Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 41, Bloomington, Monroe County, 13 December 1884 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA.

WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - P

THE Mm CONDENSED.

Hbs. Hows, of Woman's Sank notorie

ty, who served time years for swindling

the depositors, has again started a similar

institution in Boston, offering $1 a month

w -

interest on $100. with three months' inter

est in advance. . . .While a Salvation Army

meeting was m progress at tteco, Me., an inceiidnry fired the hall, but prompt action ivtnsmiBsing the andienee averted a panic. ...Hotel-keepers in New York are ex

cited to the utmost over several daiinff rob

beries of rooms, the plunder amounting to

tnousanos or doners. A keobo named Howard Sullivan was executed at Salem N. J., for the murder of a white girl named Ella Watson. Stephen Young, living near Dover, N. EL, gave a party the other night There was some dynamite for blasting purposes m a shelf, and one of the party, to scare the rest fired a revolver. The jar caused an explosion of the dynamite, and the house was blown to atoms and burned up. One person, a Frenchman employed by Young, iras killed outright and seven wounded. Bonds to the amount of $50, 000 and a large amount of railroad stock rrere destroyed. Miss Sadie Greenfield, of Bochester, was blown through a window and her head cut open. Several of those injured will probably die. A BAqr and wind storm of unusual severitvSassed over Eastern Pennsylvania anNew York, unroofing houses and barns, ajfcl destroying telegraph wires and doing much damage to ether property. In New York City the front wail of the Adams Express Company's office, on Fifth avenue, was blown down. At Pittsburgh three persons were fatally injured.... The Home Bubber Works at Trenton, N. J., were burned, involving a loss of $70,000.

At Lincoln, HL, the other day, the father of Zora Burns fixed a shot at O. A. Carpenter, who was tried and acquitted of the girl's murder. The bullet struck an iron column, and Carpenter was escorted home by friends. The Toledo (Ohio) Produce Exchange has adopted an address to the railway managers of the country urging that freight charges are too high, and that in view of the decreased values of Western products there should bea revision and readjustment of rates. Xkab XnoxviBe, Ohio, Win. Beynolds' wagon, containing his three children, left its fastenings on a hillside and dashed down the incline, coming in collision with a great rock. Two of the children were killed, but the third escaped with slight injuries. At Prescott, Arizona, Judge Howard sentenced the convicted polyamists, Am

man M. Texmy, Bishop P. J. Christoffi

son, and C. L Kemp, to pay a fine of

eacn and be imprisoned three years and six months in the United States H&fase of Correction at Detroit; Mich. Kew&p leaves two wives and twelve children iAdestitute circumstances. He desarjjKi to plead guilty, but was preventecimder pain of

ormon Church.

Wm. J. Hake pleaded guilty,

and six months' con-

Penitentiary Sea

gate bankers at Toledo,

excommunication from thj

The sentences of

and Jas. F, 6k

were $500 fineeac

finement in the

grave & Co.,

who

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Ohio, have JEaUed. The deposits do not

exceed iyfr,(KjO, and the unsecured liabili-

A safsAXwn was caused in Lafayette, Indwria tha mmsA of ft leffbire He ftnl.

fl. The Hon. John A Stein pro-

against the blasphemy of the lect

urer. He so informed him. and with sev

eral friends arose and left the hall THa

Ber W. H. hbbals, of the Methodist Church, Paw Paw, Mich., resigned owing to political differences with the congregation, he having advocated prohibition during the campaign... .A O. Boach, a Republican of Waterloo, Wis., wheeled a barrow twenty miles to Madison, in payment of an election bet. The J. L Case Plow Company, of Katrine, Wis., has made an assignment in favor of its creditors. The unsecured liabilities are from $60,000 to $70,000, and the assets nearly $?0,000. The heaviest creditor is J. L Case, President of the company. Other large creditors axe iron and steel dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa.

A kkobo named Perry was lynched at Sulphur Springs, Texas, for thl murder of farmer Jones and Ids wife, robbery being his motive If the Spanish treaty is ratified, ft is claimed that Key West will be a ruined town. Seven thousand persons employed in fte cigar factories will be rendered idle, while theloestoptqperty wiObe $2,000,000. ....The family of Andrew Mann, a cattle dealer atFort Spring, W. Va,, were poisoned, the drug having been placed in nrilk. Two persons have died, four are beyond recovery, three aie seriously ill, and four others are out of danger. This is the third attempt, it is alleged, to poison Mr. Mann's family. Tbb senate of Alabama last week adopted s resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the State, and solexciy expressing the purpose of the white people to aid in the education of colored children. In a difficulty between the Sauls and Basham families at OsiesviUe, Texas, six persons were wounded, Dr. Sauls, Henry Bosham, and A Sauls being fatally shot. fcfaBKEo robbers boarded a railroad train near little Bock, Ark., and secured $6,000 in cash and valuables. Bloodhounds were put on the track of the r6bbers, and six men were soon captured in the, city. Three of them were identified. The correspondent of the Courier-Journal, Louisville, who has investigated the pestilence caused by drought in the mountainous regions of Kentucky and Virginia, reports thai up to date 2,045 deaths have oc-oqzred.

The Chairman of the House Committee

Pubbe lands states that the Pacific

Baiiroads have pooled , their issues and placed a strong lobby on duty. The Northern Pacific forfeiture bill is likely to be the first one Drought up, and its passage will restore 4o the public domain a tract for which an English syndicate is said to have offered $350,000,000. .... Civil-Service Commissioners Thoman and Gregory de-

aja?

at great cost to

ixuetures under The report

nance or several

s and certain im-

goment of the rettte exclusion of

fetory of the recent

mments at length ed with the Bureau iry, fixes the ordi292,601, and those it $15,071,592, and, ss Government envelopment of our . in the shape of

mainder. among tl

politics, recites the'

arctic, expeditious,

upon the frauds con

of Medicine and S

nary estimates at

for increasing the na

in conclusion, advon couragement for the merchant marine, eii

bounties upon coneta ; in or payment for carrying the mails, r J Attorney GENE&AifittEWSTEBhas decided that it is iHdgtl to approve plans for public buUdinga? pere the expenditure required for they 1 Section is clearly greater than the jfcopriation made by Congress. IThis decision applies to proposed J public buildings at Leaven-

inneapolis, and Dodge City....

tturday, Dec. 6, the American flag was

led from a staff on the top of the

hington "Monument as the signal

the completion of the work, which

was commenced in 1848. The total weight of the monument is 160,000,000 pounds. The total cost was $1,130,000 It is claimed by Mr. Springer that the Senate will pass his bill to do away with the fee system of paying United States Marshals and Attorneys when it is revised and put in better shape. . . . .The internal-revenue collections for the first quarter of the fiscal year of 1885 were $38,375,676. Congressman Monet says he has reason for believing that the Senate would accept the cheap telegraphic correspondence bill now before the House as a substitute for the postal telegraph bill.

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Ah Albany correspondent ecently interviewed President-elect Cleveland, and reports as follows: I take the liberty of opening doors upon a personal interview had with the Presidentelect. The public notably that portion of the Democratic party aspiring to Federal position or employment is curious to fciow what will be the width and celerity of the Cleveland broom. I have sought to measure it and time it. Two things may be accepted as facts: One that the Cleveland hand will hold the stick, and the othex that the hs.nd is fully as patriotic as partisan. MOur national opposition to the Republican party methods is largely against the morbid partisanship which has respected party truculeney more than fitness for

public service," is the substance of Cleveland's

argument without literally quoting him. So, while he will give the country a Democratic administration, he evidently does not purpose copying one of the most objectionable features of the dethroned party by a precipitate and indiscriminate sweeping out of placeholders, merely for party's tVe. I look upon it that only the first step has been taJten," said Gov. Cleveland to me, "in the reform contemplated by the election. Purity in official station and prosperity for the people are the demands upon the incoming administration. The confusion that would follow an Immediate turning out of all the present officeholders and clerks of the Government is not properly estimated, perhaps by those who would clamor for such a policy. Reform and not revolution is the need of the republic" During a conversation of oonsic erable length the remarks of the President-elct were only cumulative evidence ef an intention to act upon the principle outlined in the quotation. There was nothing of the headstrong nor the pretender in his manner, but any amount of conviction and determination, while the character of the interview precludes its publication in detail, there Is easily a deduction from it which is submitted for the benefit of interested parses. ' My deduction is that Qrorer Cleveland will be the people's, and not th e politicians', man. The electoral colleges of the various M A J J, J. .1.

mares met ac weir respective capitals on Wednesday, Dec. 3, and went through the formality of voting for President and Vice President The ballots used, at Baleigh were miniature United States flags made from silk grown in North Carolina. The Indiana electors marched to tl$ residence of Mr. Hendricks. In the Illinois college Andrew Shuman drew the slip which carried the privilege of delivering the returns at Washington. The ballot-cox used in Connecticut was the silk hat of ex-Lieut Gov. Loomis. Mark Hopkins presided over the Massachusetts College. The electors of New Jersey united in recommending John P. Stockton for a Cabinet position. Among the New York electors was Jacob Windmiller, (4 years of age, who marched with his associates to the Capital to congratulate Mr. Cleve,Iand. The President of the college sent bis per diem and mileage to the Little Sisters of the Poor in Albany. Nearly every distinguished Democrat in West Virginia witnessed the proceedings of the College at Wheeling. At Landing, George E. Steketee was choeerf to. carry the vote of Michigan to Washington. Tha Tennessee college selected Robert I. Chester, the oldest Democrat in the State, as messenger. The Texas electors sent Cleveland a dispatch congratulating him on his 128,000 majority in that State. The

Kansas college adopted resolutions express- I

of Blaine and Logan, and chosa J. M. Mil-; ler messenger. At Des Moines, John Van

clare that there is no intention to extend the scope of the-civil-saiTice rules so as to include a much larger number of Government officials than at present. Postmabtek Genebal Hatton says

that the $266,764 asked by him for speciajtf

facilities if secured will be spent in fast mail service from Boston south alotfg the Atlantic seaboard. A Washington telegram ssays: "It seems to have settled down to a certainty that this will be a working session, and that much important matter before the House and in the committees will be disposed of during the winter. Mr. Buckler says the Banking and Currency Committee will try to pass through the Houso some bill to secure a national-bank system and avert financial depression. He e:qects to meet with opposition, but says something must be done. Whatever action is taken, however, -will have to be before the 15th, for afjf that time it will be too late to get a dayassigned." At a conference of Republican politicians in New York, it was decided to sed James D. Warren to Washington to learn whether President Arthur desires ix mak& the race

The annual report of Willi&rtn E. Chand

ler, Secretary of the Navy, hrs been made

public. In connection witXi the statement

that three new ships have 'Sefen successfully

launched, the Secretarv sus it has been

shown that American seel makers oan

readily furnish excellent Aaterial for ship

building in large quantities. The becretary

points out that compansoiis of speed between the new cruisers ard the great transatlantic racing steamers are unfair

because the latter Attain their high

speed onlv bv tkie sacrifice of

'qualities essential to ; a ship of war, and

adds-that the former ccbuld overtake 56 per

cent, of the merchant steamers of the world. The report calljs attention to the necessity for torpedo bo&ts, and recommends

the construction of seven modern cruisers

annually for the next tn years. Commenting on the present comditi m of the navy,

Secretary Chandler saws that the dispro

portion between the ezfpeuditures therefor,

and the .results accomplished, is due to

the policy of attempting

rehabilitate wom-ouv

the name of rex

recommends the disced

navy-yards and work-5

provements in the r

ofIowoXo &e national capital. The Wisconsin collet imposed this trust upon J.

W. 0stramler Ihe Missouri electors sent

onrratulntin2 telegram to Cleveland and

chose John I. W&tin as messenger. The official vte ot Texas was canvassed on the 2d inst., faun completing the list of States, and beloV we print the complete and authentic poplar vote for President in all of the States the Union :

States,

AM bam a. Arkttuaas Calif ot-nla

Colorado Conn 4-o . Del ware Florida

Georgia....

Illinois

IndWna.

Iowa Kansas

Kentucky. Louisiana.

Maine Maryland Massachusetts. . . Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri. Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire. New Jersey New lrk North Carolina.. Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania.... Khode island.... South Carolina.. Tennessee Texas Vermont. Virginia West Virginia.... Wisconsin

Total Cleveland's plu.

92,973

72,927 88.07

27,725

67,182 17,054 31,769

8,Rft7 312,455 244,990 177,286

90,132

152,657

62,546 52,140

96,932

122,352

U89.361

70,144

78.510

$235,989

54,354

6f577 3?,166 127,784 663,154

142,900

368,280 2,593

393,747 12,391 69,890 133,270 223,208 17,342 145,497 67,317 146,477

r

59,444

50,8J5

05,898

12,768 118,031

47,603

3o7,481 238,463 197,089 154,406 118,674

46,347 72,309 85,699

146,724 192,669

111,923

43,509

202,925

76,877

7,193 43,166

123,432 562,005

125,070 400,082 26,852

474,268 19,030 21,733

124,09W

88,353

38,411 139,356 63,096 161,157

GO

610

1.685

6

125 10,910 8,293

36,290 761 1,958

2,494 55

72

184 12,074

3,028 1,564

4,495

3,106 338

2,160

2,794 9.923 18,403! 4,631

4,910,843 4,843,944

66,899

2,153 2,858

1,573 6,155 25,206 425 11,069 ' 488 14,306 928

1,131 3,511 1,612 143 939 7,656

150,335

0

3

762

1,847

16,346 1,655 120 3,953 531 24,382

3,587

652 3,494 17,004 10 5,179 723 16,992 422

957 3,321 785

805 4,598

133,400

Total TOte 10.038,522 Fusion Cleveland and Butler electors, -f Fusion Cleveland and Butler electors; one. Cleveland elector was voted for separately, receiving 149,835 votes, and one Butler elector was voted for separately, receiving 41,390 votes. SFusion Blaine and Butler electors. Boston telegram: The Journal, of this city, asserts that on the Friday preceding the election a Republican leader (understood

to be Levi P. Morton) besought Senator Edmunds, who was in New "York at the time, to write a simple statement that he believed Cleveland's election would be unfavorable to the public interest. The Vermont Senator wanted to know to whom he should address the note. His interlocutor answered: "To me. I will see that it is properly used." The Senator pointedly refused to do what was asked, in spite of Mr. Morton's appeal that it would probably be of enough avail to turn the vote of New York to Blaine, saying quietly: "I should be misunderstood. " The Senatorial contest in California has narrowed down to George 0. Perkins and Aaron A. Sargent, with the probabilities in favor of the latter. John P. Jones has no opposition in Nevada, but the prediction is made that J. W. Mackey will displace James Fair two years hence.

Dtjbing November the fire losses in the United States amounted to $7,000,000, and

for eleven months of 1884 the loss is placed at $101,000,000.

These were 296 failures in the United States reported during the week, against 237 in the preceeding week, and 246, 247,

and 1G9 in the corresponding weeks of 1883,

1882, and lool, respectively. About 84 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. The general commercial situation throughout the United States during the past week as reported by telegraph to Bradstreet's shows no material evidences of improvement In the face of the continued depression, the somewhat surprising fact is noted that at several important points the general

feeling in trade circles is more buoyant,

and that greater confidence exists in the

outlook for business in the new year. Tangible data for this view ore not fur

nished. . . . Solomon Forres and Jose Manuel Soto were 'executed at Salinas, CaX, for

murdering a Chinaman; and Cook Teets, a blind man was hanged at Owen Sound, On

tario, for killing his wife to secure the insurance on her life Twelve Chinamen

are supposed to have been drowned in an attempt to make their way alon g the coast

from Foul Bay, British Columbia, to Washington Territory.

The New York Sun, in a significant

double-leaded editorial, discusses the question of "Our Coming National Currency, n and reaches the conclusion that the nation

al bank currency must go, and give place to a Government currency of coin and paper

money, jluo anicie notes earenuiy the rapid decrease of the national bank circulation, and the more rapid increase in coin

and coin certificates, and says: "This will give us, by 1891, a giand total of $1,135000,000 of government currency against

not more than $100,000,000, and probably less,

supplied oy tne banics. ur course, much may happen to modify or prevent this result. The conduct of men cannot be predicted so confidently as that of inanimate things. The legal

tenders mat" be redeemed and with

drawn, the coinage of silver dollars may be suspended and the supply of gold mav be

diminished at the mines or be drained away to foreign countries. The decrease of rational

bank circulation may, on the other hand, be checked by favoring legislation, but the probabilities are greatlv against these events, and. An

we said at the outset, tt is much more likeVv

that national bank notes will be triven out of use altogether, and their place taken by an ex

clusively Government currency."

Gkobge Snydeb, of Darrtown, Oct, killed his aged mother with a shovel and buried her' in a ravine, to obtain $100 which he had paid her as interest on a mortgage. . . . .Fire destroyed $50,000 worth of property at West Bandolph, Vt.; Butterfield & Crabb's saw-mill at Alpena, Idich., with 275,000 feet of lumber; loss, $35,000.

FOREIGN

The condition of affaires in Spain is believed to be worse than at any time Bince the killing of Gen. Prim in I860. The situation is one of riots and conspiracies, trade is at a standstill, cholera, is raging, the treasury is bankrupt, and a revolution is impending. ...China will continue the war against France and will secure 15,000 re-enforcements. Premier Ferry has abandoned all hopes of a euccess&il issue of the mediation between China and France. Pbotests against the proposed increase of the French duty on grain have been made by Bussia and the United States. Tbb rumor is telegraphed fcrom Egypt that the false prophet of the Soudan is dead, and that his army is dispersing. . , .A Brussels dispatch states that Nicholas Fish, United States Minister to Belgium, has resigned. ; It is stated by the London Times that business in India has been unsettled by the prospect of a repeal of the law of the United States for the compulsory coinage of silver dollars. . . .The Parnellites expect to be able to returneighty-five members as soon as

compared with November last year, 5,774, 000. The exports for November decreased 2,350,000, compared with November last year. .Austria and Italy are threatening reprisals on French products on account of the law passed by the French Government imposing a tax on imports of grain. Lobd Chief Jtjsti oe Colebidge in pronouncing the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of Capt Dudley and the mate of the wrecked yacht Mignonette, who killed the boy Parker to keep themselves alive, said that all the Judges agreed that the act of the prisoners amounted to murder, and the conviction must be affirmed.

the redistribution bill coes intc. effect

Valkenburg was selected to carry the vote During NovemberBritieh imports decreased

ADDITION AJL NEWS. "A PSAnii weighing sixty-three carats, and valued at $17,000, was recently purchased for $90 from an Indian at Guaymas, Mexico, and has been shipped to London. A dispatch from Alexandria says Da Lesseps has obtained from tho Egyptian Government concessions for a fresh water canal from Hagazig to Port Said Tihe steamers Alliance and Pochard foundered off the coast of England, causing ihe loss of sixty or more lives. A wrestung match for $600 and the mixed wrestling championship of the world between Duncan C. Eoss and Tom Cannon took place in San Francisco. Cannon won the first fall, catch as catch can, in 11 minutes; the second round, side-hold, was won by Boss in 2 minutes; the third, sidehold, by Ross in 3 minutest the fourth, Graaco-Roman, by Cannon in 9 minutes; the fifth, collar-and-elbow, by Boss in 11 minutes. As Rom won three out of five, the match was decided iu his favor, . . .The J. L Case Plow Company, of Racine, having been served with foreign attachments, executed an assignment to Charles H. Lee, who gave bond in the sum of $675,000. The liabilities may prove to be $800,000, Mr. Case being the heaviest creditor. Two thousand cigarniakers have been thrown out of employment by the shutting down of the Straiten & Storm factory in New York. Work will not recommence until the question of the Spanish treaty in regard to the West India trade is settled. . " .At Frankfort Plains. N.

J., unknown men opened the grave of Zachariah H. Price, broke the casket, and were engaged in removing the corpse when they were frightened away. As Mr. Price was well known throughout the State, it is thought the resurrectionists intended to hold his body for a reward George Opdyke & Co., bankers and brokers, of New York, have failed. In response to the request of Gen. Grant United States Senator Mitchell has withdrawn his bill proposing to confer a pension on the great military leader JNews has been received by President Arthur of the successful negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Guatemala, San Salvador and the United States of Colombia Postmaster General Hatton has sent a letter to the Senate recommending that the postofiices shall 1)6 supplied with a larger clerical force. Mr. Blair introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 8th inst, granting $50,000 to aid the Colored People's Exposition, to be held at Chicago in 1835. Mr. Dolph called up the bill providing tor tho incorporation of the Spokane Kails and Coeur d'Alfme Railway Company in Idaho and Washington Territories, Mr. Harrison objected to the bill on the ground that the company would probably occupy ail the passes throu gh the raoun tains and secure land enough to monopolize the public domain. Mr. Piatt remarked that he did not approve ot the practice in vogue of building railroads on paper. Certain amendments to the bill were agreed to depriving the company of the right to oonaoltdate with other roads. Further consideration of the subject was postponed. A bill to refund to a Detroit firm $473 alleged to have, been illegally exacted on malt imported train Canada was defeated, for the reaaon that protest was not made at the time of paying the duties. Mr. Mitchell read a letter from 'Gen. Grant declining to accept a pension, and requesting the withdrawal of the bill introduced, in his behalf. A committee ot conference was ordered on the bill forfeiting the unearned land grant ot the Atlantic and Pacific Road. In the House of Representatives the Speaker read a communication irom the Postmaster General asking an appropriation of $100,000 for railroad postal service for the remainder of the current year. Tnia was referred, as well as the following bills : One by Mr. Townshend proposing a constitutional amendment providing that treaties shall bejmade by and with the consent of the House as well as that of the Senate; by Mr. Ryan, to open portions of Indian Territory to homestead settlement; another by Mr. Buckner to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars; and another by Mr. Robinson to restore the ceremonies attendant upon Presidential inaugurations to Jeffersonian simplicity. Mr. Cox offered a resolution asking the opinion of the Attorney General as to whether the eight-hour law should be considered as applicable to letter-carrlera A joint resolution was also introduced by Mr. Cox proposing an appropriation of $100,001 for the completion of the Bart hold! Statue of Liberty.

Mr. Warner offered a bill to prevent the contraction of the currency, a $500,000 appropriation was proposed by Mr. O'Neill for the improvement of the Philadelphia harbor, and Mr. Kllia introduced a bill to erect a monument to the victims of the Greely expedition at a cost of $25,000. Some discussion of the interstate commerce bill followed, but no action was taken upon it. NEW YORK. Beeves. , $i.so 7.00 Hoos,., 4.50 & 5.00 Flour Extra. 4.50 5.00 Wheat No, Spring. 81 a .82 No. 2 Red 82 tS .&i Conx No. 2..... 5G S .57 Oats White 33 ?; .38 loiiK New- afcsa : 12.75 $13.25 CHICAGO. Beeves Cno!ce to Prime Steers. 6. 25 6.75 Good Shipping. ... 5.25 6.25 Common to Fait. 3.50 cQ 4.50 Hogs 3.75 4.25 Flour -Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.00 4.50 Good to Choice Spring. . 3.25 ($ 3.7? Wheat No. 2 Spring 73 .73? Na 2 Ited Winter. 74 3 .75 Cobv Na 2.,.. 37 u .38 Oats No. 2 24 9 .25 Rye No. 2 51 & .52 BABLBY No. 2 57 & .58 Butte ; Choice Creamery. 25 j5 .27 Fine Dairy m .20 Cheese Full C ream. 12 .13 Skimmed Flat 03 (3 .o Egos Fresh ., 22 .23 PoTATOBs-ew, per bu 88 .40 Pohk Mess 11.25 X1.50 IjABD 06tt($ .07 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 08 .70 Corn No. 2., 38 ($ .39 Oats No. 2.. .26 .38 MILWAUKEE. WHKAT No 2 72 .72 Vi COBN Na 2 30 fij ,38 Oats No. 2 26 $ .28 Barley No. 2 4J go .50 Pobk Mess n.00 itn.50 Laud 6.50 & 6.75 ST. LOU1B. Wheat No. 2 Red 75 $ .7G Corn Mixed 34 .35 Oath MUed 20 .27 Rye. 48 .49 PORKM0S8 11 0 (12.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat Na 2 Red 74 & .76 Corn...... 30 W ,37 J Oats Mixed 28 .20 Pork Mess 12.00 ril2.ro Lard 06&& .06 DETROIT, Fixhjb 5.00 & 5.60 Wheat No. 1 White 75 .77 Corn -Mixed 40 .41 Oats No. 2 White 28 (t 2J Fork Family 12.00 12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat Na 2 Red, New. 7a .73 CoRN-TVIixed 33 (& .34 Oats Mixed 25 $ .27 EAST LIBERT V, Cattle Best coo 6.5) 'Fair 6.00 & 5.5.1 Common 4.00 4.50 Hogs 4.60 i4 4.75 Sheep , , 4."so 5.00

CONGRESS. What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. A bill to suspend the coinage of the silver dollar, and providing that there shall be no reissue of United States notes of a denomination less than $5, was introduced in the Senate on the 3d inst., by Mr. MoPhersoiu of New Jersey. The bill proposes that silver certificates shall be issued, redeemable on presentation at the Treasury. Mr. Vest's resolution caUinpr for investigation into the leasts of land made by Indians in Indian Territory was amended so as to include within the scope of the investigation the leases of lands in all Indian reservations. The resolution was then agreed to. Mr. Slater gave notice of his intention to take up the bill declaring forfeited the unearned lands granted in aid of the construction of the Oregon Central Railroad. The Honse, on motion of Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, declined to accept the Senate's amend ments to the House bill forfeiting the unearned land-grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Raiiroad Company. The House went into committee of the whole on the bill making tern porary provision for the naval service. Mr. Randall stated that the appropriation for the support of the navy for the current fiscal year was $15,636,160, a reduction of (258,268 on last year's appropriation. The bill passed without amendment. Consideration of the interstate commerce bill was resumed. Mr. Seymour, a member of the Commerce Coxnmitte, supported the bilL He thought Reagan's substitute so strict as to interfere with the trade laws. Mr. Long, another member, favored the establishment of an Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Peters approved of the bill because it provided against the perpetration of wrongs by railroad companies by unreasonable freight charges. Mu. Mitchell introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 4th ins, giving a pension of $5,000 a year to Gen. Grant. Mr. Cameron submitted a resolution, to lie over, to the effect that the Finance Committee be directed to inquire whether it shall be expedient to expend a portion of the surplus revenue for the purpose of reviving the shipping and export trade by allowing a rebate from tariff duties on foreign goods imported in ships built and owned iu this country and by allowing a premium on American vessels. The interstate commerce bill was made the special order for Thursday, the 11th. The President sent the following recommendations to the Senate: Otis P. G. Clarke, of Rhode Island, Commissioner of Pensions; Luther Harrison, of Pennsylvania, Assistant Commissioner General of the Land Office. Commissioners for Alaska John G. Brady, of Alabama, to reside at Sitka; George P. Ihric, of Pennsylvania, fto reside at Wrangel; Chester Seeber, of California, to reside at Ounalaska. The Senate confirmed William P. Dunwoody, of Iowa, member of the National Board of Health : Frank Hatton, of Iowa, Postmaster General; John Schuyler Crosby, of New York, First Assistant Postmaster General. In the House, Mr. Morrison introduced a bill directing tne Secretary of the Treasury in purchasing bonds of the United States to pay out any money in the Treasury in excess of $100,000,000. Mr. Dunham introduced a bill to admit, free of duty, articles for the World's Exposition to be held by the colored race in Chicago in 1885. Mr. J. D. Taylor of Ohio offered a bill prohibiting the removal of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine, or any widow or dependent relative of the same, from any office in the civil service, except for specific causes. The House then resumed consideration of the interstate commerce bill. Mr. Anderson supported the substitute offered by Mr, Reagan, though he did not think its provisions quite strong enough to secure the people asrainst railroad extortion. Mr. Shively approved of the Reagan substitute, but doubted the propriety of intrusting to such a commission as was proposed such unlimited powers. Several bills were introduced to repeal the laws authorizing the appointment of supervisors and deputy marshals at elections. Both houses adjourned to Monday, the 8th inst.

Count Bamford's Dietetics In the formula for Bumford's soup given in my last, it is stated that the bread should not be cooked, but added jnst before serving the soup. Like everything else in his practical programmes, this was prescribed with a philosophical reason. His reasoning may have been fanciful sometimes, but he never acted stupidly, as the vular majority of mankind usually do, when they blindly follow an established custom without knowing any reason for so doing, or even attempting to discover a reason. In his essay on "The Pleasure of Eating and of the Means That May Be Employed for Increasing It, he says: "The pleasure enjoyed in eating depends first, on theagreeableness of the taste of the food; and, secondly, upon its power to affect the palate.

Now. there are many substances ex-

tremely cheap, by which very agreeable tastes may be given to food, particularly .when the basis or nutritive substance of the food is tasteless; and the effect of any kind of palatable solid food (of meat, for instance), upon the organs of taste, may be increased almost indefinitely, by reducing the size of the particles of such food, and causing it to act upon the palate by a larger surface. And if means be used to prevent its being swallowed too Boon, which may easily be done by mixing it with some hard and tasteless substance, such as crumbs of bread rendered hard by toasting, or anything else of that kind, by which a long mastication is rendered necessary, the enjoyment of eating may be greatly increased and prolonged.19 He adds that "the idea of occupying a person a great while, and affording him much pleasure at the same time, in eating a small quantity of food, may perhaps appear ridiculous to some; but those who consider the matter attentively will perceive that it

j is very important. It is, perhaps, as

mucn so as anytmng mat can employ the attention of the philosopher." W. Mattieu Williams, in Popular Science Monthly . -p Metallic 8oap. Porter "Did you ring, sah?" Hotel Guest "Yes; I want some soap.

"There is the soap on the waahstand, sab." "This? Do you call this hard ball soap?" "Best castile, sah. Don't it feel like castile, sah?" "Well, no ; rather more like cast iron." Philadelphia Cqll. The New York Medical Tribune calls attention to the fact that since the production of cider in New England had almost ceased, there has been a marked increase in rheumatism and stone. European observers have called attention to similar facts abroad. M. Dumont, while examining the statistics of a hospital in Normandy, found that in fiftynine years only four cases of stone had been admitted. The ordinary beverage in Normandy is cider.

It's a pretty difficult thing for a highschool girl to think of something to say when she goes to write a composition, but as soon as she gets out of school and while on the way home she can say a whole newspaper lull without thinking. Next to sound judgment, diamonds, and pearls are the rarest things to be met with. De la Bray ere.

I jiaii cmmrtui are v ctntujr uu a very early age that is, tb V ave rocks.

CUBIOCJS AND SCIENTIFIC. Ik the Provience of Viatka, Bussia. there are produced annually 72,000,000

pounds of tar, o,400,U0U pounds 01 pitcn and 2,160,000 pounds of turpentine oiL It is stated that the annual product of birch oil amounts to 141,000,000 pounds (4,000,000 poods), an indication that the demand for it is now great. The eminent botanist De Oandolle gave the age of an elm at 335 yean. The ages of some palms have been set down a from 600 to 700 years; that of an olive tree at 700 years, that of m plane tree at 720, of a cedar at 800yeare, of an oak at 1,500, of a yew at 2,880, of a taxodium at 4,000, and of a baobab tree at 5,000. As to the depths reached in sounding the ocean, Lieutenant Berryman obtained bottom at 4,580 fathoms a short distance south of the banks of Newfoundland. The depth of the sea is commonly exaggerated. People used to think that it ranged from 7,000 to 8,000 fathoms. The average depth is 2,580 fathoms in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. The skin or outer cover of the insect consists of the cuticle, not comparable with any part of the skin of a vertebrate, and underlying tissues. The cuticle consists of two very distinct layers one thick and transparent, the other, in which also pigment is developed, thin and opaque. The pigment is disposed in beautiful microscopic markings, differing in different species. The highest velocity that has been imparted to shot is given as 1,626 feet per second, being equal to a mile in 32 seconds. The velocity of the earth at the equator, due to rotation on its axis, is 1,000 miles per hdur, or a mile in 36 seconds; and thus, if a cannon ball was fired due West, and could maintain its initial velocity, it would beat the sun in its apparent journey round the earth. The effects of the inhalation of fumes of strong ammonia on the system are deafness and catarrh. In some instances the troubles are very serious indeed. It will induce lung disease if there is any tendency to weakness of the lungs. The most valuable remedy is to inhale the fumes of strong glacial acetic acid, which reacts upon the alkali ammonia. Manufactures Gazelle. The celebrated English physiologist. Dr. Carpenter, has proposed a substantially new version of the germ theory of diseases. He believes, from observations based upon the mutability of bacilli, that the same germs may produce different diseases in different constitutions a theory that is corroborated, if not confirhied, by recent observations, which show that the bacteria of typhoid fever and malaria are of the same description. A composite pulley is among the recent mechanical inventions. It is formed of a castiron hub, a web or body made of paper, casted and pressed into a solid bloc of the thickness to insure the required strength, and this web is surrounded by a wrought or cast rim secured by knees or Hangs riveted through the rim and paper; the ran, having thus a uniform bearing upon the paper body, is steadier and more even than an iron pulley.

x he 1 aces i tneory 01 maiana 2? tnai the principal source of the fever and exhaustion is to be sought in the slowly but cumulatively poisonous influence of the relatively large amount of carbonic acid in the atmosphere of malarious districts, generated by vegetable decay, by evaporation of soil moisture laden with it, or by upturning earth saturated with that compound Beeent measurements of the carbonic acid in the soil, as compared with the amount present in normal atmosphere have shown that their relative proportions are as 250 to one. Crime in Paris. ' A practical economist and one of the wisest of statesmen once remarked that it is cheaper to educate a hundred children to do right than to punish and reform one adult criminal. This remark, vhich is less exaggerated than most epigrams, occurs to one in reading over the criminal statistics which are compiled each year by every lcrge city.

xan.o, ivi luatCLuuu, but rcuuni ux uiuuu in Paris during 18S3. According to figures recently published the police made 46,298 arrests, a decrease of 159 over 1882. The decrease for the city itself amounted to 725, but tho increase in the banlieux, or suburbs, brought up the total, of which 40,491 were males, and 5,807 females. The large proportion of juvenile criminals 13,232 males and 1,521 females show how true it is that in largo cities there springs up a criminal class which is not to be eradicated, because its chil

dren from the earliest age are taught to tread the paths of crime. But aome encouragement may be 'derived from the fact that nearly 50 per cent, of all the persons arrested have been arrested before. This proves that the reformation of criminals is extremely difficult and uncertain, but at the same time it indicates that the number of malefactors in Paris is really not so Isrge as the figures first published would imply. Several of the arrests were upon peculiar charges; thus, two persons were charged with conspiracy against the Government; four with attempting to kindle a civil war, and. forty with seditious proposals. There were 4,791 arrests for disturbing the peace, 14,524 for vagrancy, 3,046 for begging, 114 for burglary, 143 for murder, 1,255 for unlawful woundiug, 8,997 for robbery, 298 lor cheating fit cards, and 2,384 for swindling. Naturally, the largest number of arrests was made among unemployed persons, or among

uiose ot uncertain employment, it uerog literally true that idleness leads to crime.' Among artisans, mechanics head the list, followed by masons, cabmen, liquor dealers, seamstresses, and shoemakers. Among the delinquents 3,401, or 8 per cent, were foreigners. Tbese statistics furnish suggestive material for those who care to meditate upon the number of black sheep in every municipal flock in spite of the improvements of modern times.

Every age Las its different inclinations, but man is always the same. At 10 he is led by sweetmeats, at 20 by a mistress, at HO by pleasure, at 40 by ambition, anciat 50 by avarice. Rous tteatu )