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VOL. II. NO. 1.
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WATERBURY, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DEC 5, 1888.
SiiMlDATWORK
cion ct' Old and In
ion oi Mew Bills.
BUSINFSS OF TIM! UK1WUTMENTS.
Tariff Discussion llesnmed To-day Mr.
Reagan's Hill Providing for New Rams.
Mr. Gibson Proposes a Bureau of Health.
Change In Klectlon Methods Proposed.
Washingtox. Dec. 5. The real work of
congress was begun yesterday. Mr. Allison
urged an immediate resumption of the sub
stitute tariff bill in the senate, but in defer
ence to Democrats who have amendments
to offer concerning tobacco he agreed to a
postponement until this afternoon, for which
the tariff bill was made a special oraer.
Mr. Reagan, of Texas, introduced in tho
senate a bill authorizing the construction of
two steel rams, to be armed with heavy
rifled dynamite guns and pneumatic torpedo
throwers. The bill calls for the appropria
tion of $1,500,000, or as much thereof as may
Kr necessarv. for the construction of the
rams. The bill provides that the guns and
torpedo throwers shall be mounted so as to
be elevated and depressed; shall be not more
than thirty-four feet in length, and shall bo
capable of throwing high explosive torpedoes
a distance not less than two miles, the tor
pedoes to contain a charge not less than 600
pounds of dynamite or other high explosives.
Jl bureau of health.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, introduced
a bill to create a buroau of health and to
prevent the introduction and extension of
contagious and infectious diseases in tho
United States. The bill provides that the
bureau shall be established in the interior de
partment, and be in charj of a commis
sioner at a salary of $5,000. A health com
mission of twenty members is to be appointed
by the president, to be divided among tho
yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, scarlet fever,
smallpox and diphtheria sections. The mem
bers' salaries are to be $1,200 each, but they
will only be actively engaged when called to
duty in emergencies. The entire commission
is to meet in this city in April of each year
to adopt plans and make regulations for in
terstate quarantine. An appropriation of
$100,000 is asked.
LONG DEAD, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
Senator Piatt introduced a petition from
the Historical Society of Hartford, Conn.,
praying that the remains of Joel Barlow,
who died in 1812, while minister plenipo
tentiary and envoy extraordinary from the
United States to the court of Napoleon I,
be exhumed and brought home to his native
land. An appropriation to cover expenses
is asked for. The remains of Barlow are
buried at Wilna, Poland.
TBOPOSED PRESIDENTIAL, ELECTION CHANGE.
Representative Stone, of Kentucky, intro
duced in the house a joint resolution propos
ine an amendment to the constitution pro
viding that the president and vice president
shall be choson evory fourth year by the
direct votes of the people. A section of the
bill forbids the holding of any local or state
elections, except for members of congress,
on the day set apart for the election of pres
ident and vice president. The electors for
president and vice president shall be chosen
on the first Tuesday in November.
TO PRACTICE THE ART OF WAR.
Orders were issued from the war depart
ment by the secretary of war directing that
when not prevented by active service all tho
available infantry, cavalry and light ar
tillery of the army shall devote a part of
each summer to practice marches, encamp
ments, maneuvers and other field operations
simulating the operations of actual war.
THE DIRECT TAX BILL.
It is very generally understood that the
direct tax bill, which caused a deadlock at
the last session of congress, will be taken up
for action in the house to-morrow. From
expression of opinion among the members of
congress who were in the opposition last ses
sion it is not thought that they can now suc
cessfully resist its passage. The general
opinion is, however, that if the bill is passed
it will be vetoed by the president. This was
the understanding at the last session, and it
was to relieve the president of the embarrass
ing effect of a veto message in the teeth of
the presidential campaign that the opposition
resorted to filibustering tactics to defeat the
bill It is not now probable that the opposi
tion will resort to obstructive tactics to de
feat the bill. It will probably be content to
put itself on record as opposed to it, and rely
on the president to veto it.
INAUGURATION REGISTER.
At inauguration headquarters the com
mittee on civic associations has opened a
register, and the names of fifty-one civip
bodies intending to take part in the parade
were recorded in it. The to,tal of the sub
scriptions to date is $45,478.
A COMING GREAT CELEBRATION,
There was a notable gathering at Willard's
hotel yesterday. The members of the board
of promotion of the proposed constitutional
centennial and the world's exposition assem
bled there at noon. This board includes rep
resentative men from every part of the
country. This was a general meeting of the
board to hear the reports of officers and of
the executive committee, showing the prog
ress made in f he work of preparing the way
for the proposed celebrations.
Mayor Smith, of Cincinnati, as a vice
president, took the chair. Mayor Smith
made a brief speech, commending tha objects
that they had in view.
Mr. Smith called for the report of the ex
ecutive committee. Secretary Anderson pre
sented this in an address. He said that the
110,000,000 people of the new world desire to
pommemorate the 400th anniversary of the
discovery of America by Columbus, and
eighteen American sister republics desire to
celebrate the centenary of the inauguration
pf constitutional government upon the west
ern hemisphere.
The movement, ho said, had received the
written indorsement of the governors of
forty states and territories, who have for
mally accepted membership in tho national
board of promotion. It had been indorsed
by the mayors of fifty-seven leading cities,
160 presidents and secretaries of boards of
trade throughout the United States and ter
ritorial ranges. In brief, it has received the
cordial and enthusiastic approval of the
press and public of the three Americas. In
addition to this the government of Spain
has acted officially in the matter and has ex
pressed a desire to pay tribute to America
' by celebrating the 400th anniversary of its
discovery.
Secretary Anderson explained that the
proposed exhibit by mercar and manu
facturers is but a temporaiiLffair for the
six months of 1892, and should then be re
moved; whereas the state and territorial
and the three America's exhibit should re;
main for al time, as a lasting monument to
Ihe progress and development of American
states and nations. The proposed exposition
pf the three Americas at "Washington, he
said, is a matter of transcendent practical
importance ' to the merchants and manu
v facturera of the United States, and may
easily be made the entering wedge to an en
larged foreign commerce with the rest of this
hemisphere. '
WICKED NEW YORK.
All Denominations Discussing How Ji
May Be Improved.
New York, Dec. 5. In the absence dJ
John D. Slayback William E. Dodge pre
sided at the second day's session of the Chris
tian conference at Chickering halL Th
Rev. Vincent Piseck, pastor of a Bohemian
mission church, was the first speaker. Hd
said that the 80,000 Bohemians in this city
were, contrary to eeneral assumption, a
peaceful lot, well disposed toward church
and religion. But the Bohemian colony was
cursed with the tenement house system ol
cigsrmaking, prolific of many evils. Onc
fairly prosperous, it had within recent yean
suffered privation and want.
The Rev. Antonio Arrighi, minister of thfi
Italian chapel at the Five Points House oi
Industry, urged the necessity of educating
his countrymen, who come here without evil
intention, but densely ignorant of the nature
of free institutions. They must be reached
by personal effort or not at alL
Rev. H. A. Monroe (colored) spoke kindly
of a Catholic church that had re-enforced
the three Protestant places of worship in
striving with the tough colored element in
Thompson street. About 7,000 of the 30,00C
negroes in the city attended church, he said,
and their nine churches were filled every
Sabbath night. But the Sunday school work
was behind, and workers were badly needed.
Dr. MacArthur, of the Calvary Baptist
church, thought it was the duty of the com
munity to receive the immigrants, but tq
insist that they must stay as Americans.'
They should be brought into the churches.
He thought little of mission churches. Tha
best churches were none too good for tho
poorsst, and they should be always open.
At the evening session the Rev. Richard
Hartley presented the results of nineteen
years of work of the Baptist city mission.
Beginning with an annual collection of
$6,000, high water mark was reached last
year, when $40,000 was collected. Sixteen
churches had been built with themoney,
Before New Year's day four new Baptist
churches will be opened in New York.
Archdeacon Alexander Mackay Smith re
viewed tho field of usefulness of tho sixty-one
Episwpal parishes. Twenty-five of tho
churches are free, yet their attendance is not
nearly up to the mark. The speak found
that the Sunday newspaper and long and
tedious Sunday services were the principal
causes of the non-church going evil, and rec
ommended sanctified common sense as a
remedy.
Everett P. Wheeler, president of the
Church club, urged the necessity of lay co
operation, the lack of which the archdeacon
had deplored. In it ho found the solution of
the problem now puzzling the churches.
WHERE WASHINGTON COURTED.
Sale of a Historic Estate in Virginia to a
New York Lawyer.
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 5. That
beautiful and historic estate known as Chat
ham, and familiar to the sojdiers of the late
war as the Lacy house, on the heights over
looking Fredericksburg, which was crowned
with Union artillery in 1862, was sold by the I
present owner, Oliver Watson, to a wealthy
lawyer, D. McMahon, of the firm of Mclla
hon & Hundley, of New York, for $50,000.
The estate consists of 500 acres, nearly all in
a high state of cultivation. Tho mansion, a
large brick building, was erected in colonial
times by William Fitzhugh, most of the ma
terial having been brought from England.
The place figured conspicuously in the days
of the revolution, as well as in later wars.
Gen. Washington courted his wife beneath
one of the trees adjoining the lawn, and later
Gen. Robert E. Leo won his bride near the
same spot. The building was occupied by
Gen. Burnside as headquarters during his
siego of this place, and Gen. nooker gavo
special orders that three trees standing in the
yard, named "Faith," "Hope" and "Charity,"
because of their association, should not be
destroyed.
O'Brien to be Deposed.
New York, Dec. 5. The Republican
county executive committee last night
adopted a report of a sub-committee declarr
ing tbat John J, O'Brien had sold out tho
local and state ticket at the recent election,
and should be deposed from the leadership in
the Eighth assembly district. Barney Biglin
and John E. Brodsky were the only defenders
of O'Brien. They admitted that he took
money from Tammany, but said it was neces
sary to sacrifice local Republican interests in
order to save the national ticket. The action
of the executive committee will doubtless be
confirmed at to-night's meeting of the full
county committee, though O'Brien, Biglin
and Brodsky will probably make the meeting
lively with their opposition. In their report
the sub-committee said that O'Brien received
$3,100 from the County Democracy, $4,650
from Tammany and $1,750 from the Repub
licans on the congressional ticket alone. He
worked only for the Tammany man, howeverT
White Caps Invade Columbus.
Coltjmbus, O., Dec. 5, That the White
Caps have arrived here, and purpose doing
business iu this city, is indicated by the fol
lowing letter received by Mr. Welch: "Dear
Sir I am captain of the White Caps, and
am looking up men who drink and abuse
their families, and you are among them.
Take warning from this. If you don't we
will use the black snake." The signature to
this letter was a picture of a black snake
I whip. Mr. Welch, who resides on Maple
' street, is badly frightened, and says he will
not drink another drop. Burr McCowan, a
colored mail carrier, of Delaware, O., re
i ceived a postal card purporting to come from
' the White Caps. On the card was the f ol
' lowing: "B. H. U. and D. Death. No negro
i Democrats allowed to hold office. Choose ye,
' Republicanism or death. Beware of White
! Caps. Dead men tell no tales." Mr. Mc
Cowan looks upon the matter as a joke, and
is not in the least worried.
News from Hayti.
New York, Dec. 5. The steamer Alvo,
from St. Marc, Hayti, brought copies of a
pamphlet, printed in French, setting forth
i the claims of the northern insurgents, under
' Gen. Hyppolite, to supremacy in the gov
! ernmont of the island; accusing Gen. Le
I gitime of being the despotic leader of a band
of cutthroats and adventurers, and appeal
ing to all governments not to recognize
Legitime until the true condition of affairs
is thoroughly understood. The steamer also
brings news that Legitime intends to dismiss
Minister Preston and Consul General Bas
sett, Hayti's representatives at Washington
and New York, and to appoint two Legitim
ists in their stead, in the hope that the
United States, by recognizing them, will
recognize him as lawful ruler of Hayti
Jacksonville is Nearly Free.
jAexsotrvTLXE, Fla., Dee. 5. There was
one' naw case yesterday (colored), au4 nP
deaths. Total cases to date, 4,700; deaths,
411.' "The board of health yesterday resolved
that on and after Dec. 10 all persons will be
jhowed to come into the city in the day time,
the city council resolVed that on and after
the 15th all refugees may return. The mayor
has iss'ied a proclamation to that effect.
Gaijiesville, Fla, Dec 1 The last case
of yellow fever was discharged Monday.
The board of health declared the epidemic
ended and refugees are returning.
HARRISON GOES HUNTING
And the Populace Goes Hunt
ing for Harrison.
HIS PARTNER VISITS NEW YORK.
The Cabinet Gnessers Are as Busy as
Ever Talk About Allison'and Clarkson.
The Former Denies the Statement That
' He Has Been Chosen.
Indianapolis, Dec 5. Gen. Harrison has
gone quail hunting to-day to escape the
horrors of house cleaning, which has begun
in his home. He stolo away cfuietly, and
everybody is trying to locate him. Those
who are most anxious are the rustics who
voted tor his grandfather, and who want, as
some of his visitors tell him almost every
day he lives, "to shake hands with a real,
live president." Harrison has not ceased to
be a curiosity in Indiana.
The party consists of Gen. Harrison, Walter i
Bradshaw, R. B. F. Pierce and J. R. McKee. i
incy smrtea about noon, ana alter leaving
the railroad will have a drive of several
mi'es. They pcopose spending the night at a
place whore accommodations have been en
gaged, and will spend to-morrow banging
away at the birds, and on Friday will come
back to grapple with state problems.
The Blaine question, the gossips, say,
claiming to get the point from those within
the charmed circle of Harrison's confidants,
is tho biggest thing on the horizon. In Gen.
Harrison's letters during the past few days
there has been a hard scrabble of the pros
and cons on the question of Blaine's dues.
His friends had been bunching their influ
ence in his behalf and belaboring the president-elect
with admonitions to make him
secretary of state, but the counter current
has set in. Tho anti-Blaine elements have
got wind of the doings, and the president
elect, it isi said, has been struggling with an
embarrassing dilemma for some days,
Washington, Dec. 5. When Senator Al
lison was queried concerning a special tele
gram from Lima, O., in which Railroad
Commissioner Campbell, of Iowa, was quoted
as stating that the senator had been offered
the secretaryship of the treasury by President-elect
Harrison, ho said: "I don't be
lieve that Mr. Campbell made the statement
credited to him, for I have not seen him
since the election, and he does not know that
I have been tendered the position referred to
because it has- not been offered to me. I
know nothing more about "my going into
President Harrison's cabinet than the pftblip
knows."
The impression is gaining ground in Wash
ington very rapidly that Senator Allison
will be the next secretary of the treasury,
notwithstanding he refuses to stand under
the statement that he is to be in charge of
that portfolio. Another cabinet possibility,
John C. New, of Indianapolis, arrived here
yesterday afternoon from New York, and
spent some time at the Capitol. He was
everywhere greeted cordially. It is believed
that he will be invited to a place in the cabi
net surely, if Indiana is given a cabinet posi
tion. New York, Dec. 5. The arrival in town
yesterday of John B. Elam, Gen. Harrison's
law partner, set all the big politicians around
the hotels a guessing. Mr. Elam's visit was
unheralded, but a stream of people found
their way to his apartments in the Gilsey.
It was accepted that Mr. Elam came as the
representative of tho president-elect with a
political mission to the Big Four. It was
also stated that he came with a special invi
tation from Gen. Harrison to the Hon. Levi
P. Morton to visit Indianapolis.
Mr. Elam viewed the situation as filtered
through the reports given to him concerning
the claims of the Big Four for a representa
tion in the cabinet. Late in the day ho called
on Mr. Morton, and in the evening Mr. Mor
ton returned tho call.
Mr. Elam heard a good deal about the
claims of Mr. Piatt for the treasury port
folio. Before Mr. Elam returns, it was announced,
he will confer personally with Mr. Depew,
Mr, Piatt, Mr, Miller and other big Republi
cans in the state.
Des Moines, la., Dec. 5. The Des Moines
Leader says that there are good reasons for
believing that Mr. J. O. Clarkson has ac
cepted a place in Mr. Harrison's cabinet. A
personal friend of his has recently asserted
that such was the case, and intimate asso
ciates of the family are whispering around
that the Clarkson family are preparing to
make their home in Washington. Further
evidence of a confirmatory character is not
lacking.
A reorganization of the editorial staff of
Clarkson's newspaper is now under way, the
position of managing editor having been tea
dered to a prominent Iowa journalist within,
the last ten days. Tho place tendered is un-:
derstood to be tho portfolio of the interior.
This will enable Mr. Clarkson to appoint
Gen. Tuttle or Col. Fairchild commissioner
of pensions, and furnish a wider field than
could be found elsewhere for tho reward of
his personal and party friends.
San Francisco, Dec. 5. The executive
committee of the state board of trade
adopted a memorial address to Gen. Harri
son asking him to select ouo member of his
cabinet from the Pacific coast;.
Qcinct, Ills., Dec. 5. Col. W. W. Berry, a
well known lawyer and ex-soldier, having
commanded the Louisville legion during the
war, will De pusnea lor attorney general in
President Harrison's cabinet. He is past den
partment commander of the Illinois G. A. R
Sharp Advance in Coffee,
New York, Dec 5. Yesterday was the
most exciting day for years on the Coffee
Exchange, and the amount of transactions
was unprecedented. Higher quotations in
Hamburg and Havre, coupled with Brazilian
advices that the new crop would be 25 per
cent, below the average, while the stock of
the world is 1,000,000 bags below last year's
total, and consumption i; largely increasing,
caused a sVxrp rise ot jventy points, and
the market closed at 1 to 1J cents per
pound higher than the opening in all options.
Henry Hentz and J. A. Drakely were the
brokers who did most of the buying. It
could not be learned who their principals
were, but i was supposed that they acted
for the Arbuckles.
KJectnient of Colored Children.
Felicity, O., Dec 5. The forcible eject
ment of colored children from the public
schools two weeks ago has created much ex
citement. A number of prominent citizens
went before the grand jury and had seven
teen prominent citizens indicted for riot.
Friends of the indicted men have raised a
fund to prosecute tho colored witnesses for
perjury. The colored children are now es
corted to and from school under guard.
Typhoid Fever at Providence.
Providence, Dec. o. There has been a
sudden increase in the n umber of typhoid
fever cases Reported to the health depart
ment during the past fivo days, and the dis
ease is now more prevalent than at any
time since 1882. There a: e seventy-five cases
in this city. " The recent excessive rainfall is
thought to have some connection with, 'he
i origin of the" disease, as similar conditions
prevailed six years ago.
A DETECTIVE'S THEORY.
Ue Tninks Phil Daly Was Shot by Addle
Stanton Thronjjh. Jealousy.
New York, Dec. 5. A theory of the
shooting of Gambler Phil Daly in a demi
cnondain's room at No. 406 Fourth avenue,
Monday afternoon, which is at least plausi
ble, was that of aetective who refused to
permit publication of his name.
"I think," he said, "that Addie Stanton shot
the big fellow. I don't believe there was an
other man about the place when the shot was
firod. Phil is pretty fly, and ho realized at
once that ho would have to invent some
story that would satisfy his friends, and
he concocted the story of the badger game.
Had there been two male murders in the
case the fellows wouldn't have' been such
suckers as to let Phil get away alive with all
his wealth about him after once having shot
him. Neither would they have been smart
enough to get away by the fire escape in the
rear of the house. In their hurry to get
away they would have gone down the front
stairs. None of the neighbors admit that
any strange men got out of the yard through
their premises. I think the Stanton woman
suot Phil from jealousy or some other motive
tbat only she and PhU know
Capt jfenw on the other hand, said that
the police knew who the men were who shot
Daly, but that is all he would say.
Superintendent Murray said that the bad
ger and panel games are essentially the same,
and that Phil Daly was not the victim of the
"badger" game, for the sufficient reason that
the trap into which Daly fell was not a bad
ger trap. I
The explanation of the disappearance of
the men who figured in the episode is that
they got out of a rear window into the court .
behind the house, and made their escape by
passing through the entry of one of the ad- '
lointng bouses that front on Fourth avenue.
A WELL OF REFINED OIL.
.'eiroleura Comes from the Groyjnd Ready
for Use Kzcltemont Over New Wells.
Pittsburg, Dec. 5. On the Summerville
'arm, three miles north of Brady's Bend,
ihere is an oil well which is a curios; ty from
;he faot that its product has been refined by
lature, and as a consequence its owner, Mr,
ISummerville, sells tho oil to consumers direct.
The neighbors burn it in their lamps without
its having gono through any process. Ex
perts say that natural gas aids in the refining
process. There is a gas woW alongside of the
oil welL The gas forces the crude petroleum
through sand and gravel in some manner
unknown, and in that way it is c)sared of
refuse matter, and made suitable for illumi
nating purposes.
Grsen Ridge, Ph., Doc, 5, :Thero is in
tense excitement in Wayne county over the
reported discovery of oil In several townships.
In Paupack the people have raised $6,000,
and are going to begin boring as soon as the
necessary machinery can be procured. In
Bethany the people are intensely wrought
up, and where they haven't the ready money
they are mortgaging their farms and homes
in order to raise it.
Testimony Against the league.
London, Dec. 5,. The author? of the. pla
card made public last week announcing a '
lecture by Fitzmaurica and Mitchell ap-!
peared before the Parnell commission and
made an apology, which was aecepted. A
man named Kollehar testified that a party
of moonlighters, under threats of burning
his house, entered it and assaulted his wife
and family. He had to swear loyalty to tho
League and quit the employment of a farmer
under boycott. A man named Connor testi
fied that George Swiss and John O'Counoll
induced him to join the inner circle of the
League, known as "Tho Boys," declaring
that it was a fine thing to be a soldier of Par
nell's, and promising him good pay for doing
almost nothing. Thomas O'Connor, son of a
farmer living near Castle Island, swore that
Timothy Harrington paid a man named
Brosnan and himself 7 to commit outrages
in 1SS0. j
Marriage Brokerage Fees.
Washington, Dec. 5. A peculiar case,
growing out of a lovers' quarrel was settled
in the courts yesterday. George Sieman, an,
inmate of tho Soldiers' IJame, was engaged
to Mali Bernstein, the daughter of a Jewish
rabbi. As the wedding day approached his
love cooled, and finally he broke off the en
gagement. The rabbi had expended $300 for
his daughter's trosseau. The rabb: engaged
the services of Nathan Horn to have Sieman
put up $500 as a forfeit in case he should not
marry the girl, promising him $50 for his
services. He succeeded, but the rabbi ref used,
to pay over his commission, and Horn brought
suit. He recovered.
Burglars Tracked and Captured.
Erie, Pa., Dec. 5. At least a dozen hur-
glaries haye been committed in this city and.
adjoining territory recently, the Josses to.
merchants and others being heavy. Three
men blew open the safes in Schlosser's planing
mill and the Erie nickel plate works. They
were seen hiding their tools, and tracked in
the snow to the Globe hotel. After a desper
ate resistance they were overpowered and
jailed. They gave their names as John Spen
cer, George Powell and J ohn Irving. They
are believed to be the leaders of the gang that
has been committing depredations in those
parts.
Suing in a Dead Man's Name.
Boston, Dec. 5. Apropos of an El Paso
dispatch, stating that W. F. Driesman hag
sued the government for $293, his. share of
the Jeff Davis capture reward, an evening
paper here says; "The records of the Suffolk
probate court show chat W. F. Driesman
died here in 1S73, and tho inventory of his
personal property includes a treasury draft
for $293.."
Resisting Evictiom with Force.
Fort Dodge, Ia, Dec. 5. The river land
settlers have decided to resist with force any
further attempts to evict them from their
lauds. A ineeting was held Sunday, which
was attended by nearly all of the landhold
ers. After a long discussion it was voted to
shoot the officers if any further evictions are
attempted.
Dr. McGill Seriously 111.
Princeton, N. J., Dec 5. Rev.. A. T. Mc
Gill, emeritus professor of theology in the
Theological seminary here, js seriously ill
Chancellor McGill, his son, and other mem
bers of the family have been summoned. Dr.
McGill is 80 years of age, and has been
growing very feeble oV" .
William Takes an Outing.
Berlin, Dec 5. The emporor drove out
yesterday, his first outing in ten days. The
Court Circular announces that the state of
the emperor's health is perfectly satisfactory,
and asserts that during his confinement he
attended to his official work without inter
ruption. ' "
Death of Gen. Ayr.es. RvT?l
New York, Dec 5. Maj. Gen. Romeyn
B. Ayres, U. S. A., died suddenly at Fort
Hamilton, after an illness of several months,
aged 62 years. 1
Raaala, Ha a Surplus, Top. '
St. PETERSBtny, Dec 5, The minister of
finance states $hat the surplus in the Russian
treasury for 1887 was 56 600,000 roubles.
HAYTI IS III TROUBLE.
Another United States Cruiser
to Visit Her.
IT MEANS BUSINESS THIS TIME.
Secretary IViyard Declares tiie Seizure ol
the Hay Man Republic Unlawful, and
Fall Reparation Will lie Demanded.
Story of the Ontr!s:.
New York, Dec. ft. It is tip .oted that
within tho next twenty-f oar hour. tho United
States corvette Galena will -ail from the
Brooklyn navy yard unlet- orders u proctHd
with all dispatch to K.i l-cu -1 rti:ce, Hayti,
the seat of the rovola io j on that i-.laa l, and
demand from the Haytian government the
release of the American steamship Haytian
Republic, which was saiztd by i ho Haytian
gunboat Dessalines so'n time ago for alleged
violation of the blockade laws while iu the
port of St. Marc.
This expectation is based upon tho decision
of Secretary Bayard ia Washington, who
yesterday wrote tho agents of U:e iil fated
American steamship that "tho validity of
the seizure and of the subsequent proceed
ings of allegad condemnation of the Haytian
repuoiic cannot be admitted." "1 have sq
informed Mr. Prestan, t:ie Kaytian repre
sentative at this capital," writes Secretary
Bayard, "who has been instructed by Lis
government to refer the case of the Haytian
republic to tho government of the United
States."
The Haytian Republic is an American
steamship flying the American flag. She ia
owned by B. C. Moore & Co., No. 31 Com
mercial street, I oston, and her agents in this
city are Lord & Austin, of No. 18 Broadway.
The story of the seizure of the ship and her
condemnation by a Haytian prize court has
already been toll. The vessel sailed from
New York Oct. 4 with a general cargo,
bound for different ports along the Haytian
coast. After leaving St. Marc, Hayti, she
Was stopped while upon the high seas by a
shot fired across her bows from the Haytian
gunboat Dessalinea.
Capt. Compton, tho Yankee skipper, hovo
his vessel to and she was boarded by an
armed crew from the Dessalines, who com
pelled the skipper to steam to Port-au-Prince,
with the guns of the Haytian warship aimed
at the American ship. The officials in Port-au-Prince
ordered Capt. Compton to haul
down the American flag, which was con
spicuously displayed from tho man royal
truck of his. vessel, but Ue refused. He was
then ordered to abandon his ship and come
ashore with his crow, as they had all been
made prisoners of war, but again the gallant
Compton defied the Haytians.
The crew were sent north, but the captain,
remained at his post, declining to. give up his
ship or desert the Stars and Stripes.
The Haytian government ordered a prize
court, which condemned the American steam
ship, declared it a legal prize and ordered
Capt. Compton to haul down his. flag, In tho
meantime the Federal government had dis
patched the United States steel cruiser Boston
to Port-au-Prince, with instructions to Capt.
F. M. Ramsay to investigate tho seizure.
Capt. Ramsay demanded the release of tho
Haytian republic, upon the ground that she
had been illegally seized, but Gen. Legitime,
the head of the so-called provisional govern
ment in Port-au-Prince, preferred to refer
the case to our government at Washington
for final decision. The Boston returned tq
port, bringing all the papers and documents,
in the case, together with a full report made,
by Capt. Ramsay,
Mr. Austin said that the owners of the
ship would leave everything to the govern
ment now. He said: "We shall bring suit
against the Haytian government under Gon.
Legitime. The passengers were ill treated,
one of the crew has died of yellow fever on
board while at Port-au-Prince, and
of all the officers and crew have
dangered.'l
the lives,
been eu-
A Jlefereo Assaulted.
Newark, N. J Dec, 5. In the fight be
tween Charles Allen and James Murphy in a
barn, Thomas Howard, the referee, gave
what was considered by some of the specta
tors an unfair decision in the matter of a foul
blow. He was set upon by tho crowd and
terribly beaten, and during the scrimmage a
pistol ball fired by some unknown person
passed clear through the hand of Owen Mc
Gettrick, of Rutherford. The pjstoj s,hot
ended the fight.
Fiendish Parents.
Cantqn, Q,, Dec 5. Mr. and Mrs, George
Seehollz were arrested for cruelty to then'
C-yearold daughter. They had severely pun
ished her, and then the mother, while the
father held the girl, drew a red hot poker
across her hands, burning her terribly.
CONDENSED NEWS.
Tho tides in the Bay of Fundy and other
waters have been phenomenally high for
several days.
The death of Mrs. Jay Gould is momentar
ily expected. She is unconscious.
The Spanish government has consented to
reintrodnce a bill to reform the army. j
Nine men accused of being White Caps
have been arrested at Eckerly, Ind, They
all gave bail.
Hugh Fenry, of New York, fell from a
train at Columbus, O., Monday night, and
roceived fatal injuries.
It is reported that the German government
will ask the reichstag for 50,000,000 marks
to equip field artillery.
The court house at Georgetown, Q., was
almost destroyed by an incendiary fire Mon
day night tq get rid of evidence being pre
pared for the grand jury against the White
Caps.
Burglars captured and bound the night
watchman, engineer and . assistant engineer
of the Barge packing house, Sioux City, Ia.,
Monday morning, and tried to burst open
the safe, but had to abandon the task. They
robbed the men of $65 cash.
' Flagman Walker succeeded in rescuing
two young girls from being dashed to pieces
by the fast mail near Herkimer, but in the
endeavor he lost his own life.
It i3 reported that the Russian ambassador ,
at Teheran will be recalled. i
Theodore Haslehurst, one of the most
prominent Masons in New York state, and a
leading citizen and business man of Troy,
committed suicide by shooting. No cause is
known.
James O'Neill, a hatter, of Haverhill, Mass.,
shot his wife four times while drunk. She ia
dying and he is in jaiL
Dr. Lenggenhager, of Utica, N. Y., is dead
from the effect of blood poisoning, resulting
from the scratch of a pin on his hand, the
pin being in the garment of a diphtheria pa
tient whom he was attending.
Two workmen were fatally crushed a.nd
other workmen and two, policemen were se
verely cjut by the falling' of a wall of the
MeCHary company's building , burned at Lon
don," Ont , last week. The two men fatally
hurt had been, thrown ou Dt wort Dy tne
Are and were maintaining be running ex-
ui .ai a- Kwuuroa uj " -"
moving the debris.
rD REVOLT.
Miners in Convention Considering Whether
'to Withdraw from the K. of L
Columbus, O., Dec 5. National Trade
Assembly No. 135 of the Knights of Labor,
colonised of miners and mine laborers, are
in session here to decide whether or not they
wi-l remain in the Knights of Labor or com
bine with t he National Federation of Miners
and Mine Laborers, and form one general
organisation of their craft. W. T. Lewis,
who was one of General Master Workman
Powderly's bitterest opponents at the Indian
apolis session of the General assembly, is
national master workman of No. 135, and it
was at his instance that this spjcial session
pf the assembly was called.
Mr. Lewis feels certain that a great major
ity of the convention is with him in with
drawing, and that National Assembly No.
1'55 will soon be a thing of the past. "We
can only hope to achieve success," he says,
"through combining with the miners in the
open nines. On the other band, General
Master Workman Powderly says that he has
letters from over 200 local assemblies in the
national assembly saying that they will re-
fuso to leave the order. No matter what de
cision is arrived at, there will be a split."
WEST VIRGINIA'S ELECTION.
ueiicf "lliat a Democratic Governor
Is
Xleeteil After All.
Charleston, W. a., Dec. 5. The
re-
count in this county is completed. The re
count shows that Aldorson (Dem.), for con
gress trom the '1 hird district, gained 25 in
tne city, which elects him by 17. Fleming
(Dem.), for governor, trained 28 votes. This
will, it is believed, give the Democrats the
governor also.
Washington, Dec 5. The news of the
result of the recount in Charle-toa, W. Va,
uy wmcn Alderson, Democrat candidate
for congress from the Third district, receives
a majority of 17, and the election of Fleming
democratic candidate lor governor, is prob
ably assured, did not seem to disturb the
itepuDlican leaders. They assert that their
majority in the house in the Fifty- first con
gress, with the West Virginia delegation
soumy JJomocratic, will be 5.
Splashed with Molten Iron.
riTTSBURG, Dec. 5. About 7 o'clock last
evening a terrible accident occurred in the
converting department of the Bessemer steel
works at Sheenberger's Fourteenth street
mill. A large ladle filled with molten steel
was accidently overturned, the contents
splas,h.in over five employes, who were hor
ribly burned. Henry Schweitzer died an
hour later. Albert Stokes is fatally burned
and Michael Hurley will hardly survive his
injuries. Two others were badly burned
a1 .-X Ai 1 1 1 1 IV . ...
ttuoub iub neaa ana soouiaers, but will re
cover.
New Haven Goes Republican.
New Haven, Dec. 5. The Republicans
eiecreu tneir candidates lor mayor (first in
eight years), town agent (first in ten years)
and sheriff and a majority of the aldermen
and council The Democrats elected the city
treasurer and city clerk. The result is due
to factional dissensions among the Democrats.
A Monster Spouting Well.
Waverly, Ia., Dec 5. A party of well
drillers on the farm of Jay Cook, a few
mues east, or inis city, recency strucK a
"spouter" that has assumed the magnitude
of a geyser, and rivals that of Belle Plain
notoriety. The well spouts a stream 12 feet
high and 8 inches in diameter.
Arrested for Murdering a Prisoner.
-Buffalo, lex., Dec. 5. Three prominent
citizens have been arrested for the murder of
Robert Martin in May last, whilo under ar
rest. It is now charged that Sheriff Linston
purposely put Martin in range of tho am
bushed assassins.
Split in the lioulanger Party.
T . T-v " . .... .
.TAMis, ijeo. a. a. spue nas occurred m
the Boulanger party, which is rapidly de
veloping into serious proportions.
Weather Indications.
Rain; warmer; southwesterly winds
TRADE BULLETIN.
New xork Money and Produce Market
Quotations.
jnew x ork, iec, 4, iMoney closed at 3 per
cent, me mg bust rate was 4 ami the lowest 2
per cent. IVKCUange closed steady ; posted rates
4-854.89; actual rates, 4.84?4.85 for 00 days
and 4.88"44-88 for demaud. Governments
closed steady; currency Cs, 118 bid; 4s, coup., IStjiJa
tua; 4$s, ao ius ta.
Paeifio railroad bonds closed as follows: Uuion
firsts, Il3(gkll6; Union land grants, 10i105; Union
sinking funds, 119121; Centrals, 113115.
Nearly all stocks were firmer throughout the
forenoon than during the same hours of yester
day. There was less offering of stocks, and no
long stock came upon tho market at any time
during the morning, while the bears not only
ceased their hammering, but were trying to cover.
The opening puoes were up U to M per cent.
higher, and in the two hours to noon f urther ad
vances ranging trom M to 1J4 per cent, were re.
corded. In the hour from noon to 1 o'clock there
was a fractional reaction. The market during
the afternoon was extremely dull, while prices
were irregular, ana so closed, t rie sales ror tne
day amounted, to 887,834 shares.
General Markets.
New York, Dec. 4. FLOUR Closed quiet, with
holders somewhat stronger in their views; fine
grades of winter, S2.53.15; do. spring, $2.
superfine winter, S3.25(S.3.(i5; do. spring, $33.50;
extra No. 2 winter, $3.504; city mill extra, $5.1Q
5.35, for West Indies. Southern flour dull, but
steady; trade and family brands, $1.1Q6l
"WHEAT Options were dull and irregular dur-
ing;the morning dealings, but in the last half the
prices strengthened. Just before the close a re
port was circulated that three vessels were load'
ing with wheat at Saa Francisco for Australia
and two for Chili. This caused a sharp advance,
but a little investigation of the charter records of
the Maritime Exchange failed to show any such
charters, and in the final deaUngs there was a
sharp selling. The closing figures show an ad
vance of to 3c. Spot lots closed stronger. Spot
sales of No. 1 red at $1.10i.l2; extra red, $1.10;
No. 2 red $1.04(1.06; No. I white, $l.081.10;
white state, $1.08ai.l0; No. 2 red winter, Dec.
Sl.05-; do., Jan., $1.0(5; do., Feb., $1.0726; do.,
March, $1.09.
CORN Options were dull, but steady, closing
at about yesterday's prices. Spot lots closed
A THREA1
vtamoT- miv! 4ft3.d!il4f. reinfifced. aS'riL : irJTTlOme
mixed, Dec-, 47J4c; do., Jan., 47c; do., Feb.,
48Jjc.; do., March, 47c.
OATS Options were fairly active and firm at
about yesterday's prices. Spot lots closed quiet.
Spot sales of No. 1 white at 41c. ; No. 2 do.,
85c; No. 1 mixed, 32J4c; No. 2 do., 813la;
No. 2 Chicago, 32c; No. 3 mixed, Dec, 31)c. ;
do.. Jan., Sdc; da, Feb., 34&c.
RYE IiltU,
BAJRLEY Nominal; No. 1 Canada, lc.
PORK Closed quiet; mess, $14.7515.25.
LARD Closed steady; Dec. sold at $a.308.35;
Jan., 8.13; March, $8.07a8-15-
BUTTER Dull and weak; eastern creamery,
343Gc. ; western da,, 334J35C.
CHEESE Firm; factory New York Cheddar,
liii9a; western flat, ioilc. -
EGGS Quiet; fresh eastern tirst8,2627c. ; west
ern do., 2525e,; Canadian firsts, iy19c.
,-. SUGAR Raw dull, but firm and higher; fair
refining, 5J4o, Refined moderately active and
firm; cut loaf and crushed, 8J4c; cubes, 7o.;
powdered 7c.; granulated, 747e. ; mold A,
794c; confectioners' A, 7c. ; coffee A standard,
7c. ; coffee off A, 6 ll-iea ; white extra O,
. 666BJl0c.; extra C, tt6c.; O, 5 13-16Q
a i5-ioc.;'yeuow, o y-ioyo iwoc.
COTTON Spot closed quiet: p.ilddUng up.
lands, 9c ,
Only One Case on Eecord.
The late William Warren was a wit ai
well as a comedian. Deshlfr Welch's bright
little paper, The Theatre, relates that on ont
occasion Mr. Warren was asked why he did
not go more into society.
"Why should I!" he asked.
"Because," was the reply, "everybody
wants to meet you. If you would only give
us a chance we would be delighted to lioniz4
you."
'Oh, well," he said, "it's much better as ii
is; I never knew of but one man who was
not spoiled by lionizing."
"Who was he?"
'The prophet DanieL" Detroit Free Press,
At a Whist Table.
"Whose deal is itr
"Who dealt last!"
"You; didn't you?"
"I don't know."
"Oh, it's Mr. B's deal."
"Why, so it is?"
"What's trumps?"
"Diamonds."
"Diamonds? Well, if I ain't got the aw-
fullest hand." , ,
"Well, I just haven't got a thing."
"I never did have quite such awful luck."
"Whose play is it?"
"Let me see, what's trumps?"
"Diamonds."
"Oh, so it is; how stupid of me to forget."
"It's your play."
"Oh, is it? What led?"
"Spades."
"Let me see, now um um spades led
and diamonds are trumps?"
"Hurry and play."
"Oh! if you didn't have ten trumps."
"Who took that trick?"
"You mean thing."
"O-o-ohl if you didn't make four! YouVi
horrid! Whose deal is itr
Then they say it all over again. Time
In a Nutshell.
Ella Wheeler composed one of her poema
while rocking her baby brother to sleep in
bis cradle. This accounts for the rocky na
ture of the meter of the poem.
The crown prince of Greece dislikes pub
licity, and often travels in third class rail
way coaches. In this respect he shares to
some degree tho peculiarities of the Ameri
can tramp.
Lord Tennyson calls Mary Anderson "a
living, breathing poem." If she is a poem,
she is one that no sane unmarried editoi
would reject
A Dedham man has a brindlo dog that can
climb a tree That man's daughters must
stand a mighty poor show of cettinff mar
ried.
Women can't vote, except for school cony
mittee; but they can veto, as suffering men
unfortunately know. Somerville Journal.
First Principles of Trade.
Jake Mrs. Growler wants two more yardi
of that cloth sho bought hero yesterday, bul
sho says we charged her ten cents more than
Wool & Co.
Dealer How much did they charge hert
Jake Sixty cents, and we've been getting
seventy for it.
Dealer Well, why don't she buy it at
Wool's then?
Jake They haven't any; nobody in towa
has it except us.
Dealer How much did you say it was
yard?
Jako Seventy cents.
Dealer And she wants two yards moret
Jake Yes.
Dealer Nobody else has it!
J ake Nobody.
Dealer Well, let her have it for ninety
cents, then. Detroit Free Press.
No Moro Browning.
"Are you going into the Browning club
business as steep this winter as you did last,
Katg?"asked Miss Chicago of her friend Miss
St Louis:
'VNot by a long shot," replied Miss Kate,
emphatically. "A reaction has struck our
Browning club, as I knew it would. We've
oted to cheese Browning and have some of
our good, old fashioned taff ey pullings and
cotillon and euchre parties this winter. How
we ever got drawn into that Browning snap
is a mystery to me, anyhow." Time
Jimmy's Experiment.
3
Jimmy went to the fair grounds and saw a
balloon inflated with gas. Upon his return
his experiment upon Samuel (the
youngest) was a perfect success. Life.
No Man for the Place.
First Honest Dealer I see that Jim Good
man is no longer in your employ.
Second Honest Dealer No; I discharged
him a week ago.
First Honest Dealer Didn't take hold welL.
did he?
Second Honest Dealer Oh, yes; first rate.
First Honest Dealer Then why did you
discbarge him?
Second Honest Dealer Because he always
persisted in getting off the load when it watf
being weighed. Yankee Blade.
Tho English, We Use.
"Naomi, there is one reason why every
body should admire you." ,-j
"And what is that, George?" i
"You use only pure English So many
young ladies have that detestable habit of
interlarding their sentences with slang-,!
Don't you abhor it?"
"Well, yes, it does moke me rather tired.
Lincoln Journal. ' . " '