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! HARRISON'S INAUGURAL.
The President's YiewsUpon Important
Public Questions.
Discussing the Tariff, Civil Ser- i
vice, the Surplus, Etc,
The following is the inaugural address of
President Harrison:
There is no constitutional or legal requirement
that the President shall take the oath
of office in the presence of the people. But
there is so manifest an appropriateness in
the public induction to office of the chief
executive officer of the nation that from the
beginning of the Government the people, to
whose service the official cath consecrates the
officer, have been called to witness the solemn
ceremonial. The oath taken in
the presence of the people becomes
a mutual covenant. The officer
covenants to sarve the whole body of
the people by a faithful execution of the
laws, so that thoy may be the unfailing defence
and security of" those who respect and
observe them, and that neither wealth and
station nor the power of combinations shall
be able to evade their just penalities or to
wrest them from a beneficent public purpose
to serve the ends of cruelty or selfishness.
My promise is spoken; yours unspoken,
but not the less real and solemn. Tho
people of every State have their representatives.
Surely I do not misinterpret
the spirit of the occasion
when I assume that the whole body of the
people covenant with me and with each other
to-aay to support and defend the Constitution
and the* Union of the States, to yield
willing obedience to all the laws, and each to
every other citizen his equal civil and political
rights. Entering thus solemnly in covenant
with each other, we may reverently
invoice and confidentially expect the favor
and help of Almighty God?that He will
give to me wisdom, strength and fidelity, and
to our people a spirit of fraternity and a love
^ ? of righteousness and peace.
> This occasion derives peculiar interest from
the fact that tho Presidential term which begins
this day is the twenty-sixth under our
Constitution. The first inauguration of
President Washington took place in New
York, where Congress was then sitting, on
-V'; - the u()th day of April, 17M>, having been deferred
by reason of delays atending the organization
of the Congress and the
canvass of the electoral vote. Our
people have already worthily observed
the centennials of the Declaration of
Independence, of the battle of Yorktown,
and of the adoptiou of the Constitution; and
will shortly celebrate in New York the institution
of the second great department of
our Constitutional scheme of Government.
When the centennial oftha institution of ths
Judicial Department, by the organization of
the Supreme Court, shall have Been suitably
nhsprrpcl. nc I trust it will he. our nation
will have fully entered its second century. 1
will not attempt to note the marvelous, and,
in great part, happy contrasts between our
country as it steps over the threshold into Its
8econd century of organized existence under
the Constitution, and that weak but wisely
ordered young nation that looked undauntedly
down the first century, when all its
years stretched out before it. Our people will
not fail at this time to recall the incidents
which accompanied the institution of government
under the Constitution, or to
find inspiration and guidance in the
teachings and example of Washington
and his great associates,
and hope and courage in the contrast which
thirty-eight populous and prosperous States
offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything
except courage and the love of liberty
that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard.
< The Territory of Dakota has now a population
greater than auy of the original
States (except Virginia), and greater I
than the aggregate of five of the smaller !
States in 17iX). The centro of popula- I
tion, when our National Capital was !
located, was east of Baltimore and it was :
argued by many well-informed persons that it !
would move eastward rather than westward. I
Yet in 1&J0 it was found to be near Cin- !
cinnati, and the new census about to be j
taken will show another stride to the West-, i
xnarA TVinfr wns t"hrt hrxlv hflQ prima I
to be only the rich fringe of tbe nation's I
robe. But our growth has been limited to territory,
population, and aggregate wealth,
marvelous as it has been in each of those
directions. The masses of our people are better j
fed, clothed and housed than their fathers j
were. The facilities for popular education i
hare been vastly enlarged and more general- :
ly diffused. The virtues of courage and pa- '
triotism have given recent proof of their con- !
tinued presence and increasing power in the 1
hearts and over lives of our people. The in- j
fluences of religion have been multiplied and j
strengthened. The sweet ofllccs of charity i
have greatly increased. The virtue of tem- I
perence is held in higher estimation, I
We have not attained an ideal condi- !
tion. Not all of our people are happy and '
prosperous; not all of them are virtuous and j
law-abiding. But, on the whole, the oppor
tunities offered to the individual to secure !
the comforts of life are bettor than are found I
elsewhere, and largely better than they were .
here one hundred years ago.
f*V TIIE TARIFF POLICY.
The surrender of a large measure of s.ivo- j
reifmtv to the ceneral Government, effected i
by the adoption of "the Constitution, was not j
accomplished until the suggestions of reason 1
were strongly reinforcetf by tno iftrsd im. '
perativc voice of experience. The divergent j
interests of peace speedily demanded a I
"more perfect union." The merchant,
the ship master, and the manufacturer !
discovered and disclosed to our states- I
men an.l to the. people that coin- i
mercial emancipation must bo added to tha
political freedom which hail boon so bravely
won. The commercial policy of the mother ;
country had not relaxed any of its hard and i
oppressive features. To hold iu check the de- ;
velopment of our commsrcial marine, to pro- j
vent or retard the establishment and growth j
of manufactures in the States, and so to secure
the Americau market for their shops i
and the carry ins trade for their ships, was the
policy of European statesmen, and" was pursued
with the most selfish vigor. Petitions
poured in upon Congress, urging the imposi- )
tion of discriminating duties that should |
encourage the production of needed things at |
home. The patriotism of the people, which
no longer found a field of exercise in war, I
was energetically directed to the duty of I
equipping tin young republic for the defenso i
ot its independence by making its p?oplo
self-dependent. Societies for the promotion
of home manufactures and for encouraging
the use of domestics in the dress of the people
were organized in many of the States.
The revival at the end of th'3 century of,
the same patriotic interest in the preservation j
and development of domestic industries, and,
the defence of our working people against
injurious foreign competition is an incident
worthy of attention. It is not a departure,
Viv.4- n, Mfimn nfA UotrA wi>nn?ari Th,?
protective policy "had then its opponents. ;
The argument was made, as now, that its
benefits inured to particular classes or sec- |
tions. If the question became in any sense,or
stii- at any time sectional, it was only because! i
slavery existed in some of the States. But
lor this there was no reason why the cottonproducing
States should not "have led or
walked abreast with the New England States >
in the production of cotton fabrics. Therq !
was this reason only why the States that divide
with Pennsylvania the mineral treasures
of the great southeastern and central
mountain ranges should have been so tardy
in bringing to tho smelting-furnace and
;the mill, the coal and iron from their near
opposing hillsides. Mill fires were lighted at
1 the funeral pile of slavery. The emancipation
proclamation was heard in the depth*
of the earth as well as in the sky. Men were
I made free, and material thngs became our
I better servants.
The sectional element has happily been
eliminated from the tariff discussion. We
have no longer States that are necessarily only
planting States. None are excluded from
achieving that diversifications of pursuit
among the people which brings wealth an I
contentment. The cotton plantation will
not be leSi valuable when the product is
fc-v spun in tb<? ocnicvy town by operatives
-whose necessities call for diversities crop?,
and create a home demand for garden and
agricultural products. Every new mine,
furnace and factory is an extension of the i
productive capacity of the State, moro I
real and valuable than added territory.
Shall the prejudice* and paralysis of
slavery continue to hang upon the
skirts of progress How long will those who
rejoice that slavery no longer exists c'nerisli
or tolerate the incapacities it puts upon their
communities? I look hopefully to the continuance
of our protective system and to th?
consequent development of manufacturing
nnH mining enterprises in the States hitherto
wholly given to agriculture, as a potent
influence in tho perfect unification.,of.our
people. The men who have investedjAeir
capital in these enterprises, tha farmers irtio
have felt the benefit of their neighborhood,
and the m?n who work in shop
or field will not fail to find and to defend a
community of interest. Is it not quite
possible that the farmers and the promoters
of the great mining and manufacturing
enterprises which have recently been established
in the South may yet find that the free
ballot of the workingman, without distinction
of race, is needed for their defence
as well as for his own? I do not doubt that
if these men in the South who now accept
the tariff views of Clay anl the constitutional
expssitions of Wobstor \rou!d
courageously avow and defend their real
convictions, thoy would not find it difficult,
by friendly instruction and co-operation.
to m*?ke the black man their efficient
and safe ally, not only in establishing correct
principles in our national Administration,
but in preserving, for their local communities,
the banefit of SDCial ordar <xid economical
and honest governmeut. At least until
the good offices of kindness and education
have been fairly triod, the contrary conclusion
cannot be plausibly urged.
I have altogether rejected the suggestion
of a special executive policy for any section
of ou<* country. It is the duty of the Executive
to administer and enforce, in the methods
and by the instrumentalities pointed out
and provided by the Constitution, all the
laws enacted by Congress. Thesa laws are
general and their administration should bo
uniform and equal. As a citizen may not
elect what laws he will obey, neither
may the Executive elect which he
will enforce. The duty to obey
and to execute embraces the Constition
in its entirety and the whole code of
laws enacted under it. The evil example of
permitting individuals, corporations or communities
to nullify the laws because they
cross some selfish or local interests or prejudices,
is full of danger, not only to the
nation at large, but much more to taose who
j; .. ?k.l.
use tnis psrnicious expedient, so escape won
just obligations or to obtain an unjust advantage
over others. They will presently
themselves be compelled to appeal to the law
for protection. and those who woul.l use
the law ns defence must not
deny that use of it to others. If our
great corporations would more scrupulously
observe their legal obligations and duties,
they would have less cause to complain of
the unlawful imitations of their rights or of
violent interference with their operations.
The community that by concert, open or
secret, among its citizens, denies to a portion
of its membsrs their plain rights under the
law has severed the only safe bond of social
order and prosperity. The evil works, from a
bad center, both ways. It demoralizes those
who practice it, and destroys the faith of
those who suffer by it in the efficiency of
the law as a safe protector. The man in
whose breast that faith has been darkened is
naturally the subject of dangerous and uncanny
suggestions. Those who uso unlawful
methods, if moved by no higher motive than
the selfishness that prompts them, may well
stop and inquire what is to be the end of
this. An unlawful expedient cannot becoraa
a permanent condition of government.
If the educated and influential classe?
in a community either practise or
connive at the systematic violation
of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience.
what can they expect wheu the
lesson that convenience or a supposed class
interest is a sufficient causo for lawlessness
has been well learned by the ignorant classes/
A community whore law is the rule of conduct,
and where courts, not mobs, executf
the penalties, is the only attractive field for
business investments and honest labor.
Our naturalization laws chould bo so amended as
to make the inquiry into the character and good disposition
of persons applying for citizenship mor?
careful and searching. Our existing laws have been
In their administration an unimpressive and often
an unintelligible form. Wo accept the man as a
cltizcn without any knowledge of his fitness, and ho
assumes tho duties of citizenship without any
knowledge as to what they are. Tho privileges ol
American citizenship are so great aud Us duties so
grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge
of every person applying for citizenship and a
good knowledge by htm of our institutions. We
should not cease to be hospitable to immigration,
but we should cease to be careless as to the character
of it. There are men of all races, even the
best, whose coming is necessarily n burden upon
our public revenues or a threat to social order.
These should be identified aud excluded.
Wo have happily maintained a policy of avoiding
all interference with European affairs. We have
been only interested spectators of their contentions
In diplomacy and in war. ready to use our friendly
offices to promote peace, but never obtruding our
advico, and never attempting unfairly to coin the distresses
of other Powers into commercial advantage
to ourselves. Wehaveainst right to expect that
our European policy will be the American policy of
Europeau courts. It is so manifestly Incompatible
with those precautious for our peace and safety,
which all the great Powers habitually observe and
enforce In matters ntfecting them, that a shorter
water-way bctwern oar eastern aud western seaboards
should be dominated by any European Government,
that we may confidently expect that such a
purpose will not be entertained by anyfriendlj
Power. We shall, In tho fnture, as in the
past, use every endeavor to maintain and enlarge
our friendly relations with all the great Powers,
but they will not expect us to look kindly upon
any project that would leave us subject to the
dangers of a hostile observation or environment.
We nave not sought to dominate or to absorb any of
onr weaker neighbors, but rather to aid and encourage
them to establish free and stable governments,
resting upon the consent of their own people.
Wo have a clear right to expect, therefore,
that no European Government will seek to establish
colonial dependencies upon the territory of these
independent American States. That which a sense
of justice restrains us from seeking, they may bo
V-AI/WKVa M4U1IIXIJ bU IViU^jV.
It innst not oo assumed, nowever, ttiat oar inter- 1
csts are so exclusively American that oar entire inattention
to any events that may transpire elsewhere
can be ta&n for granted. Our citizens, domi'
ciled for purposes of trade, in all countries aid in
inany of the islands of the sea, demand and will
have our adequate care in their personal and commercial
rights. The necessities of our navy require
convenient coaling stations, and dock and
harbor privileges. These and oth-ir trading privileges
wc will feel free to^ <}btaU\ only bj m?nns that
Ca net lli uny dSgwe pircako of doSrcfon, however
feeble tho Government from which we ask such
concessions. But having fairly obtained them, by
methods and for purposes entirely consistent with
tho most friendly dispositioa toward all other
powers, our consent will bo nccossary to any moditlcatlon
or impairment of the concession.
We shall neither fail to respect tho flag of any
friendly nation or the just rights of its citizens, nor
to exact the like treatment of our own. Calmness,
Justice and consideration should characterize our
diplomacy. The otlices of an intelligent diplomacy,
or of friendly arbitration in proper cases, should bo
adequate to the peaceful adjustment of all international
difiiculties. By such methods we will mftko
our contributions to the world's peucc, which no nation
values more highly, and avoid the opprobrium
which must fall uped the nation that ruthlessly
breaks it.
the crra, service.
The duty devolved by law upon tho President to
nominate and by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, to appoint all public officers whose
appointment is not otherwise provided for in the
Constitution or by act of Congress, has becomo
very burdensome, and its wise and efficient discharge
full of difiiculty. The civil list is so large
that a personal knowledge of any large number of
the applicants is impossible. The President must
rely upon the representations of others, and these
are otten made inconsiderately and without any
just sense of responsibility. I have a right, I thinli,
to insist that those who volunteer or are invited to
give advice as to appointments shall exerciso
consideration and fidelity. A high sense
of duty and an ambition to improve
the service should characterize all public
officers. There are many ways in which tho
convenience and comfort of those who liave business
with our public officers may be promoted by a
thoughtful ana obliging officer, "and I shall expect
those whom 1 may appoint to justify their selection
by a conspicuous efficiency in the discharge of their
duties.
Honorable nartv service will certainlv not be
esteemed by me a disqualification for public oftlce.
But it will m no case be allowed to serve as a shield
of official negligence, incompetency, or delinquency.
It is entirely creditable to Beck public office
by proper methods and with proper motives,
and all applicants will be treated with consideration.
But I shall need, and the heads of deportments
will need, time for inquiry and deliberation.
Persistent importunity will not, therefor/, bo the
best support of on application for ofllco.
Heads of departments, bureaus and all other public
officers having any duty connected therewith,
will be expected to enforce the Civil Service Law
fully and without evasion, Beyond this obvious
duty I hope to do something more to advanca tho
reform of the civil service. The ideal, or even my
own ideal, I shall probably not attain. Retrospect
will be a safer brsis of judgment than promises.
We shall not. however, I am sure, be able to put
our civil service upon a noa-partisan basis until wo
have secured an incumbency that fair-minded men
of the opposition will approve for impartiality and
integrity. As the number of such in the civil list
increases removals from office will diminish.
TUB SURPLUS.
While a treasury surplus is not tho greatest
evil, it is a serious evil. Our revenue should
be ample to meet the ordinary annual demands
upou our treasury, with a sufficient margin for
those extraordinary but scarcely less imperative
demands which arise now and then. Expenditure
should always be made with economy
and only upon public necessity. Wastefulness,
profligacy, or favoritism in public expenditures
is criminal. But there is nothing in the condition
of our country or of our people to suggest
t lint anything presently necessary to the public
prosperity, security, or honor should bo nnduly
postponed. It will bo the duty of Congress wisely
to forecast and estimate thes3 extraordinary demands,
and, having added them to our ordiuary expenditures.
to so adjust our revenue laws that no
considerable annual surplus will remain. Wo will
fortuuately be able to apply to the redemption o?
the pu'ilic debt any small and unforseen excess of
revenue. This la better than to reduce our Income
b^low our necessary expenditures, with tho resulting
choice between another chango of our revenue
laws and an increase of the public debt. It Is quite
possiblo. I am sure, to effect the necessary reduction
in our revenues without breaking down our protective
tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry.
The construction of a sufficient number of modern
warships and of their necessary armament
should progress as rapidly as is consistent, with
care and perfection is plans and workmanship.
-"V L- : . - V. * *' ' i*"--f
The spirit, courage and skill of oar naval officer#
and seamen have raaav times In oar history given
to weak Bhips and Inefficient guns a rating greatly
beyond that of the naval list. That they will again
do so upon occasion I do not doubt; bat they
ought not by premeditation or neglect to bo left to
the risks and exigencies of an nnequal combat.
We should encourage the establishment of Amorcan
steamship Unas. The exchanges of commerce
demand stated, reliablo and rapid means of communication.
aud until these aro provided the devei- .
opment of our trade with the States Jying south of '
us is impossible.
Our pension law should give more adequate and
discriminating relief to the Union soldiers and
sailors, arid to their widows aud orphans. Sach
occasions as this should remind us that we owo
everything to their valor and sacrifice.
THE NEW STATES.
It is a subjcct of congratulation that there is a
near prospect of admission into the Union of tho
Dakota* and Montana aud Washington Territories.
This act of justice has been unreasonably delayed
In the case of some of them. Tho people who
have settled those Territories are intelligent, enterprising
and patriotic, and the accession of theso
new States will add strength to the Nation. It is
duo to tho settlers in the Territories who have
availed themselves of tho invitations of our laud .
laws to make homos upon the public domain that"
their title should bo speedily adjusted ancL ttieir
honest entries confirmed by patent.
ELEOTOPiu REFORM.
It!? very gratifying to observe the general interest
aow being miuitestcd in the reform of our election
laws. Those who have been for years calling attention
to the pressing necessity of throwing about tho
ballot box. and about the etector, fnrther safeguards,
in order that our elections might not only
6c free and pure, but might clearly appear to be so,
will welcome the acccssson of any who did not so
500:1 discover the need of reform. The National
Dongrcss has not as yet taken control of elections
in that case over which the Constitution gives it jurisdiction,
but has accepted and adopted the election
laws of tho several States, provided penalties for
their violation and a method of supervisor). Only
fhft t\f fliA Ktata ln\r?- or An nnfftir or
partisan administration of them, could, suggest a
departure from this policy. It was clearly, however,
in the contemplation of the framers of the Constitation
that such an exigency might arise, and
f?rovision was wisely made for it. No power vested
n Congress or in the Executive to sccnro or perpetuate
it should remain unused upon occasion.
The people of all the Congressional districts have
an equal Interest that the election In cach shall truly
express the views and wishes of p. majority of the
qualliled electors residing with In It. The results of
such elections are not local, and tho insistence of
electors residing in other districts that they shall be
pure and free does not savor at all of Impertinence.
If in auy of the States the public security Is
thought to be threatened by Ignorance among the
electors, the obvious remedy Is education. The sympathy
aud help of our people will not be withheld
trom any community struggling with special embarrassments
or difficulties connected with the suffrage
if the remedies proposed proceed upon lawful lines,
und are promoted by ]ust and honorable methods.
How shall those who practise election frauds recover
that respact for the sanctity of the ballot which is
the first condition aud obligation of good citizenship?
The man who has come to regard the ballot-box as a
juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance. Let us
exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions.
Let those who would die for the flag on the field of
bottle give a better proof of their patriotism and a
higher glory to their country by promoting frater-,
nitv and justice. A party success that is achieved
by unfair methods or by practices that partake of
revolution is hurtful and evanescent, even from a
party standpoint. We should hold our different
opinious in mutual respect, and having submitted
them to the arbitrament of the billot, should accept
an adverse judgment with the same respect that wo
would have demanded of our opponents, If the decision
had been in our favor.
No other people have a government more worthy
of their respect and love, or a land so magnificent
in extent, so pleasant to look upon and so full of
generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. God
has placed upon our head a diadem, and has laid at
our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation.
But we must not forget that we take
these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy
shall hold the reins of power, and that the upward
avenues of hope shall be free to all the people.
I do not mistrust the future. Dangers have been
in frequeut ambush along our path, but wo have
uncovered and vanquished them all. Passion has
swept some ot our communities, but only to give
us a new demonstration that the great body of our
people are stable, patriotic, law-abiding. No politico"!
party can long pursue advantage at the expense
of public honor, or by rude and indecent methods
without protest and fatal disaffection In Its own
body. The peaceful agencies of commerce are
more fully revealing the necessary unity of all our
communities and the increasing intercourse of our
people is promoting mutual respect. We shall find
unalloyed pleasure in the revelation which our next
ccnsus will mako of the swift development of tho
great resources of some of the States. Each State
will bring its generous contribution to tho great
aggregate of the nation's increase. And, when the
harvest from the fields, the cattle from tho hills, and
tho ores of the earth shall havo been weighed,
counted, and valued, we will turn from them all to
crown with highest honor the Stato that has the
most promoted education, virtue, justice, and patriotism
among the people.
flT/RVTIT.AfinVR T.AST VETfi.
The Direct Tax Bill Returned to
Congress Unsigned.
President Cleveland returned to the Senate
without approval the measure known as the
Direct Tax bill which contemplated the return
of the moneys?$17,359,685?collected
from the several States and Territories under
the act of August, 18G1. In his message of
transmittal, the President says:
"It is my bc-lief that the appropriation of
the public funds is not within the constitutional
power of Congress.
"A sheer, bald gratuity, bestowed either
upon States or individuals, based upon no
better reason than supports the gift proposod
in this bill, has never been claimed to be a
provision for the general welfare.
A large surplus in the Treasury
is the parent of many ills, and
among them is found a tendency to
an extremely liberal if not loose construction
of the Constitution. It also attracts the gaze
of States and individuals with a kind of fascination.
and gives rise to plans and pretensions
that nn uncontested Treasury never
could excite.
''The people should not be familiarized with
the spectacle of their Government repenting
the collection of taxes and restoring
them. Considerations which recognize
sectional divisions, or the loyalty of the different
States at the time this tax was laid,
should not enter into the discussion of the
merits of this measure.
"The difficulties in the way of making a just
reimbursement of the tax instead of excusing
the imperfections of the bill under consideration
furnish reasons why the scheme it proposes
should not be entered upon.
"I ?m constrained on the considerations
hereby presented to withhold my signature
from the bill herewith returned,because I believe
it to be without conatitutional warrant,
because I am of the opinion that there exists
no adequate reasons either in right or equity
for the return of the tax in slid bill mentioned
and because I believo its execution
would cause actual injustice and unfairness.
"[Signed] Grover Cleveland.
"Executive Mansion, March 2."
The President's voto of the Direct Tax bill
waa laid before the Senate in the evening,
and after a short discussion was passed over
the veto?yeas, 45; nays, 9.
THE NATION'S NEEDS,
A Total of $300,000,000 Appropriated
By the Last House.
Mr. Randall, Chairman of the House Committee
on Appropriations, prepared and submitted
to the last House a statement showing
the amount of appropriations carried by th3
General Appropriation bills passed at the
session whicn just closed.
This statement shows that the total estimates
submitted amounted to $297,235,090,
the sums appropriated to $281,878,695; and
the sum carried in the laws for the current
year to $30<5,9$o,514. The bills appropriate
as follows:
Agriculture SI, 669,770
Army 24,300,115
Diplomatic and consular 1,9SO,025
District of Columbia 5,6^7,40G
Fortification 1,205,594
Indian 8,035,724
Legislative, etc 20,S40,535
Military Acadomy. 902,766
Navy 21,692.510
PuncJrtn CI *>Cu'OftA
A, Oi,l IA,',-W
Postofiice 60,605,344
Sundry civil 25,277,341
Miscellaneous acts (estimated) 5,500,000
Deficiency 16,423,300
A TOWN'S TITLE,
Wallace, Idaho, Chnn?e9 Owners
In a Few Minutes.
Great excitement prevails at Wallace, Ii'aho,
over the decision of the Secretary of the
Interior in the case of Allen versus Morrill,
involving the validity of land located with
Sioux half-breed scrip. Wallace was located
with this scrip, and a few minutes after the
news was received at Wallace of the decision.
the entire town was jumped. The Carter
House, the leading hotel, was the first
property seized.
A meeting was held, and a committee appointed
to investigate the matter visit?d the
United States land office in Cceur d'Alene
County and found the town had been located
with scrip that had been canceled. It was
agreed that the parties should retain lots
with buildings on them, but no one should
have more than four lots. Many persons
thought to be very rich are beggars, while
poor people have become suddenly wealthy.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZES.
Eastern and Middle States.
Robert Sigel, the son of General Fian:
Sigel, Pension Agent in New York, has beer
arrested for frauds and forgeries in connection
with pension payments. He was placed
under $20,000 baiL
Henry a. Gould, dealer in dye stuffs,
rubber, gutta percha, etc., at Bo3ton, Mass.,
has made a voluntary assignment, with liabilities
approaching $1,000,000.
Edward Coburn, aged twenty-eight
years, killed his wife, aged eighteen, at Boston,
Mass., and then committed suicide.
A sox and daughter of P. T. Adams, o?
Livonia, N. Y., while crossing Conesus Lake
in a sleigh, drove into a Hole where th9 ice
had been removed. The young man jumped
and was saved, but the young woman and
he horse were drowned.
The steamer Kill Von Kull, of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, was burned at
-Elizabethport, N. J., causing a loas of over
$175,000.
The Reading (Penn.) Iron Works have
failed, with liabilities estimated at $1,000,000.
A joint committee of the Rhode Island
Legislature favorably reported a bill to annul
the Prohibitory Amendment to the State
Constitution.
Diphtheria of a malignant type is prevailing
at St. Petersburg, Penn. All the
churches, schools and singing classes are
closed and public meetings forbidden.
Sonth and West.
The business portion of the village of
Lostant, HI., was burned.
A wholesale hardware store, a candy
factory and Henrico's Hotel were burned in
Chicago causing a loss of over $300,00 J.
The family of Mr. Hynes, nine in all, were
drowned in a swamp in Decatur County,
Tenn., near the Tennessee River, a colored
man who was with them escaping to tell the
story. The family were moving in a wagon
and after dark became lost.
There is much excitement in White River
Township, Johnson County, lnd., over the
wholesale outbreak of hydrophobia.
Forty-five members ot the Dakota Legislature
telegraphed President Harrison asking
him to remove Governor Church at once. ?t
S. J. Hott, a cobbler who is also janitor
of the Waterloo (Iowa) First National Batik,
has bean elected Mayor of that place?mainly
by the Knights of Labor and railroad men.
The three claimants to the Governorship
of West Virginia?Nathan Goff, Republican;
President Carr, of the Senate, and the past
incumbent, Governor Wilson?have all formally
taken the oath of office, and each is
prepared to transact the Gubernatorial business.
Washington.
The Treasurer of tho United Statas mailed
8963 checks, aggregating $1,595,312.58 for interest
due March 1,1839, on United States
registered 4% per cant bonds of the funded
loan of 1S91.
Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia,
caused such a^ disturbance in the Senate
mat ine presiumg umucr ruiucu hj iw.u4nize
him. Mr. Riddleberger then resigned
his seat in the Senate, but resumed the annoyance
of his fellow Senators until he was
taken out in the custody of the Sergeant-atArms.
Mr. Cleveland just b:fore retiring from
office transmitted to Congress the fifth report
of the Civil Service Commission accompanied
by a message.
The President gave a dinner to the mem
bers of his Cabinet at the White House, just
before his retirement from office. They were
all present except Attorney-General Garland.
Chief Justice Fuller, Associate Justice
Lamar and Colonel Laiuout were the other
guests. The Cabinet officers remained with
the President for several tours after the
dinner, assisting him in the consideration
and despatch of Congressional measures and
in closing up the affairs of the Administration.
Over a hundred bilb were acted
upon.
General Clark, the Clerk of the House
of Representatives, has received from the
Government of West Virginia the certificates
of the election of Congressmen for the Third
and Fourth Districts of that State. They
are issued in the names of the Democratic
candidates. This makes a Republican majority
of thi se in the next House.
The President before his retirement signed
the Pension Appropriation bill, and the bill
to provide for the eleventh and subsequent
censuses.
President Harrison sent the following
Cabinet nominations to th8 senate in special
saasions, and they were immediately confirmed:
Secretary of State?James G.
Blaine, of Maine; Secretary of the Treasury
?William Windom, of Minnesota; Secretary
of War?Redfield Proctor, of Vermont;
Secretary of the Navy?Benjamin P. Tracy,
of New York; Secretary of the InteriorJohn
W. Noble, of Missouri; PostmasterGeneral?John
Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania;
Attorney-General?W. H. H. Miller,
of Indiana: Secretary of AgricultureJeremiah
Rusk, of Wisconsin.
Secretary of tiie Treasury Windom
has resigned the presidency of the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway Company (Eads's
Tphuantepac ship railway).
Foreign.
Mb. Gladstone and .Mr. Parnell spoke in
the English Parliament on Mr. Moriey's
amendment to the reply to the Queen's
speech, expressing dissatisfaction with the
British Government's policy in Ireland; the
amendment was defeated by a vote of 339 to
while the local train was awaiting orders
in the station yard at Paris, Canada, a
special from Brantford dashed into the
passenger car with full force, smashing it
into splinters and killing two passengers.
The London Times has made an apology
for publishing the forged Parnell letters.
The King of Italy has ordered Signor
Crispi to form a new cabinet.
Hon. Perry Belmont, United States
Minister to Spain, has resigned.
TnE recall of Herr Knappe, the German
Consul at Samoa, has been promptly followed
by the dispatch of Herr Stuebel, formerly
Consul-General at Copenhagen, to replace
him._ Herr Stuebel, after an inter
view witb BismarcK. leit unaer instructions
to reach Samoa by the quickest route.
A report from Kiel, Germany, says that
a naval conflict has taken place in Samoan
waters between the German war vessel Olga
and a United States man-of-war. The
American vessel is reported to have fired the
first shot.
The Peruvian Cabinet has resigned.
The seventy-ninth birthday of Pope Leo
XIII. was celebrat?d in Rome. He received
the cardinals and prelates who had assembled
to do him the honors usual to the occasion.
The body of the man who committed suicide
at Madrid has be?n officially identified as
that of Pigott, the fcrger.
The British bark Port Gordon was
wrecked forty miles south of Cape Flattery,
British Columbia, and four of taa crew wero
drowned.
At Shanghai, China, 50,000 rioters burned
down the British Consulate, and attacked
the American Consulate, doing great damage
PIGOTT COMMITS SUICIDE.
The Forger of the Parnell Letters
Kills Himself.
An Englishman supposed to be Richard
Pigott was arrested at the Hotel des AmbasBadeurs,
Madrid, Spain, under the name of
Ronald Ponsonby. The man afterward committed
suicide with a revolver.
The description of the suicide corresponds
with that of Pigott, the fugitive forger of
the London Times' Parnell letters. The man
spoke English only. A small amount of silver
was found in his pockets. The police
have taken possession of the papers and other
articles found upon him.
Tho suicide is undoubtedly Pigott. He
doubtless assumed the name of "Ronald Ponsonby,"
because tho initials corresponded
with thos9 on his baggage.
A despatch from Madrid to the London
Times says:
"The arrest of the suicido was made in
consequence of a telegram from the British
Foreign Office. 'Ponsonbv' arrived from
Paris on Thursday morning. His only baggage
was a small handbag. Soon after his
arrival he sent a telegraphic despatch to
London."
The London Standard says it iu able tc
confirm the statement that the suicide was
Pigott. When arrested he took the situation
calmly and threw the officere off the scent.
With the excuse that he,, wished to get his
overcoat, he retired to an alcove and there
shot himself in the mouth with a revolver.
Ha died instantly. His bead was horribly
disfigured, )
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I LATEB NEWS.
Ex-Secretary op the Treasury Fair^
child has bean offered and has accepted the
office of President of the newly organized
New York Security and Trust Company.
Isaiah V. Williamson*, the millionaire
philanthropist of Philadelphia, is dead.
Robert Garrett, the insane millionaire
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has left his retreat at Ringwood, N. J., for an
extended trip through Mexico.
Ex-President Cleveland, accompanied
by Mrs. Cleveland and Colonel Lamont and
family, left Washington by special train for
New York, where they are quartered at Victoria
Hotel.
About 200,000 people witnessed the parade
at the annual New Orleans Madi Gras CarniraL
Tbe mutilated corpses of four women have
recently been found in the rivar near Eagle
Pass, Texas. The whole affair is a deep
mystery.
MRS. Ann Driscoll deeanitatfld herslMn.
ing husband, Timothy Driscoll, a wealthy
farmer, with an axe, during a temporary fit
Df insanity, near Delafield, Wis.
Nathan A. Wilson. Secretary of the
Cleveland Stove Company, of Cleveland,
Ohio, killed nimself in the company's office,
[n the afternoon the company assigned.
Liabilities, $90,000.
On Spruce Creek, near Mount Sterling,
Ky., Frank Wright, Jim Holdin and Sue
Boldin have been arrested for murdering
Conk Wright's family of nine children,
aged from three to nineteen years.
James N. Huston, Chairman of the Indiana
Republican State Central Committee,
has been tendered the position of Treasurer
if the United State?.President
Harrison's Cabinet was sworn
31 to office.
Robert S. Chilton, a clerk in the Stat3
Department, has been appointed private secretary
to Vice-President Morton.
The Inaugural Committee made enough
from the sale of privileges, ball tickets, etc.,
to defray all expenses and have a surplus of
ibout $20,000.
The Ministry of New South Wales has
been defeated on the question of protection
md has resigned. Sir Henry Parkes will
form a free trade Cabinet.
The Germa?3 have recaptured Bagomoyo,
Zanzibar, defeating the Arabs with great
loss; Busbiri, the Arab leader,was woundedFather
Coen, of "Woodford, Ireland, the
famous agitator of the land* question, is
jead.
WHITE HOUSE CHANGES.
Executive Mansion Quarters Assigned
to the President's Family.
A number of changes have been made in
the White House. Private Secretary Halford
has moved out a desk recently occupied by
Mr. Hendley, and has replaced it by a table
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UL'UUUICU Uy XJ* 1' x tuucig, otciu'gt upuot au
the adjoining rooms, at the desk formerly
occupied by Mr. Saunders, the only Democratic
cleric brought in by Mr. Cleveland,
Miss Sanger, another clerk, has been seated.
A Chicago man has been appointed steward
in place of W. T. Sinclair, who resigned tc
go to New York with Mr. Cleveland. Sergeant
E. Dinsmore, who was employed for
two years and a half under the last President,
has been restored to his place of chief
usher and is on duty.
What is known ns the President's room,
the second from the west on the north side,
has been given to the McKee children and
their nurses. This is also known as Nellie
Grant's room. The President has taken the
"Prince of Wales's Room," as it; is called,
which is situated next to the library or Executive
office. This is the room bevond the
round portico to the west Mrs. ^Harrison
has the next room to the west, with a small
boudoir on the southwest corner. The room
directly opposite the latter, which Mrs. Cleveland
used as a boudoir, is given to Mr. and
Mrs. McKee. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison
have the room directly opposite the President's
office, on the north side, with a small
room adjoining on the east, which is given
to the baby ana nurse. Mrs. Harrison's room
is the one in which President Garfield lay
during his illness.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
There are G50 creameries in Iowa
Tennessee has nearly 1400 convicts.
Italy has five battle ships of 1300 tons.
Work has stopped on the Panama canal. |
Coili has prohibited Chinese immigration.
The Paris Exhibition will be opened May 5.
Honolulu, Hawaii, is now lighted by
electricity.
Floods prevail in tho vicinity of Adrianople,
Turkey.
Texas has forty-nine county seats destitute
of gospel preaching.
The Indian population of the Canadian
Dominion is I2),5{jj.
During 1SSS eighty people perished by
poison in New York city.
Snowstorms of a severe nature have been
prevalent in North China.
The London Times is said to have lost
5500,000 by its Parne'.l fight
Pevnsylvanians are talking about building
a new ?5,000,030 Capitol.
Sweden now furnishes the largest number
of immigrants to this country.
Texas has passed a law prohibiting the
carrying of concealed weapons.
Growing and shipping oysters is becoming
a lively business at Pensacola, Fla.
Russia has concluded a loan of $140,000,Ann
f.ho Rnf.h?nhilrls and others.
Out of less than 112,00J Fijians over 100,000
are attendants on Christian worship.
About one-half of the paper money circulated
in South America is counterfeit.
A new Buddhist temple, to co3t upward of
$3,000,000, is to be erected in Kioto, Japan.
The missionary contributions of all British
societies for the last year amount to $6,143,71)5.
The New York Fire Department had fortysix
men killed and 300 Injured at fires last
year.
TnERE are 1125 buildings in Philadelphia
which are now lightod by incandescent
lights.
The total number of American citizens residing
in China is 1022, of whom 506 are missionaries.
Thk first shipment of tobacco grown in
Zanzibar, Africa, consisting of seventy boxes,
has been sent to Hamburg.
Pennsylvania was first to fly the new
flag with forty-two stars, and it waves over
the Capitol at Harrisburg.
No less than fifteen boys have been drowned
this season at Pawtucket. K. I., while skating
on thin ice around air holes.
The laws of the United States forbid the
importation of liquor into Alaska, yet Juneau
has twenty-five saloons in full blast
Thomas Edison hns taken 8000 square feet
of space at the Paris Exposition for the display
of his most important inventions.
The United States Grand Jury at Indianapolis
has been dismissed after bringing in
1'i'J indictments lor violations 01 me oiwuuu
laws.
TiiE eight-year-old son of W. L. Freeman,
of Grand Rapids, Mich., tried to see how long
ho could hold his breath, burst a blood vessel
and died.
Baron Hirsch hns donated ?24,000 yearly
to Austria and a similar amount to Hungary
for the relief of tradesmen in danger of
financial ruin.
The cotton returns of tho Department of
Agriculture make tho average close of picking
six days later than last year, on accouut
of later maturity and frequent raius.
Worried by the loss of SlnOO at the Capital
of Wyoming, Mrs. Kate Maxwell, better
known as "Cattle Kate," rode her horsa into
a gambling dive where some of her cowboys
were being cheated in a crooked game. Sbo
' 'held up" the gamblers, took her $1500 out
of their pile and divided the rest among her
boys.
Joseph Bent, a life convict in the Massachusetts
State Priion who had already served
twenty-five years for the killing of a sailor
on an American whaling vessel in 1864. was
pardoned by Cleveland. Bent is a Portuguese,
seventy-nine years old. . ..
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS,
The Senate.
62d Day.?Secretary Fairchild transmitted
the result of the investigation into
alleged sugar'frauds Mr. Sherman reported
back the Senate bill for the protection
of thd sa'mon fisheries in Alaska, with
a recommendation that the House amendment
(extending the provisions of the
bill to Behring Sea) be disagreed to.
The amendment was disagreed to, and a conference
asked.... The Senate then proceeded
to pass private pension bills on the calendar.
All the pension bills on the calendar (fiftytwo)
were passed. Among them was one
giving a pension of $50 a month (instead of
$100, as in the bill introduced by Mr. Hawley)
to the widow of the late General Hunt.
63d Day.?There was not time to read the
journal, and the Senate plunged into the
necessary routine business without waste of
time....The House amendment to the bill
authorizing the sale of part of the military
reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., was
concurred in.... A conference was ordered on
the Deficiency Appropriation bill,and Messrs.
Hale, Allison and Cockrell were appointed
conferrees Tha conference report on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was agreed to
The conference report on the Post Office Appropriation
bill was agreed to?The Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the Indian
Appropriation bill. All the amendments reported
by the committee were agreed to, the
bill passed and a conference requested....
At o.20 the Senate took a recess until 8.30
President Ingalls laid before the Senate
the President's veto of the Direct Tax
bill, which was read. The bill
was passed over the veto with
only eight dissenting votes. Two of these
were cast by Messrs. Edmunds and Blair....
The entire nicht was SDent on the Deflciencv
Appropriation bill, llie amendments providing
for the payment of the amonuts
| awarded by the Court of Claims under the
French Spoliations act, and the item giving
both House and Senate employes an extra
months' pay were agreed It was 8:15
o'clock in the morning when the Senate concluded
its night session, and adjourned
....The session of the Senate continued as
one day from Friday until the inauguration
.... At 1 o'clock in the morning the Senate
went into executive session to consider Mr.
Riddleberger's case. When the doors had
been closed Mr. Daniel made a pathetic appeal
on behalf of Mr. Riddleberger's
wife and seven children. He asked
unanimous consent to have the whole
matter expunged from the records.
The request was accordingly granted, and
the record of Mr. Riddleberger's disorder and
arrest was expunged....Then Mr. Ingalls
presentsd the credentials of Mr.
James McMillan as Senator-elect
from the State of Michigan.... The
Senate adopted the conference report on
the Deficiency and Sundry Civil bill after
some sharp debate.... A recess was ordered
until 9.35 a. M. When the body reassembled
President pro tempore Ingalls vacated the
chair, and Mr. Harris, the Democratic leader,
took the gaveL Mr. Morgan, another Democratic
leader, presented the customary resolution
thanking Mr. Ingalls for uniform impartiality,
courtesy ana fairness. President
Ingalls then announced that the Senate stood
adjourned sine (lie.
The Honse.
67th Day.?In the House on motion of
Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, the joint resolution
was passed to promote commercial union
with Canada... .The Des Moines River Lands
hill was taken up for consideration. The
House refused to pass the bill over the President's
veto?yeas, 147; nays, 103?not the requisite
two-thirds in the affirmative....
Another appropriation bill?the Postoffice
bill?was agreed upon in conference.
6Sth Day.?The day was spent in the consideration
of conference reports The most
discussion was on the Sundry Appropriation
bill. The House insisted upon its printing
clause. It practically stops the printing of
bank and treasury notes on steam presses.
New conferroes were appointed. The House
conferrees refused to pay the widow of Chief
Justice Waite the balance of his salary for
one year. That balance is $8745. The Senate
amendment raising the appropriation for
a public library building from $4,000,000
to $6,000,000 was agreed to....
Late iu the afternoon the President sent in
a message vetoing the Direct Tax bill.... At
5:15 a recess was taken until 8 p. sr....The
conference report on the Postoffice Appropriation
bill was agreed to.... The conference
report on the Naval Appropriation bill was
OgiCUU i V.M.nurtgiwiutuy ??uu ivwv.uvu v<?
the District of Columbia Appropriation bill
....It appropriates $5,6S6,407....The conference
report on the bill to amend the Interstate
Commerce law was agreed to....Th?
conference report on the bill for the protection
of the salmon fisheries of Alaska was
agreed to The House was in session continuously
from Friday until the inauguration
....Shortly before 1 o'clock the General Deficiency
bill was finally disposed of....The
House passed a resolution complaining of
discourtesy on the part of the Senate in not
allowing the members and their families full
access to the Senate Chamber....A conference
report on the bill licensing pawnbrokers
in the district was adopted... .Mr. Bingham
then asked for unanimous consent, which
was granted, to consider a bill granting
the use of a condemned cannon
and some condemned small
arms for a naval post in Philadelphia
.... A recess was then tafcen until next morning....The
House met promptly at 9:55. The
Speaker as promptly laid before it a message
from the Senate agreeing to the conference
report on a bill to forfeit lands in Michigan
granted for the construction of a railroad
trom Marquette to Ontonagen. It was
adopted.... Speaker Carlisle, in response to a
vote of thanks, delivered a brief address,
after which he pronounced the House adimimorl
flip.
UNCONFIRMED NOMINATIONS
Appointments by Cleveland Whicli
the Senate Rejected.
In the second session of tho Fiftieth Congress
President Cleveland sent to the Senat?
nearly four hundred and fifty nomina
tions, about one-half of which were confirmed.
Of the latter a great majority were
promotions in the army and navy, and
Presidential postmasters, tho t#rma of whose
predecessors bad expirod or whose offices had
become Presidential.
The nominations of Assistant Secretary
Thompson to be Civil Service Commissioner,
of First Assistant Postmaster Goneral Storenson
to be a Justice of the Suprome Court for
the District of Columbia, of William B.
Webb to te a Commissioner of the District
of Columbia, and John E. Hartridge to be
Judge of the United States Court for the
District of Florida, a'l foiled.
The only prominent political nominatior
that was confirmed wa3 that of Walter L.
Bragg, of Alabama, to succeed himself a?
Interstato Commerce Commissioner. Carroll
D. Wright was also confirmed as Commissioner
of Labor.
The nominations above named were the
principal ones that failed by reason
of the expiration of Congress. Among
tho others that failed were several
probate judgos in Utah; Andrew G. Chapman,
Revenue Colloctor at Baltimore; John
J. lini-igor, 01 xaicnigan, 10 d? commissioner
of Indian AfTairs; Samuel H. Albro,
of New York, Superintendent of Indian
Schools; Salomon Claypool, to be United
States District-Attorney for Indiana; Archibald
H. Grincke, of Massachusetts, to be
Consul at San Domingo, and Jesse I). Abrahams,
of Virginia, to be Comptroller of the
Currency.
Quite a number of army promotion* also
failed to receive action.
UNSIGNED BILLS,
Measures Passed by Congress Which
Failed to Become I;aws.
The following is a list of the bills which
did not receive the President's signature before
the adjournment of Congress, and con
sequently failed to become law.;:
The act for a bridgo across tha Arkansas
River near Cummings Landing, Ark.; tho
act to require the United States Circuit and
TKefcfSot .inHtros to instruct tho iurv in writ
ing in certain cases; tho act to m.iko Fori;
Angeles, Washington Territory, a port oC
delivery; the act to provido for trial by jury
in the Police Court of the District ol
Columbia; tho act granting tho St. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad Company tho
right of way through tho Indian lerritory:
the act granting right of way through the
Tndiau Territory to tho Leavenworth and
: Rio Grande Railroad Company; the acts
granting psnsious and other reliof to Wesley
Montgomery, Daniel M. Maulding, Noah TV.
Yoder, A. J. McCreary, Minnio A. Bailey,
John Gallagher, Mary Murphy, Cyrm Tuttio,
Ruth Ames, Levi D.Smith, Androw J.Faust,
Elizabeth E. GrolT, Rozalia Junk, William
A. Taylor, John Mann, Catherine Hayos,
John B. Whitfield, John R. Trentlou, D. M.
Sprague. W. Tilton, Mary Horning, Sarah
A. Harrison, Larinia Wright, Ann E. Mussman.
Elizabeth Jones and Louisa V. A. Kilpatrick,
widow of Major-Ganeral Kilp*trick.
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A CRAZY INDIAN'S AMUCK
Seminole Jim Butchers Eight Per*
sous and is Killed Himself.
News baa reached Jacksonville, Fla., from '
Okeechobee of a bloody affray among the\
Seminole Indiana in the Everglades. '
"Jim," a young buck, wont crazy, .3
and witli a Winchester rifle started out
on the warpath through the camp aud settlement.
He fir3t seut a bullet through tbs
brain of "Waukee Micco," Chief of the
Miamis, killing him instantly. He next
killed 4*Old Tiger." "Young Tiger," a son of
"Old Tiger," and in physique probably
the finest Seminole living, stepped
out of his wigwam just in time to
see his father drop to the ground. With )
blood-curding war-whoop he sprang on the
maniac, and a hand to hand light for the
possession of the ride followed. Tiger was
tbe Superior in strength, but was at thft
wrong end of the gun, and before he could
wrest it from his antagonist he was shot
dead. The maniac then killed two papooses
of his sister, and attacked bucks, squaws,
and children indiscriminately, and killed'
three of them. He was finally cornered and f;
Bhot dead by "Billy," another Seminolobrave.
In less than half an hour nine In- '
dians were killed.
A NEW GOLD FEYER.
The "Finds" in Lower California H
Creating a Stampede. i
Despatches from San Diego, CaL, say that. H
the gold news from the mines at Ensenada is H
becoming more satisfactory daily, and an- H
thentic accounts of rich finds are creat- H
ing extraordinary excitement. By steamer fl
from Lower California there arrived in Ban H
Francisco $5000 worth of gold dost and nog-,
gets. The landing was watched by an enor-^ H
mous crowd of people, and old miners am H
flocking into the city with every train, eager H
to have the latest intelligence. IB
Every steamer bound out from San Trim* H
cisco is loaded to the guards with old miners
and new prospectors. Scores have already H
started overland, and new outfits are form-i mm
ing every day. The latest news from En-j H
senada is to the effect that the place is deV H
serted by the people, who have gone to the1 H
mines. <
It is impossible to obtain a conveyance ot, H
any sort in the town, and there is scarcely eL
pound of bacon to be found. Toolsof alll
kinds are worth their weight in gold. H
Old miners who have been in California' H
since tbe bustling days of '49 say that the H
f nd is probably the richest ever discovered
on the Pacific coast, and the city is in a com* H
zHMnn nt A-rrif-Bmftnt not seen in vears. j flfl
The region where the gold has beon discovered
is about eighteen miles Ions by*
twenty broad. There is plenty of running
water there yet and it will last for month*.
DAKOTA SHOET OF
The Deficiency Nearly Three and mHalf
million Bushels.
Territorial Statistician Sheridan, of Dakota^,
makes tb a startling statement that there Is a
shortage of nearly three and a half million'
bushels of wheat for bread and seed in ^ I
kota. His recapitulation of this serious state
of affairs is as follows:
Proportion of the wheat crop of 1888 on:
hand for consumption or sale, March 1,1889,
twenty per cent; the distribution of wheat- ~
in the Territory consumed in the Territory,
thirty per cent; shipped out of the Territory,,
seventy per cent.; on hand for consumption
or sale, grown in 1887 or previousto
last year, six per cent; estimated,
average weight per bushel for all
grades, fifty-three per cent; number of
bushels of wheat on hand from 1688 crop,1
7,939,158; number of bushels necessary for
bread and seed, 11,884,504; number of bushels
shipped out of the Territory, 26,568,844;
I tyi?-ai nnmUf of hnshplfi of whaat raised in.
the Territory, 1888, 37,948,348; shortage of
wheat for seed and bread, 8,415,351.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Count von Moltee is very deaf.
The Czar of Russia Is growing fat.
William Wisdom was bora in Ohia
Qceen Victoria's will was made in 1SWL
TBEKingof the Netherlands is fighting
death inch by inch.
The Emperor of China has just had 260'
pairs of boots made for him.
* John Wanamaker's life is insured for a
round million of dollars.
Henry Vjllard, the railway magnate, Isabout
fifty-five years old.
John Bright never was at. any school a. *
day after he was fifteen years old. '
Captain Walkir, Chief of Bureau of'
Navigation, is promoted to Commodore,
Seventy years ago James Russell Lowell
celebrated Washington's Birthday by being:
bora
Mil Lr Grand B. Cannon, of Vermont, issaid
to be a director in 450 different corporations.
Tns Gorman Emperor has started an elaborate
daily "Court Circular," which he editshimself.
Ernest Henbv Charles DscnEN.the German
geologist, is dead. He was eighty-eight
years old.
The grandmother of the Queeu of Madagascar
is dead. She was nearly a hundred
years old.
The full namo of tho biggest man in. '
France at present is George Krncit John
Maria Houlangor.
Richard Henrv Stoddard, the New
York poet, critic, and editor, has been almost
totally blind for the past three months.
Mr. A. D. Sarles, a Vermont school
teacher, obtained his first certificate from
John G. Saxe iu 1X41. Ho is still in activeservice.
In the death of tho Rev. Dr. Breed, of
Philadelphia, tho Presbyterian Church loses
one of its most scholarly aud influential
ministers.
Mus. Wiixiam P. Fkve, the wife of the
Maine Senator, is said to be writing a society
novel that will deal with official life in
Washington.
Admiral Luce, United States Navy, recently
retired, will in future make his borne
with bis daughter, utlier handsome Newport
(R. I.) cottage.
the markets.
10 NEW TORS.
Beeves 3 70 @ 5 15
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00
Calves,common to prime.... ti 50 Q 9 00
SheeD 4 0J @ 5 75
Lambs 5 ?')?(& 25
Hogs?Live 5 00 $ 5 80
Dressed 8
Flour?Citv Mill Extra....... 5(0 @ 5 25
Faiepts^r<Tr?T7... 5 75 @?(I0
Wheat?No. Z"Red 9>K<? 97%
Rye?Stat* 53 (? 57
Barley?No. 1 84 % ?5
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 40>?@ 44&
Oats?No. 1 White ? <g 39
Mixed Western 2i) @ 33
> Hay?No. ] SO @ 05
Straw?Long Rye ? (g SO
Lard?City si team ? & 6.&C
Butter? Kscin Creamery.... 29 @ :>0
Dairy, fair to good.. 10 @ 27
West. Im. Creamery 17 @ 23
Factorv 11 @ 20
Cbeese?State Factory !>}<,'@ J2
Skims?Light...... OX? 10
Western UU (ZJ 11%
Eggs?State and Penn ? @ 14)4
BUFFALO.
Steers?Western ."25 @4 0)
Sheep?Med,um to GooJ ... l> ;"0 <? 5 25
Lambs?Fair to l*ooi o w i$ ,i w
Hogs?Good to. hoice Yorks 4 I0 @ 4 75
Hour?Family % 5 03 @52b
Wheat?No. - Xorthern ? @ 1 l'.?%
Com?No. 3. Yellow ?6! ;@ :IG%
Oats?Nc. 2. White ? 0 32}^
Barley?State OS Q 70
ROSTOV.
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 7 i 0 @ 7 t'O
Cora?Steamer Yellow. 4 >>4 @ 45V$
Oats?No. '-i White @
i!ye?State 63 ? 64
WATBRTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKST.
Eeef- Dressed weight (5
Sheep?Lave weight 5
Lambs 6;-i@
Hogs?Northern ? (?B 5JJ
PHILADELPHIA
Flour?Penn. family 4 70 @ 4 S5
Wheat?No. 2, Red, Alar... 9 97
Corn?No. 2. Mixed, Mar... 89% ?$ 40
Oats?Ungraded White ? @ 8IU
Potaties?Early Rose. 85 (5) 45 1
Batter?Creamery Extra... ? a 28
1 Cheese?Part skims 6 <3 8
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