Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Georgia is about to pension the widows of her confederate soldiers. ' Two girls lost their lives in a rag and Junk house fire at Albany, N, Y., Monday. The garrison at Fort Adams in Narragansett Bay captured a large whale Saturday. j, _ Three thousand children can’t go to school at Chicago because they have no shoes. Slight earthquake shocks visited the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa., Tuesday night. The President has appointed C. Warmouth Collector of Customs for‘"New Orleans. Joel S. Ordway, a farmer of Concord, N. H., was robbed of 19,500 by shrewd swindlers. - A valuable find of silver ore is said to have been found in the Allegheny Mount ains near Connellsville, Pa. The reported burning of a negro at the stake near Monticello, Ky., last week is finally authoritatively denied. The miners at Braidwood, ill., are again dissatisfied, the cause now being a demand for nine and a half hour’s work. Eighty thousand people, Thursday, witnessed the sham battle of North Point (1814) i at Pimlico, a suburb of Baltimore. \ Johnstown’s new directory shows that thirty six groceries and fifty-one saloons have been established since the flood. The body of a woman,horribly mutilated, was found in White Tuesday. It is believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper. Elison Hatfield has been sentenced to be hanged December 3 for the murder of | Alfaro McCoy in Logan county; West Virj ginia. Arrangements have just been made with 1 the Indians whereby 4,000,000 acres of land j in Northern and Central Dakota will soon be opened up for settlement. A very heavy storm has been prevailing ; at sea for several days, says a telegram of Tuesday. Incoming vessels are anxiously awaited that its extent may be known. Hon. Chas. F. Griffin, Secretary of State (Indiana) was Thursday elected Comi mander in Chief of the Sons of Veterans at the National Encampment at Paterson, New Jersey. Miss Clara 8011, of Canton,O., Thursday, had two buttons removed from her nostrils which had found lodgment there since infancy. She labored under the delusion that she had catarrh. ■ Mrs. John A. Logan, in an interview, strongly indorses her son’s action in refus- | ing to forward his father’s picture to the l Murat Halstead Club, of Cincinnati. She says that trouble with Halstead was the last thing that vexed General Logan’s mind. At a meeting of Methodist ministers in Chicago Bishop Newman, in discussing the i race problem, said there was more to be i feared from the invasion of -the North by | ignorant foreigners than from- the outnum- ] bering of the whites by the blacks in the j South. FOREIGN. f During the past few days twelve persons r* have died from trichinosis in the town of lEisleben, Prussian Saxony. Eighteen ? Dthers are reported to be dying from the / same disease. | The first blood shed in the great London l strike was spilled Wednesday, when the K police fired upon a crowd of strikers who b were obstructing the loading of a vesssel I and fatally wounded one man.

DEATH OF A WITTY MAN.

The Hon. Sunset (S. S.) Cox, tlie Congressman, Called to His Long Home. The Hon. Samuel Sullivan (Sunset) Cox died at his homo in New York, Tuesday. He was attended in his last moment by his wife, physician, nurses, two servants and two close personal friends. He breathed his-lastr as peaeefnMv as if : falling'lnto a' light sleep. Mr. Cox’s last conversation [was afioiTF”the four Territories, whose [statehood he wished to father. He mentioned New Mexico and Arizona, and said something about making a great effort in their behalf at the coming session. Two hours before he died his colored servant, who had just come on from Washington, went to the bed, and Mrs. COx asked her husband if he recognized him. Ho looked' at him and patted him on the shoulder. The colored man’s eyes filled with tears, while all were deeply affected. In the afternoon, while Dr. Lockwood was talking to him, Mr. Cox made some witty remark which completely upset the Doctor’s dignity. Mr. Cox was born at Zainesvllle, Ohio," September 30, 1824. He graduated from Brown University in 1846. He studied law, ; and entered into its practice but did not like it. He ‘ made a tour abroad And told the., story in “A Buckeye ’Abroad.” In 1853 he became editor of the Ohio Statesman at Columbus. In 1855 he was appointed Secretary of Legation to /Peru, and on his return was elected to the j Thirty-fifth Congress, and was returned to j the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and ThirI ty-eighth Congresses. In 1864 he was defeated by the Republican candidate and removed to New York. He here wrote his “Eight Years in Congress.” He traveled for some time. In 1868 he was elected to Congress from a New York City district, and succeeded himself the term following. In 1872 he Was defeated, but was soon after called to fill a seat made vacant by death. He was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was appointed Speaker pro tempore June 7, 1876, and appointed Speaker June 19,1876, serving until June 24. He was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Fortyninth Congresses, and resigned to become Minister to Turkey. This position he »<«» resigned and again took his seat in the Forty-ninth Congress, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer. He was re-elected to the' Fiftieth Congress, and again to the Fifty-first. He was a favorite both among Republicans and Democrats. His sobriquet of “Sunset” was won by a piece of descriptive writing which appeared in the Ohio Statesman in 1853, and was entitled a “Great Old Sunset” His death will be universally mourned.

POLITICAL.

The National Greenback Party met at Cincinnati Thursday, in masse convention. Geo. A. Juries of New York,made a lengthy address from which were gathered the fact that the Greenback party believes in the payment of the public debts according to the original contracts under which they were contracted, carrying on needed public improvements, encouraging an American merchant marine, aiding the manufacture of American cotton and the material at home and their export abroad; limiting the debts of railroads, telegraphs and other public corporations; the owning of all land by the American government, by Ameri can citizens, or by those who declare their intention to become such; private land ownership to be limited to occupation and use, and corporate ownership to be a sufficient amount only for the convenient operation of its property; restoring a true spirit of fraternity and nationality among the whole American people through a currency that would make all alike loyal to the government by being all alike interested in its money, and in keeping its volume at such an amount as would always secure good wages for labor, good prices for its products, and uniform business prosperity. G. Thomas of Kentucky was made temporary chairman, and T. J. Sharp Of fndiana, Secretary. The attendance was small. The platform reaffirms the third and fourth resolutions of the Democratic National Convention of 1868, pertaining to the method and time of payment of the National debt, and to equal taxation of property. It also declares that all laws changing the time or manner of the paymcnt of the public debt since 1865 are expost facto laws, and should be repealed; that all legal-tender notes now outstanding should be immediately exchanged for others of like denomination, to be issued with the words “Promise to pay” stricken from their face, one an additional amount issued to reclaim arid lands, subsidize an American merchant marine, to build an American navy, to erect public buildings, etc., until their volume in circulation shall amount to at least 850 per capita of the entire population; that indications point to a greater financial panic in the near future than this country, or the world, ever before saw, unless wise and immediate provision be made for a vast amount of money to sustain the people’s tottering confidence; that the time has come when all sectional prejudice between the people of the north and south should end. The committee organized as follows: Col. Geo. O. Jones, Chairman; Lee Cranhall, Vice-Chairman; T. J. Sharp and Wm. Richards, Secretaries The Chairman and Vice-Chairman are authorized to formulate a plan of operations. Leon Abbett was nominated for Governor by the Democrats of New Jersey, Tuesday. The convention indorsed the tariff record of ex-Presidcnt Cleveland. Senator Sherman was welcomed home, from his European trip fey his Ohio Republican friends at Washington, Friday night. Ex-Senator Riddleberger is on the stump in Virginia for the whole Democratic ticket. „■

FRESH PENSION STATISTICS.

A statement prepared at the Pension Bureau shows that on June 36, 1885, there were 345,725 pensioners on the rolls, June 30,1889, 489,725, an increase of 144,600. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, the appropriations for pensions were $76,886,846 and the payments $64,972,848. For the year ended June 30, 1889, tho appropriations were $80,473,066 and the payments $88,275.113. For the current year ending June 30, 1890, the appropriations are the same—sßo,473,(XX). In July and August there were advanced to pension agents on requisitions •$34,700,000, while the amount distributed by the agents in the same months was $11,486,205. > The statement says that “more than half of the disbursements were in payment of cascs altowed' during the preceding fiscal year, and not paid then because of a deficiency in the appropriation, making it necessary to pay these claims out of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1890. “This accounts in every particular for apparent increase in the payment of pensions during July and August, 1889.” In July and August of last year there was advanced to agents on requisitions $24,800,000, and they were paid out in payment of pensions $4,840,577,

Flies Scatter Contagion.

Since the recognition that in many diseases the infective principle is particulate, the possible means of conveyance of the virus, from one to another individual have widened. Attention has lately been recalled to the part which may conceivably bo played in this direction by the agency of the house-fly. Our contemporary, the Liverpool Mercury, reminds us that the granular ophthalmia of the shores of the Nile—a true pleaguo of Egypt—has been shown to be propagated -through this medium; and has farther alluded to the discovery of Dr. Alessi that the bacillus tuberculosis may exist in the intestines of flies which have been feeding oh phthisical sputa. Indeed. it would appear that there is hardly any direction, either in our mode of living, eating or enviroment, whereby we can avert the possibility of the transference to ourselves of this übiquitous bscillus, and life would become intolerable were it not for the well-grounded belief that phthisis is not dependent for its development upon this microbe solely, but upon the concurrence of many conditions of almost, if not quite as much importance as its implantation in the body. Apropos of flies, however, it has been stated that the lamented Father Damien attributed bis leprosy to the inoculation, through their agency, of an abrasibn in the scalp.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jeffersonville wants a ball clnb. Robbers are over-running Cnawfordsville. The Seymour water works have been given a satisfactory test. D. C. Elliott, a wealthy and prominent business man of Logansport, dropped dead Thursday. A quantity of spurious coin with dies for making the same were found, Tuesday, in -the residence of D. D. Rheinhardt, near Ft. Wayne. During the months of June, July and August Steuben county paid nearly 8400 premium for woodchuck scalps. Total number of scalps presented, 2,547. The Frankfort School Board, which is entirely Republican, refuses to adopt or use the new school books, and legal proceedings are talked of to eompel it to do so. Jesse H. Carpenter, ( of Angola, has written a history of the soldiers of Steuben county, the entire proceeds from the sale of which will be donated toward building a soldiers’ monument at Angola. The preliminary work has commenced in the erection of a bridge to span the Ohio River between Louisville and Jeffersonville. The channel span of the proposed structure will be 650 feet in length. A boiler in the California sash, door and blind factory, at Oakland, exploded Tuesday afternoon, killing four men outright and injuring several others, two probably fatally. Two others are supposed to be buried in the ruins. John Wolf, an old citizen, near Colburn, was singularly and fatally injured Monday. His brother, Jefferson Wolf, was on top of a load of straw, and undertook to reach down a jug of water. In doing so his fork slipped off and the tine entered John’s right’s eye, following the optic nerve and piercing the brain. While James Zoller, of Greensburg, was crossing the English Channel several months ago he tossed overboard a bottle in which was a note requesting the finder to return the same to himself at Greensburg, Ind., IL S. A. A Frenchman living off the coast of Holland found the bottle and complied with the request. A gang of cloth swindlers have been doing the merchants of Angola with surprising success. Their mode of operation is to take orders for certain dry goods at very low prices, providing the merchants buy a specified amount of their patent cloaking material. The latter article proves to be a very excellent imitation, wherein lies the fraud. Indiana Patents—George H. Asire, South Bend, steam boiler; Homer W. Case, South Bend, body for drays; Will H. Donner, Columbus, signal for mills; Windfield O. Gunckel, Terre Haute, revolving coal screen; Bearard K. Koopman, Terre Haute, last; Francis T. Lamont, Ft. Wayne, road scraper; Wm. H. Oberne, Fort Wayne, mast arm. It is reported that D. J. Mackey, backed by a powerful syndicate, has purchased the Cincinnati, Wjabash & Michigan Road, paying 81,717,000 for a controling interest in the stock. The new road which Mackey is building from Evansville to Richmond will need but a link of thirty miles between Anderson and Rushville to connect it with theC. W. &M. Mrs. Angelo Rusconi, said to be one or the richest women in Kentucky, was frightened to death by a “ghost” that walked nightly in a store at Bellevue, Ky. Mrs. Rusconi went to see the specter, and when it appeared she dropped dead. A thorough investigation proved the ghostly visitor to be the reflection from an electric light some distance away. While Mrs. J. M. Foreman, near Grantsburg, was in a corn field on her husband’s farm, gathering beans, John Johnson, who was out squirrel hunting, heard a rustling as he crept between the rows, and, thinking that a ground hog or other vermin was preying on the corn, he let drive with a shot gun. Twenty-seven shot took effect in the body of Mrs. Foreman and she was desperately wounded. zziz ... Some months ago Miss Grace Moore, daughter of W. H. Moore, of Youngstown, 0., and H. P. Nichols, of Richmond, eloped, but were overhauled at Fort Wayne by the father of the girl, and she returned to her home. This week the parties again eloped, but were captured at Winchester before a magistrate could be found to marry them. Mr. Moore claims that the wouldbe groom is already a married man. Isaac C. Howell, a farmer residing six miles southeast of Liberty, is the victim of lightning rod sharpers. The parties who worked this ancient racket claimed to be from Dayton, 0., and gave the names of Morgan and Cole. They told Mr. Howell that they wished to rod his house “merely as an advertisement in the neighborhood,” and, on that account, would do it at a trifling expense. He gave them his order with 820 in advance. The “order” now turns up in the shape of a note for 8280. Lycurgus Dalton, postmaster of the House of Representatives, will remove with his family back to his old home, at Bedford, Ind., as soon as a Republican or ganization relieves him of his official duties. Mr. Dalton has been postmaster of the House during the past th.ee Congresses. Prior to that time, for some years, he had charge of the stationery department of the Senate. He has conducted hia official positions and social stations in such a way as to win friends among Republicans and Democrats alike. At the last sitting of the Grand Jury, Harry S. New, of the Indianapolis Journal declined to answer certain questions propounded to him by the State’s Attorney, and a complaint in contempt was filed against him. The complaint charged that Mr. New refused to give the name of the person or persons from whom was obtained information published in the Journal regarding alleged gambling.at the Insane Hospital, and for this he was cited to appear before the court to answer to the charge of contempt The court, on passing on the charge, said: “The Grand Jury gives no rersons why Mr. New refuses to answer the questions asked him, and there is nothing brought’to the knowledge ol this court save what is set out in this paper and, the court Is referred to the article published in, the Indianapolis Journal on the date mentioned. I have read the article as printed, and In my opinion, it is very doubtful if there is any chargg in the

article that any one connected with tire asylum has committed a crime. If no crime is charged to have been committed, the question is clearly an impertinent one, and the witness need not answer it. The Grand Jury has as much right to ask who furnished the information on which any other article was printed. I have not thought it necessary to go into the question as to the alleged privileged character of any communication made to the editor or reporter of a newspaper. It is not necessary to decide that question, as it is not involved in this case. This decision will be of interest to newspaper men all over the country.

TANNER RESIGNS.

Radical Differences with Secretary Noble Causes a Vacancy In the Pension Commissionship. President Harrison Wednesday received the resignation of James W. Tanner as Commissioner of Pensions; In his letter conveying the resignation ijt is said the commissioner writes that he recognizes that differences exist bet veen himself and the Secretary of the Interior respecting the administration of the Pension Bureau, and those differences being radical, in the interest of a thoioughly satisfactory administration of the office, he should resign. Serious differences arose between Secretary Noble and Commissioner Tanner over questions concerning the administration of the Pension Bureau, but not in any wise affecting the Commissioner’s personal character, in the sense of imputing any corruption in his acts. These matters related principally to reratings of the bureau and others, and to certain statements credited to the Commissioner in interviews and speeches. Secretary Noble is reported to have said that the President must decide which one of the two he would retain in his present position—the Commissioner or himself. The following is Commissioner Tanner’s letter of resignation and President Harrison’s reply thereto: Department of the Interior, j Bureau of Pensions, >■ Washington, D. C., September 12, ’B9. j To the President: The differences which exist between the Secretary of the Interior and myself as to the policy to be pursued in the adminis tration of the Pension Bureau have reached a stage which threatens to embarrass you to an extent which I' feel you should not. be called upon to suffer- and as the investigation into the affairs of the Bureau has been completed, and I am assured, both by yourself and by the Secretary of the Interior, contains no reflection on my integrity as an individual or as an officer. I herewith place my resignation in your hands to take effect at your pleasure, to the end that you may be relieved of any further embarassment in the matter. Very respectfully yours, James Tanner, Commissioner. Executive Mansion, Washington, September 12,1889. u_^ Hon. James Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions: Dear Sir— Your letter tendering your resignation of the offire of the Commissioner of Pensions has been received and your resignation is accepted, to take effect on the appointment and qualification of your successor. Ido not think it neccessary, in this correspondence, to discuss the causes which have led to the present attitude of affairs in the Pension Office. You have been kindly and fully advised, of my views upon most of these matters. It gives me pleasure to add that so far as I am advised your honesty has not at any time been called in question, and I beg to renew the expression of my personal good will. Very truly vours, Benjamin Harrison. The following statement of the beginning and end of the Tanner difficulty is official and. thoroughly verified in evefiy respect: Before his departure from Washington .. for his vacation trip Secretary Noble, on several occasions, spoke to the President about the course of Commissioner Tanner and his clerks in tfie matter of re-rating pensions, and also in relation to unguarded remarks which the Comm is sioner had made from time to time. The President was inclined to defend Mr. Tanner, and he did so several times. Re eently Mr. Tanner made speeches at Elmira, Chautauqua and Milwaukee which called forth strong protests from prominent Republicans. Directly after the Milwaukee incident Secretary Noble returned to this city, determined to bring the Tanner matter to a climax. He put his views before the President in a very positive manner, and intimated that he would retire from the Interior Department if Mr. Tanned was continued in office much longer. On Tuesday Senator Hiscock, of New York, who had been talking with the President about the matter, and who had learned from him that it was likely to come to a climax, went to Commissioner Tanner, without authority from the President, however, and said that the Commissioner had better resign his office, as, if he did not he wonld be removed. From this grew the report that he had been asked for his resignation. Wednesday evening Daniel Ransdell called on Tanner in a personal capacity, he said, and suggested that the Commissioner would better relieve the President of the difficulty in which he found himself placed by resigning. As a result of this interview Ransdell carried the resignation away in his pocket Thurday Mr. Tanner was given leave of absence until his successor was appointed and he retired from the position.

SEVENTY-FIVE NEGROES DEAD.

The Latest from the La Flore and Tallahatchie County, A dispatch from Cotfeerille, Mias., Thursday says: The trouble in La Flore and Tallahatchie counties, which was sujß posed to have been settled, is yet menacing. The latest reports from those counties estimate the total number of dead negro in surrectionists at seventy-flvc. A reunion of Mississippi soldiers wai held at Winona Monday, at which speeches were made by Senators Walthall and George, in which they warned the people of the South abounding haatyln dealing with the negro, and anticipating furthei aCfKftis trtume tntirmi rSce » the delta.

STORMS AT SEA.

Wrecks AH Along the Atlantic Coast—A Veritable Cyclone. The storms on the Atlantic on the9th,lotk and 11th are shown by the later reports to have been very disastrous. Reports from along the Jeqfev shore show wrecks everywhere, sixteen between Barnegat lighthouse and Sandy Hook. Dispatches from New York on the 13th say# The vessels at anchor along the South street piers have the appearance of having passed through a veritable cyclone. The rigging of many of the craft was torn into shreds, and bars and masts were disman- . tied, while the waves beat with great fury against the vessels’ sides, even as theyiay at their piers. A Lewes <Del.) special says: There are seventeen sails ashore, with a. full score more fast drawing upon the breakers. The crews of sixteen of the wrecked vessels are now at the Virgin House being cared for. A three-masted schooner is ashore just outside the innpr harbor and is fast going to pieces, with the crew of ten clinging to the rigging. The lines which the brave life-saving crew have shot over her are tangled in such a manner as to make it impossible to send out the car. No human power can save the sailors. If the wind continues blowing as it now is for ten hours, not a, sail of the sixty remaining ill the harbor will be . Afloat. ' . — : Advices from the Delaware Breakwater state that it was the most furious storm known to the oldest inhabitants. At least two score vessels are now beached; Both wooden piers were washed away. The beach from Rehoboth to Lewes is strewn with wrecks. It is thought at least fifty lives were lost. Men were seen clingiug to the rigging of the fast sinking vessels frantically calling for help. The life-sav-ing crew were powerless to render assistance owing to the fury of the gale. It was a terrible sight to witness, but no human power could save them. Their bodies were washed ashore and were buried in the. sand along the water. The loss to vessel property at Breakwater will reach,it is thought, $5,000,000. The hotels, bath houses and cottages at Ocean City, Md., were destroyed. The dwellers on the beach were rescued with great'difficulty. The damage is very heavy. Fifteen houses were washed"away at Sea Isle City, including four of the hotels. At Long Branch the surf ran so high that it " JEashed-theoutw>efid' of-the--grotft ocean pier- and-tossed its foam and. spray two hundred feet inland. The bluff has again been badly damaged and it will cost fully $170,000 to repair it. Bathing houses and beach pavillions were washed away. All along the coast comes similar stories. It was one of the heaviest and most destructive storms known and the damage to property will amount to many millions of dollars. The storm struck the El Mar from New Orleans to New York, about a mile north of Cape Hatteras. From that time until she almost reached Sandy Hook, she steamed in th| teeth of a most terrific storm. Heavy waves lashed the sides of the steamer and broke clear over her deck. At one time the waves rose clear to the tops of her smokestacks, which stand forty-five feet out of the water. The smokestacks looked like gigantic frosted cakes as she came into the harbor. They were covered with salt. Capt. E. A. Horton and first, officer B. A. Betf.ofc stated that the storm was the most terrible one they had witnessed during the past four teen years. At times they could not see the ship’s length. All in coming vessels report similar experiences. The storm on the Atlantic continued Thursday, with unabated fury. The loss to shipping is becoming more serious hourly, and the loss of life, when the facts be l came known, arc likely to prove appalling.

NEWS FROM STANLEY.

Henry M. Stanley is marching toward - Mcnrrtrasßa; after fighting his’way’/EHrbigh the hostile country of the Urnjoro and Ugande tribes and conquering lEenatives. Ho has established the authority of the British East Africa Company over the Up!per Nile to the east coast. It is doubtful if Emin Pasha, to whose relief the Stanley expedition was originally sent, is accompanying Stanley to the coast.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Sept. 16,1889. ‘ " GRAIN. ~~—— — | Wheat, j Corn. Oats. Eye Indianapolis.. 2 r’d 75 1w 35 2w 23 ........ .. 3 r’d 71 2ye 31% Chicago 2 r’d 77 33% 18% Cincinnati 2 r’d 76% 35% 21% 46 St. Louis 2 r’d 76% 30 18 38 New York 2 r’d 83% 43 26 Baltimore 78% 40% 26 50 Philadelphia. 2 r'd 79% 42 26% Clovei . .» Seed Toledo Detroit Iwh 81 34% 22 ........ >. ' . : .1 Minneapolis ; 77 Liverpool LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Export grades ..|4.ls<®4.v* Good to choice shippers.—;;;;;.. 5.50<&t.00 Common to medium shippers.... 2.50(23 25 Stockers, 500 to 850 lb 1.755>2.50 Good to choice heifers 2.25(32.85 Common to medium heifers 1.30RK1.10 Goods to choice cows 2.20(32.50 Fair to medium c0w5.....'. 1.60(22.00 Hoos— Heavy 3.90(^4.15 Light...........vr..... .......... 4.30(^4.45 Mixed 4.15(g}4.25 Heavy roughs 3.25(33.75 Sheep—Good to choice.. 4.20(&4.50 Fair to medium,.., ......... 3.65(34. 10 Common 3,25(23 75 Lambs, good to choice...;.. 8.50(^5.25 Common to medium.... 3.50(5i5.50 Bucks, per head 2.00(53.50 MISCELLANEOUS. Pork 11 30 j il 40 j 11 ST Lard 6 50 5 87 5 *5 Bibs 5 12 | i 4 90 5 13 MISCELLANEOUS. Wool—Fine merino, washed 33(338 unwashed medum 20(328 . very coarse.... 17@3C EGGS BUTTEH, POL'LTBT. Eggs . .14c Hens per ®7;7r~Tc Butter, creamery 18c Roosters 3e Fancy dairy 13c Turkeys w —fit ( hoice country... 10c Ffeatbera...... ...»

Taking the Census. There is do branch of the government that bo accurately reflects the mind of its head as does the census office, says the Washington Post, and seldom has a work of a tenth of its magnitude been undertaken with so f little restriction in discretionary power jas that devolving upon the superintendent of the census. He is absolutely free in the selection of hia assistants, whom he chooses with respect to their qualifications for the duties they are to perform, and his great work ends only when he shall say it is Complete, and will involve an expeniture of not piore than $6,400,000, exclusive of the post of prin ting, engraving, and binding, whereas the cost of the tenth census was restricted to $3,000,000. The army of 40,000 employes will be in the field in June, 1890, .every member doing exactly the same work at the same time, the active labor of enumeration being embraced within a few weeks. There is no other country that has ever undertaken so massive a census work, and the United States may easily be placed at the head of the nations bf the world in the perfectness of bar elaboration of this important function of the government, it xs no exaggerar tion to state that the schedules of inquiries oi any one of the fifty subjects of investigation embrace a number of inquiries of the schedules of most other countries, and especially does this comparison hold in the case ol Great Britain. The fact that the census of England is taken in a night has often been the subject of newspaper comment in this country, but when the character of this work is known it will be seen that there is nothing remarkable in the feat and that the results are in keeping with the time employed. The ceasus of England involves merely a household schedule that can be answered in an evening by the head of a family and is left at the places of residence by police officers, who are employed to do this work by the British government, and who call (or the lists the following morning. In this manner the census is, technically speaking, taken in a night. It would be folly to leave the schedule containing all the items of information required by the United States at the homes of the people to be answered, as In hardly one case in ten would even an attempt be made to answer it. Then she police forces of this country could not be called upon for this work, as their maintenance is here borne by the various cities, villages, and counties, whereas in England the general government pays half the expenses of all the police forces and controls them completely.

The house-to-house count of the inhabitants which will be pursued by the 40,000 enumerators on the first Monday of next June will be attended by an inquiry of the age, sex, nativity, race, physical condition, and all the facts relating to the people. For this purpose the country has been distributed into 175 census districts, for each of which there will be appointed a supervisor by the president next spring, whose duty it will be to subdivide his districts into what are called enumerators’ districts. The salary paid the supervisors will be |125 per month and in addition thereto $1 for every 1,000 of the population of thickly settled districts and $1.40 for sparsely settled districts. ■ These supervisors cannot be paid less than SSOO, their average earnings probably amounting to about $850,which includes an allowance for clerical services. The enumerators will be paid 2 cents for every inhabitant, the same for each birth and death reported, 20 cents for each farm, and 30 cents for establishments of productive industry recorded by them, to which is added 5 cents for every veteran of the late war whose name goes on their lists. The law permits the superintendent, with the approval of the secretary of the interior, to withdraw certain schedules relating to special matters from the enumerators and commit the same to the charge of special agents employby tiie superintendent for this purpose. These special agents are paid per diem and will be employed in 1890 as in 1880 collecting statistics of manufactures in all cities with a population exceeding 5,000 inhabitants throughout the country. In this manner the enumerators are relieved of some of the more important schedules of the lists and the vital work of the census facilitated. Having subdivided his district the supervisor’s duty is to nominate suitable persons for enumerators, whose appointment is made by the superintendent These enumerators are allowed fifteen days in which to complete their work, when it is confined to cities and - towns, and thirty days when it extends into rural districts. The schedules, when they are answered, are returned to the supervisor, who examines them and makes up the count in his district, then forwarding the same to Washington. In 1880 the first schedules to be returned to this city were from Philadelphia, they being followed by the papers from Brooklyn. Upon the receipt of these schedules the great work of tabulation begins, separate lists being made of all the branches of information which the census will show, such as race, nativity, etc. The potato is said to be deteriorating, but it made many a mash in its better days.— Terre Haute Express.