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JOSEPH BOKK, City Treasurer of Buffalo, has defaulted in the .sum of $350,000 and fled to Canada A. terrible tragedy occurred in New York last week, resulting probably in the death of three persons, two by murder and the third by suicide. A man naiiied Monroe S. Minster, having retired to bed with hie wife and child, first shot the little ona, then the mother, and then himself. Poverty and disagreements prompted the crime. A HEAVY robbery of diamonds and jewelry waft one of the closing episodes of the Old Year in New York City, Benedict Bros, were the \ mfferere, and $20*. 000 was the size of the haul. . This tirm were robbed of *60,000 worth of goods in 1866. and seem to have been eapeci&lly sin­ gled out as the victims of theft involving an extraordinary amount of skill and daring. In the last instance chloroform was successfully employed in dealing with the attendants ii charge of the establishment..... Ex-Gov. John H. Clifford of Massachusetts, is dead. BOBK, the defaulting Buffalo Treasurer, has returned from Canada and surrendered himself to the authorities. THE WEST. Tmc campaign against the Chicago whisky ling has been reopened, and four more distil­ leries have been seized. The seized distilleries aggregated a daily capacity of about 14,000 gal­ lons of spirits....Mrs. Rachel Gordon and three children, aged 12, 10 and 8 years, were burned to death in their dwelling, 10 miles north of Rising Sun. Ind., on Christmas A strange dr able suicide is reported by telegraph from Los Angeles, Cal. E. G. Foster and Celia Foot, married the previous evening, were found dead in each other s arms on a public street, having taken strychnine. Another man had claimed the woman as his wife. This caused ftheact AN idea of the immense farads perpetrated by the Chicago whisky ring may be gleaned by the statement that one distillery alone--that of Itoelle, Junker A Co.--has stolen over $2,000.- 000 from the Government Reports of pros­ pective Indian troubles come from the West. THE Chicago Tribune prints a detailed re­ view and summary of the business of Chicago during the year 1875, from which it appears that the aggregate wholesale business in pro­ duce, merchandise, and manufactured goods is #657,000,000. against 8639,000,000 in 1874. ....A. C. Hesing, publisher of the Staats- Zeitung; Jacob Relim, ex-Superintendent of the Chicago Police, and "Buffalo" Miller, late Treasurer of Cook County, have been arrested at Chicago, and held in heavy bonds, for de­ frauding the revenue in connection with the illicit distillation of whisky.. ..Work has been suspended on the new St. Louis Custom-HOUM}, the appropriation haying been exhausted. * THE indictments against Loader and Price, charged with perjury in connection with the Brooklyn scandal, have been quashed. TIN MILLION DOLLARS worth of new buildings were erected in Chicago in 1875, making a front­ age of over ten miles J. R. Bensley has been eleoted President of tbe Chicago Board of Trade. A FAJCCLY of four children, colored, were drowned in a lake near St Joseph, Mo., one day last week, by the sinking of a skiff. , Gen. Balicock's trial has been set for Feb 31, at St. Louis A case involving the possession of 6,000.000 acres of land, valued at $15,000,- 000. is being argued in the Federal Court at Jefferson City, Mo. UNITED STATES PAYMASTER SPAULDINO. of San Francisco, whose Chief Clerk, Pinney, was so remarkably successful in defrauding the Government, has been arrested and imprisoned on Mare Island. It is supposed that suspicions of complicity in the Pinney peculations have led to the arrest of Paymaster Spaulding. THE SOUTH. A TEBMFIC hurricane, demolishing every­ thing in its pathway, and killing a number of persons, visited the vicinity of Hickman, Ky., one day last week. Death and destruction was sowed along the entire track of the tornado, which made a noise which was heard for miles ami miles. THE telegraph furnishes the report of a "little unpleasantness" in Useiasippi: "The Galdwell brothers (colored), of Clinton, one of whom ia State Senator, appeared on the streets of Clinton to-day drunk, and a quarrel ensued. Senator Caldwell then went into the cellar of a store, and was pursued by whites, when Cald­ well commenced firing. Br. Banks was shot the second fire in the knee. Joint firing con­ tinued until Caldwell was fatally wounded." At Little Rock, Ark., a few days ago, a negro named Hockeremith shot bis wife and another negro named George Scott, killing both. Jealousy. Tmtvr persons were instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler in a steam mill at Lees- burg, Kv., la*t week... .The Louisiana Legis­ lature met and was quietly organized on the 3d inst. BOXJTHEBN papers announoe the death of A. V. Holbrook, for nearly thirty yean one of the editors of the New Orleans Picayune. He was 68 years old, and a native of Vermont. WASHINGTON. CREDENCE is quite generally given in Wash- V ington to a cable dispatch from Vienna, alleg­ ing that Secretary Fish has officially requested of all the European Governments an expres­ sion of views regarding American intervention inCuoa, mtch expression being desired ua data Prosidcnt Grunt b BupplcuicDt&rv hsbbbssetb to Confess. The Vienna dispateh further , "Utes that, while a satisfactory reply has been jk ••" received from all the Governments Great m Britain is especially eager to further the pro­ posed step, and that the other powers, though •greed as to its propriety, hesitate to take the initiative... .Under a decision of the Attorney- General, £176,000 illegally collected as income tax from the Illinois Central Railroad Com­ pany, is to be repaid to the company itself, and not to the alien stockholders. The" latter, Mr. Pierrepont says, may present their claims •gainst the company through the courts. IT is B&id that the President is fully alive to the necessity of doing something to put an end to the outlawed condition of affairs on the Rio 1 Grande, and that he will at an early day send a •pecial message on ttiH subject to Congress.... Attorney- General Pierrepont is of the opinion that Ct'iigretw l»a* ample power to compel the Pacific Railway corporations to pay the interest on the bond-i loaned them by the United States, notwithstanding the adveise decision of the Supreme Court....It is given out from Washington that President Grant ia strenuously opposed to the proposed redac­ tion of the army, and that he will f la t ly ve to any measure looking to that end. . . . A little breeze was caused at the Capital the other day by Secretary Bristow's summary re­ moval ot the Second Comptroller, Third Audi­ tor and three leading clerks in the Treasury Department. Carelessness and inefficiency ware the crimes for which they were bounced. The Secretary of the Treasury declines to receive checks and dratts in payment of debts dM totfa* OoTinuMat. Ibis will prevent the National Banks from paying their semi-annual dues in anything else than lawful money Congressman Atkins, of Tennessee, second on the Committee of Pacifio Railroads, has pre­ pared a bill which will create considerable talk and commotion among the friends of tine pres­ ent Texas Pacific measures. He proposes the incorporation of a net? company, and charter­ ing of three branches of the Texas Pacific Railroad, with a western terminus at Mas- shall, and rcncbiu ̂ respectively New Orleans, Vicksbiug, and Memphis. SENATOR ROUTWEJJ. is preparing a speech, which he will shortly deliver in the Senate, ad­ vocating an entire revolution in the naval ex­ penditures. He will take the ground that no new ships should be built, and no preparations of any Hjvl mad#* axcant for defensive purposes, and that these should consist principally of torpedoes and the necessary coast defenses. ... .The counsel who have business before the "United States and Mexican Commission say the sum awarded to Mexican citizens will be proba­ bly #2,000,000 and to citizens of the United States between -f5.000,000 and $6,000,000. A WASHINGTON dispatch sayfe there seems to be a purpose on the part of certain Eastern Senators to make a serious effort to ou ->t Sen­ ator Ferry from the Vice-Presidency pro-tem. of the Senate, and that there is no doubt that this question will be brought up as a subject of discussion in the Senate.... The following is a statement of the United States currency outstanding on the 1st inst.: GM demand sotcs... 69,6-12 Legal-tender notes, new issue 91,831,965 Legal-teailer notes, series of 1889 986,436,190 Series of 1876... Series of 1875 S4,70S,18? Ocq y«ar notes of 1888 > 84,485 Two year notes of 1868 19,900 Two year coupon notes of 1863 26,500 Oowponnd interest notes.... ........ ... 330,6*20 Fractional currency, first issue......... 4,21)8,775 Second issue • 3,120,460,. Third issue .'3,097,82ft Fourth issue, first series .........v....#,336,796 Fourth issue, second series............. . 1,357,868 Fourth issue, third series 3,719,018 Fifth issuo «... 43,2It),827 Total 1... $416,505,439 Gov. Carpenter, of Iowa,has been appoint­ ed Second Comptroller of the Treasury. A WASHINGTON correspondent states that Con­ gressman Ho! man has prepared a programme for reducing appropriation bills $40,000,000 over last year. He cuts public buildings down 10.000,000, and allows no more to be started ; abolishes the letter-carrier system in cities of less than 80,000 inhabitants ; abolishes the M-t- rine Corps and closes up all the Navy Yards but one or two ; cuts the army and navy down one- third or one-half ; stops river and harbor im­ provements almost entirely; roduces the sala­ ries of Postmasters one-half.,. .George iW. In- galls, Indian Agent at Muskoqu, I. T., has been suspended by Secretary Chandler. POLITICAL. THE Indianapolis Journal nominates Oliver P. Morton for President A national labor convention has been called to meet at Pittsburgh in April. THE Committee of the Alabama Legislature, appointed to investigate the case of United States Senator Spencer, report that they find that the Senator's election was secured by fraud and bribery. The report is signed by all the members, irrespective of party... .The " Independent" party of Illinois have called a State Convention, to meet at Decatur, on Feb. 16. to nominate candidates for State officers. A WASHINGTON dispatch sayB members of the National Republican Committee now coniiden- ti«Hj CSpCvt f\ r'rvmmiffnn will ^OvidC tO call the Republican Nominating Convention for June 15, at Chicago... .The Kentucky Legisla­ ture has instructed the Senators and Represen­ tatives in Congress from that State to vote for aid to the Southern Pacific Railroad. THE Republican State Convention of New Hampshire met at Concord last week and nominated P. C. Cheney, of Manchester, for Governor, and William A. Pierce, of Ports­ mouth, for Railroad Commissioner. A plat­ form was adopted favoring a resumption of specie payments, opposing a third term, and advocating the adoption of Mr. Blaine's non- sectarian constitutional amendment. , GENERAL. A BATTLE was recently fought between Mexican troops and Pesquiera's revolutionary forceB in the State of Sonora, in which the former were badly defeated. At last ac­ counts the insurgents were marching on Her- mosillo. THE Anglo-American Cable Company has made a material reduction in rates. The tariff for political and general news other than com­ mercial dispatches to the press, unabbreviated and not in cypher, will be one shilling (25 cents in gold) per word. THE year 1875 was a good year for the pre­ cious metals. A statement of the production in the States and Territories west of the Missouri River, including British Columbia and the west­ ern coast of Mexico, places tho aggregate yield at $80,899,037, an increase of -f 6,487^982 "over the product of 1874, and the greatest yield ever known. There was a decrease in California, Idaho, Utah, and Washington Territory, and an increase in the other districts. An aggregate yield of $90,000,000 is anticipated for 1876. THE official debt statement for Jan. 1, print­ ed below, shows an increase of the public in­ debtedness for the month of December of *1,915,062 : Six per cent, bonds...... .$1^)17,619,400 Five per cent, bonds 670,384,760 Total coin bonds <1,688,000,100 Lawful money debt ......$ 14,000,000 Matured debt 32,712,540 Legal tenders 371,896,862 Certificates of deposit .... 36,175,000 Fractional currency 44,147,072 Coin certificate# 31,198,800 Total without Interest 487,417,284 Total debt $2,207,129,925 Total interest ...» #8,819,082 Oaah in Treasury: Coin. 179,834,448 Currency 11,117,344 Special deposits held for re­ demption of certificates <TF deposit. 36,175,000 Total in Treasury. T 126,116,792 Debt less cash in the Treasury .82,119,832,195 Increase of the debt for December.... 1,91*,0K2 Decrease since June 30, 1875 8,856,531 1 menteof the German press on thoroughly attained it* object. The journals have withdrawn their unfa1 flections. THE Spanish Government has confidentially declared to the other European powers its firm resolution of satisfying all Just complaints of the Cubans.... A Bremerhaven detective is now in Liverpool engaged in a search for accom­ plice of Thomassen, the dynamite demon, and the suspicion has been raised that the steamer City of Boston, which sailed from New York in Jauary, 1870, and was ne vermore heard of. was freighted with an infernal machine which blew the vessel to atoms in mid-ocean and left not a plank nor a survivor to tell the terrible atory. The British steamer Dante has been lost in St. George's Channel. Twenty-three parsons lost their lives by the disaster... .It is rumored that Germany next propoees to gobble up Bel­ gium, and that the latter is not oppoeed.to be­ ing gobbled. HEAVY rains and damaging floods are report­ ed in the North of Scotland....Castelar is a candidate for the Spanish Parliament on a plat­ form embracing universal suffrage, free uni­ versities, and reparation of the Church and State, and rejecting any alliance with the Feder­ alists A Vienna dispatch reports that tbe Archduke Rudolph©, Prince Imperial of Aus­ tria, will bo crowned King of Hungary in July. A CABLE dispatch announces the appointment by the Indian Office of Lord Lytton (" Owen Meredith4') to succeed Lord Northbrook as Viceroy of Egypt Tho grain trade of Rus­ sia is in a state of collapse, and a severe mone­ tary crisis exists at Odessa and ether grain marts. A CABLE dispatch from London sayih "All information confirms the opinion that not only in Austria is the occupation of the insurrec­ tionary provinces determined upon, but that some foreign occupation is absolutely necessary as a precaution against the massacre of the Christians wherever they are unarmed and help­ less." A Berlin dispatch says the Pjun^ian War Office have a machine similar to that used by Thomassen. It was offered them by a man from New York in 1870 for the destruction of the French fleet. The offer was declined. The maker appears to have been an associate of Thomassen. FORTY- FOURTH COXtiRVSS. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5.--Senate.--Bills ware in­ troduced as follows: By Morrill (Vt.), to further provide for the redemption of United States legal tender notes; by Allison, to divide the State of Iowa into two judicial districts; by Harvey, to provide for an investigation of the habits of the grasshop­ pers The Chair (Ferry) and Chriatiancy present­ ed various memorials of citizens of Michigan in fa­ vor of a law giving $200 bounty to each Union sol­ dier and sailor in lieu of a homestead donation with­ out actual settlement; for an amendment to the Pension law so as to grant pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812 who served five days and were honorably discharged ; and that the Homestead la-r be so amended that soldiers and sailors who, by the loss of a limb or equivalent difaWility, are prevent­ ed from making settlement, shall be entitled to an amount of land equal to that which they would have obtained with settlement. All of which were ti • :red. Hotue--k large number of bills were Introduced. Among the more prominent ones were the follow­ ing : By Frye, to provide for an early payment of the Geneva award; by MUliken, authorizing tobacco producers to retail tobacco in the leaf; by Whit- thorne, fixing the rate of postage on written local matter Several Investigating resolutions were in­ troduced and adopted... Cason offered a resot- lution declaring that in all cases of public employ- ntlio*8 4crtlHIwT ahall nave preference over the civilian. Adopted, 142 to 9. Fort offered a resolution declaring that the offi­ cers of the House, in filiing positions under them, ought to Rive preference to Union soldiers. Wood (N. V.) moved its reference to the Centennial Com­ mittee--agreed to, 121 to 91....Harrison offered a resolution declaring that in the distribution of pat­ ronage those who have the uppnimtmenf of subor­ dinates should only regard the Jeffersonian test, is he honest, faithful, and capable. Adopted.... Caulfield introduced a resolution authorizing an in­ vestigation into the alleged frauds in THE ĉonstruc­ tion of the Chicago Custom House. Adopted. Bonds issued to tbe Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid...... 1,938,705 Interest paid by the United States..... 88,202,807 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 6,668,927 Balance of Interest piud by United States 21,583,880 J. A. MABTIK, a member of the Canadian Parliament, has been arrested at Ottawa for having outraged a little girl of nine years. * FOREIGN. A HADBED dispatch reports that the Alton- siste have concentrated 80,000 men in Navarre and Alava The French Assembly has passed, after an exciting debate, a bill providing for a continuance of the state of siege in th« cities of Paris, VerHailleH, Lyons, and Marseilles.... Ex^iueen Isabella strenuously insists upon taking up her residence in Spain. The Minis­ try, however, are violently opposed to it, and a serious split at^ong the Rovslixts is threatened in consequent The Kingdom of Por­ tugal is making preparations to be represented in a proper manner at our (\nteanial.... Certain German newspapers, taking tho horri­ ble crime of Thomassen at Bremerhaven for their text, have seen fit to descant unfavorably upon American civilization, some of them hold- mg up this exhibition of brutality as one of the natural outgrowths of our form of government. American residents in Berlin, not willing to re­ main silent under such groundless aspersions of their national honor, held a meeting tho other day, and entered a solemn protest against the unwarrantable utterances of the German press, declaring that Thoma^sen's crime affects the honor of the human race, not «*»•* of anv particular nationality. A BERLIN dispatch says the moating of the American residents to protest against the oom- To Tea-Drinkers. flwm»t8a in Bottoag than a poisonous hnmbug, manufactured to meet the demands of a vitiated taste. Black tea is tlie leaf in its natural state. Most of the varieties are, however, too mild to satisfy a palate used to pickles and mustard, and pepper-sauces and like condiments. The dealers, therefore, kindly poison the leaf and produce what they are pleased to advertise as " a su­ perior quality of green tea." At one time ten pounds of green tea were sold in the American market for every pound imported. The process of adulteration was performed at the seaboard. A long cylinder, turning slowly over a fire, was half filled with black tea. Then hand- fuls of turmeric, indigo and other poi­ sonous matters, were thrown in. Alter the whole had been cooked together the stuff came out as green tea. Each leaf was perhaps coated with copper. Sinoe then " Chinese cheap labor has sup­ planted Caucasian cunning. The Mon­ golian ships the tea already greened, and so saves the importer trouble. Un­ fortunately for us, the almond-eyed Mon­ golian, who surpasses his Christian brethren in so many things, excels in the art of adulteration; the coloring matter used by him is a filthy compound of silicate of magnesium, Prussian blue and other dirt, and the leaves colored are faded and old, and mixed with the leaves of a plant bearing the suggestive name of "lie tea." The "he tea," we may add, flourishes in New Jersey, and is carefully cultivated there--it is not diffi­ cult to surmise why. There is such a thing as pure green tea, but it is much weaker than the artificial stuff, and has to be prepared by a process of drying that is long and costly. It is rarely ex­ ported from China. No wonder that ex­ cessive tea drinking does almost as much harm as excessive liquor drinking. Peo­ ple are not apt to thrive on poisons. An Old Couple. We find the following credited to a paper in Illinois : " Dr. Wilkins, of Faiimount, recently visited a man and woman in Montgomery County, Ind., whose ages are respectively 113 and 111 years, a&d who have lived together in the marriage state 85 years. The name of this ancient couple is Fruits, and they are the parents of Mrs. Thomas Williams, of Carlin Township. The old man stands nP as straight as a ramroJ, and does quite a good deal of work every day. He has always been a moderate liver, and uses no tobacco, which is an argument against tobacco-users. But his wile has been a steady smoker for sixty years, which is an argument in favor of tobacco. The old lady is afflicted with a cancer, which made its appearance upon her forehead forty years ago, and which she is now doctoring with coal. At one time in her life she weighed 225 pounds, but gradually shrunk away till she now tips the beam at 125. THE advantage of having A dress-re­ former for a wife : Time, midnight; scene, a bedchamber; two pairs of pant* hanging over a chair; enter bloody minded burglar; sees pants: "A'ha! curses on 'em! one man I would carve, two I will not face I" Exit burglar iij alarm. Burglar deceived ; only one man in b®d; other pants belong to the wife. 6R1SSH0PPEB WISDOM. ' Wbat BRiaI1 b* Done with the 'Hopper la 1870. Although the people ot TCiruJm, Ne­ braska, and adjjwent Western States pos­ sess many virtues indispeatable to suo- cess in agricultural life, the gift of fore­ sight does not appear on tlic list of their endowments. Though foreknowledge is beyond their reach, precalculation is not, or should not be, and the severe lessons of the past two or three years from the various forms of insect pests should have been enough to render the people thoughtful for the future an long u» they lived. But it seems this has not been the case, and thinking men of the sec­ tions overrun last year and the year be­ fore by the grasshoppers are surveying the prospect for 1876 with anxiety, at least, not to say alarm. In brief, the case is this: Good au­ thorities, who have had opportunities for extended observation in Idaho, Mon­ tana, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as other Western States, declare that in all this .section the crops of last summer and fall were very good. Though in some districts the grasshoppers destroyed almost half the crop, yet the farmers were able safely to come through their difficulties, and are tolerably well prepared for next year. Before the insects died they deposited untold millions of eggs in the ground along the course of their march. Persons, whose experience in such matters entitles their opinions to respectful considera- ion, declare that the summer of 1876 will hatch such swarms of grasshoppers in the West as have never before been seen, and that the tract of country in whieh they will prevail will be wider than ever before, reaching from a long dis­ tance west of the Black Hills to the oen ter of Missouri and Iowa. In view of this probable visitation next year, Brigham Young, after due con­ ference with the leading Saints, has pro­ mulgated from the Mormon pulpit a scheme for allaying the prospective dan­ ger of inconvenience or suffering, by or­ dering his people to retain their grain in store, and not, on any account, to sell or barter it. Che common sense of this requirement is so manifest that the only wonder is some one did not see it before and place the credit with Kansas or Ne­ braska farmers, where we might have been proud of it. But as a good idea should be acted upon, regardless of the source whence it comes, we must hail the lucky notion of Brigham and his saints as the true solution of the grass­ hopper difficulty, and one which our Western people must accept and put in practice, if they would te free from the great danger of outright starvation, to which for some years they have been, at intervals, exposed. Though the policy is not novel among the Mor­ mons, it is new to our people, and, in certain bounds, will prove the perfect solution to the absorbing grasshopper question. At present the Kansas and Nebraska farmers are selling their grain at the highest rates, for cash, and as rapidly as possible spending the money. If this Solicy be continued, next summer will nd them with little money, with less credit, and with baiely enough seed for sowing their farms in the spring. If the 'hoppers" come, the growing crops will be destroyed^ and again the farmers will be calMg fcr sddargraixi and mtmgh provision to last them until another crop can be raised. There is no necessity for this. Precautions are much better than any possible means of mending evil already done, and when the danger is so imminent as this is stated to be, no means of averting the foreboding famine should be neglected. The farmers of Western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and other threatened districts should honrd either all or enough of their grain and provis­ ions to last their families a year, so that, if the crops really fail from the ravages of the insects next year, entire communi­ ties may not be reduced to starvation, as was the case last summer.--St. Louis Olobe-DemocrcU. Immigrants and Immigrating Crim­ inals. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, has intro­ duced ia the United States House of Representatives a bill lor the better pro­ tection of immigrants, and to prevent the importation of criminals into the United States. It provides that the Sec­ retary of the Treasury shall appoint no more than five immigration 'agents, whose duty it shall be, under such rules as may be prescribed by said Secretary, to supervise the execution of the laws relating to immigrants, to protect immi­ grants from imposition, and frauds, to guard against the importation of paupers and criminals, and to furnish them with such information as will enable them to proceed in the cheapest and most expe­ ditious manner to the place of their des­ tination ; such commissioners to receive $5 per day when actually employed, and necessaiy traveling expenses. Such in­ formation is to be printed in several lan­ guages, and distributed where it will do the most good. And the provisions of the act of March 3d, 1855, to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels, is amended so as to apply to all foreign or domestic vessels transporting or attempting to transport fifty or more steerage passengers to the United States from any foreign port or place other than foreign contiguous ter­ ritory, or from the United States to any such foreign port or place, or between ports or places on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and ports in the United States on the Pacific coast. Terrible Death by a Furious Bail. Mr. Jabez Hodson, a farmer living near Knights town, Ind., recently met his death in the following shocking manner : He had just recovered from a broken leg so as to be able to go^bout by the use of one crutch, and haa gone to the cattle sheds to lead the bull to the pump for water. It is supposed the bull attacked him from the rear, and knocked him down before he was aware of any danger. _ His back was broken in two plftcea, his ribs broken from the spinal column ana his breast bone crushed, and although there was evi­ dence that he had been pushed and dragged about, and his clothing was al­ most entirely stripped from his person, he was not gored. He was entirely alone at the time, but was found by his son in about twenty minutes after it had occurred, thrown up against the fence, Inhere tho buU had left him and gone t° the field. Mr. Hodson lived about four hours after they found him. The bull was one of a lot of blooded stock that Mr. H. had bought at the sale os the late Gen. Sol. Mendith, at Cam­ bridge, Ind., and is considered a yerv, valuable animal. ̂ STATES OF THE UHI05. The Distribution of Wealth and Material Resources -- Interesting Census Statis­ tics. To illustrate the State distribution of manufactures, we present the following statistics of Skates tne annual value of *RHOOC mwnufnvtUiPU PROUUCGB 6X066(18 $50,000,000 : Value of Ma/nufnrt.urt*, California ... .$ «6,594,554 Connecticut.. 161,065,474 Illinois 205,625,672 Indiana 108,617,278 Kentucky..... 54,625,809 Maine 79,497,521 Maryland;.... 76,593,613 Massachusetts 55:1,912,568 - • , • - Value of MiGtBpC . .. $118,304,676 Missouri 206,213,429 New Jersey... 169,237,732 Sew York.... 786,194,65! Ohio 269,713,610 Pennsylvania. 711,894,344 Khode Island. 111,418,354 WSaconsin 77,^214,326 In respect to agricultural products Iowa produces the largest spring wheat crop of any State, the production °f the United States being 112,549,733 bushels, and that of Iowa 28,708,312 bushels, while Wisconsin ranks next with 24,- 375,435 bushels. Ohio raises the largest winter wheat crop, or 27,625,759 of 175,- 195,193 bushels produced in the United Stales. Pennsylvania supplies over one- fifth of the rye produced in this country, or 3,577,641 bushels out of 16,018,795. Illinois grows a larger quantity of corn than any other State, or 129,921,395 of the 760,944,549 bushels the country pro­ duces. Illinois also takes the lead in the oat crop, growing 42,780,581 out of the total of 282,107,157 bushels. Cali­ fornia produces the largest barley crop, or 8,783,490 out of a total of 29,761,305 bushels. New York is the largest culti­ vator of buckwheat, raising 3,904,030 of a total of 9,821,721 bushels. Mississippi takes the lead among the cotton-growing States. Ohio produces more than half the flax of the United States. Kentucky grows more than half the hemp crop of the country. California produces nine- tenths of our native silk cocoons. Ohio contributes one-fifth of all the wool pro­ duced in the United States, or twice as much as New York, and nearly twice as much as California. New York produces more than one-fifth of the hay crop, or nearly twice as much as Pennsylvania, which furnishes the next largest figures in that line. New York furnishes more than two-thirds of the hop crop of the country. South Carolina supplies near­ ly half the rice produced in the country. Georgia is next, or 7,000,000 pounds ahead of Louisiana. Nearly all the rice comes from these three States. Of the 272,735,341 pounds of tobacco produced in the country, 105,305,869 pounds are grown in Kentucky. Virginia comes next, with 37,086,364 pounds. Louisiana contributes nearly all the sugar and mo­ lasses from cane, and Vermont nearly one-third the sugar from maple, while New York produces over one fourth the sugar from maple. Ohio and Indiana (the latter the most) produce each about one-eighth of the sorghum molasses. New York grows one-fifth of the white potato crop. North Carolina produces more sweet potatoes than any other State. New York raises one-fifth of the national supply of peas and beans. California produces more than half of the native wine. In respect to animal wealth Illinois is ahead in horses ancLswine; Missouri , in mules and asses ; New York" in milch cows ; Texas in working oxen and other cattle, and Ohio in sheep. New York is far ahead of any State in dairy products, furnishing one-fifth' of the butter of the country, nearly half the cheese and more than half the milk sold, Hie value of all live stock in New York is greater in the aggregate than in any other State. In seeds, Pennsylvania furnishes one- third of the clover, Illinois one-third of the grass, and Ohio over one-third of the fiax. The aggregate value of farms in New York is greater than any other Scate, being one-eighth the value of all farms in the country ; and the value of farming implements and machinery is also greater, being about one-seventh of that returned for the whole country. The distribution of educational facili­ ties may be inferred from the fact that the largest number of persons in any State over 10 years of age who cannot read are in Virginia ; next, North Caro­ lina. Pennsylvania has the largest num- of schools, but tho schools of New York have by far the largest income from en­ dowment, taxation and tuition fees. Michigan ha© 6,000 more libraries than New York, which State has 20,000, and comes next in the list; Ohio next, Penn­ sylvania next, Illinois next. New York has 835 newspapers ; Pennsylvania, 540; Illinois, 505 ; Ohio, 395, and so on. The greatest valuation of all property is in New York, next Massachusetts, next Ohio, next Pennsylvania. The highest total of taxation is in New York, next Massachusetts, next Pennsylvania, next Ohio. New York, in 1870, had nearly one-fifth of the State and local public indebtedness of the country, or 8160,000,000; Pennsylvania, $88,000,000; Massachusetts, $69,000,000 ; Virginia, $55,000,000 ; Louisiana, $53,000,000 ; Tennessee, $48,000,000, and so on. All the above figures are from the. census of 1870.--New York Bulletin.. Belligerent Sisters. Early yesterday morning, in Browne- ville, Alabama, two sisters--one married, the other single but engaged--daughters of Mr. Harris, hai a dispute as to the looks of husband and lover. Miss Be­ linda seized a pair of heavy tongs, and, striking her sister, literally knocked out the left eyeball. A Columbus physician removed the hanging ball, and on a third visit in the afternoon pronounced the Condition of the patient as very danger­ ous in fact, life is despaired of. Miss Harris was dismissed from the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, where both sisters were employed.--Columbus (<Ja.) Enquirer. Heavy Rainfall. The rainfall during the last quarter has been one of the heaviest on record in England. At Oxford it exceeded the heaviest, that of 1872. The result has been serious flooding in aM low-lying districts. Where the drainage was good, as in most large towns, the public health has not been affected, but in poor dis­ tricts, where the water has remained in the basements of houses for days and «veeks, much sickness has been experi­ enced, and the Begistrar- General's re­ turns at the close of this quarter are i.wtked forward to with the greatest anxiety. Mice as Till-TMeves. | Col. Howard B. Ensign, President oi l tho Maryland Steamboat Company, IWM| ? the Treasurer and Secretary, Mr. Byrdl have for the past several weeks misse® from the office, comer of Light an<|~ Camden streets, some odds and ends of . m°nev which were left over night in tho cash drawer, in notes of the denominafi . tions of from ten to fifty cents, and als£ - - five-«0nt nickels. One night last week $1.90 was taken from the drawer. Tjnuf. Saturday night $4.31 was left in th* drawer, out of which was missed yestei^- , . day^a twenty-five-cent note and two tenK ce«u no«e». *jol. Ensign bad his suspifc ^ cions aroused in regard to some of tho hands of the company, who had access- to the office both during tho night ani at an early hour,in the morning, before the officials of the company were about* He, however, said nothing, and Tiesteiv day morning concluded to mie | thorough examination of the desk* so a# to ferret out the way and the manner in. which the cash was purloined. The desk of the Secretary, Mr. Byrd, has eight drawers--four on either side--the cash- , drawer being the upper one upon thfe: right of tho desk, with money apart*1 • ments, lined with tin. Upon a careful- investigation, it was found that some of the notes that had been left in the drawer looked as if they bad been nibbled at by mice, and upon opening two other, drawers, a number of papers wero ob­ served to be mutilated. The fact at once became apparent to Col. Ensign that the thieves were mice, which fact was estab­ lished beyond a doubt when, upon open­ ing the fourth and lower drawer, all the money that had been missed was found therein, several ten-cent notes having been pretty well nibbled, but those of a larger denomination being untouched. The notes were stowed in one corner of the drawer, and in the center of the pile was a nest which the mice had made out of this rather costly material.--Balti­ more Gazette. e „ , / ̂i. Winter Ventilation. Whatever may be said about the direct effects of winter upon health, there is at least one indirect operation of it that cannot but be regarded as highly detri­ mental. We mean the want of fresh air, to which so many people are sub- ' jected, or to which they subject them­ selves. We shall not stop to speak of anything in this connection but school­ rooms. How many pupils have their health impaired from this cause we do not know ; but we are convinced that it would require much less papei and ink to give a list of those who are not thus affected than of those who are. End- hearted people, on a windy, stinging day, frequently commiserate those use­ ful members of society who from a lofty position direct the movements of tho horses attached to omnibuses or hacks. We have assuredly nothing to say against Vlf? ffixjIlllS' * A wAnlr mrtirlnT|iKf<A/^lTP ASO »" p. g AV/X. . r.-j--r -j.r .. .. ̂ ̂ is often very hard upon noses and fingers. At tne same time, the benevo- ent individuals in question might some­ times find, in the case of their own children shut up several hours a day in a badly ventilated school-room, a field for their sympathy quite as appropriate as that afforded by men whose business exposes them to the full severity of cold and storm. It is certain, at all events, that any healthful tendencies that may pertain to winter weather must, for the time, be of little value to a child sitting with fifty or a hundred others in a room from which the external air is as care­ fully exclude# as from a hermetically- sealed can of tomatoes.--New York Times. A DAY or two ago a lady was trading at one of the dry goods stores on Wood­ ward avenue and found herself short of money. In this emergency she said to the clerk : " You may charge the balance to my husband. I suppose you know him, don't you?" "Mr. ? Oh, yes," re­ plied the clerk; "I gave him credit for a silk dress for you the other day. How did you like the shade and quality ?" The lady did not answer. She hadn't seen the aforesaid dress, and as she hur­ ried home she clenched her fingers and id: "Wretch--silk dress, eh? 1 111--I"--Detroit Free Press. THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. Bnvn. HOGS--Dressed ...... COTTON FLO0M--Superfine Western...... WHEAT--Ho. 3 Chicago........... COBN OATS BTE POBK--New Mesa..... LABD--Steam. CHICAGO. BXBVXS--Choice Graded Steers... Choice Natives Good to Prime Steefa.. Cows and Heifers Medium to Fair. Inferior to Common HOGS--Live FLOPS--Fancy White Winter.... Bed Winter WHBAT--NO. 1 Spring No. 2 Spring No. 3 Spring...... COHK--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 RYK- NO. 2 BAB LEY--No. 2...* BUTTER--Fancy. KGGS--Freeh. POBK--Mess. LABD DETBOIT. FLOUB--White Winter Ambers WHEAT--Extra. No. 1 White No. 2 White Amber OCHK OATS RYK BABLET--NO. 2...1 BUTTEB EGGH POBK--Mess.... LIABD.... CATXUS--Fair to Good Steers.... Common Teians, HOGS ST. LOTJIdL WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2.... RYE--No. 2 POBK--Mess LABD ...................««•...I.. HOGS CATTLE !• MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 No. 2 OOBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2. RYK BABLET--No. 2. CINCINNATI. WHKAT--New. .A '. CORN OATS .... RYE '. POBK--Mess..,. LABD TOLEDO. WHEAT--Extra. Amber Com OATS CLEVELAND. WHEAT--No. 1 Red . 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