Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-11-26
NOTES OF THE DAY.

AhG bVSSmOCt NoFe"y WAih SOh0''u
two or three papers of general interest
relating to the war, viz, l. A descrip-
ton by Captain John Ericsson OF the
construction and work of the monitors,
illustrated strikingly by pictures of
these vessels in action. 2. al he Loss
of the Mon'ter," graph, description
by survivor, Francis ID. Butts. and 3.
1.-The Private History of Campaign
that Failed" by Mark Twain, being his
personalexperience (and not altogether
an untypical one,) of war in Missouriin
1851, with war-maps by the author, and
illustrations by Kemble. In the JAN
uary number will appear fully il
Illustrated paper by Gen. John Pope on
his campaign agairsi Lee in North
Virginia. The confederate side will be
described by Gen. Longstreet in the
February number, where Gen. rant g
fourth paper will probably appear.
On Sept. Commissioner Black of
the pension Office made a ruling refus-
ing to allow applications for pension
increases where the records of the war
department showed that the applicant
was deserter. The commissioner has
furnished an explanation of the intent
of the ruling. He says the ruling was
in trict accordance with the law and
only seeks to confine the work of adju-
dication to those claims whose benefci-
aries have clean records. So far, how
ever, fir, m operating as stumbling
block it will tend 10 expedite business
as the adjutant general has shown his
willingness to remove from his records
all charges of desertion which have
been found t. be merely technical anc
in several instances this has been done
Immediately on proper presentation
of the case by the pensioa Office.
HE will of Louis David Riel, made
in Regina Jail Nov. G, has been given
,ut. 1t is long, rambling document
and consist mainly of expressions OF
faith in the catholic church and sup
plications for the forgiveness of all
whom he has wronged or offended. he
''pardons" all who have prosecuted
him, not emitting those who sentenced
him to death No mention is made OF
any property He closed with an adj
monition to his wife to bring their chill
dren up in Christian manner and says
"he leaves them neither s old or silver, "
but trusts that God inspires the truly
paternal blessing which he gives them.
SENATOR VANWYCK of Nebraska,
says he will introduce at the coming
session OF congress bill 10 raise the
pension of soldiers and widows to $12
per month. They are now receiving
So. He will also push his Dill to PEN
sion all honorably discharged union
soldiers who are dependent upon daily
wages and who are not now on the
pension rolls. He will als' push his
bill to com ocl all and grant railroads
to pay taxes on their lands immediately
upon confirmation of their grants. At
present they only pay taxes upon lands
as rapidly as it is patented to them.
STATISTICS presented to the national
butter, cheese and egg association,
which recently assembled in Chicago.
show that in 1884 there was over $780,
000,00J invested in mich cows IN the
country. The tremendousness of the
Fl ures is better made apparent by
comparison with the united banking
capital of the country, which is nearly
$42,000,0 900 less than this showing.
The amount of money which changes
hands owing to speculation is almos'
incalculable in amount. Washington
GLADDEN. states that on Wall street
alone the amount of wealth transferred
in the questionable operations there in
one year aggregates $780,, 100000. 1t
Is query worthy of reelection whether
our growing labor troubles do not
spring from seed sown just here.
AN Improvement has been made on
the Bessemer steel process at the Edgar
Thompson steel works in Pittsbnrg,
which it is said. will have the effect OF
making Besse ner steel equal in quality
to crucible steel about one-tenth the
price. Bessemer steel can be produced
at a cost of a cent to cent and hall
pound, while that made in crucibles
costs at least IL cents pound.
VEsCvIoUs must be very accommo-
dating volcano. Regularly at the be-
ginning OF every winter. when the pro-
prletors of Naples hostelries are desir-
Gus of attracting travellers from Ameri.
ca and from the north of Europe in
that direction, Vesuvivs begins to belch
forth lava-at least, reports OF a spec
tacular pc Torrance by the old volcano
are spread over the world.
Lyman Abbott, writing in The Gen.
fury for November of Danger Ahead"
in our social and commercial relat ons.
utters his thought sententiously when
he says: Politically, America is de-
mocracy; industrially. America is an