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Bfv r >, -? i Oregon has hate 'old men. One of I them, the Hon. R. C. Geer, of Waldo, I aged seventy years, recently 4 'mowed, " the account says, one acre of wheat and oats in two hours and twenty minutes. Fast work for even a young man. i ~ ? Statistics, more or less accurate, show that John Bull is by no means the beef eater that he is cracked up to be. Englishmen eat but an average of forty-five pounds a year, while the Australians average 130 pounds, and citizens of the United States 130 pounds. It is suggested that a reunion of the dethroned?or uncrowned?royal personages of Europe would be an interesting event. The group would include Isabella and Don Carlos, of Spain; Eugenie, "Plon-Plon," anil the Count de Paris, of France; the Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover), and Alexander of Bulgaria. A statistic gatherer volunteers this information: Baltimore has fewer colored people than New Orleans, and 5,000 more than Washington. Baltimore and "Washington together have 102,000 colored people, and Philadelphia has 32,000; Richmond, Virginia, 28,000; the little city of Petersburg, 12,900; Charleston, 27,000; Louisville, 21,000; New York city, not 20,000. A well-known married lady in Grant County, Oregon, according to a paper from that neighborhood, has during the past spriog and summer done a good job of farming. "When plowing time came this enterprising mother constructed a box on the plow in which to carry her baby, and thus she plowed the ground. She then proceeded to harrow, plant and /iiiUSirflfA oorrTrir- hnr i I rl nn hflplf V.U1V1TOIV, ? W vu.? , and in this -way h:is produced a fine crop, and is now engaged in carting the truck to a neighboring town and disposing of it. What can beat this? A well-digger in Osco, 111., found a hollow log twenty-eight fect below the surface of the ground and in the log a vigorous frog. It has been scarcely a week since that fro? was blasted out of a solid rock in Nevada and a little more than a fortnight since some philanthropist released him from a cake of ice in Vermont. And yet we recognize him as the same old frog that has been turning up for twenty years or more in similar predicaments in all pirts of the country. The only thing about him that has struck us as peculiar is how he manages to get over so much territory at such short intervals. . More and more Japanese are coming to this country every year, aud they are usually of an excellent order. They arc mostly between fifteen and twenty-five years old, and of the middle class, such ?? ^Am ol\Ar\l'AnnAi>? of/i All nf them are to an extent educated when they arrive, in consequence of the compulsory law of educat'on in the empire. Their chief object in comiug is to gain a ^complete education and to etudy the J manners and customs of the Republic, ! which they rightly regard as very practical. A large part of thim, on their return, obtain remunerative employment; the fact that they have served an apprenticeship in the United States putting a premium on their services. According to the New York Commercial Advertiser, "the bulk of Japanese on our soil will compare most favorably with the native i inhabitants ^f the rame grade. They are, as a rule, far more gentle, considerate, polite and wonderfully apt in ac. quiring new ideas. They have made 1 more progress in the last half century than any people under the sun." ( The slow but sure precesses of the 1 last few years looking to th3 extinction 1 of the American buffalo have been a ! source of regret. The National Museum r?:lizis? that the mattei j ! of extinction was merely h question ot time,recently sent the chief taxidermist, Mr. William T. Homaday, to obtain , specimens for preservation before it was too late. It is believed by the best authorities that there arc not more than 100 buffaloes in the whole of Montana outBide of the National Park, where there are probably 200 or 300. The party started from Fort Keogh, crossed to Big Dry River, and then followed Big Timber Creek and Mussel Shell River. It was believed that by so doing all of the buffalo feeding-ground would be traversed. A email herd of a dozen or more is known to be in Southwestern Dakota. That the buffalo has paactically disappeared from our prarics may be inferred from the above. Skins of buffalo heads are now held by Dakota taxidermists at $50 each, and it ii safe to assume that they have given up hopes of obtaining more. Mr. Ilomaday has been quite successful in his trip and has secured some specimens for the museum. It s a wonder that some step? are not i taken by private or public enterprise to 1 preserve from utter extinction an animal 1 sy useful. It is said that the quality of the hair can be greatly improved by cultivation and proper breeding, and it would seem that some steps taken in time might prove most advantageous ultimately. In this connection Sciene: notes that Mr. S. L. Bedson of Manitoba be- < came possessed of a young buffalo bull and four heifer calves, which have so increased that he now has eighteen bulls, twenty-five cows, and eighteen calves, which are all thoroughbred'. On j crossing with ordinary cattle tlic halfbreed possesses the characteristics of the thoroughbred, save color. On crossing a thoroughbred bull with half-breed cows he has grown three-quarter breeds closely resembling the buffalo, the head and lobes being the equal if not superior. Experiments to improve the flesh are now in course, and it is expected to fully develop in the new animal the strong soiats of noble head, pelt, and flc6h. mk The Xenia (Ohio) Gazette proudly an- ( nounces that in that neighborhood twenty adjoiiiiag farms arc the property of a9 many widows. A person could begin at sunrise, and, by steady walking from one farm to another keep going till late in the day, and not in all that time place his foot upon an acre of soil absolutely owned by any man. These farms, in the aggegate, comprise somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 acres. With but three exceptions the premises are occupied by their respective owners. An interesting and somewhat startling assertion is made by a wrilcr in a French agricultural paper. Ii'c has made a comparison of animal and steam power, and asserts that the former is the cheaper power in France, whatever may be the case in other countries. In the conver sioa of chemical to incchanical energy, ninety per cCnt. is lost in the machine, against sixty-eight iu the animal. M. Sanson, the writer above referred to, finds that the steam horse-power, contrary to what is generally believed, is often materially exceeded by the horse, and he believes that for moderate powers the conversion of chemical into mechanical energy ia more economically effected through animals than through steam enengines. The Tilden heirs have decided that it would be 4he best plan to close Greystone for awhile, and so the house in which Mr. Tilden died has been put in shape for the winter, and is now in the hands of Mr. Tilden's old and faithful servants, who have been in his employ for years, while the family have returned to their respective homes. It lias not been decided yet what disposition will be made of Greystone or the Gramcrcy Park residence, and many are the theories advanced as to their probable disposition. A visit to the (emetery shows that some kind hands have kept Mr. Tildeu's gravo covered with flowers. The monument will not be erectei until next spring, as it will net be com1..<a in ! */? nnfumn nr rfirlu jJJUlCU UUUl KlkV/ 4U luv uuiu?iu W* .J in the winter. "I was down in South Carolina during all of the earthquake troubles," said a commercial traveler, "and I never again want to be a witness of such scenes as I saw there. I'll not attempt to describe the incidents to you?they have already been sufficiently touched upon in the papers. But there is one little phase of tbe thing which the newspapers have not even mentioned. You know business was suspended in Charleston. All of the stores excepting grocery and provision stores were closed The banks were not open. The theaters closed their doors. Even the newspapers suspended publication for an issue or two. But the day after the fiist terrible quake I happened out by the baseball grounds, and I'll be blamed if there wasn't two clubs in there a-playing and quite a crowd sitting on the benches cheering the players. I looked through a crack in the fcuce and just then another earthquake shock came. The umpire motioned to the players to go right along, bat the pitcher who was then in the box askel tj have the game called for a few moments because the home plate was wobbling so he couldn't put the ball in straight. The umpire acceded to this reasonable request, and after a delay of ten minutes I heard the umpire call out: 'Flay ball? batter up!' Then I left, satisfied that bjecball is the one American institution which even an Earthquake can't knock out." A Plucky Boy. An Italian, h s wife, and little boy, eight years old, were driving along '.he Fo:o-tviile road, near Fulton, recently, when the young member of the party discovered a rattlesnake stretched at full length by the side of the road. Before his father could check him he hud climbed down from the vehicle and grabbed the reptile, fortunately close by the head, and staited to climb into the wagon again. His father stopped the liCI-CS *!u* commanded the young man to throw the snake away, but the boy would not do it, in fact could not, for the hideous thing had collectcd itself around his arm and was wagging its tail in his face, making music, blood-curdling under the circumstances. By this time the mother and futhcr were almost wild with fr'gbt and anxiety for their son's safety, but the little fellow did not seem to mind it in the least, and held the flat head within eight or ten inches of his face and mocked the darting in and out of the licry red tongue. Cautioning his son to keep a tighter hold on the snake, the father cliinbetl out of the vehic-'c, and drawing his stiletto, took a firm hold of the snake over his son's hand and severed the head from the body and unwound the latter from the boy's arm and measured it. With the head the snake measured three feet ten and onehalf inches.?Santu livta (Cat.) Democrat. The Lucky Horseshoe. And now it is authoritatively stated that the horseshoe is not the emblem of good luck it has so long been supposed. On the coutrary, it brings the reverse of luck to people who treasure it. The g.iperstititious will j>lease_take notice, and cease to pick up this olTcnding piece of iron wherever and whenever tiny chance to sae it, as has long been their custom. One of the greatc-t scamps on record, a person who would have sold his mother's fa'se teeth, if the "fit took him," once said nothing on earth or in heaven would prevent him stopping to pitk up a horseshoe, for, if lie knew his fortune was at stake should lie miss a certain train, he would rather lose both than pass this emblem by! It is melancholy to acknowledge he was always a lucky fellow till he died, and then who can tell whethi-r he was or no ? At all events lie left a large collection of horseshoes of all sizes and conditions to mourn his los', and hencefoith exercise their thaumaturgical power in some neighboring junk shop.?Bunion, Ilerultl. Crippling Owls. A farmer tells us that lie has for years saved his chickens from the depredation of hawks and owls by sharpening a scythe blade and setting it on the end of a pole, standing off at an angle of about forty-live decrees. The birds of prey wiil lifrht. on the blade, that trims off their toes so that, they cannot curry off fowls. Cne of these blades will also rid a field of crows.?Athens ((7a.) Banner. | LOST OH THE MISSISSIPPI. A. Steamer's Boilers Explode Near St. Louis. i The Vessel Burned, and Many Persons Killed or Injured, Shortly after noon a few days since the steamer La Mascotte, bound from Grand Tower, 111., to Cape Girardeau, Mo., exploded her boilers opposite Veely's Landing, was burned to the water's edge and floated nearly a milo below Willard's Landing, J where it lodgeJ on the shore. First j reports of the accident were very meagre and a full list of the killed and ? ? * * A * - -t-i--: 3 T1.A i wouuuaa couia not uo uuimueu. jluo wn | boat Eagle was within sight of La Mascotte when the explosion took place aud rendered valuable assistance, rescuing all who were left alive. The Eagle took thirty-live persons to Capo Girardeau. Mo list of passengers could be obtained, as the register is lost anil the excitement was so iuteuse among the survivors of tiio olticers and crew that no one could at first tcii who was on board. Among the lost are known to be Judga Hager and wife, Miss Kreiger, William H. Wheeler aud two children, and Frit* Laird, all of Cape Girard.-au: Charle; Ansel, colored; two chambermaids and an unknown lady and two children. Tne bodies of the last three and one chambermaid were recovered aud taken to Capo Girardeau on the Kaglo. S. R. Perkins, first clerk; Miss Julia liobis'j, of Capo Girardeau, and First Engineer l ortcr were supposed to I e lost Of the crew of twenty-four fourt en were saved, and the total loss of life was placed at between eighteen and twenty-two. Among the ladly injured wero Lena Buchmann, daughter of Georgo Buchmann, of Cape Girardeau, and Leon Adams, the first mate. Among the saved wero Captain J. B. Thompson, Henry Lowrey, st:ward; James X. Donohoe, pilot: J. J. Hanlan, second clerk, and D. C. Martzinger. La Mascotte was a new boar, having been built by Evansville (Ind.) parties during the past summer at a cost of about especially for the packet trade between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau. The patronage received was more than satisfactory, the steamer making tri-weekly trips with heavy loads of pacS3ngers and freight. Capfciiu Thompson conj sidered her remarkably fast. Sho loft St. Louis at 4 o'clock the previous afternoon. LATER NEWS, Wages of .the miners in the Lehigh (Penn.) coal region have been advanced two per cent. Four men were instantly killed and a fifth fatally injured by an explosion of giant powder near Deadwood, Dale. Later reports put the number of dead by the destruction of the Mississippi steamer La Mascotte, near Cape Girardeau, Mo., at twenty-two, with about fifteen persons missing. General John B. Gordon has been elected Governor of Georgia. There was no opposition to the State ticket headed by General Gordon. Mrs. Cleveland returned to the White House on the 6th after a few days' visit to i Buffalo. The White House is again besieged daily by a host of visitors. ! A column of British troops sent to relieve the surrounded garrison at Myotheit in Bur 1. nrt tViA jnnrrh the bodies of I IlldU UUU/vviuu V? ? several British messengers who had beea crucified. Prince Moltstaxi, a member of a wellknown Neapolitan family, committed suicide in Paris after seeing his name posted as a defaulter at his club because of his failure to pay his losses at gambling. Four, more of the New York "Boodle"' Aldermen of 1881 charge! with accepting bribes for granting a charter to the Broadway Hoive-car Compauy are about to bo tried. Alderman Jaehne is serving out his ' sentence in Sing Sing, and several oth?rs of the indicte 1 City Fathers have lied to Canada or Europe. Colorado Democrats have nominated Rev. Myron W. Reed, a Congregational preacher, for Congress. The motion for a new trial in the case of the eight Anarchists condemned to death at Chicago has been denied. Rohbers broke into a Catholic Church at Notre Dame, Ind., and stole from the altar two golden crown? of great value?one the votive o ?"ering of the ex-Empress Eugenie, the other the devotional gift of Mrs. General Sherniau. Pkairie fires have done immense damage in Northern Dakota. TiIK fifty-sixth semi-annual conference of th3 M irraon Church, held at Coalville, Utah, was atteuded by 40J delegates. The policy of ths priojthooJ iu favor of polygamy was vigorously upheld in a letter from First President John Taylor, issued from his hiding place. OKS'erak Jackso.v, United States Ministor to Mexico, having been recalled, has returned with his wife to Savannah. The Queen Rodent of Spain has signed a docree frceiug the slaves in Cuba from the remainder of their term of servitude. Great prairie fires have bjeii ragiug in Manitoba. Around Morden scores of settlers have lost all they possessed, including barns and live stock. Friendly natives assaulted and carried Tamai, Osman Digma's old stronghold in the Soudan. Two hundred rebels were killed and many prisoners were taken. Senators Lafayette and General Grevy, the French President's brother, will represent the French Senate at the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty at New York. PARDONED_BY MISTAKE. Spanish Itebels Owe Their Lives t an Official Blnndcr. Tbe true story of tin pardoning of the Spanish insurgent leaders has just leaked out, says a London dispatch. At a meeting of the Cabinet in Madrid it was resolved that the dea'.u S3ntence or IU9 court marwai should bo confirmed. An under secretary to whom Premier Sagasta whispered the dejision misunderstood tha hurried remark, and going out annouuced to the crowd which had assembled t-j await the verdict that the prisoners had been pardoned.. Tiie newspaper men rushed off and telegraphed the news to all parts of the country. Senor Sagasta, as scon a? he learned of the 1 mistake of the Under Secretary, despaired of j stopping the telegrams, but sent a cor re -tion to all the newspapers. The press, however. | did not believe in the correction,thinking that ' the Cabinet wished to keep the pardon se ret 1 until after ths convening of the Queen's | Council,and published the pardon as autlien tic. The Secretary's blunder has saved the insurgents' lives. At a Spanish Cab:net Council Quean * Christina signed a decree commuting the j sentences of the condemned insurgents. They are the military officers who took part in the 1 iccent uprising at Madrid. " i Mrs. Stexa Jones, who died in East i Carondclet, Mo., a fow days ago, had lived 115 years. Uf her fivo sons and fourteen daughters all grew to maturity, and it is said that each one was six feet or over iu height. ' Mrs. Jones outlived all but Ave of her nineteen children. Is the recent Knights Templar parade at ] St. Louis M. \V. Peyton S. Coles, Grand i Ma&tjr ot' Virginia, wore tha original sash i and apron presented to Brother George < Washington by Brother Lafayette. ?! NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. a circular issued on the 1st by Grand Master Workman Powderly, of the Knight? of Labor, and d irected to tne coal operators in the Hazeltou (Penn.) district, demanded an iucrease in the price of wages of the coal operatives. The fishing schooner Stockbridge, Captain Olseu, of Gloucester, Mass., with a crew of sixteen men, is missing, aud it is feared has been lost, witli nil hands. Otto Bacma :?n, receiving toller of the New York Dime Savings Bank, has disappeared with $20,000 of ".hat institution's funds. Five more convicts were legally whipped at Wilmington, Del. The body of John EL Heine, a Knight of Labor, was burned the other day in the Buffalo (N.Y.) furnace. This makes the ninth cremation at th is crematory. rinrmionKPiTTTenM nf Panngvlgflnin in a letter to Attorney General Cassidy, calls attention to the alleged illegal action of the Anthracite and Trunk Line pools in raising the price of coaJ, and requests that legal action be taken against the various railroads forming the pooL Merrill S. Holway, City Treasurer of Chelsea, Mass., while temporarily insane committed suicide. A laroe crowd of workingmen gathered at the Cooper Institute in New York, a few nights ago,to rutify the nomination of Henry George for Mavor. There was much enthusiasm, and rolls of paper containing 34,000 signatures pledged for George were exhibited. The New Jersey Republican State Convention, held ic. Trenton, nominated Benjamin Franklin Howey for Governor, and adopted a platform which arraigns tho National Administration and favors the submission of the liquor question to the votes of the people. South and West. Charles Edwards (colored) was hanged in New Orleans for the murder of He3ter Brown (colored). Two Mexican policemen chased a fugitive over the Rio Grande River into El Paso, Texas, and after shooting and wounding him, kidnapped him back into Mexico. A heavy snow storm prevailed on the 1st at Sheboygan, Mich. F. S. Harris, owner of a grist mill near Quincy, Fla., an* his miller, named Buckley, were barged to a tree by unknown parties. They were suspected of setting fire to another man's mill. The Texas cotton crop has been greatly damaged by bad weather. Tom Farrer, charged with murder, was taken from jail at Throckmorton, Texas, by lynchers and hanged to a tree. R. P. Wallace, the murderer of the Logan family of Ave persons?father, mother and three children?was taken from jail at Steelville. Mo., bv a crowd of men and lynched. Washington. The total coinago for September was $5,070,855, of which $2,070,81(5 was gold and $2,027,185 silver; balance minor coins. Postmasters appointed by the President: Walstine P. Eddy,at Columbus. Kan.; Noble P.Howard, Jr., at Greenfield, Ind.; John W. Hingeley, at Barnesville, Ohio. The President bas directed the suspension of Bei thold Greenebaum, United States Consul at Apia, Samoa. The distribution of the new $1 silver certificates bas bagun. Mru Benedict, the newly appointed Public Printer, has been making large reductions in the force of the Public Printing Office. Additional appointments by the President: James A. Hanlon, of New York, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2*th District of New York. Postmasters: Conrad Durkes, Franklin Grove, 111.; Edward Fay. Mooreliead, Minn.; S. S, Harvey, C'entreville, Ark.; John Hornestein, Booae, Iowa; G. G. llodman, Washington, Iowa; D. W. Neagley. Millersburg, Penn. JThere are now outstanding $10,130,052 in standard silver dollars, being the largest amount ot tliat coin in circulation snice their issue began. Foreign. Violent earthquake shocks have occurred throughout Thuringia and other parts of Central Germany. The state of siege which lias been maintained in Russia since the assassination of Czar Alexander II. ha>, by an imperial decree, been continued in ten provinces,including St. Petersburg aud Moscow. A frightful explosion lias occurred at a colliery, near Wakefield, England. Seven men have been found dead, eight have been rescued and seventeen are missing. In all j probability the missing seventeen lost their lives. Pi rates all* ked the escort of the French Tonquin Frontier Commission, killing two officers and eleven men. Two men convicted of murder were guillotined t be other day in Paris. Gekep.al Villacampa and five other officers con vie tod of taking part in the recent military uprising at Madrid were condemned to death. All of the Spanish revolutionists who were sentence! to death have been pardoned. A rn1ciuii/< or.infinn ha? fvfnrrfvl nn the ! isla nd of Niapi., one of the Tonga group in the Pacific Oce in. Tho whole island is now covered wilh volcanic dust to a depth of twenty feet. Every village on the island, which has a population of 500, has be9n destroyed. The inhabitants escaped. CHOLERA VICTIMS, Terrible Scenes in a Stricken District of Austro-Hunjjary. Tho cholera is slowly but firmly taking its seat in tho Austro-Hungarian monarchy, tcF egrapks tlie Vienna correspondent of the LOUUOIl iVCtfS. JLUIH'geCiV ILioaouitsi u?vc now been ta :en in Pola to prevent its spreading further. In Buda-Pesth there have been eight new cases. Ten persons ill of cholera, are lying in the barrack hospital, aud several more in private horses. One n lan died half an hour after being taken ill; but it is worse in Lie, a village near Agram. Out of 'J00 inhabitants ninety werp taken ill, twentv-eight having died almost immediately. Tie uncultivnt? 1 people distrust all din iors and OOUCeal their sick brethren as long as they can. When the great number of casus made concealment impossible the d x-tor who came to look after tbein was received with volleys of stones. The people refuse to help each other. Wherever cholera appears the house is immediately isolated. A commission goes from houso to house to ascertain the number of ca-os aud to pro.'ure help. In oue house they discovered a mother and daughter on the bare floor, both writhing i n agonies. A little boy stocd near crying, but not attempting to seek help. Alter opening another door in the same house the commission ifound tho father, who had died of cholera, on tho old hearth with the dead bod}- of his tweotv-year-old son flung ovor him. It is almost impossible to make tho peop'e believe that the doctors are not the originators of tho epidemic. The entiro population is deep in misery, because the traffic with Flame, their only resource, has be?u intermuttiJ. AMERICAN SILK CULTURE. LIIIll rt 1 IsmoiivM' V > 1 niiiii M ?- I meats with Native Cocoons. At its last session Congress made an appropriation to enable tha Commissioner of Agriculture to test the most, improved machinery | [or converting silk co?oons into raw silk. The Commissioner is no;v setting up in oue the department bui]>iiugs of Wn-hiuglon ?i.x Serrell automatic silk reels, which he proposes to operate during the comng year. The Commissioner some time ao;o issued a circular fc > cocc.on raisers, informing them of his readiness to purchaso their products. These coco. in.s are no v.- being receive i generally in small lots. Somo of them are pronounced by tho expert Italian employe! by the Agricultural Department to be better thnn the Europenn average. Last year we imported, duty free, nearly &JO,OU.).OiiO worth of t eeled silk. I f the cocoons which entered into this silk had been pro iuced in this country it would have added $o!>,000,00.1 to tho income of our farmers, and would have re juired nearly l-.UO) persons to operate the machinery ne essury to convert thi>m into raw silk. Tho department officials hope for tho ultimate success of their efforts to lomoustrate the practicability of reeling the iilic economi a ly in tho United Statea. KNlgHTS OF LABOR Opening of the Tenth Annnal Convention in Richmond. Addresses of Governor Lee and Masfor W nrlrm o n /m?1 rr 1/bJL " "i rv 1110,11 JLUYVUOIlJfl The tenth annual convention of the Knights of Labor of the United States opened at Richmond, Va., on the 4th, with a large attendance. When Master Workman Powderly opened the convention, in the armory of the First Virginia Regiment, he looked upon the faces of a thousand delegates from every part of the country, representative of a million men and women. White and black faces,tho faces of men and women, met his view. Governor Lee appeared a ; moment later,and was received with applause The Governor made a speech of welcome. He was always glad to welcome strangers and | was pleased that such numbers of them have now the opportunity of ascertaining for themselves that Virginia is marching on in a ! new era of prosperity. He reminded his hearers that the impulse of the Revolution was given from Virginia's colonial capital. The future glory and greatness of the country will be assured "if justice and order, peace and good-will shall alwaysabide in onr midst.'' Of the more immediate past Gov. Lee said: "The Cons'itution under which we live has now borne the test of war; troublesome and unadjusted questions were submitted to the sword and by the sword they have b2en decided. Wo, of the South, placed a different' interpretation upon the terms of that instrument from that held by the North, but bow in submission to the settlement thus decreed; and now, having with all other sections a common Hag, a common country, a common Government and a common destiny, are as much interested in the prospective grandeur of these United States as they. The wisdom of the founders of the Bepublic is vindicated to-day by tha verdict of tho nations of Europe, where the power of the privileged classes is being gradually transferred to the bands of the people. 'But what class of capitalists are opposing you and whoso (ourse is injurious to the Mines marked out by the founders of the Republics' I divide capitalist; into t'.vo kinds, and will go with you and give the command, 'forward,' and fight by your side against one of these classes. Make war against incorporated rascality and we will help you t'j ride it down. Combat great moneyed corporations that seeli to control your legislatures. Federal and State, by bribery and corruption in order that they may get votes in the Federal halls of legislation to perfect and fasten upon the whole country legislation for their benefit and not for the benefit of the people at large. We will march shoulder to shou Ider with you in that. Draw the fangs from the money kings who seek to take possession of the great telegraph lines of the country and deflect them from th3ir legitimate purpose by controlling them to defeat the will of afree people in an attempt to defraud the whole country of their constitutional right to elect rulers, and we will order to your support "horse, foot and dragoons" in that. Organize against capitalists who furni-h mouey to carry elections and then claim as their reward the selection of the men upon whose shouldei? shall be thrown tho purple robe of the judiciary, and we are with you in that. You will feel the touch of our elbows, too, in assisting to keep down any men or set of men who seek to depart from (ho "liues marked out" by our forefathers, and sot up in th's country a strong central government to control tha people, when the fathers formed a goverainent to be controlled by the people." Before Governor Lee took his ssat, Edward J. Fan-ell (colored), of Districts, New York, stepped upon the platform and introduced Mr. Powderly, "who,"' said Delegate Farrell, "will reply to the address of welcome by Governor Lee. of this State, one of the noblest in tho arena of our ?olitical government." He referred to Mr. owderly as one of the createst men of tha Nation, who recognized tho importance of this gathering of the toiling masses. He hailed the approach of a tiuie when there would be no distinction in creed, color and nationality, proclaiming that the principles cf the Order of Knights of Labor stood higher than political parties, and that they all should stand as brothers and o juals. He said that Virginia had been one of the greatest States in the past and hoped that she would be that again and would make no distinction on account of race or color. Mr. Powderly began his address by thanking Governor Lea in behalf of the delegates for his kin 1 words of welcome. After ail allusion to the last war, he continued: "The men who owe allegiance to the Knights of Labor are engaged in a conflict, but it is in a war of truth against error. It is not, as many honestly believe, and many more dishonestly assert, a war of labor against capital. It is a war in which the manhood of the Ameri?au laborer is fighting for recognition. In this war it must be determined which shall rule, monopoly or the American people, gold or manhood. Our battle3 are not fought for the purpose of determining whether an individual shall rule a State or an empire, but to decide whether a people who are entitled to life, liberty ana happiness shall live in the full enjoyment of tneir rights and liberties as becomes citizens of a Republic. "To rescue the toiler from the grasp of the selfish is a work worthy of the noblest ani best of our race. It is to the accomplishment of that grand object that every Knight of Labor should lend his every energy. Lack of success or en uuuiu^cuiciio iiiuau uju uiauoai rau, v*wfection in friends, or fancied friends, must not turn him aside from his purpose, love of ease must not prevent him from working. The slanders of the jealous, the hatred of the envious, the opposition of the enemy, must not ba allowed to deter for a momeut the progress of the work whi:h he has pledged his knightly word to continue until success shall crown his e lores, or death end his labors on earth. "To remedy the evils wo complain of is a difficult and daugerous undertaking. The need of strong heart? and active brains was never so great as at the present time. The slavery that died twenty-two years ago was terrible, bat, bad as it was, it never developed a millionaire, while thus new slavery which now reaches out with a far stronger hand than the old, has developed hundreds Of them. The lash in the hands of the old-time slave-owner could strike but oi e back at a time, and but one of God's poor, suffering children felt the stroke. Tha lash of g>Yd in the hands of the now slave-owner falls not upon one slave | alone, but upon th9 backs of millions, and I among th3 writhing, tortured victims, side by side with th9 poor and the ignorant, are to be found the well-to-do and the educated. The power of the new slave-owner does not end when tho ordinary day laborer beads beneath his rale. It rea hjs I out still further and controls tho mechanic, the farmer, tin merchant and the manufacturer. It dictates not alone what tho price of labor shall be, but regulates the price of money as well This uaw slavery counts among its victim? servants of the State who hive b9en chosaa by the people to executc a people's will. Not aloue does it control the Legislature at the Stite Capitol, but in the ha'ls of our National Congress will you find its most willing, cringing slave. It reaches out even further ana holds iu its iron prasp the judpo upon the bench; not that alone but it has the power and docs corfer the judicial ermine upon its most subservient creatures. Do I overestimate its powerf Have I made a single nvsitatsment? If my word is not 4. 4. + SUUliJIUIJL bUI U IAJ OU'J Ui tuo uwwui j wjl i t>day?the public press?and you will find { the testimony to prove that what I have i said is true. Evidcnco in abundance can be ! ndduccd to corroborate every statement ! made by the press. The lash wa? strickea i rroni tuj na:id or the stavo owner of twenty- I five years ago, aud it mast bj taken from | the hand of the now slave-o'.ener as well. | ' The monopolist of t>d?,y is more dau;cr- i on; than the slave-owner of the past. Monopoly takes the land from the peop!e in million aero plots, it sends it? agents abroad and brings hordes of uneducated, desperate men ' to this country, it imports ignorance and i scatters it broad- ast throughout the land. It, and it alone, is responsible for every manifestation of anarchy that our country has witnessed. All men may not bo* willing; to admit that; this statement is true, but when monopoly dies no more Anarchists will bo born unto this country, for anarchy is the legitimate child of monopoly. While I condemn and denounce the deeds of violence committed in the came of labor during the present year, I a n proud to say that the Knights of Labor, ?^? us an organization, is not in any way responsible for su"h conduct. He is the true Knight of Labor who, with one hand clutches anarchy by the throat, and with the other strangles monopoly. "It is the duty of every Knight of Labor to assist in creating a healthy public opinion on tho subject of labor, and the justice of its receiving a full and just share of the values 01* capital it has helped to create. In this work we seek the co-operation of all rightminded, honest men." After reading his address, Mr. Powderly explained that he had asked Delegate Farreli, nf A ccamKI v 1Q f/\ mfrnrln/vi Kim Ka/>qtioa Wa Wi. w 1UVI VUUW UlUlf UVV^IUOQ UQ wanted it to go forth to the world that the organization would not discriminate in color, or creed, or nationality, and that he honored Assembly 49 for going with the colored dolegate after they had been refused entertainment at a hotel in Richmond because one of th9ir number was colored. This announce* ment was received with applause. At 11 o'clock the chair requested the hall cleared of all save delegates, and the Assembly was closed to the outsiders. After appointing a committee on credentials and committees for other purposes the Assambly adjourned till 9 o'clock the nert morning. FEDERAL FINANCES. A Statement of the Condition of the National Treasury. The public debt statement issued by the United States Treasury for September shows a decrease iu the total debt, less cash in the Treasury since September 1 of $10,627,013. The following figures show the condition of the Federal finances on the 1st inst: Interest-bearing Debt. Bonds at 4 1-2 per cent $250,000,000 00 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,769,900 00 Bonds at 3 per cent 115,164,300 00 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent 199,600 00 Navy peusion fund at 3 per cent 14,000,000 00 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per cent 64,623,512 00 Principal $1,181,757,312 00 Interest 11,936,811 00 Total $1,193,694,123 00 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity: Principal $6,998,735 0C Interest 20J.061 00 Total |$7,199,790 00 Dcht Bearing no Interest, OM demand and legal tender notes 1346,738,391 00 Certificates of deposit 7,7(15,000 00 Gold certificates 8-(,ii!)l,S<)7 00 Silver certificates 95,337,112 00 Fractional currency, less $8,3 75,9:54, estimated as lost or destroyed 6,953,702 00 t Principal $541,476,012 00 Total Debt. Principal $1,720,832,053 00 Interest 12,137,372 00 Total $1,742,360,932 00 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt $206,924,043 00 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes -100,000,000 00 306,924,043 00 ! Total debt less available cash items $1,435,445,888 00 ! Net cash in I ho Treasury.... 07,?90,321 00 Debt less cash in the Treasury July 1, 1880 $1,367,549,567 00 ; Cash in the Treasury. Available for reduction of i the public debt: Golil held for gold certifi- ; cafes actually outstand- , iuj; $84,691,807 00 > Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 95,387,112 00 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding .... 7,705,000 00 Cash held for matured debt [ and interest unpaid 19,137,607 00 Fractional currency 3,517 00 t Total available for reduction of the debt $206,924,043 00 j Reserve Fund. t Held for redemption of United States notes, acts i Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, r 18S2 100,000,000 00 [ Unavailable for reduction of the debt: , Fractional silver ^ coin $20,890,745 00 i Minor coin.. 250,2-11 00? 27,195,039 00 Certificates held as cash.... 63,300,310 00 . Net cash balancc on hand.. 67,899,321 00 J Total cash in theTreasury ' as shown by Treasurer's general account.. $465,375,713 00 ' GROWTH OF TEE SOUTa < A Report of Wonderful Industrial ' I'ro/jresR. j The forthcoming report on Southern in- j dustrial progress, by the Bureau of Statis- , tics, will, says a special dispatch fromWashington to the New York Commercial Adver- ? tiser, undoubtedly create a great sensation j throughout the country. The people of the ( North have uo adequate idea of the extent j of the natural resources of the South, or of the way in which they are developing, while the details of the report will be a per- < feet revelation to the Southern people them- j selves, who, as yet, do not begin to appreciate their own advantages or tha good fu- < ture in store for them. ] The report, which is really a series of ten separate reports on each of the ten southern ] states, will make a volume of more than five j hundred pages, and will be issued in a week , **.-11 Kn Kir nr. monnfi n. mare lliaSS I of dry statistics, but will coutaiu a Rood j deal of narrative and historical information < and will be adorned by a number of illustraticns showing the modus operandi of various industrial oc.'upatioas. In brief, the report will show that all j arts of the south are developing at a wonderful rate. Men | and money are pouring in from the north; j railroads are building by the dozen; raanu* ] fa-tunes are springing up as if by magic, j and the great natural industries of the section are progressing as never before, while new and hitherto unsuspected resources of Alabama and Tennessee in the shape of minerals are fully exhibited and will certainly create a profound interest in commercial i circles all over the world. J Th3 report on Virginia is voluminous and shows the great and growing activity in the tobacco and peanut interests. The iron do- ] posits of Alabama and Tennessee ate ] thoroughly exploited, and it is shown that tliev are larcer, of a better quality | and more cheaply workable than the iron mines of Pennsylvania; that, for in tan e, the best Alabama pig iron can bo produ e<l for $9 or ?.?.o0 a tou, agaiast ?L1 or $1 l.f,(J in Pennsylvania. The decrgia report will contain a very in- < teresting exhibit of the recent agricultural l operations in the southern [ art of tbatState, | j while the chapter on Florida will read like a I fairy tale, with its descriptions of the mar- ! velous growth of orange, cocjanut, bar.ana , * and honey interests. The Florida orange j 1 crop of next season, it is said, is expected to i amount to 1,000,00'j boxes. j ' The report devotes a good deal of s: ace to ? a discussion of the labor problem at the i South, and the cc n lusion reach d is tbat j c the col >red lattoriug class, taking all the i i eircumstan e.J into consideration, promises j to become the best lody of com- ' . mon laborers in the world They are i : accustomed to the climate. are liappy | an.l contcntel, are satisfied with low wages, are becoming more an 1 more indns- J 1 trious, and are not subject to strikes, j I PI ?-- noolintllarlv ill tail- ! x i:c_y txi xj pai ti\ uiui ?. ?. road building aud farm work and also j 1 bid fair to become good miuers and irachin- j t istS. The report also dwells upon the s:ib- ' ject of education at the s.nith, and describes ' / the various .-o ial an 1 natural features of the different States and localities in that , 6ectioa The stctisticsare full an 1 accurate. j As treasurer of th-i Pennsylvania Railroad j ! Company, ilo late John J_>. Taylor was the ; signer of the r'U(,U0 ),t>(W the k paid for a con- j trolling interest in the I'hilidehdi.a, Wil- . mingion and Baltimore read, tue largest ' J chock ever drawn iu Pennsylvania. J Although the fanners of Santa Barbara County, California, ere offering SJL.^O a day ( for hc-lp th?y are unable to get enough hands ' to care for the c.inmon needs of a farm. < *1 A BATTLE OF BROTHERS. I Queer Canvass for the Ooyernor* ship of Tennessee. B The Taylor Brothers Stumping the H State Together. Hj One of the queerest outcomes of politic** |fl differences is the canvass for the Governor- hM ship of Tennessee b?ing made by "Bob" and "All Taylor, brothers and rival candidate* nominated by the two lea ling parties of the State. They have been canvassing the State together, speaking from the same platforms, traveling in company and occupying the same rooms in the various hotels at which they stopped. A recent Memphis dispatch. gives the following interesting details of their reception in that city: The Taylor brothers have canvassed the State from the mountains of Carter ? to the Mississippi They have spoken to more than one hundred thourand people. At every place they have created intense interest and great enthusiasm. Some people have sneered at the nominees and referred to the canvass aa a show, but the people of Tennessee pronounce it the ma-it entertaining, brilliant and able canvass ever made in the State. It was left for Memphis to bring the enthusiasm to a climax. Great preparations had heen made to give Bob a reception worthy of the city. Alf's friends, not desiring a demonstration, met him yesterday at the depot and escorted him quietly to the hotel. Bob got ol the train two mile3 from the city. A large procession was there waiting to receive him. There were hundreds of horsemen wearing sashes and white roses* Thprei were manv ladies in carriaffOS and great crowds on toot. When Bob stepped from the traia he was B| greeted with a round of applause. Judge J. H M. Greer made the sceoch of welcome. In Hj concluding his speccn ho said: "We wel- IB cone you again, b2cause you, with your B distinguished brother, have taught the peo- B pie of your native State that per- H sonality in politics is secondary to B principle; that abuse of an oppos- B ing candidate is not argument; that the H discomflture of an opponent is no proof of B fitness for public trust! Standing by our B great river, which b?ars on and forever its B message to the ssa, I trust your stroug, .hope* fl ful tones may be caught up by the peo- B p?e whose shores its waves wash, and B bear to them the message: 'Great parties B must stand for great principles, and boliev- HI ing this we have most reverently put away the f ast of our common country, because we B live in the expanding; present and hope to B make of it the foundation ot' a gr?at future.' - B Again we Lid you welcome to Shlby 'B County." B Tho rtand for the speaking was erected B on the I ':s of the Mississippi Probably B the largest crowd that ever assembled at a * B political meeting in Memphis gathered ' B last night to hear the Taylor brothers* H Barnnm's great thow, which exhibited B here the night before, did not have so large a B crowd. Bob was introduced in an eloquent B speech by R. F. Looney. He held the rapt H attention of the vast audience for an hour H and a half and was cheered from the very B start. No orator ever delighted an audience more than did Bob. B Judge Brown attempted to introduce Alf. The crowd would not let him proceed, but called loudly for Bob. The Judge stood ] looking in th? faces of the audience for five minutes, but, finding it impossible to sreak, book Alf by the arm and escorted hira to the stand. Although the crowd wa3 largely for Bob, Alf made a fine impression. His ilelicate thrusts at his brother were received ' with great applause. There were a great many ladies present, and they presented the orators with beautiful bouquets, which wera nrceoted in eloouent speeches. THE NATIONAL GAME . The Washington Club has had thirty-flva layers under contract this S3ason. The baseball season of 1887 will probably >e still more interesting than the present onei It is understood that the New Yorks will.. lave a duplicate team next year from whish-o draw in case of sickness or injury to t* egular men. It is said that the Southern League next eason will be composed of Nashville, Mem$-)his, New Orleam, Atlanta, Charleston, Mo? ?-ju- n.v jue, ur yus^iuij cn uuuguuiu. There is some talk of a league next seaion that will include Hartford, Meriden, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Danbuiy, Fough ceepsie, Newburg and Kingston. t The St Louis Browns have won the scries 'rom every Association club except the Louisvilles. The Chicagos have won the leries from every League club. j The salaries to be paid to Washington's 'Big Five" next year, according to the Hart'ord Post, are: Mack $2,500, Kreiz $'2,C0>, jrilmore $1,750, Schock $!,750 and Henry 51,800. Hayes is receiving $400 per month. The Newark Eastern League Club has this season met and defeated the Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, c5t. Louis and Washington League clubs, and the St Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Louisville and Athletic American Association clubs. ' Detroit now leads the League in batting, ind New York in fielding. Chicago is seo rnd in batting and fourth in fielding, yet i? ' Irst in the League ra~e. Fine base-running ind good work in tha pit. her's box have placed Chicago in the leaa. The married and single ladies of Gillmore Penn., recently played a game of ball in aid Df a church fund, fc'e en inning i were ?. - 1 xl. i-l .1-/ *:Mn. *1ia played, loe uisrrieu uaxrabiux uuc cmjig ladies by a score of 25 to 17. The decisions ot the lady umpire were not seriously di> puted. In a game at Da'las, Texas, between Dallas ana Abilene Clubs Harry Reed, first baseman of the Dallas Clnb. bod both bones of bis left leg broken between the knee and inkle. He had batted a swift grounder tothird base, whence it was fielded to first to cut him off. Berry, tb? first baseman of the Abilenes, stood on the base line and tripped Reed. national league. Won Lost. Won LoH. Detroit 81 34 | Philadelphia..07 43 Chicago......87 31 j Boston 51 59 Sew York...70 43 I Washington..23 87 3t Louis 43 73 | Kansas City..29 84 american association record. Won Lost. iron Lost. St. Louis?89 44 I Pittsburg 74 55 Brooklyn....72 53 | Cincinnati...61 66 Athletic 57 09 | Louisville....05 64 Baltimore...45 79 | Metropolitan.4'J 74 eastern ueague record. iron Lost. Won Lost. ' Bridgeport.. .33 58 I Waterbury... 55 35 Hartford 40 48 Newark 66 28 Jersey City...49 39 | NEWSY GLEANINGS. Charleston, S. C, is daily crowded with sxcursionists. Teieue are six thousand bee-keepers in the state of Iowa. Migratoky birds are goiug South a month 'arlier than usual,and au eany winter is prelkted. Chcrches in this country are estimated to u e 60,000 gallons of wine every year for lacramental purposes. On the ancestral farm of Secretary EndJ'ott at Dan vers, Mass., is a pear tree 25$ .'ears eld. It still bears fruit every year. Lightning started a conflagration in the forest of the Yellowstoue National Park, ' frhich destroyed immense tia.ts of timber. Rev. Mil. Harvky telegraphs a Montreal >npor that the reports of deilitution in New'ouudland have boi-u greatly exaggerated A well digger in Osco.Ill., found a hollow og twentv-eight foot below the surface of he grouud, and in the log a vigorous frog. a flock of sheep got on the tracks of the iraud Trunk Ha I way uear Fergus, Canada, ind a train da-shel through t'uern, killing six- ! y-two. I ? . . - T> Ti Til TI ? .... I IF Daniel nne, or raw raw, ill, uvtn uu,il December he will be one hundred years >!d. Meantime he amuses himself by hoeing iud sawing wood. Av the recent State fair in Iowa, Mrs. C. E. Barron and her daughter, cf Des Moines, (vou over a hundred premiums and prices for aeedle and fancy work. The Peruvian Government has issued a ieciee that Chinese residents iu that country shall enjoy all the rights and privileges ;once led to other colonist?. - i