The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-24

Hon. Cafl Ccnufz, secretary OF the interior,
opened the political campaign in Indiana on
behalf OF the Republican party by a speech at
Indianapolis, and will make tour of the State.
Fourteen prisoners confined in the Hender.
son county (Ill.) jail made their escape nv
knocking down the keeper and fleeing to the
woods.
Jacob Brinkerhof, the author of the original
draft OF the famous Wilmot Proviso. died at
Mansfield, Ohio, a few days ago. He was
member OF the twenty eighth and twenty
ninth Congress, serving from December 4,
elected judge Of the supreme court of Ohio.
Two white men engaged in tub race at
Rock Island, ILL.,, were drowned.
From Warrington.
The Official register of the United States,
better known as the blue boob, recently
issued from the interior department, contains
the names of 81, 800 government officials, in
Guiding officers OF the army and navy. Sixty
six thousand OF them are employees in the
postoffice department.
The report of the agricultural department
shows that during the last fiscal year the
value OF farm and timber lands throughout the
United States has increased about eight per
cent.
The department of agriculture reports the
pAOopCSto AOl COttOu, COIu dliu Wu0hb CROPS dS
more favorable than for several years past.
The state department is in receipt OF !infor.
nation that the vessel which recently fred
upon two American schooners in Cuban
waters was the Canto, small screw steamer
belonging to the Spanish navy. No formal
presentation OF the case will be made to the
Spanish government until the report OF Adj
miral Wyman, who was ordered with the
Tennessee to Havana, has been received.
Spanish authorities have thus far denied that
the firing was done by any vessel OF the
Spanish navy.
The officials OF the agricultural bureau are
very much gratified at the progress of tea
raising in the South. A Mr.. Jackson, who
has over thirty-five thousand tea-plants on
his farm near Savannah, Ga, recently sent to
the commissioner of agriculture tin box con-
tanning several samples OF the tea raised on
his farm. The commissioner subsequently
took the samples to New York and went
incognito to one OF the lasgest tea establish
ments there. representing that he had some
tea to sell. An expert was called in to ex-
anime the tea and he pronounced it India
tea, worth fifty cents per pound. Commits
sioner LIE Due then had difficulty in convinc-
lug the expert that the tea was grown in this
country and could be produced tor one-third
the price named. The tea is represented as
being very palatable and difficult to distin.
guish from the imported article. Provision
having been made by Congress for the estab-
ishment OF a tea farm, arrangements are now
making at the agricultural bureau looking to
the selection OF place in South Carolina for
the experiment. There are constant applica-
tons to the bureau for tea-plants, and it is
expected that in short time hundreds of
thousands Of plants will be growing ii this
country. The commissioner thinks that it is
only question OF short time when capital
lists will begin to see the immense profits to
be realized from tea raising, and in a few
yesrs he expects that the United States will
be producing as much tea and sugar as may
be needed tor home consumption.