Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 June 1886 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTE, - - PUBUSina

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Johann Most, the anarchist, and his associates, Schenck and Braunshweig, were found guilty at New York of misdemeanor. The extreme penalty for the offense charged against them is one year's imprisonment and $500 line. The jury recommeuded Schenck to the mercy of the court. Most was handcuffed to a thief in court. He did not testify in his own defense, but his fellow-prisoners took the stand and testified in palliation of their conduct. After the taking of testimony had been closed Most addressed the jury in his own behalf, saying: I cannot speak very well English. You have heard a great deal about me. I suppose that you expected a great deal of witnesses for the prosecution and a lot of black-devil lies about me. But what has come off I have seen prosecuting officers in Austria and Germany going against me and my associates, but they were slaves of the kings and princes. I didn't expect that here.".... Brock Grant, one of the first engineers on the lakes, died suddenly in a saloon at Erie, Pa-, aged 90. He was at one time a millionaire, owning valuable property in Chicago, but lost it all and died penniless. . . . John H. Deane, of New York City, counsel for the board of managers of the American Baptist Missionary Union, is short in his accounts with the board $150,000. Thk story comes from Boston that seven silver certificates of the denomination of $100 each were swept about in a boarding house by the servants, one being burned by the cook, in blissful ignorance of their value. One was found pasted in the window of a grocery store W.N.George, of Duke Center, Pa., an organizer of Knights of Labor lodges, has been arrested on a charge of tapping the National Transit pipe line, and robbing the company of twelve barrels of oil a day for three years. ....John Kelly, the renowned Tammany sachem and Democratic politician, died in New York, aged 61. The man Johann Most, who, since he ran away from Germany, has been performing as head-devil of the socialist propaganda in this "asylum for the oppressed" scoundrels of other lands, has been sentenced by the Criminal Court in New York to imprisonment one year in the State Prison, and to pay a mulct of 500. His associate villains, Braunschweig and Schenck, were sentenced to imprisonment nine months each, and the former to pay a mulct of $250 Henry Havenieyer. the great sugar refiner, died suddenly at New York.

owr 100. The Independents have twelve majority on joint ballot in tho municipal Council. The Iowa Republican State ( entral Committee at its meeting last week decided to hold the State Convention in Dos Moines, Wednesday, Aug. 25. . . .Republicans of the Fifth Illinois District met at Elgin and renominated by acclamation the Hon. A. J. Hopkins -for Congress. . . .Hon. 0. 0. Matson has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Fifth Indiana District, The Maine Democratic Convention, in session at Bangor, nominated Colonel Clark S. Edwards, of Bethel, for Governor, and expressed sympathy with Premier Gladstone and the Irish home-rule movement. . . . .The Greenbackers of Missouri held a State convention at Sedalia. and nominated Orlando D. Jones for Judge of the Supreme Court. WAsuiiiro;. A rtmok comes from Washington that the North Atlantic Squadron will be ordered to the Canadian coast on account of the fishery troubles. A Canadian police boat is cruising in the neighborhood of Canso, and the cruiser Lansdowne left St. John, N. B., for an unknown destination. It is reported these cruisers will attempt to capture certain American vessels that have purchased bait within the Canadian limit. Secketaky Manning paid a visit to the White House last week and had a long chat with the President. Among the other callers was ex-Governor R. S. McLane, United States Minister to France. The decrease in the public debt for May was 88,828,566. The interest-bearing debt is now $1,220,650,312. The following is a recapitulation of the debi statement issued on the 1st inst: TNTKREST-BEARING DEBT, Bonds at 4 V per cent 2.50.000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 137.7,100 Bonds at 3 per cent 154, ;V.j,-i0J Kef undine cortifieateH at 4 per cent. 20 0)

Navv nension fund at 3 ner cent 14,000,000

Pacific Kailroad bonds at 6 ner cent.. 64,023,512

Principal $l,2.0,f5J.:U2

j Interest 1I..v,ns I Total $1.2V.'i:7.'4i

; DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS C EASED SINCE

MATURITY. Principal $7,'H7,5 5 Interest. 2 J Total $ ,S10t-2;;o DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,739. f Certificates of deposit 13, -55,000 Gold certificates tM -c, 25 Silver certificates Ktf U,1.4 Fractional currency .'. 07 Principal oV,&l,M7 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1.74C.r00.544 Interest 11,8)5.(5 hi Total S1.77C.5J5, tii Less cash items available ior reauotion of the debt 2J2,104,274 Less reserve held for redemption of U.S. notes 100,000,000 Total 3'J,i:4,l74

THE WEST

Thk most notable dramatic event of the season, in Chicago, is the engagement, at McVicker's Theater, of the famous A. M. Palmer Company, from the Madison Square Theater, New York, which begins on the 9th inst. The company is composed of Artists of the first rank in their profession, and will present a series of first-class comedies, including wOur Soeietv," 4 Saints and Sinners," Broken Hearts," "Old Love Letters, " "Engaged, HOne Touch of Nature," and a new play entitled "Love's Martvr," by the author of uThe Two Orphans." Judging from the standpoint of the importance of the several plays to be produced, and the phenomenally strong casts with which they will be presented, it can safely be predicted that the season at McVicker's cannot result otherwise than in a most brilliant success. Thomas W. Ferry, formerly Senator from Michigan, returned to Grand Haven last week in robust health, after a sojourn of some years in Europe Unfavorable crop reports come from the Northwest. In Minnesota and Dakota but little rain has fallen since April. As a result grain is not stooling out. Chinch-bugs have also made their appearance in some sections, and are doing considerable damage. Five thousand citizens of Minneapolis assembled at the corner of Main street and First avenue to lay the corner-stone for an exposition building to cost $230,000. . . .At Sedalia, Mo., a lot of household furniture and other personal property belonging to Martin Irons were seized by a constable to satisfy several judgments. One of the men who robbed the County Treasurer's safe at Perry ville, Mo., of $6,000, has been arrested in Grand Tower, and $1,326 of the stolen money has been recovered. He has confessed, and his accomplices will soon be caught.

Total debt less available cash itemb$l,474,:440,8 Ket cash in the Treasury 7 , M-Vil Debt less cash in Treasury June 1. 1886 5i,3;)8,llWV2:U Debt less cash in Treasury Muv I,188G 1,407.020.847 Decrease of debt during April o .'tki CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE. FOR REDUCTION OP THE DEBT. Gold held for pold certificates actually outstanding $80,l20r25 Silver held forsilvercertiticatea acxually outstanding 9,161,12.) L S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding lH,to5,000 Cash neld for maturea debt and interest unpaid 1 V)0V 7 Fractional currency 1 9 2 Total available for reduction cf the debt &2J2, 10 1,273 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, lb62 5100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt v Fractional silver coin 52Sl-.:?77 Minor coin 4'".4":i

Total .

j Certificates held as cash ... H;t 3 ut fcetcash balance on hand.., 7 .U2. i!l

Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $490, 100,310 Speaker Carlisle reports that Si, 125 bills and 178 joint resolutions! have this season been introduced in the House.... .Secretary and Mrs. Manninpr "will nhortlv make a month's visit to Hot Springs, Ark. At Alliance, Ohio, the opera hou-e, a brick structure, suddenly collapsed, crushing in its fall an adjoining dwelling, and destroying the stocks oi' merchants ou the street front. The total loss will aggregate $70,000. IilDUSTBLiLA'OTES

TUL SOUTH.

The Louisville and Nashville Road within a week expended $450,000 in moving one rail of its thirteen thousand miles of track three inches nearer to its companion. The change was made between Louisville and New Orleans in one day by a force of ten thousand men..., An effort has been pat on foot to remove the capital of Louisiana from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. It can only be done by a vote of the people Dr. W. O. Baldwin, an eminent physician, died at his home in Montgomery, Ala. The revenue cutter Dix put into Cedar Keys, Fla.,wiih the Cuban fishing-smack Chlotilde, having 6,000 salt fish on board. She is charged with fishing within three leagues of the American shore A locomotive exploded in the round-house of the International and Great Northern Road at Palestine, Tex., killing two men and wounding nine others. A seveue drouth prevails in Louisiana. ....Mrs. Hughes, a young and handsome woman of Lcuisville, was followed from store to store by a detective, who saw her steal silk stockings, gold rings, and lace. When arrested at her residence, it was found that she had constructed with great ingenuity a bustle and pockets sufficient to hold all her plunder. She is from a good family in Marion County, Kentucky. W. E. Wootek, County Judge of Red Mver County, Texas, shot himself at his residence, in Clarksville, dying instantly. He had been accused of appropriating Gf0 of the county's money. POMTIiAL.

The Prohibitionists of New Jersey nominated Gen. Clinton B. Fisk for Governor fey acclamation. Chairman Taytob, of the Wisconsin Republican Committee, believes that Gov. Bask will be renominated. . . .The election In Richmond. Vr resulted in the defeat of the regular Democratic nominees. Lee. Democrat, for City Sergeant, was defeated bj Smith Independent, by a majority of

The Union State Labor Association was in session at Decatur last week. The following officers were elected: President, 1. J. Quinn, of Chicago: Vice Presidents, F. Reynolds, of Decatur, and Henry Rolf, of Quincy; Secretary, John Mulready, of Springfield; Treasurer, A. C Cameron. The members of the last Legislative Committee presented ,i report denouncing in sweeping terms the members of the last Legislature for their hick of interest in labor measures, and recommending that only Mich candidates for legislative honors as are known to be in full sympathy with laboring men be supported at the polls. Resolutions were adopt -d extending the sympathy of the convention to the families of the Chicago policemen killed or wounded by the Haymarket-square riot, denouncing the anarchist gathering as a mob of the vilest classes of society, expressing the hope that all concerned in the murders will receive their full deserts, and laying the blame of the riot on capitalists who, to undermine American labor, have imported semi-barbarians from the hotbeds of European anarchism. . . . At the fifth day's session of the Knights of Labor Convention at Cleveland a petition was presented asking that Congress do away with national banks, and that Government loan offices be substituted, the legal r te of interest per annum to be tixed at '4 per cent. . . Christian Gehring, a shoemaker who had been hired to take the place of August Kakmen in a New York shoe factory, was shot and almost instantly killed by Eaknn n. After tiring the fatal shot Eakmen placed the pistol to his temple and tired, lie died a few minutes afterward .... The wagon factory of Nchuttler it liotz, in Chicago, yielded to its workmen, and adopted the eiyht-hour system last month. On its refusing to advance wages 10 per cent, the 340 emphiyt s quit work. . . .One thousand coal miners in the Jiroad Top region of Pennsylvania struck for an advance in wages, Thektc was a good deal of wrangling during the sixth day's session of the Knights of Labor convention. The firs; open attack upon Mr. T. V. Powderly was made in the convention. His enemies charged that be was scheming to In come Governor of Pennsylvania and that he was r. inning the order on Roman Catholic principles. To these charges the General Mastc NVorkiimn entered a denial, claiming that a clique, backed by outside influences, wt.s attempting (o disrupt the order. The workmen on the new Government building at Erie, Pa,, struck because the

contractors were not prompt in paying wages. . , .Frank Lux and .fames MeN'aHy, members of the Executive hoard of the Knights of Labor; William F. Shrooder, Henry Vogt, John Thomas, and seven others were arrested at Milwaukee on indictments ior conspiracy in connection with the recent boycotts and labor troubles.

Decoration Day in New York was marked by a general suspension of business. The veterans of the rebellion were escorted through the streets by two brigades of militia. President Cleveland and Generals Sheridan and Schotield reviewed the procession. At the tombof General Grant, at Riverside, in addition to the car-load of flowers sent from California, stood a quaint c mtrihntion from the Confederate veterans of KiehiiKnid. At Chicago especial honor was shown to the memory of Col. Mulligan at the monument in Calvary, and the Grand Army posts again garlanded the graves at Oiikwoods. The graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Oakwoods Cemetery, near Chicago, were decorated by the National Veterans' Association and the ex-Confederate Association, The survivors of four Illinois regiments spread gai lands at Graceland Cemetery and listened to an address by Gen. Stiles. The National Cemetery at Leavenw orth was dedicated with full military honors. Col. A. J. Smith was in command, and the battle-scarred veterans were escorted by four troops of regular cavalry. The graves of both Federal and Confederate dead in the national cemeteries at Jefferson 15nrracks, below St. Louis, were decorated by Federal and Confederate veterans of St. Louis and the United States troops stationed at the barracks. A national salute was tired. The graves of the Federal dead at Camp Chalmette, near New Orleans, were decorated by the Grand Army posis, assisted by the Louisiana division associations, the Army of Northern Virginia and Tennessee, veterans of the Mexican war, the Continental Guards, and the Washington and Louisiana Field Artillery. The Confederate dead at Hollywood Cemetery at Richmond. Va.. were decorated by the Continental Guard, and the Nelson division of the Knights of Pythias, many civic excursionists from "Washington, the Continentals and Pythiuns of Richmond, and the military organizations of the city. The Commissioner of Agriculture has transmitted to Congress the report of the Statistician of the Department (Prof. Dodge) on the world's product of wheat and corn in LSS5. The wheat product amounted to 3,110,000,0(10 bushels, the requirements of the consumption, ii.105,000.000 bushels, presenting a deficiency of 55,000,000 bushels, drawn from '.he previous year's surplus of 125.000,000 bushels. For the supply of the coming year the crops of Australia and South America, alreadv harvested, are probably about 32,000.000 bushels less than those of last vear, while those of the United States promise fully 100,000,000 bushels more than the harvest of 1KS5. The wheat in the United States on Mav 1 last was 104.000,000 bushels, against' 152.000,00(1 bushels in 1885. Of the commercial stocks of wheat New York neld 4,138,005; Buffalo, 2,480,117; Chicago, 11,777,804; Milwaukee, 3,335.030; Minneapolis, 4.707,000; and Pulnth, 7.3'.3,718. The crop of com in 1885-0 was 1,017,000,000 bushels; the stock, 587.000.000 bushels; and tin? exportation, 42,000.000 bushels. The estimated acreage of winter wheat now growing is 24.727.087; spring wheat, 11,800,000; total, 110,527,087. It is reported in Washington that an English syndicate stands ready to give $i0;000,000 for the Northern Paeitic land grani, if the railroad can get its title confirmed, . . , The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church has decided in favor of the use of instrumental music in worship.

tive whips estimate the Conservative vote I at 252, the Uartinyton and Chamberlain

section at 00, the Liberal absentees at 25, and the vote of the Ghulstonians ami Parnellites at 207, making a majority against the bill of 51." TilK Shah of Persia has refused to join with Turkey in a universal Mussulman alliance. . . .The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies having in charge the expulsion bill has decided that the measure shall be compulsory, not permissive, and that it be applied to all members of all families which at aty time reigned in France,

( LOX D-nrnsTS are reported from several points in Germany. A squadron of hussars narrowly escaped drowning in the stables at Wesscnfels, and the vinevards at Bin gen were totally destroyed. PY the loss of the steamer Lydoemon, from Melbourne for Sidney, seventy per- : sons were di owned. The Salvation Army Cmnress met at London last week. Two thousand ollicers and many thousands of soldiers of the finny

from all Darts of the world were present. Gem Booth said that in Croat Britain alone 350,000 had been contributed to the army's treasurv; 1,000 girls had been rescued from life on the streets, and nineteen homes for the poor and friendless had been established. . . .It is authoritatively stated that Lord llartington and his Whig followers have decided to vote against the home-rule measure when it comes up for a second reading, and Mr. Chamberlain and his Radical supporters will refuse to vote, thus insuring its success at the second reading.... A lire in Berlin destroyed the oil refinery of Otto & Buettner and the j

woo;i yards or risiier (V toioerg, causing a loss of 1.250.000. Five hivnien received serious in j ui i s and one woman was burned to death.. . . Minister Phelps has had a conference with Lord Bosebery, the English Foreign Minister, in regard to the fishery troubles, It is thought that a speedy and lasting settlement will be effeeted. . . .The working, men's demonstration which was to have occurred at Brussels dune Bl has boon prohibited, on the ground that such affairs have a bad reflex effect . . . .The police of Belfast have seized a quantity of rilles, bayonets, and swords on board a steamer from Fleetwood, a seaport town in Lancashire . . . .The allied powers have ordered their fleets to raise the blockade against Greece, at the instance of France. Tli: French Chamber of Deputies ha voted 100,000 francs to the fund for the establishment of the Pasteur Institute .... Although nothing is known of the matter at Washington, a dispatch from Melbourne asserts that the American Consul at Samoa has given the protection of his Government to King Malictoa, while the German authorities uphold the claims of King Tomasese. . . .A London dispatch of the 1st inst., says: "At Ihe m - ting of the Chamberlain party lifty-four members of I louse of ominous were present. ( )f these forty-six resolved to vote against the second reading of the home-rule bill, live refused to pledge then. selves, and only three supported Mr. Gladstone's Irish measure. Mr. ( 'hamh rlain read a letter from Mr. John Bright, in which the writer vehemently condemned the bill, pledged himself to ote against it, and urged others to do likewise. It is thought the letter will have a great influence in inducing members not to abstain from voting on the measuie. '.'he decision of the, meeting, it is b.-dieved, insures the defeat of the Government. The news of the result of the Chamberlain meeting caused intense excitement in "he lobby of the House of Commons. Ministerialists admitted that defeat was inevitable, and there was a general rush of members to the telegraph offices to send orders to their election agents to prepare for an immediate dissolution of Parliament. Tin Conserva-

ADDIT10NAL KEWS.

The tenth and last day's session of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, at Cleveland, Ohio, was a veritable lovefeast, and even member who had said anvthing against any other member extended the hand of fellowship. Before adjournment an address was ottered and adopted inviting all labor organizations to unite with the Knights of Labor in the struggle against the tvraunv of wealth. The address, in closing, says: We have received a communication from a committer of the national oMicorH of noun, of tho national and interimtion.-il tradt h unions, requesting certain sj cine legislation at our hands, but us w belie vu that th object bought and stilted in the preamble to tlte communication above referred to e:iii best be accomplished by u conference b. twecn. a committee of this association and a committee of any other organization, ami as the propositions contained therein aro inconsistent with our du".y t,i our members, we therefore defer action upon Buid propoHitiom until a conference of committees can he held. The bania upon which wo believe an agree ment vvn be reached would necessarily include tin adoption of some plan by which oil labor organizations could be protected from unfair men men expelled, auspendt d, under tine, or guilty of taking tiio places of union men or Knights of Labor while ou strike or while locked out from work and that, an fcr as possible, a uniform standard of hours of labor and wagoH should be adopted, so that men of any trade enrolled in our order unl men of trades unions may not come in conflict because of the differences in wi-.ges or hours of labor. We also believe that a ay stem of exchanging working curds should he adopted, so that member; of any craft belonging to different organizations could work in harmony togtth.fr the curd of any member of this order admitting to work in any union siiop, and the card of any union in an ad m i tt i n g him to work in any Knights of .Labor shop. We further believe that, noon an increase of wages or shorter hours (if labor made by either organization, a conference should be held with the organized laborers employed in the establishment. When the demand for increase of waged or reduction ef hours in contemplated, action upon a proposed redaction o; wageti or other dilhculty to be agreed upon in a liiu manner, and that in the settlement of any ditlicultioa between employers and employes the organizations rcpres. nted in tne establishment shall bo Xartieg to the terms of settlement. An address was issued denying that the "Home Club" was engaged in plotting against the welfare of the order, and saying that the very best of: feeling prevailed among all the delegates. An address was abo issued to the Grangers, complimenting them and asking their aid. Mr, Dawes presented u petition in the Senate on the Hd inst., from the City Council of Gloucester, Mass., thai retaliation bo ordered against the Canadian Government for the seizure of American Ashing-vesa ds. Mr. Edmunds expressed thy hope that a ship of the t'mted .States Government would sojii appear in the northern eas to encourage the Jl.sJiermen. The Senate passd Mr. Van Wyck's bill for the taxation of railroad-grant lands, the object being that the corporations shall bea ' ttjually with the settlers tue buruen of paying the taxeo. The House of Representatives passed t.ie oleomargarine bill aitr amending it to make the tax live cents per pound. The voto on the passage of the bill was 177 to Of the 177 votes the Democrats contributed Hi and the RepMicans 5o. Tne n'LTitive votes were cast by Hi li'mojrai and 15 Ui p-.iblicuns. New England cat 17 votes for til-.; mil and 1 against; N-.mv York, Renr.yl vania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware is for and Kl auaint ; the Southern States, including West: Virginia and Kentucky, JL for rnd G against ; t .1 Western States, including Missouri. Si lot the bid and 1 against; and the Racilic Coast States 7 for and 1 against the bill. Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota voted solidly for the bill. WiH.'onsin gave 1 nay Van Hchait-k : Michigan 7 ?as and 3 nays Maybury, Tarsney, and Fisher. Illinois stood lr t.j 4 Dunham, Lawler, Morrihon, and Ward voting ag.-tms: the bill, and all the rear, of th.-m in favor of it except Eden, who was absent. Indiana voted H to 3--Co'jb, Urowne. and Ford voting against the bill. The lollowing are the main features of the bill. a$ it passed: Rutter is defined to be a food product male exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without coloring matter. Oleomargarine is delhied as nil substances made of oleomargarine, oleo, lardih' tallow extracts, etc., in imitation of butt t, or when' so mady calculated to be sold as i Hitter or for butter. Special taxes are imposed as follows : On manufacturers, 0.O; o:i wholesale dealei s, -10 ; on retail dt a ! civ j l-t. The existing internal -re venue lav. t so far as appliej-.bh , are made to apply to these special taxe:?. Tenuities are imposed on anv person who shall deal in oleomargarine without paying the Kpceial tax. Rrevbd'-n is made lor the proper stamping and labeling of everv package of i!e-.iiitrgarine. A tax of rive

cents a pound is inn os.d on all oleomargarine man-f if.ured and sold, and a penalty is preHcrib d for the purchase or reception for salt of oleomargarine not bmnded or stamped according to law. A nui-.b -r of sections of tin: bill are devoted to providing machinery to carry the law in:o effect.

THE MARKETS. NEW YOltK.

I? K EVES $5.00 C7 G,2 Hons -J.'J.j i 4.75 Whkat No. 1 White s7 oit .K) No. lilted K iMJ .Si Corn No, 43 eh .45 Oats Western 95 tU . 37 PomeMess Ji.OU & (J.S0 CHiCAGO. 1 lir.KVKS Choice to Prime Steers SM 0.C0 j Good Shipping -1 70 a', ! Common 4.00 vt 4.50 Hogs Shipping Grades 3.75 c' 4.'2 1 El.oru Extra Spring. 4.T.0 u 5.00 Wukat-No. 2 Spring 71$ A .74 Co UN No. 2 :M irt .35 ; OatsNo. 2 v'O tA ,27 UUTTmi Choice Creamery 14 fcfi .15 I Fine Dairv 1 .13 ! Cukksk Full Cream, uw U'J .10 Kkiiinned Fiat.s 05 d .00 ; p:ggs Fresh 08 .00 Fotatoks Choice, per bu 'AH & .45 I'oKK Mess 8.00 l 8.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat Cash .74 .74 u j Cohk No. 2 ;il t .35 : Oats No. "2 -0 (cii .20lj j Kyk -No. 1 57 tf .50 ToitK Mess 8.00 'slii 8.50 TOLEDO. j Whkat -No. 2 77 .90 ! Colt No, 2.... 'M i4 .37 , Oats- No. 2 -JJ .31 BT. EOI IS. Whkat No. 2 Hed 75 .70 Cons Mixed 30 .H2 Oats- Mixed 25 el -27 i 1'oitK New .Mess 8.25 e'- 0.75 CINCINNATI. 1 Whkat No. '2 Ked 71 " .70 i Cons No. 2 ;Vj.. .M01.. Oats No. 2 .2J ". .M PoliK Moss K75 0.2 - 1,1 VK IIoos 3.75 y(, 4.25 I DKTKOIT. i lii:i r Cattle 5.00 5.5) ! Hogs 3.50 i 1.2 ! Sm:j:i 3.'5 et 4 25 ; Whkat No. 1 White 70 i .60 ! Coax - No. 2 30 o4 j Oats No. 2 31 Mi ! INDIANAPOLIS. ! Ukkf Cattlk , :t.50 e' 5.50 Hogs ;l,..o e' 4.25 Shkki .. .Y.. . 2.25 v'tt 4.25 Whkat No. 2 Ked. "" .75 t .77 Vows No. 2 :i e; .:U Oats No. 2 . s ei) .20 KAST L1BKKTY. Cattle Host 5.21 at 5.75 Fair 4,75 v; 5.25 Common luj (i; 4.5.) Hons 4 00 yi 1.5) BHKKI' y.50 w ,j.00 HCFFALO. Whkat-No. 1 Hard .Bi k .S4 i Cohn --Yellow ...111 .12 u, .42l. ! Cattle " .... HI. 6.25 m, 5,75

Ona Kind. One stylo of man finds hislooal prmor too hili jn'ioed ho can c;t oortain papors four times lare for half vho money. He usually takes the weekly edition of the New York lUernitij, eont.iinin two hundred columns of New Jersey snake stories and reports of vho cotton market for leading matter end twice as many columns of patent, medicine mi I prize package advertisements. This man prefers to read the advertisements, not because of their superior literary merit, but because ihe type is larger. He is one of these kind of men who does not read the common, domestic Knglish language that the Puritans brought over in the Plymouth Pock with as much oas-rt as he might. H'e grapples quite successfully with the second reader brand "where the large words have been all sorted out and sent to President Cleveland to use in messages but throws up both hands when he comes to where the language is taken just as it conies, as in this family journal. He may be on quite intimate terms personally with each individual member of the alphabet, but where they get together in groups of over six he finds that he does not recognize the combination. There are so many words mixed with the matter in his local paper that contain more than six letters that it makes very disjointed reading for him. In the New York sheet it is different; the same matter appears about so often and he has rather got the hang of it. Every six months brings the same question about how to cure bone spavin, with the old regulation answer. The same old snake legends crop out, the same directions for laying the foundation for a goose berry pie, the same leading editorial on moral suasion as a factor in weaning calves, the same anecdotes of Benjamin Franklin, the same ground plans for an improved pig trough that the swine can't get their feet in. An editor with an under jaw hke a gang-plank sits in M e oflice and makes up the paper from the old tiles year after year. That's the kind of a newspaper the man gets who thinks his home paper is too expensive. He takes it till at last his w ife gets a divorce and his children move oil in the direction of the tall timber. How this man must love, week after week, from July to eternity, to wade through this kind of matter! Never a word about his own town or even his own Ktate ! While the local paper notes the fact that he marketed a spring's turkey that weighed 47 pounds on foot this New York gathering of gloom is talking about introducing domestic fowls in the Dried Missionarv Islands. "When this man is at last frozen to death his home paper, despite the fact that he never took it, will devote a column in telling of his manv virtues and the editor will ruin his last chance for salvation by saying that the deceased will be greatly missed, while the New York Solar Sijstwn, if it mentions it at all, will do so like this: "An unknown man perished in the recent storm near Waddletown, Dacorah Territory. He was rather weak-minded and was under the influence of frontier whiskv at the time." The man who stops his local paper alleges many reasons, but this is the manner of him who does it because the big Eastern messenger of misery is cheaper. .Ktitellhie Bell.

How an Alphabet is Developed. Suppose that some old nation of Asia, after having for ages drawn an ox when they wish to recall an ox, Iv-gan at last to draw the picture of an ox also whenever it was needful to write about plowing. Then instead of an ox it would convev an idea relating to an ox, and would be what is called a stnnboL After a while someone would say to himself: "What is the use of drawing all of the ox when the head alone, which everyone will know from its shape and its horns, gives just "he same thought? Now suppose this ox-head gradually gets to mean the aoinitl of (u in all words of the language wherein that syllable occurs, as in the name of the river Ox-us. Then the ox-head would appear in words having nothing whatever to do with cattle or plowing. Then it is called a piece of no h (-writing, because it does not recall a certain given tiling, but a sound. Soundwriting is thus an improved kind of picture-writing. You all know soundwriting, and have probably composed sentences in it, but you know it under another name. Hardly a magazine tor young people is printed in which you will not find rebuses. Well, many rebuses are nothing buv sound-writings. And manv, many thousand years ago ( ur ancestors had no other kinu of w riling. And the next step onward from soundwriting was ,s-;c-writi;jg. Remember that people who had reached that stage thought of a sign or symbol as representing one syllable at the least. Suppose the ox-head was called aU'ph. It would soon be found more convenient to employ it in all words where there was the sound or syllable of a I, And this was the process with as many other letters as there were in suchearlv writing. We will call this the stlhthanj stage, because signs stood for syllables, and so distinguish it from the alphabet that came later. The next advance would be to take the little picture, for the sound a alone, and thus begin to use ureal alphabet.

oeyx of the A I piiahet," by llnn'tj

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vas an vas

Carl rretzdN Philosophy. 1 )er demplei'enz quest i u in bolidieks vas yoost dor same like dot plate of hash, vhich Vis shkituated bedwee:i ice gream und dor nut kracker.

Her bolitician dot doml vas dry yoost so scarce in dis vorld liki angel's bustles. Yhere impudences vas" vit, it

foolishness to said sometings. Y hen you got your heart und lifer, und brains, in dheir right places und keeb em dhore, you could vhear a canes und slq did your hairs in der e nter of your head. Yhen your lace vas got a shmall vart on its nose, dots besser you lalV about it nivself. Jt vouhl been a good schoko on der feller dot dond got some wenerations for nadural imberfeetions. -Ya-tional U'eeldij.

CONGRESSIONAL.

Tbo Work of the Senate and HooM oi' Representatives.

Fot;r Rimbli'an Senators Cullom, Manderflon, Tellor, niul Van Wyck voted with the Democrats in tho Suato on the irtt., and killed tho Nortliern Pacific forfeiture bill of Mr. Dolph, if On-aon. Mr. Contr presented tho report of the Commerce Committee on the' Kads Khip-railway bill. In the report the committee Kays that the project in a practicable m, and that the iut n mount of an nual revenue of the road will bo in excessof tho amount guaranteed by Mexico and the United StatoH. The opinion id expressed that the aggregate amount iS7,5O3,O0Q) will not have to be advanced by tho (fovcrument. The committee reports back the accompanying bill as a tmbstittito for Senate bill fr4 with the recommendation that it do pass. Tho Pre silent vetoed bills for the relief of Kebaccft Eld ridge and Eleanor C Baughuin. widow of soldiers, and bills granting pensions to Mrs. Anne ( Owen, Simmons W. Harden, and J. 1). Haworth. Approval is withheld la those cast's on the ground that the disability for which relief or a pension is asked hart its origin in causes existing prior to the enlistment of the persons for whose services tho claims ard made. In the ease of Mrs. Eldridge, the President says : "It is not a pleasant thing to interfere but wo are dealing with pensions, and not gratuities." The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: C. It. Greathouse, of California, Consul General at Kanagawa; Win. H. Cleveland, tt io Appraiser of Customs for the district of ei:roitf Mich. Adolph Iippman. tbo Commissioner for Alaska, at Junction City. During the debate in tho House Of Kepresentatives on the oleomargarine bill, a .Terseyman proposed a tax of 7.1 c i:ts on each dish of hash, very boarding-house koeper to be required to file a statement of ingredients. All amendments to tho bill presented were rejected Thk House of Representatives only was in session on the 29th ult. The day was devoted in "ommittee of tho whole, to discussion of the oleomargarine bill. Every attempt to amend it was voted down, and its friends showed that they were determined to stand by it just at it came from the House Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Hakkis, of Tcmiossee, introduced a bill in the Senate, ou the 1st inst.. providing for the payment to Mrs. Eliza H. Brownlow tf Su0() for Government advertising in the Kuoxvi'le WhiQ published bv her husband, the famous "Parson" lirowniow. Mr. Beck introduced a bill making it unlawful for any member of either house t act as railroad attorney, and fixing the minimum punishment for violating its provisions at a lino of $5,000, or imprisonment for one year. Bills were passed tO prevent aliens "from acquiring land in the Territories, and extending tho eight-hour law to letter-camera. Tho President vetoed another pension bill upon the ground that it was not based upon substantial merits. Tho President sont tho following nominations to the Senate: Pavid !-. Hawkins of Missouri tobo Assistant Sacrt-tary of the Interior, viceGeorge A. Jonks, resigned; Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia to be commissioner in the districtof Alaska, vieo Chest r St eber, resigned : John. B. lUlcy of Plattsburg, N. Y., Indiaa School, Superintendent, vice John H. Obcrly, appointed' a Civil-service Commissioner. The House again wrestled with the oloomararine hil, and the Opponent of the measure gained a point by securing the adoption of on amendment reducing the tax from ten cents t3 eight cents a pound. Mr. Weaver, cf Iowa, arose to a question of privilege and with somo heat denied tho charges of an Iowa newspaper that lie was unduly intlueuced to oppose tho bill. He ha 1 been, and still was, in favor of the oleomargarine bill, and it was Wise that he had been influenced improperly in ms course in regard to that measure. Mb. CuxLom, or Illinois, introduced in the Senate, on the 2d inst., a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment in regard tc polygamy. Mr. Morrill submitted a nroposed amendment to Senator Platte cpen executive session resolution which inalet this resolution apply to reciprocity treaties instead of to nominations. Ttwi House of Hepresputatives, in committee ot the whole, finished the oleomargarine jill. Mr, O'Neill, fiom the Committee on Labor, reported a bill to legalize the incorporation of trade unions. A bill for the payment of the award for Alttbnma claims was signed by thJ President, utter consultation with the members of the Cabinet as to its constitutionality.

Big Timers. The greatest wall in the world is the Chinese wall, built by the Emperor of the Tsin dynasty, about 2:20 B. C, as a protection against the Tartars. It traverses the northern boundary of China, anc is carried over the highest hills, through the deepest valleys, across rivers, and every other natural obstacle. Among the most remarkable natural echoes are that of the Eagle's Nest, on the bauks of Killarney, Ireland, which repeats a bugle call until it seems to be

j sounded from a hundred instruments,

ana that of the banks of the aha, between Bingen and Coblentz, which repeats a sound seventeen times. The most remarkable urtiiick.1 echo known is that of the castle of Simonetta, about two miles from Milan. It is occasioned by the existence of two parallel walls of considerable length. It repeats the report of a pistol sixty times. The most remarkable whirlpool is tho maelstrom oil the northwest coast of Norway, and southwest of Mosfcenicsol, the most southerly of the Lofoden Isles It was once supposed to be unfathomable, but the depth has beec shown not to exceed twenty fathoms. The greatest cataract in the world is that of Niagara. The Horseshoe Fall, on the Canadian side, has a perpendicular descent of 158 feet. The height of the American Fall is 1(7 feet. The Horseshoe Fall, which carries a larger volume of water than the American Fall, is about t00 yards wide, and extends from the Canadian shore to Goat Inland. The biggest diamond in the world, if indeed it be a diamond, is the Braganza, which forms a part of the Portu

guese crown jewels. It weighs 1,S60 carats. However, not a little doubt exists of its bing a diamond, as the ( Government has never allowed it to bo tested. It was found in Brazil in 1741. The largest tested, but uncut, diamond is the Maharattah, belonging to the liajah of Mattam in Borneo. It is of pure water, weighs 2(7 carafes, and is of pear shape, indented at the thick end. It was found about l;6i at Landark, in Borneo. It has been the cause of a sanguinary war. Before it was cut, the Kohinoor, which is one of the English crown jewels, was the largest tested diamond. It then weighed 71W carats hen in possession ot the Em peror Aurenzobe it was reduced, by unskillful cutting, to 1st carats. During the Sikh mutiny it was captured bv British troops, and presented to Queen Victoria. It was recut, and now weighs 1(H) !- carats. "On, don't drink it, Jack: it will make you thirsty," said a girl on the beach to her little brother, who had a up of sea-water in his hand. What s the odds?" said .lack, gulping it down, "there's plenty more." A (.knti.eman who married a widow complained to her that ho liked his beef well done. "Ah, 1 thought I waa cooking for .Vr. Brown." said sho: "lie liked his ru e. But, darling, I will try and forget the poor dear." When you see a man full of liquor the ooa--teinpiaiiou of a supreme being is grauiymg.