Show commiss commissioner i loner of agriculture has submitted his annual report to the president of the agriculture statistical division ho he estimates the following as the yield of 1882 of corn 1635 bushels wheat bushels oats bushels barley bushels rye bushels buckwheat bushels A correspondent of thil chicago daily alews in speak indof ing of the future of egypt which has always been the sh shuttlecock U ecock of some other power thinks it likely that E england will take her in charge just ai as she has other countries and lowly slowly but surely absorb her turkey will yield her suzerainty and the objects of the late war will become more and more obvious viz making of alexandria the cape torn town of north africa and of suez ae the gibraltar of the eastern mediterranean I PEOPLE who pretend such great surD surprises rises at the terrific and tremendous tidal torrent of the ath of november 1882 will do well to remember a few figures which indicate that there has been a gradual yet sure increase of the popular vote of the democratic party in presidential contests following are the figures kep rep dem 1864 18 1868 1876 42 1880 these digits show that the democratic ocr tic party said to bo be dead in 1880 was then per cent more alive than it had before tur DECEMBER number of the Cali calif forman fan terminates the career of this deservedly popular monthly at least under this name this great western magazines magaz magazine 10 ineis is merged into the overland monthly a favorite not yet forgotten by its I many maly former friends the californians efficient corps of contributors will continue continue with the overland A A many members of the meritorious overland staff havo have been secured for the revived publication li and new names of emin eminence will be added maintaining full fall and thoughtful editorial departments the overland will contain contain one sixth more pages than the californian for nian and improvements will be made in every direction the terms will be 84 64 per annum 35 cents for single numbers the contents of the last of the 11 californian are rich and valuable aff affording lording an interesting variety of history biography science fiction and poetry oss ONH OF or the few dark spots antho glorious cun sun of democratic victory on the first tuesday of november awas K was the election of frank hiscock in the onondaga N Y congressional angres district when a page in california and a robeson in new jersey were deluged by the indig nation of the sovereign voters their fellow conspirator of river and harbor and stud other appropriation steals should have been swamped also yet frank hiscock was returned to the congress where we are happy to state his wings will be clipped and his rapacious claws cut one satisfactory feature in his election is the fact that he did not obtain a majority but only a plurality his vote was against j far the democratic candidate and for the independent republican contestant when we remember that in 1872 hiscocks majority was it seems that if every dog has his day the 31 C from syracuse is near the evening of his congressional career tan N Y suns suits washington correspondent communicates communicate the following on the forthcoming forth caming report of f mr folger secretary of the treasury the secretary will estimate e the 11 surplus at the end of edthe the fiscal year of I 1884 at sit he ile relies upon an important decrease in the river and harbor bill and in fact in all tho the appropriations riat ions he ile will hint at the tendency ncy to congressional extravagance has bee been n fostered by a knowl edge hat that there would be a surplus of exclusive of the sinking fund fundak at the end adof of the lost last fiscal year tb the e secretary will urge a reduction reductio bof of taxation on the ground that lar large c sur ur plusses tempt to extravagance iio ile will recommend that the debt ought not to be paid off moro more rapidly than it will become due 11 he e will remind d congress that this can bo be dona done br by meeting the linking sinking fund lie ile will oppose tho the abolition on of f the internal revenue tax but will go further than he did last year respecting tho the reduction of taxes lie will urge that spirits and tobacco bo be taxed and suggest the tile ailio amount they may safely be reduced ile will also recommend that the pending tax bill be passed he ile will further recommend tariff reduction but will make no special recommendation ommen dation on this subject except to call attention imn to tile work of tile ion ho lie will confine himself to recommending tho the careful and thorough revision of the tile tariff though he lie will sulz suggest aest a reduction in the sugar tax and in that on iron and steele manufactures a ho ile will also call the attention of congress to the relation of national banks to the tile bonded debt of the tile country suggesting that unless the debt payments relax ax the extinguishment of alie currency may follow because banks wi will 11 ll re CY fuso to take asand iva ats at a premium to replace the Ss va and aja pre preferring ferring to retire their circulation the secretary tary will is is the revenues arc are not reduced the banks be allowed to replace the tile as and with as an and ani I djs giving circulation cu for the full value Iti it is plain that the ali secretary and president mean to th do all in their power this winter to bring congress to boits its senses besand and that sherman Bhe is to be the administration ally on the floor of the senate he ile will seo see the secretary through and give him such advice as ho be may deem them best in other words shermans Sher mans sway over the treasury sury is restored |