The News

Statisties of the postal union shows ;hat the United States ranks first in the number of postoffices. The eoinaee executed at the mints during October was $5,2S4,7(M, of whlch $2,&5O,0OO was in silver dollars. For the week ending November 8, 371.499 silver dolíais were issued against 1,033,000 ior the same period last year. Judge Otto, who for inany years has been the ofBcial reporter of the United States supreme court, hae tendered his reeiguatiou. The war depaitment has issued a special order oppointing a special invcstlgatiou into the failure of the Greeley relief party. The President sustaius PostinasterGeneral Gresbam in his war on the New Oreans National bank as agent for southern loteries. It is estimated by the eommissioner of pensions that $40,000,000 will be rtquired or the payment of pensions in the next fiscal rear. The case of Chester A. Arthur, colector, vs. Xlcnry Pastor, regardmg the imjroper duty on washed vrool in 1S7C, was deeided against the collector. The secretary of the interior sustains .he decisión of the Cornini6sioner of Indian aiïairs to the effect that the courts of Iadian erriSory are not to be recognized as courts of eeord. Accordiug to the report of the ehief of ordinanee 33,621 arms were made at the natoual armory during the year. Various recommendations are tcade regarding the arms of he arniy. Postomce inspector, Amos P. Foster, ïas been diseharged frotn service for rendering al6e accounts. Foster was stationed at Ausin, Texas, and tent in acoums lor services never reudered. Secretary Teller has written a letter ,o the attorney -general ns to whether he can egally detaii an cxaminer in the pension office o assist the United States district attorney in nvest.ieating frauds by attorneys and claim agents upon pensioners. Judge Ferris, second auditor of the reasury, say6 that not one in ten ui the penion claims filed have auy merit, whatever, and that frequently the claim is filed without he knowledge of tbe party whose name appears as claimant. The amount disbursed by arniy jjoii6ion agents in the Ia6t fiscal year was $59,906,'501. Of this there was disbursed at Washingon, D. C , $3,440,610; Indianapolis, $5, 154,895; Chicago, $5,684,779 ; Columbus, Ohio, $5,684,320. The total amount of arrears of pensions disbursed by agents during the year was 179,811. The United Staies supreme court has decided that self-killing by an insane person, inderstpnding the physical nature and cousequences of his act but not its moral aspect, suotdealhby suicide wittiin the raeaningof he conditiou in a policy of insurance upou his ife that the policy shall be void in case he shall die by suicide. A prominent lawyer of Washington named Bradlcy, has been united in marriage to h6 former clii-ut, Mits Mary Harris, who was ried for the murder of a treasury clerk uamed Burroughs, July 6, 1S75, and as acquitted on the ground ot paroxysmal insanity, and who became an inmate of an insane asylum, from which she was fterwards diseharged cijrcd. The annual report of the payruaster general of the army to the secri-tary of war shows receipts for the last fiscal year $15,490,álO, disbursenients $13,aS2,164, $145,221,630 in nonds of paymasters, June 30, 1883, and the remaiudcr deposited in the treasury. Since ast report five officers of the pay department have rttired, having attaiued the age of 64, one died autl one was dl6uiissed for mieappropriatiou of public funde. Maj. J. K. Wasson' the offlcer last ri'ferred io, was a defaulu r tn the sum of $5,4. T!ie nmount was muüe good durins; the progress of the trial. The command of the anny of the Untied States irom üen. Sherman to LleUt.üen. Sheridan was qulrtly eilected at noon on November lst. In relinquishing the eommand of the anny Gen Stierman thankcd the offiecrB and men of the army for thelr Üdelity to the trust impo6ed upon them, and issured them he would watch their íuture progrese with parectal solltude. Lieut. Gen. Phil Sheridan, who assumes the chief eommand oí the army ot the United States, vice Gen. W. T. Sherman, retired, was 30 years ago a pupil oí Gen. Robert E. Lee, at West Point, and stood 34th in a elasB of 52. Only 13 ol the elaas slill survive. Sheridan in the 14th commander of the army and the Ufth to hold the rank of lieutenant general, bis preeceesors in the latter respect being Wa6liington, Scott, Grant and Sherman. His assumption of the chief eommand will not ruise his rank to general, the raukenjoyed by Grant and Sherman. The commissioaer of the general and office, the Hon. N. C. McFarland, in Lis innual report statcs tbat the dlsposal of public ands during the year cmbraced 19,030,769 icres and Indian lands 309,235 acres, au increase over 1882 of about 5,000,000 acres and over 18S1 of about 8,000,000 acres. Tbe reeeipts from all sourees ie connection with dispoeals ol public lands were $11,088,479, and from sales of Indian lands 4025,404, a total o $11, 713,883. Public lands were disposcd of as follows : Aerea. Public Sales 273,009 Private entries 2,179,955 Pre-emption cntrles 1,285,710 Mineral entries 31,520 Ilomestead entries 8,171,914 Timber culture entries 3,110,930 Entries with military county land . . . warrants 45,414 Entries with land claim scrip 10,580 Total number of entries of filings. . . posted during the ycar 251,085 Aggrfgating 2O,Q00,CO0 acres. The increase in the number of claims recorded in 1883 was 55,548 over the year 1882. The commissioner states ttaat he is satisfled that pre-emption filings are made or procured to be made to a great eitent. O-ENERA.L ITKM8. Four young nsi u ¦! Erie, Pa , were drowned while erossing tht ' av to the península. A coal shed in St. Johns, N. F., feil the other morning, killing scvcral laborera. Edward Richard, an inmate of the soldlers' home at Milwaukee, has been asleep for 30 days. Creo half-breeds in Dakota are plundering ranches, killing cattle, and raising the Old Harry generally. They're at it ah'eady. The newgovernor-general of Canada has received letters threatening hls life. A fire iu Savannah, Ga., a few days ago, destroyed $1,000,000 orth of property, and resulted in the loss of eight lives. United States authorities have asked the Canadian government for further Information regarding the postal savings bank system of Canada. A Canadian judge asks to have the Dominion law so aniended that the testimony of agnosties and unbelicvers be admissable in criminal cases. The round-house and repair shops of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad at Dayton, ühio, recently complete;!, burned to the ground the other day. A company of nine persons, citizens of the Chcrokee Indian nation, has been organiïed for the purpose of establishiüg a national bank at Vinita, Indian torritory, with a capital of $50,000. The corouer's jury at Buflalo find that the explosión of the boiler of the steamer Colorada September 20, was caused by the negligenee of Chief Engiueer Lovett in not having the stop valve open. The case brought in the circuit court at Chicago to test the validity of the high license law is decided by the ceurt in favor of thesoundness of tbe law, and noii goes to the suprcme court. Colored peoplo of Kansas City, Mo., have organized themselves into the "Civil rights agitatiou club," and have pledgsd themselves to support such candiilates as will work in behalf of cqual civil rights for the Negro. A disaslrous tornado visited Springfield, Mo., and vlcinlty the other morning. A uumber of persons were killed, many more were eeriouely injured, houses were blown down, and trees cracked like pipe-stems. Miss Ageie Kill of San Francisco is bound to have a slice of Senator 8haron's fortune, even if she cannot have the senator himself. She has brought suit iu the superior court of that city for divorce, división of property and allmöny. üov. Cleveland of New York has issued a proclamaticn calllug upon officials wlthin the state having in charge the execution of the laws, to exereise the utmost dilligeiice in the discovery and punishment of vlclators of the bribery acts. In the divoroe suit of Roger Minot Sheruian vs. Florence Bagley Sherman, on trial at Danbury, Ct., Judge Andrews dismissed the complaint for waut of jurisdiction, and Sherman will have to look elsewhere for nis divorce. A i'ing bearing the name of Zora Burns, the murdcred girl of Ltnooiu, 111., was sold by a stranger iu Cambridge City, Ind. üfficers immediately started in search oL the straugcr as soon as the diseovery was made, buthe had "skipped.1 Mary Churchill, the daughter of a wealtliv gentleman of St. Louis, Mo., who disappeared very mysteriously a few months ago, has been diseovered worklng in the laundry of the insane asvium near Indianapolii", Ind. She retured home wlth her father, but declares that she will go back to the laundry again. Natlian S. Haines, the absconding market master pi Dayton, Ohio, who eloped with a woraanof the town named Clara Fredericke, taking witb hira $15,000 of the city's money, was arrestcd in Montreal, and brought to DaytoD. Remorse had done lts work, and iu a few days the wretched man died in jai], in the presence of bis wife and aged mother. A raisplaced switch on the Missisquoi Vtrmott road, threw a train fiom the track, and the engine into the rivcr. The engineer had both legs broken and hls skull fractured, and the fireman killed. Edward Ellis, a brakemaa,has been arrceted on suspieion of haviug misplaced the switch. Fire broke out in Gartield, Col., the other morning, and soon getting beyond control reached the store of Sperry Bros., containing over 000 pounds of giaut powder, which exploded, hurlluij buildings, timber, and flre in every direction, totally destroying the postoffice, hotel, in fact the entire business portion of the town, Loss over 150,000, insurauce onethird. A number of people were knocked down and badly stunned. Only one person was fatally iujured. The people of Garfield are iu a ead plieht. Not only are the majority homeless, but without food or clothes for the winter. The entire business portion of Villoughb} , O., was dc6troyed by fire on the 2d lest. It started earlj in the morning and spread with lightniDgrapldity. The fire originated in at old barn at 2 o'elock in the morning, and it was o'clock hcfore it was got ander control. Twenty stores and a dezen houses were burned, and half the town lé thus inashee: The loases aggregatc about $100,000, distributed among upwards of 100 people. Ainong the buildin? destroyed are Kernedy's llvi-ry stab!e, Kennedy's hardware store, ClarkV dmg store, Barnes'jBros.' paper and paint house, Smith' jeweler store, Bartholoway's milliuery store Gunn's residence and Kennedy' residenee. The entire eontents of the buildings were also consumed. There was no orgaoized fire department in the town, and eyerything was at the mercT of the llames. Aid was sent from Painsvllle and Cleveland. The mornincr fullowing the fearful explosión in London, the Fenian heailquarters in Chamber8 street, New Y-rk, was crowded wlth Irishmen identiüed with the rcvolutionary moement of which O'Donovan Rossa is the recognized leader. Several of Rossa's lieutenants were industriously studying a map of London, whicli was spread out on a desk in the dynamite chieftan's sanctum. As each new comer arrlved, the scène of the explosions was pointed out by a man who appeared wcll versed in the typography of the English metropolis. A reporter asked Rossa what he had to say about the explosions. "What have I to say about them," he answercd, "is good. Many I more like them are in store for Englaud. I cio rot w.int you to under.ítandíhal I lay claim iO any personal knowled;e of last the eijlosions, but 1 will not be surprised tohear of a good many more like thein bníore a very ong lime." Sccretary Joyce, of the feniaa rotherhood, sala to a ruporter tbat the ïnglish govcrument woulil liud outthat all the restrictions tbat country eau impose upon the sale of explosive material will not preveut, the igents of the fenian brotlierhood frora pursung the work planned out for them. ELECTIONS ín Serení States Nov. C-Both Partles Hopeful- BuUerism Rcbnkcd- ïirst Returns. IV THE OI.D BAY STATE he election was intensely exoitlag, and a arger vote was polled thau ever before. The Globe, Butler's organ, concedes lils defeat by at Jeast 12,000, and it s not probable that aer returns will reduce these figures very much. Robinsou's majority will exceed 18,000. 'heKepublicans elect all live senators and 35 of 39 represeutativcs. LlUie (Dem.) is elected nember of tlie goveruor's council from Low ell. XE1V YOKK tepnblicans elected tlie Sccretary of state and the reot of the election is claimed by the Oemocrats, thongh Republicans are hopeful hut later returns may chauge the complexion of thiugs. Of one thing they are :ure, how ver, the election of the seeretary of state by rousing majority. IN l'EXNSÏLVANIA arly returns iudieate thattbe breaeh is healed nd a victory scorcd for the Republicaus. The ituation in the old Key Stone State is best unc-rstood from the following associated press ispatch: W. N. Honsel, ehairman of the )emocratie state committee, lias issued the ollowiug: "The Kepubliean majority in Phildelphia exceeds the most sanguine Republian calculations. It wipes out all our estiïated majority ; but the eountry districts held up to our ligures and until the western counies are heard from I do not concede the state to the opposition." Cbairman Cooper of the Republiean 6tite eommlttee ostimates that bis party has CMTled the state by not iess thau 20,COOmajortty. MKGIN'IA. The cleetion il Virginia created the most eicitcment since 1869, when the eon?ervative parly was organized. Half the senate and the entire house of delegates were elected. This legislature reapportions the state for congressional representation and e'.ects most of the heads of state departments. The uew senators vote for a successor to United States Senator Mahonc. Tbc race issue was never before so strongly inarkcd. A dispatch from Charlottcsvllle savs I.lie üemocrats claim the couuty by a large majority, also that as far as hea.rd froni in the state there have been majorities for the Deu.ocrats. Returns from all the districts in tbc state indícate the defeat of the Mahone party in the old Domiuion state. COOK COUXTY, ILLINOIS, ilected one judge of the superior eourt and iive eommisioners. Complete return from Chicago gave Shepard, Dem., for superior court judge 4,006 majority over Jamet-or., Republicau. Returns from the country towns caunot overeóme this, andtbec-leetion of Sbcpard and the entire Democratie ticket, except one ccuuty eoujmt6stoiicr, is conceded. IX MINNKSOTA the Republicans are very jubilaut. Sixty Hulit towns heard irom (outside of St. Fau and Minneapolis) givu iluiibaril, Kupulilican, fDr govvrnar, 2.041 inajurity over Birman, Democrat. The sccretary of tlie central Repullicau cjmmittee estiiuates liubliard's majority at uot kss than 12,000, the balance of the Kepubliean ticket 1S,000. THE XUTMEG STATE comes to the front with marked Republiean gaius. The cleetion was for half the senate, all the members of the house, and sheriffs in eigut counties. This Bspubliean victory wlll make the uext senate fitaud 14 Republicaus and 10 Democrate. mi: astma in Kansas is uneertain. Ouly couuty ofBeers aud judges were to be eleeteil. Euough reU"ns have boen rect-ived, however, to indícate ',he eleetion of the Republiean ticket. IN MlSblSbllTI the election passed olï with only one disturbante. The fusionists carry Hir.ds and Madison counties by large mujorities. The only dl&turbanci! in the state as far as heard irom was in Cassiah eounty where Wheeler killed Matthews. Matthews went to the polls with pistol in hand. He received 24 buckshots in the face. NIBBASKA eketed a ]udge of the supreme court and reents of the unirersity. TLe interest in Ibis Btate all eeutered upon the supreme judge. Returns are very sluw coming in, but irom tlrst returns received, the Republicans were victorlou. TUE LITTLE STATE of New Jersey eleeted Abbott, Democratie candidate for governor, bya good majority. MARYLAN'D DEMOCHATS are also jubilaut over the election of a Democratie governor. IX COLOltADO the election was for couuty ofticerp, and but llttle interest was manifestad. The Dcmocrats claim the election. DA KOT A voted upon the constitution, and from returns alrody received, the defeat of the constitntion is aimost certain. CK1MK Josepli L. Hrady, who has sorved a term in penitentiary, was arrested at Terra Haute, Ind., forrobbiLg the pojtoffiee st Stanton, lud., ín September. Stamps were found lu hls trunk. He is eüid to be the man who robbed the Danvil'.e, 111., postofflee In broad daylight several weeks ago. He isa dangerous eharacter. Charlotte Epps of Huntington, Ind., was found guilty of inurdcrini ber busband last June by the ad.-niniítratiou of poieon. Epps was an oid wealtby bachelor and w marricd to biá murderess two raontbs preceding his death, she nreviously having Bnrved blm In the capacity of hoosekeeper. Her punishment Is fixed at imprisonment for llfe. Edward B. Connelly, v brakeman on the Lake Shore railway H in Jall in Cleveland, O., on a charge of sendlog obscene matter through the mails. He confesses to üavlng sent nurnerous letters of a lewd character to ladies of respectability livioe in Cleveland, and adjoining towns. H'is a middle-aged man, and has a wif e and ehild living in Lorain,Ohlo. Arthur 15. Jolmson. a prominent lawyer and politieian of New York state, shot himself throuah the head in bis office in Utlca, a few days azo. His body was discovercd by the young lady employed by him as prlvateseerctary. A nephew of John,on was shot in Bitavia N'ew York, a few days previous by a. man whom he bad greatly wronged, and the tragedy so worked upun Johnson' mlnd tbat be commltted the terrible deed.