Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1888.

GENERAL IUURIS0N AND TUB SOUTH.

A Strong and Sensible Article from leading Democratic Paper A Southern View. Urooklyn K:ePem.) The Eagle does cot bell ere good -will result from ths ;rsitent discussion of the question o "the SouthV attitude toward General Harrison's election. Tbe question of any section's attitude toward tbe election of any President "was settled whan ILe Union and Abraham Lin coin's authority as President were maintained in the same act. There has been no need since then of raisin? the matter of the relation of any part of the Republic to the choice of the constitutional majority of the States for chief magistrate. The protestation of Tirtue by a woman, of honesty by a man and of loyalty by a commonwealth, for causes clearly evident to the refinement of the world, may bo regarded as equally offensive and suspicious. Emotional journalism and political sentimentalism appear to be gratified by the present effusiveness of " the South;" but "nerd ease"' is a better mark of wise action than anything else is. "Hard sense7 . realizes that for 'the South" to insist on not being regarded as "a special or sectional quantity and, at the same time, to speak in that character, by all her audible voices, involves a contradiction that may easily pass from amusement to CVjsea. To tbe government of the United States and, to those who use the words correctly, "the South." to begin with, has a different meaning from that employed by the present kindly bubblers of permission to General Harrison to assame the office for which the people have desiccated him. Tbe South,' accurately defined, means cot only the States lately in rebellion, feat means every man, woman and child in them, vrhite or colored, Northern or Southern born. A restricted and prevalent construction of the words tends, however, to limit the meaning of the South? to only as many people in the States indicated as choose to emoloy the phrase for , political uses of their o?c. Until tbe proper . definition of the term is distinguished and fred from the improper definition of it, confusion will ansae, or, at least, not very much progress : trill be made in clear linking. When a Kortbtrn mind employs the words 'the South," a much larger import is given to the expression than when that expression drops from the tongues or pens of those sow most frequently engaged in pronouncing it or writioz it, to the States that were lately in rebellion. Exactly the same thing will have to be meant by the expression by those vvho set up the Confederacy and by those who disestablished it, before the term itself will .ease to be a cause of contention or an occasion for juggling with languase. Jastasaright pronunciation can be trusted to displace a wrong one, so can a right definition be depended upon to displace a partial or limited one. Time is the beai agent in doing either. Time, we are convinced, will also 'do more to correct the provincial estimate of the meaning of "the South," by those who hold it, and to require them to conform to tho national estimate of the words than any other force will do. Time, tve are convinced, will do this work a great deal better tbaa editorials approvingly based on the provincial estimate of the term. "the South," in all the papers from Norfolk to Brownsville or from San Antonio to Savannah. These editorial, just now effusively reproduced in Northern journals, with unconscious comedy represent what the writers eali "the South" as a grieved and injured being, which, nevertheless, will consent that General Harrison, having been eleoted, may take his seat, and whieh will promise that "the South" will refrain, amid her falling tears, from smashing the national crockery if he behaves himself decently well. The Eagle can assure even the thirfty Charleston News and Courier, which began this sort of business, that it makes one-half the North angry and the other half siek. General Harrison was toutly opposed and stoutly supported for President He was duly chosen. He will be President by the mandate and power of the Constitution, under the forms of law, acted on by the will of the people. He will be obeyed and respeeted accordingly, just ss President Cleveland would, have been for four years more, had he been reelected. The sooner what exaggeratedly calls itself "the South" comes, as nearly as it ean, to tbe frame of mind which tbe Eastern and Northwestern States showed, when the presidency went against their wishes in 1SS4. the better. No national party nd no President of the Nation wants to be patronized by any part of tho Natioo. Tbe Eagle is aware that there is a purpose in all this posing or posturing: bnt reflection will bow that the acting is not calculated to help on the motive which inspires it The interests of tbe whole country, the interests especially of tbe Southern part of the country, and the conscience of both the great parties in the North have been and are troubled by certain faets, at which now is a gocd time plainly to look. The faets comprise the phenomenon presented by the nolitleal oneeidedntss of action in Southern States, by the voluntary or involuntary non-participation of hundreds of thousands of citizens in the voting processes, whereby government is constituted and its agents are selected. " If this non-participation is voluntary, it is deplorable. If It is involuntary, the fact is monstrous. In either event, tbe spectacle is dangerous and the effect on Northern opinion positive. Republicanism has been preserved in hundreds of thousands of Northern minds by tbe fact, in minds which Would otherwise welcome the Democracy as the agent of exigent reforms. The Northern Democracy baa been stigmatized as the party which has profited by the fact referred to a fact for which tbo Northern Democracy cannot be rightfully held responsible. "The South" is tbe theater of this fact Tbe Nation is tbe sufferer by it, and is in danger from it. Something is the cause of it. Whatever the cause is, Southerners know better than Northerners. Better than Northerners they also know bow to deal with the cause. It behooves them to reveal the cause and to submit it for discussion or for treatment. It looks like government by minority. If it is, it eannot be permanent, for this is a republic of States majority ruled. In the next quadrennium the anomaly should cease, and those among whom, or by wnom, or for whom it exists should bring it to

an end. If the alternative to government by device or force is to the Southern States barbarism and brigandage, let the fact be acknowledged and the incapacities of numerical majorities for tbe rights of citizenship, whieh have been accorded to them, be demonstrated. The test of the States would not be insensible to a demonstration of that kind, but the demon tration would Lave to be absolute. The rest fcf the States would be patient, under the application of educational remedies, or swift in consenting to tbe application of political remedies. They would do, bear and allow for raueh, to accomplish fitness in men for rule. They will nr,t. txowever, accept tbo unproved indictment of; race's unfitness for citizenship, after that VavO lias been possessed of citizenship for a fifth ot'a century as a pretext for tbe perpetuation of a orce oligarchy. Democracy means democracy. What that means every one knows rQYmlar eovernment, majority ruled. The application cy "the South' of cures for tbe causes whieh, every four years, are held to make ber situation a patboi and her 'submission' a conundrum, cannot too eoon begin. That is wa ated more than Cattery, effusion or patronizing is wanted. If General Harrison's aamioistratio a causes or eoinctdes with that, the gain to najtwnal safety and homogeneity will be signal. Tbe Eagle is aware that the subject Is environed with difficulties and should be treated rith charity. Treated, however, it should be. Ignored, denied or longer nerlected it shoold not be. It is the calumny or the peril of American politics. If a ealumny, it should be refuted. If a fact, it should be corre&ted. We are not prescribing what should bj done. Reuben E. I'enton to the contrary notwithstanding, this is not government of newspapers." Newspapers point out subjects and facts. Statesmanchip deals with them. It must be within the resources of statesmanship to deal with these iaets, if they would escape a ruder reckeninc than statesmanship would accord. Railing will not deal with tbeca. Gushing will not gloss -them. Silence will not poultice them. Time, s we said, should do much for them and wo fcope time will. Nevertheless, time should be reinforced and quickened by effort where the situation is. The effort should be such as to command the sympathetic concurrence of the test entiment of tbe men of both parties everywber. The need of effort, the danger of not making it, shall be pointed out, if tbe Eagle is the only journal of the Democratic brotherhood that does it. Not the praise of opponents and cot the ire of colleagues shall deter us, for duty i more than tbe flattery of foes or tbe anger of friends. The broken solidity of the South and North is an objeet devoutly to be wished, in the Interest of a patriotism larger than party and coextensive with the country. Government based on realities must be the policy, for that alonn will insure the permanence of tbo Republic. By all right and peaceful methods, speed the day! A Ward to the Croakers. SJennhU Avalanche. It is exceedingly thoughtless, not to say reckless, in those Southern journals who are surmising all sorts of evil deeds and vindictiveness cn the part of the incoming administration to thus conjure up miefortunes for the Southern people which may never and we may assume will never come. In no more harmful way could the busicess interests of tbe South be attacked than in thus directing the attention of timid capital to temote possibilities which, in the very nature

of the ease, are not probabilities. The slavery incident, so prominent at the close of the late war, is closed. The race adjustment issue or incident growing out of reconstruction is also closed. Tbe right of suffrage and citizenship denied to the Chinese tod Inrtian races was conferred by violence, and in opposition to the Constitution, on the negro solely to make sure tbe grip of a political party on the government of the Nation. Bat this action, though unconstitutional in itself, has received such ratification by assent of tho people that only another constitutional amendment could deprive the negro of tbe right Whether the dominant Anglo-Saxon race not in the South, but in America will through self-interest yet determine to do this is a secret still in the womb of thb future, and can at present only be surmised and not foreseen. Sinee tbe administration of President Hayes the problem of rsee friction bas been relegated to the sovereign States of the South, under the Constitution, where it belongs. President Arthur treated the matter as concluded, and made no mention of it in bis message. Nor did President Cleveland reopen the controversy. There is not the. slightest reason to believe that President-eleut Harrison will do otherwise. "I most sincerely desire to promote the general good of our whole people, without reference to State lines." wrote be recently to a citizen of Memphis. Is there anytbjng in that sentence to intimato that he will make another abortive attempt, for abortive it would prove, to settle by force the internal policies of the Southern States, or to attempt to rrocure other and odious civil-rights legislation! f so, it does not appear on the surface. To do so would not promote the good of the whole people without regard to State lines; but, on the contrary, would unsettle trade, depreciate values and bring commercial disaster on the whole Nation. The constsnt insistanee of certain Southern journals that he will, notwithstanding his demai, again attempt to interfere in co nthera affairs, tends also to this very end, and to this extent is little short of criminal. It is evident that the issues before the Nation In the near future will not be race issues. The Republicans did not win on that controversy, and that they will recur to it is extremely improbable. The words of President-elect Harrison should weigh strongly against the declaration of Republican hot bloods, either in tbe North or in Memphis, in forecasting the policy of the next administration and its party. Supported by the utterances of men like Murat Ilalstead, they would seem conclusive of the situation, and one may confidently hope that the future struggle of tbe two great and evenly-matched parties will be on lines of economic and not sectional differences. A White Republican Party In Virginia. Eicnmond (Va.1 Special. The following from a recent issue of tho Richmond Dispatch, the alleged organ of the Democratic party of Virginia, is good reading. After it come a few additional notes in comment by the editor of the Petersburg Index-Appeal, the only Democratic paper in the State not wholly governed by bourbonism. The Dispatch says: "It is enough to make any freeman almost despair of his country when be contemplates even the possibility of Republican suesess in this State next November, under the lead of Mahone. The negroes would, in that event, become intolerably aggressive, and he would be obliged to aecede to their wishes in the matter of appointing negroes to office.' The Index Appeal comments: "In view of recent occurrences in the Fourth district, it would seem that our esteemed contemporary's fears of negro rule, under Mahone's leadership, are imaginary and groundless. If there ever was any reason for fear from this quarter, surely that reason was removed in the frankest manner possible by Mahone's speech at Farmville. Indeed, the danger to Democratie rule does not lie in that direction. The tip we would give the Dispatch and the Democratic party is this: A white Republican party is in process of formation in Virginia and threatens to prove strong enough, without the aid of tbe negro, to make Democratic tenure of power exceedingly dubious. White Republican clubs are in every corner of tbe State, and tbeir ,most efficient allies and promoters are intolerant and proscriptive Democrats little fellows who stand at the base of the mountain, with just vision enough to see the zenith above them, but not the horizon about them. If the leaders that stand at the summit and enjoy the advantage of a broaden range of observation, do not repress their too zealous followers at the foot in tbeir sonseVesri assaults upon free political thought and action, then they may find reason for regret when tt is too late. It may come in the next gubernatorial election. Our word for it, gentlemen, therein food for reflection in what we have said to you." snowtus of tire at sk -

Three Times the Lightning Flashed Ainl a Hall of Fire SoeineU to Burst. New York World. Tbe Swedish shiD Edward, which arrived here yesterday from Havre, reports having been bombarded by a terrible electrical storm on tho morning of Oct. 31 in latitude -A.42, longitude 54.42. It was before dawn, and, the entire crew was at work bracing tbe mair yard, the ship scudding along, elose reefed, before a strong gale when tbe phenomena ocurred. The story is best told in Caption Akfjttnark's own language. He is an intelligent mariner and has sailed the high seas for ov.p thirty years. "We sailed from Havr'j on Oct 9," said be. 'We had easterly windi until we sighted the Banks. Then a heavy np.r'easter struck us. It blew great cuns and e were compelled to scud before it almost uud.ee bare poles. The seas were very heavy Mid knocked my little ship about as though it bay i been a jollr-boat. The storm continued up.til we reached the Uulf stream, when it moderated. Fair weather, with moderate breezes and light seas, was then encountered, ur.tft the afternoon of Oct 30. About midnight he wind came out from the eastward and orew a gale, kicking up an ugly sea. The sicy -was dirty, and 'way off in the southwest w could hear loud peals of thunder and see vivad flashes of lightning. Th sk.y grew darker as morning advanced, and tbe lightning and thunder drew nearer. The wind. Was just hauling from east to north and blowing a gale, but all tbe lightning seemed to be hi the southwest, and at about seven bells in tbe. tnorning, or 3:30 by tho clock, it was directly oyer o-ar ship. I had just ordered the men to brace the main yard when their work war, suddenly Interrupted by a loud crash of tb-jrader and loud explosion, which sounded to 7 'like tbe report of a thousand cannoo. The I ghtoing struck the main rigging directly over the men, and at the same moment a ball of fire, just like a shell, bobbed about the rigging, and then exploded. - It was something sublime, although", terrifying. "When tbe ball of fire exploded streaks of lurid name darted in every direction. It was just like the falling of a multitude of stars. For miles around the sea was illuminated and every corl in our rigging shone like strands of silver. The brilliancy was but momentary,

however, and we were left in darkness to contemplate oar thrilling position. In less than five minutes, however, and before we had recovered from the shock of the previous bolt, another terrible flash of lightning, followed by an explosion of another ball of fire, augmented oor terror and sent us scurrying in every direction for shelter. We were all thoroughly frightened. Tbe crew could not do any work. "Bat onr fears and astonieement were destined to be still further Increased. Just as we were getting on our feet again and thanking God that we bad escaped with our lives there was another thrilling display. I was standing on the quarter-deck, and the men were about to again attempt to brace the main yard. Suddenly and with a terrible sound "a flash of lightning broke right above the main rigging, and out of it we could sea another ball of fire playing about the rigging from the starboard side right over t tbe port side. It too, exploded, but with a noise and scattering of faming fragments which sunk the previous ones into comparative insignificance. I was dazed, and when I recovered sight and sense not one of my men was on his feet. Tbe whole crew were prostrate; some tumbling about on top of each other, some crying with fear and others stretched on tbeir backs as though, they had been etruck dead. "One by one they got over tbe shock and fright, but it was some time before I could get them on their feet again. The second mate could cot speak for several hours, and tbe whole work of keeping tbe vessel before tbe wind devolved upon me and the first officer, as fortunately we were not right under where the balls of fire exploded. 'The shock to the ship wss terrific It vibrated so that we feared tt would co to pieces. The timber cracked each time we were struck and I am surprised that we did not split in two, or become a total wreck. As soon as the crew were able to get around I made a thorough, examination of the vessel and rigging. It was not injured in tbe least, and showed no signs whatever of the awful fusillade. The crew were all right in a day or o, but second officer Kjellberg, who was among those stunned, complained for days of a severo pain in the stomach, bnt now he is as hale and as hearty as ever. "I have been in many storms during my long career on tbe sea, but never before bad sueh an experience. We frequently meet these electrical displays, but I have never beard of any of such intensity as this one. My vessel was loaded with iron ore and this may have acted as a magnet to attract ths meteors or whatever you msy call them.

TOE CATTLE TIJADE. , ' ' The Senate Committee Lfanis Chicago Is Undoubtedly the Controlling Market.

Never FailsBrown's Expectorant cures coughs and colds. 10 cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists.

St. Louis, Nov. 21. The Senate committee investigating the cattle question was late la getting to work this morning. ..The first witness was J. L. Bosh, a cattleman pf Colorado City, Tex. Sir. Bush related tbedecadence of prices on eattle and attributed it principally to overproduction. Replying: to Senator Veet,the witness said he had heard of a combination of dressedbeef interests in Chicago, but did not have personal knowledge of its existence. Senator Plumb questioned the witness eoseterely that he remonstrated and said: . "You are continually misunderstanding me. I think you ought to have 'some respect for my feelings." "We are not after your feelings." responded Senator Plumb, tartly; "we want facts." The witness had no persons! knowledge of discrimation by roads. He considered Chicago the controlling market of the country. The next witness called was J. M. Osborn, division freight agent of the Wabash. The witness said he had been in the freight business forty-two years. He owns a farm in Nebraska and raises cattle there. Senator Vest How are cattle 6old in Cbicagol The Witness Tnere are fourteen clsssifieations; thirteen of these are sold by weieht, while milch cows are sold by tbe head. Continuing, the witness said Chicago wss uodouotedly the largest market in the country. The receipts there in 1S87 were 2.3S2.000; shipments, 791,483, leaving in Chicago 1,591,023, and the shipments from Chicago to interior Illinois was very large. Illinois farmers bay good cattle, but the production there bas lareely decreased. Senator Vest Is it not a fact that prices for the country are fixed by Chicago? Tbe Witness New York nxes the price for the class of cattle that goes to New York. Senator Vest But the largest receipts and sales can be credited to Chicago? The Witness Undoubtedly. Mr. Orsborn then explained how the consolidation of commodities at any point reduced prices. He did not know, personally, of the existence of a combine in Chicago with the purpose of reducing prices to the producer. There was an element in railroad tariffs now which bad never existed prior to the passage of the interstate-commerce law. That was printed rates; that tbe shipper knew just what he had to pay. Onesixth of the csttle shipped from Illinois to Chicago averaged 1,200 to 1,500 pounds. Cattle rose $1 per hundred in May last, but have depreciated 50 cents since October. Senator Vest What caused the raise in prices in Mav?

The Witness I think it "was the appointment

of this committee. I may bebune by some of the cattlemen for saying this, bat I am not here

in the interest of cattlemen. Senator Cullom You are safe here.

The Witness I never saw, and I think no

cattleman ever eaw, a rise in the price of cattle in summer before. Senator Test Is not the concentration of the

market ftt Chicago an injury to cattle-raisers?

The Witness I think so; bat others are of

the opinion it is an advantage, because they

take all the light cattle and use them tor can-

nine purposes. Senator Vest Is it not a fact that St. Louis, as a cattle market, has largely decreased? The Witness It has not increased. Senator Vest But Chicago ha3 gone ahead? The Witness-Yes.

Senator Vest When did this great difference

between the two cities begin? The Witness The maximum was reached here in 1831, when the receipts were 503.CS2 head. Chicago's receipts that year were 1,498,550. St Lanls dropped, in 18S6. to 377,550, and Chicago's receipts in that year were 1,903,900.

Senator Vest To what cause do you attribute this? Was there not a combination called tbe

"Eveners," in 1S73, that divided the cattle busi nebs? The Witness Yes; there was such a combine

tion. and there was a rumor to the effect that

the combination took tbe business away from St Louis and put it in at Chicago. I know no other transportation reason for tbe change in tbe market from St. Louis to Chicago.

Senator Vest Did not the "Eveners'' get $ 15 per car? The Witness There was a rumor to that ef

fect.

Senator Vest Was tbe Wabash asked to pay

Us share to the combination! - The Witness (hesitatingly) Yes; such a de mand was made in 18$ot but the Wabash do clined to do so.

Senator Cullom What roads were in this

combination?

Tbe Witness The New York Central, tbe

Erie, the Pennsylvania and their connection, From the beginning of this combination Chica

go commenced going ahead at a phenomenal rate, and St Louis fell back. The combination was for the benefit of Chicago, and the rebate

did not apply to St. Louie or any other place.

J. C. Beatty, of El Paso, Tex., was next

caned, lie stated he was a raiser, buyer and

seller of cattle, lie was in tbe same business in California before going to Texas. The firm with

which he was connected put up a $75,000

refrigerator, which enabled them to have fresh

meat four or five days old something that

was entirely new there. Tie railroad agent informed them that his obligations to Mr.

Armour were sueh that he could not get cars

for them to ship cattle oot to the PaciQo coast,

The result was that the refrigerator had to be

shut down. Then Mr. Armour began putting beef

in refrigerator cars. He broktbe msrket from

34 cents to lh cent, and cattle-raisers near EI

Paso were compelled to ship to Kansas City at a

loss. His firm now shipped beef to the City of Mexico, whieh wss a better market the year round than any In this country. Senator Cullom Then you were driven out of

the United States? The Witness It looks that way.

Senator Cullom What road do you refer to?

Tbe V itness The Southern Pacific. We also

found it impossible to get cars on tbo Santa Fe.

Tbe same roads that refused us cars to ship cut-

meats to tbe raoiuc coast offered us cars in which to ship cattle on the hoof. This was in

February last.

Senator Plumb Did you make complaint to

me interstate-commerce uommiSAioni Witness I think not. When Armour broke

our market down the president of tbe refriger

ator company, E. A. Newman, made tbe appli

cation xor cars. The wintess is now raising cattle in Chihua hua, Mexico.

Brewster Cameron testified he was railing cattle on the open ranges of Arizona, He considered that Chicago controlled the markets of

the country. When cattle went into the Chicago

market drovers had tbe priviledge of looking through a hole in the fence at them. Butchers had not a free chance to buy. Many cattle-

raisers were on tne verge or bankruptcy. A larce number of producers eould have got out, but they held on in the vain hope that the Chi

cago combine would not continue to control

prices.

C C Slaughter, of Dallas, Tex., ' stock-raiser and banker, was next called. He had been to

Chicago and Kansas City with cattle. It was his opinion that there was a very powerful combine at Chicago. St Louis was at one time the market where be disposed of cattle. He sold here in 1SS2 as high as $7 per 100 pounds. The witness thought H strange when be. took cattle from Kansas City to Chicago that he should be offered the same figures at the latter place as ho had been offered at the former. Another thing that struck him as being peculiar was that tbe representatives of the same firm at Cbicagojas the one be had seen at Kansas City would be the only buyer who would look at. hie cattle. The offer made him at Kansas City was known in Chicago, as was tbe number of cattle coming on. Bill heads were the same iu both cities, and usually Swift's or Armour's. The committee then adjourned tomeet at 10 o'clock to-morrow. Senator Coke, of Texas, has not yet arrived, but is expected on Friday, Association of Western Architects. Chicago, Nov. 21. The fifth annual convention of tbe Western Association of, Architects began to-day. The annual address wss read by tbe president, Sidney Smith, of Omaha. The board of directors reported favorably on tbe proposed consolidation of tbe Western Association of Architects with the American Institute of Architects. Tbe members of the Western New York State Association were elected members of tbe association, so that they might take part in tho present proceedings. The committee on tbe meterie system of weights atd measures reported favorably on the system, and thought steps should be taken to induce Congress to pass a bill making tbe metrjo , system standard. A resolution was adopted requesting the chairmen of the different State associations to communicate to their Cengrrsmea tbe opinion of tbe association regarding this matter, and request them to have the subject referred to tbe proper eongressional committee. Tbe chairman of the committee on . a code of ethics for professional practice, reported that the committee bad not agreed upon a line of action. He thought that such a code should be adopted, and that it should cover the relations of architects to this association and to tbe public Several reports of minor importance were also heard. In discussing the report of the committee on eolsolidatioo, Mr. Stone, of tbe American Association of Architects, said he thought he voiced the opinion cf the institute, and ht

knew be did of the committee, when he said they were greatly in favor of a consolidation of the two societies. V

DAILY WHITHER BULLETIN.

Indications. Washington. Nov. 21. For Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Fair; easterly

winds; stationary temperature.

For Lower Michigan Fair in southern portion; light snows in northern portion; easterly winds; stationary temperature.

For Upper Michigan Light snows; stationary

temperature; easterly winds.

For Wisconsin Rain, except in extreme northern portion; light snows; southeasterly winds;

stationary temperature. :

Local Weather Report. Indianapolis, Nov. 21.

Time. Bar. Ther. R. IL Wind. Weather Pree tmma wnMHMaB mmmmmm mm tmmmmm 7a.M... 30.50 2G 7G Neast Clear. ..... 2 p. XI... 50.40 40 5J Neast Clear 7 r. M... G0.42 o5 51 Neast.Clear

Maximum thermometer. 41; minimum ther mc meter, t Foilowiug is a comparative sUtement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on Nor. ill, 1888: Tern. Freetp. Normal 37 O.I 2 Mean oO 0.00 Departure from normal 7 0.12 Total excess or deficiency sioee Nov. 1 41 2.J0 Total excess or deficiency since Jan. 1 007 l.UO 'Plus, m General Observations. Indianapolis. Nov. 217 r. m.

Station.

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NewYtrlf eitv .j30.48

Buffalo, N. Y 30.50 Philadelphia, PaJSO.DO Pittsburir. Pa.... 30.3(5

Waahington. D.C. 130.4 0 Charleaton, S. C-iO.lO Atlanta, Ua. ,30.26 Jacksonville. Fla.30.rj Pn.B.rtU l'la 30.12

Montgomery, Ala 30.20 Vicksburg, Miss.. 130.24

New Orleans, La. 130.10 Little Rock. ArU. 30.:12 Galveston, Tex... 30.24 San Antonio, Tex;30.32 MTnTi Tan n . 130.32

Nashville, Tenn..30.30 Loiiifcville, Ivy '30.3S Ir.dianapolis, Ind. 30.42 Cincinnati. 0 30.38 Cleveland. 0 30.40

Toledo. O 130.44I Marquette, Mien. 1 30.4 G S.Ste.Mrie, Mich 30.40 Chicago, 111 (30.46 Cairo. Ill '30.3S Springfield. III... 130 44 Milwaukee. Wis.. 311.44 bwluth. Minn 130.44 St. Paul, Minn... 130.30 MoreLead. Mian..; 30.35 St. Vincent. Minn. 30.38 Davenport, la. . . .,30.44 Dubuque, la. 30.40

St. Louis. Mo.... Kansas City, Mo. Port Sill. Iml. T..

Dodge City, Kan. Omaha. Neb

North Platte. Neb 30.32

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Qu,Apelle,N.W.Tl30.18

Helena, M.T 30.2G Boise City. I. T.. 30.10 Chevenne. W. T.. 30.28 FtM'Knny.W.T. 30.12 Denver, Col 30.18 Pueblo. Col 30.28 San ta Fa. N.M... 30.14

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A Former Chief-Justice of Utah Dies In a Low Groggery. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tbe shadow of tbe evening were lengthening, and lights from the dingy street-lamps and tbe dingier shop-windows were beginning to illume tbe rough and broken sidewalks, and dispel the ; gloom of tbe street, when an old man, clad in little else than raze, and tottering with the infirmities of age, entered one of tbe lowest of tbe many drinking-houses on South Desplaines street, at tbe corner of School. He entered by tbe ridej door, very quietly, with tbe evident intention of being left unnoticed. And so it was. The bar-tender hardly looked up from his eeat behind tbe counter, and the old man dropped into a chair near the battered stove in the corner.

lie sat quite still for several minutes, with bis head inclined forward, chin resting upon bis breast Then his bands dropped listlessly to his sides, the muscles of bis limbs relaxed, bis body slipped downward to one side, fell in a rude, limp heap to the floor, and William W. Drumrnond, who once wore the jodiciaLermine of tbe United States and was recognized as one of the eminent jurists of bis time, was dead dead in a barrel-house, the resort of tbe lowest of low characters of a great city; dead among people with whom be had lived for years yet he had once been a Chief-justice of tbe United States. The proprietor of the honse walked up to the Desplaines-street station, notified Captain Aldricb, and tbe patrol wagon was sent and conveyed the remains to the city morgue, where it was deposited to await an inquest and the order of friends. Many members of the legal profession, the older members, of course, will remember Judge William W. Drumrnond, for he bas often been confounded with Judge Drumrnond, who resigned from tbo United States Circuit bench and was succeeded by Judge Greeham, and they will also remember the thoroughly disgraceful and disreputable actions of Judge William Drumrnond, aod perhaps think that retribution, long delayed, came to bim at last in a terrible manner. As nearly as could be learned William W. Drumrnond came to Chicago in 1831, from some point in Virginia, in which State he was born, reared, and educated for the law. He practiced law here for a year or so, and was prominent in politics. His relatives in tbe East were araonj the finest people in Virginia, and by his own efforts and theirs he was appointed, by President Franklin Pierce, Chi6f-justic of Utah territory, in 1853. At that time bo was very little, if anj-, over the age required. He was fairly well-to-d, however, and resided at Oquawka, Henderson couotv, in this State, with his family,compose 1 of his wife, four daughters and one son. The daughters were all good-looking and accomplished young ladies, he having bad thorn finely educated at the Convent of the Visitation, near Wheeling, W. Va. The names of the daughters were America, Austria, Alwilda and Belle. The son's name is Americas. But Drumrnond was guilty of the most disgraceful conduct, and his downfall dated from tbe time be received the appointment to the United States Supreme Bench. While in Washington, previous to receiving tbe appointment, Drumrnond met and become enamored of

Pleasant Hidgeway, a young and besutiful adventuress, who completely turned bis head. The result was terrible. Drumrnond lost all regard for hie wife and family, flung all prospects and decency to tho wind,- and when he left for Utah took with him the woman who eventually dragced him down as low as herself, and left him to sins lower. Drumrnond remained in Utah for several years, and it is said was forced to resign from the bench by the stories of his conduct, which followed him to bis new place of abode. He returned to Chicago prior to 1SG0, and resumed tbo practice of law. But his blasted reputation prevented success. He still lived with Pleasant Ridgeway, somewhere on Warren avenue. But as be was unsuccessful, she finally tired of him and left him, talcing np with the proprietor of a bird store in this city. After the woman left hita things weut from bad to woreo with Drumrnond. His oil friends had refused to recognize him on his return, and drink became tbe evil of his life. Failing at his law practice, and having little other resource, bo engaged in doubtful practices of various kinds, and was finally debarred from legal practice, after being arrested stealing letters from mailboxes on the street corners. He sank so low that for eight years he has been completely out of sight cf those who knew bim in his successful days. Cbeao lodging-bousea gave him shelter for tbe few pennies be could scrape together by begging during tbe day. One of his daughters, whose reputation in afterlife, however, became cloudy, was his only friend. Sbe resides in tbe city still, aod, even up to yesterday, sought him out at bis former lodging-house. No. Ill Desplaines street, and gave bim some clothing and a little) money. During the fourUast months be bas lived in the cheap lodging-houses in the vicinity of Desplaines and Monroe- street, and when a reporter of the Inter Oceau started out last evening to learn something of the old man's history, it was dir covered that be bad for several months stopped at Patrick O'Learv's lodging-house, in tbe basemeat .of No. Ill South Desplaines street. After a short search, the proprietor brought up two old valises belonging to Drumrnond. They were filled full of letters, pamphlets, books aod odds aod ends of all kinds. Tba letters showed that one of Drummond's daughters was dead ten years since; that on resided at Belvedere, lib, and one at Rockford. 111. The son resides at Dailies ton, la. Those

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who knew Drummond's deserted wife said that she was a woman possessed of all the Christian virtues, who bore the disgrace brought upon her by her disreputable husband uncomplainingly. She died in 1374. THE STREET-CAR.

IU Originator Talks of the Development of This Important American Invention. New York Commercial Advertiser. The old, and in many respects objectionable, .method of propelline street-cars along the rails by horse power will probably soon be a thing of tho past. The cable and electricity have already superseded the horses as a motive power in some of tbe larce cities of the West, and every month their use is extended. John Stephenson, tbe pioneer manufacturer of tramcars and the father of street railroads, tells some interesting facts about street railways, lie eave these details to the reporter: The first charter ever cranted to a horse-car railroad company in the world was obtained from the Legislature of this State on April 21, 1831. The charter was granted to tbe New York & Harlem Railroad Company. The first section of the road was laid on the Bowery, beginning at Fifth street and leading north to Fourteenth street The road was opened for traffic on Nov. ZS, 1832. The Bowery, at that time, np to what is now called Union square, was known as the Bloommgdala road. When Union square was surveyed the old landmarks were obliterate'!. ' The projectors of this first street car railroad included John Mason, at that time president of the Chemical Bank. He became tbe first president of the railroad company. John Lozter, actuary of the Manhattan water-works, was tbe vicA-president and chief man ace r. The first car, the Mason, named after the president of tbe company, was a four-wheeled concern, with threo compartments, built after the English stage-coach model. It had accommodation inside for thirty passengers, and on top for ten more, and was fifteen feet Ions, without platforms, which had not been thoucht of at that early day. On tbe trial trip it carried as passengers the Mayor of the city and Common Council. Tbe start was made from Fifth street and the Bowery at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. A second car of similar size and design, tho President, followed the Mason with invited guests, comprising several prominent capitalists. The sidewalks aloe? the route were tbronced with people who had taken a half-holiday to see the great experiment triLlTThe driver cf tho Mason, "Lank" Odell, anxious to show the efficiency of the brake, stooped his car at the point where Cooper Union now standi, and the President, which was folio win 2 clcfre behind, ran on till the pole crashed through the rear of the Mason. A howl of "I told you so" went op from tbe spectators, who had predicted tbe failure of the innovation. No one was hurt, however, and the trip was triumphantly continued to Fourteenth street In remarkable contrast to railroads of later date, this first horse-car railroad was started as a lenevolent scheme to facilitate the transportation of mechanics workine in tbe city to cheaper homes in the outskirts. The original company met with disaster when the deposits were withdrawn from the United States Bank, in 1837, and it did not show any activity again till 1513. A new company of capitalists then bought oat the franchise, and from that date the horse-car lines of this city have paid good dividends. The first road was laid on granite sleepers, and the fare charged was Gd in Spanish money (equal to 0 cents American money) between Fifth and Fourteenth streets, aod 25 cents to Harlem when the road was extended as far as that. The road was completed to York villa inMar. 1834. and to Harlem in 1S37. The original insomorators bought tbe road-way of the Fourth-avenue line from Fourteenth street to Harlem river, and tbe present stockholders of that company, nd not the city, own the property over wbic'i its ears run. The next extension was down to Walker street in 1541. and tbe next to 'Willlamsbridge, north, in 1812, under a new charter. Every extension of the road met great antagonism on the part of the property-owners along the route, aod the public in general. The most bitter opponents were the wagoners and marketmen, who asserted that co lice of cooYcjancei hd auj right to pre-empt a right of

way exclusive to themselves. This opposition, however, was finally overcome. The first eight-wheeled cars stopped at Twenty-sixth street, going down town, and from that point what was called the "short line," consisting of the first open-end platform cars, ran to the southern term'nns. The nrst eight-wheel cars were built in 1845. when Qouverneur Morris bad some such cars built to convey granite from his Harlem quarries to the Battery. At that time the offices of the road were located in Tryon row, where the Staats Zeitucg building now i Tbe Fourth-avenue line began to pay its stockholders about the year lSoO, and this led to the establishment of other roads. The Third-avenue road obtained a charter in 1S53, aod the Second, Sixth and Eighth-avenue lines obtsined theirs tbe year following. Since then, tbe advance in the development of the streetcar bas been rapid, till, to-day, tbe perfected vehicle, as seen uoon the Broadway line, bas nearly eighty patented intentions applied to its mechanism. In speaking more particularly of the development of the car itself, Mr. Stephenson said: "In tbe discussion of the plant or railway bed it is hardly necessary to add that tramways, the popular term for surface street-cars, by the way, are purely an American institntion, dating their origin to 1831, in this city. Since then steam motors have been experimented with on Fourth avenue (in 1821); in fact, every power known to modern mechanical science, including electricity, have been applied to invention of a practical street-car. Nothing, however, in my opinion, has been developed yet which can absolutely supersede the animal power on the crowded streeta of cities, with the possible exception of the cible. "It took seven jears, a fact never yet made public, to construct the first road from Prince street to the Harlem r.ver, and it consumed all tbe original capital, $1,100,000, with stock in the market at 4 per cent, on capital fully paid np. Tramway construction did not bein in other countries till I SCO, yet now, in almost all the important cities of every part of tbe civilized world, tramways are to be found, with cars of American manufacture running on them." Gay Paris Womeo Fight with Swords. GaHgnani'f Messenger. The degrading and repulsive scene so cleverly depicted by M. Emile Bayard in pieture, 'Uce Affaire o'llonneur," has just been illustrated in real life by a duel between two women of the town. These viraeoes, Anna Derby and Julietta Kosslcr, had relations with the same "victim," the son of a Paris banker, and Kessler. meeting her rival iu his company, boxed her ears. The ioeult was one which could only be washed away in blood, aod a dnel was arranged to take place in the Bois de Meudon, just thrown open to the cublie. The prineirals and tbeir seconds duly met, and the ri?sls had crosed swords, when the Meudon police commissary, brought to the spot by the gay Lothario who was the cause of the quarrel, intervened and carried off the two fair belligerents to his cCce. There he in vain attempted to reconcile them, but, notwithstanding, allowed them to depart, with a severe admonition on their unwomanly conduct. The swords brought for the fray, which are said to be of great vulut, were confiscated. There are cot wanting persons who would maintain that the artist who first suggested the sword as a settlement of women's quarrels is morally responsible for this disgusting aCair.

A 8rvant'a Outer Freak. rbHadeTphla Record. A lady had occasion late one evening to enter her servants bed-room in an uptown flat in New York. Abigail lay fast asleep, over her head as capacious cotton umbrella. "What's this!" asked the astonished mistress, waking op tho woman. Oh. mem," said the Abigail, "the next family refrigerator do be right over my bed, mem. and it drips on me that much 1 had to put up me umbrella." "Why didn't yon tell me about it? I can hare it fixed," said tbe lady. "Sure mem, it do b no trouble at all to rut up the umbrella," said this contented serving woman. Bat the ltak was stopped the fttit day.