Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. — RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL - • Pubijsher.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THS EAST. > The banking firm of Lee A Browu. at Saranac, Mich., is reported to have collapsed, and that Brown has fled to Canada. The liabilities, due to workingmen and farmers, are $30,000, with no tangible assets. Lee asserts that $6,000 worth of the Inn's paper is a forgery.... The business portion of Greenfield, Neb., was destroyed by fire, creating a loss of $40,000. The Unitarian Conference, in session at Saratoga, subscribed SII,OOO to help rebuild the Charleston churches. ...A severe frost damaged vegetation throughout northern New Hampshire and Vermont. In a riot between a party of drunken police and city officials in the Fifth Ward at Philadelphia William Powell was probably fatally shot, and Charles Petroff wits beaten until he was insensible and will probably die... .It is sjiid that Bartholomew, the fugitive President of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, has been. stealing right and left for years from the concerns in which he had been interested. Hartford banks, it is alleged, hold $2,000,000 of his paper, and the Schuyler Electric Light Company will lose $200,000. Johann Host's organ of anarchy in New York, the Freikcif, is in a dying condition, and the present editor says that if the circulation does not speedily increase the sheet “will be suspended, and the anarchists will be abandoned to their fate.”.... Bight Bev. J. F. Shanahan, Boman Catholic Bishop of the diocese, died suddenly at Harrisburg, Pa. In enlarging a cellar at Mahnnoy City, Pennsylvania, workmen found an earthen jar containing several thousand dollars in gold. The widow who owns the residence made the excavators surrender what they had pocketed. - -

THE WEST.

James Howe, who published the first sporting paper in the United States, died last week at Lafayette, Indiana.... A collision on the Missouri Pacific Road, in a •nt just outside Independence, killed both engineers and wrecked eight car-loads of live-stock. At a meeting in Chicago of the Illinois Board of Live Stock Commissioners, at which Governor Oglesby, Attorney General Hunt, and parties representing the beef and cattle interests of the Stock Yards were present, it was decided to slaughter at once the 2,000 head of cattle now in quarantine at the Harvey farm and the sheds of the four distilleries in Chicago. The State is obliged to pay the owner for all sound animals slaughtered. It was estimated that a fair average price would be $33.33 a head. If all the quarantined cattle are killed—about three thousand head in all—the cost to the State Would approximate SIOO,OOO, not allowing for those animals found to be diseased, on which the owner must stand the loss. It is calculated that it Would take $20,000 or $30,000 more for other expenses. Lightning at Lima,Ohio, set fire to several oil tanks, the flames from which destroyed the machinery of many wells. Barns and houses were burned, and three persons were stunned by the electric fluid. ... .Hailstones six inches in circumference fell at Madison, Wis., breaking 10,000 panes of glass, and denuding trees of leaves and twigs. In a few instances iron roofs were riddled... .The Catholic convent at Urbana, Ohio, was unroofed by wind, and shade and fruit trees suffered severely. tragedy is reported from Cuba/cra’KtP County, Mo. Malcolm Logan and consisting of a wife, three children. anS.an adopted girl 7 years old, were killed farm near that place. The first suspictflH. ihat the crime had been committed was developed when a neighbor discovered a trail of blood leading to the house. He followeu v ib The first object he discovered when he entered the house was the body of . .the adopted girl lying in the hall. The girl had been killed w ith a hatchet. The rear portion of the house was burned down, and in the ruins were found the charred re. mains of Mrs. Logan and her three children. The body of the father was missing. The trail of blood was again followed, and a mile and a half from the house Logan's body was found. He had also been killed with a hatchet, and his body was dragged some distance to the railroad track and placed on the rails. Logan had recently disposed of some property and received $1,300, and robbery is supposed to have been the motive for’ the crime. . Arguments in the Bell telephone suit were concluded last week at Cincinnati, and the court took the case under consideration. The court decided that it would hear the Government demurrer for the sub-com-panies at the December term at Columbus. .., .Two members and two clerks of the late Board of Public Works of Cincinnati have been arrested for the embezzlement of sums ranging from SIO,OOO to $15,000. .Knight Templar A. C. Strong, of Naperville, DI., was killed by the care near St. Louis while returning from the eondave. - • A Chicago dispatch says the Live-Stock Commission for some reason or other has held off the slaughtering of the cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The board s difficulty is to find some combination of cattle dealers willing to advance the SIOO,000 necessary for buying and destroying the diseased cattie under a guarantee that the next Legislature will reimburse the parties making the advance. Extra deputies have been placed around the various barns to carry out the quarantine to the letter.... A party of buffalo-hunters sent out by the National Museum at Washington is being escorted by troops from Fort Keogh into the Mussel Shell country, where less than two hundred head are left out of 200,000 grazing there four years ag0.... Lightning started a conflagration in the forests of the Yellowstone National Park, which is de- ' Stroying immense tracts of timber.

THE SOUTH.

The Governor of Texas has been asked by the relatives of the deceased to approve of papers claiming from the Mexican Government damages of SIOO,OOO for the murder of Erresures by the Marshal of a Mexican town. , 'Bhe relief committee of Charleston, 8. C., in answer to inquiries from all parts of the country, authorize the statement that, while they are able to furnish subsistence and temporary shelter to all who need it, the relief fund at hand and in prospect will fall far short of the money needed to put in habitable condition the homes of persons who are unable to repair thrir buildings without public aid. Government engineers have inspected 600 buildings

out of 7,000 in the city, and estimate the damage to those inspected at $2,000,000. Their inspection, however, covers most of the costliest structures. In assisting needy householders to make residences habitable the committee will deal first with those whose losses are small... .Frank 8. Humphreys was hanged at Milledgeville, Ga., for murdering Carrie Raines and Ella Humphreys, the latter his kinswoman, on March 4." He confessed his guilt to the Sheriff, but made no statement on the scaffold. r . The poisoning of eleven persons it reported from an Arkansas town. They are not expected to recover, A rich farmer, whose wife was among those prostrated, and his son, aged twenty-two, have been arrested on the charge of poisoning the well. The accused were bound over. It is alleged that he wished to rid himself of his wiie, who was suing for divorce.

POLITICAL.

Commissioner Oberly, in a brief card, says a distinguished advocate of civil-serv-ice reform in New York has begged him to end his controversy with Dorman B. Eaton, and therefore be will not expose what he calls Mr. Eaton’s “many misstatements of facts and perversiohs ortho record.”.... The official returns from Maine give Bodwell (Bep.),, for Governor, 12,850 majority over the Democratic candidate. Congrebhional nominations: Ornam Pierson, Republican, Twelfth Illinois District; Frank Hiscock, Republican, Twentysecond New York; Charles R. Buckalew, Democrat, Eleventh Pennsylvania; James Phelan, Democrat, Tenth Tennessee; W. E. Robinson, Democrat, Sixth Louisiana; C. Newton, Democrat, Fifth Louisiana; Amos Townsend, Republican, Twenty-first Ohio; R. W. Dunham, Republican; First Illinois; Andrew Hauen, Republican, Sixth Wisconsin; Lewis C. McComas, Republican, Sixth Maryland; William Elliott, Democrat, Seventh South Carolina; James Brocklin, Democrat, Eighth Wisconsin; Joseph E. Washington, Democrat, Sixth Tennessee; John P. Sanborn, Republican, Seventh Michigan. Db. A. C. Wedge, of Albert Lea, presided over the Minnesota Republican State Convention, at St. Paul. A,R- McGill was nominated for Governor, A. E. Rice for Lieutenant Governor, Hans Matteson for Secretary of State; W. W. Broden for Auditor, Joseph Bobletter for Treasurer, arid M. E. Clapp for Attorney General. The platform adopted favors laws prohibiting railroad companies from furnishing passes to legislators; the establishment of p. bureau of labor statistics; the payment to women of the same wages paid to men for the same labor; the prohibition of the employment of children under 12 from working in mines, etc. It opposes prison labor. It favors the free coinage of silver, and declares that laws should be enacted making employers liable in damages to employes in jured in their services, whether the employes are negligent or not. It favors the reduction of the tariff ori the necessaries of life, and declares in favor of civil-service reform. .The committee appointed at the National Labor Convention to select a State ticket for Massacnusetts met th Boston last week and agreed on the following: Governor, George E. McNeill, of Boston; Lieutenant Governor, Robert Howard, of Fall River; Secretary of State, A. A. Carleton, of Somerville; Treasurer and Receiver General, Frank K. Foster, of Haverhill; Auditor, T. C. Thompson, of Boston; Attorney General. Asa F. Hall, of Hudson.

WASHINGTON.

During the last fiscal year toe star-route service cost $5,414,804—a decrease of $62,623 as compared with the previous year. .... Commissioner Black has started westward on public business. He will risit the Soldiers’ Homes at Dayton. Milwaukee, and Leavenworth, and inspect several of the pension agencies. The President; Mrs. Cleveland, and Mrs. Folsom, Col. and Mrs. Lamont, and Master Lamont returned to on Wednesday, Sept. 23. They.ah looked toe better for toeir vacatiomzThe President looked particulaily well. The President expressed hiiysglfas thoroughly delighted uis trip, but glad to get back to worjr f.gain. Col. Lamont said that the president had found Secretary Manning in good health and. spirits at their interview in Albany, that there was no truth in the story that Manning had insisted upon the acceptance of his resignation,' ana therefore there was, of course, nothing at all in the rumor that he would be appointed to a foreign mission Secretary Lamar has had a vacation in New Hampshire. Gossips assert that he is about to marry Mrs. Holt, a handsome and wealthy widow of Macon, Ga., to whom he paid attention in his early years. The navy yard at Washington *, has been transferred" to the ordnance department for a naval-gun factory. The plant for making anchors and chains will be removed to Boston, and the boiler works vvill probably be shipped to Brooklyn.

THE RAILWAYS.

The citizens of Freeport, DI., have given $75,000 worth of lands and buildings to the Blinois Central’s new branch, in consideration of securing the division shops. . Fifty fcleeping-car porters met at St. Louis, and organized the Sleeping-car ’Porters Association. They have drawn up a petition, which will be torwarded to all the companies, asking for increased pay. ] .... The Superior Court at Taunton, Mass., decided that sleeping-car companies are liable for losses sustained by passengers while in the cars, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the ruling. The plaintiffs sued for money which had been stolen from their vests, which they had concealed in their berths. The Santa Fe Road has 1,000 teams at work in the garden of the Oklahoma country, and piles are being driven for a bridge at Arkansas City. It is said that trains will be running to Cimmaron by Nov. 1. A Chicago company is engaged inßending trains of twenty cars of ice to San Francisco, over the Northwestern and Union and Central Pacific roads, on passenger time, to compete with the artificial product in California.lt is said that the Rock Island road, by the purchase of two lots at De? Moines, balked the plans of the Burlington and Northwestern roads to join their tracks for trains from St. Paul to Kansas City... .John D-,Taylor, Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died in Philadelphia.

GENERAL.

The terms of a commercial treaty between the United States and Great Britain were some time since agreed upon by both parties, and the document is now under consideration by the Cabinet at Ottawa. It amicably settles the fisheries question, and deals largely with reciprocal trade with Canada. ' . ; Late information received at the Agri-

cultural Department in Washington regarding the condition of hogs is that in Illinois and Indiana cholera prevails generally, heavy losses from several counties being reported in the former State. In Ohio and Michigan the condition of the animals is fair. Ip some parts of Wisconsin and lowa farmers are afraid to keep hogs on account of cholera. Cholera, pinkeye, and measles are reported from Missouri, and in Nebraska the condition is considerably below an average. Kansas and Kentucky hogs are generally in good condition..,, In the Bay of St John, Newfoundland, the schooner Summerset cut the schooner Mary Ann, on which there were thirty-seven persons, in halves. Three men and one woman were drowned, and another passen?er was fatally injured... .Lieutenant lenn, of he is satisfied that Mayflower can beat his Vessel in any breeze in which she can carry her top-Sail. The Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, before concluding its conclave at St. Louis, decided to hold,the pert conclave at Washington the second week in October, 1889... .Tfae Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows at their meeting at Boston selected the city of Columbus, Ohio, as the place for the permanent headquarters of the order. An audience large enough to fill McVicker's spacious theater from the frequently mentioned front row to the emergency chairs that burst forth from the rear walls greeted charming little Lotta with incessant rounds of laughter and applause, says the Chicago Daily Neus. This general favorite has the reputation of being the wealthiest lady in the profession, and the pleasant report is surely well grounded, since for years she has enjoyed phenomenal prosperity. Time sits lightly on her shapely shoulders, and treats most generously her agile frame. Nor is her success undeserved. She is as conscientious in her work to-day as she was when entering upon her career. The reward that has come to her is of a nature to prove that, despite the jests of the careless, there is genuine merit in what she does. Within the limits of her chosen line of endeavor she may be termed incomparable. This merry sprite, this tuneful little fairy, who manipulates with subtle sorcery our lachrymal glands and our cachinnatory organs, will glance on and sing on and keep us always laughing and weeping at her sweet will. She appeals to all alike—the young, the old, the grave, the gay, the rich, the poor, the lowly, the proud—all own the spell of little Lotta’s fascinations, and all surrender to it cheerfully. Her engagement at McVicker’s Theater lasts for another week. Charles A. Hand, a hotel-keeper at Sarnia, Ontario, has been arrested for plotting to blow up the residence of Liquor Inspector Palmer. In his possession was a cigar-box filled with dynamite cartridges. ....General Booth, of the Salvation Army, arrived at New York from England last week. He intends to make a general inspection of his forces in the United States. ,

FOREIGN.

Hundreds of civilians have been arrested in Spain who are suspected of complicity in the recent revolution.. . .It was announced in the British House of Commons that negotiations were in progress with the United States for the removal of the friction between the fishing interests of this country and Canada. The excavators at Pompeii have dis-, covered near the eastern gate a new street of tombs.... Continued depression in the German iron trade is reported. It is attributed to English competition.... General Villacampa, the leader of the revolt at Madrid, was found -concealed in a mill near Moblijas. Seventy-three of the itwufr. gents have been captured -at scattered points by royal troops,. ..«■• During the -fietce riots in Belfast last week a mpb'got into a fight in a tram-car stable, and, surging out into the street, threw a passing car from the track and overturned it. The car was filled with passengers. The terror-stricken passengers crowded close under the seats and under one another, and shielded themselves as best they could with the floor-mats and seat-sections. Several were hurt. The situation was dreadful until the military rescued them and escorted them to a place of safetj# The funeral cortege of a man named Boyle, while xe,tumipg from the cgmetery,..waaßttackedby a mob, who assailed the mourners with stones. The military charged on the mob and arrested a score of rioters. Another mob in a different locality attacked with stones the Black Watch Regiment of Welshmen, although the soldiers were fully armed and in fighting array. The troops with fixed bayonets charged in double-quick time on the mob and drove them from the scene, wounding a great number of the rioters and arresting tw0.... All of the officers implicated in the attempt at ■ revolution in Madrid have been condemned -to death. The common soldiers generally repent Of .their folly and are yielding to the authorities. They blame their officers for leading them astray. A band of rebels at Ocana, Spain, killed its commanding officer and then returned to its allegiance and prayed for mercy. Loyal soldiers are still scouring the country in search of the insurgents. Arrests of persons of well-known republican views continue....lir the British House of Commons Mr. Parnell’s bill for the suspension of evictions was defeated by a vote of 297 to 202.... Mr. Gladstone denies that he is about to join the Catholic Church. ” \ : * Irish constabulary surprised a party of moonlighters atFeale bridge, shot one dead, and captured six... .Three German soldiers were killed and twenty wounded by a collision of trains, near the depot at Berlin... .A dispatch from Essen announces that an explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coal-pit near Schalke, Germany, and that forty-five persons were killed and sixteen injured, eight of the latter being in a precarious condition.... Spain has sustained Cuba in her refusal to carry out the treaty arrangements as understood in this country, making mutual concessions to American and Spanish vessels trading between Cuba and the United States. . .A dispatch from Bulgaria’s capital says that the Russian ultimatum,of which Gen. Kaulbars is the bearer, demands the immediate raising of the state of siege in Bulgaria, the liberation of all political prisoners, and the indefinite postponement of the elections for members of the national assembly. The Government has been informed that a hostile demonstration against Gen. Kaulbars at the Russian agency will furnish an excuse for Russian interference. There are no signs of flinching on the part of the regency, and the anti-Russian feeling increases daily. An engine specially constructed to use petroleum as fuel is successfully drawing railway trains between Alexandria and Cairo, in Egypt.... Six persons, including three magistrates of Glasgow, wens suffocated while viewing a blast at the Lochfyne quarries which required seven tons of gunpowder.... Fresh discoveries of gold in the Transvaal, South Africa, are absorbing

much attention. The new mines are said to be very rich in auriferous deposits.... Rioting broke out afresh at Belfast early on Sunday morning. A crowd stoned the police, who retaliated with bullets, fatally wounding a young man named Daria Moore. Twelve constables were injured by stones,. . .The speech of Queen Victoria, proroguing parliament until November 11, states that a successor to Prince Alexander is to be elected, in accordance with toe provisions of the treaty of Berlin, and that a commission has been appointed to inquire into the failure of the recent acts ’ respecting the tenure and the purchase of lapd in Ireland.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

:* • ' ■ ■ A paper at Jersey City, N. J., published a story that the daughters of a prominent citizen had “raised” checks given them by their father. The reporter (Lenhart by name) who wrote the article was assaulted by the sou of Attorney General Gilchrist, of New Jersey; and subsequently, while the Public Works Board was in session, Miss Mamie Gannon, eldest daughter of a wealthy coppersmith, belabored Lenhart with a cowhide in (he rooms of the Board, causing a great commotion and disturbance. Young Gilchrist has been arrested for assault and conspiracy, and the affair is the talk of toe town. John Esten Cooke, the novelist, died at his|home in Clark County, Virginia, last week. Mr. Cooke was bom at Winchester, Va., in 1830. At twenty years of age he became a lawyer, but soon abandoned his profession for a literary life. He served in the late war under Mosby. His best known book is a novel entitled “The Surry of Eagle’s Nest.” Fourteen of the sixteen box factories in Chicago were closed by a strike,' about 700 employes going out... .Sixty delegates from New Y’ork to the general assembly of Knights of Labor at Richmond, including one colored man, were unable to secure accommodations together at a hotel, whereupon they all engaged board in colored families. .. -■ Frank Whiting and Charles Havens, convicts, attempted to escape from the penitentiary at Michigan City, Ind., by jumping on an engine which had been driven into the prison yard after freight cars. Whiting had pulled the throttle open, but a guard on the wall fired both barrels of hisgtin, instantly killing Whiting and' dangerously wounding Havens. Beach has declined all of Hanlon’s propositions for races on the' Thames or in America. The Australian said he would not row in America, if Hanlan gave him the whole country, but would row on the Paramatta, wagering £I,OOO to Hanlan’s £BOO, but declining to pay the latter’s expenses. During the interview Beach angered Hanlan by calling him a gas-bag. The new oleomargarine tax-stamp will be.ready for general distribution about the middle of October ... The acting Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for $15,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds, interest to cease November 1.

Several Things Worth Remembering.—lt is said that salt should be eaten with nuts to aid digestion. That milk which stands too long makes bitter butter. That rusty flat-irons should be rubbed over with beeswax and lari That it rests you in sewing to change your position frequently.' That a hot, strong lem< e taken at bedtime will break Up a cold. That tough beef is made tender by lying a few minutes in vinegar water. That a little soda will relieve sick headache caused by indigestion. That a cup of strong coffee will remove the odoj of onions from the breath. That a cup of hot water drank before meals will prevent nausea and dyspepsia. That well-ventilated bedrooms" will prevent morning headaches and lassitude. That one in a faint should be laid on the flat of his back; then loosen h : s clothes and let him alone. That consumptive night sweats may be arrested by sponging the body nightly in salt water. That a fever patient may be made cool and comfortable bv frequent sponging off with soda water. That to beat eggs quickly add a pinch of salt. Salt cools, and cold eggs froth rapidly. That the hair may be kept from falling out after illness by a frequent application to the scalp of sage tea. That you can take out spots from wash goods by rubbing them with the yelk of eggs before washing. The white spots upon varnished furniture will disappear if you hold a hot plate over them.— Family Doctor,

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves. $4.00 & 5.75 Hogs 4.75 & 5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White..Bs @ .8514 No. 2 Red .84 vt .84% Cobn—No. 246 & .47 Oats—White ... .85 @ .40 Poke—New Mess-I. 11.25 @11.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @5.50 Good Shipping, 4.00 @ 4.75 Common... 3.00 & 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.25 @5.00 Flour—Extra Spring 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .73 @ .74 Cobs—No. 2 .37 @ .3714Oats—No. 2 25 @ .2514 Butteb—Choice Creamery 23 @ .24 Fine Dairy .16 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. .11 @ .11’4 FullCream,new .lil4@ .12 Eggs—Fresh..... 16 @ .17 Potatoes —Early Rose, per bu.. .50 @ .55 Pork—Mess 9.50 @IO.OO MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash72.@ .73 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 225 @ .2514 Rte-No. 152 @ .53 Pork—Mess' 9.50 @IO.OO TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 276 @ .76% Corn—No. 240 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 .27 @ .28 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @5.25 Hogs.. - . 4.00 @ 5.25 Sheet 3.50 @ <SO Wheat —Michigan 8ed.... .76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2. .41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 White3o @ .81 ' ■ ■; : ST. LOUIS. —— Wheat—No. 2.......74 @ .75 Corn —Mixed3s @ ,35>4 Oats—Mixed....2s @ .26 Pork—New Messlo.oo @10.50 CINCINNATI. • Wheat N0.2Red...........vtr.-.- .70 @ .77 •Cobn —No. 241 @ .42 Oats—No. 2........... .27J4® Pork—Messlo.oo ® 10.50 T.tvr Hogs 4.50 @5.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard. ,82 @ .8214 Corn—Na 3 Yellow. 4414 @ .45<j Cattle 4.50 @5.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle...... 3,50 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.00 @4.75 Sheep 2.00 @ 2.50 Wheat—Na.2 Mixed7s @ .76 Corn—No. 2.. .37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2....... M & MH EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best; 4.75 @ 5.25 Fair, 4.25 @4.75 Common 3.00 @ 4.00 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.50 Sheep.....y. 3.50 @4.50

LAND OFFICE STATISTICS.

A Statement of the Public Lands Disposed Of During the Last Fiscal Tear. [Washington special.) The amount of public lands disposed of the past five years is 100,974,134 acres. This is equal to four States like Kentucky, four like Indiana, nearly three like Illinois, or one like California. It is a good deal larger than Great Britain and Ireland, and is equal to aboutthree-fourths of France or Germany. On an average the United States has disposed of one Ireland per annum for the past five years. The area disposed of last year was 20,974,134 acres, which is nearly a million acres more than the previous year, but nearly six million acres less than in 1884, when more than eleven million acres were disposed of in Dakota alone. Dakota, which in 1879-80 jumped far ahead of Kansas and which has been immensely ahead of Nebraska since that year, has fallen now to the rear of both these States. Nebraska dropped below li million acres in 1884 and 1882,hut it has risen above three million acres in each of the last three years. Kansas has come rapidly to the front, partly becau e the extraordinary Dakota boom has spent much of its force, and partly because there has been some rainfall lately in the western part of the State. Kansas fell from a million and a half acres in 1880 to less than A million in 1882, but the acreage disposed of in Kansas rose to nearly fourteen hundred thousand in 18H4, over three millions in 1885, and more than five and a half millions last year. Last year the total receipts from public lands were $7,412,767, and tue total expenses $625,234. There were 37,836 cash sales, including preemptions, desert-land entries, etc., covering 3,773,498 acres, for which $5,757,891 was received. There were 61,638 homestead entries, covering 9,145,135 acres, for which $892,210 was received. There were 34,996 timber-culture entries, covering 5,389,309 acres, for which $480,630 was received. The following table shows the disposals for cash and under the homestead and timber-culture laws by States and Territories for the vear 1885-6: Timber Homestead culture Cash sales, entries, entries, States. acres. . acres. acres. Arkansas 24,891 249,884 2,C53 Arizona 116,275 28,027 15,772 California 32 >,403 472,116 155,674 Colorado 252,598 281,801 719,947 Dakota 706,060 1,185,138 1,116,250 Florida 76,883 139,474 Idaho 110,157 102,332 49,959 lowa 420 967 2,869 Kansas 396,334 3,224,214 1,920,802 Louisiana 49,194 81,617 9,914 Michigan 47,778 56,550 Minnesota 110,702 235,810 65,026 Mississippi 31,904 95,874 Missouri 20,420 244,155 Montana.... 152,309 68,633 43,031 Nebraska.... 477,596 1,590,410 . 967,706 Nevada..... 573 2,717 120 New Mexico..... 117,953 67,894 15 603 Oregon.-. 114,824 287,231 93,160 Utah 92,226 711,975 25,632 Washington 96,885 290,513 85,645 Wisconsin....... 131,815 105,700 Wyoming.. 293,132 59,447 100,167 T0ta1...3,773,493 9,145,135 5,389,309

THE HOG CROP.

Estimates of the National Agricultural I»e---partmoMt . - [Washington special.] The j -September crop report, issued by the Department of Agriculture, says, by way of summarizing the estimates from different localities, of the hog crop: The returns of the number of hogs for fattening indicate about 6 per cent, reduction in numbers. Should prices increase, however, the breeding stock might be depleted and increase the number’s for Slaughtering. There appears to be an increa>e of swine in the Territories and on the Pacific coast. The following figures give the numbers of hogs fattening, as compared with last year, and the average condition as to weight and size. In both cases the figures are percentages: Num- ConState. her. dition. Ohio S 3 95 Michigan , 91 93 Indiana r...... 90 97 —Il 1 lUOia . .-i m rri , i im. 1 ,~u , < 93--Wisconsin 93 95 Min ne SOta —lowa ■ nTWTmi .u 97 Missouri 99 99 Jf&nsas....... ...mt,......... 90 90 Nebraska..... ...............-.. 98 95 Averaging these figures,the number is 94.8 per cent, of last year, and the condition 94 per cent, of an average. The figures for all the States and Territories give the following percentage: Number, 93.7; condition. 93.9. - Dakota reports one-fifth more hogs than last year, and states the condition at 97 per cent. All the other Territories report slightly greater numbers of hogs than last year. Great Britain reports 362,834 fewer swine in 1886 than in 1884, a falling off of 14 per cent. Ireland reports in 1886 the same number of swine as in 1884, and about 180,000 more than in 1885. The province of Ontario reports 860,125 swine in 1886 as against 822,262 in 1885.

Labor and Laborers. Two hundred carpenters in Bath, Me., are on a strike against a reduction. The Cleveland Leader is now fighting a boycott movement. This is its second tussle. Only one person in every two hundred in New York City owns tbe house he lives in. The Dominion Government proposes to establish at once a Bureau of Labor Statistics at Ottawa. Typographical Union, No. 12, of Baltimore, has ordered that all non-union offices be boycotted. „ A co-operative stove company has been organized in Bloomington, 111., with a capital of SIO,OOO. Officers of the Window-Glass Workers’ Association are in New York waiting for the importation of contract workmen from Belgium. ——--,?■■■ ■■ Twelve hundred hands have been discharged in two weeks in the Moquette Carpet Mills, at Yonkers, N. Y., on account, of Loy cott i ng. The Jack Tars of San Fianciseo, to the number of l,(k)0. members of tjie Coast Seamen’s Union, aie idle, and many ships are tied up. . „ The testers of Lynn, Mass., have been frightened over the invention of labor-sav-ing machinery which threatens to throw them out of work. ALL the knit-goods mills at Amsterdam, N- Y-, are controlled by an association which shut-down everything, throwing out 3,000 hands, on a question of unionism. The Knights have grown rapidly in Canada since the recent priestly order was given. There are twenty-three assemblies in toe Topeka (Kan.) district. The Knights of Labor membership is increasing at an unprecedented rata in Cincinnati. A Knight's co-operative store has been organised at Denver.

ODD-FELLOWS AND KNIGHTS.

Sovereign Grand Lodge of OddFellows at Boston-Figures . from the Reporta , 7 > Great Aggregation of Knights Templar at St. Louis—The Parade and the Drill. .. 1 Knights Templar. There was an enormous attendance upon the triennial conclave of toe Knights Templar in St. Louis. The grand parade was to have taken place Tuesday, September 21, but rain caused a postponement to Thursday. The city was gorgeously decorated for the occasion. j“Some of the decorations along the line laid out tor toe parade were magnificent,” says a correspondent. “Public building's and business blocks were bright with parti -colored bunting. Flags and pennants billowed and fluttered from their fronts, and high up at the tapering peaks of their lofty flagstaffs. Masonic emblems and mottoes, fanciful figures, wrought out of bunting by the decorator's skill, and wreaths of beautiful evergreen adorned the streets. The great Court House was surrounded with garlands of evergreen suspended from high poles, bearing the coats of arms of various States, from each of which graceful tricolored pennants streamed to the ground., 1 Immense pyramidal pillars of evergreen, crowned with Masonic emblems, stood on either side of the entrances to the great building, and directly over the entrances were fixed semi-circular sunbursts of bunting and evergreens.” One of the events of the conclave was the drill and concert at the fair grounds, which was witnessed by 75,000 people. The commanderies participating were: Detroit (Mich) No. 1; DeMolay No. 13, of Louisville; Raper No. 1, of Indianapolis; St. Bernard No. 35, of Chicago; Louisville (Ky.) No. 1; Zion No. 2, of Minnbapolis and Jackson No. 7, of Jackson, Mich. The city was brilliantly illuminated Wednesday night. “The Flambeau Battalion gave a parade and exhibition on the most prominent thoroughfares of the West End. Ivanhoe Commandery of St. Louis held a formal reception, which was largely attended, and proved a brilliant affair, while all the local and visiting commanderies kept open house. A notable reception was given by Oakland Commandery of California, at which thousands of callers were entertained in the most magnificent ' style. Among the noted commanderies which called in bodies were: St. Bernard of Chicago, 200 Knights and ladies; Apollo of Chicago, 100 Knights; DeMolay, Louisville, 150 Knights, and ladies; and the Mary Commandery of Philadelphia?’The Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, one of the highest orders of Masonry, of whose members 2,000 were in attendance upon the coiicla-ve, initiated 200 candidates at midnight of Wednesday, the' close of the Arabic year. The ceremonies were conducted by the Medina Temple of Chicago, assisted by the Imperia] Potentate, Samuel Briggs, of Cleveland, Ohio. The elaborate costumes, rich jewels,- mystic emblems and rites rendered the services most impressive. Previous to the ceremonies the shriners paraded the principal down-town streets, each-temple accompanied by a band. The costumes and uniforms were of many varieties, the only article worn in common being the red fez. The two temples which attracted the most attention and received the most generous applause were those of Baltimore and Chicago—the former appearing in full evening dress, the latter in regular Turkish costume, fez, crimson bag trousers, jackets, etc. Oilil-Eellows. The annual meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., attracted an immense number of people to Boston. The Grand Sire, Henry D. Carey, in his report, traced the growth of the order since its last meeting in Boston, twenty-two years ago, in 1864, with less than 10,000 New England members. The same territory now numbers 65,000 brethren. The order in general hite shared this prosperity. In 1864, in the whole world, the number of members was 137,263; to-day there are 517,310 members, with an increase in the total -revenue -of -over-$4 j 000,4)W)-. The order is prosperous in foreign countries. Mr. Carey advocated the retention of toe [>ermanent location of the Grand Lodge in Baltimore. The figures of various Odd-Fel-lows’ beneficial associations show receipts for the past year of $1,050,905;. paid to the families of deceased members, $873,363; deaths, 1,752; members in good standing, 46,144; money on hand. $578,820. The figures cover forty-one bodies—all that reports have been received from. The Grand Secretary’s report contained statements showing the condition of the order in the United States, Canada, and foreign jurisdictions. The prospects of both lodges and encampments for the present year are very flattering. The report of the Grand Treasurer showed a balance on hand, on August 20, 1885, of $15,672; receipts for the year, $49,043; expenditures, $42,420; available assets of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, $78,096. The grand banquet given in Odd Fellows* Hall by (he Sovereign Grand Lodge was a very enjoyable affair. Plates were laid for nearly five hundred persons. The gathering comprised the supreme officers and other high dignitaries of the Order, together with many ladies. The parade was one of the finest ever witnessed in Boston. Fifteen thousand OddFellows and fotty bands were in line. A platoon of police led the way, followed by the Boston Cadet Band and Grand Canton Luzerne, of Lynn, one hundred men acting as an escort to Lieutenant General Underwood and his staff of patriarchs militant. Three divisions of patriarchs militant followed. This portion of the procession was its most marked and interesting feature, toe brilliant uniforms, fine marching, skillful evolutions, and splendid appearance of the patriarchs calling forth universal commendation. The main body of Odd-Fellows came next in order. This part of the procession was made up of seven - divisions. The procession pas id in review before the Grand Sire of the Grand. Lodge at Odd-Fellows’ Hall, before Mayor O’Brien at the City Hall, Gov. Robinson at the State House, and Lieut. Gov. Ames on‘ Arlington street. Before the introduction of stamped money in Rome, all sums were reckoned by the pound weight, and not by the number of pieces, whence the person who weighed out the amount for any purchase was termed libripen, the ■weighman. But the name was retained in after times, although the custom from which it arose had long fallen into des'gnate the person who reckoned up and distributed their pay to the soldiers, whom we might term the quartermaster of a regiment-