The Worthington advance., 1878-11-14

den. Payne, the new commissioner OF
patents, has issued an order With the approval
OF the secretary Of the interior, changing Of!
nee regulations so "a to provide that the fee
Of $2o required by law to be paid for registrq
ton OF trademarks, shall hereafter be payable
IN two installments, the first of $40 on fling,
the petition, and the remainder when regis.
tration Is granted. Heretofore the full amour
has been required'u upon reception of the ap-:
plicatioi, tho petitioner takiag the risk Of
losing the whole fee in case of unfavorable
action, The changed rule will conform to the
most liberal practice in regard to patents. ~,
WISCONSIN BANKS.
The annual report of the State treasurer
for the year ending Sept. 30th, makes the fol
lowing: Whole number of banks doing bust
ness Is 2S. with IN aggregate capital of 81 49,
2o5. OF the securities belonging to the sew
e al trust funds, the school fund is credited
W h l, ,807, 200; the normal school, fund with
$500, 500, and university fund with $135, 500.
The debt of the State amounts to $2,25OO57,
divided principally among the several school
funds. The only county in arrears on account
of State taxes i, St. Croix, $7045S All the
Wisconsin railroads have promptly paid their
taxes except the Wisconsin Central, which
has failed to nay the second installment Of the
Incense tax for 1877, amounting to s 500.
DESTRUCTIVE CONFEDERATION.
| A terrible contlagration occurred on the
9th inst, at the famous summer resort, Cape
May, destroying hotels, boarding houses, cot
| tages. bath houses, etc. It was an iucendary
fire started in the Ocean House, where there
had been no fire since the close of the season.
The fire burned steadily from O'Clock in The
morning until between 5 a..d 6 o'clock in the
afternoon. The entire burnt district covers
| an area Of about forty acres, and is bounded
by Congress street on the west, Washington
street on the north, Ocean street on the east,
and the beach on the south. The total loss is
estimsted at about 100000, of which more
than one-half is covered by insurance. No
lives were lost, aud no one was severely in
jured. In 1869 almost the same section was
swept away by fire scarcely less destructive
than the present one.
| PARDONED.
Ex-Gov. Fletcher, Of Missouri, who is
in Washington city, has secured uncondition-
al pardonss for Mr.. Henreichhoffen, Bernard
Eagle, John L. Bernecker, A. NJ. Everst and
Henry Hardway. These five pardons dispose
of the last OF the men who were convicted as
participators in St. Louis whisky ring frauds.
All Others convicted for this offense have eth
er been pardoned or terms OF imprisonment
were to which they sentenced have expired.
Ex-Gov. Fletcher, OF Missouri, who is
in Washington cityhas secured unconditional
pardons for Mr.. Henreichhoffen, Bernard
Eagle, John L. Bernecker, A. N. Evcrst and
Henry Hardaway. These five pardons dis
pose Of the last of the men who were convict
ed as participators in St. Louis whisky ring
frauds. All others couYicted for this otfense
have either been pardoned or terms of impris
onment to which they were sentenced have
expired.
OPIUM swtEDLE.
An investigation is nov in progress un-
der direction of the Secretary of the United
States Treasury into alleged manufacture in
New York and vicinity of prepared or smok.
ing opium designed to supply the Chinese
trade of the San Francisco market, and prob
able importation BY such Chinese manu;actur-
ers Of crnde opium below the required stand
ard of purity. It has been developed from
Official and other sources, that very large
revenue is cut off by this manufacture, and
to the government, resulting to the benefit of
an alien class who escape taxation in most
other forms. This manufacture of crude
opium into opium prepared for smoking is
said to be also carried on to considerable ex-
tent in San Francisco The investigation was
ordered with q view Of placing the business
Of manufacturing under official surveillance
ard subjecting it to heavy taxation for the
purposes Of restriction and revenue.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDING SCHEME
| The commissioners of the District OF
Columbia, in their forthcoming report, will
| propose new plan for funding all outstand-
ing indebtedness Tof the district. It contem-
plates loan by the United States of fifty year
4per cent. bonds for this purpose. The &C.
curities taken in exchange are to be held Is
collateral by the United States until the pro-
posed special issue to the district should have
been redeemed and cancelled. The tolal debt
proposed to be funded in United States per
cent bonds is $21 ,6s3, ,659, including $13,743,-
50 of 3-65 bonds, which is the total amount of
them outstanding. The commissioners are
confident that by funding the debt as pro.
posed there will be saving of principal to
be paid at maturity amounting to s1.455, ,s72,
and in the payment Of interest saving
$176,947. This saving OF interest invested
yearly in 4 per cent bonds at par would pay
off the entire debt in forty-four years.
casting the matter in an irritating way before
the public until our affairs had assumed q
peaceful aspect. At any rate this is what, &C.
cording to admirers of the Alabama arbitra~
ton, we might certainly have expected from
America. The truth is that while the very
party with which the bargain was made still
holds Office in the Uuited States, the first op.
portunity is seized to make point against US
may force us to give way. Nothing else was
to be expected, and for our own part We are
inclined to thank Evarts for teaching our
countrymen that nations generally are more
inclined to forego their advantages over one
another in the nineteenth century than in the
eighteenth, seventeenth, sixteenth or first
Let sentimentalists blame Evarts, for he has
disappointed them, not u.s..
Milwaukee Produce Market.
GRAIN N-wheat opened unsettled and 10 higher
ana closed nrm: No. hard 96c; No. I, 65c: No.
. | 8OAc; October 6O4c; November 8OXo; Decembe,
83Ac; No. 8, &c; No. I, 600; rejected SIC. Corr
steady: No. 2, SIC. Oats frmer; No. ?, 18ztc. Ryl
steady; No. l, 40. Barley lower; No. 2, SEC; No
| vembee &c. So. .
PROVISIONS-Easier and quiet. Mess pork 46.7l
cash and october. Lard, prime steam, 36.s7.
Chicago Produce Market.
WHEAT-Fairly sctivo and shade higher; No.
red winter 84c; No. 2 Chicago 600 cash; s0xc No
vember; 82hc December; No. Chicago 67068c
md md 4 nhA6I
: higher; 34c cash and November; $40 December
Oats, good demand and , shade higher; 194c cash
l9hD1sHc November; 1870 December. Ry,
, steady and unchanged. Barley dull aud shad,
l0No4: 40n. AYfra No 4 klGAk1c.