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Washington.

ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: Joseph K. Roberts to be Collector Of
Internal Revenue for Maryland, and Joseph
C.. McGrorty to be Collector Of Internal Rev.
enue for New Mexico.
DURING the past fiscal year S13, ~, 77333 was
Paid out for United Safes army expenses.
M. E. BELL, Supervising Architect of tho
Treasury, in his annual report says that ac-
tive operations were prosecuted during the
year on eighty-one buildings in various parts
ton from S5O,OUO to s., 500, 600. The t,tal
expenditure during the year upon new build
ings aggregated 81, 2,0S2.4i7, and the expense
of repairs on old buildings, e:c., was S3l9,-
1a2, making total expenditure of s., ,40!!,@S.
THE Appropriations Committee of the
House of Representative; met in Washing
ton on the I'D pursuant to the call of
Chairman Randall, and assigned the appro-
priation b lis to the same subcommittee re-
spe lively which had them in charge last
session.
THE total number of apprentices in the
naval service at the close of the fiscal year
was /, l95; total number OF men and approx
tices in the service, =, l23.
The President has appointed Bishop
Gordon, of Minnesota, to be receiver OF
public moneys at Redwood Falls, MINI.
The annual report of United States
Quartermaster- General Holabird states that
Transportation was provided by his depart
ment during the year for 236, $50 persons.
leo, ,191 tons of freight and 1907 horses and
mules, costing, as reported, 81, ,579, 43. Ad-
ditional items bring the total expenses up to
R,0SO,579.
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South and West.

Ex-Governor JOHN S. PHELPS, Of Mis-
souri,, died few days ago in ST. Louis. he
served eie hteen years in Congress, and was
Governor of Missouri from 1876 to 1880.
LATER reports state that during the recent
heavy storm on the Great Lakes thirty-one
vessels and thirty-nine lives were lost
ANOTHER furious storm has been raging in
the West and Northwest.
BALDWIN GARDINER. a San Francisco
stock broker and President Of the Pacific
Stock Board, has disappeared, leaving lia,bil-
tiles of SOD, 00J and no assets.
THE schooner s. ]. Conway, bound from
Chicago to Mnskegon, was totally wrecked
in storm. The captain and four sailors
were drowned.
In collision between two trains near
Champaign, ILL.,, four men were killed and
three seriously injured
ARKANSAS cotton cropis twenty-five per
cent ahead of last year, and the largest ever
raised in the State
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, of South Caro-
lima, while deer hunting en- his Mississippi
plantation, accidentally discharged his gun,
the load of buckshot Instantly killing his
horse. The Senator had become separated
from his friends in the dense wo1dS, and hav-
ing been painfully hurt, and Icing a cripple,
it was some time before he could extricate
himself from under his dead horse. After
wandering through the woods five hours
Senator Hampton was found by his friends.
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LATER NEWS.

ERAsTUs Brooks, for many years promi-
nent in New York journalistic and political
life, is dead in his seventy-se cond year.
A TUG-BoAT's boiler burst at New York a
few days since and all on board-four or five
men--were killed.
THERE were 1900 labor strikes in New
York State and City the past year, as against
800 in 1855.
BAKER Il CLARK, wholesale New York
grocers, failed for 100000.
GOVERNOR CURRIER has appo .nted ex-
Governor Cheney United States Senator
from New Hampshire, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of Austin F. Pike.
ExALDERMAN McQUADE's trial for brib-
cry in New York resulted in disagreement
OF the jury, n:ne being for acquittal anl
three for conviction. The jury wcro out
over thirty-eight hours. The result Gre
atcd great surprise, as it was genera ly be.
lieved that the confession of ex-Aldcrmen
FullgraF and Duffy would result in convic-
tion. The mistrial was attributed in a great
degree to the Judges charge, which was quite
favorable to the prisoner. The Judge or
dered new trial for the Goth.
SEVEN Indians-"Big Thunder" famous
Crow chief, among the number-wcre
drowned while attempting to cross the Mis-
souri, River, tea miles north of Bismarck,
Dakota.
FRANCIS PALMS, of Detroit, died leaving
an estate valued at Sl5,00O,0Q0.
MANY CT the largest business houses of
ForSythc, No., have been destroyed by q
fire; loss, 100000.
In his annual report to the Secretary of
War, General McFccly, Commissary General
of Subsistence, says that his bureau expended
S5,174 $50 during tn, last fiscal year.
FIVE large firms have handed in bids for
tho construction of the new government
cruisers and gtmboats to be built unlec di-
rection of thu Navy Department.
TIE trial of Washington police official,
charged with inaugurating spying system
upon the private doings and habits Of Con-
gressmen has ended in the acceptance of
Chief Walkers resignation, the dismissal of
Lieutenant Arnold and Private Edelin, and
the disciplining of two other OIL: ers.
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THE POSTOFRiCES.
Annual Report of Postmaster.
General Villas.
What the Department Has Done in
the Last Fiscal Year.

The reportof Postmaster General Villas for
the past fiscal year has just been published.
In introducing it Mr.. Villas points out
that the mileage Of mail transportation e1-
ceeded by more than ;25, ,000, 900 the service
rendered to any other Government, and tho
letters mailed were 100, 100000 more than in
Great Britain, long the leading letter writing
nation. During the year 22, TAT postmastcrs
were appointed, Of which {, SIC were upon re-
movals. Sixteen postmasters were arrested
for fraud, aud 3OU or 400 are undergoing i'll
vestigation. By vigilance on the part Of in
spectorS, S7s,575.Go has been reclaimed by
the government as wrongfully taken.
tended to Aurora, H.: Duluth, Mimi, and
Newport, Ky. Of carriers there was an in
crease of 4s5, making the total 4,S4l. The
cost was 81, ,3l2, ,3OGi0, an increase of $685.
.l5, or sis per cent. The number Of
pieces Of mail matter handled was
l,9i9, SEQ, 800. an increase Of 2Ol,0S3,-
ISL. The amount of postage on local matter
vas S., S}9,2H97, an excess over the cost Of
thc service Of sl,5.G9N.27. Mr.. Villas re-
lie extended to places of 10, 600 0inhab:tants, or
Sl0,L gross annual revenue
The Money Order Sysuem has been OK
tended to 3Ul additional Offices, and during
the year there were issued T,94O,SO2 domestic
o. ders for nearly sl4, COO GOO; 5,999, ,42S pos
tai notes, for $il, IT'S, ,0J0, and 493, ,423 inter-
national orders, for 81, It's, 1861. The total
netrevenue iuto the T. easury was $3.50, ,55l. 81.
The Special Delivery Service, Mr.. Villas
says, has been hampered by its limitations,
but $S4, 7S4. 81 has been spent for 1t, gross
profit Of aLont 81, ,uC0.
The financial condition Of the service has
improved. Mr.. Villas says, beyond expecta-
zion. For instance, the total excese of cost
over revenue was SS,25i, ,l57.53. In 1eS5 the
total excess was 1852 ,G65.70.
The estimate Of tue revenue for the coming
year is S47,3la, 7l0.S3. The appropriations
for the year exclusive of the cost of the
special delivery service exceed this sum by
SI,O53, 1874.
The estimated revenue for 1883 is $685.
596 4G, and probable disbursements, 55,343,
150.l5.
The report speaks in favorable terms of
the letter sheet envelopes. The dead letter
Office haniled 5,023, 745 pieces during the
year.
When the fiscal year 1856 closed, the post
Offices of the United States numbered 53, ,614,
besides 497 branch Offices or stations.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

DUNDcN, the deaf mute pitcher, has Deen
engaged by the Syracuse club.
BENNETT, Of the Detroits, had higher av'
erage than any otLer catcher In the country.
The Pittsburg club has signed all OF its
men for next season, and outside OF the oat-
teries, 81, 500 was the highest price paid.
BoTH the Newark IN. J.) aud Utica IN. Y.f
clubs have lost all their best players, through
the invasion Of the two leading ASSOCIATIONS
NEARLY every Leagus and American AS
soclation club will start out next season Wild
sixteen or seventeen ball players on its sal
ary list 7.a: ~
THE average usefulness Of baseball player
is said to be about ten years, and for the few
who outlive that time hundreds drop by the
wayside.
PHILADELPHIA made such a great showing
in the League this season the probability IS
there will be no changes made in the team
next year. -.
THE Cincinnati club will open next season
with no less than nineteen men under con-
tract, six of them being catchers, five pitch
ers and eight fe!ders -. 80. >,
AJoINT committee of the National League
aud American Association, at their recent
meeting in Chicago, made a number OF
clanses in the playing rules. ~
DURING the past season the Chicagos led in
base-running with Philadelphia second, Bos.
ton third. then Detroit, New York, Kansas
City, St Louis, Washington. -
In the League last season the Chicagos
made most two-base hits, most three-base hits
and most home runs; the Detroits made most
singles, the St Louis made most double plays.
J. NJ. WARD, Captain of the New York
League club, has been elected President OF
tue National Brotherhood of Baseball Play
els an organization of professional baseball
players banded together for mutual protec-
tion. s,..a@
New YORK Herald: "The players intro
duced new trick in baseball this season.
that OF tipping every good ball foul until
they succeed in getting their buses on bad.
Galls. This kind Of work will not be tolerated
noXt season, as both tue leading organiza-
tions will SO amend the rules at their annual
meetings this Writer as to put stop to such
tickery." -
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OUR INTERNAL REVENUE.
Figures From Commissioner MilIer's
Annual Report.

Annual Report.
Joseph s. Miller, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, has submitted his annual report to
the Secretary of the Treasury. The total re-
,e;pts Of internal revenue taxation for
The year ended June 80, 1885, were
s116,9O1,663. As compared with the
preceding year there was large increase in
all articles of taxation except snuff, Of which
there was decrease Of 1885, 747 pounds. The
pr. .ncipal increase was in cigars, cigarettes and
spirits distilled from grain. The cost Of collec-
tion during the year was s., 1893, 4S5, being
anout Sc per cent. Of the amount collected
The collections during the previous year
cost 81, 4j5, 430, or about 3.9 per cent. Of the
amount collected The receipts during the
first three months of the present fiscal year
we're $!S, ,904, 1904, an increase of S2S0, Al over
the receipts during the corresponding period
last year.
It is estimated that the sum of Sis, ,OOO, 900
will be collected during the current fiscal
year.
Eight hundred and sixty-eight violations
of internal revenue laws have been reported
during the year, 537 persons have been ar.
rested on their information, property to the
value of S136, ,805 has been reported by them
for seizure, and Sl24, ,020 for assessments for
unpaid taxes and penalties.
The number of Illicit stills seized was 564,
and the number of employees therein a..
rested was 1914. The seizures were princi-
pally in Georgia. North Carolina, Tennes-
see, Kentucky and Virginia. The amount
expended in detected and Furnishing persons
for violations of internal revenue laws was
S49,56l. Property to the value of $.S6, ,982
was seized.
At the close of the fiscal year 1876 officers,
clerks, messengers and laborers were en-
ployed in this bureau, and the aggregate
amount paid for their salaries was S34S. SO
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE Grant Monument Fund has reached ..
total of $123, ,709. -
The National Cotton Exchange estimates
the crop at 6, 414, 800 bales ~
Nova SCOTIA ships thousands OF barrels :
of apples to New York every week.
TWENTY adjoining farms in Greene
County, Ohio, are owned by widows.
THERE is a falling off in the Carolina rice"
crop this year of about 49, 900 barrels.
THE raising OF frogs for the New, York
market has come to be recognized industry.
ONE of the curiosities in Washington IS"
Senator Stanford's $50, 900 stable, which has
just been completed. ..-...-.....
IT cost S17, ,G75, 1853 to maintain the army
during the last fiscal year, and 81, 5s3 TO-
care for the Indians. 4;
NEW ORLEANS receives annually about
10000 bales of moss grown in Southern
swamps, and valued at Sl75,CO0.
The Legislature of New South Wales has
passed an act which legalizes cremation H.
that colony. Cremateria are to be estao-
lished. ..--
AN equestrian statue of Washington, des-
tiued for the City of Philadelphia, has just
been finished in Berlin. 1t will be shipped
shortly.
The expenditures of the United States.
Consular service during the last fiscal year
were S9O0,G05 being sI9,G35 in excess OF tho
receipts. .
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WAR IN AFRICA.
Nine Thousand Men Killed-Rcvolt
Against the Portuguese.

Nine Thousand Men Killed-Rcvolt
Against the Portuguese.
Advices from Durham, Africa, state that a
general and apparently successful revolt is in
progress among the natives against Portu'
guese authority in Southwest Africa.
An American missionary, the Rever-
end Mr.. Wilcox, arrived in Dur
ban from the Portuguese settlement on the
east coast, ADORE the Transvaal. He reports
as follows: The natives at lnhambane, q
Portuguese port town 200 miles above De-
lagoa Bay, rose up against the Portuguese
taxation and murdered tho collector. On
October % a battle was fought be-
tween $500 Portuguese and friendly ma
tives on one side, and $4,000 hostile natives
on the other. The Portuguese were defeated
and routed, and the loss in killed on both
sides is estimated at 900 men. Mr.. Wilcox
says the Governor of Mozambique has
gone into the country to endeavor to
suppress tho revolt and save the port Of
Iphambane from falling into the hands Of
the insurgents. The town was barri"a1ed
when the missionary last heard from it, and
the women and children had been re-
moved to ships lying in ths roadstead
The entire country round about the town
had already been abandoned by the Portu.
guese, and arrangements had been made to
remove the population of Inhanbane out to
sea if the hostile natives attacked the town in
forca
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A peculiar coincidence is that related

A peculiar coincidence is that related
by a professor in an Eastern college.
While in London he had been trying to
make collection of English coins, and
had met with much success. He still
lacked, however, half-farth:ng, and all
the means that he had put forth to Sc
cure one had failed. One evening as he
walked along street, it being dark and
he somewhat lame, he stumbled. On
putting forth his hand to break his fall
he placed it upon hard, round SUBJ
stance, which he had the curiosity to pick
up. 1t proved to be small coin, but it
was so marked that he could not discern
its denomination. Arriving at his hotel,
much to his wondcrment, he found that
it was the coin he had so much desired
"a half-farthing.
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The Manha attain Elevated Railroad
Company Of New York, with its four
lines of road, carried 115, 100, sol pas
sengers during the year ending Septem-
ber So, 1886. This is equivalent to 30O,-
900 persons daily. The number of pas
sensers carried by all the surface roads
for the year was 1Ol, ,165,034. The ele-
waited roads received an average of a
little over six cents tor each passenger,
their gross earnings being $7,425,2l6,
and the net earnings So, 96O, 1O1. From
the latter 81, ,531, 9s5 was paid for inter-
est and rentals, and $274, ,909 for taxes
and on structure. The snug sum of
$1,56o, coo was paid in dividends, and
800, ,651 carried to the surplus account.
The roads could we'll afford to pay
large sum annually for their valuable
franchise.
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Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, who is
much interested in every phase of
woman's work. has kindly furnished the
pupils of the Detroit School of Journal
ism withia motto which shall inspire
them to do good work. In a letter to
the director of the school, Mrs. NJ. L.
Rayne, the lady says:
I admire your enterprise and see in it
a great coed to many. To suggest motto
to keep in sight Of those good girls I am
imagining you to be training into systematic
methods of journalistic work let me beg you
to remind them thus: Good work is never
wasted; it brings back to you the exact
worth of what you put into it. It is, there
fere, the only safe investment in the world.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND.
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Commenting upon the death of Archer,
the famous English jockey, noted turf
men have with one voice attributed the
phenomenal success he achieved to his
courage, patience, aptitude, integrity
and good Judgment. The Detroit Fret
Press thinks that "these qualities, If to
them be added opportunity, which they
are indeed themselves bound to make,
when united will gain success in any
sphere of life, whether it be on horses
back on farm, or in the forum. There
is nothing remarkable in the fact that
they were productive of good results; it
would be remarkable if they were not"
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Foreign.

ADv1cEs have been received in London to
the effect that ship crowded with native
laborers returning from Queensland planta'
tions foundered in the Pacific Ocean and that
140 lives were lost.
PRESIDENT GENERAL SANTOS, of Ur,t-
quay. South America, has resigned his post.
GERMANY will greatly strengthen her
army in anticipation of European war
troubles.
GENERAL KAULBARs, Russia's special
representative in Bulgaria, and all the Rus
sian Consuls in Bulgaria and Eastern Rou.
melia, have been Withdrawn on account Of
the maltreatment Of Russian subjects
DON TOMAS, Cuban who died recently in
Paris, left fortune Of $50, COZ, 900.
EVICTION processes are being served on 500
tenants on the Castlebar estates Of Lord Dill
lon in Ireland.
RUSSIA has iutrusted France with the pro-
lection of Russian subjects i'll Bulgaria
PRINCESS BEATRICE, wife of Prince Henry
of Battenberg, and youngest daughter OF
Queen Victoria, has given birth to q son.
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PIsCATORIAL.

II her fisheries France employs q, ,9o9 boats.
or vessels, with tonnage of lG2, 4G7 tons,
manned by 81, men. sa'
THERE is decreasing catch Of salmon on
the Pacific coast still Oregon produces more
than one-half Of the canned salmon ~
THE spawning ground of the striped bass
is apparently very wide. Very young fsh
have been taken near Ossabaur sound, Geor-
ga, and in the Boy of Chaleurs, in the proy-
inceS. b a..5
THE total annual shipments Of dried
shrimps and other marine products prepared
as food or fish manure by the Chinese OH the
at s., lS2, ,O00. -..s -
TIE amount of Fresh salmon sold at the;
Billingsgate market in London last year was
4,637, 400 pounds, aquantity slightly less than
found its way to market in 1885, which was.
the largest salmon year known - =
LONDON aud its vicinity consumes over
$3.50, ,00D pounds OF eels year, worth $780,
0O. The larger proportion Of these eels
come from Holland, only small quantity
being taken from English waters. l,.ss
ONE MILLION eggs Of the whitefsh, with
$1,000 eggs of the lnke trout, have been sent
to Switzerland When hatched the young
fry will he placed in the Swiss lakes, the
lakes of Zurich, Hug, and Geneva. each tax
ing 209, ,O0O whitefish and l0, OOO lake trout.
In China, at Wenchow, an English sur
geon there reports numerous deaths from
eating porpoise. Magistrates from time to,
time issne pro"lamations cautioning the peo-
pie against the use Of porpoise ilesb, lint
scarcely spring passes without some fatal
cases Of poisoning. The meat of the por-
poiSe is dried by the Chinese and boiled.
THERE always arises q certain amount OF
doubt as to tue existence Of poisonous fish,
but Or. Oscar Tyrbring's researches seem to-
show that there is no doubt aboutit itmay.
be possible that, through slight decomposi-
ton. the pois nous character Of the fish Is
developed. Some fsh seem to he poisonous
at certain seasons and not at others, even in
particular localities
In Augustof this year Gloucester schoon-
er, the Volunteer, was struck three times by
swordflsh. When the fish was harpoonede
it was found to weigh 80 pounds When:
the Volunteer went on the marine railway
six feet from the stern, near the top of tho
keel, the sword of the fish was found broken
Off in four places. The deepest penetration,
was ten inches. -. ~
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The headlines in Chicago paper ruI

Inc ueauliueS III SuICaSo paper Iuu
as follows: "Sinfulness of London
Eating, Drinking and Wickedness Run
ming Riot-The Peop,o Daily Swallow
100000 Oxen, 100000 Head of Sheep,
100000 Calves, 800, 900 Swine, 100000
Head of Fowls, 500, O,OOC, coo Pounds of
Fish, the Same of Oysters, and Any
Quantity of Other Stuff, Washed Down
with 200, 10000 Quarts of Beer" Ac-
cording to the last census report London
had population of about 100000 in
round numbers. On this basis of COM
putation it would appear that each citi-
zen of the metropolis consumes every
day one eighth of an OK, half a sheep,
several breasts of veal, goodsize l ham,
two chickens, a hundred or more pounds
of fish, the same of oysters, to say moth
ing of vegetables and other things, and
worst of all he drinks fifty quarts of
beer day. 1t is difficult to understand
how famine can exist under these cir
cumstances.