SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. OFFICERS.-Acting President-general and Vice-President-general, Robert M. McLane, Maryland; secretary-general, Asa Bird Gardiner, LL. D., Rhode Island; treasurer-general, John Schuyler, C. E., New-York; assistant secretary-general, Thomas Pinckney Lowndes, South Caro lina; assistant treasurer-general, Henry Thayer Drowne, Rhode Island. The office of the secretary-general is at Garden City, L. I. The society was founded by American and French officers of the American Revolutionary Army in May, 1783. Baron Steuben presided at the meeting for organization. The institution was drafted by General Knox, and declared that the officers of the American Army "associated themselves into one society of friends to endure as long as they shall endure or any of their eldest male posterity; and in failure thereof, the collateral branches who may be judged worthy of becoming its supporters.” At the first general meeting of the society in Philadelphia in 1784 an effort was made to modify the constitution, but failed. Washington was elected president-general in 1783. Robert Burnett, of New-York, who died in 1854, was the last survivor of the original members. Seven of the original thirteen State societies still survive, and hold annual meetings on July 4. At the last meeting of the General Society, in June, 1893, the Connecticut State Society was revived. Its principal officers are: President-general Dwight Morris, Bridgeport; treasurer, Nathan G. Pond, Milford; historian, Rev. A. N. Lewis. The general society, which consists of the general officers and five delegates from each State society, will hold its next triennial meeting The secretaries of the State societies are as follows: Massachusetts, David Greene Haskins, jr., No. 83 Devonshire-st., Boston; Rhode Island, Asa Bird Gardiner, Garden City, L. I., N. Y.; Thomas Arnold Peirce, assistant secretary, East Greenwich, R. I.: New-York, John Schuyler, No. 63 William-st., New-York; New-Jersey, William Chetwood Spencer, Elizabeth; Pennsylvania, Francis Marinus Caldwell, No. 4,814 Chester-ave., Philadelphia; Maryland, Wilson Cary McHenry, No. 103 St. Paul-st., Baltimore; South Carolina, Daniel Elliott Huger Smith, Charleston: Connecticut, Augustus W. Merwin, Wilton. Headquarters, 202 Fifth-ave., NewYork. President, Delmer E. Hawkins, Syracuse University; secretary, Julius C. Travis, University of Michigan; treasurer, J. Banks Kurtz, Dickinson College. Organizers - George W. Benedict, for Maine, New-Hampshire and Vermont; Shirley E. Johnson, for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island; Arnon L. Squires, for New-York: James B. Kurtz, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey; C. F. Harper, for Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina; J. C. Travis, for Ohio and Michigan; A. D. Rose, for Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee; A. O. Lindstrum, for Illinois and zona. Missouri; Marsh Will Bailey, for Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa; Ralph E. Johnson, for North and South Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska; F. W. Niedermeyer, for Kansas, Colorado, NewMexico and Utah; A. D. Falkner, for Washington, Idaho and Oregon; E. N. Wolfe, for California, Nevada and AriAdvisory Board-Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, jr., Chauncey M. Depew, James S. Clarkson, James A. Blanchard, William W. Tracy, J. Sloat Fassett, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Walter Phelps, Russell A. Alger, Cornelius N. Bliss, Joseph H. Manley, EdNaward B. Harper, George Gunton. tional Executive Committee-Delmer E. Hawkins, Syracuse University; Julius C. Travis, University of Michigan; James B. Kurtz, Dickinson College; E. N. Wolfe, University of California; A. L. Squires, Columbia College; F. W. Niedermeyer, Missouri State University; N. McGiffin, Hamilton College; H. P. Brown, Center College; L. V. Gould, Purdue University; A. J. Falkner, University of Michigan; B. B. McAlpin, Princeton College; C. F. Harper, Franklin and Marshall College; A. O. Lindstrum, Knox College; Shirley E. Johnson, Harvard University: Ralph E. Johnson, University of Nebraska. Total membership, 10,000. Annual meeting, May, 1894, Syracuse University. PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. This order was founded on December 4, 1866, its special objects being "to develop a better and higher manhood and womanhood among ourselves; to enhance the comforts and attractions of our homes, and strengthen our attachments to our pursuits; to foster mutual understanding and co-operation; to maintain inviolate our laws, and to emulate each other in labor; to reduce our expenses, both individual and corporate; to buy less and produce more, in order to make our farms self-sustaining; to diversify our crops, and crop no more than we can cultivate; to discountenance the credit system, the mortgage system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to prodigality and bankruptcy." There are forty-one State organizations, having a total of 26.954 subordinate granges. The headquarters is at 514 Fst., Washington, and the principal officers of the National Grange are: Master, J. H. Brigham, Delta, Ohio; overseer, E. W. Davis, Santa Rosa, Cal.; lecturer, Mortimer Whitehead, Middlebush, N. J.; steward, Ava E. Page, Appleton City, Mo.; chaplain, Charles McDaniel, West Springfield, N. H.; treasurer, F. M. McDowell, Penn Yan, N. Y.; secretary, John Trimble, Washington, D. C. Fiscal agency-The Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 22 William-st.. New-York City, N. Y. NEW-YORK REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.-1st District, Martin H. Healy; IId, Denis Shea; IIId, Charles H. Murray; IVth, John Collins; Vth, John Simpson: VIth, George Hilliard; VIIth, Jacob M. Patterson; VIIIth, Lucas L. Van Allen: IXth George B. Deane; Xth, William F. Daly; XIth, Job E. Hedges; XIIth, William Henkel; XIIIth, Frederick S. Gibbs; XIVth, Bernard Biglin; XVth, Robert A. Greacen; XVIth, Herman Cantor; XVIIth, Robert Gordon; XVIIIth, George W. Wanmaker; XIXth, John Reisenweber; XXth, John Little; XXIst, William Brookfield; XXIId, John H. Gunner; XXIIId, C. N. Bovee, jr.; XXIVth, Richard M. Hillis: XXVth, Edward Dubois, XXVIth, Peter H. McDonald; XXVIIth, Frank Raymond; XXVIIIth, Michael Kerwin; XXIX, W. H. Ten Eyck; XXXth, J. Thomas Stearns; Kingsbridge, George W. Stevens. All the officers of the Republican County Committee are members of the Executive Committee ex-officio. Officers.-President, John Sabine Smith; first vice-president, Donald McLean; second, Thomas L. Hamilton; treasurer, Alexander Caldwell, 5 Washington Place; recording secretary, William H. Bellamy, 7 Pine-st.; reading secretary, Edward M. Morgan; sergeant-at-arms, C. H. Wheelock. PATENT OFFICE PROCEDURE AND STATISTICS. Applications for United States patents must be addressed to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C., and signed and sworn to by the inventor. The invention must not have been in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to the application. The applicant must fully describe his invention and distinctly claim those parts which he believes to be new. The application must be illustrated with drawings when possible. When filed, a first fee of $15 is payable, and a second fee of $20 is exacted, if the application is allowed, before the patent will be issued. The patent runs 17 years from date of issue. Extensions can be obtained only by special act of Congress. A pamphlet of rules and forms is distributed free by the Commissioners of Patents. Suits to enjoin infringement of letters patent_are. brought by bill in equity in U. S. District or Circuit courts. The profits realized by an infringer can also be recovered. was The total number of United States Patents granted up to November 30, 1893, including 22,943 Design Patents, 542,754. The average issue is about 25,000 a year. The average number of applications for patents is 40,000 a year. Since 1881, the annual receipts of the Patent Office have exceeded $1,000,000. The figures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893, were $1,288,809 07. The expenditures for the same year were $1,111,444 62. The total balance to the credit of the Patent Fund in the United States Treasury on June 30, 1893, was $4,279,805 94. The two main items of expense are salaries, about $688,000, and printing and photo-lithographing, about $400,000 nually. The Patent Office Library contains 65,000 volumes. The model hall has 154,000 models. The office does not require models now, except in special cases. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. an Total improved acreage in the United States, 1891, about 365,300,000 acres; 1880, 284,771,041 acres. Total acreage in farms, acres. Values. 1891, 688,000,000 acres; 1880, 536,081,835 The corn crop of 1892 has been exceeded in rate of yield in five of the past ten years, and was considerably below the average, that of 1891 being 2,060,154,000 bushels. The wheat crop of 1892 was slightly above an average one in yield per acre, and in volume was exceeded only in 1891, when it was 611,780,000 bushels. The yield per acre was 13.4 bushels, and the value 62.4 cents per bushel. There was a material increase in the acreage of oats as compared with that of 1891, but a falling off in yield of more than 77,000,000 bushels, due to the grain aphis, blights and other causes. The flaxseed shows a falling off in acreage of 450,000 acres. The crop has been practically abandoned as a farm crop East of the Mississippi River, while West of that stream the production has been concentrated in five States. Number and value of live stock on farms: Horses, 16,206,802, valued at $992,225, 185; mules, 2,331,128, $164,763,751; milch cows, 16,424,087, $356,876,353; oxen and other cattle, 35,954,196, $547,882,204; sheep, 47,273,553, $125,909,264; swine, 46,094,807, $295,426,492. These figures show an increase over 1891 of 708,662 horses, 16,429 mules, 7,736 milch COWS and 2.335,188 sheep, but a decrease of 1,697,043 cattle and 6,303,212 hogs. The increase in the value of hogs was 39 per cent over the price of 1891, the result of a change from an apparent plethora to absolute scarcity. OKLAHOMA'S GROWTH. Governor Renfrow, in his report to the Secretary of the Interior, in November, estimated the population of the Territory proper at 151,304 and that of the Cherokee Strip at 100,000, making a total of 251,304. The value of the taxable $13,951,056, as against $11,485,162 in 1892. property of the Territory is given as There are six National banks, each having a capital stock of $50,000, and twenty-four private banks, with capital stocks ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. The latest financial statement of the Territory shows warrants outstanding amounting to $27,331; as against this indebtedness are amounts due the Territory from various sources aggregating $35,955, leaving a balance of $8,624 in favor of the Territory. The people of the Territory manifest great interest in public schools, and good progress is being made in that direction. In agriculture, the Governor says, the Territory has a never-failing source of support and income, and with the exception of one year the seasons have been excellent. Wheat last year made a fine yield, averaging about twenty bushels to the acre all over the Territory, some pieces yielding sixty-two bushels an acre. There are 6 Episcopal, 165 Methodist, 25 Baptist, 24 Congregational, 25 Catholic and 24 Presbyterian churches, 3 Epworth Leagues and 50 Christian Endeavor Societies. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. SAMUEL GOMPERS, President. Horse-Collar Makers. Iron & Cornice Workers Knife makers 14 Clinton Place, New-York. 14 Clinton Place, New-York. REGISTER OF THE NATIONAL TRADE UNIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. Titles of Trades Unions. ... Official Addresses. G. L. Horn, Gratiot-av. & Hastings-st., Detroit J. C. Knight, 7311 Penn-ave., St. Louis... P. J. McCormick, 400 Sherman-st., Detroit Journeymen Barbers' International Union of A. J. C. Myers, Lock Box 279, St. Louis, Mo. ............ 116 12,500 110 3,400 271 1,800 48 10,500 20 2,500 64 9,000 235 32,000 15 1,200 10 1,300 7201 57,000 44 2,750 18 2,000 340 29,000 255 20,000 32 2,000 260 9,000 45 5,000 425 31,000 125 5,000 440 20,000 40 6,000 6 1,000 401 5,500 4 609 103 7,200 141 2,500 111 1,000 7 350 125 3,000 13 5,500 11 2,500 71 1,000 8 1,800 1,500 500 |