— * THE NEW NAVY. Secretary Whitney Submits His Annual Report. and Expenditures Under the Present Administration, Secretary Whitney, of the Navy, begins his annual report to the President by remark- ing that this is an appropriate ocoasion for a brief review of the condition of the navy as it will exist March 4, 1850, in comparison with the navy as it existed March 4, 1885. At the earlier date the United States had no vessel of war which could have kept the seas one week as against any first rate naval power and was dependent upon English manufacturers for ~that is, machine and firing guns department's first stop was buying armor and gun steel abroad. Contracts were pending in March, 18%, for ments upon those contracts made subsequant steel have been made abroad since March, 1885, some magnitudes could be offered to the com- petition of domestic manufacturers, one con- | «ition of the bidding to be the erection of a plant in this country adequate to the manu- ncture of both armor and gun steel up to the highest standard of European require ments.” of June, 1857, contracts were entered into with the Bethlehem Iron Company, of Beth. lebem, Penn., one of the largest and most enterprising of American steel manulacto- vies, under which the United States was guarantsed that within two and one half years from the date of the contract this coun- try would have within its borders a plant equal to and probably the superior of any in the world for the production of armor and the forgings for high powered guns.” ¥'So far as armored ships are concerned.” says the Secretary, ‘the conditions are such that everything necessary to a first class fighting ship can be produced and furnished to the department in this country.” The work of the department since March, 1885, has been devoted to unarmored cruisers, concerning which the Secretary says: “The department is able to report that when the ships in course of construction and those authorized shall have been completed the United States will rank second among the nations in the possession of unarmored cruisers, or ‘commerce destroyers,’ having the highest charac. teristics—viz, : of a size 300 tons and upward and possessing speed of nineteen knots and Upuad, The importance which has been placed upon this branch of naval armament will be appreciated from the statement that England and France possess sixty-five vessels of the ¢lass known as unarmored cruisers’ The Secretary then refers to the need for greatly improved machinery to give the igh d required and says: “An examina. tion of the state of the art in 188) led to the conclusion that the machinery of naval vessels ought to be so designed as to produce ten-horse power for each ton of machinery: and it was determined to make that the standard, and to enter into no contracts that were not basad substantially thereon. “It resuits that a'l the contracts for the construction of ships which have been en- tered into since March, 1855, call for the pro. duction of power hy machinery equal to the standards” The Secretary then gives in tabular form the aggregate expenditures of the Navy De- Jartment for the years ending June 30, 1882, S83 and 1884, in comparison with the ag- expenditures of the The year ending June, 18584, is omitted as having been not wholly in either administra. tion. ‘The expenditures fixed by statute or , » beyond control of the Secretary of the Navy amounted to $27,757.98 3) for the three yearsof the Arthur administra- tion, and to £50.910,456.25 for the three years of the Cleveland administration. In the last named period the amount expended for “in- crease of the navy,” “vessels and monitors” “steel cruisers.” “monitors,” “purchase of steamer Stiletto” and payments on ships built prior to 1581-82 exceeded the amount id for new ships or similar items during Arthur regime by 8144.52.16 Bat the total expenditurs for the department during Arthur's three years amounted to 847.070 - 397.63, while during the same period under President Cleveland the total expenditures reached only £46,850.630 24, In other words, Secretary Whitney spent for a new navy $5,404,520 16 more than did his predecessor in the same length of time, and yet made a saving in total expenditures of #1, 14875030 I otwithetanding the pend Notwit ing ¢ large expenditures for the new navy in the last three years, the reduction in other directions has made the total expenditures of the department less for Shess Yours than for three years ending June 30, 1984, the ordinary expenses of the rte ment having been reduced over 20 per cent, During the years of 1554 and 1885 over 5) per cent in value of the supplies of the de partment were obtained by open purchases without competition. During the last vear the proportion of such purchases was less than |1 per cent, and in the course of the next fiscal year it is believed that the purchases can be reduced to about five per | cent, ton months ending April 21, 185, for the three vears ending June 50, 1588 a net gain of 8707 was made. A is devoted to naval d the year at home and abro , and in n fest a Sti, naval manceuvres of the year, and is ly recognized by all naval posers. . The Secretary's estimates for the flecal endi June 20, 180, amount to - ROROTE TS, Of which $13,504.07 10 a fon the objects of expenditure and the re made follows of Fup Rew es "Medicine tnd il FAT war, At present no means exist for the fleet with 8 single trained man number ribod by law for the go of hitthorn bill will do much to remedy this evil” LATER NEWS, Tre Boughton Acid Works, located at Titusville; Penn. , have been completely de- stroyed by fire. These works were the | largest of the kind in the country. The fire was caused by a burst in the natural gas pipes. The loss is estimated at §150,000, gregats riment for | the years ending June 30, 1556, 1557 and 188%, point of death, one colored man dead, an- | other fatally shot, and others wounded, are | i the casualties resulting from a riot inane | | gro quarter of Savannah, Ga. Whisky was | gun forgings, armor aud scondary batteries | the cause of the uprising. 5 to cease | | Tilinois is put officially at 21,881. Fifer for | BT n N 2592 v ! armor aod gun steel purchased in England | Governor beats Palmer 13,532 votes. amounting to £227,565.20, The final pay- | *% | tors bay ficial plurality of 31,721, to that date amounted to about $100,000. No | ang eia p WAY : further purchases of either armor or gun | | caved fn, crushing two men to death, i Its second step was to hold back contracts | for armor and gun steel *‘until contracts of | Hanrnisox's plurality over Cleveland in | Ix Iowa the Republican Presidential elec | Tax walls of Alban's coal mine, Olney, IIL, | A neavy freight and passenger train came in collision at Bismarck, Dakota. Both en- gines were completely wrecked. Seven em- ployes were injured, four fatally. Cranres GG, WisongLy, treasurer of Spink County, Dak., has fled He is short in his | accounts over $100,000, As a result of this policy “upon the Istday | Jonx H. Mearnr, one of the murderers of John Lowell, has been hanged at Placerville, Cal. He bad to be carried to the scaffold, Ho cried and moaned piteously until the drop fell, A NEW organization of Democratic soldiers, distinct from the Gi. A. K,, is being formed in Indiana. State Adjutant-General Koontz is prominent in the movement, Taz United States Treasury disbursoments were unusually large during the month of November, the pension payment alone amounting to $22,000,000, Sin Hexny Norway has been appointed Governor of Queensland Tax dispute between France and Holland over the boundary of their possessions in Guiana will ba submitted to arbitration, A Mix at Robertsdale, Penn, became suddenly flooded, and 150 miners were im prisoned ten hours in water up to their chins before they were rescued. The pecuniary loss is very heavy. Hexny Pav, James Orr and James Pat. terson were run over and killed by a train at Altoona, Penn. Their bodies remained on the track all night and several trains passed over them, cutting them in small pieces, Funruer developments show C. G. Win- chell’s defaleation as County Treasurer, at Redfield, Dak., to be $16.50. Twelve bonds- men will have to settle with the county. Jupce Duprey M, Oriven, of Evansville, Ind., committed suicide at his residence be cause of domestic and financial troubles, Foun wen. including the boss, were killed and several were injured by the premature explosion of a dynamite blast near Lexing- ton, Ky. Ix Wilkes County, Ga, Tim Smith and John Coleman were lynched by being drowned in the river. They had made threats of shooting and burning out good citizens Hroxex, the Chicago Anarchist, who plot. ted to kill Judges Grinnell and Gray and | an increase of 20022 patents and 5,000,000 | land Two policemen and a white man at the | | was passed. There were 70,465 final entries, | Indian lands $521,113.77, making a total of ination of the STATE OF THE UNION. Synopsis of the Annual Reports of Cabinet Officers. The Interior Department, the Post- office and the Army. The annual report of the Secretary of the Interior shows that 47,180 patents for agricultural lands, covering 7,500,000 acres, Acres; 1004 mineral patents and 114 coal patents, covering 820,162.45 acres, were issued during the year. Under swamp land title 95.205,42 acres passed to State, and on miscellaneous claims patents covering 20,402.51 acres were issued, making a total of 5,005,101.20 acres to which title embracing 11,340,102.55 acres, 72.470 original entries, embracing 10,945 670,01 acres, and railroad and State selections comprising 770.5519 acres made during the same riod. Receipts from the disposal of public nds amounted to $12.701,0i2 and from $135 2,185.77, the largest receipts since Bats, There were 238,150 final and 330.053 orig - inal entries on hand June 30, and at the same time railroad entries aggrogating 25, - 420,506, 11 acres were adjusted, The Secretary suggests a special exam. entire department by a commission of Congress, with a view of se- curing new and necessary buildings, increas. ing the salary of responsible officors, and making more secure the tenure of office in the | department. He recommends, also the repoal | of the Desert Land law, which he charae- terizes as “very empirical,” and commends | the adoption by Congres of a law providing for an investigation into the best methods of utilizing the natural resources of the country by taking possession of the valleys and gorges along the streams and the constru tion of great reservoirs for the storage of water to be distributed on the slerile nreas, He shows that since March 4, 15%, there EL158 900.51 acres restored to the publio domain, and recommends that 05,020, 55%, 33 additional be reserved, In relation to Indian affairs be reports thas no disturbance or general tronble has any- where occurred. He refers to the fact thas several Indians have established, by the progress they have made, their capability of « acquiring the civilization of thw Caucasian races, while still others are troglodytes in barbarism. The legislation of the past few years has broken up the tribal system of government among som tribes, while with others it is at the point of disintegration He also refers to the in crease in the efficiency and honey of lo- Han agents. though much remains yet to te accomplished. An increass of salaries of these officers is recommended He finds that the setticment the entire Indian question can be ace plished by the education of Indian youths, because then there will be no Indiane when the generation of youths becomes the generation of manhood, The Indian canvas for 1857.88 shows a population of MEO. The extent of territory reserved for Indians is 112,410,440 acres, an average of 24% acres for cach Indian. Exclusive of the tribes of civilized Indians and the New York Indinns there are 27,994 engaged in civilized purstits, 17,200 houses occupied, 30.221 In dians speak the English language, 02625 wear the dress of civilization, 251.5% acres of jand have been cultivated 42.647 rods of fencing built, while in raising of {of grain and dairy prodocts they have made Inspector Bonfield, was given twelve years | impr.sonment by the jury. Vax Caxany, the assamin of Joseph Phil: beck and bis wife, was taken from the Shelby (N, C.} Jail by an armed mob and hanged, Rongnr Conmiaax, aged nine, after re ceiving several slaps from his sister Hoss, ged thirteen, seized a revolver lying on the table, with the remark “I'm a cowboy,” and fired, killing her, Onrpens have been jwued from the War Department at Washington detailing a class of officers to attend the course in torpedo practioe at Wiliett's Point, N. Y. lean Avimal Epwarp Siersox, United States Navy, has died of Bright's discass, from which he had long been a sufferer, at Washington. Tre National debt increased over £11,000, 000 during the month of November, Tux President bas appointed John G. En right, of Michigan, to bo Assistant Commis. sioner of Indian Affair George B. Hart, of Minnesota, has been appointed Superintendent of the Dead Letter Mice, vice John B. Baird, resigned. | Me Szxrox bas been re-slected Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, by a unanimous | Yote, Presioest Diaz has again Been insugu- rated as Chief Executive of Mexico, This is | York Fresident Diaz's thind term and the second | bed consecutive term, The Government made a | great display with firing of cannon, parade marvelous progres The summary shows Z3 schools in operation, with an enroliment of 15.212 pupils end average attendance of 1L49 and a total expenditure of $L200.748.30 for their manbenance He recommends a liberal policy in providing for the education of the Indian youths, and in dicates LUN 00 as a proper appropriation for this purposs From the chapter devoted to pensions it is learned that 60.00 original pensioners were added and 45 179 increas granted, while | 5 130 names were dropped from the list leaving a total of 4557 names. Of these 12.053) are army invalid pemssioners, 0S widows, children and dependent relatives, N15 navy invalids, 23% navy widows and dependants, SN survivors of the Mexican war, 10,757 widows and dependents of war, 10,0 Mesican soldiers, 5104 widows of Mexican soldiers sions range from § per month to $114.66 average annual value being $1500, sgeregats annual valne £6,707 22.4, an in crease of $3825.07 The amonnt paid during the yoar was 30079006012 an in crenss of $5,008, 080.22, the difference bet ween actaal payments and anonal value being oceas | tioned by first payments involving arrears, The cond attending this disbharsement was £5.90. 520.67, making the total expenses of the burean $2,008 5% 50, or 2154 per cent. of the government's income and thirty one per oent. of its total expenditures. The average age of pensioners is fifty years and the aver age of life sixtyseven years During the var there wers 1011 pension appeals beard by the department, In the Patent Oftice there were filed 40,177 applications and caveats, and 20.5% patents, including reissues and designe, were granted; 1055 trade marks and 205 labwis registered During the same period 57 patents were withheld for noo.pay- ment of fees, and 11.611 patents expired The receipts of the office were $1,122.04. 51, and expenditures #0VLTHLI4, leaving a sur plus of 2160, 34060, which, with the lalance in the Treasury, Jeaves £105.00000.65 to the | credit of the Patent Office From the report of the Commissioner of ' Labor it is found that during the year there fwere 855 strikes, affecting 4801 establish- : { (of the troops, ete. There was no popular | i demonstration, { Tax fortieth anniversary of the accession has teen | 10 the throne of Francis Joseph, Emperor of | Austria and King of Hungary, was the oc. {casion of an eulogy of him spoken in the Redcherath by its President. II A LABOR NATIONAL BANK. Pittsbnrg's Workers in Glass to be Their Own Financiers The Window Glass Workers' Association is | ome of the largest labor bodies in Pittsburg, | and possibly the richest labor organization in | the country. Its members are constantly | monis. This branch of the report is sum marized for a period from 15% to the t time, during which there were 20.00) estab. | lishmonts involved in strikes, of which New | the largest number, there | strikes and 1638 Jockouts, The number of persons involved was 1.278.204, In 10875 establishments sue. ones followed, in 300) partial success, and in #010 failure In Jockouts OHM were | ul, 190 rely succesful, and 1590 failnres assistance given | irikers was £1304.0657, and £11000 to wy Secretary of War's Report. of War | the War | Depa #41,106,105.07, of | which $25,557, 240 11 wax for support of the | $0108 510.60 for Ju J Ore, * alk tl i | handled + Under tho provisions the procurement ot fun, the necessary speci in Prépared advertisements for pro- posals wi issue early this month for guns of floon inches caliber to throw projectiles carrying a charge of about five hundred pounds of explosive gelatine, Becretary Endi renews the recommen. dations made in previous re for the ap- intmont of an Assistant Becretary of War, uch an officer is imperatively needed, he says, for the proper and efficient administra- tion of the War Department, The Secretary's estimates of appropriations to the War Department for the your ending June 50, 1800, ealls for $44,692.507, lishment and #13, 785,234 for public works and river and harbor improvements, The appropriations for the last fiscal year amounted to $41,165,107, and for the current year, $50,070 004, This | includes $25,203,572 for the military estab. | _ oo oo oval on the night shift AN INCENDIARY PLOT. Eight Men Perish in the Calumet and Hecla Mine, The great Calumet and Heela copper mine at Marquette, Mich., is on fire again. The fire was the deliberate work of a cool, ealey- Inting, murderous fend, who would not ouly destroy the mine, but the lives of the miners, Of the two or three hundred men on duty at the time all but eight, who were burned to | death, escaped unharmed. The shaft is 3500 feet deep, with twenty seven lovels There were about two hundred men on the About eleven o'clock they smells! smoke, snd at once understood the terrors of thelr posit on, An attempt to signal the surface disclosed | the fact that the signal wire was not working, { They were cut off from communication, and | but for the coolness of the ten in charge, Report of the Postmaster-General. The report of Postmaster-General Dickin- | son shows the gross revenues for the year to be $52,085,176,79, and total expenditures §£50,. SN, 4004, 84, leaving a deficit of $4,100,227,06, | as against over $7,000,000 for the year pro- ceding, The report says that owing to the in- creased efficiency of the services the com- inints of losses of mail bave diminished. he granting of special appropriations to railroads for carrying malis is ooposed, and favors giving the department control of the porvice, A comparison with foreign service shows that the United States leads in the aversge number of pieces per capita. Ile opposes ranting subsidies to American steamers, favors the bill providing that the United States shall own all buildings used for post. offices, and recommends the abolition of the franking privilege. In 1887 the cash deficiency was $4,207,988, The estimated postal revenue for the fiscal yoor ended June 50, 1989, is $50,067,670, In the Hallway Mail Service an increase of about L000 miles is shown, as against the previous year's estimated ncreass of GOO miles. There ig an increase of 17,077,909 in the number of miles traveled per annum, and a decrease of 71 per cont, in tue rate of cont per mile traveled, and an increases of 5.50 per cent. in the average number of trips per week. The total volume of business in the money order division for the year is upward of F143.000.000, and shows a net profit to the Government of about $50,000, The volume of ordinary mail matter has largely in creased, and it is estimated that the revenue on the number of ples during the past year would bave been, without reductions of post age, upward of £70,000,000, The business of the registration division has increased dur ing the year 8.7 per cent over that of the previous year, The free delivery service was extended to 190 pisces under the act of January 3 making a total of S98 [ree delivery citiss. The number of car riers was increased from 5310 to 6340 During the past year 24.5% ware careiuliy ER apn tend iected orcansed to be deposited in Treasury on sccount of cases of class ( {oases which are not strictly to be called mail depredations:, § Lies 18 . A recommendation is also made that at the termination of existing oontracts the manufacture of postage stamps, postal cards, and stamped envelopes, the Government take the work into its own bands } additional INN7 such offices The inspectors the for Director of the Mint's Report. The report of the Director of the United States Mint shows that the home production of gold and silver was £32,500, 000. The value of gold and silver bars mantfactured at the Mint was 800,000 0x, The earnings of the Mint and assay offices were $0, 500,000 and expenses $1,500,000, The production of gold and silver of the world was #254 500,960, of which $8,557,000 is credited to the United Mates It is estimated that on July 1 we had FG. 0 857 In gold coin, 290 T0879 silver dollars and $76,400 379 in subwidiary silver soda, THE LABOR WORLD, Tar Usited Order of Linemen has been or ganise 1, Gronota cotton pickers are pad forty oonts a day Fiero hands in Mississippi receive §10 per month and board Westerns drug clerks are trying to organ fz0 a national union AMERICAN carpet manufacturers are unit ing to advance prices, Bovrneny foundries are reported as being unusaslly busy this season, Tur union bakers of Indianapolis stamp their raves with the letters U. B Tie iwins, of Philadelphia, have built seven hundred locomotives this Year, Gints employed in the cotton factories of ! Macon, Ga,, enrn as high as $9 per week, A Br, Josurs (Mich) basket firm is ene i upon a large order from New Bouth alos, Tur daily working hours in the Locka warns (Penn) collieriss beve been reduced from ten to nina Tuosx who work on South Carolina rice plantations. labor all the year for, in many cases, Jews than $100, Exrioves of the Reading Railroad in Pennsylvania work nineteen hours a day at sixteen cents an hour, Tie next convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will be held at Denver, Col, October 17, 1580, A DETERMINED attempt will be made by all organized labor to break down the eon spiracy law which exists in several States, Tuer are three Farmers Alliances com gusid of ediared men at Cedar Creek, 8 C, | Cotton picking pays fifty cents per husidred, | Tue Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen | has a membership of 14,000 hirty-six now | Joslyn have been organised within a year Tue new locomotive cabs being tarnad oat | by the Valley shops at South Easton, Penn. , | differ from old engine cabs in not having a | single moulding. Surrrieid, Ala, one of the mowest fron | senters of the Mouth, has commenced ship | Jing pig fron to Pittsburg, one of the oldest omters of the North, A woRKISGWONEN'S soctETY formed in Detroit ten years ago to care for girls out of yment and secure silaations has just ented a magnificent build. ng. or drivers, Frerenny MiLLron spindles controlled by the United Cotton Amociation of Manchester, E of the 3,000,00 ’ Spinners i burn for years, is pow a story writer | Ledger and other wooklios | from escape as well, There is nothing to check the rapid spread of the flames, which are now running ! through all the chambers of the mine The main engine shaft is closed and banked, as is also No, J shaft, but the smoke forced iis way through the covering and hangs over everything in great, pungent clouds. There is no means of approximating the loss to the mine company. The fire inst year burned for thirteen wesks and caused a loss of millions of dollars, The loss this time will be honvier, and the fire may Bmoke and hot air are now coming out of the mouths of other shafts, and it is possible that the entire property may be destroyed. The eight dead men were all married but two, and all but one were Cornishimen At big o'clock the fire burst through the coverings, and a huge pillar of flame and sparks shot upward like a voleanie eruption, The shaft was again smothered by coverings of Garth, and if it were not for the streams of smoke which arise from the great mound, nobody would believe that one of the most disastrous conflagrations in the history of mining is raging under ground REJOICING IN FLORIDA. Frost All Over the State and ¥ vllow Fever Dying Out Ada 8 heavy white front there and Was great re joke erest, and talked { othing ‘ Bu revived perceptil in at le a doen pisces about the of’ y The Board of Health « mmmitiee of the SuUXIary associalio nd ot feren xsonville dispat 1eays that taere was lotaly fs, lnwns ing the ro pavements [hers : ihe peorie | r Peters} ols « onriios Nien take } move ali ¢ Mmrgo on travel Telegrams from many portions of the in terior of the State reported heavy frosts and in some cases the for: tion of oe it 1s perfectly safe opde 10 travel now in any partof Florida. Hailroad trains have resumed thelr customary winter schedule Disinfection begs at Jacksonville take at loast twenty dave Hunter's itn menses mill foraace will be used for burs ng infected bavdding nod Smith's lnandry for the the disinfection of clothes ot The official bullstir oases and no deatin, nnd wil I Rave only two new Total cases, 46:7: tota | deaths, 408 PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mure Monrox, wife the Vice President elect, was graduated at Vassar -—THE “Bantam of Berlin” is the latest popu lar pasos for the German Emperor, Brswanck has been made a doctor of divinity by the University of Giessen Daxiet, Tuwarres, who recently died in England, made $15,000,000 brew ng beer, Pievun Pirrvwssox, Bishop of lecland, has just celebrated his eightieth birthday. Prestpesy Parrox, of Princston College, has never become a citizen of this country, Grxxnal Hanmsox, according to a relig fous weekly, refuses 10 open his mail on Sun day We are to have the Empress of Japan and the Empress of Austria in this country at the same Line Tre Emperor of Japan devotes a deal of { kis time to pipe-smoking and is fond of fish ing and duck shooting King KALARKAUA is contemplating a visit fo this country. He will protably remain bere a number of months Tux Commanderdn Chief of the English army, the Duke of Cambridge, has completed his Afty- first year of service, Porren Parser, the Chicago hotel mag nate and real estate owner, is credited with having a rent roll of £3000 a day. Mus Hammsox, wife of the President elect, i+ said to be joth to have ber pictures placed on sale, and none is to be had Tux Duke of Veragna, and lineal descend | ant of Columbus, has made a fortune as a breeder of bulls for the Madrid arena. Thue President and Mrs Cleveland will be the guests of Secretary and Mra Whitney for the week succeeding the 4th of March Mason Aven RB. CALBOUN was seen Of a New York street corner recently listening ton bras band as it played “Marching Through Georgia. He is the auth of the piece and made a pretty sum of money out of it. After the war be went to Georgia and edited the Columbus Enguirer a whi or the New York THE MARKETS, 4“ FEW YORK | Peover, ....uue Miich Corrs, com. to good. . 8 Flonreud) 281 = 2 - EEE] ssesgEsy —- J or — a fd 5 reer A Western. ........ bs feet * Bes 218 EGEES Bg BesRRTARNENEn PP re g JTeTHTEEE ¥. ewan ne nay pe Hb Flour—pring Wheat pat’ iis pare. 3 VIR. MA EE EE Poof anhane Reha. era ERA, — : A 4 ohea cssasesse ge 3 1 a - . _-me se 9 - Tho | He | A BOLD STAGE ROBBER. Astounding Feats of a Lone High- wayman in California J. B. Hume, special agent for Wells, Vargo & Co.'s Express Company, st San Francisco, after months of careful investigation has established the fact that the recent series of stags robberies in Californias by a highway: mann is the work of ‘Black Bart,” the notoris ous stage robber who was released from State prison last January after spending seven years behind the Lars This man, whoss real name is Bolles, Is the most daring and succesful of all the “knights of the road” who bave operated on | this const, He perpetrated thirty-one rob- | beries before be was captured, and his arrest | was only a mere accident, It was his custom | to rob stages which be knew carried bullion | or coin for Wells Fargo, He was equipped | with a strong pair of fleld glasses, through { which be could learn whether armed express | messengers were on board or not, If there was only the driver be halted the conch. He {| frequently held up outfits in which there | wero six or sight men, put he showed such | nerve and cat-like agility that no ons dared | to attack him. He would promptly go through passengers, with great Polite ond usually would return their jeweiry trinkets to women, He would then break open the treasure-box, rip open the mail bags and disappear with their contents, | After the first few robberies he began to | leave bits of doggerel verse, ridiculing the | efforts of the detectives, and signed * Black jart the Pol” In 1843, after robbing a stage near Nevada City, he sccidentally left one of his cuffs by # broken express box. The Chinese laundry mark was the clew which Jed to Bart's arrest. It was found that he had come to Ban Francisco regularly after each rob- Lery, and lived in comfort on the money he ween red He was known there as Bolton, a mining man, and his frequent trips into the country were ascribed to mining expeditions, Bart was convicted and was sent 10 San (Juentin for seven years His term expired Janvary. He had become a good cliemist while in prison, and declared that he was going 0 lead an honest life and return to his oid bome In Missouri These pro. femsions, Detective Hume says, were false, as Bart coldly refused to have anything to do with his deserted wifes, who was foreed to go out to service in Hannibal Mo... to up port her three daughters. © iy 17 he com- mitted the first o six stage rob a Jone high h 1 the northern part of California wast haul made Ly the robber was near Downesville, where he secured gold bullion worth $220. Hume asserts that there is no doubt that this high- WAYIDAD 5 again waging war upon the ex- press companies. The officers have no clue to him, but from the full descriptions they capture kim. This man of slender isl berries Ly possess, they hope soon to Highwayman 4 a , sharp features and Jow, but gentie In State prison be secured much sympathy because of his gentie man ners and good conduct, but the detectivessay es isa Wooded criminal the cold 4 INTERNAL REVENUE Amounts Collected and Evponses of Running That Service The annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows re eipls amounting to $124. 2, nnd taxes of $4,975 281.59 The expenses of revenue agents were §7,582.. CST FER IE {9% There were 1071 violations of the law re ported, resulting in the arrest of 751 persons and the confiscation of property valued at #20056. 540, During the year 400 stills wers destroyed, 812 persons arrested al one of cer ki ded and another wounded The com miss oner recommends the enactment of a aw to reimburse agents for the Joss of prop eriv during the prosecution of their business There were #5 505 (0 received from cases compromised during the year. The force em- ployed comprises 65 men in the field, M7 col ‘ectors and deputies, 181 clerks, 29 and 179 gaugers and storekeepers. Addi tional employes are requested owing 10 the growth of the business. There are 2554 fruit stills registered, nearly wll of which are in operation The capacity of the grain and molasses distilleries in operation on September | was 140.561 gallons, There were 16,122 59% bush els of grain used in distilleries during the { year, a decreas: of 2,000,000 bushels from the preceding year The commisdoner oppos s the redaction of the tax on fruit brandy as it would seriously cut into the sale of whisky, on which a tax of ninety conts per gal'on is levied There are over 2000 registered frait distilleries. and from all sections come complaints from whisky distillers of competition from this BOUTOe NEWSY GLEANINGS, Hoxxy in the comb is scarce. Tne Mississippi is to be bridged at Ia Crosse, Wis SWITZERLAND does two per cent of the | trade of the world The rice crop of Louisiana amounts to about 635,000 bags NeanLy 20,000 Norwegians migrated from their country last year, OnGaxizeEp raids on rabbits are again being made in California. BiLvrn is being found in great quantities in the Madras Presidency, India. Tax shire of apples to Europe has been an unusally heavy one this year. { Sivex January 1,1.571, 150 barrels of apples have been received in New York. | 17 is discovered that 100 colored women in | male attire voted at Raleigh, N. C | Tux French Government will prosecute a Paris paper for ridiculing the army, | A DENTAL school for colored students has | been established at Nashville, Toon, | Tux number of court personages | tendants at the Vatican is about 1200, A rxw ‘Roumanian Ministry has been | formed with anti-German tendencies, | Fon every 1000 inhabitants the United States runs trains V700 miles sanually. {| Bovon Incawi, a Roman sdvoonte who | died recently, loft $2 200,000 to the Pope. and ab ” Witiin the last two yours 145 persons have 7 Paris, pd been convicted for stealing books in A FIFTEEN THOUSAND-DOLLAR funeral was * | held fo a Massachusetts town the other day. Tuk New York city elevated railroads oar ried 171000, 7%0 passengers during the past THE increased moisture favors the winter wheat crop, and the acreage is oqual to last | Ix 1857 there were in rane: TTR marriages, 50,355 births, and S43, BUT one vole was cast in South Caroline for General Fisk, Prohibition candidate for The wunbee of Jussngere transporind tt * mini
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