Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1889 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

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.