Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. FUBLISHED EVERV MORNING. TERNA OF SUASCRITTION § Dajly Morniag Edition ) including uun day Brs, Ono Yoar . -8 * Month #o Months ... The Omaba Senday Tk, me address, One Yor.... S FOURTEESTH STRELT, minleations relnt torinl matter should be add TOK OF THE BES. BUSINESS LETTER: nees Iettors and romittances should ba Tie BEg PURL OMARA, 4, chocks and m 0 be waade payablo L0 the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAXY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, FEnrron, THE l\\” \' DEB. Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebra<ka, 1 County of Douglas, | Geo, B, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bes Publishing compaiy, docs kolemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the weck ending Dec. S1st, 185, was as follows: Saturday, Dec. Tyec e vy, Der, . Dee. & 8 nd sworn to hoefo A.D., 1857, N. P, Notarv Publie, %, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1« tary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual ay- erage daily circulation’ of the Dalty Bee for the month of Janunary, 186, was 10,578 coples, for February, 18 for March, 158, 3 1856, April, : for JII"(!‘ copl (lrl\m'llki 1886, l?M‘rlrn 1856, 13,050 coples: for coples: for November, 188, December, 18, 87 copies, 5 Gro. B, T25CIUCR. worn to and subseribed before me this 1st of January A. 1), 1857, (SEALL.) N. I’ Fran, Notary Publie. —————— Onamna elosed the r twelfth in the list of clearimg hous Little towns like Sioux City should take due notice and govern themselves aceordingly Aceg, the dodo from Hanulton county, failed in lis ambition. Agee’s career speaker of the sonate was the club which knocked him out of time in the house. T1ie Vanderbilts have contributed £2,000 to the Logan fund. They will probably double the amount in contrib- uting to the funds to defeat Warner Mil- Icrin New York Trir election of a senator will not take place ore the 18th inst. . The gentle- men who have ligured out the result to a dot are respectfully invited to ponder over this prediction, Rurar constituencies will be kept fully posted through the Bew concerning the votes of their representatives on vital issues. There will be no ehance for the skulkers to dodge behind the record. ¥ the Burl numu Iroad and control Nebraska legislation, the might as well be made clear first and Iast. Assoonasit is made known the people will prepare w apply the remedy. to dictate act LAND is likely soon to have another important federa) office to fill, Justice Woods, of the supreme courl, i not likely to resume his seat upon the beneh and his death may be looked for at any time. Ho was appointed in 1880 and hails from Georgia, but is a republi- can. Why would not Al G. Thurman make a worthy successor Tue attention of the mayor is called to our filthy alle; an unusual amount of malavial iliness in Omaha just atpresent and more diptheria and scarlet fover than there should be under ordinary conditions, The sunitary ordinances should be enforced promptly. A single epidemic of dis would be a costly nayment for oflicial carelessne. o tables prepared by the dmerican Grocerat appears that the wholesale cost of staple articles of food were, with one or two exceptions, lower than in 1885, Higher prices have ruled for some of the luxuries, such as coffee and canned goods, but as the advanco was made mostly dur- g the last quarter of the year, it has not, to any appreciable extent, intluenced the cost of living, Consumers never be- fore commanded a greater variety of food, and of sucha high quality, as in 1886, Wages are good, and the buyer ean get more for them to-day than at any pre- vious time in a generation, Certainly there is no eause for grievance so far as the food supply is concerned, Sugar has declined 1 cent per pound; rice, 1@1} conis; tea, 2@3 cents; butter has aged 4 11-10@2§ cents per pound highe cheese, 1} cents higher on medium and lower grades; oggs, 14 cents per dozen lower; pork, $1.50 per barrel low: 4 cont per pound lower. Flour has ave aged $14.43 per barrvel for straight winter whout, being the lowest average price on record, Wheat sold at an average of 1@2 cents per bushel above the cost for two preceding yoars. Canned goods vange from 10 to 20 per cent higher for most borts, Tue name of Robert Lincoln has not Leen prominently mentioned as a possi- ble eandidate for United States senator to succeed General Logan, and he ma, not desire the honor. But we are dis- posed to think if the selection of the re- publicans of the Illinols legislature should fall to him the country wonld ap- plaud the chol This not a matter of mere sentiment, or beenuse anybody re- gards Mr. Lincoln as likely to greatly distinguish himself as a statesman, if op- portunity afords, but rather for the rea- son that he is not a self-secking politi- eian and is probably quite as much in sympathy with the people, being some- what nearer to them, us any of the gen- tlemen who are known to be candidates for the ut senatorship. The port- folio of war secretary offers in this coun- try no opportunity for statesmanship, but we believe Mr. Lincoln performed its roatine duties satisfactorily. He is a good lawyer, a thorough republican, and a quict ntlewan, who would wear the senutorinl mantle with dignity and a due regurd for the obligations of the position. “There is no other man in Llivois whose selection as the successor of Logan would be so acceptable to men of all yarties, to work irretri e a' e The New Spoaker, A good etart bas been made by the lower house of the legislature in the election of an honest man for their ker. Honesty is always d t becomes a public nec tion where its absence c able disaster to the in- terests of the people of the state. Hon, N. V. Harlan, of York, who will preside over the bouse of representatives in the gislature, is an of braing, a of abilit lator of rnee. More than ho s a citizen of ungnestioned integrity, of fixed convictions and of sterling faith. Un his direction tho people of Nebraska can bo, red that there will be no oc sion when the lowest arts of the politi- cian ean clash with thoe interests of the stat Ho can neither be bought or bulldozed. Ile won otion through the respoct which lie awakened in fricnd and foe and comes to his oflice unhampered by pledges or pro which might ¢ ss in the future ti exereise of his own honest juagment. The efforts of 1 vilroad by to defeat Mr. Harlan's eloction beeanse he representod n ney which pledged him to General Van Wyck's can- didacy w fruitless. The brood of small 1 liticr wded by Dada perc lly fresh New- smer were shelved by o rousing major 7 in favor of the man from York., The organization of legisiaturo shows that the confod monopolies failed in their pla at the outset, Tt remaing to 8 coed any 1 ade const re 18 a0 to denounc oration abuses wae to be denounced as nred handed ter and a consciousless dema- gogue by the brass collared organs of tho monopoly. To-day the merciloss exae tions of the corporations for an inter commerce planks in both party platforms condemn.- ing the outrageons swindling and extor tions of corporate monopoly, and for a public uprising which has converted two- thirds of the press of the country to the side of the people. The attempts of control legislation through the election of a notori ous capper of Jay in the place of Senator Cockrell is awakening a storm of indignation in that state. In Ohio the combination of two gigantic monopolies to raise the price of coal by throwing all the miners of the Bocking valley out of work and restricting prodvetion has fanned the opposition to corporation methods into & flame of hatred. In Nebraska the action of the confederated monopolies in linking hands to throttle needed remedial election of a United States sens place of General Van Wyck will be no less powerful as o boowerang against their interests. In the end the people rule. Wealth and the corrupting touch of giant corporations may for a time obstruct the full expression of the popu- Iar will, but the 1evulsion is inevitable. Itis for the corporations to sce that it does not prove disastrous, In the words of the Springlield Republican, “the - roads o nply sowing the wind when they step outside their legitimate fune- tions and undertake to control legisla- tures, congress and the courts, or to force up staple prices. Already the socialists are pointing to them as the first place to secure stute control, and their corrup- tions and high-handed regulation of rates leads men who are not at all socialists to sympathize with the idea. 1f, by and by, the railroads reap the whirlwind it will be fruit from their own seed.” ate railronds to in Missouri the Penny Whistles and Van Wyck. While the penny whistles { democracy in Nebraska are piping a shrill tune of straight out demoeracy and -fire in-the-air in caucus, the leading demo- cratic newspapers throughout the coun- try arve giving serious and thoughtful consideration to the senatoriai contest in this state and the duty of the Nel democracy in connection with the - cral Van Wycek. Such spokesmen of the most intelligent party sentiment look upon tlie question from national standpoint, They set the ble public serviees of Charles I Van W vinst his fealty to republic clection upon the democ to the best interests of good iment. Recognizing the fact that the Nebr! legislature over- wir republican in both branches there 15 no chance for the election of democrat, these journals urge their party representatives in this state to combin with the Van W yek republicans in assur- ing the return to the senate of an honest and capable man in the person of the senior senator. The St. Louis Post-Di padeh has this to say on the subject: The opportunity to elect Van Wyck fs the (rst chance the Nebraska democrats have ¢ hiad of rendering the country a real ser- , and we hope they will not throw it away. Of the so-called dewmocrats In the senate there are few who have done moro than Van Wyck for the cause of the masses azainst the monovoly bosses, 1f thero i3 any democrat is Nebraska who has the will or ability to do more for that cause, he will cor- tainly advise the democrats that the eleetion of Van Wyek is obviously the surest and best thing in the cards for them. These are manly words, "They besped both common scuse and viotism. tic minority ns Bismarck's Grand Coup. The rumor 1 Russo-German aliimnee seems at last fully confirmed. Dispatches to the London Z%mes announce t terms of the treaty have been fully agreed upon and that De Giers and Bismarck have exchanged plodges as to its - ment. In return for a promise of neu- trality in case of a war between France and Germany, the German chancellor pledges the empire to keep 1ts hands off should war ensue between Rus and Austrla over the Balkan ques- tion. This is double stroke of diplomacy. It assures Germany aguainst French aggression on the east and destroys all hopes on the part of Austria that & beginning of operations against Russia in the spring would have at least the silent iu]n])ulxof her German neigh- bor. The effcet upon both nations has been most marked, France through her miuistry has declared that the policy of the republic is pacific. The leading journal in Vienna considers the situation so desperate that iv advises Austria to submit and to let Russia work its own sweet will in Southeastern Europe rather than to témpt the ezar to precipitate conflict now. Bismarck's master stroke seems to gs- | which certain senators deemed | to} sure at least for the present, the peace of Europe. Continental combinations must now change. England and Austria have virtually committed themselves against Russia and her allies, and Italy sides with them, so that in the event of war itis probable that ecither Austria, ( many and Italy will fight agair and France, or else that ce and Gor- many will change places in the respective coalitions, with Greece upon the side of against Turkey, A Bill That Oneht to Pase, Among the measures to which the tention of the United States senate will bo presently dirceted, the bill of Mr. Beck to prohibit members of congress from acting as attorneys for railroads is not the troduced late in ths last session and e countered considerable oppo very shallow grounds, failing in common with other of action measures desiranle e deferred. It was made a special r and shonld have come up at an arlicr dato in the present session, 8o th vith its necrued rights of precedence it innot much lof bo held back from consideration. It will undoubtedly mect the same speerons uments in tion that were offered when the first sussed, and if y way found to give it turther postponement that way will unquestionably be adopted. The course already pursued regar this measure, entirely proper in its char acte honest in its pur , has been it to convince the people that many senators, 1f not.tl ) r of that body, are involved in the service which the bill pronoses to deptive them of. Tho oppozition, however well masked behind plausible sophistrics, 1y judged by the public to have it i s for which the v have is as plain an somo opposis bill was can b ng ations of the paid liberally. 1t nowledgment s n senators are now in Is, and that they are unwilling to abandon this source of cmol ument and perhaps g ic 1- vantage. With respect to some of those who went on record in opposition to the coule mitigate the inevitable popular verdict uvon their self-convicting course, but it was of no aval. v can anything they or their apologists muy say heresfter re- move tius verdict if they maintain their attitude of hostility to ths bitl, They vindicate themselves only by revers their former action. The people believe that this bill ought to preval. They arve convined that a great deal ot consideration and favor which congr and more particularly its upper branch, for many ) 3 shown the railroad corporations of tho country, were due largely to the evil which the bili proposes to remove. ‘Tlhey believe it to be impossible to he proper consideration and the just pro- tection of their interests, when coming in conflict with tho mercen intorests of the corporations, so long as the latt their paid s s in the halls of ie tion. They be 3 evil h; come s0 seri ars of tolor: that it dem: lhl most heroie tr ment, No fway remedies, that gure onl tion of the ill ef the cancerous growth, will be aceentuble. It must be cut away root and branch LEvery vestige must e destroyed an. way closed against its reappear: Only in this way can popalar in the natiol 3 y im puired, be rostored. The bill in question promises this consummation, and for the honor of congress and the security of the people it ought to become a law Iron and St The bulletin of the American Iron and Steel association reviewing the iron and steel industries of the country for 18 furnishes a very gratifying exhibit of the \r yoar in these impor tant branches of the nation’s industry und commere There was awell-maintained aetivity throughout the year, andin every department the results were considerably in advance of the preceding year, toward the close of which the improvement had begun which was continued through t xyear, The production of pig iron, Bessemer steel and steel rails, ad open hearth steel, was wtor in 1856 than in any other year in the hitory these industrie The manufacture of steel rails reached the great total of 1,500,000 gross tons, over half a lmlm)n tons in ¢ of the preceding ye product, while other departments of steel manufacture show equally large gains Referring to the figures of iron and steel production, the bulletin says hey a maryelous in their mere magnitude, but more marvelous still in showing our pro- gress as iron and steel produoers in one year.” ‘Ten million tons of iron ore were produced during 18 and about one million tons were importe Our total importa- tions of iron and steel, however, w considerably heavier in 1856 than in 1535 Notwithstanding the greatly increased demand prices advanced but slightly, and the advance was made gradually. ‘The improvement in the iron and stecl industries was due largely to the great increase in railroad building, which was mote than double that of the previous year und exceeded 7,000 mile Regard- ing the outlook for the current year, the vulletin says it is very favorable for gen- eral business and espeeially so for the in- dustries of which it treats. Ruilroad building promises to be even more act- ive this year than ls Phe opinion is also expressed that prices must not ad vancee, 1n order to prevent such an infinx of iron and steel in 1887 as we have rarely if ever experienced. The ‘o and healthy eondition of the iron and Lindustrics of the country is always ng, and there 1s in the exhibit of ast ¥ business andin the outlook for the eurrent year abundant reasons for indulging most lopeful anticipa- tions, nds suceee CONGRESSMAN J1x Lax is posting back from Washington with hLis fect turned toward Lincoln and the state capital. Mr. Laird has of course been interviewed, ‘Y'hatisa httle indulgence which he never permits himself to forego. To the warm-hearted reporter, Jim un bosomed himself in a burst of contidence and proclaimed it as his opinion that Van Wyck was working hard for a cau- cus believing it to be his only salyation from the political death to come. By the time Congressman Liard perspires alittle of the Washington bug juice from his system he will probably learn enough to kuow that be was slightly mistaken. The Brsiness Situation. The condition of trade during the past week has been gubject to no material change. The movement in whole lines has been comparatively small owing to holiday observances and tho | diversion of attention to other business | But | of the . throughout the footing than they mHI merchants every « hopefully forward to mption of healthful activity early new year. Tho improverent that has taken place within the last i the confidence and cheer- ast of business men, and all the awvor the expectation in trade and n farther cxpsnsion of industrial enter= prises during the coming year. Ther has n very hittle activity in the cotton or wool markets the past we prices are a shade stronger, as a rosult of some contract covering over the holi- days and the expeetation of a lighter run of receints this we The 1o the ports ler than it was one week ago, but in excess of the corre sponding period last year. Wool has continued very dul), and thereis less con filence among he of fine fleeces ar territory clips, but other dese very firmly held, Manufacturers buying cautionsly and are awaiting developments in ) trade, which is about entering npon lier senson, Prices of beavy w and worsted fabries for next trade, will pr o next week or ten days, but indicatior the moment point to dittle if fromw the figures current a year The graim trade hus bren exe active the holiday quicter than it was in thee the month. Vulues have port 1d elosed rise in whes 1 cents per bushel in Chi I 0 cents per bushel on the scaborre "he strength is due m part to speculation, but the spec ulators for a rise have had substantial backing from the stronz forcign adyices and the improved condition and prospeets of the eyport trade. A very business has been done in wheat for port since the middle of November, and in addition to the liberal shipments of the past month the contracts put out at that time eall for heav; wees from all Atlantic ports during January and February. The business of the past week has been comparatively moderate,but was much larger { ad been expeeted dur- ing the holids knowledge of large export engagements already outstanding and the disturbed condition of politi*al affairs i has enabled the bull interest control of the market in spite tent hammering by bearishly inclined traders in Chieago. Corn prices have advanced } to 1 cent per bushel owing to the moderate interior movement and the rise in the markets for hog products, but th bas been little speculative ae- tivity and noderate trade on for- cign orders. fons have been a speculativel but the been incident to the commercial fnter 1: ¢ on a better g0, close zns of t of sustained iption 0 ptio for to rets of pe T chiefly to specula ing, stimutated by lix and the reduction of | the west, | wed the volume of the in mey nd ghow 10,000 potnds in lard havy same i in ‘Tuie first reports from the Texas drouth distriet, upon which doubt was thrown by subsequent dispatches,” evi dently did not m the least exaggerate, her understated the extent of the wity and suffering there. We have letter from a resident of istrict whicl s that the situa tion is most deplo ad the witer “God only knows how the many ate people of this d for during the winte: nm Fort Worth of Jan that 27,600 persons, spread one counties, were reported to titute con In cach of ties there had been o partial, and i many parts uplete, il The as already an in ative need of food and clothi and this of grows steadily more pressing. bill wus introduced in congress the holiday adjournment, and of course the state le ure will make some pro- vision, There will, however, be a de- mund upon the charity of the country, and the e seems to require a prompt and generous response. A population of nearly thirty thousand iting all the necessaries of life makes an extraordi- nary requisition upon pui when the necessity is known to be and urgent the liberality of the Amerie people’ will not fail, Mg. PorpeLy f endeavor to commit the charter committee to the scheme of having the city printing let without regard to the circulation of the paver in which it was printed, Mr Poppleton as o lawyer was doubtless so well nequainted with the method of pub. lishing notices of applications for divorce i ure gheets in order to defeat the ] o that ho was desirous of ransferting its beanties to the adminis- tration of the eity government, some r twenty ind oy m, course before 12 Union Pacitio . has attended to that corporation’ ative f is gnee more nu hand at Lincoln reinforced by that bloated blatherskite, Paul Vandervoort, and by Cinim Adjuster Mamchester, Ot coun the Union Pacitic is “‘out of politic For all that it takes a lively interest the organization of the legislature Tuar oy xuh-lnurv" i Van Wyck which was expected to ms terialize in the preliminary organization of the legislature fafléd to put in ap pearance Dit, MiLier's young man finds that the demoerats of Nebraska are not made of putty to be woulded at will by the demo- eratic capper of the monopolies. PROMINENT P Judge Gresham is very particular about his clothes and always looks neat. Mrs, Gen, McClellan has realized §10,000 from the sale of her husband’s boo! Colonel Fred Grant has several paiutings which are the work of his late father. H. Victor Newcowb, the Wall street finan- cler, is worth $8,00),000, and looks like a o terrier. Miss Fortesque wears halt a dozen superb . CRSONS. | xmonths Cotton | movement | ¥ crops. | A velief | dlamond rings on her right hand and two big diamonds in her ears. Robert Downing, who is playing Sparts at the Star theatre, New York, used to run a tobaceo shiop in Washington, D, €. The late grain operator, William Newton Sturges ot Chicago, made £600,000 by daring culations during the Russo-Tarkish war., Mrs, 70 B. McClellan is sugcested by the Detroit I'ree P'ress asa deserying subject of the mation’s bounty in <hape of & pension, George W. Childs, of the Thilade Ledger, has an income of §500,000 a y and no man in the country makes better use oL his money, Ben Folsom fs est ates cousulate at § as had Lis new ca gets $2,500 a yoar. John T Smith founder, has distri rious charitableand educational institutic in that city during the past year. Henry dy editorof the Atlanta Cons! tution, who ereated a sensation by his s in New York at the New Engiand dinner, & , has pierelng black eyes and black and Is a pecullarly graceful orator, Daniel F. Bandmann claims to be £500,000, yet he continues to pare cnees in diy usewns throughout the ec iming to be actuat ve the masses the dy Shal aved. 1o on Philadelphia $100,000 anon tyne- vt wor of people ¢ speare [ - Why They Oppose Van Wyck, nificant cireumstance that the Lincoln Journal shonld oppose Van Wy becanseof his denioeracy, while the Omaha Nerald {5 at the same time fighting him be- cause of tra republicanism, th 1 is that politics have little to do sournal's or Herald's opno- n to Van Wyck; they are against him ¢ Lie cannot bo relied upon to vote for and sehemes of the moenopolists. It isa s A ilard Man from © Chicago Trmes. Tred Wittrock appears to have been a prefty hard man, He was not only a coal- dealer and contributor of the St. Louis papers. - - Perhaps, New York World. A returned mis: ary says that *‘the west pretty rough place.” 1o elaims to have con (ifly imen drunk before breakfast, e doubiless lived in one of those prohibition stutes, teago, Should sSweav Off, Chicago Times. Ihe czar of Russia should swear off. It doesi't look well in a ezar to be trembling on of the jim-jams and to go round A hoad ‘50 swollen that he can’t got nis crown on. MG S0 ddy on the Pight, St. Paul Pioneer Press, ix-Agent MeGillicuddy and his friends of the Indian Righis association propose to make life a burden for the Indian depart- h to cast loctions oa t honesty while at no Ridee, that thie charges ist citlier b proved or retracted, et 1886—-188 Hoannah Moore Kohane in Clicago Tines, I closed a closely-written boole last week A yolume which no eye but mine will seck Amongg the folios laid away 1 on each page © did imprint fam lo O decas, or naught but leaves ol _. hours, No one save God and [ ¢ ngent’ n say page Is blurred with wishful tears, me turned-down leaf siern con cience rears nd and points at dismal stalns e may b < all power and skill, orsefully my 1t in tears aistill On memory’s page the mar remains Yet from crooked lines and carole deface, cap a profit that wiil aid me grace white and siided, spotless page w hook with fairer lines and pure, and loftier thoughts, that Ofan Htigh ain endure will Ideal ¢ Most fragrant sl On wiseen and unwearled wi O powers invisible! with all th Ajd us to keep from blemish, 1 [tiy rise incense, beyond the night ar, or blight, STATE JOTTINGS, in improve- church at North County bank bu cowpleted 1 Creighton, cost $10,000, A street railway company, with a eap- 50,000, hits been organized in Nor- ling, just ronving oneof the e proofs Lwnn is noblest wrice gentleman turned out year, an in- the preceding year of 51,051 The Fremont creamery 312,715 pounds of butter last sreqse oyer pounds DSome hungry sneak in North Platte, chilled by the snail pace of “sweet charity," stole $100 of the poor fund held in trust by I'r. Conway. Dan Miller, a Burt county boy of ci teen, attempted to greet the new qun was eamzht and cutled by l frozen t S , railroads, a bridge over the M ndnew manu- factorios will develop and take pi form the growth of the ye Nebraska City. Mrs. Annie O'Rourk, of Piattsmouth, received the neat New Year's present of $3,000 from the family estate in Milwa kee. A purso of that size is profound useful within checking range. The Oakland Indenendent, under the management of of the IHenry boys, is typographical beanty. The New Year! grecting, on tinted paper, showed com- mendable snap and enterprise. ection of An Ola Bachelor'” is the title of a story in a Burt county paper “Relleetions on An Old Bachelor” was doubtiess intended, but printers will persist in marr the gems of great minds, A loeal mathematician estimates that Grand Islanders chew more than they drink, busing the ealculations on the fact that _the e twenty-six grocery and provision stores in the town to twenty. loons. llu L m, gives coflee s and cloves a promiuent position the chewing e ta L gam action of the girls Cupid ealled the tarn on thee Ulysses last Wednesda The seene took place in the Congrogational urch, The eeremonies sturted with Frank Stiles and Miss Jennwe Concannon g made man and wife, followed by J Har and Miss Nelhe Wright, and Professor Lobdell, of Friend, and Miss Nettie Coneannon. The triple ti the holiday event in the towan. und the is some talk of beaung the record by organizing o four in hand, An Omaha kid, while cuttin sweli among the rosy gals of Columbus, g: an exhibition of the | or in wiltz ing in one of the town stores. He was cire ng around like nutmeg on a “smile” when he Kicked the sement from a stock of ink bottles, and mc ured his length on the floor. The bottles conveniently spilled themselves of lus frame, detuging his duds from his tooth- pick toes to the fur on the collur on his coat. He took the night freight tor Omaba. [ i s pai Tnited | , England, and | a train-robber, but also a valued | rrowing | The State of Trade. Special telograms to Dradstreet's re~ port & moderate deerease in the total volume of general merchandise moving. This is regnrded as seasonable, yot the distribution from first and second hands, at Chicago, 8t. Lounis, K clsewhere excecds that at like periods in : preceding years Leading retail lines have been very active, owing to the stim- ulus of the holiday season Mcrchants look ahead toan improvement in the wholesale demana aft the middle of Money erally easicor than ago, except at Boston, cent higher; at ¢ alers in staple goods have ommodations to purcha at Milwau- kee and Kansas City, where requests for funds from interior” bunks continue to be receivod, e falling off in the gencral trade and speculative movements du the week 18 shown in the bank clearing from thirty- two cities specially wired to Bradstrect’s, | The decline in the aggregate for the | y $268,000,000, but against the hko S total shows a gain_of Now York's clearings fell 000 this week as compared y greater portion being duo nso in gpeculation; Boston's de- 1,800,000, Chica, 5,100,000, co's §2,800,000, Baltimore's 100,000, Philadelphia’s §100,000 and Louisville's $1,600,000. The New York stoek avery small volume of | tothe holiday “scason occasioned by the re | stantially completed | week toaded te somewhat stronger tone to the little activity shc ons in the New York § 1401 shares, a tweek, 1,505,008 and 1,0 s were dull ‘and ol m on the New York 100, against § Moncy much easic @l per cent.; time, 5@6 per mmercial paper is dull at 6 per cent. Exchange is low, but shows signs of recovery. Sterling hus, how- ever, been below " the gold point, and Targzo amount of gold 18 in transit from abroad. American securities s still bought moderately for forcign account. The iron and steel markets eontinue to lead in favoring conditions. No. 1 enst- ern pig iron anced another dollar during the we hus boon r fused for 500 tons, two months delivery. The tendency of prices continu wrd, and still higher guotations are confidently expected, But little business is doing at the higher prico named. Tho west leads 1 the advance of prices and in 1d for pigiron. Itis very sig- s xeported to Bradstreet's, that 20, \lll\\ nL:-x' and one weo ratesare where somo ¢ | been seeking payments dio on 1,000, market furnighes business, owing The liquidation nt decline is sub- and the news of the i .rl‘l] lnst week. Call loans aro | cont., and ¢ the der nificant, stern pig iron, for the first timen ten years. Special returns from southern furnaces point to 140,000 tons of pigiron having been shipped by them to the miadlo and Now England states this year, against 100,000 tons ench in 1855 and 1558, A net increase of Scotch ¥ ocks (abroad) of 132,000 tons is cabled, and an advance of an nyerage of 2s. per ton in price Dry goods in all lines are quict at the east. I'he cotton mills are all busy, nd making money,” with stocks not “accum- ulating. Atlantic brown cottons have advanced. Contracts for heavy ight woolens aro reported to have been made ar last year's prices. Stocks of print cloth wmount to but per cent of those held a awr ago. Wool is dull There is greater confidence among holders at the imterior than on the senboard, The coflee mard ic. below e light at the interior. 3 y light, and the quantity afloat hy steam was never so small. There is littio disposition to buy sugar. London is cabled at 11s., unchanged; no new busi- ness is looked for there until Jam Fair refining here is off te. and on the week. Breadstuffs stifl- encd somewhat and advanced during the Tutter part of the w ter n decline, on deereasing receipts'at the west and in- creasing confidence in the theory that the United Kingdom will have to buy more freely laterin the cere owinie to deficient supplics from India and small stocks nt home. The total number of failur United States, reported [n]u this woeek, is 193 in Chr and 260 with or- di; 3 in the Istreet's veck; in 1884, has had 19, hin 1885, The lmh.l States this year to inst 10,881 in 1885 (a de- 1834 (a decline of with 9,951 in 1883, PERFIDY. Ifor tho ne of G71), 5), and as comy ——— A DETECTIVE'S Thief Down for $300 and ng to Kill Him, Chi q Vs away k in one i ! said an old , “that L was fir Ve W wter villains than the; tof running down. From vari- ous goings on in Central station, which was then on the Quincy street sido of the old Rookery building, T had just bezun to suspect as much.” But one night well known Chieago eriminal—I'Il not give his name, pecause, although he had Been under sentenco of ‘death ight here in this very county, he now walks the streets as proud as any man in all Chi- cago because he is' earning a good and honest living—one night as I say, this man, this criminal, if you please, was arrested after a desper- ate fight with the police at the amuse- ment place known as the ( uhwum now known as the Grand ope had turned ofl the ga was being d ssed for picking their vockets as the crow Im\awluul. It v suid afterward t Lo had no less than thirty pickpockets in his service. He had boen drinking, and as in o talkative mood when 1 saw him | in his cell at the Armory police station, Like all others of his ¢ claimed that the police were persecuting him, but he was 80 earnest in - his denunciation of one particular man on the city's deteetive staff, whom I know had been”responsiblo for many of the arrcstd and ignominies he had been mude to endure, that I solved to listen to his tale and hear him through. e smidat was not for publ least not then, and after relating ve me the name of ydding ofiicial then in priva he would or this. His chu a poor devil who thicf the w he must die, bu Shaki purpose of ife, hom said corroborite his | htwasin brief | eriminal work was | wof consumption, A life, he would have reformed in of the death he kn | form s impossible. The | | would not take him; he was | enongh gone for thut To live he must but, feuring the penitentiary, he confined himselt to little depredations | which, should e be ca would send him 1o the house of corre in default of a fine. A certain dotective at Ce station—he not there now--got his racket, and, knowing that friends who would put up a small amount of money to save him, be Liad in ambus for him regulurly nntil he had aecuamu- lated enau svidence and facts to 2o to him and m down,’’ s thieves and detectives eall it shuke down” took place on K treot The detective insisted upon having $300 cash that very night, a mortguge was overdue on his housy and log, and he would lose it unless he got the mo wsas City and | ioago | moot | | That's the fellow you T | much loss £300; and it was impossiblo. The detective stuok to his game, how- over, and suggested that So-and-so, a loon-keever in the immediate vieinity, was u preity good friend of Ins and wonld probably advance him the money rather than see him go to prison. Pushed to it the thief went to the saloon-keoper and got the money. | “Asho | nded it ov to tho black- | mailer he said with a tremor in his voico that he would have to make it good be- fore the week was out, and that he knew of only one way to do it. There was | house over on Green strect that ho thonght wonld be oasy to work. He was | light in weight, and could clamber {ong and unaided up a sido porch and, cutting out a common wire screen in thy second story window, gain entrance, I'hiere was booty to be had in the hou | if he could find it. Besecching the d | (‘v'[wnflm\nd offices in cnso ho Wi wight, he woent his way., “That night that very dotective Iaid it wait at the alley running out into Juck- son street no where ho could overlook the porch of the house indi wted, There ho lurked until he saw hi | ereditor elimb the fence, scale the porch, | enter the house, reappear with his swag and, desconding’ to the ground, sneak aw What did he do? Stocklon's tiger or the lady query is no_deeper, although n clevercr, puzzlo, He opened fire on him. He caine armed with two self-cock. ing revolvers, and ho emptied them botl How the poor devil eseaped is a mystery tome. Tne thief drovped most of his plunder. He recognized his assalant, and it so rattied him that he was good for no more burgla nd, being unable to make good his pledge to the saloon. koeper, begged cnough money to get out of town on, “But that is not all; the detective ro covered the swag dropped by tho thiof, told a cock and bull story to” the ne paper reporters who wrote up a haif column or more about the battle, and wound up by ncceptin 0 from the very mun whose house he had eaused to by burglarized,” NEATLY BEATEN. valrojected Bank Robbery was Eflectually rustratod, Cincinnati Enquir Talking about neat deteetive work,” said the colonel “the cleanest-cut prece of work that I °r Know to be done was a job by Larey Liazen in the days of Butt Riley. ver been published, ol et carborough ud mhunu I that he vineed that the gang was u rations to rob bink, which was then ed on Third strc next to tho nklin bank. le guve ry a de- seription of the man who visited the in- stitution for the purpose, ns he suspected, of obtaining the plan of the building. Larry was scquainted with Butt Rile and was oa quite good terms with him. He hunted up Butt that evening, and uftor inviting him to tako o dvink, “asked him to take o walk tramped around for several ho talking about everything think of except th projected bank tobbery. o treated Butt to all the drinks he would take, and mado himself as entertaining as he could. Every day and eveniug for several sue- ceeding days Larry made it a point to run against Butt and entice him out for a stroll. Finally, one afternoon the twa were passing the old Henrie hous Third street, and there was a man ~|.nn|- ing m the doory to whom L paid tention, but {0 whom Butt Bhokolin a triendly wiy, calling him by name and shaking hands with hin y pretended not o take : of the stranger, he didn't fail m;‘u L good look ut him, and he then knew' that was looking at the man who had visited the bank it was intended to rob, After satisfying himsclf Larry remarked Lo Butt that he a neighbor- ing saloon, and asked Butt to como ovr, atter ho b ~ml and have o drink, or bring hi friend with him. It afterward transpired that subsequently to Larry leaving the two men the following conversation took etwoen them': docs this Have you set up a job onm et up u job on you? What 7 n;, about, ms “*What ) steer that detective inst e fol been keeping out I eame to town,and he never saw me until this minute, when yon bring him along and rush up to me, call me by mame, ghake hands, and give m achance to make o mental photo- graph of me. I tell you, the bank job 18 off. I wouldn't now touch it with a fish- ing-pole as long from here to New York."" *By heavens! went to was con- aking propas v he could * asked the mean *replied Butt, ‘T've been Auped, oid man, As Llive, 1 never un- derstood until now the scheme fazen was working. I see through it all now, though, ~ 1& has been walking mo round this town for three or four days just for the purnose of trapping me into Wmeeting with you, in order that he might get n ch to identify you. But so help me, Inever realized what ho was aiming at until yon explained the true state of aflairs to me.’ ““Butt went to the saloon where Larry gaid he would await him, and, extending his hand, exclaimed: ‘Larty, old boy, 1 congratulate you. You've beat me a5 1 never thought any man could, Yes, sir, I never would have believed that such a game could have been worked on me. I've seen it done on others, and have done it myself, but when 1 alize that 1 haye been beaten at one of my own tricks, I have to throw up my hands, Let's tuke drink ‘What ctting at?’ queried Hazen, are you that he didn't who pretended understand what Riloy meant, Of course ['ll drink with you, but Idon't know what you are talking nhout.” “Lhat's all right,’ said Butt, ‘You've pot your man, and just i time, 100, were looking for, b is off," ank was to have been robbed or the next, L disapps I, and W o seen sgain by Huzen, An of the building m_which the bank located showed evidences of the preparations made by the robbers to consummate their work, and it eertainly would have been done hiad not Hazen got to sce lis mun in timne but the § ation MDST PERFEST MADE 7, Strongth, and 3 Powder coutat: ;\mlunnh. [ Ame,Alum or hosnbetes, Dr Price's Extiacts, Vaillls, Lewos, eic., daves Qolciously. He pretended to be desperate. Phe poor consuinptive protested that he Ludn't §, j VCE BAKNG POWOER OB O