Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1884, Page 2

i { FOURTEENTH YEAR. Angeles, Cal, Montgomery, Ala; s " . Tows, and Scranton, Pa, making the total creased 210, makin clos of the year. The Anondl Report of PoStmasler |ervicewas $8,51d, 6o, General Hatton, HATTON'S REPOR The annnal report of the postmast for the fiscal year ended June 50, 1884, is com- pleted, and for the first time made p FINANCIAL STATEMENT. ‘The total expenditures inade on account of the service of the Theteventies for the year were cont 1. Ordimary postal revenna.,...... $12,818,635 00 the frag-d( 2. Net revenue greatly im) from money-or- again reac) yonrs. I also renew the recommendation of predecessor, that the unit of weight in rating and sealed packages (first- nged from one-half ounce to SIEEDY DELIVERY, Since in large commerclal cities whare even the efficient delivery of the mails is not ade quate to the demands of business enterprisos requiring promot transaction, I recommend the use of a_special postage-stamp for letters wailed and intend d for spacial and prompt delivery at_free delivery uffices, This sta 's 5.204,4¢4 12 | #hould be of the denomination of ten cents, AR “|und, when affixed to a letter, in addition to re 63, or moro | ghe Hroper postage chargs, should insure for it than 4 7 pec cent loss thn those of the bre- |4 (ivedy o delivery as possiblo af er its rece tion at uny latter-carrier office, tho reduction of letter postage from 3 to 2| gistribution could be effected by employing cents, which took effect Uctober 1, 1853, meszenger boys, at & small sala y, and in such .)‘”P“'h’d h?' the numbers as the year 62 was paid on | [ am watisfied such an effort to accouat of liabilities of previous years, mak-|thg public would still further commend tho + L vice t its patrons in the large iy of crodis to ths Pacific. ral- | o tics whord it is In operation. der businesa. ... Excess of expe ditures over Tecsipba. . ....ue i T whick should be addad Jtimated amount of out. standing liabilic 2. Amount eredi treasucy to Pacific railroad companies. .. 1 Gives estimate | cost of service over the revenuss for the fiseal year ... The revenues wara $2,170,5 vious year; the decrease being attributable t.)‘ In addition to the amount service of the year S819, ing the total amount disbursed ~ during the year (ax ronds,) $17.2:4,06).27, Tha amount paid to postmasters was S11, 283,830,87, wn increase of $KGS, that of the previous year for the saw po: service of the year, credited t» the Pacific roads, $13, The aggegate amount appropriated for the e of the year $16,746.037.62, or $341,- 97 more thau the amount disburaed on ac count thereof, und $336,394.07 loss th n the total disbursements and outstanding liabilities. Estimated roceipts for 1886, S5l estimatad expenditures for 18t 160.50; defi iency to be supplied from the general treasury, 34 826 319.20, because of the reduction of letter postage to|ot ber, 18 then approuching reducti nounted to $10,( 0,751, i ion ia” the letter rata of postage from | B¢ October, 18! of March fected yielde | by far the larger porti postal Tevetiue, the change, ot cou duced an The ordinsry postal re ed Juae 8, 1554, was §! that of the prec rse, be ad ded that of the natural iuer Buen expeotad hud o throe-o> in uuder the provi ramaine te w force during the quarter ended | locks. 1 s ;:pt:x:l‘;‘u:: :rn % H:l.‘;, ;h; sales of | ment shculd” bs authorized to prescribe th: e o for - that * quarter . were | Kind of locks that may bo placad upon post- 185 s than tho averago " for | office boxes, and postmas ers ahoutd bo for- D emining dhartors ander the 2.cent | bidden to place any article of mail in a lock- O eoAL oy i not secured by a Jock approved by the de tog lsd o a serious fallivg off in tha sale of | Partmo t. ; earing Amiiatiths Lose: of revene wes not| I am of tho opinion that the governmont Sivime. b | should provide buildings and proper facilitics aates on which | for the transaction of postal business, the change was basod contemplatcd a loss for | EXTENT AND COST OF TRANSPOLTATITON, JUNE $137,271. rate; the anticipated (hange in the rate hay- | greater must be regarde! as gr: the first year of ab,ut $3 000,000, 1: is evi cenc the predicsion has been fully verrified that the reduced rato would greatly stimulat: letter c.rrespondence, and lead to the sutstitu- ticn of sealed inclosures for postal cards a: open circulars. The increage ia the numb of letters carnot be stat d, the department having no statistics to show the number of pieces of each of the eeveral classes of mattor mailed, ond the sams kicd ot stamps being used indiscrimi y for first, ti aud fourth class matter, Nether do tho rales furnish any guide, siace postmaste s ia acconnting to tho auditor report the amount in tho aggee: gate and not in detail of the several kinds and denominations, In postal ¢ rds thers was a’decrease in the issues of 16,640,000, or 45 poc ceus, for the year ended June 3), 1854 as compared wita the previous yaar, Dariag tha pracadivg five years there has been au average anuual in- Greaso of 13 (5 por cent. VAKIOUS MAIL MATTER The amount of portige collested o clags matter duiog the yourw s 81,580 an increass of £181,414 61, or 10 82 p: over the previous year. of was 11 mestic lattere, 466,902 were lotvers addressed to forelgn countiics, The amount of r gistry fees colle tod was $057,009 80, an in $30.509.60, or 33 per cant, over the provious The ectually as year numbered & and show: "The gross rocoipts of art| mail matter during the ye; the postal service, year, 3,410; discontinu, offices estaulished, 151 361, , 1, cers aud ageut At differont times during the year a thor ough investigation was ma i, undér the direc tion of the chisf postmaster inspectar, of all first and second ‘clans offices. Tae result of these inventizations was gratifying to the de- parimant, Dishonest sud negligent offizials wera i 4 The former were removed aud the lstter racrimanded and mora fully instructad 1o thele daties. Lo a largs number of ¢4 es whern ponin wilers were discovered to ¢ be whors in thol: uc ounts it was owing | oof negligenes or o luck of abiliy to wansge the affaics of thelr offi ex, Too mauy pwtmasters feel warraoted in ro- garding their psitious oa sinecures and feel free to give theic attention to ather busiae content t0 draw theic salarios a8 officia) ) leaving the work of wanaging their offices to others. Toisshoud not be allowed, Post mastera at ficat and second olas officos should be required wive their entie time to their official datics, and should not be permitted to engag 1 in iny other business that requires any portion «f the tiwm s for which they are pud by the governuent, ‘This sesult should be broughc hout if it 1equires i statutory euact ment to effact it THE FREB DELIVERY BYSTRM, 5 THE vice will not ateain to any higher geade of per. | fection until this legislation is effected. l FAST MATL SRRVICE, pact year the service 'a has been very 1 For somo years the New number of carriers was # total of 8,800 o appropriation for this ork Central aud avd ths 1 ake Shore Southern railway hay running a fast teain, leavin and arriving at Toledo, Ohio, at m.of the followivg du nection with the fast mai bash, St. Lounis and Pacific railway, and a di- ot connoction for St Louts. Chicago aud the west, which formerly anived at Toledo on thia train, were hold there about New York at Free delivories are now acceeded only to general | towns where tne population reachea 20,000 or the poatal reven e $20,000. the law ehould bo so changed as to permit the blic. aggregation of population and the postal rov Tntroducing his report with “‘a well-deserved | euue of these towns, and tribute” to the Assistants and various chiefs | b8 extended to them when they meet the re. for “eficiont service and valuable aid,” the | quirements of the law. 3 secretary firet makes the « diminution in the number of offices and a more satisfactory and CHEAPER POSTAGE, ures shown, the postal rerv- fisosl year ended June 80, fco is polf-sustaining, 1 can urge with proprie Were. ... 1$46,404,960 63 | by the reducing of local postage rates to one confident that mih a change ; 5 would result in a very considerable incroaso in Rty o lotters mailod, and_tha Ald not be s> train on the Wa. In my judgment The mails for the service should ago, artiving there at 6 a, m. Commencing Sunday, March 8, 1884, an ar- rangement was m Michigan Southern 1 The result would be onomical service, lway company whereby the train leaving New York at 8:50 p. m. was continued through from Toledo to Chi a apecial fast matl train, arriving at the point at 12,35 a, m. Since, by the f connection with this do with the Chicago, lway company to put train t1 leave Uhicago nt Burlington & Quin on a spocial fart ms 38 m, arcdvingat Omaha ot 7 p s arrangement went inte fect March 11, 1 Tha Chicago, Milwaukeo & St. Paul rail compauy alto put on a the number of local ATy Tevenue wi red thereby as to pravent it from g the prescnt amount ia a few t mail train, loaving t ing at St. Paul o p.m,, and at Minneapol; train commwenced runving March 13, To connection with faat, mail tramn on irlington and Quincy railwa; lway company changed the Diinois Central the schedule of its m close connection with ago, Burlington & Quincy railway , Ll and extended its hline trom Erecport, T, to Dubugne, connecting at_the lat troin for La Crosse, Wisco. tin. These chargeaon the several roads material- ly benofit all the wostern stat>s and terri st mail on the and south, at Mendo T point with the 3y change of schedulo socured upon_the Pacific railways, which ho establishmant of ¢ o icago, Burlington and Quincy railway, a gain of ono business day was mado in the delivery of mails at San leaving New York by the evening dispatch arrived i dan Francisco . instead ot nt' 8. Union and Uentral took place koon afte reumstances should waerang, | fast mail upon the Cl f 50 p. m., a8 for- POSTMASTERS' SAUARIES 54L over [ The gross receipts of the 2,323 pur- | offices tor the four quarters eunde se. This expenditure was $333,830.57 in | 1384, amounted to $33 031,60 3 excess of the appropriation. cent of the entire revenue of the department For railroad transportation the audited ex- [ for the samo period. The agaregate salaries penditures aud estimated liabilities for the | of premdential postmasters amouated to $3,- ), or 11 59 per cont of the gross re 5,163, accruing at their respective officas. "The appropriation fur _clerks in postoffi ces for the present fiscal year is inadrquats for the The department has been obliged to make reductions in order to keep the expend tures within the limitad appropriation. thougn this reduction was necessary. it was an apparent injustice to many postmasters whose allowances were already to small, An estimata of the revenue for the ensuing | I ondorse as applicable to postmasters tho ficcal year is attunded with great uncortainty, | secrotary of war's expressions on the subject aymasters” bonds, vi: L two cents, which took effect on the lst Octo. [ permitted by law as security the obligation of "Although the change was in actual | rome approved guaranty company organized operation durirg three-quarters only of the | for the purposo of indemnifying emplovers in last tiscal year, 1ts_effoct was felt upon the | this mauner revenus for the entire year; the sales of stamps | The revenue trom the rent of presidential for the quarter ending September 80, 1853, | postoffices is divided between the department having buen greatly cutailed in view of the | and the postmasters, n iu the rate, Thus | In my opinion the law should be so amend- the sales for that quirier nnder the three.cent | ed a3 to placo the entire box-rent ) 53, while the | the credit of the party whoprovides and ma o for the thres succeeding quarters was | tains the boxes, and who pays the rent of the room or the spaco oceu sied by the boxes, DUCTION IN THE RATE OF POSTAGE. A more praotical and a much more just Th past year marked aa fmporkant opsch | Evstem than the presont would ba one in which in the history of ths postal ser7ice through the | the posto! has boen chauged, and this mail now arrives at San Francisco at 11:10 a, m ‘The mail for St. Panl and Minneapolis city delivery is assorted on the f.st m, fore arrlval at those places and given to the ot, thua enabling them to before the close of the . Thisis & material expedition, as this mail under the old arravgoment would not arrive at thosa places until the next day. A change of .33, or 74 8 p carriers at the d make their delives including_also the suws | §¢ service, ic railway, whereby its train left St. Paul on arrival of the fast mail, mak. ing a gain of one full day at Portland, Ore., and intermediate points. RAILWAY MAIL OLERKS. There are ut the prisent tii. thousand clerks in the railway mail servico, many of them having been s employed a great number of yoars, special study that thess clorks have devoted would havo made t in almost any of the profos- They should bo The amount of HR EXIUESHES HIMSELE ON THE REPUBLIC sions of life. MAIL SERVICE. The total weight of the mails dispatched to postal union countr during the last fi 79,871 pounds, an 181,961 pounds, an in- eding year of mpared with the pi {12 pounds of letters and post-cards and ,438 pounds of printed n ompared with the w 1883 tho parcentage of incrasse for lettors and cent; for printed matter por cent, and for all rtment. should provide the ssary box outfits, pay the rent of build tarce £ two cants, taking effect un the 1at of | ings, and receive the full amount of box-rents fons of the act | in all the presidential offices, 1883, As the class of matter af- | The postoffica dopartment neglests e ) of tho | cavtion for the protection of mails in transic, . pro. | and provides, at uo incousiderable expense, aiediats falling off in the recsipes, | ho very best and most approved locks for muil ‘n for tho yoar end. | bags that ars hundled only by is sworn aile tho security of tho mi & placed sible to the general sand parsimony of or the fiscal year post-cards is 3,41 and eample muile, 6 the mails 5.8 per cent. VELIAL POSTAL U3 badly,” said a friend of his this edboiog, Congress of ol Union, origiually fixed tha Univorsal to bo held at Lisbov, Portuzal, ards postponed until October 1 and further postponad in consequence ot cholera in portions of Earopo, will mect in the city named on the lst of Ieb- ruary next, for the purpose of improving tho systam of the Union in the light of tho oxpe- rionce of its practical workings during the st Many important modificati tho Paris Convention and rezulatious s posed for consideration and Congresy, and the United States has rpacial intorest in most of them. Otto and James S. Crawford, I tendent of foroign affairs of this ac have been appointed the delegates to rep the United Suates in satd Co ,434.24 less than !guuh‘t.’ . To this loss should, | 10 posto L Fat of the natural icoreass | public is Ioft to th cay % ratn | Postmasters who, in mauy cases, ace not qual <o, Thowgh the three-ceut |ified to decide upon the merits of ¢ In my opision the postoffics t+ his tarm in routh. rn Iiinois The plase contains about 0 ) acres of well (u tivated the 4th of March he expects to beoome & franger in earnest. of his pa ruther than a American . in Chicag stics of the inland mail sorvice, 831, uro as 11 The number of 1 | routes length of tho routes, nual transpo tation, 81,109 0 5 040,941 baing about wilos at a cost couts per mile, WasHiNGToN, November 24, —~The anoual report of 'L'reasurer Wyman, of the United of § yico w the length of the route miles miles, abou 15 3, the government was less than 1853 by $10, se in receipts from cus- receipts from internl 05, and in receipts from mis- 218, from the az- these itoms should be deducted an annual cost of $5! cents per mile, The number of routes in the railroad ser- vice was 1,57 the length of the routes, 160 miles; the anvual transportati % w cost of $10,012 603 (exclusive 462 for railway p’stal clerks), being cents per inile, 1908 coutractors for carrying the mui's on inland routes d by mail messengers was b,- wnl cost of $365 uumber of & f ach office being supplied by a spacial canvior is not t»r exceed two- cent, | thirds of the salary of the postmaster, y of the mervice, The number of lettars and parcols sent | y¢itoment , appears in th report of the Sec through the rezigtered mails during the year | o4 Ausistant Postmast 5, of which 8,008,335 were do- | noveq. about 10 b3 There wer t reduction as expenditures aso from the amount in 1883, by §21,5 Furplus upplicable o reductic offices supp! 20 The quits of G cial Advertiser, writes: *‘Lot me the colored the hands of the democracy, that now oven the temptation to ruwored and that from this day forth he counts as living factor in southern politics, “Why, now, fore?” 1 und toachings of the we ke menwo before our oyes, 1t was enough to Wi and made you freemen; ha would reinstato you to-moirow if be effect of this was to politieslly, and the past danger in which the colored democrat wan forced to live among his race deterred a man of any fosligg from socking to draw him from th ropublican —influ; ! Now he is nccessible to the logic of dueds which ho shall seeand feel, and eat and drink, whose com 818 from that of the pre xof expenditu es ¢k ceount of war dops with tabular ieneral, hereto an. iuterest on publi 'ro Was an incrouse of ditures on sccount ot ci 411 in expen- . il and miscellaneous 2,009,164 in expenditures on account of STAR SERVICK, 0 star service is maintained with as much officiency as is nttamable uader existing laws year. There is neo 1 of new legislation touching this rtalned loeses during the | branch of the service, or one in every 21,79) let- | strongly commend to the favorabl ters and parcels registered. Tuisis o smaller | congress the bill prepared to meet this need by proportion of loss thun in any previ-us year, | the second assistant pastmaster-goneral, which increasing « fficiency und fideli'y on | will be found in_detail in his report, the part of postal officials in this beanch of the | from 1 ng experience familiar with the needs service, of this service, having been mstrumental in s of undelivered | effecting already many reforms were 4 751 572,an | those facts his comments upon the bill deserve inorease of liztle more than 8 per cent over the | due consideration previous year. The bill roferrad to aims to prevent the con Y TR T, tauance of certain wbuses in this brauch of TR S e 2 1f it thould becoma a law. Number of officse ostablisbed during the | i¢ would have the effect of breaking up what iucrease of [ ig known as speculative soramse discontinned, | seen pase of T the navy depactmont. The disbursing officers United States had to their credits on tha books of the trensury at the close of the The statement of nesots and u for Saptember 30, 1851, shows the al balance was reducad from $16 , in 1883, to §1 i tion of $13,7 7 4u0, {1 gold and rilver coin and bullion gate amonnt of The gross nssets increused 1nt, 1834, the bidding, which 4, 48 thown by the report of the sscond Arsistant postmaster general, ‘Thers are i1 dapartmntal offices und em- | fourths «f the ront ployes, uud 71,671 pustmnasters and other offi- | groatly *o the detriment of the service, tracts for carrying the POSTOFFICKS AS SINECURES, mails, in great part, ints tha hands of persons reeidiog 00, or 1o the viciaity of, the various Itivg in most instances in tes amonnting to § o of 832,274,800, year, the amount held for ¢ cressed from $15, leaving actually outstanding would throw the d alver dollurs ¢ 30, 1884, was 152 851,820, of which the rout & to be let, re a v stly more eff able ends, together wi edless restrictions which now wdvantage of both the carriers and the he attained by the of this bill, which has my unqualified s briog in & line with otaer previous x in the star seryi The average anuual cost of the star service vo years pro eding 1554 han b with an average milasge of ¥, at & little over 8 conts per nily. For the year ended Jnae § of the star service was 85,050 941, with & mile- nt of about 6} rds, o large in: en’ nec mpani reat reduction iu the e cost per wile beiog reduced nearly 24 per centum. Eection 620 of the regulations of 18 preacribed a method of adjustiog c tion for expedition, bas been rescio cause it grew out of an nawarranted c tion of the statute and was deemed unsafo. ‘Lhe recorimendat ons of the second wssist ant postinaster general in reference to the lew. The system was extended during the year |islation that is ne dful are & to the cities of Chattanoogs, Teon.; Loslyet so nocessary that I am cortuiu thestar ser- | being twisted. Spe tho remaval of some | 543 ga1" B redamption of silver certifi cates outstandiog, The amount in drculation goverament, wil anding reached the point in December, when it exce 000, un sg4regate vever before reached decreass Lo June was not as great as in provi #, probably owing to the rcarcity of nd two dollar notes, and on September #0, the amount ~as 580,717 greater than the d During fiscal year £126, 2 1o nutional bank for iedemption, bein, than the precediog year, flect« the conditigh of the mouetary affuirs of the country, s shown by reports, increasing the number of business fulurea and decreasing the amount of clearing house transactions, wi , 1884 the cost age of 81,109,0 were preseuted oents per mil wrease in the milssge has with & very he 01 Market, wit buoyant aud rose Zie iu the worning, moderate aud | caught beavily short of OMAIA, NEB., MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER i, 1884 FOUR Y:tARS HENCE. Who Will Lead vlhn Grand 0id Party in 1688 Who Will Tarn the Tide of Battlo And Rogain the Lost Vantage Gronnd? Quist Suggestions of tha 0ld Loader, Some Strong Demauds for J, &, Blaine, Prominent Men Who Endorse Blaine w Command ¢ Future Legions to Victory, DBLAINE AND RE-NOMINATION, Spacial tolegram to TaE Bre Cnicago, November 30-—-An Tater-Ocean New Yorl: special saye: Tha intensityof feel- ing that Bl.ine was really the choico of the peopla for president, but lost the election through accidental utterances at the north, has led to expressions from every guartor fa- vorab'e to his renomination in 1888, Already the quict undertow was in this directi m prior to Augusta speech being rent to the coun- try, That swelled 1t to a tidal wave, His friend and political manager, S, B, Elkine, receives daily mail here whi vi caxes his time and attention so mush thay he is obliged to uee a secrotary, Three-fourths of tho letters are spontaueons declarations that Blaine is tho choice of the writer for president in 1888, From all - over the country thero is the same remarkable exprossion ten days past men like Senator Warner Millor, Emery A, Storrs, of Chicago, Senator Chat'ee, of Colorado, Alexander Sullivin, of Chicago, H. E Main of New York, and Colonel WYE. Simms, of In Parsons, of Virginia, Senttor Hale, of J. 4. Long, of Ohio, W. C, Androws, Virginia, havo, on voice here to the popular cry. They noither attempt to boom Blaine for 1853 or indor tion, but have simply stated that it is an ev dent fact that the psople are. ;}iu Blaine’s friends, he movement in his direc. mm— ErAL LOGAN, G DEFEAT, ovember 29.—(ieneral John New York, A. Logan is at the Fifth Avenvé hotol. He arrived this morning, and will femain over Thavksgiving, when he will join | Mra, Logan in Washiogton. There was & lasge number of callers at Goneral Le gaws room thfsafternoon, and he surprised all his friends sith the ight- hearted and cheery manuer in wiish ho spoke of his recont defeat. I do not think Logan would {feel half as fit weza not £or the fact that _he % ‘y-beuten by such an old copporhead a3 Hend gea,” ba whippad, and that's all tharets of it. [or myself,” ho added, *“I fee the man who stubbed his on o stump to narse it. Al his fiiends came around to symipathize with ‘It hur:s pretty bad, don't it? they asked, but tho fellow was a little too much ocenpiod squorzing his toe to auswer. Finally ha blarted out: ‘The worst of hig to cry and the thivg hurtsto ba And that,” s: feel ‘> night Geu. Logan suid Isughingly, “T ve nothing to say to tho press, We are a gond deal like and sit down ith him, plyig him Il sorts of questions abont haw ha felc, Tam too L’ After the e'ection Ge ro.upe ), and tho general says that after Logan attri utes the def rancas of Durehard 0. Ho rays the Irish- except the most Litter o hat always supported him and wak nover run for any offca in Ilinofs 1 faild to cary C y 6,000t 100, This year the maj rity ran down to 000" and numbors of Iri-lmen had tuld him that they had voted against him for the fixt uima, He attributea all this to Burchard's re- marks. THE BLACK VOIE Ot COLQUITT HAS 80 METHING 10 BAY OF ENKFICIAL DFI 1O FROM 14K 1 cial Telegram to Tik Br W Yonk, November 30, —Goyernor Col- orgia, in o letter to the Commer- ay us to min Georgia, ho is safo In unfairly by his voto is will you ask, “‘and not heroto- uso heretoforo the whole influence government itself o called into active service to ) tho negro vote as a constant to the colered voter, he is & democrat, atehed you out of his hends as slaves 1d. Of course, tho eep the races apart crowd in which os bad impounded him, and wi shall be clothed in the Inwgr»t in which his civil rights are sure to bs upheld by us, — THE SPANISH THEATY, PESHIMISTIC VIEWS ON THE BUBJECT VIOM THE OUTHKRN HTATES al Telegram to tho Lk, WasiunGroN, November 80,—Senator Gib- eon, of Lousans, muataing that there is very i says the bonefit is about all on the side of o reciprocity in tho Spauish treaty, Ho Cuba, Continulpg, he esid: “There are about £00,000 consumers of our products in Cuba, Now this treaty proposes to give them advantage of trade with our 69,000 000 of people, and in retura we x 510,000 with some of our Sesides, the people of Cuba do not, and will not uss waoy of oue products, They do not use our plows, 1 tues of tl on fruits and cousume very litle flour, Thore isno probibition in the treaty agaigssih imposition by the Spaoi-h goverament of ines, and msnufuc ternal revenue tax Now we collect two cents per pound on sugar. Say we get from it $30,100,000. 1f we admit it free, may not the Bpanvh government levy an internal ‘The market | 1evenus tix of two conts per puund on sugar, It | and thus collect in their treasury the $30,- is rumored that many operators have been 100 000 we now put in eurs. The treaty market and are \cught to probibit avy internal revenue tax by Bpain ' Fenator Uibson added that the treaty would excludo the eugar believe it would cheag e the prica of sugar to the consumer in to tha Hawaiian treaty as this country, proof of this, say- benefit the consumer here. ‘supposing the Spanish gov dvantage of the opportunity to impose the internal revenue tax, wo would bo really presenting Cuban planters with £30,000,000 which we could ralso as oastom would make Cuba the richeat wland 1n the e ——e 10A AND sPAIN, A RECIPROCITY TRFATY FINALLY ARRANGRD) 1+ ™R UNITAD KNGLISH RIVALRY, Speclal Telogram to Tue Bre N, November 3 through London yastords treaty of the ~Mc. Foster passed having signed the United Statos with THE IRREPRESSIBLE SOLAV, HOW KUSSIAN WHEAT IS VORCING AMERICAN CERFAL PRODUCTS YROM EUROPEAN MARKRTS, Special telegram to The Bxs. Wasitixarox, November 80, Coniml Gen eral Cramer furnishes the state department an intoresting statoment in reaard to the danger of Russi from them kot of Switzerland and southern Garmany. Cramer says: “Rich harvests the present season in Russia as woll as masses of wieat stored n varlous parts of that country, espaoially in Odessa, and reduction of through freight tariff, leavo little doubt that Russian wheat will supersode American wheat in Switzerland and south Goermany, Russian whoat dealers strain every nerve to supply the markets of contral and southern Europe with this article. Statistios show that the exvort of American whoat decreased while its produc tion has been increassd, Thera must, there- Ho sails to-doy for Now Yoek lish diplomatists avow that this troaty, if rat- ified, prevents the possibility of the deaired Angl-Spaniah treaty, | possible for Spai to eraut mimilar concessions and open Caban ports nglish and American goods expected that the treaty will excito hostility against Lowsinna sugar planters, tut will en- list the support of protect the first place, by abolishing $80,000,000 of sugar duties, it pats an end to further appenls for reducivg the covenue, and socondly, opens turers of cotton, iron, woolen snd nume other goods, theraby seouriug arfean: wonopoly, and proceediog on the pro. tectionist doctrino of weing Amerioan taritf as foreign market for Am practical Am- a teans of obtaining erican £oods on favorabla terms, 10AN FLOUR, HOW 71K MAKRKETS OF SPAIN ABE OPENISG UP 7O THIS GREAT PRODUOT Special Telegram to the B WasHiNGTON, November recoived by Secretary Frelinghugsen from Concul Horatio J. Sprague, nt Gibraltar, statos that flour is the on'y Amorican product %0 bo a market there. Suppliea aro baine imported direct from New York through by Pritish and Jtalian steam Tho demand has only sprang up cholora in Franco, woriffo, fo tho Canary Inlands, ays that 1ronch flour is beginning to be looked upon suspiciously. The public have of lato years favored the Amorican artic Marseilles now, owing to tha cholera ing there, is entiroly shut out of this market, lareo quentities of flour ar expect from the 0 The result wiil be o perma- nent incroase in tho consumption of American ch there appear sinco the appearanca of Consul McKay at Unitod States, S LOWELL AND OLE SOME FOOLISH November 80,- [Bes Spocial,]— infster Lowell said: *“Please toll my frionds tes that Tam not likely to s torun away from in the Usit:d Sta commit such a silly act my post bee te o itical faith presume my sucesssor will ba appointed wnd coufirmed in dus season, and when he arrives hore, I hops to hava the b bim and atfordi nor of welcaming ! tover morvices may boinmy power to make the boginning of his duties oasy and agreenblo ™ Buruivatos, Towa, failues of B, D. Brown, the grain dealer, who assigned yestorday, does not effect the Bur- lington and Misslusippi elevator in tho city, which is manage1 and controlled by a stock conpavy of New York capitalists, tho cle- vator doing largo business as o public ware- The firm of B, D, Brown & Co., arain which A, C Pinkham , assigued yestorday 1he ‘Harrison ol » Suptembor Gerry and N, The Burlington dealers of this cit is the resident partne merly operated by Co., of thiscity elovator is owned and_operatod De by & Co,, and should not bo oot with the Burlington & Misei-«ippi, which was built by B, D, Brown, and with whi A Plucky Yankce. Niuw York, November $0,—A mada the people scattor at the corner of Hous- ton and Mulberry streets this afternoon, tof the excitoment n woll-dressod arush for tho rabid napo of the n ked bim up by the cut his throat with s pocket knifo seyin, otly ut the same tin “That’s the way wo do'in Massachusetts, isian Heroine, Public sympathy for Madame Hagues, who shot her traducer, by the fuct that both Hagues vursed the cholera suf- During the vrevalonce of that epi- Le Pays considers uhe ntiro press to dred the prizon author- ities that she may be provided with material for modeling in clay, ifo devotoaly oine nnd charves the radistribution bill ditfors vory much from the ovigiual draft of the ministers, tnciple of single membership to equ ty, raises the population s for cons'ituents with two members and gives o groat Increass in the feom London and other pc radicals consider tho Chaplin and Lowther, conservati ing & group tu oppose tao pre 1t extends the wher of mumbe e Another Fatal Collision, onn., November h the wewt bonnd nings this worniog aL foore, wad Brakeman railway collided v wilos eust of 1 ul under the wreck and will road Kate 3 r 20, —Tho general man leld an all forenoon Ouicaao, No agurn of tho Missouri lin, sessivn again to-day, but 10ent of the present passenger rato war, { obstacles in tho way of the sottle- ment is the demund of the Chicugo & Alton to reduce all passenger triffa to & busi Auother sossion cents a wile, Oit1caGo, Novembor the eircuit court this moruin; application for the sppolutuent of a r for the estate of Wilbur ¥, the petition and na Judge Tuley, in Storey, grantiog y supply theie ined him, however, from the editorial staff or policy of tbe Times nowspaper, unless under spocisl order vf the court, interforing w live mostly 3 ntorprise in Africe, Lonnox, November 30,—{Bes Spectal,}— In the Congo confersnce the indications are fore, bo a necossary fall in its price, What fo to b done m order to furnish an outlet for eurplusage? Both its price and cost of teans. portation must be roduced. Let american wheat exporters send competont persons to Europe, whose duty it sha R b b, carettl study tho wheat markets of Eneland, Ger- Switzorland, cte., as well as the' ques- tion of transportation of wheat from the porta of Gonon, Havre, Marsmillos, Antwerp and Rottordam to the wheat centers, interior and farm ¢ mmorcial convections with such cen- tera by offering & good quality of wheat at least at the same prica aw Russisn wheat bp purchased for, e — CLORN LOUISE, REFRESHING REVIVAL OF SOME COURT BCANDAL “=THE MARQU/S OF LORNE AND THR PRIN. RS LOUISE, Special Telegram ¢ the T, Loxnox, " November 80,—Soclety has taken advantage of the political lull to discuss with oven greater eagornoes than usual the troubled housohold of tho quoen and distinguished por sonages who have been dragged fnto the law conrts, The recont visit of the Duko of Ar- gyl to tho queen 1s universally asociated with tho strained relations between the Marquis of Lorno and the Princess Louise. The scandal of tho ostentatious keoping apart of the two youne peopla has grown too ublic, When the Princoss Louise fs in London the marquis da, and when h A ) . i e b e retmrn 0 | Aud ‘then been found dead with no living is in the Highlas the metropolis Lonice flies to ( queen_ has ordered the princws to veport herself at Windsor, and some arrangement | The Torrible avd Mysterions Pestilence n wheat driving American wheat | |Appalling Death Rate of the OMAHA DALy BEE NO. 140. THE MASKED DEATH, i Eastera Kentuok Dissasa. People Fra1 4 in Their Awful T Crops Bliek Parche and the Ground 7ith Drouth The Two-Fo| :(onors of Famine an- »=Jague, qeque L AL The Seat of the Scourge In the Backwoods Mountain Dis- tricts—Help Needed, THE KENTUCKY PLAGUE., Louisvitig, Novembor 20, — Arthur H. Looms, traveling ropresentative of a New York fiem, is in the city to-day, having just returned from a trip through the plague- stricken district of eastern Kontucky, Mr, Loomis said: I was four days in Martin county without disposing of a single article. The peovle are absolutely crazy, They have 1o use for anythiog but coffins, A great dea] lias been printed in the newspapurs about the situation in Martin and adjoining counties but it has been but an imperfoct reflox of the exlating deplorable condition, I know of in- stances where whole families died within woek; where neighborhoods have been swal- lowed up in_the grave; where one man has, survived to bury his family and his feiends, creature near him, except, in some cases, faithful dog. Flocks of shosp and droves' of in_contemp ated, under which the ill‘mated | cottle that used to browss on the hillsides pair will make someconcession to appearances by oconsionally stopping und: r the same roof, The queen isx mwen time ercifully lashed by Labouchero with his e pen, Karo- line Bauer's Memoirs continuo to supply somo_torrible materinls by the description the afford ot tha family of the queen's sainted hushand, and *“Lobby " doles out weekly ex- tracts cach worse than tho other, and far from unedifying pictures of brutal royalies, | mr— HOSTILE ALLIES, GLADKTONE AND HIS IOSSIILE BUCCKRSOR COM- INE FOR MUIUAL ADVANTAGKS, Special Telegram to The Bex. Loxnow, Novemher 89.—Tho secrot of the negotiations betwoen Gladstove and Sulisbury | cities once in a lifot in woll kept. In spito of the a'armit tels- gram in the Pall Mull Gazetto of last night tho general convi have practically com way tho unexpocted churacter of tho redistri tion Is that tho two leadera to an sgreement, A 7 great fact which maudo the compromise poasible | $ho Plagus has ragad with the geent and along the range of ths Comberland now lio dead and rotting, while pebbles glisten on the bottom of the creek beds, ‘ells and cistorns have boon drained to the botom, and springs are no longer to be relled upon for a supply of water. The ground is literally rched, and whero vegstables formerly loomed luxuriantly there 18 nothing but de- ony. Thousands ara said to have died within the past two weeks,” “‘What, in tho opinion of the natives, s the oansn of this fatal calamity?” “Ttis very evident that tha chisf agent of deaths starvation. The paople in those dis- tricta are almost without communica ion with the outside world. An occasional d¥unmer, liko mysolf, strays among them once a yoar and a few of the most. prosperous visit some me. A good senson brings with 1t bountiful crops. - Wool and other native products are rudely manu‘actured into closhi /g, but when the ¢ ops fail then the order of things are roversod. L am sapeaking now of tho backwoods neizhbo hood: is, whers b fatali- ty. Ilearned while 10 Maetin county that the crop yield for two successv sons had bution scheme whi'h the conservative lenders | hien a failure, The nutives are without were inclined to astonshed to find that Lord Salisbury had swatlowed the dumoeracy without even i wry fuca, he was prepared f; the scheme of & tribution almost radical than the plan of the pii himeelf, Tho meoting of pac, when a great scheme is o un looked forward to with mora geraoss than ony risting for years. Tuere will bo tari le weeping and wailing among seyenty mombers who will find themselves without constit uencics in the futurs, but there is no doubt that they will_havosto swallow their diszust, for & coml on of leadors will secure tha passago of any bill agaiust all possible condi- tions, Monday, —er— GERMANIAYES GRRASP, GROWING COLONIAL AMBITIONS OF TI1 LAND OF THE RHINE, 1 tolegram to Titk Bue: ‘Tremendous won- tioa ia tho sation s caused by arck’s or- d at Cape Town, urging upon Germany the nunexation of terri tory, bitherto iod by liogland, in Afric “Phere in m snspicion that thess letters wore the imperial chancollery nd are p wachinory which i oxpecte boom the next Kinperor of Germany as foster- father of the eolonial enterpriso. ‘Tho lettars, at all events, signiticant mgns of the tmes, and their potency b beon enhanced by latt ters which appoared In the St Jame € from a muw editorially vouch and nont, coloniot. man, and professcs th w English crown and cons tho Joyalists in Cape € tho home sloguentiapy Notth German Gazette, Prince Bisn s of I gan, of & 4 o vich anEnglish t loyalty to the w, bat says that torly distrost lony svermment, He concludes with sn \1's protection to her wanderio ¥ soyiog it wll vquies but very livtle 1 1o them s ek sheltor in the arns of Bismarc:, who is g logst pow erful enough to uefond them, v en— SSIONA LRI THE BHAME HIKOTACLE OF A OEKTAIN CAMERICAN INSTITULION" ABKOAD, ceial Pelegram to TH Bk, LoxvoN, November inflicted on the Swiss Mormons, o far from having diminished the energy of {the propa- adints, seows to have stimulated the zeal MORMON people embraced the tenots (f Monnonim on wnen, They proposed to fo m o Utah in , to put wside theie anciont fuith and now gospel. Mennwhilo the polic ching the chief apo:tlen at Bermo, weo especially vigilaas in tholr sur e GALVESTON'S AMBITION, LATE ENDEAVORN OF THE TEXAN METROP- DESTY Bo GALVESTON, matorial we: vermber 80, will appear to-mnorr,, in the 000,000, any territory eact of the Missiasippi. R DIGNITARIES AT THE DIRAMA, THE ACTORS' FUND BAKEFIT, Nuw Yol tion t! cop the benetit on Thursday, a words regarding tho king Goye asion, The warae. shrewd Amerioans Stauley will the substautisl venetits, and thet England or Portugal will got few of them, — e New Youk, November 20, O, brewers, failed. Preferences §1 o ne minister elled. 1s opt- The ministers wers | money and withont means to purhase broad. the sama way ns The shutting off of the water supply has hrought 6 the surface @ poisonous liguid, Fuw-hed for water, the peop e drank, and tho consequence wiy dunth. The fivis sfptoms are violout gripiugs and afer this a saging houdache. A hot faver enstus ana 1he, pationt wonally ngars two dasw, uffaring uns told agonies | I widurstana shat soveral poysiciang bave bien comuissioned by tha state to a careful waalysis of the witer and b the poisonnis ingredients., Roliof_hat recintly beon dospa..sed to Martin from the neishboring countivs, bwfore I left thero was a slicht rainfall, witl o prospect of continued falling, The opinion provails that the plague hus puwsed through its most dan- gerous stages and is now on the wano, During tho last two doya of my stay I ioard of very few deaths,” e On to Chioa, Panty, November 20.—After the vote in chamber of deputies yestorday {avori ition of the Chix governu nad orders quick of reinfurements to Adwiral Courbet orul Del Tslo, Fatal Collision. CrAn Ravios, In, Novembor ~Tho Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern live U prose . —The punishment 2 OVer an AOTCan nam nawed Slasl, 1 1a probable that these two wen will soou be arrested an expelled, OLIB TO BECUIE THE DELPENING OF ITS HARs ho sggregate It and populhion of thy twenty staten and territorios whese arcg 15 natural to tho port of Galveston & d.eep water outlots, as loep water edition” of the Lyaily News, uro as follows: Wealth, 89,97%,000,000; populat y, #11,216,- iheso figures embrace the entire ove, ko Colorado, Nebraska and but do not include Louisiana or OLEVELAND AND AKTHUL INVITED TO ATTEND ¢, November 80.~The managers of thy actors’ fund benefit wet this afternoon wt the Grand opera house and passed & resolu- or Oloveland for bis ac- nee of their invitation to be present at 1 for '}uu kind ession, The gove rnor wnd perty will cecupy three boxes on the Mrs, Mary C. Smith, Cambridgeport, Mass., omwitteo that walted | was a sufferer from dyspepsia and sick Lead on the governor started to-might for Washing- wtock traid of cight cars this worning, ran to the Chicago aud Northwestorn train, King a bad ' wreck, killing fireman Frod hillips and badly injaring Geo, Bonjamin, tha engineer, ot rance und ¢ Pawm, November 20,—Tns Telegraphe ways: ‘Cho obinet huy obtained cortain Knowledgn that China intends to continuo the war aud 15,000 relaforcomentf will bo sent to China. " SRR gor from Gordon, A Mesee Loxnoy, November 29.—The messenger from Gencral Gordon arrived hore, biinging dispatches eight weeks old, After loavin, IKhartoum the messenger was captured and detained some time at Shendy, AlMonso's Dander Up, Mavin, November 20,—The government threatened to suspend the town council and soveral of the Learned societies for passing & of converts, Inn village near tho Rhonue the | vote of sympathy with the university studeats, Many sub-mayors of the city resigued, e — rrotection in France, Paus, November 20.—At & ctlslnet council to-day it wos decided to mabg the pra[)uod ance unon and # | increns of duty on forelgn grain two fr per contoe OYSPEPSIA ‘uauses its victims to be miserable, hopeless, confused, and depressed in mind, very frrita- ble, languid, and drowsy. It is a disease which does not get well of itself, It requires carcful, persistent attention, and a remedy to throw off the causes and tone up the diges- tive organs till they perform their dutles willingly, Hood's Sarsaparilla has proven Just the required remedy in hundreds of cases, 1 have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla for dys- epsia, from which 1 have suflered two years. 1 tried many other medicines, but none proved s satisfuctory as Hood's Sarsaparilla.’ Tuomas Coos, Brush Electric Light Co., New York City. Sick Headache “For the past two years I have been affticted with severe headaches and dyspep- sia. 1 was induced to try Hood's Barsapa- riila, and have found great relief, Icheer- fully recommend it to all”’ Mns, E ¥ ANNABLE, Now Haven, Conn, G ache, Bhe took Hood's Sarsaparilla and ton to request Presidont Arthur's presence at | gound it the best remedy she ever used. the perfu 3 en, —A slight shock 108DON, Novew ber yeaterday, Hood's : Sarsaparilla Sold by wll droggists, $1; six for 85 Made of ¢ 0, Lowell, Mass. Son & carthauaks was felt st Rote and Masselles | £017 V¥ O L HOOD & CO, Lawe { 100 °Doses | One Dollar.,