Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1884, Page 1

(] THE OMAHA OMAHA, NEK, WEDNE FOURTEENTH Y1 LAR. DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1834, 0. 161. t the bucket shops. M Milne _ having made & determine personal fight as "chairman of the commitieo on quotations against permittiog the bucket shops to have quotations. Itis stated when he began the war there were over 5,000 of these institutions in existence. It was neces- sary to accompli<h this to throw over the con- tracts with the telegraph companies, and to eject from the floor of changa all market re. porters in the employ of the telegraph ccm- anies and to employ revorters who should Re attaches of the board of trade itself. The fight grew bitter and practieally embraced ev. ery large city in the union, All the boards of trade in the country joined the crusade except the Detroit board of trade, The charge bas now hasen made against Mr, Milog that he been furnishing the fim of Lamphere & Co., at Deiroit, with the (notations and the alle gation js alko made that Lamphere & Co. i n bucket-+hop concern, Mr, Milne acknow! edges having transacted business with Lam- here & Co., but_contends that that firm has on doing & legitimate businsss. Mr, Milna desires to have the matier mvestigated, and th's is now being done. It is elaimed that thess allegationsagainst Milne have emianated largely from the allies of the bucket sbiups in retaliation, ’ e —e NEW YOKK NEWS, IMPORTED HORSES, New York, December 30.—~The steamship Lake Huron arrived this morning from Liver- pool, and had on board forty-eight horses, among which were thirty stallions and seven. teen marne, intended for breeding purposes, all bound for Ili ALLEGED FRAUD AND CORRUPTION. ‘When the board of aldermen mat to.day an injunction was served on them restraining the board from confirxing any nominations from Mayor Edson for the position of commissioner of pub'ic works and corporation counsel. The injunction was issued by Judge Beach at the instance of Theodors Rosavelt aud others on the ground of alleged fraud and corruption. * GEOKGE 1SENG HAS BESIGNED from the East Tennessoe, Virginia & Georgia directory. coinage in both silyer and gold. he will oppose the Buekner bill and favor the Speclations Conceining the Rabilca: oSty ion: Becpioor oMo seet¥ ' P Barthqnake in Spain Stll Coa- mn 0[ me Val'l(ms 'l'l'l:aliel. the commandants of the navy yarde: Dis. charge all employees who have hitherto been tinnes. RAVY TARD EMPLOYES DISCHARGED. paid under tha six months appropriation act, except those required to prevent the destruc: i f ty and loss of life and all such Numerous Navy Yard Employees | must wirk without agreement for compens . tio to be at Once Discharged: prumivc uevesce srmamnnaxpusw sonssox WAsHINGTON, December 30 —Tlhe con'rac g Ahe ove mer, Andrew Hitmaile iy o'y teded 0| The French Oapture two Guna [ \ fand Kill 300 Chinesa. bid 817, All the exesutive departments The Chinese Suffer a Defeat at Tuyan Qaan, Decembar Cotton Report of the Department of Aerioulvare: will b closed at noon to-morrow until Friday. THOU ART ONGER SERVANT OF MINK. This mor g the sccretary of war issued an 1 i orminmorming the sortary of ¥%.- i . | Betrothal of Princesa Beatrioe to Prince Henry of Battenbure, The Motion of the Oentral Pa- oifle Dinied city, be no longer recognized as attorneys in rosecution of an; i or other matter 2 o the war nl'-wimfi--nt ov any of its bu- And the Protest of David Mo-|™™ SRR Hi teli has returned to’the war department_the Niel in the Pace Patent. .-n“nm:';,::famd aeainst Bergeant Otto Holt. north he having rified Lieutenant Greeley’s papers prefering not to _order & court martial Bland Favors the Free and Unlm-|githoughrequested to doso by the secretary | Gunpowder Explosionin Vienna—Miss ited Colnage of Gold of war, The chief signal oficer assigus as & Calawell's Muniticont Gift to ryagon for this course that the court ordered and Miiver, by him would be merely a garrlson court with Found a Oollege, power to inflict_no mora severo punithment thangraduction in rank and a short imprison- ment, The chirges against Holtnorth, if proven should be followed in the opinion of 3 GOSSIP ABOUT THE TRETIES, General Hazen by amore summary punish- Special telogram to Tur B meatthan such & court yould be able to im- WasHINGTGN, December 80,— Represeuta. | POSe Lord Derby to ba Lord President of the Council, WABHINGTON NEWS, FOREIGN NEWS, EARL DERBY PROMOTED, Loxnos, Decsmber $0.—The World says 1 Derby will soon resign his _office of soc-, e retary of state for the colonial department Hitt, of Illinois, formerly assistant secretary The Telephone Pafent Suits, m;d \,I, .].II'”}?‘M\ lord p“’i\ide"‘lo'l l‘mll un- f st ary of the | W agiNGTON, December 30.—The effect of [ ¢il: Lord Roecberry will probably be ap: sgation at Pacis, takes a lively interest in the] o doceion of the supreme court in the Hoe | Frited coloniul wecrtary, It Iy reported pending teeaties before the senate, He wik| putont case, (when it was held an appeal did ancil the asked to-day what he - thought would be the | 5ot 1o from the commissioner of patents to BETROTHAL OF THE PRINCESS BEATRICE fate of the Nicaragua treaty, and he replhied | the seorctary of ths interior) upon similar | to Prince Henry of Battanberg. that the question of ratification would be de- | gages patsed upon by the seeretary, and now {KILL 300 CHINESE PIRAT cided by party views rather than upon its|yuing tested on a mwotion pending befora the General Briere de merits, This fact 18 already apparent to all. 9 been fighting the een Victorin ha " issione atents, In Februwy last telegraphs he ha THE BONDHOLDERS NN TARAY U PSRN L hbr Halfavarts | Commissloriee of: paten S e neat Hong Yon for soveral” days 5 York, BusqUekAEiatd Weatern treaty is all right in principle, but they do not Sl 2% killed 300 and captured two guns. he 04 11l be nal Bht s Bettere 1t would b dvisably feom & party |sioner in the patent telephone interference | Fyenoh troops are.in. excellent: health and it e m".l.‘:"ufi.‘éf,‘.‘,,'.}',',,fcf,‘,}\t“,':;“'; point of view to vote for its ratification now. | case of Blake vs. Drawbanzh v iri Edison, and [ spirits. They like the treaty, but are not pleated that | rostored Edison to his position in in MaDRID, December 30,—Fresh details re- it was made by a republican adminis from which he had becn aisply its closing hours, and for pmely political rea| commis-ioner, baugh's counsel now as. | ceived from distriots in which tho eatthquake sons ill o agalnst. its serts that the secretary’s decision iu the case |shock was severest add new horror to the fl that the was nullified by the ducision of the court and [ calamity. At Nerja town 5,000 people were January f “The bonds amount to two « half million, bearing six per cent intere THE PENNA OOAL JCOMPANY., ircular to its customers announcing the prices afte first. It shows a re- Edizon_is barred from interference in the | kijlad. In the ;. f Mal duction of fi: mt: ton on stove from the i 1 int b province of Malaga the earth- | & AT LT 5 Hro ‘_rm:nuhngl. Roscoe Cenkling, representing quako was followed by o hurricane. This fin prev es, the average reduction from dison, to-day made an argument before the X = d th ey Tekiog the ground_that fhe |ished the destruction. Many houwes siready Have n tendenoy to solidify the republicans in | sscrevry was dofacko judge at the timd and so | AYe been brought from ruin. = Tubabitauts jta favor, althoogh there aro several who are | the practice required ‘that the commiesioner [ {1o 1t 5ror, from Ahele housse butside oF ot inclined £0 vote for the “honld support his decision, The counsel for i ar is 25 cents per ton, the 1 in the Julo clreular in man- uiers sizes is forty cents. TWO COLLISIONS OCCURED ] f g soarcity of provisions, Alarm in Malags, but | early this morning on the elevated railroad, w"\_""" 3_"“ e dr'" o the "t‘,l“"""‘ McDonough filed with the P'.'““‘;’"‘? not| i now subsiding. Affairs soon will resume | They wer: aue to u fog, they were iattended et el of the government. There is . strong lobb n backed by the Louisiana delegati sligtly injured. Bell vs. McDonough va, Froy vs. Edson. The FURTHER [PARTICULARS FROM ITS RAVAGES IN to secure the defeat of th board rejected McDonough’s application on KPAIN, which fsnow pending in tho liuse, tho grounds that bis dovice wa n-operativo: | Mapumn, Docomber 30.—At Granada to ifiecd the treaty, but the hou s to ssion to_ sho d to pass the Bl ear ving the tariff pro- g;'t‘,‘!;je“?:w:n:’:mnt“:erl’el:;n hizh'abe of prag- | 48y the Teux Deum was sung and prayers vision regarding the free admission of sogar | tical utility. were offered for the cessation of the earth- fnto effest, The Louistanadelegation is working ——— quake. At Priego, in the province of Cor- to defeat this bill on the ground that its passage New M \odle 3 o 3 7 wonld strengthen the Spanish-American trouty ConzrcssmnnvMorrlmn After the duvu,,hod_\ came while th-_the.\t York Herald, crowded with people. A terrible iey hava been to all the s whose constitnents are 8¢, T.ovis, December 30.—Congressmen | lowed, Maoy persons jumped from the gal- ing of sorglum, and have | \orgon, of Titiuols, furnishes tho Associated | lerics and from the windowa upon the grouud alleging that the free admiesion of Mexican | press with the following self-exp'anatory dis- | below. Two were killed outright, forty were sugar will_hurt the sorghum in i8 | jatch which he sent to the editor of the New [ more or less wounded. At Malaga two lofty understond that this argument has o| Fork Horald this moraiog: E chimneys of the gay works fell. Patients in effect and that tha western 1bers but on 7 7 f A 3 vere s 8 oy bave bena won over by the Tiouisiana dele Dear Sir: —In a dispatch printed to-day I | the ""j“‘}l\";l‘i“_;‘l:"““‘;h‘,;"l'“‘un';,h‘;;'n"' tion, It is evident there will be a detsrmiaed | find your Washington cosreepondent quoted t Y s y victs Sn the priso- s refused to enter their cells fight whea the bill comes up for action. on " | ug conding, among other misstatements, tho | 111a s ail night ia the court yurd. fi ount of its supposed influence if passed % ; the Sy h treaty, but s ollowing on the subject of the reciprocu [ALHAMA AND SANTA CRUZ ARE COMPLI [DESTROYED, ioon “ara’ that the'! Il will go|trention The fach the, ingenuity of the Wigh, The committeo having in charge | president to permanently 3 e s o award the ¢ mtract for the printing and | tariff onsugar and compalling the revenus to o : . ALOIDC I e ctes W1 umbers, Many of them horribly disfigured. Viag ol some. oventy thoasand. . Tha | come from competiog foreign mumifuctarers, | Aumbers, Muny of thom horsibly disfigured oo Y el eckaalli lain to Mr. Morrison, that he said to | Lpe number of per.ony killed are unknown, o e otk ot oot - B0 Lill carrging [ There 1t much, st Ga dmong Ui ey, vora bis thay could not do under the law, ot {kuch speci effect shoald aver G L A le B0 pemany Tiitod o the government work, he | be repoeted from the committee, for he would | Were injured. From the ruiued houses 100 B e e o S7orik, | nevee allow such a bill to be considerad while | odies have so far becn recovered. The bar- e A gy tickets, | be was chairman of the ways and means | F7KS at Laja, in the proviace of Granada, are e e At oketes | commttee. - T do sometimen join in the care- | Fuined: At Zalfara town not far from R AOYSIR RCORAT A Joss talk which occurs with “correspondents | 245, fifty persons perished. # % 2 and other gentlemen about the committoa HE CHIN D EFEATED AT TUYEN QUAN LE DICRUBET COTRON IRFORT. ) oo when the ‘committeo s ot in sesson, | Pans, Decamber 0. Offcial advices from ASHINGTON, Decombér 30.—The Decom- | but I liave said no wore on this subjcet than | Tonquin report the French mado. an adsance cotton repirt of the department of agri- [that legislation to carry into effect thoss | from Tuyen Quan and et tha Ohiness forecs ra indicates n mmallar yield thao the ra- | treatics would not b3 raportad by the com- | engaged and deferted then: with severa lo s of the condition in October. The Octo- | mittes with my consent or vote, as ths treaty |lhe French loss was trifling. La Libarte :::nixz:LT't' x;zuln;rtld e Iil:n {h“ ,dri‘:‘linn \\|;:h‘g\ylncx|:;» ?:dol'lrmtu already reported with- Aays |:,. Marseilles ship owners are asked to seson of 1881, Returna of the condi- | Respectfugfy your o i, Sopurtation of(the PIEUNY foas o shous pg’,,‘};,,i,'{,',,“‘:d?e"‘(,':f{. Chicaco, December 30,—Tho Northwestsrn | Toxnos, December 30,—A. dispateh from come of the middle and top have mads the [ Traveling Mon's assosiation began its annual | Rome says the of Miss Caldwell, of Vir- Dacombor raturas unuwally conervativo but | session here this orving, Secrotay's repart | ginin, to give $100000 to fund n Oatholio it i certain that the rate of vield will ha much | shawed that $172,000 had been collected for | university at New York similar to the college bolow the averizo death loses ducing thotyear,L10.000had been | of the prodaganda at Tome, s boen WasitNGTos, Docember 80.—The Decem- | paid for beneficlarios, $26,000 for other ex- | submitted to the pope, who intends to confer ber returns of the cotton erop indicate the | ponses, loaviog 819,000 o hand. The elec. | signal mark of distincticn upon the lady, tatal production to be 5,080,000 bales, tion of officers resulted s follows: president, AN EXPLOSION SR BECRETAWY OF THE 1xTEmoR pENtEp | James O. Millers vice presidents, Thomas H X amn Shaughnssy, Chi J. 3. Gilmore, P! the Cantral Pasiflo Rallway company,for | ool Fraxle W. 8 . o reviow of the decision in the. case of Harry | enolls, Minne arson vy the company, The motion waa | Sy b U: Sties, B based on the claim that At the time the com ) 1 ——— JUDGE LYNCH IN IOWA, HIGH HAND OUTRAGE AT BLAKESBURG, 10WA, Drs Moixks, Towa, Decomber 30 — Yester- day afternoon Pleas Anderson was caught near Blakesburg, Wapello county, by a gang of men, taken to a school house r ar by and a mock trial held, in which he wag ‘convicted of the murder of Charles McAllist i on Novem- ber 6th, 1852, Masked men then appeared and took him to a tree ncar the scene of the murder and huog him, Anderson had stood trial for the murder before and been acquited, It is not known who the masked men were, e —— Logan in the Lead, Cuicaco, December 80.—The “%i>une has made a canvas of thetiemyBrs of *the™ fiwvli legislature oun the senatorial question and finds that the republicans for firstchoice etand 160 for Logan, 2 for Farwell; for second choice, Farwell 12, Hamilton 9, J. B, Hawley 2, Oglesby 1, Oaly 24 signify a second cnoice. T'he democrats for tinal choice stand Harrison 29, Black 25, Morrison 24, Palmer 11, Allen 9, Marsh 8, unknown 1 —— The “John Romex” Goes Down in Six- teen Keet of Water, Nopvork, Va , December 30—The steamer ‘‘Jobn Romer” running m connection with Cheaspeake & Ohio railroad while leaving here this morning for Newport, Nows}came in collision with a Mud Scow about a mils be- Jow this city and was so badily damaged that it barely had time to bebeached at Atlantic City flats whece she now lies in fifteen feet of water, She had forty passengers and bag page. A dense fog provailed e m— Insanity’s Victime, PorrLaND, Oregon, December 30,—Last night near Chehallis, W yoming territory, Wm, Pearson, a strong believer in spiritualism, im- agined he received an order from higher pow- er to kill his infant child. This he did with a hammer, He then informed his wife that he would cut his throat if nis wife would do the e. Both found t. 's morning half froz- 5 en, their throats cuv, but not dead, Both will probably die. LY Wit R. MORRISON, OF GUNPOWDI : 30, —An explosion of gun: powder o.curred to-day in a gunsmith’s xhop t up, Bohemia, destroying three houses, killing three persons and injuring many. e e— — New York Guotton Exports. NEW YoB, December 30,-Dry goods— secretary board of directors B pavy’s Rrant was attached, the pre-emption | 1F ¥ orears H- & Lastopson, (1 - A Qanyiote:Now X onp'e[GILt: The exports of domestic cobtons the past week vight had _expired, and hence did ot except | Ttiod: for oo yoar, W B Mol A obonte, | Soecial telegram to Tia Bk, 2,570 fpackages, making a total for the the land feom the geant. The secretary held | (U500 TE ¥OAs o0 o DN, & Cotimlt | Dis Moixks, Decomber $0.—Finis Allen, | year "of 182,620 packages o4 that adwitting the expieation of the pro:elit- | jilway fares for mombors of the e now serving a life sentence in the Fort Mad. | Duckages last year, and 161,220 packages in Tt i et g . mattle | A1 o Tesolution was adopted ~stigm: ison penitontiary, was pardoned by tho gove | ooy e 18 ¥ ¥ od npon his scttle- ment, which was o valid claim ageinst the Unitsd States that, under the law, could only bo forfeited in. favor of sone subiequent; pir- o markes bas beea quiet in all t' ydepartments, but of cotton goods moderave forwardings contmus to be of daily report, e — Springficld Shippers and Kailroad Officials in Session, Serixarren, 1lls, December 30, After a long session last night between the Springfield shippers aind railroad ropresentatives the for- mer agreed to withdraw their complaints of discrimination beforo the railroad and ware- house board, the railrosd agreeing to equalize ratos as noarly a8 possiblo as between Spring- field and other competitive points in Illinois, an imposition the action of certain roads in discontinuiog the s, The nexd me a year hence, o uartain pond 10 | ruor to-day, Neither Allen nor his friends 1% will geenr in Chicago | Kuow of the fact as yet, The governor has v, and which in_contemplation of the e e S :"‘“‘: ‘.'"""',":';'" by "“'Xf‘;"“"’?;;fi“""‘f.‘;"‘]‘ ing (A R e i ul raview of the ¢ ' will be franting act, wcopted that tract from 0| ype Mahoning Valley trou Workers, | of the pardon on Nov: ¥ barn day, Tho sup: B L 5 ; Prrrspura, December 30,—The Chronicle~ | posed muider was committed ‘in Fremont IN THE MATTEN OF TILE VKOTEST OF DAVIRY 0l Youngatdwn, Obio, special says: | COUNEY scveral yemrs ago, and the conviotion \ S| AT CRERRENANE) 8 N P of Allen was purely upon citcumstantial nst the fssuc of o patent o J. A, Pace, e Mahoning Vally iron manufucturcrs | dence, and has sirce been pretty conclusively the claimants for the G, M, Favorite | have had o conferencs and resolved to make a | brushed away. The dead body of the man ¢ eadyille, Colorado, 1o | yoduction of 10 per cent in the wages of all | Was found in the stsll of a vicious horse, the the employes cxcapt the members of the |skull fractured and pretty badly tramped amalyamated association, to take effect on the | UPon. ~ Allen stayed at the dead man's house, 12th of January, Several taousand will be | 8nd though a young man of cighteen yeare, Slaota Ly e e was charged with intimacy with the~ dead man’s wifo, Upon this slender thread the prosocution ung his care and wueccaded in 5 5 convicting him, The legislature had the 30,, 6 & ‘m.—Report has | purdon up for consideration last winter, Int ench trabsports with | refused to pass fav diemissing tha pr tostants asserted that the cl fuited through the fadlure of the claimants to expend ot least S100 wpon ita. improveiaent, and therenpon the protestants relocated the = P PR, e S e e v French took possession of the eluim in violution of the | PABIS, Decembe: law which forbids such relocations unlegal | reached Parls that holidaye. Ho o fisds thit ahe laiwants | troops from Toulon hayo been sunkc by 3 Chi- ind worked on the Continantal claim, which | neao cruiser between Singapora and Saigon. v : o Ele AT s T T YR : | Thaor fs groat excitoment i Miuistoy Maire, | OPiC880 Board of Trade Klection, developments of ot cluis, wo inquiries from all directions and there is much | The annual election of officer the Chic this kiod on the Conti yental he holds was | anxiety, ago board of trade will occowr January fiy wark on the Favorite, and therefore lie affirms i TR s the dismissal of the pretest. Went Over the L'alls. This altorgoon a coucus was held on tho_floos Decombor 0. —The house| Niaoams Faits, Ont, Decembor 30, A |0 ¢ ¢Xcliango at which B, Nelon Blake L i A0ARS TaLLy, Ont Deceber 804 | oy pominated for president aud J, H, Milno ckner’s bill 15 stop th Chippewa, while crossing the river from Chip- { f0r sccond viee president. Another ticket 5 shortly aftee th pewa to Post Day, about one mile above the | will be nowminated to-morrow. The approach sembliog of covgeess. Blaud, the chuirman | talls, lost control of his boat and was drawn , ing election, it is expected will reflee the of the committee, who was detained at home | into the rapids, where he upsat and was car- | opinion of the majority of the members of the by illness, hus rebymed to tha city, He suys | ried over the falls, | board respecting the fumishiog of qu o ————— More From the 18th Ward. Cuicaco, December 30 --The Daily News this morning printe a fac-similio of the forced tally shoet of the Eighteenth ward and elec tion returns, tozether with numerous fuc-sim- ilies of William Gallagher's Land writing and the charge ir mado thats prima face caso against the accused by this showing alore will require strong evidencs to sliake the con- chusion of his guiit. e uite Rock,? 81. Louts, December Littlo Rtock spe- clal 0 the Post Dispatch.—The raincontinues to fall and disastrous washouts aro ou all the ronds, 1t In reported that great dew:age done to property. No trains rewched tho atious ' sivee Sunday Smoking Tobacco. as indispensible licited recommendati ns on hehalf of owndic ¥ dton for appointment. Yoirs ve | [Signed. | Groven CLEY MR, BENNE(T'S NEW IDEA, Governor Cleveland’s Views o0 Civil| e weers mun rvrsise reveanam Service Reform, Riw Yok, Docombir B5,0s, ' Tithes —— Gordon Bentett's paper, the Eveniog Tele Bounett Makes the Evening Tol- | & the lending mormivsg datie have <.t egram a Penny Paper. wdvertitements announcing the fact, What AS A Mr, Bennett means nobody seems know, It may b surmised that be hopes to swallow Ooneressman Morrison After the |up the News, which is really the only profit Now York Herald gplo penny paper here. It was rupposed the Teleg mm was already making a good deal of AR AL S L monuy. 1t is ssid to. have cleared 870,000 last yoar, This year it has not done o well, 5 Ttisnot probable that the cbavgain price Sam Randall's Recoption at|will beof ultiute advantage, for the News 1y by M Polk bas a distinet and well exts ed constitu- ency. Nashville by Mrs, Polk, Mr. Bennett has been indulging In all sorts of whima recently, The lowering of the price M N of the Telegram is one of them, He ran it for The Business Part of Hopkins=|a week not long ago without a line of editori- § f al. Ha neemed to beactually playing a reck- ville, Ky,, in Ashes, lfiln game with both the T'elegran and the lerald, He will arnve here from Europe in a fow A Oonvicts New Years Gifo—The|dTs sudiis s guistly ‘Whiiperod about that RN —The | 1o ia going to do all sorts of things when he Flood at Little Rock—Judge |gets here, In view of the unoer the future the foros of both pape Lynch in low unsettled, Sam Randall's Reception at Nashville, MR. OLEVEGAND'S VIEWS ON CIV- | Nasuvu December d 1L SERVICE REFO1M, purty arrived here this morning at 8 o'clock. Niw Yonk, December 29.—The foliowing | When Mr. Randall alighted from th interesting correspondence has taken place | General W. H. Jackeon, brother of Senator botween the exccutive committes of the na- | Howell B. Jackson, stepped forward and on tional civil service reform league and Goy- | bebalf of the reception committer e “Mr, ernor Oleveland: Randall, it affords me great pleasure to wel NATIONAL CrviL SEnvice Rerony LrAcos, 1 | €0me you to the state of Tennesseo and OrFice, 4 Pine St., New York, Dec, %0, § |to its beautiful city. We are proud to To the Hon. Grover Cleveland: welcome so distinguished a citizen of the great Sir:—We have the honor to address you in | state of Pennsvlvania as yourself, not. alone behalf of the National Civil Servico Retorm | Tor,\EA% 340 e done, but alko for the part leaguc, an association composed of citizens of [ ing that which they ought not to_have done. all parties, whose sole purpose i< indicated by | I bid you we come to the state of Tenness il o e 5 ‘ver | Mr. Kandall said: “‘Sir, it gives me great its nume, and which takes no part whatever | 50 Tyoere, X Know bitt oo conntry in party controversy, The vast increaseof | and one brotberhood. ~ T am proud the number of persons engaged in the civil | to be with you.” Mayor Phelps then welcom service, and grave mischiefs and® davgers | €l Mr. Randall and tendered him the freedom . sy of the city. The members of the ¢ mmittee arising from the gencral proscription in the | a.companied by Mr. Randall and party oo which for half a century bas followed | tered carringes and were conveyed to the iz of party in control of tiie pat Maxwell house whero breakfast was served. administration have produced so profound an | After breakfast Mr. Randall met a delogs impression upon the public mind, that the first | of citizous from Huatsville, Ala.,Judge Rich- effective steps toward reform were taken with | ard<on on the part of tha delegation and the the co-cperation of parties on the paseage of the [ people of ~ Hunteville invited Mr, reform act of January 16, 1838, The abuses | Randul to extend his trip to Huntsvi o, which that act seeks to correct, however, are | Mr. Randall replied that he would be glad to 50 strongly entrenched in the traditions and | do <o, but as his time was limited he would be usenges of both parties that there is naturally | forced to e ¢ said, however, he would a widespread anxiety to test the party. The | visit the New Orleans exposition some time change in _the national excentive effected by | within the next two months, and he would the lata election should show them to beinsep- | then make it a point to visit Hunts- arable, but believing a8 we do. that there-|ville, The party then ¢ d carriages form rystem can not be beld to be securely | and ‘drove to the residence of Mrs, Polk, established until it has eafcly passed the orde:l 1 and entertained royal: of such party change, and rezalled with satis- . Geo, W, Fall did the hon- faction and confideace your public expression | ory of _the occasion and made the menting of avorably to reform and your official acts as | Mrs, Polk and Mr, Randall a memorable one. chiof executive of the stats of New York, we | Mr. Polk is most remarkablo for her phys- confideutly commend this caute to your|ical strength and endurance cocsidering her patriotic care in the exercise of the great|advanced age. Shereceived her guest stand- power with which the American people have|ing and “seemed but little fatigued entrusted you, tespectfully yoora, through the tediousnessof manyintroductions, GroRcE WiLLtAM CURTIS, President. Mr. Kandsll, upon beiog introduced, taid . WiLiax Porrs, Beoretory, | that it afforded Mra, Randall and himself Johu Joy, J. Earl Pleasanis, W, W, Mont- | groater pleasure than was otherwise possible gowery, Everett P. Wheeler, ¥red. Cromwell, | to thus mect face to faca tha widow of the fi[o‘:r' ev‘}fiymnb ir., Cg'l thu%cv lezu& ill«t;i;guinlu-d statesman-patriot and well-bs- urt, William Carey Sawyer, m oved. .. . president James . Keo Boll, “Aikioh ud Winfield Nboor, exdbutive oommite | M Btk e that Beovhalle equally a pleasure _to have the priviloze of tee. CLEVELAND'S REPLT. knowing tne of the foremost men of the times To this letter Gov. Cleveland replied as |and worthy suc or of her own lamented follows: husband, further conversation Mr. Hon, Geo. William Curtie, president, etc : | Randall and par'y Jeft the mansion and noted ALANY, N. Y. December 25— DgAr Siw: | inscriptions ou the dead pre:ident’s tomb, took Your communication dated December 20, ad. [ carriages and were driven to the Tennessee dressed to me in behalf of the national civil [ cotton mills and other places of inte est about service reform leagus has been received, That | the i Mr. Raadall dined at inties of 8 greatly he was re practical reform in the civil service isde:nand- | the residence of Col. D. ed is established by the fact that the etatute [ Colyar at four p. m, At night Mr. Randali referred to in your communication to secure | fpoke to the largest audience ever guch resalt has been passed in congress with |in Grand opera house, which was_pa the assent of both political parties, and by | the walls on every floor, the galleries, par- the further fact that a sentiment is generally [ quette and dress circles, with a Jarge number prevalent among patriotic people calling for a | on the etage. Many were unable to got fair and honest enforcenent of the law which | etanding room within the building, s thus been enscted. "1 regard myuelt ledged to this because my conception of true| PIRE e Semooratio faith and public duty reqaires that| T 5 AT HOPKINSVILLE, KY, this and all other statutes should by enforced | THE b 1) PARTL O AHE (CITYSDRTROTED, in good faith and b@cn\llie in many| LouisviLie, Ky., December 30,—The Hop- utterances made prior to my election as presi- | kinsville, Ky., special so the Cou Journal dent, approved by the pa ty to which I be- [ 2 3 ; ; g omiz, and which | bavo 1o disporition to dia. | %Y Aten carly hour this morning . fire claim, T havein effect promised the people | originated in the back room of B, F. Scheor- }hi'.b tlx;~ wlouhl be ‘Linm ITam mifi ‘tmmi“d feld’s dry goods store, on Main streot, between ul to the fact to which you refer, that many Y g and sova - of our citizeos fesr that the recent party | Criase and Spring, and seven stores on Main Cliange in the national cxecutive may da.| street, and & hotel building on Bridge street, monstrate hat abuses which havo grown up f were nraed beforo the_firo was gotten under in the civil scrvice are ineracicable, I know | control, Fight stores in the block on Mai they aro decply rooted, and that the spuils | g hard work on iy cl‘r‘x':};;lllu.(xhliy‘){"' \K'f-lll.'- eystem has been supposed to be intimately re- | Yod, | Tn . the xear the arisge lated to suceess in the maintenance ot party | factory of McCorney, Bontea & Co. .L.u’ ergonization, and 1 sm not sure that all thot¢ | Spring straet was saved. These were the only who p ofcs to be friends of this reform willf buildings left of one of the best blocks in the etand finuly among its advocates when they | gity. Tt embraced the main part of the ci find it obstructing their way to patronago and ( 80 burned two. eams. mon e, e S place; but fully uppreciating the tiust com- | ytores were handiome new buildings. ~The mitted to my charge, no such consideration | canse of the fire is not known., 'The fire shall cauee a relaxation onmy part of the | depurtment worked nobly and saved five new earnest effort to enforea this law, Thera is o | three-story buildingsof Garnet & Williams', olass of povernment scrvants which ate | geross Spring street, by the jhardest kind of not within the letter of the civil service stat- | warl, - 'ho stacks jeonardized were yamd o6 ute, but which are so disconnected with the | £109000 and one-half was saved The losse, policy of an admini tration that removal | 2ro 50,000 on stock, fully oovered, e total therafrom of the prosent incumbents, in. my ot up. a little oper 875,000, &1 opinion, should not be. miade duringe the torm | cyered sxvont abont 1,000 o (e bani] for which they were appointed solely on parti | William Cowan was struck on the head and sun grounds and for the purpose of ‘pntting in | hadly wounded by the falling of « skylight their places those who are in political accord | while ‘xaving the goods. Several Doreons with “the appointing power, but caped being caught by Uie falling bolding such positions b fi ; s will be taken to rebuild some heli places for party purposes in disgard of ebikhointores oy poouas ioRaible: their duty to the p. nd because instead s servants they have Train Wrockers, proved themselyes offensive partisans and un-| ALEXANDRIA, December 30.—An attempt serupulous nnipulators of Jocal party man- | was made last night to wreck the north bound agement, passenger train on the Virgiuia & Midland The lessons of the past should be unlearned, i i 3 e R T () railway, about thirty miles north of Danville should bs taught that efficiency, fitness and A heavy piece of timber was forced in the dsvotion to public duty are the conditions of [ ground hatween the ties at a cattle-guard, the their continuanca inpublic place and that the | end projecting about three feet from the bed quiet and unobtrusive exercise of individual [ of and in the center of the track, The weight political rights is the reasonable measure of [ of the engine and the speed at which the their party xervice. 1f T were addreesing none | teain was ranning were all that prevented a but party friends I should deem it cotirety | disaster, proper to emind them that thouzh the com- - g administration i to be democratic o due I Ve reage. reiard. for the pooples nterost docanot per. | o, IHINOIS Whoat Acreage, wit faithful party work to be always reward: 110460, December 80,—A Journal Spring. ed by appointment to office, and to eay to | field, Iinolk, special saysthe forthcoming re- them that while democrats may expect all | port of the Illnois department of agriculture proper consideration in sclectiond for offica not | ehows that the arca of the growing crop of cmoraced withia civil seevice rules it will be | winter wheat in 1linois is 2,517,000 acres. or Lased up 1 sufficicot inquiry as to fitness in ase of 40,000 acres from’ the previous stituted by those chargea with that duty ruth- | wseding, The condition of th growing crop 1« cr than upon pereistent lnportunity or seli-so- fair, 5 F sembled ked to iited all just | Walle: Nt they b - aieen teverywhere, Because every- =sfenc2 fo Reafer Q\OZ Gondumer, Lia, and stote b sewe THE MARKETS. Th Gemeral Markel vas Famv Active aud Prices nachanged. Too Many Common Cattle On the Market Which Made That Part of it Rather Indifferent. Wheat Advanced 1-4¢ Over Yesterday’s Prices. Corn Steady and Ath Soant Attenti| ed Only AR\ qu Oats Iuactive—Rye Dull < ‘ovistons Improving—Pork an = ard Higher, OHICAGO MARK) % OATTLE, ' Special Telegram to THE Bk, Onivaco, Decenibor 80.—The general miar ket was fairly active and prices unchanged. There were only & few loads of really prime cattle on sale, The trains were delayed, and the supply at no time looked large, then again shippers were anxious to get all their orders in and their stock shipped tomorrow, as no stock will be taken on New Year's day. Com- mon and medium steers furnished about the bulk of the supply both to-day and yesterday, and may be quoted strong at 16@20¢ lower as compared with the highest prices of last woek, There were too many of this sort for the may- ket Butchers’ stock was again rather slow | and prices remnin weak at the decline noted yesterdsy. This class of stock, especially common cows snd such, may be quoted 250 lower per 100 1‘1\». as compared witn the hieh- est of lnst week, Stockers’ and feeders’ trade aleo dull th Good to choie &5 00@H 60; cows, good, $3 00@3 80; bulls, $2 40 #1 00@G 90; stockers, £3 00@3 $1 00@4 30, 3 50; calven, foeders, HOGS, "L hera was only a fair demand at sny during the forenoon and toward noon was rather dull, prices remained firm and in thie afternoon an advance of be per hundred. Packing and shipping, 240 to 380 1bs,, $4 20@ 4 353 light, 160 to 210 The., £1 00@4 2D, TThe lending articles on 'Change to diy were active and iregularly higher, An early Cause of the stroogth was that the visible supply statement, which was a great surprise all around, in that it showed a dec all through the whole list, whereas an increaso all the wa m 500,000 to 1,000,000 bushels had been ¢xtimated in wheat, PROVISIONS ero generally mot so strong yet ruuged higher than yesterday. WHEAT upened nearly higher than yesterday’s closing i uring the bulk of session there NENR B tending upwardvithin o, leads ing options, the improved muckel bringing out a lively trade, though.of a scalping coar- Scter, Toword the closs adyices came ih that tho New York exporters were reselling, which Droke off values o little, the close, bawover, was finm at a net gain for the day of abont Je. No.2 spring sold at 768c early, but toward the close was quoted at e was steady and attracted only slight aiten- tion with fluctuations within jc = A light buainess waa done all dsy by local talent, No. 2 cash sold from 35} to 3 Options closed steady at substantial early quotations, 0ATS steady but inclined to be inactive with mod- erate’ trading confined to the May option ich to-day ranged from 28§ to 20 closing at inside figures, Little or notning was done in any other options, 24 RYR contiue dull but held firmly ut slightly lig er figores, No, 2 cash sold at 02, Smine was asked for December and Juuu.ry while TFobruary rold earty at 53} but dropped to b3 Later track stuff ranged from 47 to b4 for N 3 to No, 2* PROVISIONS Oponed a little stronger for pork but fteady and. quist for lard and ribs, The groatest range was in_pork, which cqualed 10 conta, Character entered into the day’s trading. The heavy markets at the fyards depressed ly valucs, but o _eubsequent recovery more than made good the loss, Cash_stull was' pork $10 90; lard, $6 55; short ribg, $5 G0, Glose Iy viulnidu Drices, making ind, DYSPEPSIA Causes its vietims to be miserable, hopeless, contused, and depressed in mind, very irrita- Dle, languid, and drowsy. 1t 1s o discaso which docs not get well of itself, It requires careful, persistent attention, and a remedy to throw off the causes and tone up the diges- tive organs till they perform their dutles willingly. 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