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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Icfompanying Dates.
Monday, April 21. By two railway
accidents in England on the 25th twenty per
. . 1-11 . . . '
buu vicre kuicu or seriously Injured.... A
rumor was current m Madrid on the 2Cth that
tlietarlisU had asked Marshal Serrano for
amnesty A recent New York dispatch says
the Federal Council of the Internationals has
resolved to dissolve the organization, it having
Irovca a complete failure in the United States.
.. ..A heavy snow and wind storm prevailed In
many sections of the East on the 2.r)th. In
several places the enow was over a foot In
depth. AIucn damage M as done In many lo
calities oy me wind A Jacksonville (111.)
telegram states that a suit for $100,000
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ueot, anu .,,uuu damages has been in
stituted la the Morgan County Circuit
Court, in the name of the People of Illi
nois against the Toledo, Wabash tfc Western
Railway Company. This action is brought
under the Kail way law of 1ST3, for extortion
ia ireignt anu passenger rates Late dis
patches from Louisiana show that the floods
in the Ouachita Valley have been far more
disastrous than was at first supposed. Several
towns are wholly under water ; over 5,000,000
acres are submerged, and about 170,000 per
sons are washed out of house and home
over .t,000 are actually suffering for the
bare necessities of life. Xo crops will be
raided this year in the section of
country overflowed, and the prospects of
the people are of the gloomiest character. The
river at Xcw Orleans was reported falling on
the 25th. Liberal contributions in aid of the
6u Borers are reported as being raised in East
ern and Western cities A Washington As
sociaica rress dispatch says it is thought
uy many conservative Congressmen that
a bill can be framed by the Senate
Finance Committee which will be ac
ceptable to the Senate, combining the
feature of redemption proposed in the House
Finance bill w ith the right to issue additional
bank notes, on condition that a certain pro
portion of legal-tender notes 6hall be with
drawn at the tame time, and many are of the
opinion that if such a bill is reported from the
Senate committee with a provision authoriz
ing free banking it will pass the Senate and
the House aud receive the approval of
the President. A telegram of the 24th says
the President had informed Gen. Garfield that
he would approve a bill which provided for
free banking, w ith further provision that, as
new bank-notes were issued, greenbacks to the
extent of 50 per cent, of the amount of the
new Issue should be retired, this process to
continue until the volume of greenback cir
culation is reduced to $ 300,000,01)0.
Tuesday, April 28. According to a re
cent letter from St. Petersburg the priests of
twenty-six parishes in Siedlte, Kussia, had
been thrown into prison for refusing to obey
the orders of the liusso-Greek Church. The
peasants had refused to recognize the Russian
priests or attend the churches, whereupon
they were sent there by force. In some
places the peasantry stoned the priests, and
during the disturbances several of the former
were killed by the soldiery. Besides the ar
rests w hich w ere made, the inhabitants of the
troubled districts were sentenced to be beaten
the men with fifty blows and the women
with twenty-five, while children received ten
blows each, without distinction of age or sex.
Some of the women who were violent in
their language received as many as 150
blows A Bayonne dispatch says that
the Carlist Gen. Palacios Valles, with 6,000
men, has entered and taken possession of the
town of Chelva The latest Washington
dispatches state that the Senators disapprov
ing of the President's veto of the Currency
bill have concluded to postpone their contem
plated address to the country until after a
vote has been taken upon the bill and the veto
message. . . .The Secretary of War ha3 directed
the issue of 20,000 army rations daily for
twenty-five days, and also a proper supply of
army clothing, for the destitute people in the
overflowed region about the Mississippi.... A
Topeka (Kan.) dispatch says the old man
arrested at Salt Lake, and supposed to be
Bender, has been brought to that city, iind
has been viewed by hundreds of curious
people. It is thought certain that
he is the true Bender The Chicago Inter
Ocean of a recent date publishes a list of 200
(principally Western) newspapers, of which
uumbcr 213 are given as being in favor of, and
forty-seven opposed to, expansion of the cur
rency. The Chicago Tribune of the 30th ult.,
gives a list of 172 journals, nincty-seveu sus
taining the President's veto, sixty-three oppos
ing it and twelve being "on the fence" in
regard to the currency question
Late Little Rock (Ark.) advices state
that Baxter's men have removed an old siege
piece from the lower end of the town, where
it was used by the Confederate forces during
the war, and stationed it at the corner of
Markham and Scott streets. It is a sixty-four
pounder and has been cleaned out ready for
action. Both sides have sent dispatches to
Washington to present their views of the
question.
"Wednesday, April 29. Three build
ings in Newgate street, London, fell on the
2th, killing and maiming a number of per
sons .... A temperance crusade has been begun
at Manchester, England A call has been
issued for an Anti-Monopoly State Conven
tion to be held at Des Moines, Iowa, on the
24th of June. The call states that all per
sons whose political views are in accordance
with the principles announced at the
convention held in Des Moines on the 25th
day of February last are cordially invited to
join in sending delegates to the convention.
The ratio for representation will be one
delegate to each county, and in addition
thereto one delegate for every 250 votes
and fraction thereof over 100 votes cast for
Hon. J. G. Vale for Governor Charles
Wagner, the proprietor of a saloon in
Columbus, Ohio, advertised a grand open
ing on the 27th, proposing to sell several
liquors bearing the name of " Crusade water,"
and giviug especial prominence to the names
of many ladies connected with the temper
ance crusade. Upon seeing this advertisement
seventy ladies maiched to his saloon and said
mey wouia like a little " Crusade water."
Wagner ordered them from his premises, and
when they refused to go put them out. Dur
ing the melee one of the ladies was quite seri
ously injured, and Wagner and his wife have
been arrested and held to bail Gov. Bax
ter on the 27th received information from the
President that his requisition for aid to assist
in the suppression of the alleged insurrection
in Arkansas, made on the 19th, had never
reached him. ne therefore forwarded a
similar request both by telegraph and
by letter A company of Baxter men
took possession of the Fort Smith train on
the th, near Lewisburg, to prevent reinforce
ments for Brooks reaching Little Rock. A
Washington telegram was received by Baxter,
stating that the question as to who is the act
ual Governor of Arkansas would be decided
by the President in a few days, unless some
other mode of settlement should intervene.
Thursday, April 30. A Bayonne
(France) dispatch states that the Republican
Gen. Concha is moving with 20,000 men on
Valmosa, with the view of attacking the Car
lists at Bilboa in the rear. Serrano will attack
simultaneously in the front. The Carlists are
reported strongly intrenched.... The Captain-General
of Cuba has issued a decree
calling for a tax of 10 per cent on all
incomes exceeding $1,000 annually. The pro
ceeds of the tax are to be used for the pay-
in
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FORTY-THIRD C0XGRESS.
Saturday, April 25. Senate. Not
session.
House. The Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill was disposed of in Com
mittee of the Whole. A lengthy debate occurred
on a motion to strike out from the paragraph re
lating to the Department of Justice the item of
$1.4on for the care and subsistence of horses and
h00 for repairs to carriages and harness, and the
motion was agreed t 85 to 69. Amoneother amend
ment aereea to was one providing that no officer
of the Government shall hereafter receive any
compensation or perquisites, directlv or indirectly,
from the Treasury or property of the United
states beyond the salary or compensation allowed
by law, or shall make any private nse of such
property or of the services or labor of any person
employed in the service of the United States, which
service or labor is paid for by the United States;
provided, this shall not be construed to deprive
any officer of the United States of sneh fees as are
or may be provided by law In addition to the sal
ary of auch officer or the use of such property as
may be expressly by law appropriated for the use
of such officer laa debate relating to the finance
question Mr. Beck maintained that the Comp
troller of the Currency had not administered the
law; that he had cone out of his
way, time and again, in the interest of
the rich, moneyed aristocracy of the East
and to-the injury of the people of the West and
South. - In reply, Mr. Dawes said the Eastern
States had an excess of bank circulation because
the West and South would sot take it, having
ment of the public 'debt and the redemption
of the paper currenpy. i . .0. 11. Kellcy, Secre
tary of th National Grange, has sent a felt-gram
from Washington to IL N. S.
Lewis, Master of the Louisiana State
Grange, to the effect that he has sent
by express, by order of the Execu
tive Committee of the National Grange.
9 1,000 for the benefit of the suffering mem
bers of the order in Louisiana. ...Senator
Sehurs delivered a eulogy on the late Senator
Sumner In Boston on the 29th ult, in the
presence of a large audience..,. Mrs. Nancy
Clem, who was four times tried and twice
eonvicted of complicity in the murder of
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Young at Indianapolis,
several years ago, has at last been re
leased, on a motion made by the prosecuting
attorney to enter a nolle prontqui, on the al
leged grounds of the death of an important
witness, the absence of others in California,
and the want of funds to continue the. prose
cution . . . .The Ohio Constitutional Convention
has agreed to submit an article relating to
"License" or "No license" to sell intoxicating
liquors to a separate vote of the people.
Friday, May 1. Fighting was resumed
around Bilboa on the 29th and 80th ult, and
some of the advanced positions of the Carlists
were captured by the Republicans with slight
loss.... Senator-elect Washburn, of Massa
chusetts, resigned the Govsrnorship of that
State on the 30th ult, and left for Washington.
....The bouse of John Hamnet, near Home
stead, Pa., was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 30th ult, and the entire family
six. persons ia all were burned. It was
thought that they were first murdered and
that the house was then set on fire by Ernest
Love, the hired man, who is missing.... A
Milwaukee (Wis.) dispatch announces that
Gov. Taylor has appointed as Railroad Com
missioners, under the law of last winter, J.
II. Osborn, a Granger, for three years ; George
H. Paul, of the Milwaukee Xem, for
two years, and Dr. J. W. Hoyt, of
Madison, a scientist, for one year".... A
letter written by Albert Keep, President
of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and
an abstract of a similar letter written by Alex
ander Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee &
St Paul Railway, to Gov. Taylor, have been
published, giving the alleged reasons why
their respective roads cannot conform to
the new tariff of rates fixed by the recent
session of the Wisconsin Legislature.
These gentlemen claim that if the
rates fixed by law are enforced the
roads cannot pay expenses, while the receipts
would fall far below the amount required for
the payment of running expenses, the interest
on the bonded indebtedness of the roads, and
dividends to stockholders. Such being
the case, they will decline to adopt
the tariff fixed, and will contest the
constitutionality of the law in the courts
M. D. Whetmorc, Secretary of the State
Grange of Louisiana, has 6ent the following
telegram to the Prairie Farmer, of Chicago, j
under date of April 30: "A large portion of
our agriculturists, including many rairons,
in the overflowed districts are homeless and
penniless. Immediate aid is needed. Please
make our necessities known to the farmers
of the Northwest Contributions should be
forwarded to New Orleans to H. L. Lewis,
Master, or to myself "....A Little Rock
(Ark.) dispatch says that Gen. White, who had
charge of the Baxter forces at Pine Bluff,
hearing that a party of Brooks men were as
sembled at New Gascony, in Jefferson County,
moved a column of 200 men down to that
point for the purpose of dispersing them. A
dispatch to Gen. Newton, from Pine Bluff,
says that White sent forward a flag
of truce to order the men to dis
perse, but they were fired upon
aud a regular battle ensued, in which nine of
the Brooks party were killed and twenty
wounded. The remainder were taken prison
ers. disarmed, ana 6ent nome. uen. w nue
reports seven men of his own command
wounded and three horses killed. Gen.
Churchill, of Baxter's forces, with a squad of
ten men were captured by a eompany of
fifty Brooksites, but were subsequently released.
Saturday, May 2. A Madrid telegram
says the Carlists have abandoned their posi
tions at Abanto and San Juliana, and these
points have been occupied by the Republican
forces. Information has been received of the
defeat, in the Province of Tarragona, of 2.000
Carlists. Later dispatches from Santander an
nounce that on the afternoon of the 1st the Car-
lists were retreating in confusion, and it was
reported that the Government forces had
already entered Bilboa.... Information has
reached Constantinople that a famine is pre
vailing in Asia Minor, and it is stated that in
the town of Angora alone 100 deaths are oc
curring daily from starvation.. ..Ex-Secretary
Boutwell testified before the Was and
Means Committee in the Sanborn in
vestigation on the 1st. He said he was sure
the Sanborn business was never a matter of
conversation between himself and Secretary
Richardson, and he never had any personal re
lations with Sanborn, only hearing of him at
the Chief of Special Agents' Bureau when
inquiring into the qualifications of several
special agents. The fact that Sanborn had a
contract was not brought to his knowledge,
officially or personally, nor had he
officially or personally a knowledge of the
contracts made with anybody else under the
law. Mr. Boutwell, in his testimony, sustains
Messrs. Richardson and Sawyer in the asser
tion that Solicitor Banfleld knew more of San
born and the details of his contract than
any other officer of the Treasury.
Mr. Boutwell's attention was called to an
order signed by him and addressed to Col
lectors and Assessors, directing them to as
sist Sanborn in such a way as he might ask in
the examination of official records. Mr. Bout
well said he stood by this as legal and proper;
it merely allowed him to see the records in
Assessors' and Collectors' offices with refer
ence to persons who have withheld taxes due
to the Government, so as to avoid going after
those who have already paid their taxes
Emist Love, the alleged murderer of the
Hamnet family at Homestead, Pa., has been
arrested at Allegheny, Pa..... Gen. J. F.
Fagan, a Major-General in the Confederate
army, on the 1st assumed command of Brooks'
forces throughout Arkansas, and Issued an
address calling upon his old comrades to rally
to his standard. Both parties seemed to be
waiting for some definite news from Washing
ton before precipitating events.
found more profit ible investment for their money
elsewhere. If it were necessary for the projier
aistnoution or tne currency that
liou be withdrawn from Nrw England, New
York and New Jersey they would not
resist it. Thev desired two things. Tbey desired
free bankimr. on the basts of greenbacks at par.
They did not desire to brinjt greenbacks to par by
such contraction as would make the holder of
irreenharks nav the difference between its Dresen
value and its par value. Thev desired that the
Oovernmeut should pay the difference.... After
the committee rose the main question was ordered,
u'i me iiouse aujourneu.
Monpay, April 27. Senate. The Sen
ate galleries were densely crowded, the day hav
ing been fixed upon for the eulogies npon the lat
Senator Sumner. The bast of the deceased Sena
tor recently finished by I'reston Powers was
placed in a conspicuous position and appropriately
draped. Mr. Boutwell submitted a resolution
which was agreed to. that as an additional mark o;
respect to the memory of Charles Sumner, long a
Senator from Massachusetts, busmssa be sua
pended. that the friends and associates of the
deceased might pay a fitting tribute to bis public
ana private virtues. tulogies were then pro
nounced by Messrs. Boutwell, Thurman, Spencer,
Momii or Vermont, .Pratt, Sargent, bherman,
W adleivh and Anthony.. ..Adjourned.
House. Several bills -were introduced
and referred, including the following
lo facilitate resumption of specie pay
merits and to prevent fluctuations in the value of
United States notes; repealing all laws imposing a
tax on state nanus; to impose a tax or o per cent,
on all incomes of Individuals and corporations
exceeding f.,ooo; declaring it oppressive to lm
pose additional taxation and incxpedicn
to retrench on necessary appropriations
already made in the interests of com
merce, and providing as. a measnre of
temporary relief for the Issue of an additional
$30.000.0 41 of legal-tender notes; to provide a free
system or national Danking ana ror the resump
tion of specie payments. ...A bill was passed
amending the Shipping Commissioners act so as
not to apply to sail or steam vessels engaged in
the coastwise trade or in the lake trade, touching
at 'foreign ports or otherwise, or in the trade
between the United States and British North
American possessions, or in any case where
seamen are by custom or agreement entitled to
participate in the profits of results of a cruise or
voyage .. A message being received from tne
Senate In reference to the death of Senator Sum
uer, business was suspended as an additional mark
of respect to the deceased, and eulogies were pro-
nonnced by Messrs. K. It. IJoar, Dawes, Lamar,
Orlh, Rainey, Butler, Kelley, Nesmitb, G. F. lloar,
Conger and i'hillips. . . .Adjourned.
Iuesday, April 28. benate. A pre
amble and resolution of the President and Direct
ors of the Louisville & Portland Canal Company
were presented, denying that they were opposed to
the Government paying the bonds and taking pos
session of the work, but that they were legally
aaviea not to surrender their possession nn
til all the debts should be paid by the Gov
ernment.... After considerable personal discus
sion a motion was agreed to 35 b 27 to lay aside
the Louisiana bill aud take up the Finance bill
with the President's mesi-age. and the question
being as to whether the bill should pass, notwith
standing the President's veto, it was decided in
the negative yeas 34. navs 30 -t wo-thtrds not
voting in the affirmative. The following is the
vote in detail: Yeas Allison, Bogy, Boreman,
Cameron. Carpenter, Clayton, Conover, Dennis,
Dorsev, Ferrv Mich.. Goldthwait, Gordon, Har
vey, Hitchcock. Ingalls. Johnston. Lewis, Logan,
McCreery, Merrimon, Mitchell, Norwood, Oglesby,
Patterson, rea--e, Iratt. Itiimsey, Kooertson. spen
cer, Spragtie, Tipton, West, Winriom. Wnght 34.
Nays Anthony, Bayard, Boutwell, Buckingham,
Chandler. Conklii g. Cragin, Davis, Edmunds.
Kenton, Ferry (Conn ), Flanagan. Frelinghnysen,
(nueri. linear, Hamilton (Md), Hamilton (lex.).
Hamlin, Howe, Jones. Kelly, Morrill (Yt). Sargent,
cott, Sherman, Stevenson. Stewart, Stockton.
Thurman, Wadleigh 30. Messrs. Morton and
Kansom. w ho would have voted for the bill, were
paired off with Messrs. Morrill (Me.) and Schurz.
who would have voted against it. ...Executive
session and adjournment.
House. The bill appropriating $ 90,000
for the purchase of rations to be used in the relief
of persons suffering from the innndations of the
lower Mississippi was passed The Legislative,
Exccntive and Judicial Appropriation bill was
taken np and several amendments adopted in
Committee of the Whole were disposed of, the
one striking out the item for horses and carriages
for the Deoartment of Justice being rejected
yens mu, nays liw ana tne bill was paesea..
Adjourned.
Wednesday, April 29. Senate. Bills
were introduced to facilitate and rcgnlate com
merce among the several States and with foreign
nations; in relation to salaries and civil service,
providing for a reduction of 10 per cent, in the
compensation of nearly all the officers and em
ployes of the Senate and 80 per cent, in th case of
some or saia employes, ana also repealing me law
or March s. 1M7I, under which the civil-service
Commissioners were appointed and now hold of
fice, and providing that clerks shall be appointed
to the various execn'ive departments subject to
such examination as the beads of the re
spective departments may prescribe: to repeal the
law which allows Pension Agents thirty cents for
each voucher prepared and paid by them.... Sills
were passed House bill to amend the Slst sec
tion of the act of March 8. If63. for enrolling and
calling out the National militia; Senate bill amend
atory of the act for restoration to homestead
entry and to market of certain lands in Michigan,
approved June 10, 1872. .. .The Supplementary Civ
il Rights bill was reported to the Senate, with the
amendments made by the Judiciary Committee.
and the provisions of the bill were explained by
Mr. Frelinghnysen, and a notion waa made to
strike out the second section, imposing fine or im
prisonment for the violation of the act, on the
ground that the punishment was too severe..
Executive session and adjournment
House. Bills were introduced and re
ferred to amend the act for the redemption of the
3 per cent, temporary loan certificates and for an
increase of National Bank notes ; to amend the
National Currency acta and to establish free bank
ing The bill to carry into execution the provis
ions of the fourteenth amendment to the Consti
tution and to define certain rights of United States
citizens in foreign countries was taken up and de
bated The River and Harbor Appropriation bill
was reported from the Committeee on Commerce.
The Indian Appropriation bill was considered
in committee or tne noie Adjourned.
Thursday. April 30. Senate. A bill
was introduced and referred to promote commerce
among the States and to cheapen transportation of
persons and property between the Atlantic sea
board and the Western States and Territories....
The Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appro
priation bill was received from the House and re-
ferredand ordered printed. ...The Senate bill to
increase the pay department of the army, fixing
the number of Paymasters at fifty, with rank, pay
and emoluments of Majors of Cavalry, was passed
21 to 18 A number of private bills were also
passed The Civil Rights bill was further dis
cussed. . . .Adjourned.
House. The Senate amendments to the
Honse bill relative to the Louisville & Portland
Canal were concurred In, and the bill goes to the
President.... The bill to carry into execution the
provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution, and to define certain rights of Amer
ican citizens residing in foreign countries, and the
duties of diplomatic and consular officers, was
debated.... A report was made from the Elec
tion Committee on the Utah contested election,
that Mr. Cannon, the sitting member, is en
titled to the seat, and that Mr. Maxwell, the
contestant, is not, and notice was given of a
resolution declaring that Mr. Cannon is practicing
polygamy, to the great scandal and disgrace of the
people and Government of the United States, and
providing for the appointment of a committee to
inquire into the matter and to recommend such ac
tion as shall seem just and proper.... Adjourned.
Friday, May 1. Senate. The creden
tials of William B. Washburn, elected as Senator
from Massachusetts to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Mr. Sumner, were presented, and Mr.
Washburn was sworn in Bills were passed
House bill appropriating $'.H,( 00 to erjable the
Secretary of W ar to carry out the act. to provide
for the relief of persons who are suffering by the
overflow of the Mississippi River; Senate
bill enabling claimants to lands within the
limits of the Territory of New Mexico to institute
proceedings to try the validity of their claims....
At his own request Mr. Boutwell was excused
from further service on the Committee on Claims,
and Mr. Washburn, of Massachusetts, was ap
pointed to fill the vacancy.... The bill to extend
for five years the time for the completion of the
railway from St Croix Kiver or Lake, between
townships twenty-seven and thirty-one. to the
west end of Lake Superior and to Bayfield,
Wis., was reported favorably from the Committee
on Public Lands, and placed on the calendar....
Adjourned to the 4th.
House. The Indian Appropriation bill
was considered in Committee of the Whole, and
several speeches were made on the general In
dian question and concerning the policy to be
pursued toward the Indians Adjourned.
A Kentucky paper reports what it
denominates a living wonder. It says
Dora Chambers, born on Skeggs Creek,
Warren County, Ky., on the 11th of Au
gust, 1871, is thirty-seven inches high,
ten inches around the wrist, eighteen
inches around the calf of the leg, twenty
eight and three-fourths inches around
the thigb, forty-eight inches around the
hips, forty-two inches around the waist,
and weighs 11S4 pounds. The parents of
this child are said to be delicate, small
persons, the father weighing 127 pounds
and the mother 141. There waa nothing
extraordinary about the child at its birth,
but when about three months old he be
gan to grow fat, and at the age of two and
one half years had gained the proportions
above stated.
A Young- Man's Misadventures In
Search of a Wife.
Ix the eastern part of Fond du Lac County,
Wis., resides a young man, industrious, well
to do, and of good habits, whose recent ex
periences form the subject of tht present
article. He has a nice little farm and some
money in the bank, and, after he had built
him a house, it occurred to him that it would
be a good thing to have a wife. Accordingly
he called upon a neighbor and informed him
that he had turned wife-hunter, and wanted
help. The rest of the story, in the language
of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, runs
thus:
" The neighbor promised to help in the
search. He knew a worthy lady in England
She was poor, to be 6ure. but if she would
consent to become a wife she would make
good one; no doubt on that score. He drew
a elowing picture of the English girl, or
woman, for she was more than a girl in years
being beyoud thirty-five. Our young farmer
hero thought 6he would fill the bill. It was
arranged that both neighbor and farmer
should write her. In due time an answer
came. She, like Barkis, was willin', provided
the young man would send her money
with which to pay her passage to America
That he would do most gladly. A month
after the money was sent our hero was at the
Fond du Lac depot waiting for the tram, hav
ing been advised that the dear one would
make her appearance. She came. They knew
each other, having exchanged photographs.
She had a friend in the city. For a time her
home would be with that friend. Two or three
times a week the young man came In to visit
the young lady who would soon be his wife.
About three weeks after her arrival the young
man came to the city to find his lady-love as
chilly as a March snow-drift She hardly spoke
to bim. Before he started home she deigned
to speak to him. What did she say ? This
' Young man, I have made up my mind I don't
want to marry you. Let this be your last visit
It is ended, remember; good evening. Several
clap6 of thunder from an exceptionably clear
sky could not have imparted a greater 6hock
to our hero. What did he do Did he fall
upon his knees and ask, beg, and pray for
mercy? Not at all. He seized his bat,
6lammcd the door, and sought his country
home. Thus endeth the first chapter.
" Of course our hero called upon the neigh
bor who had recommended the English girl.
He was surprised and chagrined almost be
yond measure. Well,' said he, 1 have got
you into a scrape. Now you shall have a
wife anyway.' A team was hitched up and
the two rode a distance of seven miles to the
farm-house of a gentleman who was the pos
sessor of five girls. In due time their busi
ncss was made known. An acquaintance was
commenced between our hero and one of the
young ladies. The following week he made
her a second visit. That time they were en
gaged, and the wedding fixed for the follow
ing week. The wedding day came and the
ceremony took place. The hnppy couple
enjoyed life for two or three days, at the end
of w hich time the young man found it neces
sary to visit the farm and attend to some
business, leaving the bride with her folks.
Two days passed, aud he started back to meet
his wife. Reader, imagine his surprise upon
being met at the door by his wife's father,
who informed him that he was not wanted
there. He was denied admission. To make
bitterness doubly bitter, his wife raised the
window and coolly informed him that he need
never speak to her again never for a moment
claim her as his wife. What caused this sud
den change on the part of the young wife and
her people is yet a mystery to the young man
and the public erenerallv. J3ut wasn't it
strange? Did our hero pine ? Not a bit. He
drove to Fond du Lac, consulted alawyer, and
immediately iustituted proceedings for a di
vorce. He is calm, resolute, and declares that
he will have a wife if it takes all of four sum
mers. Hence we say truth is stranger than
fiction."
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
May S, 1374.
Cottow. Middling upland, 17V417Jc
Livx Stock. Beef Cattle f 11. OU12.75. Hogs-
Dressed, t7.50S7.75. Sheep Live, f7.0O3S.75.
Brkadsttffs. Flour Good to choice, fti.553
6.85; white wheat extra, $6.857.35. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, 1.531.55; Iowa spring, fl.541.56;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring. fl.561.59. Bye west
ern and State, fl.otKffi.io. tvariey i.oi.d(.
Corn Mixed Western afloat 83&87C. Oats-
New Western, 6466c.
Pbovisions. Pork New Mess, $1(5.85! '.00
Lard 10U10V4c.
Wool. Common to extra, 40i0c
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves--Choice, $5.60&5.e5; good.
5.2555.50: medium. 4. 7535.10; butchers'
stock, $3.7534.75; stock cattle, $3.5034.75.
Hogs Live, $5.8035.75. Sheep Good to choice,
$6.7537.75.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 31S34C Eggs-
Fresh, 13313V4C Pork New Mess, fib.3
16.40. Lard $9.9039. 05.
Bbbabstctts. Flour White Winter extra.
$7.009.00; spring extra, $5.3736.50. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, $1.253l.25X. corn no. a, wji
365c. Oats No.i,46?346jc, Kye iNo. s,i3
93c Barley No. 2, $1.5531.60.
Wool. Tub-washed, 48356c; fleece, washed.
36348c.; fleece, unwashed, 25332c.; pnUed,
35340c
Brkadstutm. Flour $6.757.00. Wheat
$1.45. Corn 65388c Rye $1.08. Oats 48357c.
Barley $1.5531.60.
Provisions, Pork f 16.70316.75. Lara 10
10?c.
Lrvx Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $4,503
6.00. Hogs Live, $4.5035.50.
BaBADSTDTTS. Flour XX Fall, $5.505.90.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $l.S031.51tf. Corn No. 2,
67K c Oats No. 2, 51H52c Rye No. 2,
SWcSlfl.OO. Barley $1.6031.65.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $16.50316.75. Lard
9K39XC
MILWAUKEE.
Bbkadstots. Flour Sprutg XX, $5.756.75.
Wheat Spring No.l, $1.31tt1.32; No. 2, $1.27H
31.28. Corn No. 2, 6t64c Oale No. 2, 453
46c Rye No. 1, 8'490c Barley No. 2, $1.55
1.53.
DETROIT.
BRSADSTtrrrs. Wheat Extra, $1.6731-68.
Corn 76764e. Oats 65a56c
TOLEDO.
BRKADSTirm. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.413
.50. . No. Red, $1.4831.49. Corn Mixed, 72
373c Oats No. 1, 5557c
CLEVELAND.
BBBADfliwrs. Wheat No. 1 Fed, $1.5531.56;
No. 2 Red, $1.4631.47. Corn 76377c Oats 53
55c.
BUFFALO.
Lira Stock. Beeves $5.6036.50. Hogs
Live, $5.1245.75. Sheep Live, $6.0038.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best $3.25S.50; me
dium, $5.256.00. Hogs Yorkers, $5.30&5.E0;
Philadelphia, $6.2036.35. Sheep Best, $3,003
8.50; medium, $5.506. 00.
A Moral Monster.
Nature occasionally indulges in unaccount
able freaks. Sometimes it is the animal king
dom which is thus distinguished, sometimes
the vegetable and sometimes the physical.
Volcanic eruptions and Bald Mountain scares
are instances of thel&st-mcutioned phenomena,
and the Siamese Twins and two-headed horses
of the first. Instances of vegetable irregular
ity will be readily recalled by the intelligent
reader. Not unfrequently a moral montrosity
is produced. One of the most remarkable of
these has lately come to the surface in Boston
a boy murderer.
Jesse Pomeroy, the son of respectable
parents, not long since killed a smaller play
mate in cold blood. He often took little fel
lows to some lonely spot, tied them hand and
foot, stripped them naked, and then beat them
with clubs, winding up the pcrformaice by
inflicting severe wounds with a sharp knife,
and then left them to die, unless relieved by
others. So crafty was he in concealing all
evidences of his connection with these out
rages that over a hundred boys were arrested
before suspicion attached to bim. This wa
in 1872. For these offenses he was finally
brought to justice and sent to the House of
Correction. Last February he was released.
Of course during his confinement he was com
pelled to abstain from deeds of violence, but
on his release his appetite was only
satiated by downright murder. A little
playmate was the victim, and he waa
tortured and finally killed, the method being
the same and only varying in intensity from
his former efforts in that direction narrated
above. He was arrested and confined. When
asked why he committed the murder, he can
didly replied "I could not help it" By na
ture, or probably by mental disease, the in
stinct of destruction and the promptings of a
savage disposition dominated his will, and
perhaps rendered him for the moment irre
sponsible. Of course this is no reason why
he should be leniently dealt with ; and while
his age (fourteen years) and his mental in
firmity may protect him from the gallows, he
will probably be put "somewhere, so I can't
do such things," as he himself said in answer
to the question what he thought ought to be
done with him.
Cheap Transportation.
In the House of Representatives, at
W ashington, on the 21st of April, Kepre
senUtive Hurl but, from the Committee
on Railways and Canals, to whom was re
ferred House bill, rso. 1,194, to charter a
double-track freight railway company
from tide-water on the Atlantic to Coun
cil Iilutfs, on the Missouri River, and to
limit the rates of fare, made the following
report :
The remedy, it appears to your committee,
for existing evils, most easy and expeditious
in its results of any proposed, and reaching
with its direct benefits to the whole region be
tween the Ohio River and the lakes, as well as
the entire West and Northwest now subsid
iary to St Louis and Chicago, is the building
of a double-track freight railway as proposed
in the bill under consideration, whose main
line shall have its eastern terminus on the wa
ters of New York harbor, its western on the
Missouri River, with two branches, one toCbi
cago aud the other to St Louis. It may possi
bly be asked why this particular line should
be selected of the several which have been pro
jected. Such a question demands a candid
answer.
It is because it is the oaly line at present
contemplated which contains in itself a rea
sonable certainty of success, in being sure of
commanding a suflicient amount of freight to
he able to contract lor rates permanently, ana
suflicicntly low to warrant its adoption.
ery careful ana elaborate estimates or tne
eost of operating the proposed railway demon
strate that, if the necessary amount or busi
ness can be obtained, bulk freitrht can be
mQved at the rate of six mills per ton per mile
in summer and seven mills in winter, or fif
te en cents per bushel from Chicago, eightem
cents from St. Louis, and twenty-four cents
from Council BluiTs.
The comoanv assert themselves to have con
trol of a very large frontage on deep water in
the harbor of New York, and of suflicient
area to give room enough for the warehouses,
elevators, cattle and other yards which would
necessarily be required to handle so vast a
business as is proposed, and in fact needed, to
be done to make the undertaking a success.
The right is reserved to the United States by
its Commission to fix the rates of all freight
not specified in the bill. One-half the exist
ing charges is nxeU lor tne ouiKy articles
therein specified, including cattle, ores, coal
and lumber.
In order to aid in forming a just popular
verdict, your committee desire to state cer
tain considerations:
1. The line proposed, with its authorized
branches and connections, will reach and af
fect large masses of population now separated
by distance and excessive charges, each of
which masses or population is me necessary
supplement of the other. By a line to be
constructed of eighty-seven miles, the main
trunk of the Continental Koad win te con
nected with the lines of road which seek
their western passage through the Hoosac
Tunnel, as well as with the lines proposed to
cross the Hudson River at Pcekskill.
2. The road proposed is not an attempt to
force a line of railway through a new and un
developed country. It passes directly through
the richest and most productive zone of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, at such a distance
from the Ohio River and the lakes as to cause
the local productions of that zone to seek
transportation by the railway at its fixed price
rather than by lake or river.
3. 1 he line accommodates itself lo tne exist
ing currents of commerce currents which owe
their existence to permanent causes, and
which, in the Judgment of your committee.
are not likely to be materially affected by any
probable event.
4. It is reasonably certain that no private
corporation can be formed in this country
which will undertake ana perioral me same
work and operate the road at the low rates fixed
by the bill, simply as a private enterprise and
upon their own risk, without indorsement
from the United States.
5. Not the least among the meritorious
propositions involved in this enterprise is the
remodeling the present cumbrous, clumsy,
antiquated and uselessly expensive manner of
handling grain and other products in New
York city a manner so full of delay aud cost
as to nave driven already a large portion oi
the erram traJe to Boston, Philadelphia ana
Baltimore, where proper mechanical facilities
for receiving, discharging and loading enable
those cities successfully to compete with the
great commercial emporium in this cheap
business.
The first section of the bill fixes the termini
of the road and imposes a condition that no
grade eastward shall exceed forty feet to the
mile, and requires the construction to be com
menced within one year from the passage of
this act and its completion within three years
thereafter.
The 6econd, third, fourth and fifth sections
are on matters of detail.
The sixth section provides for surveys, and
that the road shall be constructed as nearly as
possible on an air line.
Sec. 7 fixes character or rails ana construction.
Sec. 8 requires a double-track branch to
Chicago and St Louis, and gives authority to
construct other branches not exceeding two on
each side of the main line in each State.
Sec. 9 permits the purchase of other rail
ways, but requires the consent of the State
chartering said road before 6uch purchase or
consolidation shall go into effect
Sees. 10. 11. 12 and 13 contain provisions
for consideration of the right of way.
Sec. 14 contains details lor organization oi
the company.
Sec. 15 declares the road a public highway
and post-road, and gives the right to construct
telegraph lines, rates to be fixed by Congress.
Sec. 16 compels the reception and transpor
tation of freight in the order of delivery at
reasonable rates.
Sec. 17 compels the acceptance and trans
portation of cars from any company or In
dividual; forbids any undue preference, and re
quires service to be performed in the order of
delivery upon fair and reasonable rates, to be
fixed by a Commission.
Sec 1 dchncs "bulk iretehts" to mciuoe
all articles of freight not in packages placed
in the cars by the shipper without handling by
the railroad comoanv and by the car-load, and
specifically enumerates coal, grain of all kinds.
previsions not in pacKages, lumocr, ores oi
metals, and live stock for market and fixes
a maximum rate not exceeding five mills per
ton per mile for distances over 750 miles, with
a sliding scale gradually increasing the rates
with the shortness of the haul, and adding
one mill per ton per mue lor tne winter
months, and that the maximum rates for all
other freights shall be fixed by a Commission.
Ii. 1 he proposition oi the company is
six mills per ton in summer and seven mills in
winter.
Sec 19 provides for the appointment of a
Commission of five three to be appointed by
the President and two by the company to
classify freight and fix the charges thereon as
to articles not above enumerated. In all cases
a majority of the Government Commissioners
is required, and the Commissioners shall be
paid a fixed price for their services by the
company. The same section provides severe
penalties for breach of duty by the Commissioners.
Sec 21 reanires that prior to any aid being
given by the United States, the company shall
satisfy the proper officers that they own, or
lawfully control by lease for not less than
ninety-nine years, sufflcient land for the ter-!
minal facilities of the road, and for proper
dockage, piers, warehouses and elevators.
Sections 22 and 23 provide the mode of
giving a guaranty of interest on the bonds of
Uie company, and declare a first mortgage on
the entire real estate of the company iu favor
of the United States.
Sec. 24 provides for reserving out of the
earnings of the company and paying over to
the Uuited States annually a sinking fund of
$1,000,000.
Sec.'25 gives the right to borrow money
and give mortgages or trust deeds therefor,
subject, however, in all cases to the prior
mortgage existing in favor of the Uuited
States.
Sec 20 is formal, and regards details in re
lation to such borrowed money.
Sec. 27 provides for Inspection of all books,
papers, etc., and for quarterly and annual re
ports to Congress.
Sec. 28 provides for exchange of freight or
cars to and from connecting or intersecting
railroads rates, if disputed, to be fixed by
arbitration.
Sec. 29 preserves the power in Congress to
control, alter, modify, or repeal the charter.
This bill Is submitted with this report to the
House of Representatives for information, not
for present action.
The Kailroad Troubles la Wisconsin.
Gov. Tatlor, of Wisconsin, issued a proc
lamation on the 1st inst. in which he calls
attention to the new Railroad law of the State
and to the recently-published letters of the
Presidents of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul and the Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way Companies, in which the determination
is announced to operate their roads without
reference to the provisions of said act and in
defiance of Its requirements. The Governor
then announces his intention to see to the
faithful execution of the provisions of ths
law. The following is the concluding portion
of the proclamation:
Now, therefore, I, William R. Taylor,
Governor of the 8tate of Wisconsin, do pro
claim and make known that the law of the
land must be respected and obeyed. While
none are so weak as to be without it protec
tion, none are so strong as to be above its re
straints. If provisions of the law be deemed
oppressive, resistance to its mandates will not
abate, but rather multiply, the anticipated
evils. It may well be that the law
is defective in some of its de
tails, but it is still the law of
the land, enacted by the Legislature in the ex
ercise of its conceded-powers, and in accord
ance with the clearly-expressed sentiment of
the people of the State. It is the rin;lit of all
to test its validity through the constitutional
channels; but with that right is coupled the
duty of yielding a general obedience to its
requirements until it has been pronounced in
valid by competent authority. I am not
without hope that better counsels will yet
prevail with the railway companies of the
State; but if they or any of them are fixed
in the determination to pursue the policy
announced, upon them will fall the penalty of
the law and the consequences of a severe pop
ular condemnation. I therefore enjoin all
railway corporations, their officers aud agents
peaceably to submit to the laws; for, siuce the
Executive is ciiargea witn tne respousiuuny
of seeing that the laws are faithfully exe
cuted, all the functions of bis office will be
exercised to that end; and for this purpose he
invokes the aid and co-operation of all good
citizens. In testimony whereof I have here
unto subscribed my name and caused the
great seal of the State to be hereto affixed.
Public Debt Statement.
The public debt statement for April Is as
follows :
Six per cent bonds
Five per cent, bonds
$1,214.24,500
509,802,250
Total coin bonds
Lawful money debt
Matured debt
Legal-tender notes
Certificates of deposit
Fractional currency
Coin certificates -
Interest
Total debt.
$1,724,036,750
$14,678,0 O
b.l64,Y70
382,076.'; 77
51,86-',0110
47,4:i.62
83.710.800
37.181,584
, $2,297,145,801
Cash in Treasury
Coin w.aui,
Currency 5,258,074
Special deposits held for redemption
or rertincates 01 aeposii as pruviucu
by law 61,860,000
Total In Treasury $147,420,026
Debt less cash In Treasury $2,149,725,275
Decrease during the month $2,961,451
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in A
lawful money, principal outstanding
Interest accrued and not yet paid....
Interest paid by United States
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc
Balance of interest paid by United
States
$64,624,512
l.i49i,470
22,186,691
5,051,418
17,335,273
The Preside Bt's Financial TIews.
New York," April 80.
A dispatch from Washington says:
"Allusion having been made to Presi
dent Grant about a compromise finance
measure that would be acceptable to both
sides, the President replied that ke did
not know what force was intended to ap
ply to the term 'compromise, unless it
waa an agreement to carry out the
pledges of the country. That might
be considered a compromise by
those who originally defeated
every proposition olferea during the
discussion in Congress, and by so agree
ing he has reason to believe that such
legislation would meet with his approval.
It has been said that be had promised in
his last annual messace beartily to sup
port any measure that Congress might de-
Ciue upon. 11 e uiu not intenu any sucn
construction to be put upon his language
If he had not made himself understood,
his more recent message would clear up
anything like ambiguity. One thing
that he had endeavored to make
plain during his Administration has been
that he was for carrying out the solemn
pledges of the Government at the earliest
day possible, ana reach a specie basis, i ne
establishment of our currency on gold and
silver had been uppermost in his mind
whenever he sent to Congress bis annual
messages, lie had not said what kind of
a bill he would approve. It was his
earnest hope that Congress would
dispose of the question. The redis
tribution of $25,000,000 of bank
ing currency, with $5,000,000 of notes be
longing to broken banks and banks in
liquidation at the South and West, ought
to furnish, for the present, all that was
asked for, and he had been assured, since
the veto of the Finance bill, that New
England banks were anxious .o reduce
their circulation, inasmuch as the bonds
now held for circulation would be re
leased and furnish them with a larger cur
rency capital f r loan than they now have.
While our securities were worth in legal
tenders sixteen and seventeen cents
above par, and National Banking notes
were bound to be secured under existing
law at so much sacrifice to banking
capital, he did not wonder that the New
England banks were anxious to csyicel
their notes and get their bonds. In lact
this suggestion came to him early last
fall, during the stringency in the money
market, and he thought it worth calling
the attention of Congress to in bis last
message. Since then he had heard noth
ing to change his opinion on this point."
"TnE strength of the American Repub
lic," says a writer, "is in the universal
desire to own a house. It is molding all
the people, native and foreign born, into
one homogeneous mass. The ownership
of a home is something of which neither
the Irish peasant nor the German laborer
has, in his own country, any conception ;
but it is here the goal of his hopes and
desires. Education comes next; it is a
something the need of which is not felt
until the adornments oi home are thought
of. This desire to own the roof under
which one sleeps is distinctively an
American characteristic, and seems;by
nature adapted to the growth which is
raising us in importance in the scale of
nationa." I
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A FAsnioN critic says that the new
bonnets are the old ones sat down on for
half an hour or so.
The poor old father of a bootblack says
he never enjoys himself more than when
he sees the son shine.
" Would a ragman get Just as many rags
if he didn't holler?" is a qu'.Ty propounded
by a Kentucky paper.
A Tkoy widow has maintained a lawsuit
for twentv-one years, and is still lull of
pluck and determination.
"He handled his gun carelessly, and
put on his angel plumage," is the latest
Western obituary notice.
A G1108T that haunted a Massachusetts
house has been effectually exorcised by
means of rat poison.
iHLYTON, Ala , schoolboys have a pleas
ant way f f locking their teacher in school
and taking a holiday.
Tub Boston Globe wants to know If a
street sprinkler can be properly called a
wect harbinger or spring.
Wendell Phillips says that a wife
who can cook a jrood dinner will never bo
without a fashionable bonnet.
Tub last plea of a stingy husband is:
" How can I contribute to the Washington
monument if you are so extravagant?"
Daniel Graves, an Alabamian, was
praying in church the other day, when his
revolver went off and shot him in the
leg.
WnEN cremation comes in vogue it will
bo only natural for a widower to refer to
the dear departed as an "old llamc" of
his.
They can sell milk at three cents per
quart in Brooklyn and still make a profit,
though they have to steal their water and
chalk.
A crowd witnessing a row in Detroit
was dispersed by the announcement that
" a collection would now be taken up for
a poor widow."
Aocordino to a Kansas decision, a hus
band and wife can enter a show on a
ticket reading "admit one." Most
righteous Judge!
A lady correspondent of a Western
journal thinks there ought to 1: a statuto
of limitation against the reappearance of
long-lost husbands.
Boardino house keepers are among the
most consistent believers in cremation.
Do they not invariably turn their " re
mains" into "hashes?"
Consumers in Toledo, Ohio, urge that
the local grocers should be compelled by
law to dilute their sugar with some sub
stance less gritty than sand.
A project for building a cheese factory
having resolved itself into the original
atoms the Kennebec Journal says that it
has gone the whey of all the earth.
The Haniboldt River above Hallock,
Nev., is reported to be full of led cattle,
and unless they are removed the health of
the people in the valley will be injured.
A lady in Carlisle, Pa., has a pair of
geese that chipped the shell in 18;S8, and
therefore have only four years to wait be
fore they will be fit lor any boarding
house table.
And now Icelanders are beginning to
seek homes in the Unitel States. Tney
are said to resemble the Scotch in appear
ance, and are a bright, cleanly, healthy
looking class.
The editor of the Crencent City Courier
claims to publish the iimst westerly paper
in the United Slates. lie sayf the water
of the Pacific Ocean at high lido reaches
within ten feet of his olllce door.
The Chicago 2'ribune thinks that the
detective system all other the country
should be knocked endways at once, and
thinks just as many thieves would be
caught if there were no detectives.
An Iowa Judge has decided that it is
more of a sin to steal a horse than to
elope with another ican'i wife, because
there are 8,000,000 women in the Lnited
StateB and only 3,000,000 horses.
Fourt professional gamblers of Omaha
recently killed four dins time in a con
tinuous gams of "draw." During the
time one of the party won $11,000 and
then "jumped" the disconsolate crowd of
three. "
A nuNDRED years ago there were no
railroads, steamboats, telegraph lines, gas
burners, furnaces, sewing machines, pho
tographs, friction matches, revolvers, per
cussion caps, india-rubber shoes, free
schools.
A farmer living near Glasgow, Del.,
has a read horse. The horse is penned in
a stall by himself, and keeps up a contin
ual kicking and knocking his head
against the partition. He was bitten by a
mad dog last summer.
A Milwaukee man has applied for
a patent on a fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb on a small rubber
ball, projects a stream of ink through the
holder and into the face of the fellow
who is looking over your bhoulder while
you are writing.
There is something very sensible in
the impromptu remark of a preity girl:
" If our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to live single when there was not
a woman on earth, how criminally wrong
are the old bachelors, with the world full
of pretty girls!"
A country lad, eleven years old, lately
visited Dubuque, bringing with him the
scalps of nine timber wolves a mother
and eight young ones all slain by his
juvenile but potent hand. lie received
$45 dollars bounty from the county, and
went home rich and happy.
lThasbeen lately asserted that a lady
lecturer who was delayed somewhere in
the West by the breaking down of a train,
and did not reach the platform until
10:30 o'clock, was the first speaker for
whom an audience was ever known to
wait so patiently. This is said to be a
mistake. The Hon. Horace Greeley was
once to lecture at Laporte, Ind., and an
accident to the train on the New Albany
& Salem Railroad that was to bring Mr.
Greeley from Indianapolis compelled
him to make ihe last seventy-two miles
across an unsettled prairie by a hand car
manned by four Irishmen. The fact
was telegraphed to the people ai the Pres
byterian Church at Laporte, and tne au
dience determined by a vote to wait.
They waited, and greeted the old white
coat at 11:10 p. mv and listened to a long
lecture, retiring from the church, at a lit
tle after one o'clock in the morning.
Crop Statistics.
The following is an abstract of the crop
statistics published in the National Crop
Ileporter at Indianapolis, April 25:
The area planted in Irish potatoes
last year in the States of Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio
and Wisconsin was, in round numbers,
554,000 acre, the average percentage of
increase upon which is estimated at near
ly 5 per cent, or about 2,800 acres. Cor
respondents in Minnesota, Iowa and Wis
consin estimate the probable increase in
the area of barley to be 2 C10 per cent
as compared with last year. The average
condition of swine in April in the
eight States named above shows a very
low rate as compared with the condition
at the same dale lastj-ear. Representing
the latter at 100, the average for the eight
stands a fraction less than 81. None of
the States report over 00, and M;ssouri re
turns 07. The average prices of the lead
in? articles are as follows: Wheat, $1.17;
corn, 55c; oats, 42c; hay, $9.27; swine,
$4 66; potatoes, $1.12. This snows since
March 15 an advance in corn, oats anfl
hay, and a decline in wheat, ewine and
potatoes. "
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