Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — Page 7

CONSIDER THE YEARS.

“Tim* Was, Time Is, But Time Shall be No More.” Clirftn ologj of the Bible Not Impeached— Evolution of the Almanac—Dr, Talmoge’s Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: “The Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries,” Text: Deuteronomy xxxii, 7 —“ Consider the years of many generations.” He said: At 12 o’clock last night, while so many good people were watching, an old friend passed out of our home and a stranger entered. The old friend making valedictory was 1892; the stranger arriving is 1893. The old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranger put his finger over his lip and said nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and mysteries. I did not see either the departure or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for me the best way to be wide awake now. Goodbye, mm We make a distinction between time and eternity, but time is only a piece of eternity, and chronology has been engaged in the' sublime work of dividing up this portion of eternity that we call time into compartments and putting events in their right compartments. As God puts all the events of time in the right place, let us bo pureful that we do not put them in the wrong place. The chronology of the Bible takes six steps, but they are steps so long it makes us hold our breath as we watch the movement. From Adam to Abraham, v From Abraham to the exodus out of Egypt. From tec exodus to the foundation of Solomon’s temple. From the foundation of Solomon’s temple to the destruction of that temple. From the destruction of the temple to the roturn from Babylonish captivity. From Babylonish captivity to the birth of Christ. Chronology takrs pen and pencil, and calling astronomy and history to help, says: us fix one event from which to calculate everything. Let it be a star, the Lethlehem star, the Christmas star.” And from that we go back and see the world was created 4,004 years before Christ; the deluge came 2,348 years before curved 1,491 years before Christ, and Solomon’s Temple was destroyed 586 years before Christ. Chronology enters the book of Daniel and says that the words “time and a half” mean a year and a half; Chronology enters at another point and shows us that the seasons of the year were then ouly two —summer and winter, We find that the Bible year w,ns 360 days, instead of 365; that the day was calculated from 6 o’clock in the morning o’clock at night. Ahnat had a sundial, or a flight of stairs with a colump at the top, and the shadow which that column threw on tho steps beneath indicated the hour, the shadow lengthening or withdrawing from step to step. It was r.ot until the fourteenth century* that the almanac was born —the almanac that we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it look the accumulated ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to make one. Chronology had to bring into its service the monuments of Egypt, and the cylinders of Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon, and the pottery of Nineveh, and the medals strade at Antioch for the batt o of Actium, and all the hieroglyphics that could be deciphered and hr/.l to go into the extremely delicate business of asking the ages of Adam and Seth, and Enoch and Metlmsaleh, who, after their 300th year, wanted to be considered young, Tho old Bible year began with the 25tli of March- Not, until 1752 did the first of the month of January get the honor in legal documents in England of being called the first day of the year It is something to thank God for that tho modes arc so complete for. calculating the cycles, the centuries, the decades, tho years, the months, the days, the hours, the seconds. Think of making appointments, as in the Bible days, far the time of the new moon. Think of making one of tho watches of the night in Bible times u rooster’s crowing. The Bible says: ‘"Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.” “If the Master comoth at cockerowing,” and that was the way the midnight watch was indicated. The crowing of the barnyard fowl lira always been most uncertain. Compare these modes of marking time with our modes of marking time, whoa 12 o’clock is 12 o’clock, nud 6 o’clock is 6 o’clock, and 10 o’clock is 10 o’clock, and independent of all weathers, and then thank God that you live now. If vot: can prove au .alibi in the courts, and you cau prove beyond doubt that you were in souk; particular place at the time you were charged with doing or saving something in quite another place, you gain the victory, and infidelity lias to prove an alibi by contending that events and circumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain times must hutfe taken place at some other time, if they took place at all. But tins book’s chrOn ilcgy has never been caught at fault. It hus been proved that when tho Hebrews wqn*t into Egypt there were only seventy of , them, and that when they came out there were 3,000,000 of them. But, ray skeptical friend, hold a moment. The Bible says the Jews were 430 years id Egypt, and that

explains the increase from seventy persons to 3,000,000, for it is no more, but rather less, than the ordinary Jncrease of nations. Inside ity wroqg and Bible chronology right. Now stop and reflect. Why is it that this sublime subject 6f Bible chronology dos- been so neglected, and that the mdst of you have never given ten minutes to the consideration of it, and that this is the first sermon ever preached on this stupendous and overwhelming theme? What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of all our American capitals, while mayors and governors and presidents, with uncovered heads, looked on| But put all- those grand reviews together, and they are tame compared with the review which on this New Year’s day*you from the jpew and I from the pulpit witness. Hear them pass in) chronological order— all the y ears before the flood; all the years since tho flood; decades -abreast; centuries abreast; epochs abreast; millenniums abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian populations. Assyrian dominions, armies of Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic host, crusaders of the first, the secoud, third and the last —avalanche of men; Dark Ages in somber epaulets and brighter ages with shields of silver and helmets of g*ld Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Gprmanv, England and America, past and present dynasties, feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, re : publics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing today iu a chronological review, until one has no more power to look upon the advancing columns, now brilliant, now squalid, now garlanded with peace, now crimson with slaughter, now horfid with ghastliness. now radiant with love and joy. This chronological study affords among many practical thoughts especially two—the one encouraging to the last degree and the other startling. The encouraging thought is that the main drift of the centuries has been toward betterment, with only here and there a stout reversal. Grecian civilization was a vast improvement on Egyptian civilization, and ■ Roman civilization a vast improvement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a vast improvemeat on Roman eivitization. Nothing impresses me in this chronological review' more than the regiments of years aro better and better regiments as the troops move 1557 I thank God that you aifdl were not born any sooner than we were born. How could we have endured the disaster of being born in the Eighteenth or Seventeen th or Sixteenth century? Glad am I that we are in the regiment now passing the reviewing stand and that our children will pass the stand in a still better regiment. God did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. But the other.thought coming out of this subjecLis that Biblical chronology. andiindeed all chronology, is urging the world to more punctuality and immediateness. What an unsatisfactory and indefinite thing it must have been for two business men in the time of-Abaz to make an appointment, saying, “We will settle that business matter to-morrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz readies the tenth step from the top,” or, “I will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus in the time of the new moon,” or when asked in a courtroom what time an occurrence took place should answer, ‘‘lt was during the time of the latter rain,” or, “It was at, the time of the third crowing of the barnyard.” .. Yon aud I remember when ministers of the Gospel in the country, giving out a notice of an evening service, instead of saying at 6 or 7or 8 o’clock, would say, “The services will begin at early candlelight.” Wo talk a great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value until the last fragment of it has passed out of our posession forever. The greatest fraud a man can commit Is to rob another of his time Hear it, ye laggards, and repent! All the fingers of chronology point to punctualitjr as one of the graces. Dr. Rush, the greatest and busiest physician of his day, appreciated the vaiuo of time, and when asked how he had been able to gather so much information, for his books ’ and lectures be to do it by economizing my time. I have not spent ono hour iu amusement, in thirty years.” Napoleou appreciated thevalue of time when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo, and he thought that a little, more time would retrieve his fortunes, and he pointed to the sinking sun and said, “What would I not give to be this day possessed of the power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours!” . John” Weslev appreciated the value-of time when he stood on his [ steps waiting for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, “I have’lost ten minutes for!ever.” Lord Nelson appreciated the | value of time when he said, “I owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforej hand.” A clockinaker in oneftf the old English towns appreciated the vaiuo of time when he put on the front of tiie tawn clock the words, “Now' or when?” That minister of the Gospel did not appreciate the value of time who, during a season of illness, instead of employing his time in useful reading and writing, wrote a silly religious romance, which in some unknown i way came into the possession of the ! famous Joe Smith, who introduced the book as a divine revelation, which i became the foundation of Mormon-

ism, the most beastly abomination or all time. But do not let us get an impression from chronology that because the years of time have been so long in procession they are to go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No, do! IX you watch half a day, or a whole day, or two days, as I did once, to see a military procession, you teroqmber the last brigade, and the last regiment, and the last company finally passed on, and as we rose to go we said to each other, “It is all over.” . 4 So this mighty procession of earthly years will'terminate. Just when I have no power to prognosticate. but science confirms the Bible prophecy that the earth cannot last always. Indeed, there has been a fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again and again gone up iu their observatories to attend the deathbed of dying worlds and have seen them cremated. So I am certain, both from the word of God and science, that the world’s chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and pass on, and then will come the fiqal decade, and then the final year, and the final month, and the final day. The last spring will swing its censor of apple blossjms and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset will burn like Moscow and the last morning radiate the hills. The clocks will strike their last hour, and the watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will be needed to run hither and yon with torches to set the world on fire. Yet found in Christ, pardoned and sanctified, we shall welcome the day with more gladness than you ever welcomed a Christmas or New Year’s morn.

THE PRINCE OF PORK.

Remarkable Career of Philip D. Armour, of Chicago. New York Press. Phil Armour, the Chicago multimillionaire, who has just given the city $2,400,000 to build the ' Armour Institute” for the free instruction of young men in the roeehameaPafts and sciences, is a remarkable man in his traits, in his methods and in the success he has achieved. He has followed the wisest philanthropic example of his day in giving back to the youth of his own generation a part of hi 3 colossal fortiiue, a.T Pratt did in Brooklyn, as Drexel has done in Philadelphia, and as Morgan is now doing in New York. Mr. Armour began life a poor farmer’s son in New York. He sailed for Europe recently for a brief vacation from his enormous business, in which over $30,000,000 is invested. The ptur roll of his employes is about $4,000,1)00 annually. He gives away a fortune every year. He has made several fortunes by speculation apart from his legitimate business. He said a year ago to a writer for the Press: * “My first transaction was a love scrape. It wasn't successful, and it was the turning point in mv life. It led to my expulsion from sehool. Forty years after that expulsion from school a man wulked into my office in Chicago, and I recognized him at oi c: as Professor Hyde, one of my boyhood instructors. He said he had heard of my success in life, and he had come to tell me that in the matter of that expulsion he was" the Only member of the faculty who had voted for myretention. I said to him: ‘ You have - been a long while coming with your explanation.’ He went out. 1 meant what I said. I have had the action of that faculty laid away in my vest here (indicating his heart) ever since. It is known that P. D. Armour was born on a farm in New York State. It is known that he did what mSst of the farmer’s boys do—slave from morning until night. It is known that at the age of twent} 7 . after he had loved and lost, and had been expelled from school, he put iron in his heart, joined tlie-proces-sion westward and became a gold seeker in California. It is known that he was taken sick and lingered in the vicinity of death away out in California, penniless and alone. Escaping death by a close shave, he left the fields of gold and returned eastward as far as Milwaukee, where John Plaukington was then buying and killinir hogs. •'Plaukington gave. Armour employment as a clerk, and from that time grew in favor until the firm of Planicington & Armour was established. It is known that Armour made himself indispenbable to the firm, aud from then until the present moment fortune knocked at every door and window and keyhole of Mr. Armour’s place of business. This rare good fortune, which is •so fondly wooed, huuted and begged for by countless thousands without avail, has refused to leave Mr.. Armour even for a moment for many years. “It walkcth with him by tlay.” and when he “wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams" it nestles in the silken folds and greets i his waking moments with a golden : caress. A Chicago merchant who I knows him well adds this. It is | Armour's will that has made him j what he is. He fixes his eye on ! something ahead, and no matter what ! rises upon the right or the Ijeft. he | never sees it. He goes straight ahead in pursuit of the object ahead and overtakes it at last. He never lets up on that for which he starts ! out. He is the most faithful friend in the world. No one entering his ! personal service ever leaves it if he j can avoid it.” t 1 The best idea of a Sabbath day’s journey til obtained when one tries to run through a Sunday newspaper.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Edinburgh will have water-works. Somerset is excited over spurious coin. A mad dog sejore prevailed at Vincennes, Tuesday. The Aylesworth posteffioe was robbed, Thursday. ■. .< Ohio river navigation is suspended d|n account of ico. Porter county is pestered with lightning rod swindlers. John Schilt, near Bremen, cut a tree and was killed by its fall. JQenry Deal, a helpless invalid at jEnglish* became SLaddealyinsane, Fridaii The finest school building in Wabash Was destroyed by-fire, Monday evening, J. W. Bri)l& Co., jewelers, of Laporte, have.ass gued. Liabilities, $25,p00: assets* ?10,0:xi, Alexander Roberts was crushed to death at Brazil, Monday, by an engine at tli° found house. Chicago capitalists are negotating for twelve hundred acres of land in Madison county for factory purposes. Seven stores and the at Mulberry, Clinton county, were raided by burglars, aud much booty secured, George Zion, the missing saloon-keeper of Sheridan, appears to have been a bankrupt. and guilty of numerous forgeries. Win. F. Hutchings, a farmer and stock trader near New Washington has mr.de an assignment. Liabilities, $0,000; assets ss,'*oo. Simon St.alcup, of Vincennes, is under Federal indictment for violating tho election law. He voted in a precinct in which he had no legal residence. Subscriptions to a fund for the purpose of securing; Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, for a series of meetings at Kokomo, have been opened. Paul Gearhart, of South Bend, aged fourteen, was so delighted at recoiviug a pair of skates that he uttered a cry of joy and fell to the floor dead from heart failure. Adolphus Jones (colored), janitor of the Spencer county court house for the past eight years, was found dead in the and! tor’s office. He was subject to heart disease. The Earl Furniture one of the heaviest furuitur; firms of Salt Lake City, has failed. Dull times, caused by the low price of silvor, is given as the cause. '1 Stamboul, tho world's champion stallion, arrived at Terre Haute, and was placed In eharge of Bndd Doble_ along with Nancy Hanks and other great | flyers. As the result of a quarrel over a gamjf ‘ craps” at Jeffersonville, Frank Chapman had his skull fatally fractured by a hatchet wielded by Marshall Hall. Both men are colored. Tho Doiaware county commissioners cut down thcTbills of tho Muncle Times, Her. aid aud News, for printing election baH lots, from $591 to 8J75. The papers wil 1 me for the difference. Sheriff Emmett, of Marlon county has determined to test the fee and salary law claiming that tho new law does not repea. certain parts of the old, and will briug the disputed (mints into court. "73. M. Prdston. of Indianapolis, numbers ninonghis Christmas gifts au ancient coin, xf whose genuineness he has proof, of the period of Arsacaidae, who lived iu the third century before Christ.

Gabriel Mattox, of Indianapolis, and Miss Lena Rutledge, of Terre Haute, have been united in marriage. The bride and groom are mutes, and sa were seven of the attendants at the wedaing | George M. Lutes, of Rockport, while on bis deathbed, received a pension check for j [950. He was barely able to sign his name. !but it gave him much comfort to know ■ that his family was thus provided for I Ernest Hummel], president of the Jn N []3J»na Racing Association, which bas'es- | tarnished itself at Roby, lias brought sui t in Chicago against Edward Corrigan and the Chicago Jodrnal, claiming $15),000 damages for libol. Lon Law, of Marietta, rendered to the authorities at Shclbyvllle, saying that he had shot ills brother Fraulc for abusing his mother, amt that Frank was dangerously wounded, The ballot took effect in the groin. Mrs. A. D. Fleming, seventy-five year 3 old. died at Brazil, Friday. The deceased was one of the earliest set tlers of Olay county, and also one of the wealthiest,. She received over $150,000 royalty for coal takou from one farm at ono time. Her second husband, who survives her. Is a.bo-’t forty-fivo years old. Mrs. John C. Wingate, of Montgomery county,badly injured while getting off the cars by the sudden start of the train, secured judgment against tho Clover-Leaf Railway Company for (11,0(0. Her hits' band has also been awardod J2.4C0 because of the injuries sustained by his wife. William Johannlngsmoyer, near Frceiandsvillc, while talking with a friend, leaned his hands upon a shotgun which ho was carrying, and rested his head on his bunds. “An accidental, discharge of the gun carried away both hands and a part of his jaw. lie lived twenty-four houri before death relieved him. Douglass Mills, fourteen years old, of Montgomery county, while crossing the Rig Four bridge over Sugar crook, wa 9 struck by a train. He fell thirty feet, striking an embankment, t and a gun he was carrying wa3 discharged, the load entering his knee and necessitating the amputation of the leg. An unknown party placed dynamite In the fuel used by Andrew Blckott aud family. near Vaipurajso, and while the family was gathered about the stove there was a lively explosion. Afrs. llickel was seriously hurt, and there is fear that t.vo children were permanently b'iudcd. The house was badly wrecked. Tho Torro Haute police have received word that Ellsworth Wyatt, a memborof the Dalton gang, arrested whilo con scaling himself near Torre Haute,will be tried lu Oklahoma*for attempted murder. There is #1,200 reward for Wyatt as the murderer of Constable Bonsai I, near Green (burg, in Kansas, but his surrendm to the Oklahoma authorities prevents payment. A masked man went to the home of MrWheeler. of Jhdsou. Wuea Ill's. Vheeler r , ,

opened the door the would-be assassin attempted to shoot, bot the woman grabbed tho weapon and there was a struggle for possession. Incidentally AW gun wa ß discharged, badly shattering Mrs. Wheeler's right hand. George Hutton, accused of the crime, is under acrest. It was discovered, Tuesday, at the Prison South, that & coal-cart driver has for some time been smuggling whisky to some of the eonvicts, and that those who Were assigned to keep up fireS in Some of the shops and the engine room became intoxicated and went tc sleep, letting the steampipes freeze up. Thcdriver has been shut out and an investigation is being made. Scverai attempts, have been made to wreck the engine furnishing motive power for the Evansville picture-molding factory. Itccontly the engineer discovered that a heavy paving brick had been placed on the lever .of the safety valve, and that tho boiler Ivas carrying twenty pounds more steam than safety warranted. Again* tho valve leading from the boiler was found to bo broken. ‘ Tho Montgomery County Orphans’ nome. a very large frame building, was burned to the ground Monday night, together with most, of the furnishings. Tho fire originated in the furnace, and tho building wa3 doomed before the trouble was discovered. There were between twenty and thirty small children in the building, all escaped. Tho building was insured for $4,000. Jacob Figert, a prominent and wealthy carriage manufacturer of Disko, became paralyzed on a Big-Fear passenger train* Tuesday evening. Tho conductor, believing him drunk, pnt£him off at North Manchester, leaving him in an unconscious condition in a freight house. The unfortunate man was discovered an hour later and taken to a hotel near by. Everything was dono to relieve the patient, but lie never regained consciousness and died on Wednesday morning. Patents have been issued to the following Indianians: C. Bolenhaugh and E. B. Wagner. Warsaw, bolting reotj T. B. Deniston, Pern, trawl line; W. and J. Fallcy, j Lafayette, carbureter; S. E. Harsh, Wa- | bash, overdraw-check loop; W. B. Hos- | ford, Mishawaka, feed-water purifier; B* ! A. Husbands, Indianapolis, baby jumper; L. Koss, Indianapolis, machine for making ornardental wire: E. P. Matthews. Indianapolis. exhibiting case; I. It. McCormick, Logansport, car brake; 15. F. Osborn, Nora, and J. B. Harcburt, Augusta, farrowing pen for swine; L. K. .Royer, Anderson, preserving can; R. D. O. Smith, Mishawaka, lubricating journal box; R. E. Stephenson, Indianapolis, valvo operating mechanism; L. .Townsend, Evansville, harness suspending device; It., D. P. and C. Voorhees. Flora, Ironing table; Sardinia and S. A, Win tars, For tland, bodi kin and stitch-ripper; S. and S. A. Winters, Portland, guide for sewing machine- . ■*

A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY.

| Near Hopkinsville, Ky., Bud Adams I Tuesday, was shot and instantly killed by his mistress, Mrs. Jennie Whitfield, a daughter of the notorious John Chambliss, who was killed cigut years ago by E, C. Hopper, who shot him and was afterward acquitted. After living with Whitfield, the woman went off with Adams aud lived with him. Adams whipped one of her children several days ago, which so enraged her that she drew a pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in'tho brain, killing him instantly.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Dec. at. 1553. Quotations for Indianapolis when not specitled <3 BAIN. Wheat—No. 2 rod, 05'4c; No. 3 rod, 60c; wagon wheat, 68c. Coru- No. 1 white, 39>4c; No. 2 whito, 39J4e; whito mixed, 38c; No. 3 white, 3S)c; No. 2 yellow, 38c; No. 3 yellow, 38)4c; No. 2 mixed, 38)4 e; No. 2 mixed, 38 ; /c; ear, 3*e Oats—No. 2 white, 3414 c; No. 3 white, "4c: No. 2 mixed, 32e; rejected, 29c. Hay—Timothy, choice, $12.00; No. 1, $11.50; No. 2, ss..'o; No. 1 prairie, »?rSO; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay,s7.so; clover,s3.so. Bran $11.50 per ton. I Wheat | Corn, t Oats. | Rye. Chicago 2 r’d 70 41 I 30 .. Cincinnati.... 2 r’d 8 44*4 3154 51 St. Louis. .... ,2 r‘d 6> JW*4- S 3■/, m New York 2 r’d 7fl 4) I 3e</ t 6S Baltimore... 73 49) i 43 I 58 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 72.’i 411 1854’ Clovex i | I j Seed. . Toledo ,| 70',4 43 35 I 7 (6 Detroit I wb 43 30 !.., Minneapolis;.! 8954 1 CATTI.E. Expert grades .....; $4 50@5 25 Good to choicoshippers 3 90(«;4 35 Fair to medium shippers 3 35(83 70 Common shippers 2 Stockers, common to good 2 Good to choice heifers 2 75@3 25 Fair to medium heifers 2 gfijjgg 60 Common, thin heifers 1 50{<?2 00 (food to choice cow 9 2 65Gg3 10 Fair to medium cow 9 2 00(82 40 Common old cows l 00@l 75 Veals, good to choice 3 Bulls, common to medium.... 1 50(82 75 Milkers, good to choice 2500(83500 Milkers, common to medium... 1200(^2000 HOGS, Ilcavy packing audshipping.. fC 40(80 75 Lights 6 25(86 50 Mixed 6 Heavy roughs 5 90(86 10 SHEEP. Good to choice (4 00(84 30 Fair to medium 3 25(83 75 Common to medium.. 2 50(83 25 Lambs, good to choice 4 00®4 75 POULTRY AND OTHKIt PRODUCE. Poultry—llcns.6c V lb; young chickens 64c V tt>; turkeys, iat choice hens, 9c fl>. ducks, 7c $ lb-; geese,s.4o lor choice. Eggs- Shippers paying 23c. Butter—Choice country butter. 15(818c; common, 8(810c; creamery, retailing from store at 35c. Cheeso—New York full cream,t2@l2%e; skims, 5(87c V lb. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geese 40c V ®>; mixed duck, 20c 1) ®>- Beeswax—Dark, 15c; yellow,2oc (selling) Wool—Fine merino. 16^818c; unwashed combing, 21c; tub washed. 318c33c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Ilhles—No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides. 2>£c; No. 1 G. S. hides, 4j4c; No. 2G. S. hides, 3>4c: No. 1 tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow. 3>4c. Horse Hid*s-sa(*f2.2s, Tallow— No. i, 4c; No. 2. 3%c. Grease— Wbjte. 4c; yeliw, 3%c; brown, ¥• rnrrrs and vegetables. Potatoes—s2.so(B2.6s V brl. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys. $4.50. Lejmdns—Choice, $6.50 r box; fancy, C 5.00. Pears—Kiefer, $2 V bushel. D brl; Spanish, $1.50 per ere to. Cabbage—Michigan,t2<as2.2s 'per brL

STATE OFFICER’S REPORTS

Auditor Henderson and Secretary Matthews’ Annual Reports. A Redortlon of the School Levy Kecora. ■ - -mended-.The-9F«re~fct»ir-Fretted' t—l Report at Secretary Matthews. From advance sheds of the annual report of Auditor of State Henderson tto« following facts and figures tire gleaned; Tho reports commends the new tax law. and shows tha t there lias been au Increass in valuation of $397,331,651, and that thi levy for 1891 of 12 _ rents for State and< cents for benevolent Institutions yielded 12,! 5),459.86. The Auditor then continues; ‘‘lnstead of an annual deficit of haif a mill on dollars under the old regime, w< now have a not surplus of that mnonnt. Instead of borrowing money to pay Interest on the public debt, as was done under the old order of tilings, wo now provld* for our interest and have a handsome surplus besides. * _ “A number of tl.e largest railroad corporations are resisting the now tax law, and thus temporarily withholding from the State and counties thousands upon thousands of revenue. In every instance where trial lias been had in the lower courts, the State has" won, and there is little doubt, lint the law will he upheld by the Snpromo Court. A number of I>ank9 are resisting the law. Tho State Board of Tax Commissioners and the AttorneyGeneral aro leaving nothing undone to [irotcct the State’s interests and to enforce tho collection of theso taxes.” * The reports speaks as follows of the State debt; “ * * * Tho present foreign debt of the State is $8,315,815.12 aud the domestic debt $434,000, making a totai debt of $8,830,015.12.- Of this sum the temporary interest loan bonds, dated April 1, 1888, aggregating $240,000, fail duo April 1, 1893. The temporary interest loau bonds, dated April 1, 1839. aggrogating $370,000, fall due April 1, 1824. In 18:5 bonds of the State amounting to $1.0f5,000 become due. If the present General Assembly makes no extraordinary. appropriations there wiil bo sufficient moneys in the general fund to pay the bonds due in 1893 and 1894. “There is now laill 15 cents on tho linn3red dollars for State school purposesUnder the present appraisement this levy produces in round numbers $2,008,409. Un, ier the old assessment this levy raised 11,372,279, and this amount was adequate tnd highly satisfactory. The levy remain* ng the same, there is raised annually tinier the new tax law $636,120 mere than die old law produced. Now, there neve 1 sas a need or a demand for a large ichool revenue, and this excess of more dian half a fnillion dollars is just so much noney unnecessarily taken from the people. It is a burden that should be lifted rom the shoulders of the tax payers Unnecessary taxation is anlust taxation.’ “If the levy for State school purposes sere reduced 5 cents we should then raise 11,380,781 school revenue, which is $8,502 noro than was raised under the old law. “I therefore suggest that the State ichool levy be reduced from 16 to It cents >n the SIOO, thus giving the counties :8,502 more school revenue than they ever received before, and at the same time iesicning tho burden of taxation 6 cents on die SIOO, or an aggregate annual tax reiuction of <636,139. A reduction of the State levy from 12 rents to 10 cents is recommended. The Auditor favors the creation of asinkng fund and a levy of 4 cents on the >no hundred valuation for Uiat purpose. Die aggregate debt of the State is sB.B* 0,515.12; annual intercut, $286,025; and the innual surplus above expenses and inters >st by the present levy is $500,000. The Auditor speaks thus of savings janlis. “There are now five savings banks >peruting under the State law. The sueress as these iustitutious, aud the good :hey are accomplishing iu encouraging layings by tho people, iuvito attention to ;ho desiiabilily of encouraging the organi:aiion of savings banks among the people, l'o this end i suggest that the present law no so amended as to make them stock assoriaiions. By this means those who are lctivo in tho management receive some rompensation for their services. Under die present law the trustees of these initltutions are required to act without adeluate reward, and it is difficult to interest those who are competent to manage them .n their organization. 1 also suggest tiiat tho law governing 'lnvestments of these Dauks be so amended that they make . loans upon real estate secured by mortgage any where within the State.” • i here will become due on April 1,1334. the temporary interest loan bonds issued A pril 1, IsSD, amounting to $370,000. This, w. tli the incidental expenses of the Solhug’ and Sailors’ MoniimentCommission, ivili reduce the balance for the year 1e94 tot 302,» o‘.ill. “The estimate of expenditures submitted does not include a dollar for extraordinary expenses. It is based on the actual accessary expenses of the State government.” ' : ' OF STATE’S REPORT. Tho report opens with an address to the Co . ernor, and continuing, says: “For tho.first time In the history of this dlYicc It has become a source of revenue to tiic Slate, tho amounts paid into the State treasury for tho last fiscal year exceeding $46,000. In addition to this will also td found the report of the Attorney-gen-eral of fines and forfeitures, tabulated statement of tho vote of indie* a at ihe November elfc’ion of 1892, for Presidential electors, Slate officers. Congressmen. Legislature, judicial and county officers of the btate, articles of incorporation, commissions i-sued, excculivo appointments, pardons, remissions, requisitions, warrants and proclamations, and general information of a political nature. also-havn the-Imtor to stibtnft wit Mir llic report of Mr. Cjm fl. Stein, clerk of the bureau of public printing, b ndiug aud stationary, j “Mr. Stein has brougtit to the discharge as the duties of this position a careful and painstaking ability. Competent, agreeable and at ali times faithful to the interests of the St vie, his work cannot be too highly commended. “in view of the increased demauds upon the usuai appropriation for this depart* meat and the greater expenditure rendered necessai y for stationery.priiiting and bind*, iug through tho aditionat benevolent insiitut ons and the Appeliate Court, newly created, 1 would suggest an Increase In the appropriation for these purpose by thonc .t I cgislatnre.” htnretary Matthews makes further rocctr men Actions us follows*— That notaries should file certificates; that the price of Revised Statutes be reduced to *1.3) per volume; thut Justices of the l'cace Ole certificates from county clerk: mid the balance of the report Is made tip of a register of State officials and employe*, a list of trademarks, pardons, requisite ns. and a complete tabulation of tho vote last November, and closes with the coust unions of 1810 and 1 51. 1 - p *7V-'r - --T-i I'-/Af :