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* .:.' ' " C, I' A wonderful mountain of slate has been discovered in Blount Countv, Tennessee. It is described as "a solid wall of slate, illimitable in extent and of very superior quality." Jj*; ? . ^ Natural gas has been discovered in paying quantities in nineteen States and Territories of the Union. In Western Pennsylvania alone sixty-six natural gas companies have been organized and nearly $21,000,000 of capital invested. This discovery is causing one of the most interesting industrial revolutions of the century. A person with a bad temper should adopt a vegetarian diet. Meat makes people of bad dispositions want to fight or quarrel upon slight provocation. Anyone addicted to drink can overcome the dangerous habit much easier by adopting a proper diet of vegetables, ccreals and fruit. Meat eating, especially pork, ba con and ham, lias a tendency to lead to intemperate hab'ts. Fifteen years ago the buffalo ranges of Kansas and Colorado were covered with thousands of these animals. The other day a party went out from Denver, and after a week's hunting managed to kill three from a herd of twenty-nine that they found in Lost Park. It is said that there are not more than 2,000 buffaloes now in existence. Systematic slaughter has produced this shameful result. Mr. Carpenter, an American correspondent who has been making a tour of the British Isles, was much struck with this point that follows : The fact that England is the workshop of the world can onljjbe appreciated by a ride through it, and by the thousands and tens of thousands of factorie3 which one sees during a trip across it in any direction. Thprfi are about five persons here en- j , . gaged in manufacturing to one engaged I in agriculture. _ A newly married couple from the Interior of Nevada, who had evidently never before ventured upon a railroad tain, took the cars to go upon their wedding trip. When the conductor came around to collect the tickets, the bridegroom waa so flustrated by the novelty of the situation that he handed out h:s marriage certificate. The conductor looked at it approvingly and handed it back with the remark that it was a highly useful document in its place, and one he had often contemplated securing for himself, but that its possession did not entitle the holder to free passage over that railroad. ? Af o mon TtrVlrt flOPCm flicic 10 a O WV/4 jr V4 ?* iuicu ?* MV read the newspapers, who lives oil the Cumberland Mountains in Maryland, where a gentleman of Lancaster called upon him the other day. The two got to talking about the war and General Grant, when the mountaineer stated that he had fought under the latter. He finally dropped a thunderbolt on the Lancastrian by asking: "IIow is the old General, anyhow, and where is he now living:" He was very much surprised when told that he had been dead and buried a year and more, and attempted to excu?e his ignorance by saying that he seldom got down into the settlement and the mountains were a poor place to get news. Charles Miller, of SewicKiey, renn., has filed a caveat on what ho considers "the most remarkable discovery of the age." He believes that natural gas i? confined in the earth in fluid form and that by pumping it out the great problem of cheap fuel will be solved. He may be right, and the near future may see men buying fuel by the quart instead of bv the ton. A few bottles of natural * gas would heat a house for months. If Succi's liquid food and Miller's fluid fuel should prove successful, life for the poor man would soon lose many of its hardships. But the outlook at present Beems to indicate that beefsteak and anthracite will be in as great demand this winter as in past seasons. Modern inventions have kept pace with all the requirements of social life and made possible housekeeping on an appearance of elegance even in one room. The variety of folding beds and other articles of furniture is surprising. * A handsome parlor with bookcases, cabinets, easy chairs and lounges can be transformed in a twinkling into a bedchamber or dining room, or even a , kitrhon. The novelties of this class I make possible the changc of a parlor to | the nursery, and a child's bath tub and i other useful articles can be evolved from ornamental and innocont appearing parlor tables. It must be perplexing occasionally to the owners of a roomful of this furniture how to prepare against sudden changes. ? - ? Concerning Mr. Miller's discovery the New York World observes: In answer to the inquiry, "Why is it that we have no old American ships engaged in the oil trade between this country and Europe!" an old sea captain in Philadelphia said: 4<An American capitalist will invest any?? f pAm >t~~ nnn nnn in <. hard wood clipper ship, and will spare 110 extra expense in having her fitted out with all the latest improvements kuown to marine architects. lie will put a young captain in her of little experience, as a general thing, and send her out on probably a dozen or more deep water voyages. By the completion of these voyages she will need probably a couple of thousand dollars' worth of repairs done, and sooner than this her owner will sacrifice her to some one either in Germany or Nova Scotia at less than onetenth of what she cost. Those people will put hor in the oil trade, and she will, nine times out of ten, pay them ten per cent, interest on their investment, and pay for herself in less than three year." I A most amusing scene recently oc' curred at a London court in a litigation concerning the ownership of a donkey, j The presiding Judge, borrowing a hint from Solomon and the Caliphs 01 x>ag. dad, had the animal brought into court to test the allegation of the defendant that it would eat bread or vegetables offerrcd it "with Lord Salisbury's compliments," but would reject the sami with symptoms of loathing and contempt when Mr. Gladstone was named as the donor. As it happened, the wily quadruped. when challenged by the claimant, not only devoured indiscriminately the tory and Liberal carrots, showing no partisan spirit whatever, but when the experiment was acknowledged a failure set up such mixed notes of exultation and prote-t that the magistrate, deafened by the outrageous bray, summarily dismissed the claim. An interesting story is told of Geoffrey Goodman,a wealthy farmer of Lawrenccburg, Indiana, who is now an insane leper. The leprosy appeared several months ago,and physicians recommended a trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas. "While | the steamer on whi;h he, in company with his brother and sister, took passage stopped at a small pla?e along the river, the latter escaped from his relatives and ran ashore, where he was soon lost amid the dense undergrowth. Continued search failed to find him. Recently, however, the people living in the vicinity have been excited over stories of a wild man who had been seen on a high cliff waving his arms and shouting incoherently. These stories met the eye of J Goodman's brother, who knew at once that the wild man must be none other than the demented leper, and he set out to look for him. Goodman was found in a cave, eating a piece of raw mutton,and he willingly submitted to be taken home. He was destitute of clothing, and his hair and beard were long and matted. It is a curious feature of the story that the insane man's instincts followed the old ide i that lepers must be outcasts from society. The mountain meteorologiaal stations of Europe are said to somewhat excel in their equipments and appliances anything to be found in the Western world. Among these appliances is a superior kind of arrangement, or apparatus, for the automatic registration of sunshine, the results of which arc tabulated with reference to the period of possible sunshine for each day, the record being so much per cent, of this total. On the mountain top on which the highest Austrian weather observatory is located, is another interesting arrangement, namely, a telephone wire extending from the very summit down to the village below, this wire in the summer bsing suspended on poles, while in winter, on account of the fierce winds, it is laid upon the snow, the latter proving a good insula tor, as the apparatus work?satisfactorily under these conditions. The French, it appears, have the highest meteorological station in Europe, and their two largest observatories are, it is claimed, the best oT^wn^nt/.il in t.'in tvnrlrl Much 13 cx "n""""1--* ? ? pected of the recently established station oa Ben Nevis, Scotland. This mountain is the higheat in Great britain, and is close upon the seacoast, as well as in the track of the groat southwesterly storms whioh have such an important influence on the weather in the British Isles?a situation, therefore, peculiarly favorable. Tom Lee is the most eminent Mongolian except the consul in New York city. Says the Sun: He is a tall, well-built, copper-colored man of about forty-seven years, with short, crisp, black hair and a suggestion of a moustache in the form ol sixteen jet-black, wire-like hairs. He is not only an eminent Chinaman, he is also a great New Yorker. He runs a restaurant where the dinner begins with n'lnflr fn!IriTvorl lw nrf>sprvps nml run. -J I" , , ning through a long range of amazing dishes that taste of bay leaves, terminates in soup. He also owns a cigat store, where Chinamen buy nothing cheaper than fifteen-cent cigars, but art popularly supposed to smoke only on holidays. He is also the proprietor of a grocery store near by, where he sells meats, fish, fruits and vegetables, dried and shipped from China. He owns two houses and lots in New York and a rice plantation in China. He is a deputy sheriff, a Christian, and the fafher of a baby or two, the gifts of his Caucasian wife, lie speaks English, but only in the way that all Chinamen do?that is, if he wants to he can talk like a book nrrpnf nrul if hp doesn't want to he can be reticent as a log of wood and quite a9 unable to comprehend any but his mother tongue. He acts as the spokesman for his compatriots when they are in trouble or want anything from the police or the politicians. The First Watch. At first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights, and was used as a "pocket clock." The earliest known use of the modern na m occurs in the record of 1">52, which mentions that Edward VI. had "one larum or watch of iron, the case being likewise of iron gilt, with two plummets of lead." The first watch may readily b? supposed to be of rude execution. The first great improvement?the substitution of springs for weights?was in 15U0. The earliest springs were not coiled, but only straight pieccs of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and, being wound up twice a day, they could not be expected to keep the time nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes in twelve hours. The dials were of silver and brass; the eases had no crystals, out opcneu at tnc uacK ana front, and were four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost more than and, after one was ordered, it took a year to make it. Glaciers, the ice-rivers of lofty mountains, have been found to move downward from one or two inches to over fifty a day, from ten to'twenty inches a day j in summer being most common. The rate j iu winter is about half that of summer, j THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS. A Small Democratic Majority in i!>*? Vnvf VTmico tliv illfAU UOUI The Republicans Make Gains in Various States. From returns received up to the 5th it would appear that the Democrats will have a small majority of from five to fiftean in the next House. (In the last Housa the Democrats had l&J members and the Republicans 142.) This includes the five Fusionists in Michigan, of whom four have Democratic autocedents, and the fifth declares that he will act with the Democrats on political questions. The Virginia Labor Congressman also declares that he is a consistent Democrat. The Socialist candidate in Chicago has bceu defeated by Frank Lawler, and Smith, the Congressman elected in Milwaukee, appears t) be the only distinctly Labor candidate returned. Nichols. in North Carolina, was the Renubliean candidate indorsed by tho Labor party. Three or four districts were still in "doubt, the Second North Carolina, the Tenth Illinois. First and Second California, and the Second West Virginia, but the results in tfceso districts will not impair the Democratic majority. In the Second North Carolina District the Associated Press report elected Isa'ah Abbott (colored), while a special report gave the district to F. M. Simmons (white), the regular Democratic candidate. It will probably require the olltcial count; to decide. In the Tenth Illinois District, I'ost (Rep.) has au apparent plurality, but tho official couut may reverse it. A number of students voted for Post, it is claimed, aud a question has been raised r.s to the legality of their votes. The Republicans claim the First aud Second California districts, but tho Democrats do not concede this. Speaker Carlisle places his majority at about A table published by a New York paper gives the following as the number of new and old members from the various States. It is possible that the oflicial count will make a few changes in the figures. The table shows at a glance the gains and losses in the various States: Pres. Ilovsc Next House, Dent, Hep. Vein, llepAlabama 8 ? 8 ? Arkansas 5 ? 5 ? Califoruia 1 5 1 5 Colorado ? 1 1 ? Connecticut 2 2 3 1 Delaware 1 ? 1 ? Florida 2 ? 2 ? Georgia 10 ? iu ? Illinois 10 10 7 IK Indiana 0 4 0 7 Iowa 4 7 3 8 Kansas ? 7 ? 7 Kentucky 10 1 8 3 Louisiana 5 1 G ? Maine ? 4 ? 4* Maryland 5 1 5 1 Massachusetts. 2 10 4 8 Michigan 7 4 5 O Minnesota ? 5 3 2 Misouri 12 2 12 2 Mississippi 7 ? 7 ? Nebraska ? 3 12 Nevada ? 1 ? 1 New Hampshire ? 2 11 New Jersey 3 4 2 5 New York 17 17 15 ]! Nor.h Carolina 8 1 0 3 Ohio 11 10 5 10 Oregoi' ? -1 ? 1 Pennsylvania 8 20 8 20 Rhode Island ? 2 ? 2 South Carolina 0 1 7 ? Tennessee 7 3 8 2 Texas 11 ? 11 Vermont ? 2 ? 2 Virginia 8 2 4 0 Wot Virginia 3 1 2 2 ^Wisconsin 2 7 1 7 Totals.... 183 142 lfiS 130 win. iiittj *1 *1 Labor. THANKSGIVING DAY. A Proclamation for Its Observance Issued by the President. The following is President Cleveland's proclamation designating Thursday, November 25, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer: A PROCLAMATION'. Bv the President of the United States It has long been the custom of the people of the United States, on a day in each year especially set apart for that purpose by their Chief Executive, to acknowledge the goodness and mercy of Go l aud to invoke His continued care and protection. In observance of such custom, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United State?, do hereby designate and sot apart Thursday, the 2">th day of Novembc-r. iust., to be observed and kept as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. On that day let all our people forego their accustomed employments, and assemble in their usual places of worsh p, to give thanks to the Ruler of the Universe for our contin uea enjoyment or ine uie.ssin^s ul uiroo ?jrovernuient, for a ronewal of business prosperity throughout our land, for the return which has rewarded the labor of those who till the soil, and for our progress as a people in all that makes a nation great. Ana while we contemplate the infinite power of Gcd iu earthquake, blood, and storm, let the grateful hearts of those who have been shielded from harm through His mercy be turned in sympathy and kindness toward those who have suffered through His visitations. Lot us also in the midst ol' our thanksgiving re nember the poor aud n?2dy with cheerful gifts and alms, so that our service may by deeds of charity be made acceptable in the sight of the Lord. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand aud caused the seal of tha United States to be affixed. Doue at the city of "Washington thi3 1st iay of November, in the year of our Lord one tuousauu eigne nunureu ana eigacy-six, and of the independence of the United States i of America the one hundred and eleventh. [Seal.] Grover Cleveland. By the President: T. F. Bayard, Secretary of Statai MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Several of the Northwestern Indian tribes have organised bands. Edward Harrigan ha* scored another success with "The O'Reagans" in New York. Constantine Sternberg, the pianist, ha been engaged as director of tha Atlanta College of Music. A new tenor has been discovered in Southern France. Ho is only ninoteen years old, is a sandalmaker by trade and lives at Bruges. His name is Salegat. Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, has given $25,000 to tho Charleston sufferers. Her father, a Confederate officer, is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in that city. Some ladies at Vienna lately entertained an American prima donna at lunch, and in an omelet she was asked to serve she four.d $2,000, the result of concert for her benefit. Verdi's "Iago" is beiug rehearsed at La Scala, Milan. Signor Toiecio, who conducts tin orchestra, is enthusiastic over the ODera, and pronounces it the composer's finest work. Colonel McCaull has just purchased the American rights to two new operas: "La Bearuaise," from the French of Leterrier and Vanloo, which was successfully produced in London recently, and "Indiana,'' by Farnie and Audran. The Musical Union and We'.chmen of this country have been asked to help get Harney Morgan, the old Welch harpist, out of the Pittsburg poorhouse. Forty years ago he was a famous harpist, and mado plenty of money, but ho lost it all after the war. Before Henry E. Abbey went back to England he gave these figures from his books to indicate to what extent Ameri an nsojile have paid to see celebrate 1 actors under his management: Bernhardt, in 18c0-'-'l, 247; Booth, in lKNl-S'i, Patti, in 18X1-8:2, $23t>,890; Nilsson, in 1 SS'i-S i, I.angtry, in lf-8i-s:J, ?2W,/j00; Irving, in 1883-84, Irving, 111 1JKH-CS>, Jj.y.ityww; aiurj Anderson, i:i l&SS-Sti, total in six seasous, $2,525,;:3I. Of course Patti and Nilsson sang comparatively few times, nnd the seasons of Bernhardt, Buotb, i.angtry aud Irving were short. John Hughes, a farmer near Cbebause, 111, has beeu boring for water on his farm for over twelve months. Tke drill is now down 41)0 feet, end the earth is said to be so dry that they pour water in the hole to make the drill work. "ntiws summary Eastern and Middle States. Impeachment proceedings against Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, have been dropped. Frank Walworth, who created a sensatiofl in 1873 by killing his# father to avenge his mother's wrongs, died a few days ago in Saratoga, N. Y., aged thirty-one years. Governor Hill, of New York, on the 29th addressed a Democratic meeting at Philadelphia. The Vermont lower house has passed a bill prohibiting the sale and manufacture of oleomargarine under the penalty of $500. The bill also prohibits its usj in hotels, eatiug housjs and boarding houses, under a similar penalty, unless the owner thoroof exhibits a placard with letters three inches largo: ''Oleomurgaaine'used here." Rev. Henry Ward Beecher returned home tho other day after a five months' lecturing tour abroad. M. Bart hold t. Count de Lesseps, and the other representatives of France who came over to witness the unveiling of tho Liberty statue, and who were accorded the freedom of New Vork Citv bv the Mun:cir?alitv. have been sight-seeing at Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, ami other places. New York City has been having its annual National Horse Show. Hans S. Bisattie, Surveyor of the Port of New York, was shot at his office in the Custom Housw and dangerously wounded by Louis Bieral, an Inspector who had bem discharged for corrupt practices. Bieral, who is about seventy years old, was arrested. South and Wc.'it. Twd firemen were rousted to death, a third was fatally injured and others badiy hurt at a fire in Chicago. There were twenty-eight earthquake shocks felt in Charleston," C., during October. Quite a business boom, however, has struck the city. The number of victims by the collision between a passenger and n freight train at Rio, Wis., lias been swelled from thirteen to twenty or twenty-two. A medical student, i and two little children handed through a window by their imprisoned mother, were all ! that escaped from the passenger car which ! was burned up after tha collision. Washington. I 'Milwaukee was carried by theworkiugmen in tho recent local election. Secretary Manning on the 2Sth a sumed actual control of the Treasury Department for the first time since lis was taken sick. Professor Poweli., director of the Ge ologioal Survey, says in his seventh annual report that during the fiscal year 81,829 , square miles iu twenty States and Ter- f ritories were survoyed. The total appropri- 1 ations of tho year were $503,240. I The public debt reduction during October was $13,201,019.50. Foreign. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to poison President Barilla?, of Guatemala, Central America. The culprits?two brothers, druggists of Puerto Cortez?were put to death. Floods in Italy have caused great damage and distress. Robert Evan Sproule was hanged at Victoria, British Columbia, for the murder of Thomas llnmmil in the Kootenay mines. Three seamen and a. lady passenger were drowned in tha wreck of the schooner Mary Brown off the Newfoundland coast. General Kaulbahs, official representa tive of Russia ill Bulgaria, on tbe sunt | an ultimatum to the Bulgarian Government giving three days in which to comply with the Russian demands, refusal to be followed by his departure from Bulgaria. A unique parade has just taken place at Brussels, Belgium. Five hundred women dressed in mourning, headed a procession of ; 12,000 persons, gathered from wurrounding towns. They carried bauners inscribed with mottoes in favor of universal suffrage and amnesty to the recent strike rioters. Sevkn villages in the Friendly Islands have b:on destroyed by a volcanic eruption, i Canadian* officers report that American vessel? are fishing w thin the three mile limit, ac.d further seizures are looked for. LATER NEWS. A bill has passed the lower house of the Vermoni Legislature which allows women who pay taxes to vote. It will probably jiass the Senate. A Japanese embassy reached New York the other day on a journey arouud the world, inspecting military and naval improvements and studying industries. Two Italian laborers were instantly killed and two fatally injured by a freight train near Port Jervis, N. Y. The Georgia Legislature met in Atlanta on the od aud electeJ J. S. Davidson President of the Senate and W. A. Little Speaker of the House. On the 4 th Governor McDaniel delivered his message. James R. Tyler, of Virginia, a grandson of President Tvler. has been appointed a watchman in tho Interior Department. The French visitor?, M. Bartholdi, I)o Lesseps and their companions, numbering tweuty-two in all, called at the Whito House and paid their respects to the President Heavy storms have prevailed throughout Scotland. Iu Edinburgh the gable of a now building was overthrown, and three workmen were killed and five injure 1. Twexty-sevex persons who were implicated in the recent Madrid military revolt have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment at hard labor. The town of Minhla, in Burmah, has been attacked and burned by COO rebels. A police Commissioner and twenty policemen were surprised anl killed by ^rebels on tho KyerGwom river, M. Pasteur during the> first twelve months of his hydrophobia inoculations has treatel 2,4!H) patients, a vast proportion of whom 1?J 1 VIJ.I u.. I r\( anh'rn UUU UCCU UIILCU UJ Hit* X UUqO. V/JL WHO vuka* V number onlv ten succumbed. THE Massachusetts Legi lature stands: Senate?-5 Republicans and 1"> Democrats; House?100 Republican?, 70 Democrats, and 1 Independent. Both parties claim the Now Jersey Leg' islature, which obcts a successor to United States Senator Sowell (Rep.). Thk Gloucostor (Mass.) fishing schooner Alice M. Stouple lost her Captain and one seaman by tbe capsiving of a dor v. Complete returns for Couuecticut make the total vote for Governor 12 :,05^, divided as follows: Cleveland (Dem.), 58,074; Lounsbury (Rep.), 50,8:51; Foibes (Pro), 4,810; Baker (Lab ), 2,74:5. Cleveland lacks 5,710 of a majority, and Loansbury will be elccted by the Legislature. The Leg'slature, v/hich will eloct Stato officers anl a United Slates Senator, stands: Senate?Republicans, 14; Democrats, 10. House?Republicans, l:JS; Democrats, 101); Labor, 'J. Georgk I)e Ha.vex, onginecr, and Cbarlcs Given, brakemao, were killed by the explosion of a locomotive boiler near Davis Station, La. Chick Magnus,one of tho capturod Apache leaders, made a desperate break for liberty while being taken through Colorado on his way to Fo! t Marian, Fla., and when recaptured s'nbbed himself many time*, indicting serious wounds. Thic Republican State ticket in Indiana has a plurality of about :i,0Q0. Roth tfides J claim the Legislature. Caitais Henry Jordan, just elected Treasurer of Lasallo couuty, Texas, was killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle which a friend was handling. Germany's exports to America have increased in value $17,0 JO,0)0 in a year. Six persons; were killed and thirty injured bytho explosion of a steamer's boiler at Newcastle, England. The force of the explosion carried a body to the top of a lofty warehouse. A fire at Dilhouslo, Now Brunswick, dest ry.d twenty-two houses; loss $60,009. ; " . * J V c i ? ' FT.OTM rmnES JjJJJJU X lUll XJU11U.UU. Approximate Results of the Tote in the Various States. Figures for Governors, Congressmen and Other Office?, Thirty-five States of the Union voted on the 2d for Representatives in the Fiftieth Congress. Maine, Vermont and Oregon bad already chosen. Seven Statjs?Rhode Island, Oregon, Alabama, Arkansas, Vermont, Maine and Georgia? had already elected Governors this year, of whom four are Democrats and three Republicans. Seventeen States chose Governors oa the 2d. Of these ' nine have now Repubican Governors, viz.: Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mln nesota, Nebraska, Now Hampshire and Wisconsin. The eight States having Democratic Governors are California, Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey, Peunsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee aud Texas. In nine States I votes were cast only for Congressmen. Besides electing State officers- several State? voted on constitutional amendment;. Up to the hour that this side of our paper went to press the results received from the various Stat?s were as follows: ALABAMA. Elected Congressmen. All the Democratic nominees were successful. ARKANSAS. Elected Congressman. The election of all the Democratic nominees was probable, the only doubtful district being the Third. (JAL.1FU11IMJA* Partial returns from all the counties outside of San Francisco indicate the success of I Swift (Rep.) for Governor, together with i the rest of the Republican state ticket. Questions of race, creed and social condition entered into the canvass, and live parties placed State tickets in the field?Democrat i% Republican, Prohibition, American and antiChinese. In San Francisco there were no less than twelve municipal tickets. CONNECTICUT. Figures from 127 out of the 1C7 towns in the State indicated a close vote for Governor, and the probable throwing of the election into the Legislature, which would insure the return of the Republican c?n iidate. Two Democrats and one Republican were elocted to Congress, and the remaining Congressional district was very close. I GEORGIA. | Elections for Congressmen. There was no opposition to the Democratic nominees. ILLINOIS. The chief interest in the campaign in Illinois this year grew out of the introduction of labor issues and labor parties. The State offices to bo filled were the State Treas iryahip and the Superintendency of Public School*. An amen iment to the Constitution prohibiting convict contract labor was also submitted to the people. There were two labor tickets in the field in Chicago, and the UViAw vAta was ciimrLincrlr Inrcro Thn SJhfl to went Republican. The constitutional amendment was also carried. The Congressional delegation will stand about eleven Republicans to nine Democrats. INDIANA. Indications pointed to a victory for the Republicans, and a gain of one or two Congressmen. The campaign was confined almost exclusively to State issues. IOWA. Iowa voted for six minor Stat3 officers, forty-four district judges and eleven ConKresmon. There was a close vote on the State ticket. Probably eight Republican and three Democratic Congressmen were elected. KAN.-: AS. Martin (Rep.) was ele-tej Governor. All seven Republican canlidates for Congress were probably elected. KENTUCKY. There was a close vote in several Congressional districts, with tha probabilities of a Republican gain of two or three members. Speaker Carlisle was re-e'e.tJd by a reduced LlJtAJV/l IVJ LOUISIANA. All six Democratic candidates for Congress were elected. MASSACHUSETTS. The vot3 for Governor was very close, early indications pointing to the election oc Ames (Dem.) over Andrews (Rep.) by about 4,000 majority. The Congressional "delegation will be about eight Republicans and four Democrats. The Legislature is Republicaa MARYLAND. Five Democrats and one Republican were elected to Congress. MICHIGAN. There were three full State tickets iu the field?the fusion ticket of Democrats and Greenbackers, headed by George L. Yaple, for Governor; the Republican, headed by Cyrus G. Luce, and the Prohibition, headed by Samuel Dickie. Early figures indicate ! a Republican plurality for Governor oi about 2,00J. Congressmen probably elected: Seven Republicans and four Democrats. MINNESOTA. Full Republican, Democratic and Prohibition Gubernatorial tickets were in the field. Reduced Republican majorities wero reporrei. Jtavo Kepublican congressmen? the full delegatiou~are probably elected. MISSISSIPPI. The election returns indicate the election of a solid Democratic delegation to Congress. MISSOURI. The Democratic candidate for Supreme Court Judge was elected. In St Louis the labor voto was large. Twelve Democrats aud two Republicans wero probably elected to Congress. NEBRASKA. The Republican State ticket, healod by General Johu M. Thayer, has been elected by nvi.r 9A (WW) mrif.v Th ? TiiffklrthnrA is also hexvily Republican. Two Republicans were elected to Congress, the fight in the First D strict being so close as to require an official count NEW HAMPSHIRE. Iudi' ations pointed to no election for Governor by the people, although the Republicans have a ma iority in both branches of the Legislature. The Legb-laturo shows some Democratic gains. NEW JERSEY. Green (Dom.) was elo.ted Governor. Bevcn Congressmen, seven State Senators ?nd sixty Assemblymen were also elected. NEW YORK. In the Empire State early returns indicated the election of Pock ham (Uem.) for Court of Appeals by a small majority. The Legislature is Republican which will insure the return of a Republican United States Senator to succeed Warner 'Tit** mnin hnu-nt'rtr oc.-r\ t I ill tlio Now York City election, where the vote for Mayor stood: Hewitt (Detn.), t)0,29ii; I George (Workiugmen's Candidate), 07,(W9; Roosevelt (Hep.), The light for tho Mayoralty was a bitter one, and the (!ei>rgo adherents made a strong elt'ort f?>r victory. Tho entire Democratic city ticket was elccto l, although Ke)>uiili.aiis gained one Congressman. The Suite's delegation to Congress will stand about tunct.vn Republicans to fourteen Democrats, a Democratic loss. OHIO. The Repuhlio.in-; won a complete victory on llio Stnto ticket by majorities ranging from ,'(!.(Jiiu lo .U),000 nnl nlso gained four or fivo Congressmen. Frank liur.l, Democratic Free Tnule c.imliilate, was again defeated in the Toledo ilistriut. PENNSYLVANIA. Beaver (Rep.) was elected Governor by abou ;;u,(XJ0 majority. The C mpressional delegation will staud about twenty-eight 1 Kepiibli.-aj-S to niuo Democrats. Tiio Legislate e is Republican. < 1UIUDK I!-iL.A.Ml. Spoonor (Rop.) was elected to Congress in Iho First District, and in the Second District there was no election, n<> candidate receiving a majority, as is require:!. SOUTH CAROLINA. Th"> entire Democratic State ticket headed by Colonel Richardson for Governor was successful, as was every Democratic candidate for Congress. TEXAS. Tue Democratic candidates for Governor j and other State offices, aui the eleven D.'mo cratic candidates for Congress were all elected. TENNESSEE. "Br>b" Taylor (Dem.) was elected Governor over his brother by about 20,01)0 majority. The delegation to Congress will stand eight Democrats to two Republicans,a Democratic gain of one. VIRGINIA. The Congressional elections has resulted in the gain of several Republican Congressmen, although the vote in several instances was very close. WISCONSIN. Governor Rusk (Kep.) was probably reelected. Tbo Congressmen elected are six Republicans, two Democrats ami one Labor candidate. WE3T VIRGINIA. General Goff (Rep.) was re-elected to Congress in the First District, while in the Second District the vote was close. It was thought the delegation would stand three Democrats and one Republican. Later Election Returns. Later returns made the struggle for supremacy in the Fiftieth Congress close. In the Forty-ninth Congress the Democrats had 182 members and the Republicans 140. On the morning of the 4th it looked as though in the Fiftieth Congress th3 Renublicans had elected 168 Congressmen, the Democrats 103 and the labor men 4. The two great surprises of the Congressionul elections were the defeat of Hon. William R. Morrison in the Eighteenth Illinois District by his Republican opponent, Judge Baker, and the close run between Speaker Carlisle in the Sixth Kentucky District and liio Annnnnnf. f-Jfirn* rn H Tkn^ho Vniorlif. nf Labor candidate. Two years ago Mr. Carlisle had a majority of this year, on tha morning of the 4th, it looked as* though he would be defeated or elected by a few votes, according as the returns from a few outlying districts were against him or in his favor. In New York Peckham (Dem.) appeared to have over !',00.') plurality fur Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals. In Ohio the Republicans electei fourteen Congressmen and tlie Democrats six, with one district in doubt. This is a Democratic loss of four or live. Beaver's plurality in Pennsylvania according to the latest returns, is about 4'.',03 J. Tbe Democrats gained one Congressman. The Republicans of Illinois have a plurality of :>0,00"J for Treasjrer, and have gained four or live Congressmen. In Connecticut Cleveland (Dem.) has 2,092 plurality for Governor, but lacks 2,243 votes of a majority. Tue election of State officers is thrown into tbe Legislature, in which the Pe,\ublieat s will have from twenty to twenty-live majority. The Democrats elect tbree Congressmen, a gain of one. In Minnesota the Legislature is Republican. Tbe Democrats gain three Congressmen. The Nebraska Legislature is two-thirds Republican. The Democrats gain a Congressman. Tkn P aanV loon mn lArifw {n Tntra i'a 1A . X UC HDjJUU.I. tXLi IUUJU1 1VJ *U AV I'M 10 AV| 00). The result will fix Virginia's representation in the Fiftieth Congress a? follows: Democrats, 3: Republicans, 6; Knights of Labor, 1, a loss to tbe Democrats of 5. In Kentucky the Congressional delegation will probably le seven Democrats to four Republicans, a Demorratic loss of three. In North Carolina the Republicans have proba'ily gained one Congressman. The Republi.an State ticket was successful in Indiana, and the Republicans of that State also gaiu threj Cougressmen. Massachusetts will have in the next Congress eight Republicans aud four Democrats, a Democratic gain of two. Returns from Colorado indicate the success of Adauis, Democratic candidate for Governor, by a ma jority of 1,500. Returns also indicate that the Democrats have carried the lower house, the General Assembly and possibly the SenatD. Kansas elected six Republicans and one Labor party candidate. The Delaware Legis'ature is Democratic, which insures the re-election of United States Senator Gray. The two Republican colored members of the present House?Small, of South Carolina. aud O'Hara, of North Carolina?have not been re-elected. This removes the last of the colored members from the House and leaves the iultietn congress wnue lortoe first time since the close of the war. LOST IN A HOTEL, Fierce Flame* Cut off the Escape of Sleeping Guests. A cry of "Fire!" was raised in the Ackerman Hotel, situated at Loogootee, Ind., at 3 o'clock the other morning, and in a twin ;ling the two-story building was a mass of raging flames. To save it or i:s contents was impossible, and in the excitement th8 sleeping inmates were'forgotten until all means of escape were cut o.T. John G. Gates and Michael Tracy, respectively Treasurer and Auditor-elect of Martin County, were sleeping in twoof the upper rooms of the building, and, having worked bard on ele.tion day, slept very soundly. They were awakened only by "the falling embers near them. TUi nrnn?^ t.Vi a nnteiHfl U'liPn thfl position of the unfortunate msn was discovered, were unable to help them, and the cries of the sufferers were listened to in despa'r. Mr. Gates, it is thought, was suffocated and carried down in the falling ruins. His body was burned to a crisp. Mr. Tracy possessed more preseuce of mind, and when he realized that there was only one chance for his life he loajied from the second-story window. Ho was fatally in jured. John Burch also met a similar death to that of Gates. How he got into the building is uukuown, which partially accounts for the failure to render him assistance, but hii charred body was found in the ruio3. Ho leaves four children. Mr. Gates leaves eleven children, mo it of them grown up. Ho was fifty-three years old. TEE RATIONAL GAME. Johnston*, of the Bostons, is considered the Adonis of the League. m a. 4-1,c/\nflinm t rflti'h i IIK next iiieeuii.; ui wv . v.*vuw- ??0 ? will bo held in Chattanooga in January. The Natioual League used ICS players the past season and tho Association 1W men. It is said that the players of the American Association clubs have" organized a protective association. Only three League players got into the double figures iu the home run column, viz: Brouthers and Bichardsun, of Detroit, with eleven each, and Anson, of Chicago, with ten. Ik the exhibition games between the American Association and League nines, after the close of tho championship season, the clubs of the former were generally successful. Anson led the Chicagos in batting: Brouthers, the Detroits; Connor, the New Yorks; *-- * V.O S* nines, me wusmu^wua, uwnwi*) ?.> v. Louis; Dealey, tbo Bostons: Myers, Kansas Citys; Fogarty, the Philadelpkias. Among the League dubs the Detroits led the past season in batting New Yorks, Chicagos, Bostons, St Louis, Philadelphias,Kansas Citys and Washingtons in that order. In fielding the Detroits led, Philadelphias, New Yorks, Chicagos, Kansas Citys, Bostons, Washingtons and St Louis. By ' defeating the Chicago League Club four games in the series of six the St Louis American Association Club won the world's championship. Tbe club also won every gamo played with tbe St Louis League nin) for the local championship, and are now tbe ohomninns of t.hfl ritv. of the American As eociation and of the world. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Thkrr are at present 4,570,COD mora women than men iu Eurt>pe. The substitution of glass flooring for boards continues to increase in Paris, "Red Top," the President's cottage, near Washington, will ba ready for occupancy loon. Fashion-able ladies now ride on tho tops of the now stage-coaches on Fifth avenu^, New York. I.v St Louis 7,000 pounds of copper haT? been used in making just ono steam kettle for a brewery. American students of art at Munich are increasing in number. There are now over oao hundred there. France and Germany are securing large quantities of pine seeds in Vermont lor the renewal of their forests. The saud thrown up by the Charleston earthquake is deep black, pale blue, light brown, lale yelbiv, and silvery. MINERAL PRODUCTS. ? ??????????_?? . Summary of a Tear's Operations | in the United States. I Instructive Figures Belative toOoalf" J Iron, Precious Metals, Etc. 1 From a summary of the results of mining ,] in the United States, just now published bY'/ , David T. Day, chief of the Division of Mining Statistics and Technology of the.GeoIpgi- . cal Survey, the following appears: The total commercial product of coal of nO "i kinds in 1885, exclusive of that consumed at ? the mines, known as colliery consumption, was 95,834,705 long tons, valued at $152,915,108. Of this 32,205,421 long tons were Pehn- V, sylvania anthracite, valued at $72,274,544; - . while of other coals, including bituminous. brown coal, lignite, and small lots of authracite produced outside of Pennsylvania, the production was 03,569,2i>4 long tons, valued ,3 at $80,040,504 at the points of production. The total production^iucluding colliery consumption, was: Pennsylvania anthracite 34,228,548 long tons, all other coals 64,840,068 M long tons, making the total absolute prodttc- ~ tion of the coal mines of the United States 99,009,210 long tons, valued as follows: An* thracite, $76,071,'.>43; bitumiyons, $82,347,648. JL total, $159,010,596. The total production {in- j eluding local consumption) of anthracite was j 1,052,792 tons in excess of that of 1881, and its value was $10,320,430 greater, The total production of bituminous coal was 8,889,771 tons less than in 1881, but its value was $4,Q'{A Htt'l rrrnn toi* Thn f *\fol w-/v,-v? ?.nvv? . *uo Vv/i?M piuuuiuiuu VL WUO* H of all kiuds shows a net loss in tonnage of M 7,837,079 long tons compared with that of flj 1894, but a gain in value of $15,351,018, the I increase in value being due to an average in crease of twenty-five cents per long ton. Petroleum.?The total production wag T 21,842,011 barrels of 42 gallons, of which the I Pennsylvania and New York fields produced ] 20,770,041 barrels. The total value, at an I average prico of 87 7-8 cents per barrel, was I $19,11)3,604. The production showed a de- I crease of 2,247,717 barrels and $1,282,600 In J value from 1884. fl Natural Gas.?No record is kept of th? yield in cubic feet The amount or coal displaced by gas in 1885 was 8,1(51,600 tons, valued at $4,854,203. In 1S84 the coal disElaced was valued at $1,460,000. The yield as increased tenfold since 1883. Iron.?The principal statistics for 1885were: Domestic iron ore consumed 7,600,000 long tons, valued at mine $19,000,000: imported iron ore consumed 299,7(6 long tons, total iron ore consumed, 7,990,786 long tons; pig iron made 4,014,526 long tons, a decrease % of 5?,3-13 tons as compared with 1884, value at furnace $61,712,400, or 10.049,224 less than. . in 1884. Total spot value of all iron and. steel in the first stage of manufacture, excluding all duplications, $93,000,000, ade.lin* -}~ of $14,0J0,(:0D from 1884. J Gold and Silver.?The mint authorities eetimate the value of the gold produ ei in J 1885 at $31,801,00), an iucrease of $1,001,000 over 1884. The production of silver is simi- I larly estimated at $51,600,000, an incjease of I $2,800,000 over 1884. ^*1 Tin.?Probablv 200 tons of "black tin" ore- I were made at the concentrating works at thoEtta Mine in Dakota. No smelting works have yet been erected. Platinum.?The amount of crude platinum mined in 1&C5 wai about 250 Troy ounces, valued at $187.50. This is exclusive of about 300 ounces of irridosmine, for pointing-paps.. . Aluminum.?The production of me.aljc aluminum increased from 1,800 Troy ounce# In 1881 to 3.4 0 ounces in 1885. valued at $2,550. Aluminum bronze, containing tea per cent aluminum, was made to the amount of about 4,500 pounds, valued at SI,800. ; Buil ling Stone,?Value 519,000,000; about the same as in 1884. Brick and Tile.?The demand and conse* | quent production increased to an estimated < value of $3.r>.0.)0,000 in 1885. Lime.?With the price constant at 50 centsper barrel at tho kilns, the production increased from 37,000,000 barrels 18S4 to 40,000,IK 0 in 1SS5. Cement.?The production of cement from. v> natural rock increased to 4,000,000 barrels of 300 pounds each, but was valued at only $3,200,000. Artificial Portland cement amounted to 150,000 barrels of 400 pounds each, with a total valflb of $292,500. Thetotal production of cement of all kinds was A. 1.V1 imfl hnvrfils. valiipdntR3.4ft2.500. asalnat $3,720,000 in 1SS4. ? , Millstones.?The trade in millstones of all kinds has decreased markedly from the introduction of roller mills. The total value of the Esopus millstones in New York andCocalico stone in Pennsylvania did not exceed $1(K>,000 in 18S5, . - " Grindstones.?Estimated valuj of productfor 1885 $500,000. ? > Phcsphates.?With the exception of a local consumption of about 1,000 .tons in Nortb Carolina, the total production of phosphate rock came from S )Uth Carolina, and amount* ed ta $437,856 Jong tous of washed rock for the calendar year 18S5. valued at $2,816,064,. at an average value of $6.50 per ton. Gypsum.?1 he estimated production of" land plaster in 1S85 was 10J,600 short tons,, of cal. ined plaster ?2,2<X) tons, total 172,800, valued at $t?VJ,600. The above includes75,100 tons from native stone, the remainder" being imported Irom Nova Scotia Salt?The total production in barrels of 280 pounds was 7,038,653, exceeding the yieldof 18S4 by 528,716 barrels. The total valne of all salt produced was $4,S'30,62l, an in--> ^ crease of $732,887, which was due partly to the increased value of the Michigan product, and partly to the large increase in the production of Western New York. Mica.?The production decreased in the West, owing to the inferior value of the fVtswt+c? ^Kfoinn/1 Tha trhrtlA rrnHllH:. AT CUCCVO VUU*iU\.U( *4?V ? uvtv ? ? eluding waste, was 92,000 pounds, valued at $1'">I,000. M neral "Waters.?The sales amounted to $1,313,345, from 9,148,401 gallons; the value is slightly le^s than in 188J. The great decrease in the number of gallons is due to the occ lusion of the water from artesian wellsin Madison, Wisconsin, which is used as the regular city i-upp'y. A large local consamp- , t.ion is also THE INDIANS. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The Commii ioner of Indian Affairs, J. D. C. Atkins, has just completed his annual report, showiug the operations of the Indian Bureau during the last fiscal year. He begins by (Olliug attention to tne unmistakable evidences of progress made b,y many of ths Indian tribes. He says that another year's practical trial of this "humanitarian and peace system-1 ouly adds cumulative testimony to the superiority of its methods of Indian civilisation over any ^ other ever yet tried. This progress has been made without any corresponding increa=e in expenditures. In fact, the estimates for carrying on the Indian service have been reduce! from ?7,338,04!) in im to *.VW8,873 for 188?, and but for an increase of *177,500 in estimates for educational work the reduction would have been greater. Referring to tha existing state of things in Indian Territory, tbe Commissioner vigorously attacks tbe tribal system, and says: "At present the rich Indians who cultivate tribal lands fay no rent to the poorer members of their tribe, although they are equal owners of the soil. '1 ha ri h men have too large hotr.esteals, and control many times inoi e than their share of the land. Are these the sacred rights secured by treaty, which tbe United States are pledged to respect and de.'end.' If so, tbe United ot ites are pledged to uphold and maintain a stupendous land monopoly an 1 aristocracy " that finds no parallel in this couutry ex ept in two or three localities iu the far West It would be best for tbe Indians to divide their land in severalty, allowing lt?0 acres to each head of a fa nilvau I eighty acres t) each minor child. Tue large surplus re i;aining should ' be so'd t;> actual settlers at a just price, and the procecd; would enable tbe poorer Indians to improve th.-ir allotments, pu: up school buildings, et . "Let thes? Indians once assume all of the responsibilities of citizens of the United Stile-*. with its laws extended asanrotecting regis over them, aud the day of their fear and apprehensions of mauraidiug whites will be forever ended. IVhen this is done the five civilized t-ibe*. and, jerhaps, other tribes of the Indian Territory, will be ready to form a Territorial Government, and pass. as other Territories, under the protection 01 our Constitution and laws, and be represented in Congress by their own De'egate." The Commissioner urges the necessity for an appropriation to defray exj eases of taking a census of the Indians. He says the outlay would 1)3 inconsiderable when compared with th? great saving it would effect,