Newspaper Page Text
LATEST JTOWS SUMMARY.
- WEST.
Ban Francisco finances are getting
easier.
Col. Stanton’s expedition to the bad
landB of Dakota has visited portions of the
country hitherto unexplored,, between the
Cheyenne and White Earth rivers, obtaining
fossils of extinct animals.
The population of the state of Minne
sota hv the eensns this year nearly oil officiul
and the remainder estimated is597,0liMWuui>l
439,706 in 1870,172,023 in 18^50, and 6,077 in
1850.
California is sending two car loads of
pears to the east every day, and the san
guine Californians hope that in a few years
they will realize more money from their ex
ports of fruit than from their exports of
wheat.
The Black Hills negotiations, which
have been in progress at the Red Cloud
agency for some time, have come to an un
successful termination. Not only that, but
the commissioners on the part of the United
States had a narrow escape from being at
tacked by some of the infuriated red skins
The corn crop in Iowa is becoming
enormous in its proportions. In 1874 it was
120,000,000 bushels. This year the area is
much enlarged, and it is estimated that the
yield will be 130,000,000 bushels, which, if no
disaster come to it, which does not seem
probable, will be worth $70,000,000.
About one-third of the wheat grown in
the United States is produced in the three
states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin,
and this one-third is in round numbers a
hundred million bushels. The heavy rains
have damaged this crop somewhat in those
states this year. The St. Paul Dispatch says
that from the most trustworthy nfonnation
that it has been able to obtain it would seem
that in Minnesota five per cent, of the entire
production for the year has been totally
destroyed, while the damaged condition of a
large proportion of the crops is equivalent to
a further loss of about ten per cent. Th con
tinued rains have delayed the operations of
the farmers, and the crop of that state will
not reach the market until several weeks
later than usual.
SOUTH.
As far as known 178 lives were lost at
Indinnola.
Large contributions for Indianola and
the coast sufferers are being sent forward
from Austin, San Antonio, New Braunfels,
Dallas, Waco and Shreveport; also from
many northern and eastern cities.
The Arkansas State Board of Finance
has effected a loan of money sufficient to pay
the expenses of the state government from
July 1st of the present year to the 1st of
July, 1875.
A committee will be appointed to go to
Washington and urgently appeal to congress
to assist in rebuilding the levees of the Mis
sissippi valley.
The number of cattle shipped or driven
from Texas this year is over 212,000 so far.
Over 10,000 will be wintered on the Wucliita.
Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart, the widow of
the renowned confederate general of cav
alry, has become an instructor in the South
ern female college, Richmond, Va.
One of the provisions of the new con
stitution proposed for North Carolina is the
following: No person who shall deny the
being of God, or the truth of the Christian
religion, or the divine authority of the Old
or New Testament, or shall hold religious
principles incompatible with the freedom or
safety of the State, shall be capable of hold
ing any office or place of trust or profit in
the civil department within this state.
The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce, of
the M. E. Church, south, who is nearly n
hundred years old, is stiil able to render
occasional service in tiie pulpit. lie is a
fraternal delegate from Georgia to the gen
eral conference of the Northern Methodist
church, which meets next year.
The North Carolina convention has,
by a vote of 63 to 56, refused to remove the
disabilities of ex-Governor Holden, im
peached in 1871, upon the ground that the
oath of the members prescribed by the legis
lature, restricted them from legislative
action.
An examination of the books of the
Planter’s National Bank, of Louisville, reveals
a defalcation of $105,000, taken during the
last five years by the late teller, Louis
Rehrn. It will be remembered that Relun
recently robbed the bank safe of
$100,000, and was apprehended before
lie could escape, and the money was recov
ered. An examination reveals a defalcation
was then made. The loss amounts to 30 per
cent, of the capital stock, and will fall on
stockholders only, depositors being Bafe.
The bank will go into liquidation.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been
considerably annoyed of late by the fabrica
tious or misinformation of some Georgia pa
pers that have been making him the general
issimo of the hosts of the Khedive. The
general tints writes to a pcrsonhl friend in
New Orleans: “ I am very sorry to sny that
the Khedive has not made me the magnifi
cent offers reported by some southern editors,
no do I know if lie is still appointing Ameri
cans iu his Urray, Several of my acquaint
ances have received such appointments,
however, by making application through Mr.
S. L. Merchant, No. 76 South street, New
York, who seems to be the agent of the
Egyptian government.”
Galveston advices from Brazoria, dated
23d, confirm the reports first received from
Matagorda. The town was washed away ex
cepting only four houses, which remain
standing. No lives were lost. The people
were saved by clinging to the cedar trees in
the vicinity. At the town of Columbia
twenty houses were blown down. No lives
are report lost. One man’ was killed at
Chenango by the falling of a tree. Man-
plantaiiuiis have been greatly damaged and
some literally tom to pieces, and sugar-
houses, gin-houses, fences and everything
partly or wholly blown down. The great
losses can not be reported.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The fast mail service is voted by the
post-office depnrtmentadecidcd success.
The public debt statement shows a re
duction of over three millions and a half dur
ing September.
Detective Pinkerton has expended
$18,000 trying to find Charley Ross, and still
he is at it.
The number of postal money orders
issued during the year ending June 30, 1875,
was 5,003,323, amounting to $77,431,251.58,
an increase of $3,006,396.87 over the previous
year.
The secretary of the treasury has given
directions for the retirement of $304,584 of'
outstanding legal tenders, that amount being
80 per cent, of the national bank circulation
issued during the post month. Until further
orders the outstanding legal tenders will be
$373,941, 124.
The agricultural report for August
and September gives the condition of wheat
where harvested for nil states as 79 per cent.,
quality poorer than for several years. The
oat crop is superior in quality and quantity,
mostly secured in good condition. Of bar
ley, the average of the country in 85 per
cent. Potatoes are ten per cent, above aver
age ; the wool crop is a full average weight,
or little above, in nearly all the states. To
bacco has fallen ten per cent, below an aver
age. Hope, New York and Wisconsin, which
together produced from three-quarters to
four-fifths of the entire crop, have largely
increased their acreage.
The comptroller of currency reports
that 83 national banks have been organized
since the passage of the act of Jun. 14, 1875,
with a capital of nine million, two hundred
and thirty-four thousand dollars, to which cir
culation has been issued amounting to $3,023-
730. Total amount of additional currency is
sued since the passage of the act is $10,218,-
000, of which $1,740,000 lias been issued to
Pennsylvania,$114,000 to West Virainia,$369,-
000 to Kentucky, $234,000 to Ohio, $331,000
to Indiana $100,000 to Illinois, and $121,000
to Iowa. Total amount of legal tender notes
deposited for the purpose of retiring circula
tion from the passage of the net of June 20,
1874, to October 1,1 875, is $25,042,749 of which
amount $7,700,000 lias been deposited by New
York, $605,000 by Massachusetts, $361,000 by
Connecticut, $322,000 by Pennsylvania, $618,-
000 by South Carolina, $443,000 by Louisiana;
$2,840,000 by Missouri, $1,894,000 by In
diana, $3,703,000 by Illinois, $763,000 by
Iowa, and $600,000 each by the stutes of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The
amount of national bunk circulation out
standing to-day is $2,000,000 less than on
June, 20,1874, and $4,000,000 less than on Jan
uary 14, 1875. Amount outstanding to-day
is $347,863,742. The solicitor of the treasury
has given his opinion that a license upon the
capital of a national bank cannot be en
forced, and that state officers have no right
either to examine or except reports from na
tional banks. ______
EAST.
Mrs. Young, the mother of the little
girl who was cruelly murdered in the belfry
of Warren avenue Baptist church, Boston,
has been taken to the insane asylum, the fate
of her child having deprived her of reason.
Matters at Fall river are quiet, but it
is the quiet enforced by bayonets. The
labor troubles there are begining to attract
it guutl deal of attention outside,
Mrasrs. Gresswell, Purvis and Leipold,
commissioners of the F reed man’s Having mul
Trust Company, amounce that they will com
mence puying a dividend of 20 per cent, on
oil audited clams ou the first of November.
The splenic fever, or Texas cattle dis
ease as it is generally called, which caused
so great a mortality among cattle in the west
a few years ago, has recently made its ap
pearance in Now York, the animals affected
having undoubtedly contracted the con
tagion from Texas cattle brought north for
slaughter. .
A dispatch from Richmond, Me., re
ports that the captain, his wife and 14 out of
a crew of 19 of the ship Emily Southard
were lost by the wrecking of that vessel on
the English coast a few days ago. Capt.
Woodsworth is the ninth sea-captain from
Bowdoidhnm lost within the year.
The horse distemper, which threatened
heavy losses of stock in New York a few
days ago, has nearly disappeared from the
the stables of that city. The reternary sur
geons say the disease is not like the “ epizoo
tic ” that prevailed several years since, and
they suppose it to have been brought on by
the sudden cold weather. A horse disease
similar to it has just appeared in Washing
ton, but does not seem to be doing much
harm yet.
FOREIGN.
The Carlist leader, Gamande, has been
defeated at Castillo, in Catalonia.
A fearful storm has done immense
damage in England. At Manchester a large
mill was prostrated. No lives lost.
The rebellion in the Turkish provinces
appears to be as formidable as ever, if not
more so. The is a great deal of privation
and suffering incident to the general up
heaval. ' v -
There are N only 46,000 Jews in France
but their importance there in art, politics
commerce and finance is out of all propor
tion to their number.
Eminent engineers in France are work
ing assiduously at the problem of construct
ing a bridge between France and England.
Payton, the absconding teller of the
Machunics bank of Montreal, is reported to
have embezzled over one hundred thousand
dollars.
Dispatches from the Swedish Arctic
expedition report its arrival at Hammerfest,
Norway. All the officers and men were well.
Important maps and scientific collections
have been made.
The report is confirmed that Don
Carlis has dismissed Gen. Sabollos from his
command to which Gen. Contelles has suc
ceeded. The Alfonslsts continue to push
operations in the neighborhood of Hernia.
It is reported that dissensions have
occurred among the Carlist leaders, Dorre-
garay, Mcndira and Pemla, which Don Carlos
himself is unable to reconcile. The Carlist
leader Germande lias been defeated at Cas
tillo in Catalonia.
Several sanguinary engagements hare
taken place in Herzegnvinia between a body
of 1,200 insergents and 4,000 Turks. The
first engagement was fought on the 28th ulti
mo near Kleparaitza, and two engagements
followed on the 29th and 30th near Frump-
tarizza. The insurgents lost fifty-six men
and the estimated loss of the Turks 500. On
account of their inferior numbers the insur
gents were obliged to retreat.
The wrath of the English over Hon
duras finances is justifiable. M. Guiterrez,
the Honduras minister, misrepresented affairs
to British capitalists and got $29,003*,000 for
the purpose of effecting “ internal improve
ments.” As the revenues of the state are
only $988,000 and the governmental expenses
far exceed that sum, it is likely that the
aspiring capitalists in England are not likely
to get their money back very soon, nor will
they lend any more after the recent develop
ments.
We arc to have a royal visitor, next
year, who will be heartily welcomed—Dom
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who lias secured
the sanctiou of his chamber of deputies to a
proposed absence of eighteen months in
Europe and the United States, taking iu the
the Philadelphia Centennial, of course.
Dom Pedro has proved himself the most
intelligent ruler that South America hns ever
seen, and Brazil hns made steady and rapid
progress through his reign. He lias always
shown himself a warm friend of the United
States.
So far as outward appearance goes, the
Cubin insurgents arc as determined to-day
as they were eight years ago. They have
just promulgated a war order that nil mes
sengers from the Spanish party bringing pro
posals of peace based on any other terms
save those of Cuban independence, will be
treated as spies. There is not much sub
mission in that. The successful landing of
their late filibusters has fully supplied them
with munitions of war, and their spirits and
courage seem as fully reinforced.
The Fast Mail Trains.—A feeling
has prevailed among commercial men
since the establishment of the new fast
mail trains that their interests were being
sacrificed to those of the morning news
papers by the post-office department.
The idea got abroad that mercantile let
ters were delayed until morning, and that
the time of transmission to the west was
thereby increased instead of diminished
under the new arrangement. A number
of merchants and publishers of evening
newspapers met at No. 17 Broadway yes
terday, and Major Bangs addressed the
assemblage, explaining the system of
railway service of the United States very
fully, and said that the city could not
possibly be better served than it is at
present. The morning trains from this
city had been arranged to catch most of
the through trains in the west. Thus
everything combined to render a fast
evening train of no practical 9value. In
planning the new service all these things
had been carefully weighed, the principal
object being to accommodate the large
cities which are the distributing agencies.
Should any new considerations of impor
tance be offered to the department Major
Bangs promised that care would be taken
to give them the attention they might
demand.—N. Y. Tima.
—There are in France, according to
the last census returns, one hundred and
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-
six persons who have titles and over
three hundred thousand others who use
the prefix du or de, or de la. There are,
however, really only about thirty thou
sand scions of nobility in France, and it
is stated that of these but forty-six—
three princes, seven dukes, eleven mar
quises and thirty-five counts, can prove
tne creation of tneir title and trace back
their lineage anterior to the seventeenth
century, a period of two huhdred and
seventy-five years.
—‘‘Uncle Pete” was asked to sub
scribe fifty cents to his parson’s salary
yesterday. “Can’t do it, I tell ye.
Kase dere’s mighty hard times ’proachin’
on hyar I ” “ Oh, no, Pete, de scraps is
good, and we hab plenty money dis
winter! ” “ You’se a fool 1 How kin
dat be when I heer Mr. Jeemes up dar
at de bank say dat de Clilorafomy Bank
done busted, jis like dat Freedman bank
did ? Can’t 'scribe nuthin,' honey, but
I’ll lend de preacher my wood saw aud
buck, ef he wants to yearn somfin.”
This proposition was not accepted.
African Explorations.—A compa
ny has been formed in Berlin which pro
poses to found at Choa, the most south
ern province of Abyssinia, a permanent
settlement, in order to send out scientific
expeditions into the unexplored portion
of Africa, and to develop the commerce
of the country. The objects of the com
pany are, however, supposed to be more
commercial than scientific.
The great drawback iu growing cab
bages successfully and to profit~is in
failing to have a large proportion of
head. To make them head uniform and
well, hoe often, especially in dry weather,
and as soon as surface dries after rains.
Don’t allow a crust to form around them.
A thimbleful of salt scattered over them
occasionally will be found beneficial.
American locomotives cost 20,000
silver roubles each, and German locomo
tives 18,000 to 20,000 roubles, but the
American locomotive is fifty per cent,
more powerful than the German.