, 1882-12-01

By Telegraph,

IN Judge FoIgor'S place.
CARRoLLrox, Ill.,, Nov q Ardngel
4 pipcr's flour mills were burned Iostcr'
DAY: loss, Sl>NOO; insured for Sl2,OOo'
LoNuoN, Nov. 81 Hannibal Hamlin
United States Minister to SPAN, win,
is gong home on a furlough, sailed to-
day.
SALT LAKE, Nov. 2S.-Judge Nanseil
District attorney for Utah, VINO ran ON
the Liberal ticket for Delegate to Con
cress in opposition to Elder }. l. Cam,
leaves on Wednesday to contest Cain
seat.
CHICAGO. Nov. pa Madison special
says the Milwaukee and ST. Paul road
las bought the Chippewa Valley and Su-
periOr Railroad, running seventy.hye
miles from Wabash, Mimi, to the lum-
Ter camps in Eau Claire county, paying
$1,675,O0O in Milwaukee and st. Paul
bonds.
SALT LAKE, Nov.27-Tomorrow morn
ing Elders John L. Cain, James Sharp,
ID. A. Perry, W. d. Johnson and +. ).
Richards, will leave Salt Lake for Wash
ington. Their purpose is to lobby, this
winter, for the admission OF Utah into the
Union. They will be reinforced, after
the holidays, by large delegation, with
full instructions from the Mormon
Church.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Folger has Of
fered, and the President has accepted,
his resignation as Secretary OF the Treas
usy, to take effect on the 10Th of Decem
ber. 1t is understood that Folger, after
his resignation goes into effect, will take
up his residence in New York City, as
counsel of the New York Life Insurance
Company All speculation as to his
probable successor in the Treasury De-
partment would be premature.
LONDON, Nov 2S.-The Mark Lane
ErpreSS, in its review of the British
grain trade the past week, says the pro-
gress with late wheat sowing is very
slow. Under the most favorable circum-
stances no improvement in supplies is to
be expected. Dry samples are still
scarce, trade is dull, and sales are un-
changed. The foreign markets continue
to disappoint sellers except New Zea-
land, which is cd better and in advance
Of any other description of foreign
breadstuils, which sells slowly. Cargoes
are quiet IS arrivals and sales; forward
trade inactive; prices steady. Flour in
restricted demand, and sales more or less
labored; foreign unimproved; arrivals
from America heavy. Barley improv
ed samples scarce; values improved;
foreign quotations unchanged foreign
lower. Maize improved at London, with
good supply at Liverpool.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23- Respecting
the adjustment of the withdrawal of
lind for the beniit of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, under the grant of
July ID, 1871 Secretary Teller has
directed the Commissioner Of the Gen
eral Land Office to conform to the line
Of the route III accordance with the
map of definitely located field notes in
1881 and 1882, upon which the road is
constructed on the boundary line be-
tween Dakota and Montana to the last
crossing of the Yellowstone river, and
such other portions of the road as have
been definitely located, without material
deviation from the line of the general
route where the road has been con-
structed. The purpose is TO permit an
ad us msnt OF the withdrawal Of land
along the constructed portion of the
road. This order will carry out the di-
rectlon of the President in approving
the recommendation of the Interior De-
partment that such portions of the
Northern Pacific Railroad as have been
constructed i'll accordance with law be
accepted, and that patents be issued
for the lands earned. 1t appears that
maps of the definite location show but
slight divergence from former maps, ex-
cept where the line of the road enters
the Grow Indian reservation in Mon
tana, aud this deviation was authorized
by law.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-The Postoffice
DE lartment has signed contract for
supplying combination letter sheets and
envelopes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. pa special cen.
sus bulletin shows that in the United
States are 4,0l34 402 persons of ten years
of age and upwards unable to read, a d
6,239, ,95S unable to write OF the num-
Der OF persons returned as unable to
write, 3,Ol9,0lS are native whites, and g.
22O,470 colored. OF persons ten years of
age and upwards unable to write, seven
ty per cent are confined to the Southern
States.
CHICAGO. Nov. 23,-The First National
Bunk OF Denver has sent circulars to
banks here stating the mails have been
robbed every month for the last year at
some point between Denver ana New
York.
PORTLAND, Or, Nov. 2l.-Articles of
incorporation OF the Transcontihental
Street Railway were filed today. Capi-
tai stock, SlD0,0GO. Incorporators. Tyier
Woodward, T. Corbatt and l.. Therkal-
sen. This is the Company TO whom the
Council last week granted the right of
way through Third street for its entire
length, and on g street, from Third 10
Twenty-first. Mayor Chapman has not