Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 32, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 December 1883 — Page 2

WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - Pububheb. THE NEWS. Intelligence by Wire from All the World. COKGEESSI05AL. the nrst session ot tne rorty-enent ress convened at Washta-- HOon' 0,1 Modav, the 3d "r eceinber. The Senate was .41.1 o order by.Mr. Edmund, tbe-PresWent ' ,-jo tern., who administered the oitb ot office to Voorhet. Harris. Logan, Man lorson, BlaU- and Wilson. A Horal vfcee reprcst ntins: the cot-bf-anns cf North Carolina was picscntcd to Senator Ransom. A sword in Ted and wliito flowers stood on the desk of Bea-ttor Maboiic, and three . large baskets of flowers were sent to Senator Riddle border. No business whatever was transacted. The House organized by the election of John G, Carlisle as Speaker, he Teccrring 191 votss against 112 for Koifei and 2 tor Robinson, of Massachusetts. On being escorted to the chair Mir. Car- . lisle -expressed bis thanks for the honor conferred upon him, and asked the aid of members in facilitating business!. He was presented by Kentucky ladies with a Ravel 1a. the share ot George W ashington's hatchet, tonirosed of Bowers and satin, with an inscription in illuminated letters; The House pot into a wranirle over the Manninc-Chalmeis certificate from Mississippi, - and fatted to complete its organization. lOEEKHt Minister Lowell cannot be Lord Hector of -St. Andrews University after all election will be ordered. A new England refused an offer by Turkey to end troops to quell the Soudan insurrection. Because of England's meditation a peaceful settlement between France and China is anticipated. Leon Say, the celebrated financier, has been elected President of the moderate Republican party in the French Chamber. He succeeds Wadding-ton. Emperor William, at a reception given to the officers of the lower bouse of the Prussian Diet, expressed confidence in the maintenance of peace in Europe. Schaefer was defeated by Vignaux at Paris. The game of billiards lasted six nights. Score, 3.000 to 2,878. English ship owners has entered into convention witbJDe Lesseps for enlarging the present SneaJcanal or building a second one By a railway collision near St. Mcen, France, eighteen persons were killed and. fifteen dangerously injured. r-A bill permitting- civil marriages between Jews and Christians has passed the lower house of the Hungarian Diet. Julius Payer, the Austrian Arctic expioror, is dead, aged 41. William Meagher, Nationalist, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. Russia is abouS to issue 6 per cent, gold rentes to the amount of 50,000,000 rubles, redeemable at pleasure after ten years, Paris is alarmed over the dread of a war with China. M. Ferry is convinced that China will fight, and it is suspected that he is surreptitiously negotiating with England for mediation. The trial at London of O'DonneU, the slayer of the Irish informer, Carey, was of .short duration, lasting only two days, and resulted in a verdict of murder and speedy sentence of death, to be carried into effect on the 17th of December. After the verdict of the jury had been read, the Judge asked O'DonneU if be had anything .to say why sentence of death should not be passed on him. He made no reply. The Judge then passed sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner now wanted to speak. The Judge, however, ordered his removal. The police seized him. O'DonneU held up his right hand, bis fingers extended, and shouted; "Three cheers for old Ireland." 44Good-by, United States." "To ft with the British and the British erown." "It is a plot made up by the crown." The prisoner, shouting, cursing and struggling, was 'forcibly removed by the police amid most fearful confusion and the slamming of doors. This action of O'DonneU caused the greatest excitement and surprise, as he had previously gained the sympathy of the audience by his good behavior. Public feeling is abating in Egypt, and it is announced that the British troops will remain to keep order and defend Egypt proper, if attacked, bnt will take no part in conquering the Soudan. No soldiers can be secured, it is said, for the expedition against the newly organized Mussulman champion. Further reports from El Obeid confirm the Hret news of the utter annihilation of Hicks Pasha's army. No prisoners were made, it is reported. Airred Tennyson, the poet, will be made a peer. Khaf Seyd, the Moslem fanatic, who has Invaded Persia with a force of Turcomans, is preaching a holy, war against Russia. Infernal machines were sent to Paris last week, one directed to Be Lesseps and others to the Panama canal contractor. Upon being warned of his danger, he' said, 'They treat me like a sovereign." PERSONAL. While attending Thanksgiving services at the Methodist Ep.'scopal church, at Dixon, Hi.. James L. Camp died of apoplexy. As the Rev. Warren H. Cudworth was leading in prayer at a union service Of Thanksgiving in Boston he was .seized with apoplexy and fell dead in the pulpit. Charles Nickleson, well known to hore-brceders throughout the country, died at Jackson, Mien. Other deaths chronicled are those of Hon. William L. Greenly, of Adrian, Mich. ; ex-Gov. William R Stevenson, of Virginia; Lieut. Cot George B. Cargo, U. S. A., retired; and Prof. Samuel K. Hosbour, A. M-, of Indianapolis, Ind., who celebrated his golden wedding in 1870. Another St. Louis girl Ciara King, aged H hrw mysteriously disappeared. . Prof. Tioe, of St. Louis, the weather prophet," and Judge Samuel L. Savage, of the Tenth Nebraska district, are dead. Demented by intense suffering, the Rev. W. J. Bowea, Episcopal rector at Parsons, Kan., drove the blade of a shears into his ireast. His recovery is doubtful, While the corpse of Rev. W. H. Cudworth lay m state in his church, in Boston, '.SetfatoV Lewis G. Smith suddenly fell dead in the same masnner as his pastor. vMrs. Mary A; Miller, of New Orleans, applied for a license as captain of a steamboat, 4ut was refused it by the Supervising Inspector because of her sex. Robinson Locke, of Toledo, the eldest son of petroleum V. Ifasby, has been appointad

ITpitedptesonsat wepen-Tyi, Yolk, fndgofs totfndjf to join Me English Da.' '-'v!f M . W PIxTAUOIAL A3SFD HtDUSTBIAL. A convention has been called to moot in Washington Feb. 5, 1884,to consider the va: rious plans for the improvement of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. The call Is made by the Improvement committee, and is addressed to the people of tb wiasisslpai . valley, and alt interested in the project During November $1,973,410 was coined at the Philadelphia mint. . Last week's failures numbered 232, according to Bradstreet's report. The number is very large, being forty-six in excess of the record for the same week in 1883, and seventy-four in excess of the record for the corresponding week in 1881. Capitalists of Cincinnati proposo to organize a stock company with a capital of 9500,000, to establish a mammoth cottonmill. ' The public debt decreased during November $1,721,878, and, deducting the cash in the treasury, now aggregates $1,509, 785,060. Appended is the official debt statement issued on thelstinst,: Public debtr Four and one-half per cents :.$ 250,000,000 Four per cents : 737,6-24, uw Three per cents 399,093,250 Refunding certificates 31R.450 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt. . .$1,301 ,o iO.Ssm Matured debt 0,645, 3 Lcjtal-tender notes. $ 846,739,816 Certificates of dejioslt 14,165,000 Gold and silver certificates 1h7.715.731 Fractional currency 6,990,30 J Total without interest $ 555,910,850 Total debt (principal) $1,863,596,9:5 Totalinterest 10.934,586 Total cash in treiwrv :.C4.76fi.3lO Debt, less cash in treasury.... 1,309, 7fl,!ii Decrease during Auv.-jsrub r l,72I,i;76 Decrease of debt since June 30, 188 '. tv.Oii.ue Current liabilities Interest due and unpaid $ 1,!)73,M Debt on which interest has ceased. . 6,6 15,935 Interest thereon 321, is Gold and silver certificates 13 7,715,7M U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit lM' S.O'X) Cash balance available 35 ,, 44,::74 Total $ 354,706,513 Available assets Cash m treasury. $ 3".4,7CC,513 Bonds issued to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States Principal outstanding $ C4,C 3,513 Interest accrued, not yet oald. i,n s, 1 s7 Interest paid by United States 63,222,0'.)U Interest repaid by companies By transportation service. $ 17,031 ,8!)3 By cash payments, S per cent, net earnings. 055,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 4'035,coo Commercial failures: B. F. Dow & Co., agricultural implements, Peru, Ind., liabilities $130,000; J. B. Kir by & Co., tanners, Rockcastle county, Ky., liabilities $40,000; D. S. Wisehart, general merchant, Decatur, 111., liabilities heavy; W. B. Jarvis & Co., general merchants, Greenville, N. C, liabilities $60,000; George Ryall & Co., fancy goods, Chicago, liabilities 830,000; Albert Webb, flour and grain, Fortland, Me. ; Tracy & Comstook, general- store, Oregon, Wis., liabilities $30,OCO; O. S. Whitman & Co., Cadillac Mich., liabilities 03,090; G. M. D, Littell & Co., canned goods, Kew York, liabilities $114,000; the London d3rry Iron and Steel Company, Halifax, Novia Scotia, liabilities $172,000; Robert McKuin, cattle exporter, Hamilton, Ontario, liabilities $40,000; Samuel Isaac, clothing, Mattoon, 111., liabilities $60,000; C. Lameroux, furniture, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $35,000. Owing to over production the twentynine mills of the Consolidated Paper Company, scattered throughout Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Indiana, have shut down. Eau Claire, Wis., has a silver mine, and hopes to become a second Leadville.

POLITICAL, The official vote of Nebraska, at the November election, foot3 up 100,120, which is 18,000 more votes than were cast at the last Presidential election. Ex-St-aator Blaine is out in a public letter, in which ho unfolds a scheme of allied Federal or State taxation, which he claims he has long reflected upon, and the objections to which he is fully prepared to hear. Mr. Blaine declares -that both Protectionists and Free-Traders in great numbers now desire the abolition of the entire internal system of Federal taxation. He believes that there will at once be an alliance of legislators in Congress who hold entirely opposite views on the subject of protection, but wno will work together for free whisky, tobacco and other things which now afford internal revenue to the Government. But Mr. Blaine is opposed to free whisky. He believes suoh tax should always exist, to be collected by the nation and given to the States for the States would df themselves be powerless to enforce such a levy. The money so raised Should be paid to the States in the proportion of their population that is, Illinois would pay the most and New York would get the most. The gist of Mr. Blaine's plan is, first to find that the nation can spare $80,000,000 of tax on whisky; then to pay this sum to the States, and thereby lift that amount of tithes from farms, homesteads and shop?. Mr. Blaine has figured the plan out and appends a table, two items of which show that under his apportionment of the $88,000,000 Illinois would get $6,285,000 and New York $8,893.000. Such is a brief sketch of the leading feature of Mr. Blaine's scheme. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, was nominated for the Speakership of the House of Representatives, bytho Democratic caucus, on the first ballot. The caucus was called to order by Gen. Rosecrans. Geddes, of Ohio, was chosen Chairman. The motion that voting be vita voce was carried, 101 to 83, and a motion to reconsider was lost, 113 to 75. Morrison, of Illinois, nominated Carlisle; Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Randall, and Dorsheimer, of New York, Cox. On the first ballot Carlisle received 104 of the 188 votes, Randall 63, and Cox 83. On Randall's motion Carlisle's nomination was made unanimous. Thirteen of .New York's members voted for Cox and seven for Randall. Pennsylvania was solid for Randall, as was Connecticut, Maryland and New Jer jey. Carlisle's strength was, to a great exten i. in the South, which was not, however, solid. The three candidates then appeared and made speeches, the defeated ones promising lo sustain Carlisle in every way. John D. Clarke, of Missouri, was nonJkated for Cioifk; John P. Leedora, of lor Sergeanto-at-Anns;

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J. lit. wmue remit t Texas, for Doorkeeper; Lcurgus Dalton and iieMlJolin S. Indiana, for PostmaaMjf, idsayl'or Chaplain. Jin ibliciva ei !iis sixty-eevon members csent. Ispeaker Keiter and the entire list of incumbents wove renominated. Hiscock, of New York, made a long speech opposing Keifer on the especial ground that he had antagonized the press of the country, and the Republican party could not afford to countenance him. There are 137 candidates for the position of second assistant doorkeeper, which pays $2,000 per annum. GENEEAL The general offices of the Luke Erlo and Western road -have been romoved to BJooroington, III., in view of the extension of the track to Peoria. iTRES AND 0AUALTIES. The New England railroads killed during the past year 221 persons and injured 535. Sixteen of tho killed and ilfty-two of the in jured were passengers. It is feared that six Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooners, carrying seventy-five men, were lost in the November storm. A crowded passenger train on the Boston, Barre and Gardner railroad was hurled over a twenty foot embankment near Worcester, Mass. About forty passengers were severely injured, and two or three will probably die. Flames swept away Meyer Brothers' drug store at Kansas City, Mo., ontailing a loss of $175,000; Carey's warehouse at Baltimore, Md,, valued, with contents, at $80,000; a block of stores worth $75,000, at Watertown, N. Y. ; thirty-five buildings at Paris, Ohio, causing a loss estimated at $140,000; a hotel and several other structures at Cortland, N. Y., of the estimated valuo of $40,000; the entire business portion of the town of Ocala, Fla., $400,000 worth of property and two lives being sacrificed ; a earpotmill at Sasonvllle, Mass., worth S200,000 : the office of tho Democrat and several adjacent buildings at LaiSalle, 111,, nvolving a loss of $30,000; an elevator worth $40,00 J and 6tored with $25,000 worth of grain, at Leavenworth, Kan.; the Hotel Clifton, Boston, Mass., entailing a loss of $50,000; a shoe factory of the estimated value of $40,000. at Grovcland, Mass.; Simpson's woolen mills at Salon ville, Mass., worth about $150,000; tho Times office and a number of stores at San Angola, Tex., causing a loss of 540,000; tho Windsor theater and adjacent buildings in New York city, valued at $500,000. At Dixon, III., a runaway horse dragged Miss Elcita Lewis and two young girls into river, where they were drowned. Near Butler, Pa., a vehicle containing Henry Costollo and his aged mother tumbled down an embankment, both being killod. A fire broke out in Farwell's block, on Market street, Chicago, and destroyed property to the valuo of $175,000. Frances Fairweather and Kittle Hilgert, two of the employes, lost their lives in trying to escape, one by falling from the "fire-escape," and the other by jumping from one of the windows in the general consternation. About tha came boar the office of the Evanina Journal, on Dearborn street, was partially destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at $159,009. Other fires of noto are as follows: Gusky's clothing store, I ittsburg, loss $3O,0J0; four business bouses at Centrbville, Mo., loss $15,000; ten stores at Corning, Mich., loss $15,000; the Masonic Temple, Sixth avenue, New York, loss $1C0,090; Hume's sash and blind factory, Oshk08h,Wis,, loss $50,000; Johnson's lumber yards, Menominee, Wis., loss $30,000. A hurricane off tho coast of Newfoundland caused much damage to shipping. The new government steamer Princess Louise was lost on the rocks, with her captain and eight men. CEIMES AITP OBIMIxTALS.An affray between Jacob Block and Eli Frank, rival clothing merchants of Hush ville, Ind., resulted in the death of Frank and the mortal wounding of Block. Richmond Stuart (colored) was handed for murder at Shreveport, La. He led in prayer on the 6caffold, and proclaimed his innocence. At the execution of Ambrose West, an 18-yoar-oId negro, at Isabella, Ga., the rope broke at the fall, causing the culprit to tumble under the gibbet. After an hour tho youth was again placed on tho trap, and death resulted speedily. Joseph Jewell, who was executed at San Jose, Cal., murdered M. P. Renowden to secure $34,000. No light has, up to this writing, been thrown on tho 'massacre at Jackson, Mich., which bids fair to pass into history as one of the great criminal mysteries of the age. It is pretty well settled that the robbers got no such sum of money as at first reported ($50,000 or thereabouts), as Crouch had very littlo cash in the house. It is probable that the only plunder they secured was the few hundred dollars which Polley, the bloviating visitor, exhibited in saloons and among low company, previous to stopping at Crouch's, and which piece of foolishness brought about his own death as well as that of his host and the entire family. An examination of the private papors and accounts of tho murdered millionaire farmer reveals the fact that some title deeds and Other important documents are missing, and there is a liuely light in prospect between the heirs of tho dead man. James H. Anderson, of Lancaster, Ky., attempted the life of Judge George Denny, Jr., but was himself killed. Mrs. Johnson, whose husband Is Special Examiner of the Pension department in tho East Tennessee district, while insane, shot herself through the heart at Indianapolis, Ind. In a dispute in a Cincinnati street car, Harry Shaffer shot the conductor, William Swift, and the driver, John Cosgrove, the latter dying in a few hours, but Swift may recover. Shaffor claims solf-defonse. Fonr burglars blew open a safe at New Washington, Ohio, and made their way to Shelby on a hand-car. Marshal Sutter undertook to arrest them, and received three serious shots. He returned the fire, and killed one of the gang. The citizens went in pursuit, and one of them named Longacre, was shot near the heart. The man who fired at him was captured, saved from lynching, and placed in jail. A third member of tho gang was pierced with bullets at a point thirteen miles from Shelby, and tho remaining one was caught in a swamp. At Baltimore, the wife of John Riall

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Salmon, the Laqouia N. H.j butclior, lias ottodo a$ull eoniessttt. Ho says Mi. Ford 1$is kiled irisa drgko'iiquapio?-hat jj 6$t the corvee, qgb "it in trie trgpk ai& jjrrleaJt to Jnddy$to dispose of, iftit, finding no opportunity determined to -murder the Ruddys and burn, tneir hous to conceal his crime. " Tony Laymiller, teaching school near Canton, Ohio, suspended Mary Oglethorpe, aged 11, for six and one-half hours by tho wrists, her toes barely touching the floor, seriously injuring the child. He has been held for trial.

LATEST NEWS. The grand jury at Danville, Va., after a two days' investigation of the November election riot, reported with no indietmont. A passenger train on the Memphis and Little ltock road found a switch displaced about twenty-five miles from Memphis, and came to a sudden stop. Four armed men mounted the platform to rob the train, but shot from the express messengers drove them away. Frank James appeared in court at Kansas City, Mo., and his trial and that of Onirics Ford, for tho Blue Cut robbery, was set lor Jim. 14 next. Bail was fixed at $3,000. The Austral:an conference at Sydney parsed a resolution favoring the anuexution of tho Pouth Sea Islands. , A discharged employe of the Panama Canal company, supposed to be insane, sent the explosives to Do Lesseps and the contractor. A mine explosion at Stambaugh, Pa., killed one man .nd injured six others. Tho concussion leveled pillars in the mine, upssst ears and extinguished tho lights. Ex-Judge Curtiss, of New York, has refused to aid in the prosecution of young Nutt, who killed Dulies at Unlontown, Pa.. for murdering his father and betraying his sister. Judge Denny has been acquitted at Lancaster, Ky., of the murder of James IT. Anderson. For eleven months of this year 154,585 packages of dry goods have been exported, against 150,314 for the corresponding poriod last year. Among the measures introduced in the Senate on the 4th Inst, whs one of Mr. Ingalls to remove certain limitations in the arrears of jcnsions act. Mr. Heck presented a bill for the removal of all disabilities imposed by the iourteenth amendment, ani Mr. Edmund one to provide for tho further . protection of colored citizens. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to fcive national banks a circulation equal to 90 per cent, of tho niark-at value of their bond deno'its. Mr. Edmunds prcsouted an act for the const: u-.llon .f four trunk liaes of postal telegraph radia'ingfroin Washington. Mr. Blair offered a bill for a bureau of labor statistics and to make eU'ht hours a day's work. Mr. Loian handed In n act to appropriate $c0,w.0,0K) for th) education of children, smd another to pro1. ids Tensions for Unicn prisoner in tha late war. Mr. Vai Wyck introduced a bill to force railroad corporations te pay within sixty days tlie cost of surveying la'ids to which they are ent'tled, and Mr. Slater another to repeal the Northern Pacitlo land grants. Mr. Hewoa reintroduond th bill for the relief of Fltz John Porter, 'f hePrccident's message was read. The Repihlic.m Senators hold a enncm, after adjournment, and decided ti await Uie arrival of Senator Anthony, who lias been on a sijk-bed, before eko.in-;a new -et of offcoc-iv. In the House of Itepro'enfotives tho delegates from the Tenitoil:s were sworn in. A resclu'ion wat cd:-p?od t af t'ic Committor on Elections report whether Manning cr 0tialm-r3 is entitled to be ttwurii as a men. bnr from Mississippi. Sonic debate took phi e tn the cent ist betwoi-u Mayo ami (ranison, f :om the First district of Virginia. The l'r ni.iori.'ti lacssmgo was delivered and read to tl.c Hoi so. JSDVCA.TEO Bl' Tim NjEiriPWJ2ItS. A member of a manufacturing firm, that employs 500 mea, told a committee of the United States Senate that the knowledge he possessed he got by reading the newspapers, and not from books, and that by reading the papers he kept himself informed on the literature and current events of the day. Thousands of other prominent business men would make the same acknowledgment if questioned on the subject. The tendency of all literature is toward expansion, so the most industrious reader of books can scarcely in a lifetime become well informed; newspapers, on the contrary, condense nearly everything into a3 few words as possible. Were a student to attempt to give the political, social, religioua and literary history of the world for a day he might do it in far more elegant style than the newspapers, but his history would occupy the reader's time for at least a week. The newspaper is the true American university. THE MAEKET. NEW YORK, Beeves $5.00 7.00 Hogs 4.50 5.35 Fioun Superfine. 2.0O & 8.50 Wheat No. 1 White.. 1.09 & 1.09 No. 2 Bed 1.11 1.1154 COEN No. 2 63 & .6434 Oats No. 2 33 C .34 Pork Mess 14.00 14.25 Labd .08 & .08J6 CHICAGO. Beeves Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.10 7.00 Common to Fair .0 & 8.40 Medium to Fair 5.45 t& 6.oo Hogs . & o.so Fioun Fancy White Winter Ex 6.25 (gi 5.50 Good to Choice Spr'g Ex 4.75 & 5.00 Wheat-No. 2 Sprine 07 '3 M No. 2 Red Winter 99?fi9 l.ol Corn No. 2 ' 55s .55 OATS No. 2 80 & .31 RYE No. 2 57 .68 Baulbv No. 2 -65 & .66 liUTTEB Choice Creamery 38 .40 Eggs Fresh 25 ! .26 I'obk Mesa 13.00 (14.00 Laud oa4& .08 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT No. 2 96 & MH COKN No. 2 54 & .55 0AT3 No. 2 29 .30 Rye No. 2 55 8 .so BAKXiEY No. 2 62 & .6253 POKK Mess 12.00 (fiC'13.00 Labd 08 & ST. LOUia Wheat No. 2 Red 1M 1.03 Corn Mixed .46 &)Am Oats No. 2 38 .20 rye 63 & .54 Pork Mess 13.25 !13.60 Labd 08 43.08M CINCINNATI Wheat No. 2 Bed l.04V 1.09 Coen 60 & .61 Oats 33 MH RYE 60 & ,60jj POBK Mess 13.50 (9)14.00 Labd 08J4 ,0 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red i.0i 1.06 Corn .65 (Sj jss!" Oats No. 2 31 $ ,3l& DETROIT. Flour 4.00 & 6.75 Wheat No. l White. 1.05 $ i.05l4 Cork No. 2 5 & .r5 Oats Mixed 82 & ,3-iH POBK Mess 12.25 (C$12.60 INDIAN APOLI& Wheat -No. 2 Red i.oi?C5 1.02 Corn No. 2. 52 xi .53 Oats Mixed 30 .9 .30J3 EAST LIISERT Y. PA. Cattle Best 6.00 & 6.25 Fair. 6.5 s.75 Common 4.7! & 5.50 Hogs 4.o t 0.00 Sheep 3.50 W 4.50

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from C( Controller of theSCuriBncv Kna rliorta tl organization of 283?amX for thfcnfyaW endii with last month, lejadng 2,532 in , -operation, tl system extendluir "lnto every territory. Tl Donas outstanaing, which can only be redeemed by purchase in the market, aggregate $1,052,570,062. The Government has gained about $4,000,000 by the accidental destruction of bank notes, and the whole cosfeof the system in twenty years has been bnt $5,610,663. Controller Knox thinks the true policy to avoid contraction of bank circulation is to reduce the redundant rtn'r enue. As to the extension of the corporate existence of National banks, the Controller says: At the date of my last report the corporate existence of eighty-six National banks had expired, and thirty of these banks had extended their existence under the act of July 12, 1882, fifty-two banks went into voluntary liquidation, and were succeeded by other associations organized in place thereof, chiefly previous to the act of July 12, 1882, which authorized the extension of the corporate existence for a new period of twenty years of National banks whose franchises were about to terminate. The four remaining banks expired by limitation, and did not effect new organizations. The number of National banks organized under the act of Feb. 25, 1863, which were in operation at the date of my last report in December was 307. Of these banks, 273 have extended their corporate existence under the act of July 12, 1882, seventeen have been placed in liquidation by vote of shareholders of the bank, and four have expired by limitation. All of these banks which have been placed in liquidation and have expired by limitation, witn the exception of two, havci been succeeded by new associations, organized in the same localities with different titles. The whole number of banks now in operation which organized under the act of June 3, 1864, whose periods of succession will terminate during each year previous to 1900, is 195. The number, capital and circulation of banks expiring in 1884 and 1885 Is as follows Years. No. of banks. Capital. Circulation. 1884 249 $ 89,611,570 $ 60,526,825 1885 727 185,936,715 124,807,450 As to the relation of the banks to the bonds, the Controller of the Currency says : The average rate of interest now paid by the United States on the bonds deposited as security for circulating .notes is about 3 per cent, upon their par vataefrat it is equal to about 3.19 per cent only of the. current market value of the bonds. The banks now hold (41,000,000 of 4s, $106,000,000 of 4s, and $21,000,000 of 3 per cents, wMob have bean refunded from s per cent. More than one-half of the bonds now held by the National banks are 3 per cents. It the public debt continues to be paid as rapidly as it has been during the past all of these bonds will certainly be called within the next three years. Those of the lower numbers, which it is safe to estimate will not be called within the next ten years, cannot be purchased for a premium of much less than 2 per cent., and at that price there will be a loss noon circulation based on this class of bonds if they are redeemed within three years. The profits on circulation based on other bonds held by National banks are merely nominal. STATISTIC AX . Of the amount of United States bonds held by the National banks and by banks organized under State laws the Controller says : Through courtesy of State officers, the Controller has obtained official reports made to them under State laws by State banks in twentytwo States, by trust companies in five States, and by savings banks in fourteen States at different dates dnrinK the year 1883, and from these returns the following table has been compiled: Held bv 734 State banks in twentytwo States $ 5,287,606 Held by thirty-four trust companies in five States v 17,437,990 Held by 630 savings banks in fourteen States..... 219,017,313 Total $241,742,909 The interest-bearing funded debt of the United States was November 1, last, $1,273,475,450. The total amount of bonds held by the National ($379,486,350) and State and savings banks ($241,742,909) was $621,229,259, which is not greatly less than one-half of the interest-bearing debt. The United States bonds held by State banks is given by geoKraphical divisions for the years 1880, 1881 and 1882, 1883, as follows: Geographical Divisions. 1880. 1883. Eastern States $ 45,230,098 ' $ 37,399,819 Middle States 157,563,767 182,847,588 Southern States 953,470 646,500 Western States 2,672,242 3,105,024 Pacific States 7,240,835 17,743,978 Total $213,665,403' $241,742,909 Illinois has advanced from sixth to fifth place In the National-bank capital. Kentucky has displaced New Jersey, and Minnesota is now the fourteenth State, taking the place ot Vermont and displacing Iowa and New Hampshire. Virginia Is superseded by Wisconsin, Texas, and California. The Controller says the section of the Revised Statutes which places restrictions upon loans should be so amended as to exclude from the limitation mentioned legitimate loans upon produce or warehouse-receipts and some other classes of collateral security, as well as loans upon United States bonds. WAR. Synopsis of Secretary Lincoln's Report. The report of the Secretary of War gives a pretty full history of the operations of his department, bnt has not much to offer in the way of active military operations. After referring to the retirement of Gen. Sherman from command of the army the Secretary says that the only active employment of troops was in the brief Apache campaign last summer under Gen. Crook. He adds: As for some time past the only Indian outbreaks have been in Arizona, special attention 'has been directed to an endeavor to secure for that region of the country the same quiet which exists elsewhere. After careful consideration of the difficulties involved, an arrangement has been made between the Interior department and the War department, under which the police control of all the Indians on the San Carlos reservation has been given to Gen. Crook, and he has been charged with the duty of keeping the peace on the reservation and preventing the Indians from leaving it. Gen. Sherman expresses the belief that if Gen. Crook is permitted to manage the Apaches in his own way, all wars will cease in Arizona, and that with them will disappear the complicated Indian question which has tested the patience and courage of our people ever since the first settlement by whites on this continent. 1 The number of desertions from the army in the past year was nearly 3,600; only a few less than the extraordinary number of the year before. As a means of checking the evil, the Secretary recommends that the pay of enlisted men be raised to $16 a month. He also recommends that enlisted men be retired on full pay after thirty-five years' continuous service. The whole number of national cemeteries now under the care of the Quartermaster's Department is eighty-three, containing 321,369 interments. There has been some delay in prosecuting the work of providing headstones for the soldiers' graves in private, village, and city cemeteries, but the work will be continued until brought to a satisfactory close. Referring to the improvements at the mouth of the Mississippi river, the Secretary says : The last annual report ot this department brought the history of this work to Sept. 9, 1882. During the four quarters ending Sept. 9, 1883, there was no failure of maintenance of the channel. From Sept. 10, 1882, to Sept. 9, 1883, both dates inclusive, four quarterly payments for maintenance, amounting to $100,000, and two semi-annual payments of interest on the $1.000,000 retained, amounting to $50,000, were made, the total expenditure for the improvement to the latter date being $4,850,090. A considerable portion of the report is given to a history of the Proteus expedition, but beyond a mere recital of the facts the Secretary does not go, as a court of inquiry is now in session taveetigating the causes of the failure of 1 the expedition. j Referring to the militia the Secretary says: "I 1 earnestly recommend that the attention of Congress be invited to tiie subject of sriving substantial encouragement to the formation ot volunteer militia organizations in every State, and in the District of Columbia, by liberal appropriations to supply the neoessary arms, equipments, tents, ammunition, and other ordnance stores. With our small standing army our main dependence for public defense must be on our militia; and the wisdom of the comparatively small expenditures hich would encourage their organization and- their efficiency in drill and. discipline aeema apparent. In the last Congress a bill on this subject was reported from the Senate Committee on Military Affairs (S. 1580) by which it was contemplated that, in lieu of the annual sum ef $200,000 provided by the act of the 23d of April, 1806. the sum of $600,000 should be annually appropriated, the purposes tor which It should bo used being more extended thau under the provisions of the old act. A careful consideration of this proposed act leads to the belief that its enactment would bea great public benefit, and I strongly recommend the passage of such a law." Tea plants are growing in portions of Mississippi and Louisiana, and poor people pluck the leaves and steep them. The plants have had very little attention, and yet they are of fair size and appear naray.

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Atetravoteif tllentepoKt of the geerwtary m i'Bi ImP xreaumrr. fhe rlbprt of Cpfaretary Fotger for the fleca' year endlsg Jun0, 1883, shows that the ordinary revenues of- t&e Government for the yeaf were as follows: Customs, $214,706,497: interna iiereuue, 9i4,izu,0av: bmbb OI puone; BBlm $60,706,695; total, $398,287,683. Ordinary expenses: Civil and miscellaneous, toa, 18,032; Warjdepartment, $48,911,983; Navy department,$15,233,437 Indians, $7,362i jpawdona $66,012,674; interest on pubHc deb il.ids; total, $265,408,138, leaving a surplus revenue of $S2,879,44. This- is $7,300,60 more than Mr. Folger estimated that the surplus would amount to in his last annual report. Compared with the prevlous-Jfiacal' ,aflhc re ceipts for 1883 have decreased, in cuatoma $5,704,233; in internal revenue, $1,7T7,226; in direct tax, $51,986, and in misceUaneous, $905,948. They have increased In sales of1 pnbUe lands $3,202,724. Total decrease, $12,664,367. The expenditures show an: inereai oWthe. year before of $7,526,697 The expenditures of tho War department increased $5,460,000; fox -the Navy department, $350,060. and for penslons nearly $5,000,000, while the interest on the public debt decreased almost $12,000,000. Since the last annual report the act of March 3, 1883, diminished the sources of Internal revenue and changed the tariff law, so that tha estimate made a year ago must be entirely vised. Then the receipts expected from internal revenue were $145,000,000, Now the estimated revenue is $120,000,000. The receipts from customs have fallen off proportionately. For the four months ending Nov. 1, the total receipts were $124,369,985: for the corresponding months of last year they were $114,962,932. For the t-ame periods the expenditures were $89918.260 and $98,706,661. By the payment of $207,000,000 of the public debt, the oharge for interest will be greatly reduced. It is probable that the receipts will be about $350,008,000 for the fiscal year 1884, white the expenditures will amount to $265,000,000, leaving a surplus of $85,000,000 over and above the sinking fund. During the last fiscal year the bonds retired amounted to $134,009,750. Since then $38,374,000 of 3 per cents have been paid, and $40,000,600 more have been called. Of this hist sum, $6,000,000 has been met already; and is included in the $38,374,000. The Secretary again calls the attention ot Congress to the fact that the receipts of the Government are greatly in excess of Its needs. The dangers of this large surplus to the money market will be dwelt upon, and the Seeretarr will say that there is no method of disbursing this surplus except by payment of the public debt. Payment of the Dubho debt, however.,' is nowm jurious to the national banking system. Whpn ail the outstanding calls are paid, the 3 per cents, will be reduced to the neighborhood of $280,000,000, and of this the banks hold about $200,000,000. If payment of the public debt is to be permitted to go on, even tins year, aa it has dnrinK the last fiscal year, the existence of a good many national banks is threatened, and this means a sensible contraction of the currency. If the income of the Government remains as it is, the Secretary of the Treasury will call at least $50,000,000 more of bonds before the end of the fiscal yoar, and by the end ot the fiscal year 1885 more than half the banks holding 3 s as security for circulation would have to replace them with 4's at a great premium or retire their circulation, and thus contract the currency. In discussing tne mode ot reducing the revenues, the Secretary opposes the abolition ot the internal-revenue tax. It is estimated that this tax will yield under the present law $120, -000,000, and this is at least $35,000,000 more than the revenue can be decreased. A decrease of the tax on tobacco and spirits does not necessarily argue a smaller revenue, as experience has often found. Therefore, the Secretary recommends a still further reduction of customs duties, after a proper inquiry shall have developed what articles can best stand the reduction. Sugar, at least, the Secretary thinks, ought to pay a much smaller duty than it now does. The Secretary is embarrassed by the new hm which has so recently been passed that ic would seem proper to give it a further trial before endeavoring to change it, but it has not accomplished the purposes which he desired to effect when he last year recommended that a reduction of revenue be made by a revision of the tariff that should reduce the duties on sugar, iron, steeL woolens and wool, cottons and raw material. Therefore these recommendations must be substantially renewed, for the dangers of a large surplus are even more threatening than they were before the passage of the Tariff act. The Secretary calls attention to the suggestions made by Comptroller Knox, that the rate Of issue of national bank notes be increased to 90 per cent, of the market value of the bonds, and that the 4's be refunded in 3's, the holders receiving a premium in satisfaction, fox the resultant loss of interest. THE POSTOFFICE. Postmaster General Greaham's Beporfc, The report of the Postmaster General Is very full and comprehensive. He estimates the revenue of the department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, at $47,104,078, and ite expenditure at $50,062,189, leaving a deficiency to be supplied ont of the Treasury of $2858,111. This deficiency will be caused, it is thought, by the reduction of postage, but the report suggests that narures are purely conjectural The free delivery system has been largely extended during the year, and is now in operation at 154 offices. The total appropriation for this service was $3,200,000, including a special appropriation of $200,000 to carry out the provisions of the act of Aug. 2, 1882, an increase 01 957S.WU over uuk k the preceding year. The total cost of the service was $3,173,336.51, leaving an unexpended balance of $26,663.49. The increase of the cost over the preceding year was $550,073.77. The present status of the Star service shows for 1883 a cost of $4,739,478, with 77,998,782 miles of annual transportation, against a cost of $7,321,499, with 76,070,995 miles of annual transportation in 1880, being an increase from 1880 ot 1,927,787 miles of transportation and $2,582,031 decrease in cost. This service is now all performed under contracts made upon proposals submitted in response to advertiaementa, &B interesting statement, snowing the development and oostof tlie railroad service from Ha commencement until Jane 30, 1883, is presented. It is the general opinion that the rates ot pay have been greatly increased of late years; the fact is otherwise. The cost per mile of transportation, in 1854 was 11.4 cents; in 1883, notwithstanding the' enormous increase in weight of mails and -the superior facilities provided for distribution, the cost is 10.75 cents per mile. On the 30th of last Jnne there were 6,927 money-order offices in operation, whose transactions during the year, of domestic orders issued, amounted to $117,329,409.31, and of domestic orders paid and repaid to $117,344,281.78; of international orders issued to $7,717,822.11, and of international orders paid and repaid to $3,063,187.06; a grand total in issues of $126,047,328.42, and in payments and repayments ot $120,407,468.83. The fees received in domestic orders issued aggregated $1,101,821.80, and on international orders $170,238.808, total of $1,272,000.90. The gains were, in domestic transactions, about net cent., and in international trans actions from 1.85 to over 6 per cent. ; in domestie fees about 4 per cent., and in International fees from .56 to over .54 per cent. The Postmaster General opnoses the proposed reduction of postage on drop letters from $ cents to 1, on the ground that it Arnold inenase tins cost of the carriers' service and lead to clamor ltd avVam Iyvi- Wa ia in m9 Inmao Grin t the single rate limit on all letters from a half ounce to an ounce. He also recommends that the rate of postage on transient newspapers and periodicals be fixed at l cent tor every three ounces, instead ot 1 cent for every two ounces as now. On the subject ot postal telegraphy, the Postmaster General la diffuse. He says: "From the best consideration which I nave been enabled to bestow upon the subject, I have reached the conclusion that Congress has the constitutional power in providing tor the postal service of the country to avail itself of all the facilities devised by the inventive genius ot modern times for transmitting messages and intelligence, and that it has full authority to aaopt eitner 01 tne nras two piuna wuian 1. nave mentioned. "Th Rstahliahment and oneration of a noetal private companies, would, it is insisted, reduce rates which are now exorbitant and protect the public against the abuses and evils deemed to be inseparable from the service as it exists. In, either event an enormous expense mast be incurred. But without dwelling upon that consideration, it is dear that an efficient execution oC either plan will necessarily Involve the employment of a multitude ot operators, messengers, mechanics, and laborers, and thus largely add to the patronge of the Government. An increase ot that patronage beyond what Is indisoensable to the public service is to be deprecated and avoided, and it is one ot the dangers which, threaten the purity and durationQt or institutions. In Euror tJ telegraph to under theoontrol of the public authorities. With ua, the administration is the Government to aotioit, and may, tor the time being and for all pmctisal fiurnoses, be considered tbla Government ttselt. -n seasons of political excitement, and, to some extent at other times, is there not croundf or serious apprehension that the tehMrapb, nadir the exclusive control ot the doainant mtt mump i aouaeu to promote partisan nurposM vyuw mm proprietor or t them by it$ officers i

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