Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1876, Page 7

“tentlary. 3 Bty TFOREIGN. lid Contempt Now Shown by swt;w Turks for Every Other : Powar. o Porte Resolves to Roject the Pro- posals Which Will Be Made. all the American Carpet-Baggers in Egypt to Be Discharged. garvation in Two of the Great Bates of India Now Impending, Julke Supplied with Threo Presidents..-Bloody War Further Soulh. TIIE EAST. TIR CONPERENCE, CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec, 17.—At an unoffielal meeting yesterday the Plenipotentiaries vir- taally terminated the labors of the preliminary Conference, After making some mutual con- cessfons, they have come to an understandiog, aod ave referred to thelr respective Govern- menis for definite instructions. No definite resolution hng been drawn up, Al questions, apecially that of occupation, have been exam- {sed, but nothing vet determined. Tt fs thought that Lord Sallsbury will receive his instructions Monday evening. It 8o, the Porte will be im- medlately asked to fix the date for the mecting otthe Plenary Conference. The Porte rejects any proposition of forelgn accupatioti. l.oxnox, Dec. 17.—A Vienna special to the Times says M. Calice, the Austrian Plenipoien- tlary, has been appointed fo report to the Con- ference on the reform nevessary for Bosnle and Herzegovina. The Marquis of Salisbury will probably report on Bulgarla, 1t 1a expected in Constantinople that the formal Conference will meet Dee, 24, NELLICOSE, y > AVienna dispateh to the Dafly News states that the Urand Vizler, Midhat Pasha, and fafoct Posha have resolved to refect ay propositlons looking to the dis- smament of the Mabometans, forelen oecupution, and control of the Adminisiration by su international comnisslon, and severnl otber neasures which are supposed to form the esrential points of the programmao which will tepresented to the Porte, OEN, *NICOTINE * Lesooy, Dec, 17.—The Vienna correspondent. of the Timen says the Russian Gen. Nikitine hns started for Servln to take command of the Rue- sian troops there and uet s Russfan plenipo- The soldiers belonglng to the actlve army of B8crvia, who are estimated to number 06,000, kave been ordered torejoin their colors by the 224 of December. A Times dispatch from Berlln states that Gen, Nikitine ** goes to fuspect the Servian army.” Russian Journals sy that ouly 8,000 Russlan yolunteera remain In Servin, WORSE THAN TIE UPPER LAKES, Nearly all the South Russian tclegraphs are wdamaged by frost as to be useless, TURKEY OLDUIATE. f Loxpox, Dec. 17.—A telegran from Pesth aaps It 18 nsserted positively that the Porte will sbsolutely refuse to cede any territory to Mon- tenegro or Servin. " + ANOTIHER PASIA, AVienua dlspatch announces that Achmet Eyoud Pasha hns been appolnted commander of the Army of the Danube. MR. CARLYLE ON TILE EASTERN QUESTION, Londont Times Ar. George Ioward sends us for publication aletter on the Eastern question which he bas recelved from Mr. Carlyle: & CuryNr-now, Ciriees, Nov, 24,-Dean Howakn: It by no wecans eeems »o cvident to meas it does o you and your friends that an ut- lerauce of my oplulon on the Eastern crisle conld b fmportant; Lut wince you nexure me that it nlght be ofvacrvica to many persuns now in doubt o that atter, 1 overcome the very gieat ro- luetsnce 1 hid 10 wpeak of tha subjeet ap all, and wiltry 10 Indicate summurily whst my own poor ptisate views npon it are. Inthe first place, then, for *flfty years back my dear Lelicf about the ftussions hus boen, that they area pood, and oven uoble, clement {n Kurope, Cospleuonsly thoy ces the lalent of -obedfe tace, of allently followlng orders given, which, in the "nniversal * celebration of *ballot-box, 'di- the freetom, ete., - will be found w mvalwable mid peeullar it Irer aince Peter the Qreat's uppenrancy taung them, they have been In steady progress of ¢erelopment. I our gwn 4hne thoy have done tignal service to God and wan in drilling into order tud peace nnarchic popuintions all over their slde of the world, The vrescpt Czar of lusslu 1 lnd%m ho nmlcn{ honest and just man, ana, o short, my belief Is, that the Itasslans are called Wdogréat things m 'the world, and to be a con- cuous benetlt, directly and indirectly, to thelr tllow.men. P . Ta nndertake a war aga Tnesin on behall of theTurk, it in evident fo would be nothing thert of fnsanly; aud has heeome, we may fondly any Minieter, or Prime- ve, Impussinle for Twenty years n XHinlster, that cxiwts nmong . 0 ¥ealrearly had a mad war {n defense of the 'I‘u:f:: Amasa of the wost hideous und tragle stupldi. 17, miswanagement, and dlsaster (in spite of ivest fighting) thut Englond was ever concerned nsince Dknew it; n hundred millions of money tod abave U0, 000 valiunt lives were spont In the enterprisc, liy Treaties of Paris, etc., tho Turk Taspreserved, Intact, Lindinggidmiol! only to re. form hia system of govermment, which certainly of Mlthings 1n the world needed reform, And now, ter twenty yoars of waiting, the Turk fs fonnd fobavo reformed nothin: nor uttempted to reform saythlng, Mot to add that by baukrupt sinance Belins miallowed o disnstrous trlbute of many new iillons from the widows and orphans of England, #flnls to all which lic kas wound np by the hor- fors of Bulgurfs und such savagerics ns are without Lvanallet, - With thess welchiy spgeavasions, the Turkish guestion returns upon us anew ond dos mande g solution, tseeins to no that romething vory differcnt from Jaron hix behalf s what tho Furk now pressingly eeds frain England aud from all the world, nane- 7t to bs poremutorlly informed that we can stand Zomore of his uttemita o govern fn Europe, and thatho muat quam primwin trn bls facy' to the tuatwand, forover quit this side of the Hollespont, “'g h‘ul; u][; hin areogant idua of governing anybody clf, ’E'ueh Immedlate and summary expulaion of the k from Europe may appear to many a (oo dras- e remedy s but to my mind 1t la the only one of tayreal valldity under the circumstances, Ime Yroved wnugeinent of theso unbangy conmtrios Rlgt bezln on the morrow ufter this long-contine ;:3 furse wuw withdeawn, and_the pronnd Jeft {ree for wlso nnd houent buian efort, She peaceful oagol Iphubliants would, of co be Jeft in m:rv. and treated with perfeet cquity, and even “ ndlr constderntion but the governing Purk, ith ot} his Pucdins and Bashi-Bazouks, whonld nt l:gm:«dmu 10 disappear from Europe and nover wibla tesult s In the long run Inovitable, dnd It h:rebnm tnsot about it mow thun to temporize acgle In the valu kopo of dofng It chicaper A: l‘flll‘t{r time, ¢ the temporary or preparatury government | ?l the Tecoverey l’myv'hlcu. clenred mg tuelr une Igeaum@ Tutk government for tweinty, or, say, J uthor terin of yonrs, our owin expurlonco i Ine flllhm" Drove that {t s posaible, and, in 8 few I 'l end skillful bandw, s even ey, Nor in 24 lenipr ot the Caar und of the Austrian m'.".""' need the fale purtition of these ro- “tlnfl forritories he A causo of quarrel, i Irh Mt cxpuct o become more and more o "‘m‘llxd Hungaran Empire, her 1,000,000 of o ‘Inv more und more gravitating towarda thele L‘u? M of the prent Uorman Empire. Tho et Jrhose kerlous task fL s to protect thu Chirke- tundubledts in Tarkey projer, will justly have u,““f'lerr o:lul fuoting fn the recovercd couns .“'n'lfl Enelan, fhere le one vital interest, and nly, that of scenring fte road to India, Which 08 Eirsht und the Suez Cunal. threy NIng to bo desired s concord among the e ireat Powers, anl {f, uu wo do bope, there H lhlmml trust gronnded on honeety of ntention the poy P2t of cach, nune clalming more than tn Sepgrire of things belongsto him, wo oy con- u"w! expeet that the diticultivs of the business of Pri, brove insuperable. 1t scemstome thuadvics o .nnls Dlsmarck, o magnanimous, noble, and fnterons U8 mAu, Who hye ua ustionsl alis or y wu In_the wmntter, might bo very valuably} dietao era ho appointed arbiter where dificult 10 regpyc BTUS¢, what Lt benefit would po Hkely "lunm'] ‘L‘u“l;‘n thls portion of tho subject i am, VEite, Ifl:“"}lr clearadvlco I have to givo ie, a8 1 have disiey; SUBL the wnspuakable Furk should o immee Y struck out of (ho question, and the cunntrz € e poitett Europesn guldance; delaylng whic the dlEiiable or ageuably ooy (o gamblers on o g ok Exchange, it distressing and uaprot: all thee i, lmmnlunl\v’:yn,‘dcnrunm 'y s JOurg try ot Taq, o CanyLk, - —— MEXICO, Naw Oy g UUE FUESIDENTS, T LEANS, Dee, 17.—Several merchants e futerlor of Mexieo arrlyed here yester- Wrand they confirm the nows of the cupture oy :'lu. the d‘elell of Escobedo, and the eap- o the City of Mexico by Gen, Yoz, 1 frow Leon, ordered Dias to Lold the City of Mexlco and proctalm th sldency of Irleslas, which Dian deelined to do unless he could name four members of the Cabinet. Tlils was refused by Iglerins, when -Diaz proclafmed himselt provistonal Preshdent, and the revolutlon now continues hetween these rival pretendere, who are preparing forn new struggle, Revueltos still lolds Matamo- ras and refuses oll conumunfeation with the revolutionary chiets untll rome one of them ean show proper authority from Iglestas to demand the Placa, which none of them have, and he positively refuses any communication with the bandit Cortina. His eoldierly conduet would make him mnniy fricnds but for the fact that he i8 proceeding to_collect a tax of & per cent on the merchants, which they protest fs unlawful and arbitrary, Uen, Roctia e still here, endenvoring to get Tevucltas to turn over to Im. At present all Is uncertalnty ns to nffalrs it Mexico, as ft Is not known which may prove the stronger, Dinz or Iglestns. : COLOMBIA, THE UNPLEASANTNESS ROMEWIIERE IN ONE OF 1T8 PRAGMENT?, New Yorg, Dee. 15.—The Panama Star and Ierald of Dec. 8, recelved per steamer Audes, says: ‘A great battlo bas taken place In Gar- rapatn, Tha trenches of the revolutionlsts were tuken by our forces, commanded by Gens. Acosta and Camargoe. An armistice of three days was asked for by the rebels to bury 2,000 dend of Dboth aldes. Our forces cut oft the retre#t to Antlquala from the Rebels. It the Rebels do not surrender at discretion they will all remaln in the power of our army. On the 21st of November Gen. Trujfllo ovenpled Monizales. rhe Magdalena River f.mmlr is free. In thirty days more all will be over. The Peruvlun Goveriment hins refused the re- quost of that of Ecuador tu send ahips of war and troops to nssist in the captuve of Guaya- quil frown the revolutionary party.’ts TRANCE. BLECTION, Panrg, Dee. 17.—M. Debreil, Legitimist, s elected Sevator from the Departinent of Tarn et Garronne, TIT CADINET, The political situation s somewhat cluuded again, In consequence of the development of hostility on the part of the Clerlealsts and the Gambetta Radicals to the new Cabinet. A con- fliet between the Senate and Chamber of Dipu- ties also cxcites apprehension. The Kepublique Frawcalse declares thut the Chinmber wiil know, it veeusion requires, how to remiind M, 8imon of liis promises, . EGYPT. TOL CARPET-DAGGRNS. LoNpoN, Dec. 17.—~Tha Standard's carre- spondent at Alexandria {®legraphs that it is stated on good authority that the Khedive is disentisfied with his American wilitary ofllcers, and has notiiled them that theld contracts will not be renewed, The policy of this step is queationable, as a reniewal of the Abyesinian war Is conslilered fmminent. * CAPT. GORDON, ALEXANDRIA, Dee. 17.—Capt. Gordon, the Afrlcan traveler, has embarked for Drindlsl on his way to England. GERMANY. @ JUDICIAL LEGISLATION, Loxpow, Dec. 17.—The Berlin correspondent snys the prineipal featuro of the compromise on the Judieial bills fs that the Liberals alandon all the amendments which they made in favor’ of the Prestdent. The compromiso leaves to the various Federal Governments tho duty of declding whether offenders nrainst the Press laws be tried by Jury., 'The Judiclal bills will now probably puss by 60 majority. — INDIA. BTARVATION. LoNDoN, Dee. 17.—A Calcutta telegram in the Zimes says the accounts of the famlue re celved from Madras are worsc than those from DBombay. Large numbers of awrvin;&pwplu are Nocking into Madras. The firat denth from sturvation lias oceurred there. Much distress and discaso exlsts in the country districts, SPAIN. THE CUBAN LOAN. Loxpox, Dec, 17,—A Madeid dispateh to the News says Senor Qouzales, dn the Cortes, las proposed an amendment of the Cubau loan be- vause uf its exorbltant terms, o ——— TALY. OBITUALY, ‘Roxg, Dec. 17.—~Cardinal Constantine Patrizl, Dean of the Sacred College, is dead, ——— FIRES. NEAR OMAIIA, NEB, &peclal Dispatch to The Tribung. Oata, Neb., Dee 17 —A destrudlive fire oce curred nt the Traunsfer or * Spoon-Lake 8ta- tion," ns It 18 cominonly called, on the other sldeof the river to-night, Between 6 and G o'clock the Transfer Hotel, four rallroad ticket -offices, telegraph - office, saloon, and baggage-room, wera all burned, to- godher with their contents. Four Unlon Paciflc frelght-cars, loaded with merchandise, were destroyed: also nll the transfer platforms, One iman, Daniel Dufly, a car-repalrer, who was sleeping up-stafra in the Transfer House, was burned to death. The firs was caused by a coal- oil lamp falllng to the floor m the Trauvsier Ilouse, Tt wus shaken from the wall by a duor befog slammed. Tho estimated Joss 1a'$35,000, The traiu for St. Louis and the Chicogo & Northwestern traln for Chicago had n nnrrow cscape, and havdly had time to_ pull ent of the way. The rur cars of the 8t Lows train were somewlhat scorched, and in a minute or two niore would buve been ou fire, e sty IN CHICAGO. At 10345 yesterduy morning Oflleor Pennell, of the Lake Street Squad, discovered a fire in the basement of Vogler & Geudtner's trunk store, Nos. 100 and 111 Wabash avenue. The flames were casly extinguished without' sound- ing an alarm. Damage trifling. The alarm of five from Box 65 nt 4:40 yester- day nfternoon was causcd by the burning_out of 4 chimney at No. 1007 Stute street. No dam- age, "Thu elarm from Box h2,at 11:00 last night, was causcd by u ras explosion ot No. 173 Eight- centh street, owned und occupied on secand floor as o residenco by Frank Brennan, and on the flrst floor us o . saloon by Corneling _ Tlghe, Damage, $25; In- sured for $1,700 {n Fircmen's Insurance Com- pany of 8an Franciyco, AT PONTIAC, R, T, Piovioence, Dec. 17.—The bleachery and Kelr-hiouse at Pontfne belong{ng to . B, and R, Knight & Co, was destroyed by fire this morn- fng. The firo was discovered soon uftor O o'clock In the attle of tho bleachery, whero thers nover was any oceasion for fire. The large mill ailjolning was saved by force pumps, Loss, $150- 000 to $200,000; insurance on main building and maeldnery 50,000, oi goods §50,000, o1 stov 000, fn Manufacturers” Mutual, includinzg $33, 1n theDoston Manufacturers’ Mutual und $13575 iu the Arkwripht of Buston; retnatuder (n this city, The Waurcgan Mills and Ponemal Milla lost about $15,000, and_Jeremiah Knight §5,000 in gooda; fully Insured fn Mutual offices, AT IEORIA, ILL, PErORIA, JIL, Dec. 17.~—A fire here to-night, at the corner of Fulton and Washington strects, badly damaged the printing-ofilcs of Henry 8, Hill, and slightly damaged J. Cohn & Co.'s Nquor-store, Tho loss ot the bullding Is con- slderable. ‘The extrems cold caused trouble in getiing water, . e AT GREENFIELD, IND, INpiANATOLIS, Dec, 17,—An extensive saw- mill owned by George Newhall & Co., at Green- fleld, Ind., twonty miles east of thiscity, caught fire from a defective fluo Saturday morning and was umlrcl&)flenmyed. Loss on'buildings und stock, $15,000, i NEAR MONTREAL, MOKTREAL, Dec, 17,—A five last night at La- prafrio Village, near this city, destroyed: the Post-Office, telegraph office, hotel, and ono store. A man pamed Bt, Marjo lost his life by o falling wall. Loss about $:20,000. e —— TO0 GIVE CONFIDENCE., Nzw Yok, Dec. 17.+Tho Charter Oak Life Tnsurance Company of Hurtford has purchased 000 worth of real estate In Droadway, ?“l‘fl‘l‘?’ uud Broad strects, New York, 2 HARD TIM Utter Stagnation of Business q in New York. Business Men Disgusted with the Political Situation, And Anxions for o Spcedy Sottlement of tho Presidential Question. Fearful Conditfon of {he Workingmen and Werkingwomen, From 300,000 to $400,000 Required for the Poor of Brooklyn, Some Apprehensions of Bread Riots to Come. Special Carvespondence of The Tvibune. New Youk, Iee, 14i—Tive lioliday scason 1s upon us, and merchants and toy-dealers are putting forth thelr energles to catel the uaual holtday trade. But the indlentions now are that it will be but o eorry eatel when it is all count- ed. Never were tho prospects for buslness so gloomy nb this ecason of the year within my ex- pevience, numbering some twenty-five years, [ am brought fn dally contact with business men of all kinde, and find the complaint. of excep- tionally hard times universal. Stores that lave been opened with g epeclnl eye to the hioliday trade find searcely any customers, it s true that there {s something Lehind the hard times which affeets their buslness, anll of (his they complaln bitterly, This grievance consists of the fact that merchants of ull kinds now make s speclalty of holiday goods, thus cutting futo the regulor trade m toys, ete. Wa find now our largest retall dry-woods dealers filling theirshow- windows und thelr ehelves with toys of all sorts for children, us well as the mors ex- pensive goods deslgned for Christmus presents for the ndult population. While the toy-deal- cers complaln of this practice, the retail dealers are virtually forced to adopt the plan hecause thelr customers are large purchasers, and pre- fer dolug all the trading they have to do fn one place as far a8 practicable. Begtdes, they have AN RYE TO TILE FROPITS g made upon holiday gouds, and are no wise loath to appropriate them. It 1s wonderful to sce how these old and well-known dry-zoods honees are at present absorbed in this trade,—houses that one would searcely suspect of golng out- slde of thelr legitimnte sphere. But even these, conspienous as they mnke this feature of thelr busfucss, are far from satisfled with the amount of males they are now making, They complain unceasingly of the hard timer. Cus- tomers who have herctofore heen Le- yond the' mecessity of economizing, now confine thelr expenditures to the smallest peselble sums. As for hollday presents, thoy make n #10 bill do the work here- tofore required of 100, They“take the cheaper quality of goods, aud, I fear, many a pensiouer on their Christinas bounty in years gone by will find themselves neglected when Christmas comes, Yet the stores and strects present o, beautiful and most temptingappearance, Ever- greéns and trimmings for Christinas trees and for the hbuse line the sldewalks in the viclulty of the markets, and many u booth in the up- town strects are efmilarly decorated. Shop- windows abound in new and attractive mi'p, around which gather crowds of handsomely~ dressed wonten, intent on shupplngs, mfd fulfv determined to make thelr smali allowance ot heliday money go just us farns possible. The BTAGNATION AND GENERAL DEMORALIZATION which has fallen upon uil bustuess has becotme a serlous matter. During fhe two or three montha preceding the election there wus a very warked fmprovement in all brauches of trade over what it had Leen Yor the three previous years, Confldenca ecemed to be restored in Al directions, unud there was o prospect that wo bad really reached the bottom of the panie, and Lad bégan climbing the bill of pros- perity ogain under fuvorable elretmstunces, But then came the election, followed by the cloud of uncertajuty, which still overshadows it, and there was an end to Lusiness. A locomo- tive, running on n struight track under n full head of steud, when suddenly thrown from the truck, would not weet with u more sudden cheek to its career than did the busluess jutor~ ests of thia clty immediutely after the elee tlon. Trade fell to zero at one swoop, and without any previous announcemient, It was an omergeney for which the country was wholly unprepared. Had either party trfumplhied by an unquestionable majority, there would Lave been 10 pereeptible shock Lo business; but when the result wis left fu doubt, and partisan fecllng was stirred to it®uttermost depths; whendoubt mnl uncertainty nsurped the place of contldence; when * ko *LOUD-MOUTIED BRAWLERS AND BRAGOART3 bluatered and threatened; then capitul took the alarm and withdrew Into its shell. Never did perplexed clam draw In its lead and ehut up fts shail quicker. All new enterprises were aban- doned at onee; those walch could bo suspended were stopped where they were; large orders fromn country merchnits wore countermnuded, and the jobbers withdrew thelrs to the manu- fucturers, Money again beeame a drug fn tho yaults of tho banks, there befng few who ven- tured th Invest their surplus however flattering offers were tunde. And it has been shutting .down tighter duy by day. Where we shall land It s fmpossible to concelve. Cobgress has o mora delleate duty involved upon it ju this crisls than ever §t had before, The people want, and tho business interests of the country deniand, thut this Presidentiul muddles shull be ecttled at the carligst practicable day, and settied in such wanner 83 will leave no room to quibble over it. Whilo thy campaign wiss ut i1a heleht every- body beeatne u purtisan; but, now that the ex- cltement has passed, they want to know the re- sult, It s of furless fmportance to thew who is to_bo the next President, thau that some one ghalt be declared Jawfully ehosen, and the doubt and uncertafnty which” now embarrasses sud paralyzes business removed. Thero is NO DANGER OF TROUDLE wing out of tho settlement of the questlon. 'he thine for that has passed. I we conld sus- tain the strain which followed during the flrat week atter the election, when all clusses wery embitteraid by strong partlsun feelings, thers need be no apprehiension of any disturbunce now that culin Judgment has retaracd, and the ques- tion has come to be regarded as one of taw wnd not of feellng. Democrats and llullmbm-nna arg equally anxious to huve tae declelon reached, andd equally determined to ylohl u ready at l']lncl‘}lll ucquiescence to that declsion, whatcyver ft may be. Thoro 1s aprovalllng Impression that very extensive frauds were resorted to or at- temipted by both purties, und that the one that is declared to huve Jost will not Lo unduly pun- {shed for ‘its tamperiug with the baliot-box. Theso frauds, sv extensiyve and ramifying throughout all thuBtates,compel thoughtful e to regurd popular suflrage us u deluslon and a snare,—a dovice by which the deay people sro du- Iuded into the befie? that they have a volvo in !unull‘»‘.' the Government, while tho oflice-huld- ers and tricky politiclans manipulate the clee tiun returns {o suit themsclves, you with columns of *jute: witliowe prominent business men, Democrats aud Ro- pubileans, with whom I huve conversed upon the subjeet, but 1 give you here the e what they say. It 18, “Bottle the Presldentinl questlon at onee, no matter how, but settle it 1t Congeress can bo_ Induced to lieed this ery of prostrate trude and manufacturcs, it will bo well for the country, ‘Lhe worst feature of these hard thnes 18 the great number of UNEMPLOYED MEN AND WOMEN who bave becomo dependent upon charlty through thelr inabllity to find any work to du, 1t 1s catimatued thot there aro at present at least Imight supply ) 50,000 mechanfes and laborers uwow in this city out of aemployment, whils the wumoer of women “whoso labor Thus heretofore contributed to tho support of the fumily, but whouow have no employment, is even greater, Thoe mujority of theso havo had no regular employment for'two or three years, but bave taken up with such odd jobs s they could get to do from thae to time. °Durlng tho pust sutnmer thé Centennlal Exiduftion contrib- uted ilberally towards furnishing them employ- ment, elthor directly or indirectlys thon the spasuiodic revival of business fu September and ctober set them at work temporarily; bhut, even wheu those thus provided for wers smploy- ed, the army of idlers was still very lurge. ‘Il stugnation which bas occurred siuee the election, however, has more than counterbalanced the summer worlk, and now thers ure mors persons out of employmert than ever before. Ilard thoes haye been hard fudeed for thew, The; have sold or pawned thelr household goods and clotbing to & great uxtont, and now lhuye really nothing to look forwurd to durlug the luniy and dreary winter to sustaln lifu but the coutributioncof the beuevolent. Uur charitably THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1876. mare than thcf can attend toj their trensurlea are already depleted, and thelr frequent appeals for lickp paes by alinost unhieeded, Thin of fteelf fs an' indication of Tow gencrutly the people are afllicted in 'mul:--t, for New York ustnlly responds most Hberally ut the call of her punierows chorities, Lven the Dbereaved by the Broohlyn disaster faflel o eHeit that “Lrompt response for ald which s ustally shown, After n week of douoming, the eontribmtions aggregate lees than &16,000 to the Rellel Fuwl, Ordisarlly five times the amount would have Leen pald fn such an emergeney in less time. But the Relfef Com- mittees, In - LOORING APTER TIE DESTITUTR whonre hread-winners fell victima to the theatre diraeter, have uncovered an amount of want and destitution In Brooklyn that were wndreamed of hefore. Humdreds of , persons have been dircovered Hving {n the most squalid poverty, without ciaployment of auy kind, thefr house- hold goods nnil clothing mostly disposed of, nnd they liaving nowhere to look for the means of sustafuing dife. Jow they live from day to doy np%s ible to tmagine, What they gain by begzgring of what they recover from the gar- boge of the streets constitutes the subslstence of muny a fawliy that bas never known what it was to want for Tood, The annunl report of the Commlrdoners of Charlty .for Kings Connty (Brooklyn), just made, shows that 8,155 persuns received publie uld at o cost of $177,25), This 18 1,600 more then wers assisted during the pre- vious year, But the destitution of lust winter was sllght compareil to that of the present time, Mayor Echroder, of Brouklyn, yesterday ted to the Relief Committee which he Chalrman, that his searvl for the bereaved ot the th ¢ tire had brought him in contact with a degeee of poverly and sulfering whieh lie had never belleved existed, —He declared that it would requirs from 460,000 10 $400,000 this winter to relieve the sufferings of the poor In that ¢ity nlone, und to prevent, positive deathis from eold nud huggrer. this {s the ease fn Brooklyn, how much worre must It be In this city, where the percentage of the waemplofed 13 inueh greater, and wnere squnlid poverty nt all times predomfuntes to o much grenter” extent. And this, too, at a time when the fountaln of henevolence ecems to have almost dried up. Mr. Kellocls, Superin- tendent of the Poor fn New York, says that never BINCE THE I'ANIC OF 1857, bas lLic secn so much poverty and distress as prevails this winter. And it {8 smong the fan- illes of workingmen, mea who are industrions and hard-working when they can find work to do, The men walk the strects from morning 1l night _secking odd jobs that will brine them afew shillinge, while “thelr wives and children are walthg patlently for than to retutn home with food for which they are famishing, Moth- ers bex him to send thelr ehildren to Rundall’s Islund " i1l they can find comething to do for their support.” The Charity Corminissioners loe but a smal! sum at thele aispugal for the rellef of the outdoor poor, and it i mot one applieant in ten that the Superintendent can afford relief, Not unfre- quently able-bodied men present themselves to the pollee inavistrates aml request to be locked up, as, in thelr desperate cireumstances, they have uo other resource, There are some . THREATS OF DREAD 10TS and other disturbanees, and it would not be surprising it troubles of this noture came upon us before the winter ends. Here 18 the sub- stunce of what an fntelligent carpenter who Lias had no employment for five months sald to me recentiy: * I'know tha there fs_an_ under- current of feeling amone the mechanies that the workingmen of this city will not starve this winter, They have suffered all that human nature ean be expested to endure, and now are on the veree af starvation, Itwill he n sorry day for New York when the workmen do rise and demand that thefr wives and lttle ones be rmvldu(l for. But what are they to do? Suffer- ng bas wade them desperate, and they may as well dis fOghtivg for food . for fheir fumilles os8” to starve to death, I can show you hundreds of fawmilfes, Uving in tenoment houses, that go to bed hun- #ry at night, not knowlng wlere they are to get a mouthrul next day, Tuey have sold or pawn- ed everything, til they “have scarcely rags enough to cover them, aud there seems nothing Jeft for themn but erune of some sort, It may as well be a rising azainst the capitalists and the merchauts as the steallnr of o louf of bread. ‘Think of 1t; there are at least 100,000 human be- inges [n this city on the brink of starvation; do not be surpriged if the men whoe have famllles refuse to sce them die without thelr muking a fight for thelrlives.” I do not write a8 an niarm- 1st, for I do not antleipate any serlous trouble {from the workingmen, but as'one who sympu- thires carnestly and deeply with thefr hard fate, and with the faint hope that some word of mine may tend to ulleviate the troubles of the work- inginen In other communitics, by leading those 1css nillicted to look luto thelr homes and be- stow upon them some ray of comfort, WIAT J8 TO BE DONE with the hundreds of thonsauds throughout the country I8 a question the aolution of which be- comes anore pressing cvery year. 1t fs now nearly four yeurs slnee thé preat panfe swept over “the land, closing up 8o many of the avenues whenve the laborlog men drew their subslstence. When are our fuctories and other mmmfuclurluf: industries to be revivedi When are our skilled artleans to again flud use for their hanfileraft? When is theré to be a revival of rallrond bullding, that source whence so many thousamls of lnboring men have been wont to derlve thelr support? If oli these are to continug dead for an indefinite length of time, what 1s to become of the thousands of hard-flsted workingmen who have been tempted to our shores by promises of plenty of work aud good wages? ‘The mafority of the destitute poor in New York City. to-day is compored of persons who only ask work, aud who would ul-ecrlully‘f,flre the best they have In them it they could but find the opportunity., Of “bummers” and Impostors therc sre com- aratively few, for our claritable assoclations flu\'u 80 systematized thelr work that this ¢lass finds but poor encouragement among ug, It 1s the honest and deserviug poor that are sufTering, and whose calls for help are bein, 80 torcibly pressed bome to us at present, Go Lielv thiem In thelr nced, for man scems little iucllned to, Some of thelr leaders, 1MBUED WITI! COMMUNISTIC IDTAS, o sbout amung them seeking to foment trouble, and would glory in the day that they succeeded in preelpitating n . conflict with the authoritics, Thesa fanatleal lenders elubn that it is the duty of the Government, Federal, State, and Municf- nal, to turnish employment for all who ueed it. JI course, thisis nbsurd, atleast In this country, but nevertheless there are political demngogues who echo this ery, and Toudly denounce the authorities for not ‘camplying with the demand, Thev desire that the city, now turdencd alimost to the l]mlnl of bankruptey with adebt which it will take n century to pay, the Interest ot which s an n||1pn:snlvu tax upou prop- erty-holders, shall enter upon wuneeded publie work In order that the laborers may be employed, These do not scem to stop to con- £ider that the money to pay Liem bas got to be drawn from the pockets of the people. Tl simply kuow that there 8 u public treasury, usually wi -uprncd with funds, aud their de- slre 5t gee 1t distributed to supply the needs of the moment, without avy thought for the future, With ANB 48088" OP TAMMANY HALL at the head of our Departinent of Finance, with a Democratic Muyor and a Democratic Toard of Alders there Is no telling how fur this demand may be complied with, By this means, providing ceasy Wi for laboriy men, the Democratic party has obtalued control of the City tiovernment, and now that the part sees trouble In its politlen! future, it may acele tuqulnh\m ita hald npon the voting workmen by Bquandering a few thousands of the public | niouey upon works that are not wanted,, And thers” would be many goad citizens who wanld laok on with approval, deeming this the east troublesome method of gettlug over a de- clled energeney, ‘This showing of tho condition of the poor in New York makes rather a doleful letter, to be eure, but the facts are plaln and stubborn, pre- nnmlnu an outlook that ia far from promising for the future, Hard times ure upon us all, but none feel tho preasure so keenly as those who huve fisught but thefr labor to depend upon for their lving, and who can flnd no labur to do, Thelr sltudtion fs deploruble indeed, and should bo falrly considered by every thonghtful man in tho land, 1t Is the enieegoncey of the hour, und ono in which every one, sooner or later, must take a personal interest, UTTON. e — NON COMPOS MENTIS. NEw Yonk, Dee, 17.—Joshus B. Gates, fore merly General Agent of the United States Life Iusurance Company of this city, was declared a o lunatic under o coinmission issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, Gates retired from life-jusuranve business about six yeurs ago with a fortuue of over $:250,000. FATALLY SMOTHERED., Provinexce, R, I, Doc, 17.—Elkanab Ingalls and his wife, occupying a house alone on o pub- lu street, wore suffocated this mornlng, Ho had left a lighted Jamp on the buseau on golng ta bed, The burcau took fire, and tue old couple verished bufore reachin g the door, e —— A countryman bargained with a Callfornia photographer for a ball-leugth pleture of him- gell at balf price, sud whep the artist delivered nfine view of the luh}a’l from the walstband down, the victimized sitter indulged In yomarks wore furcible than pollys AILROADS. The Truce Patched-up Between the Great Trunk Lines. It Will Batisfy New York and Boston, if Faithfully Kept, * But It Contalns Conditions Likely to Lead to Another Rumpus. Erie's Annual, and the Northwestern's Semi-Annual Report, THE BIG TRUCE. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. New Yong, Dece. 17.~The agreement ter- minating the rallroad war, which was signed by representutives of the trunk lines yesters day, provides that the trunk linca,shall moke all westward-bound through rates and the Western companies all eastward-bound {through rates, {4 being understood that both Eastern and Western frelght rates ehull be the same tetween all Western cities and polnts in Europe, the British Provinces, nnd on the coast of America, whether the freight passes through Balthinore, Philadelphia, New York, or Boston, and also that all freight shipped to any oné of the nbove mentioned citles s n ter- minus and then reshipped or sold for cxport or mport through or at another of those cities, is competing business Within the meanfug of the agreement, and shall be governed by the eame rule, All business whiclt I8 purcly local to and for bona fide use or consumption at Baltimore and Philadelphia will go to Philadelphin at an average of 9 per cont less, and to Baltlmore at 13 per, cent less than ts New York., The ba- sis of rates is 30 cents from Chicago to New York for the number of iniles between these points by the shortest Jine to New York, after which the above-mentloned per-centages will be deducted from New York rates In order to orrive ot the rotes for local consumotion at Baltimore and Philadelphla. The agreement, which zoes into vifect to-morrow, i8'without Timit s Lo time, but appended to the original srreement (s another stipulating that none of the parties to the first sholl make or ex- tend any tlme contracts. The compact fs slgned by W. H. Vanderbilt for the New York Centraly 1. J. Jewett, for the Erle; Thomas A. Scott, for the Pennsylvania; and John King, Jr., for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroads. A meeting of freight agents of trumk lines was subzequeatly held at the Windsor Hotel, oud the following rates among others were adopted, to take effect to-morrow morning: I*rom New York to Chicazo on each 100 pounds frelght, first-clase, £0 conta; second-clars, 43 thizd.clase, cents; fourth-claes, 30 , oud 21 cents, inc, however, shall rates bo Jess than 40, 25, and 20 cents from New York to any L \Went. On Eostward-bonnd freights ratea on foorth- i:l.m. Ppruvisions, and grain “and flour ore as fol- ows? Chicago—Fourth class, 35 cents; graln aud, flour, 30 conts. Indixnnoll < §t. Louls, 4034 and 36 centr. No change has yet been mnade in passenpger- rates, but it was stated to<lay that the subject of an advance would be taken up at an early ""f' A meetlng of the freizht-agents will be held in this city Tuesday to consfder the best means of ascertalning shipnients which wiil coma under- the head” of through-freight, and those designed for Joeal consumption. ‘Willium H. Vanderbilt, Interviewed to-day, expresecd much satlefaction with the result, and asgerted that the New York Central had coneed- cd nothing, but ld seuintained the position which {t held from the etart. Some raflway men, lowever, say that the Tew arranzement will not last; “that it does not dlifer csuentially from the vompact which the grunk linea made lust Mareh, and which Vanderblit broke on the ground that it was detrlinental to New York, They say that [t will be fmpossible to dlstingulsh In all coses hotween treight intended for local consumptlon und that Intended for export or reshipment to any other vort, and that quarrels will certaiuly rise which will break up the present compacet, THE ERIE RAILWAY, Mr. 1. J. Jewett, Receiver of the Erfe Rafl- road, has just made. bis sunuel report, The total cost of thic road and cquipment ls given ns $117,140,287.47, betng an Increase since the last report of §1,14,840.84, The business of the year {n transportation and total miles run fs as follows: Number fles ron by passenger trains S .. 8,201,005 Number os run by frel v 7,507, 842 Number of passengers iull classer) cai rled fn cars, ... 5,012,831 Number of wiles traveled by prsscn- grera, or number of passenjers car- FIEd ONCINIIC. <« veerervnoren sese sea103,074,705 Number of tons, of 2,000 pounds, of frelghtcarried Incars ooviivveniee, 5,070,818 Coneerning the expenses of malntaiulug the road or real estate of the corporation, the report’ ves the following ficures: Repairs of road- hed and. m||wn{, cxcepting cost of fron, 81,458, 089.02; cost of Irou uscd in repalrs, 381,400.72; repalrs of bulldings and Lridires, $8341,876,50; taxes on resd estate, $204,800.02, making a total of 82,630.486,45. i does not Include” the ex- penses of reputrs of machinery, which make an- other total af §2,0064,458.87, ° Thy expenses of uperating the road have been §6,936,258,40, which makes the total transportution cxpenscs $12,281,201.78, Of the curnings and cash receipts and pay- ments, the following fleures are given: From pussengrers, $3,437,620.45; from frelicht, 811, £200.50; from other sources, $004,001.99, muking o total_of SI5R20L1S, Other carn. fngs, ua trom Pavonia F the Grand Opera- Hause, und the Weehaw! Ducks, are idven in totul us §O5T,8044Y, which completes u prund tutal of §16,530,765.83, ‘The report grives totat of payments other than for construction, such as Pnr {ranspurtation expenscs, {uterest on funded debt, rental for leased lnes, vte., us S17.709,305 8% Dedueting the carninizs, there remaius o deticlt of §1,92),630,10, ‘The number of persons killed 15 reported as 8 passengers, 87 employes, and 01 otlhers, or o total of 101, The numbier of injured persons {s 160, 16 of whom were pasacnzers, ‘The follow- ing I3 the table of stock wnl debts: Capital ctock, us by charter, §50. £:36,010/00 Amount of stock subseriber Amount palil In, us hy Just rop Tolnl minount now pald in of caj 121 PIOCK. 1ervner sereveeesnen £0,538,010.00 Funded debt, av by last report. 64, 271,814,00 “Potal amount now of funded debt, 64,271,814, 00 Floating dobt, A by last repor 1,421, 641,83 The sumount now ‘of Hostiug . {loans and bills payable).. 1,159,060, 48 Tutal anount now of fundes Hoating dabt. 05,430,874.40 Avorage. ratu per AR 0% iRe torest on funded debt,., 5 ++ T porcent cur, THE CIHICAGO & NORTIIWESTERN, At o meeting of the Board of Disectors of the Chicago & Northwestern Raliroad, held in New York City a fow daya ago, the following state- ment of the earnfugs for tho six months cuding Nov. 80 was prescnted: 1870, | Gross earninge....37, 04, FDC, 08 87,016,274.12 Working exp el A IBER0E AR 4,501,004, 07 $5,105,033.10 83,004,8,0.45 28,820,060 1,764,201, 7 100, 333 uios L1 G5 102, ; Wi oAy 020,407 631,302,238 staking Tuis W0,120,00, 4012000 Miscollaneous, 1A%0, Cloeerseree 13,017.07 Total charges. ... §%,4K0,316.50 Burplus, e 070,214,504 § O8N 03 On this showing it was resolved ta pay ndivle dend of 836 per ceut gn_ the preferred” stock, ‘This will ubsorb about $537,600 of the l\lnl‘rllli. leaving ahqut $483,700 to be carrled forward, It I lnt]ucljd thut <ho tloatlug debt has Leen cutirely settl 3 -3 ‘The working expenscs were 84,70 per cent of carniugs in 1876, and 69.19 per cent fu 1875, TTEMS, ‘TheNorthwestern Iiypatch, which was formed shortly after tite forinution of the Erie & Chi- cago Passenger Liue, has also gous by the board, orders bavipg been given for its discon- tinupnee ou the 1at of Junuary. ‘Chis fast- acres for £1,850.60. freight line has been running over the Balti- more & Oldo, Atlantle & Great Western, and Erfe Railroads, The demise of this ifne {a mostly to e atteibuted to the faet (hat the Baltimore & Ohio bas always been opposed to Jinving the freizht hosiness done by these lnes and therefore withdrew from the ¢ombination, Jhe efficent ngent of the line: in this city, Mr. Frank Hurrlote, will, {t {s sald, receive a simiiar nmx’)lntmcnl from tho Baltimore & Ohlo Rali- road, ‘The Land Department.of the 1llinois Centrat Rallruad reports, for November, sales of 803.44 The cash collected on land contracts was $16,887,52, CRIME. BURGLARY, Jpecial Disnatch to The Tribusne. b ForT WAYNE, Ind., Dec, 10.—Last night the houre No. 18 Ilolman atrect was entered and 81,200 worth of Jewelry, clothing, etc..stolen from Mrs, Norman, who had them packed up preparatory to removing to Ohlo. Eugene Lowrfe wia locked up to-day on auapleion of befng impllcated, and some of the stolen prop- erty fouud tn his possession, Y FORGER ARRESTED. Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Dec, 17.—Charles Haley was ar- rested here to-day‘on a’ requisition of the Gove ernor of Pennsylvanfa and taken back to an- swer ror-lursgq committed in asmall town near Erfe in 1870, Ifaley was employed as n clerk at the Natlonal Home, uear this city, at the tine of his arrest. EMOTIONAL, New Yonr, Dec. 17.—Iu Jullnstown, Burling- ton County. N. J., John Hageman, n store- keeper, and 8 consplcuous resident, wns shot Fridny night by one Panecost, & Constable, who charged the lllelt intimney of Ilagoman with Tanecost's wife, Hageman will probably die. Lanccost was nrrested. kR APPREHENDED, NEw Yorg, Dec, 16.—E. A. Condet, & curb- stone broker, was arrested to-day and fdentifled 88 the person who two montha ago sent out a bogus dispatch signed with the name of the “Hev. Dr. Deemns,” announcing the desth of Cowwodore Vanderbilt, SALT. Produot of the Michigan Tirine Wellse dpectal Djapatch to The Tribune. East 8aciNaw, Mich, Dev. 16.—State Salt Inspector Garrigues has just issued the elghth annual rgport of the State 8alt Inspector for the year ending Nov. 80, 187, It shows that the past year has shown a marked incrense in the monufacture of salt, and Michigan s now rapldly taking o front position ns = salt-producing Htate, This fncreased product has been partly owing to more extended areas of the State that are coming in every’ year as salt producing, but {s mostly owing to an in- crease of manufacturing capacity in the old salt localitles, where greater attention fs paid to the cconnmy of mopufacture {n the exhaust _stean and the refuse fuet from the saw-mills, Durlug the summer and fall months therefs reported to be quite o large falllog-off fn the supply of brine {n many of the salt welle, and on this ac- count tears linve arisen that the supply of brine was belni exhausted. “Acting upon these fears a subscription was made to put down a teat- well for the purpose of further developing the Michigan salt “group, mnow known ns the Waverly group. This well is now in progress, and from previously reported aml published records of welld, brings in other localities of this State which have struck another sand rock, containing rich supplies of brine. There Is no doubt of the success of the undertaking. and the investization will be re- warded by flndlr‘l)g another supply of brine In this sand rock., Judglng from the above-men- tioned records, this sand rock will be struck in the Sagiunw Valley, ot sumewhere within 1,500 to 1,80 feet from ihie surface. The salt-producing tesritory of the State has been divided during the past “year into ten in- spection districts, having & manufacturing c}mndty ©f1,800,000 Larrels, or 9,000,000 bush- elr. ‘The arca of salt-prodocing tewritary fs con- stantly Increasing, ten large steam blocks hav- Ing boen erected during the year, The entire amount of sult fnspected o the Stute during the year is us follows: Rarrets, 103,410 Secund quality ealt..... Totn] This w edlt, Lelng an Increase of 7,813,015 1,004,320 bushels, or ?xw'm barrels, of salt over Jast year's produc- lone. The revenue due the State Salt Inspector for the flseal year cnding Dec. 80, 1876, Is zs fol- lows: Duties on 7. per busl Sn(nrr of St Printlngand ' espen Salaries of Deputy Inspect. OM.sis se sureer 5 bushelsat2 e $14,027.25 rplu; ppo! ack and paid to the persons or flrms for. whom _satt las been ingpected during theldast vreceding yenr, Al- though the amount snlt fuspected has in- creased 880,504 barrels over laut year's product, the expenee of the Inspector has been sbout the same, showhig n cost ot {uspection of xeven wills per barrel, and an fncreased economy of ex- penses accordine to the amount of salt In- spected. THE WEATHER. Wasmineroy, D, C., Dee. 17—For the Upper Lake Reglon, Tennessee and Ohlv Valley, snow, followed Lyglearing vold, weather, northerly to westerly winds, aud rising barometer, followed in the Upper Loko Reglon duriug the night by fulling bacometer and vuriable winds. DLOOMINGTON, L1, Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune, BLooMINGTON, Dec, 17.—The heaviest snow- storm of tho scason visited thia place at an carly hour this morning, aud hus raged ucrcclly dur- ing the entire duy, In places it has afready commenced to drift to a great denth, 100AL OUMKBYATIY |l:‘x"l:!lv1l_llml|m. k2 ATIONY, Dec. 17~Midnigb, Staifons, Tnralo. Cleselaud SMOTHERED TO DEATH, ‘The Coroner yas yestenday nutifled of o sus- piclots case at the reshdonce of Mre, Mosler, No. 1399 Dearbom strect. About a month ago, a servaut girl named Nora Ro: bout to be contined, took upat the Wom and Chil- dren's flueplml. corner of Paullng and Adams street, aud was thore delivered of a tine male child,” Mrs, Mosfer touk the unfortunate woman under her shelter, and Baturday morning when the mother awoko the child was found deud in ner armes, apparently hl\'ln‘( been smothered to ;.lvf:lm The Corouer will investigate the case ay, BUSINESS NOTICES. Toland’'s Aromatic Bitter Wine of Iran Isa remedy for ner debillty, Im d andimipaired dig Liopot, on. MEDICAL, Statement of O. J. Goldrick, Esq. Editor Rocky Mountaln Herald, Denver, Colorado, showing the Prevalence of Catarrh and the Popularity of Sanford’s Radical Cure for Catarrh. ** Every nine out of ten aduits fn thin who, conniry T4 AMIetod mith et ar trcometa bt cimatl. caliy eilderaic out in this atmosphers, Mr. Smiti tetis r: that the three duzen hottien of RADIEAL Cene wene inmediately sold, and that he lnd furty uriers fur mire JFrithin the last three weeks, but bad none here ta supply The Mr. Bmith referred tofa of the firm uf Smith & Doil, furniturs denlers, Denver. When lu Suston about 8 year ago ho purchascd oldven hottles of — Catarry Nemedy, and ode of SANPORD'S HADICAL, € the Intter at the oarnest requcat of 8 persona) acquafntance, He had secn the first nemed remedy but hwl not heard of the Iatter. Bhortly after his srrival In Denver wo recelved an order fur adozen of the [fADICAL Cuxe, Andzoon snother with the pleaslng tntelligence thas Mr. Smith was cured. The provalczea of the disease, coupled with the recominendations of Mr. Amith, soon created allvely demand, and withnut ndvertlsing nearly three Lundred botties were sentout. This fs o alriking Diuatration of what s frequently done for this remedy seareturn for rellef from long and palnful suttering, CATARRH, ASTHMA, BAD C0UGH, Eto, OURED, GrESTLESRX~My catc (s Lriefly aafollowa: T have A Catareh Tor Lch vents. each sehr Wi [neransiny bos yerlty, Forutue yovs © it nic breathed througlious I, 1 b dropnings n the throat, o very bad couki asthima £ bad 2 to e u\)liflmlln take o remody for it nizht hefare hedniz able tn {le down and slenp, And & cons stant dull pain in iy head. My ficad was K¢ $imes 80 full of catarrlial natter sa to {afure my scose of hearing snid compel me to get up several timesin the, night o clenr it and my throat befnre | 15 of these distremving symptoma has disnpe the ure of not quite thiee bottles of BANPuRS'N RAD- eat. Conv, My hearing I8 fully restored. 1 have 6 mthmatic aymptoms, no cough, uo droppings 1n the throal, no fie and tn éviry way herter than 1 could feel the effects of the CURR ey on iny Kidneys and, in fact, eveey parc of iy aynens. \Whnt fisn Leva done in nry care (s wholly thgelfect of theApLeaL Cene. | Very reanecttally, FiTcuncaa, Oct, M, .1, LAWRENCE, lon of Endorsod by a Prominent Druggist. 1hereby certify that Mr. Lawrence purchased the RabicaL Crnx of ine, and {rom time to time made ma familiar with lis case, 1 belleve his statement Lo be ANES P. DERDY, true in every particular, . FiTennenao, Oct. 14, pon e catse bf Cutarih, ¥ n the esuso of Catarrh, viz: he aeldified hood, 8 poison Which aitacks yery vital organ and is ellmioated frow the systewn unly by the Rapicar.Cuxe, Fach package contatna ‘haling Tnbe, sod full Uirect or it uge fn_all cas Price, €1, For sale by, ol shoteaste and, vetall d sta (hroughaut the United States. 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