Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1880, Page 4

aha ¥ ‘THE CHICAGO 'I'RIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. Che Gribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. NY MAIM--IN ADVANCK—POSTAGR PREPAID. ally edition, ono gent... 812,00 arte OF 8 tar pon mnths 1.00 a eas Fat SMouble Bhent, 338 Baturday Editor ¥.00 WEEKLY EDITION-—YOST!AID. 8 1.50 Boo 11.00, 20.00 Hpecimen copies sent free. Give Post-Oflico nddress in fnil, inetnding State and County. Remittances may ho mado cither by dmtt exptoss, Post-Office ordar, of in rogistored letter, nt our risk, TENMS TO CITY SUNSCRIBERS. Patty, dolivared, Sunday axcepted, 26 conta por week, ‘Duily, delivered, Sunday included, 180 conta por week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Doarborn-sts., Chicayo, It, — POSTAGE, Entered at the Post-ogtee at Chteago, ML, as Becond> : Class Matter, For the boneft of our patrons who desire to sond single coplos of THR THRIUUNE through the mall, we alive horowith the transient rato of poatagat r Domestic. 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Kogagemont of Frank FR, Atken, “Undor the Arch; or, The Love 'Thnt Livos,” Afternoun and cyening. Otympic Thentre. Clark atreot, between Itandolpt und Lake, entatalnment., Afternoon and evening. Varioty WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1890, Tue West Virginia delegates to: the Chi- cago Convention will bo divided between Sherman, Blaine, and Washburne, ‘Tre Maryland Legislature yesterday clect- ed Arthur Gorman to the United States Sen- ato for the term of six years following March 3, 1881. id Tur cable announces the death of Jules Favre, the omfinent French statesman, Inw- yer, and Academician, aged 7L years; and of tho sister of the Ion. William E. Gladstone, Ir will ba about $00,000 In Fitz John Por- ter's pocket if tho bill passes Congress glv- ing him the rank and pay of Major-General from Jan, 28, 1863, to Sept. 1, 1868, and the rank and pay of Colonel from the Jatter date ‘up to the present tine. ‘Tire report that the Pope had enabled his displdasure at the warmth with which Par- nell was recelyed In Now York by Cardinal McCloskey proves tobe unfounded, Cardl- nal McCloskey deules having received such @ message, and Knows of no reason why he should receive It ‘tire murder of Jacob Miller at his door- way on Archer avenue Inst Friday morning a littio before daylight bids fair to remalna permanent addition to tho already long list of tragic -mysterles occurring in Chicago. ‘The Coroner’s inquest yesterday resulted in averdict to the effect that tho murderer ts ‘unknown, Anprana Republienns are very much on- raged at the appointment of Frank 0, John- son as Census Supervisor In the Second Dis- trict of that State. Johuson is denounced as a Democrat of the most contemptible parti- san stripe, and his selection by President Alnyes Is resented as a direct affront to the Republicans of the State. .Ex-Sknator Hows, of Wisconsin, has writ- ‘ton an elaborato essay for the North Amert- can Review in belt of a third term for Gen. Grant, which appears.in the February issue,’ We reproduce the same in order that our readers may seo what can bo snld in refutation of the objuctions ton third term, ‘Tho third-termers consider the paper a strong one,. ‘Tr firat annual meeting of tho Motel Men's Mutual ‘Benefit Association of the ‘United States was held in Chicago yester- ~.+ day, and was attended by a large number of members from all parts of the country, Mr, Charles.C, Hilton, of the Sherman T{ouse, Chicago, was relected President of tho:Association, and Nuw York was fixed Upon as tho next plnco of mooting, * H — {Tux fomnlesnfragists have onco more succeeded in bringing themselves Into no- _ Uco, this time through proposed amend- inent to tho Constitution, offered yosterday by Dr, Loring, af Massachusetts, providing that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex, or for any reason not equally applicable to all citizens of the United States, Tx¥g.Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of the logal-tendor quality of the greenback 3s to be called up in the Senate to-day. Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, a Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee, has an- nounced his jhtentlon to spoak naguinst the regolutlon, and It is understood that a num- ber of Democratic Senators have prepared speeches for nud against the measure, Its defeat, however, {s a foregono conclusion, ' An Intoresting reminiscence of tho early days of Republtcantsm in Iiinols fs given in the form of a letter by Judge Edwin 8, Lo Jand tothe Young Men's Republican Club of Ottawa, 11, It was in that village that the grand party of freedom had its firet organ- ization In Tllnols, and, In view of the fact that ut thht time, June 24, 1854, no similar organ!- zation existed clsowhere, {Is perhaps not too niuch to say that the Republican party, under that nome, Jiad its origin in La Salle County, Tm action of the so-called MWigh-Joint Committee of Eastern railroad magnates in refusing to allow of any reduction In grain _ Yates from'Chicago to the East shuts off prospect of relief from that direction of the grain blockade In this city, and glyes con-’| latency to the 8: sition that the specu- Tators who hold “the grain trade of Chi- engo by the thront and the syndicate of, railyond monopolists are pooling thelr . iusues and working together, In view of the existing situation in this city tha ‘disous- * ston yesterday before the Howse Committee c yg tht nhpees the reguintion of inter-State rallrond trafic will oxelte surprise—particularly that por- tion wherein Ropresentatlye Washburn, of Minnesota, stated that from personal knowl- edge he was prepared tosny thnt rates on West- ern roads ara now lower than thoy weran year ngol Mr. Washburn’s means of !nformn- tion must be of 1 very peculinr character, ns the Impresston very generally prevails herea- bouts that tho costof transporting a bushel of whent from Chicago to New York by rail tsat present nearly double whit it was a year ngo, Tur Fusion cause in Maine fs getting colder and colder, and losing the confidence of the people more and more every hour. The body ftself has lost its clan, or, in tha Innguage of the Down-Enster, the “gitup-and-glit” which it evinced when tho doors of the Capitol were open tol Atits session yesterday several speeches were made which had about ns Iit- tle of confidence in them as could well be shown. They evidently are at a loss which way to turn, for in every direction they, are met by the most disnial discouragement. The Republican body $s moving tn the even tenor of its way, and ts now tn good trim for the tegitimnte work before tt, It will probably hereafter take no further no- tice of Lumson and his mob, oxcept In the way of considering applications from legnlly- elected members for permission to return to tho rightful fold. THE DUTY ON STEEL RAILS. Mr. O. W. Potter, President of the North Chicago Rolling-Mills, gave in yesterday’s ‘Trinune considerable information having a direct bearing on the question of the enor- mous price of steel ralls, Lic states that ayear ago, and down to the tlie of the sud- den riso in the prices of tron, his com- pany was selling steel rails. at $40 per tone which price, he says, was about the lowest rate at which they could. bo sold at a profit, aud that at the same tine English steel ratls were selling in England, In somo cases, a8 low as $22 per ton, subject toan American duty of $8 por ton, snd a charge for freight and handling to. the point of competition of not less than $5 per ton, niaking the total lowest possible cost of En- lish steel rails in this country $55 per ton. Mr. Potter will. remember, however, his own. cloquent denunciation Inst spring, at Plitsburg, of the dishonest prac- tlees of Eastern iron manufacturers, who were underselling, or cutting prices, su that they could deliver steel rails in the West cheaper than they could be made In tho West; and the public will also remember that he warned these mon at the East that In thus underselling steel rails for Western orders they were giving the country evidence that the so-called protective duty of $28 per ton was o fraud and an imposition, under which the country was plundered for the benefit of 8 few manufacturers In Pennsyl- yanin and Eastern Olilo. It will also be re membered that the Dessemer-stecl mann- facturers, in order to make steel rails dearer by reducing the production, induced the ex- tenslye Vulean Works ot St, Louls (and wo think two establishments in the Enst) to close thelr mills, they being paid a roy- alty or percentage on all the steel rails produced and sold by the remaining nine or ten steel mills, Though Mr. Potter probably did not sell any steel rails for less than $40 per ton, it !s notorious that those engaged In the manufacture did induce othor mills to close, and did soll steel rails for constderably Tess than $40 per ton, and ont of the profits they paid to tho closed mills asuMcientboun- ty to justify the Intter {n not working and competing. ‘The cost of producing steel rails in this country was such that it adinitted of thotr profitable sale for tess than $40 per ton, while the foreign rails could not possinly be sold here at Iess than $33to $55 per ton, Tho steol-rail manufacturers therefore enjoyed this monopoly protection of 120 per cont dur- ing several years. . The manufacturo of Bessomor steel rails in this country, as elsewhere, 1s comparatively recont, The low cost at which thoy can bo produced direct from the pig, and the onor- mous duty, has excluded the importation of forelgn steol rails for severnt years. The fol- lowing table gives the result. The first ralls classed ay steel rails were Imported into this country In 1871, ‘The first wero produced in this country in 1867, From 1867 to 1870, both inclusive, the‘wholo Aterican production was 53,375 tons. After that date the domestic production and the Imports of forcign steal tails were ns follows: Amertean pro- — Intporta- Year. ductlon, tons, tion, tons. 187! seeenee 38,250 60,71 int Sth iment ATS ABE nil 18 nll e946 6000 BOS nil It will be seen that from July 1, 1874, to duly 1, 1878, there had only been 10,316 tons of foreign steal rails Imported into the United States, the domestic manufacturers haying an exclusive monopoly under the protection of 100 to 125 percent. In the carly part of 1870 foreign steel rails were purchased In England ot $23 to $93 per ton, Tholron and stee! business was pros- trated In that country, Mors than half the furnaces and mills wero closed. ‘Everything was at the starvation point, and ‘this price of $223 por ton showed tho lowest possible rate at which the rails could bo produced thera without any profitto the manufacturer, be- Ing bare cost, Evon at Mr. Potter's own flg- ures, that he could not sell steel rally at less than $40 per ton, the starvation cost at which forcign steel rails could be put down in this country was never less than 855 por ton, Tho price of pig tron in this country Has advanced from $18 por ton in Mny, 1870, to $40 at the present thne, Pig iron is pro- tected by aduty of $7 porton, The cost of inaking steel from plg !ron would be moro than protected by a duty on steel twice the amountof that on pig iron, A duty of 814 per ton on steel rails would bo more pro- teetlvo than the duty of $7 por ton Ia on pig fron, Mr, Potter states that tho production of steel rails in the United States during 1879 was probably not less than 800,000 tons, With the extensive St, Louls Vul- can Works idle and subsisting on a sub- aldy paid by ‘the confederated “pool” to provont Its competitlon,—its cnpacity boing about 100,000 tons of steal o year,—the duty of 8283 per ton was a tax of $10,200,000 collected from consumers on this domestic production, not to say anything of tho tax on tho imported steal rails, Mfr. Potter and his associate manufacturers have had a inngnifi- cont harvest provided them by the tariff, at the expense of the people, and it is not Nkely they have failed to gather Jt In the mean- thne they have not permitted the Vulcan Works at St, Louls to resuine, finding it more profitable to divide the profits on the great boum than to have the aunual production increased, . : Aduty of $14 per ton would be n most ‘Mberal protection to the dozen concerns which are making steal rails in this country, ‘The wild and extravagant priceto which tran’ and steol have been advanced by the poul ”. has had the effect of reviving the Iron and stoel production in England, and placing it boyond all. precedent, Tho English estab- Ishiuents, which in Aprit sold stecl rails at $23 per ton,’ and were in- tensely gratified’ nt sales in May at SM per ton in Hiverpooh are now Be nine Rata ieee: : them by tho excessive prices charged con- sumers by the American stcel-milll combina- tion, How long this common plundor of tho American people will Inst remains to be seen. ‘The English are now ruling the steel market by the prices in Amorten, «They ask the same price per ton as is asked in the ‘United States, less $84 per ton for duty and tho cost of freight Tha Amerlean mills claim to havenll theorders they can Ml up to July next and keep the Vulean subsitized and {dle. The nominal price is $50 per ton, though none can be purchased nt that figura, It will, porlinns, cost nt this time $90 to $100 per ton to obtain steel rails delivered nt tho place where they aroto be laid, Deducting 823 por ton duty, and the price of Mnglish steet rails will be the difference between that figure and the ruling price In this country. To tho English producers these prices afford a profit that is regarded by thom as cnormons. ‘Tho Immense supply now coming and to come from England does not seem to inter foro witht prices in this country; the protect- ive tariff does not protect; it only serves to inereaso the cost of steel ralls 6 all constun- ers, A reduction of the duty on steel rails to S14 per ton—twice the rato of dduty_on pl iron—would very soon have the effect of re- ducing the Inordinate price of Americanstec! rails in thatsum, With tho fallin the price of domestic steel, the prices of forelyn steel would also decline,and there would be arceoy- ery from the present unnatural prices, which Mr, Potter candidly adits to be unwise, un- just, and unhealthful, and which cannot be maintained, There is x Nmit to the prices at which steel. and fron can be used profita- bly, and when prices reach that point that men will find ft moro ‘profitable to wult than to buy, then reduced consumption will foree a reduction in prices, which will be attended with all the cost and trouble ineident to mak- ing for and selling inn falling market. The steel-makers may find It to thelr own Interest to concede iis reduction of duty, and thus, Perhaps, escape a general demand for the ad- inisston of steel rails free of ull duty. en EQUALIZING THE PAY OF SOLDIERS. Senator Logan is entitled to commendation forhis vigorous denuncintion of Conyresa- man Weaver's scheme for the issue of $500,- 000,000 of new greenbacks under the pretense of inaking gooil to tho soldiers the diiference between the value of the currency In which they wore paid and the gold value thereof at the time. Gen. Logan lins very properly characterized this bill as “one of the greatest pleces of demagogism ever invented in Congress,” and he certainly will not be suspected of any Inck of sympathy with the soldiers. The demagogism of the Weaver flat proposition is best illustrated by the fact. that any equitable svliome for “evening the pay of the soldiers on the basis of gold yalues would require so small an issue of green- backs ns would not warrant the effort, When the War first broke out, the pay of the soldiers, on a gold basis, was $110 month, in addition to thuir bounties, their rations, their supolies, and their prospect of pension, which has been realized beyond thelr expectations at the time, This pay was oll thatthe soldiers were over Jed to expect, and all that the Gov- ernment vor offered or agreed to give. When, after n year or more, the Government paper currency began to. deprecinte, the pay was raised to $13 a month, and !t was then untyersally understood and known that the soldiers would be paid In greenbacks, nnd that the lucrense of_pry was voted by Cou- gress to cover the depreciation in the green- backs. Later on, and for the purpose. of equalizing the pny of saldicrs to meet further depreciation of greenbacks, the pay was in- ereased to $16 5 month. Any equitable scheme for adjusting the pay of the soldicra upon a gold basts would, therefore,necessarily require an equalization of thefr allowance at the original rate of Slt month In gold. Figures which have already been given in detatl by Tins Tnmuxe prove that the actual puyment of $18 in greonbacks for a time, and subsequently of $16 in greenbnacks, was nearly equivalent, ona genernl avernge, to $Unmonth in gold. If an equation were to ‘be made quarterly from May, 1861, to August, 1865, between the actual pay in greenbacks at the rates of $13 and §16 9 month, and tho {m- -plled agreeniont to pay SLi a month in gold value, the general result would show that the soldiers in mass were patd very nearly as much as the Government, under the strictest. construction, ever agreed to pny thom. Ac- cording to the term of-service, it would be found thatsome sokllors had not been pald as much os $11 a month in gold would have ylelded them; while others had been pald at a higher rate; but, taking tho nvor- ago of service throughout the War, It would appear that the rate of $11 gold a month had been pretty equitably maintained, If it were merely the purpose of Weaver's bill to equalize tho pay of soldiers on n gold basis It would be abandoned {immediately by that reckless flat demagog upon investigation as unnecessary and impractivable. Asa mattor of fact, this consideration cuts no figure in tho case, The object of Weaver's bill Is sim- ply to provide an isaue of debased, irredeam- able flat shinplasters, and tho volunteer soldiers of the Untted States ought not to consent to be used for so unworthy and in- jurlous a schome. ——— BOTTOMLESS ROADS. A Bloomington correspondent of Tue ‘TRUNE & fow days ago wrote of the condl- tion of that part of the country as fullows: “Nevor in tho history of MeLean County his the mud beon moro destructive of trade and on- torprigo than just now, and tho whole of Contral Illinols is similarly uftloted, General atagnation and paralysis havo ensuod. A complote and of- fectual ombargo has beon placed on all trafic betwoon city and farm. Nota pound of grain is comlug, nota hoof nora horn, The supply of produco fs brought.in entirely by rail. Conl can soarcely he delivored in tho city, Tha day of hand-onrts Js noar at band, for dolivery-wagons must give up tho strocts.” What was true of McLean was equally true of all the other counties in tho State, Every open winter causes a similur mud em- argo on business and transportation. What 1s the remedy for this state of things? ‘Two years nyo tho State of Illinois was 4 aca of inud for threu months, At that timo all sorts of suggestions were offered. Brook gravel and acadam had many advocates; turnplie ing was held up as tho remedy by some; others proposad broad tires fur -wagons— which was a good suggestion for morely soft- ishor muddy roads, but not for bottomless pits and horrible mire. One correspondent thu Adly proposed o tile drain Ind longitudinally along the middle of the highway with suita- ble outlets, and at tho depth of thirty to thirty-slx Inches, according to the nature of tho soll, lo auggested side ditches of the. ordinary kind, but did not seem to caro much whether the surfaco of the road was flat or turnplked—dld not think {¢ made much difference. IMs fdea was, that the tite drain (ay a six-Inch pipe) would draw offthe water ond render the surface of the road dry and firm comparatively gt all sca- sonsof theyear, He clted tho casaof an almost impassable farm lane of his leading from the main road some forty’ rods to his farm bulldings, that had been converted into #. flne dry winter road by tho shuple proc ess of running undor it a six-inch tile pipe, which absorbed tha surface water and dis- charged It Into a ditch outlet of the country road, Tho writer gave {tas his opinion that what cured his deep mad lane would also cure any bottomless" highway. Ato ow Mr Pre on "iH t and observing fariner of Dwight, who pretty strongly corroborates tho tiling theory ns a remedy for the existing condition of Ilinols roads. In his letter to Tne ‘Tnintsg yester- day hosays: * “T do not know of a greater soureo of plens- uro in an open winter lke the presont, ff you own & farm, than to seo the water discharge from yrur tick, [ minke it n practice every day to gn out and note tho diferent changes ani condition of tho sal], and observe tho length of time that it tikes to dry up a tow pleco of tit Innd, Thotieve that there nro very fow farmers who have thetr land tlted who know how much water f slx-inolt tile, with a good fall, will dis- charge in: twonty-four hours, Rellatle tables which Thaye befor’ ma put It down as followsy “With n ftll of two tnehes In overy 100 foota B1x- loch tile will discharge 402017 guillos very twenty-four hours My tile have been running now full for ten days, and, necondiny to this tie ble, would have discharged 4301201 gallons of water, Had it not been for the tile the greater portion of thls water would have remnlned upon. bo Ind for an indofintt perio. “The negt polnt pon which [ wished ta oh- tun some &nowledge was the condition of the ground where the tile were laid. walked over anentire? string Olyhty rods long through my cornsfeld. dtd not atnk into the ground aa tieh, Twas niso atic to walk 11 the anime manner ench: aldo of tho tile n distance of nunrly two reds, AB foon as L was boyond the point from which the tle were working and irawing tho water to- wards thomsclves, Frank inte the mud at least Jive inches. In fi i ‘walk atall, owing to tho torriblo condition of tho portion of the told which had not been tiled, I make the assertion that the facts as T found them in this coM-fletd upon tho 18th of Janus nity, 1890, aalyy the whole queation. of country ronds, Mere is acor-feld, A tio dries It for the width of nearly sixty fect.—so dry that you fin wade hr hatit loud upon it with ense, Ordtunry roads are about forty foct wide—Juat twice na wide ns nre necessary. Put n tie down in tho centre of the rond, anil F iin entistied that the days of timid blockades’ will bo only a recollection of the past." ADULTERATED COTTONS. The Pall Malt Gazette reports and com- ments upon o recent caso In Manchester where a cotton-sizing firm of that city was sned for damages for selling gray shirtings to another hoitse destined for China so sized ag to become discolored and mildewed, and consequently unmarketable. The develop- ments made by the testimony show that sys- tematic adulteration is practiced in ail cotton goods Intended for. the China market, al- though the price and demand for thom have been decreasing for several years, and Amer- Jean goods, which aro honestly made, aro rapidly taking thole places, Tho manufact- urers offered as thelr principal ploa in de- fense that tho Chinese preferred tho adultor- ated goods, but the testimony of the plaint- Iffs showed the exact contrary, and that the bulk of tho trade was belng transferred to tho United States owing to this very adulteration process. It was shown that the consignment of shirtings made by the Manchester house, amounting to 97,000 pleces, contained a large admixture of for- elgn substances,—starchy matters, 18 por cent; mineral matters composed of chloride of magnesium, chloride of zinc, and china- clay, $f per cont; and moisture in excess, 3 per cent; 0 total of44 per cent, in goods which are sold.by welght, or nearly one-half adul- teratlon. Commenting upon the enso the Gazette con- tends that these henyily-sized goods are not preferred in the Chinese market, and tht this ts proved by the rapid transferrence of Chinese custom to American competitors, “who have discovered that it pays botter to send honeat cotton fabrics matte of cotton fibre and not with 40 per cent of.china-clay and other chenp ingredients.” In this.con- nection the Gazette says: “Tho renl question for us all fa, Which kind of tradiug sucecods best? Tho Lord Chtef Baron, dn his sumining up at tho provious trial, might well sny that,tiis wasn case ‘involving consld+ crations beating on und affecting the national character and commercial reputation of tho manufacturers of this great commercial coun- try.’. But the only question nt. Mancheator 1s, Dots it pay? And this fs tho answer we got from our Consular trade returns. During the last four yeurs ending 1877 our iinports into Chinn of manufactured cotton and wool havo been nearly stationary, after falling in 1873 from £4,041,511 to. £4,011,180, The decroaso has not, Indeod, been iu quantity but in value, which bas fallen with tho quality. In theso four years thore was ano toss stendy and significant increnso in tho im- ports of Amorionn goods, At Shanghutl tho fol- lowing table fa givon by ber Binjosty's Consul in his report for 1878; ‘ “IMPOUT OF AMERICAN Goons, 1874, | 187%. | 1878, | 1877. Dales.) Bates. Bates.) Bales, 2,050] 6,801! 0,053} 19,012 1,185} 2000] 4/205} 14.407 nil} my ‘800] 2,607 That it docs not pay 1s also shown by tho testimony of tho English Conaul at Ohcfoo, the Capital of a Province containing 80,000,- 000 Inhabitants, whose report in‘ tho Blue- Book says: “Thero.isa Chinese proverb that ‘Tho con- Juror docs not deceive the man who beats tho gong for him’; and tho attempt to sell gluo 38 cloth toa peoplo aa akilicd as tho Chinces aro In putting fron-filings and’ oactus-ionves into tea and wator In sll wna cortainly injudicious, Tho congequonco fs, our textiles have gota bad name: In the country. Tho demand for thom 1s yoarly decreasing, and thelr place 1s belug supplied by Amerlean munufactures, Gray shirtings have boon imported intoChofoo during tho inst five years In tho following quantities: 1874, 438,99) plecos; 1875, 847,269 plocos; 1878, 200,143 pieces; 1877, 252,00) pieces; 1878, 220,483 pieces. Amer Jeon drills, though 40 por cont dearer, aro driv- ing English drills out of tho market. Tast yenr tho imports to this port woru respectively: En- glish drills, 14,873 ploecs; Amoricnn, 68,108 picoos; Engliah shootings, 871 plecea; Amorioun, 59,043 plovos,"" Such statistics as these toll thelr ownstory, and hardly need comment, It adds to thelr vortinence that the Chinesa are immense consumors of cotton goods, In the Province of Chefoo, for instance, the Consul writes that the people are entirely clothed in cotton fabrics; that cotton covorlets take the placa of blankets and mattresses; that thelr socks, enps, shoes, and boots are made from 1t; that their sedan-chuirs nro covered with it; that wadded cottons: supply the place of doors in houses; and that they use it in umbrellas, awnings, towels, ote, Chinese ernft, however, Js superiorto En- glish dishonesty. Even ithe were compelled to take tha adulterated Manchester cottons, the Chinaman would moro than offsct this with his teas and his sllks, He enn put iron- filings, cactus-leaves, and chemicals inte teas and water into allke os fast as the Englsh mmanufacturor can put china-clay Inte the cottons; and he has this advantage over the Intter: that, while tho English must take his toas and sllka‘or go without, ho ts not neces- sitated to take English catton, but can turn to Amerien and get honest cotton for tho same prices he has been paying for adulter- uted stuff from Manchester. Not pound of dtxhonest cotton has besn shipped to him from Anerics, and ho ts rapldly taking away his trade from Manchester and golng where he can get honest goods, Meanwhilo ho is not restricted In his tampering with teas, for tho English must haye them, and, romember- ing how le has been defrauded by them, it would be remarkable if ho did nut doubly dose them, and plead in extenuation that, after clothing hin with an equal imixt ure of dirt and cotton; thoy ore de stroying hin body. and soul with oplum, When Dickens: drew the character Joans... . , of Pocksniff he did not fall far shortof picture Ing the cotton-alzers of Afunchester, but why aven 9 catton-sizer should wish to continue hia hypocrisy and dishonesty at 0 loss to himself, and see lila trade transferred to honcs} manufacturers, it 3 difficult to cons cole. £ Av the last session of Congress a bill was Introduced providing for authorizing the President to appoint Commissioners to meet alike body onthe part of the Canadian Do- ce mete FE gh iy nat ot, tt was ptterly imposible to |. iy '] sohool-houscs aud fowor saloons, procity Into consideration, with 1 vlew of agreclig to the drafting of such an arrange- ment ns, In a spirit of mutual concession, will bo neceptable to the people of both coun- tries, ‘The bill was roferred to the Commil- tea on Commerce, of which S, 8, Cox, of Now York, is Chairman, It does not appear that he ins done anything to promote Sts passago, but lets It steop in a plgean-hole of his desk. ‘The bill, If passed, amounts simply tonn agreement to refer the subject, ns fb wore, ton foint committes of the two coun- tries, in the oxpectation that they will be able to mature a treaty upon a liberal and com- prehensive basis, conservatlye of the inter- ests of both, which Congress wilt be willing to ratify. ‘Tho President is known to bo in favor of it, antl his signature, therefore, is eortain, There canbe no atestton ‘that tho Dontinion Government are propared to meet usinn corresponding aptrit. If there are any selfish Interests standing in the way, thoy are cntitied to no woight in ‘the face of the preponderance of public sentiment in favor at lenst of trylng the exparliment. ‘The New York Julictin says of the matter: “Strong ta tho fecling {8 in Now York in fayor of ft, we may add It ja even more pronounced in othor parts’ of the country. Now Englund ts manifesting o lively Interest In the matter, aud tho commercial and manufacturing classes of Hoston, wo have goml renson to hetiove, are sin palors ‘unanimous fn qeing. itforwarl, What x not lesa noteworthy Is the fact that the oppo- sition which formerly came from certnin inter cats in that ecction and ut the West appear to have withdrawn tholr forevs, At nll evouta, wo tlotect no evidences on tholr part of opposition tothe rupoeed Commission. Agreement as to the desirability of appointing ft boing thus nni- Versi, 18 tt a Wis NO excuse fur ey Congress furthor dolay SrnxaAton Beck, of Kentucky, proposes to “yank” John Shorman a little for exhibiting 80 much favoritism to bis pot bank, tho First National of Now York, in the rofunding busi- Ness, us to enable it with only half a million capi- tal to declare two imilifon of dividends on tho recent 4 por cont refunding transuctions. Tho Bt Louls Globe thinks that Deck will not muko much ont of his {intended Investigation, ant glves this ag its reagon for so bellevings “Mr, Shormun has already offered a partial ox- Manation of the causes which onabler tho First jutional Buk of Now York to subserilbo for incrothun one-half of allihe4 por cents issucil for tho refunding of the 5-20s nnd 10-408 that be- eame redcemable list yenr. He elnina that this bank simply acted as tho axent of o yrent number of country banks, and the prosumption fa that the vast. aggregate commissions col- lected from the Treusury were divided botween tho agent and its principal, But Mr. Shorman hos not as yet vouchsafed any sntisfuctory ox- planation of the motives which prompted him to allow tho First National Bank to keep be- twoon $30,000,000 and $18,000,000 of the public funds fornacouploof montha after tho date when, under ita contriet with the Government, it should have mado it full sottloment of ita refunding neeount, Of course, it does not follow becwtiae he hos anid nothing abont this in lis sunual report that he was jr ity of any oversight or neglect of duty, ‘Dut his silence fs some excuse’ for tho vresump- {lon that he stretched, if hoe did not excerd, tho mit of his authority in favoring this particular bank, and muy afford Mr, Beck a coigne of vine tage in his forthcoming diatribe, We have, how- ovor, the utmost contidence in Mr. Sherman's nitty to weligalo out of a tight pines, and we shall await with attention bis reply to Mr. Beck, who is tho chlof financier of the Democravy in Congress.” Gey. Lucius Famciinp, who has fustheen nominated by President Hayos aa Mintater to Madrid, Is one of the best known. and most highly osteomed cltizons of Wisconsin, Ho un- tered the servicu as a private at the brenking out of the War, and was rapidly promoted until he commanded the famous “ Iron Brigndo," at the battle of Gettysburg, where he lost his loft arm. He was nominated and oleoted Scoretary of Stato, and, after serving ono tori, was nomi- nated for Governor, which office ha filled for threo succossive torms,—a distinction never bo- foro conferred upon a citizen of Wisconsin, His administrntiona wore charnetorized by pru- deneo and economy in all departments,’ In 1872 he was appointed Consul at Liverpool, but soon sont to Paris as Consul-Genernl, where ho is at present, His promotion as Minister to Spain will givo great satisfaction to tho people of all parties In Wisconsin, and especially to the ex-sol- dlor clement, with whom Gon, Fairchild was al- ways a doservedly yroat favorit. : Says tho St. Louls Globe: “We need Land Lengue in Miasourl moro than thoy need It in Ircland,—not to steal the land from its owners, as is [not] proposed in Iroland, but to buy !t (ns is proposod by the Parnell plan forIreland) out of the hands of tho Bourbon Democrats who now own tt, and soll {t to thrifty Néw England {mmigrants who will bufld more A good effort in this direction would onbanoo tho taxable value of property in this State 100 per cent in threo yenrs. Domocrata aro worse than grass- hoppors to # State Iiko Misgourf. Kansas recov- ered from hor grosshoppor plague ina singto seasou. Missouri hua beon trying for nourly twenty yonra to recover from her plaguo of Tourbons, but she makes no progross.". Mis- sourt is not the oly ex-Slave State that is | cursed by Bourbontsin and which would bo blessed by un Infuston of Yankeo thrift, prog- reas, education, and civilization, = « —ee! Tur New York Chamber of Commerce Is disputing ovor the best menna of harbor defonse. Col. Conkling, brother of tho Sonntor, thought tho only truo defonso of tho harbor wns tho tor- podo system. Mr. Elliott OC. Cowdin, from tho FxooutlvoCommittes, mado a report on thosub- Joot, maintaining that the elty would be at tho moroy of a foreign toot in cnc of wer, that the guns of tho fortiilcations could not pierco the silos of tronclads, and that the olty night bo called upon to pay on onormous ransom to save it from destruction, In support of thoso views ho read a communication from Gen. Doubloday, and sald that thoy wero sustained by other nu- thorities, Ho thaught Congross had better bo memorinilaed for nn approprintion to purchase heavy rificd ordnance for the defonso of tho city Incaso of an attack,’ Othors thought tht, us steam-vessols could puss fortifications in tho night, torpedoes offered the only sufe monus of dofense, Dr. Henny Pauuen, of Janesville, who has just beon appointed Surgoon-General of Wisconsin by Gov. Smith to fill the vacanoy enusod by the death of the late Dr, B. B. Wol- cott, is n gontleman quite eminent in his profes- sion. Hogrudunted at the Albany Medical Col- Jogo, aud ontored tho service us Brigade-Surgeon: of the “Iron Brigwilo.” Ho waa soon promoted to the Superintondency of tho hoepltal nt York, Pa., tho largest in tho ‘country, and wus noxt appointed. Medical Inspector of the Eighth Army Corps, with heudquartors at Naltiniore, and {n 1865 was orlored to tako charge of Camp Douglas, at Chicago. In 1877 ho wont to Europe, oxamined tho hospitals of tho Hugaian army, saw tho ongugoment at Nicropolls, and wit- nossod tho ever-momornblo battle which ro- aulted in the downfall of Pluvna. Ho has served sovoral terms a8 Mayor of the City of Janos- villo. ” Ir was almost a-foregone conclusion that tho Hayden-Stannard murder trint would end in tho disagreement of tho jury. The caso will pass into history ag one of tho most remarkablo murder trials over had in this country, (1) bo- outsa tho accused was a clorgyman, marriod, and in good standing; (2) booausé of the mystory surrounding the commission of the crimo, and the strong clroumstantial ovidenco sustaining the theory that Huydon was tho murdoror; (i) bocauso of tho immonso amount of sclontilic expert testimony ollcited tn the course of the in- voatigation; (4) becauso of the al:nost phenomo- nal defense that was mado in behulf of the an cused; and (6) for tho reason that tho fate of the prisoner. vibrated in that Jury-reom, swaying from an almost unanimous yoriict of acquittal to un almost unanimous verdict of gullty. Dut who killed Mary Stannard? Tue Springfield (fass,) Republicen thinks 'Shorman t# a sort of political Samson, who will pull down tho plilars of the templo and bury some of his compotitors in tho ruins. It enys Shorman “is much surer to defeat the two lead- | ing competitors than to seouro tho prise himsolf, but the contingoucy of his reward dous notaffoct tho real yaluo and magnitudo of tho sorvico iteolf.”” It thinks Mr. Shorman mny porform tho samo sort of sorvice at Chicago noxt June that Bristow did at Cincinnat! in 1876, but it docs not explain oxactly tho kind of valuablo work Mr, Bristow did. ereeme AN old resident of Now York writes to the Evening Post giving his recollections of tho tirat steam vossels used in that vicinity. Ho says tha frat, steamboat (tie Nesegu) was putypon tho Meade ec pA ae ? ae os boat, tho wheel working In tho centro apace; the engine was a very cruio onc, with the nolay old- fashtoncd puppet valves. Tho Nassau was o marvel in her day, and was frequently used for oxcursions, ospeoially on moonlight nights. Hor aApood was aliout eight miles an hour, A steam forty to Paulus Hook (Jeracy City) was estab- Nehed In 181%, in connection with a ino of conches to Philndetphia. Tho stenm ferry to Hoboken was opened {182 by Mr, Stevens, tho bont being single, with nn linproved engino; the open wroughtelron working bonin was fret adopted in this boat, Tne Vicksburg Herald says tho Siissls- sippl systom of donling with eriminnis 1s totally, rulnously ineficient,” and that tho at- tempts to punish violence in the State are costly, miserable farces.” It thinks that "the trouble es in the juries. In many enaca tho potit juries uttorly fall to perform their duty." ‘This isun- doubtedly true of other Southern Rtntes as well ns Misatasipp!, and w refortn in this respect ts imperntively demanded. In many of the North- ern States, whoro thoro {a no complaint of a lack of eMfctency ond aven of soverity in the excotition of tho Jawa, thoro fs mitoh Indignation oxpressod at the oruclty and inhumanity prac- tieed by Superintendents and employes of prisons and Houres of Correction, Tho studied and poralstent abitee of criminals who have no meaus of protection or redress {s ono of the cry- {og evils of tho timo that should bo apeedily reformed, New Yonr has produced one of the most aucceasful bigamista on record, He did not have as many wives aa Jim Bludsoo, butho married ono wife in 1848 and another In 1878, and lived with both until 9 fow days ago. . Ho maintained those wivor in soparate houses nt no gront dls- tanco from each othor, ono being at Woodlawn aud tho other at Yonkors. He inndo ono wife bollovo that the othor wife wns his mothor, and 80 accounted in that way for his vistta to hor. ‘Ono of his daughtors was In tho secret, and not only kept it but holped her fathor carry onthe deception, He is now in jail, however, with nothing to console him but tho reflection that comes to a man after briefly enjoying tho follolty of having had two wives. Ir Is snid te bo tho object now of Garee- lon’s heira to tho Maine frauds to get tho Dem- ooratle Congreas in some way to recognize Smith (Fustonist) aa tho legal Governor of tho inte. Rut thore is very little probability that tho Democrats in Congress will meddle in a quarrel whore right and justice are as ob- viously on the aldo of tho Itepublicans as well enn be, and in which thoy will bo likely to gain nothing if they attompt ft. Gov. Davis and tho Republican Loxisiature are competent to give the people of Maino n republican form of gov- ornment without any sort of interference on tho part of Congress, and all the Fusion(sts have todo Ja to keop quiet and obcy the legally-con- stituted nuthoritles, TyAsmuer as x Joint resolution has been In- troduced into the Wisconsin Legisinture con- demning tho attempt by Consrora to dostroy the logal-tendor quality of the greenback, would it not ba well for that Committes, which the “ Hon- est-Monoy Lenguo” of Milwnukee appointed to’ go to Washington, to turn its steps towards Mad- ison? That Joint resolution will undoubtedly puss, 18 itshould, and whon it is approved by Gov. Smith it wil look to outalders agit tho neaple of Wisconsin were more truly represented by thelr Legislature than by the goldites ap- pointed by tho Ionast-Monoy Lenguc. Tre conduct of Mr. Albert Varner, of: Fulton County, Mos, oannot in al reapecta be commended. Ho had been courting n widow by tho name of Stafford for some time, and on Soturday last called upon the object of his affec- tlon to expostulate with heron the subject of another man's attentions, Not receiving the answor ho wished, he fired a bullot at her, and, reoing her fall, sont nnothor through his own foolish brain and dicd. Killing himself, under tho oireumstinces, wns n vory proper thing for Mr. Varner todo. The woinan will recover. —— We have received from Mr. D. N. Cooley, Presidont of tho First National Rank of Du- Duque, Ia, a notein reference to n dispatch from his city which nppeured In Tir ‘Tumunn fome days ngo, stating Mr. Cooley hna declined to fulfill a contract which ho was alloged to have mado with Mr, Graves, President of tho Gus Works, ta exohango bis bank stock for. Mr. Graves' interest in the Gas Works,—Mr. C., who was said to bo élek in bed, declaring that tho trado would ruin him finanolally. The assertions in this dispatch, Mr. Cooley says, Gro untrue. A. connesronnent of the Boston Globe snys that the Koy. C.A, Staples, who fs well known In Chicago, wna@orced to resign his pna- torate of tho First Congregationn! Church of Providence beonnse he talked too plainly about political corruption, ete., offending tha Mayor’ Doylo crowd, Anyhow Toso pitched Into tho dominio at a mecting of tho sooloty the othar night, Tho.sooloty finally voted that Staples must stay, but the Mayor's friends say that they will buye his scalp yot. Cosmenn us to the action of the woman near Tndlunapolis on Bunday night, whon she found the hoad of a burglar protruding through her bedroom window. 8ho did not scream or faint, but quietly reached fora heavy wooden chalr and brought it down with such force on the fellow's hénd that tho blow broke his rus- cally neck, Thero ho hung all night, as doad og 4 docr-nnil, and in the morning sho summoned tho nolghbora to ngulat in taking caro of the corpee, é ‘Tie boot nuisanco from soft cont Is not ns badin Chiengo yotas tt isin London. Mr. Jon- nings writes to tho World that tho London fogs fre much worse this winter than formerly, and that on Christmas-Iivo thoy wero so donse that tho most oxperlencead Londoner found the great- est diMeulty in getting about, In two hours Mnon becomes na Diack as 9 swoop's dreas, and great damugo has beon done to property by tho murkiness and heaviness of the atmosphoro, Tue Aledo Record learns from a reliable source that Goy. Cullom * will abide by the action of his friends in regard to the noxt nomination, If thoy bring his numo before tho Convention, and tho Convention indorsos it by nominating him, ho will accept tho nomination with grati- tudo; butif thoy think it advisable to bring out @ now man, ho will bow to their decision,” —— Our Washington correspondont, In hls let- ter published yosterday, referring to Senator MePberson's bil regulating tho tranaportation of cattle, understated tho gain to shippors un- der It, The prices thoy arc now compelled to puy for corn at tho stook-yardaaro fifteen times the homo prices. Tho rute for corn Axed by the Dill is 16 conta, Tv any of our country subserihers havo any facts tn regurd to tho offoct on mud of Iny- ing tile under 4 road wo shall be pleagod to hoar from thom. The offect of tiling wot or sour Innd fs marvelous, It works a porfcct revolution. for the better. Why will not tiling u bad road also tinprove {t by drawing off the wator that rondora it Impnssnblo? ‘ ———— ‘Tins Springflold Repudttean’s Washing- ton correspondent writos that Mr. Blulno's frionds arc tnuoh encouraged by tho rocent do- velopment of his groat strength in Ponnsyl- vanin and Indiana, and if ho succeeds in recov- ering Maino they will fool moro hopoful than over of bis nomination at Chica. ——— Tue St, Louls Glohe offers this explanation of it: “Mr, Jobn 1, Defroes, tho veteran pap- ; sucker of tho Printing Dopattmont at Washing-. ton, 18 out ngulnst a third torm for Grant, Tho main reason is that Grant opposed a thint torm for Dofrees, and put unother man fu his placo, a fow years ago." Ir is noticed by sevoral pablo and respected contemporaries that the old Rebel yoll is not us succosstul in Maino as in Mississippl,” Per- aps tho reason {s, tho Maino Confods did not buck up tho" yoll"’ with the shotgun as tholr Drothron do down in Dixlo. ’ ‘Tus Buoyrus (0.) Journal (Rep.) saya: “Cortainly the renomination of Gon, Grant, oyen under oxtrnordinary clroumstances, would moan hopolcss defense all through thu canvass, aad certuln dofcat at its closes.” : Tux Kellogg-Spofford case hangg.on al- most as long us tho Huydon-Stanuard murdor trial In Kellogg's caso the jury ts loss oon- scloutious, and will most likely ugroe. . Tr was stated in'a paragraph in yesterday's Papory goferring fo tho Hoa. Ji amce MoCartaor, Qonoral, that ho camo from x acetion of 4 Stato comprising twonty-Alx counttes and givin 40,000 Republican “ majority.” For « jngoritys ren " votes," and tho item will be corrvet, Ropublican majorities dome from this end orn.” Stato, and havo to he henyy inorder to Over Com, tho Demoorutic countios [n tho South, : Tin Molina Review and the Marshay County Renibtican aro both out for Hawloy foe Govornor, with plenty of ronsons for tho fay that sin thom. Ir Is clatmed that John 1. Hawley witt gy into the next Ktate Convention with: tho deleg, tlon from the Sixth Congressional District, ell for him, ‘Tne Elgin Leader says that the Hon, Why fam Lothrop will no # candidate for Congrey again this fall. PERSONALS. Frank Leslic was making $1,200 n week y tho timo of his death, Brot Warte fs in London, and his health y roported ns very poor. . Wicked newspapers are Inquiting wher Edison was when tho light went out. If Charles O'Conor fails to get Mrs. Hick, Lord, why thoro's tho Widow Butler. “Renter of History”—Tho oldest things In tho world aro the original Jokes in the g, Louts Demoerat, “The hatchet used by myself and yy, Kelly is stlllnbove ground. Due notico of thy Interment will bo given."—-S. J. Tilden, Secretary Evarts has resigned the Preq tency of tho Now York Bnr Association. 1% ,presumo the resignation will bo published book form. - ' Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza king, rm contly offored $800,000 for the furnished reg. dence of Mrs. F. W. Stevens, No. 61 Weat Fifty. soventh struct, Now York. ay The London Times recontly printed a lst of distinguished persons who dicd during 1m, Tho Princo Imporinl was at the head and cy craft, the bangman, at the foot, ‘Tho first Parnell poem roads ns follows: A yoting man hos come who a yarn "Il Ropeut about Irish needs carnal. It ponds just as well To cali him Parnell, But tho right way to nnine him fs Parnell, “Sad-Eyed Sophomore—We aro unsbly to decide from o porueal of the vorsts whether you will ever be # poct, but you aro already fy onough advanced on tho road to mako it a cen tainty that bratn-discaso will nover claim yous its own. The New York Tribune snys that Parnell is “ap cold ag an foeberg,” but in spite of this statement from such an ominent human refrig- erator ns Mr. Rofd, people in this section of the country will continuo to back Br, C.F. Adams for the fecberg champtonship. : The widow of Prestdent Tyler, fn her pel. tion to Congress fora pension, says that ber means of support wero swopt away by the late depression of rent estate. Sho continues: “In fact, I find have renrcely anything whatever left to lve upon, and it fs only in this oxtremlty that I appear before you.” Miss Lane, who in the days of James Ruchnnan was mistress of the Whito House, and who Ja now the wifo of Robert Johnsons wenlthy bankor of Baltimore, hag recently pur chased Wheatlonds, the place where her unc wna born, in Pennsylvania, and will there era. momorial worthy of him. Gen. Garfiold began lifo ns a wood-chopper and now ho bas been elected United Stites sen- ator, and his a horse with a record of 2:1 named after him. Pondgr on, these facts, litte boys, when your ma wants you to cut up some wood for supper, and also ponder on the fact that tho old man {a generally handy withs trunk-strap, 1 Pa Tho Queen-Dowager. of Bavaria hata tather unpleasant experience In the Cathedral nt Munich on New-¥car's Day, & house-portres, becoming suddenly inanne, and performing upoo her Royal mistress the feat commonly known “handing hin one on tho nose." A local paper very truthfully says that “tho Queen's emotior was painful.” a ‘Miss Rogors, 9 cousin of Richard Cobden, {a tho prodigy in tho Inst. examfriations at Ox. ford University, England. She outetrippod all the other students In Greok and Latin. Her Knowledgo in othor branches js quite as wonder ful. After passing hor examinations, sho ws at once appointed lecturer in Somervillo Hall, one of tho Oxford buildings for womon students Mr. Moody, the ovangelist, haa beon at Jet- forson City, Mo., trying to got Gov. Pholps to pardon tho Rov. Josoph Keobuugh, a preacher politician, once Postmaster of QInsgow, Mo who fs under sontonce for seventeen ycars for forgery. Attor hia crimo ho fled to Chicago, and there happened to henr Mr. Moody preach, Mr. Moody intluonced him to return and confess bu crimes, and ho told the Court that ho woult rathér be punished by tho Jaw than by his com solenco, § : Senator Sharon built a magnificent rest donco in San Francisco five years nyo, but upon tho death of his wifo, shortly after he bad estab- lished his family In it, ho sold. the building and’ allitafurnituro to'W. 8. O'Brion. Now the ap- pralsors of tho personal portion of that million alro's estate havo been making estimates of tho yaluo of tho furniture, Senator Sharon pald $125,000 for the furniture, and, though many of tho rooms have not beon used n single day, the appralscra valuo the whole lot at 826,000. For instance, the furniture of tho Itbrary, which enst $17,000, Is yulucd at ¥2,700; that of the “pink room" ooat $7,080 and is valucd nt $1,1%; that of the “drab room," $5,000; value, $116 and that of tha “green room," $4,000; valua, Now that the Grant reception in: Phitadel- Phin is fairly off bis hunds, Mr. Childs oocasloo ally finds titno to duah off a fow sparklors in the way of obltuary poomms, his latest batch being as follows: iM Putpway tho wooden boot-Jack Tit our paront usod to shy At tho tom-cnta on the woodahed. Papa's home Is in tho sky, i Mond tho holca in fathor’s trougors; Soon thoy'll lt our clitest son, Framo tho verdict for the puriors “Hotton barrels in tho gun. Mary, wo shall always ross yous Gono will be your pleasant smilo. > Tud tho ofl-can boen much lary f You'd have gone about a milo, Tho present Irish agitation reminds a com respondent of tho plan proposed by Sir Jobd Hawkshaw yours ago to Lord Palmerston for im: proving the condition of roland, Sir Join vistted Irolang as chtof of a Commission tore port if any enginooring project could be dovised which would be beneficial to Ircland, and would gto profitable omploymont to thoso in o He reported agalnat any such scheme, but pre. posed to Lord Palmerston that Parliament should guarantoo a bounty of £50 to overy Irish man who should marry an English or Sco! woman, and the samo amount to avery English ian or Scotchman who should marry on [ish woman, “bis proposition ta breed out the dimoultics was soriously"entortaincd by Lord Valmerston's Cabinet, but, owing to his ship's death soon afterward, was novor brougtt to any dotermination, - 3 STEAM HEATING. - CINCINNATI, O., Jan, 20,—Ma yor Jacob to day stgned an ordinance granting to Silsbee and othera the right to lay pipes In the streets within a prescribed arva In the city, come prising-about a mile aquare of the principal , business part of che city, for the purpose of conveying steam for heating and power by what Is known os the “Holly System.” No royalty is exacted for the franchiso, but the partles obtatning it are to give bond to secure the proper repalr of the streets, and save olty from-damiagos also, to furnish ‘heat 0 tho clty at reduced rates. : WINTER WHEAT. + SPNINGFIELD, IL, Jan, 20.—Tho advance sheots of the crop report of the State Yo! of Agricultura show that the acreage of wit ter wheat in thls State for 1479 was 3131395 while the breadth sown last fall for tho crop of 1880 1g 8,658,836 ncrea,—an increase 0 about 95 percent. The condition of the croP on Deo, 20, all over the State, was fully uP the avera; he proapect for a full crop next year ts excellent, “MINE ; ; vnaelco) dies Dut Bulwes, San om