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Illinois. * • *-'n. ' . ' • • ;-m TBB NSWS COSDSliSSD THE EAST. fiV fil enlarging a cellar at MalMuiojr (%, Pennsylvania, workmen found an earthen Jar containing several thousand dollars in gold. The widow who own* the residenoe taade the excavators surrender what they bad pocketed. A I'APER at Jersey City, N. J., published • story that the daughters of a prominent cttfasen had "raised" checks given them by tfceir father. The reporter (Lenhart by name) who wrote the article was assaulted by Che son of Attorney General Gilchrist, w New Jersey; and subsequently, while ffce Public Works Board was in session, stanuy ing-hon Bfrchei Bridgep v-'.fj mi I i Mamie Gannon, eldest daughter^! a Wealthy coppersmith, belabored Lennart with a cowhide in the rooms of the Board, causing a great commotion and disturbance. Yoong Gilchrist has been arrested for as­ sault and conspiracy, and the affair is the talk of the town. A SABATOGA dispatch says the under- dertakers who embalmed the body of Gen. Giant have notified W. J. Arkell, proprie­ tor of the Albany Evening Journal, of a MBit instituted against him for $500 for that service. The bill has been presented to everybody connected with Gen. Grant's family except Mrs. Grant, and, as it has been repudiated all around, they have fallen back on Mr. Arkell Four men were in­ stantly killed by the explosion of a pack- r-house at the Ditmer powder-works, at tester, N. Y. The shock was felt at eport, Conn. THE WEST. ' i^pOTJKSKt for (he convicted anarchists of CSkicago have filed a document setting forth lbs grounds upon which a new trial will be asked, accompanied by affidavits that two Jurors had, previous to the trial, expressed opinions prejudicial to the defendants. CAPT. PRICE, of the Fifth Cavalry, re­ ports that the part of Oklahoma between Beaver and Stillwater Counties is free from Intruding white men and cattle; that the •boomers" have generally gone to work on fhe railways now building on the State line and through the Indian Territory, and that their recognized leaders, including Capt. Crouch, have assured Capt. Price that no farther attempts will be made to occupy Oklahoma until Congress has made a de­ cision in the matter. THE Danish Lutheran Convention, which has just closed its session at Cedar Falls, Iowa, declared against secret so­ cieties On recommendation of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, Gov­ ernor Martin, of Kansas, has issued a proclamation ordering a quarantine of nmety days against the entry of cattle from Illinois and Ohio ajd the Dominion of Canada, on account of the prevalence of pleuropneumonia in those localities.... A. S. Gage & Co., the well-known Chicago wholesale and retail millinery and dry- (goods house, has failed. Approximately the liabilities are $82-5,000 and the assets $1,000,000. The immediate cause of the suspension was Mr. Gage's inability to raise $5,000 to satisfy a claim of H. B. Claflin ft Co., of New York, which Mr. Franks, Western business agent of that firm, was pressing. ' THE SOUTH. ;/ MTTS CLARA BARTON, of the Bed Cross Association, telegraphs from Charleston Chat the loss and suffering there have not been overestimated, but that two-thirds of the funds required for relief are already MSured. WIGGINS' earthquakes and tornadoes failed to materialize on the 29th ult., much to the relief and joy of the people along the Booth Atlantic and Gulf coasts. With the eneeption of light shocks at Elizabethtown, Pa., and Petersburg, Va., and a "norther" in Texas and North Louisiana, there were ao subterranean or meteorological disturb­ ances whatever. A Charleston dispatch says: Wiggins prediction has had a marked effect Ctt the motional nature of the negroes, and for the past four or five nights their churches have been filled with crowded congregations of fren- atod worshipers. The effect of the shocks on the superstitious negroes has been fearful, and ttiey seem to have determined to be taken to , heaven by storm. Hundreds of converts are aiade every night, and the excitement is so great that many go into trances and have to be carried home on stretchers. Among the whites Jto religious sentiment has also been deeply . ^sansed. An Atlanta (Ga.) telegram says: At daylight this morning the streets of At­ lanta were filled with early risers. They found a cloudless sky but a chilly atmosphere. As noon passed and night was reached the people •ave up their fears, and returned to their names. The colored people kept up their mUgious meetings until to-night. Many of tfap merchants did not go to their places of business to-day, their families refusing to be left Ane. Perhaps the best evidence of the fears people was the absention of the school Cfcildren. The non-attendance was greater than ever before known, and the teachers report that toe children who did attend might as well have Slald at home. The many high buildings in the «»y were emptied of their inmates all day, wao. upon one excuse or another, staid out un­ til the dreaded hour for the event had passed. THE Supreme Court has denied a new Mai to T. J. Cluverius, convicted at Rich­ mond, Va., of the murder of his ooosin, Fanny Lillian Madison. WASHINGTON. or _ favors tne regulation 6i interstate com merce by Congress; and demands a revision of laws by which aliens an al­ lowed to own large bodies of The Colorado Republicans mat4a oonvexa­ tion at Denver, and nominated the follow­ ing candidates for State offioes: Governor, William H. Meyer; Lieutenant Governor, N. H. Meldrum; Secretary of State, James Rice; Treasurer, P.W. BreenyOwagieseman, Judge G. G. Syms; Auditor, D. P. Kinsley; Attorney General, Alvin Marsh; Superin­ tendent of Public Instrnction, S. B. Cor­ nell. The platform reaffirms the principles of the National Republican platform; fa­ vors liberal pensions, free coinage of silver, national arbitration of labor troubles, a high tariff, the regulation of interstate commerce, and opposes convict, labor and Chinese immigration. CONGRESSIONAL nominations: Third Pennsylvania, Samuel J. Randall, Demo­ crat; Fourteenth Illinois, William Voorhees, Democrat; Eighteenth Illinois, W. H.Moore, Prohibitionist; Eleventh Michigan, John Power, Democrat; Tenth Tennessee, Zach Taylor, Republican; Second Louisiana, Major Andrew Hero, Republican; Third New Jersey, William McMahon, Demo­ crat ; Seventh Massachnssctts, Gen. William Coggswell, Republican; Tenth Massachussetts, William W. Rice, Republican; First Louisiana, T. G. Wilkinson, Democrat; Third Louisiana, J. S. Davidson (colored), Republican; Thirty-fourth New York, W. G. Laid- law. Republican ; First Pennsyl­ vania, John Chambers, Democrat ; Second Pennsylvania, W. E. Thomas, Democrat; Fifth Pennsylvania, W. 6." Smith, Democrat; Twenty-firet Ohio, Mar­ tin A. Foran, Democrat; Twentieth Ohio, William Dorsey. Democrat; Eighteenth Ohio, W. H. Phelps, Democrat; Sixth Vir­ ginia, J. B. Page, $nights of Labor; Eighth Missouri, J. J. O'Neill, Democrat; Third Minnesota, J. L. McDonald, Demo­ crat; Fourteenth New York, W. G. Stahl- necker, Democrat; First New Jersey, J.W. Wescott, Democrat; Fifteenth Ohio, A. J. Warner, Democrat, First Ohio, Benjamin Butterworth, Republican; Second Ohio; Charles E. Brown, Republican; Fourth Minnesota, Edmund Rice, Democrat; Twelfth Missouri, O. H. Pitcher, Repub­ lican; First Wisconsin, James R. Doolit- tle, Democrat; First Illinois, Edgar Tel?- hune, Democrat; Twenty-fourth Pennsyl­ vania, O. L. Jackson, Republican; Seventh South Carolina, Robert Smalls, Republi­ can; Twenty-seventh New York. N.W. Nut­ ting, Republican; Eighth Tennessee, S. W. Hawkins, Republican; Third Minne­ sota, B. B. Herbert, Republican; Twenty- third New Yoik, J. S. Sherman, Republi­ can; Fourth Kentucky, J. W. Lewis, Re­ publican; Third Kentucky, John Shea, Democrat, and John E. Halsel, Democrat; Tenth Ohio, Frank H. Hurd, Democrat; Ninth Illinois, M. H. Peters, Democrat; Tenth Illinois, Judge McCulloch, Prohibi­ tionist; Dakota Territory, M. H. Day, Democrat. THE Massachusetts Democratic Stake Convention at Worcester, which was pre­ sided over by Hon. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, placed in the field the following ticket: Governor, John F. Andrew; Lieu­ tenant Governor, Frank K. Foster; Secre­ tary of State, J. R. Thayer; Treasurer, Lewis Warner; Auditor, William F. Cook; Attorney General, J. W, Corcoran. The platform strongly in­ dorses President Cleveland; demands jeform of the tariff; reaffirms the financial policy of the Democratic platform of 1884; insists upon the defense of the right of American fishing; welcomes the new era of organized labor; commends the Demo­ cratic members of the Legislature for securing the passage of various acts in the interest of labor during the last Leg­ islature; opposes contract labor in prisons and the importation of foreign contract la­ bor to compete with domestic labor; sends a kindly greeting to Parnell, and deplores the death of such men as McClellan, Hen­ dricks, Hancock, and Tilden. THE RAILWAYS* A CHICAGO company is engaged in send­ ing trains of twenty cars of ice to San Francisco, over the Northwestern and Union and Central Pacific roads, on pasBenger time, to compete with the artificial pro­ duct in California It is said that the Rock Island road, by the purchase of two lots at Des Moines, balked the plans of the Burlington and Northwestern roads to join their tracks for trains from St. Paul to Kansas City..John D. Taylor, Treas­ urer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com­ pany, died in Philadelphia. IT is authoritatively stated that any movement by the Santa Fe Road in the way of laying tracks to Chicago will be prompt­ ly met by the extension of the Alton Road into Kansas... The Louisville and St. Louis Railroad Company has been incor­ porated with a capital of $2,000,000. The company is authorized to build a railroad from East St. Louis, through St. Clair, Clinton, Marion, and Jefferson Counties, to Mount Yernon. at Washington has been transferred to the ordnance department for • naval-gun factory. The plant for mak­ ing anchors and chains will be removed to Boston, and the boiler works will probably be shipped to Brooklyn. THE new oleomargarine tax-stamp will be ready for general distribution about the middle of October The acting Secretary Ofthe Treasury has issued a call for $15,- 000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds, interest to November 1. F01.ITICAL, ,3r Massachusetts Republican Slate Convention at Boston was composed of Ml? delegates, and was presided over by Henry Cabot Lodge. There was a long list Of Vice Presidents, including Senators Dawes and Hoar, Congressmen Long, Rice, Banney, Hayden, Whiting, and DaviB. The following ticket was nominated: Gover- Oliver Ames; Lieutenant Governor, •• Q* A. Bracketi; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce; Treasurer, A. W. Beard; Auditor, Charles Ladd; Attor­ ney General, Edgar J. Sherman. The platform approves civil-service morm, opposes convict labor and tne importation of contract labor, condemns intimidation and coercion by striking work­ men, promises to support any just demand made in behalf of veteran soldiers, de- riots, f| which Many persons , are'MSÎ eried from France .. Tbnot^ Harrington says move increase in evictions land eibet now be expected, National LandLeague all dotations received to the pefsons r̂ioted. Two es are now puaer noticeof eviction. BETWEEN August 28 and September 5, inclusive, 13,348 new cases of cholera were reported in Japan, the deaths numbering 8,472. Over sixty per cent, of those at­ tacked died. The wells of Tokio were ex­ amined and 740 out of 1,177 were con­ demned as unfit for drinking purposes. XeopoXiD King of the Belgians, whose visit to Emperor William is much com­ mented on in Paris, is reported to bave de­ clared to the German ruler that he had nothiug to gain from Republican France, whereas the triumph of Germany meant the security of his throne... .The military pickets wno were recently withdrawn from the disturbed districts in Belfast have again been plaoed on duty to prevent another outbreak... .The German Lifeboat Asso­ ciation now Jias 100 stations, and the last year has Raved 1,578 lives. . ADDITIONAL NEWS. SPECIAL telegrams to Bradstreet'spoint to a volume of general trade quite equal to that reported in late weeks, with a satisfac­ tory increase in demand. The movement of staple goods is increasing in the South­ west and West, while in Kansas the de­ mand is reported to be better than in a cor­ responding period in any preceding year. The bank clearings at thirty cities as spe­ cially wired to Bradstreet's point to an un­ mistakably full volume of commercial transactions, speculative and otherwise, ex­ ceeding in the aggregate late exhibits.... It is understood that in accepting the surrender of Geronimo General Miles agreed that the band should be spared their lives and removed from Arizona, thus forc­ ing the Government to keep them perma­ nently as prisoners of war. A conference on this subject was held last week by the President and the Secretary of War. THE public debt statement issued on the 1st inst. shows the reduction of the publie debt during the month of Septem­ ber to be $10,627,013, and total cash in the treasury $465,375,713. The following is a recapitulation of the statement: IKTEREST-BEABINQ DEBT. Bonds at per cent .- {230,003,000 Bonds at 4 per cent .r „ 73<\763,900 Bonds at 3 per cent ,... 115,104,300 Refunding certificates at 4 per cant. 199,600 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Bail road bonds at 6 per oent. 64,6-23,512 Principal fl,181,757,313 Interest 11,936,811 Total fl, 19.1,094,123 DBBT OX WHICH INTBBBST HAS CKASBD 8INCB . , MATCRITT. e,.y,V J Principal-:...,. 16,998,735 Interest.. i.£.* : 201,001 Total 1 .*. ?.. *7,199,796 DEBT BEARING MO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. 1346,738,301 Certificates of deposit 7,705,000 Gold certificates 84,691,^07 Silver certificates. 95,387,112 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,953,702 Principal....*..^ 541,476,012 TOTAL DBBT. Principal... s-.v * ......41,73^232,051 I n t e r e s t 1 2 , 1 3 7 , 8 7 2 Total Less cash items available for reduc­ tion of thedebt. Less reserve held for redemption ot U. 8. notes Total .$1,742,339,932- 136,924,043 100,000,000 §306,924,043 Total debt less available cash itemsSl,435,445,&38 Net casta in the Treasury. 67,896,321 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1886 11,367,540,567 Debt less cash in Treasury gent 1, 1880 1,738,176,580 Decrease of debt during the month. $10,627,013 CASH IN THE TBEASCBT AVAILABLE FOB RKDDO TION OP PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu­ ally outstanding 184,691,807 Silver held for silver certificates ac­ tually outstanding. 85,387,112 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,705,000 Cash held for matured debt and in­ terest unpad % 19,136,607 Fractional currency. 3,517 Total available for reduction of thedebt *906,924,043 _ RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12. 4 J882. ' fl00.000.000 Unavailable tot reduction of debt-- t Fractional silver coin $28,899,745 Minor coin 835.2 U Total t> C* rtifioates held as cash o >, m iio Net cash balance on hand. 67,n.*>,321 GENERAL. Charles A. HAND, a hotel-keeper at Sarnia, Ontario, has been arrested for plotting to blow up the residence of Liquor Inspector Palmer. In his possession was a cigar-box filled with dynamite cartridges. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, arrived at New York from England last week. He intends to make a general inspection of his forces in the United States. THE sub-committee of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate is conducting an investigation of the fisheries question at Boston. FOB the third, time within a year, the volcano of Colima, Mexico, has be­ come active, causing terror in the surround­ ing villages. . A COMET has been discovered by Aa. tronomer Finlay. It is in seventeen hours and two minutes of right ascension, and twenty -six degrees four minutes of south declination. It is moving eastward at the rate of about thirty-five minutes of arc and southward four minutes daily....For the Quarter ended Sept. 30 there were 1,932 ailures in the United States, as compared with 2,173 for the third quarter of *885. The liabilities, however, are $27,500,000 for the three months of 1886, as against $23,874,000 for the corresponding period in 1885. Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $465,375,713 The total gold coin and bullion in the Treasury Sept. 30 was $242,609,018, as compared with $235,430,635 the 31st of the previous month. The net gold in the Treasury, after deducting gold certificates in Treasury cash and in circulation Sept. 80, was $157,917,211, as compared with $157,732,288 the 31st of the previous montti. A LONDON magistrate refused the re­ quest of Edward Solomon for a reduction of bail in the bigamy case, and continued the proceedings until the arrival of wit­ nesses who have been secured in the United Btates. The testimony taken includes an admission by defendant that he was married to Lillian Russell in New Jersey. An at­ torney from England, acting for the legal wife, has caused Solomon to be indicted in Hudson County, New Jersey, for bigamy* FOREIGN. An engine specially constructed to urn petroleum as fuel is successfully drawing railway trains between Alexandria and . ,Al , -- Cairo, in Egypt....Six persons, including fatwrnn this ^uuti^and Gre^ Britain magistrates of Glasgow, were suffo­ cated while viewing a blast at the Loch- fyne quarries whicn required seven tons of gunpowder Fresh discoveries of gold in the Transvaal, South Africa, are absorbing much attention. The new mines are said to be very rich in auriferous deposits Rioting broke out afresh at Belfast early on , and to provide for' c^'deST i ®^day morni°g- A crowd stoned the do- , INDIANAPOLM. 9 liquor plank favors the strict en' 1 ?h° retal,ated Wlth bnllet®' BewCATTLE Mment of laws enacted to BUD- & ,Y°UUG ^ named David Hoos. flees intemperance, and the subX-' £L°^re' TwelJ® stables were injured SoT to the people of a pvohibt < • -.-The of Queen Victo- - proniDi- , na, proroguing Parliament until November question, opposes all rfcductioas of the tariff, s,«MU>nnces the removal of officials ly the administration, the conduct of attairby the State Department, the failure of Congress to enact a bank- •aw, to repeal the silver coinage THE MARKETS. NEW tfORK. BlKVJU8*>i • • ••••••«•••••••• W HEAT^-NO.'V White .'.'.'.".'.11 * V No. 2 Bed CORN--No A OATS--White Pons--New Mesa CHICAGO. BBBVBS--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common Hoos --Shipping Grades. FLOUR--Extra Spring. WHEAT--NO. 2 Red......,...,..,. Cobn--No. 2 OATS--No. 2... BUTTISR--Chojfte Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE --Full Cream, Cheddar.. Full Cream, new KOOB--Fresh POTATOES--Early Rose, per bu".. POBK--Mess MILWAUKEK.' WHEAT--Cash COBN--NO. 2, OATS--No. 2 ......... Rt*-NO. 1..... POBK--Mess „ ^TOLEDO.' ^Theat--No. 9 . . . COBN--No. 2,.. OATS--NO. 2. DETROIT. BEET CATTLE Hoos...... W HEAT--M'lchiganRed'.'.'.'. COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIE, ! WHEAT--No. 2 ' COBN--Mixed OATS--Mixed POBK--New Mess „ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Red. COBN--No. '2 OATS--No. 2 ] POBK--Mess LIVE HOOS BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard 777... COBN--Na 4 CATTLE $4.00 & fi.90 "A !•£ .84 .85 B.00 & 9.50 '\1 Vacant Gtovernment Landa, and f Where Thay CanB« " • FnroiuuMdL Opyertailties for Hemes la theNorth- ihe Far West, the Btftttfc- - west, and the South..; @ 8.31 itit 5.25 & 4.50 & .77 I A* lory amendment to the constitution. *"17 W«S, 1 »' Ot B«rUii, Mid Si ateseaun laid the following ticket: itfe- ftSSici i 11, states that a suoceseor to Prince Alex- P, , Conven- 1 ander is to be elected* in accordance with ovisiona of the treaty ot Berlin, and that a commission has been appointed to Governor, Gen. SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Mixed ' OOBN--No. 2i>. OATS--No. 2 BAST LIBERTY. Oommioal.!" Hoos... <10 00 i 5.00 5.95 5.00 4.00 There remains open to free settlement in the United States about 515,030.000 acres of Govern­ ment land. Of this area about thirty-eight per cent., because of its mountainous or barren nat­ ure, is, and will be permanently, unavailable for the purposes of agriculture, or stock-raising, al­ though as a timber preserve parts of it may serve as adjuncts of no small value to contigu­ ous farming sections. Of the remaining sixty- two )Mir cent., fully one-half is not immediatei'v available for settlement, owing to the swampy or arid nature of its soils. The swampy sec­ tions are comparatively small, and are rapidly disappearing as tho timber is cut away, and ditching and tiling applianoes are brought into use, and it requires no super­ natural vision to foresee that a few ye.-irs hence they will be the most productive, and consequently tho most valua­ ble, districts in the Union. The arid area, so far as its availability goes, is an elastic quanti­ ty, the expansion of which is contingent upon many conditions. A generation ago "the Great American Desert" began just v est of the Mis­ sissippi River. Year by year the demonstration Of actual cultivation has pushed it farther and farther to the southwest, and that it will soon join the unnumbered myths is very probable. To the poor homesteader, however, this arid region is a present and a forbidding reality, and its area, except where bordering upon streams or bodies of water, is practically closed to him. Stretching from the British possessions on the north to the Gulf of California at the Bouth. and reaching down the Eio Gr.tnde and ov. r to the Pacific coast, lies a vast section where cul­ tivation, because of insufficient rainfall, is prac­ ticable only through irrigation. Through this region the valleys, whore nature furnishes the means o irrigation, are, as a rule, taken up. Beyond these valleys artificial conduits are be­ ing const ucted, but their extent is necessarily limited, and their excavation costly. Outside of the territory which they may Bupply, the problem of cultivation depends upon the pra ticability of artesian wells, a ques­ tion which mu>t be solved independently on every township of laud, and -on a possible, or rather probable, increase in rainfall. There can be no question that rain­ fall is increased by tillage, or that the rain belt is moving slowly westward. Irriga­ tion, moreover, barring the question of first cost, cannot be regarded as other than most de­ sirable because of the control over tne degree and ,time of admission of water which it gives to the farmer. It will be remembered that Egypt and Mesopotamia, the granaries of the ancient -world, were dry countries where crops were possible only through irrigation. The cost of the means of water supply is, however, an Obstacle to the majority of pioneers. The area available for immediate settlement, without obstacle, is about equally divided be- trweon prairie and timbered land. Upon the former homes may be made quicker and easier, but the latter offers many compensating advan­ tages for the harder labor which it demands. Government lands are available for free homesteads in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Dakota, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis­ sissippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wis­ consin, and Wyoming. Texas has no free lands. When she won her independence, at the saber's point, her domain became absolutely her own, and when the compact of union with the other States was formed she retained her proprietor­ ship. Tne lands of Alaska are not open to set­ tlement, and no title to any of them, save such narrowed and uncertain interests as may be de­ rived from old Russian grants, can be obtained. There is a fiction that some vacant lands remain untakeu in Indiana and Illinois, but it has no foundation. A few undesirable quarter-sections may be found in remote parts of Iowa. Within the vast public domain are found every variety of soil and climate, and every condition which men regard as conducive to prosperous rural life. The opportunity for choice is almost unlimited. Free homes may be acquired from the gov­ ernment domain in two ways--by homestead and by timber culture entiles. The first of these ways is general in its application, while the second is available only in the prairie countries. The homestead law enables actual settlers to secure title to not more than 160 acres each, provided the homesteader be 21 years old, or the head of a family and a citizen of the United States, or one who has legally declared his intention to become a citizen. The settlement must be actual and for the purpose of ^cultivation. To complete title the homestesBtfir j must within six months after entry begin ro live on the land, and must continue nis residence there for five years with­ out Intermission. If the settler has served in the army or navy of the United States, and been honorably discharged, the period of such ser­ vice is deducted from the five years of resi­ dence, but the residence must last at least one year. Soldiers discharged because of wounds are entitled to deduct the entire term of their enlistment. Stock raising and dairying are con­ strued as cultivation. The land office fees for homestead entries, payable when application is made, are: In Alabama, Arkansas, Dakota, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska, land within the limits of a railroad grant, for ltO acres. JlH ; for 80 acres, 89; for forty acres, ¥7; land outside the limits of a railroad grant, for 160 acres, 814; for 80 acres, ; for 40 acres, 86. In Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Waking- ton, Wyoming, and Wisconsin, land within the limits of a railroad grant, for 1C0 acres, 82-2; for 80 acres, 811; for 40 acres, 88; land outside the limit of a railroad grant; for 160 acres, 816; for 80 acres, 8; for 40 acres, 86.50. The fees for final proof in the first-named States are 84, and in the last-named States 86 for 160 acres of land outside the railway limit, and double these for land within such limit, smaller tracts being charged proportionally. All Government lands in Arkansas and Mis­ souri, all United States lands In Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kansas, except odd- numbered sections -within the limits of railroad grants, made since January 1,18(51, and all Gov­ ernment land in all other States and Territories Which does not fall under the above exception, and which is not reserved or designated as coal or mineral land, are open to homestead entry. It is not necessary that Government sufveys should precede settlement, althi ugh they must be made before title can be perfected. l?he set- tier on unsurveyed land acquires a "preferred right" to enter it. Upon the prairie lands 160 acres may be ac­ quired under the timber-culture law, the quali­ fications of the settler being the same as for a homestead. The fees in this case are $14 at the time of entry and $4 when the final proof is made. No distinction is made as regards lands within or without the limits of railroad grants. The requirements are eight days' residence and the cultivation of a stated area of forest trees per year. Lands acquired under either of the above.laws are not subject to the debts of the settler made prior to their acquisition. Under the desert-land law 640 acres can be acquired by payment of 25 cents per acre down, the con­ struction of means of irrigation, and the pay­ ment of 81 per acre at the end of three years. The entries of Government land were, in round numbers, 18,000,00 ) acres in 1883, 26,000,- 000 acres in 18S4, and 20,000,000 in 1885. At this rate the available area, including reserves, will be exhausted within the next two decades. In addition to the Government lands, various States oSer to settlers at nominal prices, rang­ ing from six cents to as many dollars per acre, 58,500,000 acres of desirable lands. There is held in reserve by the Federal Gov­ ernment all the vast territory of Alaska, and about 82,840.000 acres of Indian reservations, exclusive of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The different Territories also hold 23,5o0,- 000 acres of land for the benefit of their school funds when they shall become States. These reserve areas will be further increased by some 5,000.000 acres which is now salt marshes, but which can be recovered from the seas. Several million acres will also be added to the free domain ti rough forfeitures of railway grants. The lands of Alaska are ot uncertain availability, but that possession will afford at least 80,000,000 acres susceptible of modified cultivation. The Indian reservations are choice farming sections and the areas re­ served to the Territories partake of all the varying characteristics of the region in which they lie. Below will be found an outline de- scrip' ion ot all the lands now open to tree set­ tlement, MUSE LANDS OF THE NOKTHWE8T. Opportunities for Homes In the Croat Grain Belts-->Vh«re the Lands Lie. A very large portion of the most desirable free lands lies in the Northwest, and to that section the tide of immigration has set strongly. Michigan, the most easterly of the Northwest­ ern States, offers a large area to the choice of the homesteader. The bulk of her free lands, however, lie in the peninsula, and, while rich in minerals, are not especially attractive to agri­ culturists. Much of it is very rugged and broken, and is covered with soil of scant depth end ordinary fertility. There are interspersed here and there small areas of extremely desir­ able land. Iu the more southern portions of the State very productive farming limds may yet be found. They are almost uniformly tim­ bered. In the Detroit district, which com­ prises the counties of Alpena, Choboygan, Montmorency, Otsego, and Presqun Islo, "some 53,OOQ acres remain unentered, chiefly in Mont­ morency and Presque Isle counties. About an tothe Aeeeatt . k._ opportunities worth steadw. AfewwmuSeoruBd sections oolv may be mttod district si the West andiv the at the east. Throughoutthe Eau CHittM dfrtfctett wfcMb te- eludes townsMps 35 to «0 aioitflfc aaAjaMM'l 'east to 11 west, are scattntne land of good quality and available location, the largest areas being in Chippewa County. Farther west and north lies the Falls of the St. Croix district, in whioh, in townships 88 to 40, ranges 12 to 20 west, are found immense bodies of un­ occupied laud. In ranges 16 to 20 the soil is light and sandy. In the more eastern ranges it is heavier and richer. The lighter soil under proper treatment makes good farms. The timber is pine and hardwood mix­ ed. There remains about 1,100,000 acres of land Bubject to entry in the Wausau district. It is mainly hardwood land, and lies Chiefly in the border counties north and east of Wausau. To the north the lands grow broken and less de­ sirable. The largest bodies of public land yet vacant in Wisconsin are found in the Bayfield district.which comprises the extieme northwest­ ern portion of the State--a section of no especial charms for the farmer as a whole, but several small areas of very excellent farming land await settlement. Wisconsin holds about 100,000 acres Of unsold school lands, and 600,COO acres of swamp land. These lands can be bought for SO cents to $1.25 per acre. Minnesota still contains about 8,000,000 acres of Government land. In the Worthington and Tracy districts, which include a strip sixty miles wide off the entire southern end of the State, there are no unoccupied lands. A third belt thirty miles wide, immediately north of the two described, formB the Bedwood Falls District, in the extreme -western portion of which a few remote bodies of good prairie land are yet subject to entry. There is no vacant land in the Benson District, and aot.more than 2.000 acres yet remain untaken in Grant and Wilkins Counties iu the Fergus Falls district. The Crookston district embracos about 1,000,000 acres in Kittson, Marshall, Folk, Norman, Clay. Becker, and Beltrami, and a part of Otter Tail counties. In Becker County is 100,000 acres of hardwood lajid. In Beltrami County the vacant area is timbered with pine, and in Kittson and Marshall it is brush prairie. Throughout the district the soil Is a black vegetable loam, with a sandy subsoil. Between 150,000 and 175,000 acres yet invite settlement in the counties of Isanti and Mille Lacs, and part of Pine, Kanabec, Sherburn, and Aitkin in the Taylor's Falls district. It is timbered and fertile. Nearly 3,500,000 acres, a part of vrhich is as yet unsurveyed, are open to settlement in the Dulutn district in the counties of Cook, Lake, St. Louis, and Carlton, and parts of Aitkin and Itaska, Only about one-fourth ot this area is available for settlement, the re­ mainder being mineral in character and cov­ ered with forests of pine. The St. Cloud dis­ trict comprises part# of ItaBka and Aitkin, all of Cass, and portions of the counties south, and contains some 2,8;)0,000 acres of land open to free entry. About one-third of this area is good agricultural land. The State owns about 300,000 acres of educa­ tional and "internal-improvement" lands. The Government lands of Iowa are exhausted. Neither has the State any laud. The northern and northwestern counties hold considerable tracts of school lafld. Except in the southeast Government lands are found in greater or lesser areas throughout Ne­ braska. South of the Platte Biver and east Of the counties of Hamilton, Clay and Nuckols there is practically no remaining free land. West of this, in Phelps and Kearney Counties, in the Blooniington district, are small areas of unoccupied sandhills. In the MeCook district--whioh includes the western two-thirds of Frontier and all of Red Willow, Hayes, Hitchcock, Chase and Dundy Counties--about 750,000 acres of fair farming territory are yet vacant. North of the last-named section is the North Platte district, comprising the counties of Cheyenne, K eith, Lincoln, half of Dawson and Custer, and the unorganized territory north of tho last four counties. Two-thirds of this en­ tire district is open to homestead settlement. It is a good grazing settlement, and available for farming purposes. The rainfall is scant. The counties of Sioux and Cherry form the Valentine district, which presents a varied landscape of sandhillB, prairies, tableland, and valleys. Half of the entire district is avail­ able for agriculture. At the west the soil is a rich loess. The middle section is not desir­ able. Four-fifths of the district, or about 6,500,- 000 acres, is open to homesteaders. Tim­ ber is in fair supply. East of this lies the Ne- ligh district, in which Keya Paha, Brown, Holt, Wheeler, Boone, and Loup Counties afford a vast area for settlement. Its soil is medium, and the section is not without attractions. Ex­ tending south of the counties last named to the Platte River is the Grand Island district, in which there is considerable land for free en­ try. It is a fair farming country. Sections 16 and 36 of each township in the State, or one-eighteenth of its entire area, were reserved for school purposes. Of this, 1,250,000 acres ate yet unsold, Between 18,000,000 and 19,000,030 acres of land suitable for agriculture are now open to settle­ ment in Dakota, nine-tenths of which are situa­ ted at the north. Twenty-six million acres more are tied up in Indian reservations. The lands in the southeastern portion, comprising the Yankton, Mitchell, and Watertown dis­ tricts, have all been taken except some iso­ lated and inferior tracts. In the Huron dis­ trict small aroas of vacant land are found in Hand, Hyde, Sully, Faulk, and Potter coun­ ties, aggregating about 175.000 acres of prairie land, about half of which is good farming land. The remainder is rough. The Fargo district is also pretty well exhausted at the east, but in the western counties of Dickey,. and ; LaMoure, the eastern part of Stutman and Foster, and the west­ ern part of Griggs some considerable areas re­ main subject to settlement. Scattered through the Grand Forks district, in the northeastern corner of Dakota, are a few unoccupied tracts, but except in Cavalier County and the town­ ships bordering it upon the east, the areas are small and are not regarded as desirable. Three- quarters of a million acres of vacant land invite settlement in Edmunds, Walworth, McPherson, Campbell, and the south tier of townships in Emmons, Dickey, and Mcintosh Counties,which together form the Aberdeen district. This is the famous "Jim Biver Valley" section. The lands remaining vacant are prairie, and are rated as average in quality. They are occa­ sionally broken by barren hills. Benson, De Smet, McHenry, seven townships of Cavalier, Rolette. Bothineau, and half of Wynne County form the Devil's Lake district, which embraces 6,000,000 acres, about one-third of which has been taken up, leaving 4,500,000 acres open for settlement. Half of this area is arable land. The remainder is mountainous. Stretching across the Missouri Biver from the western lines of the Devil's Lake and Fargo districts, and extending north from a iine drawn east und west twelve miles south of the south lines of Hottinger County, is • the great Bismarck district, in whioh are about 12,000,000 acres of vacant government lands. Much of this ar^a is still unsurveyed. The settlements are along the line of the Missouri Pacific ltoad and on the Mississippi River, but others are springing up throughout the distrKt. Every county offers free homes, in some places, within a short distance of railroad facilities. The lands are of varying degrees of excellence, but the great bulk of them are accounted good. The counties of Butte, Delano, Lawrence, Sco- bey, Pennington, Ziebach, Custer, Washington, Fall River and Shannon, in the southwest cor­ ner of the Territory, form the Deadwood dis­ trict, famous for its minerals. All the counties, except Lawrence, have extensive areas of avail- able government land of fair quality for farm­ ing. Considerable areas at the northeast and southeast aro unsurveyed, and very little land in these sections has been taken. Custer, Pen­ nington and Lawrence counties comprise the black hillB, and are mountainous with numer­ ous plains and valleys. To the east and north of this district lies the great Sioux reservation. Sections 16 and 3ti throughout the Territory are reserved for school purposes and aggregate 5,306,50) acres. Almost the entire area of Wyoming, or about 50,000,000 acres, is vacant. One-eighteenth of this is reserved for school purposes and the re­ mainder is open to settlement. About one-half of the Territory has been surveyed. The sur­ veyed tracts sre mainly along the streams, where tho land is best suited to agriculture. The eastern portion of the Territory is chiefly grazing lands, watered by the North Platte and Cheyenne rivers. At the north fertile agricul­ tural and meadow lands are to be found in the valleys of Powder Kiver and its branches. The middle portion is grazing land, as is also the southwestern section. A large part of the Ter­ ritory is mountainous and unavailable for set­ tlement. The mountains are natural timber preserves, and in many instances are densely covered with forests of pine. The eastern half of the Territory forms the Cheyenne land dis­ trict, and the western half the Evanston dis­ trict. Montana has over 00,000,009 acres of un­ occupied land. About 5,000,000 acres of this is reserved for school purposes, and about 21,503,- 000 acres are held by Indians. Of the area open to homestead entry, the Eastern three-fifths is made up of rolling plains, w hile the Western two-fifths is mountainous. The soil is generally fair, and the area of arable land is very great. It is estimated that two-th rds of the entire Territory is available for grazing. Only about one-fourth of the Territory is surveyed. Land oifices at Miles City, Helena, and Bozeinan are prepared to receive applications for entry in their respective districts. LANDS OFTUE FAR WEST. - Vast Tacant Areas of the Paelflo and Mountain States and Territories. Pretty much all of the lands of Idaho are un­ occupied. The Territory contains about 54,000,- 000 acres, of which about 6,00j,0(x> are available for cultivation, and 15.0j0,000 more suitaole for grazing. The remainder is barren or mountain­ ous. About one-fourth of the Territory is sur-MSW* VUV J WUVA A 1 UO A DIV *-f<* U>U i,*' «•». * equal area remains vacant in the Ueed City f'veyed. A large portion of the barren land can district, which comprises all that portion of the j be reclaimed by irrigation. It is proba le that State bordering on Lake Michigan. The vacant : the arable area may be doubled and the grazing lands of this district are pine plains, with usu- area largely increased as the country is occu- .74 m .75 .87 « .88 .2ft 0 M ally a sandy soil. They inolude 5,000 acres on Bols Blanu Island. Emmet County possesses the largest area. Srattei ing bodies of land of good quality are also found.ln the East Saginaw district, which comprises all that portion of i south of the Straits of Mackinac not in the above-named districts. The Masqnette district covers the c very large portion of which Michigan south of the Straits of Mackinac not ttluaed in the above-named districts. The the entire peninsula, i The great r portion of the land in J 'hich is »tul open to , Oregon is public domain. West ot the Cascades pied. Every county in Washington Territory offers more or less pronounced attractions and vacant lands to the homesteader. One-eighteenth of the entire territory is reserved for school pur­ poses, and the Indians hold 6,833,0c0 acres of thebest fanning land. Eastern Amador, Calrtllas. 000; Yolo, 90,000; Ventura, lSa000; ___ lumne; SP0.0J0: Tulare, 1,768,000; Los Angeles, 200,000; Mendoolno, 1,868,000; Tehama, 784,000; Stanislaus, 48,000; Sonoma. 132,000; SJsklyou, 8,441,000; Merced, 49,000; Monterey, 2J?*~ia, 118,000; Placer) 178,000; Ban 227,000; San Diego, 2,2 U.000; Sierra, M8,000; Shasta, 1,285,000 ; San Luis Obiipo.m,- 000; Santa Barbara, 112,000; and Santa Clara, *7,500. The remaining twenty counties average about the same as the above. The State also holds a large area of Bohool lands, whioh are of­ fered at nominal figures and which partake ot the same character as the Government lands. Nevada is not an agricultural State, and, ex­ cept immediately on the streams, her soil does not respond to cultivation without irrigation. The greater part of her whole area is open to free settlement. Iu the Caraon City district, whioh includes all of the western half off the State, the lands along the streams or sufficient­ ly close to them to set water for irrigation are mostly taken up. In the eastern or Eureka district, the greater portion of the land is des­ ert in character, but can be rendered product­ ive by irrigation by pipes or ditches, whether artesian irrigation is practicable or not is yet unknown. The State of Nevada owns about 1,650,000 aores of land in lieu of the 16th and 3uth section grant. It is all agricultural, and is held at a nominal price. T Utah Territory is all included in the Salt Lake City land district, and, while one-half of its surface belongs to the Government and is subject to free entry, except when designated as mineral, coal, or timber lands, or where lying in odd sections within the limits of a railroad grant, farming tracts are very scarce. At the northwest is a large area of desert land. The valleys where irrigation is practicable are occupied. The greater portion of the area of Colorado is Federal property and open to settlement. It is adapted to agriculture, however, only along streams or where irrigation is practicable In the Central City district, which is formed of the counties of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Bummit, and part of Bowlder, Jefferson, JIagle, and Grand, there are 2,0(0,000 acres vacant. It is mountainous, but in the Mid­ dle Park in Grand County is an excellent grazing section, part of which is unoccupied, and numerous small valleyB throughout the district offer opportunities for agriculture What has been said of this district applies, equally, to all the mountain districts--Lead- ville, Gunnison, Lake City, Durango, and Del Norte. The Denver and Pueblo districts, which include the immense areas east of the moun­ tains, are made up of what is called arid lands, fair for grazing, but available for acprioulture only through Irrigation. The State is well en­ dowed with lands, which it holds at 81.25 to (iff per acre. IN THE GREAT SOUTHWEST. Many Millions of free Aores--Nature and Location of the Lands. According to the estimates of the Registers ot the land offices, fully 1,000,0J0 acres of Govern­ ment lands are still unoccupied in Missouri, In the Ironton district the vacant lands lie mainly in Howell (125,000 acres), Texas (225,000 acres), Oregon, Shannon, Bipley and Phelps counties. These lands (600,000 acres in all) are timbered, hilly and poor. Large bodies of free land of a kind better suited to grazing than to agriculture, footing up over 300,000 acres, are found in the counties of Crawford, Miller, Pulaski, Camden, Hickory, St. Clair, Benton, Laclede, Oallns, Polk, and Cedar, which comprise the Boonville district. Some twenty counties in the southwest corner of the State make up the Springfield district. Of these Stone, Christian, Taney, Douglas, and Ozark, only, contain any large areas of Federal land. The prairie lands of this section are ex­ hausted. The remaining woodlands are rolling and sometimes rough, but the soil is good. State lands to the extent of 180,000 acres are yet unsold, as are, also, several thousand acres of swamp lands. The United States owns about 6,400,000 acres of land in Arkansas, all open to homesteaders. Of this some 2,300,000 acres are iu the Harrison district, which includes Boone, Benton, Baxter, Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Madison, Marion, New­ ton, Searcy, Stone, and Washington oohntftes. None of these counties contains less than 100,000, while Benton has nearly 700,000 acres. These lands are all timbered, and are, in the mAin, hilly, although there are large areas of rieh val­ ley lands. In the Camden district, Nevada, Hempstead, and Ashley counties have vacant prairie lauds. Polk, Pike, S,oi tgomery, Hot Springs, Garland, Clark, and Howard counties are timbered, and -contain 1,400,000 acres of vacant lands, chiefly hilly, but with numer­ ous valleys. Unoccupied lauds also exist in the southern parts of Miller, Lafayette, and Colum­ bia Counties. The Dardanelle district, com­ prising Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Sebastian, Montgomery, and Saline Counties, With 40,000 to 80,000 acres of vacant land each, and Pope, Tell, Scott, and Perry, with about 200,000 acres each, is made up of alternate mountains and lowlands, the latter being ex­ tremely fertile. It is a timbered region. The remaining Government lands in the State, some 400,000 acres, nearly all of which is available, are in the Little Rock district, and are divided between prairie and timber. Beginning thirty miles east of Little Rock and extend­ ing west ninety to one hundred miles, with an average width of twenty-seven miles, is the principal prairie of the State. Much of it is un­ occupied. About 1,500,000 acres of State lands are undisposed of, and of these lands nearly 1,(JOO,OOJ acres are free to settlers who improve them. Kansas is not without attractions for the homesteader. In the Topeka, Concordia, and Independence districts at the east no lands of consequence remain unoccupied. Ottawa, Saline, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Russell, Davis, and Chase counties, iu the Sallna dis­ trict, contain isolated quarter-sections of rough land. Graham and Norton counties, in the Kirwin district, have about 30,- 000 acres of medium lands. The Oberlin district, at the northwest, contains 1,600,000 acres of vacant land, chiefly in Thomas, Chey­ enne, Sherman and Rawlins counties. It is mostly prairie, with a mixed loam and sand soil which yields fairly. In the Wichita dis­ trict, Reno, Butler, Barber, Kingman and Harper counties contain some 120,000 acres of available land. Rioe, Pawnee, Edwards, Bur­ ton, Stafford, Pratt, and part of Ho.dgeman counties form the Larned district, and exclus­ ive of the Osage Indian reservation of 500,000 acres, contain only odd quarters of in­ different land. At the southwest is the Garden City district, made up' of the counties of Ford, Seward, Finney, Ham­ ilton, Comanche and part of Hodgeman, which contains over 4,000,000 acres of vacant land. Back from the Arkansas Valley, which is from one to five miles wide and very fer­ tile, this section is a great rolling table land, without timber. The soil is fair, being a sandy loam with light clay subsoil -resting on lime­ stone. Irrigation Is largely practiced, and is essential, as a rule, to successful farming. North of the last-named district is the Wo- keeney, or Western land district, which com­ prises all of the State not included in the above descriptions, and contains nearly 2,000.- 000 acres of land open to free settlement. This region is all prairie, and too dry for culti­ vation without irrigation. About 1,000,000 acres of school land are for sale by the State. Nearly all of the lands of Arizona are Govern­ ment property and subject to entry under the usual laws. The Prescott district, including all the territory north of the 34 th parallel, is mountainous or hilly and clothed with native grasses. The soil in the hills is second or third rate, but in the valleys is deep and fertile. The vallevs are occupied. The unoccupied lands are better adapted to stock-raising than to agriculture. In the southern portion of the Territory, or Tucson district, the same con­ ditions prevail, save that the valleys are larger and the entries more numer­ ous. At the far southwest the Gov­ ernment lands are barren. Irrigation is neces­ sary throughout the Territory. What has been said of Arizona applies equally to New Mexico, which is divided into the Banta Fe and Las Cru- ces districts. Texas has no Government lauds. The State holds 21,00',000 acrfs of school lands, located in nearly every county in the State, and about 1,850,000 acres of University lands in Pecas, Tom Green, and Crockett Counties. Theie lands include every variety and quality of soil found in the State, and are held at $2 per acre. _ AT THE SUNNY SOUTH. Viae Homes in the Cotton and JTralt Belts-- Vast Areas of Timber. The Government has 6,000,000 acres of land scattered o>er the entire State of Louisiana, chiefly prairie, good uplands, pine hills, or pine flats. There are also some bottom lands in the Natchitoches district, which comprises the thirteen northwestern counties. The re­ mainder of tho St.it'* is included in the New Orleans district. The State owns 0,0 M),0, 0 acres of land, mainly low and flat, and compris­ ing both timber and prairie. These lauds, in tracts of 16 ' ucres, nra given to Ffettlers, the fee forentrv' be ing »^1, Under the State and Gov­ ernment lawB a settler can take up 480 acres, at a total cost of S iO. .0. Mississippi constitutes an United States land district, the office being at Jackson. Vacnnt lands exist in a majority of the counties of the State in small, scattered tracts. In tb pine district at the so t'n and on the Gulf coast are considerable areas. The pine lands have a sandy soil f moderate quality. The Gulf coast lands 1 are ricLer. One million acres of State lands, • divided among all the counties, also remain open to acquisition. I Over <;,000,000 acres of Government land re- I main in Florida, which is erected into a single • district, with an office at Gainesville. The 1 lands partake of all ti e a.ifties of soil found I An the Sta'e, an<l are found to nearly ev«*y | county. The State landscompris' several mill­ ion aer«s, aud aro i.e!d at nominal prices, t South Caro ir a i emaesses 1,80 ,00 > acres of < State lands, located in pretty much all tne counties of tlie !>tate, an l possessing all varie­ ties of soil found within her borders They are 1 in many cases very desirable, and are sola on 1 private bids. .. _ _ . . I G- orgia o era a very small area off State do- ain, whioh is granted to residents only ea . ftromi** Main TMn- <|alv** Heart! and Felt at th« Coming elections. VoiktajpMB Taking Political dirttin. The workin^men throughout the ^mftty are talking a great deal about political ac­ tion, and will no doubt do better than they have done heretofore in (hat direction. The 30,000 signatures in favor of Henry George's candidacy for Mayor of New York have been secure a, a convention hae nominated him, and hie friends and back- ers are making a vigorous canvass. A cigarmaker and Greenbacker hhve been nominated for Congress at Albany, N. Y. The New York State Committee of tho Greenback parly met at Albany and nomi­ nated a candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Gideon J. Tucker is their choice. The New Hampshire Greenback State Convention met with the Labor parly of the State, in convention, at Manches­ ter. The labor men and the temperance people at Toronto will try to form a third party. The workingmen of Allegheny County, Pa., are arranging to take a hand in politics, A full labor ticket will be put in the field at Evansville, Ind. The Indus­ trial Labor party of Baltimore has put np candidates for city councils. A labo? con­ vention at Richmond has nominated the District Master Workman for < Congress. In some districts the Greenbackers and Eepublicans have fused, and in oth­ ers the Greenbackers and Democrats faave joined hands. The Petersburg (Va.) Republicans have nominated a Knight of Labor for Congress. The Milwaukee Knights expect to elect mem~ bers of their order to the Legislature. A labor convention was held at Foit Worth. The party there is called the Anti-Monopo­ ly party. The Greenbackers and Demo­ crats have joined hands in the First, Third, and Fifth Districts of Kansas, and Jesse Harper is working the State. The farmers and wage workers around Minneapolis are working on the same platform. A Knight of Labor has been nominated for Congress in Muscatine, Iowa, and will be supported by the Republicans.' Two Richmond del­ egates at Trenton will be run for the New Jersey Legislature. The Democrats and Knights of Labor will unite on a preacher in the Salem, Mass., district. It is esti­ mated that the labor organizations of New York will cast 69,200 votes, and Hemy George may probably be elected Mayor. Congressional Nominations. Ninth Illinois District, L. E. Fayson, Republican; Tenth Missouri, M. J. Batch- ford, Labor; Twelfth Pennsylvania, John Lynch, Democrat; Fifth Illinois, Charles Wheaton, Prohibitionist; Third Louisiana E. J. Gay, Democrat; First Pennsylvania, H. H. Brigham, Republican; Second Pennsylvania, Charles O'Neil, Republi­ can; Fourth Pennsylvania, W. D. Kelley, Republican; Fifth Pennsylvania, A. C. Harmer, Republican; Sixth Maryland, Vic­ tor Baughman, Democrat; Second Nebras­ ka, James Laird; Fifth Missouri, William Warner, Republican; First New Jersey, George Hires, Republican; First Maryland. Thomas S. Hodson, Republican; Second Maryland, W. M. Martine, Republican; Fifth Maryland, W. C. Tuck, Republican; Seventh New York, J. F. Storey, Prohibi­ tionist; First Connecticut, J. R. Buck, Re­ publican. Fourth Wisconsin, John Black, Democrat; First Wisconsin, L. B. Caswell, Republican; First Michigan, H. A. Robin­ son, Republican and Labor; Ninth Indi­ ana, B. F. Ham, Democrat; Eleventh Michigan, S. C. Moffat, Republican; Third Wisconsin, Hugh J. Gallagher, Democrat; Seventh Wisconsin, S. N. Dickinson, Democrat; First Nebraska, Church Howe, Republican; Second Hfeiini sota, O. TV* Bullis, Demqcr,».f i11 u rarmef3^"TwlHty-first Pennsylvania, G. T. Rafferty, Democrat; Seventh Missouri, John E. Hutlton, Demo­ crat; Third Iowa, J. C. Cook, Democrat; Third Tennessee, J. T. Wilder, Repub­ lican; Eleventh Texas, S. W. T. Lanahan, Democrat; Fourth Alabama, J. F. Mc- Duffee, Republican; Eighth Illinois, Hiram H. Cody, Democrat; Third Indiana, J. Iv. Marsh, Democrat; Dakota Territory, O. S. Gifford, Republican; Culpeper district, W. H. F. Lee, Democrat. f V,. ',3a Postmasters Appointed. The President has appointed the follow­ ing-named postmasters: At Georgetown, Col., James W. Forest; at Normal, Dl., W. C. Scanland; at Letonia, Ohio; C. N. Schmick; at Media, Pa., J. C. Hender­ son; at Brenham, Texas, Julien M. Byrnes; at Shreveport, La., J. C. Loape, at Montevideo, Minn., Mrs. Ella L. Kempe, reappointed; at De Soto, Mo.; James W. Clarke; at Boise City, Idaho, T. B. Goss; at Nashville, Tenn., Anna B. Cheatham; at Prescott, Arizona, P. Behan; at What Cheer, Iowa, Richard Burke; at Reno, Nev., J. H. Hagerman; at Afton, Iowa, Alice H. Graves. *-< > f; Politics Uown in [New York special.] Gen. (Gordon, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia, is in New York on a flying visit. In response to ah inquiry regarding the canvass in Georgia, he re­ plied: "We haven't any. We are present­ ing the sin nlar spectacle in Georgia of having only one candidate for Governor. So far it seems that the one we have is ac­ ceptable to both parties. There is no par­ ticular excitement among us now, and our people are paying the strictest attention to their materi.il interests. Our people are natural politicians, but the necessities of our new conditions have made them pay more attention to their planting and gather- ; ing than in (hose days when they had some­ body to work for them." -* Gen. Beauregard on Mr. Cleveland. Gen. G. T. Beauregard of New Orleans, who is in New York, said to a reporter: "Mr. Cleveland appears to be making a very good President, and I think he will gain in popularity before his term ejypires. He has been handicapped by the Republican Senate in making removals. Civil-service reform may be all right, but I think one- half of the people who are in should be turned ont before we should apply it. That would be no more than fair. The South is having an era of piosperity, and our Vf>Q- ple have very little cause to oomplain. " Republican Nominations In NeT«tfc /; The Nevada Republican State Commit­ tee met at Carson and nominated the fol­ lowing ticket: Governor, C. C. Stevenson; Lieutenant Governor, H. C. Davis; Secre­ tary of State, J. M. Donner; Supreme Court Judge, T. D. Edwards; Treasurer, George Tuity; Comptroller, J. F. HaUook. Charges Against Commissioner Atkins. [Washington special.] Herbert Welsh, Secretary of the Indian Rights Association, proposes to prefef charges of bad administration against Commissioner Atkins, of the Indian Bu­ reau, and Assistant Commissioner Upham. Welsh claims to have affidavits -showing mismanagement at a number of Inflian agencies. Political Itotes. The Central Labor Union held a politi­ cal convention in New York city end nom­ inated Henry George for Mayor. _ THE Knights of Labor of Iowa have de- i cided not to name independent candidates for Congress, but to support in each dis­ trict the Republican or Democratic nomi­ nee, according as one or the other is favor­ able to their cause. SENATOR LOGAJI opened the Pennsylvn- . nia campaign with * snaeeh at Pittsbuish. , 1 " J-j"•*'*!>£ v5--. iiBsi'r, ij&te