Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. IpJfrAJfA. ft K MARSHALL. • • PcßUSßift.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Connecticut has beeu shaken up by a mild sort of earthquake... .In the libel suit for $25,000 of Henry V. Bemis, of the Chicago Horseman against the proprietors of the Turf, Field and Farm at New York . the demurrer of the latter that the facts did not constitute cause for action was sustained by the court It is stated that the Vanderbilt securities in the vaults of the Lineoa National Bank, New York, count up $305,000,000... .The Bedell House, a summer resort on Grand, Island, in Niagara River, was burned; loss, $30,000. .. .The Lancaster (Mass.) National Bank is closed, and its President, W. 11. McNeil, is a fugitive. It is alleged that he embezzled $100,000... .The great strike of river colliers at Pittsburgh is practically at an end. Two thousand men are at work at the reduced rate of 2J cents per bushel... .Pittsburg advices are to the effect that the long strike of the river coal miners is practically over, many men having returned to work at the 2s-cent rate.... Boston reports the expenditure of $8,000,000 for new buildings during the, past twelve months. Omaha claims to have put up fourteen hundred structures at a cost of - $3,720,000... .The Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railway Company has increased its bonded debt to $10,000,000, and approved the lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.... The New York Central Directors met and declared a dividend of 1 per cent. The Lake Shore Directors decided to pass the dividend. The statement for the year 1885, partly estimated, shows: gross earnings, $14,088,457; operating expenses. $9,247,081; net eaming6, $4,841,376; all charges, $3,893,000 —leaving a surplus of $948,576, * or nearly 2 per cent, of the capital stock. A SECOND attempt was made Sunday to burn down the town of Tarentum, Pa. The incendiaries took every precaution to make this attempt a success, cutting the ropes of the two alarm bells and rendering the pnmps useless. The flames were discovered and extinguished by the citizens with a loss of only $9,000. The previous attempt entailed a loss of $50,000.... A stage coach was upset near Burlington, Vt.. and set on fire by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. All the occupants were badly burned, one of them, Mrs. Revar, receiving probably fatal injuries.

THE WEST.

Much opposition is reported from the Cherokees of Indian Territory to the bills introduced in Congress to allot the land in severalty to the Indians and open up the country to settlement... .Omaha spent $3 in building last year, the banks did a business of $115,000,000, the product of the factories amounted to $25,000,000, and the wholesale trade to $29,680,000.... Fire at Detroit destroyed !). M. Ferry & Co.’s mammoth seed house, 'White’s Grand Theater, and the Wesson Block, and badly soorched other structures, creating a total loss of about $1,500,000. One fireman was instantly killed by falling walls, and Another was seriously injured. Ferry & Co, carried insurance amounting to $460 ,000.... A gentleman recently from California, in discussing the race to the Pacific coast between the Burlington, Northwestern, and Santa Fe Boads, states that the former has secured an option on the California and Nevada Boad, with a terminus on the Bay of San Francisco and rights of way through the interior counties. It is not improbable that the Northwestern will lease the Central Pacific, with which it expects to connect at Ogden within six months, as it is pushing westward at the rate of a mile per day. The Southern Pacific Company is said to have offered the Santa Fe managers an opporterms. St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch: “The weather is so mild that overcoats have been cast aside, and lawn tennis is being played in the open air. One citizen exhibited a bunch of pansies that blossomed in his front yard, and another appeared in the street clad in a linen duster and straw hat. and carrying a fan.” The Toledo, Cincinnati and St, Louis Boad was last week sold under foreclosure. The St. Louis division went at $901,000, and the Toledo section at $600,000, the Seney syndicate being the purchasers. The entire system is to be reorganized as a standard-gauge road... .The Ohio Central Boad, which was recently sold under foret, closure, has taken the title of the Kanawha and Ohio. All the offices of the road have been removed to Charleston, W. Va. ... .Brigham Hampton, the Mormon conspirator, who had planned to entrap “Gentiles” into the commission of unchaste acts, was sentenced at Salt Lake City to one year in the county jail... .The District Attorney at Omaha has been instructed by tile Attorney General to comfnence civil and criminal proceedings against ten persons who have inclosed 80,000 acres of public lands, having first given due notice to the offenders.

Thebe is some apprehension in New Mexico of an outbreak of Navajo Indians. ... .Woodside beat toe best American bicycle record at Minneapolis, having made 266 mils s in twenty-six hours.... There were sixtyvonviclious for unlawful cohabitation under the Edmunds law in Utah last year .... attempt is being made by a number of leading Cherokees to set aside toe lease of a tract of land known as toe Cherokee Outlet to a syndicate of cattlemen..’.. A Lafayette, Ind., physician took possession of an illegitimate child, at whose birth he had officiated, because the unfortunate-mother had not the means to pay his bin.... The recent murder of four members bf the Knoch family, in a suburb of Detroit, was followed by the butchery of the aged mother, whose skull was found to have been fractured. .. .Incorporation papers have been filed at Topeka for toe Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Kailway, with a capital stock of $15,000 ,000, which proposes to build a line and six brimehes aggregating 700 miles in length. The incorporators are closely identified with toe Bock Island Boad. The main track is to ran from Larkin, Kan., through nine counties, including Beno. : ■ ■ - ■ • t

THE SOUTH.

Several members of (he Cabinet have hit upon a happy scheme to avoid the trouble imposed upon them by persistent autograph fiends. They have had stamps prepared having on their faces the name of theiv respective departments and a facsimile of their signatures. All autograph books are turned over to the private secre-

lected, and after blotting the mpressjon it has the appearance of having been written by the Cabinet officers. No thought of a stamp enters the autograph hunter’s mind, and he leaves with his book in his pocket, happy in'the belief that he has added the signature of one more great man to his list. A Distressing accident occurred at Saunders’ Ferry, on the Kentucky River, twenty-four miles south of Lexington. James Saunders, the ferryman, attempted to cross the river in his boat With his wife and two children, and, his light being extinguished by an accident, he attempted to make a lauding iu the dark, but missed the usual landing-place and overturned the boat. The woman and both children were drowned, and Saunders, after a vain effort to assist them, sWum ashore. Four colored laborers were killed at Mobile by a boiler explosion iu the oilmills. Two young men lost their lives by a similar accident at New Providence, Pa., .where forty-seven animals were roasted alive.... An attempt was made to wreck the Southern Pacific bridge across the Rio Grande, several miles north of El Paso, Tex. The plan was to blow a passenger train -from the structure and rob the wounded and dead travelers Ex-Senator James E. Bailey died at Clarksville, Tenn., from tumor of the stomach. He was born near Clarksville, sixty-three years ago. In 1853 he was elected to the Tennessee Legislature, aud at the beginning of the war was appointed a member of the State Military Bureau. He afterward served as Colonel of the Forty-ninth Tennessee Infantry. After the war he re, sumed the practice of law. He was elected United States Senator in 1877. and his term expired four years later. ,He was for a long time the leader of the State-Credit. Democracy. The casket containing the. body of a child, who had been temporarily interredover twelve, years ago, was taken up at Yorkville. S. C.. for final burial. After the casket had beeu removed from me grave a loud explosion occurred, shattering the glass lid aud driving the fragments in all directions, a piece of the glass seriously wounding the father of the child. The cause of the explosion is a mystery, hut the remains were found to be in an excellent state of preservation... .The census of Charleston. S. C., shows a total population of over 60,000, against about 49,000 iu 1880, an increase of over ; 20 per cent. The white population is about 27,500, and the colored over 32,500. The colored surplus consists mainly of children.... Two colored men. who had set fire to cotton, were taken from hanged. The people of South Carolina report having in tne last five years paid off $500,000 of the State debt, added $66,000,000 to the wealth of the State, and built 240 miles of railroad. A NUMBER of the Morgan County, Tennessee, officials were found short in their accounts. Among them is a member of the Legislature, who is a defaulter to the amount of $27,000 The Southern Hotel at New Orleans, La., was totally destroyed by fire. One man is known to have perished in the flames, and it is believed that others were buried under the .debris. Several firemen were injured.

WASHINGTON.

The estimates of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture for the principal cereal crops of the year are as follows, in round millions: Com, 1,936; wheat, 357; oats, 629. The area of corn is 73,000,000 acres; of wheat, 34,000,000; of oats, 23,000,000. The value of corn averages nearly 33 cents per bushel, and makes an aggregate of $635,000,000—55,000,000 less than the value of the last crop. The decrease in the product of wheat is 30 per cent., and only 17 per cent, in valuation, which is $275,000,000. The reduction in wheat is mostly in the valley of the Ohio, aud in California. The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Missouri and Kansas last year produced 170,000,000 bushels; this year 80,000.000, a reduction of 90,000,000 bushels. The production of all cereals is 53 bushels-to each-inhabitant, and the aggregate volume is larger than in any former year. The President’s New Y’ear’s reception is described as- exceedingly brilliant... .Attorney General Garland refused to compromise with William S. Warner and J. Henry Work, of New York, for a check for $152,800 iu favor of the creditors of the Marine National Bank, which they stood charged with robbing. The offenders will soon be tried on the indictments.... The President has finally determined to appoint a successor to Judge Advocate General Swaim, suspended. Gen. Swaim’s case will probably be.left with the courts7f6r future action.

The Secretary of the Treasury has received a conscience contribution of $32 in a letter from Rushville, 111. The writer said he was overpaid that amount while in the army, b,ht his convictions told him that it was not light to keep the money, and so, he says: “I send it to you. I am God’s. I must "obey the teachings of the spirit.” The total amount of the national debt Jan. 1 was $1,843,713,715. The debt, less cash in the Treasury, was $1,452,5-14,766, there beingj5494,361,954 on baud, as shown by the Treasurer's general HfcowtVt. The debt decreased $9,089,040 during December. Following is a recapitulation of the statement: , INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4*j percent .‘s $830,000,030 Bonds at 4 per cent ~t ?97,743,230 Bonds at 3 per cent. 134,190.500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 221,400 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal ;.... .#1,200,778.662 Interest 13.258,339 Total ..81,274,037,001 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST. HAS CEASED SINCE , MATURITY. Principal $3,447,688 Interest. 232,213 Total... $3,649,688 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $316,738,806 Certificates cf deposit 13,700,000 Gold certificates.;.,.. 105,350,601 Silver certificates 93,179,465 Fractional currency (less 88,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed,.... 6,950,153 Principal 560,0,7,025 Total debt— j. Principal $1,880,253,163 Interest l'S,-fiio,ss2’ Total .$1,843,713,715 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 229,240.010 Less reserve held for redemption of ■ U. 8. notes.:. ..7.. 100,000,000 T0ta1....... $329,240,016 Total debt less available cash item 551,514,473,098 Net cash ifithe Treasury. . 71,018.872 * ' •• Debt less cash In Treasury Jan. 1. 1883 $1,443,454,826 Debt less cash in Treasury Dec. 1, 1695 1,452,544,766 Decrease of debt during the month. 10,089,940 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OP THE DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu-

ally outstanding UOS 359 g0i Silver held for stiver certificates actually outstanding 93,179,466 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 13,790,000 Cash held for matured debt aud interest unpaid 16,908,028 Fractional currency 2,922 Total available for redaction of the debt $229,240,010 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 .*.... $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the .debt— Fractional "silver coin, v #27,796,430 Minor coin 1 526,844 Total #28,323,275 Certificates held as eash 65,779,790 Net cash balance on hand 71;018,672 Total” cash in Treasury aB nhown by thp Treasurer’s general account.. #494,361,954

POLITICAL.

The Kentucky Legislature began its sessions on the 30th ult., at Frankfort. Charles Offutt, of Bourbon County, was elected Speaker of the House. Governor Hill, of New York, was inaugurated for the second time on New Year’s Day, the ceremony being of an imposing character. .. At a Tammany primary election in New York one faction burst the doors, after twenty-seven votes had found their way into the. box, and the inspectors left by way of a window. Thomas Acton, Sub-Treasurer at New York, was ordered to surrender his office to N. C. Jordan. Treasurer of the United States. He at once solicited an opinion froin George Bliss and Elihu Eqqt, who advised him not to turn over his trust to any person not nominated by the President aud confirmed by the Senate. He therefore sent Treasurer Jordan a kindly protest against his assumption of the controPof the office. But Mr. Jordan relieved the bondsmen by breaking the seals and commencing business.

GENERAL.

A cable dispatch reports that California wheat sold in England at 30 shillings and 6 pence per quarter pf eight bushels. If this sale were of wheat of standard quality it is the lowest known for at least 105 years past, and perhaps for even a longer period. A little more than a year ago standard wheat was reported soid at 31 shillings, which was the minimum price up to that date in the whole time during which the British averages appear to have been made up. • An Italian residing in Victoria, British Columbia, undertook to transport seven Chinamen to the shore of Washington Territory. Seeing an American revenue cutter in the distance, he dispatched his passengers one by one, heaved their corpses overhoard, and met the Yankee tars without the twitch of a muscle. . . .The OrangeCatholic riots have been renewed at Conception Bay, Newfoundland. An Orange mob attacked and fatally wounded two men.... The volcano in the State of Colima, Mexico, is in a state of eruption, causing great excitement throughout the region. Lieutenant Jones, of the Fourth United States Artillery, stationed at Fort Adams, Newport, R. 1,, fatally shot himself. He had overstayed a leave of absence about a week, and decided upon suicide rather than submit to a court-mar-tial. During its latest trial trip the Dolphin encountered a gale which made the officers and crew seasick. The ship averaged twelve knots an hour during the storm.... The Canadian Minister of Customs has decided that the patent-medicine firm of Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Massachusetts, must pay duties of $150,000 on products entered within three years at several ports far below their real value A steamer sailed from San Francisco for the Arctic regions in search of the crew of the missing whaler Amethyst.

FOREIGN.

The creditors of the eccentric and extravagant King of Bavaria are trying to levy on the goods and property of the royal household... .M. Grevy has received the congratulations of all the European Powers on his election to the Presidency of the French Kepublic... .Pasteur, of Paris, has eradicated all symptoms of hydrophobia from the Newark children sent across the Atlantic by charitable people, and he has inoculated Messrs. Kauffman and Sattler, also from New Jersey... .Mr. William E. Gladstone celebrated his 76th birthday at Hawarden on the 29th ult. At dawn he walked to the village church, despite falling sleet and snow, and attended special .serviceSr -He-received many congratulatory telegrams and letters.... The Whig peers of England, beaded by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Hartington, announce their determination to make a hot fight agaiilst Gladstone’s home rule measures for Ireland. The chief point on which Gladstone and his late colleagues differ is whether there shall be two chambers of Parliament or one local Legislature. The Spanish Government does not desire to grant England's request to be allowed to~ establish a coaling-station in the Caroline Islands... .Lieut. Gen. Stephehson, commander of the British forces in Egypt, attacked and routed a largeforce of Arabs near the*village of Koseh, The fight lasted three hours. There was the customary annual pilgrimage to Gambetta’s tomb on New Year’s Day ... The English Government will oppose the revival of the channel tunnel bill. ....Mr. Gladstone received 1,000 letters and telegrams of congratulation on his ljirthday.... The Pope has sold $106,000 of personal presents and donated the proceeds to the College of the Propaganda... .T. D. Sullivan, Dublin's new Lord Mayor, was installed with great ceremony on New Year’s Day.... A number of Liberal members of Parliament have, it is said, requested Mr. Parnell to formulate the demand of the Home Buie party, with a view to negotiations for a coalition. Mr. Parnell stated pretty plainly during' ,tbe recent campaign what he and bis colleagues wanted, and in a recent letter admonished the Nationalists that their cue was to play a “waiting game,” and make no move until events so shaped themselves as to call for definite action. He will doubtless ' adhere to this programme, and refuse to enter into auv negotiations with either Salisbury or Gladstone for the present, leaving himself free to go to the party which, when the proper time arrives, makes toerhighest bid for his support, ..“waiting game’ ! ‘is still the wisdom of toe situation for Mr. Parnell. » ’ey. Welsh crofters are organizing on Mir. Parnell’s plan,'and are united and'powerful. .. .The defeated Arabs are reported to have recovered from their reoent thi ashing, and to be preparing to resume the .offensive. v .Bismarck has withdrawn his opposition to toe proposed marriage of Alexander of Bulgaria and the daughter of the Crown Prince of Germany.... The Liberal party is falling to pieces over

the Irish question. The Tories are well to the front in British polittos, and their leaders are so eertain of their strength that they are preparing to present a government programme at the opening of Parliament. ... .A reduction of the army of Peru to 3,000 men has beenordered..... .Analarming increase of hydrophobia is reported from France.... The four children from Newark, N. J., who have been under the treatment of M. Pasteur, sailed from Havre for New York last week.... Arrangements are in progress for a meeting of the Emperors of Germany and Austria and the Czar, during the maneuvers of the Austrian army in Galicia the coming summer. -q

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

It is settled that the Queen’s speech to Parliament, which will meet the 21st inst., will announce the introduction of the Irish bill resolved on by the British. Cabinet. A cable dispatch from London says: The decision was not arrived at without difficulty, stroll” opposition "being offered. The bill is being drafted, and will be ready lor printing early next week. The. Queen has approved the principles of the measure —Viz: Provincial Chambers, partly elective, retaining the representation of property. The Legislative Chambers are to have exclusive authority over the revenue and expenditures of the country for local purposes, including counties Rul municipalities. All existing local bodies are to be subject to the control of the Chambers. The supervising power of the Imperial Exchequer is maintained. The local government is to have power to '’"raise money for ■all internal purposes, subjoct to the veto of the Imperial Treasury, but never over the high Courts of justice or conflicting vithlth" hind act, laud-purchase act, and general'statutes of the country. The Chambers will have power to undertake public works, such as the construction of harbors. There is no authority over police, militia, tariff, or external relations in any shape. Provision is made against the threatened creation of a national volunteer army through the establishment of rifle clubs by retention of the punitive statutes aud imperial control of all "moneys raised, whether by rates or loons. A dispatch from T.amatave says that the treaty of pence between France and Madagascar' cedes territory to France, surrenders the northwest ports which France originally claimed, and gives the French Government supremacy over the foreign relations of Madagascar... .The Legislative Council of India has been forced to levy an extra income tax of two per cent, in order to cover a deficit of £2,000,000 in the budget. A review of the cattle trade of Montana - shows that during the past year that territory received 100,000 head by trail from the South, and the Northern Pacific brought iu 27,000 calves from the East and 38,000 from the West... .The Governor of Arizona reports that Territory as paying 10 per_ cent. interest upon warrants for $120,948, and the indebtedness of the several counties is $1,101,625. When ail the appropriations of the last Assembly are provided for, the territorial debt will be $700,000... .The Adjutant General of Indiana reports fortyseyen militia companies in that State, with an average membership of fifty men.... The insane people cost $6 per week each at the asylum at Stockton. California.... The Rock Island Road will this year lay no track in the Northwest, but will guard its interests in that quarter while engaged in the construction of over four hundred 1 miles of rail in Kansas... .Four physicians of Detroit caused the release of the Knoch brothers by certifying that their mother died from pneumonia, the fracture of her skull having been caused by the surgeon who removed the top of her head to examine the brain. For the two-year-old Futurity stakes, to be run at Sheepshead Bay, in 1888, there have been already 693 entries, and a number of prominent breeders are yet to be heard from. The winner of the stake will probably get $50,000... .The upsetting of a lamp by a dog resulted in a fire which destroyed Dunlap’s hat works in Brooklyn, entailing a loss of $250,000.. Symptoms of pleuro-Dneumonia liave-been discovered in twenty-five beeves on a farm near Masonville, Pa. By knocking down two guards, five desperate men escaped from jail at Charleston, W, Va The engineer of a passenger train approaching the trestle near Rocky. Monnt, N. C-, discovered that the structure was in flames some fifteen yards ahead of him. He pulled the valve wide open, aud leaped the lire at the rate of a mile a minute, the jar 1 extinguishing all the lights. The register and receiver of public lands at Pueblo, Col., reports to the general land office that he recently had a hearing in twenty-four cases of illegal homestead entries which had been investigated by special agents of the department. None of the claimsuits appearing the entiles were canceled. The Ohio" Legislature organized by electing John C. Entrekin, Republican, Speaker of the House, and John O’Neil, Democrat, President pro tern, of the Senate. *

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.00 (® 6.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 94 & 95 No.‘2 Red 91 & .92 Corn—No. 2 48 @ .49 Oats—White. 37 @ 43 Por.K—Mess 9.75 @10.25 CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. 5.25 @ 5.75 Good Shipping 4.23 @ 5.0 J Common 8.25 (sj 4.0) Hogs - 3.50 @ 4.2 j Flour —Extra Spring 4-75 @'5.5J Choioe Winter.. 4.50 @ 5.91 Wheat—N*. 2 Spring 81 @ .85 Cork—No. 2 .38 @ .385,5 Oats—No. 2 37 @ -28 Rive—No. 2 .... .58 @ .59 Barley—No. 2 52 @ -84 Butter—Choice Creamery 30 .33 . Fine Parry.. -18 @ .23 Cheese —Full Cream, new 10 @ .11 Skimmed Flats 00 @ .97 Eggs—Fresh 19 0 .89 Potatoes —Choice, per bu .55 & .00 Pork—Mess 9-00 0 9.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 .83 @ 84 Corn—No. 2 «£ @ Oats—No. 2 27 @ 28 Rye—No. 1 .-... -58 0 M Pork —New Me 55........ 9-50 (31000 TOLEDO. _ „ Wheat—No. 2 ?1 .@ M Corn—No. 2 -37 @ *9 Oats —No. 2 .29 & .31*. BT. LOUIS. . „„ Wheat—No. 2 Red. 92 0 .93 Corn —Mixed AS @ .®Ji OATS-Mixed -X 25 @.90 Pork —New Moss. ; 9.73 @10.23 CINCtoNATL . _ o Wheat—No. 2Rod. ' -92 0 .93 Corn—No. 2......' 33 @ .87 Oats —No. 2. 29 0’ .HI Pork—Mess.. 9.75 @10.25 Live Hogs 8.75 0 4.25 DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.50 0 5.2 > H0g5........; ® 5heep.........' 2.50 0 37.5 Wheat —No. 1 White...... -90 © .91 Corn—No. 2. ** 3® <* Oats—No. 2... ••■-• • • A 1 0 .t 3 INDIANAPOLIS. » Wheat—No. 2Red..., -90 0 Corn-Now... -33 ® •** EAST LIBERTY. „ Cattle—Best. 8.5) 0 5.00 Fair 4.75 @ 5.25 Common 4.00 0 4.60 H0g5...... J-®® 'f Bbuct 2.75 & 4.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard. • ••• LflO 0 1.02 Corn—Yellow .40 0 Cattle.. 6- 00 0

MEN OF NOTE.

Hon. Jojhn Bigelow, the Man Who Declines a Fat o£oe. » Hon. John Bigelow, who has just declined the office of Assistant United States Treasurer, was bom at Malden, Ulster County, N. Y., in 1817, and was graduated from Union College in 1835. He studied law in New York. City with Robert Sedgwick, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. While chiefly devoting his time to the practice of his profession during the ensuing ten years he found time for much literary work; which attracted the attention of ; prominent Democrats of the Silas Wright

and William L. Marcy school, with whom he soon became intimate. Mr. Bigelow’s first official appointment was that of Inspector of Sing Sing prison, conferred upon him by Gov. Wright in 1844, and which he held until the office became elective by the revised Constitution of 1847. In 1850 Mr. Bigelow became part owner of and editorial writer on the Evening Post. In 1861 he was appointed Consul at Paris, and on the death of the Hon. Willflhn L. Dayton in 1865 he was appointed Minister to France, occupying the post until 1867, when he resigned and returned to this country. While acting as Consul he discovered and was able to frustrate a plot devised by the French Imperial Government to furnish the Southern Confederacy with four .ironclad cruisers. Mr. Bigelow returned to Europe in 1870, and resided in Berlin for about three years. He returned to this country and to his literary work in 1873, and two years later, at the request of Governor Tilden, became a member of the commission to investigate the management of the canals of the State. In the fall of the same year he was elected Secretary of State. Since his retirement from that office he has held no official position. Among Mr; Kigelojy’B literary works are “Jamaica in 1850, or the Effect of Sixteen Years of Ffeedom on a Slave Country,” and “Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians,” written after visits to the West Indias in 1850 and 1854 respectively. While in France he wrote a work entitled “Les Etats Unis d’Amerique en 1863,” designed to correct prevailing French notions regarding this country. It served its purpose well. He discovered while in that country the original manuscript of the autobiography of Dr. Franklin aud the finest portrait of Franklin known to be in existence—a pastel by Dnplessis. In 1874 Mr. Bigelow published a life of Franklin compiled entirely from his writings. It was in three volumes, and is the standard biography of Franklin. His latest work, “The Writings and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden,” was published about a month ago by Harper & Brothers.

IRON AND STEEL.

Review of tlie Trade of the Past Year. Philadelphia telegram. A review of the trade of 1885 has just been prepared by James M. Swank, General Manager of the American Iron and Steel Association. The beginning of the year was marked, he says, by a continuation of the depression of 1884. There was a steady sagging of prices from January to “July, except for steer rails, quotations for which Improved a trifle in May. In July and August all prices stiffened, and in September a slight advance was established, steel rails taking the lead and continuing to advance until December. Quotations for four leading staples for each month in the year will show that prices at the close of the year were much more favorable than at the close of the first half of the year. A comparison of price shows that pig non was $lB in January, $17.75 in July, and $18.25 in December. Steel rails were $27 in January, $26 in April, and $34.50 in December. Bar iron was $40.32 in January, $38.08 in July, and $39.20 in December. Cut nails were $2.10 in January, $2.15 in August, and $2.65 in December. These quotations are monthly averages for No. 1 anthracite foundry pig iron and best refined bar iron per gross ton at Philadelphia, for cut nails per keg at Philadelphia, and for steel rails per gross ton at Pennsylvania mills. Steel rails, however, show the greatest advance in price during the last half of 1885. In April, sales were made at Pennsylvania mills at $26 and $26.50, and a few sales are said to have been made at the astonishingly low price of $25.50. The European iron trade exhibited no symptoms of a revival in 1885, but on the contrary, the backward movement which has from the first more than kept even pace with our ora depression, continued until the close of the year. Taking the iron-making countries of Europe as a whole, the iron trade situation in that grand division is much worse to-day than it was six months ago- '

Mary Anderson is accused of having learned to drink beer while abroad. Patti is said to have lost SjLSJM)Q by not being able to keep her engagement in Holland. W. D. Henderson has assumed the managing editorship of the San Francisco Examiner, vice Clatence E. Greathouse, resigned. Baron Rothschild, of Paris, has subscribed $25,000 toward a fund for purchasing six genuine “Old Masters”ior presentation to the gallery of the Louvre. A lawsuit in New York which cost over SSOO was all about a safety pin the nurse had lost. She was dischnijged and refused pay for full time, but the court has decided m her favor. Miss Fanny Davenport, the actress, has sent a check for $l5O to the fund beidg raised for the widows aiid orphans of the dead miners in the Nanticoke mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Harry Brown, a colored man 95 years old, still living at Texas, N. Y., was once the slave of Governor DeWitt Clinton, and obtained his freedom under the State manumission act, July 4, 1827. M. PaStehr has his theory of happiness. “True happiness,” he says, “appears to me in the form of a man of. science devoting his days and nights to penetrating the secrets of nature and discovering new troths.” ‘

THE RED MEN.

Conclusions of Mr. Holman’s Special • Committee to Investigate Indian Affairs. VTatliington special. Special attention having been drawn to the Indian problem by thl> treatment of the subject in Secretary Lamar’s annual repqrt, it has become a topic of frequent conversation among national legislators, and indications; are that Congress will adopt new and earnest measures for Settlement of the question. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, will 60on submit to Congress a report of the observations of the commission of which he is Chairmah, and he says that he will recommend that the reservation system be abandoned, with a few exceptions where it is impracticable now,, and that a commission be appointed by the President to apportion the lands in severalty among the members of tribes that are sufficiently advanced in civilization to justify the belief that the plan would fee successful. Senator Van Wyck has taken hold of the question as he finds it in the Indian Territory, and proposes that the National Government shall assume direct authority, thereby organizing the Territory with a full corps of civil officers, but he does not propose to interfere with the tribal courts and local Indian authorities. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, has also made a move in the same direction, but would accomplish the Object by different means. He says he regards the Indian problem as one of the most important questions pressing for intelligent Congressional action. All the previous plans adopted by the Government have failed to produce the desired results, but it has been demonstrated that if proper methods are adopted the Indians can be civilized and made selfsupporting. He says if they are taught how to labor and the value of property they will pot desire to go on the war-path, and may in time become useful members in society. The first step should be to make them citizens. There are many million acres of land set apart to the Indians for which they can ‘ nevter have use. The proper course to pursue, he says, is to break up their tribal relation, put them under the protection of the law, and make them amenable to its penalties, allot to each of them a sufficient quantity of land to enable them by industrious habits to maintain themselves as individual members of society, and dispose of the remainder of the land to actual settlers, and appropriate the proceeds- of the sales for their education and support. Mr. Townshend’s plan is essentially different from that of Senator Van Wyck. His bill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma provides for the consolidation of the Indian Territory under a territorial government, the establishing of a court, and the allotment of lands in severalty among the Indians. It authorizes the appointment of a Governor and Secretary by the President, the Governor to be ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Territory. A Legislature, to consist of a Senate of eleven members and a House of Representatives of twenty-nine members, is to be chosen at the first election to be held in the Territory by all male persons over 21 years of, age, lawfully domiciled in the Territory. At subsequent elections the right of suffrage is vested in all such male persons who have resided in the territory for six months, A court is established, to he presided over by one judge. An attorney and marshal are authorized to be appointed by the President. The jurisdiction, criminal and civil, will be of a character similar to that of the Western District of Arkansas. All are competent ao jurors who are bona fide male residents of the Territory and over 21 years of age, and who understand the English language well enough to comprehend the proceedings. All laws of the United States applicable and not in conflict with Indian treaties are to be in force in the Territory. A delegate to Congress is authorized as in other Territories. It also provides that patents shall issue to all tribes on any reservation of the United States lor all lands which have been set apart to them respectively, to be held in trust for them by tho United States for the period of twenty-five years. But the President is authorized at any time before the end of that period to allot such lands in severalty to the Indians located on the respective reservations in the following quantities: To each head of a family, 160 acres; to each single person over 18 years of age, HO acres; to eaoh orphan child under 18 years of age, 80 acres; to each other person under 18 years of age, 40 acres. When the lands are mainly useful for grazing purposes double the quantities named aro to be given to each. It provides 4hat patents shall issue to each allottee for the lands allotted to him, but the title is to be held in trust by the United States for the period of twentyfive years thereafter, when it shall become absolute in fee simple. All conveyances of lands allotted in severalty, made before the end of the period of twenty-five years, are to be void. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase from the Indian tribes all the lands not allotted to them in % severalty, subject, however, to the ratification of Congress. The purchase money for the same is to be held in trust by the United States for the period of twenty-five years, and interest at the rate of 8 per cent, is to be paid in the meantime for the education and self-support of the Indians.

LIVELY HAND-SHAKING.

President Cleveland Disposes of Four Hundred Callers in Exactly Sixteen Minutes. Washington diygatch. Four hundred and forty-eight persons Waited patiently in the east room of the White House to-day to pay their respects to the President. The crowd was almost twice as large as at any preceding reception of this kind. The President appeared just before three o’clock and entered upon his task with such expedition that the entire room was cleared in sixteen minutes. Several persons tried to engage the President’s attention with private matters, but they were told to call again to-morrow. One individual shook hands in an agitated manner With one of the ushers, and passed the President without noticing him. He was reminded of his .mistake by the laughter of the crowd, and endeavored to return aud shake the President’s hand, but was borne away by the nwpKfly moving line of people, behind him. There are more colleges iu Ohio than in France and Germany combined. 'The first Chinese baby born in Philadelphia is a seven-pound girl, __ The Countess Mirafiore, the morganatio wife of the latching of Italy, is dead. The senior class of Columbia College if trying to raise SIOO,OOO with which to build"' a gymnasium. ‘ A Georgia man Bwnllowedhis tongue, and came near strangling before a doctor could get it back into position. An admirer of cx- Senator Conkling has sent-' that gentleman a barrel of ohewing gam, believing it will cure his dyspepsia.