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THE HERALD.
i'UBLISIIED EVERY THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTE, NEBEASKA.
'-' OFFIOBi
On Vine St., One Block North of Main,
Ccrner of Fifth St.
OFFICIAL. PAPKIt OF CASS COISTV.
Terms, in Advance:
Otic ropy, one year f 1.00
One coj)', six month 1.00
One couy, uueo niontiis.. ,M
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JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor.
PERSEVERANCE COXQCERS."
TERMS: $2.00 a Year.
VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1875.
NUMBER 10.
THE HERALD .
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Transient advertise incuts must bo paldfaf.
In advance.
Extra coplra of tha IIkbai.i for sale by n. J,
Strilght. at tlio Postotm , and O. V. Johuson, cor
Her nf Main and Vlfth street.
HENRY BCECK,
bElLEB IX
Jb urniture,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
TO., ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden CofIin3
Of all sizes, ready-made, and aoll cheap for easa.
With many thanks for past patronage, I invite
a'l to call and examine my
LARGE STOCK OP
Iur iiitiii'o . nud CoflliiH.
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MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
Main Street, bet. Second and Third.
Wholesale auJ Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
Hf-pRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at
all hours, day and night. 35-ly
II. A. WATERJIM & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTII, - - - NEB.
STILL BETTER RATES
For Lnmlex.
WINTER STOCK
or
H. A. WATERMAN & SON.
WE WILL SELL
All Grades of Lumber Cheap.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
GO TO
J.V.WECKBACH
Cor. Third and Main Sts., Plaits-mouth.
(Guthmaun's old stand.)
He keeps on Laud a lar.e and well-selected
btoek of
Fancy Groceries.
COFFEES, TEAS,
Svisr, Sirup,
ETC, ETC,
Also a Large Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
C I M ) C 1 v E 1 1 Y , 0 1 ' E E N S V A R E ,
Eic. Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery us a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Hiulirst Price Paid Tor Country Produce.
A full clock at all time?, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
iilyt
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Hat on band on of lfl largest stock of
CLOTHING
A D
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND 'UMMER.
I Invite eTsrybo'V iuriut ( anything in my
line in call at u-j s.ure.
South Side Main, let. 5th & 6th Sis.,
And icnvince lbrinrln of tb fact. I have a a
foccii ' :n my K'Uil Department a Mock of
yine Clothing for Men unit Buy., t which we In-i-e
thoe wh want gixxli.
I a1-., keep on hand a large and well-selected
:. .r
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
Jar'.Tl
PLATTSMOLTH MILLS,
rLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA.
Cossad Bbuei, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Always aaband and for sale at loweat earn prtcta.
Tie Highest Pricea paid for Waeal and Cora.
, IVJ1ai tUcUoa slTta to coitta ik-
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O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER VS
Drugs, Medicines,
Airn
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WALL PAPER.
All Paper Triiiel Free ofChane
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
MAGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
tw Prescription carefully eomponnded by aa
experienced Druggist..
BE MEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEB.
FOUNDRY
AJJD
IACHINE SHOPS.
.TOIIIV WAYMAN,
rLATTSMOUTH, NEB.,
Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers,
Saw arid Grist
GAS AND STEAM FITTINGS,
Wrought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Pipe, Steam
Gauge, Safety-Valve Governors and all
kinds of Brass Engine Fittings re
paired on short notice.
Farm Mn,oliinory
Repaired on Short Notice. 49-yl
Sewing
Machines !
NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH
GROVER & BAKER
Sewing-Macliinc,
FOR SALE BY
CHARLES VI ALL,
With all the Extras and Attachments,
such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers,
Binders, Etc.
Those who contemplate bnvins a machine will
do well to give the Grover fc Baker a trial. Sat
infaction gnaranteed, and the cheapest machine
in the market. All orders by mail promptly at
tended to. Address
imti CHARLES VIALL, Plattimouth, Neb.
First National Bant
Or Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SUCCESSOR TO
Tootle, Ilanna S& Olarlc.
Jobs Fitzgerald
K. U. Dotet
A. W. Mrl.AroiiLi.y. .........
John O'Koibke
President.
, Vtce-Presiden t
Cashier.
...Assistant Cashier.
This Bank Is now open for bnsiness at their new
room, corner Main aud Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Boyds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DHAWN,
Available in any part cf the United State and in
all the principal Towns aud Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
MAN LINE ail ALLAH LINE
Person wishing to bring out their friend from
Curope can
rVIWHASB TICKETS FROM TS
Tliroiijjh to IMttiiioiitli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. BOONE,
Alain Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Ctittin; Children's and Ladles'
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon in a
n41-ly
OO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
H. J. STKEIGHT, Proprietor,
roi TOCB
Boots. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings.
Newspapers, Norels,
Song Books, etc., etc
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
FLATTSJtOUTJJ,
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Thk town of Arccitw, Porto Itico, li.is
been nearly destroj-ed by an earthquake.
Geo. S. Bangs has resigned the position
of General Superintendent of the Railway
Wail Service.
Gen. Joveli.ar, the Spanish Minister
of War, has been appointed Cuptain-Gen
eral of Cuba.
The Virginia Legislature has re-elected
John W. Johnston (the Democratic nomi
nee) as United States Senator from that
State.
A Rome (Italy) dispatch of '.he lttth says
over 600 persons in that Kingdom had
made application for spaceat the Phila
delphia Centennial Exposition.
B ui bach, the Milwaukee rectifier late
ly convicted of fraud upon the revenue,
has been sentenced to tight months im
prisonment and to pay a line of $2,000.
At Augusta, Ga., two men named Til-
ley and Ratcliffe recently fought a duel
with pistols, in which the former was
badly wouDdcd. He died the next day.
TnE Governor of Pennsylvania has
pardoned Xingo Parks and several others
of the miners convicted in Clearfield
County of conspiring together for riotous
purposes.
At the recent special election in the
Seventh Illinois Judicial District, T. Lyle
Dickey, of Chicago, was chosen Judge of
the Supreme Court of the State, to suc
ceed Judge McAllister, resigned.
The Mormon, George Reynolds, con
victed at Salt Lake City of polygamy, has
been sentenced to two years' imprison
ment and to pay a fine of $ 500. He took
an appeal and was released on J 10,000
bail.
The jury in the recent trial of Thomas
W. Piper, the Boston sexton, for the mur
der in a church belfry tower in May last
of little Mabel Young, failed to agree
standing, it is said, nine for conviction to
three lor acquittal.
President Grant and many other dis
tinguished personages were present at the
seventh annual dinner of the New En
gland Society in New York, on the 22d,
in commemoration of the anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Henry "Wainwright, who was con
victed of the murder of Harriet Lane in
Whitechapel road, London, in Septemler
ast, was hanged a few days ago at New
gate. He left a written statement
acknowledging the justice of his sentence.
The official report of the Secretary of
the Michigan State Grange states that the
membership of the Order in the State, as
near as could be determined from reports
received, was, on the 30th of September,
34,275; number of subordinate Granges,
611.
Vert cold, weather was experienced in
New England on the 20th. The mercury
anged from ten degrees below zero in
Boston and vicinity to thirty-five degrees
Hilow at Skowhegau, Me., forty-one be
low at Littleton, N. H., and forty-three
below at St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Philip Weimer, a Milwaukee dis
tiller, convicted of revenue frauds, has
been sentenced to eight months' imprison
ment in the County Jail and to pay a fine
of $2,000. John S. Taft, a Government
Gauger, bas been sentenced to the State
rison for five months and to pay a fine
of $2,000.
It has been ascertained that the total
number killed by the dynamite explosion
at Bremer Haven was 128; wounded, 5G;
twenty of the injured were hopelessly
maimed, and there were 46 widows and
133 orphans of victims sf the disaster, for
whose benefit it is proposed to raise a sub
scription fund of $ 73,000.
Alexander P. Tctton, Supervisor ot
nternal Revenue, who was assigned to
St. Louis in McDonald's place, has writ
ten a letter to the President in which he
claims that the order transferring Super
visors of Internal Revenue in January
last was suspended at his own instance,
and not at the request of Gen. Babcock.
The following are the names of the
Congressmen who voted against the anti-third-term
resolution recently adopted in
the United States House of Representa
tives: Bradley, Denison, Haralson, Hoge,
Hubbcll, Hyman, Lynch, MacDougall,
Nash, Page, Plaisted, Pratt, Smalls, Wal
lace (S. C), Walls, Wells (Miss.), White,
Whiting 18. The vote in favor of the
resolution was 232.
On the occasion of the recent hanging
of three colored men in New York city
the rope was carelessly adjusted around
the neck of one of them, and just as the
weight descended the knot slipped and
the victim was left writhing between
heaven and earth. He made desperate
efforts to relieve himself and cried aloud
for assistance. Finally the knot again
shifted, the noose closed around his wind
pipe and he died by strangulation.
The National Cheap Transportation
Convention at its recent session in Chi
cago elected as officers for the ensuing
year: John F. Henry, of New York,
President; a Vice-President from each
State and Territory; F. B. Thurbcr, of
New York, Treasurer; Frank Gilbert, of
Chicago, Secretary; 1L A. Stolenworks,
of Selma, Ala., Assistant Secretary. The
Executive Committee is composed as fol
lows: John F. Henry, President; F. B.
Thurber, Treasurer: James Utley, Vice
President; Frank Gilbert, Secretary, and
II. A. Stolenworks, Assistant Secretary.
Adolf Hermann and Miss Anna Petz
old, of New York, could not, if they had
tried, have selected a more unpleasant lo
cation for their betrothal than they did.
They were both passengers on the ill
starred steamer Deutschland. Adolf
saved Anna's life by carrying her into the
rigging and lashing her to a mast with
himself alongside, and it was w hile in
this position that they pledged each other
their lives and their fortunes.
A train of cars on a Florida railroad
passed a man on horseback, and there was
great hurrahing among the passengers un
til they discovered that the horse was tied
to the fence. - J 1 .
After all who can say that Tweed is not
&n noneet man?
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Tiiomapsen, the man arrested upon the
charge of causing the late dynamite ex
plosion on the Bremer Haven docks, died
from liis repeated self-inflicted injuries on
the mcrning of the lGth. Before his death
he said his true name was William King
Thompson, and that he was a native of the
city of Brooklyn, N. Y. During the late
war he followed the fortunes of the (Con
federacy, and commanded a noted blockade-runner.
He had resided in Germany
since the war ended, and had sought to
repair his shattered fortunes by securing
insurance upon supposititious merchan
dise shipped by ocean steamers. To se
cure the benefit of th's ho had con
structed an internal machine, oper
ated by clock-work, so arranged that
at the end of a week the explo
sive material would be struck with a
thirty-pound hammer, when vessel and
cargo would be sent to the bottom in mid-
occau. X he careless lianuiintr of the
package on the deck had precipitated and
anticipated the catastrophe. A Bremen
dispatch of the 17th says it had been as
certained that one of these machines had
been placed on board the steamer Sailer,
which took the placeof the disabled Mosel
and left Bremer Haven on the 16th for
Southampton and New York. The con
fession of Thompson indicated to the
authorities the names of his confederates
and they had been arrested. On the 17th
the total number of killed and wounded
by the explosion was estimated at 200.
A London dispatch of the lbth says
Peru had made default in the payment of
the interest of her public debt.
An excursion, composed of about 500
people from Washington, including the
President and Mrs. Grant and several of
the Cabinet officers, the members of the
Supreme Court and a majority from both
houses of Congress, arrived at Philadel
phia on the evening of the 17th, for the
puriose of visiting the Centennial build
ings and grounds.
The steamboat U. S. Pike, loaded with
eotton, sugar and molasses, and lying at a
wharf in New Orleans, was burned on
the night of the 16th, together with nearly
the entire cargo. Several persons on the
boat were badly burned. A number of
missing deck-hands are supposed to have
jumped overloard and drowned.
Henry Hollenpcheid, a German, sixty-five
years old, was hanged at Herman,
Mo., on the 17th for the murder of his
son-in-law, Christian Alband, in June last.
At a conference of the united Christian
representatives of Bosnia, on the 18th, it
was unanimously resolved to continue the
conflict with Turkey until every Turk had
been expelled from the country. An agent
had been appointed to visit the various
capitals and ask the powers to accord bel
ligerent recognition tothe Herzcgovinians.
Several hundred mechanics and labor
ing men at Montreal, Canada, who have
been recently thrown out of employment,
turned out in a public demonstration on
the 17th, demanding means of support for
themselves and families. Some riotous
doings were indulged in, and the police
were called upon to quell the disturbance.
Several arrests were made. Four of the
rioters were, on the 18th, sentenced to four
months' imprisonment at hard labor. A
strong force of police continued on guard.
Arrangements had been made to give a
considerable number of the poor laborers
employment.
President Grant and wife and several
other prominent personages attended the
3Ioody and Sankey meeting in Philadel
phia on the evening of the 19th. At the
women's meeting in the afternoon a large
number of ladies rose for prayers and sub
sequently entered the inquiry-room.
The banking-house of Greene & Cran
ston, Providence, R. I., suspended on the
18th, owing, it is said, to the failure of the
Providence Tool Company. Their assets
were stated at $800,000; liabilities, $675,
000. The Tool Company claimed that
their embarrassments were only tem
porary, as their assets largely exceeded
their liabilities.
At the regular business meeting o
Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn, on the
evening of tie 17th Deacon West's letter
was placed on nle not on the minutes.
In Mrs. Moulton's case a letter missive
was proposed for an advisory council of
churches to be held Jan. 11, and to deter
mine certain questions of rule and disci
pline. Motion being made for its adop
tion, Mr. Shearman moved aslight amend
ment, and Mr. Beecher asked if that
would not open up the whole investiga
tion of 1874, and was answered that it
would. He then said he was for it, and
the motion was carried. At the conclu
sion of some subsequent remarks Mr.
Beecher said : " If such an advisory coun
cil should say another investigation is
necessary, I would say, 4 Do it. Do it.'
If they should say not, I certainly should
not object,"- Mr. Shearman resigned the
office of Clerk of the church organization,
and Mr. Thomas J. Tilney was chosen to
succeed him.
It is stated that John G. Whittier will
probably be selected as the Centennial
poet at the celebration in Philadelphia,
Longfellow having declined.
The United States Express car on the
St. Louis, Kansas City 6c Northern
train, en route for St. Louis, was entered,
between Ferguson and Jennings' Sta
tion, early on the morning of the 18th,
by two or three masked men, who threw
the messenger, Charles Kincaid, into a
large packing-box which they had emptied
for the purpose, and then robbed the safe
of between 10,000 and $20,000 in money
and valuables.
D. A. Ross & Co., large lumber manu
facturers and dealers, of Detroit, Mich.,
have failed. Liabilities placed at $300,
000 and assets at $400,000.
Announcement was made on the 20th of
the failure of Lawton &, Head, London
and Liverpool shipping merchants; lia
bilities estimated at nearly a million dol
lars. A Southampton (England) telegram of
the llth says the agents of the steamr
Sailer had been unable to find in the
cargo any infernal machine, as indicated
in Thompson's confession, neither had
they been able to discover that suspicious
insurance had been effected upon the
cargo of the Mosel.
A Washington special of the 20th states
that Gholsea G. Ruseell, indicted in CM-
cago for unlawful dealings in crooked
whisky, had arrived in the former city,
and in an interview with Secretary Bris
tow had made a full confession of all he
knew concerning the frauds. Hi', evi
dence is said to be confirmatory of that
already in possession of the Government.
It is reported from Naples that Mount
Vesuvius is showing a gradual increase of
fire and smoke, and Prof. Palmieri has
predicted a long period of eruption.
A Portuguese gunboat has been re
cently ordered to the island of St. Thomas,
in the Gulf of Guinea, to put down an
alleged insurrection of the negroes.
The election of Senators by the French
Assembly has resulted in the choice of
thirteen Legitimists, four Orleanists, one
Bonapartist and fifty -eight Republicans.
The trial of H. C. Bowen's lilel suit
against the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle was
begun on the 21st.
A Vienna dispatch of the 22d states
that eighty insurgent delegates had re
cently met at Jamketza, in Bosnia, and
unanimously rejected the Sultan's firman,
proposiug sundry reiorms, as unwonny oi
confidence. They had foimed a sort of
provisional government.
The British training-ship Goliath was
burned at Gravesend on the morning of
the 22t. Twenty boys were thought to
have perished.
A Washington telegram of the 22d
pronounces erroneous a report that Secre
tary Bristow had ordered to be paid to the
Union Pacific Railway Company the sum
adjudged due by the Supreme Court.
In South Boston, on the 22d, a large gas
main running under r ederal street ex
ploded with a loud report, tearing up the
pavement for a long distance. The street
was thronged with people at the time, and
many were buried under the debris. A
grain-house was badly shattered and the
foreman instantly killed. A number ot
persons were blown into the water and
drowned. The number of victims as far
as ascertained up to the morning of the
23d was as follows: Killed, 2(J; fatally
injured, 4; seriously hurt, 9; slightly, 3.
Seven persons were still missing and were
supposed to have been blown into the
water.
The Bank of Brandywine. at West
Chester, Pa., made assignments, on the
22d. for the lnmefit of its creditors. It
was thought depositors would be paid in
full.
A severe earthquake shock was felt in
Richmond, Va., on the night of the 22d.
The guests at the different hotels were so
alarmed from the rocking of the build
ings as to assemble in the parlors en des
habille, ready to leave. I he alarm was
general, the shock being felt in all parts
of the city, and citizens leaving their
domiciles in fright.
A suit in the Circuit Court at St. Louis
against the Missouri State Lottery, man
aged by Murray, Miller & Co., charging
them with usurpation of their franchise
and praying for judgment of ouster, was
decided on the 22d against the defendants.
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court.
The Commercial Loan Company and
Savings Bank of Chicago suspended on
the 21st. It was stated that depositors
would realize about eighty cents on the
dollar of their claims.
An advance in railroad freights over
the different routes between the East and
West has been recently established.
Chen Lano Pin and Yung Heng are
the names of the recently-appointed Min
isters from China to the United States.
A recent Washington dispatch says
the Granger cases, involving the question
of the right of States to regulate the car
rying rates of railroads, will be further
argued before the Supreme Court on the
11th of January.
F03TY-F0URTH CONGRESS.
Friday, Dec. 17. A resolution was
offered in tbe Senate by Mr. Edmunds for the
election on the 7th of January of a President pro
Urn.: referred to the Committee on Privileges
and Elections. The resolution for a special com
in it tee to inquire into the recent election in Mis
sissippi came up.au unfinished business and was
Uid over until tbe 20th. to which datethe Semite
adjourned In the House the Senate amend
ment pottponint; th day of meeting after the
holiUavs from the 4th to the 5th of January
was agreed to. Among the bills introduced
WCre to repeal Ihe duties on teas and to
bacco; providing that all pensions on ac
count of death from wounds or disease received
or contract"-irin the service shall com:neuce from
the date of death or discharge. Mr. Pape. of Cal
ifornia, offered a preamble aud resolution to the
effect that the Constitution imposes no limits ou
the eligibility of any citizen to the office of Presi
dent further than that he must be native boru.
and of a certain ag and time of residence, aud
that anv attempt bv the House to limit or fore
stall the public will on a question jf such im
portance is ait evasion of the powers reserved by
the people at large to be freely exercised by them
withoti any interference from any legislative
body whatever; the previous qucstiou was voted
down lrJO to fsa. Adjourned to the ). h.
Monday, Dec. 20. In the Senate, Mr
Bayard presen ed the credentials of Kobert II
Marr. signed by John McEnery as Governor of
Louisiana, appointing him United States Senator
from Louisiana, to fill the vscancy caused by the
resignation of William L. McMillan. A resolution
was adopted that Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, be the
President of the Senate until Jan. 7,
1S7K, i nd until a fresh appointment shall
be made. Mr. Mo-ton's Mississippi reso
lution came np as unfinished business, and
was allowed to go over until after the holidays.
Among thi bills introduced were the following:
To transfer tbe Indian Bureau from the Interior
tothe War Department; to increase the efficiency
of the navy and promote the maritime interests
of the L'nited States; for the settlement of the
claims of officers of the Revolutionary war The
only business transacted in tbe House was the
announcement of the regular committees. Both
houses adjourned to Jan r
THE MARKETS.
December 21, 1875.
NEW YORK.
Lir Stock. Beef Cattle $10.01 3 00. Hogs
Live, f 7.37 J4 7.75. Sheep $5X03,7 00.
Bkeadstltfs. Flour Good to choice, $5.55 "a
.B.00; white wheat extra, $6.t 5&'-73. Wheat No
t Chicago, $1.181-19; No. S Northwestern.
$1.19&1.20; No. i Milwaukee spring, $1.0
1.-25. Rye Western and State, 88395c. Bar
ley J1.00&1.10. Corn Mixed Western, 7oifr
"6c. Oats Mixed Western, 4575 lic.
Provisions. Pork Meaa, $21.001.25. Lard
Prime Steam, 1213c. Cheese friac.
Wool. Domestic fleece. 3S362c
CHICAGO.
lav Stock. Beeves Choice, $r-2")i5-75;
good, $4.MXas.OO; medinm, $1.0aa.4-25; butch
ers' stock, $i.5)3.75; stock cattle. $v!.7 &:1.75.
Hogs Live, $6.5Cxa7.25. Sheep Good 10 choice.
$L7a5.50.
PaovisioKS. Butter Choice, 25-aiic. Eggs
Fresh, 2t&2-)C Pork Meos, $11.15219 17!-4
Lard $19.3DGl?.224.
Bbeadstctfs Flour White Winter Extra,
$5.e07.50; spring extra, $1.00.2i. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 96H965C Corn No. 2, 4
474C. Oats No. 2, ?i2Hl(4c. Rye No. 2
688'4c. Barlay No. 2, 84'i85c.
Lumber First and Second Clear, J40.0CK3
42.00; Common Boards. $11.0i'aiS.0'; Fencing,
$t2O0ai3.00; "A" Shingles, 2.7l&.00; Lath,
$1.77.2.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Lrr Stock. Beeves Best, $8 0(a6-50; me
dium, $4.!'0&5 is. Hogs Yorkers, $6.7GSG.Q0;
Philadelphia. $7.207-30. Sheep Best, $5.3
5.W; medium, $1.7S5-00.
The .National Cheap Transportation
Convention.
The National Cheap Transportation Con
vention, recently hc-M in Chicago, was
largely attended, and the proceedings oc
cupied three lull days of time. Tiie leso
lutions adopted read as follows:
Ettolcfl. That tha great ami pressing nee', of
tuts country is a system of !r.miortaiiou ium-
iiiensurnte with the requirements of the age in
which we live; that the absetici- of mu h a nvti-in is
111 a in-at measure the caue of the picst-itt unsatis
factory state of tiude uud commerce, the rvn 0:1
why oi:r mills aud iiiuuuiucloi ic .o id e, tliy
otir agricultural interests, lire unreiouiH-iiitiic,
nuu way mou-aiiu.-oi wilting nanus luck employ
went.
lifiolrttl Th;it the presence of a metal'i.- cur
rency is the reult of co.n tr.errial prospei iry. and
Doi me cause 01 rnai prosix-my ; to icstore this c.r
culation it is only necess.n y for us to supply the
nit-aiisoi export. ug our gram. Hour, tvicon. tuliarvo,
cotton, oil and other products t price-" which W ill
enaiiie us 10 sell those products to other com-ti ie
this ill gite a coniiiiercHl p:operiry. anil its 0 i
deuce will tie a gold ciictihitioti ; with the return ol
Commercial prosperity all question r la ting to one
aine 01 oincreiit Kinds of currency will disappear.
Jie,lr't, That this cons iimuHtioii c ui be
reached by providing an adciiuate system ol tnin
portation, aud that the only way such a system can
be provided is by the co-ojeiiitiiiii of the people,
through, the machinery 01 Government; tjat the
boundaries of commerce have become so extended,
through the agencies of steam mid electricity that
a new and more extensive class of trausi'ittitiou
facilities are needed; that the present system has
become not only inadeqnute to the nece-sities of
the times, but ii is so nllud with defects and abuses
that it dwaris production, stifles commerce and
prevents us lroni suceeosfuliy coinpcliu iu the
markets of the world.
JimolreU, That the corporate power embodied m
our transportation lines has become so organized,
cou.-olid.ited aud combined that it is now aide to
dictate values to the producer, prices to the con
sumer and proms to the manufactures and trades,
and to build up a privileged class, contrary 10 tug
spirit of the Constitution of the United States.
Jftolril, That the further extension of this pow
er must lie opposed by the uias of the people by
creating as fast as jsissiiile a new system of t:aus
portation Hues which will insure competition, aud
inns protect the puouc lnteie-is.
I.'exolml. That, an means to this eud the Na
tional Government should, as speedily as possible,
undeitake the construction of lines of trans
portation recommended by the United .States cu
ate Committee 011 Trau-poi tatiou Route, or such
oi them as after survey produce the most favora
ble levult.
J! soirfd. That a national railway, exclusively
for freight, should be contriu t-.l irb.it the grain
growing section of the West to the Atlantic sea
board, to the end that this great, teiritoi y. w ith its
dense population, ami the principal dislrihutiu z
cities both of tlir East and the W est. may not bo
wholly at the mercy of existing railroad. wheu
writer routes are closed by ire.
limolrni. That, if it be deemed inexpedient to
bae tbi road constructed aud owned by the Na
tional Government, the object may be reached by
giuuting national aid to such a ro:.d. and a-suuiing
iu consideration thereof such supervision and con
trol as will insure rea-ioiable rates of freight, for
ever pievent combination and consolidation with
existing lilies, and tuij abuses in const, uctiun aud
management which pervade our present railway
system, and so heavily ta. thu commercial aucl
consuming public at this time.
Hfsolrt'l. That, vfhetievei- national aM i extend
ed to any project in the way of internal t:np ve
melit. 01 w henever the construction of any work,
is nudertakeii by Government, the wot k si oulil
be done by contract, iu small sections, to the low
est responsible bidder.
Jeo-rrl. That a committee consisting of seven
persons familiar with and interested in water traus
poaiutiou, and a committee of e,iial number w ho
are dependent npon improved ra hvay facilities for
cheap transportation, be appointed to presentence.
of these resolutions to the Congress of the United
States, and to take such other step to forward
the objects therein advocated as may be in their
power.
lirsolrett. That the internal commerce of the
United States has not in the past re'-eied that con
sideration at the hands of our National Gocin-
m magnitude as it does our foreign commerce 111
the ratio of more than ten io one, it Is entitled to
the most careful consideration aud fostering care.
Jtesofrtil, That, in pursuance of this policy, a
memorial to Congress from this convention 1ms
prepared, asking that a joint committee lroni buth
bou.-es of Congress be apisiinted to consider the
advisability of 'forming a new department of our
National Government, to be called the Depart
ment ol Internal Commerce, said department to
be specially charged with the collection, preserva
tion and dissemination of information beating 11 li
on transportation, and with all other matters per
taiuing to internal commerce. The joint rom
mittee i before mentioned to investigate the sub
ject aud report at the next session of Congress.
Utitotrfd, That we recommend the several Slates
to enact the billowing laws lor the regulation of
railways chartered by them:
1. A law providing a Hoard of Railroad Com
missioners to obtain, preserve and circulate in
formation bearing Ujn transportation, with power
to prescribe a 1:11 1 lor m system of keeping railway
accounts, and with other powers and duties simf
lai to those possessed by the Railway Commis
sioners of .ia."iach'ictt.
2. A Inw to prevent stock inflation.
:. A law prohibiting representatives "f the people
from being retained or employed as agent, attor
neys or counsel iu any case where the public inter
est is involved.
4. A law providing that all common carriers
shall receipt for quantity, whether it be of grain or
other commodities, and to deliver the same at its
destination.
5. A law providing a uniform clasi iticntion of
merchandise and prohibiting the priutirg of condi
tions 011 bills of laaiug issued by common carriers
which are designed to evade thw just responsibility
of such carriets.
6. A sicneral law. or constitutional prohibition,
against the consolidation of railroads, by w hich the
power of these great corporations is often greatly
increased and their proper control and regulation
prevented.
U'folrtd, That we have no warfare to mnke upon
anv of the great indnstiies of the country, but. 011
the contrary, the very object of the convention is
to promote peace and harmony among the n by
securing an equitable distribution of the benefits
and burdens of life, without which there can be no
permanent harmony of interests. As the oilice ol
all the members of the human body arc essential
to its periect vitality and vigor, so ere all thse in
teiests essential to a country that would be g.eat
and prosjierou. It is the trio interest of nil to
promote the interest of each other, and our best
policy will be found in th union of all the great
industries of the laud for the sake of national
peace and national propei ity.
Itimoirnl, That for the purpose of effecting a
more erlect organization un Executive Commit
tee he appointed for each Mate, consisting of a
number equal to the representation of said State
in the Federal Congress.
l!-rilrfl. That t lie said Executive Committee
shall have power to appoint sub committees iu
each Congressional district iu their respective
States.
lttKoli t'1. That it shall be tbe duties of these
seveial committees to collect and disseminate such
information in their several State and districts as
may aid in procuring proper legislation upon this
all-important, matter of transportation, and that
their efforts and aims shall be to procure fw our
people the cheapest mean possible.
lltmiln i. That it shall be the duty of the sub
committee to correspond with the Executive Com
mittees of the Stales, and the State Executivj
Committee with the National Executive Commit
tee of this lKnly. so that there may be uniformity of
purpose and action betwecu the whole.
Jietvirea. That when tin convention aa.ourn
be to meet in October. ISTii. iU such place as may
be designated bv the Executive Committee.
Jinto-ffd. That your committee futther recom
mend the adoption of the resolution introduced
by the lion. Wm. ISross Iu this convention re
lating to deep-water comni-tnicatiou between the
great Western lakes. .Montreal ana -New orK city,
by the way of Lake Chainplain and the Caugbna
waga Ship-Can il.
Jitjolnil. 1 hat we are m favor or completing
both the Northern and Southern I'liciQc Railways
as soon as the nienn for the completion of the
same can lie properly made available.
Ji-soirtil. That the attention ot tue state 01 gsew
York is called to the absolute necessity of clertn
iug and bottoming ont the Erie Canal to the maxi
mum dcuth provided bv law, and that improved
lock-gate, now in common ue elsewhere, be ap
plied to the locks, to the eud that its present ca
pacity may be increased.
neotce'i. juriner. mat tne authorities 01 inai
State be. and are herebv. requested to take into
consideration the enlargement of that canal to a
capacity that will admit tbe commercial applica
tion of su;m as a motive power.
The last three ot the JJross resolutions,
adopted as above, are as follows :
Icetolti, That theinterestaof the L nited States
and of the Dominion of Canada in reference to
transiKirtation between the West aud the East are
identical; and that while the Dominion grants to
citizens of the united Males free use 01 Canadian
canals and rivers similar privileges should be
guaranteed to the citizens of tbe Dominion, on
terms 01 mutfiai auautage.
Rolrrd. That in view of the enlargement of the
Welland Canal now in progress and of the present
prospective diversion ot tne rallying iraoe 01 me
Northwest to tbe St. Lawrence route, the construc
tion of a ship-canal from the St. Law rence to Lake
Cuamplain. tor which a favorable charter has been
pranted bv the Domiliiou Government, and of the
enlargement of the Champaign Canal, by which
vessel of 1 (too tons can riurti l.ate mampisin
and New York in from six to eight davs less time
th in bv existing routes and at much less exiiense
aud depreciation of value in transport, is of vital
importance to .New lorK ana .cw x-ii'-iauu ami
to the entire country.
R rolved. That this convention concur in th
opinion expressed in the report ol the tinted
States Senate Committee on Transportation of thr
Thirty-ninth Congress, that the enlargement ol
the New York canals, the construction of the Cangb
niwaga Canal (from the St. Lawrence to Lake
Chnmplain i. and the free use of the Canadian canal 1
will greatly cheapen transportation from the West
to the East, and that we are in favor of the ap
pointment of a joint commission 011 the part of the
Vuited States and that of the Dominion of Canada
to arrange and recommend terms for the mutual
free use of the canals and inland waters of the two
countries by the citizens thereof.
Nets for the hair are gradually com-
incr into fashion ajrain. They are made
oMoosely-woven soft braids, and protect
snioo.h knotd of hair from the rough winds.
Bazar.
House Committees,
The Standing Committees of the Na
tional House of Itepresentativea were an
nounced on the 20th, and are composed as
follows:
Elections Harris (Va.), Thompson, Blackburn,
Reobc, House. Dellolt. Poppleloti, Hoar, Wells
(Miss ), li.iker ( Ind.) and lirow u Kan.).
Wu and Meat. Morrison, Wood, Hancock,
Thomas. Hill. Chapin, Tucker, Iiiaine, Kelly, Gar
field and Lure hard.
Appropriation Randall, Hotmail. Wells (Mo.),
Atkins. Hamilton (N. J. , lUouut, Singleton,
V i.et- er. Hale. l'otcrand Wuidron.
Ranking and Currency Cox. I'ayne, Goode. Gib
son, llayuiond. Run-hard, Wike, Tow usead 4.1'a.),
Kasson, Kaines aud lltibbell.
Pacii.c Rai mud Lamar. Atkins. I.uttrell, Walk
er (Va.). I yntle. Throckmorton, Thomas Md.,
Phillips (Mo.), t.arneld, Kueson, Piatt, o Neillaud
R.air.
Judiciary Knott. Ilunton, Ashe, Lynde. Lord,
Hurd, Caultleld, Mc.Crury, Lawrence, Frye and
Starkweather.
Public Iannis Savler, Goodiu. Fuller, McKar-
latid. Walling. Gauso, Laue, 11 a home, McDill,
fltorcy and t rounse.
Foreign Affairs Swann, Faulkner, Ranks, Bar
num. Ely, Hamilton (ind.). Springer, Forney,
11 mi roe. Williams (v is.) aud Packer.
Military AUairs Banning. Glover, Williams
(Mich.), Terry, Cook, Reilly (l'a.), Hardeubur,
llncDougall, '1 horubiirg, lliirlluit and Strait.
Commerce lleretoid. Ward. Durand. Keaguu.
Piper. Kehr. Pierce. Felton. Hunter. Ross (l'a.)
and Dunnell.
J'ostotlices and Post-Roads Clark (Mo.). Wad-
dell, Luttrell, Aiuswortu (lowal. Walker (N. Y.),
Mc Million. Slemous, Cunnou, Miller, Stow ell and
Wallace (S. C..
Claims liri'ght. Nenl. Brown. Jtobcrts (N. C).
Tarbox, Cochrane, Phillips (Mo.), Pratt, Bass,
Jjradlcy and t arson.
vi ar C laini htlen, JuiIIikcii, Warren, Cobell,
Ellis, New. Caldwell. Conger. Smith (l'a.). Wil
son (iova aim iiasKins.
Naval Affairs W h!i thorn. Lewis, Mills, Jones
s. II.), Willis, Wiiliama (Del.), linhhiu (l'a.).
urieign, 11 urn (Mass.), naves ana Diinforri.
Revision of the Laws Durham. Southard. BcM.
Metcalfe. Teese, Douglas, Spuiks, Crapo, Deuui
son. Oliver and Robinson.
Education mid Labor Walker (Va.). Lamar
Faulkner. Cutler. Steuger. Clark (Mo.). Snringer.
Hoar, Magoon t Wis.) and Whitehouse.
District of Columbia Buckuer. Neul. l'belns.
Cate, Hartridge, Hinkle, Stevenson McCraiy,
Willard, Hendee and Phillips ( Kan. ).
'uulic iiuiidings and Grounds Holman. M ells
(Md.), Harrison, Cook, Hewitt (N. Y.). Wal-h,
Young. Williams (Mith.), Wood worth, Plaisted,
Kimball.
Patents Vance. Baglev. Jr. (N. Y.). Douglas.
Sanders. Hattzell, Cliuke (Ky.), Smith (Ga.),
Conger, Dobbins. Sampson and Hale.
Invalid Pensions Jenks, llagley fill.). Wilson
(W. Va.). Bliss. Hewitt(Ala.), Rice, Yt-ates, Rusk,
Setiuickson, Purman aud Rainey.
Revolutionary Pensions Ilnnter. Bland (Mo.).
Phelns. Clai-ko (Kr.l. Hnrd. Davis. Shnmiiker
Tow nend t N. Y.). Dobbins. Henderson. Williams
(N. Y. ).
Indian AUairs scales, w llshire, JBoone, sparks.
Hooker. Morgan, Laue. Seclye, Puge, Van oihes
nd Tufts.
Weights and Mensures Stephens (Ga.). O'Rnen.
Totter, Sayler, Parsons (Ky.), Magoon (Wis.),
Chittenden ami Seelev.
Territories Southard, Caldwell. Mutchler.
Franklin. Mead, Culherfson, Wiggintou, Fort,
Mackev, Freeman. Bagley (N. Y.), Patterson.
Agriculture Caldwell, Harris (Ga.), Marsh,
Davis. Kea, Gaddin, Anderson, Smith (Pa.), Rusk,
Van Vorhes and Small.
Mine, and Mining Bland, Turney, Durham,
Potter. Odell. Gibson, Campbell, Evau, Wood-
burn, Caswell and Lvnch. .
Private Land Claims Gnnter. Buckner. Pa-son,
Fowell, Candler. Levy, Ainsworth, Ketcuain, Joyce,
Cannon hnd Lapham.
Public Expenditures MiBiken, natcher. Perry,
Cowan. Dibrell, James, Reilly, Campbell (III.),
Whiting, Norton. Wood (Pa.) and Haralson.
Railways and Canals Jones (Kv.), Stone, Sav
age. Monde. Schleicher, Mackey (Pa.), Landers,
Davy, Henderson. Frott and Hale.
Mississippi Levees Ellis, Hatcher, Wilshlre,
Money, Roberts. Y'oung. Sheakley, Durrell, Whit
ing. Morey. Wallace (l'a.).
Reform In Civil Service Whitehouse, Brown
(Kv.l. Throckmorton. Payne, Collins. Debold, Cut
ler Hurlbtit. Harris (Mass.). Foster. Leavenworth.
Manufactures Stone. Dibrell, Ross (N. J.),
Williams (Ala.), Hopkins, Money, Rurchnrd, Far
well. Itallou (It. 1.). Williams (N. Y'.) and llyinau.
Militia Cowan. Herford, Bell. Scales, Candler,
W'ali-h, Tarbox, Ross (Pa.), Darrell, Crouse and
King.
Expenditures on Public Buildings Metcalfe,
WiNon (W. Va.). Bagley, Pratt. Townsend ( N. Y.).
Expenditures in the Navy Department Beebe,
Mill. Sheakley, Burluigh, Baker (N. Y.).
Expenditures in theState Department Springer,
Thompson, Caldwell, Wallace Leavenworth.
Expenditures in the War Department Clymer,
Bobbins (N. C), Blackburn, Bas. Danford.
Expenditures in the Postollice Department
Stone, Reagan, Walker (N. Y.), Stowell aud
Adams.
Expenditures in the Interior Department
Mutchler, Boone, Anderson, Woodworth aud
Tuft.
Expenditures in tbe Department of Justice
Caultleld, Cuudler, House, Starkweather aud
Jovce.
Mileage Egbert, Bradford, Odell, Caswell,
Vance.
Expenditures in Treasury Department Ely,
Blight. Hartsell, Williams (Micb.). Plaisted.
Accounts-Williams (.Ind.), Roberts, Powell,
Haskin. Fort.
Printing Vance (Ohio), Singleton. Ballon.
Committee on Rules The Speaker, Itandall,
Cox, Blaine. Banks.
Enrolled Bijls Harris (Ga.), Hamilton (Ind.),
Darrell.
Library Clymer, Waddell, Monroe.
Select Committee on Centennial Celebnuion
Jlopkius. Hancock. Barnuni. Ranks, Harrison,
O'Biien. Williams ( N. " . Hardenhurgh, Kelley,
Blaine, Lawrence, Baker (N. Y.), Rainey.
SSESE AND NOSSENSE.
Greeley, Col., proposes to convert 10,
000 bull'alo hides into robes during the
present winter.
A man at Duncansville, Pa., wi-fit bare
footed all of one week lately to punish
himself for swearinir.
A Nokrjstown (l'a.) girl declares that
it just doubh'S the value of a kiss to have
to borrow it from under a mustache.
English courts hold that there is such
a thins; as a broken heart in love afbiirs,
and award fifty pounds damages for it.
A Montreal medical student helped to
dissect his grandmother Ik-fore he knew
who it was, aud he feels rather meau
over it.
An ovster-bed wtis recently discovered
on the New Hampshire toast which the
fishermen think hits been growing for a
century.
Not" content with stealing $,0H,0o0
Tweed must need lay himself open to
further censure by " stealing a march" on
his keeper.
Meetings are being held in the South
to devise plans for raising an endowment
fund for Juji.i, the only child of " Stone
wall" Jackson.
A Massachtsetts mother took her
daughter from school because the girl
said she had been given some knotty
problems to solve.
A Montreal paper says that they did
have three or four days of Hummer there a
few months ago, but the women used 'em
all up drying clothes.
A New York journal takes the jrround
that all murderers arc insane. Put it this
way and let's nave hanging as a penalty
for insanity. Detroit J-'ue Pre.
There are forty-three Italian Counts
who are marked as having incomes of
only fifteen dollars per week, and they
want to find rich American wives dread
ful bad.
An Oregon man pounded his wife be
cause she couldn't explain the word " hex
agon." The paragon of a Judge gave the
husband a triangular sentence to an octa
gonal cell.
" Puts and calls" in stock are so
called because you first "put" your cash
into such investments and then call"
yourself a ' blasted fool" forever after.
DoHton Globe.
At West Sumner, Me., there is a youth
ful prodigv, aged twelve years, who has
mastered algebra without assistance from
a teacher, writing equations and explain
ing them as easily as most persons of
mature age.
The most prominent bridge in the
world is the bridge of Mrs. John Camp
bell's nose. She lives in Virginia, and
she has been suing a railroad company
for the last thirteen 3 ears to get damages
for a broken nose.
A London seamstress lived for two
years on two shillings (English) a week.
She never complained for fear of the work
house. At last she was found dead in her
room, having perished for want of warmth
and sufficient food.
B3WHEN you are on the way to your mar
riage, young man, there is no necessity of
looking as though you were ou the way
to a bank you know had bu.sted. A brave
man meets misery with a smile. Mijj
field f A'v.) Monitor.
" Oh, I'll make you hate the whole
sex!" saitl a Virginia (N'ev.) woman tolur
roving husband lust week. And then
the curved him with the bread-knife to
such an extent that he is not likely to leave
the house for weeks to come.
The dental colleges are wrestling with
the problem of why women's teeth give
w ay so much sooner, as a rule, than mi-n's.
Hut when you Mop to reali.e the immense
auvitnt ot 'linguistic friction I hey have to
go through, It is no longer a mystery.
Ciw.iiiuuti Times.
A Mississippi doctor personated (Jen.
Ucaurcgard in a sleeiing-car at Milan,
.Miss., for the purpose of tecuring a berth
after all had been ciiiragcd. Then; was
some contusion when the real General,
who was in the earnnd overheard the con
versation, revealed himself.
Ik you will carry business problems in
to the bosom of your family, dream over
them at night, mid get absorbed 111 them
again while making your morning toilet
if you it ill do thi. why, don't expect
your wife to uympathio with your ctlorts
to sharpen yoiir tooth-brush 011 yourra.or
strop, that's all.
The London College for Working
Women is meeting with great success. It
has been attended during t lit piiht year by
-li'l students. Of this number about U-Vo
were employed during the day in shops
ami various trades which atlord oecupa
t ion for women. The tullege is open in
the evening only.
An old gentleman residing Ix twet n this
place and leksbttrg had a large locust tree
cut and the trunk taken to a saw-mill and
cut into 2!i'-inch plunks about twelve
years ago. The planks he put in a dry
place to season, w here they remained until
aliout a month ago, when he delivered
them to a cabinet-inakt r 1 manufacture!
into a collin for himself, which was ac
cordingly done. Last w eek the colli 11 was
delivered to the old gentleman well fin
ished and neat I v made. He admired it
very much and nfnecd himself in it to seeif
it was a "good fit." He ordered the lid
to be put on Unit he might see how it
goes to be shut up in a collin. He then
gave orders that they should bury him ir
a secluded snot in the woods where tl
vil could not find him. After marki
out a spot and blazing the trees to.
place, lie pronounced himself, rem
die, saying lie .had made ample pre'
Hons. Aeirport (l a.) eirt. .
A sad story was developed In onf
police courts this morning. On V.-,!,
day night a young man slept in tLi. ' :,,
I'rectiK t Mat 1011-I louse, and, ou lean?
the morning, told the Captain that 3 v.
out of work, could get no en)plrt,'N'Y
had no money, and was tletei inlicd l
fi-tiTit-iiit Ufttiwi frinii. Iluit WOllbl illktirC ''
him quarters for the winter in pn
s,o"
Then he sauntered up town, this poor fel
low, perfeetly willing to be honest, but
compelled to lc a thief, and seeing a lady
coming along with an umbrella In lier
hand he snatched it from her, ami then
stood still until an officer arrested him.
This lorning he was committed in de
fault of $1,000, and will probably find the
winter quarters he was seeking. 1 here is
something peculiarly touching in cases
such as this, and it is greatly to be feared
that thev w ill increase and multiply dur
ing the coming winter. For the habitual
criminal there is naturally but little sym
pathy, but when humanity is driven Ly
sheer want anil destitution to crime, then.
indeed, may men be sad and chanty
stretch forth Uer hand to succor. JV. 1 .
fSr2reH.
FACTS AXI FIGURES.
The .total production of all the ale.
porter and lager-beer breweries tor tin;
year ending -May, i.., was is.is-hv-'
barrels, w hich yielded a revenue to the
Government of $!,:)f ,7. In 187:1 there
were :j,!Vl breweries in operation in the
United States.
The value of domestic exports for last
October was $5.1,718, ,07, against $1!,H17.-
2ri t the previous October an increase of
nearly if 1,000,000. deducing the mixed
terms in which these totals are stated to
their specie equivalent, we have:
Ori.. imr. Off.. 174.
Gold and silver f -1.11.71.0 $ ', I rfi
Merchandise 4 '.Hrn.Ilt 4Vit)7
Totals - $ 17,1iP,H; I f l.-.,7.1,&fi J
The value of imports free of duty last
October wits l I, li'.itj.-'il, against $ i:,:!0l,.
1!2 in Octolw r, 1871 a decrcRM; ol some
thing less than $1,000,000. The only im
portant item in the tree list which shows
an increase is that of gold and silver, the
import for last October having been f 2,-
;, WA), against 1,210,08! lor uctoiier,
171. On tea there was a decrease of
nearly 1,800,000 pounds, the decrease in
value having lieen nlmut 1 ,T0,000. The
falling off in coffee imports w as about
2,000,000 pounds in quantity and f 200,-
000 iu value.
The number of disasters on the lakes
during the past season was 1,0-VS, a dc-
crease lroni last year 01 i.;i. i uus
number, .2 occurred on Lake Michigan,
152 on Lake Huron, lt-'J on Lake Erie, 2
on Lake Ontario, 1! on Lake St. Clair, 2J
on Lake Superior, ind 4'! on the rivers.
Eighty-five vessels of all djscriptions.
with an aggregate carrying capacity of
27,177 tons, valued at 1,040,000, have
passed out of existence. Twenty. five new
vessels, with an aggregate capacity ot
14,7;i7 tons, valued at lti00,.00, were
commissioned during the year. The total
amount of property lost, including hulls
and cargoes, is 3,7fl,:JOO, which exceeds
that of last year by . 101,700.
The total value of dutiable imports in
OctolH-r last was 24,81.,219, against
:JI,200,147 for the previous October a
decrease of;,84,U2H. This decrease of
dutiable imports would indicate a decrens
of something like $1,000,000 in customs
revenue. This rate of decrease continued
throughoutthe fiscal year would bring
the receipts from customs from $20,000,
000 to $2.,000,000 below Mr. IJristow's es
timates. The most important item in
w hich there was a decrease was brown
sugar, that article having been imjiorted
to the value of only $1,790,49! during last
October, against $1,070,028 the previous
October. There was a considerable de
crease also in woolen imports, while in the
foreign iron trade there was no sign of
improvement.
Hotel Fever.
Ir is remarkable how large a numberof
families return year nfier year to this city
or other cities from their summer resorts,
with traces of fever about them. With
some it seems merely a low malarial fever,
and with others a pronounced typhoid ;
in some cases the poison appears in diph
theria, or in such a condition of syslem
that pneumonia easily sets in. The gen
eral cause, of course, is easily known.
It is the crowding of many human In ings
in a locality where the drainage facilities
were arranged for only a few. The
healthiest mountain-site and the purest
air in such circumstances are no safe
guard. In fact, the great heat of the
noonday sun in the mountains will often
occasion a more rapid fermentation of de
caying vegetable and animal mutter than
occurs in a city. Moreover, the guests of
mountain inns sleep in smaller and less
ventilated apartments than they (io at
home, and are consequentlymoreexposed
to any jKjisonous gases which may arise.
In fact, mott people who spend the sum
mer in the mountains would find them
selves better off in camp or tents than in
the small rooms of hotels. This evil of
"hottl fever" has become so general, and
is followed by such disastrous e fleets
among our families of means, that it was
even discussed at some length in the re
cent Public Health Congress at Balti
more. 2(ew York Timet.
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