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alfd be passed. He is the toil/' toenA—r I have found who thinks that way. They have little -fchow in this session. THE PITBIAC rum. Extracts from the Annual Report of the Treasurer of the Ini ted States. Nov. £B.—'The annual Tep®rt of the Treasurer of the United States shows that the net revenues ufttie povemrmerrt were less than in 1883 by $49,707,712. The decrease in receipts 'from customs was $19,639,007; in receipts from miscellaneous sous-oee $8,849,248. From the ag gregate of these items should be deducted an increase of $1,854,840 in receipts from sales of public lands, leaving the net reduction as stated abore. The net expenditures aggregate $214,126.244. a decrease from the amount in 1563 of S2I,‘JM.BJi3. The surplus applicable to reduction of the public debt amounted to $104,393,625, a decrease of $28,483,818 from that of the previous year. The items of expenditures showing a decrease are as follows: On account of War Deportment, $9,481,779; Interior Department. $11,469,936; interest on the public debt, $4,581,752. There was an increase of $2,242,411 in expenditures on account of aivil and miscellaneous, uml of $2,009,164 ra expenditures on account of the Navy Department. The disburses officers of the United States had to their credit -on th® boot* of the treasury, at the close of the year, $32,463,980. The statement of assets and liabilities for Sffpt 30, 1884, shows that the general balance was reduced from $163,232,463. in 18&L to $3 44), 525.062. in 1884, a reduction of $13,707,400. The aegrecate amount ot gold and .silver coin and bullion ■held by the treasury increased from $.352,410,809, in 1883, to $395,216,297 in 1884, an increase of $42,705,487. The gross assets increased from #456,119,817, in 1883, to $519,690,249, an increase of $03,570,431 from Nov. 1, IdHl. tx> Nor. 1, 1984. The reserve decreased $12,752,255, or from $160,822,545 to $148,070,290. There were nominally outstanding, at the close off the fiscal year, silver certificates amounting to $120,891,691. an increase of $32,274,860 during this year; the amount held by the treasury increased from $15,996,145 to $23/384.680, thus leaving actually outstanding $97,507,§11 — an actual increase of $24,886,325. The amount of standard silver dollars coined to Sept 30, 1884. was $182,380,820, of which the treasury held $142,349,409; of this amount, $97,094,881 wae for redemption of silver certificates outstanding: the amount in circulation was $39,£01,953, or about 21.8 per cent of the total coinage. As usual, the amount outstanding reached the highest point in December, when it exceeded $41,000,690 —an aggregate never before reached. The de crease in June was not as great as in previous years, probably owing .to tne scarcity of $1 and $2 notes, and on September 30 the amount was $680,717 greater than at the same date in 1883. Counterieits of various kinds, amounting to $11,060, were detected during the year. Asa consequence of the inability of the treasury, under the existing practice, to use either silver dollars or silver certificates in its settlements with the New York Clearing-house, whereby, for the greatet part, its disbursements are made, the available gold ran down from $155,429,600 on Jan. 1, 1884, to $116,479,979 on Aug. 12, 1884, while the silver dollars and bullion on hand represented by silver certificates outstanding, increased during the same period from $27,266,037 to $48,603,958. Asa temporary expedient to stop this drain of gold from the treasury, the assistant treasurer at New York was directed to use in payments to the clearing-house, United States notes to the extent of one-lialf the payments, but the payments of these notes into the treasury, which, at the time this mode of payment was commenced, had accumulated beyond its needs, has now become so much reduced that they are no longed available tor such payments to any considerable extent. If a return to the former practice of making payments entirely in gold or gold certificates shall result in a continuous loss of gold to the treasury, which is not made up to a sufficient extent by receipts of gold from other sources, the question must soon arise for decision by the department oi? to whether it will continue to make in gold, or its representative, payments now made through the clearing-house, or use in its payments silver dollars or thmr representative certificates in the same proportion to the relation which the silver dollars in the treasury not held for redemption of certificates outstanding bear to the available assets, and to an extent similar to that in which they are used at other (offices of the treasury. During the fiscal year, $126,152,572 in national bank notes were presentedfor redemption, being 22.83 per cent more than £h© preceding year; of die amount presented, $86,922,000, or 68.90 per cent, came from four cities —New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. This increase of 22.83 per cent in the amount of bank notes presented for redemption reflects th® condition of the mercantile and monetary affairs of the country, as shown by the reports of increasing business failures and decrea.dng clearinghouse LraA9&et4ons. and it is a continuation of the course that bank-note redemptions has been pursuing, year by year, since 188 L The fiscal year last pnded doses ten years of national bank-note redemptions tinder the act of June 20, 1874, and the aggregate amoun tof turnk notes presented for redemption during tin; ten years, expressed in round numbers, was $1,404,000,000, a yearly average of $140,000,000 The actual redemptions varied widely from this average, running up to $242,000,000 in 1877 and falling off to $59,000,000 in 1881. The aggregate amount of bank notes presented for redemption during tlie first five years (1875-79) was $978,000,000, while the aggregate amount of the last five years (1880-84) was but $426,000,000. In noyear of the last five did the redemption equal those of any of the first five years. The large redemp ri&rjß of the years 1875-79 were, to some extent, due to the depression in business succeeding the financial and commercial panic of 1873, and the comparatively small redemptions m the last five years, 1860-84, may be attributed to the recovery. during those years, from the effect* of that panic, the increased activity of business and the benefits attending resumption of specie pay mentis. The statistics of the ten years show that redemptions are invariably affected by business seasons, decreasing in the spring and autumn, when trado is active, and increasing in midwinter and midsummer, when trade is dull.

IHJE CIVIL-SKKVICJ: KJ-XISSL. Senator Edmunds Points Out a Serious Tiefeet in the Law. Washington Special. Senator Edmunds, it is said, has pointed out a serious defect in the civil-service rules, which, in his opinion, is a plain violation of the civilservice law. The rule referred to exempts from examination and puts outside the provisions regulating entry into the civil service, among others, the chiefs of divisions and chief clerks of departments or office. The question is, by what authority are they exempted? All of these officers may be now discharged without cause, and their places filled directly from civil life, as before the law was passed. As all, or nearly all, now in the service have been gradually promoted to their present grade un account of experience and fitness for higher trust, they are, under this interpretation of the law now enforced, placed in the anomalous position of being subject to, and inviting, as it were, immediate dismissal for having deserved promotion. This, Senaior Edmunds says, attacks the very object of the law to itnprovo the civil service of the United States. The commissioners contend that under Provision b of Section 2. they are empowered, w ith the approval of the President, to make any nec -sary exceptions from the eight funda mental provisions of tbe rales which put it in their power to nullify the intent of the act, and all they are required by the law to do is to give the reasons then for in the next annual report. If one class of employes whose experience and fitness ought to protect them from removal, except for cause, can be exempted from the intent of the law, another and still another class may lie included in the rule, and thus Senator Edmunds is quoted as saying the object of the law will have been defeated. With an administration favorable to tho letter and spirit of the rules which have the force of law, it is urged that there is nothing to be feared; with oue which might find the loopholes convenient, there is, it is said, every pronjise for evading them. This,

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it appoAra, lihs caused a .great flutter among ttie advocates of the civil-service reform, and hence a stricter and more perfect classification of the entire clerical foroe in government emidoy may be looked for in a few weeks, so as to include ail . the subordinate }Aaes. oleifcsand offiaere in the public service and hitherto classified and above the grade of messengers and laborers, and Zlulc 19 abrogated nr modified, so as to limit j the exception's only to those employed in conjfidentiaJ or fiduciaiy relations. THE FIRE RttCOEk Furniture TVweroom Rurutid —1 right Among Hotel GueKtf. Pjtthbtbg. Nov. 28.—Fire broke out to-night at 9*’cl©ck in the building'Occupied by Edmumson & Sons as a furniture wareroom in the Tear of the Avenue Hotel. In the wareroom was stored a large lot of holiday *Sork, and before the fiames wore oon trolled the Ethuunsons sustained 5 a loes'Of $59,'009, and the building, which is owned by John Daub, was damaged $20,000. Great difficulty was experienced in getting at the flames an account of the narrow passageway, and for a while it was thotaglit the Sevemtfc~avenue Hotel wonld fall a prey to the fiery -element, as the roof and cornices erf the hotel were on fire several times. This caused the greatest consternation among the guests and female servants, and the ensuing excitement was intense. The men, not waiting for porters, carried their trunks down stairs and deposited them m places ors safety, while the women and children Tan about wildly, wringing their hands, *.nd several fainted. Fortunately, no person **rs injured, and in an hour after the fire department had, mastered the flames confidence was restored, and the guests and servants returned to their rooms. The damage to the hotel was about SI,OOO. The total loss wi2l reach nearly $75,000, on which there is ample insurance. The unigin >of the fire is not known. Elevatnr and Woend Yard Burned. Jacksonville, Fla, Nov. 28.—Fire broke out this morning at 5 o'clock, in liartfs elevator and mill. The elevator, Decatte's woodyard, and one small dwelling were totally consumed. Doss about $60,000; insurance about $25,900. .Stable aud Carriage-House Burned. Xewbuiw, N. Y,, No*. 28. Smith 4c rancher's stable and carriage-house, at Cornwall, burned to-day, with seven valuable horses. Loss, $25,000; partially insured. Flouring Mill Burned. Oh 100. CaL, Nov. 28.—Fir® this afternoon completely destroyed die flour mill owned by John Bidwell. Loss, $40,000; insured for $28,000. in a Dry Goods Store. Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 28.—Fire to-night in the dry goods store of Mrs. Elizabeth Moynan damaged the stock $45,000. Partially insured, TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The imports of dry pood at the port of Xaw Tori for the week ending yesterday were sl, - 302,000; amount marketed, $1,479,009. Twenty-four thousand bushels of No. 2 red wheat were posted ou the New York Produce Exchange, at noon yesterday, as out of condition on Commercial wharf. The extensive lumber firm of Woods, Perry & Cos., of Cleveland, burned out -during the great conflagration, last September, has resumed business ou as large a scale as ever. At Syracuse, N. Y., Peter C. Griswold. Charles MoCord, Joseph Watson, and Thomas Benson, slaters, by the giving way of a scaffold, fell from the roof of the new St Paul's Church. Griswold will die. On Thursday evening. Norris Eaton, farmer, residing near the town of Manlius, N. Y., who has been annoyed by skunks stealing chickens, shot at a black spot in a straw stack and killed an unknown man hidden there. William Barss, of Chester, Warren county, New York, a farmer, was called to his door, Wednesday night, by a person who said he had been sent to notify him that his relatives were sick. As the door opened, two men hound him, placing a revolver at his head, anu compelled him to give up a gold watch and $1,500. The Princeton and Yale foot ball teams played a match game on the polo grounds at New York, on Thursday, in the presence of 15,000 people. Hardly had the rushers of Yale made a kick at the wind-bag when both sides became angry, and more or less of a free fight was mingled with the game, which in the end was declared a draw. Every one of the twenty-two players was a sorry sight of mud and blood at the finish.

A Dishonest Prison Clerk. Kashas Orr, Not. 28.—James C. Pusey, chief cleric of the Kansas State penitentiary, at Leavenworth, has disappeared. He is omler charge of defrauding the State out of about $3,000 by means of false vouchers. It now transpires that he was recognized on the street in this city last evening. Examination of the booVs may show further defalcations. Pusey was formerly connected with the Missouri Pacific railroad, at St. Louis. It is thought he has gone toward Mexico. Malictous Destruction of Property. Columbus, 0., Nov. 28.—One of the hoppers at Straitsville was fired about 7 o'clock this evening, and a crowd of men refused to let the citizens put it out. The fire department was called out, hut did nothing- Finally one man rushed in, others followed, and tho flames were extinguished. Several shots were fired te intimidate those who wanted to put the fire out. All the -mines at Straitsville are closed and the company is holding tho county responsible for damage to its property. Mr. Randall at Atlanta. Atlanta, Nov. 28.—Sanmel J. Randall and party arrived at noon to-day to attend the State Democratic demonstration. The party were invited to seats on the floor of the House of Iteppresentative, and the body adjourned in Mr. Randall's honor. On being presented to the Legislature, Mr. Randall said he took pleasure in congratulating the people of the country; they have thrown aside tne expression “solid South” and “solid North,” and tne people of the whole country are now nailed in tho cause of good government. Chicago Market (.notations. Chicago. Nov. 28. —1 tis understood a partial compromise has been effected by which tho Board of Trade will continue to furnish the Western Union Telegraph Company with its market reports, and they will be sent to all correspondents of the Western Union pending on effort to set asiJh certain injunctions now in force against the telegraph company, which prevent it from cutting off quotations from various “bucket shops. ” Colored Man Lynched. Baltimore, Nov. 28. —A report has readied here that George Briscoe, colored, was lynched, on Wednesday night, at Newbridge, Anne Arundel county. this State. He was charged with robbery, and when delivered to a constable to be taken to jail at Annapolis, a crowd waylaid tlra constable, took Briscoe and hanged him. He had previously been warned to leave the county because of frequent robberies in the neighborhood. Contesting Miss Woltou’s Will. New llavkn, Conn.. Nov. 28 —Relatives of Carrie J. Welton, the Waterbury git-1 frozen to death on Pike's Peak, have determined to contest her will, on the ground of mental unsounfiness. There is no dispute over the fact that she signed and duly executed the will offered for probate at Waterbury, but the heirs-at-law claim that they have been unduly wronged by legacies and bequests out of the family. Offielnl Vote of Washington' Territory. PoiiTLANn, Ore., Irov. 28 —Washington Territory's official vote shows Voorheess, Democrat, delegate to Congress. 20,993; Armstrong. Republican, 20,849; the total vote in 1882 was 19,496, showing an increase of 22,348 in two years. Women cast between and 11,000 votes. Obituary. Lancaster Pa., Nov. 28.—Thomas Franklin, Attorney general of Pennsylvania under Governors Johnston and .Pollotjt. died in Uus city, this eveniug, aged seventy four.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS ■Coolest Over the Will of a Deceased Wealthy Resident of Vincennes, A Railway Company Pays a Barge Judgment —A Destitute Woman Poisons Herself and Her Two Children. INDIANA Contesting the Will of William J, Wise — A Half million at Stake. Special to the Xndinuapolut Journal. Vincennes, Nov. 28. —The celebrated Wise will-cotrtest case occupied the attention of the Knox Circuit Court to day. This contest involves over a half million dollars, and is one of the most interesting cases ever brought up in the courts of southern Indiana. William J. Wise, deceased, the testator, was an old bachelor, 70 years of age. and his last will, made in 1880, made Elisabeth Miles, Mary Ryder and Kate Fay, daughters of Samuel Wise, a brother, his heirs. Henry K. Wise, another brother, aged 83, a well-to-do farmer, is the plaintiff, and contests the will of his deceased brother. The testator left bis -property hound up in such a manner that none of the heirs could dispose of it, as it is now an entailed estate, and William R. Miles and John M. Boyd were appointed by the testator as executors, butthey failing to qualify, the court appointed R. J. McKinney as administrator with a bond of $400,000. The estate was thus left in trust. Mr. Wise willed that all the rents, profits and proceeds should go to his three nieces. The deceased was a vary eccentric old bachelor, and the plaintiff alleges that undue influences was brought to bear upon him, and that he was of unsound mind at the time of making his will The defendants deny all the allegations, and state that he made four wills, each of which was materially the same as the other. The attorneys for the plaintiff are Reilly * Niblack, Major Gordon, of Indianapolis, O. F. Baker and J. S. Pritchett; the defendants’ attorneys are W. R. Gardiner. K. ii. Evana, of Minneapolis, Viehe & Niblack and J. M. Boyle. The jury was impaneled this afternoon, and the evidence will be in to-morrow. Over 150 witnesses are summoned. The case excites wide-spread interest, and will occupy the attention of the court for two weeks. Faying a Xiarge Judgment. • Special to the ladtanapolie Journal Fokt Wayne, Nov. 28. — This afternoon the Pennsylvania Company, operating the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway, paid to Miss Rhesa Swinney, executrix, the. sum of $59,000 in .satisfaction of ;a judgment recently affirmed in the Supreme Court.. This is the largest sum ever paid in this county as a result of litigation. Tharailwayeompany had condemned three acres of Thomas Sw-inney's land, adjacent to its right of way, and had removed gravel therefrom. Governor Hendricks was one of many distinguished counsel engaged in the case. Sudden Death of filial Hiesland, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi, Nov. 28.—Elias Hiesland, recorder of Carroll county, died very suddenly at his residence here, this afternoon, of dropsy, while sitting in a chair. He was filling his second term of office, and had for long years been a loading and trusted citizen of this county. Assignment at Freelandsville. Special to the Injianapolie Journal. Vincennes, Nov. 28.—The dry goods and grocery firm of Merford Bros., of Freelandsville, this county, assigned to-day to Jonathan Keith. Assets, $2,509; liabilities about $2,009.

Minor Notes. George TV. Green, of New Albany, noted as a collector of geological debris, is a candidate for the position of State Geologist. WhitmeT Bros.' salt factory, at Goshen, suffered damage by fire, on Thanksgiving day, to the amount of $3, 000; fully insured. Richmond Independent, Nov. 28: William Williams, Mahlon Hampton and Joe Baker left on election day for a deer hunt in Michigan. They returned yesterday, having actually killed foul- deer. Hampton, one of the host hunters in Wayne county, killed two, and Williams and Baker'one apiece. ILLINOIS. A Destitute and Despairing Woman Poisons Herself and Children. Vandalia,, Nov. 28. — 1 tis reported here th:.t Nancy Miller, a widow, living south of here, in ill-bealth and destitution, yesterday poisoned herself and her two children, nil three dying. Going Tolo Liquidation. Caki.invii.lz, Nov. 28. — The First National Bank of this city closed its doors to-day for the purpose of making arrangements t > go into liquidation. The depositors will be paid in full. It:ie!' Ment .on. John Gehrineer, a saloon-keeper of Quincy, who was retired from business by high license, attempted suicide on Thursday, by firing at his head. He missed. T. S. Knowles editor of the Petersburg Herald, and late < reenback candidate for Gongress, has started a newspaper, the Weekly Herald, at Spriugheld. At Alton an Italian known as Lemon John, shot and dangerously hurt a young man named Edward Whalen. The Italian claims to have shot in self-defense. Whalen will probably die. Scruggs's store, at Prairie Hill, twelve miles east of Decatur, was broken into by burglaTs and over SSOO worth of dry goods and other articles stolen and carried off on a hand-car, stolen by the thieves at Uervey City. No arrests. A Drunken Husband's Brutal Deed. New York, Nov. 28.— Matthew McCarron, a laborer, reeled into his tenement, on East One-hmidred-and-eighteenth street, at midnight. Thanksgiving. His wife upbraided him for having loft her, a sick woman, alone all day. This morning the wife was found with terrible wounds about tho head and face; she had been stabbed in both eves. A bloody shoemaker's awl was discovered in a bureau drawer. McCnrron had left the house, after forbidding his wife to open the door. Her groans attracted the other inmates, and tho suffering woman told how her husband had assaulted her. She will be always blind, if she lives. JtcCarron was arrested. I Tor rib],- Fate of a Deranged Mail. Port Chester. N. Y., Nov. 28.—Charles T. Goodwin, of the firm of Charles T. Goodwin & Cos., cracker manufacturers, of New York, left his house about 2 o'clock this morning in a distracted state of mind, utterine horrible outcries, lie was pursued unsuccessfully by his wife and neighbors. His mangled body was found this morning near a railroad track, with the head and right arm cut off, and the heart and entrails torn out. Goodwin was sixty-two years old, and leaves a widow and five children. The recent failure of his firm is supposed to have affected his mind. A New Cardinal Probable. Chicago, Nov. 28. —A Chicago clergyman who is in attendance at the plenary council in Baltimore, says: "I am almost positive that Archbishop Feehau, of Chicago, will lie selected, and that his name will be announced in a few days.*” In support of this idea it is said that the Pope looks very favorably upon Archbishop Feelmn’s efforts ju spreading tlio Catholic faith throughout the West and Northwest, and is inclined to recognize his services by conferring this great

honor on him. The same of Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, who is Primate of America, is also prominently mentioned in connection with the position. It is thought that the holy father will name the new cardinal before the council adjourns. BUSINESS AND LABOR. The Long Strike in the Hocking Valley Drawing to a Close. Cot.T.vnus.Ncrv. 28 —By persistent efforts of the local authorities of Hocking, Athens and Perry counties, aided by the officers of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo road, and those of the Ohio Coal Exchange and the syndicate of operators, indications are that the strike which has been in progress in the Hocking Valiev for the last six months will soon end. Indictments have been found against more than twenty intimidators who made the assault on Murray City, Nov. 5, and all but three or fotrr have been lodged in jafl. Their trials will begin next week. Detectives expect soon to make new developments and secure the arrest of a Still larger number of striking -miners who took part in burning bridges of the Hocking Valley road. It has been decided by the officers to prosecute those under the conspiracy act passed by Congress some twenty years ago. President Greene, of the Hocking valley, is of opinion that there will be no more intimidation, as arrests will be pushed to the furthest extent. The three bridges burned will be ready for trains to pass to-morrow, wheel three additional mines will be opened. The output, it is thought, will soon reach the point at which it stood before the strike began, and it is thought a large number of the old miners will return to work on Dec. 1, when they learn that they will be protected from the lawless element. The companies, however, say they will not-discharge any of the new miners to give place to the old. AR the mines in the valley are now being operated at fifty cents per ton. _____ Labelers' Wages Reduced. Pittswtbg, Nov. 28.—At a meeting of the Connelisville coke producers’ syndicate in this city, to-day, a general reduction of from 45 to 19 per cent, in wages of all laborers employed at the ovens of the association was agreed upon, to take effect Dec. 1. The reduction will affect 8,000 men. Brunswick, Me., Nov. 28.—The Cabot Manufacturing Company has issued a notice of a reduction of wages of Bto 10 per cent. About 650 hands are employed. A 10 Per teat Reduction. Philadelphia, Nov. 28.—A special dispatch from Easton, Pa., says the reduction in wages at the wire mills of Stewart & Cos. is about 10 per cent All the mills of the company, including one which has just been changed from a rolling to a wire mill, will be started up on Monday next, when the proposed reduction will go into effect. Laborers who were paid $1.25 per day will then receive $1.15, and those who were given $1.15 will get $1.05. Resuming Work. Pittsburg, Nov. 28. —Thepuddling and horseshoe departments of Shsenherger’s rollingmill, which has been closed for soime time, resumed operations this morning. Chess, Cook & Co.’s mill, after a shut-down of several weeks, will start up on Monday. A Sewing-Machine Works Shuts Down. Bridgeport, Conn., Nor. 28.—The Howe Sew-ing-machine Company's works, in this city, were shutdown on Wednesday night till Jan. I. Three hundred hands are thrown out of employment.

Failures for tlie Week. New York, Nov. 28.—The failures for the last seven days, reported to. R. G. Dun & Cos., number, in the United States, 222; Canada, 27; total, 249. This is a decrease of twenty-eight, as compared with last week. Failure of a For Dealer. New York, Nov. 28.—Jacob Felsenstein, dealer in furs, filed Rn assignment to-day for benefit of creditors. Suicide of a Mine Owner. Denver, Col., Nov. 28.—Tho Tribune-Repub-lican special from Mount of the Holy Cross says J. Seymour null,-owner of the Cleveland mine, committed suicide last night by shooting himself through the head. Business troubles, together with recent discouraging developments in hismine, probably led to the act He was thirty years of age, and a relative of A. M. Hail, of Fortier, Gros & Cos., New York. Attempted Wife-Murder. Bat City, Mich., Nov. 28.—At Pincanning, a village eighteen miles north of here, last night, a man named Frank Duncan shot his wife in the neck, the bullet nas&ing the trachea and jugular vein; another shot took effect in the hand. Duncan was arrested and brought to Jail in this city to await the result of the woman’s injuries. The shooting was doneduring a fit of jealousy. He had objected to his wife going to a masquerade. The Anthracite Coal Supply. Wilkesbasre, Pa., Nov. 28.—The order issued -by the combination for a general suspension of work at the mines the first week in December lias been rescinded. Since the notice wi.s published, -orders have been pouring in upon retail end wholesale agents, and large contracts have been made. Uless tho collieries are now kept going, it will be impossible to meet the demand. Steamship News. London, Nov. 28.—Arrived: Republic and Moravia, from New York. New York. Nov. 28.—Arrived: State of Pennsylvania, from Glasgow; IVaesland, from Antwerp; Main, from Bremen. AN AMBITIOUS DUDE. A Retired Business Man of Chicago Hours for Diplomatic Honors. Special to Sevr York World. L. Z. Leiter,the Chicago millionaire.who came to Washington to get rid of the shop-keeping society of Chicago, where he made all his money, is now a candidate for diplomatic appointment. He has cut business entirely, and has set himself to perform the arduous task of filling the role of a very fine native article of gentleman, one who neither toils nor spins. He classes himself under a Democratic label, and hopes great things from the Cleveland administration, lie has found some drawbacks iu his social ambitious hero. He has millions of money and has entertained very lavishly, but all the time ho has been almost daily confronted with the dismal fact of being obliged to yield precedence to some penniless official with a title. Mr. Leiter has a coat-of-arms, as was shown in the publication of its beautiful device in the World of last year. Now he seeks an official title to adoru his name. He would prefer a seat in the Cabinet, but wifi be satisfied with a diplomatic appointment He will throw open his house tins year, and entertain more lavishly than ever in the carrying out of the idea of advancing his claim to a real, genuine official title fit to match his splendid coat-of-arms. Mr. Leiter would probably be better pleased with foreign service. He dresses in what he believes to be the foreign fashion, and is extremely fond of entertaining the half-starved attaches of the diplomatic corps. Occasionally, when he catches a live minister, his happiness is complnte. He has startled Washington recently by appearing in a yellow and black check coat and trousers, worn as adjuncts to a large, dull red and brown plaided waistcoat of an entirely different pattern. Mr. Leiter, in this complicated arrangement of plaids and checks, believes that be looks like a Teal Englishman. -Certaiuly he does not look like an American. New Orleans and Hack in Six Days. Pittsburg Times. A gentleman named John Dougherty—the same who invented and successfully operated the portage system on tho Pennsylvania railroad forty eight years ago—is endeavoring to interest a number of Pittsburgers in an enterprise which he claims will revolutionize the system of river transportation at present in vogue, aud enable steamboats to make round trips between this city and Now Orleans in six days, less than one-

fourth the time in which the trip is made by the fastest boats of the present day. Mr. Dougherty is eighty two years of age, but is as full of vigor as the majority of men of fifty. His plan is to construct light steel vessels 30x150 feet, and drawing less than live inches of water. These, suppled with paddles and propellers of his own invention, he claims can he made to glide at any ?>eed desired over the surfaoe of Western rivers. he idea of rapid transit by rivers has been a hobby with Mr. Dougherty for years, and he has spent a large amount of money in experiments. WHY THEY ARE THANKFUL. Ideas Advanced by General Sliermaa, Fred Douglass and E. E. Hale. Washington Special. The Philadelphia Press, to collect part of its Thanksgiving matter, telegraphed to a number of distinguished citizens in various stations of public life, asking them their idea of what we should he thankful for. Among its replies were the following: “Sir—l beg you will excuse me from selection out of the very great many causes why we should be especially thankful on the approaching Thanksgiving Day, for publication. The causes which are nearest to the heart are so precious that they shun the light of day, much more the publicity you intimate. “St. Louis,Nov. 22. W. T. Sherman.” From Frederick Douglass: “Sir—You ask me for what should we give thanks. I answer: If at the bidding of the President we should give thanks at all, we should give them for life and for all the good or ill it may contain, at least so far as these may bo ascribed to the action of infinite power. And since man is a finite creature, too limited in knowledge and wisdom to presume to sit In judgment uDon the acts of the Infinite, to pronounce one thankworthy and another not, or, what is the same thing, to single ont one of several of His acts for special praise, and leave others unnoticed, it is alike more rational and more reverent to give thanks for all the dealings of Providence, whether they be of sickness or health, adversity or prosperity, peace or war, liberty or slavery. “Washington, Nov. 25.” From Rev. Edward E. Hale: “Sir—lt seems to me that an American should be thankful that bo is an American. The fathers and the course of history settled for us, in the providence of God, ninety-nine hundredths of the exasperating questions which rack and distress the people of Europe to-day, and settled them rightly. If you will permit me to say so, the difficulty of all newspaper men, outside the office of the Philadelphia Press, is that in America they have so few -suejects for'leading articles.' Thoy borrow from Europe the superstition that four leading articles are necessary in each number of a daily journal; but really, nine-tentns -of the subjects discussed by leading editors in London and in Paris, are subjects not even open to controversy here. “ ‘Happy is the country whose history is unwritten, and more happy is the country which has no need of leading articles. An American should be grateful that his country and his daily life are so much larger than the government When dear Garfield lay four months a-dying, the country went on without a national executive better than any empire went on which had its sovereign on the throne, with counselors around him and praetorians behind them, all trying to set the country forward. For the government at America resides only in very small part in Washington. The Washington dilution is almost infinitesimal. The main functions of government, so far as the life of the people goes, belong to the State administrations, totheeities, to the church, to the college, schools and academies, to other organizations of public spirit, and most of all, to the millions of happy homes, for maintaining which the whole system is devised- " Boston, Nov- 24.”

An Exchange of Compliments. New York Tribune. It is said at the recent interview of Presidentelect Cleveland and Vice-President-elect Hendricks the conversation turned upon Thanksgiving. _ Said the Governor of New York to the ex-Gov-emor of Indiana-. “We have many things to be thankful for. You should be thankful that you were not shot for treasonable utterances during the war.” “You should be thankful that you ran no risk of being shot for anything at that time,” sweetly replied bis ex-Excellency of Indiana.” “Let us both rejoice, "continued the grateful Grover, “that we have thus providentially preserved ourselves to see this day, and by our conduct in the past have commended ourselves to the recognition of the great Democratic party.” The Dear, Dear Lawyers. London Truth. The total cost off the Tichborne litigation, I learn from a legal contemporary, amounted to the trifling figure of £91,677 12s 2d ($458,000) This included, besides the costs in the great case of Tichborne vs. Lushingfon, the cost of two actions in respect of the Doughty estates and two probate actions in which the claimant sought letters of administration of Lady Tichborne. The Tichborne and Doughty settled estates act wits passed to provide for the raising of funds to meet this gigantic lawyers’ bill. How very sorry the lawyers must be that an act bars further litigation. Plenty of Room. Philadelphia Press. Lord Coleridge made such a happy impression upon the American folks during bis visit in this country that they will be loth to believe the shoeing things which the London papers are saying about his treatment of his daughter. Still there is room before him for some very tall explaining. There is nothing more amusing to children than the blowing of soap bubbles. It may not be known to all that the ooap water is stronger and better for being boiled with the eosp in it; after taking from the fire, two dessertspoonfuls of glycerine may be added, with the effect of making the bubbles more lasting. Ip you are troubled with sores, aches, pains and general weakness of the various bodily functions. don't be deceived by the advertisements of hitters, kidney medicines, etc., whose publshed certificates are too often lies, bought and paid for. Put your trust in that simple remedy called Dr. Ouysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. It will cure you by purifying the blood and strengthening tlie weak portions of your body. You will also find it very refreshing to the brain and nervous system. The proprietors receive hundreds of letters bestowing upon it the DIED. BLAKE—Nov. 27, 1884, Howard Blake, agod twenty-three years, son of Cob John W. and Hannah Blake. Funeral services on Saturday, Nov. 29, at X o'clock, from resilience of his parents at North Indianapolis, Rev. J. A. RondthaW officiating. Friends of the family invited. LANGSDALE—On Thursday morning, Nov. 27, at 1 o’clock, John Laagsdale, aged 34 years. Funeral from the residence, of J. M. W. Laugsdale, 225 East Ohio .street, on Saturday, Nov. 29, at 2 o'clock p. m. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS. Telephone 501. FREE AMBULANCE. IMPORTANT TO WOMEN.—DR. RACHEL SWAIN’S Sanitary Home, at 334 North New Jersey street, offers rare opportunities in tho treatment of ohronic cases.

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