Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. ME. MARSHALL, - - Publish**.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The death of Goldsmith Maid, the famous trotter who reigned for years as queen of the turf, occurred in Trenton, N. J., last week. Since her retirement from the turf in *IB7B she had been tenderly cared for on H. N. Smith’s Fashion Stud Farm near Trenton. She was taken ill only two hours before her death. Death was caused by fattv degeneration of the heart.... George "Wilkes, founder of M’i/fces’ Spirt t of the Times, died of Bright’s disease, in New York.... Harry Thompson, husband of Henrietta Vaders, the actress, attempted! suicide at Syracuse. N. Y. No less than 12,000 school-children engaged in the memorial services in honor of General Grant in Pittsburgh. Special services were held under a linden tree planted by General Grant when a guest of the city.... Mrs. Thomas N. Thompson, who had been an abandoned weman before her marriage, decapitated her husband with an ax afc Hilltown, Pa,, and then committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor The Italian bark Excelsior, from Marseilles, is detained at quarantine below New York, one of the vessel’s crew having died from cholera three days after she left port. ... .Plans have been completed for a new exposition building at Pitttburgh, Pa. It will be built entirely Of iron and glass, at an estimated cost of $200,000. On petition of the Howe Sewing Machine Company Judge Andrews, of Danbury, Ct., has appointed E. Parmeley receiver. The secured outstanding obligations of the company amount to $600,000, and the unsecured floating debt to $150,000. The nominal assets amount to $1,110,000. The company is $30,000 in arrears to employes. ....An application for a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company was made at Hartford, Ct., at the instance of the Insurance Commissioner of that State. The company is said to have been embarrassed for about eight years, or ever since the investing of $1,000,000 in an office building... .At McKee’s Rocks, near Pittsburgh, John Jovce, of Leetonia, Ohio, and Pat Burke, ot McKeesport, Pa., heavy-weights, fought with three-ounce gloves, the latter* who was knocked out in the fifth round, being badly punished... . Judge Wallace, of the United States Circuit Court, New York, dismissed the proceedings instituted by James A. Hinckley to remove the Civil Service Commissioners, and declare the law unconstitutional.

THE WEST.

America’s gifted comedian, Lotta, is nightly appearing at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, before large and delighted audiences. “Nitouche” seems io fit Lotta as though made to order for her, and it has been decided to retain it on the bills for another week. The comedy ii in itself a bright and animated piece, and it is made doubly attractive by the richness of Lotto’s convent novice, the naivete of her Japanese princess, and the drollery of her drummer boy. The . tribes of Indian Territory owning Oklahoma and the “outlet” strip—about 10,000,000 acres in all—are agitated over the appointment of a commission to negotiate for the purchase of the lands. There is general opposition to the sale, and the chiefs claim that President Cleveland favors holding the lands for the Indians, and that the appointment of a commission did not meet his approval, but was made with the view of learning the actual feeling of the Indians.... A statement having been made that the Pacific slope wheat to be sent to England this year would not exceed 14,500,000 bushels, conservative dealers at San Francisco have begun to figure on the prospects, and have come to the conclusion that there will be available for export from California and Oregon this season 26,000,000 bushels of wheat... .Wire manufacturers having ordered an advance in prices, the Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mill Company ended the long strike in their works by conceding the wages demanded by the men.... Fire destroyed the residence of Joseph Fisher, a farmer living in Linn County, lowa, the owner and his three children perishing in the flames.

A letter from near Fargo, Dakota, to J. C. Williams of Chicago informs him of the almost entire destruction of the crops on his farm by the prairie fires there, and says that many farms were completely burned over, the scene being one of utter blackness as far as the eye can reach. Another party states that the course of the fire could be discerned all along 125 miles of railroad, and in some cases the fire is known to have extended twenty miles from the track. This is the most serious fire visitation known since that which denuded untold millions of acres of forest land ’during the few weeks that followed the burning of Chicago in 1871.... A fire in the lumber district of Chicago consumed over 5,000,000 feet pf lumber and an office building, causing a loss closely estimated at $120,000, on which there is insurance to the amount of $100,000.... Warrants of the face value of SIB,OOO, purporting to have been issued by a trustee of Marion County, Indiana, and bearing Pollard’s indorsement, have been pronounced forgeries. An effort will be made to secure the extradition ot Pollard, who is in Canada. It is stated that the forged bonds afloat will reach $1,000,000. One hundred thousand head of cattle are quartered in the Delaware, Black, Little, and Black Cimarron regions of New Mexico by a syndicate, who. it is alleged, hold public lands in evasion of the Federal homestead law. It is reported that there has been bloodshed, six lives having been lost, and that there will be an appeal to the National Government... .A Portland (Ore.) dispatch says: “Several days ago A. C. Mayfield was shot and killed and his son dangerously wounded by unknown men at Ferndale, Washington Territory. It developed afterward - that the act was committed by John Guildy, who had had a difficulty with young Mayfield last fall over the election. A party started in pursuit and found him in the woods two miles from Ferndale. He refused to surrender when called upon. He was fired upon and killed, he sending two bullets at his captors before he fell. ” ... .A body of strikers made an attack on Laughlin’s nail mills at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, firing on the men in charge, and severely wounding several. Fifteen of the ring-leaders were arrested... .In a judicial decision just rendered at Detroit, it was held that a prisoner brought from New York on a requisition for burglary, and then discharged, could not ■be held on another charge.. . .James C. Pusey, defaulting clerk of .the Kansas Penitentiary, was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary.

.Of Minnesota’s total population. 1,117,793, there were bom in the United States 722,564, and 395,229 are of foreign birth. ... .Near Xenia, Ohio, a 4-year-old girl was killed and partially eaten by a bulldog.- . r • ./

THE SOUTH.

A Knoxville (Tenn.) dispatch reports that three coaches of a passenger train, containing over one hundred persons, were thrown down a high bank near Warm Springs, N. C. Twenty people were injured. William Connelly, J. H. Wenning, and Miss Brayles, of Asheville, received fatal injures. O. T. Culbreath was lynched at Edgefield Court House, S. C. He was charged with killing William Hammond, a young man who was guarding the house of Mrs. Culbreath, from whom, her husband was separated... .Ten prisoners who escaped from a convict camp in Texas visited a hotel in their fight and exchanged their striped suits for the garments of a company of actors. Several of the outlaws have been recaptured. Orange (Texas) dispatch: “Sheriff J. C. Fennell, who was shot and wounded yesterday while arresting a negro wanted for a murder committed in Nashville, Tenn., died last night. After he died a mob was organized, who marched to the jail, intimidated the guard, took the murderer out and hanged him, and. after discharging the contents of their weapons into his body, dispersed. ”.... The cotton erop of Arkansas is reported damaged by frost, and the yield will fall below that of 1884.

WASHINGTON.

Commissioner Sparks, of the Land Office, has prepared a statement of the disposals of public lands and receipts therefrom during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, from which it appears that the disposals in acres were as follows: A1abama........ 270, 901 Minnesota. 624,379 Arizona 278 >174 Mississippi .... 111,000 Arkansas 244,532 Missouri 291,277 Californial,29s,9o9 M0ntana..1,112,140 Colorado 662,611 Nebraska3,69B,3Bl Dak0ta4,547,749! Nevada 171.430 Florida 282,515 New Mexico... 163,981 Idaho 284,903; Oregon 788,287 lowa. 11,653 lUtah 184,853 Kansas., 3*030,8461W ashington T.,1,016,117 Louisiana 181,043;Wi5c0n5in...... 218,436 Michigan 89,5111 Wyoming ...,*. 552,967 Total number of entries, 226,382 ; total number of acres, 20,113,663 ; total value, $7,686,114.80 The number of original homestead entries was 50,877, including 7,415,885 acres. The number of final homestead entries was 22,066, including 3,032,679 acres. The number of original timber-cultqre" entries was 30,998, including 4,755,005 acres. The number of final timber-culture entries was 750, including 90,300 acres. The total number of acres taken under_railrqad selectibns was 3,558,014, made up as follows (fractions omitted): Alabama 33,198lMinnesota108,217 Arizona 133,052• Montana793,'4s9 California .376,445:Nebra5ka...... ...178,039 C010rad0......... 14,252jNevada... 60,612 Dak0ta.790,693' 0reg0n.245,386 lowa 6,ol4lUtah 17,123 Kansas 195,056 Washington Ter. 535,210 Louisiana.... 19,987|Wisconsin ,51,819

The Treasury Department is making a secret investigation at New York regarding frauds by undervaluation of imported articles. It is alleged that three large houses recently paid the Government in excess of $120,000 each on reappraisement of qertain •imports, and it is r deemed probable that the sums to be paid by other firms will enrich the national treasury by at least $1,000,000... .The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of the imports of merchandise during the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1885, were $571,235,043, and during the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1884, $657,871,316, a decrease of SB6 ; 635,373. The values of the exports of merchandise during the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1885, were $722,765,461, and during the preceding twelve months $735,018,792, a decrease, of $12,253.331... .A statement prepared by Supt Bell, of the Foreign Mail Bureau, shows that the weight of the foreign letter, mail decreased 7,709 pounds during the last fiscal year, while the weight of printed matter increased 33.319 pounds. The cost of ocean mail transit was $327,179, or just $28.50 less than the cost during the preceding year.

POINTICAL.

The New York Eepublican Slate Convention met at Saratoga on the 22d of September. Senator Warner Miller was made temporary, and James W. Husted permanent, Chairman. An informal ballot was taken for Governor, thirteen candidates being placed before the convention, with the following result: Davenport, 105; Carr, 205; Morton, 42; Seward, 57; Swinburne, 32; Low, 10; Warren, 137; Drexel, 37; Bliss, 53; Cornell, 4; Evaits, 1; Starin, 1; Charles Andrews, 1. The convention then adjourned until the following morning. Upon reassembling a second ballot was taken, Davenport receiving 215 and Carr 192. On the third ballot there was a landslide for Davenport, and his nomination was made unanimous amid great cheering. The whole convention then yelled "Carr” for second place. General Carr was quickly nominated for the Lieutenant Governorship by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket went through With a rush, and when it was completed stood as follows: For Governor, Congressman Ira Davenport 4>f Steuben County; for Lieutenant Governor, Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Chrr of Rensselear County and at present Secretary of State; for Secretary of State, Col. Anson S. Wood of Wayne County; for Controller, James W. Wadsworth of Livingston County: for' Treasurer, Charles F.. Ulrich of NeW York County; for Attorney Genera), Senator Edward B. Thomas; for State Engineer and Surveyor, William V. Van Rensselaer of Seneca County. The platform, which is very lenghty, demands the strengthening and extension of the civil-service laws of the State and nation and the rigid enforcement of their provisions; favors the repeal of the silvercoinage law; reiterates the protective tariff resolution adopted by the last Republican National Convention; condemns “the hypocrisy of the Democratic party in pledging itself before election to civil-service reform, and after election denouncing through its press and its leaders the civil-service act as unconstitutional, while the national administration removes tried and faithful public servants, and replaces them with persons whose only recommendation is active, and, in some instances, disreputable political work;” declares it “the duty of the Republican majority of the Senate to oppose ( the confirmation of any person appointed in violation of the' letter or spirit of the civil-service act;” insists that “the right of suffrage must be maintained free and untrammeled" in all of the States; and recommends the passage of various measures for the benefit of the laboring classes. The candidate for Governor, Ira Davenport, is at present a Congressman, hiving been elected last folk He has large business interests, ahd has proved to be a most successful business man. He has been Trustee of the Grand Army of the Republic Soldiers’ Home* and Treasurer of the Davenport Female Orphan ’Asylum. He has been a State .Senator, ana was State ComptrollexJn 1881 and 1882..,.

The Prohibitionists of Ibwa met in State convention at Cedar Rapids and placed in. the field the following ticket: For Governor. James Mickelwaite, of Mills; for Lieutenant Governor, W. H. Steer, of Cedar; for Supreme Judge, Jacob Roger’s, of Fayette; for Superintendent of Schools, William H. Taft, of Milis... .The letter of Mr.! Dorman B. Eaton |b the President, under date of July c 28, tendering his resignation as a member ’of the civil-service commission, and t[ie reply of Mr. Cleveland accepting the same, to take effect Nov. 1, were given to the press last week. The correspondence is quite lengthy, Mr. Eaton testifying in the strongest terms to the fidelity with which the President has executed the reform laws, and the latter announcing his determination of adhering to the policy already adopted.... Col. Absalom Baird been appointed Inspector General of the' Army by the President... .Ex-Congress-man S. M. Stockslager, of Indiana, has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office. The New York Democratic > State Convention met at .Saratoga Sept. 24, George Raines acting as both temporary and permanent Chairman. David B. Hill, the present incumbent, was nominated for Governor on the first ballot by an overwhelming majority. The convention adjourned for the day. Upon reassembling, on the next day, Roswell P. Flpwer was nominated for Lieutenant Gov?ernor by acclamation. "'The ticket was rapidly completed as follows: Secretary of State, Frederick Cook; Comptroller, Alfred C. Chapin; Attorney General, Denis O'Brien; State Treasurer, LaWrence J. Fitz Gerald; State Engineer and Surveyor. L. Nathan Sweet. The platform indorses the administrations' of President Cleveland and Governor Hill; approves the spirit of the national and State laws for the regulation of the civil service, while condemning the manner in which the former were executed while the Republicans were in power, and demanding that the commission be reorganized so that its majority shall be in sympathy with the administration; advocates the repeal of the compulsory silver-coinage act; calls for a revision of the tariff upon the principles laid down by the last National Democratic Convention; expresses opposition to contract convict labor in any form; urges the enactment of Sunday laws for the benefit of ? the working classes, and denounces sumptuary legislation.... The Republicans of Maryland, in convention at Baltimore, nominated Francis Miller for Comptroller and William M. Marine for Clerk of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions pay a tribute to the memory of Gen. Grant, demand a protective tariff, commend civil-service reform, and denounce the appointments of Higgins, Thomas, and Mason... .The Colorado Republican State Convention, in session at Denver, nominated the Hon. Samuel H. , Elbert, of Denver, for Judge of the Supreme Court. Mr. Roswell P. Flower, nominated for Lieutenant Governor by the Democrats of New York, has declined to accept the nomination.... Prof. Alex. Agassiz was tendered the superintendency of the coast survey, vice Prof. Hilgard removed. Daniel O. Finch, of Des Moines, was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of lowa.

GENERAL.

There - were 140 failures in the United States during the week, as compared with 148 the preceding week, and with 201,164, and 173, respectively, in the corresponding weeks of 1884. 1883, and 1882. About 83 per cent were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. Canada had twenty, ah increase of two... .The movement of general merchandise throughout the country during the last week, as reported in special telegrams to Bradstreet’s, has been about equal to the volume of preceding weeks, though distributed somewhat differently. At various trade centers West and—Southwest, where the activity reported has not been proportionate to that recorded at Eastern points of distribution, there have been a larger inquiry and.a heavier week’s business, but at-various cities in the East the movement of goods to the interior is smaller. Illustrating this, it may be specified that at Boston the sales of dry goods have fallen off somewhat from the late heavy volume, and that the existing demand there is Jess than had been expected. . The situation is therefore considered one for critical examination, and the succeeding few weeks will be closely observed to determine whether the result, as Ms been alleged, is to be a dull trade during the winter succeeding an autumn spurt only. The Eastern dry goods trade in general is therefore characterized as quiet Immense swarms of locusts have invadMexico and are devouring the ungathered crops....“At Battleford. Northwest Territory,” says a Winnipeg dispatch, “Wandering spirit was sentenced to hang for the murder of Agent Quinn at Frog Lake. Some dozen other Indians were sent down for from four to fourteen years for arson and horse-stealing at the time of the rebellion. Dressyman and Charlebois were convicted of murdering a squaw, and were sentenced to hang. Gonison Mongrand was found guilty of mura derinsr Constable Cowan at Fort Pitt, and received a similar sentence. BrightEyes was given twenty-two years for manslaughter. Wandering Spirit and Mongrand are to hang Nov. 27 at Regina. Today Big Bear and eight others of his.band were sentenced to three years in the Manitoba penitentiary. Left Hand, Poor Crow, and two other Sioux Indians got two years. ” . .. .A circular has been issued by the Executive Board of the Union Pacific employes, stating their grievances in connectiofi with the trouble with the Chinese coalminers in Wyoming. The circular is somewhat personal in. dealing with Manager Callaway of the railroad company.

FOREIGN

The cable reports' that the signatory powers"to the Berlin treaty ..favor a conference for the adjustment of the Bulgarian difficulty, but the attitude of Russia is reported as firm in support of the rebels, while the Sultan is preparing to attempt enforcement of his suzeranity. The situation is considered somewhat critical. A London dispatch says: “The pews from St. Petersburg creates a decided sensation in this city. There are now grave fears of a gigantic struggle in -•fbexEiist That the Porte will riot strike a blow for its treaty rights is simply Inconceivable, The existence of Turkey as a European power is at stake.. Eastern Roumelia was created for the express purpose of giving the Porte command of the Balkans, which have proved for the past hundred years the principal barrier against Muscovite aggression.”... .Lord Wolseley has been created a Viscount A CABLE dispatch from London says:-. “There have been now just about 100,000 deaths from cholera in the south of Europe. There are sinister reports of the existence of the plague in Parisian suburbs, andriris menace of that city constitutes the feature of the outbreak. Italy seems likely to escape lightly, although the wide dissemination of the. seeds causes uneasiness... .Thomas William Stead, editor of

the Pall Mall Gazette, and others charged with him as implicated in the abduction case of Eliza Armstrong have been committed for trial in London. Mr. Stead argued his own case, and claimed that the end he had >in view in the" case justified the means adopted... .It is estimated that between 46,000 and 70,006 people attended the Socialist meeting in London Sunday. The police did not interfere with the gathering, and no disturbance occurred... .A rumor is current at Vienna that England will cede the island of Heligoland to Germany in consideration of the surrender by the latter of her new colonial possessions in New Guinea.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In a quarrel at Saybrook, HL, Dr.,H. L. Hanis shot and killed Dr. Geo. Barton. The latter impugned the professional merit of Harris, who then charged Barton with lying. Barton, it is alleged, knocked Harris down, and the latter shot his opponent through the heart. Harris was giving medical attention to his victim when arrested, 'and was taken to Bloomington for safe keeping. .. . Chicago elevators contain 12,703,059 bushels of wheat, 594,381 bushels of corn, 73,131 bushels of oats, 148,789 bushels of rye, and 13,911 bushels of barley; total, 13,533,271 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 7,347,173 bushels a year ag0.... Christine Lagrange, the young woman who committed suicide at her home in Neenah, Wis., left a letter saying that she had been outraged by John Kerwin while returning from a ball in his company, which drove her to the act. Kerwin, who belongs to a respectable family, is in jail at Oshkosh. President Cleveland, says a Washington special, while not altogether satisfied with the Democratic ticket and platform in New York, is anxious for the success of his party at the approaching election, and will do all that he can with propriety to bring about that result... .A number of leading Dakota Republicans have nominated a full State ticket, with John H. King, of Chamberlain, for Governor. The slate was made up at a secret'meeting at Mitchell, and is the sequel to the Sioux Falls convention. »

Woman suffrage has been* decreed by the municipal authorities of Madras, India.... Mr. O’Donell, Home-Rule member of Parliament for Dungarvan, has retired from the canvass for re-election. Parnellism, he claims, has reduced the popular organization both in Ireland and America by its schemes for obtaining money, sapped the foundation of self-government by abusing, the nominees, and fostered deceptive confidence by claiming triumphs on the adoption by Parliament of every worthless Irish measure. t— — Dr. W. M. White, Independent candidate for State Senator, shot Judge George W. Ward, State’s Attorney, and editor of a local Democratic paper, as he was entering a hotel at Abingdon, Va. Ward fell on his face, but recovering, arose to his knees and fired at a relative of White who was crouching behind a tree on the opposite side of the street. White again came from his concealed position and shot Ward, as did two of White’s relations, probably fatally wounding the Judge. The White trio were arrested and bailed in $7,000 each. Ferdinand Ward, the ex-banker of New York, hag been interviewed.' .He declares that he has been made a scapegoat for the sins of others, and promises to give the public a statement, prepared some time since, showing in detail all the transactions of the firm of Grant & Ward. Gen. Grant, he says, had no knowledge of its affairs. The Presiden t has appointed the follow-ing-named Presidential Postmasters: at Paola, Kan., vice J. L. Perry, resigned; Robert F. Chilton, at Santa Ana, Cal., vice Charles E. French, resigned; Edward Van De Casteele, at Depere, Wis., vice P. R. Proctor, resigned; Harry S. Parker, at Farmington, N. H., vice William H. Hayes, resigned; F. H. Spinney, at Medford, Mass., vice J. H. Eames', resigned; Burritt B. Breed, at Lisbon, D. T., vice R. P. Bigger, deceased; L. R. Davis, at Athens, Ala., vice Thomas J. Lake, suspended; Milton H. Westbrook, at Lyons, lowa, vice J. R. Beers, suspended; Jas. B. Blackwell, at Marietta, Ga., vice A. A. Fletcher, suspended; John Shearman, at Monroe City, Mo., vice B. 11. Tucker, suspended; Thos. A. Garey, at Galveston, Tex.; vice Wm. H. Griffin, suspended; E. E. Waggoner, at Shelbyville, 111., vice 8. H. Webster, suspended; John A. Collins, at Washington, Mo., vice D. Q. Gale, suspended; E. P. Matthews, at Bowling Green, Mo., vice William J. Shepherd, suspended; John Flynn, at Duluth, Minn., vice Jos. E. Knowlton, suspended. The President has appointed the following Indian Agents: W. L. Powell, of Virginia. Neah Bay Agency, Washington Territory; John V. Summers, of Missouri, at Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory; Mark W. Stevens, of Michigan, at Mackinaw Agency, Michigan; Charles Hill, of Nebraska, at Santee' Agency in Nebraska, vice William H. Spaulding, declined: Moses Neal, of Kansas, at Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory, vice Isaac A. Taylor, resigned; Henry E. Williamson, of Mississippi, at Crow Agency in Montana, vice Henry J. Armstrong, resigned; Fletcher J. Cowart, of Alabama, at Mescalero Agency in New Mexico, vice W. H. H. Llewellen, resigned.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves.s4.so @6.25 Hogs.... 4.75 @5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White... .94' @ .95 No. 2 Red. .953£@ .97& Corn —No. 248 @ .50 Oats—White34 @ .40 Pork—Mess 9.75 @10.25 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.75 @6.25 Good Shipping. 5.00 @ 5.50 Common 3.50 @ 4.50. Hogs 3.75 @4.50 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 5.00 @5.25 Prime to Choice Spring. 3.75 @4.00 Whe at—N o. 2 Spring.Bs @ .85 & Corn—No. 242 @ .43 Oats—No. 225 @ .26 Rye—No. 258 @ .60 Barley—No. 268 @ .70 Butter—Choice Creameryl9 @ .21 Fine Dairyl6 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, new...o9)£@ .10)4 Skimmed Flats .05)£@ .l6Uj Eggs—Fresh.l7 @ .18 Potatoes—Perbu..;3s @ .40 Pork —Mess... 8.50 @9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 .86 @ .87 Corn—No. 2 .43 @ .44 Oats—‘No. 2.25 @ .26 Rye—No. 1..58 @ .60 POBK—Mess." 8.25 @8.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2...... 99 @ .92 Corn—No. 244 @ .45 Oats—No. 2. -26 @ .28 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 92 @ .93 Corn—Mixed....,..... .41 @ .42 Oats—Mixed-■24 @ .26 Pork —Me 55........ 9.00 @9.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2. ...... -47 @ -<8 Oats—Mixed.27 @ .28 Rye—No. 2..... .63 @ .65 Pork—Mess • 900 0 9-2 j DETROIT. Beef Cattle...' 3.50 @ 4.75 H0g5..... 3.50 @ 4.25 Sheep ■ • 3-25 @ 3.7j5 Wheat—No. 1 White. , .91 @ -93 Corn—No. 2. *5 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 White 27 @ .31 INDIANAPOLIS Wheat—No. 2 Red. -90 0 -92 Corn—Mixed .49 @ -*4 Oats—No. 2 -24 & .26 EAST LIBERTY „ Cattt.f—Best........ 5.50 @ 6.00 Fair.. 5.00 & 5.50 -r Common... 4.00 @4.50 H0g5....... 4.25 @4.75 *Sheep 3.50 @ 4.60 BUFFALO. ~ „ Cattle -75 @ 6.25 H0g5......,a... *■*s 0 f-J® • Sheep 3.50 @ 4.75

HOADLY AND FORAKER.

Correspondence Between the Democratic 1 and Republican Candidates for Governor of Ohio. [Cblumbus (Ohio) dispatch.) Judge Foraker, Republican Candidate for Governor, in his speech at Paulding, yesterday, became exasperated over the fact that some Prohibitionists asked him to define himself on the temperance issue, and immediately announced that he would challenge Governor Hoadly to a discussion on the issues of the campaign. This was on the ground, as he claimed, that Governor Hoadly had been instrumental in having the questions put to him by outsiders while he was speaking at different points. The following correspondence in relation to the matter has been made public: Columbus, Sept. 26. Hon. Thomas E. Powell, Chairman, etc.: Dear Sir —As Gov. Hoadly, through certain allies of your party calling themselves Prohibitionists, has seen lit to propound questions to our candidate for Governor at long range, lam authorized to challenge him to a discussion of t the Issues of the campaign with Judge Foraker, at such times and places as may be agreed upon by us. Yours very truly, A. S. Bushnell, Chairman.

Columbus, 0., Sept. 26. Hon. A. S. Bushnell, Chairman, etc.; Your letter has just been received, in which you claim that the Prohibitionists, as allies of our party, have propounded certain questions to your candidate for Governor. The Prohibition party is not an ally of the Democratic party. We are against them and the Prohibition party. They, on the other hand, are against us and for prohibition. If Judge Foraker will declare whether he is an ally or an enemy to the Prohibition party, whether the is in favor ot prohibition or against, we will be pleased to meet with you and the Chairman of the Prohibition State Executive Committee and arrange for a discussion by all three candidates upon this and all other questions involved in the present canvass. Yours truly, T. E. Powell, Chairman. Columbus, Sept. 26. Hon. Thomas E. Powell, Chairman, etc. Dear Sir—By your favor of this afternoon I am pleased to see that you do not deny that Gov. Hoadly, through Prohibition allies, has been engaged in the small work of propounding questions to our candidate for Governor. From your well-known truthfulness I did not suppose you would have the" hardihood to do this after the occurences at Paulding on yesterday, where the undig- , nified scheme was exposed. Under all the circumstances, I do not wonder that you even condescend to crawfish for the purpose of keeping Gov. Hoadly from meeting a manly antagonist in a manly manner. Yours very truly. A. S. Bushnell. Columbus, Sept 26. To Hon. A. 8. Bushnell. 'Dear Sir—Your last favor has just been received. Gov. Hoadly has not been engaged in the work of proposing questions to Judge Foraker, through Prohibitionists or any other persons, nor has the Democratic party done so. Our candidate however, has the courage to answer all questions put to him on the stump or through the public press. If your candidate has not equal courage it is not our faulty but your misfortune. If you can induce Judge Foraker to answer the questions plainly put to him in our last letter, or if your committee will answer them lor him, we will be pleased to meet you and arrange for a joint debate, as indicated in our answer. Yours respectfully, T. E. PoWell, Chairman. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 27. Hon. Thomas E. Powell, Chairman Democratic State Executive Committee: Dear Sir—l have just received from Judge Foraker the following, which explains itself. In accordance therewith, I hereby repeat his challenge for a joint discussion with Gov. Hoadly, and request an early conference for the arrangement of details. A. S. Bushnell, Chairman. ' Dayton, Ohio, Sept, 26. Hon. A S. Bushnell,!Chairman: Dear Sir—l. telegraphed you last night from Paulding, asking you to challenge Gov. Hoadly to a joint discussion of the issues involved in this campaign. 1 knew nothing of what has since transpired until this moment, when, on my arrival, I am handed telegraphic copies of the correspondence that has passed between the committees. Because of the circumstances at Paulding leading to the challenge, I desired a debate between Gov. Hoadly and myself, but the Democratic committee seem unwilling to consent, except upon condition that Dr. Leonard be also brought into the discussion. You have already declined a debate between Dr. Leonard and myself, and I have no control of him; but you are hereby authorized and requested to Immediately repeat my challenge to the Democratic committee, and say to them that, if Gov. Hoadly insists upon the aid of Dr. Leonard, I waive all objection to his coming into the discussion. But I shall expect him to come upon the invitation of Gov. Hoadly, and that Gov. Hoadly will share his time with him. If this be accepted, please arrange at once fdr a series of meetings. I suggest not less than four. Very truly, etc., J. B. Foraker.

SMALL-POX.

Terrible Ravages of the Disease in Montreal. [Telecram from Montreal,] There is no abatement in the small-pox epidemic here yet, but there are hopes that the ne*w measures coming into operation of compelling all to be vaccinated and those suffering from the disease to be isolated, will lessen the mortality. The daily deaths in city and suburbs last week averaged forty-five. There are 130 patienfs under treatment in the civic hospital The greatest energy on the part of the health authorities, both provincial and city, is being employed, with the assistance of leading merchants and clergy of all denominations, to get the malady under control. The sanitary laws passed by Parliament for combating? the epidemic, and which give arbitrary powers to the Board of Health, have been invoked, and special Stipendiary Magistrates are to sit daily to enforce the rules submitted by the local board for stamping out the scourge. A large force of doctors employed by the Health Board willcommence ajsystematic vaccination from house to house all over the city on Monday, and all who refuse will be brought before the Magistrates and fined.

THIS AND THAT.

, '-u Queen Victoria’s private fortune is estimated at about $30,000,000. A London syndicate has agreed to take the Northern Pacific second-mortgage bonds. The upper classmen of Princeton have formed a law and order society to prevent the hazing of freshmen. Philadelphia has about four hundred building and loan societies, doing an annual business of about $16,000,000. John B. Tallman, who recently died at Lynn, Mass., left $30,000 to the Young Men’s Christian Association with which to prosecute the saloon-keepers of that place. In a Baltimore bagnio, Thomas C. Hance shot and killed his wife, who had deserted him and returned to the life of shame She had led before their marriage, two years ago. , The man who advertised: “Wanted a silent partner,” must have wanted to marry a mute.

EXIT EATON.

The Resignation of the Civil .Service i Commissioner Accepted tiy .. 4 , the President. ■* . t. • The Executive, in Reply, Says the Civil Service Law Must be Observed. ? [Washington telegram.] The letter of Dorman B. Eaton to tfip President, resigning his position as a member of the Civil Service Commission, and the reply of President Cleveland accepting the same, were made public to-day. Mr. Eaton's letter, which is dated July 25, says the writer had, several weeks before that time, determined to tender his resignation, but that he would not urge its acceptance until such time as the President might find convenient to make a new appointment to the place. Mr.JSaton points out that, Grior to the passage ot the civil service iw, Jan. 16. 1883, ,he had held under three earlier Presidents, and was then holding, under President Arthur, a position closely analogous to his present one. During all that time he had served without compensation, and when the time arrived for executing the provisions of the law he did not feel called upon to make any further sacrifice ot his private interest for the cause of civil-service reform. President Arthur, without any intimation to him, then appointed him a Ccmmissioner. He wbuld have declined the office, but was urged not to do so by many friends of reform. Certain persons charged that he had promoted the act from selfish motives, and these same parties now stood ready to charge that his refusal to accept the position of Commissioner was a cowardly shrinking from the failure which was sure to follow any attempt to execute the civil-service law. Under these circumstances he accepted the office with the declared purpose of remaining hardly more than a year, within which time it was expected the most difficult part of the work would have been accomplished. At the, end of that time the new law had secured the Commendation of the President, united the party In power, and secured from a committee of the House ot Representatives a report commending the commission as "intelligent, non-partisan, and conscientious. ” A few months later he was about to insist upon being relieved, when friends dissuaded him, urging that, as a new party was coming into power, his resignation would be looked upon as fleeing from the peril of a crisis. No declaration of his confidence in the reform policy of the new administration would have freed him from the damaging plausibility of such a charge, and he determined to remain in office until the reform policy of that administration had been Clearly developed. That timfl had now arrived, as must be admitted by all candid men. The few changes made in the rules had but added to their justice and efficiency, and there had appeared no reason to suppose that the merit system had not been welcomed by the President and by all members of the Cabinet as a great benefit to the public service, a great influence for honesty in politics, and a great relief to the head of the office. Mr. Eaton says he wishes to leave no doubt of his absolute faith in the continuing triumph of a reform policy. President Cleveland's letter of reply is as follows:

“Washington, Sept, n, I§Bs. “Hon. Dorman B. Eaton: “Mv Dear Sir—l am in receipt of your letter tendering your resignation as a member of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. I cannot refrain from expressing my sincere regret that you have determined to withdraw from a position in the public service where your intelligent performance of duty has been of inestimable value to the country. The friends of civil service reform and all those who aesire good government fully appreciate your devotion to the cau-e in which you early enlisted, and they have seen with satisfaction that your zeal and faith have not led you to suppose that the reform in which you were engaged is unsuited to the rules which ordinarily govern progress in human affairs, or that it should at once i each perfection and universal acceptance. You have been willing patiently to accept good results as they step by step could be gained, holding every advance with unyielding steadfastness. The success which thus far attended the work of civil service reform is largely due to the fact that its practical friends have proceeded upon the theory that real and healthy progress can only be made if the people who cherish pernicious political ideas, long fostered and encouraged by vicious partisanship, are persuaded that the change contemplated by the reform offers substantial improvements and benefits. A reasonable tol -ration for old prejudices, a graceful recognition ot every aid, a sensible utilization of every instrumentality that promises assistance, and a constant effort to demonstrate the advantages of the new order of things, are the means by which this reform movement will in the future be further advanced, the opposition oElncorrlgible spoilsmen rendered ineffectual, and the cause placed upon- a sure foundation. Of course, there should be no surrender of principle nor backward steps, and all laws for the enforcement of the reform should be rigidly executed; but the benefits which its principles promise will not be fully realized unless the acquiescence of the people is added to the stern assertion of a doctrine and the vigorous execution of the laws. “It is a source of congratulation that there are so many friends of civil service i eform marshaled on the practical side of the question, and that the number is not greater of those who profess friendliness for the cause and yet mischievously and with supercilious self-righteousness discredit every effort not in exact accord with their attenuated ideas, decry with carping criticism the labor of those actually in the field of reform, and, ignoring the conditions which qualify every struggle for a radical improvement in the affairs of the Government, demand complete and immediate perfection. The reference in your letter to the attitude of the members of my Cabinet to the merit system established by the civil service law, besides being entirely correct, exhibits an appreciation of the honest endeavor in the direction of reform and a disposition to do justice to proved sincerity which is most gratifying. If such treatment ot those upon whom the duty rests of administering the Government according to reform methods were the universal rule, and if the embarrassments and perplexities attending such an administration were fairly regarded by all those professing to be friendly to such methods, the avowed enemies of the cause would be afforded less encouragement. “I believe in civil service reform and its application in the most practicable form attainable, among other reasons, because it opens the door for the rich and the poor alike to a participation in public place holding. And I hope the time is at hand when all our people will see the advantage of a reliance for such an opportunity upon merit and fitness, instead of a dependence upon the caprice or selfish Interest of those who impudently stand between the people and the machinery of their government. In the one case a reasonable intelligence and the education which is freely fqnnished or forced upon the youth of our land are the credentials to office; in the other the way is found in favor secured by a participation in partisan work often unfitting a person morally, it not mentally and physically, for the responsibilities and duties of rnbllc employment. You will agree with me, think, that the support which has been given to the pi esent administration in its efforts to preserve and advance this reform by a party restored to power after an exclusion for many years from participation in the places attached to the public service—confronted with a new system precluding the redistribution of such places in its interest—called .upon to surrender advantages which a perverted partisanship had taught? the American people belonged to success, and perturbed with the suspicion, always raised in such an emergency, that their rights in the conduct of this reform had not been scrupulously regarded—should receive due acknowledgment, and should confirm our -belief that there is a sentiment among the people better than a desire to hold office, and a patriotic Impulse upon which may safely rest the integrity of our institutions and the strength and perpetuity of our Government. “I have determined to reauest you to retain your present position until the Ist day of November next, at which time your resignation may become operative. I desire to express my entire confidence in your attachment to the cause of civil service reform and your ability to render it efficient aid, and 1 indulge the hope and expectation that, notwithstanding the acceptance of your resignation, your interest in the object lor which you have labored so assiduously will continue bevond the official term which you surrender. Yours very truly, “Grover Cleveland.

ITEMS.

In Vermont $17,000 skating rinks are offered for SBOO. The.private fortune of Queen Victoria is reckoned up at $30,000,000. It is stated that the South last ylir spent $10,000,000 on public schools. Cornell University has eight fellowships open yearly valued at S4OO each. FobNey’s Progress, ot Philadelphia, has ceased to progress. It did not pay. \