Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1887 — Page 2

THJ2 ISTDLLN"APOU.S JOURNAL DECEMiBEtt 5. 18S7.

Quested to stand aside to-morrow. Objection

will likely be made to Turpi taking "the oath. All the Republican members of the committee are outspoken in their declaration that Turpi has oot a prima facie case, except Evarts. Mr. Huston made a splendid statement or the ease in presenting the supplemental evidence, and is confident to-night that Turpie is not sure of bis tat A Talk with Hon. Warren G. Sayre. Wabash tied.) Special. Hon. Warren Sayre, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was asked for an opinion regarding the objections that will be made Monday to Senator Turpie's taking his seat. He said: "I do not think that Tnrpie will be seated ext Monday, or at any other time, by virtue of his pretended election last winter. As we view the matter, the proceedings leading to his alleged election were both revolutionary and illegal. The Senate was not properly organized, as its presiding officer held his position by fraud, force and intimidation. In addition to this, the votes of tbrea Senators were illegally counted. 1 refer to those of Frank Branaman, L B. McDonald and Green Smith. ' Branaman was defeated by 00 votes in the Jackson-Jennings senatorial district by a Republican named McDonald, but when we seated a Republican in the House, who had been honestly elected, the Democrats of the Senate retaliated by bouncing McDonald and seating Branaman, although there was no possible exeuse for their action. The second illeeal vote was that of Senator Isadore Beachant McDonald, of the Whitley-Allen district. In 1884 a Democrat named Brown was elected in that district for four years, and served during the first sessior. Afterward he was appointed postmaster at Colombia City by President Cleveland, but the United States Senate adjourned without confirming him. President Cleveland then reappointed him. and Brown, fearing that he would not be able to get a sure grip on the poetoffice. did not resign his office as State Senator. In the meantime another election rolled round. The Governor did not order a special election in the Whitiey-Allen district to fill any alleged vacancy, but the Democrats put a ticket in the field just the same, and elected Isadore B. McDonald. That vote is clearly illeeal, because no notice of election was given by Governor Gray. "The next fraudulent vote in the Senate was that of Green Smith, who claimed to be Lieutenant-governor. If he was, he had no right to vote. We shall also combat the vote of Representative F. A. W. Robinson, of Clay, Putnam and Montgomery counties. He is the individual who was elected by the Labor party and Held out so long against Turpie. His vote was cast under decidedly suspicious circumstances, and we think bribery was resorted to. I also understand that Representative Crusen. of Scott sounty, and Representative Sam Harrall, of Franklin county, were not eligible to seats in the Legislature by reason of a constitutional enactment which declares that men who have been receivers or holders of public moneys, and whose accounts have not been settled in accordance with law, are ineheible to office. I am not speaking from personal knowledge in the cases of Harrail and Crusen. Senator Huston has all the papers, and is now in Washington. He will see that the matter is put in proper shape. I announced after the last ballot was taken, which resulted tn the alleged election of Turpie, that there had been no election, and ordered them to proceed with the ballot, but no attention was paid to my announcement." How Senators Are Sworn In. Washington Special. If the custom of swearing in four Senators at a time shall be observed, the first four called will be Messrs. Aldrich, Bate, Biodgett, and Chandler two Democrats and two Republicans. With them sworn in the Senate wonld stand twenty-seven Democrats and twenty-seven Republic ns, counting Riddleberger as a Republican. The next four Senators called by the Chief Clerk would be Cock r ell. Daniel, Davis and Dawes two Democrats and two Republicans. Should they be sworn in without interruption, the Senate would stand twenty-nine Democrats and raty-nine Republicans, if Mr. Riddleberger be classed as a Republican. The next four Senators called forward to take the oath would be Edmunds, Faulkner, George and Gorai an three Democrats and one Republican. Should they be sworn in the Senate would stand thirty-two Democrats to thirty Republicans. But should the Republicans object to administering the oath to Mr. Faulkner, itis nnderstood the Democrats would object to swearing in Mr. Edmunds, and then the fight would be commenced with the Senate equally divided should Mr. Riddleberger vote with the Republicans, and should he vote with the Democrats it would give the latter thirty to twenty-eight. After the four Senators-elect that will include Mr. Faulkner, the next quartet to be called will consist of Messrs. Gray, Hale, Hawley and Hurst two Democrats and two Republicans. Their admission would make the Senate stand thirty-four Democrats and thirty-two Republicans. The next four would be Messrs. Hiscock, Paddock, Pasco and Quay three Republicans and one Democrat and that wonld again tie the Senate, making it stand thirty-five to thirtyfive, still counting in Riddleberger with the Republicans. Then there would be six Senatorselect, and, following the custom, they would be called In one group, as follows: Messrs. Reagan, Sawyer. Sheridan, Stewart, Stockbridge and Tnrpie; four Republicans and two Democrats, which would make the Senate stand thirty-nine Republicans to thirty-seven Democrats. CONTESTED ELECTIONS IN TOE HOUSE. Is the Republican Majority of States To Be Reversed? Democratic Designs. Washington Specia Despite their prof essions of perfect confidence, there is more than one indication that the Democratic leaders are nnsasy respecting next year's presidential contest. Already one hears it whispered that the contested election cases in California and Indiana will be decided in favor of the Demoeratio contestants. Such action of course wonld destroy the majority of State delegations in the House of Representatives now held by the Republicans, and prevent an election in case no presidential candidate should receive a majority of the electoral votes. Probably not a single member of the House or other person except the contestants and contestees themselves has read the testimony or even the briefs in one of the eases, and yet one may frequently read in Demoeratio newspapers that Messrs. Felton and Van Dever, the Republican contestees in California, and Captain White, the Republican oontestee in Indiana, "have very weak cases," and that the contestants probably will be seated. Of course there is a purpose behind such publications, and it is to prepare the public mind for partisan action by the Democratic majority of the House in those cases. Two of the Democratic contestants. Lynch, of California, and Lowry, of Indiana, are in Washington already, laboring with their party friends. Lowry was a member of the elections committee in the last House. He was defeated for re-election by more thau 1,500 majority in a strongly Demoeratio district. He alleges that Captain White, who is a native of Scotland, and who was a gallant Union soldier during the war, never was naturalized, and therefore that he (Lowry) should get the seat There is sufficient parol evidence that Captain White is a naturalized citizen of the United States, but even if that evidence is rejected it does not follow that Lowry is entitled to the seat. At most a vacancy should be declared. In that event Captain White would be ready to try conclusions with Lowry again at the polls. It will be well for Republicans to be on the alert in regard to these contested election cases. THE SUPREME COURT VACANCY. Lamar Is Not Qualified for tlie Place, and Cannot Be Confirmed If Nominated. Siberia! to the IndianaDolts Jource Washington. Dec. 4 "I sincerely hope the President will not nominate Mr. Lamar for the Supreme Bench, as I am confident the nomination vill not be confirmed," said one of the oldest tnd most influential Republican Senators this morning. "I know of a number of Senators who are warm personal friends of Mr. Lamar that have gone to the President and advised him not to send in the nomination, and they have teen moved to do so from the purest motives tnd through the very best will toward Mr. Lamar. I admire Lamar, and believe him to bo a man of pure intentions and good principles; bat he is no more fitted for a place on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States than he V to be a door-keeper in heaven. He is not a lawyer; is not a jurist, and is in no way whatI ver fit to be a colleague of such men as Chiefjustice Waite. Justice Miller, Justice Harlan, etc. I do not mean that he is not their equal socially, oor that be is not a man of ability; but his "testa! strength does not ran In the direction of

law and this is so notorious with thosewho served

in the Senate with him that there are some Demoeratio Senators who, I believe, would vote against his confirmation, and to avoid being placed In the position of having to vote against a man they admire on general principles, and wno is a good man cenerally. but not in any way qualified for the position, they have advised that he be not nominated. I hope his nomination will not go to the Senate for good reasons. If it does there will be a caucus of Republican Senators, and all of them will vote against his confirmation, including, no doubt, Mr. Riddleberger, of Virginia, and at least two or three Democrats. There is a possibility, of course, that the Democrats would all vote for the con firmation, but I hardly believe it; and in any event the solid Republican vote would defeat confirmation. Besides the absence of any of the training which would qualify Mr. Lamar for the position, ne wonld be retired in seven or eight years, and there is no sen -.3 in putting sucn an oia man in tne position." RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION. Provisions of a Stringent Measure to Be In troduced by Senator Palmer. Jpecial to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec 4. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, will introduce in the Senate at the earliest possible opportunity after the organiza tion of that body a bill prepared by him for the purpose of regulating and restricting immigration to the United States by keeping out persons who seem likely to be undesirable citizens. The principal feature of the bill is a provision which, if it become law, will require every person of foreign birth who contemplates emigration to the United States, to provide himself with a certificate from the United States consul for the distriot of his residence, "setting forth, substantially, that the said consul is satisfied, upon diligent inquiry, that he is a suitable and desirable person for residence and citizenship in the United States." Immigrants of foreign birth not provided with such certificates shall not be allowed by the United States immigration officers to land in this country. The fourth section, which embodies most of the new legislation proposed by Senator Palmer's bill, is as follows: Section 4. That the Secretary of State shall establish such rules and regulations, and issue from time to time such instructions to consuls of the United States, not inconsistent with law or with treaty obligations, as shall enable well-disposed and worthy persons who desire to become resident citizens of the United States to obtain certificates of character and fitness therefor from the consul of the district in which they reside, without hardship or unreasonable delay, which certificate shall contain, in addition to other specifications required by this act, or which may be prescribed by the Secretary of State, the fall name of the individual receiving the same, the place of birth, age, occupation, last legal residence, physical marks or peculiarities, and all facts necessary for identification of such individuals that no such certificate shall be granted to any convict except those convicted of political offenses, nor to any lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge, nor to any Anarchist. Nihilist, or any person hostile to the principles of the Constitution or form of government of the United States, nor to any believer or professed believer in the Mormon religion who fails to satisfy the consul, upon examination, that he or she intends to and will conform to and obey the laws of the United States, nor to any persons include! ia the prohibition in the act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contractor agreevaent to perform labor in the United States, the Territories and the District of Columbia, approved Feb. Uti, 1835, or in acts amendatory to said act. The remaining sections provide penalties for violation of the law, machinery for carrying it into effect, and an ''immigrant fund" to defray the expenses incident thereto such fund to be created by imposing a tax or duty upon every immigrant who lands in this country. NATIONAL BANKING. Comptroller Trenbolm Recommends Reduction of the Bond Deposit. Special to the Indianapolis Journau Washington, Dec. 4. The annual report of Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm, a partial summary of wbich has been published, includes a summary of suggestions received by the Comptroller from all parts of the country respecting a new basis for national bank circulation. Over forty plans have been proposed, and these were reduced to five propositions; first to do away with the note-issuing function of the banks; second, to increase the inducements for the banks t deposit United States bonds as a basis of national bank circulation; third, to provide, by a new issue of bonds, for a continuance of the present, or of some modified system of national circulation based on bonds; fourth, to substitue some other security for United States bonds deposited in the Treasury as a basis for national bank circulation; fifth, to allow the banks to issue circulation upon their general credit, without requiring specific security to be deposited. The Comptroller, after an elaborate discussion of these propositions, finally reaches the conclusion: "It would appear that no substitute yet proposed for the present basis of national bank circulation is sufficiently free from objection to be adopted. The four-per cent, bonds will not mature for twenty years, and, apart from other considerations, there is enough in this fact to justify caution and delay in making any radical changes in the basis of circulation. In that time, no doubt, something acceptable will be devised, but at present all that seems practicable is to modify the existing law so as to obviate Its inconveniences, and as a first step toward this end it appears both safe and wise to reduce the minimum amount of bonds to be kept on deposit." MINOR MATTERS. An Importment Question That Presses for Speedy Settlement. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 4. There are now in the city Republicans from every State and Territory in the Union. They are representative men of the party, and bring fresh from their people opinions which convey the general belief upon various matters. These men say that Mr. Blaine wants the nomination again, and that he intends to work for it indirectly. "It now stands the Republicans in hand," said one of the most fat-seeing to-day, "to decide whether or not they want Mr. Blaine to take the race. It is not a question whether he desires it, or whether his friends want to give it to him, but merely a auestion of judgment. The Republicans should begin to thiuk, and, if they believe Mr. Blaine will not be stronger next year than he was in 1S84, they ought to settle their minds that he should not be renominated." Congressman Clieadle in Washington. Washington Letter. One. of the most conspicuous of the new members was Cheadle, of the Lafayette (Ind.) district. Cheadle looks like a cross between an overland stage-driver and a fisherman. His beard is long and yellow, and reminds one of the tail of a comet. Mr. Cheadle is not handsome, and it is not supposed his most enthusiastic admirers ever made this accusation against him. The most prominent feature about Mr. Cheadle, aside from yellow beard and freckled skin, which, of course, be is not responsible for, was the great copper badge of the order of the Grand Army of the Republic which he wore upon his breast, and judging from its size, one wonld say it weighs a few pounds. It is of such huge size that it looks like a door-plate, and it stood out in bold relief on the outside of his coat. One of his Indiana colleagues pleaded with him to take it off or wear it more modestly, but he resented the suggestion as an insult, saying he came to Congress on that issue, and he proposed to wear it at all times and places. General Notes. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec 4. Hon. J. N. Huston, of Connersville; Charles F. Griffin, of Indianapolis, and Attorney-general Michener are at the Riges. W. P. Elliott, of Shelbyville, is at the Ebbitt Postmaster Jones, of Indianapolis, arrived this evening. Steamship News. Queenstown, Dec 4 The steamer British Prince, from Philadelphia, arrived here to-day. London, Dec. 4 The steamer La Champaigns, from New York, arrived at Havre today. New Yokk, Dec 4 Arrived: Alaska, Etruria, from Liverpool; Suevia, from Hamburg; Jersey City, from Bristol; La Bretagne, from Havre. Halifax, Dec 4. The steamer British Princess, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, put in here to-day with a broken crank-shaft. She will repair here and proceed. People of moderate means should avoid spending too much for chairs and tables. The eye rarely rests on the table, but it always looks at the things on the table. The germs of scrofula are destroyed by Ayer1 Sarsaparilla. Sold by all druggist.

INDIANA AM ILLINOIS. v The Killing of Kurtz Wolcott Found Guilty and Sentenced for Five Years. Bloomington, III, Dec 3. The attention of the McLean Circuit Court has been given for a week to the trial of Wm. W. Wolcott for the killing of George Kurtz, and the jury to-day reached a verdict, and found Wolcott guilty of manslaughter, and fixed the penalty at five years in the State prison. The verdict was reached by a compromise, the members of the jury differing in opinion as to the number of years to be given Wolcott. The case was carefully - . and closely tried, as both Wolcott and Kurtz were long residents and very well-known people. The case was one of unusual moment to the general public, and the court-room contained a large audience every day. Wolcott was a boarder at the Walsh House, kept by Kurtz, and on the night of Aug. 13 last, in a quarrel with Kurtz, who ordered him not to take beer to his room, he fatally stabbed Kurtz in the bowels. The attempt was made at the trial to show that there was bad blood between the two men over family affairs, with the view to proving that Wolcott held murderous intent, but the verdict shows that the jury did not take this view. Wolcott will ask for a new trial. Funeral of Frank E. Wright. Special to tne Indianapolis Journal. Akcola, 111., Dec 4. The funeral services of the late Frank E. Wright, who died in this city Thursday of typhoid fever, took place this evening and were attended by a large f concourse of friends. Mr. Wright was one of the most promising young men of Douglas county, having twice been elected State's attorney, which office he filled with credit and ability, and at the last grand encampment of the L N. G., he was elected major of the Eighth Regiment He was a member of the Masonic and L O. O. F. lodges, the members of which attended in a body together with the I. N. G. company at this point, as guard of honor. Bomb In a Saloon. Special to the Jndiananolis Journal. Fokt Wayne, Ind., Dec 4 As John Stier was entertaining a party of friends at his Broadway saloon, late last night, the hilarity of the occasion was disturbed by a loud explosion which, raised Stier out of his chair, and confused the company greatly. After the scare had subsided, a fragment of gas pipe was found on the floor. Stier thinks some Anarchist has been practicing on him. Fatal Fight Between Miners.

St. Louis, Dec 4 John Davidson and William Crow, coal miners, living three miles from Carrollton, 111., quarreled last night, and in a fight that ensued Crow was stabbed to death with a knife, and Davidson received three pistolshot wounds, and is no doubt now dead. Indiana Notes. Miss Ina Blue, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Peter Blue, a farmer, residing near Sevastopol, attempted to commit suicide, Friday, by shooting herself through tne head with a revolver. It is thought that she cannot recover. No cause assigned. Jesse Lear, miner, aged forty years, and married, was crushed by falling slate, in the Campbell mine, at Brazil, on Saturday. His back was broken and other injuries sustained that will result fatally. This is the second accident from falling slate in this mine within a week. An unusual number of fatalities have occurred in the mints this year. Morgan county offers three candidates (Democratic) for the nomination for judge of the Fifteenth judicial - district. They are W. S. Sherley, J. V. Mitchell and Judge A. M. Cumming, the present incumbent Owen county Democracy furnishes two candidates for the nomination for the same place. They are Judge Franklin and Wm. Hickain, both of Spencer. Jerry Balay, a young man of Green township, Morgan county, while out rabbit-hunting, on Thursday, accidentally shot himself, causing instant death. He was in company with a young man, named Hoglan, and looking for a rabbit He was standing on top of a fence, with his gun resting at his feet, the muzzle pointing upward. The gun slipped so that the hammer struck the fence, and both barrels were discharged, the contents passing through his heart General Manson, collector of internal revenne for the Terre Haute district, and Peter Gfroerer, a guager under him, are at loggerheads, and, Gfroerer has been removed. He has refused to resign, and the Secretary of the Treasury will be asked to revoke his commission. Gfroerer, in an interview, charges tnat General Manson asked for his resignation on the grounds that he was an Anarchist, and then General Manson added that all Germans were Anarchists. The General says this statement is false. Illinois Items. On Friday night, during a drunken row at a dance at G. P. Princes house, a short distance northeast of New Holland, Henry Garnett was shot in the neck. He is still alive, but will probably die. It is not known who fired the shot James M. Briggs, a well-known citizen and prominent ice merchant of Litchfield, while walking on the Wabash railway track on his way home Friday evening, was struck by the southbound Chicago express, and received injuries which will probably result in his death. A license of incorporation has been granted to the American Tariff Reform League of Chicago. The object is to inaugurate a propaganda of tariff reform, and establish branches throughout the United States. Among the incorporators are S. Corning Judd, Julius S. Grinnell, William J. English. Herman Lieb, Michael Schweisthal and M. M. TrumbulL Since the completion of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad through the southern part of Champaign county the people of that section are placed in an easy position to reach Tuscola City, the county-seat of Douglas county, by rail. The people of the five lower townships of Champaign county will ask now to be annexed to Douglas county, and a special election will be called. This will add, if the proposition carries, 115,220 acres of land to Douglas, and give it an additiccal population of about 10,000 people. The scheme will be urged by the most influential men in the five townships, while it will no doubt meet with much opposition from other parts of Champaign county. LABOR INTERESTS. Chicago's Striking Job Printers Ready to Return to Work on the Old Basin. Chicago, Dec. 4. The strike of the book and job printers is ended. Typographical Union No. 16 held a special meeting this afternoon and declared that the 400 strikers must return to work to-morrow morning on the basis of ten hours a day for $18 per week. This action of the Union was taken by request of the strikers, who realized that a settlement of the difficulty on any basis but a complete surrender was impossible. The strike has lasted five weeks. The Steel-Workers' Scale. Pittsburg, Dec 4 The new steel-workers' scale, that will be presented by the Amalgamated Association to the manufacturers this week, has been formulated by the committee. If accepted by the steel men it will eo into effect on Jan. 1, but if they refuse, a conference committee will be appointed to discuss the matter. The new scale provides for a slight advance in some departments, and it is thought by the men that it will be accepted without debate. Trouble in the Chicago Stockyards. Chicago, Noy. 4 The switching engineers, employed by the different railroad companies entering the Union Stockyards, refuse to accept the reduction of their pay to $2.90 for twelve hours work, as proposed, and will all stop work at noon to-morrow if the reduction is enforced by the stockyards company. Should the en gineers go out they will he joined by the stockyards switchmen, and the strike will affect all the roaas. Threatened Strike of Glass-Workers.' Pittsburg, Dec 4. President Smith, of the National Flint-glass Workers' Association, says the rules and scale presented by the manufacturers are unsatisfactory, and will not be accept ed. If the manufacturers adhere to their declaration, and refuse to discuss these things, and greatly modify the scale, he claims there will be a lockout before the end of tne month that will close almost every flint-glass factory in the country. Switchmen Return to Work. Houston, Tex., Dec 4 A number of striking switchmen went back to work yesterday in the yards of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The officials of the road declare that no compromise has oeen maae, ana tnat the old scale of wages still exists. Schaefer Will Pley Anybody. St. Louis, Dec 7. Richard Roche, the backer of Schaefer. has issued the following challenge: I will match Jake Schaefer to play any billardist In the world for from $000 up to an 7 amount, the ac

cepter of this challenge to have the choice of game. If the match is nlayed at any great distance from St.

Louis, the stakes must be $1,000 a side, as it would not pay to play for less. If Slosson is reallv in earnest in wishing a game with Schaefer, let him cover a $250 tOHeit. , . KICHABD KOCHE. CHINESE GAMBLERS SURPRISED. One of Their Deng Raided bj the Police and Eight Plajers Aid Captured. Fifteen Chinamen became too noisy over a game of chance on which money was at stake. in Long Sing's laundry, at No. 94 East Wash ingtou street, last night, and the police arrested eight of them for gambling. One of the race. who is not on good terms with the admirers of Mr. Sing, notified patrolman Manning that a great many of his-' countrymen were in the habit of meeting at Sing's on Sunday evenings and spending the night gambling. Manning called Sergeant Lowe's attention to the place. and last night the Sergeant watched for devel opments. Early in the evening the Oriental members began to gather from all parts of the city, ana in a snort time they began to get noisy over their playing. The doors were all locked. and the curtains down, but Charley Travis climbed to the roof of the building and looked through a sky-light at the players, who were gathered around a table, oimiy lighted by a candle, patrolmen Manning, Dawson, Beem and Mi fiord were called to assist in the arrest, and at 1 o'clock this morning the rear door was forced open. When the China men saw the police coming they grabbed their money, and before the officers could get hold of any or mem tney were all bid in tne various furnishings of the laundry. Three or four clamered into bed. and by the time the officers reached them feigned sleep. A half dozen crawled in behind the counter. It took the offi cers fifteen minutes to find them all. The eight engaged in the came registered at the station bouse as Long Sing, Tas See Conane, Sam Hing, Tuna Man, Ley Mey, .Ark Kune, George Hop Sing, and Lee Dolph. When they were searched a huge revolver was found on George Hop Sing. He is from Greensburg, and said he bad come to visit bis brethren and have a good time. In their haste to secrete their money when surprised by the coming of the police some of them put it in their mouths, others in their "pig-tails ' and one of them had twenty cents in nickles in his ears. They all had plenty of money, but only Long Sing and George Hop Sing furnished bail. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington. Dec 51 a. m. For Indiana and Illinois Colder, followed by Warmer, fair weather; winds becoming light to fresh southerly. For Ohio Colder, fair weather; fresh to brisk westerly winds, diminishing in force, followed by warmer southerly winds on Tuesday. For Michigan Colder, generally fair weather; westerly winds, diminishing in force and shifting to warmer southeasterly. For Wisconsin and Iowa Warmer, fair weather; winds becoming light to fresh south erly, followed in Iowa by snow or rain. Local Weather Record. Inpianapolis. Dec. 4. 1887.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum .1 Wind. Weath'r Rain. 7a.m... 29.93 54 95 South Lt. Rain 0 38 2 P. M... 30.03 50 70 West. Fair. 0.22 9 P. M... 30.22 35 64 West. Cloudy. 0.00

Maximum thermometer, 57; minimum thermom eter, 34. Following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and rain-fall for Dec. 4, 1887: Tern. Rain. Normal 33 O.ll Mean 4G 0.60 Departure from normal.............. 8 0.49 Total excess or deficiency sinee Dec 1. 8 "1.32 Total excess or deficiency since Jan. 1. 28 11.82 Plus. General Observations. Washington, Dec 4. 9 p. if. Stations. liar. iTher I Wind. I R.F.! Weather New York citv 130.20 42!S'east 4 S S'east 50 South 58 S'east 60 North Cloudy. Philadelphia, Pa... 30.22 Washington Citv... 30. 16 Cloudy. Cloudy Charleston. S. C... 30.26 Corpus Cristie.Tex.. 3O.20 San Antoni. Tex.. 30.28 ! air. 1.06 Rain. Clear. . jFair. .08 Clear. 56 North Jacksonville. Fla... 30.26 60j North 56! North 64 'South Atlint. (J a... i. UJU.. Pensacola. Fla 30.14 50, Rain. Titusville. Fla 30.21 60!N'wst Fair. Rain. Clear. Montiromerv, Ala.. 30.18 Vicksbure. Miss 30.26 60: S'east .Ol 58! North New Orleans, La.... 30.18 Shreveport. Ls 30.28 Tort Smith. Ark.... 30.42 62' East . 10 j Cloudy. Clear. ! Clear. IClear. .04, Rain. Cloudy. .28! Rain. .42 'Cloudy. 54 North 42 Neast Little Rock. Ark... 30.36 Galveston. Tex 30.20 Palestine. Tex 130.30 46!North 66:Neadt 54 'North 70! Swest Brownsville. Tex.. 130.04 ChatUnoosra. Ten.. 130.20' 58!Swest Memphis. Tenn 30.30 NasbVilie. Tenn 30.26 Louisville, Ky 30.22 IndianaDolis. Ind 30.22 Cincinnati. O...... 30. 18 Pittabnr. Pa 30.98 48'N'wst Clear. 48 N'wst 44 West. 36;West.

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44 54 40 West. Swest S'east Boise Citv. I. T 30. OO Calgary, N. W. T...J3U.18 Toledo. 0 30.06 Chicago. I1L 30.14 Milwaukee. Wis 30.06 Duluth. Minn 30.08 St. Paul. Minn 30.22 La Crosse. Wis 30.26 Davenport. Ia 30.28 Des Moines, la. 30.36 Coneordia. Kan 30.38 Keokuk. Ia. 30.36 Cairo I1L 30.32 Springfield. Ill 30.32 St. Louis. Mo 29.94 Springfield. Mo 30.42 Leavenworth. Kan. . 30.44 Omaha. Neb 30.40 Yankton. D. T 30.30 Moorhead, Minn 30.24 Bismarck-. D. T. 30.18 Fort Buford 29.98 Ft.Assinaboine,M.T 29.98 Fort Cnater. M. T-. 29.94 Qu'Apelle, X. W. T. 30.30 Cheyenne. Wy. T.. 30.12 North Platte, Neb.. 30.18 Denver, Col 30.16 W.Las Animas. Col. 30.16 Podee City, Kan... 30.38 Fort Elliot. Tex 30.36 Fort Sill. 1. T 30.46 Fort Davis. Tex 30.36 El Paso, Tex 30.26 SaltLake City 30.36 Santa Fe. N. M 30.18 Montrose, Col '30.32, 6 S'east 34 West. 26 West. 22?Swest 6 4 10 20 20 34 28: West. iWest. West. West. West. N'wst West. North N'wst West. N'wst 44 24 32 24 26NVsti 221 Calm. 10 South 4! West. 2; Calm. 2West. 6! Swest 24 S'east -lOiCalm. 30,South 24; South 28 N'wst 32! West. 32 S'east 'Clear. lOjRain. .... Cloudy. . ... Fair. i Clear. IClear. ; Clear. Clear. 'Clear. 'Fair. ; Clear. IClear. Clear. Clear. i Clear. I Cloudy. IClear. 32 S'east! 34 North! 40 .Neastj 48 'East. 32;North 34!N'wstl 20iSouthl Liquor Law Violators. John Burns, who has been frequently arrested for violating the liquor law, was brought into the station-house late last night on the same charge. He was arrested early in the evening at his place in St. Clair Hall, but escaped by locking the officer in the saloon. He was rearrested three -hours later. J. T. Doran, bartender at Mann's saloon, was arrested about midnight for Belling liquor to a crowd of men and women, who had possession of the place. SEWING-WOMEN'S WAGES. A Employer Says Country Competition Keeps the Prices Down. Uew Tork Evening Post. The low prices paid upon the average for the sewing upon men's clothing cannot be much increased so lone as what we call the country competition exists. Thre may be instances in which women here aid there are compelled to take less than the market price for their work, but as a rule the wages paid for work of each class averages about the same throughout the city. Competition is just as sharp between the employers, or more se, than between the employed. In many instances clothine is sold at a serious loss in order to hold business here from going to Philadelphia or Chicago, and if the maker of cheap clothing gives more than the market price for making it, his business career will be wound qd for him in quick order. The country competition to which I have referred is the chief cause of low wages among our sewing people of New York. Very few people know that much cf the clothing sold by our wholesale dealers here and in Boston is made up by farmers' wives and daughters, at prices which would not allow them to live, but furnishes them with pin-money and little luxuries. Every year, at stated seasons, dozens of wagons, loaded down with clothing ready to sew, start out from the large towns of New England, and distribute their burdens among the farmers' houses, to be called for in the same manner when finished. These women do the work at odd moments and in the evening, and the business is growing larger and more systematized every year. Competition between the farmers' wives again cuts down the price, and as money is worth more in the isolated country districts than in large cities, the farmer's wife and daughter may be quite well satisfied if they receive half a dollar for an evening's work. It is said that more ttan half the sewing-machines scattered through the New England farm-houses have been paid for by work done in this way, the middle man who gives the work oat taking sewing-machines with him to distribute, and accenting work in lieu of money. Until New York began to do this business upon a large scale in the farm districts of the upper part of the State, Boston had quite an advantage over our wholesale makers of cheap clothing, for the system has flourished there for the last

ten years. The neighboring counties in New Jersey now take a great deal of this kind of work from New York houses. There are mere than twenty firms which make a business of getting work from large manufacturers and distributing it throughout the country neighborhoods, having in each small town an agent who visits the farm-houses, taking and collecting the clothing." . . CHIEF-JUSTICE WAITE. Personal Gossip About tbe Most Noted Jurist of the United States. F. G. Carpenter, in Kw York World. Chief-justice Waits is" seventy-one years old to-dy. He was eligible to retirement just one year ago, and he could then have left the bench and have drawn his $10,000 a year for the rest of his life. Like Justices Field, Bradley and Miller, he prefers to earn his salary, rather than receive it as a pensioner, and we have on the Supreme Bench of the United States the curious instance of four hearty old men working away, day after day, when they could receive the same amount of pay for doing nothing. Chief-justice Waite promises to work for many years to come. He has no intention of resigning his position, and his health is better now than it has been for years. He has recovered from his sickness of two years ago, and he looks more like a man of sixty than of seventy-one. His black eye is bright, and his strong face is almost free from wrinkles. A thick erowth of dark iron-gray bair covers his head, and a full beard of black, mixed with silver, falls upon his chest. He has a splendid physique. Of medium height, his shoulders are broad, and his carriage has all the dignity that should pertain to the head of the judiciary. His face is a striking one. The forehead is broad and full, though not remarkably high. The eyebrows are dark and heavy, and the eyes which look out from under thorn sparkle with

the feeling of the soul behind them. Sometimes they are grave and serious. At others they twinkle with laughter, and when Waite laughs the twitching of a smile is seen about his strong, firm month. This mouth is full of character, and the nose above it is large enough to be that of a great man. I took a good look at him as he sat upon the supreme bench to-day. Ha has the central seat in the row of the eight grave seniors who comprise tbe present Supreme Court, and the old-fashioned, high-backed ma hogony chair in which he sits is directly under the golden American eagle which looks down from the Supreme Court gallery. This eagle has what looked to me like a golden snake in its mouth, and if it should let it fall the snake would drop upon the busby hair of the Chiefjustice Fastened to the eagle's talons is the key to an arched canopy of royal purpxe silk, and the Chief-justice has thus a back-ground like that of a king upon his throne, These decorations, however, are the only ostentatious things about him. He wears his robe, it is true. like tbe toga of a Roman Senator, but there is nothing of the snob about him, and be is not miffed up with tbe great conceit of little men. He shows himself human as he sits upon the bench, and he will laugh at the joke of a lawyer and vawn reDeatedlv at a prosy speech. He listens closely to the evidence presented to the court, asks questions now and then, and not in frequently puzzles the young lawyers by his in terrogatories. Chief-iustice Waite is a very kind-hearted man, and it is probable that he would pardon serious informalities in a young lawyer, though he would hardly do so in a man of experience. Our Supreme Court is very careful of its dignity, and it would decidedly resent anything which compromised this. Cnief-justice Waite, while he is simple in his manners, never forgets that he is Chief-justice of the Supreme Court, and be carries the dignity of a jastice into his social life. He is food of society, and I have often ssen him with his pretty daughters at a White House reception. He lives very nicely at Washington, and owns a big brown-stone house just next to the Mexican legation, and within a stone's throw of the Arlington Hotel. He entertains frequently, and gives dinners and receptions during the season. The Waite family is one of the oldest families in the country and the coat-of-arms granted to it bears tbe date of 1512. 1 nomas Wayte, wbo was a member of Parliament, signed the death warrant of Charles II, and the family moved to this country soon after the restoration. It was about thirty years after -the landing of the Pil grims that Thomas Wayte settled at Lyme, Conn., and this man s son was one of the hrst presidential electors after tbe war of the revo lution and cast his vote for George Washington. Judge Waite:s father was Chief-justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and be studied law under Matthew Griswold, one of the most noted statesmen of early days. Like Judge Waite. be was a graduate of Yale, and like Judge Waite, be was eminent as a jurist. He left the Supreme Bench, however, at the age of seventy, and he died at eightv-two. If Chiefjustice Waite lives as long he will come within two years of outlasting the century. Waits s father gave him a good education. Ide entered Yale at seventeen, and he graduated in the same class with William M. Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont and Professor Benjamin Silliman. Years afterwards, when he had moved to Toledo, O., and made a reputation there, and Evarts had gone to New York, the two met as Representatives of the United States in the arbitration at Geneva. This was, I think, bis first entrance upon his national career. He was known as a successful practitioner at Toledo, and had been a member of the Ohio Legislature, but it was not nntil 1872 that the people at large knew of his existence. He returned to Toledo at the close of the ar bitration, became a member of the constitution al convention of the State of Ohio, and two years later President Grant, to the surprise of all, sent in his name to the Senate as the successor of Chief -justice Chase. Waite was sur prised to receive tbe nomination.- lt eame entirely without solicitation on his part and with out pressure on the part of hie friends. It was confirmed unanimously, and Charles Sumner, John Sherman, George F. Edmunds and Allen G. Tnurman made speeches in his favor. He took the oath of office March 4, 1874, just about one year after he had been admitted to practice in the Supretre Court of the United States. Judge Waita is a man who has made a success of life by sticking to his business. Neither the presidential nor any political bee has ever buzzed in his thick thatch of dark hair, and he declined to be a candidate for the presidency in 1876. Ex-Representative Hill, of Ohio, tells me that he made tbe address of welcome to Grant on the occasion of his visit to Toledo. This address was so full of good sense and so free from adulation that Grant was delighted with it. He had been pleased with Waite's action at Geneva. and he knew Waite to be a man of the utmost probity and no political aspirations. He ex tended his inauries and concluded that he was the gman to be appointed Chief-justice of the United states, and sent in bis name to the benate. V aite accepted it and tbe country gained bv his act Waite came to Toledo in 18,10, and he had a very good law practice in a very short time. He tried big cases, but charged, only small fees, and the result is that, though he is well to do, he is not a rich man. He i worth probably $200,000. and his house here would sell for $40,000 nnder the hammer. He received one fee of $40,000 for his services in the Atlantic & Great Western railroad cases, and be has some property in Toledo. One of Judge Waite's sons still lives in Toledo, and he has a wife and daughter with him in Washington. Miss Mary Waite is one of the bright girls of Washington society, and Waite's home life is as pleasant as could be imagined. Both tbe Chief-justice and his wife are active members of tbe Protestant Episcopal Church, and the family is a godly one. Waite a great-grandmother, though she was noted for her beauty, was so religious that she never allowed any cooking or sweeping in her house on the tbe Sabbath, and the family ate their Sabbath dinuers cold. Chief -justice Waite's wife is his second cousin. and her name before marriage was Amelia Warner. She came from Lyme, Conn., where Waite was borne, and she was a beauty and a belle in early life, and she is now, as far as her health will permit, one of tbe society leaders of Washington. She was the great-granddaughter of Colonel Samuel Selden, a distinguished officer of the revolution, and Marie Seiden, a granddaughter of this same Colonel Selden, was Chief-justice Waite's mother. A very pretty and quaint wall space can be secured at trifling expense by using pponge paper or hardware paperin plain color, following the lines with gilt, silver, copper or leather-head nails. This arrangement is particularly good in a dining or breakfast-room, or in a small study where draperies of draping cloth or velours will give a fine finish, and mantel or fancy shelves will be found very pretty with a cover of the felt, the borders pinked out, while just above the border fasten the material carefully with fancy tacks. American Art. A writer in Good Housekeeping has this to say about bathing children: In an otherwise excellent book written for women, and in almost every home in the land, the author recommends two daily baths for infants one of warm water in the morning, another, warmer, in the evening. Heaven alone, conscious of its sovereign purposes, can save the little ones subjected to this treatment from having all the strength and vitality washed out of them. It Is the opinion of Dr. Hoskins that there is really no true "grain" to butter, pure butter being homogeneous in its texture. What is called tbe "grain" is a granular appearance resulting from a general and equal distribution of briny water, separating the little pellets of butter that first appear in churning.

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Some of them not very many set type in newspaper offices, though they are supposed not to, and there is a respectable minority in a great variety of trades and occupations, but the vast body of them arc clerks and cashiers in tbe big stores, whose labors during the busy season keep them away from home late at night. Even in stores where there is an "early-closing" rule, the purchasers are not got rid of till 6 o'clock, when there is still the work of clearing up th day's debris to be done, and there is no pretence of closing early on Saturday evenings o during the holidays. Midnight very frequently overtakes the toiler at the counter with her ttsks unfinished, and there are occasions when nearly the whole night must be spent in p- p u a im for some special coup of trade. '1 ne woman doctor is out at all hours, of course, and I have met a medical student of barely twenty trndging along at 2 o'clock in the morning, while the falling rain almost blinded h r, her hand on tbe shonlder of a ragged lad of ten, wbo was conducting her to a sick bed in the East-side tenement region. It is a good deal to the credit of the metropolis that, as a rule, these girls are nearly as safe from rudeness as in the daylight. They are modest and unobtrusive in appearance, they mind their own business, and have ways to make the would-be masher mind his. From night toilers of the other sex men and boys who are out o' night on errands of necessity they have little to fear. The workingmanor boy may be rude when he is drunk, and sometimes when he is not. but he is seldom persistent and not often intentionally troublesome. This growing frequency of night employment for women means a tremendous change in the once-accented notions and opinions of mankind. The judge who declares from the bench that a woman has no business to be abroad after dark is yet heard from once in a while, but the anachronism always calls forth a burst of righteous indignation. I was talking- with a night worker masculine tbe other day about this very topic. He said. that he had often lost his horse-ear and .had to wait a half hour for another in the wee small hours, because of his reluctance to let a fellow worker feminine grope along for her car in the muddy streets. Despite this experience, which is enough to make any but the most sweet-tempered man conservative, ho spoke most enthusiastically of tbe effect likely to be produced npon women, especially young women, by, self-supporting b&bita, and said he looked to see them again in worth and dignity and practical knowledge by contact with practical necessities. The working girl will never be wholly practical, however, so long as she permits a man to lose his own car while finding hers unless she has reasons to suspect the service is a pleasure to him. The more nearly even the terms upon which, women and men conduct their daily business the better it is for tbe business woman, probably. EICH NEW YOKK EDITORS. Wbltelaw Reid Seems to Take the Lead Pur chase of a Conn try Seat. Correspondence Philadelphia Kecord. It certainly pays to be a New York editor. Here are Mr. Pulitzer, with his new Fifth-avenue house, and Charles A. Dana, with his beautiful place on Long Island, where he has a model farm and grounds on which there are extensive verities ot rareplants it.taking'twenty-five men to keep the place in order fine horses, the rarest fowls, and everything that betokens wealth and a lavish manner of living. Now comes Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who has knocked all the other editorial country places in the shade by buying "Ophir Farm," the famous Ben Halliday place on the Sound in Westchester county. Halliday spent over $1,000,000 on tbe house alone, and other owners of it have paid thousands and thousands of dollars in alterations and improvements. The house is built of dark granite. The main part is 130 feet long, and it has numerous wings. There are 700 or 800 acres of ground to the place, and there is a chapel on it in which the bones of Halliday's wile and daughters repose. Mr. Reid. I understand, paid between $300,003 and $000,000 for the entire property. He cannot be at all superstitious, or he would not have bought this place, as every one who has lived in it seems to have had serious troubles of one sort or another. Tbe women of the Halliday family who were buried in the chapel led sad lives and died sad deaths. A recent owner was sold out nnder foreclosure of mortgage, and altogether there seems to be ill luck about it; but if any can turn tbeluck Whitelaw Reid can. He certainly was born under a lucky star. I do not believe he has bad a set-back from tbe beginning of his career. Everything he has done has been successful. There has been very little plodding in his life, lt makes some men poor to marry, but it made Mr. Reid richer by $10,000.000 or $20,000,000, as he married a daughter of D- O. Mills. But all who know Mr. Reid and his wife say that if there had ever been a love match it was theirs; only it was his luck to fall in love with an heiress and have an heiress fall in love with him. Mr. Reid's town bouse is not to be despised. During the first years of his married life he lived in a comfortable bouse on Lexington avenue, but alter residing there a short time be bought one of the Villard man sions, on Madison avenue, and now he has taken "Ophir Farm for a country seat. The editors of New York papers are not paid the salaries that the editors of London papers are paid, but I faney that the principal owners make as much as the owners of London journals. Tbe highest salary paid an editor in New York is $lZ.oou, while the editor of tbe London Times gets $25,000, with a house to live in. Manv of the patent extracts and bitters are compounded of an alcohol derived from wood, and this is said to be a peculiarly dangerous form of alcohol capaple of producing very serious brain disorder. T, ,tt -w o Vmila anil other hnmors are liable to annear when the blood gets heated. To cure thent take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Allow your Clothin g, Paint, or W oodwork, washed in the old rubbing, twisting, wrecking way. Join that la:ce armv rf J j sensible, economical people, who from experience have learned that James Pyle's Pearline, used as directed on each package, saves time, labor, rubbing, wear and tear. Your Clothes are worn out more by washing than wearing. 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