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' m. £ «£ ' «**• "Y v * ** «. y ,-A * '< . .-> ,A«~ , THE DEMOCRATIC CHESTNUT. Representative Owen Summar­ ize! Democralie < /: Shortcomings. Without a Single Pledge Redeemed, the Democracy Have a Poor Record on Which to Appeal to the Country. {Washlngten dp«cial to Indianapolis Journal.] "I think Mr. Cleveland is making some effort to carry out his civil-6ervice profes­ sions, but tie difficulty is he is about the only man in his party who even makes pro­ fessions that way," said Representative Owen, of the Tenth Indiana District, in conveisation with the Journal coirespond- ent, just before leaving Washington for his home at Logansport. "There is no meas­ ure of national importance," continued Mr. Owen, "in which iiis party stands with him. I saw him the other d;ty. and he loaked to me as if he was dying from lonesonn ness. Firmness is his leading trait, and he is likely to continue Lis present course to the estrangement of bis party. He has indi­ cated that his recent order concerning post­ masters. revenue agents, and other Govern­ ment employes taking part in politics would be enfoiced. It is understood that he will pick out some shinjng examples in Indiana, After the election this fall, if he should re­ lieve a few postmasters and route agents because of proprietorship of papers or for party work, it would go far to conviiyiug the country of his sincerity, and would be a redeeming feature in an administration that up to ditto lias exercised no aggressive qualities." "The Democrats promised, in the last campaign, to reduce the tariff. Why have they not done foV" J asked. "ties, they made the campaign of 1884 on the piemise to reduce the tariff, and it will keep them busy explaining why the 4 robber' was 8t>t downed, and good times brought to the country, and wheat worth $1.50 per bushel," said Mr. Owen. ' The facts are, the Democracy is r.ipidly disin­ tegrating on the tariff issue. Thirty-five of their members voted not to consider Mor­ rison's bill, and twenty others announced that they would vo;e against it on its tinal passage. One-third of the party marshaled against its chief theory--a respectable minority. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississip­ pi, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia are rapidly falling into the protection column. One member from Georgia and one from Virginia have,.,been defeated for renomina- tion because they were free-traders. The new South is to be an industrial coun­ try.' As the appropriations (if the river and harbor bill passes at $15,009,000) amount to $385,000,000, :.md as the estimates of receipts only show $362,000,- 000, there will be a heavy deficit'at the close of the year, and it certainly would be a dis­ astrous policy to rii'.luce the tariff $25,000,- 000 more. iir. Morrison seemed determin­ ed to obey bis platform without reference to the Tre/ifl$try. The Democratic party has had control of Congress for fourteen years, with the exception of two years, every oumpaign having been fought on the war tariff issue, and they have not yet passed a bill. The only reduction the tariff has had iu that time was by its Re- Eublican friends in 1881. Isn't it slrauge ow long some people can keep a chest­ nut?" , jj" .,?... "And the Democrats," said I, "promised financial legislation?" "I had confidently expected legislation on money matters," replied Mr. Owen. 41 The country w as very much disappointed when JpTesident Cleveland showed himself to be an ally of Wall street. He is the most enthusiastic champion the money power has ever had in the Presidency. You will remember the administra­ tion existed a full yeAr without making a bond call Two resolutions were introduced into the Houce, and the air grew thick with imprecations before the Secretary yielded. He has since last March, with an announced reluctance, made a monthly call, and during all that time the surplus has gone on piling up in the Treas­ ury until there are $75,000,000 there. There was but $8,000,000 of surplus when the Secretary took possession of the Treasury. It was always the policy of the Republican party to pay out the surplus on fhe public debt The #400,000,000 that Mr. Hen­ dricks talked about was not a surplus. Sec­ retary Manning wrote a letter, which was read in the House during the session, in which he said that was a fund specifically set aside for certain uses, and that to use it for any other purpose he would be guilty of a misappropriation of trust funds; and as Mr. Morrison admitted that the $400,000,- 000 was only used for campaign purposes, it is not necessary to speak further of that matter." "A good deal of important legislation has been defeated by the Democrats, has it not, during the session?" "Yes. One of the most important meas­ ures wa* to pay $800,000 for increased mail facilities with the South American States, and with China, Japan, and Aus­ tralia. We pay more money than this for carrying our mails from the postoffices to the depots. The bill did not allow over fifty Cents per mile traveled to be paid to a vessel, while the lowest pay by any of the great nations for like service is $1.03 per mile. Every nation that has secured large foreign trade has done so through the channel of mail ships. When there is no mail there is no trade. „ The South Amer­ ican countries import annually five hundred million dollars' worth of goods. England crosses the ocean and takes $*200,000,000, and the rest of Europe $250,000,000, and the United States $40,000,000. We have one million idle men, and vet we are suffer­ ing lrom overproduction. If we would open up the gatew ay of trade to these states and secure this trade, which lies at our very doors, our one million men would be called to work and the country tilled with prosperity; but the measure was cruelly defeated by an almost solid Democratic vote. Our produc­ ing power, like every great nation, is be­ yond our consuming power, and like these nations we must hud an emptying house in the semi-civilized countries or be smoth­ ered under our over-productions. Eng­ land's foreign mail ships are considered by political economists to be the master com­ mercial stroke of our century. Yet we re­ fuse to pay one-half the lowest sum for such ocean mail service. Our men are idle; our mines and shops are closed or on half time; the country is filled with strikes; there is a condition of disorder nnd unrest; more families are in want than ever before; business is stagnated, while we look across the Gulf of Mexico and view a country of measureless demands for our goods, but the Dem-. cratic party says they can't go. "We are like Tantalus, surrounded with wa­ ter and parched with thirst, and, viewing banquets, we starve to death. "The groat scheme of coast fortifications has failed, the rebuilding of the navy will not be begun in a practical way. Polygamy is left untouched. The great educational bill is left undiscussed. The interstate commerce bill fails again. The financial situation is not redressed. A free-trade bill, under the title of 'tariff reform,' was not so much as discussed, and if any great measure for the good of the country was even meditated it was not brought into the House. I think the majority paity has de­ veloped a conspicuous inability to manage the interests of the country. Yes, I per­ haps ought to say that while all of these measures have failed, by reason of the jealousies and animosities between the various leaders of the Democratic party, or on account of their antipathy to the Presi­ dent, there is one measure oil to which they have come with such a perfect unanimity that it may be regarded as the fulfillment of our prophecy. That is in the matter of vetoing pensions. The whole trend of this session has been against further pension legislation. True, the widows' increase bill passed, but that is a measure warmed over from the Senate two years aap, and even the Mexican pension bill is likely to fail, as it did two years ago. Wti have had the boldest effort to create a sentiment against the pensioning of the nation's soldiers that has ever been attempted against the faith­ ful soldiers of any country. The President has dismissed Cabinet meetings to write vetoes of pension bills. There have been Some patriotic sentiments uttered in his vetoes, but in the main they have been characterized more by a feeling of restless anger that he was called upon to defend the Treasury against the raids of a merce­ nary soldiery. The facts are that all the .pension bills granted to soldiers since the war by Congress do not amount to one-half a million dollars per year. I cannot with equanimity view the spectacle of the Chief Magistrate of this Republic vetoing with flippant jests and cruel insinuations the $8-a-month pension of some poor veteran who called on Congress because he was unable to fur­ nish the technical evidence demanded by the Pension Office, while Le himself is re­ ceiving $10,000 for his flo wers and bouquets for this year." "What will the Democrats do for a battle cry now?" ^ "I don't know what our friends will do this fall. They have counte d the money and found it all there. They have exam­ ined the books and say they are all right. Tlrey have not introduced a single reform into the Government. They have not ful­ filled a single piomiso they made to the people. Ever}- pledge made has been vio­ lated. They have even kept the most of the raj,cals in the offices becanse of their efficiency. I am unable to see on what the administration will project the cam­ paign." REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS. What the Secretary, McPhrrnon, Han to Say ^bout Them--Senator Edmunda in­ terviewed. [Washington special to tho Chicago Daily ' News.]' - • _ Edwarjl McPherson, Secretary of the Republican , Congressional Committee, said, in answer to an inquiry, to-day: "The committee is doing very little as yet. Yeu can readily see that it was very important for us to wait till the Democratic record was made. It is now done, and we shall begin active operations immediately. We might have begun a month ago, aud it would have been the easiest thing iu the world for the Democrats to have made a move or two that would upset all we had done, but now the record of this first session of the XLIXth Congress is completed, and it is a bad record, too. What have they done that they can go before the country on? I confess I do not see. The leaders of the party expected to make much out of the surplus resolution, and now that is gone. I have carefully studied the various ses­ sions of Congress for the last twenty-five years, and I must say that I think this has the least to commend it to the c6unti the most to condemn it of any I know of." " What is the prospect, so far as you can judge, of Republican success/ this fall?" was asked. / "Oh, we don't expect to gain much in South Carolina or Missouri, but there are localities, even at the South, where Demo­ cratic Congressmen have been returned time out of mind Who will this year find it difficult to be elected. The people expected that they were to be greatly benefited by Democratic ascendency lo power. The leaders of that party have held out the idea that prosperity depends upon the Govern­ ment instead of upon individval effort, and many of them took the extravagant utterances about distributing the money in the Treasury as though it meant some­ thing. Tney began to figure how much that would come to for each, and many actually expected wagons to come around w ith United States officials to count out the money. Of course these people are disap­ pointed and disgruntled, and the fact that President Cleveland hasn't distributed the offices very rapidly has given great dissat­ isfaction. All these things will show in the coming election. I am tot prepared at present to say how much the gif.n will be, but there will be gains." Senator Edmunds said that he thought the principal point to be made by the Re­ publicans in the coming campaign would be the incompetency of the Democrats to administer the affairs of the Government. "The principal criticism that I should pass upon the administration itself," said Mr. Edmunds, "and the one that will be made by the Republicans in the canvass, is the ver v poor class of men selected to fill the Federal offices of the country." The speaker thought that the Republicans would be harmonious and victorious in 1888. The President's vetoes of the pen­ sion bills were fair subjects for criticism. The President had signed a great many weaker bills than those he had rejected, he thought, and his course was not consistent. The Senator regarded Secretary Bayard's foreign appointments as very unfortunate. Congressman Long, of Massachusetts, said that he felt certain of a Republican victory in 1888, and that he thought either Mr. lilaine or Senator Sherman would be the Republican stmdard-bearer. The South Carolina Democratic platform declares in favor of civil-service reform. The civil service needs reforming now more than at any time during the past quar­ ter of a century. INDIANA POLITICS. The Democrats Likely ts Lota Several Congressmen. [Washington special.] A prominent Democratic politician of Indianapolis declares that the outlook is bad for his party in the Hoosier State. He thinks the Democrats will lose three and probably four of their present Representa­ tives. The Evansville district, now repre­ sented by Kleiner, he th nks, will on ac­ count of local dissensions be carried by the Republicans. The same causes, he says, will defeat Bynum in the Indianapolis dis­ trict. In the Terie Haute district John E. Lamb, the special friend of Voorhees, is the Democratic nominee. He is a high- tariff Democrat, while the district is em­ phatically in favor of low-tariff. The Democrats of the district are complaining bitterly about Lamb's nomination. It is said that Sullivan County, in that district, which usually gives 1,000 Democratic ma­ jority, is likely to go Republican. There is serious dissatisfaction in the Fort Wayne district, now represented by Judge Lowry, but he may pull through. Altogether^ Painful Subject. The saddest feature of the case of Sen­ ator Payne is that he will have to seek vindication by procuring a re-election, and it will cost him twice as much the , next time as it did in the first instance, on ac­ count of the revelations which have been made con erning the dimensions of his bar'l and the liberality of his methods.-- tit. LtOviti Globe-Democrat. THE CUTTING AFFAIR. After Beiufr Discussed in Cabinet It b fteeided to Send An Envoy Ml! *1 the Mexican Capital. Gutting Again Brought Into Court--The >: , Fueling in Mexico--Exciteoett#3^ on the Border. -Dethot int Wf The Point Well Taken. Some Democratic exchanges are criticis­ ing Gen. Logan's grammar, or want of grammar, for saying, "T1 e United States is." If the Democracy had been success­ ful twenty-five years ago, which would have been proper, "The United States was" or "the United States were?"---Peoria Transcript. THE seal of secrecy has been removed in the cases of a number of Indiana post- mastership removals, notably those of Frankfort, Shelbyville, Porn, and other places. The people of the State can thus see the infamous workings of the Cleve­ land-Vilas assassination bureau, and upon what sort of charges faithful and efficient public servants were removed, while the administration was rolling up its eyes to lieavt n and hypocritically mouthing about civil-service reform. Were these men re­ moved because they were Republicans, no objections could be or will be raised. For instance, that Postmaster Hart, at Frank­ fort, was and is a Republican no one will deny; that he was an honest, competent aud satisfactory officer no one will deny. And the same with all the others.--Indian­ apolis Journal. A Special Envoy to Mexieo. [*ffffi?hingtou dispatch states that at a Cabinet meeting, on Thursday, "the most important matter discussed was a proposi­ tion just received from the Mexican Gov­ ernment. In brief it is this: "The Mexican Government has all the time claimed that it had done nothing in the premises which was not warranted and in harmony with the spirit of the law aud expressed statutes of the re­ public. Tho Mexican authorities contend that, acconling to tho law as it is interpreted by them, that Government has the right to hold the prisoner and mete out to him justice according to the nature of his offense against the laws of that coun­ try. They, therefore, make the proposi­ tion that if the State Department will send to the City of Mexico an able lawyer as a special envoy of this Government to con­ fer with, the Attorney General of Mexico as to the proper interpretation of the law un­ der which Cutting is held, they believe an amicable solution of the problem can be arrived at. "After two hours' discussion of this sub­ ject by the Cabinet, it was unanimously agreed that the proposition from the Mexican Government be accepted, and a representative sent to the City of Mexico as soon as possible. This Government is not to bj bound by the report that the repre­ sentative may malie, but ui on this report there can be established additional foun­ dation for further diplomatic procedure. Pending this agreement neither Govern­ ment will take any action. "It is not improbable that both Govern­ ments will mass troops upon the border for the purpose of pteserving order during th§ period employed iu the consultation. "The special envoy will not be a person who is iu any way connected with the service of the Government." WHEAT AND CORN. On the Border. A special from Eagle Pass, Texas, says; "It is very evident that Mexico is getting in readiness should war be declared by the United States. There aie now 200 troops stationed at Piedras Negras. audit is stated on good authority that 500 more left Sabiuas, Tuesday, for Piedras Negra«. It is also known that 100 are stationed at pass below Guerrero, under of Lycanor Valdez. One company of United States cavalry, consisting of fifty men, irf stationed at Eagle Pass, and this place is defenseless." AdVices from Paso del Norte said that the Americans there are in a state of terror­ ism. especially those in business. The lawless elements of the population are only waiting for the red flag to be flaunted to pillage and burn all the property belong­ ing to Americans. It is especially neces­ sary, the writer says, for Americans to re­ frain from any reference to the Cutting case. Good-Tempered Discussion. A dispatch from the City of Mexico says: "The discussion of the Cutting case goes on in the press and among lawyers, whom it interests because of the important ques­ tion raised, but there is no heat in the dis­ cussion. The better class of people hope that the two countries will settle the matter either by a mutually friendly adjustment or through equally friendly arbitration." ELEVEN FOUL MURDERS. A Masgachosetts Widow and" a Sunday School Superintendent's Awitol Crimes. (Boston telegram.] The arrest of Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson on a charge of poisoning her son William with arsenic has created great excitement in West Somerville. It io now claimed that the woman has been engaged in the poisoning business for years, and that her • husband, her three children, and seven other people have fallen victims to her cold-blooded scheming. Mrs. Robinson is a comely widow of 48. A frequent visitor at her house since her husband's sudden death four years a<,o has beeu Thomas R. Smith, a married man. 50 years old. When Mrs. llobiusou's husband died it was supposed he was killed by drinking ice-water while overheated. Soon afterward her 10-year-old daughter died suddenly. Then her sister died suddenly, and her sister's husband, James Freeman, and his two small children took up their residence with the widow. In a short time an infaut child of Mr. Freeman died. Mr. Freeman was next suddenly taken ill and died. Four months ago Mrs. Rob­ inson's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, 24 years old, tvas taken ill, and, like the other rela­ tives, died soon afterward. This death was followed a month ago by the death of the other Freeman child, who was 7 vears old. These last two deaths provoked suspi­ cion, for in neither case could the doctor determine the nature of the illness. The suspicion was strengthened when, a few da\s ago, Mrs. Robinson's sou William was takeu sick with similar symptoms. Dr. White secured part of the contents of the young man's stomach and had them an­ alyzed at Harvard College. Large quantities ot arsenic were found. Dr. White informed the pol.ee at once, and Mrs. Robinson was arrested. Mr. Smith was just entering the house, aud he, too. was arrested. Then the widow fainted, straightening out as rigid as if dead. Smith, who is a Methodist Sun­ day-school superintendent, asked the of­ ficers it' he might prav for the mother and boy w ho were so near the poiut of death, and kneeliug down made a fevvrent canrp- meeting prayer. Then the couple were taken to the station.' The woman trembled in every limb and showed great mental distress. She is of ladylike appearance and her face is refined and intelligent. The motive for Mrs. Robinson's alleged crime is supposed to be a desire to obtain insurance money on the lives of the vic­ tims. All were insured for $3,000 each. Just before he died, her boy William said: "My mother aud Mr. Smith poisoned me, and 1 knew it at the time; but I thought I could be cured. K Since I have been sick I have taken neither food nor mediciue from anybody else. All I have had they gave me." WENT DOWN IN THE SOUND. Tile Se|ioon«*r Omgvn and the Yaclit Frolic Ciipsixed--Twelve Persons Supposed to Ue Lost. [Boston special. < The schooner Oregon capsiaed in the broad Souud to-night, and four of the five men composing the crew were drowned. The yacht Frolic, owned by Wiuslow L. Hayden, is supposed to have also capsized in this vicinity, late this afternoon, during a squall. The owner, hi-3 two sons, Fred and Edward, and John W. Laming, together with three mem­ bers of the crew, are supposed to be lost. A coat was picked up at Long Island which contained letters and papers, the property of Lamina. The police boat is searching for the bodies. Mr. Ilayden was prominent in yachting circles here, and was an up­ right gentleman. He was a well-known mu­ sic teacher, and had considerable property. No further tidings have been received. Cropt looking Badly Throughout Country--The General 1 f t | Coudition. 4 BASE-BALL Interesting Hews and the American National Game Gooip About (Washington telegram.] . The Spring wheat returns to the Depart­ ment ot Agriculture'for August snow an improvement in coudition in Iowa, a small decline iu Wisconsin nnd Nebiaskn, and a heavy reduction in Dakota. 'J he causes of deterioration are drought and chinch-bugs. Heat has been excessive iu many districts that have produced a fair yield* notwith­ standing. The harvest is two weeks earlier than usual and the quality is unusually good, except in sections where heavy loss from blight has occurred. The geueral average of condition is re­ duced from 83.2 to 80. At the time of har­ vest last year the average was 80. A part of the loss last season occurred after Aug. 1. As the present harvest is already nearly over, with improved meteorological condi­ tions, the final estimate tan not be much further reduced. Xhe present average is 97 for Iowa, instead %t last month. No less than tweuty-five counties, each pro­ ducing from 200.000 to ],000,000 bushels, report the coudition at 100 or over. In Minnesota there is an incretise from 78 to 80. The reduction iu Wisconsin is froin 75 to 72, iu Nebraska from 8:1 to 82, and in Dakota ftoml 85 to 62. The cotton crop has suffered from wet weather in all States east of the Missis­ sippi and iu Louisiana. The. average of condition has been reduced from 8(i to 81, Virginia 75, North Carolina 74, South Car­ olina 07. Georgia 80, Florida 88, Alabama 77, Mississippi 7!>, Louisiana 75, Texas 88, Arkausas (.»0, Tennessee t>5. There has been a slight advauce in Arkansas and Texas. The decline is heavy in Carolinas. STATE ELECTIONS IN 1S8G. List of State* Which Hoi.I Klerlioiiit This Year, and for What Purposes. •The following interesting compilation is takeu from the New York Times: Alahmna elects Congressmen on November 2. . Arkansas elects State oBiccrs :md hPLMslature ou September (S; Congressmen on November 2. California electa Ktnto officers, Legislature and Congressmen on November 2 .Colorado elects State officers, Legislature and Conpressmcn on November 2. Connecticut elects state officers. Legislature and Congressmen ou November J. Delaware elects Governor, legislature and Congressmen on Noveml>er 2. Florida elects Legislature and Congressmen ou November i', aud votes upon the proposed new Constitution of the State, which was trained by the Convention wliicb met in 1885. Georgia elects State otlicers and Legislature on October (>; Congressmen on November 2. Illinois elects minor htate otlicers. Legisla­ ture, and Congressmen oil November 2, and votes upon a proposed amendment to the Con- wt.itntion of iiiti State to abolish the contract system in the prisons of the State Indiana elects n)ini,>r State officers and Con­ gressmen on November 2. Iowa elects minor State officers and Congress­ men on Nov ember 2. Kansas electa State officers, Legislature, and Congressmen on November 2. Kentucky elects Congressmen on Novem­ ber 2. Louisiana elects Congressmen oH Novem­ ber 2. Maine elects Governor, Legislature, and Con­ gressmen (in September 13. Maryland elects Congressmen ou Novem­ ber 2. Massachusetts elects State officers, Legisla­ ture, and Congressmen on November 2. Michigan elects State officers. Legislature, and Congressmen ou November 2. M innesota elects State officers. Legislature, aud Congressmen on November 2, and votes upon a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State to facilitate the eroctiou ol county aud school buildings. Mississippi elects Congressmen ou Novem­ ber 2. Missouri elects minor State officers aud.Con­ gressmen ou November 2. Nebraska elects State officers, Legislature, and Congressmen on November 2. Nevada elects State officers, Legislature, and Congressmen oil November 2. Now Hampshire elects Governor, Legislature, and Congressmen on November 2. New Jersey elects Governor, Legislature, and Congressmen on November 2. New York elects a Judge of tho Court of Ap­ peals. Assemblymen, and Congressmen on No­ vember 2, nnd votes upou the question of hold­ ing a convention to reviso the Constitution of the State. North Carolina elects Justices of the Supreme Court. Legislature aud Congressmeu ou No­ vember 2. Ohio elects minor State officers aud Congress­ men on November 2. Oregon elected State officers, Legislature, aud Congressman on June 7. I'emisvlvania elects State officers. Legisla­ ture, and Congressman on November 2. Kliode Island elected State otlicers and Legis­ lature on April 7, aud ratified the proi>osed amendments to the Constitution of the State, one of which prohibits the sale of into\ioating lii|iior, aud the other admits foreign-horn Union ex-soldi rs and sailors to citizenship. Elects Congressmen ou November 2 South Carolina elects State officers, Legisla­ ture and Congressmen on November 2. Tennessee elects Governor, Legislature, aud Congressmen ou November 2. Texas elects Stat" officers, Legislature aud Congressmen On November'J. Vermont elects State officers. Legislature and Congressmen on September 7 Virginia elects Congressmen ou November 2. West Virginia e ects Legislature aud Cou- gr, ssmen ou November 2. Wisconsin elects Ktute officers, Legislature aud Congressmen on November 2. He Contest for the Championship Aia^ennant of the Two Leading Associations. REJECTED. List or tho I'reflldeiit'it Nominee* Which the Senate Kefntted to Coitiirin. Following aie the nominations sent to the Senate by the President, and by that body rejected, during the reccnt session of Congress: Clinton Kosette, Postmastor, Do Kalb, Ind. C. W. liutton, l'ostinaster, Lynchburg, Va. K M. Kinnian, Postmaster, Jacksonville, III. G. W. Bell, l'ostinaster. Webster City, 111. Oeorge Wise, Postmaster, Hamburg, Iowa. H. H. Porter, Postmaster, Dowuginc, Mich. (i. P. Sanford, Postmaster, Lansing, Mich. J. C. Wise, Postmaster, Mimkato, Minn. A. B. Keith, Postmaster, Donison, low*. Harry Hill. Postmaster, Corkhill, N. Y. Andrew Shauahan, Postmaster, ltockland. Mass. Abraham Rose, Postmaster, Vinton, Iowa. John Goode, Solicitor General. John C. Shields, Chief Justice of Arizona. C. K. Pollard, Associate Justice of Montana. It. S. Dement, Surveyor Geueral of Utah. P. S. Wilson, AsBayer at Denver. J. H. Freeman, United States Marshal, West­ ern District of Tennessee. C. N Chase, Collector of Internal Revenue for Maine. F. T. Piilsbury, Collector of Internal Revenue, Third District of Miasaekusetta. Thomas Harilon, Collector of Internal Rev­ enue, Seventh District of Indiana, W. L. Bancroft, Collector of Customs, Dis­ trict of Huron, Michigan. Adelard Guernon, Collector of Customs, Dis> trict of Minnesota. C. H. Potter, Indian Agent, Omaha and Win* nebago Agency. F, W. Ltoaue, Register ot tbe Land Office at Oxford, Idaho. J. C. Matthews, Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia. Second Lieutenant J. P. McBlain, to be First Lieutenant. MIST STATISTICS. Cstliuatedl*r<Mliiction of Gold and Silver In the I'uited Stale* iu 1883. (Washington dispatch.) Dr. James P. Kimball, Director of tbe Mint, in his report on the production of gold and silver in the United States during the year 1885, estimates the production of gold at $31,8(>0,<Hi0, an increase ot $1,000,- 000 over 18K4, and the production of silver, calculated at the coining rate of silver dol­ lars, at $51,(iO0,tMMI, uu increase of $2,- 800,000. CoR>rado is the largest producer, with California second. There were 3,002,- 313 pieces of gold coin, valued at $27,- 773,012, und 31,025,544 pieces of silver coin, valued at $28,(Jti°2,17<j, coined during tbe year. The coinage of silver dollars amounted to $28,cy7,7u7. The total value of bullion and coin im­ ported during the year was $41,418,129, of which $8,322,'JOO consisted of bullion and $33,0!15,120 of coin. Of the total imports $23,045,311 consisted of gold aud $17,772,- 718 of silver. Tho total export was $44,- 097,740, of which $11,417,207 was gold and $33,280,542 silver. The Director estimates the amount of gold coiu in thv United States on Jan. 1, 183G, to have been $533,485,453, of silver dollars $218,25'J,761, subsidiary silver $75,- 034,111--a total of $820,777,325. Of Ui« gold coin the Treasnry held $75,434,379 and the national banks $156,353,592. {CHICAGO CORBESPOXDENCK.] He positions of the leading clnbs in tbe League have not been changed by the re­ sult of the Eastern series of games, althongh the three possible pennant winners, De­ troit, Chicago, and I\e\v York are crowded closer together than they were. Detroit leads the champions three games, and the latter lead the "Giants" two. This is close work, and the interest promises to be main­ tained to the close of the season. Phila­ delphia has secured a firm hold on fourth position, Boston comes next, with St. Louis, Kansas City, and Washington in the order named. The "Cowboys" seem to think it is glory enough for them this year to down the ' Senators"; next year they hope to take St. Lonis in out of the wet. In the American Association, St. Lonis has obtained a decided lead of ten games won over the Brooklyn, Cincinnati, and Louisville Clubs, which have each won forty-five games, aud are having a cloBe, hard tight for second. The following tables show the positions of Uie different clubs: NATIONAL LP.AOCTE. " A Games Ga.nes Post- Clubs-- won. lost, poned. Detroit.... ...56 18 S Chicago............. A .53 20 F New York ;.. .51 23 6 Philadelphia.....*,........48 . 27 16 Boston. ...............33 S9 J St. Louis ,24 51 4 Kansas City...:..... 17 62 1C Washington 12 58 1C AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Oaba-- WoO. Lost Athletic 83 4!i Baltimore. 23 60 Brooklyn... ' 45 3? Cincinnati 45 4J Louisville 47 SI1 Metropolitan.... 26 4i Pittsburg 45 5* St Louis 66 28 Duulap, the famous second baseman of the St. Louis league club, has been sold to the Detroit club, ami will help them on to victory the balance of the season. The price said to have been paid the St. Louis club for his release is $4,700, while Dun- lap is to receive for his services during 1887 and 1*8M, seven months in each year, the sum of $1,500 per season. Vtrily th« lines of the ball-player do sometimes fall in pleasant places. Corcornn's arm has again given ont, or, more plainly speaking, has never recovered from its failure iu 1884. This great pitcher may now be placed on the list of "has beeus." , We predict a large infusion of new blood in the playing list of the League another season. The managers aie already select­ ing m n from the various miuor leagues for experimental purposes, aud many of the selected ones will remain. Chicago only lost tive out of the first sii games played in the East this trip. Boston I eat it two out of three, and New York won three straight. Don't forget, when forming opinions upon the League championship, lhat the season closes on the home grouuds of the Eastern clnbs this year. It is with great satisfaction that the leaders in the League, alter pounding each other to death, jump onto the poor little "taileuders" aud wipe the earth with them. The most surprising feature of last week's play was the two consecutive defeats administered by St, Louis to Philadelphia. Harry Wright's management of th« Philadelphia Club has been so successful that every lover of the game hopes to see a renewal of his contract for a term ol years, when it expires, iu October next. An organization of base-ball players has been formed in the League, for "self-pro­ tection and mutual benefit." Ward, of the New Yorks, is the first President of it. The Unhappy Umpire. Thomas York recently resigned his posi­ tion sjs a League umpire. In reference tc< the matter, he said to a New York reporter. "I have been badly treated in the West, but to be hissed aud hooted in tbe East it too much. 1 have often heard that an um­ pire's position was a thankless one, but I have never realized it be­ fore. It is bad enotigh to be hisseJ and called a thief, but iu the West, when a local club loses a game, an umpire is fortunate if he escapes with his life. Ol all tbe cities iu the League, Kansas City is the worst. On June 20. when the New Yi rk men beat the cowboys 3 to 2, McQuen hit a ball over the fence, but it was foul by twenty-live feet, and I called it so. Aftei the game, Vice President McKim, of tho Kansas City Club, wanted to know how much money I would get from the New Yorks lor that decision. I remarked that I received my money from the League, aud did not take a penny from the New Yorks or auy other nii.e. Then he grew furious, and said that he would end my days. This, in conjunction with other things incidental to the life of an umpire, has made me tired of the business, and I intend to make room for some other victim." # It will be remembered, says the Phila­ delphia Times, that some weeks since Mapledornm umpired a game at Kansas City, in the absence of any member of the official corps. He was given a very un­ pleasant reception, jeered through the game, and set down in a jjress dispatch as a "Jay Hawker from Kansas," though he is a Pennsylvanian. After the game he wrote a very amusing letter to President Young, in the course of which he said: "\ou will remember that a few weeks since I applied for an appointment on your staff of umpires. After my recent experience I c»yi only say that if you will forgive me for making such an application I will give you my' solemn promise never to umpire an­ other game of ball as long as I live." Truly, the path of the umpire is not strewn with roses. • Five Million llase-IinHa. A fair estimate of the number of balls made for the present season is said to be 5,000,000, or one for every ten of the popu­ lation of the entire country. The hard, unyieldiug base-balls tint aije now used by professional ball-players are very different' articks from those which were in vogue a quarter of a century ago. In fa -t, they differ as greatly as the present game of base-ball do-s from that which was . played in those days. "Dead" or professional base-balls are mads entirely by hand. According to rules laid down by the League they must weigh within live and a quarter ounces. A little rubber ball, weighing two ounces, is used as the foundation for two ounces of woolen yarn that is wound around the ball, and permits of its coming within the regulation size, weight and shape. The limits in size is nine inches in circumference. The yarn used makes tbe circumference of the ball considerably more than this, but it is cor­ rected by undergoing a hammering pio- cess, after which the little spheres are turn­ ed over to the coverers, who invest them with a casing of horse hide, sewed with linen thread. Nonprofessional bolts are made by machinery. To show the differ-* ence in the speed, care aiid cost of manu­ facture of base balls, it may be stated that a certain factory near New York can turn out 48,000 machine-made balls in a day, while the limit of manufacture for "dead" balls in the same time is eighteen. The bal Is made in the days when it was customary to strike a runner ont between bases by hitting him with the ball were made largely of India-rubber. To do this with the "dead" ball now made would often be death to the person hit. That 5,000,000 balls have been made for the present sea­ son is not surprising, when it is remem­ bered that there are scores of amateur clubs --juvenile and otherwise--in alcaost every city of the Union, and each member of these numerous clubs is the possessor of from one to ten base-balls. i 'i ~Viii if i&iriVfaiffi'iiaiii-'i iMTVVrtiV"if ti'r"' V-' ILLINOIS STATE NEWJi ABDUL Some Interesting Points as to the Saltan of Turkey ami His Daily IJte. Abdnl Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, leads almost as much a life of fear as does the Emperor of Russia, as some years ago ^n astronomer pronounced a prophecy tliat Abdul Hamid would come to a sudden and bloody end. In io doing lie made the mistake of his life. There is a strong reason to sus­ pect that he compounded the prophecy with a view of pleasing the then reign­ ing Sultan, who regarded Abdul as a possible successor with a jealous and disapproving eye. The astronomer, just about the time he made the proph­ ecy, was presented by the Sultan with a beautiful fez, in the point of which was a diamond of rare luster and great value. But little did it avail him. For when a few years later Abdul Hamid came to the throne the fez with its ornamenting diamond lost its useful­ ness to the astronomer, owing to the fact that in accordance with Abdul's royal order he found himself without a head upon which to wear it. But with the fall of the ill-starred astronomer's head Abdul Hamiil's fears did not dis­ appear. He could not get over the idea that there might be something in the prophecy after all, and he has in consequence been tilled with more or less unpleasant apprehensions. His fears have, in tact, assumed almost the proportions of a mania, and he has given mu^li thought and. attention to devices iu looking to his personal safetVi The Sultan has a pronounced leaiiing towards European customs, and of this the ladies of his harem appear to have taken advantage. It is a dire offence for a Turkish woman to show her face to any other than her lawful lord, and accordingly, when she goes out into the streets or visits the bazaars--upon which occasion she is invariably accom­ panied by a custodian--she wears a thick "liaick," or veil, completely con­ cealing her features. Laterly the la­ dies of the royal harem have taken to wearing thin veils. They have been' repeatedly admonished on this subject by the eunuch, but they have persisted in their conduct, and as a consequence much scandal and comment has been aroused. Another feature of the Sultan's life which has a European aspect is that he virtually, only one wife--that is, at oni* time. Although there are upwards of threescore ladies bearing that title in his seraglio, as a royal harem is termed, yet as a matter of fact he only regards and treats one among their number as the Snltana. Jn appearance" the Sultan is a little above the middle height, of slight build, with a pale, expressive face, dark and somewhat mournful, eyes, and carefully clipped beard and mustache. His clothes, which he always has made in Paris, are of the latest and most fash­ ionable cut. He wears patent leather boots, and the only distinguished feat­ ure of his nationality in his dress is his Turkish fez or cap. His habits are very regular. He is an early riser, and after leaving the seraglio, he partakes of a light breakfast at which he always drinks black coffee. After breakfast his secretaries at once bring him the portfolios containing telegrams, official correspondence, and reports which re­ quire his inspection. He lunches at noon, after which he walks iu the grounds and receives visits from the foreign ambassadors and other callers. Punctually at 5 o'clock in the evening, when the weather is fine, the Sultan, accompanied bv a strong bodyguard, puts spurs to his patent-leather boots and rides on horseback through his park. He returns at 7, and half an hour later sits down to dinner. The table is covered with gold and silver candelabra, and massive epergnes filled with choicest fruits and flowers. At the head of the table sits the Sul­ tan in a large chair richly ornamented with gilding, and behind him, when­ ever lie has foreign guests stands his interpreter. Costly wines are offered to those sharing the Sultan's hospitality, but the Sultan himself never touches them and drinks only sherbet. The Imperial band plays at dinner, and servants with scarlet liveries with golden epaulets glide noiselessly around the table. Female Beauty. "The beauty of the female figure," says Leigh Hunt, "consists in' being gently serpentine." Stiffness is utterly ungraceful. The movements of an un­ conscious child are the ]>erfeotion of grace; they are easy, unstudied, nat­ ural. The throat should be round and pillar-like. The waist should be twice the size of this "tower of ivory,"--not as fashion has too often made it, about the same size. The shoulders should be sloping and not too broad; neither sliauld they be too narrow, but occupy that soft and rounded mean that is of­ fered in the Venus of Milo, The fig­ ure should be, above all, easy. Too small a waist is an actual deformity, and young ladies who are foolish enough to imagine that a waist of eigh­ teen inches is lovely should bear in mind that the famous statue of the "Venus de Medici, the acknowledged highest type of female beauty, meas­ ures twenty-seven inches. The hips should be liigh in a woman and wide; the feet small but in due proportion to the height of the figure; a high instep is beautiful, and a hollowing of the sole is considered bv the Arabs a mark, of high birth. The arm is seldom suffi­ ciently developed in a woman of fash­ ion to reach the standard of classical beauty: she does not use her limbs, particularly her arms, sufficiently to give them the muscular growth of which they are capable. The arm should have a round and flowing outer line, with no sharpness at the elbow; it should taper gently down to a small wrist, • Geerge Eliot. The masculine force and comprehen­ siveness of George Eliot's intellectual attainments certainly seem to mock the fragile frame which was at the mercy of every change of weather. Her health was never good, though she does not seem to have suffered from any specific trouble other than severe nervous headaches, which had the in­ convenient faculty of prostrating her at the very moment whey she most needed the full use of"all her powers. Her genius was something apart from the joyous up-springing of exuberant health "and excessive animal spirits. It is possible that the inability to cope with the more boisterous sj>orts of her brother and sister iirst led her thoughts into the field of imagination. It is possible, also, that with a different physical organization. George Eliot might have been a different woman.-- Julia A. Fl inch, in St . Lout« Magfi- z ine. • No GREAT man ever ret died but dozens were at work to begin where h« left off, even before he was buried. --The one-year-old child of Mr. Ben­ nington, of Flanagan, weighs fifty pounds. --A huge panther makes nightly raidl npou lambs rind calves in tbe vicinity of Tolono. --Ofer 550 person* ir**a prcfe»4ed tt*,: ligion at the Harrison revival meetings «*">- Clinton. --In Chicago they have got so that they address even a coibmou Justice of tbe Peaoe as "Jndget" . --Miss 0/ph» Bollock VH burned to death by the overturning of a gasoline stove, near Carthag?. --A six-pound fish jumped oat of the river near Pontias and landed iu the bottom of a boat filled with little girls. --William Carson, of Etna, baa , started for Kimberly, near Cape Town, Africa, to enter the defective force at tbe diamond fields! ' ---- --The colored people ofTTex^|te^6onn- ty have called a conference to discuss the feasibility of placing in tbe SeldlMtgra ticket for county officers. --Champaign is in danger of a water famine, nnd has shut otF lb ? drinking-foun­ tains. The fire-cisterns have t>eeu filled with stagnant water from the city wells. --Elithe, daughter of 'Squire Danley, of Nir.utic, is mvstertonslv niissfusr. She at- tended a performance of B.trnum s show al Decatur, aud since Iheu bas not l^een seen, -- Madeline Ke?sler, of Chicago, the, heiress to considerable property, bas eloped with Alfred Bickner, a married man aud a graduate of a Canadiau peniten-. tiary. --Eddie Robinson, 17 years of age, took for better or worse Eva Clements, aged 1© • years, at Decatur. The couple are smalt for their age and young foi the respon­ sibilities. --Michael Mooney, who killed his cell­ mate, John Anderson, at Joliet May 30, 1883, has been returned to that penitentiary from Waukegan to serve out a life seutence for the crime. --Joseph Eastman and Smith & Crimp, of Chicago, were tbe only bidders for plas­ tering the Custom House aud Postoffice at Quiucy. Tbe former bid $'2,880 and the latter $3,195. --The Commissioners of Cook County have set aside the assessments made in the respective towns, and ordered an increase^ of $10;i;000,<l0ll, which will give $750.0(10 additional revenue. . * -- Hiram Morey, a dry-goods merchant of Monmouth, has failed. His liabilities are $18,0(10, and his assets $20,000. Far* well & Co., of Chicago, have a claim of - $2,500 against him. ». --At Rock Island, John Boettger wafr placed under arrest, charged with causing his wife to fall over the bridge. Thif woman was drowned. The couple had not lived together for some time. ' ; --A New Jerk young man Wboee gfrl went to Chicago and picked up another' fellow got a letter from her the other day so cold that he said it mnst have come o* in a refrigerator car.-- Tiil-Bit*. i --Climbing tbe Catskills. tbe Boston ghf will say: "The exertiou essential to ascent causes me excessive fatigue;" whereas the Chicago girl exclaims: "Great Scott! I'm doue up!"-- Rochester Democrat. --The walls of tbe new English Lutheran. Church iu course of erection at Decatnr, were blown tlown by n fierce gale that swept that towu. Other builditigs were wrecked, nnd fruit aud shade trees wert leveled. The total damage will amount to a largo sum. • 1 --A notice appeared iU & Mattoon paper that Mr. Wiley Davis, a "young man of that town, had been married to a Jewess, Mis# Flora Joseph, of Shelbyville, Ind. It wa» all a mistake, but to maintaiu tbe integrity of newspapers, aud to prevent their fr end* from feeling disappointed, the young couple were married the same evening. - --Miss Ada C. Sweet, ex-Pension Agent, at Chicago, is now in Europe, where she is everywhere heralded as Hon. Miss Sweet, Galignani'sAlexsenger, of Paris, announce# that she is the leading poetess of America, and the Paris Petit Journal makes UM.j startling statement that she was removedtv from public office for writing poetry. --Peter Fortune, one of the commis* sioncrs of Cook County, voluntarily in­ formed bis colleagues, in discussing the question of ussessmeuts, that for six year* , he had paid no taxes on $21*0,000 iu rail* road bonds locked up in a safe depository. It appears that the total assessment of that class of property In Chicago last year wai $t$,fi00. -- Justice Moran, of the Appellate Court, Chicago, bas delivered an opinion in the* Store)' will case, which sustains tbe decis* , ion of Judge Rogers, of the Circuit Court, and is a victory for the widow, Mrs. Eurek% C.Storey. The Justice said that the evi- , dence was clear that tbe noted editor was of , sound aud disposing mind wheu tbe will' was made. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, and a final decision is ex« pected by November, or January at the latest. -- "Sidewalk Stroller," in Chicago Eve ing Journal: A lunatic asylum is a sad place, but, on a visit that I once paid to Elgin, I bad many a hearty laugh. The physician in charge conducted me through,, the wards, and showed me. among othet patients, one whose delusion was that every* . thing was an illusion. While in this man's cell the doctor told me a laughable story concerning bim and Mr. Frederick Cook, who used to be employed on the Chicago Times. Mr. Cook and three friends visited this cell once, and tts insane occu­ pant immediately proceeded to deliver them a lecture on illusions. He took up the building they were iu, the ground outside, the distaut tree, the cow. the dog, and claimed that they were not realities, but illusions. Tbeu be look up .. his company, one by one, assuring each one that be was only a pl antusm. ;«ud did not exist, until be came to Cook, aud tbeu he stopped and walked away a* i&he had got through, liut Cook, partly through curiosity and partly thiougb wounded pride, on account of being overlooked iu tbe madman's illustrations, vailed him back and sai-.l to hiu»: "Mr. Smith, what yon have said about tbese geutleuieu is all well euough, but wbat do you say about meV" The madman gave him a look ot annihilating pity, aud said to him, "You? You are a blank foot." 'A ^ ri J ' 'f 1 "hi * ^ ̂ 8 " * v 4s 4 , ' '4^ 1 ' < 1 • ; J J : '4 \1S « - & fi