Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — Page 6

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THE NEWS CONDENSED,

THE EAST. Representative Abram Dowdney, of the Twelfth Nett York District, died nt hie home in New York City. This swells to twelve the death-list of the Forty-ninth Congress. ~ r x V. R. Chamberlain, the noted porkpacker of New England, has been <onvicted of perjury, and has taken an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court Henry D. Garrett, a lawyer of New York, who is charged with appropriating $12,000 belonging to Mrs. Rosalie Carpenter, swallowed two ounces of nux vomica while being taken to court for trial. Physicians saveahis life.... William Rted, lormerly Treasurer of the South Bo>ton horse railroad, pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling $160,000.. .. On the waters of Niagara River Alphonso King walked one hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a wager of $3,000 made in New York . . .. The Oil City Derrick, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has received a letter alleged to have been written by the notorious express robber, “Jim” Cummings, dated Yeungstown, Ohio, and postmarked Lafayette, Ind... .S. C. Hill, living near Pittsburgh, Pa., mistook his daughter for a burglar and shot her in the neck. She will probably die.,, .The Woodbury mill in East Cambridge, Mass., was blown to pieces by the explosion of the boiler; six men were badly injured, two of them almost beyond

THE WEST.

Near Minneapolis a large eagle, measuring nearly ten feet from tip to (ip, attacked two surveyors. Professor 55'. F. Carr and Samuel Chute, severely wounding the former, and making a desperate effort to bear him away. Timely aid arrived, and the bird was captured. His talons are over four inches in length... .Reuben Hill and his three sons, residing at North Liberty, Ind., were instantly killed while attempting to drive across the Grand Trunk tracks. His daughter had a leg broken.... Judge Gresham of the United States Circuit Court in Chicago has decided to remove the present receivers of the. s\'abash Railway and to foreclose the mortgage on the system east of the Mississippi River. ... Fred Joslyn, a school teacher at Henderson, Mich., killed a citizen who attempted to thrash him for whipping his boy. Joslyn proceeded-to Owosso and surrendered to the jailer.

Gov. Hvbbabd, of Minnesota, issued a proclamation declaring the county seat of Traverse County, Minnesota, to be Wheaton, in accordance with the result of the recent election, changing'it from Brown’s Valley. On receipt of the news of this decision at Wheaton the County Commissioners, sent a party of about one hundred men, with teams, to Brown’s Valley to remove the records. They were proceeding to do so, when tney were attacked by residents of Brown s Valley, and a lively fight took place around the Court House, in the course of which axes, j hammers, and revolvers were freely used, and the records and furniture were scattered about the streets. The Wheaton men were finally driven off without getting the records. Several persons were seriously, but none dangerously, hurt. Robert Grayob, the murderer of Berry Evans, was hanged at St. Louis, Mo. He partook heartily of a breakfast of ham and eggs, fried oysters, and toast and tea. No man ever died more gamely. Not once while be stood on (he gallows could even a quiver be noticed in him Oscar A. bimonds, of Fort Wayne, Ind., a wealthy and influential citizen, who had been a terrible sufferer from nervous prostration.’ killed himself with a revolver. His deaths is due wholly to overwork in caring for his large interests. The collapse of the overloaded hardware establishment of the A. F. Shapleigh A- ‘ Cantwell Companyat St. Louis Saturday i afternoon led to a disastrous fire, widen made a clean sweep of half a block of valuable business property, causing a loss of $750,W0. Two clerks in the tablishment perished in the ruins, and two firemen and several clerks were seriously injured.... Mgr. Capel’has .published a statement declaring his iutdlition to sue the editor of the Sin Francisco Arffimatit for originating the scandalous stoii s affecting his charac’er J recently published in the East and the N-w York papers that printed them.. ..Jehn Baker, Congressman-elect from the Eighteenth Illinois District, was fined So and costs for assaulting a reporter at Belleville. .. ,Wm. Reed was shot and killed at English. Ind., by Ben Smith, in a dispute oyer the proper spelling of a word.,. .Jacob B. Heogle died of starvation at Rockford, 111. . His mind was disturbed andhs refused to eat.

THE SOUTH.

A revenue bill passed by the lower house of the Alabama Legislature levies a tax of $5,000 ou oil persons who deal In future contracts on comm.ssion.. .'<Gov. Ireland, of Texas, Las issued a proclamation quarantining against all ports in South America and elsewhere where cholera ex- • ists. .. ■ . Habvy Pash; the negro murderer of Felix Adams, expiated hn crime on the scaffold in the jail-yayd at Bardstown, Kylie went to the gallows sinning and praying, but became calm at the last moment, and heard the priest’s benediction quietly. Six thealers inoperstion iii New Orleans have found the present season the worst

since the war. Audiences of less than One hundred are frequently seen in a house with capacity for two thousand '.The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta. Ga., closed a contract for transportation to Antwerp. Eighty members will go, and the trip includes a march across the Alps, from Switzerland into Italy... .J. S. Cornelison,' the attorney who cowhided Judge Ried at Mount Sterling, Ky., for making an advorse decision, causing the latter to kill himself from mortification, has been ordered by the Court of Appeals to spend three years in jail. ’.rThree robbers boarded a south-bound passenger .train on the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad at Bellevue, Texas, and robbed the passengers of eight watches and $lO4 in money. A Fort Worth telegram furnishes the following particulars of the bold robbery: Al tbo train drew up at Bellevue Station. Tex., three unmasked robbers took possession of it. One of them with a drawn pistol ordered Engineer Ayers and his fireman, arid O. G. Miller, another engineer who was riding in the cab, to alight, which they did.; Ho then marched them some thirty feet from the train and went through them, taking all the valuables they had. While this was going on the other two men went through the train. Ono of tho passengers in the rear cor was looking out of the window and saw the operation with the trainmen. Divining the' situation he went into the forward cars, notified the other passengers of what was going on, and told them to secrete their money. This they did in various ways, giving most of it and their diamonds to several ladies aboard. Mies Kate Haas of Fort Worth took charge of 53,000 and other valuables. Mrs. Chambers of N. Y., received $5,000 and some diamonds, and Mrs. Wittick of Carthage, Mo., took her husband's gold watch and several hundred dollars. Mrs. Wittick was greatly incensed at the proceedings, and boldly stood up in the car and asked if forty men were going to tamely submit to such an outrage at tho hands of highwaymen. About $12,000 in money and"' $4,000 worth of diamonds anil other valuables were left by the robbers in their baste to get through the train, un i because they did not search tho women. They were evidently novices in tho business and went away with the paltrr sum of $lO5, three gold watches, teu silver watches, five revolvers, an 1 one gold ring. The robbers left the train at the rear end of the sleeper, mounted horses standing near by,” and rode rapidly away.

WASHINGTON.

Washington dispatches indicate that there is a prospect of alien land legislation at this session of Congress.... The report of the engineers on the Hennepin Canal has been made public. Generally it is favorable to the scheme.. . .The Congressional committee appointed to attend Congressman Price’s luneral decided not to make the journey to Wisconsin, chiefly because of Mr. Price’s opposition to Congressional funeral trips. Delegate Toole of Montana appeared before the House Committee on Territories and made an argument in favor of the admission of the Territory as a State.;.. The Commissioner .of the General Land Office has recommended that proceedings be commenced to compel the removal of fences unlawfully inclosing public land in Colfax County/.New Mexico, amounting to about 105,000 acres. The Commissioner also recommends that the fences inclosing about 22,000 acres in the public land strip •south of Kansas said to have been built by the Western Cattle Company, be removed by the military. The report of the Comstock Board of Engineers on the Hennepin Canal is in the main acceptable to the friends of the project, says a Washington telegram. But there are some parts of it that do not suit them. The report presents in a very strong light the commercial importance of the canal, and shows that there are no serious difficulties in the way of its eonstruction. The board makes no estimate of its cost. Its cordial indorsement of the canal on commercial and military grounds will prove a material help to tlie friends of the canal. The board, however, leans to the Marias d'Osifer route. This is the shortest and cheapest, but much of it lies through Such low flooded lands that when Major Bonyaurd mode his survey of it three years ago in the dryest month of tho year the surveyors were unaule to pa-s over a good part of the line. Besides, there are no commercial lines at this end Of this route to make use of the canal, and the mouth of the canal w ould be in the middle of a long reach of rapids. Boats might easily go down these rapids to enter the canal at Rock Island, but they would hardly cure to go to the rapids to enter the canal at Marais d’Osier. In his report Maj. Benyaurd, without strongly deciding in favor of any of the routes, plainly gave the Rock Island route the preference for commercial reasons. The Handbury report, made a year ago. preferred the Marais d'Osier route on account of its lesser cost, but the commercial reasons for having the canal end at Rock Island were so obvious that Gen Newton, then chief of engineers, prefixed to the HAndbury report a strong argument for the Rock Island route, and Gen. Benet, who was then Actin I Secretary ot War, transmitted tho recoils with a very eiuVhaOc jndorsenicaL.QGthe Rock Island route. There is good reason to expect that Gen. Duane, the present chief xd tngineers, and Secretary Endicott will both cast their influence in favor of the Rock Island route.

It is believed in Washington that President Cleveland intends to appoint Judge Church.” of the Dakota Supreme Court. Governor of that. Territory... .M-nister Tree reports to the State Department that the government of the Independent State of Congo has contracted for a regular line of Belgian steamers between .Antydrp and the Congo. • • ' i - Rear Admiral Jovett,who has inspected the guns of the United States war vessel Dolphin, reports that they proved highly s itisfactory. Although the speed of the Dolphin was not tested, the Admiral reports that she readily made thirteen,knots, with little motion, and gives promise of going over fifteen.... The" Hennepin. Canal Committee believes tha' they will succeed in getting the Board of Engineers to change their reports in-favor of The Rock Island roi to and accept the canal from Ghic.v o to La Salle, instead cf from Chicago to Joliet, as at present.

POLITICAL.

Appointments by the; President: Thos. Moonlight, of Lenyenworth. Kan., to be ' Governor of Wvom ng Territory, vic? Bax- | ter. declined; Ar thur L; Thonjas, of Penn- | sy.vahia. to be a member of the Utah commissi >n; Naval Constructor Theodore D. Wilson to be Chief of the Bureau ’ of Construction and Repair, mid Chief | Constructor in the Ilcpartmenfof, the i navy, with the relative null; of Commodore: ■ j Pay Director .James Fulton to be Chief of ' the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and ; i Paymaster General in the department of ; ; the navy, with the rela ive rank of Commo- i • dore: Pay Inspector Rufus Parks to be i : Pay D rector; Paymaster James E. Tolfree ■ to be Pay Inspector: Assistant Paymaster John Ccrwine to, be Passed Assistant Paymaster. The National Convention of Trades Unions, in session at Columbus, Ohio, adopted a resolution in favor of the organization of a national political labor party. The official canvass of the vote cast in lowa at the recent election gives the Republican candidates majorities ranging from 14,342 for Pray, Clerk of the Supreme Court, to 16.001 for Ebersole, Supreme Court Reporter.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

J. L. Roxkafellaij, President of the Standard Oil Company, is arranging to furnish the manufactories at Cleveland with natural gas.... A. convention of the spring and axle wqrk : rs of- the United States will be held at Pittsburg, Fa., Jan.

' 4, to establish uniform wages throughout ' the country and to complete arrangement! I for disbanding their national organization ■ prior to going into the Knights of Labor as a body... .Prominent Cincinnati Knights of Labor met last week and decided to protest to Mr. Powderly against the brew. ' cry employes' assembly lately organized there, on the ground that snloonists are not eligible to membership in the organization. THE*eb-operative board of the Knights of Labor in Philadelphia have determined to invest $40,000 in co-operative concerns.. .. .Twenty-four coal miners, convicted at Pittsburgh of conspiracy during the great strike of the river miners in 1885, have been notified to give themselves up to serve their sentence in the ' workhouse. Their friends have th® signatures of 50,000 persons asking for the pardon of the miners,

THE RAILWAYS.

Through a syndicate in New York the' Atchison Company has obtained control of the Chicago. St. Louis and Western Road, which will become a part of the extension from Kansas City to Chicago. Contracts have been made for a large quantity of steel rails, to be laid between Streator and Fort Madison, where the Mississippi will be bridged, under a charter recently purchased. In the vicinity of Richmond, Mo., the Burlington and the Atchison Roads are both surveying air lines to Kansas City. C. R. Cummings, of Chicago, has been elected President of the Laka Erie and Western Road. It is stated that the assessments on the stock yielded over $9(10,000, which will discharge the floating debt and pave the way for the receiver's exit... .The Missouri Pacific stockholders, at a special meeting in St, Louis, voted to increase the capital stock $4,000,000 and the bonded indebtedness $5,000,000. Judge Gresham’s decision in the Wabash litigation and the scathing rebuke he administered to the receivers have given intense satisfaction at St. Louis, where Gould and his ugen’s hold a complete monopoly of the transportation business on both sides of the river... .Articles of incorporation of the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Raiiro id have teen filed with the recorder at Peoria. 111. The capital stock is $30,00’0,000, and the incorporators ore all Chicagoans The Minnesota and Northwestern Road is nt present boycotted by the jobbers and millers of Minneapolis, because it is too much of a St. Paul institution.

GENERAL

The man who swindled the people of the City of Mexico by the sale of bogus Patti tickets is believed to be Charles Bourton, formerly a journalist in Paris. He Las been cajAured by Mexican detectives. A City of Mexico dispatch says: “It is generally believed here that diplomatic questions of grave importance will soon arise between the United States and Mexico, growing out of the position taken by President Cleveland against the right of Mexico to try Americans committing offenses against Mexican law while on American soil. The newspapers of ail shades of opinion stand by the government in this matter/ on the ground that ths principle is a round one, and approved by some of the most highly civilized nations of the world.” The average December prices of wheat, according to the National Department of Agriculture, is 69 cents—B cents below the value of the last crop, and 4J cents higher than 1884. The farm value of corn is 37 cents —4 cents higher than last year. The average condition of the wheat plant in Michigan is 97.100, against 95 last year. Live-stock are reported in a healthy condition. Ten per cent, of the potato crop in southern counties and five per cent, in the northern - counties has been destroyed by rot. The business failures during the week numbered for the United States 252, for Canada 22, a total of 274, against 242 the previous week. The increase noticeable is mainly in the Southern States, where the casualties are Jar above the average in number, if not in importance. Bradstreet’ « reports “wool weaker, prices yielding a little 'at the London sale. In goods the tone is generally strong, but foreign worsteds are offered at lower figures. The drug trade is growing inactive, without loss in prices. Prices harden in sugars, spices, tea, and canned goods. Sugar consumption has increased largely abioad.it is claimed, overtaking tho supple. Money is generally reported in good supply, though the demand is large. Collections geiierully are very satisfactory, except in some southern sections, nnd bank clearings continue less than last year in that section, a little larger on the whole in NewEngland, smaller at St. Lou’s, and about the same at Chicago, but greatly increased at many other 55'estern point’.” John L. Sullivan signalized his contempt for the English by tilling up with wine at a bar.q ret at s'ictoria. B. C.. calling the mayor who ; resided “a blanked old stiff,” and throwing all the Canadian money he possess d-sOrne Slit—info the sound befo;e re --embark in g for San Franeisco.

FOREIGN.

A majority of the Powers hive replied to the Porte’s circular asking advice as to the solution of the Bulgari in difficulty, but the responses arc all either evasive or indefinite.' < The Catholics of Lurgun, in the County of Armagh, Ireland, formed iu procession and marched th ough the streets to show their joy at the acquittal of some of their number who had been tried on charges of noting, jibe Orangemen of the town reseated the demonstration, and attacked the parade. A fierce riot ensued, and sticks, stones, and re vol v»rs were used. The fighting lasted several hours, and was finally quelled by a Hoop of dragoons, which had to be called upon. A score of persons were wonnde I and several houses were partially wrecked. A permanent reduction of 35 per cent, in his Irish rent-rolls is announced by the Duka of Manchester... .It is reported in financial circles that a pressure has recently been brought to bear to induce England to coin.a silver dollar to mept the needs of foreign circulation, especially in India and .Burbiah. The Mexican dollar has been largely used, but it is so much debased that it has lost character in many silver-using countries. M. Goblet has formed a new French Ministry, which is announced as follows: Mi. Goblet. President of the Council and Minister of The Inter ot, and ad interim Minister of For igu Ass rrs: M. Dauphin, Minist rof Finance: M. Berthelot, Minister of Instrucjion; M. Sarden. Minister of Justice; Gen. Boulang r. Minister of War; Admiral Anb-. Minis.er of Marine; M. Granet, Minister of Fqsts and Telegraphs; M. Lockroy, .Mini iter of I ommerce; M, Deville, Minister of Agriculture. ...Gen-

Von Schellendorff, the Prussian Minister of War, gave a detailed comparison of the strength of European armies before the Septennate Commission. His remarks implied that the Government is preparing tor a hostile coalition against France and Russia Five German army corps have been equipped with repeating rifles. General Boulanger, of Paris, has secured a bill to reorganize the army, and to aphropriato £12,000.090 for arms.... Cleveland’s messv.e is favorably received in England The number of adjudications in bankruptcy in England for the past nine months of the year was 3,558—2(11 more than during the same period in 1885.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Judge Ayers, at Indianapolis, refused an injunction in the case affecting the legality of the election of Lieutenant Governor. The case has been appealed to the State Supreme Court for final settlement. .... A New York special to a Western newspaper says: - “The statement may be made upon the authority of representative members of both organizations that the union between Tammany and the County Democracy, cemented by the election of Mr. Hewitt as Mayor, has been made to involve their joint support for President Cleveland’s renoiuinatiou and-r .‘-election. By the terms of the compact Tammany is to send delegates to the State and National convention on an understanding that it will be bound by the unit rule. Its orators are to bow in submission, and to work zealously for the ticket when it is placed in domination. There will be no bolting, trading, or underhand work of any kind. In short, it is well settled th it Mr. Cleveland is to receive the full support, of the city and State of New York in the next Democratic National Convention in so far as Tammany and the County Democracy’ can have influence to that end. Whether Tammany is to get any anything for quietly submitting to the inevitable dpes not appear. When, where, and how the bargain is to be bound has not been made known.” The Anderson bill for the adjustment of the Kansas Railroad land grants is well up att he head -of tire Sena to calendar, bu tt he Public Lands Committee has so changed the original that it is hardly recognizable. .... The friends of the National Divorce Reform League are about to press again upon Congress the necessity for the passage of the measure providing for the collection of statistics relative to marriage and divorce in nil the Slates and Territories. The United States Circuit Court at St. Louis decided the case of the St. Louis, Kans is City and Colorado Road against the Wabash, permitting the former to enter the Union Depot over the Wabash tracks on the payment of a certain rental and other charges.

Ma. Ecstis introduced a bill in the Senate on the 13th inst. directing tho Secretary of the Treasury to pay :o tho respective owners of lands, houses, and tenements in the States lately in insurrecti n the sums of money received from leases or occupation ot such prop.-rty by a.euey of tho United Statrs and paid into the Treasury under the provisions of the a tof July 2, 1864. Mr. Wilson introduced a T>i IT almostTdeiitTi al with the one vetoefl by the Pres dent, to se tie titles to the Des Mo nps River Jan.is, and another to permit tho Silnta Fe Road to brjilgir the Mississippi betwo m Keokuk and Fort Merits n: Mr. Blown presented a measure providing a new basis for uatiofinl bank circulation Mr. Dawes, speaking to Mr. Morrill’s rcsolut on declaring the promise of making a proper revision of the tariff at t,lie present session obviously hopeless -und impracticable, said the advanced position of tho Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of the tariff caused apprehension and alarm in nil the great industries of the land. The industries of the country looked to tho Senate Finance Committee to formulate a method of bringing tbo receipts ot the Government down to tho lines of its expenditures: without impairing the development or prosperity of those industries or diminishing the compensat on of that labor. It was for that purpose that ho (Dawes) had introduced his resolution to that effect. Mr. Mcl’horson, replying to Mr. Dawes, said that there were hut two ways of disposing of tbo surplus rev< uue. One was extravagant appropriations and tho other was by a reduction of taxation. For himself he was in favor of the second alternative. He was in favor of a revision of the tariff which would not permit tlie accumulation of an annual surplus of 5103,000,000. He would imply to every industry tho same priiici] lo that lias been applied to the i’aterson (N. J.) silk-miinufacturing industry whose raw material was admitted free of duty, and who competed with the Lyons (France) manufacturers in their own city.- Why was not the same principle applied to the hatters of New York? If those 10.0 D operatives had their raw material free they would Hood the worth with cheap hats. That was the Democratic policy, the American p liev the policy which he wanted to see ingrafted in the next tariff bill, Ho_ was opposed to the starving of these lo,'>oo bat operatives .in New York in order to support fifty muskrat trappers on tbo shores of the Hackensack River. In tho House of Representatives bills wore introduced for the free coinage ot silver, for the leasing of unoccupied Indian lands, to enable the people to mime their own postmasters,to admit to the Uni >n the Territories of Dakota. Montana, Washington, and New Mexico, to prohibit tho appointment, of Congressional committees for funerals, to pension ruilvvAy' postal clerks incapacitated ui the service, opm/ to grant the franking privilege to inmates Of’ soldiers' homes. Mr. Lawler presented a resolution for the expenditure of a large proportion of the Treasury surplus in building war vessels and sea-coast defenses.

THE MARKERS.

NEW YORK. Beeve'-.... $4.50 & 5.25 H>os 4.00 (<44.75 Wheat—Nx 2 Spring .91 (<l .91 >4 No. 2Re d..i..90 0 .91 Corn—No. 2',48 <<» .49 Oats—White 35 & .42’4 Pork—New Mess 11.50 012.03 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 0 5.75 Good Shipping 3.75 0 4.50 Common 3.00 0 3.25 Hors—Shipping Grades 4.00 0 4.50 l'’i OCR—Extra Spring ,4.25 0 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 78 @ ,73'4 Corn—No 23‘> 0 .37 Of s-Jio. 2.... 26'4<« .27*4' .Choice Creamery 23 0 .26 Fin,e Dairylß 0 ,22 Chers Cream, Cheddar. .12 ;<n .Il's Pull Cream, new .12&0 .13jq T^s—2o 0 .22 1’ txt •?>—Choice, per bu 46 kc .50 Pu..l> —Mess 10.75 @11.25 MILWAUKEE. Wh AC—Ca 11.,77 0 .78 C R —No. 237 & .37'4 ■ Oats—No. 2 .... .26 «r .%l RTE—No.T.... 56 ■ @ .58 Pork—M ss 10.75 i<!11.00 TOLEDO. Webat—No. 2, 82 .B’l4 Cor ■ —Cash .39 © .39'2 Cars—No. 223 us .30 DETROIT. BEF.r Ca:TLE 4,00 0 5.25 Hots 3.00 0 4.50 S .l E? 4.00 0 s.ft) Wheat—Michigan Red .81 © .82 Coax—No. 239 © .40 Oats - No. 2 White ... >32 © .33 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2.... Corn—Mixed .? t. ; 6 0 .3314 Oats—Mixed..23 0 .29 l ore—New Mess..:., ILQO <311.50 CINCINNATI, - Wbevt—No. 2Red .81 0 .80 1 4 riNinX-;N0.3 ..38 0 Oats—No. 2 ...1... .33 :<# .31 Pork—ness..... 11.00 (<‘11.50, t LIVE H0g5,,.,.. -400 0 4.50 ; BUFFALO. XVnHAT —No. 1 Hard .91 0 791’4 C nx—No. 2 Y’ldiow44 rt .45 CaiTLE 4.00 0 4.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Bki-cf Cattle 3.00 0 4,50 lions• 3.75 0 4.53 SjtEEP 2-50 0 4.2> Wheat- 2 Bed .78 0 .79 Corn—No. 2. ; .......1........ .&> 0 .36 Oaxs 29 & -33 EAST LIBERTY. •• Cattle —Be-t 4-50 0 4.75 1 air 4.00 <<? 4.25 - Comm.n«.... 3.25 0 3.75 ... —4.00 0 4jO Sheet 3.54 S 4.3 J

THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

Annual Report of the Hon. William C Endicott, Secretary of War, The annual report of the Secretary of Wai Bbowa that the expenditures of the department for tho fiscal year ended Juno M, Ifißß, were $36,990,903, divided as follows : Salaries and cohtingent expenses, $1,99-2,469; military establishment, including transportation, $24,279,500; public works, $6,294,305; miscellaneous, $4,406,627. Aeurplus of 21,208,016 remained, unexpended, rho appropriations for the year efiding June 30, 1867, are $46,027,559, and the estimates for the year ending June 30, 1888, are $48.268.81>. The army at the date of tlie last consolidatad return consisted of 2,103 officers and -23,946 enlisted men. There are ten regiments es cavalry, five of artillery, and twenty-five of infantry. Of Indian scouts there ate 595, and 2,003 enlisted men are on detached service with recruiting parties, etc. The report gives in detail the changes and operations of tbo different divisions. 'The Indians are generally quiet, although tbo presence of troops is necessary to preserve pence and to prevent, especially in the Oklahoma country, the seizure of the land by settlers and its invasion and occupancy by herders ot cattle. The Secretary says : "There seems but little hope of improving this condition of things, in view of the avidity with which this fertile country is coveted by the settlers end the cattlemen, and the duty resting upon the Government to keep its agreements with the Indians, for whose benefit it has been set apart. Congress alone can give the needed remedy, and in tho interest Of good government it is earnestly hoped bv all who have executive duties to perform in'this Territory that speedy action will ba taken.” The Sacretary recommends that tha retired list bo increased so as to include all officers permanently incapacitated for active service. He also concurs in tho opinion of the Lieutenant General that the army be increased 5,000 men. It is suggested that Congress enact a law providing for examinations for promotions similar to those held in the navy. At the West Point Military Academy there are 3>9 cadets nna fifty>eight officers. The Superintendent favors the competitive system in tho selection of candidates for the academy. In discussing the report of the Engineer Bureau Secretary Endicott again calls attention to the utterly defenseless condition of our seacoast and lake frontier. He urges that appropriations should bo made and work begun at once to fortify the principal seaboard cities against attacks by water. The report says: “We have a single problem to solve in defending our cities ; how best to resist and silence the armored ships and the steel guns and mortars of -modern construction. It can only be accomplished by guns of equal’ force to those which any enemy can bring against us, and, by torpedoes or submarine mines laid in the navigable channels, both so guarded and protected that they can do efficient service when required. We have no gun now which can stop the progress of or do any material injury to a well-armored ship. The manufacture of a gun is a work of time, and of a long time, and cannot be extemporized when wanted. Torpedoes may be more quickly created, but still time and Money are needei for their construction. It has been said by a well-informed writer on the subject that it is a matter of doubt it we jrave on hand enough cables and cases to control with torpedoes tbo channels past Sandy Hook alone.” During the year the Springfield Armory manufactured 39,5’7 rifles, carbines, and shot-guns, besides repairing arms and manufacturing swords and miscellaneous articles. The Secretary expresses a hope that Congress, during its i resent session, will place the army on an equal footing with the navy in tho matter of the manufacture ot guns, and urges that the bill, which has already passed the Senate, to establish a gun foundry at the Frankfort Arsenal. be taken up and passed by the House. Ih conclusion, the re-port recommends the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of War, and that the salaries of the principal officers in the Secretary’s qffice be increased.

WM. T. PRICE.

The Late Congressman from the Eighth Wisconsin District. Congressman sVilliam Thompson Price, who died recently at his home at Black River Falls, YVis,, was born in Pennsylvania, June 17, 1824, and was bred a lumberman. In 1851 he emigrated to Wisconsin and engaged in the same business. He

Revenue. Since 1882 he has been the Representative of his dis'r'ct in Congress. Several interesting stories are told illustrative of the grit of the ex-Congressman. About thirty years ago Price shipped some pork from the North to La Crosse on the old War Eagle, which Captain Harris was running in a way to suit himse'.'f. The boat pulled up at La Crosse, and Price was anxious to unload his pork. In those days steamboat and dockmen were invariably ready for a fight. The Captain said he’d be damned if he was go n ' to hold his steamboat at La Crosse all day to unload a barrel of pork. Price declared that he would. Captain Harris signified his opposition by leading out with his right. Price pitched _in and gave the Captain a sound drubbing. When this was brought to a close Captain Harris said Pro was a pretty good man anyway, and he would hold the steamer there as long as Price wanted it. The river men never tackled Price again. Mr. Price had sent his son to college, and the young chap had a line education and soft white hands. Price said to him one winter: “Boy; I’m ’going to Washington, and want you to take charge of a lumber camp this winter.’’ Mrs. Price remonstrated, and argued that Piice. Jr., had now a fine educat on, and was just fitted nicely to go into society, and it would be a.pity to send him up into the WOOds. ■ ■■■ ’ “By , he’ll go up into the woods, Price, Sr., replied, determinedly, “and if he makes anything 111 give him a quarter . of.all he makes; if he don’t make anything Pit kick him out o’ doors.” So the young fellow started for the woods, and Price charged that camp up to profit and loss, depending upon his other foreman to make it up. When the season was over and Price returned, all his foremen reported with a better than average successful logging. The son reported, and bis figures showed that his camp had made title n per cent, more than any other. Mr. Price said: “Here, boy, you’ve done pretty well; 1 give yoa the whole thing. You can now take that camp for yourself, add see what you can make of it,” turning over to his son the entire outfit, including about eighty teams. The o’d gentleman especial delight in telling the story. “The boy has money of his owtrnow,” 'he said, “and he can go into society any•wheie.” -

Mme. Forget, daughter of . Mme. de Lavalette, died Oct. 23 List. It was leaning on her shoulder that Lavalette, under sentence of death for hiving joined Napoleon in 1815, made his escape from prison in his wife's dress. Josephine de Lavalette, as she was then called, wa> at that time 13 years of age. Her mother, who had remained in the cell iu order that her husband might escape, was not long detained in . captivity, but her mind never recovered from the strain which it then under .vent. It is said that a green turtle can livb six weeks without food. The turtle seems to be the Wtor creation.

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Among the new bills presented in the Senate on the <th inst. was one by Mr. Van Wyck to exempt from duty imported sugar and molasses, and also jinpurtcd boards, lumber, and timber. Senator Beck introduced a bill to provide for the retirement of United States legal-tender and national-bank notes ot small denominations, and for the issue of coin certificates. Senator Ingalls introduced two bills amendatory' of the pension laws: 11.) To increase tho pension for loss of an eye to S3O per month, and for partial loss of sight to a proportionate amount. 12.) To increase the pension for loss of one hand or foot, or for total disability of the same, to $35 per month; for loss of an arm within five inches of or above the elbow joint, or loss of a leg within six inches of or above the knee joint, or total disability of the same, to $lO per month, and for loss of an arm within six inches of tee shoulder joint to $45 per month. Senators Morrill and Dawes each introduced resolutions looking toward a revision of the tariff. The House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating $200,0W) for a cavalry and artillery school at Fort Reilly, and $175,000 for quarters at Forts D. A. Russell and Robinson. Mr. Cox, of New York, laid before the House a bill repealing the statute which authorizes two salaries, one to a Congressman and the Other to an officer such as a Minister.

Thk President transmitted to the Senate, on the Sth inst., a communication from the Secretary of State and correspondence relating to thk rights of American fishermen in the British North American water’; In his letter accompanying the documents tho I’res dent commends to the favorable consideration of Congress “the suggestion that a commission be authorized by law to take perpetuating proofs of the losses sustained during the last year by American fishermen, owin’ to their unfriendly and unwarrented treatment by the local authorities of the maritime provinces of the Dominion of Canada.” Memorials were presented in the Senate for a constitutional amendment ornpoweiiug Congress to pass a marriage and divorce law. against permi’ting aliens to possess large tracts of lands, and for legislation in behalf of the Chinese laborers. Bills were introduced for a monument to negro soldiers and sailors who died for the Union and to place on the retired list the name of General Alexander S. Webb. Resolutions were offered for information in regard to the oleomargarine traffic, for an inquiry into tho power of Congress to legislate for the protection of food fish in navigable waters, and to limit the price of gas in the District of Columbia. In the House of Represent itives, Mr. Boutelle, of Maine. a@ked for unanimous consent to pus upon Its passage a bill admitting free of dnty material to be used in rebuilding the town of Eastport, Me., which was destroyed by fire Oct. 14, 1886. Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, objected to the immediate consideration of the bill, expressing the opinion that the people of the country were as mnch in need of relief from taxation as the people of Eastport. He was glad to find the gentleman from Maine copfessing that the tariff was a tax, and he would insist that the bill should take the regular course and be sent to tho committ< e which had charge of the subject of taxation. The bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Menns. Mr. Dockery (Mo.), on bithalf of the Committee of Postoffices and Poet Roads, called up the bill extending the free-delivery system to towns having 10,000 population, and where the revenne of tho poetoffice amounts to “10.0C0 a year. Senator Sewell introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 9th inst., for the redemption of trade dollars and the recoinage of the same into standard silver dollars. Senator McMillan introduced a bill to authorize the construction of n bridge over the Red River of the North. The ■Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Morrill's resolution, which declares that the promise of ,making any revision of the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests appears so obviously hopeless and impracticable that any further attempts at revision by the .present Congress are to be regarded as inexpedient, and detrimental to tfae revival of the trade and industry of the country. Mr. Morrill said the Democratic candidate for President in 1884 would have been defeated but for the tariff plank in tho platform. He ridiculed Mr. Morrison’s schemes for a horizontal reduction of the tariff, and said that their effect could only be to let a flood of foreign productions pour in and overrun the American market Mr. Beck said that when the leader in the Senate on financial questions—-the Chairman of the Committee on Finance—pave out in advance, in a resolution and speech, that nothing could be done to improve existing conditions, it was like rallying his friends in advance in opposition to every movement. At the present rate of taxation the surplus revenue- -after all the public debt that was payable was paid—would be $125/XX),(DO a year. Therefore the Democratic President and Secretary of the Treasury demanded and insisted that the taxation on the people should be reduced. There was no other way to get clear of the surplus revenue honestly. It might be locked up in the treasury, but that meant bankruptcy. Extravagant appropriations might be indulged in, but that meant corruption; or a premium of 20, 30, 40, or 50 per cent, might be paid on bonds, but that meant extravagance ana swindling of the taxpayers for the benefit of the few mon who held the Government obligations, so that if the legislators were honest men and intended to deal honestly with the people they were compelled to reduce taxation to the point that would suffice for an economical administration pt the Government. That did not involve onv question of free trade. He (Beck( believed that with duties reduced to the necessities of the government the manufacturers of the United States could reach the markets of the world, and that the laboring men of the country could be employed twelve months of the year instead of five or six months as now, Mr. Sherman believed that tbo revenues collected were too large and that the public safety and the public interest demanded a careful reduction of taxation. There was no dispute between parties on that subject. But the Democratic party had been intrusted with the power of legislating in the House. They had promised in their national platform to reduce taxation, and to do it ip such a manner us not to injure tho industries of the country. But the trouble was that the Democrats could not agree among themselves. The propositions that had been made in the House hail been so diverse and various, and some of them had been so absolutely contrary to the interests of the county, that the party itself had revolted at them. In conclusion, he said that until the Democratic party could agree among th"mselvi s and could present to the Senate a plan by which the Democrats were willing to stand, they had no right to chide or complain of Republicans. When they would send the Senate a bill, the Senate would show thorn that it had tho power to reduce taxes, and the Senate, would projxjse a measure by which taxes might be . reduceil without crippling industrial or decreasing wages. The Senate adjourned to Monday, the 13th.

was elected to the L egi sTature the same year. He was elected to the State Senate in 1857, l«70, 1878 and 1880, and was Judge of Jackson County in 1854 and 1855, and ! afterward Under Sheriff and Collector of Internal

No business was transacted by the House of Representatives on the 13th inst. After the reading of the journal Mr. Campbell, of New York, announced with sorrow and regret the death of his colleague," Mr. Dowdney. and offered resolutions expressive of the regret with which the announcement of the death had been received by the House, and providing for a joint committee of the Senate and House to attend the funeral. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the House, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, aljourfied for the day. The Speaker appointed the following connpittoe to attend the funeral: Messrs. Campbell, Vielo, Merriman, and Muller, of New York, O’Neill of Missouri, Scranton of Pennsylvania, and Brady of Virginia A land forfeiture bill, restoring to the Government 38",090 acres in Michigan, granted in 1356 to the Ontonagon anl State Line Hoi road, pissed the House without division on the 11th ins:. The lands have valuable pine, and are now claimed by the Ontonag n an l Brule River Railroad Company. Tue t n yenrs within which the roa t that had got the land grant expire I in 1866 and not a stio e of work had b ee done. Tn 1880 tlie p.-eseut corporation wus formed, and an attempt made to confer upon it the forfeited gran', lue Public Lands C mimittee, however, basid its roco mnendation chiedy on the ground that any grant made by the tato lifter the expirStrbn oftae ten years would necessarily have boon subject to tlae right of the United Sta es at any time to dec'»re a forfeiture: The House also- passed a bill ext n ling the iSws of the United states over the publi ■ Tahd strip south of Kansas anl throwing the region open to homestead entries Jeweler —“What kind of a chain would you like ?” Young Man—“ Well, I don't know, hardly. What kind of a ch a n do you think I Ought to have? That is, what style would you think would be the most becoming for a young man what carries groceries to some of the best families in town ?" ' . The clock pendulum of Avignon, France, the longest known, measures sixty-stven feet, earri< s a weight of 132 pounds, and swings through an arc of between nine and tea feet in four and a half seconds, r— — < —?