Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. '■“•iv T 1 rensselaerindiana. O. B. MARSHALL - - Pcrajwncß

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A Saratoga dispatch say* the underdertakers who embalmed the body of Gen. Grant have notified W. J. Arkell. proprietor of the Albany Evening Journal, of a sail instituted against him for SSOO for that aervice. The bill has been presented to everybody connected with Gen. Grant’s family except Mrs. Grant, and, as it has been repudiated all aronnd, they have fallen back on Mr. Arkell... .Four men were instantly killed by the explosion of a pack-ing-honse at the Pitmer powder-works, at Bavchester, N. Y. The shock was felt at Bridgeport, Conn. Got P attison of Pennsylvania has addressed a letter to Attorney General Cassidy on the action of the anthracite pool in advancing the price of coal, and requesting him to move against it in court.

THE WEST.

A passenger train on the Burlington Bond broke a steel rail near Naperville, 111., and several coaches were thrown down an embankment. Mrs. L. 11. Baldwin, of Bock Falls, 111., was killed, five persons were seriously injured, and eleven others received braises. A wrecking train was sent ont from Aurora. COUNSEL for the convicted anarchists of Chicago have filed a document setting forth the grounds upon which a new trial will be asked, accompanied by affidavits that two jurors had, previous to the trial, expressed opinions prejudicial to the defendants. Capt. Price, of the Fifth Cavalry, reports that the part of Oklahoma between Beaver and Stillwater Coon ties is free from intruding white men and cattle; that the “boomers” have generally gone to work on the railways now building on the State line and through the Indian Territory, and that their recognised leaders, including ('apt. Crouch, have assured Capt. Price that no further attempts will be made to occupy Oklahoma until Congress has made a decision in the matter. The Danish Lutheran Convention, which has just closed its session at Cedar Falls, lowa, declared against secret societies.... On recommendation of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, Governor Martin, of Kansas, has issued a proclamation ordering a quarantine of ninety days against the entry of cattle from, Illinois and Ohio and the Dominion of Canada, on account of the prevalence of pleuropneumonia in those localities.... A. S. Gage A Co., the well-known Chicago wholesale and retail millinery and drygoods house, has failed. Approximately the liabilities are $825,000 ana the assets tl ,000,000. The immediate cause of the suspension was Mr. Gage’s inability to raise $5,000 to satisfy a claim of H. B. Clafiin A Co., of New* York, which Mr. Franks, Western business agent of that firm, was pressing. • A hob stormed the jail at Steelville, Mo., and took out P. F. Wallace, accused of murdering the Logan family, who, although he protested his innocence, was suspended to a tree in the jail-yard. After banging a few minutes he was let down, and upon regaining strength enough to apeak, again solemnly asserted that he was innocent, upon which Wallace was returned to the Sheriff, and the mob dispersed. ....Snow fell at Cheboygan, Mich., on the Ist inst. Elsewhere throughout the Northwest nipping weather is reported. A St. Patti, correspondent gives the details of the plan to locate all the Indians in that State on one reservation, and shows that the change will throw upon the market over 3,000,000 acres of land.

POLITICAL.

Commissioner Oberly, in a brief card, says a distinguished advocate of civil-serv-ice reform in New York has begged him to endhis controversy with Dorman B. Eaton, and therefore he will not expose what he calls Mr. Eaton’s “many misstatements of facts and perversions of the record.”.... The official returns from Maine give Bodwell (Rep.), for Governor, 12,850 majority over tha Democratic candidate. The Massachusetts Republican Slate Convention at Boston was composed of I, delegates, and was presided over by Henry Cabot Lodge. There was a long list of 1 Vice Presidents, including Senators Dawes and Hoar, Congressmen Long, Rice, Ranney, Hayden, Whiting, and Davis. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, Oliver Ames; Lieutenant Governor, J. Q. A. Brackett; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce; Treasurer, A. W. Beard; Auditor, Charles Ladd; Attorney General, Edgar 3. Sherman. The platform approves civil-service reform, opposes convict labor and the importation of contract labor, condemns intimidation and coercion by striking workmen, promises to support any just demand made in behalf of veteran soldiers, demands a prompt settlement of the dispute between this country and Great Britain over the fishery question, opposes all horizontal reductions of the tariff, denounces the removal of officials by the administration, the conduct of the Cutting affair by the State Department, the failure of Congress to enact a bankruptcy law, to repeal the silver coinage law. and to provide for coast defenses. The liquor plank favors the strict enforcement of laws enacted to suppress intemperance, and the submission to the people of a prohibitory amendment to the constitution Tha Nebraska Republican Convention, which was presided over by Congressman A. J. Weaver, placed' in the field the following ticket: Governor, Gen. John M. Thayer; Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Shedd; Secretary of State, G. L. Laws; Treasurer, C. H. Wiiliard; Auditor. H. A. Babcock; Attorney General. William A. Duse; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Joseph Scott; Superintendent of Public Instruction. George B. Lane. The platform favors the intelligent organization of the wage-workers for all lawful purposes, but refuses to sanction anarchism or mob violence in the settlement of differences between employes and employ - era; favors the regulation of interstate commerce by Congress ; and demands a revision of laws by which aliens are allowed to own large bodies of land. The Colorado Republicans met in convention at Denver, and nominated the following candidates for State offioes: Governor, Wuliam H. Meyer; Lieutenant Governor, N. H. Meldrum; Secretary of State, James Bice; Treasurer, P.-W. Breen; Congressman, Judge G. G. Syms; Auditor, D. F. Kinsley; Attorney General, Alvin Marsh; Superintendent of PobUe Instruction, S. B. Cornell. The platform reaffirms thejtrinciples national arbitration of a

high tariff, the regulation of interstate commerce, and oppose* convict labor and Chinese immigration. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention at Worcester, which was presided over by Hon. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, placed in tha field the following ticket: Governor, John F. Andrew; Lieutenant Governor, Frank K. Foster; Secretary of State, J. R. Thayer;' Treasurer, Lewis Warner; Auditor, William F, Cook; Attorney General, J. W. Corcoran. The platform strongly indorses President Cleveland: demands reform of the tariff; reaffirms the financial policy of the Democratic platform of 1884; insists upon the defense of the right of American fishing; welcomes the new era of organized labor; commends the Democratic members of the Legislature for securing the passage of various nets in the interest of labor during ttfe lost Legislature; opposes contract labor in prisons and the importation of foreign contract labor to compete with domestic labor; sends a kindly greeting to Parnell, and deplores the death of such men as McClellan, Hendricks, Hancock, and Tilden.

THE SOUTH.

A hurricane, with heavy rain, prevailed in Southwestern Texas from the 21st to the 23d of September, the rain gauge indicating a fall of twenty-six inches. Two hundred bouses were wrecked at Brownsville, rendering 300 persons homeless, while across the river, in Matamoras, 300 dwellings were leveled, and thirty blocks of the city flooded. The people in both cities are in great distress. Whole sections of Texas were submerged, and the loss to property is very heavy Four shocks of earthquake were felt at Charleston on the 28th ult., one of them being accompanied by a detonation, and causing the people to rush into the streets. The shocks so displaced the west portico of the Government building that that entrance to the structure must be kept closed until repairs are made. Miss Clara Barton, of the Bed Cross Association, telegraphs from Charleston that the loss nnd suffering there have not been overestimated, but that two-thirds of the funds required for relief are already assured. Wiggins’ earthquakes and tornadoes failed to materialize on the 29th ult., much to the relief and joy of the people along the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. With the exception of light shocks at Elizabethtown, Pa., and Petersburg, Va., and a “norther” in Texas and North Louisiana, there were no subterranean or meteorological disturbances whatever. A Charleston dispatch says: Wiggins prediction has had a marked effect on the emotional nature of the negroes, and for the past four or five nights their churches have been filled with crowded congregations of frenzied worshipers. The effect of the shocks on the superstitious negroes has been fearful, and they seem to have determined to be taken to heaven by storm. Hundreds of converts are made ever; night, and the excitement is Bb great that many go into trances and have to be carried borne on stretchers. Among the whites the religious sentiment has also been deeply aroused.

An Atlanta(Ga.) telegram says: At daylight this morning the streets of Atlanta were Ailed with early risers. They found a cloudless slcy but a chilly atmosphere. AS noon passed and night was reached the people gave np their fears, and returned to their homes. The colored people kept up their religious meetings until to-night. Many of the merchants did not go to their places of business to-day, their families refusing to be left alone. Perhaps the best evidence of the fears of the people was the abstention of the Rchool children. The non-attendance was greater than ever before known, and the teachers report that the children who did attend might as well have staid at home. The many high buildings in the city were emptied of their inmates all day, who, upon one excuse or another. Staid out mitil the dreaded hour for the event bad passes. The Supreme Court has denied a new trial to T. J. Cluverius, convicted at Richmond, Va., Of the murder of his cousin, Fanny Lillian Madison. Rev. Jesse Cook was hanged in Taylor County, Georgia, some weeks ago, and the negroes are now claiming that his Body has been nursed back to life, and that he will take to toe pulpit again ... A dispatch from Texas intimates that the shrinkage in cattle values will probably cause tho failure of several prominent stockmen.

WASHINGTON.

The public debt statement issued on toe Ist inst, shows Jtoe redaction of the public debt during the month of September to be $10,627,013, and total cash in toe treasury $465,375,713. The following is a recapitulation of toe statement: ZNTKKEBT-BEARINO DEBT. Bonds at 4)4 per cent... $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,763,900 Bonds at S per cent 115,164,300 Refunding certificates at 1 per cent. 199,600 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent, j.. 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal.... *1,181.757.312 Interest 11,936,811 Total *1,191,694,123 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal .....v. *6,938,735 Interest.... 201,061 T0ta1........ *7,199,796 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. *346,738.391 Certificates of deposit 7,'706,000 Gold certificates 84,691,-07 Silipr certificates —.... •••• 96,387,112 Fractional currency (IBs a $3,375,334 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,953,702 Principal .' . 541,476,012

TOTAL DEBT. Principal ...* ..*1.731,232,051 Interest 12.137.872 T0ta1...... ,;r. *1.742.333,932 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 236,924,043 Less reserve held for redemption ol U. S. notes 100,000,000 Total... *306,924,043 Total debt less available cash item 551,436,445,838 Net cash in the Treasury-. 67,896,321 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1886 .4 *1,367,549,567 Debt less cash in Treasury fc>ept 1, 1886 1,738,176,580 Decrease of debt during the month. *10,627,013 CASH IK THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOE REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding *84,691,807 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 95,387,112 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding...... 7,705.000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid ..; 19,136.607 Fractional currency 3,517 Total available for reduction of the debt.. *206,914,048 „ RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, Mta Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12. 1848. .TT..... *100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— - , ' rr: : —■ Fractional silver coin *36.899.745 Miner coin »5,99« Total *2 ,195,089 Certificates held as cash. 6-, -00,310 Net cash balanoe on ban*. C7.3W.5l Total cash In Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account . *465,375.713 The total gold coin and bullion in the Treasury Sept. 30 was $242,609,018, as compared with $235,430,635 the Slst of the previous month. The net gold in the Treasury, after deducting gold certificates in Treasury cash and in circulation Sept. 30, was $157,917,211, as compand with $157,732,288 the Slst of the pterions month.* A Washington dispatch saja that “at

* v ...... the Treasury Department then seems to be no importance' attached to the report that the President has offered the Secretaryship of. the Treasury t > Senator McPherson. It may be stated with certainty that Secretary Manning is going back to the Treasury. He has decided to remain at the head of the department so long as his health will permit him to do so. even to the end of Mr. Cleveland’s term. When the members of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet aocepted their appointments it was with the understanding that they enlisted for the war; that they would remain in the Cabinet until the end of the term.” j The internal revenue department de- , cides that beer barrels must have a spigothole on one side and one end, and that no ! others will be allowed to be used. The de- ; cision grew odt of an appeal of Massachu- ! setts manufacturers, who had been making barrels with spigot-holes on the side only. ....Joseph A. Wagner has been appointed pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The citizens of Wheeling, West Virginia, assembled by thonsands the other evening to witness the lighting of natural gas, from \ pipe run mg into Pennsylvania. A marked change in the manufacturing line is certain to occur... .Two hundred persons are thrown out of employment by a strike of the puddlers employed at the East End and Lights & Kappa rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. They were refused an advance of fifty cents per ton. The Knights of Labor in the West, says a St. Louis dispatoh, have decided that the strike, like the boycott, must go, and that it should ho longer be recognized as a necessity in the order. This important decision is not publicly announced, but the information comes from unquestioned authority. Arbitration will hereafter be the policy of Western knights in all cases of wages and labor that require adjustment.

GENERAL.

A comet has been discovered by Astronomer Finlay. It is in seventeen hours and two minutes of right ascension, and twenty -six degrees four minutes of south declination. It is moving eastward at the rate of about thirty-five minutes of arc and southward four minutes daily.... For the quarter ended Sept. 30 there were 1,932 failures in the United States, as compared with 2,173 for the third quarter of 1885. The liabilities, however, are $27,500,000 for the three months of 1886, as against $23,874,000 for the corresponding period in 1885. The sub-committee of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate is conducting an investigation of the fisheries question at Boston. Fob the third time within a year, the volcano of Colima, Mexico, has become active, causing terror in the surrounding villages. Special telegrams to Bradstreet' a point to a volume of general trade quite equal to that reported in late weeks, with a satisfactory increase in demand. The movement of staple goods is increasing in the SouthWest and West, while in Kansas the demand is reported to be better than in a corresponding period in any preceding year. The bank clearings at thirty cities aB specially wired to Bradstreet'B point to an unmistakably fall volume of commercial transactions, speculative and otherwise, exceeding in the aggregate late exhibits.... It is understood that in accepting the surrender of Geronimo General Miles agreed that the band should be spared then lives and removedfrom Arizona, thus fortPtt ing the Government to keep them permanently as prisoners of war. A conference on this subject was held last week by the President and the Secretary of War. A London magistrate refused the request of Edward Solomon for a reduction of bail in the bigamy case, and continued the proceedings until the arrival of witnesses who have been secured in the United States. The testimony taken includes an admission by defendant that he was married to Lillian Russell in New Jersey. An attorney from England, acting for the legal wife, has caused Solomon to be indicted in Hudson County, New Jersey, for bigamy. A number of cases of pleuro-pneumo-nia are reported among the cattle on the farm of- William Chase, near N. J... Telegrams from Virginia (East) to Montana (West) record swift and extended mortality from contagious pleuro-pneu-monia. This disease is not so swiftly and generally fatal in its inception. These outbreaks are probably simply splenic (Texas) fever, and have proved so where diagnosed by competent veterinary surgeons. In Illinois, so far as discovered, lung-plague is under strict quarantine and confined to the original centers of infection... .An appeal has been iseped to the members of the Irish National League to Start tin anti-eviction fund at once and forward the contributions to the Treasurer... .The Collector of Customs at St. John, N. 8., would not permit the bark Orient to fly the liish flag in that harbor. Her officers yielded when, they found themselves liable to afineof £6OO .... Robert Mayall, Chief Engineer of the City of Mexico, is visiting various towns in the Unitod States for the purpose of examining the sewer systems. The Mexican Repnblio is about to expend $6,000,000 in thi6 kind of work at the Capital City. Over half the amount will be expended in tunneling through a mountain a distance of six miles and. building. a canal thirty miles long to convey the sewage from the city to the mouth of the tunnel .

FOREIGN.

Socialist riots, in which many persons were injured, are reported from France and Germany... .Timothy Harrington says that an enormons increase in evictions throughout Ireland must now be expected, and that the Irish National Land League will devote all donations received to Hie work of relieving persons evicted. Two thousand families are now under notice of eviction. Between August 28 and September 5, inclusive, 13,348 new cases of cholera were reported in Japan, the deaths numbering 8,472. Over sixty per cent, of those attacked died. The wells of Tokio were examined and 740 out of 1,177 were condemned as unfit for drinking purposes. Leopold King of the Belgians, whose visit to Emperor William is much commented on in Paris, is reported to have declared to the German ruler that he had nothing to gain from Republican, France, whereas the triumph of Germany meant the security of his throne... .The militaiy pickets who were recently withdrawn from Hie disturbed districts in Belfast have Again been placed on dnty to prevent another outbreak... .Thg German Lifeboat Association now has 100 stations, fmd during the last year has saved 1,578 lives. Lord Randolph Churchill and Premier Tisza declare the powers will abide by the provisions of the Berlin treaty in electing a Prince for Bulgaria.,. .Russia hesitates about risking a war with Austria while an Anstro-English alliance is possible... .It is rumored that Prince Bismarck

ha* for three years urged Count Kalnoky to more toward Salonica. Not having complied, it to believed that Count Andraasy, or Finance Minuter Von Kallay, trill be appointed to succeed him.. .Violent shocks of earthquake have occurred recently in the central portion of Germany. Tax Duo d’Aumale has given to the French Institute his vast estatss at Chan* tilly, with all their books and works of art, on condition that the property be preserved intact and be open to the public at least twice a week during six months of each year. The gift amounts to 60,000,000 franca.

ADDITIONAL NEWS .

The trades demonstration at Pittsburgh, on the 4th inst., was the largest and finest display of its kind ever witnessed in that city. The procession was twelve miles long, and occupied three hoars in passing a given point. It was made up principally of the wholesale and retail grocers, fiour and grain dealers, furniture dealers, and clothiers. The affair wound up with a grand picnic at Homewood Park. The day was auspicious, and the business and private houses along the route of the procession were tastefully decorated. It is estimated that at least 40,000 strangers were in the city Justice Gordon decided at Pittsburgh that the “store-order” or “truck” system, under the act of June 29, 1881, was unconstitutional and void. The general distribution of the new $ 1 silver certificates began last week, and will be continued until the demand, which is very great, has been entirely supplied. The notes are now being printed at the rate of 30,000 a day. The new $2 silver certificates will not be ready for issue for two weeks yet.... The amount of United States currency outstanding is $362,331,420. There is outstanding of national bank notes $303,082,437.... The Treasury Department has published a statement showing the population, net revenue, and net expenditures of the Government for the last fiscal year, with the per capita of revenues and expenditures. The population is given at 58,420,000, and the net revenue at $336,439,727, being a per capita of $5.76, or .06 greater than the fiscal year of 1885. The expenditures were $242,483,138—a per capita of s4.l§, or .24 less than that of the previous year! The oath of allegiance will be administered to all in the civil service in Canada. This is because some of the government employes are suspected of sympathy with the Irish cause.... The September fire loss in the United States was $6,500,000 —a slight decrease from the average September loss of previous years. General Kaulbars unexpectedly made his appearance at a meeting held by 5,000 citizens of Sofia to consider the political crisis. He declared that the Czar would not recognize the sobranje elected to choose a , successor to Prince Alexander. The shouts of the people became so tumultuous that the Russian agents withdrew. An immense audience greeted Justin McCarthy at the Academy of Music, New York, his lecture on the political situation in Ireland being for the benefit of the sufferers by the Charleston earthquake. He closed with the prediction that home rule will soon come. Commissioner Colman complains of the apathy and inaction of the State and local authorities in taking the necessary steps to suppress the pleuro-pneumonia scourge. A cattle disease, which proves fatal in a few hours, has broken out in Tazewell County, 111. A discharge from the. nose is first noticed, then the head begins to swell, and death speedily relieves the afflicted animal. A number of cattle recently purchased at Baltimore have died near Harrisonburg, Va., of what is supSosed to be Texas fever. The Governor of lontana Territory has issued a proclamation quarantining against the cattle of Illinois and other States where pleuropneumonia exists. There have recently been devised in Europe some new thermometers with platinum or porcelain bulbs by which very high temperature, even that of a white heat, can be measured without having to resort to an expensive and troublesome pyrometer. The reading is taken in nrecisely the same way as at present with an ordinary thermometer, but the result is obtained by the pressure of air inclosed in the bulb, which is exposed to the heat. This pressure acts directly on a vertical column of mercury. The bulb is hermetically sealed, and the instrument is unaffected by changes in the height of the barometer. It costs sl2 in Paris to learn how to bow gracefully. A sweet smile comes $5 extra. ~

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Hogs..."*.’.’.*.’*.**.*.*.*.'.'.'.**."*.*.*.’.*.’. 4>5 & 5.25 Wheat-No. 1 White .85 & .86 No. 2 Bed .84 & .85 Corn—No. 2 46)4(9 .47)4 Oats—White 35 @ .41)4 Pore—New Mess 11.00 @11.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 & 5.50 Good Shipping 4.00 ® 4.50 C0mm0n.......... 3.00 & 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 4.75 Floor—Extra Spring 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 74 A .74)4 Corn-No. 2 35 & .36 Oats—No. 2 a .91 & .24)4 Butter—Choice Creamery 24 & .26 Fine Dairy 18 (9 .20 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. .11)4#' .H Full Cream, new...... .12 <9 .12)4 Eggs—Fresh 16 & .17 Potatoes—Early Rose, per bu.. .52 & .55 Pork—Mess 8.75 & 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 72 & .73 Cohn—No. 2. .36 <9 .36)4 Oats—No. 2 24 @ .25 Rts—No. 1 53 A .54 Pore—Mess 8.75 #9.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 77 @ .77)4 Corn—No, 2 .40 & .40)4 Oats—No. 2 27 & .27)4, DETROIT. Beef Cattle v 3.75 #5.25 Hogs,... 4.00 @ 5.25 Shekp 550 @ 4.50 Wheat—Michigan Rod .76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2 40 & .41 OaTS-No. 2 White 30 <9 31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2.... ....... .74 A .75 Corn—Mixed 34 <9 .34)4 OATS-Mixed -26?4@ .27 PoRK-NewMess 9.50 #IO.OO '-CINCINNATI.. . Wheat-No. BRed.. .76 0 .77 Corn— No. 2 .39 @ .39)4 Oats—No. 2 28 0 .28)4 Pork—Mess. 9.50 #IO.OO Live Hogs 4.00 (9 4.50 BUFFALO. _J Wheat-No. 1 Hard 82 <9 .«)4 C0rn—Na2.................. 43 ** .44 Catt1e......... 4.00 8 150 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.25 & 5.00 ]ytoos< ■ • ••'*•'** * w* • - 4.00 0 4.75 Sheep 3.00 A 4.00 Wheat —No. 2 Mixed .74 @ .75 Coen—No. 2 i .37 0 .37)4 Oats —No. 2. .96 0 .96)4 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.75 0 5.50 | Common.... 3.25 9 4.00 Hoae... 4.75 0 5.00 RH5JtF............................ 3.75 0 4.50

THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Struggle for the Base-Bell Championship Drawing to a dosa The Chicago and St. Loafs Clubs the Winners jkp Their Respective. .Leagues. >— . "** [Chicago correspond Mice. ] 'Hie Chicago* still hold the toad in the race for (he League pennant, ar.d that they will be the champions of 1886 is an assured fact. The New Yorks and Pkiladelphias are making just as close a race for the third place as the two leaders did for first place. The Bostons and St. Louis are also engaged in a lively contest for fifth position, with chances in favor of Boston, who now holds that place. Following we give the schedule of the League and American Association, and some interesting records 6t League games: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Gaines Gaines Clnbs— won. lost Chicago 84 ‘29 Detroit 79 33 New York .... 67 41 Philadelphia 63 41 Boston. 49 68 St Louis 41 70 Kansas City ~..23 79 Washington 22 83 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Won. Lost. St. Louis 84 41 Pittsburg 71 64 Brooklyn 69 68 Louisville 65 61 Cincinnati g 8 66 Athletic 56 66 Metropolitan.... ...48 72 Baltimore 43 75 WHITEW ASHES. The record of ihe games wherein the opponents made nothing atfe as follows: ~~ At Chicago. Chicago, 11; Kansas City, 0. At Detroit. Detroit, 10; New York, 0. Detroit, 1; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Chicago, 4; Detroit, 0. At St. Louis. Kansas City, 2; St. Louis, 0. St. Louis, 5; Boston, 0. St. Louis, 6; Kansas City, 0, Washington, 2; St. Louis, 0. Philadelphia, 1; St. Louis, 0. Chicago, 1; St. Louis, 0. St. Louis, 5; Kansas City, 0. St. Louis, 5; Kansas City, 0. At Kansas City. Philadelphia, 1; Kansas, City, 0. Kansas City, 7; Washington, l). Philadelphia, 3; Kansas City, 0. At Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 3; Chicago, 0. Detroit, 3; Philadelphia, 0. Philadelphia, 3; St, Louis, 0. Philadelphia, 8; Washington, 0. Philadelphia, 7; Washington, 0. Philadelphia, 5; Chicago, 0. At New York. Chicago, 4; New York, 0. New York, 3; Boston, 0. v Philadelphia, 4; New York, 0. New York, 8; St. Louis, 0. Washington, 5; New York, 0; At Boston. Chicago, 9; Boston, 0. Boston, 2; New York, 0. Boston, 15; Washington, 0. At Washington. New York, 6; Washington, 0. Washington, 7; Chicago, 0. Chicago, 20; Washington, 0. Detroit, 9; Washington, 0. Kansas City, 2; Washington, 0, Chicago, 6; Washington, 0. Chicago, 11; Washington, 0.

Notes of the Game. In Pittsburgh President Spalding ia called the “Helmholder of the League.” The St. Louis Browns and Maroons will play a fall series next month, toe winner to take 60 per cent, and the loser 40 per cent, of the gate receipts. The Chicsvgos won every game at home with the Eastern clubs, the last series, which is a remarkable achievement, equaled only by the St. Lonis Browns, last season. Glasscock’s success with the St. Louis Club makes Dunlap’s reputation as a captain sink into obscurity. Glasscock seems to have one faculty that Dunlap lacks—personal magnetism. There is one thing no one can deny, however much a column of figures may dazzle his eyes, and that is that when the Chicago Club enters the field they do so as a club and not as nine individual players. After the regular season is over a series will be played between the St. Louiß Browns, champions of the American Association and the Chicagos, champions of the National League, for the championship of the world. The games are to be played in Chicago and St. Louis. RoCer Connor, the big first-baseman of the New Yorks, recently achieved the task he had set himself for three years past, of knocking a ball over the twentyfoot high right field fence at New York. and Eleventh street, 450 feet from the home plate. This is toe first time the feat has ever been accomplished, and it may not be repeated for a long time to come. It was undoubtedly the longest hit ever made in New York, and was made off of Radbourn, of the Bostons.

GENERAL ARTHUR.

The Ex-President Said to Be Fatally HI. 1 Special from Washington.] A gentleman who had a high position under President Arthur’s administration, and who recently visited him at New London, says that, while there is nothing in General Arthur's condition to excite immediate apprehension, toe fact is well known to Genenl Arthur’s friends, and belter known to himself than to anyone else, that he Is suffering from a disease of toe kidneys from which he does not expect to recover. The progress of the disease has probably 'Been somewhat stayed by medical treatment and careful nursing, bnt there is only one result that is expected, or can be-ex-pected, and that result General Arthur awaits with resignation. This gentleman says that those who are the most in the confidence of the physician do not think that toe ex-President can long survive. It is quite certain that he has noOfeen as much benefited by his visit to New London as had been hoped.

A Severe Disappointment.

"Jessie!” - “Yearn.” “What are you crying for?” “Laura hit me on* toe head.” “Where?” “That’s toe matter. I tried to keep the mark till I got home to show you, and, bgohoo! it's gone away." If they tax bogus butter, why not tax bogus milk, bogus buttermilk, and aM tha family? - J ~ - • The cook’s hair may be her pride and glory, bat it is better oat of toe atew. - _

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A sum cklming to be an attorney and claim agent has been operating In Hamilton County, drumming np claimants to Cherokee lands in Indian Territory. He asserted that persons baring Cherokee blood in their veins were entitled to enter all the land they want, and for $26 in advance he undertook to attend to the matter for them. Among those whom he induced to advance the money were members of the Hqnly, Whicker, Perry, Allen, Barber, and other families, who now think they have been victimized. The same agent is said to be working Morgan County. —Considerable alarm has been created in Clark, Floyd, and in 6ome portions of Spencer and Warrick Counties over the ravages of a disease among the hogs-. In many instances it is fatal in a few honrs, while in other cases the animal recovers after only a abort but apparently severe attack. A post-mortem examination was made on au animal that died recently, disclosing the fact that the second lining of the stomach was fairly swarming with parasites, and it may be possible that the disease is not cholera, but the still more dangerous trichiniosis. - —Two Elkhart sportsmen went to Hudson Lake to hunt ducks. They failed to find any until toe day of the big hail-storm, when they saw a flock of fifteen take refuge in a pond near by. After the storm had passed away, they picked up nine of the fifteen ducks—all killed by the large hail. These they took home with them, intending to pass them off as trophies of their skill, but a post-mortem examination by skeptical friends revealed no shotmarks, and the hunters were compelled to explain matters as above. —Glen Miller, a park near Richmond, was the scene of a fierce and fatal combat between two elks a few days ago. The contestants were an old and a voung buck whose antlers still showed their youthfulness by their velvet covering, while those of the old buck were huge and strong, and the probable victor in many a previous rutting contest in his former forest home. The fight was an unequal one, and was quickly ended by the older one throwing the younger to the ground and goring him to death.

—Work has been begun on the gas well at Decatur. So far, the wells dug in Eastern Indiana, except the Eaton well, have been almost entire failures. At Blnffton and Portland they have begun well No. 2. However, the country about Decatur is almost an exact counterpart of the noted Findlay, 0., gas region, and the Decatur Natural Gas Company hope to strike a boomer in gas or oil within the next thirty days. —A short time since three men, bearing the corpse of an old lady said to have died from the effects of a tumor, at Greenfield, Hancock County, appeared in the neighborhood of the Nicholson Cemetery, near the boundary line of Madison County, and sought aid in the matter of burial. Their stories as to the death and former residence of the deceased were not corroborative, and the matter is being investigated. —At Crawfordsville a horse driven by a small colored boy ran away and ran over a colored lady, badly bruising her. The horse then ran upon a sidewalk and struck a ladder upon which was Isaac Warner, a brickmason, who was about twenty feet from the ground, doing some work. Mr. Warner was thrown upon the pavement and received serious injuries. The injuries of Mr. Warner may prove fatal. —Two men who passed a night in the hut near Princeton, where the bodies of Frank Stout and his father were found after their murder by Chris Emmons, say „ that the place is haunted by the ghost of Emmons. They describe their night there as one.of horror, and that Emmons appeared in spirit and reacted the tragedy, winding up by shooting himself, as he did in life. —The Richmond Empire Steel Plow and Sulky Manufacturing Company has been organized with the following officers: James C. Ratliff, President; Thad. Gordon, Vice President and Superintendent; Snmuel Beilis, Secretary, and Joseph Brown Treasurer; Lewis K. Harris and Charles C. Crockett are directors. The company expects to begin operations about Nov. 1. —The Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for Clark and several adjoining counties, reports that seventy-five fruit distilleries are in operation in his district. The are manufacturing from one to two hundred gallons each, dally, one' hav^ ~ ing already turned out over one hundred barrels, and that the daily output will, aggregate not less than 20,000 gallons. —Jeffersonville, not content with being the Gretna Green of the State, is now try* ing to work up a reputation as a gambler’s paradise. A local item states that fnlly 1,000 keno players from Louisville and New Albany were in the city one night recently, and that no attempt was made to conceal the various games, all the houses running wide open. —Among the curiosities on exhibition at the fairs in the southern part of the State is a hybrid, whose sire was a stallion and whose dam was a jennet. The animal was raised in Washington County, and is the first product of the kind ever known in the Wabash Valley. —A monster antler was found by persons who are engaged in clearing out Yellow Creek, near Decatur,. The antler is five feet long and has six prongs, each measuring sixteen inches. The antler is well preserved, yet has donbtless been there for ages. - —The Clerk of Vigo County has issued 372 marriage licenses so far this year, against 312 for the same rime last year. »»■ —South Bend has several thousand less sparrows now than it had a short rime ago, The large hail which fell there recently besides stripping the leaves from the shade trees, killed all the sparrows that had taken refuge among the limbs. —The Indiana Starch Works, at Franklin, will bnild a new crib that will bold 60,000 bushels of com, which gives the concern, with its other cribs, a storage capacity of 90,000 bushels. —St. Louis capitalists contemplate the ereetibn of a large woolen mill at Jeffersonville, to employ 1,300 men.