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MISCELLANEOUS The grain in sight in the United States and Canada according to reports received by the secretary of the Chicago board of trade was wheat, 47,567,318 bushels, a decrease of 521,669 bushels as compared with the preceding Saturday; corn, 8,885,963, an increase of 994, 757; oats, 2,664,498, a decrease of 135,433; rye, 357,941, a decrease of 7,361; barley, 856.434, a decrease of 16,070. The stocks of grain in storein Chicago at the same were: Wheat, 15,881,150; corn, 207,385; oats, 533,163; rye, 135,353; barley, 5,038. At the stock-growers' convention at Cheyenne the secretary reported that the Wyoming association holds property valued at $100,000,000: that cattle from Texas are dangerous only for sixty days from the time of leaving their native ranges; that the reduction in freight rates secured from the Union and Northern Pacific roads benefits the association to the amount of $72,000 per annum, and that grain can never be raised on about SO per cent of the public lands now grazed upon. Death has clain.ed another member of the Illinois legislature, the victim this time being J. Henry Shaw, of Beardstown, Cass county. The deceased had been ailing during the whole session, but not 80 that he could not attend to his duties most of the time. He was over 60 years of age, and had served in the Thirtysecond general assembly, this being his second term. He had been an unswerving democrat, and thus there occurs another break in the ranks of that party. The estimated loss by fires during March was $9,000,000 in the United States and Canada. This is in excess of any previous entries during the corresponding month for the past ten years, the average fire loss reported for March having been less than $7, 000,000. The total loss by fire in the first three months of 1885 was $275,000,000, at which rate if kept up the result will be $110,000,000 for the year even if no extraordinary conflagrations occur. t At the Church of the Holy Trinity, in New York, Mrs. Tom Thumb was Monday married S to Count Primo Magis. Thousands of people gathered about the street corners, and there were many leaders of society who witnessed 0 the ceremony. The count presented his wife with a valuab'e estate in Italy, and they will y cross the Atlantic next month. h d The Exchange National bank of Norfolk, Virginia, owes its depositors over $3,000,000. , The examiner makes a gloomy report of its n condition. A committee of depositors has f gone to Washington to request the appoint1. ment of a resident of Norfolk as receiver. g General Dent was recently permitted by , Ithe physicians to see a reflection from General Grant's throat. He says no one can imagine n the progress made by the cancer, and that y n death at an early date is certain to result from the giving way of an artery. e Thomas Butterworth, an old and influential citizen of Rockford, Illinois, died in North d Carolina of heart disease. Judge John D. of Robertson, 94 years of age, a relative of Genh, eral Winfield Scott, passed away at South e Bend, Indiana. n e. The new police commissioners of Cincinnati have ordered the immediate closing of gambling houses, the expulsion of confidence men, h, be and the arrest of street-walkers for vagrancy and of sidewalk loafers for loitering. ris The Colombus Coal company has posted e notices at all its mines in the Hocking valley that it will issue no more orders for mery is chandise, but will pay its employes in cash e every Tuesday. Reports come from the mountain counties , of West Virginia that the suffering among the 8 people has been greatly exaggerated, but some animals have perished for lack of food. , e The commission appointed by the legislature 0 of Wisconsin to puachase a residence for the n governor secured the house and grounds forh merly owned by Ole Bull. for $20,000.
