Bloomington Telephone, Volume 13, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 April 1889 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER & BRADFUTE, - - PoBUBHm A TURBULENT WORLD.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF TEE HAT TOLD BY TELEGRAPH,

Vorefffn and Dometi InteUlfence Trmtmltted by Wire A Kaleidoscope of IaterOecmveiioe Political, Criminal Accidental, and Industrial.

DESTRUCTIVE WORK IN HAYTI. fonaives Dettroyed by Legitime'! Gnnboati Several Decisive Battles FonphU The brig Solaric, which arrived at New York the other day from Hayti, reports: We left Port-au-Prince on March 10. On that day tbe city was very excited over the news that at that moment Legitime's gunboats were bombarding Gonaives. Three of the gunboats, the Belize, the Dessalines, and the Toussaint L Overture, was said to be doing terrible damage. The bombarding had been going on for some hours, and it wns thought that the town would be entirely destroyed. Beports of several decisive battles were brought by the German steamship Prins Hans Frederick from Port-au-Prince, MANY POTATOES SOLD. Waupaca, Wis,, Dealers Handling Them at tbe Rate of 120 Loads Dally. A Waxtpa ;a, Wis., special of the 28th nit., says: 8. H. Hall & Co., Minneapolis, bought 23,000 bushels of potatoes h?re last week. The first three days of this week they bought 14,000 bushels. The price paid was from 10 to 14 cents . The " murphies " still come in at the rate of 120 loads daily. The two principal dealers here, Messrs. W. C. Baldwin and A. M. Penney, have bought and shipped 600,000 bushels so far this season, and small dealers have sold 100,00') more. There are still in store about 40,000 bushels. Political Tips. The bill providing for reciprocity in wrecking on the lakes has been defeated in the Canadian Senate 34 to 26. Henry W. Raymond, editor of the Germrotown (Pa.) Telegr&pti, has bees, appointed Private Secretary to Secretary of the Navy Tracy. The Postmaster General has appointed the following superintendents of railway mail service: Norman Parkins, Tenth Division, St. Paul; S. P. Lindsey, Seventh Division, St. Louis: J. S; Weaver, Eleventh Division, Fort Worth, Texas. The Death Record. Tex following deaths have been reported: Lord F razor, Judge of the Outer House of the Sootch Court of Sessions; Dr. John Swineburn, at Albany, N. Y.j Dr. R. P. Howard, of Montreal, Quebec; and Richard Hiscock, father of Senator Hiscock, at Preble, Cortland County, New York. Killed by Cowboys. Constable Montagu., of Elmore, Col., was killed by three cowboys whom he tried to arrest for disturbing the quiet of the town. He received five bullets through his body, and died two hours afterward. Taken from the Wires. The house of Elder S. Greene, Springfield, Mass., was burned, his granddaughter, Ida Greene, aged 14, perishing in the flames.

Oh a schooner at Baltimore, in a quarrel over finding a cockroach in the soup, Theodore Nona, a sailor, fatally shot the colored cook, Loudon Johnson. Foun Americans went from El Paso, Texas, to Juarez, Mexico, became drunk and disorderly, and, resisting arrest, shot and killed two policemen. They escaped to the American side. CflABiiES T. BiiAiB, foreman of the Chicago Lumber Company at Denver, CoL, suicided by taking morphine. His former home was at Columbus, Ohio. C. T. Yebkes, Jr., of Chicago, has purchased of Adam Forepaugh an African lion which he intends presenting to the zoological gardens at Lincoln Eark, Chicago. OPPOSED TO HALSTEAD. Several Republican Senators Vote Against the Confirmation of the Editor. The executive session of tbe Senate lasted between two and three hours on tbe 28th nit., and ws confined largely to a discussion of the nomination of Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany. Before that came up tbe nominations of John C. New to be Consul General to London, aud of Lewis Wolfley, to be Governor of Arizona, which were pending, were confirmed A final attempt of the opposition to defeat K r. Nt-w'tt confirmation watt based upon the assertion that hi paper (the Indianapolis Journal) ht4 imhlisheU articles reflecting upon the private character of President Cleveland. This chaige was warmly denied by Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, and the nomination wan confirmed. The Comrai ttee on Foreign Relations favorably reported all the diplomatic nominations of tne 27th ult. , but in the cae of Mr. Halstead the report was not unanimous. On a motion to confirm the nomination the navs were in the majority, Senators Teller, Plumb, Ingalls, Farwell and Cullom voting with the Democrats. Mr. Bherman moved to reconsider the vote, and on that motion a long debate ensued, in the course of which the ground of objection to Mr. Kalstea 1 was disclosed. When the Senate refused to enter upon an investigation of the election of Senator Payne, of Ohio. Mr. Halstead, whose paper, th Cinci miati Commercial Gazette, had strongly urged the investigation, made uncomplimentary allusions to the Republicans who voted against tbe investigation. The feeling against him on the part of the Senators who fell under his displeasure at that time is very Utter, and one of them Is reported to have said to President Harrison that Mr. Halstead could not be confirmed that the Senators whom he had criticised wonld not vote for him. The motion to reconsider was pending when the Senate Adjourned. The Senate adopted a resolution accepting the invitation to participate in the centennial ceremonies at New York, and providing for the appointment of seven Senators to represent the Senate on that occasion.

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Mrs. Mabgahet E. Sangster has accepted the position of editor of Harper'tt Bazar. Geobgk A. Singerly, of Philadelphia, is reported to have sold the famous trotter Prince Wilkes for $30,000. A strawg s ease has leen reported in Brooklyn, X. Y. A Hungarian servant 0x1 named Silkier Lad been employed by tbe family of fcir. Brunner. The girl has suffered somewhat from hysteria, and disappeared a few days upo. When found ahe was locked up in a closet in the house

a raving maniac. She had been without food or water for three or four days and nights, and is not expected to recover. AiiL of the collieries in the Pittston (Pa.) region have notified the men of a suspension of six weeks' duration. About 10,000 men and boys are ai tec ted by the suspension. At New York Alderman Charles Goetz, Charles M. Jackson, Morris Isaacs, Edward Butler and Charles, ilits "Silver Dollar" Smith, have been arrested on indictments charging them w.th violating the election laws. Hknby Habdie, the New York forger, under arrest at Halifax, N. S., has made a confession and expresses a willingness to return to New York without n requisition. P. E. Kissam, brother-in-law of the late William H. Vanderbilt, ditsd at New York. He had been a member of the Stock Exchange for twenty-five years. The Globe Warehouse at Scra:aton, Pa., owned by Clellaiid, SitnpAon Jc Taylor, dry-goods dealers, was gutted by fire. Loss nearly $200,000. Five buildings, including one church, were burned at West Haven, Conn. Ex-Kepbesentative Peteb PATJIi Mahoney, of New York, died at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C. He was taken sick two days after President Harrison's inauguration and :aever recovered. A woman named Thuring was arrested in Allegheny City, Pa., for conspiring with a man to kill her husband, John Thnring, in order to obtain his life insurance of $2,000. The man with whoa, she plotted informed the police.

A SHATTERED MIND. A SPECIAI from Hartford, Conn., reports that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has recovered physically from the attack of sickness whicb last summer threatened to cut short, her life, but her mind is shattered and intellectually she is but a child. Her friends will not say that she is insane nor that she is an imbecile, but her mind is almost completely gone. Her memory is that of a baby. Wfien former dear friends visit her people whom she has kAown for years she greets them with a vacant stare, so indicative

HABBIET BEECHES STOWE. a symptom of casts of that kind. Her whims are treated with the utmost tenderness. For some time it was given out that Mrs. Stowe did not recognize hw friends because of her failing eyesight, but this excuse is no longer alluded to, and the fact that she is now no longer mentally capable is recognized by every one. It was also for a long time thought to be an attribute of genius when Mrs. Stove showed these idiosyncrasies, but the gee ins which made "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the most popular book of the century has departed. The father of Mrs. Stowe, the Rev. Lyman Beecher, passed the closing years of his life with a cloud resting over his mind. His symptoms we;e greatly similar to those of Mrs. Stowe.

WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Thirty years ago, in Punxstttawney, Pa., John R. Reed and Miss M. E. Thompson were engaged to be married, but for some reason parted. Heed went West, traveled through California and Oregon, finally settled in Ka veh , noo r S p okane Falls, Washington Teiricory, aud married. Miss Thompson married a Mr. Brewer. They heard nothing of each other for more then twentyfive yeare. Both have grown-up children. Bmwer died last year, and Mrs, Heed also. Accidentally Beed and Mrs. Brewer learned these facts, opened correspondence, and. revived the old leve. The other day she went to Spokane-Falls, where they were married. Both are over 50 years of aga. PiiACER gold is said to have been discovered in the bluffs on the Missouri River opposite Townsend, M. T. Jobn FossETTof Hillsboro, Ind,, inla fit of jealousy shot and killed his wife. He is in jail. WahxiMAH & Gbip, builders, at Ishpeming, Mich., have assigned to B. C. Hull. Liabilities $150,000, assets unknown. Many men are thrown out of employment. Money lost in building the State Prison at Marquette forced the firm to the wall. The rectifying house of the Dodsworth Distillery Company at Cincinnati, Ohio, was destroyed by tiro. The lode is estimated at from 920,000 to $25,000, w.th insurance of $12,500.

J. H. Heinenkamp, a well-to-do farmer of Mount Vernon, Ind., was accidentally

pushed out of a wagon by a drunken man and killed. FiBE at Brazil, Ind., caused t. loss of $20,000, which was partially covered by insurance. The land about Bed Lodge, on the recently-opened Indian reservation, has been thrown open for settlement. Parties representing New York, St. Louis, Chicago, tan Francisco, nd Helena capitilists were present ou the firBt dy of opening as well as Union Pacific and Northern Pacific ot tome vs. The most extensive and easiest mined coal lands in Montana are located at that oint, and the result is some land has been filed on as agricultural and coal. The clay was the busiest ever known in the history of the Bozem m Land Office, the receipts from tilings being $70,000. It seems probable there will be a contest over every entry made. Milwaukee grain buyers claim thnt the process of scouring and clipping second-grade oats, find selling tho grain as high grade, is being taken advantage of by Chicago elevators, where, as nllegol, patented machines do the scouring and clippinc.

i wnaes. have no niuon.

t , At . A ' o rHion now proposes to take all classes of turbance. the gang of miscrennts at Sar.1 ployed about the glassLorn, Iowa, operating under the name f iJ9 is estired iliat their memWhite Caps, continue thoir depiedatij -vj wwK 'least 10,000. The

The other night several barns were entered, and the tails and ears of several animals were cut off. T. H. Linden was hung in etfigy over one of the principal streets of Mason City, Tbe two who were arrested nre still hold in custody, audit is thought they will scon peach on the entire gang. Natubai gas has been struck at a mining town near Terre Haute, Ind. Robert McCaffn:ey and Miss Dollie Love, both 19 years old, of Elkhart, Ind., were struck by a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train while out driving and were instantly killed. They were found on the pilot of the engine locked in each otherV arms. The Governor of Lower California reports tha- the discoveries of the Santa Clara placers ju.ve been greatly exaggerated, and that only practiced miners are finding gold. The loss caused by the burning of Alderman William S. Manierre's Central warehouse, on the comer of Bush street, Chicago, will amount to $1,000,000, and tbe insurance $550,000. Deputy County Recobdeb Robert Fleming of Kansas City, Mo., a brother of Deputy Marshal John Fleming, who recently blew out hie brains in a Kansas City court-room, was fatally tabbed the other night, in a row, by William Samuels. The Logansport, Ind., authorities are waging? a war against the gambling fraternity of that city. Several arrests have been '-ue, T Columbus Grove, Ohio, Miss Laura Michsol shot and fatally wounded Miss Lou Getterman. The cause of the shooting is u mystery. Mrs. Sinai J. Fa:ovey, of Bacine, Wis., is dead. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mather, the first white couple inanied in Walworth County, Wisconsin. The remains of Justice Stanley Matthews were interred at Spring Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati, Ohio, the services beingtSimplo but impressive. Destructive prairie fires did much damage in Stearns County, Minnesota. Lizzie Myers, a lG-year-old girl of Justus, Ohio, was abducted a few days ego by lier two uncles, Andrew and William Maurer, and taken to Urichsville. Her 6tepf ather claims tho object of the abduction is to get hold of a iRrge sum of .noney which is to be left to Miss Myers on the death of her grandfather, TeTs First National Bank of Moberly Mo., and the National Bank of Commerce of Dulut h, Minn., have been authorized to begin business, each with a capital of $100,001'. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. B. F. Wood, living in the Cerulean Springs neighborhood, near Princeton, KyM pent to Hopkinsville a prescription which he got from an old medical book and had it filled. His object, it seems, was to use it as a worm medicine for his children, and on getting it he gave each of his three children a teaspoonf ul. As a result, two of them died, ond the remaining one, the eldest, will not live. H. C. Still, one of the most notorious forgers in the United States, has beea sentenced at Memphis, Tenn. , to five years in the penitentiary. The Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill making women eligible to the office of county superintendent of education. The Tennessee Range and Manufacturing Company's works at Nashville, Tenn., were buried. Loss, $45,0U); insurance, $23,000. Incendiarism is suspected.

POLITICAL "PORRIDGE. The death ot Justice Matthews will very likely cause a delay in the adjournment of the Senate, which was expected to take place not later than the 3;th ult. Gov. Mfllette has been sworn in at Bismarck, Dakota, and Treasurer Lawler, Auditor Ward, and Commissioner of Im

migration McCiure promptly tendered their resicnations. The Btspublicans of Rockwell, Iowa, will setlls a contest for the Postmastership at the ballot-box. The candidates are Editor McEwen, George Howland, and Miss Belle Bo we. The Hon. Edwin Willetts, President of the Michigan Agricultural College, has telegraphed to President Harrison his acceptance of the appointment of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. The lihode Island anti-resubmis-sionists have nominated this State ticket; Governor, James H. Chaco, of Lincoln; Lieutenant Governor, Franklin Metcalf , of Cbariestown; Secretary of State, J. Barclay Foster, of Westerly; Attorney General, H. Rogers, of Providence; Treasurer, E. A. Green, of Lincoln. The platform declares that the laws for the enforcement of the prohibitory amendment of 1H80 Jitvie not been given a fair trial, and that the Bepublicnn members of the Legislature have violated their pledges in noting to ieubmit the amendment, and demands n ore stringent prohibitory legislation. Amono the nominations 6ent to the Senate by President Harhson on the 27th ult., were the following: Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be Minister to Great Britain; Murat Halstead, of Ohio, Minister to Germany; Allen Thorndyke Rice, of Kew York, Minister to Russia; Patiick E';an, of Nebraska, Minister to Chili; Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, Minister to Mexico; Johu Hicks of Wisconsin, to be United States Minister to Peru; George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, M nistt-r Resident und Consul General to Portugal; Chester A. Wilcox, to be Postmaster at Quincy, 111. Tnc Un ted States Senate has referred the question of its right to elect a president pro tern, to a t duiing its pleasure to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, thus deferring a settlement of the

matter until the next session. industrialT'items. The new u don of glass-house men, the first aesemoly of which oig miedot Pittsburg L'a., promises to be one of the largest labor organisations. The Window Glass Workers' Association and the Fbnt Glass Workers' Union only admit skilled workmen. CKher classes of workmen employed about tho factories, ma:ay of" them earning- good

The new orgamza-

members of the older unions are giving the movement whatever assistance they can, because, in caee of trouble In any of the glass factories, flint or window, everybody will be organized, and the various organizations can work in harmony. The Central Labor Union of New York has decided to reorganize. ACROSS TH E OC E AN. King Milan has abdicated the throne of Servia, and Qrown Prince Alexander has been proclaimed King. Messrs. Prortich, Belimarkovic and Ristitoh will act as regents during tbe minority of the young King, who was born Aug. 14, 1876. Queen Natalie will now return to Servia. Col. Raine, American Consul at Berlin, has resigned, and will return to Baltimore. The inauguration of the BismarckMoltke monument will take place at Berlin. A special from tho Hague, Germany, says: Upon the assembling of the lower House of Parliament the Prime Minister announced that the Cabinet had decided that the King was incapacitated for carrying oc the Government, and had communicated this decision to the State Council. The declaittaa JI the Council in the matter is awaited.

FARMERS ENCOURAGED.

THE OUjrLOOK FOR A BOUNTIFUI. HARVEST UMJSlAI.LV BRIGHT.

FRESH AND NEWSY. The trotting horse Pan coast, record 2:212, is reported as being permanently crippled from the effect of a stroke of lightning which he received a year ago. He was owned by John H. Saultz, of the Parkville farm, and cost his owner $28,000. The report of the trial board of the cruiser Yorktown has been accepted by the Secretary of the Navy, und after the electric-lightina: plant and other articles are completed the vessel will be delivered to the commandant of the League Island Navy Yard. The i agular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, has been declared by the Bock Island Boad. Mrs. Robebt Hobace Walpole is critically ill at London. B. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade for last week is as follows: The signs of recovery in legitimate trade increase, and though In Important branches the season has been exceptionally ua.'avorable, there is lees dullness or deureesion thtiji, under the circumstances, might nave been Q.cpected. From three-quarters of the interior cities reporting there come Higns of some improvement in trade, though it is nowhere great, but moderate and gradual. The outlook is guner&Uy quite favorable, and at New Orleana it 1b reported that planting u under good head way. while in Dakota and Minnesota preparation for u jeding is a full mouth ahead of last year. At Cleveland and some other points bnsiueoe is considered better than last year, but there is a mtiked reaction at Pittsburg from the favorable tone of the last few weeks. At Philadelphia some improvement it seen in the boot and shoe and "he wool trade, but dry goods are in ordinary condition and collection 8 are slow, as also at Milwaukee. The Government report as to wheat in farmers' hands haj helped a decline of '1 cents, from which there was recovery of about 194 cents on the covering of shorts. Exports continue insignificant, and good prospects for the coming crop tend to weaken holders. Corn has c.eolined 1W cents in spite of large exports, while pork products and oats are substantially unchanged. No disturbance occurred in the mor.ey market. The business failures for the weok numbered 2i9. JOHN BRIGHT DEAD. John Bright, tbe great English philanthropist aud statesman, is dead, hi i demise occurring in London after a long illness. The remains were interred in the Quakers1 burying giound at Roche -dale. John Bright, tho son of a QuaVer. Jacob Bright was born Nov. hi, 1811, neax Kochdale, and received a thorough English education. In 1833

he became a personal friend of Bichard Cobden, and gained distinction as au orator of the Anti-Co:rn Law League. He waa elected a member of Parliament in 1843

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JOHN bright. he sided with the Union's cause. In 1867, after a decade of great work in that direction, the friends of reform triumphed and Bright entered Gladstone's Cabinet in 1868 as President of the Board of Trade, but resigned the oittce in 1871 on account of ill-health. When Gladstone returned to power in 1830 Bright became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but resigned in 1882 when tho Government began war in Egypt. He had always been an uncompromiBing" champion of Irish rights, and justified Irish turbulence aud disorder in view of the treatment of the nation bv the Government until the franchise bill brought eighty-aix Irish members into the House, when he became completely alienated from the cause, and proved one of the most powerful opponents to Gladstone's scheme of home rule. Mr. Bright was married in 1830 to Elizabeth Priestmait, of Newcastle. His wife died in 1811, and he wati afterward married, in 1S49, to Margaret Leatham, daughter of a banker of Wakefield. He leaven four sons and three daughters. MARKET RKFOKTS. CHICAGO. Cattle Prime $i.oo 4.75 Good, 3.25 4. Ki Common 2.50 ( 3.i5 Hogs Shipping Grades 4.50 5.i5 Sheep 3.00 ft 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Ked 98 & .9 Corn No. 2 34 & .H5 Oats No. M4 .25 Bye No. 2 42 & .4.H Butter Choice Creamery 23 S .25 Chkkbk Full Cream, Uat 11 ,12 Eggr Freeh 10 & .11 Potatoes Car-loads, per bu 43 i"! .27 Pork Mess 12.00 12.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat Cash 87 .87)6 Corn No. 3 Hi .34 Oats No. 2 White .2 & .2) Hye No. 1 43 (fS .43 Barley No. 2 i 5 .6) Pork Mobs 12.00 (12.5.) DETROIT. Cattle 3.50 & 5.00 Hogs 4.25 t 4.75 Shkkp 4.00 if 6.00 Wheat No. 2 Bed .IM & .95 Corn No. 2 Yellow 33 .34 Oats No. 2 White 28 .20 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 93 & .95 Corn Cash at m .34 Oats No. 2 White ft . . . .27u& .28 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 ( 4.75 Hogs 5.00 5.50 Hmkkp 4.5d (1 5.50 Wheat No. 2 Bet 91(0 MM Corn No. 2 43 $ .46 Oats White 35 .40 Pork New Mess 13.25 &13.75 H'V. LOUIS. CaTTLB 3.00 4.50 Hog h 4.50 5.00 Wheat No. 2... oa t .W$ Corn No. 2 2J (.) .30 Oath No. 2 h25 ,25ft Barley Canada 70 tfli .78 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 2.50 t4 4.23 Hogs 4.5 ) t'J 4.75 fcHKEP 3.00 tf 4.50 Lamrh , 4.00 & 5.50 CINCINNATI. Hook Butchers'.. 4.50 at 5.00 Wheat No. 2 Bed 9.3 & .95ft CoKN No. 2 34 A5 Cats No. Mixed 28 $ .29 It k No. 2 40 .48 Pork Mess 12.25 tf12.75 KANSAS CITY. Cattle Good 3.75 i$ 4.25 Common 3.00 i 3.75 Ktocker 2.00 & 3.25 HOGS Choice- 4.50 4.75 Medium 4.25 t 4.50 Sheep , 3.30 (& 4.&Q

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Winter Wheat Looks Beautiful in Many Sections l lie Ground I Pry anI Kata Is Needed Oats and Other Early Grain Are Being Seeded Chicago special.'! March, which, particularly itt this latitude, la always one of the most trying, disagreeable, and tUshtartec iug months, not only to the producer Imt w evei-y one connected directly or indirectly In the moving of the crops, has this yecvr, and particularl y during the last two weeks, given ufl phenomenal conditions. From a large corps of lorregponclents scattered throughout the country, tho c audition of crops, seeding, etc., up to March 25th, may be summarized as follows : As yet there l as practically no seeding been done of f;pri ng what. All the western part of Minnesota und Dakota are ready to go to net irk at once. On some of t he higher knolls what has already leen seedel The reports from these two States show the ground in good condition for sodding rb soon as it warms u p. But the reports are also unanimous upon one point, and thnt Is that the fxound still continues dry After you get down an Inch or so, and that there is great danger of the crop being injured unless rains follow soon after c eedlDg. There we,a no rain to wet the ground any in Dakota last fall, and little snow fell during the winter. South Dakota reports that if there were sjiy busheii there the birds would be singing, but the moisture is as scarce as the oirds. .Fanners have been ioarrowing their grounl; the ground is iry, but tho opinion seems to le that the mild wStcara hve always been folio wod by good cropa la BaJtota, a fr.rr.je a wiu peed every acre possible. Mild weather has been the order of the ciay in Southern Minnesota Wely, All correspondents report that seeding will be quite general within a few days, but that i a in a are neceii sary immediately after seeding, as the groiuid i? bo dry t hat the wheat will not sprout withc ut it. Nebraska, reports that they have had little rain throughout the State this n ring. Tlie farmers are seeding spring wheat, but the average U growing less and lesB every year, oats and corn taking its place. The movement of corn in Nebraska at present is small ai d will continue so until spring seeding is over. After that everything points to an increased movement in corn. In Iowa dry weather prevails, and in some portions of the State tne wells now are as low as at the dtiest time last Bummei-. Farmers are sowing a liutle spring wheat but not to an? great extent. Tbe ground is dry encogh for th'J seedLag of oats, but farmers are cautious with regard to e ceding just now for fear ol bad weatner in tUe near future. There seems to be an unusually large amount of corn bock in farmers' hands in Iowa, and at present prices it is not likely to come forward. This report ou spring seeding would not be complete without looking over Northern and Central Illinois, devoted now so largely to the growing of oats. No one who is not practically 'amiHar with the development or agriculture in Central Illinois has any concept f on of the insreauein the acreage of oats, the acreage now buinjj almost as great as that of corn. The tile hinds in this area are actually dry and dusty ; but farmers are talking 8iriouteiy of reducing the ricreago of oats this Hiring, owing to tje exorbitant mice which thej are obliged to nay for twine to bind tho crop with, and they are forming boycotts against tfcine trusts aU over ;he htite. They seem to be thoroughly aroused uxxai the subject. Th'i seeding season may be summed up practically as follows : From fifteen to twenty days earlier than usual, little done yet; ground dry, but cannot yet Lv? colled a drouth. Seeding will opn up alonp the line within a few days, when rains S'?em absolutely essential to the success of the suriiitf seeding. "Tho general conditions of tt.f winter wheat c:op up to this date are backward. The ilstributiou of the rainfull of the ci mtry seems to have no met hod in its madness, f or in Michigan. Northern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio the ground ifi dry. and down iu tha southwes tern portion of the Eintery wheat belt there is plenty of moist ure and the crop growing fast and doing well. Reports from Southern Han mis all Indicate plenty of ain ; in fact, too much for spring work. The wheat is making rapid growth, Quito a number of points in Soulhern Kansas say there is little wheat in farn.ers' hands and none in elevators, and that they are importing now almost all the wheat they are usicg and Bxpect to do so until tlie next crop comes on the market. HeKrta from Central Kansas Et.y that there la sufficient moit ture in the ground to carry the wheat plant i through the spring. Roports from Northern Kansas say there ie no surplus of wheat in thf.t part of the country ; farmers have nevei sold aft closely as they hava this season. Reports from Northern Missouri are all of a favorable character; much more so than they were a year ago at this time, 'lue milling out-Ic-ok shows quite an improvement and a better dtimand for flour. The wheat moves slowly, aad stock? in millers' hand; are running lew and mills are paying St. Ixuis prices for wheat. Eastern Missouri reports no complaint of the growing crop. It has com tr.enced to grow; farmers' deliveries have been free In the early part of the to oath, but the BtockB are now fast melting awa . Southern Missouri reports favorable crop conditions and demand for flour better ; not enough wheat has come in from farmer hands during the last thi rty days to keep the mills running, and tney are sending away from liome to get it by car lots. , M In Southern Illinois the great; wheat field of the State is nil now in good growing condi tion. Therf is less wheat in the farmers' bands than fcr many years at this date and particularly less good wn?at. Farmers all though Southern Illinois are sowing oata; country roadB have been unusually good during the v inter and consequently the movement of wheat up to the p:ese:ut time has been larger thai: usual. Noithern Indiana reports the wheat looking well find all it needs now is plenty of rain for the remainder of the month. Southern Indiana reports warm and springlike wather, and with hardly a uingle report of winter killin z or farmers plowing up their crop. The demand for flour is light, and none of the mills are running over half the time. Southern Ohio reports fine growing weather fcr wheat and that all the wheu.t now in the fa nners hands will be needed forl. omo consumption. Good wheat is scarce. Tne mills have little stock 03a hand and are buying from hand to moutu. , Southern Michigan reports warm and dry weather for the season of the yea-. There is no movement of wheat from farmers' hands, and, in toot, there Is little to move. The country elevators are carrying small stocks. Reports from the central and northern parts ol Michigan all say they want good, warm r8ins to start the wheat to growing. Sixck in farmers hands is small, prolwbly not raore than one-half the usual amount at this date in 1888. Owing to the fact that piiceE were good last fall farmers sold fxeely, and iitocks held by mills and elevators are Alan Avt.rnmelv litmt. Recoiut s have been

scarcely anything. Many of the large country mills report that the supply is not large enough to last the mills thirt y days' steady running, and that some of the cnills are importing from Toledo now thev.heat they are Tennessee nd Kentucky both report that the giowiag whoat crop was never better. The plants are starting" off strong and healthy. Farmers supplies have nearly aai gone to market. The condition of the wheat crop in California is chauged for tho better to some extent by the recent rains. Although to the observer the giain in Central California looks well, yet the ii vers and crteks are as drv as lust September, and the grain lives on this surface moisture. If iu tho near future omv nverage spring raina fall (and the peculiarity of the San Joaquin Valley is that after March little rain occurs, except in phenomenal seasons), the harvest will uot exceed the oompurative yield of tlie two preceding years. Reportu from Washington Territory ore of a favorablo character, so far as the growing crop of whoat is concerned. There is quit a htrga amount of wheat in tfie country to be moved off yet. Thf miUing situation iit good, millers paying equal to 86 cents for w&eat in Tacoina.

WHERE THE PLUMS FALL

THE UNITED STATES SENATE IK J&X ECUTIVE SESSION.

Windrlm Honored. Secretary M iudom htw appointed James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia, Supervising Architect of tho Treasury, vice Will A. F;reret, resigned by request. Mits. De; Culture Honors! Going to marry that young Mr. Hitvseed! Are

i you crazy? He eats pie w:ith a knife. . jVHss De'Culture I know it, ma, but I 1 love iiirn. fa You'll die of disgust."

"No, I won't. I'll never have pie. Wis are told that "brenatpins are made larger than lost year." Now let

, 6ome one tell u jus" how large last i year was. Jewelnra9 Weekly.

Whks by the barber's maty tools 'We're shaved and Bcaped a: d shorn, How solemnly the truth comet home That mun waa made to inuuin.

The Upper House of Congress TranaC Little Other Business than Confirming or Rejecting Presidential Appointments The Chosen. The Senate tin executive session on the IM intit. confirmed the following Presidential nominations : Andrew C. Bradley, to oe Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of tho District of Columbia; Fred D. Grant, of New York, to be Minister to A u atria-Hungary ; Frank B. Alliens, of Dakota, to be Assistant Justice of the 6irme Court of Dakota; John B. McFie, of New Mexico, to be Associate Justice of the Hupreme Court of New Mexico; Henry W. fciaixe, of Montana, to be Chief Justice of ths Supreme Court of Montana ; John IX Fleming, of Colorado, to be District Attorney for Colorado , Miles C. Moore, of Washington Territory, to be Governor of Washington Territory: Oliver C. White, of Washington Territory, to be Secretary of Washington Territory ; Edwin W. Willitts, of Michigan, to be Assistant. Secretary of Agriculture; Whitelaw Held, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France; Natbjut O.. Murpnv, of Preseott, A. T.. to be Secretary of ArUoua- Julius Goldsohxnidt. of Wisconsin, to be Consul General at Vienna. Aud the following Postmasters : Edwin O. Shaw. Newavgo, Mich. ; William E. Culver, Laa. Animas, Cal. ; John A. Fellows, Pontiac, Mtb, Lucy Bowers, Tipton. Iowa; Wm. T. Carpenter, Manning, Iowa; Mrs. Sarah Karthroan Grlswold, Iowa; Frank T. Pyeer, Sheldon, Iowa; Jaiines R Bradley, Wau aeon, Ohio; Charles 8. McCov. Cadiz, Ohio ; Henry R. Snyder, Waring, OhlofEdwiu McGlachiin, Stevens Point, Wta.; Ad-ilmar M Adams, Plankinton, "Wis. ; Steven A. Pilley, Troy, Ala.; John W. Banbury, JirtU ton. D. X.; Ed S. Short, GriggsvUle, I1L ; Wnu It. Parks, Petersburg, 111. ; Alanson H. Beed, Flora, 111.; James S. Beeves, Union City, Iud.; De Witt C. Carr, Fowlorville, Micb. ; George W. Baker, Athens, Ohio ; Dan Kerns, New Philadelphia, Ohio ; John F.Welch, NelsonvuMe, OUio; G. U Rice, West Superior, Wis. The Senate was in executive session an hour and a quarter on the fiSth tilt., and in that tuas disposed of all the nominations reported from tho committee. The files of the executive calendar were pretty generally cleared of pend in; conventions and treaties. Most of . those were un'mportant documents relating to postal conventions and copyright agreements, which wero approved pro forma. The arrangement with Mexico relative to the appointment of a boundary connoia sion was continued. The extradition tntaty with Russia was tbe subject of the most dJsi-us-sion. The following Presidential nomination were confirmed: Zachariah T. WaTrong, tc D United States Attorney for the Indian TeiTTftory ; Thomas B. Nesdles, to be United Stupes Marshal for the Indian Territory; James M. Schakleford, to be J jdge of the United Btfctee Court of the Indian Territory ; James Tanner, to be Commissioner of Pensions ; Jeremiah Sallivan, to be Collector of Customs for Montana and Washington ; David M. Lines, to be special examiner of drugs, etc., at New Orleans; Seligman Brothtars, to be special fiscal agents of tho Navy Department at Ixmdon ; George W. McBride, to be Collector 'i Customs for Michigan; Charles J. 8dwards, to be Collector of Customs for Minnesota; Charles M. Brad&haw, to be Collector at Puget Hound, W. T. Also the iollowing postmastei's : George D. Breed, Chilton, Wis. ; John M. Higgard, Htoughton, Wis. : Theodore Burr, Lancaster. Wis. ; James B. Neville, Btoomingtou, 111. ; W. S. Cullimore, Centralis. 111. ; Allen Chamiwick. Armourdale. Kan. ; James I. King, Topeka. Kan. ; Ed F. Jones, Holton, in. ; Charles J. Wonser, Tama, Iowa. Thf Senate confirmed the following nominations on the 27th ult. : Francis E. Warren, Goterner of Wyoming Territory; Benjamin P. White, Governor of Montana; Robert V. BK, Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Charles C. Walters, United States Attorney for the eastern district of Arkansas; Oscar M. Bpellman, United Stages Marshal for the eastern district of Arkansas; Walter P. Corbett, United State Marshal for the Southern District of Georgia Postmasters : William B. Hodge, Jr., Marshall, 111.; John P. Yost, North Bend, Neb.; Harper Brosius, Alliauce, Ohio; Charles W. Jones, Martinsville, Va. ; Robert E. Miiner. Newman, Ga.; Walter F. Brashear, Russellvitle, Ark. ; James F. George, Dardanelle, Ark. ; William I. Pearoa, Gainesville, Tex. The nominations of Lieria Wolfly to be Governor of Arizona and of John C. New to be Consul General to London were reSirted favorably from committee, bat, under Invldual objection, they went over until the next executive session.

Once a Tramp, Tben a Governor. Your correspondent, while passing

np Pennsylvania avenue with a bureau officer, passed a man named Wilkk.son, who was recently turned out ot the office of the Comptroller of the Currency on account of "offensive partisanship." The bureau officer, after passing Wilkinson, turned to ine and said : "You recognize that .man? Yea; well, there was an incident in the early part of his life which connectshim in a way with one of the most prominent Democrats in Ohio. A good many years ago "Wilkinson waa moving into a house at Springfield, now one of the most prosperous manufacturing towns in the central part of the Buckeye State. While his goods were beiug put into the house, and those belonging to the outgoing tenant were being put on a wagon, a seedylooking tramp came up and inquired if he could get something to eat, offering to assist iu the work if he was accommodated. The outgoing tenant referred the tramp to the incoming tenant, and the latter took the wanderer into the house and gave him a Unner, There was not much attention paid to that tramp, and for years those who saw him on that day lost sight of hiro. Finally he reappeared, however, entered into the business of the place and began to grow. He grew in every sphere of life. He became wealthy and influential. A few years ago l& was Governor, and now he has more property and money than any man in his section of the. State. It is not necessary for me to mention his name. He lives at Springfield yet and is a. very rich man. His name is a household word throughout Ohio.1 Study aud Health A year or two since the Association of Collegiate Alurumo collected statistics from about 800 women college graduates as to their heal tli before, during and after college, the health of their i-hihlren. the number who had died.

etc. Two points came out clearly from these statistics: That the health of the gills generally improved at college, when they did not overstudy; and that the deuth-rate among the children itf college women is remarkably low (fiUte the Re t erse Mrs. Billus John, I had such funny dream last night. It seemed to me it was my wedding day, but thebridegroom wasn't you. He was a man I never had seen before a tall, iind lookiugMr. Billus (who is short and dumpy) I'll be hanged if I can see anythmg funny in that dream, Maria I CTtiroio Tribune The Baltic provinces of Bussm formed a kind of provincial federation from 18(H) until 1876, and so on Jan. 2tf of that vai on the death of Governor General Begration, they Mere incorporated with the Russian Empire. The Scotch made a settlement atDarien, in IMS-), but the project waa abandoned in 1770.