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THE TEIBUNE. V. M. & E. M. i , Tub * . McCOOK , NEB NEWS OF NEBRASKA. THE I IVE STOCK COMMISSION. There is no institution in the state , says the Lin coln Journal , which has done more good in a less time than tho live stock sanitary commission. The alarming extent to which glanders was prevailing intheetate before tho commission began their duties may be inferred from the fact that they have already caused the killing of fifty horses , while complaints are coming in to , them every day. Seventeen horses were killed last week by the order of the commis sion. sion.A A few days ago communications were re ceived from the authorities of Ohio and Missouri asking that the quarantine against those states , which was ordered some time since and has been rigidly enforced , be raised. The communications were referred to the live stock commission. The result of the consideration given by them to the matter may be seen-in the following report of Dr. Gerth to the governor : To His Excellency , James W. Dawes , Governor of Nebraska : Most Honored Sir The communication from Paul Paquin , V. S. , state veterinarian of Missouri , and George Hoadly , governor of Ohio , relating to the raising of quarantine against the above states , presented to live stock sani tary commission and state veterinarian for consideration , was carefully discussec7 this day and the following conclusion ar rived at : 1. That we do not consider any state free from contagious pleuro-pneumonin within twelve months after the destruction of the last diseased animal. Now , in Mis souri , cases of contagious pleuro-pneumo- nia existed six months prior to date. Gov. Hoardly entirely evades to mention any thing in relation to this important point and we , therefore , cannot recommend that quarantine be raised at present ! . 2. In both communications subscribers fail to mention what steps are being taken by their respective states to prevent a re- introduction of the disease. Even if tha first objections were removed we could not permit the introduction of cattle into this state from Missouri and Ohio without full information on this point. Respectfully submitted by your obedient servant , J. GEUTH. JR. , D. V. S. A ULUVKH BUT VILLAINOUS SWINDLE. Fohn Motta , the Italian , fruit vender who iocs business on Farnara near Thirteenth itreet , was made the victim yesterday morning of a very bold and audacious con- Edencegame , losing § 900 iu cold hard cash. Hie story , as related to a reporter for the herald , is that during the forenoon a well- Aressed young man put in an appearance at Motta's place and represented himself as being an Italian who had just arrived in Omaha from the west , witli "dead oodles" of money , and wanted to "see the city" from center to circumference. He carried a gripsack , and told Motta that it was full of gold. At the same time he pulled a handful of five and ten dollar gold pieces out of his pocket , rattled them at Motta , and repeated that his satchel was full of money just like that. He asked Motta to let him leave tho bag and its precious con tents with him while he went out to "take In the town. " Motta expressed his delight atbeiug permitted to guard the treasure and took charge of it. . The stranger induced Motta to let his son accompany him on his tour through the city , saying that it would be ever so much to have who " " and a guide "knew the ropes , could point out such places of interest asho might want to see. They started to make the rounds , and had not gone more than two blocks until another Italian met and accosted them. He also claimed to be a stranger in the city , just lor a good time and had plenty "o' do mon. " Scoundrel No. 1 made a kick and said he would not go unless young Motta had money also , and tantalized the boy , saying that ho could not show up and bp a blood. Motta replied that his dad had swags of stuff , but it was in the bank. "I don't know that you have got it , " jeered the dago , Tho young man said that if they would go back with him he would get his father to make a check and show them. They all returned to the fruit stand. The old man drew a check for § 900 , went to the Omaha , Savings bank and got the money on it. When ho returned and "flashed up" his roll the stranger expressed supreme delight , but was still not satisfied until Motta let him take the money in his own hands and count it. He suggested then that the $900 be placed by him in tho satchel with his gold and they could takeit to Motta's rooms , 1109 Farnam street , where he could come in the evening and stay all night. That was satisfactory. Tlie stranger opened his satchel cautiously , being careful not let any one see the inside of it , made three or four mysterious move ments with his hands , and the § 900 went out of sight. The satchel was then turned over to Motta with instructions to be very careful how he handled it. The young bloods walked away. That was the lost seen or heard of them. About two hours afterwards Motta's curiosity caused him to open the satchel that had been left with him. Instead , however , of finding it filled with gold , a large chunk of lead proved to be its contents. You can imagine that the old man was heart-broken. [ Omaha Her ald. MISCELLANEOUS STATE MATTERS. D FRIEND'S new opera house will soon be among the things that are. THE sorghum mill that has stood idle for many months is now busy with the annual grind. COUNTDSS that selected the last hall of September for their fairs reckoned better than they knew so far as 'the weather is concerned. THE ladies' cornet band ol Ord is said to be about as poor as they get 'em up. The dear creatures' mouths were not made to pucker in that way. CHARLEY GRABTER is looking through the grates of the West Point jail because he came near killing her whom he swore to "love , honor and obey " He's a wife beater that pounds to kill. r * BuRGiiAKS in the vicinity of Lincoln en tered the house ol George Loughton and stole $25 and a shotgun worth § 12. A BROCK merchant is said to be AO infat uated with "euchre" and "seven-upfl that he lets customers stand around until tht game is played out , il it takes half a day. THERE has been ten dwellings built in Stantonin three weeks , and as many mor are expected toloom upin anequalnumber of days. Stanton's work is a lair index ol the growth of Nebraska towns this year. STRONG anice-looking butbadly- ' ; ; : y - - $ & * * & v - . * > , _ .Ti - _ Se * . demoralized girl ol the capital city , will be given an opportunity to learn the ways o the reform school near Kearney. She goes hence on the testimony of her father. THE stock yards company of South Omaha is about to put up a fine stock ex change and hotel. PLATTE CENTER is said to stand greatly in need of a banking house. Such an insti tution it is thought would pay well. D. E. COOK , of Hartington , replevied a span of horses , and several of the citizens of that place went on his bond. Now Cook has skipped , taking the horses with him , and his bondsmen are left out in tho cold. FAIRBUHY'B new'school house will be ready for the rising generation about the 1st of November. QUITE a serious accident happened the family of T. M. Cowley , of Boone , that might have been more eerious , resulting from a too careless handling of a gun. Mr. Crowley's son was handling his gun , when in some unaccountable manner it was dis charged , and the boy's sister who was standing near by , received the charge in her left shoulder. Only a portion of the load took effect , making merely a flesh wound. So close was the girl tothegun when it was discharged that the shot that entered her shoulder occupied a space of only aboutan inch and a half in diameter. THE two year old child of James McDon ald , of Eureka precinct , Jefferson county , while playing near a boiler of hot water set ting on the floor backedagainst it and fell in , being BO terribly scalded that it lived only about four hours. SOME excitement was occasioned at Elk- horn by a rumor that a case of diphtheria had developed there , and many children were kept out of school in consequence. THE Summerville ( Douglas county ) post- office is to be discontinued October 1st. The postmaster has resigned and no one can be found to fill the place. THE Broken Bow Eepublican says that a few days since Zach Thosterson , who re sides five miles northwest of Cliff postofflce , found the remains of a man in tho head of a pocket. The remains were covered lightly with earth and in a sitting position facing the southeast. From indications tho re mains have been there for years , as nil clothing if the form had been clothed was rotted , and nothing except a small pearl button was , found with the bleached bones. The skeleton is adult in size and has not been determined whether of white man or Indian. The supposition , from tho position in which the remains were found , is that he must have been crossing the Table during cold weather ; a storm coming up he got down in this place with his back against the wind , facing the south east. Here he fell alseep , quietly passing away , when season after season passing with its storms of wind and rain kindly made a covering of all that remained in that lone , unmarked , unknown grave. WYOMING stock shipmentsovertheUnion Pacific are increasing daily. CHRIS. Rccn and John Kelley , of Omaha , jot into a fight , when the latter completely sit off the former's ear. spitting it into the filthy ditch into which they had rolled in the struggle. W. CAVI.VJUISH , a brakcman on the Union Pacific , was relieved of about § 45 , a seal ind some 'her small trinkets , at Schuyld the other morning. Gr.OKta : STUVENS had his pocket picked n a gambling house in Hastings of a gold tvatch. His suspicions became fastened Dn a certain person and he notified the po- ic , who soon had the fellow in limbo and ound the watch. CENTRAL CiTYhas the prospect of another bank soon with a capital of § 100,000. Tun little son of J. C. Wiswell , of Weep- ng Walciywos kicked iu the head by a lorse , ' being seriously but it is thought not atally injured. JAMES CUMINGB , of West Union , Ouster county , has been digging a well this sum mer. Last week , when the well had reached a depth of 205 feet , he went to work as usual , but the "walls caved in , burying the digger 27 feet. He was got out in 31 hours , still alive , and at this writing is as good a man as ever. A. P. CHILDS , editor of tho Wayne Ga zette , has sued the county clerk of Wayne county for libel. J. C. BONNELL , of the B. & M. land de partment , has purchased the Pacific hotel at Fairmont , and will expend about2,000 in enlarging and fitting up the same. A TELEPHONE line is to be built between Fremont and Columbus. FAILURE is announced of Ernest Rauch , an Omaha grocer , and his abrupt depart ure. He is remembered by credit jr3 to the tune of nearly $3,000. LANCASTER county is discussing the ques tion of building a new court house to cost about § 100,000. THE buckwheat crop , which promised an abundant harvest , has been entirely de stroyed in many places in the Republican valley by the late rains. THE Beatrice Canning companyhas closed its business for the season , having put up 260,000 cans. Thelargest day's work was the last , when 7,000 cans were put up. STEVENS & LYTLE last week turned loose on Pumpkin creek , Neb. , 9,000 head of thorough cattle which they have been hold ing there for sale. They are still herding 3,000 head which willbeturned loose about the first of next month unless some buyer takes them off their hands. AN old Gage county relic is to be seen at John Wagner's implement store. It is a plow owned by Orr. Stevens , and was first brought to Beatrice nearly thirty years ago. It is said that with this plow the first furrow was turned in Gage county. One I handle and the beam is broken. It will soon be shipped to western Kansas , where he has lately located. NEBRASKA , and Kansas underwriters held their annual meeting in Omaha a few days ago. ago.THE THE contract lor Fremont's water works * ill be let in a few days , after which work will b pushed with all possible speed. CONGBESSMAN DORSET gave an address at the Burt county fair before a large audi tnce. EANGE cattle arriving at the Omaha stock yards are said to be in rather poor condition. NEBRASKA , has forty creameries , all o which are doing a good business. OWING to the low stage of the water in the Missouri at Nebraska City no freighi cars are now carried over ou the transfer boat. THE Burlington and Missouri river rail way officers announce that they will com plete an extension o ! their line from Re publican , Neb. , seventy-eight miles south west through northern Kansas to Oberlin about October 18th. BISHOP O'CONNOR confirmed 145 children ut Duncan last week. Ho was most cor dially received and was assisted in the ct/remonies by Fathers Saraphine , of Col- urnbus , Boniface , of Platte Center , anc Miller , of David City. EZRA STEPHENS , who lives about two miles south o ! town , says the David City Tribune , had an interesting time with a mad dog. When first discovered it was after some cals , one or two of which it suc ceeded in biting. Upon discovering Mr. S. it started for him , and to save himself from its attack he picked up a neckyoke and knocked it down and then made his escape to the house , and procuring a gun killed it. Shortly after two men rode up to his place , who had been following it. Mr. Stephens also killed tho cats it had bitten to prevent their doing any dam age PLANS and specifications for the pro posed water works at Ashland have been prepared. THE young woman driving the coach be tween Scotia and Albion got into the habit of dividing profits and was unceremoni ously bounced. A YOipfG man named Faith has come to grief in Valli'y county through being too handy with his pen. He forged a coupla of notes and disposed of them to the First National bank o ! Ord , and now lies in du ranee vile in that town. JiiGnii'-FOUK persons were committed to the Douglas county jail last month. THE Omaha chief of police received a tele gram the other night from Lincoln stating that two convicts had escaped from the penitentiary , for whose capture § 100 re ward was offered. AT Beatrice , John Bagley , charged with manslaughter in the killing of Wm. Mc- Elheny , at Wymore last fall , was acquitted after the jury had been out fifteen minutes. BURGLARS have been unusually thick in Lincoln of late. Several places were en tered one night last week , but in none of them did they make much of a haul. A SHOWMAN bucked the tiger in Omaha a few nights ago , and left with the dealer about § 1,000. LAST month's sales of postage stamps at the Omaha office was the largestever known and amounted to § 0,592.33. For thesame period in 1834 the sales were § 8,470.30 , and that was before the rate of postage on newspapers had been reduced one-half. For August the sales were § 8,971.05. THE state convention of the Christian church was held in Beatrice last week. SMUT has made its , appearance in some of the corn fields of the state. THE Conklin divorce case is the sensa tional rage in Nebraska City. NEBRASKA CITY thinks it will have a visit from that proposed "Diagonal" railroad which is to start in Iowa and go through Southwestern Nebraska to Kansas. As AX illustration of the accuracy of the agricultural department's estimates of the crop yields , it may be mentioned that the estimate of last year's crop of corn for Richardson county was 8,000,000 bushels. The census returns this year show about 2,300 farms in the county and 2,000 bush els a farm is a liberal estimate. The yield last year was probably not over one-half the estimate made by the department of agriculture. DEATH IN THE jSIUD-DRUOf. "errible Explosion of a Battery of Boilers With Fatal Results. Pittsburg ( Pa. ) dispatch : Shortly after o'clock this morning a battery of boilers t the Solon iron works exploded with dis- strous effect. The room in which the ex- losion occurred was immediately filled ith steam , scalding fatally four men and adly burning fourteen others. Those atally injured are : John Muiry , terribly scalded. Frank Martin , badly scalded. James Cattoe , top of head almost sev- red by a piece of Hying iron. K. Burt Henderson , terribly burned. Some of the others were seriously though ot fatally injured , several havjng arms roken and others being badly bruisedand , ufc by flying debris. Scarcely had the re- erberations from the explosion died away irhen frenzied , frightened wives , mothers nd children began to rush upon the scene nd peer anxiously into the faces of gasp- ng , dying men , seeking to identify their wn. Children nearly nude and screaming t the top of their voices crowded and jos- led each other in the mad rush lor the Dill. Arriving there , there was silence for i moment , and then a woman's wail vas heard , and then another and another antil shrieks , moans and cries of anguish jitermingled in a discordant chorus. Tho injured were found lyinginall positions and oine so far from the boilers that it seemed .mpossible that they could have been in ured by the explosion. Those most seri ously injured were taken to the West Penn- ylvania hospital and the others were re- noved to theirhomes. Two of the victims , homas Cattoe and John Murray , died at ihe hospital this morning. Three or four others are not expected to live. The explo- ion was caused bymud eating through the iud-drum. Pieces o ! the drum were picked ap not more than a thirty-secondth part of an inch. In addition to the two victims who died this morning , five more are reported fatally injured and their deaths are momentarily expected. Their names are : Charles Hey- wood , Joseph Getze , Patrick Henderson , Thomas Stem and William S.Daniels. The others are resting easily and will no doubt recover. A forestry congress is to be held at Do Foolak Springs , Fla. , Dec. 16 and 17 , and the Arbor day movement wfll be introduced In the South. " " * 1 " * v * * " * * CHRONICLES BY CABLE. "miscellaneous Matter * of Interest Pertaining to foreign Countries , The feeling at St Petersburg regarding the Ronmelian Question Is hourly becoming more warlike , the sympathy of the masses Ja strongly with the Bulgarians. It is stated the czar telegraphed the minister of war to pre pare plans for a campaign In the event of the opening of hostilities between Bulgaria and Turkey and he Is determined to support riln < .e Alexander's scheme of unity between Bulgaria and Roumelia. A prominent Russian general , in an Interview when asked if It is true that the czar seriously Intended to support Bulgaria to the extent of going to war with Turkey , replied that Russia would declare war against Turkey the moment the Porte attacked Bulgaria , and added that the czar Is most emphatic In the resolution to support Bulgaria. The Novoc Vremya com menting on the Roumellan difficulty , hints that It Is possible the Russian troops may be called upon to occupy Bulgaria. A rumor Is circulating In Vienna that the king ot Servla had been murdered. The ori gin of the report cannot oe traced and con firmation is anxiously awaited. The Servian government has summoned all Servians now In Germany to return home at once for military duty. Twelve Servian battalions have been dis patched southward and the transportation oi merchandise has been suspended on all the Servian railways by order of the [ government. General Cotargi has gone to Bucharest tc represent King Milan In the negotiations with the Roumania government with the object ol forming an alliance between Servia and Rou mania. A cyclone struck In the vicinity of Calcutts and traveled seaward. Several ships wert wrecked and scores of persons drowned. A paity of thirteen moonlighters visited the /arms belonging to the estate of Sir Henry Doualon , county Kerry , Ireland , an-1 com pelled the tenants to swear they would re fuse to pay rent till the landlord sliould make a reduction of 80 per cent. Tne tenants of the Herbert and Kenmore estates , Killarney , county Kerry , headed by the parish priests , visited their landlords , prepared to pay their rents , but demanded 30 rer cent reduction. The demand was refused and the tenants withdrew without paving. Prompt eviction is sure to follow this action of the tenants , unless they reconsider their determination to exact the reduction , and as they openly de clare their intention to resist the landlords trouble Is exnected. Indications point to active warpreparations 3y the Porte. Eight battalions of first-class reserves are being mobilized in the districts Dordering on the Black Sea , at points which arill facilitate transportation to Roumelia , for iuty in the event of the Sultan being com piled to adopt extreme measures to sett ethe toumelian difficulty. The transportation de partment is actively engaged in furnishing means for the concentration of the troops at Jhe most available points for an advance on Roumelia. Three battalions of infantry and i company of artillery stationed on the island 3f Crete have been ordered to Adrianople. Prince Alexander has ordered a number of armed bands of .Bulgarians preparing to in- Fade Macedonia to return to Bulgaria. Two Servian revolutionary chiefs have been ar- irrested and are imprisoned in a fortress in 3ulgaria. On the 29th ult. the Turkish troops fired on the Roumelian outposts at Mustapha Pasha , a town in Roumelia , twenty miles northwest of Adrianople. The outposts were immedi ately reinforced and a skirmish ensued in tvhich the Turks were defeated and forced to retreat , carrying with them a number of their wounded. Another dispatch says heavy artil- ery firing could be heard in the direction of Pristina and Djakova. It is believe ! that a desperate fight has been ragins between the Turks and Arnauts. Bashi Bazouks have sacked and burned several villages in Eastern Roumania. Advices from European capitals indicate the belief that the crisis resulting from the Bulgarian and eastern Rounulian union is daily growing more grave. The result of the recent interview between . DeGiers , Russian prime minister , anc Prince Bismarck , will ha to restrain Servla. Greece and Montenegro from attacking Turkey. Otherwise Austria would , it is thought , certa nly make a bold strike foi Salonica , and possibly for Constantinople , causing a blaze in Russia'which would end in European war. M. Bratino , the Roumanian prime minister , who had interviews uith Emperor Francis Jo seph , and Count Kaino , the Austrian foreign minister , respecting the attitude of Rouma nia in the event of war between Turkey and Bulgaria , has left Vienna to confer with Bis marck , after which he will visit the Czar His mission is for the purpose of having Rou mania accorded inviolable rights similar tc those enjoyed by Belgium if ho til.ties break out. The opinion gains ground that the I crisis is extending and that unless the powers intervene at once , war is inevitable. The porte as a precautionary measure , to prevent reduction of supplies in the event of war with Bul ariaj Issued an order prohibiting the exportation o'i cereals. GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES. Hatters of Interest Touched Upon by Pvesa Jfeies Gatherers. The St. Louis police discovered two men making an exit from the residence of Leon 'alette. They called to them to halt but the ) urgalars ran. The officers fired ten shots at , hem and received four In return. They Inally distanced the police and escaped. A > ody of a man with bullet wounds In his abdomen was found at the foot of Davis treet , and was Identified as one of the bur glars. Three coaches of a passenger train con taining one hundred persons was thrown lown an embankment Sea.r "Warm Spring , N. 3. , and twenty peor' \ured , three fatally. Goldsmith Maid \ celebrated trotter , died at the fashion , < mn near Trenton , N. agedSSyear j a four months. She was taken ill sudVnly , and died two hours ater of fatty degeneration of the heart The business portion of Buckingham village n Kankakee county , 111. , burned. The por- ion burned consisted of a row of frame build- nss. The fire originated from an unknown cause in J. E. Smitu's drug store. Smith and amily barely escaped with their lives from ; heir rooms above the store , where they were living Loss amounts to about $24,000. In surance , $6,000. The forestry congress recently In session at Boston visited Wood's hall to inspect the for est of two hundred acres which J. S. Fay , ot Boston , has grown there from seed planted at different times within the past twenty-five or thirty years. Two hours were spent drlv- jg about the forest on this once barren sod , as a dense body of wood , In places almost Im- jenetrable , having gained foothold of pines , md thus raised a screen against the driving _ * j winds from * he ocean. Fay planted behind them seeds of other trees , evergreen and de ciduous , and with unfailing succes * . The members of the congress were delighted. It was a confirmation of what they believed and taught , and nothing more convincing and en couraging coula he asked for. J. C. Thompson , living at Sodorus. near Champaign , HI. , quarreled with his wife and daughter recently and the two women left home and went to Champaign. Thompson appeared at the house where they were re siding and attacked them with a huge kntte Inflicting fatal wounds In his wife's throat 'While making a desperate attempt to cut his daughter's throat assistance came to her rescue and Thompson fled. A tborouzblv organized party is on his track. Physicians say there Is some .tope of saving the daugh ter's life. Irving E. Fitch , one of the oldest and best known telegraph operators of New York , dropped dead on an elevated railroad train on Broadway. He has been assistant to the Metropolitan superintendent of the Western Union for years. A train was thrown from the track on the Indianapolis , Bloomlngton & Western road. An engine and four coaches were wrecked Ten passengers were quite seriously injured. The breaking of an engine axle was the cause of the disaster. Chas. Broadwcll , employed as a cutter bj D. Hutton & Son , bathing suit manufacturer : of Philadelphia , was arrested for a series o robberies extending over a period of j ears , involving poods valued at an aggregate o from § 15,000 to $30.000. Jacob Martini , a furniture dealer in St. Louis , was robbed of $ ,500 by a man wlion he had hired as porter. Martini had lockec the money in his oflice desk because he had no faith in banks and was afraid to deposi the same In them. A horrible tragedy was enacted at Austin , Texas , In which a negro man and three negro women were brutally murdered by having their skulls crushed with an axe. Thsy were the servants of W. B. Duuham , editor of the Texas Court Reporter , and occupied a shanty In the rear of his residence. The murderer is supposed to be a negro named Doc Wood , who was captured by the officers In a bottom field eight miles from town. Seri ous fears are entertainedthat he will be lynched. A few nights ago four negroes , Jerry Finch and wife , Lee Tjson aud John Pattishill.were lynched one mile from PIttsboro , Chatham county , N. C. The ? were taken from the jail and their bodies found next morning suspen ded from a tree near the public road. This Is the sequel of the triple murder of the Finch family on the 4th of July last and the murder of the Gunter family near the same spot some eighteen months ago. There were two of the Finch family , Edward , aged 79 , and his sister , aged 81. They were found on the morning of July 5th , lying on the floor with their tbroats cut , and near them lay their servant girl , aged 1C. All had been knocked in the head with an axe. now HUGH Tin : GorEKA arrvT OWES. A. Tabulated Statement that Will Titrate Jlitcli Liyht on the Ait'Jeef. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the 1st : INTEREST HEARING DERT. Bonds at 4Ji pur cent i S 2.'iO,000,0")0 ) 00 Hond8t4jer cent 7 7,73(5,4)0 ( ( X ) Uondsntl ? per cent 104,190,300 lO lie uncling certittcatcs at 4 per cent 22T.OOO 00 Navy pension iund at 3 per cent 14.000.00000 Pacific railroad bonds ut G per cent 61,023.51200 Principal 1.2S0.777.482 00 Interest lV-14,7bS : Total ? l,272.tt.V- ! 8 > DElli' OX WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATUl.irV. Princ'pnl S 3,871,385 28 Interest 221.3S 30 Total S 4.002,71750 DEBT HE UtINO NO INTEREST. Old ( loimind aud leual tender notes $ 340.733,850 00 Certidcntes of deposit 23 1ST..OOO 0) Gold certificates 118.137.79000 Silver certificates 93.6rrfi.71H OJ Fractional cur ency less 8,375na"i 00 Estimated as lostor destioyed. . G , ! illG2 f-S Principal 5SSC79,5J4 8S TOTAL DEBT. P inciprl SJ.8.VW8.40- Intetest J. . JC.l-'l 13 Totnl § 1,803,704,523 27 Less p.-iah item * available for icr u-tjon of tl-occtit S 240,927,07470 LeiSiu'Tve ) e l forio erup tion ol Uu.t d Statej notes. . . 103,000,000 00 Total S 340,927,074 70 Totnl ileat , less available cash items 51.24r 7 448 17 Net cash in tl e treasure C3.003.ltG 30 Debt , Ics-i cnsjli in the treasury Ocl.llSS.- 1.173.CO-,507 52 Decrease of dobt duringironth as shown by th.b statuino.it. . 12,757,9" 25 CASH AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF DEBT. Gold liclJ lor go d certificates actually r ut.tu. dint ; ? 118,137,790 00 Silver held fir silver ccr ifl- ratesHCtiiailj outstanding. . . . 93,050,710 00 United States notes held tor ccr.'iflcatsof de o'it , actual- lyoiit-tcniliiur 23,185,030 00 Cnsli hel 1 for mature ! debt and interest unpaid 5.945,06071 F.-j.ctio tal currency 2.501 90 Total aa ! abb for reduc tion ot debc § 240,927.074 70 RESERVE FUND. H > ld for rodcmpt on of United States notos act or January 14,1&75 , ai.d July 12 , Ifc82 ? 100.000,000 00 UNAVAILABLE FOtt REDUCTION OF DEBT. Fractional silver coin $23,041.893 79 Minor coiu 796,852 23 Total $24,4355,740 05 CASH ON HAND. Certificates held as cash 554,707,230 00 Net cash balance on Iund 03,903,100 30 Total cabh in treasury aa shown by treasurer's gineral account 4S3.93C.137 05 The payments on account of interest due on bonds amount to about $7,500,000 , which will reduce the decrease of the debt to about $5,230,000. BEHEADED ON THE GALLOWS. A. Victim of Legal Lynching Has His Jrrteeil Off. Patrick Hartnett. the Cincinnati wife murderer , was hung at the Ohio penitentia ry on Friday last. The drop fell at 1:25 , ind ha was pronounced dead one-half a minute later. The fall resulted in almost total decapitation , the head hanging to the body by only a small strip of skin at tho back of tho neck. The scene was a most sickening one , and it was with great diffi culty that the executioners could summon : ouragc to take thebody down. Hartnett killed his wife Jan. 31 , 1881 , in Mt. Auburn , a suburb of Cincinnati. Early on the morning of the deed , when shearose , he ordered her back to bed , and charged her with unfaithfulness , which she denied. He secured an ax , made his wife get on her knees , say her prayers , and kiss the floor , when he struck her two fatal blows with the ax , one crushing her skull , in view of her five children. The officers found Hart nett dancing a jig and playing a jewaharp around the bodj. j' . * . - J /A THE PKESIDEXX TAKES A. TIAKD , A Special Jtule'raid Down &y Him HegarO ing Civil Smrvlce. The president haa issued tho following : special rule for tho regulation and improve ment o ! the civil service : "Special rulo No- 2 , approved July 18 , 1884 , is hereby re voked. All applicants on any register for- the postal or customs service who , on the- first day ol November next , shall havo- been thereon ono year or more , shall , in conformity with rulo 1C , bo no longer eligible for appointrnentfrom such register. " " The special rule which is now revoked pro vided that the names of those persons on tho registers of the commission , eligible for appointment prior to July 1C , 1864 , should not be taken off at the end of tho year ot being entered thereon , but should remain on the registers as eligible for appointment for two years from that date , without- written notice or examimition. A reporter for the associated press called upon Commissioner Eaton in regard to tho- new special rule. "Was the rule , " asked the reporter , "made on the recommenda tion of the commission ? " Eaton "It was. " "How long had this subject been under consideration ? " "I cannot tell definitely. I liave drafts of a rule on the subject made in August , be fore I left Washington for my summer va cation. Tho matter was much discussed by the commission. " "What object will tho rule serve ? " "It will take off the registers for certifica tion those of a lower grade than the appli cants who have received appointments. It can hardly be said that it will give those to- be hereafter examined any better chancea for getting appointments , because every one is certified for appointment on tho- babis of his grade and regardless of thetimo of his examination. In other words , tho- bcbt of thoho on any new examination aro- - ( Mire to be marked higher than those left from former examinations after the super x ( ior ones have been appointed. And in more recent examinations those competing : urcdccidcd superior to those who competed ateailier examination. The change now made will prevent tho ill-informed Iron * thinking that persons examined more than a 3'uar ago are retained on the registers in order to give them places. Until this last special rule wns made the persons exam ined from the beginning of tho work of tho- eomiiiissioii have been retained on the reg isters , but all those left on the registers from the early examinations are marked so low that they would have had no .liauce- for an appointment , even had not the new * special rule been made. " J TO PURCHASE WHEAT. the Farmers' Prolcctire Aslta of'Congress. The following highly important resolu tions were fully considered and unani mously adopted at the Farmers' Protec tive association : Whereas , In view of the paternal policy- adopted by the United States in the act of February 28 , 1878 , to favor the producers of silver by authorizing the purchase by the government , at the price of silver in the- English market , of not to exceed § 4,000- 000 worth of their silver crop every .aonfeh , * ? and by government storage of the same- \ thus withdrawing the quantity purchased from the market , and of the further pro vision of said law for issuing therefor certi ficates of the denomination of $10 each. which said certificates are authorized to- pass among the people as currency at about 29 per cent above the value of the- silver bullion upon which they are based , as ? nown by the quotations of silver in tho- markets and , Whereas , It hns been the policy of our paternal government for years to "encour age" by our tariff laws our eastern manu facturers to charge the farmers of the- country about forty per cent additional to- the ordinary profits of manufacture , now , therefore be it Resolved , That the Farmers' Protective- jibsociation accept tho action of congress- In the instances hereinbefore "recited , in- favor of the producers of silver and of nanufactured articles , as evidence of the- highest paternal statesmanship. Rcsoved , That in view of the paternal > olicy of the guvernment that the honora ble senators and representatives in congress- from the wheat-growing states be and they nro hereby requested to user their best abil ities at the next session of congress to se cure such legislation as may be required to establish grain warehouses and elevators- throughout the wheat-growing districts and all centers of trade for the safe keeping and storage of wheat. That the secretary oF the treasury be authorized and required to- purchase of the wheat annually produced in the United States notless than one-third1 nor more than one-half of the estimated crop so produced , at a price not to exceed the current price of wheat in the English marketandthatthesecretary of the trens- ary be further authorized and required to- issue thereon wheat certificates of the de nomination of ten dollars each , to be used as currency at a valuation of twenty-nine- per cent above the valuation of the wheat , ns herein provided ; that said wheat certifi cates shall be receivable for customs , taxes. und all public dues , and , when so received may be re-issued , and that wheat held by the Unted States by virtue of this act shall be for the redemption of said certificates , und that secretary of the treasury be au thorized and directed to transport free of : harge wheat to all points or places where- the holder of wheat certificates may re- Itiest. Resolved , That a copy of these resolu tions duly certified by the president and secretary of the association be sent all sen- itors and representatives in congress , re- ; ardless of their party affiliations , who are inown to favor a high protective tariff or the doulbe standard certificates. TROUBLES OF THE STOCK31EX. I Series of Conflicts , Refilling in the Loss of Six Lires. A special from Dallas says : A gentleman- vho arrived from the west reports that in thet section of country between Midland and Toy- it , a distance of 112 miles and of Immense vidth north and south , one hundred thous- ind head of cattU are held in quarantine by , he New Mexican syndicate who bold public ands hi evasion of the federal homestead aw. Several conflicts , involving the loss ot iix lives , have taken place within the past , wo weeks in Delaware , Black , Little and Big ; 2imarron regions of New Mexico , none ol vhich have found publicity in the paners. An appeal will be made to the federal gov- irmnent by the stockmen and bona fide ap plicants for homesteads against the lawless iction of the New Mexican organization , aa nvestLration of whose title will be demanded , rhe school lands of Texas , on which a larsa lumber of cattle graze , are entirely bare oJ rerdure , and will be worthless for years to : ome. Stockmen are anxious for an early rost , which will compel the raising of the luarantine agalnit Texas cattle , and enable- hern to drive to winter quarters in New Mer- and Arizona , whence tkey will drive to the lorthwestern territories In the spring. The inffering stockmen claim that New Mexicans ire endeavoring to force the Texas cattle inta itarvatlon , with the belief that If successful iheycan purchase them at half their value , kile the New Mexican cattle in the meanUia * wivance In prices. t\