by a conflagration which destroyed 5,917 houses. .'Japan will resume specie . payments Jan. 1, 1866. . , The cholera continues to rage with great violence in S.pain, and since the outbreak of the epidemic there have been ten thousand deaths.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

_ A farmers’ newspaper of New York has analyzed 3,500 special crop reports from its farmer subscribers, and concludes that the winter-wheat crop will aggregate 210,600,000 bushels, and the spring-wheat crop 155,000,000 bushels, making an aggregate crop of 365,000,000 bushels, a falling off of ' 147,000,000 bushels from last year’s crop. Oats will be the largest .crop ever ■ harvested. The corn area is larger than ever before, and the outlook good for an average yield, per acre....A decision of Judge Lawrence in the New York Supreme Court has the effect of affirming the title of Stephen B, Elkins to one-fifth of the Mora land giant in New Mexico. A St. Petersburg correspondent says that the convention with Russia was already’ prepared when Mr. Gladstone resigned, and, therefore, it only requires Lord Salisbury’s signature. In the English House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury made a statement to the effect that he would continue the policy adopted by Mr. Gladstone in regard to the negotiations with Russia for the settlement of the frontier of Afghanistan. The work of fortifying the Bosphorus has been stopped, owing to a conviction that there is no further danger of collision between England and Russia Mr. Bradlaugh again attempted to take his seat in the British House of Commons, but a motion offered by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach prevailed that he be refused permission to swear, and that the Sergeant-at-Arms be directed to exclude him from the precincts of the House unless he engaged not to disturb the proceedings According to the Pall Mall Gazette, the traffic in young girls, for immoral purposes has increased alarmingly in England of recentyears. TheGaaette mentions the names of men prominent in society in connection with the business, and promises further revelations.'... Consul General Waller is organizing a relief society for the benefit of Americans who I become stranded in London... .The summer assizes opened in Ireland, with a very small criminal docket, and no cases of agrarian crime on the calendar... .At a meeting • in Paris, five hundred Legitimists resolved to support the Comtesse de Chambord. Edward Finch and sister, aged, respectively, 75 and 80 years, and a colored boy wLo slept in the house, were murdered near Moncure, Chatham County, N. C., They went to bed at night as usual, and the next morning one of the neighbors, in passing by, suspected something from the appearance of the house, and went in. He found all three dead. They had apparently been killed while asleep. The blows which killed the three appear to have been inflicted with an ax, and then their throats were cut. Several hundred dollars was taken from the house, and robbery was the motive that induced the citae. The President has appointed the following Postmasters. The suspensions in one or two cases were for personal misconduct and unfitness, and the others for partisanship: P--Pulimanr- at-Ewreka Springs; -Ark.; Frank W. Havill, at Mount Carmel, Wabash County, III.; Annie Bi ennock, at Dunlap, Iowa; John W. Pence, at Anderson, Ind.; Charles H. Reed, at Corinth, Miss.; Alexander M. Dick, at West Newton, Pa.; John T. Kilgore, at Longview, Tex.; Leslie E. Brooks, at Mobile. Ala., vice J. E. Slaughter, suspended; Samuel S. Thompson at Birmingham, Ala., vice I Thomas M. Green, suspended; George IW. McMillan, at Mount Sterling, Brown ! County, 111.; vice Jacob Freindlich, suspended; William F. Sharp, at Brooklyn, lowa, vice George Phillips, suspended; Squire L. Major, at Shelbyville, Ind., vice A. P. Bone, suspended: William Keough, at Fort Wayne, Ind., vice F. W.. Keil, suspended; William P. Hale, at Peru, Ind., Vice George D. Reed, suspended; James H. McConnell, at Dodge City, Kan., vice N. B. Klane, suspended; Frank E. Martin,-at Larned, Kan.vieeTimothy McCarty, suspended: James Russell, at Marquette, Mich., vice Samuel L. Billings, suspended; Thomas Ryan, at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., vice William Scranton, suspended; Timothy Killian, at Escanaba, Mich., vice E. P. Barnes, suspended; James H. Gee, at Norway, Mich., vice L. J. Kimball, suspended; Joshuas. Palmer, at Portland, Me./Vice C. H. Barker, suspended; Timothy thaw, Jr., at Biddeford, Me., vice H. E. Banks, suspended; C. —-E. Forbes, at St. Paul, Neb., vice A. A. Kendall, suspended; Samuel C. Hoage, at Napoleon, 0.. vice L. W. Randall, suspended; Jeptha M. Fowlkes, at Memphis, Tenn., vice J. H. Smith, suspended; L. D. Palmer, at Yankton, Dakota, vice W. S. Bowen, suspended; Charles W. Button, at Lynchburg, Va., vice R. W. P, Morris, suspended; William Herbert, at Alexandria, Va., vice D. A. Windsor, suspended.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $6.50 @ 7.00 • Hogs.. . 4.25 @4.75 Wheat —No. 1 White; 1.00 @1.01% No. 2 Red.... .99 @ 1.00 Corn—NoJ2..... .53%@ .54% Oats—Whfte .38* & .42 Pork—New Mess 11.25 @11.75 Lard .... .o«%@ .07% CHICAGO. N Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.00 @6.50 Good Shipping . 5.50 @ 6.00 Butchers’ 4.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 5.25 @5.75 Prime to Choice Spring. 4.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring ...... .87 @ .87% Corn—No. 2 .47 @ .47% Oats—No. 2.......... .-. .31 @ .32 Rye—No. 2. 61 *@ .63 Barley—No. 3 47 @ .50 Butter—Chqjce Creamery 16 @ .17 Fine Dairy ....... .13 @ .15 CHEESE—FuII Cream, new. 07 @ .08 Light Skimmed 02%@ 103% Eggs—Fresh... .'. .11 @ .12 Potatoes—New, per brl 2.00 @ 2.75 Pork—Mess........ e ............. 10.00 @10.50 Lard 6.50 @ 6.75 , ' TOLEDO. Wheat—Nd. 2 Red .91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 47 @ .49 Oats—No. 2 34 @ .3€ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 87 @ .88 Corn—No. 2 .<6 & .48 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Ryb—Na 1. -.. .60 @ .62 Barley—No. 2..?. 46 @ .48 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.50 ST. LOUIS Wheat—Na 2 Red 95 @ .96 Corn—Mixed 44 @ .44% Oats—Mixed.. ~31 %@ .32 Rye -58 @ .59 Hay—Timothy 14.00 @16.00 Pork—Mess 10.50 @10.75 CINCINNATI Wheat-No. 2 Red 96 @I.OO Corn .- <8 @ .49 Oats—MixOT ... 34 @ .35 Rye—No. 2 Fall 66 @ .68 Pork—Mess \ 10.50 @ll.OO DETROIT. Flour. 5.50 @ 6.00 > Wheat—No. 1 White 96 @ .96% Corn—Na 2.; 48 @ .49 Oats—Na 2 White....... 37 & .38 Pork—New Mess 11.50 @12.00 INDIANAPOLIS Wheat—Na 2Red. .92 @ .94 Corn* Mixed. ............... .45 @ .41 Oats—Na 2 .32 @ .83 EAST LIBERTY. * Cattle —Best . . 5.50 @ 6.50 Fair AOO @5.50 Common /. 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 4.00 @4.50 RffPTP 4.25 @4.75

NATIONAL FINANCES.

Decrease in ttj.e Public Debt for the Year Ending on the 30th of June, $65,500,000. i ■ ■The Balance in the Treasury Larger 7 than a Year Ago, and No Douds ■I f Called. 'The- following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist instant: Interest bearing debt— Bonds at 4% per cent............... $250,000/00 Bonds at 4 per cent. .v.~.~.v......; ;t." 737,719,850 Bonds at 3 per cent.. 194,19ii,50( Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 240,G0, Navy pension fund at 3 per cent . ■ ■ 14,000,0-10 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent , 64,623,512 Principal $1,260,774,462 Interest 12,925,629 Total. ..j*.. $1,273,700,031 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturityPrincipal 4.100.995'' Interest. 227,199 Total $4,328,194 Debt bearing no interest — Old demand and legal-tender notes. 346,738,966 Certificate?of deposit ..... 29.585,000 Gold certificates..: 126,729,730 Silver certificates 101,530,946 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,964,175 Principa1............... 611,548,817 Total debt— Principal $1,876,424,275 Interest 13,152,828 Less cash Items available for reduction of the debt $263,666,023 demption of U.S.notes 100,000,000 -< 363,666,023 Total debt less available cash items 1,525,911,080 Net cash in the Treasury 40,676,930 Debt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1885 1,485,234,149 Debt less cash in Treasury June 1,1885 1,494,391,011 Decrease of debt during the month as shown by this statement 9,156,851 Cash in the Treasury available lor reduction of the debt— Gold held for gold certificates actually . outstanding.......... $120,729,730 _ Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 101,530,946 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding. 29,885,000 Cash held for matured , debt and interest unpaid 5,817,061 Fractional currency.... 3,285 Total available for reduction of debt 263,666.023 Reserve fund held for redemption of U. S. notes, act July 12, 1882.. 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt — Fractional silver coin.... .$31,236,899 Minor c0in...... .868,465 ■■: ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ Certificates held as cash issued but U not outstanding .. 52,164,11 Q Net cash balance on hand 40,676,930 Total cash in the Treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general account ;....$488,612,429 The debt statement issued July 1 shows: Decrease of the public debt during the month of June (according t 0.,. the old form) ' $8,993,993 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1884 . 63,494,704 Cash in the Treasury. 488,612,429 Gold certificates outstanding....... 140,323,140 Silver certificates outstanding 139,901,646 Certificates of deposit outstanding, 29,785,00) Refunding certifica'es outstanding. 240,600 Legal tenders outstanding 346,681,016 Fractional currency (not included in amount estimated as lost or destroyed) .».» 6,964,175 [Note. —This is the final statement according to the old form. Hereafter the new form of debt statement will be the only one issued by the Treasury Department J • Receipts and Expenditures. The following is a table df the receipts and expenditures of the Government for the month and fiscal year just closed: RECEIPTS. Since July Source. June, 1885. 1, 1884. Oust, ms $13,926,358.07 $181,11'0,770.89 Internal revenue. 9,319,898.13 112,569,324.37 Miscellaneous.... 3,910,579.35 28,910,680.88 Total.. $27,157,015.55 $3®,590,776.14 Since July Source. June, 1884. 1, 1883.' Customs $14,761,145.69 $195,067,489.76 Internal revenue. 10,104,161.87 121,586,072.51 Miscellaneous.... 2,0.66,780.74 31,866,307.65 Total $26,932,088.30 $348,519,869.92 EXPENDITURES. Since July Source. June, 1385. 1, 1884. Ordinary;sll,636,Bß3.oß ' $153,005,194.11 Pensions 816,681.47 58,957,738.71 Interest. 2,802,093.56 51,387,519.67 Total ...$15,255,058.11 $262,788,452.42 Since July Source. June, 1884. 1, 1883. 0rdinary......... $9,709,485.30 $813,444,637.79 Pensions.... 3,555,328.27 55,429,228.06 Interest .... 2,851,300.33 54,578,378.48 Total .$16,116,113.90 $244,126,244.34 Comparing the two fiscal years it will be seen that the gross revenues show a falling off of $26,000,000. The expenditures show an increase of $18,500,000. The excess of receipts over expenditures in 1884 was $104,393,625. In 1885 it was $59,802,324. As compared with the previous year, the year just closed showed a falling off of $14,000,000 in customs, $9,000,000 in internal revenue, and nearly $3,000,000 from miscellaneous sources. The ordinary expenditures show an increase of nearly $19,000,000, pensions of about $3,000,000, and a reduction in interest of over $3,000,000. Last fall, when returns from j one-fourth of the fiscal year of 1885 ijfcad been obtained, the Secretary of the Treasury estimated the customs receipts for the whole year at $185,000,000. They fall short of that nearly $4,000,000. He estimated the internal revenue receipts at $115,000,000, and they fall short of that $2,500,000. The net ordinary expenditures of the government, including pensions and interest, for the past six years, are as follows: 1880.. , j....“... $267,642,957 1881.. 260,712,887 1882 257,1181,434 1883 265,408439 1884 244,126,247 1885 262,786,452 The pension payments last year were larger than ever before, except in 1882 and 1883. In the latter year they exceeded $66,000,000. Two THOUSAND New Hampshire children have signed a temperance pledge, which is to be placed in the corner-stone of the new government building at Concord. „ “Gath” says Clara Morris is one of the most rapid readers living. It is reported that she read the “Life and Letters of George Eliot” (three volumes) in one day. MonroE H. Corbin, cenlus-taker in Webster; Mass., has found one woman, forty years old, who. is the mother of nineteen children. Over ha’f the scholars in Manchester, N. H., deserted the school without leave to go to a circus. Walter F. Hengomb j has purchased the Albany (N. Y.) Express and become its manager. Vic® President Hendricks wore the worst hat seen at Harvard commencement

FATAL FLAMES.

A Young Woman and Two Children Burned to Death in a Building in Cleveland. • l > [Cleveland (Ohio) dispatch.) The occupants of a two-story frame tenement house in Broadway, near the Nickel-i’late Railway station, awakened by a smell of smoke. A feW minutes later the building was in flames, and a terrible panic ensued, A number of families occupied the building, and the thoroughly frightened people fled by the stairways and ladders. All but three escaped, The unfortunates were Fannie and Sarah Rosenberg, aged 8 and 11 years respectively, daughter of a widow, and Rosa Meisel, their cousin, who was spending the night with them. Mrs. Rosenberg and her eldest daughter, Esther, who had been in the same apartment with the three who lost their lives, were rescued with much difficulty. Rosa Meisel was to have been married next week to Theodore Frau, who slept in the same building, Frau was almost beside himself, and rushed madly through the flames and smoke in search of his affianced bride. Again and again he called her name, but received no response. He pounded on her bed-room door, but was not admitted. The flames were every second growing fiercer and the smoke more suffocating. He was about to give up in despair when he stumbled against a female figure in the hall. Hb thought it was his Rosa. Lifting the girl i(n his arms, he rushed to the window and sprang out, the girl pressed ~to his, breast In the leap he broke his arm and received other injuries. Once upon terra firma, he looked into the face of the maiden he had rescued. It was not the face of his affianced wife, but a girl named Cohen, of the same age, and same build as his sweetheart. At that very moment Rosa Meisel was struggling with death in her room above. The noise and confusion had not awakened Rosa and her two room-mates, the Rosenberg gir s, until it was too late. While the other occupants of the building were leaping from the windows or being rescued by ladders, the cry ran out that there were three girls in a rear room. The firemen scaled ladders, climbed into the windows, and attempted to search the second floor, but amid the flames and they found no trace of human beings. Some time afterward a search was made, and the three victoms were fonnd in their room, showing unmistakable evidence of a desperate struggle. It is reported that Frau has gone insane from grief.

RAILWAY BUILDING.

Nearly Nine Hundred Miles of Track Laid in Six Months. The fol owing, which we copy from the Railway Age, shows the amount of track laid during the first six months of the current year: ' States. No. lines. Miles. Alabama 1 6.00 Arkansas . 1 2.50 California 4 27.00 Dakota. 1 3.00 Florida.... 4 65.50 Georgia 6 53.00 Illinois .“. 1 10.0(1 Indiana 1 7.00 lowa 1 7.0# Kansas 4 78.00 Kentucky 2 17.00 Louisiana.. 1 13.00 Massachusetts .....2 8.25 Minnesota 2 102.00 Mississippi 2 43.50 Missouri 4 92.50 Nebraska 1 103.00 New York »■..» ,~. —G19.00 Pennsylvania . A 44.7<$ South Carolina 1 41.00 Tennessee 1 10.00 Texas 6 103.00 Virginia......... 1 4.00 Washington Territory 1 , 2.75 Wisconsin 1 '40.00 Total, 25 5tate5......... ....56 895.50 It will be seen that thus far this year, in spite of hard times and hard: weather, about nine hjrndied miles have been added to our railway system by fifty-six,different lines in twenty-five ' of the States and Territories. This is not a very large showing compared with the figures of the S receding years, and yet it is larger than peraps might reasonably be expected. The States showing an addition of Hi ty miles or more are Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Texas, and in these States, as well as in California and Pennsylvania, from four to six lines each have been under construction. Our records for a number of years show that the new mileage report d within the first six months, during a considerable part of which work is wholly suspended in many parts of the country, represents not more than from 27 to per cent, of :.lre total £or the .year. Be- _ sides bhis we have record of a large number of roads, in addition to those already reported upon, on which tracklaying will be in progress during the year. Hence we consider it safe to estimate that the total addition of railway mileage during 1885 will not be less than 3,000 miles, and may reach 4,900 miles.

Why He Was Bounced.

[Washington special.) The Court of Alabama Claims has revoked the commission of Charles C. Olson, who had been authorized to take certain testimony in Europe for the court. The following is a part -of his letter ( to Congressman Leopold Mors'e, of Boston, for which the court revoked his commission: In American politics I have always been a Democrat, but I do not allude to this as a matter of assistance, as under the new civil service act such a thing is out of the question. However this may be, I will hereby suggest to you that if I can obtain ihe above mentioned position (that of Consul at Gothenburg) through your influence, I shall immediately upon being informed to that effect from you forward my check to the amount of $1,50P for services rendered. I also will render you such service abroad as in my power from time to time without any extra charge. As I under* stand the salary of this consulate is but a little over $2,000 per year, it is not for the income of this that I ask of you the assistance to obtain the position, but the main point is to establish an American trade in Gothenburg that will exhibit American manufactures, and if i ermitted by your government to hold a commission business the official position will bring a faircompensation.

Mormon Recruits.

[New York telegram.) The steamship Wisconsin, which arrived at this port from Liverpool this morning, had among her passengers 514 Swedish and Danish converts to Mormonism. These were in the care of Elder J. Hansen, President of the Emigration Company. All ages were represented, from the gray-haired grandfathers and grandmothers to little grandchildren. Fifteen missionaries were with the flock. This is the largest company of Mormon emigrants that has arrived in the United States since last summer, and it instated that it will be soon followed by another equally as large. Nearly all of the people will settle in the rural districts of Utah. Some will stop in Salt Lake City, and a very few will go to Mexico.

Ice and Frost in Virginia.

A Richmond (Va.) special of July 1 says: “Advices from Wytheville, Va., state tnat heavy frosts prevailed in that section last night, and ice formed at Crockett’s Depot, in Wythe County, this morning. The weather has been phenomenally cold for the past three days throughout the State. It is the first time in the recollection of any one here that ice has been known to form in this State in the month of July. Portland, Me., has over fifty organized bass-ball clubs. , t..