WESTERN SCHOOL STATISTICS.
As Set Forth In the Report oftlic Com
mlsKlolior of I'llucutloii.
The report ol tiio commissioner ot educa
tion for 18S3 and 1SS 1 bus just appeared.
It contains tbe following summaries ot
western school statistics:
Illinois, with over 1,000.000 youths ot
le'nl school nso (G to 12), reported in
188:5-81 an enrollment ot 720.CSI in tlio
public 8choolsand483,G2iMn average daily
attendance, or nliout 08 per cent ot tlio
scliool population enrolled nnd nearly 40
per cent in averago attendance. There were
nlso 7f,821-ftttcndins private or church
schools, which, ndded to the number in
public schools, would givo 7" per cent ot
school population under instruction iluriiin
soino portion ot the year. Xearly 12,000
public school children were taught, the
averago term for the state being Hi I days,
nnd $0,1 US, 108 was expended on them.
The statistics iih for year past, continue
to show nu advance in nearly nil the items
reported.
Michigan, with about f,"7,000 youth
within the lcsal school ago (ii to 20), re
ported that over -100,000, or 70 per cent,
were enrolled in public schools, besides 27.
250 in private- schools. J'ublic schools
were taught for a term ot 125 days at ti
costot over 1, 0110,000 in bchool houses
valued, with oilier school property, at
nearly 511,000.000. The tl cures show an
increase ot more than 111,000 in tlio num
ber of pupils attending public schools, and
ot nbout'l.COOin the attendance of private
schools; of four days in the average public
school term throughout the state, of about
500.000 in the valuation ot public school
property, mid of $.'570,402 in the amount
expended ou public schools. There was
also a slight advance in thepuy of teachers,
tho average monthly salary of men being
$1.03 more and that ot women $1.10.
Wisconsin -vtntistics show that of f2S,
750 youths of legal school ago (1 to 20) in
1883-S4 nearly 317.000, or about 00 per
cent, were enrolled in tlio public schools, an
increase for the year of over 7.000 in the
enrollment, and 1S.C52 in school popula
tion The reported attendance in private
schools (15,015) decreased consid -rably
during the year, but theso statistics were
iiicoinpletc.'iuniiy largo cities tailing to re
port on th:a point. About 83 per cent of
all children between 7 nnd 15 years of ng?
attend the public schools, an increase for
tho year of 3,40(5, and for two years of
11, 021; and tliosupcrintondent thinks that
the tailor statistics on this point would
show that nearly all of that nge attended
during some portion of the year.
Minnesota with 350,300 youth 5 to 21
years ot ugo iu 18S3-S 1. enrolled 22:5,20!)
in her public schools, or 52 per cent, and
had 1 00.0:57, or 2S per cent, ot the school
youth in averago daily attendance. The
schools were taught an average of It 2
dnvs throughout, tlio slato at ft cost
of "2,2811,711, in 4,701 school build
ings, ot wh c.li .'501 were now, valued
with sites and other property, at $5,415,
501). Tiu-so figures show an increase for
the year of tiDout 115 700 in enrollment and
8,500 in average attendance, agub st an
increase oT 22,000 in youth of scliool ngu.
There was also an increase in the number ol
teachers employed, in the number who had
taught tluvo years or more, and in Hint ot
normal school graduates, in the averago
pay of both mon and women, ns well ns in
the expenditure for .all school purposes,
and the valuation of school property.
Jowa reported over 021,000 of school
ng (5 to 21) in l.HS:S-S4. with about 400.
500 enrolled in the public schools and 300,
000 in average daily attendance. Tho
schools taught an average of 140 days, in
11,021 buildings, valued, witli other scliool
property, at over 10,000,000, and about
J5,85l,000 was expended during tlio year
for public school purposes. Theso figures
show an advance of 8 per cer.t in tho pro
portion ot school population enrolled, and
0 per cent in tho proportion of school popu
lation in uvorngo attendance.
NobniMcn, with her 200,4:50 youth ot
legal scliool age (5 to 21) reports 157,018,
or nenrly GCjwr cent, enrolled in tho pub
lic schools, and 81,4:50, or nearly 30 ijer
cent, in nverigo daily attendance, an in
croaso during tlio year ot 11,580 in enroll
ment, mid 10,2158 in averago attendance.
With 21,1570 inoro youths ot school ago,
more school districts wcro reported and
more in which schools wore sustained for
six month., the averago term for tho stato:
more school houses wero built. Tho valua
tion of school property increased, as did
tlio number of teachers employed, their
uvcruco nay. tho wliolo amount expended
for puldic schools, and that ot tlio schools
ucrmunciit aim temporary.
THE HENSEPIN CANAL SCHEME.
A KIM for GoiiHtriiclloii or tho Canal
lto-iorled Iroui tho Home Commit
tee. "Washington . special: Mr. Murphy, by
direction ot tho committee on railways and
canals, to-dny reported favorably tho bill
for tho construction of tho Hennepin canal,
nnd it was placed on the calendar ot tho
committee the whole of the house. Tho
bill reported is that introduced by General
Ilendorson of Illinois, and provides for ac-.
cepting tho offer made by tho stato ol Illi
nois of Uie Illinois and Michigan canal.
For tho construction of tlio work contem
plated front Hennepin to tho mouth ot tho
Hock river tho main canal would bo about
eeveuty-fivo miles long, nnd tlio feeder to
Dixon thirty-seven miles. Tho report of
the committee presents a comprehensive
explanation of the Hennepin enterprise,
showing dearly that it is in no sense local
in its nature, and tlio great benefits which
will follow its construction will bo shared
by all sections of tho country, llolnga
work that will distribute its benefits to tho
country nt large it is held to ba national in
character, and therefore its construction
should bo authorized by congress and
directed by tlio government. The cost of
tho work is cstlmutid at $9,000,000, of
which 50,073.000 is for tho construction of
tlio coiiaj and feeder, and $2,298,000 for
tho enlargement ot the Illinois and Michi
gan canal. Statistics aro used in tlio re
port to show that tho saving of expense in
the transportation ot grain to the seaboard
would in less than ono year pay for tho
construction of tho canal. It is tlio pur
pose of tlio committee to call up tlio bill lor
consideration at nu early- clay, nnd to innke
an effort to have it inada a special order.
Friendsof tho mensuroara hopeful that the
bill will receive tho aouroval ot the house.
Twcnty-Nhio Italtllnff Rounds.
After twenty-nine rounds tho much talked
of glove content between Charles Whlteud
Hilly Voung, which took placo in a private
room at Washington Cfty. was declared a
draw. Kitty spectators cheerfully paid $3
each for tho privilege of seeing what proved
to bo a very sclentilic sparring bout. Throe
ounce gloves wero used. They sparred on
o carpet framed with heavy woolen chairs.
From tho llr.it Young forced tho lighting,
although in the filth round a vicious cut by
Whiti draw first blood and both wore badly
bruised about the body. White, who was
comndcrab'y heavier than Vonuj. seemed
afraid to exert las bitting powers, content
in; himself with gutting away cleverly from
his man, Tho referee ken t the men nt work
until the spectators unanimously decided
to havo a draw declared. Another match '
is probable between tho same mon, as Loth j
wore lu favor of thjhtitig to a Duidh. I
POSTMASTERS' CONVENTION.
ItctolulloitM Put Forth nt the Second
l)njr' Session
At tho second day's session ot the Post
masters' National convention held in Chi
cago the committee on mailing letters rec
ommended to congress that postal clerks
be supplied with cards, and they shall enter
thereon all letters, cards and pnpers, nnd
their denomination and return to tho mail
ing point, nnd that tho respective post
ofllces receivo'credit for nil such mails. The
committee on resolutions made tho follow
ing report:
We, representatives of the United States
of the third nnd fourth classes, in national
convention assembled, hereby resolve:
j,jrst That wo point with pndo to tho
postal system ot tlio United States at built
up and extended by successive administra
tions of tho national government until it
stands to-dny a marvel ot simplicity, econ
omy nnd cllicicnry, transacting the most
complicated and laborious ot public busi
ness, witli Mich facility, convenience nnd
dispatch as to command the respect and
confidence of the nation.
Second That in the president's recom
mendations to congress lclativoto postal
affairs, we recognize Mr. Cleveland's admin
istration ns a worthy successor to any
which preceded it, and in Pout muster-Con-rral
Vilas and Assistant Postmaster-General
Stephenson vo recognize earnest and
consistent champions of every valuable
improvement in tlio postal service and in
the conditions of its employes; that wj
realize tlio iclativo position which third
and fourth-clans postmasters -ctain to tho
public, and that wo earnestly recommend
thnt ench individual postmaster consist
ently study public conveniencennd in overy
way possible aid the department in mnking
tho servico moro ctllcicnt and of greater
usefulness to the public.
Thiid That tlio present operntion ot tho
postal regulations, fixing salaries nnd al
lowances ot third and fourth-class post
master, has been found by prncticnl experi
ence to work great hardship to incumbents
ot theso olllccs, tho reasonable demands ot
the public ns to convenience ii tlio hand
ling ol mnil making tlio administration ot
theso ofllces very expensive in proportion
to tlio salaries allowed, these expenses hav
ing to bo borno entirely by postmasters
out of their slender salaries, and in nil
cases consume u larger proportion of it
nnd in most cases moro tliiin Mirce-tpinr-ters
of it, leaving them ns a t-ttiru for tho
entire time devoted to t:io postal servico of
the public in pos'tious of great responsibil
ity and constant labor nnd watchfulness a
compensation which is entirely inadotpiato
nnd out of proportion to tho labor and re
sponsibility involved.
Fourth That wo recognize in tlio Poat
mastciB' National association, as tho
order is to be formed by this association,
the ofticial representative or tlio third and
fourth-class postmasters of tlio United
States. To thoni wo delegato the duty of
preparing a memorial to congress specify
ing in particular the irreguhuities in tho
piescnt postnl law as affecting salaries and
compensation, authorizing them to pre
pare and havo submitted to con
gress suitable legislation looking to re
lief; that to our senators and represen
tatives in congress wo recommend these,
our representatives, respectfully asking for
them patient hearing and oquitnblo con
sideration of claims wh'ch they may pre
sent, having tho utnnst confidence that
tho representatives of tlio people in con
gress will Iford to their postal servants
sufficient mans to fairly meet the reason
able requirements of tho people in regard to
the proper administration of their otilces.
Tho resolutions wero heartily applauded
and adopted without question.
'i he commit too on money orders recom
mended that letters of advice be abolished
ns cumbersome, nnd that the name of tlio
payee and remitter bo written in tho fuco
of tho order and a copy entered on the
stub after tlio stylo of tho present postal
note. Tlio committee nlso recommend
tliit tho fees charged on issuing money
orders bo reduced and graded ns lotions:
follows: SI to $10, 8 cents; ,10toS15,
10 cents; 15 to 30,15 cents; $30 to S50,
20 cents. It was resolved to nppoiut nn
advisory committee of five to work in con
i, mrtion witli tho national committee. .1.
II. Patterson was mado a member of the
national committee.
THE RAJLI10AI) DISRUPTION.
General Ittnnngor Cnlloivay or tho
ITnlon I'ncllle SpculiM ol' the UlfUcul
tles. In responso to a telegram sent from tho
general ofllco of tlio Associntod Press in
Chicago to S. It. Calloway, general manager
of tho Union Pnciflc railway, asking tor a
statement trom him respecting tlio disrup
tion ot tho Transcontinental association,
Mr. Cnllowny telegraphed from Boston,
citing that tho pooling arrangement be
tween tho California roads expired by lim
itation a mouth ago, but thoro was a tacit
agreement ami. tig the roads to maintain
rules pending the timo when they could
ngreo upon a bnsis of reorganization.
Nevertheless, all lines appear to cut rate
moreor less, and tho Southern Pacific with
its water linotoNowOrlcanscut tho lowest.
At tho Now York meeting, Mr. Calloway
says, tho Atchison demanded 50 per cent,
ot tho southern California business anil 28
per cent, of tho remaining Pacific coast
business, or, ns Mr. Calloway asserts, 30
per cent, ot tho whole. Ho also declares
that thero nro threo systems touching
southern California the Southern Pacific,
tlio Atchison and tho Central and Union
Pacific lines nnd that objection was iimdo
to the Atchison obtaining one-halt ot tho
business. This would havo increased its
percentage 7 per rent., n'prcscnting about
28,000, and Mr. Calloway states that
tho other companies wero willing to
leavo the subject to arbitration,
and oven concedo something additional
to the Atchison rond, but tho latter held
to Its demand and tho meeting adjourned,
followed by the presout open rato cutting.
The telegram cites that the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, owing to its loss ot
SWi.OOO monthly subsidy granted it by the
transcontinental lines, and which ended by
tho disruption ot tho association, has do
cided to put on a weekly lineot steamers to
(California by way of tlio Isthmus ot
Pannma, nnd to buy one new steamer, nnd
to construct another witli a view to ob
taining its full share of the overland tratlic.
Foul Play Feared.
At Silver City, Iowa, Philip Hastings, a
prominent young mnn, son ot a wealthy
farmer, was found sitting upright in a chair
at his father's house with a bullet hole
through ills head. A 38-calibrq revolver
lay at his sido on tlio floor. His parents '
and other memliers of tho family had beeu
lto.if In T.'l.nrf I- nnvnviil ilnua Tim pnua i
.. IV 1 1 V. 11 I. ... J ..win.,.. (tll.T II. II U Villi"
looks like siiicido. Young Hastings bore
such a high character that many loliove in
foul uluv.
A Scheme to Scare Indians.
An Ottawa six-cial says: Tho covera
mniit Iihh decided to eud throu-ih tho
No i tliwt'ftt a flying column composed of A
and l bulterici. and detachments from the
cuwilry ami infantry school. An inlviiiice
will prob.ilily be made lim ing the llrnt week
In Ma nli. Gun. Middlotoii will tiikuioiu
maml and will, n fur as posnlble, vint Urn
pswryalioiiH wheie dUHifft'etloii him already
bucu fcUowu.
THE MONUMENT TO GEN. (5 KANT.
The Now York Committee Il'.-ironr-
ust-d Over .Siniill Contribution.
Now York dispatch: Only 20 ot tho 000
members of the Grant Monumental asso
ciation aii8wcred to-dny the call that was
issued for tlio special meeting held in tho
Mutual building on Nassau street, to dis
cuss tlio permnucnt organization ot tho
new Grant Fund association, under the re
cent net ol incorporation pnsscd by the
legislature. Tho twenty members who did
attend, though, indulged in soino pretty
plain talk about the Inactivity of the grcnt
majority ot tho members who didn't at
tend. Tho tnlk began right niter Levi M.
Bates was chosen chnirman. Oliver Hoyt,
who turned in 193.75 of subscription be
fore tho meeting opened, started to talk.
Ho said he was discouraged by tho fnlluro
of tho committee to do anything. Ho had
expected that it would have hnd at lenst
500,000 in the treasury by this time. In
stead ot that there was only about $115.
000. The committee hnd been so inelll
cient in tlio main that tho lookout was
gloomy and unsntit-lactory. Tho rich men
of the city, he said, who should have given
from 1,000 to 25.000, had, with the ex
ception of a very few, done nothing at nil
lor the committee yet. Tl.o committee had
taken no sort ot adequate interest in its
work itself. From the stock exchange, nn
institution which ought to havo given 50,
000, only 3,000 had been obtained.
Mr. Farrelly said tluit ot 100 appeals ho
sent out himself only six or seven brought
subscriptions. Others brought sarcastic re
plies that as soon as he vus ready to go
into something ot national instead ot local
interest they would bo glad to participate.
.I..1. Little said that although ho sent
1,100 appeals to the city and country at
large ho got not a single contribution.
Chairman Bales agreed witli Mr. Little
that it was a matter for regret that no
money was coming in, nnd that tho peoplo
ot the country wcro apparently taking no
interest in the work.
Immigration Commissioner Stephenson
said very decidedly that tho committeo
couldn't do any good tor tho fund, and it
would ba useless to continue it. Never
since ho hnd been a member had more than
one-tenth ot tho 000 members ever attend
ed. Tlio other nine-tenths didn't bother
their heads aboutit.
Alter the speeches tho twenty members
passed Oliver lloyt's motion, that Cor
nelius N. Bliss and William H. Wickmnnbo
appointed to audit tlio accounts of tho O'd
Fund association, and thatall tho moneys,
books and nssots ot tho old association bo
turned over to tlio thirty-two trustees ot
tho now incorporated Grant Fund associa
tion ns soon as it should bo organized.
Then tho twenty committeemen unani
mously adopted Committeeman Farrclly's
motion that tho old committeo of 000 ad
journ sine die.
THE NATIONS OF AME1HCA.
Senator l'ryc'o 15111 Providing lor nn
international Congro.
Senator Fryo proposes to invito dele
gates from tho American nations to moot
nt Washington this fall. Ho will iutroduco
tlio following bill in t ho senate:
Bo it enactod, etc., That tho president
be, and he is hereby authorized and direct
ed to invite, on behalf of tho government
nnd peoplo of tho United States, delegates
trom each republic of Central and South
America, including Mexico and San Do
mingo, nnd tho empire of ltrazii, to lissom
ble in tho city ot Washington on tho llrst
day of October, 1880, to consider and do
cido upon such questions ns sh:ill net to
tlio mutual interest and common wolfaroof
tho American people, so that each iimo
piMidcnt nation of this hemisphere shall bo
entitled to send as ninny delegates as cadi
may for itself determine, but in tho decis
cisicms of questions in the congress no dele
gation shall havo moro than one vote.
Sec. 2. That in forwarding this invita
tion to tho constituted authorities of tho
several independent governments ot tho
Ainericnn hemisphere, tlio president ot tho
United States shall sot forth that said con
gress is called to consider First, measures
that shall tend to preservo tho peace and
promote tho prosperity ol tlio American
nations, nnd to present united resistance
against tho encroachnionts of Kuropoau
monarchial powers, and to preserve tho in
tegrity and present territorial constitutions
of each ngainst forciblo dismemberment.
Second, measures toward tho formation of
nn American customs union, under which
tho trade of tho American nations shall, so
far as is practicable and profitable, be con
fined to American waters, and thero shall
bo tree interchange ot tho peculiar, natural
nnd manufactured products of each. Third,
tho establishment of direct, regular nnd
frequent lines of steamship communication
liet ween the ports of tlio American conti
nents. Fourth, tho establishment ot
a uniform system of customs regula
tions in each independent American
stato to govern the exportation and
importation of merchandise, a uniform
method of classification and valuation of
sucii iiicrehuudiso imports of each country,
and a uniform system of invoices. Fifth,
tlio ndoptiou of a common systom of
weights and measures nnd uniform laws to
protect persons and property, patent
rights anil trade marks of citizens ot cither
country in tlio others. Sixth, tho adoption
of a common bllvcr coin, which shall bo
ihsucd by each government in such an
amount as shall bo proportionate to tho
population of each, tho same to bo legal
tender on commercial transactions be
tween the citizens ot nil American nations.
Seventh, an agreement upon nnd recom
mendation for adoption to their respective
governments of a definite, plan for tho ar
bitration ot all questions, disputes and
differences that may now or hereafter exist
between them.
Sec. 3. Thnt such delegates ns may at
tend such congress shall be the guests ot
the government of tlio United States, and
bhall bo entertained from the timo ot their
arrival in this country until tho timo ol
their departure in such manner ns shall bo
consistent with tho dignity ot this nation
and tlio importance of tlio duty thoy nro
appointed to perform, nnd that tlio sum
of 100.000, or so much thereof ns may bo
necessary, is lioroby appropriated out of
any money in tho treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the samo to bo disbursed
under tho direction ot the secretary ot
state.
Sec. 4, That the president of tho United
States shall, before adjournment of tho
present congress, by nnd with tho advice
nnd consent of tho senate, appoint twenty
lour delegates to said congress, sclocted
equally from tho two political parties, at
lenst threo of whom shall bo learned in in
ternational law and tho remainder men
who nro actively engnged In agriculture,
manufacturing and the exportation and
Importation of merchandise, and said dele
gates appointed on tho part of tho United
States shall servo without compensation
other than their actual expenses.
Suicide of u Nun.
Sister Euphrosmn, of the order of
St. Francis, committed suicide at St.
Louis on tho 10th by throwing her
lelf from a fourth-story window of the
dormitory of tho scliool of the Holy Trin
ity, In that city. It Is supposed that she
was suffering from dementia at the time, as
she left no word explaining her nctlon. No
other muse ran bo unsigned for the art, and
this view Is strengthened by tho fact thnt
tor some time previous to a few weeks ns
she had been confined ia the St, Vincent
asylum.
1'AYINW THE IIONDEI) DEHT.
Secretary ninnnliis'K Iidlrr in Itcply to
tho Vii) nul Cleans Committee.
The bccrctnry ot tho treasury has sent to
Col. Morrison, chnirman of tlio committeo
on ways and means, a communication in
reply to a letter from that committee ask
ing his opinion on tho proposed joint reso
lution declaring tho pnymcntof thesurplus
in tho treasury in excess ot 100.000,000
on tho public debt, hi his reply the secre
tary quotes tho language of tho resolution,
which provides that whenover tho surplus
or balance in tho tiensury, including tho
amount held for redemption ot United
States notes, shallexreed tho sum ot 100,
000,000 it shall bo theduty of the secretary
ot tho trensurv to apply such excess in
sums ot not less than 10,000,000 per
month during tlio existence ot such surplus
to tho payment ot Interest bearing indebt
edness ot the United States, payable at tho
option ot the government, nnd snys:
The language ot ttvs resolution is such nn
to include surplus or brdunco in the treas
ury. Tho amount held for redemption ot
United States nrtes isinnoseuso a surplus,
but is set apart and appropriated ns a
minimum security and reserve tor the re
demption and payment id 3 tti.GSl.OlO ot
United States notes which have boon issued,
both ot which aro specifically promised in
tlio net of March IS, 1809. (It. S. 30931.
This reserve, amounting to 100.000,001),
should, ot course, bo held above nil possi
bility of nn encroachment like that which
my distinguished predecessor (McCul
lough) made in his last annual re
port (pngo 32), and which I am con
strained to exhibit and deplore. The reso
lution now before mo requires that thero
should be at no timo a surplus in the treas
ury available for tho needs ot tho govern
ment to exceed $10,000,000, and that
when this sum is reached it should be Im
mediately paid upon tho public debt. Alter
nearly twelvo months' oxpciienco in tlio
conduct of this department, and forecast
ing ns well as I am able tho future require
ments ot tlio treasury, as now defined by
tho existing laws, nnd ns thoy mny bo nt
fected by legislation yet to como, and con
sidcring'tho cnuso ot future receipts, which
aro liable to influence from many causes,
such as fluctuation ot imports, prolonged
depression of trade and marketing of moro
or less of our agricultural products abroad,
1 cannot now foresee a stato ot things
which will mako it. prudent to limit tho
surplus reserve in tho tiensury to a sum
ranging from nothing to a maximum ot
$10,000,000. Tlio legislation now before
congress relating to pensions will, if per
fected, increnso tlio demands upon tho
ti ensure to an amount which it is inipnssl.
ble to estimate, nnd t lie Into decision of tlio
superior judge ot tho supremo court sub
jects the government to tho repayment of
duties collected tho nggregato ot which is
large, but altogether indcllnito. Theso
tilings nro mentioned to remind tho com
ruiUce that nolther cnlls upon tho treasury
nor tiio exact timo thnt such demands
must be met, can bo precisely foreseen. It
would seem to follow as a business propo
sition, that if tho government is to main
tain its credit in tlio senso ot bo'ng pre
pared to meet all just demands, which nro
impossible of ascertainment in advance,
there should bo a reasdnablo sum inid by
or kept on hand tor that purpose Ho
Bpcctlully yourt, Danii:i Manning,
Secretary.
THE SCHEMES OF IilSMAHCK.
The AVIIy Ccriiinn Cliuiieollor mill 1IK
Alleged Mirreniler to the Vatican ot
Home.
"1 sco a good deal in tho press about J5ls
march's having surrendered to tho Vati
can," said nn attache ot tho foreign lega
tions to a cablo news representative this
evening. "In diplomatic circles tho matter
is understood quite otherwise. Bismarck
has not surrendered anything tangible; at
nny rato, hi has made an empty confession
in order to gain a practical advantage.
Tho Folk laws havo served their purpose.
They havo moulded tho methods of Ger
many in regard to internal political rela
tions with tho priesthood, and tho systom
that has grown up will not bo abandoned
on account of any verbal reconciliation
Tilth tho Vatican. The essential features ot
tho laws have, in tho courso of tho last do
endo, been intorwovon in nil tho other laws
ot tlio empire, and oven it tho May laws
were repealed entirely, which 1 do not un
derstand is proposed, their spirit would
remain, unless thoro could bo nu eutlro
recodification of tlio wliolo legal anatomy
of Germany, and this would bo noxt to im
possible. Now, tho practical adviintago
which Bismarck has is that ho will get rid
of a compact body of opponents in tho
rolclistug, in tho shapo ot the clerical party.
Horr Wuidthorst, tho leader of tho ultra
niontnues, is a regular cat. Bismarck got
tired of trying to seduce him by political
inducements long ago. Now ho has gone
over to Windthorst, bend to Ids master,
nnd without any irrovcronco may say that
ho has seduced tho pope."
His holiness has shown that lib is in
fluenced by very much tho samo induce
ments that modify the notions of men in
less exalted stations. In fact, though in
fallible by lliodecreo of nn ecumenical coun
cil, he is fallible by tho decrco of a nntiiro
which has made him n man betoro ho ho
canio a pontiff by shrewdly humoring tho
desiro ot Leo XIII, to bo recognized us an
arbitrator in disputes among nations, by
holding up before him in tho matter ot tho
Carolines islands, a piratical dispute real
ization dream of a church restored to su
premacy among the nations ot tho earth.
Bismarck has so far won tho pope's friend
ship and his gratitude, that all ho has to
do to completo the restoration of cordial
relations witli tlio Vatican is to go through
this empty form ot shelving laws, that tho
mere process of timo Itself had already
made superfluous. Thus, without really
lowing anything ol value, Bismarck breaks
up tho most formidable opposition to his
schemes of domestic administration.
Horr Windthorst may inwardly rago nt
tho lomplalsanco ot his superior, but ho Is
too loyal a subject to disputo orders. Ho
will bo obliged to support Bismarck, nnd
wo will sco tho paternal go vernmeutschomes
of tho great chancellor rushed through with
little further delay.
CONVICTS AT A DISCOUNT.
TliOke In tho IlllnoU l'eiiltenllary Not
I Wunted by Coiurucloro.
Toilet (III.) telegram: A remarkable
phase ot the convict labor problem was
presonled hero to-dny. Tho state peniten
tiary authorities seem to have a surplus (it
ronvict labor. An advertlhouicnt has a
pcaretl in a halt dozen lending papers for a
month past offering men to bo contracted
for to tho highest bidder for from five to
tight years. To-day tho board of commis
sioners met nt the penitentiary to open
bids for convict labor, but no bids were re
ceived, much to tlio surprise ot the board,
Tho members concluded that tho agitation
ol the convict labor question has Intimida
ted contractors to such nu extent as to
cause convict labor to bo placed at a dis
count. The authorities nro lu n quandary
mm to what to do with the men. It Is
thought that the convict labor question
will bo submitted to a vote of the neoolo of
tho statu at the next general election, uud j
that it will be ubolinhcd lu this uttito. '
HATI0NAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Chairman Ilium!, of the house couiuiitteo
on i oinnge, weights ami measures, ha pro-pni-il
a miiioiity report ot the bill to pro
vide for the fro.- coinage o' silver, which
was reported adversely trom his commit
tee, nnd which Is now on the house ralen
ilar. The report is signed by Messrs. lilund,
l.nnham and ISynuiu, and str.rts ott with
tlio declaration that the volume of met alio
money Is not subject to the control ot legis
lation, but it reg.ilnted by nature, lb-cognizing
the principle thnt nature should sup
ply the volume of money, the only duty
that devolves upon the legislator is to es
tablish by law the ratio of value tor tho
coinage of the two metals and to provide
for the unlimited or free coiimgo ot both at
the ratio established. Tho report, con
cludes: Believing that the unlimited coin
nge of silver is the logical solution of tho
silver question, and since gold and silver
seem to have been roiiHlitutional money
intended for the use of the states in adjust- I
lug their legal tcnderlawsatidollierrcasons
heielu stated, nnd yet others that, might
be urged lor restoring silver to where it was
before it was demonetized by the act ot
1S73. we recommend the passage ot houso
bill No. 5,090, which aims at this result.
The secretary of the treasury has issued
n call for 10,000,000 3 per cent bonds,
the principal and ntvrtied interest ot which
will bo paid April 1 next.
DEATH 0E JOHN II. HOUGH.
Tho tiront Temperance l,celurer
I'limoi Away from tho CillVctN of
l'aral) nN.
John 15. Gougli, tho eloquent tempernncfl
lectuiv.i, died on tho 18th at tho residence
ot Dr. It. Bruce Burns, in Frankfort, Pa.,
where ho was taken a few nights previous
when stricken with paralysis while lectur
ing nt the Frankfort Presbyterian church.
Hid wife was at the bedsido when he died.
It lias been recalled that tho last words
spoken by Gough wcro, "Young men, make
your record clean."
John B. Gough was 04 years old, having
beeu born in lVnnsvlvnniiviii 1822. His pa
rents were poor, and both died when he was
very young. He was reared among tlielow
Host people ot tho mining regions, and never
attended school utter his eleventh year.
When n young mnn he drank immoderate
ly, and became a drunkard ot the most dis
gusting character. Suddenly, by liiniii
strength ot personal will, he forsook his
former companions ami stopped drinking.
From that time ho began to study nt such
times us he could, nnd without any instruc
tor. When 22 he took to tho lecture plat
form, nnd devoted himsclt to the most en
ergetic temperance work, In which he was
engaged until his death. Oaoot Ida avowals
was that he had years before ottered a sol
emn prnye. that if ho ever spoke in public
without making some reference to the evils
of drink, his tongue should cleave to tho
root ot his mouth ami his right hand lefuso
to do ills bidding. Mr. Gough bad a won
derful memory, nnd an ondiess fund of
striking stories illustrative of the terriblo
consequences ot intemperance. He was one
ot tho best anecdotal lecturers lu tho coun
try, and was always in great demand.
POLITICAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Congressman Uengau is 70 years old nnd
hns lived forty-seven years in Texas.
Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, is credited with
a wish to occupy Senator Sawyer's seat.
Fast Tennessee has a lull lino ot candi
dates for tho democratic nomination for
governor.
Banks and Butler nro snid to bo tho two
Massachusetts men most talked about in
Washington.
A contemporary nvurs that thoro is not
a mini in tho United Stales senate who
writes poetry.
Both tho Kansas and Iowa legislatures
nro considering propositions to give women
tlio right of suffrage.
Tho governor of Minnesota says hlsstalo
is strong for Blaine ami would give Iilui tho
vote ot her delegation it tho convention
wore held now.
Tho assistant secretary of the Interior,
George A. .leaks, is commented upon by
correspondent of all parties us tho ablest
mnn in his department. He is a splendid
lawyer.
Tho poll tax, ns a prn-requlsito for voting,
seems doomed in Massiichueotts, ns tlio ro
publicans havo declined to continue a party
support of it and tho democrats havo gen
erally been against it, though it hns not
been made a party question fora long time.
Tho Louisiana senators nro thus de
scribed: Senator Gibson is nn accijiii
plishcd man ot tho world, and represents
more particularly tho old regime; Senator
Fuslis tho practical element. Both woro
confederate generals. Gibson is a courtier.
Hustis would command a court. Both are
lawyers and scholarly speakers. Senator
Kuntls Is exceedingly suave and has a rich,
sonorous voice.
THE MARKETS.
OMAHA.
Wiihat-No. 2 03 tyfl
Baiu.i:v-No. 2 40 () 40M
Itvi:-No. 2 44 41)"
Coiin-No. 2 mixed 22 22
Oath-No. 2 2WM 21"
BuTTiut Fancy creamery.. 25 (a) 27
Bt;rTi:it Cliolco dairy 12 13
ICddH-Fresh 17 18
Ciiicki:nb Dressed per lb... 7 8
Tuiikkvs Dressed perlb.,.. 0 (Sj 10
Ducks Dressed per It 8 W) 0
Gi:i:si: Dressed per lb t) ( 10
Liimo.nh Choice 4 00 4 50
AlTl.ns-Cholco 2 50 (T$ 3 00
OiiANUEh-Mcslna 2 00 4 00
Dkanb Navys 125 150
Onions Per bushel 70 75
Potatohs Per bushel 40 CO
Oiiuun Airi.KS-Pcr bbl.... 2 75 3 21
WooiFino, per lb 11 10
SKKiis-Tlniothy 2 25 2 50
Snuns-Bluo Grass 130 140
IlAY-Dnled. per ton 5 00 dp 0 00
Hay In bulk COO 7 00
Hoos Mixed packing !I 00 .5 75
Bui:vics-BuUhors U 00 3 50
, NEW YOIJK.
Wiikat No. 2 red 02! 0.1
WiiUAT-Ungradod red 00 02).j
Cokn-No. 2 40X 47
Oats Mixed western !57 42
Pokk 10 50 1100
Laud 0U0 0 40
CHICAaO.
I'Youit Choice winter 4 40 4 85
Fi,oi)-Sprlng oxtra 8 70 4 00
WliUAT-Per bushel 78?,' HVA
CoitN-Per bushel H0K .10"
OATS-Per bushoi 2!), HO"
Poiik 10 75 1100
Lahii 0 07J,' 0 10
Hoos Packing Ashlpplng. 4 25 5 05
Cattle Blockers 2 75 4 25
Bheki Western 2 00 4 CO
ST. LOUIS.
Wheat No. 2 red 90 DDtf
Coun-Per bushoi 154 JIG
OAT-Per bushel 29X 150
Hons Mixed packing 4 00 4 25
Cattms StockersA feeders 3 00 4 25
SiiEKr Common to choico 2 SO 3 CO
KANSAS CITY.
Wheat Per bushel 72J.J 72
Con Per bushel 20! 30
Oath Per bushel "1VM 30
Oatti.k Exports 5 10 C 30
Hous-Good to choice 4 00 4 20
Sukei- Cowmoa to good., 2 7C H 76
HERE AND THERE.
Howards nro oflorod for harvka in
scver.il Virginia counties.
Tlie Georgia Press association meets
this year in Macon, May o.
Tramps have established largo camps
around Jacksonville, Flu.
Collogo professors in tho United
Stntes get an average salary of $1,530.
A Boston man has a $1,000 ovorcoat
which contains sixty-niuo llnsslan sa
bleskins. It has been decided by tho Connecti
cut supremo court that Ya!o sttulcnU
can not vote.
The Simco (Oregon) reservation Ui
said to bo capablo of supporting eight
thousand families with gooti farms.
At St. Helena, Cal., a few ilavs ago,
several thousand gallons of 10-ycar-old
California wine sold for !1 cents a gallon.
High-toned alllietion manifests itself
in New York by sending outfunoral in
vitations on note-pupi'r edged with real
crape.
Ono of the peculiar attractions in
Columbia. S. C, is a cook-pit which is
licensed by tho city council for $300
per annum.
Tlio rules of William and Mary col
logo in 1772 forbade tlio students to
drink anything except "cider, boor
toddy, anil spirits and water."
Dartmouth college issued tho first
college paper over published in this
country. It was called The Dartmouth
Gazette, and appeared in 1810.
Tho transposition of ('notation marks
in a recent nittsio catalogue caused tho
following astounding announcement:
'Sho heaved a sigh in E llat for 35
conts."
A Chincso merchant nt Borden, Cal.,
has been imitating some of his Caucasian
fellow-tradesmen by failing for 55 cents
on tho dollar and then resuming busi
ness. His liabilities wero very largo.
Mr. A. W. Yardwide, whoso namo
and remarks thereon havo promoted
him to unexpected prominence in too
Nebraska legislature, has a local repu
tation as the champion corn-htiskcr in
tho state.
About 1 per cent, of all deaths aro
classed as sudden. Of theso four out of
iivo aro referable to causes acting di
rectly on the brain a'nd its appendages;
ono in seven to tho heart, and ono in
sovenly-livo to the lungs.
Pennsylvania lias it standing army of
ignorance 325,000 children who do not
attend the public schools. Lack of
proper accommodation, as woll as dis
inclination ou tho part of tho children ia
huid to be the cause.
Albany, which abounds in fino coasts,
has produced u double runnor forty
throo feet long, with a width of fifteen
inches. Jt weighs eighteen hundred
pounds and is decorated with a hand
some painting of Hrooklyn bridge.
It has been estimated that nn iron
car wheel will travel soino 40,000 miles
while a steel tiro will run tho enormous
distance of 200,0"0 miles boforo wear
ing out; thus, though costing so much
more, steel lias greatly tho advantage.
A doctor who has had much experi
ence in treating laborers in gas-works
says that persons who havo bucoiuo in
sensible from breathing illuminating
gas will usually revive after the admin
istration of a few drops of acctio other
in water.
Woodland, Yolo county, Cal., is tho
home of a phenomenally honest man.
Ho purchased a pair of horsos which
subsequent events seemed to show had
been stolen, and now ho advertises for
information concerning tho rightful
ownor.
The Home (Ga.) Courier reports a
tremendous landslide. A few days ago
about ono mile of tho north sido of
Scraper mountain.livo miles from Sterl
ing, slid down into tbo valley, choking
up tho Chattooga river. The noise of
tho avalanchu was heard a distance of
ten miles.
A benevolent lady who can-led flow
ers to tho sick poor ono day ollbred a
spray of blossoms to tho smallest child
of a poor family. "What will you do
with it?" sho askod. Tho answer was
most jiractleal. "Soak it," said tho
small boy with decision.
It is estimated that fifty thousand
conversations take pluco ovor tho wiroa
in Now York overy twenty-four hours.
For each message thoro must bo at least;
fivo "Hollos," which would mako two
hundred and lifty thousand "Hollos."
going ovor tho wires daily.
Francis Scott Key, of "Slar-Spanglod
Banner" fame, has been dead only
forty-throo years, and thero is really a
prospect that Philadelphia will put up
u monument to his memory, since it is
now proposed to opon 5-cont subscrip
tions in tho public schools.
Since tho now Pennsylvania mnrriago
law went into oll'eet thero has boon a
falling oil' in marriages of about three
hundred in four months, as compared
with tho sumo period of a year ago. Tho
chief reason scorns to bo tho require
ment of tho consent of parents or
guardians.
A Now York jowoler says that tho
demand for secret sooioty badges i3
dying out in tho east. In tho south and
west thoro is still a doniand for thorn,
but in this section Masons, Odd-Follows
nnd others of that ilk profor rings on
gravod with tho mystic embloms to tho
conspicuous badges onco so fashionable.
Ev-Roprosontntlvo II. B. Smith, of
Smlthvillo, N. J., captured a inooso
alive In Canada last summer, and has
slnco had him trained to harness. Ho
will soon appear on tho road with tho
anlmai hitched to nn Esqui.unu sledge,
and tho farmers of Ilurlln 'ton county
will turn out en masso to so tho sight.
Mr. Thomas Median, tho Philadel
phia botanist, concludes that tho uso of
tho spines in tho' cactus is to break tho
full force of tho sun on tho loaves,
riant-lovers set out their treasures in
summer nudor "arbor" of (ish-netting
or galvnnlzod who, knowing by experi
ence how tho moving shadows of the
twlno or wire lower tho temperature.
An oncrgotlo pedestrian of Boston
provides hijnsalf with a paper bse filled
with ashos, Whoa ho roaches a slippery
place ho scatte,rii his ashes and walk
aeroaa with eufety and ease. II UilnU
his method moro olllpient. than t)
usual plan pursued by tho olty RHthor
ities, and believes that ha U bk) wring
a benefit upon his fellow-ojtfaww.