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A STRING OF FISH. Caistrbt From tl?e RnIlMln of the I liiti'il Ntato^ S-'isSt Commission. Fresh halibut is consumed in largt quantities in the United States, and tlio smoked lish is a very important article os food. In Engiaad halibut is but little: used. Gloucester has been sending ht: vessels to Iceland for a number of years, j i ^ j... ???? ,|a ivom Hcln'nn I &QU ill 105* I Weill-V H'U.IO ni.iv | in these northern seas. The Icelandei apparently looks with wonder at the superiority not only of the Gloucester vessels, but at the excellence of their tish'ng apparatus, Mr. Thorsteiuson. describ- j ing a Gloucester schooner, writes that as to construction, rigging, and sails, she "could not be distinguished from an English pleasure boat.1' The compari ? Jl ? .1-- lmhvppn t.hp SOU was CYIUeilUV iiiumv ww^.. trim American craft and the slovenly English and French vessels. The Icelander tells how we'll fed was the American crew?"receiving fresh bread every j day." As many as 7,000 tisli were caught j last year by the Gloucester craft. These j Northern halibut will weigh sometimes 300 pounds. As the halibut on the | Grand Banks ave decreasing, the supply j of the^e fish, it is probable, will be taken ! in the future from Icelardic waters.! "When the Vikings first reached Iceland, j using it as a stepping stone for the discovery of shores not so far distant to the I westward, couid they have ever fancied j that a nee of men waul 1 have been born who in their turn should start iiotn the west and seek Iceland or.ee more? American trout have been successively introduced info Norway. The well known action of carnivorous ! plants, living on the land, presupposes j the existence of a similar fauna in the I water. Land plaits catch insects,water plants nsh. Both want nitrogenous food, and take it where they can liud it. A Mr. Simms, of Oxford, was the (irst to direct attention to the Utricutaria vulgaris which taught small ii*h, holding them firmly between the valves of i the bladders or this voracious plant. | atiirlinrl the roots of I ItUCil-'li. l/(u tMil the carnivorous plant he found these to be but little developed. Itbccame, then, a necessity for the existence of the plant to find nutriment elsewhere. The same parallelism is found in the piscivorous water plants. ' Clams, undoubtedly of Atlantic origin. I are now found on the Pacific coast. In j 1S09?70 oysters were taken from the Atlantic to San Francisco bay. 1c is quite j probable that Spat of the Mya were thus j conveyed. Some adult clams were probably taken to the coast of "Washington Territory. Examinations of shell heaps left by former races on the California coast show no fragment of shell belong ing to our common Atlantic clam. If a ton of fish is equal in weight to twenty-eight sheep, and the total catch j of tish made by the United Kingdom, j Canada, Russia and the United States aggregates 1,00 >,000 tons, that is :d)o;it in weight equivalent to about 28,000,000 sheep. As to the comparative value of fish and animal flesh, there would be more nutriment in the sheep. Still the amount of food furnished by fish to man is enormous. According to Mulhall, in Europe and America 150,000 vessels are employed in fishius, and between 600,000 and 700,000 men are employed. The Philadelphia Press, writes: "English economists maintain that the; haphazard and improvident meth- j ods of fishing are exhaust- j ing the fish supply of that country as surely as mining is exhausting | the suddIv of coal. The supply of many ; kinds of "fish is rapidly diminishing, ana the only way to check the waste is by a systematic study of the conditions which regulate the supply. * * * With the increased demand for food, and with abundant evidence from other countries of the result of neg'ect we should rather increase than relax our efforts to understand more about the food, habits, spawning, and propagation of our fish in rivers, lakes and the sea, in order that the harvest may not grow less as the demand becomes more urgent/' When salmon was first canned on the j "Pfir-itin sido in nrdnr to introduce the I prepared salmon Mr. Hume used to fill a basket w.th cans of salmon and give them away. The mau who did this put up last year some CO.000 cases of canncd j salmon, each containing forty-eight one i pound cans. In describing the fisher- j men engaged in catching salmon the J statement is made that the Finns, j Swedes, Norwegians, and llussians are I reliable and industrious fishermen, but i that the Italians and Portuguese are not. ] "When a#tisherman is intemperate he run3 1 a great risk of death, because the slight- j est mistake made in handling a boat re- j suits in drowning. The gigautic breakers where the ocean and river currents j meet, on the Columbia river, overwhelm ! a careless fisherman. Mr. Worthiugion, United States con- ' sul at Malta, writes to the state depart- | ment that year by year the supply of i fish has beeu decreasing in Maltese j WiUKiS, ;iuu IU SUUil nil v.vivuu Luitu I?V I poorer classes on the island are una >le to buy tish at all owing to the enhanced price. The lieutenant-governor of Malta writes to the American consul stating that he is directed by the governor to ask whether the United State, will not furnish the Malta government with information, and ''that such information in regard to means of increasing the supply of fish will be gratefully re- ( ceived and highly appreciated by the governor and the Maltese people." rn5- - - e i : l ue sailing ui liurwug IUCS iu iwi ? uj is an important branch of business, the buik of the roe3 going to France, wlr.re they are used in catching sardines. The exports now amount to over 70.000 barrels. Porpoise fishing off Ilatteras, Xorth Carolina, looks as if it were likely to become au important business. A porpoise of fair size yields products worth $20 in oil and skin. It is said that the N flesh of the porpoise is excellent and in demand. j The eggs of the rainbow trout (Salmo I irideus) sent to France by the United States Fish Commission have done remarkably well. The Salmo quinnat, California salmon, introduced some years ago, bave been caught in the Aude and Herault rivers, where formerly no salmon at all were ever found. Experiments on feeding the white heron with fish, showed that the bird would eat about its own weight in fish everv two days. The Saturday lic?ie>n is horrified at tue lnirouuccioa U1 anieriwm wnau auu | English waters. The poor cat is calied "the accursed catfish." It recommends "thatthe dogfish be set on the catfish." The communication seems to be written by some one intent on sport, and having no idea of the food interests.?JSfcto l'vrlc Times. A willow farm in Macon, Geo., produces about a ton of switches to the acre, commanding, when dried, ?200, and, as the leaves and bark sell at -twenty-five cents a pound, the enterprise pays better than cotton. The gentain in Colorado is called the "burros' lily," because the burros munch around it without touching a leaf. i ANNUAL REPORTS. What So:ne Branches of Government Have Been Doing. First Yearly Statement of the Governor nP Alnslra. VA **W* V *. <M.VVVMV?t Governor A. P. Swineford, of Alaska, has made his first annual report to the secretary of the interior on tho condition of affairs in that district. He arrived at Sitka on September 15 and was cordially received. The report slates that several schools have been established at ditleront points in the Territory by the agent of the educational bureau, and an increased appropriation is requested for the oxtension of these schools. The children are slid to manifest more than the average aptitude for study, and the Aleuts are especially anxious for the. establishment of T.'V./vtioit e/*liru\Ta in t.hrtl'r midst. A careful estimate of the population of soutli.astern Alaska places the number of whites at 1,000 and natives at 7,009. The native Alaskans are said to be educated to some extent in the elemintary branches, and to be members of the Greek, Presbyterian and Catholic churches. They are not Indians, and difl'er in appearance, habit, lan- I gua.^e and in other respects from the In- i dians of the United Slates. The governor dwells at length upon the great natural reAincl-n and saverelv arraigns OHJIVDO v.* , ? w those government agents who have represented the country as inclement to a degree that precludes the cultivation of crops or th? keeping of domestic animals. Nowhere, sayi he, in his home travels, from Lake Superior to the Griilf of Mexico, has he seen a more luxuriant vegetation than in Southeastern Alaska. The hardier vegetables all grow to maturity and to enormous size, and the cattle are sleek and in the best possible condition. Steam Inspection Service. The supervising inspector general of steam vessels reports the work of the steamboat inspection service for tli9 fiscal year ending Juno lSSo, as follows: In the* domestic service?Total number of vessels inspected, o,U')8; total tonnage of vessels inspected, 1,<)!>$,365.(55; total number of officers licensed. 25,2j5. The receipts were: From inspection of steam vessels, $'JS,85l: from sales of licenses, ?12,(517. Total Sill,408. n>u_ ?-i?l ..mnlmn /-.f on?!fIonfi fliirinrr fllA I ? I1U U'lai UUlllUVt V/?. uwtvtvMvv *>~?n ??w I year resulting in loss of life was: Firo, 1; collisions, 9; explosions. 10; snags, wrecks and sinking, 5. Total, 31. The total number of lives lost by accidents from various causes during the year was: From fire, 1; explosions or Accidental escape of steam, 41; collisions, 11; snags, wrecks and sinking, 21; accidental drowning, 55; miscellaneous causes, 4. Total, 133. Total number of lives lost in 1SS4, 271. Total numbar of lives lost in 18S5, loo; decrease in 13S5, ]:iS. Of the number of lives lost in 1S85, 47 were passengers and 80 were officers or persons employed on the steamers. The loss of life on steam vessels for the fiscal year is the minimum loss yet recorded, being but one to -i3 steamers inspected as against one to | each three steamers inspected the year previous to the steamboat law of 1S5'. Itcvena0 .Harine Service, The report of til? chief of the revenue marine shows that the work of this service for the past year compares favorably with that of any former like period. The aggregate numbar of miles cruise.l by its vessels during the past year was oli, (]>'.). In enforcing the provisions of law uui the protection of the revenue 24,481 merchant vas^els were boarde I and examined. This item ?f work varies from year to year, being proportiona l generally to the activity of ocean and lake commerce. Of this number 1,4i5 vessels wore round violating the law in some particular, und were either seized or reported to the proper authorities. The vessels so reported or seized incurred liability to fines, penalties or forfeitures amounting to a totai sum of $!K)4,51*>.55, about two-thirds the cost of the service, which last year amounted to $Sl9,8y7. The Adjutant General. Adjutant General Drum, in his annual report to the secretary of war, invites atten tion to the subject of the obsolete arms ana ammunition in the hands of the State militia or stored in the several State armories. It would, hesays, seem a most wise measure if at the approaching se sion of Congress a general act was passed providing tor immediate exchange, when requested, of all obsolete arms now in the hands of the militia of the several States for improved Springfield rides, caliber .15,and appropriate ammunition therefor. He recommends that non-commissioned officers and privates on the retired list be paid a gross sum in money in lieu of their present pay and commutation oi'allowances, and he submits a table embodying a proposition to pay them at rates varying from per mouth for chief musicians to $?y.00 for artificers. Srcalth of (lie Ariuy. The surgeon general i:i his annual report to the secretary of war submits the usual statement of finances an I gen. ral transactions of his oureau for the fiscal year ended June .30, l>Sr>. Tho money vaiue of hospital supplies i-sued during " the fiscal year was $171,205. "in aldition to the ordinary re (Uiremv.its of the service," General Murray says, ''provision should be made for emergencies, and in view of the strong possibility, if not probability, of an invasion of this country by cholera before t*ie close of the ensuing fiscal year, it is ournostiy desired that Congress make provision by ad" juito anpropriation to enable this department to adopt every means within its province to prevent, as far as possible, s_)re.i I of C.ii lU)is> in tie arm/." Koport <>r tHc Firvt ro;?!>truuer. Tlio ;nmu.il report of First Comptroller Durham shovs that (luring the fiscal year ended Juno :J0, 1SS5, GS,0)'J warrants, aggrogating si,0)4,!>75,4U, wer<? examined, registered and countersigned, and that 20,0(50 accounts, aggregating 521,445, received from the auditing offieors were revised, recorded and certified to the register. Paymaster >ciieral's Report. Paymaster General Rochester, in his annual report to the secretary of war, shows that the disbursements made by his bureau during the last iiscal year amounted to $1-J,4y{,727, in -luding $107,000 to the signal service,and $2i:>,OJO to the military academy, and $12,o40,4 VI on army pay rolls. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ropeut Toombs' estate is said to be worth $250,900. Bonanza Mackay's wealth is estimated at $1*0,000,000. Kino Alfonso, of Spain, has consumption in tlia Iftff Inner Mrs. Garfield is writing a biography of her husband. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has turned her seventieth birthday. George w. Childs, proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledcjer, has an income of $1,200 per day. Frank James, the ex-bandit, is now employed as a salesman in a grocery store in Nevada, Mo. General von Moltke has just celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday. Ho is enjoying ex cellent health. M. Roustan, the French minister at "Wash ingion, is rich and a bachelor, and the ladies' consider him a great catch. Judge Foraker, governor-elect of Ohio, is still a young man, being about forty. He entered tho army when he was a boy. King Oscar IT., of Sweden, is engaged upon an extensive historical work, embracing tho historical events in Europe from 18G? to 1ST-'. President Cleveland told the membera of the Baltimore synod tho other day that he remembored every word of the Presbyterian Shorter catechism. When* Judge Kclley, "the Father of tha House," was last re-elected, "Sunset" Cos said to him: "Well, Judge, you will probably be kept in Congress all your life." "I told my people," answered Kelley, *'1 was a candidate for life?barring lunacy or paralysis." "You make your exception too broad," replied Cox; "lunacy does not disqualify amai for a seat in Congress." I NEWS SUMMARY. Ea?lern and middle States, Light snow storms have been reported from various sections of New York and Pennsylvania. A large steam-ironing machine in a New York laundry burst suddenly while it was be-! ing "fed" by a number of girls. Margaret Bowers, futeen years old, was so badly scalded that she died in the hospital. The j other girls were not seriously injured. A tumor weighing fifty pounds was removed, the other day, from a woman in a New York hospital. South and West. The bodies of two more of the sixty persons who fell through a bridge into the river at East Saginaw, Mich., while watching a tiro, were recovered, malting tnree victims, with a number of people still missing. A masked man named Ruckle with pistol leveled tried to rob the cash box of an Omaha (Neb.) street car, but was shot dead by the driver. Some ten or twelve street car robberies have occurred in Omaha within a month, and Ruckle is believed to have been the man who committed them all. Thomas Hickey and William Rooney, respectively first and second engineers of the steamer Miles, plying on Lake Superior, were scalded lo death at Duluthby the bursting of a cylinder. An* unusual heavy fall of rain throughout Virginia has been followed by disastrous floods. A trestle near Lexington was washed away, and a mixed train on the Alleghany road was wrecked. Conductor Whittaker, Engineer Williams and Fireman Nyon were kilied. Tho mountains west of Harrisonburg wero covered with snow. Gkorge Miller was hanged at Grand Forks, Dakota, for the murder of the wife anl eleven-year-old son of Rev. C. H. Snell, a Methodist minister on whose farm he had been employed. Four men were killed and four more in jured by the explosion of a tugboat's boiler at Detroit. In Dooley county, Ga., a colored man named Rouse, a relative of a man who had ~ A'TahaVi fnv f 1m milV/lfi!* Clf fl UtJt'll Jjrilt'ilCU iUdb xuai U11 iui uuv muiuw. ~ farmer's wife, was heard to utter threats against a sister of tho murdered woman. The other night a party of men seized House and flogged him so that he died. WaahftiKlon* William E. Smith, of Plattsburg. New York, has been appointed to succeed Charles E. Coon as assistant secretary of the treasury. In 18S4 Mr. Smith was one of the Democratic leaders in the New York assein; bly. i Ex-Chief Justice Vincent, who was recently removed from his ."judgeship in New Mexico, was among the recent callers on the President. Judge Vincent claims to have been unfairly dealt with in baing summarily removod, but it is stated that in his interviews "with both the President and attorney-general he received little satisfaction. The President has appointed Thomas E. Heenan, of Minnesota, to be United States consul at Odessa. The report of the Mississippi River Com mission snows mat tne roiai cost 01 uann revetment between Cairo and Vicksburg up to June :J0, 1S85, has been $'2,'340,00.*, and of works for constructing channel, $2,50J,0J0. United States Senator Stanford, cf Ca'ifornia. has given orders to deed in trust his three immense ranches, known as Vii>a} GriJley and Palo Alta. for the endowment of a university and schools about to be erected at Palo Alta. The three ranches comprise 85,000 acres, and together represent a value of $3,500,000. It is Senator Stanford's iutention to make this institution the best in this country or Europe, and the ablest professors will be secured both at home and abroad. Foreign* The Egyptian rebels are massing for an attack on lower Egypt. Thpir former cry of "On to Khartoum" has been changed to "On to Cairo." Tns body of a lion tamer named Stewart was found in a room near Paris. The man had died of apoplexy. Beside him was the body of a lion, which, it is supposed, died of grief at the loss of its keeper and hunger. Bloody fighting is reported at Baku, on the Caspian sea, between Moslems and Russians. The military had to be called out to restore order. In the fighting several Russians were kiiled and a large number woua Jed. M. de Lesseps, projector of the Panama canal, wants $120,000,000 more vu defray tho expenses of cutting the big ditch. Opposing factions fought just before an election in Bustament, Mexico, and after several horn's' indiscriminate shooting, the result fihowed six killed and fifteen wounded. FERDINAND WARD. The Yoiiiis Financier Sentenced to a JiOiij Ssnpri on meat. Tho trial of i'er.iin uiil Ward, tiie young Ntw York financier and lea ling spirit in tho firm of Grant & Ward, having resulted in a verdict of guilty, it remained for the judge to impose the law's sentence upon the prisoner. "Ward was convicted partly upon the* evidence of Fish,ox-president of the broken Marine b::uk, himself a convict. Fish, it will be remembered, shared in the profits resulting from Ward's iniquitous financial operations,and when Grant & Ward collapsed tho Marine bank was also compelled to suspend. Ward receivc-d the full sentence of the law. The judge's remarks in sentencing Ward, were as follows: "Mr. Ward, you have been convicted by an intelligent anil conscientious jury of tho crime of which you were charged. You certainly had a perfectly impartial trial. Your jury was most c-arofully selected and was an ex.-e'lenb body of men. The court fnmrdfi.l all vrtui' rierhts. as ifc holiuvws. fairly, ancl you were convicted because it was proved you had no defence. Tho charge was abundantly proved, overwhelmingly proved, and you ottered in substance no dofence at all to the facts, the only matter for conjecture was why so intelligent a jury should have taken so long to deliberate about so plainly proved and so absolutely disproved a case. If your case had been that of a person absolutely unknown I apprehend that on such evidence the jury would scarcely have loft their seats. So that it may be said that you have not beon convicted by reason of any popular clamor. On the trial you have had the benefit of every assistance, every possible and appropriate pains. You were most skilfully and abl} defended, every point that could be taken was taken in your favor, and an address as brilliant in eloquence and power as I have ever heard was made in the opening of your case. You were not convicted upojk popular clamor but rather the jury, which was, as I have said, a most intelligent and conscientious one, probably delayed finding a verdict because they feared that popular clamor might prejudice thom. So that in place of popular clamor having caused vour conviction it reallv tended to render tbat conviction doubtful by reason of a fear in tho breasts of the honest men who tried you, a fear lest it might injure you. On that suggestion alone can 1 conceive of their having taken the time they did to arrive at a verdict in the case. I have nothing to say to you in the way of comment because I think it would be wholly useless. You have exhibited a certain insensiblity throughout this trial tbat shows me you are not repentent for the misdeeds that you hava committed. I have not seen the first symptoms of regret upon your part for the acts which have brought down upon so many innocent and good people poverty and shame. You have done more probably than anyone man ever did to undermine the confidence of commercial peoplo in commercial dealings, to cause and keep up a depression in business, and generally to affect injuriously the whole body politic. And yet you have maintained the'same insensible demeanor throughout. Under those circumstances it is idle for me to ask you to repent and show some c/tiTAiv 'Ptinf. Koino- cn T will simnlv imnftsft the judgment of the law which is that you be confined in State prison at bard labor "for a period of ten years." At the conclusion of the judge's remarks Ward took his seat and buried his pale face in his hands. He was very nervous and rubbed liis eyes and brow convulsively, and many expected to see him weep. In this they were disappointed, for ho quickly recovered his composure. Warden Kiernan then got his release signed by the judge, and as the audience arose to go Ward was conducted out of a side door and taken back to the Tombs. He was sent to Sing Sing prison on the half-past two p. m. train. FAffeER Htacinthe, In a recent sermon In Paris, declared that war could not be dis pensed with, and that those who advocated its abolition were dangerous people. -A .. i JJ - LATER NEWS. Moody, the revivalist, has bee:i holding largely attended meetings in Reading, Penn. The fishing schooner, Daisy Spraiker, which sailed from New London, Conn., September 4, and was expected to return within a month, is believed to have gone down with the six men on board. The Andre monument, near Tappan, N. Y., was blown up by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge at 10:20 p. M. Both basej were blown into atoms, and the iron fencing that enclosed the monument was completely demolished. The shock was so great that it broke the glass in houses a mile away. This is the monument erected to the British spy by Cyrus W. Field some years ago, and it if the third attempt made at its destruction. A plank on which a safe was being lowered in a building at Cohoes, N. Y., broke, precipitating the safe on two men, killing o:;e and seriously injuring the other. Samuel Chase, an office boy sixteen years of age, was accidentally killed by falling against an ink eraser in the hands of Jeremiah Cunningham, a fellow employe in a New York business house. The two boys wore slfv I iirkin e. 0j More than 400 horses of every description were exhibited at the third annual show of the National Horse Show association, held ' in the Madison Square Garden, New York. The boiler of a dredging boat exploded at the entrance to Long Island sound, and tha vessel immediately sank, carrying down ?ix men. Mrs. Margaret Gallagher, the wife of a St. Louis policeman, has given birth to quadruplets, all girls. This is the fourth case of quadruplets born in the same block within ten years. The municipal election in Detroit resulted in a Democratic victory, Mayor Grummond being defeated for re-election by M. H. Chamberlain. The President has appointed Alfred P. Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, Ind., civil service commissioner, in place of Dorman. B. Eaton, rcsigneJ, and William L. Trenholm, of Cnarleston, S. C., in the place of John M. Gregory, resigned. Both appointees were Democrats, Mr. Edgerton being an ex-member of Congress, and Mr. Trenholm a commission merchant. Professor Powell, director of the United States geological survey, in his sixth annual report, just issued, says: "During the fiscal year fair progress was made in the topographic survey of the United States. An area of 57,503 square miles was surveyed and the maps thereof made ready for the engraver. The averazo cost of the work was about $3 per square mile. The amount appropriated for the survey for the fiscal year was ?430,040, of which *434,993 was expended." The total expenditures of the navy department last year were $17,154,909. In his annual report the commissionergeneral advocates the enlistment of cooks and bakers for the regular army. A pnocLA3iATiox designating Thursday, November 2G, as a day of national thanksgiving was issued by tho President. According to the report of the register of the treasury, of tho $1.071,4G0.2(W United Stato3 registered bonds only $11,927,900 u hold abroad. Manila, a prominent seaport of the Philip pine islands, has been swept by a great fireThe judges on music at the International Inventions exhibition, London, have awarded several guld, silver and bronze medals to A merican houses. Up to recent date the Grant National Monument fund had reached $90,000. The official returns of the vote for Congressman in the Nineteenth district of Pennsylvania, to fill tho vacancy caused by the ! death of William A. Duncan, show a pluralj ity of 3,030 for Swope (Democrat) over Bair | (Republican). j During the past few weeks there has been a strong and steady advance in the price of stocks in Wall street, New York's great finan. cial centre, and the question is asked, "Does this mean a general improvement in the busi" ness 01 rue country.' Seven members of the St. Louis Knights of Labor have been arrested on the charge ol attempting to blow up street cars with dynamite. The arrested men are street car strikers. Thirteen* persons were more or less dangerously injured by a boiler explosion in the pork packing house and proprietary medicina laboratory of W. M. Akin & Co., Evansville, Ind. Fearing further trouble growing out of the anti-Chinese sentimant in "Washington Territory, Governor Squire has issued a proclamation calling upon all citizens to assist in the preservation of order. Dorma.n* B. Eaton* ha3 been ro-appointed a member of the civil service commission by the President. This makes tho political complexion of the newly-fornnd commission two Democrats and ouo Republican. The President lias appointed William Faxon, of Michigan, to be register of the land ollico at Detroit; E. L. Carson, of Texas, Indian agont at Ouray, Utah; Leigh O. Knapp, of New Mexico, receiver of public moneys at Santa Fe. Postmasters?Otto R. Miller, at Brighton, N. Y.; W. S. Hammaker, at Findlay, Ohio, and G. M. Shelley,at Kansas City, Mo. Fifty-six Indian prisoners have been tried at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for participating in the Frog Lake massacre daring Riel's rebollion. Sixteen of the prisoners were discharged, twenty-nine were sent to the peni. tentiary for periods ranging between twonty and two years, and eleven were sentenced to bo hanged. The Norwegian bark Aquila has foundered off Gothenburg, Sweden. Twenty-two persons were drowned. NEWSY GLEANINGS. In Havana cigar manufacturers pay their hands throe times a day. Ten cities do one-third of all the manufacturing in the United States. The streams of New York State are to be stocked with Oregon trout. A California farming company shipped 5(5,500 pounds of mustard seed in one lot to New York recently. The crop of raisins grown in California has increased from 1,000 boxes nineteen years ago to 400,000 the present season. Ripe wild strawberries may be found at the present time in Sierra valley, California, 5,000 feet above sea level. "Uncertainty, wonder and the exercise of skill," are said by Sir James Paget to be the essential elements of healthy rocreation. In the twelve cities of Massachusetts the death rate averages 20.57 per thousand. The extremes are 20.07 in Boston and 15.65 in Lynn. THE noc-wacer cure returns its pupuiauujr in Hartford,where the Times of that city states it is more taken than any other remedy. Codfish are swarming in Shasta river, California, where they were never known before. They bear a remarkable resemblance to salmon. Dirty streets, unclean water, neglected sewers, and anti-vaccination ideas are said to be the causes of the visitation of stnall-pox in Montreal. Twenty yearB ago $1,000,000 would cover the amount invested in cattle ranches in this country. Now that investment is reckoned at $100,000,000. It Is stlmated that with a full hous? ths Democrats will have a majority of fortythree in th? next Congress, whereas they had ceventy-fiv* in the last; ? A MONUMENT DESTROYED. The Shaft Erected to Major Andre Blown Up by Dynamite. 1 The Explosion Shakes the Ground ! for Miles Around, t A third attempt, and tbi3 time a success- j ful one, Las been made to destroy the monu- t ment erected a few years ago to Major I Andre, the British spy of Revolutionary ' times, by Cyras W. Field, at Tappan, N. Y. ' The report of the explosion, which occurred e at about 10: oO p. 5L, was terrific. Tho earth * for miles around trembled as though an earthquake had shaken it. Several buildings ( in Closter, five miles to tho south, 1 had every pane of glas3 broken, dwell- ing houses on the sloping sides \ of Hook mountain, two miles to j the north, shook until the crockery in them rattled like castanets, and there was not a j building in Sparkill or Closter but suffered t to a greater or less extent. A. peaceable far- t mer who was quietly driving a stolid hors9 j *n Blauveltville was startled so that he fell , out of his carriage and broke his arm, while | his horse ran like mad for home. The 400 ' inhabitants of Tappan were all sound asleep ' when the shock came, and they awoke , in trembling houses amid the crash i or smastung giass. iwo nuncirea feet south of the monument is a large frame house, occupied by Mr. K. Simons and his I family. Mr. Simons was asleep -when tne i shock awoke him. The house trembled liko an aspen, forty panes of glass fell out of the windows, and Mr. Simons saw his wife sitting up in bed, staring about in a dazed, heiplesi way. Before he fairly recovered his senses his wife fainted, and the entire household was in a turmoil of excitement. Leaving his wife to the care of tha women servants, Mr. Simons roused up bis man-servant and ran with hhn out of the house. His three dogs were barking and howling in an agony of terror, and the j twinKiingiignts ot a numoer or lanterns were sesu coming through the field toward the J monument. The first man who reached the scene of the explosion was Georgo Vanzilan, the brawny \ village blacksmith. Silenus Conklin, Isaac 1 and Thomas Parselle, and twenty other vil- 1 lager3 came trooping along behind him. Huge pieces of granite were scattered all over the field, and the rusty circular iron railing which encloses the monument was broken hero and there where the pieces of granite hai been dashed through it. ] There was not a person within a radius of three miles of the place but knew that the oxplodon meant the destruction, or the attempted destruction, of tho monument. ExElosions and the monument have somehow ecome inseparably connected in the minds ! of tho people. None of the men who arrived on the scene were surprised, therefore, ' to seo the obnoxious shaft topple-1 over, tuo base missing, and a large portion of the brick foundation r replaced by a big hole several feet in diameter, and about fifteen inches deep. The monu- ' mont had been lifted off its foundation and < toppied over in a southwesterly direction. ( The double foundation that had been shattered at the last attempt at destruction had ? been removed a month ago, and a single base ( a foot thick had been put under the monu- t ment in its place. The work was finished only a few days ago. This new bas9 was forced by the explosion from underneath the monument, and was distributed about the j village in fragments. ! The monument was erected on the spot 1 where Andre was hanged. It is on the top of ' a liftMfl hill in an uncultivated field of four- ( teen acres, owned by Cyrus W. Field. The field is unprotected by fences, and the only 1 buildings near it are Mr. Simons' house and barn. The place has been much frequented by strangers, and a well-worn wagon road runs up from the public highway to the monument. The first thing Mr. Simons saw when he reached the railing that surrounded the monument was a rope ladder that hung from the peak of one of the iron bars on the east side of the railing. It was about four feet long and was made of two pieces of small rope held together by steps of thick twine. Mr. Simons put the ladder in his pocket, and is guarding it carefully in tha hope that it may lead to discoveries. The explosive used was apparently dynamite, as the force i ad a downward tendency. The explosive was placed ou the east side of the monument, opposite the spot where the rope ladder was found. ' The monument was a shaft of gray granite ' standing on a base of the same stone. The ' four faces of the stone are rectangular, and E are polished to within one aud a half inches of the edges. From the ground to the apex tUe height is seven feet, ana the stone was nearly four feet thick. It weighed about four tons. The western aide of tlio stone bears this inscription: " Here died, Oct. 2, 17S0, Major John Andre of the British army, who entered the American lines on a secret mission to Benedict Arnold, was taken prisoner, tried, and condemned as a spy. His death, though according to the stern code of the law, moved evon his enemies to pity, and both armies mourned the fate of one so young and so bravo. In 1S21 his remains were roaioved to Westminister abbey. A hundred years after his execution this stone was place ! above the spot where he lay by a citizen of the States against which ho fought, not to D?roetuate the record of strife, but in token of those bettor feelings which have since united two nations, ono in race, in language, and in religion, with the earnest hope that this friendly uuion will never bo broken. "Aiitiiur Penrhyn Stanley, 1 "Dean of Westminster." On the southern face was this line from Virgil's JEneid: "Sunt lacrymoe rerum et mentum mortal ia tangunt." On the north side of the stone wore these words of Washington's: "He was more unfortunate than criminal; an accomplished man and a gallant soldier." On February 22, 1882, the monument was hacked by George Hendrix, who died two i n/vrt SovA?*nl wancfla w?*iffan fnnU. 4 ^ CU1 J UC T Ol Ul T Ql OVOj ff ??vwv?? VI* iiVw*M 1 | caj) paper and breathing hate against the British, were left on the stone by Hendrix. On April 1 of the same year an attempt was made to blow up the monument with nitroglycerine. THE NATIONAL GAME. A new Northwestern league is talked of for 188(3. Boston has but three batsmen in the first thirty-eight; not so.iuany as New York has in the first ten. Collectively the Eastern clubs of the National league were by far the best, and yet fhn nannAnt want West. St. Locis was the great whitewashed team of the league. Sixteen times was tho unpleasant coat applied. There must be in the neighborhood of $100,(.0.) lost annually in this country in professional baseball ventures. Hew York was the least whitewashed of any of the league clubs, only two whitewashes being sustained this season. In the Amorican association the Western clubs proved greatly superior to the Eastern teams, and the pennant went whore it belonged. The National, of Washington, is the only professional club in the country that escaped being blanked. The Nationals won 110 of the 145 games played during the season. The longest league game was the fourteen inning game won by Chicago from Providence; the longest American was on April 'J4, when Pittsburg won from Cincinnati in the sixteenth inning. The St. Louis Browns, champions of the American association, in their recent serie? with the Chicago club, champions of the National league, won three games on their merits, while Chicago won but two, and an- c other ended in a tie. s During tho entire existence of tho National 1 league tho championship penant has only C been held in three different cities. The present year makes the fifth timo it has been taken by the Chicagos. Boston has had it throe times and Providence twice. j A team of Northern professionals will visit c New Orleans this winter under the captaincy i of Carpenter, of the Cincinnati club, and in* ( eluding Mullano, Baldwin, Pechiney, McPhee t and Jones of that club; Hanlon, Thompson t and MoGuiro of tha Dctroits, and Ewing of j the New Yorks. j THANKSGIVING DAY, rhe President's Proclamation De?fgnating a Day for Tltunkv. The President issued the following proclamation setting apart Thursday, November !tj, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer: By the President of the United States of America. 1 A Proclamation*. Th? AmpriMn npnnlfl hfl.va alwavs abun laut cause to be thankful to Almighty God, vhose watchful care and guiding hand have >een manifested in'every stage of their na;ional life?guarding and protecting them in I ;ime of peril, and safely leading them in the iour of darkuess and of danger. It is fitting ind proper that a nation thus favored should \ >n one day in every year, for that purpose j especially appointed, publicly acknowledge ho goodness of God and return thanks to Eiiin for all His gracious gifts. . Therefore I, Grover Cleveland, Presi- : lent of the United States of America, do lereby designate and set apart Thursday, the iijth day of November, inst., as a day of mblic thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of tae same by all the Xiople of the land. On that day let all secular business be susjcnded, and let the people assemble in their jsual places of worship, and with prayer and longs of praise devoutly testify their grati;ude to the Giver of every good and perfect riffc fnr nil that. rlnrifi fnr lis in the vear ;liat has passed; for our preservation as a I inited nation and for our deliverance from I ;he shock and danger of political con- i pulsion: for the blessings of peace ,* i md for our safety and quiet while wars and rumors of wars bave agitated and ifflicted other nations of the earth; for our security against tha scourge of pestilence, which in other lands has claimed its dead by thousands and filled th? streets with mourn;rs; for plenteous crops which reward the labor of the husbandman and increase our nation's wealthy and for the contentment throughout our borders which follows in the train of prosperity and abundance. And let there also be on the day thu3 set lpart a reunion of families, sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations, and let the social intercourse of friends with pleasant reminiscense renew the ties of iflfection and strengthen the bonds of kindly 'eelins. And let us by no means forget, while vre ;ive thanks and enjoy the comforts which aave crowned our lives, that truly grateful hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and :hat a kind and thoughtful remembrance of ;be poor will double the pleasures of our conlition and render our praise and thanksgiving more acceptable in the sight of the Lord. Done at the city of Washington, this second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth. Grover Cleveland. By the President?T. F. Bayard, Sec. of Stato. GRANT'S RESTING PLACE, Correspondence Between !Vi*< Grant and the iHavor of Aeiv tork. Statements have been repeatedly made and videly circulated to the effect that when Tongress reassembled there would be a concerted attempt to have the boJy of Generaj 3rant removed to Washington for final ;epulture. The following letter from Mayor Jrace to Mrs. Grant, with her answer, will herofore be read with interest: Oct. 16, ISSo. My Dear Mrs. Grant: The esecutiva jommittee of the Grant Monument associa lion, to whom was intrusted the henored and patriotic task of collecting funds for a suitable national memorial to the memory of your listing uished husband, finds itself seriously Hampered in its work, and to a great exSent embarrassed, by utterances which appear from time. to time in the daily press and often purporting to como from your family. Our executive commitJea is much concerned in the reports quite industriously spread abroad and persistently reiterated that on the reassembling of Congress a preconcerted effort, with the consent ind approval of your family, would be begun to have the body of General Grant removed to Washington for final sepulture. Our fund has already reached a generous sum?nearly /vm. mill am/1 <111/1 cnnn* it: tnnsif: Via J)PUjVA/V^ ill TT 111 uo i? t wj vwv uvw??f *w obvious that any doubt which the public may have as to the desire of the family in regard to the Riverside purk as a permanent bomb and the site of the proposed national memorial acta as a deterrent to those who would otherwise freely give. May I ask from your family a clear and smphatic expression of your wish and prefjrence?may I add, determination?for tha ue of our executive committee] Very reipectfully, "William R. Grace, Vice-President Grant Monument association New York, Oct. 20. 18S5. Dear Sir: Your letter of the l('?th came luring my absence, and was received on my return from Long Branch. ] Riverside was selected by myself and my 'amily as the burial place of my husband, jeneral Grant. First?Because I believed New York was lis preference. 1 Second?It is near the residence that I hope \ ? ? ?- no I liwo onrt nrlmrA T will AJ UUUUJJJf ?a iUllg no j. n?v, ?? - >e able to visit his resting place often. Third?I have believed, and am now convinced, that the tomb will be visited b}' as \ nany of his countrymen here as it would be j it any other place. 1 Fourth?The offer of a park in New York j vas the first which observed and unreserv- ' :41y assented to the only condition imposed J )v "General Grant, namely, that I should have ' 1'place by his side. I am, sir, very sincerely. 1 Julia D. Grant. To William R. Grace, Mayor City of Now 1 .York. ! GOLD AND SILVER j ? ^ Annual Report o( the Director of , the United States mint* Dr. James P. Kimball, director of the mint, has submitted to the secretary of the ' omninl ronnrf, nf tllH onur/lfcions j the mints and assay offices of the United States for tho past fiscal year. Following are tho most interesting features of the report: The value of the gold deposited at the nints and assay offices duriug the year was &50,74S,752. The value of the silver deposited "or bars and purchased for coinage, computng rate in silver dollars, was &'t8,0$2,222. Hie total coining value of the gold and silver deposited and purchased was $lU,S:jO,i>76, igainst $"57,955,154 in the previous year. Tho number of silver dollars distributee! by ;he mints during tho year was 20,37:j,t>2<>. The lumber in circulation increai?d from o9,7?4, ilo oil July 1, 1884, to 4."),27.5,710 on October \ ^885. The amount increased in the treasury luring the same period from $l?Jl,5tiU,tfl5 to liltK, 483,721. , The director estimates the amount of gold , ind silver coin in tho country on July 1, L8S5, at $$20,000,000, of which $542,oy?,000 consisted of gold and $278,000,000 of silver. This amount was owned as follows: By the 1 ;reasury?Gold, $53,223,11)0: silver, $95,119,>05; a total of $H8,342,225. By national mnks?Gold, ?105,575,867; silver, $11,978,533; a total of $177,554,700. By other banks ind private hands?Gold, $3?3,o75,600; silver, F171,726,303; a total of $495,101,1)12. The director estimates the production of ;he world to have been during the calendar , jrear: Gold, $95,000,000, and silver, cireuated in most cases at its coining value, 4115,)00,000. So far as advices have been received, coinage was executed in eighteen i countries of the world, amounting in round ^ lumbers to nearly $100,000,0.10 in gold, and , 590,000,000 in silver. As heretofore, the United States has been tho largest coiner of - T?I-~ ?: - \ A ucftvi If* XH>(1 IU'JtUia. 1 Ut) L'UlUilgC Ul guiuui vas only $1,800,000 less than that of the Jnited States, and that of Russia was within 54,000,000 of it. Germany coined nearly 514,000,000 and Great Britain over $11,000, 00. In the coinage of silver Mexico was )ut little behind the United States, having :oined $25,000,000 to our $23,000,000. The lilver coinage of India was only $13,800,000? ? large decline from the coinage of that :ouutry of recent years. The championship race in the National eague was unique the past season. Two :lubs only fought for first place and neither vas ever lower than second place. Two con:ested for third place and were never lower han fourth, wnne none or me oiner iouiearns ever held alone higher than fifth )lac?. The lower four clubs fought together ill tho season to keep out of Inst place. . , THE H DEBT. Monthly Statement of the Condition of the Federal Finances, rhe Government's Receipts and Expenditures for a Month. The following is a recapitulation of the na clonal debt statement issued for last month: Interest bearing Debt. Bonds at per cent $250,00ft,000 00 Bonds at 4 per com 7H(, '/??,w Bonds at 3 per cent 194,190,500 00 Refunding certificates at 4 per 'cent 223,800 00- V Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. 14,000,000 00 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent 04,623,512 00 Principal $ 1,260,778,162 00 < Interest 9,595,948 10 Total $1,270,374,110 10 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity: Principal $3,734,305 26 Interest 219,384 60 ? J Total $3,953,089 W Debt Bearing no Interest. Old demand and legal tender notes $346,738,841 00 Certificates of deposit, 18,145,000 00 Gold certificates 109,020,760 00 Silver certificates 93,146,772.00 Fractional currency, leas $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed 6,961,162 80 i Principal, $574,012,535,88 Debt Bearing no InterisL Old demand and legal tender Total Debt. Principal ?... i 1,838,525,003 14 Interest 9,815,332 60 ; : Total $1,848,340,335 74 Less cash items available for reduction of a the debt *233,304,475 27 ^ Less reserve held for redemption of IJiiito.l States notes ICO,000,000.00 1333,804,475 27 ^ Total debt, less available cash items $1,514,475,800 47 Net cash in the Treasury.... 06,818,292 38 V? 'ckM Debt less cash in the Treasury, ?-ov. 1, 1885. $1,447,057,568 09 . Debt less cash in the Treasury Oct. 1,1835 1,400,934,842 2i 'J Decrease of debt during the month 18,270,774 18 Cash in the Treasury. . _ - * Available for reductiou of the public debt, Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding, $109,020,700 00 Silver held for silver certifi- . : cates actually outstanding, 93,146,772 00 United States notes hold for certificates of'deposit actually outstanding..^ 18,145,000 00 'S?; Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 13,549,087 88 " " ' - n one ji fractional currency <,ow Total available for reduction of the dob* $233,864,475 27 Reserve Fund. Held for redemption of United States notes, acts or'Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, litf.'. $100,000,000 00' Unavailable for reuuc- . tion of the debt: Fractional silver coin, $22,flG5,.r?:;5 70 Minor coin 24? 23,633,306 94 Certificates held as casii 63,432,364 00 Net cash balance on hand 66,818,292 33 Total cash in the tre?s;iry as shown by the treasurer's general account. 487,800,498 59 Net increase in ca.<li 3,864,341 54 The following is n comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States: R'Cfiipts. .?r, Source. - O-tober. Since July 1. Customs ....$16,142,960 67,172,S0? ~ Int. revn'e 11.370,855 39,389,304 Misc'lan's 1,359,089 7,113,375 ' Total 23,872,905 113,675,483 Expenditures. Ordinary $1.'U 31,490 49,243,829 Pensions 1.340,419 25,477,111 Interest. 6,861,762 20,302,544 Total 21,53:},672 . 95,022,494 THE ELECTIONS. - *. ggi\ Facta and Fi^nrei r.adir>red from tlie Vote In Various States. The most important features of the vote in ;he various States in which elections were leld are as follows, the figures given being those received up to t he hour that this side 3f our paper went to press: In New York the Democrats were suueess"ul, Governor Hill being elected by about 12,00J plurality over Davenport. The Prooibitioh vote was larger than that of Inst fear. The legislature is Republican in both Dranches. For lieutenant-governor, General Carr, the Republi-an nominoe, ran ahead of lis ticket. In New York city Hill's plurality was 46,600, against a plurality of 43,064 for Cleveland last year. President Cleveland Foted earlv in Buffalo, aui in the eveningre^ .urned to Washington. The Tammany Hall candidate for sheritf was elected in New i'ork city. In Virginia General Lee, the Democratic :audidate for governor, was elected by about 20,0U0 plurality. The legislature was reported Democratic i:j both branches, which ivould ensure the return of a Democratic suc:essor in the United .States Senate to Senator Mahone. In Massachusetts Gevernor Robinson is rejected by a plurality of about 20,000, his slurality last year being 5'i,000 and more, the legislature is heavily Republican, although the Democrats have made some jains. In Pennsylvania a light vote was polled, md Quay, the Republicrji candidate was ilected state treasurer by about SO,000 plurality. In Philadelphia tha Republican local ;icket was successful In New Jersoy the Republicans were successful in keeping control of both branches the legislature. In Connecticut, where, as in New Jersey, the election was for members of the legislature only, the Democrats gained heavily. The senate will stand about ns follows: Republicans, 14; Demociats. 10. Last year there were 17 Republicans, and 7 Democrats. The house will stand about 129 Republicans to 112 Democrats, ami 2 Independents. In Iowa the Republicans elected their State iicket over the Fusion candidates by about 20,000 majority. In Maryland the Democratic State ticket tvas elected, and a majority of Democratic candidates for the legislature were successful. In .Mississippi uoveniui J-umj nao *wjlected without opposition. A few Independents were elected to the legislature, that body being heavily Democratic. In Nebraska the Republican State ticket was victorious by about 15,000 majority. Two special elections for Congressmen were held?oue in New York city, to succeed S. S. Cox, appointed United States minister to Turkey, and the other in Illinois, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Reuben Edward. In New York Campbell (Democrat) vas elected, and in Illinois Hopkins (Repub* ican) was successful. * ? ?? n?ln.no ^? i** ? i? Later returns give Hill for governor of New York a plurality of about 11,01)0. In the New York legislature the Republican majority on joint ballot is 86, being 10 in the senate and 20 in the assembly. In New Jersey the Republicans have 5 majority in the senate and 4 in the assembly, making 9 on on joint ballot. The Connecticut legislature is Republican by 12 on joint ballot, a Republican loss of 71. In Virginia Lee's majority for governor is over 25,000, and the Democrats have a two-thirds majority in both branches of the legislature. In Maryland the Democratic State ticket was successful by nearly 30,000 majority, and tha i?;? nooHv ftcrufchirrl* ttt&lblttlUi O TW 11UU11J Democratic. In Pennsylvania, Quay, Republican candidate for State treasurer, has a majority of over 35,000, In Iowa the . Republican 'moiasig^^fhe State ticket is