St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 29, 1884
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SES 9 SE NE rR MERETBREE Cee et PURO 90 2 5 tem ai. keane i ST. LOUIS, MONDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1884. ~ VOL XXXIL 7 of oné of the branches of the Legislature, each has it in its power to salaries ranging from $1,000 to $1,700 and the re- a eter ential hie ie ee ee eee . — _ = — — —— LEE II Et ETO EO OE a OF Aw Rw ote a We say in these modern times, “Let us make the cooks of a na-. tion, and we care not who makes its apothecaries.”?’ But in order to teach the cook such ways of preparies food as will make it palatable and wholesome, we must first furnish such improved cooking a as will give the advantage of economizing time and saving labor. It is of the utmost importance that the article on which our daily food is cooked should be the very best article in the, house, as health depends largely upon the food we eat, and more so on how it is cooked. Years of experience and practical tests have demonstrated the superiority of wrought-iron Kanges over all other kinds of ranges or cooking steyes, on account of their greater durability, larger cooking capac VW ease of management, certain- ty of operation, and solid economy in use of fuel. In all these points the “Home Comfort”? Ranges stand unrivaled, and the unprecedented demand for them from all parts of the country testifies stronger than words to their great po yey L : and the universal testimony of thousands of families, hotels, restaurants, public | and private institutions now using the ‘“‘Home Comfort’’ is, that they are not enly unsurpassed, but unequaled by any other apes § apparatus upon the market. The improved malleable iron water-heaters used by as are of capacity sufficient to furnish abundance of hot water, and, with our hotel sizes, to,at -the same time, operate a steam table connected with the Range, thus cooking all kinds of ~ tabies, soups, puddings, etc., thoroughly and without danger of burning, by the game fire which heats the ovens, thus doubling its capacity without increasing the amount of fuel used. WROUGHT-IRON RANGE COMPANY, 1901 WASHINGTON AVENUE. Simmons Hardware Co.,Retail Agents for St.Louis ee ee ee "4 out ly g278 & nn —> = MARK CURE OF AND NERVOUS ) | NEURAL HEADACHE of the Tonga or Friendly; Am convinced. after 22 | uableremedy by the i ts whose cur- erred ‘i effects. | Hare i 2 Pees ne. ; a 2 A.A. 709 snd 711 WASHINGTON AVENUS, a MISSOURI OFFICEHOLDERS. _ — _— A Complete List of Missourians Draw- ing Pay From the Federal Government. -— —_—— The Fat and Thin Places Which Missouri Democrats May Claim Under the Incoming Administration—Consulships, Clerkships, ete., etc.—A List Which Every Missouri Patriot Should Cut Out and Paste in His Hat if He is Desirous of Office. =“ Special Correspondence of the Post-Dispatch. Wasnivaton, Dec. 27.—It may be of interest to Missouri patriots who are looking forward to a term in office under the incoming administration to know what Missouri Republicans are holding office under the present regime and the salaries attaching to the positions. Of course, Missouri, as a Democratic State, will be entitled to more positions under Dem ocratic rule than under Republican, but this formi- dabie list will, of itself, be interesting, furnishing as it does a list of places for which the demand may be considered primary ,and entitled to begin at once. Consul,J.F.Shepard,at Hankow,China,a Missourian, gets $3,500 per year; Consul Wm. C. Fox of Bruns- wick, Germany, is paid by fees, butis understood to realize handsomely; Consul Hy. 8S. Lassar of Port Stanley, F. L, gets $1,500; Mr. John A. Halderman, consul general at Bangkok, Siam, gets $5,000 a year, a very snug and agreeable place. In the Treasury Department at Washington the following Mis- sourians hold places with salaries as indicated: James R, Lake, $1,400 per year; T. M. Carpenter, $720; Lewis Alexander, $660; Mrs. Parlin and Mrs. Rawlings, $2 per day each. John Moore, $1,400 per year; John Bott, $720; F. A Hopping. $720; H. McNeil, $1,400; G. C. Colby, $1 600; J.C, §. Colby, $1,200; J. F. Jones, $2,000, M. L. Mulman, $1,800; R. P. Murray, $1,400; C. Steirlin , $1,600; Miss F. L. Kerr, $900; Minnie B. Heard, $900; Fannie Devendorf, $900; Mrs. C. L. Leas, $1,200. In the War Department there are from Missouri the following: A. H. Morrison, $1,400; W. S. Mc- Farlan, $1,200; Geo. Rider, $840; G. W. Albright, $2,000; employed at San Francisco. W. M. Pinkston, at Fort Leavenworth, $1,500; Wm. Nelson, Ft. Leavenworth, $1,680; C. C. Coombs, at Washington, $1,000; Homer Fellows, $1,000; Arthur Schatz, $1,000: F. S. Dewy Assistant Sur- geon at Ft. Union, N. M., $1,200; C. B. Ewing, As- sistant Surgeon at Ft. Stanton, N. M., $1,200. In the Post Office and Interior Departments at Washington are; Fred Bancharges, $1,600; F.C. Skinner, $1,200; H. G. Stover, $1,200; J. T. Hunter, $1,400; W. B. Pratt, $1,400; J. F. Keenan, $1.400; F. E. Brownwell, $1,400: J. E. Curren, $1,200; D. L. Gitt, $2,000; Miss M. E. Cromwell, $900. e In the Agricultural Department are Prof. ©. V. Riley, $entomologist, whose salary is $2,500; Thomas Pergande, his assistant, $1,400; E. L. Phillips, $1,400; W. D, Hoard, $700, sag? ¢ PD By far the larger and more attractive list, how- ever, is of the offices in Missourl, filled, of course, by Missouri men, and all expected to be transferred at once to men'in sympathy with the new Administration. Perhaps the most inter- esting of these are the Internal § Rev- enue berths. Collector Sturgeon, at S8&t. Louis, gets $4,500; his first assistant, E. T. Sturgeon, $2,000; Deputies Heuer and Rom- bouer, $1,800 each: Wm. Kossak, $1,600; T. A. Buschbaum, $1,500, and Deputies Stange, Krozer, Stagg, Klusky, Connor, Taylor, Brien, Grimm and Merideth, from $1,200 to $1,450 each, Greff getting but $900 and Jones $360. The eleven storekeepers get $4 per day each, and the eighteen gaugers get “fees which run up to about the same figures. In the Cape Girardeau District Collector Carroll gets $2,250; Deputies Crowe and Weber $1,500 each; and Betten and Murdock $1,100 each. The six storekeepers get $8 per day and the gaugers ‘fees.’ Collector Stew- art at Louisiana gets $2,875, and his six deputies from $1.200 to $1,500 each, his clerk $800, and the gaugers $3 and $4 per day. Collector Langston at Springfield gets $2,375, W. W. Langston and W. F. Cloud $1,400 each, Deputies Cox and Tracy $1,850 each, and Clerk Budlong $1,100. The seven storekeepers and gaugers get $3 per day each. Collector Doppler at Kansas City gets $4,000; his deputies, A. P. Doppler, $1,500; W, H. Tainter, $1,500; C. Mast, at St. Joe, $1,800; R. A. Moore, $1,600, and his three clerks, Dick Van Horn, J. D. Cummins and C.E. Kollman, $1,200 each. There are fourteen storekeepers and as many store- keepers and gaugers scattered over the district get- ting $4 perday each,and seven gaugers getting ‘fees,’ f e*s In the public building at St. Louis the Superintend- ent of Construction, Cameron, gets $9 per day; his clerk, P. A. Smith, $6 per day; Assistant Clerk Lon, $4; Foreman James, $6, and the watchman $2 per day. The Superintendent of Construction, Chase. at Kansas City, gets $6 per day, and the Clerk and Foreman $5 per day. a *¢ The Surveyor of Customs at St. Louis, Mr. Whit- ney, gets $5,000 per year; Deputy Kley, $2,500; Haynes, $2,000; McNeil, $1,800; Young, $1,400; Schuster and Woods, $1,600 each; Coggeshall, $1,500; Johnson, $1,400; Bantz, $1,300; Poliard, $1,200; Pope, $1,100; Harvey, $1,000; Stur- geon, $900; Tandy, $550; Appraiser Metcalf, $3,000; Examiners Chase and Wesnier, $1,400 each, and the Inspectors from $2 50 to $4 perday. Surveyors Crowell and Hunter at Kansas City and St. Joe get $1,000 per year with fees and commissions. +. In the Marine Hospital Service Dr. W. Wy- man of Missouri is at Baltimore with a salary of $2,500, while Surgeon Fessenden at St. Louis Hos- pital gets the same salary; Assistant Surgeon Uhr- quart getting $1,600 and Steward Achenbach $600. In the Medical Purveying Depot at St. Louis Clerk Wasner gets $1,800, Jordan $1,500, Sprague $1,400, Cherbornier $1,200, and the eight subordthates from $660 to $900 each, The registers and receivers at the land offices at Boonville, Ironton and Springfield get $500 each and fees which make the places very desirable. In the “Judicial” field District Attorney Bliss gets $200 per year and “fees,” which means probably about $6,000 pér year; Assistant Attorney Drummond, $1,800; Assistant Atcorney Smith, $200: per year and fees; or thirty United States Commissioners depend entirely get $3,500each. District Attorney Warner, at Kan- sas City, is paid in the same manner that District Attorney Bliss is rewarded for his services, his ‘assistant, Ross Griffin, getting $1,500, and all the depending on the fee system, which is *. * In the St. Louis Post Offleethere are about 150 clerks, only about 50 receiving so much as $1,000 per year salary. E. H. Semple, chief clerk, gets $3,000, mainder from $600 to $950 per year. To attempt to give the salaries of the 1,800 Post- cupy too much space. The following table gives, get less than $10 for their entire year’s services, PARRY’S INFATUATION. Clerk Broke Up a Happy Home. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. office with ‘ HIS FACE SCRATCHED. the disfigurement to his e's finger nails. Mr. could not live with his wife any longer, and ve 1883, on the ground of intolerabie cruelty from Mrs Parry. The new woman was described by Mr. Parry asa Christian lady, and, when he was sick months ago she is understood to have gone to him and ca f away from the office for several mont but re- turned this fall, resuming his old desk. a week or 50 HIS HEALTH GAVE OUT and he returned to the City Hotel, where he has since lived. His counsei in the divorce sult was Lieutenant-Governor Sumner, whose sickness has case is now being managed by Mr. Charles J. Cole, Judge Arthur F. Eggleston being counsel for Mrs. Parry. It has not been an easy matter for Mr. Parry divorce which he has been seeking for two years. He has been once arrested and taken before the Po- ordered him to pay $30 a month toward their sup- port. Now, under advice of counsel, he has had all the furniture removed from his wife’s residence on Laurel street, and taken both of the children, boys of thirteen and eleven years, away from her. The animus of the new movement on the part of Mr. Parry is to force Mrs. Parry, her friends allege, to consent to the divorce. For two years the conduct of Parry has been kept from the world, his friends a: wellas Mrs. Parry’s friends striving to pre- vent publicity of his treatment. Now that he has driven his wife from her home, there is talk of hav- ing him arrested on the charge of insanity and sent to the Middletown Hospital for the Insane. AND MARMADUKE, TOO! Missouri’s Governor-Elect to Visit the Pres- ident-Elect. By Telegraph to the Jost-Dispaten. New York, December 29.—Gen.John 8S. Marmaduke, Governor-elect of Missouri, arrtved in the city Sat- urday evening and is stopping atthe Hoffman son of riding on horseback to the Capital and wear- present, and other civil authorities as well, possibly, but no military parade. He himself would en- had been elected in the face of ' THE MOST BITTER OPPOSITION not hampered himseif by making a single before election. He intends to wage war on corrupt political rings, and try to enforce good honest was not the candidate of any clique, element or facdon, and was free to make such he Believed would be best for the people. He t the warden of the penitentiary w promptly send in his nominations. He had pability General Marmad of Albany and will call to He cas head any Sing tank or anything to because an or gest. but for the simple that wanted his respects. The visitisto be social. Fie believed the ineoming Democratic masters in the State and their assistants would oc- however, all Postmasters, whose salaries are $1,000 per year or more, and the sums allowed them for clerk hire: fee Salary. Clerk hire. Appleton City.......... sdavecee.§ 1,000: § 100 00 ek ey aaa a secee” 1500 200 00 Boonville, ............. biakestass 1,800 450 00 Bowling-Green......... AEN a 10 000 COORONG bi inde bc ddccavasts bee: BAe. dbetacbecs Brunswick ........ Kap ntmeseewee 1.3% 100 00 hs 5 bea Kedkceus dec adebties 1.775 200 00 MUI Miko cécccdendiacetetees 1,700 236 83 CO i ik a 6 ch reed ocd dens cene 400 90 00 Cape Girardeau.............. eos LGD . ccctivasss CUSED 3% 505% Kn tckbccnéae oes 1,725 50 00 COPED ss adukiovecheciceedvanecés 2,350 1,905 00 CPT Sick 0 i ckslovackdeateee ee Mae. écensebaas CSOD. Kncd Sok hac patunodenrie 1,925 526 25 CRO ra dcieg isis xe chase bade ce 500 00 CNIS 6 brie ucienee’ cbinaweses 1,950 825 00 NU ak a a se ee ,100 25 00 POGMOE: 6. ck iceesitesedce ee des s: Se: ewes canbe Panache idk Keen barkbedens 1,600 75 00 DE, ox vaikdac tds ctéechdtoee Rouen.” eaddsnenan WT nh.6 ahd he dondece oadeteeece FF fare eee” NON undi Fees obeks+ataboss 1,200 100 00 | ARLEN GS RL RE CO 2.675 8,000 00 Harrisonville........ stenedabwhes Me. eéeeseber ELIS TE TIPE S - 1,500 100 00 Independence. .............es6s 1,725 162 00 Selferson Clty. ....cccccccsccsese 2,250 1,500 00 SO: chi s bivbedhadesbe cudeese 1,825 540 00 ROTM Ss vnc cncekvebackesbaee 8,450 27.483 39 MVE ciicccs schadddns <ovdnee 1,7 206 00 EM ns sbi ehrdbocuaninadisecs 1,7 850 00 EIR EES! kA 1, 200 00 MEO, cncstencspotgensesete 1,800 200 00 Eg PERE SEE EIT | 1,425 160 00 MIR. ono dice hacmudh dane 1,775 405 00 EIN - wiadhihdascedondes 775 502 50 ME ihe koe cud ten hd aleks dies 1,700 150 00 PURUENEL «0 sine wisudec tution 1,87 850 00 NIE Bo. ctins nals sddeacnd bei oe. eeahesewat DN dtensededkank cuvdnenduedes 1,87 850 00 Ms Sk i cra i Se 1,100 100 00 BON i de iia cdnde enbeadtabones 4.975 735 00 PUNE. cocsinicecsiccdnéne 1,175 184 00 PN Fah ies b thichecikedodibae 1, 271 50 OURO dads iyo sind veasdccensses 1,825 407 50 North Springfield............... 1.426 67 08 F NON Gain wed vl étneceets@ectoes RD .. egeeecaces MDs (Bite Bic wanlcnks «tiineebulatn's 1,200 50 00 POUTOO Ci i ocisdddbinnsivedecces 1,525 175 00 PE i 6 nds cietind ccdovecias an: ‘segiuansls PORN TINA s cb neice tele cedcuss 1.525 150 00 MNO BE A Ani cckcdnctbebcbeduce< ,750 138 00 PUNE D, cinwocds abbeidaalundee Bie. sabéadewad ON ski cites buesideds cud etann as. Se $20 49 a CN nov ses sotbcdense been 1,600 118 00 DE. SONSTRA cs sadcdsendunsecentas 3,150 9,000 00 DR. EAE Wicca bbdtanccueebs cde 5,500 152,939 17 GRICE. vs nwhar ccnccbesconedceds sue 1,225 100 00 SPIN tine v0 tckbctebsdcaunes » 1,100 162 00 OU, itidida. chic the cba kiasadee 2,650 2,800 00 GA. nck: ikeusewesiekiindoces 1,22 100 00 OT ids Sachin ded dmdedidn bee Se betdsawen CURIE ab ccsecdccdcvoncdenss 2,450 2,293 00 ETS 6 vca vavtws sésvecdicves ctiah °°: ehehea nel ROOMOOG ins utcivta ues sccubbac bende 1,625 290 00 WOrTeRSDUPR . 06 6c ode ce cccccsse 1,825 824 00 TOUR vc casine 6 <tn bbnmntn 1.200 150 00 It is interesting to add that of the 1,800 postmas- ters in the State only 800 gt salaries reaching $100 per year apiece, and that of the 1,000 whose salaries thus fall below $100 per annum, about10 per cent How a Fascinating Female Department Hartrorp, Conn., December 29.—Catherine Ney was a belie in Hartford twelve or fifteen years ago. Her people were rich and proud of their Puritan an- cestors. Sheturned a good many lovers away to become the wifeof Wm. H. Parry, a bright young fellow in the employ of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insuraace Company. All went happily until two years ago. Parry had prospered. He had risen to a prominent place with the insurance com- pany. He and his wife both seemed supremely happy, buta change came suddenly. In the sum- mer of 1882 hespent a month's vacation at Block Island. A fascinating female clerk from one of the departments in Washington was there also. Then began the sorrows ofhis wife. Parry became sul- len at home and his wife suffered abuse, He spoke ill of her abroad. One morning he appeared at his He claimed that he had fallen into a clump of bushes. Hegre ay deciarations laid wi Parry began totalk of divorce, alleging that he soon he took up his home at the City Hotel. In the fall of 1882 he instituted a suit for divorce, to be heard at the January term of the Superior Court in or him at his hotel. Mr. Parry was prevented him of tate from attending toit. The to substantiate any of -his alleged grounds for the lice Court for non-support of his family, The court House. In speaking to a reporter yesterday about his approaching inauguration, he said he would not go to one extreme nor the other as to display, but would endeavor to have the occasion made appro- vriately impressive. He does not think it at all neo- reessary to follow the example set by Thomas Jeffer- ing homespun clothes, nor does he approve of an extravagant military display. He said all the judges of the Supreme Dourt of the State would be deavor to feel the nature of the obligation tothe people he was about to assume, and to have those about him similarity impressed. He further said he from the corrupt elements in his State, and had ee already determined on every man to be ap et on influenced by petitions, or anya, or personal | friendship, but had odeched men for their honest ca a ouaab ill return to St. Louis by uke W ou naps Cleveland e President-elect The Unhappy Marriage and Domestic Misery of a Beautiful Girl. A Drunken and Bigamous Husband—How ‘Mr. Rufus Stone Searched Three Years for His Daughter—The Meeting in the Tombs Police Court—From Starvation to Afflu- ence. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. New York, December 29.—There was a starving look on the countenance of a young woman who entered the Tombs yester day morning. Her dress was torn, shabby and covered with mud, as if she had traveled along distance. At her side was a little girl, four years of age, whose face had the pinched look of a corpse. There wasa hard crust of bread in the child's hand which she was endeav- oring to break intwo. “Oh, mamma!” she cried, “it’s so hard that I can ’t eat or break it, and I am so hungry!” “Hand it to me, my child,” said the woman, “I will break it for you.” She made sev- eral attempts, but t he effort almost exhausted her. “I brought this on myself,” sobbed the woman violently. “By my own act I have put from me kind and loving parents, and a happy home, and all for a man who turned out as they predicted. I deserve to suffer, but my child, must she, too, SUFFER FOR HER MOTHER'S SIN? If I could get my child sent toa charitable institu- tion, I could get along myself, but if not’ (here her voice faltered), “the river wili end all my troubles. Can I see the judge?” Justice Smith, however, had not yet arrived and she sat down to wait. Some minutes passed when a tall man, with snow white hair, entered the courtroom. He glanced hastily about and became deeply agitated on catch- ing a glimpse of the poor woman's face. “My God!” he wildly exclaimed, “it is my daugh- ter, but how changed! Kate, don’t you know me, your father?” The young woman gave a frightened glance at the face of the man and sank back on the seat insensi- ble, with the word father on her lips. The father, who said his name was Rufus Stone, began to cry. “How she must have suffered,” he said, as bitter tears rolled down his cheeks. “She was half starved, while I, who had plenty, could not find her to give her some, Thank God, she is returned to me again.” When the your * woman opened her eyes and saw the face of the n.an leaning over her she, too, began to weep. “Father,” she sobbed, “will you forgive me?” “Everything is forgiven,” he replied. “I will take you home and get you divorced from that scoundrel as quick as possible.” The child looked on at this scene with astonish- ment depicted on her countenance. Her mother called attention to her. and she was CLASPED IN HER GRANDFATHER'S ARMS. Mr. Stone said he lived at No. 507 West Twenty- Seventh street. He told Justice Smith that Christ- mas Eve, five years ago, his daughter,then a beauti- ful girl of 19, was married to Henry Barry, a young man of intemperate habits. Shedid this without the consent of her parents. The latter had investi- gated the young man's character and learned that it was very bad, the worst being that he was a drunkard. The young girl was told that if she married him her parents never wished to see her again. She believed that’ his love for her would cure him of the habit. Too late did she discover her mistake. When she wasa wife about a month, she bitterly regretted the fool- ish step she had taken. Her parents’ prediction of her husband was correct. He was a drunkard and she could not change him. It was at this. period that he WENT HOME DRUNK EVERY NIGHT. He neglected his business,a fancy goods store in Avenue B, and six months after marriage be- came a bankrupt. To keep starvation from their door the wife went to work in a paper-box factory. This displeased the husband, who endeavored to prevail upon her to return to her parents and ob- tain aid from them. The wife, however, was too proud to ask for helpfrom her parents, whose warnings she had not heeded, and it occasioned many quarrels between them. In this manner six months went by, when the child was born. The wife could no longer go towork. The husband still refused todo anything for his family, and article after article went to pawn, except a few chairs, a table and a stove. He threatened to abandon her if she did not make up with her parents. and on her refusal he kept his promise. The wife returned to work at the factory and supported herself and child. A year after the desertion the husband was MARRIED TO A WIDOW with two children who had $10,000 in the bank. He got possession of the money and speculated in houses. While the money lasted he was kind and considerate to the widow. When he lost the money ina wild speculation and could get no more, his con- duct became cruel and ended in his deserting her. He was looking for a third wife when the second wife ran across him and caused his arrest on a charge of abandonment. During the examination in the police court it was ascertained that he had a wife before he met the widow. A charge of bigamy was made against him, and from the general ses- sions he was sentenced to the State’s prison for one year. After his release it is thought that he went to Germany. He has not been seen since by either of his wives. “How did ® happen that you came to find your daughter here?” inquired Justice Smith of the oid gentleman, who was almost beside himself with joy. “For three years I have been searching for her,” replied the father. “No trace of her could be found after leaving the court room where her hus- band was convicted. A friend recently informed me that he had seen her soliciting alms in Chatham street. Ihave been shadowing that thoroughfare since. At nights I employed a boy, who told me this morning that he had seen her walking through Chatham street. He followed her to the Tombs, and he came and told me. “Mrs. Stone wel- comed her daughter with open arms. The news sped rapidly, and last night the parlors of Mr. Stone's residence were crowded with relatives and friends offering their congratulations. THE ILLINOIS SENATORSHIP. Probabilities That There Will Be a Stub- born Deadlock aud No Election. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. Wasnineton, December 29.—The contest in the Illinois Legislature this winter will be a very inter- esting one. The Legislature will be in session from January 1 until some time in May. It will not meet again then fortwo years. Those whoare the most familiar with the Illinois situation say that General Logan cannot possibly be re-elected, and that.there is no protpect of any one being elected. If this pre- Rene Seite eh oil tn eae tie opposition, top ee ee ee F OR YOUR TABLE LATEST EDITION ° = EE Rese a in case a pa iE "EE _—— 7 ’ | convention of the Legislature there 101 Democrats and 101 party me tie ago and had secured a neral in- dorsement from Republican omen’ Lieu how- ever, opposed him and succeeded in g another man appointed. Hogan went home swearing ven- geance and became a candidate for the Legislature for the sole purpose of He made the tes reas e the one and, being elected as an anti- an man, will stand very firm. The Governor of Illinois will won, Bo au- thority to appoint a Senator to a vacancy Legislature meets. If the re does not select some one, he will have no authority to do any- thing. It will not be the first time that seats have remained vacant in the Senate through a legislative session. In the fifties there was a deadlock in tne Indiana Legislature which continued a period of four years. That State had one her Senatorial seats vacant for four years and the sec- ond seat two years before the legislative deadlock was broken. : OBDURATE EMPLOYES. The Hat-Makers’ Lockout at Norwalk Far From a Settlement. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. New York, December 29.—The Central Labor Union met in Florence Hall yesterday. It was stated that cloaks could be more cheaply imported than manufactured here, Several manufacturers had gone from this city to Berlin to start manufact- ories there,and these would have drummers on the road in this country next spring. All the Rep- resentatives in Congress from this city had pledged themselves to support Congressman Cox's bill. A meeting to agitate the question is to be held in two weeks. The New York Protective Association sent its Board of Arbitration and Strikes to Norwalk yesterday a week agoto try and bring about an arbitration between the employers and the locked- out men. The Board visited all the hat manufacto- ries engaged in the lockout, ond each deemed that his intention was TO DESTROY THE UNION. At the same time the employers refused to accede to any arbitration, al- though the locked-out men agree to any honorable means of arbitrating the question. The made this report ata special meeting of the Pro« tective Association held yesterday forenoon, where- upon $5,000 were sent to the Norwalk working- men, and a levy of $10,000 a week was ordered for the duration of the lock-out. The sale of hats made by the Norwalk manufacturers is to be di- minished by asystem of boycotting. One of the members of the board of arbitration, in speaking of the scenes in Norwalk, said the city was perfectly guiet, and the men peaceable yet determined. The girls stood by the men and refused to work with ~ non-union men. The low wages d to the girls had forced a motherto ask one of the employers whether the latter wanted to force the girls to A LIFE OF SHAME. “If the girls cannot get decent wages,” she told him, “they cannot live decent lives.” The employers have issued a new circular in which they give the following eigbt reasons for having ordered the lockout: (1) That the union had retarded the growth of facteries in the town; (2) that it had resisted the intraduction of labor-saving machinery; (3) tha’ it had refused to let the men work in teams; (4) that it refused to allow the em- ployers to keep as many apprentices as they chose; (5) that it obliged the employers to pay exorbitant wages to some of their men, simply because the latter were members of the union; (6) that the union did not abéle by its own rules whenever it found it more convenient to break them; (7) that it refused to allow employers to hire their men by the week; and (8), that it obliged the employers to re- tain incompetent men in their employ; all of which the locked-out workingmen deny. KILLED WITH A FENCE RAIL A Seducer’s Flight—Fatal Fall From An ie Elevator—Missouri Matters. RICHMOND, Mo., December 29.—Henry Couch and John Thompson, young farmers on adjoining farms near here, quarreled on Saturday over the trespass of some horses, and Thompson killed Couch with a fence rail. The young man is very penitent and is consoling his victim's mother. Mexico, Mo., December 29.—A deputy sheriff from this place on Saturday arrested D. A. Atkinson, who is wanted in Monroé County to answer the charge of abandoning his wife, whom he recently married to‘ avoid prosecution for seduction. Sepa.ia, Mo., December 29.—T. W. Trual, who has done a large business in musical instruments here for six years, made an assignment on Saturday to John Montgomery, jr. Herman, Mo., December 29.—On Saturday Wm. Weldemeyer, an aged bachelor, was found dead in his bed in his cottage on the edge of town. He had evidently died from natural causes full a week ago. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., December 29.—A colored work- man named Wm. Baily had his skull crushed out 6f all sha by failing from the top of the new eleva- tor at Buckley, on Saturday. MARSHALL, Mo., December 29.—On Saturday Chas. Burton was fataily kicked here by a riule. HartTvitits, Mo., December 29 —During a row which took place here on Saturday, ‘“arney Prior. Lute Heusley, Lins Heusiey and Dave Mallet used knives so dexterously that Jesse Jackson, Henry ©, Claxton and Isaac Edwards are in a critical condi- tion. Cirintor, Mo., December 29.—Pat Sullivan was ar- rested here Saturday charged with burglarizing the store of A. ©. Goff. : Kansas Crry, Mc., December 29.—Rev. Father Jardine isnot yet suppressed. He has again sus- nded Jos. Murlock, the vestryman whom Bishop Robertson last week reinstated. The charge this time is that of using profane language a ening another vestryman with violence. Lf he gets reinstated again, Rev. Jardine has lots morechar to lift him with. A BELLE’S CHOICE. Mme. Jerome Bonaparte’s Daughter, Miss Constance Edgar, to Take the Veil. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. Wasuinoton, December 29.—A sensation has been made in society here by the announcement made, upon the authority of Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte, that veil about East Miss last June at the Georg m Academy of the Visitation, She then annwain -.$ugentior the veil. Her mother desired that he wo not the inte . She accom- wport last summer, and extent this Three Lives Lost in the Opera House Con- flagration at Racine, Wisconsin. Racine, Wis., December 29.~—The Blake Opera House block was destroyed by fre Sunday morn- ing. The building’ cost $100,000, and is a total loss: The loss on the hotel in the block is $6,000. “The Beggar Student” opera oun, See we & gry sy aa also loses $6, Vilas, gist, joses $2,500. The total insurance is about - . of which $48,000 was on the opera house, Three ives were lost, Russell Glover and Sotelon, “The Beggar Student” company, and Mrs. a chambermaid. ARKANSAS’ DELUGE. A Forty-Eight-Hoars’ Kain Delaying Trains and Damaging Property. By Telegravh to the Fost-Dispatoh. Lrrtiz Rock, Aux, December 29.—Rain has fallen during the forty-eight hours past. Trains are de- ed on all the roads leading into the city. Much on the | Mountain Rodd: south of ported swept away. The damage to . §afe-Blowers Still Abroad. On Friday night last, about mianignt, the office of J. Toy’s coal yard, at 619 S. Sixth street, was broken into, the safe blown open with powder and contents taken, of about $20 in silver and 4 re- volver. The police were mottled, but have made no discovery in the matter. ee er Se ee en ae eee ee en ee ee ee Aer New ageless EL S| LOT as ALG CAO a tay he s o » : “ eee
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Ais Pe pees ts sy tet Sythe va si re gf Ee aire r i 4 = ¥ x Si kieei oa ona ae as megs Fe ee a 1 et ete. hab 'p a ‘, ee Fe ee ee Se = or Ses § : ten - St. Zouis Post-Dispatch, Wonday, Dec FATALLY CONVULSED. — Terrible Earthquakes in Spain, Austria and Wales. Gladstone’s Birthday —The “Grand Old Man” Overwhelmed With Felicitous Greetings—The Treasury Defalcations in _ Russia—A Canadian Bruiser Challenges Mitchell 1 Manrrm, December 29.—A fatal landslip occurred in the mountain near Periana. It destroyed many houses which stood inits path and buried forty- eight persons. Eighteen were rescued alive. It is reported that 900 personsare buried beneath the ruins and the building of Albunicelas, Three churches at Antiquera were left in a tottering con- dition. The inhabitants encamped in the fields. England. Lowpor, December 29. —An earthquake was felt in | Wales to-day. Many houses were injured. BANKERS SUSPE ND. Loypox, December 29.—Truninger & Company, bankers and merchants, have suspended. GLADSTONE'S BIRTHDAY. Lonpow, December 20.—To-day is Gladstone's seventy-fifth birthday. The occasion is being cele- brated with great festivity at Hawarden. Birthday greetings reach the great leader from all parts of the Empire. The Prince of Wales sent cordial con- gratulations. Many Liberal bodies take advantage of the day to present “the grand old man” with ad- dresses expressive of continued confidence and pro- found admiration. The newspapers, without dis tinction of party, devote leading articles to the eulogy of the great statesman. WAREHOUSE MEN FAIL. Loxpox, December 29.—Baggallays & Spence, warehcusemen, have failed for $600,000. ALLIANCE AND UNION IN TRE TRANSVAAL. Loxpox, December 29.—South African advices re- port a mass-meeting held in the Transvaal at which resolutions were adopted in favor of an alliance and ultimate union with the Orange Free State. FRESH CASES OF CHOLERA. Maprrp, December 29.—Two fresh cases of cholera are reported at Toledo. Russia. THE TREASURY DEFALCATIONS. Sr. Pererssvre, December 29.—The defalcations in the treasury amounts to 10,000 roubles. The sal- aries of all the officials have been stopped pending an inquiry. France. INSISTS ON THE CATTLE DUTY. Paris, December 28.—In the Senate to-day, Meline, Minister of Agriculture, announced that the Government would insist upon the adoption of the clause increasing the duty on cattle which the com- mittee suppressed. He promised the Government would do everything in its power. Austria. ASEVERE EARTHQUAKE. Vienna, December 29.—A severe earthquake shock was experienced in Carinthia to-day. Considerable damage was done to many buildings. UNEASY FINANCIAL FERLING. Vrenna,December 29.—The uneasy feeling in finan- cial circles still continues with unabated force. Numberless rumors are in circulation about the in- stability of various banks and commercial houses. The Dominion. SCHOLES CHALLENGES MITCHELL. TorowTro, December 29.—John F. Scholes has challenged Charles Mitchell to box for scientific ts, with the understanding that the contest will strictly within the limits of the laws of the Prov- nee. HAZEN HOT. Charges Against General McKeever— Rounds Safe. - ' Wasnixctor, D. C., December 29.—General Hazen, Chief of the Signal Office, has submitted to the Secretary of War charges against Assistant Adjutant-General McKeever for having made de- rogatory remarks concerning the management of the recent Arctic expedition. The charges relate entirely to General McKeever’s alleced comments on the course pursued by Lieutenant Greeley, and have no _ reference made in them to what General McKeever is al- leged to have said of the chief signal officer. The tary of War has recommitted to the chief sig- nal officer the charges preferred by him against a Otto Holtnorth of the Signal Service, of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, in having tampered with the private mail of Lieuten- ant Greeley, with instructions to detail a court-mar- ial for his trial. Personal Mention. ‘Wasntxatoy, D. C., December 29.—Secretary Lin- coln has gone to New York for a few days. DEATH OF NAVAL CADET TONEY. The Secretary of the Navy to-day received acable from Admiral! Davis, at pean, Ja announcing the death on board of the Trenton of Naval Cadet T. V. Toney of Illinois. Attached to the Middle District. WASHINGTON, Deceinber 29.—The President has approved the act detaching Grundy County, Tenn., from the Southern Division District of East Tenes- see and attaching it to the Middle Distri = iddle District of the CAN'T STAND A REDUCTION. Railroad Representatives Object to Keduc- ing the Present Tariff. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., December 209.—A number of leading railroad men assembled at the rooms of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner's, in this city, to-day, in attendance upon the adjourned session of the Board, begun at Chicago a week ago, to discuss a general revision of the freight tariff, looking to a reduction, and Mr. James Smith, general freight agent of the Wabash, addressed the Board, taking the position that the railroads cannot do business for a lower return than the present rates allow and live. : Mr. C. H. Chappell, of the Chicago and Alton, said that the Chicago and Al- ton Road could not possibly exist at the present rate if it was ob to rel lWinois’ business for Reon aa that it is only by reason of having extended its lines to Kan- sas City, and by secu a share of the business between the Eastern and Western States, the Alton Road had received enough additional business to enable itto live, In regard tothe depression of business, Mr. Chappell said the Alton management will yes, and a reduction in rates l piey would mean a cut A CHINESE DESPERADO. The New York Police Capture Tom Sing, Leader of a Murderous Gang. New Yora, December 29.—Three Chinamen, said tobe from this city, assaulted Hong Chung, a laundryman, and one of their race, in Newark last week. They robbedhim and thencut him with Sing, a Chinaman of very unsavory reputation. He served as officer's steward on the Jeannette Arctic expedition, and in the same capacity with the Gree- ly relief expedition. Abouta year ago a Chinese Jlaundryman was found dead with seventeen wounds im his back. murderer was never found, but the police claim to have proofs that Tom Sing is the man. DUNLAP APPOINTED JUDGE. The Governor Petitioned to Pardon Tiller, the Express Robber. By Teleyranh to the Post-Dispatch. Jerrersox Ciry, December 29.—The Western Mer- tile Company of Nevada, capital $11,000, and the Pacific Warehouse Compauvy of St. Louis, capital $10,000, filed articles to-day. The Governor this morning, as indicated in the Post-Dispatcs ten days azo, appointed Hon. James W. Dunlap of Kansas City Judge of the Twenty- fourth Judicial Circuit, vice Francis M. Black, re- signed to become Supreme Judge. The Governor also appointed W. W. Kirkpatrick to be Presiding Judge of the St. Charles Circuit Court to fill the vacancy. He also accepted the resignation of W. ent, as Presiding Judge of the Monroe County rt. Theodore Tiller of Louisville, Ky., is here soliciting a on for his brother, Prentiss Tiller, the express ber. It is said the Governor intimated thata pardon might be granted upon a return of the un- recovered balance of stolen money and a reimburse- ment of costs for the arrest and conviction, which sums amount to about $1,500. RECITED HIS LITTLE PIECE, Hon. Samuel J. Kandali Ad dresses the Louisville Board of Trade. Lovisvitte, December 29.—At uoon to-day Hon. Samuel J. Randall was formally welcomed to Louis- ville at the Board of Trade rooms. Mr. John E. Green delivered an address of welcome, at the con- clusion of which he introduced the distinguished visitor, who responded in a_ brief speech, in which he stated he came South to study the cus- toms aud needs of the Southern people. and the re- sources and industries. He spoke of the incommg admiuistration as one of open air era, prosperity, and plenty for the American people. Con- gressman McAdoo followed in a brief talk about the interest of the country in general and the South in particular. At the conclusion of the reception Randall and party were driven to the Pendennis Club rooms, where they were dined by the club. DEADLY DIET. Four Fools Eat Oyster Stews Seasoned With Alcohol—Two Die. PrrrsecrG, Pa., December 29.—A Greensburg, Pa., Chronicie-Telegraph says: “While on a lark Satur- day night four young men, named Joseph Randall, Charlies Smith, George Nicholls and Scott Robert- son, procured half a gallon of aicohol at a drug store at Mt. Pleasant, and drank it. mixing a portion with oyster stews ordered at Ejischer’s saloop. Sunday ail were taken dangerousiy sick,and Randall and Smith died in great agouy. The other two are still living and will probabiy recover. RUINED BY HIS FRIEND. A Defaulting School Treasurer Causes a Bondsman to Assign. Prrrssvra, Pa., December 29.—An Alliance, Ohio, Telegraph special says: “Michael Wheeler, the old- est boot and shoe dealer in the city, made an asign- ment to-day, for the benefit of his creditors, to Hugh Bleakley. The assets and liabilities are not known. Wheeler was one of the four bondsmen of C, K- Greiner, the defaulting school treasurer, to the amount of $20,000, which is supposed to be the cause of the assignment. OVER AN EMBANKMENT. A Careless Driver Causes a Fatal Accident. Prrrspure, Pa., December 29.—Through the eare- lessness of the driver, John iiartin, a carriage con- taining an old couple, named Nicholans, was driven over an embankment on the Brownsville ike last night, and the occupants, it is thought, fa- liy cajared. The carriage was badly wrecked and one of the horses killed. THE “LYNCHED” BURGLARS. Recovery of the Bodies of Smith and Davis From the Neuse River. RaLzicu, N. C., December 29.—The bodies of Charles Smith and Henry Davis the alleged burg- lars who were lynched, have been recovered from the Neuse River in chains and handcuffs,and one of them riddied with bullets. Malleable Iron Works Destroyed. PittsBuRG, Pa, December 29.—A Canton, Ohio, special says: “Between 12 and 1 o’clock this morn- inz fire broke out in the annealing room of the Malleable Iron Works, and before the Fire Depart- ment could respond the entire east end of the works was in flames. The fire burned fiercely, and the six streams thrown on it were almost useless. Within an hour the entire works were in a blaze, and great fears were entertained about the safety of the Diebold Safe and Lock Works and the Peer- less Reaper works adjoining, but the fire was finally controlled without the flames spreading any fur- ther. The buildings and machinery were valued at $167,000 and willbe almost atotalloss. The in- surance is $100,000. The works were owned by Elbel, Gilliam & Co., formerly of Pittsburg, Pa. Initial llluminazien. To-night for the first time the new electric lights will be turned on for practical purposes at the the Custom -House, and the Post Office floor, the base- ment and sub-basement they wiil replace gas. The first test was given several weeks ago, and everything worked so smoothly that no unusual flicker is expected to dim this evening's brizht- ness. There will be over 600 incandescent lights in use and twenty-eight arcs,the latter includ- ing two to be hung outside, which are not just yet ready for operation, but which will throw the graceful pile in beautiful relief when the white globes shall shoot ot their dazzling radiance. An Interesting Contest. There is an interesting contest in St. Charles over the superintendency of the Water Works made va- cant by the mysterious disppeance of Capt. Ruenji. A number of applications have been received b President Goddard for the place. The applicants include Jos. Avery, Washington Gill, Survevor of the County and City Engineer; J. B. Martin and others, Mr. artin, who assisted Capt. Ruenzi at times » in his . duties, has been temporarily in charge, and as he is ener- getic and competent and understands the work has an excellent chance of succeeding Capt. Ruenzi. CITY PERSONALS, * Miss Jennie Wilson of Chicago is the guest of aunt, Mrs. Edward J. Cubbage, of Ware eeaan sid Miss Mollie Dobyns, daughter of Major Ed Dobyns, formerly of St. Louis, is nen emg ip holidays with Mrs. W. U. Gibson of Olive street. Mrs. John R. Griffith, Miss Nellie Griffith Sam’l Gaty Stone, are booked for the New ie a Exposition to-morrow night via the Iron Mountain. BELLEVILLE. Mayor Weber is still confined to his room by sick- Hon. Wm. Snyder, as one of the three Judges of the Third Judicial Gircuit, closed rese of the Circuit Court He me ye pees The members of the Thespian Society will at the Park Theater, January 9, in Stirling Coyne's three act comedy “Everybody's Friend.” A motion for a new trial has been entered b defendants in the case of Margaret Spies Jung a Covenant Mutual Benevolént Association. The case of John Beard vs. the Illinois Louis Railroad Company, in which a molen ee nealien Ste yall oe pon ae under advise- Judge w ] cision to-morrow. sng ed —— CARONDELET JOTTINGS. Mr. Chauncey I. Filley sent t central committeeman «4 nee pr poupeney, the “cap. All factions ara to bo brought petite toe th ingto Mr ley" (SPH elections accor A very enjoyable family reunion took place yes- ence of Solomon Wolff eee eee ees vont ; corner of & avenue ang Nagel street. the guests were A. Jacob Wellsville, Mo, and J. i. Watcien = henceforth. on ° A FAIR FUGITIVE. The Story of Frankie O’Bannon’s Adventures in Two Cities. _ ———— Cold, Hungry and Sick, She Took Refuge in a Bagnio—The Mother's History of Her Daughter's Elopement and Return—A Sad Case of Betrayed Trust—The Details of a Romance in Real Life. Yesterday morning Detective Viehle, of the St. Louis police, returned from Milwaukee, having in charge Miss Frankie ©*Bannon, the young lady who was reported to have eloped some time ago with Salone Pitzer, a sonof Dr. Pitzer. The details of of the story are already familiar to the readers of the Post-Dispatcu. The young lady weut to Chicago, where she expected to secure a divorce from her husband, Mr: Weiss of East St. Louis. Not succeeding in this she made her way to Milwaukee, where she was found by. the de- .tectives in a house ef questionable repute. A pair of soft, dark eyes looking out from under a fluff of lustrous yellow hair are the features with which Miss Frankie O'Bannon impresses the spec- tator. She is avery young ‘> not yet quite 17, @ very pretty girl, sma but faultiess in a@ rounded cheek and dimpled chin, amouth full-lipped and as regular as cupid’s bow. Seen as she looks now after her return from het adventurous trip North, sick and suffering, it is bard to realize that she is the same gir! whose fair face looks out from the canvas in her mother’s parlor. The character to be read inthe face is of one easily led. and very loving, just such a face as is sure sooner or later to add a new interest to some domestic tragedy. A reporter calied on Mrs. O'Bannon at her residence. 103 N. Fifteenth street, this morning, and found that lady stil! suffer- ing fromm the agitation and excitement of the past six weeks. Mrs. O'Bannon is herseif a handsome lady, very like ber’ daughter. She was at first entirel averse to talking about Miss Frankie's escapade, but at last she said; “I will tell you the whole story from first to last, simply because there has been so mnch published about my unhappy child that more can do little harm, and because justice bas not been done her from first to last. I want people to under- stand what A SCOUNDREL that Salone Pitzer is. When Frankie was very little more than a child she married Mr. Weiss of East St. Louis against my will. Not that I had anything against Mr. Weiss except that both he and Frankie were too young to marry, and | knew he would be unable to support a wife. They went off to Chicago one evening, however, and were married there on the morning of their arrival. They sent me the marriage certificate, and 1 have it here inthe house now. Weil, I madea home for them and supported them for about eight months, when Mr. Weiss moved over to East Louis, taking Frankie St. with him, and they lived there together till she was taken very sick of typhoid-malaria. She came home to me, and after another failure to keep her health on the other side of the river she came back to me for good. I tried hard to get Mr. Weiss to live here in St. Louis, but he would not do it. One day last summer Frankie and I and some friends went on a steam- boat excursion down the river.and Mr. Weiss with another lady was on board It made Frankie wretched and sick to see him dancing with and waiting on this girl. I suppose he was only doing itto annoy her. Just then Salone Pitzer was introduced to her and they danced together. He he began calling at the house and paying marked attention to my chiid. then told him that she was a married woman, and that he must not call u her as though she were single, that it would excite remark and that 1 would not permit it. He kept on calling, however, on one pretext or another, and I soon saw that he had a great deal of infiuence over Frankie. I became alarmed and did all that I could to break off the intimacy, and it seems I was too late. Frankie was intent upon getting a divorce from Mr. Weiss and marrying Salone, and he is a very insinuating plausible feilow, and in a word he soon had her cunfidence, and I had not. “We had been talking about getting a divorce for Frankie at our old home in Litchfield, and one day she told me, this was about six weeks ago, I guess, that she wanted to go up to Litchfield and see our lawyer. I, lett her go- and the next time I saw her was in Chief Harrigan’s office yesterday. She told me her whole story then, and it was this: She went to Chicago at once. Pitzer had represented to her that in Chicago she could get A DIVORCE IN SIXTEEN DAYS and they could be married. and she believed him. She went to Mrs. Trevor's house, a respectable place on Lake street, where she and Mr. Weiss had stopped when they were married. Frankie had no money and oniy the clothes she was standing in, and you can easily understand that she was soon reduced to distress. Pitzer never gave ber as much as a nickel to buy anything with. He was contin- ually wanting her to come down town— you can easily imagine why—and getting angry with her for refusing. Mrs. Trevor has written to me saying that during the whole time Frankie was in her house, three weeks, she never went down town but once, and then Mrs. Trevor went with her. The poor girl got desperate at last, however, her shoes were worn out, her one pair of stockings did not cover her feet. the weather was bitter cold, and the poor child did not even have a flannel skirtor wrap. She was dressed —_ as she left St. Louis, and so, suffering in y and in mind, she went , wandered down to the Depot. She bad made up her mind that Salone was lying to her about getting the divorce, and she meant, she tells me. to beg her way to St. Louis. She accosted a man w.th a iantern whoat first would not payany attention to her. She sat down on a bench and began to cry. he came back and she told him she had nw friends and was desperate. At last he put her on a train, going .she didn't know where, off of which she was put in Milwaukee. She did not know a soulin the town. It was dark and cold and she had no money. : Just think of it, a girl that never even had to braid her own hair. Well, she wandered about freezing and hvngry, and at last she mustered up courage to go up to a door- way and ring the bell. A woman came, to whom she told her story. The woman Said she could come in and warm herself anyhow, and she brought her some coffee and bread and butter. The woman talked to her a long time, and finally said she might stay all night. Frankie was of course sick and wretched. The next morn- ing the woman told her that the place was not a respectable house and that she did not know about letting her stay there. She said, though, that she could ser for a while, and as she had never done anything wrong she would not ask her to begin a fast life. They agreed that Frankie should do what little housework she could to pay for her board, until she could leave. Then they found out what a good musician she was. and they arranged that she was to play the piano in the par- lor of evenin My daughter has told me, and I believe her, that SHE DID NO WRONG there or anywhere else since she left. “While in Chicago I have the testimony of several different witnesses accounting for every hour of my daughter's time. Shesiept with Mrs, Trevor, and was never out of that lady's sight. The story printed here that she was in an improper house in Chicago is wholly a lie. Until she found shivering and starving on the streets of Milwaukee she never put her foot in her life, inside of any house where a decen girl might not go, and she then went into the nearest refuge that she could find. I don’t be. lieve. I can’t believe, that those women, lost as they are, would let my poor girl goto ruin. How- ever, | an & course clear this ms one way or the other. at is her whole _ story. she is safe now—not here in this house, but safe with os ee 3 adhe ys take — of pial . “Have you anything from Salone Pitzer» Mrs. O*Bannon's dark eyes blazed. “I have not heard that he has yet returned to 8t. Louis, but I think Iwill bethe first to hear it when he does come. My daughter has neither brother nor father to right her. and so that lam not threateni this day isover.”’ There was an and a fire about this imprecation which made it startling. It will be a bad day for the young when outraged mother gets close to him. She has a account to settle and if there is ng in the an of faces, she will settle it in ful OBJECTED TO COMPETITION. A Man With a Spade, Who Had a Griey- ance. A small man with a short pipe, yellow pantaloons and a spade called at the Posr-Disparcn editorial rooms this morning. “And where is all that street-cleaning you talked about in Sathurday’s paper?’ he asked, with a belligerent sort ofair. . : He was informed that the Post-Dispatcn was not the subject. ; ’. fools of us poor divi Js that’s 80 much in need job. It's an outrage— that’s is. have no fright to thim gintiemin are fixin poor men a job. Don't know if oe ar iQ Ze sg Ft Jc8c8 ° aeSaees tled to? Don't ye know that? Well, if ye do, did ye print anything about it for? Here chance in week we be havin’ to ttirn our hands ye musht put ver paws in an’ sphoil it all by viting the whole world to come in an’ bate us ae There ought to be & law agin it—that » a Without waiting for any explanation he shoul- nt all hoe “spade, eas the door. and full Suits which we will sell SUPrOSED TO BE A #RIEST. The Mysterious Death of an Unknown Man on Keokuk Street. The body of an unknown man, who is suppos 4 to be a suspended priest, if awaiting the attention of the Coroner at the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital your benefit to call at the where it has been since 4 o'clock yester- day afternoon. Shortiy before 4 o'clock the man entered Padberg's saloon on Jefferson avenue and Keokuk street and after drinking a glass of beer became very sick. He asked that he be taken to the hospital near by, but fell dead afew minutes after entering. A bottle of strychnine was found on his person. The case was supposed to be suicide and was at once reported to the Coroner, but up to 4 , o'clock to-day no facts were discovered at that office. About three weeks ago a man, supposed to be the dead man at the Alexian Brothers ered at the He (BET. 3a until 8:30. | Golden Adler boarding-house, No. arket street STILL POPULAR. SS a ‘a clerical. appearance, but gave no information whatever about himself, He was at the boarding- ‘ house every day until yesterday, when he disap- | The Topic of-the Poor and How to peared. He has not returned yet. A valise sup- , sed to be his is at the house, but Coroner Nidelet Relieve Them. oes not think he is authorized to take c of it, lest the hand- should be the property of some- body else. Nothing was done to-day to identify the deceased or discover the causes which led to his death vesterday. The Contest for Clover’s Shoes. Political interest is temporarily centered in the office of City Attorney, which is soon to be vacated by the promotion of its present occupant to the position of Circuit Attorney. The vacancy is to be filled by the Mayor's appointment, and the pressure is already strong upon his Honor in the interest of An Opportunity to Secure Concert of Action Which Should not be Wasted— Volunteers Wanted to Take Charge and Some Liberal Offers for Raising Poor Funds. The warm weather which has come so suddenly upon the community will give the relief agencies a various candidates. The candidates most promi- breathing spell, during which they will have time nently mentioned are Trusten P. Dyer, A. L. Loucks | % consider ‘he very important question as to what and H. C. McBride, all of whom have backed their | 4'Tangement can be made to insure concerted action appl.cations with documents commendatory of | infuture. Every day that the Provident Associa- themselves. A gentleman who faiis to prognosti- tion, the St. Vincent de Paul society, the Brookings j ) y r s . prgebeacersme § — Mr. Sree wil days e praia beg committee and the Police Department act independ- ently of each other in the good work of relieving the distressed represents a certain amount of wasted energy and wasted material, and, what is worse, involvesthe danger that some of the deserving cases are being neglected because each 35 0° i organization depends on the other to look after About 11:20 o'clock this moruing ‘as @ band of them. Some of the gentlemen identified with the music was passing infront of the Third National | work determined on Saturday to take some steps Bank on Olive street, the horses attached to a/| toward a more thorough understanding asto what buggy and a wagon belonging to E. R. Hall & Co, | line of work each organization should perform, but American Wine Co.’s Cook’s Imperial Champagne and still wines are the purest. Caused a Smash-up. - ‘Jnteresting Corresponds dent-EFlect and Civil 8: AWN Y ONE] == gpondence explains itself: In need of Full Dress Suits would do well to call on us, as we have afew and THEY ARE OF THE FINEST, as they were made by Number One Merchant Tailors from $75 to $90, we will sell them from $25 to $35, or Coats and Vests from $50 to $26. Also have a magnificent line of Prince Alberts, Coats and Vests from $18 to #40. The Coats and Vests from $15 to $30. These fine goods were all made by the finest of Merchant Tailors, and if we can fit you it will be to AND 4th). N. B.—All alterations to improve a fit done free of charge. Open Eveningy we +. 6 y. . . ; , M4 . w all, it ain’t as full o’ fun as it might “What were you put in for?” “Wall, podner, you an’ me was about in the same business. I know you.” “In the same business? What do you mean?” . “Same business, that’s what I mean. Yoy are a railroad lawyer, ain't you?” “Ves,” “Wall, Iam a train robber.” What Killed the Doctor. From the Texas Siftings. “T see Dr. Biister is dead.” ‘What did he die of?” ‘*He died of bilious fever.” “T am surprised to hear that, because he boasted that he could eure any case of bilioug fever. I know that he cured me of bilious fever.” ¢ ‘“‘How much did he charge you?” “He charged me a fearful bill. I believe it was upward of $500, “Well, that explains why he did not cura himself. He was a close man, and at those fig- ures he couldn’t afford to cure himself.” A Change in the Shoe Trade. Articles of incorporation of the Claflin- Allen x, 0 Company were to-day sent up tothe Secretary State's office at Jefferson City. The new corporati takes the place of the old and well-know wholesale boot and shoe house of Claflin, Allen & Co. of 704 and 706 Washington avenue. The only : no conference has been held as yet in that interest. became frightened and started to run AWA&y. | Meanwhile the offers of the Central Turner Hall The horse in the buggy ran into car No. 96 of the the Natatorium management, and Olive Street Line, damaging the side and completely ee poe of Honor. through wrecking the bugey. The horses inthe wagou were | which hundreds of dollars could be raised stopped before doing any damage. and an immense amount of economical charity done. have been negiected, merely for want of a Two Sick Men Improving. committee of two or three gentlemen, who would It will be good news to the friends of Wm. O. ao ap oo a day “— ~ gg four ay the wor realizing on them. ere is bo Garrison, son of Mr. D. E. Garrison, and the friends reason why the enafetennetia conditions so unavoid- of Wm. Walsh, of the firm of Merrick, Walsh & | abie iast week should be continued beyond the Phe!ps, that both of these gentiemen, who have | present week. been at death's door for a week or more, are resting Meanwhile the responses continue to come in. more easily to-day, and give evidence of substantial THE FLOW CONTINUES. improvement. The Post-Dispatcn received from the employes of Baer, Seasongood & Co., 617 Washington avenue, a check for $1250,as their contribution to the “poor fund.” Mr. Davidson of No. 2%4 Clark avenue con- tributes a trunkful of clothing, which wili go to the Provident Association. Mr. M. Dimmitt of Columbia, Mo., goes on the list The Weather. of benefactors fora liberal supply of well-made The Signal Service indications are for freezing mm which the Provident Association will take : care of. weather by to-morrow night. The thermometer | " ‘The amount of money sent to the Post-DisPatcn reached 60 degrees above two-day. thus far is $377 73%. Of this amount $138 75 have been paid to Captain Huebier, $100 to Chief Harri- EAST ST. LOUIS. gan ro Assigned. Jackson B. Smith, furniture dealer at 816 N. Sixth street, made an assignment to-day to Justin F. Wes- ton. Value of assets $6,500. to the Provident Association, and the bal- ance will be placed to-day. New Year's services at St. Patrick's Church will} Capt. Huebler reports the following donations to be held at 8:30 a. m. poor: : A special meeting of the Catholic Knights of |, rei any aor - It ip invaluable for SPEPSIA, Yand LI} ER COMPLAINTS, NERVOUS EXHAUSTION, WEAK- NESS, INDIGESTION, &c.; and while curing will mot hurt the system. Mr. C. J. Rhodes, a well-known iron man of Safe Harbor, Pa., writes: “My son was completely prostrated by fever and ague. Quinine and barks did him no good. they eept for Mishler’s Herb Bitters and in a short time the boy wae quite well.” “E. A. &Schellentrager, Druggist, 717 8t. Clair Street, Cleveland, O., writes: ' “Your Bitters, I can say, and do say. are pre- scribed by some of. the oldest and most prominent physicians in our city.” MISHLER HERB BITTERS CO., 525 Commerce St., Philadelphia. Parker's Pleasant Worm Syrup Never Fails —__ le NO POISON : ' eddens IN THE FOR STRENGTH AN | FLAVOR THEY STAND ALONE. PREPARED BY THE Co., Baking Powder ; BE ie a: in. ad St. Louis, Mo. ‘Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder Dr. Price’s Lupulin Yeast Gems, ——_—__ = ——EEE DVISING CLE a s A Nationa, Crym Servic : Orvics, 4 Pine Sr : Dec _ The Hon. Grower Cleveland: Srr—We have the bonor ‘pehalf of the National Ci League, an a@ssociation com all parties whose sole purp and which takes no par . The vast increase in tt fn the Civil Servi and dangers ari: proposition in thy If a century, of party control of th ve produced so profow ; ha Lb tion I ’ the pablic mind that the first reform were taken with the es in the passage of ther } ! 1883. The abuses which ¢ 317 OLIVE STREET. fect, however, are so sir the - tradition and wusac that there is neturaily a we the party chance in the effected’ by the iate election, be insuperable, but believing formed system cannot be hel tablished until ; it passe | the ordea | chance, and recalling with sa dence your public expressions and your efficial acts as Chief of New York, we confidently ec our patriotic care in the e power with which the Ameri ted you, Respr etfully yo (seo. WILLA! Wm. Potts, secretary; Storey, J. Hall Peasant, W. V ett P. Wheeler, Frederick © man, jr.. Carl Sclurz, Silas Donouch, Wm. Cary Sanger, | utive Committee. PRESIDENT-ELECT CLEVE AL@ANY Hon. George William Cur'is, P DEAR Srr-- Your communiwath addressed to me on behait c Service Reform League has | practical reformn in the Civil Se abundantly established by the referred to im your communic result, has been passed in assent of both parties; fact that the sentime revalent among the patri a fair and honest enforcem bas thus been enacted. Il rega this, because my conception faith and public duty require Other statutes should he and without evasion enfol in the many utterances made | as President, approved by the: * long, and which | have no dis] have, in effect, prot ple tnat this should am notunmindiul of the fa fer, that many of our citizens arty change in the Nation emonstrate that the abuses | ja the civil service are ineradi WAS IT A MI Mysterious Death of th W. B. Kein This afternoon the Coroner the body of an infant child of at No. 2325 Papin street. 01 James T. Pirtle, of 2714 Choute two grains of calomel and 5 nine in two ounces of syrup of prescription was put up Krueger, proprieter of of the corner of Pratte and Ch @ part by a clerk in the store. was administered the child | Jater seized with spasms, in The druggist called in the me only six grains of quinine ha of sixteen, he tok the replaced it with a differ Under these cire:mstances th case to the Coroner. The signs after death, but nothing indicate the cause. A TERKIFIC GAS! A TwoStory Building Three Men Seriou Avavera, Ga., December 28. an explosion occurred in the | Augusta Gas Light Company, in this city, demolishing a two and wounding three workmen necting the station meter with was nearly completed. The we hole in the pipe leading tothe gasometer after the he and before the valve was ad jr fliled with escapimg gas. / meter ery in the secornd-st charged air, and (the explosie and terrific. Wim. Pendleton, ton's foundry, was blown on b of Jackson street, badiy bruise colored workmen named Dem wounded. The loss is $000, THE KEADING BO. An Fffort to Be Made ft Compan) PuHILADe trata, Pa., Decerabe of the Bondholders’ Committee and Reading Road, held toda office, consisting of A. J. uel R. Shipley, John Wan right and B, B. Cornegys we t information on which to b ing the company, and to rep committee next Monday’ HOWGATE IN NE The Absconding Signa Seen by a Formers Saw Francisco, December & received a Lordsburg, New ™ ing that Capt. H. W. How there last nicht, en ronte t& Camp in the Burro Mountains. says he is sure it was liowwate years under him in the Signal — Cal JOELL HA neem tn The Sculptors Remains Country for Int New York, December 20.- having the body of Joe! L. Ha sculptor, on board, reached he remains will be take: out this warded to Kentucky for int Cemetery at Frans! rt TERRIBLE SUF A Woman Found Ne«urty in an Gut BaLtmore, December 0 —C found to-day in ag oyt-house, for five days, nearly dead f toes of the left foot were fru badly frozen and part of her n The Bridal Be The following marr. age lice day: Joseph Kesler, 3211 8, Se Mina Naumann, $2115. Sever 125 Elm street, tO Mim &. Seventh street, John J. Blan to Corinne Cherboniner, 5¢ 420 & Second stree Hogan, 315 8. Seventh sreet; avenue, to Mary I franklin avenue; William ry A. Waite, Wie N James wari, 2841 Olive, wo 3145 Frankiin avenue. ' Fourth street, to Jennie Fran& icon ee A Missing From Julius Meier, aged 1} years home several days ago and is He is a German boy of sieoder - . W.5. Brady, aged 15 years, ~ home at Nevada, Mo., on the sa <é to bein thiscity. &
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a eo re aoe ssi , Ae oP si . i : en Siac “i wa sp Micah NES eke eee Ee i wo i oe sid ae coe Lee ee AE OE CPE RS TT A LR EMS ee NE See ge oe a nT rr Oe ae ee am nr, id Se aot | «Bt. Donis Post-Dispatch. Monday, December 29, 1884. | 8 er ; : Pi 4 ADVISING CLEVELAND. reported to the police with a request to arrest him | isfaction, and are confident | : a 3 Soe and hold him for his parents. He is also known by burn corn than it is to sell and buy coal “Bort coal Interesting Onireneeenon’ of the Presi- é name of Fern ante shous $8 cents per basal, aud a | — does read rural ets dent-Elect and siege ag Reformers. The Missouri River Rising. for more than 12 conta. Experiments oe t that 4 f New York, Decem ~The following corre Messrs. Carroll & Powell, the steamboat insur- | *¥° bushels of corn will produce more warmth than , spondence explains itself: 42 $3 . one bushel of coal, and farmers are burning the for- : ance men, have received a telegram from their} mer. and ving themselves the trou j oe ode Nationa, Civil Service Rerorm LEAGvE, agent at Sulphur Springs stating that the it to market and eone’ the art ce mare + 7 ea a us, ab we Oyen, 6 ee aoe in the Missour: River was still holding at SHO Sus Gil wardins tadly tele teoradae. ann : 4 —" LT i i, as they were The Hon. Grover Cleveland: ) idly, with full ban aboady, and that the Sree that traders practically bad no outade intelligence MADE SP mu CIA h “g FOR ) to 890.we wi Sir—We have the honor to address you on | Des Peres and Meramecare running oyer their | to guide them. Any | of market, statistics in j a $50 to ning | bebalf of the National Civil Service Reform | *°** De ret meena, suena oe ahe ” ror f Pisa omes er ects oats d $26. : League, an assdciation composed of citizens of Legal Notes. upon the wires.——The following, in regard to the » “ “4 and Vests 4 all parties whose sole purpose is indicated by its Fc Rn ong S*~ ggnae a on @ contract ie peas ren end otiack: 3 the ee Ones FRA. T) BS | es. The Coats % ame, and which takes no part in party controver- | 04) 0.3 ng ageing W. Bormaa aad points in Michigan report logs and lumber on hand - | ere all made by : - The aoe im the la nospooee Herman Brockschmidt brought suit on a mechan- smcompared wien BIL noneGD "teat caer li | y : : q n Serv - | ie’ you it will beto aged in the Civil Bervioe and the grave mis- | jc's lien to-day against Fannie A.Skinner and others | 1495, surplus over what was then found to. by an Also large lines MEN’S, BOYS’ and CHILDREN’S SUITS, Underwear, Hosiery | " . ay * which, | Suit against Lillie R. Barron and others for $80 65. | “Noemiye, stock, of 550,000,000. Wisconsin reports Suspenders, Neckwear, Rubb : es | eS q ercpaiitcn ta Sb pra ged ated etter but there was | 18 native butchers.........scccccscsssseeesee-Lllé 430 | Corn steady: No. 2, 851-2. Oats dult;No. 2, 251-2 he cured me of bilioug prevalent among the patriotic people calling dua, payable, _Bid. Ask. | personal observations in traveling over the roads, “es Cl any in . © are values without ‘ a butchers.........00 preveddrvcescedi 1,050 435 | Rye nominal; No. 1, 521-4. Barley steady; No. 2, ‘ for a fair and honest enforcement of “ ae me 8F# eo gms | oie z. Ae - bd | | | wane —_ _— firm's country advices, he did not be- 32 ‘ato 96; tamnethy sha ° gion nih a 20 native owe TO vos sednnsppovensscoeseentess 1 ca : 61 1-4: extra No 3. 58 3-4 ; : . ' ‘ gard ! t rath & 4 ‘i 4 ; e 2. Be 00 Bt a BAe | TEL LEELELELELELELTTe ete ‘ . , “ ‘ . goarge 1 “oe ae oe arse Son yea ace 9 4 soo bonds.. sind 1907 {| J. A. J. & O. 12d” | 124 coun anita bea Gieaience cae Yor eupants re doy of ——. hao largest sale we have DAILY or OF sues OF CATTLE. * ste ge ie ae fo Dee pe pico one ane e oul. ieve it faith and public duty vires that this and all + RAILWAY BONDS. for last week were 86.610 barrels wayne report fora long time was made, | No, Descripti : 13,000 b ) other statutes should be in good faith, | Sto-Pao iam @ 1888 | Feb. & A 105 flour, 678,550 bushels = wheat, 878,917 | “sisting of 740 sacks timothy at $1 25. 10 light Southwest mixed ......+...cesesesees. “fa @340° | firm; sales 6car lots No 2 mixed on track at 45. = : ‘ not cure and without evasion enforced, and because | Mo. Pac. Consois... 1920 | May & Nov. 98 by corn, 81,760 bushels oats Hempseed—Steady at $1 75 to $1 80 178 oo WESE COWS, .cesecsecsesceees 1,000 3 00 Oats neglected. jose man, and at those fig- in the many utterances made priorto my election | Mo. Pac. 2d m, 7’s.. 1891} Jan. & July | i084¢ hat. and 18,836 bu rye.——New York's stock of wheat is Castor Bea ele salabl 1 90 28 | te amt — Pitas ZN eo a spigot 812 8 36/ CLEVELAND, Os10, December 20.—Petroleum un- . | Md to cure himself.” ; as President, approved by the party to which I be- | Mo, Pac. 3d......... 1905 | May & Nov, 100 | 101 8.992.912 bu, of corn 355,979 bu, of oats 654,986 bu, of as me salable at $ . 131 retail from $2 Bto sie oceee soeceee -~ WO 8 50 changed; S. W. 110°, 714. long, and which I have no disposition to disclaim, I ap ag Ap , Tobe han > pew | ie rye 65,441 bu and of barley 169,376 bu. Compared HOGS—Business opened up very slow. A mod- | WILMINGTON, December 29.— Turpentine firm have, in effect, promised the peo- | ke’ Pp ist “4 a. aon 1896 ant & De 106 | 106% with last Monday, this is a decrease of 558,500 bu in Cotton. erate butchers demand was Me ygtne after these | 4t 28. the Shoe Trade. ple tnat this should be done. I/ xk’ Pp. Ex. @s..:: 1899 | May & Nov. | 1043¢ | 105s | Wheat, 19,700 buin corn and 228,500 bu in oats.—— had been supplied, ‘= am not unmindful of the fact, to which you re- | K.P. Consols...... 1919 | May & Nov %1q | Late Chicago advices are that longs have been sell- Liverpool was reported quiet and steady for epots, i * acon ny ego te the ‘¢- ning, ons tion of the Claflin-Allen Sh k rages y e of ine wheat all with a very fair movement. Futures opened at a | S2/ppers’ account at strong prices, the range bein Foreign. Te cen 60 than Matinates fer, that many of our citizens. Tear that mn recent | St. L. & M. ist 7’s 1892 | Feb. & Aug. | 11¢/ 1 4 ‘ Lo forenoon. The market looks | 4 ecline and closed weak and still lower | £f0™ $4to4 10. Packers, however, were backwar Rowe not at all favorable to the selling inte Pack . mi ; i aE |e eabee cone -6- S00 1900 | June & Dec. | 1 morro _-_ | the opening figures. Trading was moderate. In e selling interest. Packers | 471; new mixed at 5s 8d. Receipts of wheat for th holding stock in the new cor- Mysterious Death of the Infant Child of | City 5's............. 1900 Jan, & July 106% 107% Minnea} olis ri Ay coe ra Cd na akeke our home market trade was very dull and the mar- — my nay er towards purchasing and in 4! past week from Atlantic pests were 9,400 parters; ) wthur §=W. . The W. B. Reinakel City 6’s currency... | 1886—87 | Various. WS | 104 rices for wheat, so late telegrams say.—Ha ket was advanced. - Sales were less than 300 bales. | ) ) me the market exhibited some life, sales | Pacific ports, 13.000; other sources, 10,000. Receipts is he Sas . City Gs gold. aah: 189298 Various 10836 } 10936 | Inatum says that wheat between Alton and St. pom A Locat Spot Quotations—Low ordinary 7%; or-| ng made at a —— from $4 10 to $4 20 for mixed | of corn 45,000 quarters. ; in 1.400 shares, of which This afternoon the Coroner began an inquest on | Gif) Ge Werens:--- ier | June & Dee «i038 [aon | never looked better at this season of the year. The | “ary eo eid aon ant Fae low middling 10; pd yeh eaty he on and $4 15 to $4 2 for butch: | Lonpox, December 29, 2:30 p. ™.—Turpentine te of Brooklyn owns 1,000 = | the body of an infant child of William B. Reinakel | City 6's water...::.| 1890 June & Deo. | 10634 108, | melting of snow enables an examination of the plant, middling 1096; good middling 1096; middling fair | to 1 Sopocts for am early clearance very ensourag- | eotey #788 8. ft gation are, Be. H. W. at No. 2825 Papin street. On last Saturday Dr City es weter rrevee 1892 | April & Oct. | 1 109g | which is strong, green and thick on the ground. ee egeaneg ter — 1-4c to 1-2c less than ing : ance very encourag- Mir. . F. Miller shares. —- - /! ity 6's bridge ap- . rs James T. Pirtle, of 2714 Chouteau avenue, prescribed | _ proach. .......... 1892 | June & Dec. | 10954 | 11034 Th RECEIPTS, SHIPMENTS AND STOCKS.—Gross receipts ‘Getienl ee THE RI V ERS. 4 t ; . calsmesl and Guten eraine of cul- County 7’s currency 1885 Fob. & Ang. 100 | 101 e Markets. to-day 1,574 bales, against ——- bales last year; since | w A Pri ae lentified. ee = ee ks & is Counsy old... saa remy arm | aa’ is Wheat Wi gy tggene oy pegges A ea thig | September, 1884. 206,712 bales, against 202,576 same 58. 0 84 12% ~~ - gs 00” a : . nine in two ounces of syrup of coffee. A part of the | County Fark....... p t. 1 star w an old-time m this | ¢; : ahi . e000} ee cmmercceoees seecaee LBD. ceeecer Y was arrested this morning by ates Gases yr Wiliams, | emcee elon morning, and before the swing of speculation got | “™° Dated last year: since September 1, 1984. 100,042 | Si, 40 II 1B Weather Bulletin. of being implicated in the P P ; ae; through with the market, prices had mounted to | against 147,082 bales sarne time last year; stocks in| 72........ Ts cenise 46 ole oe WAR DEPARTMENT taken to Mr. D. W. Stead’s Krueger, proprieter of of a drug store at | Clearings.........-.... -...- Sebeoddnouasstuelaiea aah 418 what ed like diaay ete, sO ooint —— compresses and warehouses to-day 47,802 against | 5/-------- 14. ese - 40 5.000002 202. cas aee 42 SIGNAL SERVIOR U. S. ARMY. | ternoon, but was not the corner of Pratte and Chouteau avenues. and| o= °°" Pare ate i 6 low poin was down —: eae Ow. te ee 12226 sevens - 4 ereety -- eee 410 WASHINGTON, December 29 1834, 6.07 a, m. é. a part by aclerk in the store. Whenthe medicine New York Stock Quotations. oe - _— ee ts — ago Net, Recrprs. Exports aNp Stock.—Net_ receipts Ger esenventebse cose = S seeeeees 274... seeee ‘ = PP = ery ip A nae Nace tuken at tne same mo ‘ was administered the child became sick and was |. Corrected daily by Matthews & Whittaker, bankers and yore were sire cl BE h ith ei 1S | at United States ports for three days, 71,985 bales; | 20....... 204.....00. 410 Oh cccccdh inccist? OU pointed Master. ' — seized with spasnis, in one of which it died. brokers, No. 121 N. Third street, St. Louis, Mo. perros rare hanes oy nn i "an tae te hin va same time last week. 64,007; same time last year, ete BiBccccecce 4 W Cinidendes PE B 3 0 a ; [ 0) Ky.(hi he druggist called in the meantime, stating that i. eons Dg he fashion. Ad- | 55.801; exports, 60,098; same time last year, 46,633; | 22 .-.-... Dvsssue Col Oe cian uke iadetioe 410 == ik } ) __Ex- £-4 . 20.--Ex-Chief Justice iw af ; ? ahinine bad 1 ¢ in inatead ro) = y re) vices per private cables from Europe were strength- | stock, 1,029,222; same time last year i299 601: net | 39-----..- 198........ 410 WE, sinoene or 4 00 3 5 4 Kk pbinted mbhster to take the of fad gag: be > ang eneeie * aaiet : aoe 3 5 4 Fy a +s a ana de wee orgs hae re receipts since September 1, 8,610,167. ras > et. ® = pete. rs +t ~ \ pecenat ~s SP eR ~ STATIONS. e 3 5 f= reapage | . : . = ? és ae decreasing. Rece a is . Aelnane AL44A 8 Gelec | Seeeeeeee BD sees o SD Bavdcdsccetscedscce ‘ ae. deponit ors against the /” pore - ao ee Boe pov STOCKS 5 £ 2 i point were small, and small to only fair at yt lg wah en wae bees i gy R= nc ge a smetqens = bpecnsee ‘Ss Son eve- Ticcacsee ‘ 10 . S q |: & | Weather, | — case to the Coroner. The body showed unusual : ; : nee agg ng eon gg Pe prog The | January 5 59-64d; January and February 5 59-64d; DAILY LIVE STOCK REPORT OF SALES OF BOGS. : ~ | BI: signs after death, but nothing has yet been found to : : : th hee ot nn oe * aad caving | February and March 5 63-64d; March and April Union Steck Yards. BPEL AE ode . indicate the cause. oa. é Be Bs ~ gt : 8 0 ie covering and the winter | 63-644: April and May $764d; May and June | No. Av. Price. No. Ay. Price. | Vicksburg, Miss........ 80.10} 60 |......] 8.81|Foggy. >. bse rina,“ eleag el le ehga Sai gxig ya «ge | Wheat plant exposed, leading to the fear that a 6 11-644; June and July 6 15-64d; July and August | %-------. 236. .ee00e - $4 20 BO. . 00004-2838. ..0ce0. $4 2511) Fort Smith, Ark... ..../|Gowm| .. |. .ceceleceeesfeerersees . - Central Pacific.. ...cccccccscccces 334g 88 3254 8284 violent chan would badly injure the plant by | ¢ 19-64. Shedininan | aS . 615 Gs ¢-ccces's Ss etieehed 4 25 Galveston. Tex. ........|...+-. A PORE EE CORT SR : | A TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION. ose Fe cay ons gS egteementaheen 4 Od 23 24 freezing. ides this the hea rains would 68. 00020 2bdececes - 40 po ob eeceee Seproreeeee 4 = ow os ay Sapo ° re . E ‘ ot pg Vena: ss — - do BIE ..n0 opeccscovcseces 434 82 82 c ers’ deliveries, dy ecreasing Country Preduce. #8 | a@a’’’****’Sn"° eeeees seeeererslleweeeees ittle Rock, Ark. .....[ O.9i) DW | wsses ‘ udy ! iG HER A Two-Story Building Demolished and | *Chic.. R. 1. & Pac........-.++.+-. a at 104% | materially. Up to the noon call the/ ,s«pprirs Receipts asia. Local demand onl ae. ie. $10 Clete Onion nT $0.37, 4 [SE is'Fair. Na FB ; hich Stun Rotbiucke Kabased. CBM Qa cosa seeesesareeseeece J M44 110g 113g 11 ware re. ee strong, and tending up- | and that small, We quote: Genting at $1 to $1 $9 sos ess. Weecccee O15 48 eees000e29eceseeee 490 | Indianapolis, Ind.....:] 80.13] 49 |SE 26) ; ro, AUG Ga.. De cetiber 29 At 10 o'clock to-da Chicago & Northwestern........ 4. @ 837 &3 83 . 6 market for common, $1 85 to 1 50 for fair, and $1 60 to 1 75 a 8 6 eeece 4145 Tivainéecat ee 4235 Louisvi A 80.21 Be eee 49 Cloudy. ( ae ae, SpA, Oe Y | Delaware & Lackawanna........ 8934 89% agy | Suffered a 1-2c relapse. Chicazo weakened on free | fo: choice large;Ben Davis at $2 to $2 25 to $250 for} 39.°"""""" eee ee ~ aepeseeee- ‘eauaene $0 | Memobes, Tenn....0--/ Bi Be | a ™ an explosion occurred in the office building of the | Erie, common..............2+++00 1 13% 1 1 selling and the large estimate for receipts to-mor- |. Be; O° 7 ~whng Sere pr 423 De eseses est asnee 40 Nashville, Tenm........ 80.: os Gee: Boasees Cloudy. - i Gas Light C adjoini 4 Bitinoia CombtG.. coc.scccocscccccecse 123... 25 11534 | row, and this decreased the local market. Later. me Ne ta pad 3s 15 $038 for choice; other SHEEP—But little can be said as regerds this} Pittsburg, Pa...... coon WE. GE Rascctcitccces F 1 . Augusta as Lig at ompany, join ng the works, | Ind.. B. ana Western............ 1g it 11 11 | however, there was a sharp reaction, and the close varieties at $1 75 to $2 50, according.to quality and} market. Trading was light and values irregular Chicago, Ll ....++0++40- =| S & S1Lt. Rain ptoring the famil and in this city, demolishing a two-story brick structure | Lake Shore......... fngnsieoncobsbed - WY (| was strong at 11-2 to158c above Saturday's condition. : and somewhat unsettled, and while prices for good Cairo, Ul... ......seeeee+) 90.13) 88 1S 65 Lt. Rain sdies DID CURE CON Louisville & Nashville ........... 23 M:N DRIED FRUIT—Unchanged; little doing. Peaches il maintained, those f Davenport, lows....... 29.96 4 SW) al s / in | and wounding three workmen. The process of con- | Michigan Cent close. Janu sold at 8234 up to 33 ~ - | woe ntained, those for common were weak 5 é p Michigan Central..........sssse+s 544g O55 54 54g : —Prime halves 6 3-4 to 7c, fair to good do 6 to 6 1-2 ; DesMoines, lowa.......| 50.01) 80 |N -18 Cloudy. hout the use of herbs, necting the station meter with the new gasomet back to 33 1-4 to 33 8-8 and up again to 33 1-2, and at : & ©, | and largely in buyers’ favor. Keokuk, I 29.95) 43 L would be powerless; | was oben completed. The cuskunes webs bor i pd tena § Fhe & Texas........ 1568 4 15 2 close 33 5-8 was bid. February ranged from 83 3-4 — Bee paghw > yy han gl Fry yrhig ES Ri itiie 8 20 Dis ditewa . 810 yon a | ateeg 29.96, 36 |N te Rain er c of the times is to hole in the pipe leading from the meter New York Centra] escent ececeesece 84 85 84 early up to 8&4 5-8, May was actively traded in to é 2 1-2 . ‘a u 0 ] : alr : Morehead, i ea 80.24 1 12/Cloudy. alf remedies tor those th om e N. Y., Chic. & St. Louis, common, 44g 4 444 bout 1.500.000 bu). opening at 89 8-4 and ; good 21-2to8c; dark, wormy, un ed and St. Louis, Mo......e0s0: $0.02; 86 |SE ‘Cloudy. to the gasometer after the hole had been drilled 500, ). opening and selling u . Horses and Mules. ] * | North Pacific ferred. 40) : & UP | otherwise inferior. much less; evapora 5 to 61-2c St. Paul, Minn 30.2; 4 INW 26|Cloud thet seriously in- and before the valve was adjusted the building was | G-ccan Transcontinental es Mets to 903-4, later going off to%#1-4, but closing o ' ~ wh tee ay geaentane ee ." . h Oregon Transcontinental........ 1 1 1 1 . POTATOES—Receipts 1,800,bu. Little offering Ovotations by Croswhite, Patton & Rubev. Springfield, Ll......... 80.07; 49 |...... 1.83/ Cloudy. filled with escaping gas. flame froma photo- | Ohio & Mississippi............... 17% 17% 178 17 up at 901-2. The cash market er readily tO | and not much demand. We quote: Eastern—Rose | HORSES—Heavy draught, extra, $140 to $175: | Leavenworth, Kas..... 8.05, 8 INW -20 | Cloudy. 9 meter ligMt: in the second-story ignited the sur- | Ohio Central................00.... Dg 1 1 ig2 | the boom in futures, grades selling 11-2 to 21-4] .,4 Peerless 48 to 50c: Burbank 52 to53. North- | heavy draught, good, $115 to $130; streeters, extra, | Omaha, Nobd.......)... 90.16 17 |NW -20' Cloudy. 7 charged air, and the explosion was instantanenous | Pacific Mail.............s0sseeeees 613 Soig $454 0 | Higher and strong, and in demand at the advance. | ern Fluke 40c; Rose 45; Burbank “4714 to 60c. | $115 to $130; streeters, good to $110; Southern | Yankton, Dak.........| 3.27 a oo nag : and Abe Wim. re pon horemas of Pendle cau. & Reswne sic poniireennsbane 16g oh Be Rib, ws gM amy E mag ly, = there lati + gate wed ee" Worm eaten, frosted dirty, mixed and otherwise in- | horses, extra, $90 to $i:v; Southern horses, good, Nae ead Dak Praibirs Fein vos vibes ~ ton's uD ry, was own on is bac in the middie ; ° a Ne 8 1 06 0 man 2 es e regu ar specu a ive u in oO , , , “ , 4 4 » PRRs eees ' +. | ««*eee Ore eele seen eeeee } of Jaekson stréet, badiy bruised and shocked. Two eg aes & Man,.......... ~ + Ag 4 wh No. 2red. Offerings were moderate, which " tended magic baad 57s we — Prime red are quotable econ an tote Cree sos wo $00. eaddls 7. Mont. 71 ® sw - Clowdy colored workmen named Dennis and Pompey were | Union Pacific... 46 4h aid 1738 | to limit bnsiness. No. 2 red 823-4 to 83 regular; | 9+ 91 50 to $1 60 per bri., 55 to 60 per bu ‘ MULES—13 1-2 to 14 hands, 4 to 7 years old, $65 to | Fort Custer, Mont......] 30.36 19 IN | %—/Pair. woynded. The loss is $5,000. Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific... 5 5 5 4% | No. 8 red Hog regular, to 7234 in Valley, 73 this BUTTER —Recei ts 13.028. Q an d unchanged. | 14, 14 1-2 hands, 4 to 8 years old, $85 to 90; 15 hands, | Denver, Col......secee-| 90.01) le. jN .02| Clear. Western Union Telegraph Co... S46 Sid Si 45g | Bie, “82g in St. L.: No. 4 bag to in A; rejected | Demand and business light. We quote nominally: | $80; 4 to 8 years old, $10 to $126. ; Dodge City, Kan....-..| 30.18 18 |W | -ieichoudy. : THE READING BONDHOLDERS. ane ane bar av", No*2 Moditerrancan @1 to 8184 rezulac, 8% fa U., 812 | Creamery—Choive to fancy 24 to 25; selections in a North Platte. Neb......{ 80.21) 10 |N_ |""”.0i\Gloudy. ° x - . in D.: No. 3 do. 71 bid this si . 4 : x 8 none 56bE bi. small way ashade more firm. Dairy—Choice to Live Stock Markets by Telegraph. Ft. Stockton, Tex.......| 29.92; 44 iSW 06) Clear. | An Effort to Be Made to Reorganize the COMMERCE for regular 57 for E. side — fancy selections 21 to 22c; prime 15 to 18c; fair 12 Stock Yarns, K = Core: Ma. Desens Sh Salt Lake City.......... 20.7 * ce deol Clear. | Company. , Corn improved in value in the main through | {0 /4:,low6 to8. Nearby make and store-packed | Receipts, cattle, 22; uot enough ‘here to make a| EI Paso, Tex.....200..1 987_85 IN |'""‘a0lCloudy. yf valuable herbs, care- PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Decernber 29.—At a meeting mpathy with wheat, thougl influenced also by | Near-by make at 8 to 13; choice northern 15 to 17,_ | Market. There is a good inquiry for butcher stuff; | “sash @—) indicates rainfall inappreciable. from the formula of of the Bondholders’ Committee of the Philadelph Closing Prices—1 P. M. the unfavorable weather and t::e effect it would CHEESE—Full eream 8 to 10c: choice to fanc others weak and lower. Receipts, hogs, 6,907; slow; G. A. WEBER. uune Used this pee- pa faeces ees vw 35 Ah ‘2 | Reported daily by Redmond Cleary & C4., No. 26 & Com- | hAve upon country deliveries. Keceipts here and | including Wisconsin, 11 to 121-2: part skim 7 to 9: Fe eee ae ae ee Corporal Signal Corpa,- U.S A 3 private prac Read ’ mpany’s mercial street, St. Louis. 10 cago good, though hardly to rmed iarge. or 2 to4 : ‘ c ‘HICAGO, December 29.—Hogs--Receipts 385,000; . itis not a drink,but sisting of A. J. ) rman: Grain—Cnricaco— Wheat—December, 74%: Jan- | The Eastern markets were strong and higher, and a8 4 Rece uiet and slow; 5@10 lower; light $3 90@4 20; rough | HY for PD ri hysicians. weal ty Shipley “Joh os : am “ote ' | nary, 75; February, 755g; March, 7634; May 81%, | Chicago soldup some, too. The nearest months ote ter Beat eae habe eee ee one ~ packing $8 75@4 0: heavy packing ands ippin 0 a. | ible for DYSPEPSIA, uel R. Shipiey, John Wanamaker, Charles B. | Corn'-December, 3544; January, BG; February, | Showed most strength and gain in value, the de- | wice inferior much less. - © | @4 30. Cattle—Receipts 8,000; slow; 10 to 20 l6wer;| | Wasntneron, D. C., December 29.—South Atlantic 4 VER COMPLAINTS, ‘right and B,B. Cornegys were appointed to col- | 3474 to $5: May, 3734. Oats—December, 2514, Jan- | mand for them rather exceeding the offers to POULTRY—Dressed—Turkeys in rather light exports $5 70 to 6 20; good to choice $5@5 60: com- | States—Partly cloudy weather and local rains; HAUSTION, WEAK- t information on which to base a plan of reorgan- | uary, 2534; February, 25 3-4; March, 26; May, 28% | Sell, and they closed 34@}¢c higher, while May, supply, but not much demand; large amount of | ™°2 to fair, $4@4 90; butcher's $2 10 to 3 80; stock- | northwesterly winds; nearly stationary tempera- iTION, &c.; and while ing the company, and to report at a meeting of BALTIMORE—Wheat—December 821-2 to 3-4; Jan- | which had sold up 1-4c, went off late on a selling’! qucks. peese and chickens held over from last week, | 3 $8 to 4 Sheep—Reeeipts 1,000; slow; common | ture. West Gulf States—Partly cloudy weather; t the system. e committee next Monday’ uary 81 8-8 to 8-4; February 84 8-8 to 1-2;March 86 to | pressure and closed the same as Satarday’s close. | put no sale for them to-day. We quote turkeys 10 to choice, $2 10@4 20. local rains, followed by fair weather; shght fall in a well-kn iron 1-2; May 90 to 1-2. Corn—December 47 1-2 to 6-8; ber sold between 383 3-4@335-8 until late, | to 116 # 1b for rough and held-over to 11c for pe dh Lane West PHILADELPHIA, December 28.—Cattle—Re- | temperature; variable winds. Ohio and Tennessee ' ae ee HOWGATE IN NEW MEXICO January 46 1-8 to 1-4; February 45 7-8 to 46. then going up to 83%, though closing off at 83 8-4. | chickens $1 50 to $1 7 for small and rough, $2 for | Selpts 2.000; market dull; prime $650 to $7: good | Valleys Partly cloudy weather. local ratns; south: | br, Pa., writes: ae eee ee ee . New Yorx—Wheat—January 844 b.; February | January brought 8234 to 8234 to 7-8 on! good, and $225 for choice; ducks $2 50 to 50, | $5.50 to $6; medium $4 50 to $5 25; common $3to $4; erly winds, becoming variable, with slight changes } ely prostrated by fever ong cer eee 8634 a.; March 88% b.; April 903g b.; May 0214 b.; first call and at 3274 afterwards. February ranged | and geese $8 to $6 according to size. Live—Neg | ¢xtremes $3 to $7; most sales at $5 to $6. Sheep—j| in temperature. wer Lake Region—Partly perks did bim \ Be good, | The Absconding Signal Service Officer | June 93. Corn—December 61; January 495% b.; Feb- | from 88 to 38 1-4: May opened at 3534: red off to | jected. We quote nominally: Chickens $1 50 to $9: ope 8,000; market dull; prime $4 75 to $5; good | cloudy weather; local rains; southwesterly winds; | eae) Bitters a short Seen by a Former Subordinate. ruary 4734; March $74; May 46% b. Oats—January | 35 1-4 to 35 3-8, advanced to 35 1-2, and later went off | turkeys $5 to $8; ducks $2 25 to $3 50; geese $1 50 to $450; medium $8 to $385; common $1 50 to| nearly stationary temperature. Upper Lake Re- 8444; February 3444; May 8534. (one lot of 100,000 bus at 853-8) to and. closed | to $i 75 6 275; lambs $8 to $625. Hogs—Receipts 5,400; | gion—Local rains or snows; partly cloud weather; } ntrager, Druggist Saw Francisco, December 29.—The Alta and Call | ae tg” A st oe 741%: Feb -lat $$ 1-4 March was offered at 2 ‘ market fair, selling at $6 to $6 50. lower temperature; variable ds, with higher ; ’ y ; February, ; ; GAME—Dead, dull and depressed; weather ’ g leveland, O received a Lordsburg, New Mexico, dispatch, say- | March. 7634 b; May, 80. Corn— ber, 40; Jan- | 34, with to 8354 bid. The advance in futures , } ; ; ‘ - barometer. Upper Mississippi Valley—Cloudy ' veland, C., A ‘May, 39 See. put cash No. 2 up 3c, at which it sold to a short, | Seurssne market. Sales ranged: | Grouse at $f 00 MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. weather; rain or snow, followed by clearing 4 > am ’ * s Squirre weather; northerly winds; lower temperature } h say,and do say, are pre. ing that Capt! H. W. Howgate passed through | ¥@"y. 8734: May, 39 b. he oldest and rominent Provisions—Cxicaco--Pork—January, _ 10.80; | except a few cars taken on orders; but other grades . tsieen aiens . re —er there last night, en ronte to the Melone Mining | February, 10.90 b; March, 11.05; May, 11.90. Lard— | were dull, as they were very scarce and not “much pe. prem “a $i — seeaaeem Nemae oa a: New Yore, December 29.—Flour—Receipts 24,000 | 22d higher barometer. Missouri hgree prs ing 6.60@6.62}4: March, | demand, and white-mixed sold lower. No. 2 mixed | $4: wild turkey 8¢ ® ID; deer carcasses 4c and ven- | bris: sales 15,000 bris; shade stronger and fairly act- le with lower temperature and northerly Mina Naumann, 82115. Seventh street; Edward J. | near; 2 cars No. 3do; 21 cars No. 2 red winter; 2 Spields, 125°Bim street, to Miss Kate R. Renner,1727 | cars No. 8do; 3cars No. 4 winter; 16 cars pajected [RB BITTERS CO., Camp in the Burro Mountains. The correspondent pope Oe a tg ~ ai or 88 BB in © A — , .6F 1-2@6. ort-ribs—January, ; Hebruary, regular, JD Ue. m 25 g : ‘ Recei \ ; 11- j St., Philadelphia. says he is sure it was Howgate, as he served seven f'n. March, 5.65. ah Mesoyi No. 2 white-mixed 86 1-2 in E.; rejected do 35 in St.) pa tee On oa ee te eae ao Be: oe, enti sativa bacianees Wix’i sees aouiiene | Fails years under him in the Signal Service. Cotton—Ngrw Yorr—Futures closed * De- L,: new do 84 bid for regular; new mixed 3823-4 in medium 7 to Théec, and heretics 8 to 5e R Db: ressed sales 240,000 bu No. 2 red Janu 83 1-4@54 3-4: Water Stage. : f orm Syrup Never cember 11.04. January 11.09, February 11.05, March . D., 83 bid for C. and St. thee me 82 1-2 bid for | not salable. : 1,408,000 bu February 85 1-8@867-8; 328,000 bu SIGNAL SERVICE. U. 8. A, | JOELL HART 11.16, April 11.80, mo Bang June 11.54, July 11.66, | St. L. and C.; no-grade 30 bid for E. side. FURS—Demand good; receipts moderate, and | March 87 8-8@88 7-8; 64,000 bu April 89 3-4@90 1-4; Sr. Louis, December 29, i834. : : August 11.75. September 11.38. Sales 85,100 bales. Oats—The option market was firm, but still very | market steady and firm. We quote (nominally): | 472,000 bu May 911-4@921-4. Corn—Receipts 114,- Daity report of the stare of water, with changes in the 26 : bes Et New Orleans—Futures closed at 1:10 p. m. dull | quiet. The only trading was in May. which sold 44 | Otter—No. 1 $4 80@5; No. 2 50: No 3 $2@8: 000 bu; 1-4to2c higher; strong; mixed Western | 2gurs ending 2 p. m., Washington time, The Sculptor’s Remains ought to this} December 10.54; January 10.55; February 10.68; | © 9éc higher at 4A to 14 O96, with latest | No. 450c@$1_ Beaver—No. 1 larze $3@4: No. 1| spot 49@57: furures 4714@58, sales 368,000 bu. Oats . adie Cincy Country for Interment. March 10.85; April 11.02; May 11.19; June 11.34; J trades at 294,and for this oe n there was a steady | medium $2 50@8; No. 2 $2@2 50; No. 8 $1 to.$1 50; | —Receipts 45,000 bu; 1 higher; Western 322@ STATIONS. Bench-Mark. Fall. Rise. New Y ber 20.—The steamer India, | 11-48; August 11.58; September 10.99. Sales 28, demand and few sellers. For December and Janu- | No. 4 50c to $1. Bear—BUc to $5. Wolf—Prairie 50c | 87; sales 170, —Quiet ‘and steady ew York, Decem “ia bales. ary 2534 was bid and the former was offered at 26. $1: ti ee w extra $1150 to 12 Pork - and firm: | St. Louis........ it. 2im jOft. im | 1ftllin having the body of Joel L. Hart of Kentucky, the Cash grad still but th 20 $1; timber $3 to SS. Rescoon—No, 2 large Sic to | BS “a ee yell “ha? } eee 4 4 . es were very scarce, but the demand 60c; No. 1 medium 40c to 45c; No. 2 25c to - No, | new mess $1250 to 12 7%. Lard—O weaker, | Kansas City, Mo... Frozen. Oft. Oin, | Ott. Cin. sculptor, on board, reached her dock to-day. The Stocks of Grain in St. Louis Elevators. showed no urgency, though better prices were | 3 2c: No. 4 10c. Mink—No 1 large 30c to 40c; No.1 me- | but later firmer; steam 7. Butter et and steady; | Hermann. Mo..... laf Sin. Of. Cin} Of. Oia. ins will be taken out this aftern af Wheat. Corn. Osta Rye. Batley, | offered by buyers: 25 1-2 for No. 2 in U. and 2 in | dium 25e to 30c; Now 2 Beto Be: No. 8 l0cto Isc; No. | Western 9@R.' Cheese firm at 1 to 18 Sugar | Pore Uhm | Of Aim JOM Bint OE Ole remains will be en ou s COR BAG TOP | TOARP.. .cicssssees 2.528.805 874,545 67,081 41,851 44,630 | E.; 25 for rejected and 25 1-4 in E. 4 5c tol0c. Fox. Red, é0c to 80: dc . steauy; Molasses dull: Petroleum firm. Rice steady G. A. WEBER, Seances at interment in the State | Saturday seaeseves ROR268 SSTy104 65,680 8,814 | 44,690 orexe Advanced stiffly and met with quick sale to | to boc. Skunk--Black cased, 85c to 70c: shoet at 40c | Coffee quiet and unchanged. Freights firm. Spirits Corpl. Signal Service, U. & A. - te > * er buyers. No. 2 sold reguiar at 48 in C. and 4814, | do 45c 2 sit le: tine dull at 81 Rosin ‘ Red. ! 0 45c to 50c; narrow stripe do 25c to 60c; broad do | turpen @%. steaay at $1 224 Today... seeeeeue- LSE Bhd $5148 $7,005 — | And in U. at 49, and for E. 494 was bid; rejected in | do 10c. | Pole cat bc to 10c. Opossum—Large cased | @1 274, Tallow steady at6 Western eggs firm Lecnt Weates Salas. | - TERRIBLE SUFFERING. SatUrdAyincene... 16,485 295209 85,108 B89 — | OG 0 DPOUE I On ee Adily, bat ruled aul niged and yellow 41: white 47 feet 6 inches in the canal on (uncured) To; Go. Géry) maged 534c; giue stock 8c. easy; m and ye ;w ee falis. No business. Cloudy and warm ; threatening and unchanged at $2 05 to 210 . 18c; kip and calf skin 18; | quiet; No. 2 Bran steady at pearl meal and grits nominal bulls or stags 10; salted 12: damaged 10: glue firm ie rain and stormy weather. River y ice. at $19; prime $15 to $17 50. Pork firmly held | No poats left yet. The Shreveport go this att- of S. Seventh étreet, John J. Blandin, Britimore, Md., | 20:1 car no-grade do; total, @ cars. Cora : . wad 4 ew-mixed;1 car new white do;; 16 cars No. 2 stoc ” at $12. Cut meats easy; shoniders 455 to 4.0; Dugan War ae crons to Voce | Wis tapes taht cas" ale—f Feces estore aa | we nrae Som ot ak eta, betes Seana s twit rant dan Saket | See wn" Sok eae age . ; Scars re : “8 ve at ; un- . ; . Hogan, 318 8. Se street; Michael Tuniin 3820 | car No.2; 8cars rejected; total, 4 cars. Rye—2 ; Northern $5 to 5 35. ripe, quilly, ete.. 40to 43; mixed 10 to 35; tare 8 steady at $115. Exchange on New York 50 | S2v0s “t 4 p.m. the Hot Spur; Berrigan, Thirty-fourth and | cars No.2. Total in, 275 cars. in Sacked bran | and 10 per to % ; sight $1 00 premium. Cotton—Spot : Ixp.. December 29.—River 16 feet 7 Franklin avenue; William 10 N. Twelfth | Our or Exevators.—Wheat—1 car No. 8 red win- f.o. b, this and 58}4@50f.0.b.| DEE s— dry flint at 20c; dry dgm- | auiet at 10 1-2; net receipts 18,951 bales; gross re- phony ge ne 2 inches per hour. Considerable’ 74 erent, te Verein Wee . agp Age 3 ter. peta He tebe agp Sem cars No, 2 mixed; country aged und shined I > es eee 9 to 10c. ae ceipts 19,571 bales. Pe nail ¢, | ice is running. : Boaz and Alice Brown. Ar- Kdgar W, MeCauley, Sixteen total, 82 cars. out, 33 cars, ar ghee yen TS—Prime green large December 20.—Wheat buoyan Dexter ames Core B. Roots, Haire Arsenal strnet; Wem Inge. ere which sell at sight and | full wooled 50 to 70; dry do do 40 to 60. and closed at nearly the highest Agure of the day; | Guitsie ani Grace Morris. avigation tall re- : strestt Charles i) ieebinen, clastic sean Beccipy sek Pe rae 48 een Od wd cnt en Orn vies | = she aed aags ie eter: iG cane ry RGR Jae en A Belle of due at 2p. m. | , e ours. —_ ; to Fannie Webster es: ee 08 Prairie $10@11 25 for prime to fancy; February Oa Philip, Piero, 1017, High street, to | Wour Dris..ssssiesssese-csssseeeseee MOD for low to choice; timothy $12@18 for LIVE STOCK. 9584 J 3 1S ee Mrs. Mary A. Waite, 1212 N. th street; | Wheat. ou.........-cesescsseseceerees Maw 4 for choice to fancy steady at 52. pole phn ag James 2841 Olive, to Elizabeth C. Thomp- COrn, DD.....-.sessernnrererenererses LOR BOD again dull and weak, unfavor- meady sising. De- re son, 3145 avenue: Chas. Marks, 608 Ss, a eeeseeee PAS IAEA PII, markets still further d Receipts, ... 6a. m.; City f oo ee FUMO MEL. | ariey......ccsececsccescaseesesvese IAM f alns. wae lower te eel ae | eee a aie: 84 Jom n Powder Co., 5, : ee H Bees ER Avrensosvascexennoned rete ua points could be bought at morning and > inches og ff St. Louis, Mos : Missing From Home. oll sabe gg shautnedan piety : vse: BOD + Dd 1 brokers been instructed to | than could possibly ; ’ i. Julius Meier, aged 15 years, ran away from his Meats. cnt eeeee eeeeeeteeree® g all such market, ex- The supply and BB _ tome several days ago and Is wanted by the poliog. | Lard. ioe. ----v-sssssssesceeeeeem ing ne rae pores an, eaves | wore very leh inches . Commercial Notes. pay these rates. Pork sold 25c lower at | dozen loads | for standard mess; January was offered at | latter being The Omaha Herald states that “Farmers bid $11 15. Prime steam lard was salable | were present ¥e many parts of Nebraska are burning corn for and could have been at Loose | disposition They have figured the matter out to theirown sat- | 0,b op direct orders, for considerabie | * aes : é > a j j : j ; a i : 6 i Saint cD ae: - a sy r 4 pete ‘ “i 2» : des oS x te * =. ‘ ” ! i am at = a -
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SPILKER. 2731 CHOUTEAU AV—MRS. P. QUIGLEY. 2736 MARKET ST.—JACOB BEFFA. 1515 OLIVE ST.—EXPOSITION PHARMACY, S340OLIVE ST.—M. MAHONEY. 1018 GARRISON AV.—BLACHLY’S PHARMACY. 2358 CARR ST.—CHAMBERS’. 1106 N. SIXTEENTH ST. JOHN F. HOWE. 1854 CASS AV.—BENJ. PARENT’3 NEWG- DEPOT. 1659S. JEFFERSON AV.,. cor. Lafayette— HARRIS & SMITH. 1836 PARK AV.—J. CALLAHAN. 2100 SIDNEY ST-—E. DU FOUR. MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1884. THE public will welcome the news that the Coleridge scandal is ended. Mr. ApDams with- draws his suit, my Lord settles £500 a year up- on his daughter and the curtain drops. ———— Ir we may judge of the efficiency of the Health Department by the way in which it has tolerated the Biddle street small-pox nursery, the Health Department would bea poor reli- ance in case of an epidemic. Str. Lovis is not as badly off as some of the Eastern cities in the number of its unemployed workingmen, but still the situation here is bad enough. A partial canvass of the city shows that since last year one-fifth of our wage- workers have lost their employment. lata Hazen is writing a book, but not to correct or apologize for his false weather predictions. If he will only explain how he mysteriously disappeared from the perilous edge of battle at Shiloh, and as mysteriously reappeared when the battle was over, his book will fill a long-felt want. —— eee eee FOLLOWING the example set by Col. PRa- THER and Dr. Mary WALKER, Governor MARMADUKE calls on the President-elect. No doubt his intentions are good, but we cannot help thinking that it would be more high- toned to follow the example of BaYAaRD and GARLAND, who did not call until they had been invited. A GREAT deal of the work of street cleaning which was beyond the power of General TuR- NER has been gratuitously performed by Gen- eral Thaw and General Rain. A great deal, however, remains to be done, and there was some sort of an understanding, when people were called on to pay for costly granite recon- struction, that the reconstructed granite would be kept clean. THERE may be no significance in the fact, but it isa fact, that McLean and McC.ivrg, the only distinguished journalists who have yet been caught “‘monkeying around” Albany and endeavoring to coach CLEVELAND in Cabinet matters, were both very sweet on BLAINE, and supported CLEVELAND in such a fashion that their States went overwhelmingly for the other fellow. THE news from Mexico is bad. It is reported that the customs receipts at Vera Cruz in No- vember were only $90,000 against $400,000 for the same month last year. Dtaz is charged with importing goods by the car load free of duty, the English debt is no nearer settlement, and affairs generally are unsatisfactory. If the income of Mexico falls off to any marked extent, there will be danger of a revolution. ——_—_————— THE Spanish Government betrayed its igno- rance of the details of American legislation, when it telegraphed its consent to any modifi- cations of the recent treaty. The treaty has ‘scant chance of adoption at the best, but it can pass only as it stands. If the Senate permits itself to recognize the special and local inter- ests which demand modifications, the whole treaty will be torn to pieces. Whatever its fate it should be disposed of quickly. — In a learned editorial on GRANT and BELisa- Rtvs the Chicago Times dates the latter’s career “about five centuries before the Christian era, or twenty-four centuries, nearly, before the af- fair at Appomattox.” All the standard author- ities locate the Emperor) Justintan and his great general in the sixth century of the Chris- tian era, or more than a thousand years later than the Times’ chronology. But to the Chi- cago newspaper man a thousand years are as one day, Se THE supporters of the ministry have a very forcible way of reasoning with the opposition in the Bulgarian Parliament. The other day when SIVACEFF, an opposition leader, objected to the favoritism which had been shown to Russians in the matter of contracts, he was set upon and -beaten by the members from the other side til] be was left for dead, lying on the floor of the House ina pool of his own blood. The Bul- garians have yet to show tliat they can govern their country better than it was governed b the Turks. . — SEE A MORNING paper quotes WExSTER’s opinion to the effect that the constitution makes trea- ties the supreme law of the land, and that a treaty ratified by the Senate is paramount law, and overrides all previously enacted legislation I ie ee cc acme iat feven if both of them had said it, their joint . St, Louis Post-Dispatch, dictum would still stand contradicted by the ues | decisions of the Supreme Court. In its recent thinset. ‘ing above the statutory macadam. As for decision of the head money cases that tribunal declared that ‘‘s0 far as the provisions of an act of Congress may be found to be in conflict with any treaty with a foreign nation the stat- ute must prevail in all the judicial courts of this country,” In saying this the Court cited its form- er decisions, showing that it was in this case only reattirming a settled judgment on that point. The Constitution (Art. VI.) expressly provides that judges shall be bound, first, by the Consti- tution itself; next, by the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof; and last, by treaties made under the authority of the United States. The order in which the com- ponent parts of thesupreme law are enumer- ated, indicates that the provisions of the Con- stitution are to be the fundamental test; that no statute conflicting with those provisions is to be regarded as part of the supreme law, and that no treaty provision which conflicts with the Constitution, or with a constitutional stat- ute, is to be regarded as part of the supreme law. enmneientea ee A NATIONAL MILITIA. The militia question, which has been dragging out a lingering existence for some time, in the shape of mild appeals for aid from the military clubs which call themselves companies and regiments, has received afresh stimulus from the support given to it by General SHERMAN in ffs paper before the Military Service Institu- tion. The General, like all military men, is in favor of a National Militia. All other means having failed to produce effective and sufficient results, he supports the plan of co-operation between the National and State Governmerts. Before considering the plan, the first thing to be done is to settle the question as to whether the people of the United States want a militia. There can be only two reasons for wanting such an institution. It is wanted either asa defence against a foreign enemy, or against domestic troubles. For the first need a militia is simply bosh. Any modern nation which would bravely undertake to argue that a militia is any defence against the drilled and organized millons who constitute the standing armies of Europe, would be laughed at, This, however, is not the real motive for the demand for a militia. The militia question in its present aspect had its origin in the great strike of 1877. The exceptional and wholly unnecessary troubles of that summer defied the resources of local police, and in many places the inexcusable violence of the strikers eom- pelled the authorities to resort to military sup- pression. | But if we need a militia for this purpose the burden of supporting the militia should not fall upon the National Government nor on the States. These disturbances are confined to the great cities, and if there is any need of a permanent military organization against mobs, its cost should be borne by the great cities, not by the rural population of the State nor by the resources of national taxation. As a matter of fact, if we had a National Militia organized after General SHERMAN’S plan and the railroad riots of 1877 should be repeated, there would probably be more militia men among the strikers than could be mustered to suppress them, and the value of the militia would be represented by a minus quantity. If any one should still contend that the ex- periment is worth trying, we can point to two signal evidences that the attempt would be a failure. The first one is the militia of Canada; the second one is the regular army of the United States. Canada has tried the experiment of local militia organizations, supported by appropria- tions from the treasury of the Dominion, with an extensive system of petty swindling as the only result. In this country we may be sure that the State militia organizations at their worst would be nothing better than so many schemes for ab- sorbing the State’s quota of the appropriation At their best, they could not possibly be as efficient as the regular army, and a single item in the report of the Adjutant General shows us what our army is. Inanarmy of 25,000 men, which costs the tax-payers of this country $1,000 a year for each enlisted man, one-seventh of the whole army deserts every year; When SHERMAN was General the proportion was somewhat larger. | Until this country can find some way of tak- ing better care of its regular army it does not want to throw any money away on a State militia system. ee ee _— --~—- MACADAM. One of the difficulties in street cleaning in St. Louis arises from ‘prevalence of the local method of using macadam as a paving material. In other cities macadam means hard broken stone free from chips, spauls, surface rock and impurities, broken to a size that will pass through a two-and-a-half-inch ring and laid on not less than twelve inches thick. Here the macadam includes all the weather-rotted surface rock, all the chips thrown out in outting the curbstones, crosswalk stones and other dimension stones and a slight admixture of the surrounding real estate of the quarry. The ring through which our macadam has to pass is ihore than seven inches round. In fact, it is said to surround the whole city. It is perhaps in ‘consequence of this that we occasionally see dolmens and menhirs and other me- galithic monuments of Druidic aspect tower- the uniform depth of the deposit, it is often nearer three inches than twelve. Before it is packed tight the subjacent soil rises up amid its interstices, leaving the citizens to wrestle with the problem as to why it happens that one week the macadam is on top of the mud and = week the mud is on top of the mac- money has been thrown away in this kind et making all that is left is to throw away money on what is called street cleaning. When the mud is scraped up the macadam reappears looking very much like and shape is carted off, to the further b e1 those: who pay for it, bat to the great delight of the‘gentlemen who furnish it = + - "This macadam farce has been, played us quite long enough. If there is any serious idea of doing any street cleaning it should be preceded by some plan for laying macadam as it should be laid. | ad BISMARCK is developing his new colonial policy with a vigor that means business. He has secured a long strip of African.coast. The British annexation of St. Lucia Bay brings forth a notice to the effect that a German en- voy had already acquired a foothold for the German flag in Zululand. Germany has re- cently and unexpectedly pounced upon divers unseized prizes in Oceanica, and evidently in- tends to appropriate all of them. The Aus- tralians, fearing that the French would estab- lish new penal colonies like that of New Caledonia, proclaimed the unappropriated part of the great island of New Guinea British ter- ritory, and sent a color-sergeant there to take possession. But Lord Drersy of the Colonial Office disavowed the act, and forthwith Ger- many took possession of allof New Guinea north of the bisecting mountains and east of the 140th meridian, and, as a strategic appendage of this fine territory, the German flag was also hoisted over the New. Britain, the New Ireland and the Admiralty islands that lie immediately north of the an- nexed part of New Guinea. As BISMARCK wants thése lands, not for penal colonies, but to divert the tide of German emigration and utilize it for the prosperity and power of the Fatherland, the Australians will probably soon become as well reconciled to their new German neighbors as we are to the Canadians. IT appears that GRANT will have to do the Belisarius act after all. The more’s the pity. It is almost incredible that a man of GRANT'S experience should have been taken in by so transparent a confidence game as the one played on him by Warp, but there is no doubt- ing the fact. The great commander of armies, the twice elected President of the United States was so completely under the control of a glib swindler that he gave a check on a bank in which he had no money to help a firm in which he thought he had $350,000. Against such stu- pidity all safeguards are hopeless, and there is nothing to be done but to call his friends to- gether and pass around the hat again. There has been no clear statement made to explain why GRANT'S real estate in New York, Long Branch and St. Louis is not sufficient to pay his debt and leave him in enjoyment of his trust fund. ° One of the industries which will suffer se- verely by the business depression is the indus- try of New Year’s calling. We advise all young men who contemplate calling to prepare themselves accordingly. When each young lady says—as she certainly will say— “TI understand that calling is much less general this year than formerly,” the young man should promptly toss the ball of conversa- tion back by replying in an easy manner, ‘‘Oh, yes, very much so, indeed. I have noticed that myself.” The great /art of conversation con- sists in being ready for any emergency, and the youth who aspires to shine in society can per- form his duty to civilization only by maintain- ing the high intellectual level which marks the social interchange of thought on New Year's Day. ll ae ae MEN OF MARE. GovERNOR Patrison of Pennsylvania is taking riding Jessons. Ir is reported that John R. McLean has bought the New York Star. Kine Humpert lost twenty pounds in weight by his labors in behalf of the cholera sufferers. | ERNEST HarTuey CoLeripGe is at work on a new memoir of his grandfather, famous in literature. DANNIEL MANNING is at his desk in Albany again, working away just as if nothing had happened. SPEAKER CARLISLE is said to receive a heavier mail than any other member of Congress, and Sen- ator Logan stands next. TWELVE wagon loads of letters and papers are de- livered daily at the Capitol for members of the House of Representatives. THe New York papers were hoping to see Van- derbiit donate about $100,000 to the poor of New York, but they didn't see it. THe members of the Reichstag are united by a common hatred of Bismarck, and possibly by a common love of American pork. “Ik Marve.”’ senta Christmas tree from New Haven to the New Orleans Exposition, and from it yesterday many presents were distributed, BISMARCK spent his Christmas in Vienna. Francis Joseph was considerably surprised on seeing how thin Otto's hair had become since they last met. Runoips, Crown Prince of Austria, is engaged upon a literary work of considerable pretensions. It is probably a carrier's address for some of the Vienna pewspapers. FRED VANDERBILT recently killed a wild cat in Florida, and at a dinner given by him in New York the other day the stuffed skin of the beast stood rampant in the center of the board. Mr. Jonny C. Eno, we are informed by a despatch from Quebec, recently entered a billiard tourna- ment at the Merchants’ Club and came out victori- ous, cartying off a gold medal worth $50. Jouy B. Strerson, a Philadelphia hat manufactur- er, is the largest policy-holder in the world. He carries $360,000 on his own life, and pays premiums on $360,000 ‘for others. Hamilton Disston carries al- together $510,000. | “Ricnarp Wrinxtersmira of Kentucky,” as the Washington Republic thinks, “is Sam Ward's legiti- mate successor In the lobby, and possesses so many of the latter's agreeable and entertaining personal characteristics as to be already known to the best people as ‘Uncle Dick.’” : “Governor Bunny of Idaho,” as the Salt Lake Trilune lets the world khow, “has in his office a huge pair of elk horns, measuring over four feet in the widest space, and about the same in height. The Governor will havé these magnificent antlers boxed and sent as a present to the ‘Elk Club’ in New York City, of which association he is a mem- ber.” Kine Lovis of Bavaria lately ordered that some bronze statues be set up at his palace gates, but as his Majesty is nearly bankrupt, the Keeper of the Privy Purse thought it well to put up plaster images covered with bronze paint. This worked nicely un- tit Louis discovered the fraud and smashed the statucs with a club. Victortano Nievez is one of the luckiest men in the world. He lives at Carmen, in Mexico, and is a millionaire. The other day he and his wife celebrat- ed their goiden wedding anniversary. It was a great wu of - day for old Signor Nievez. He gave a banquet scattered dollars right and left. Five bundred thousand dollars in one lump were sent to the poor in the locust-eaten districts, and $10,000 were given to the Republic to help pay off the American debt. : WOMEN OF THE WORLD. Pg eT AR Dr. Maky Waker fs writing a drama entitied “The Baccaret Vase,”* A Panis lady claims to be the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. * She is believed to be insane. Mrs. Mary Frrog Foterr, who died at Hudson, N. Y¥., @ tew days ago, had completed her 100th year. ELLEN Terry burst into tears when presented with a silver tea-set by the Irving Company at Pitcs- burg on Wednesday. Lucy Stong says although women do most of the piano playing they do little composing. This is in the nature of a blessing, we take it : Tne Boston woman who proposes to establish a fund for the care of the teeth of the children in the public schools has a most beneficent pur- pose. Tug wife of the new Minister from Sweden— Mme. Reuterskjold—is a beautiful woman. She has been much admired in Pvris, where she is called a beauty... Dr. Mary Waker is laid up with fourteen boils and can‘t bother Congress for some time to comé, and the Widow Oliver seems to have been bought off entirely. , Now that Mme. Kalomine's appeal against the di- vorce of her erstwhile hnsband, Prince Louis, has been rejected, she can write a book which would have a large sale. A pretTyY Baltimore girl who advertised for some one who would be kind to her received forty offers the first day. It ought not to be very hard to kind to a pretty Baltimore girl. ; Evernte, ex-Empress of France, is highly ¢s- teemed by the people of Farnborough, on the streets of which town she is often seen, afoot; not only shopping, but on errands of charity. Awnp now Mrs. Catherine Gabel of Gabelsville Berks County, Pa., has celebrated her 100th birth- day, and as she is still strong andin good health. she threatens to gabble on a few years longer. Miss Marre Van Zanpt, the American prima donna, will not accept another engagement in Paris at any price. The backguar lism of a certain set of critics has disgusted her with that center of civil- ization and courtesy. GranpMoTHER Boaas has lived. in spite of her name, 101 years. Her home is in the house of her daughter, at Milton, Ind. The old lady is piecing a block of patchwork, containing 101 pieces, for each of her granddaughters. An eminent Knelish professor advises girls not to marry tobacconalians and drinkers. This would have the effect of making a great many English spinsters unless the present race of men made a great improvement. A society lady of Bridgeport, Conn., made a wager with a well-known politician of that city on the election, to pay which she will have to kiss him in public March 4. By agreement the kiss is to be given on the main street,in front of the Sterling House. A Paristan woman stole a clock and was arrested and taken into court a few minutes later. She pro- tested violently and threatened her prosecucof. but just then the clock, which she had concealed in her bustle, began to strike 12, and the court made up its mind at once. A Persuasive American. From the Indianapolis Sentinel. The New York WorLp suggests Hon. Charles Gib- son, of St. Louis, as an available appointee for Min- ister to the Prussian Court. The Sentinel rises to second the nomination. The Sentinel and the State of Indiana know Mr. Gibson. In 1880 and again in 1884 he was with us; not asa demagogue or even politician, but as a patriot laboring to turn the tide of battle in favor of Democracy. Mr. Gibson can talk, and Mr. Gibson's talk is persuasive. His talk has ideas behind it, and his ideas are forcible. Given an hour's interview between Mr. Gibson and Prince Bismarck on the American hog, and we venture that the Prussian Premier will order Amer- ican pork chops for his next breakfast. Give Mr. Gibson two hours with Bismarck and the latter will recommend a barbecued pig with an apple in its mouth asa national delicacy. Mr. Gibson is a typ- ical American—proud of his country and its institu- tions, Travelin and acquaintance with Euorpean countries has won for him friends at the foreign courts, including the German, and no man is more competent to represent our interests abroad. ————— TS rT A Big Bet. From the Hartford Times. A bet was madein the Presidential election of 1832, or rather an agreement, by which the sum of $200 was given outright to one of the parties to the bet, the condition being that he should pay the oth- er man one cent for one electoral vote that Jackson should get over Clay, two cents for two votes, four cents for three, eight cents for four, sixteen cents for five, thirty-two for six, and so on, according to the majority, if any, that Jackson might get in the electoral college. The man to whom the offer was made incautiously jumped atit, and eagerly took the $200. But he found that he had obligated him- self for more than he, or all his friends, could ever pay. The simplest arithmetic will show that, by a rule of the doubling up, even if the majority had been but twenty, it would have involved $5,242 8s: tosay nothing of a majority of ninety-five, which would bankrupt all the Goulds and Vanderbilts. Even a majority of only thirty would produce $5,- 868,709 42; while a majority of thirty-six would in- volve $343,597,383 68. If the majority only reached forty, the man’s obligation would already have mounted into the billions, and reached the astound- ing sum of $5,497,558,138 88, Sherman’s Militia Scheme. From the Philadelphia Times, General Sherman wants a militia organized ona modern basis. He thinks the old firelock require- ments of the general militia law too antiquated for this age of steam and electricity. Upon this point the public will agree with him entirely. There are many people, however, who will take issue with bis recommendation of a federal militia system, believ- ing that this important matter should be left entire- ly tothe supervision of the States. If every State were provided with as efficient a volunteer force as Pennsylvania boasts, more than the maximum num- ber of men recofmmended by General Sherman - would be ready for active service at a moment's warning. The only difference would be that they would beunder the control and direction of the State government instead of the general govern- ment, Belles Drinking on the Sly. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Do you know the latest filling for alleged smeliing bottles? Brandy! At all events, Isaw one that was thus utilized asa flask. It was carried by as chip. per a young thing as ever yousaw. She sat next. me. I noticed that she once put it to hor mouth i- stead of her nose, and that she sucked in place of sniffing. Instantly a gill—or say two fingers—of the contents disappeared like ababy dining from a nursing bottle. Then she demurely transferred the nozale from below her upper lip to above it, and pretended to be refreshing herself by means of the smell. But the odor, as I couldn't. help was brandy. Nobody could deny, anyhow, that she took a “snifter.” . Helping the Old Folks, ; From the New Haven Regsiter. | “The emigrant ticket business is light at this sea son of the year,” said Edward Downes, the stcam- ship agent. “It is lighter than usual. But the draft think it was ever so large before, although y itis bard times. From my own business it sna | Irish girls and some men. of course, in New Haven, send an average of $100,000 over to the old country in drafts every year. They take delight in contrib- uting out of their earnings to help the Sid folks at home.” | Tae : The Hill-Sbharon Judgment. From the Philadelphia Times, _ - As fatas concerns the woman, she does not de- serve to get a cent; as concerns the man, he quite deserves to lose anything the suit may cost him. It is better on the whole, that a vulgar adventuress should now and then succeed: than that a not less vulgar millionaire should be free to defy the laws of God and man and purchase exemption from the wages of sin. THE METROPOLITAN PRESS. What the Editors of the New York Journals are Saying To-day. ~ By Telegranh to the Post-Dispatch. New York, December 20.—The Wor.tp says: “It must be a consolation to the people who are com- plaining of blueness here to know that in Great Britain the times are hard and that a groan about ‘de- pression’ goes up from Land's End to John O’Groat's house. And England has a ‘foreign policy’ both vigorous and bold.” : THE SUN. The Sun says: ‘Reasonable provision should be made by this Congress for beginning, as soon as possible, the work of re-establishing the navy, which rascal Repu nothing should be built upon foundations department as now organized.” THE TIMES. The Times says: “Wedonot think Henry Ward Beecher’s power over Plymouth Church has been very much diminished by his speeches against Mr. Blaine.”’; THE TRIBUNE. The Tribune says: “Mr. Beecher yesterday made excuses to the congregation of Plymouth Church for his recent remarkable political course; but his de- fense was a lame one, more likely to give satisfac tion to his enemies than to his friends. Parts of it, indeed, were extraordinary.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Susscriper:—On January 5, 1884, the thermome- ter in St. Louis marked 21.5° below zero. » Epis:—The only teacher of skating we know of in St. Louis can be found on Lafayette Park pond when there is skating there. Constant Reaber:—A is right. Thé common law recognizes parties as married when, having agreed to become husband and wife, they live together and represent themselves to be married. It is only in States where a statute specifically declares against such marriages that they are void, and a majority of States have not so declared. Good Out of Evil From the Los Angeles Express. The Red Bluff Sentinel made this startling an- nouncement one day last week: “The prayer-meet- ing at the M. E. Church will be hell to-night.” This iy here error made a good many people be- heve that something remarkable was to take place at the meeting, so the church was crowded. The Officiating brethren, greatly encouraged by the large audience, were inspired to eloquence, and the result was that thirteen converted persons united with the church. Mrs. Pulitzer’s Christmas. From the Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Pulitzer, wife of Joseph Pulitzer, the editor of the New York WorLD, invited 110 boys and the same number of girls, ranging from 3 to 10 years of age, to Florence Halli, in that city, yesterday and distributed $1,500 worth of overcoats, shawls, toys and sugar-plums among them. They were all chil- dren of poor parents, living in the Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth Wards on the east side of New York City. Beware of Widows. From a French Paper. “T’'ve a big piece of news for you, old fellow—go- ing to be married next month to the charmingest li widow ever was. “A widow? Beware of widows. A widow's heart is like a house one moves (nto--you are always sure to find something that recalls the previous tenant kicking about in some cupboard or garret.” Religious Item From Nevada. From the Virginia City Enterprise. It is well Known on the Comstock that Deacon Bill is an immense roarer of Methodist hymns, but his record asa man:pulator of the Lord in prayer is not so well eatablished. Huwever, he generally holds a full hand at whatever he undertakes. Icicles of Frozen Eloquence. From the New York Morning Journal. Mr. Evarts will present each of his supporters in the Senatorial fight with a polished sentence so constructed that it can be carried in the pocket like a foot-rule. Beer for Bismarck. From the Boston Post. **How shall we treat Bismarck?” is the headline of an article in the New York Worip. We think that if Bis is like most of his countrymen, beer would do. As Sociable as Two Cold Green Lizards. From the Portland Advertiser. Two Englishmen met in mid-ocean on the deck of asteamer. One asked: “Going across?” “Yes; areyou?’” And there the conversation ended. Where Dramatists Go to Die Young. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Washineton is now the “dog” on which new theatrical plays are tried. STOPPED NAVIGATION. The Heavy Fog Settled Over New York Denser Than Ever. New York, December 29.—The heavy fog which settled over the city yesterday is now denser than ever. Ferryboats run with difficulty. Incoming steamers don’t trust themselves within the bar. Vessels of all sorts are awaiting the lifting of the fog before starting. To Suit the Times. By Tetegranrh to the Post-Dtspateh. New Yor, December 29.—The evening Telegram announces that to-day its price will be reduced from two cents to one cent. AN OLD IRISH POEM. From the Book of Leinster. I know who won the peace of God— The old King Ailill of the Bann, Who fought beyond the Irish sea All day against a Connaught clan. The king was routed. In the flight He muttered to his charioteer, “Look back; the slaughter, is it red? The slayers, are they drawing near?” The man looked back. The West wind blew Dead clansmen's hair against his face. He heard the war-shout of his foes, The death cry of his ruined race. The foes came darting fromithe heizht Like pine trees down a swollen fall. Like heaps of hay in flood, his clan swept on or sank—he saw it all, And spake, “The slaughter is full red, But we may still be saved by flight.” Then groaned the king, “No sin of theirs a Falls on my people here to-night. “No sin of theirs, but sin of mine, For I was worst of evil kings, Unrighteous, wrathful, hurling down To death or shame all weaker things. “Draw yein and turn the chariot round; My face against the foemen bena. When I am seen an@ slain, mayhap The slaughter of my tribe will end.” They drew and tufned. Down came the foe. Mg | The slaughter then was stayed, and so _ King Aflill won the peace of God. ates. WarrLey Sroxes. and New Year Cards, Lawton Print I judge ing Ob., @21 Olive and #17 Fourth, blicans have stolen off of theseas. But laid by the A TALK WITH GROVER. Colonel McClure Photographs the Ne President and His Policy. a Albany Letter to the Philadelphia Times. Allhis portraits cive him g heavy. obstinate » pearance, indieating a sluczish temperament ap - slow-moving intellectual organization, but ‘e photographer had caught nim unaw baal conversation he would bave deen pictured as }, really is—a delightful ang ready conversatior “ and with a face that bears the saliihabis a press of frankness, manliness and uncommon tee: ness of perception. His features ara soft, his veal light auburn, his eyes bright and merry ar ee must at once teach all who meet him that he “a stranger to dissembling. He kas abundant cantics but he does not shrink from possible Dental standing, as Lincoln did; he does not employ words to conceal ideas, but he talks freely and pointediy on subjects he chooses to discuss and always mes , to be understood. a 4 BUSINESS EXECUTIVE. The one subject on which there js the most publie concern touching Cleveland’s coming administrs tion is the one that he discusses with equal [rea dom and emphasis. Irefer to the great business interests of the whole country. He is a natural business Executive. He loves business fidelity. he believes in business methods and he will faithfully fulfill his publicly repeated pledge to conduct the administration of the Government on tho ) *% ares When ig roughiy business principles. He does not mere- ly look to business administration ag | the limit of his duty in enforcing honest government. He carries his business states. manship to the extent of business lecisiation to pro- mote healthy and enduring business prosperity. and madcap theorists who would revolutionize and destroy _ will be as resolutely halted by President Cleveland as will the jobhers an! proftligates who have sodeeply stained every department of national authority. He understands that tariff revision is to be one of the duties of his administration, as the national platform of both parties haye alike de- manded it, but if either tariff monopolists or free- trade dreamers expect to enlist the new Adminis. tration in their cause they will be disappointed. The same practical business methods that he ap- plies to all public duties he will fitly apply to the revision of the tariff, and he will seek todo it in the most practical business-like way. He looks to the legitimate and substantial revival of all jegit). mate business interests of the whole country as ona of the foremost duties of his rule, andI shall be greatly disappointed if he does not so assure the country by his selection for Secretary of the Treas- ury. THE TREASURY AND THE TARIFF. He does not affect'to underestimate the special importance of that appointment. He does nog hesitate to say that however other Cabinet officers might invite criticism on points of political and even financial difference, the man ¢harged with the portfolio to which the country must look for the harmony of revenues and industry must command the trust of the nation in his practical ability and conservative policy, Viewing the tariff from the. sensible and practicable standpoint of business, the occasion clearly calls for a head of the Treas- ury who will bring to his task none of the dregs or resentments of faction, but who can command the considerate support of business interests in fram. ing a business revenue law, regardless of partisan lines. The President-elect interprets party platforms and campaign pledges after the election precisely as the people interpret them at the election, and the intel- ligent citizen who sits down and carefully reads the Chicago Democratic plank on the tariff and inter. prets it according to the plain rules of common sense and common honesty can know exactly how President Cleveland will apply business principles to frame a business tariff. The revenue standard will be the basis of all future tariffs, and every step will be taken to cheapen the necessaries of life that is consistent with fidelity to the general productive industries of the country. The present severe re duction of wages imperiously demands every possi- ble reduction of the cost of the necessaries of life consumed by labor, and our over-production, that now bangs like a pal) over many of onr most im- - portant industries, must have enlarged markets, with cheaper products to every extent consistent with protection of home labor against the ill-paid and ill-fed labor of Europe. That would be the re- vision of the tariff on business principles. It woul be the best assurance of legitimate prosperity to both labor and capital. It is what the Chicago Dem- ocratic platform plainiy teaches, and it is what President Cleveland will make the policy of his ad- ministration. THE CIVIL SERVICE. While there has never been any room to doubt that Cleveland’s administration will be Democratic and that there will be great changes in the political complexion of the Federal offices, no one conid hear him discuss his Civil Service policy without understanding that he wiil make haste slowly, and that he will make the elevation of the Civil Servi paramount to party. He is a positive believer it practical Civil Service reform, and he is no ne convert to it. He believes that the first duty of public officer is to regard office as a public trust and make both party and personal interests subor dinate to that conviction; and none who know hi will doubt that he will resolutely apply his precept and example in every department of the (Govern ment. That is not what Democratic spoilsmen ex- pect, but itis pretty certainly the only feast to which they will be invited. and they will profit by cultivating their appetites to enjoy the entertain that ment. It should be remembered also this practical Civil Service reform likely be inaugurated by President Cleveland gives little promise to the bulk of the present Federal officers. Cleveland's standard applied to ‘| them would dismiss ninety-nine of every huudred of 4 them, for they have, as a rule, flagrantly offended every principle of an honest civil. service system. The Democratic disappointment will probably be less in the removal of hosts of Federal officials who have prostituted political power to base partisan uses than in the character of the men who suceceed them, and Democratic honesty and competency will generally prevail over those who follow the trade of politics to harvest the spoils. I do not mean to cour vey the idea that Cleveland despises . the active politician. He is too broad and practical and honest for any such folly. But it is not difficult to party men, and when it is remembered nate reputable of all parties are always most active = importunate in demanding party rewards ie shape of offices, the distinction between 4a h civil service and the sublime, impracticable, non- partisan administration that some dream of, but none practice, must be apparent to all. but Iexpect the Cleveland failure will entomb Democracy for another quarter of acentury, if not forever. The new President a > and the St. Louis ques IDLE, BUT ~The Vast Army People Awaiti Reviv Some Startling Stat Local Victims o: Facts Compiled Thro vass by Post-Dispa tives— From 542 Fac Over Six Thousand Been Discharged Du Interesting Revelati The very iimited number of facturing firms which have ne adversity of the past year fir that the prostration of busim it really is. In fact, even ar felt the prevailing depression is a suspicion that many of th cerning the unprecedented a labor are the invention of er picion, has, doubtiess, in am progress of, the char.ty move thousands of menand women and skilled hands can find r few days ago. a statement pt authority of Bradstreet’s A here by one of the morning which was to show that the S as compared with that of any in an almost prosperous com who mingle much with the v those who watch the co manufacturing circles, th manifestly and grossly incorre of its falsity was a matter | Within the past four or five da has made a careful endeavo statistics within the principal facturing districts as to the: number of persons employed the decrease in the entire ci imated. Its canvassers visi warehouses, depots and pub considerable number of men ployed, ani, while they nece ‘on the thousands of small firs ment to only two or three n learned to fully substantiate ments that have been made order that last year's statistic: TO CONFUSE THE comparisons were made | week and the corresp 1883. It will be rem January last the Post-Dispatc showing that during the two from four to six thousand pec -of employment within the li many as fifteen hundred bein by the closing of one conce Works. It should be rememt the number of men who lost present year, as indicated by be auded to that larye tetal; | have those thousands who we remained idle ai) of the year ' which that fact infers, but t) joined by these other thousam only inteuded as ae el assertion. That is to & individuals thrown out have secured positions | bat the totals remain una which the Posr Dispatcu bas | the territory between the rive the Arsenal aud! the Water Wo between Frankiin and l’ar« av end Grand avenue: alsothe | north and south of Cass a Grand: also the outlying db end Cheitenbam. ‘The establi bered 342, and the list embrax of industry represented in this obtained the number of men, t and the number of bovs ery 1688, and the number ef present month. These figure and thus a very accurast deduction was posible. A ve in the number of emploves v crease the very infrequent exc pected, those firtus which bane many forms reported the mo or forty-two establishments of any considerabie change in nu reporte:|. THIRTY-TWO HAD REDUCE and ten had increased. The t thirty-two concerns was 2523 Grease in the ten other com shows a net decrease of 2.251 cerns not comprised in these f about held their own in comps cember. In wood working industries ture factories, chair factories, 1 the next largest decrease im f institutions of this kind whi Changed the number of thei one have decreased the pay crease ig 627, and (he increase | Belcher’s sugar refinery co ranks of the unempioved, the Factory contributes 25. the « district mentioned a)! pouly milis swell the ist by Cotton released 310 men from emp wy: fous agencies the number of \: Dy increased until the torais Only district which has ma:nia @ year ago is that of Chelten! Ories of that suburb employed and 62 bovs. This year they ¢ 88 boys —a decrease of oaly 1 Carondelet, on the contrary, w ployed in her factories 1,398 mx year employs 35 men and 8 | 1,085 men and #4 boys The trades which seem to ha ting strength more uniform) Standard than others are the re and the brewing industry. Se! ; @oods business is concerned, bo nothing, for the reason that the fm the holiday season, at which of men are employ wing interest, however, is in tion as the compariscn denotes those products which are the ly 7 ‘ _ THe EFFECTS OF DT With this analysis of such port rY | , the final resulta of ca may be given: territory outlined abow ne who were tinier iewed , 1883, they empioved a t we end 2.528 buys, ors ‘Im December of toe B28 men, 1.0
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wat Fe WITH GROVER, | = ; ihe d His Policy. . eee delphia Timea, }him a heavy, obstinate ap. suggish temperament and a , Organization, but if the Meht him unawares when in Save been pictured as he ead ready conversationalist Pars the ynmistakable im. mess and uncommon keen. : features are soft, his hair — jes bright and merry and he | Fwho meet him that he isa - o He as abundant caution; 4 nk from possible m " talks freely and pointedly }to discuss and always meang jes: EXECUTIVE. hich there is the most public : nd’s coming administra. pSiscusses with equal - free. ‘efer to the great business p country. He is a natural He loves business fidelity. he thods and he will faithfully ated pledge to conduct the Government on thoroughly | He does not ‘mere. mmess administration as his duty in. enforcing ae carries his. business states. business legislation to pro- uring business prosperity. _who would revolutionize | be as resolutely m Cleveland as __ will profligates who nV ery department of national ands that tariff revision is to t his administration, as the wh parties have alike de- tariff monopolists or free- ; to enlist the new Adminis- they will be disappointed, Siness methods that he ap- he will fitly apply to the ad he will seek todo it in iness-like way. He looks to stantial revival of all legiti- of the whole country as one |} of his rule, andI shall be he does not so assure the for Secretary of the Treas- W AND THE TARIFF. underestimate the speci ppointment. He does n wwever other Cabinet office hon points of political and be, the man charged with the country must look for the and industry must command )in his practical ability and Viewing the tariff from the. ble standpoint of business, a@lis for a head of the Treas- his task none of the dregs or a, but who can command the business interests in fram- 2 law, regardless of partisan aterprets party platforms and r the election precisely as the the election, and the intel- jown and carefully reads the nk on the tariff and inter- he plain rules of common nesty can know exactly how apply business principles The revenue standard future tariffs, and every step em the necessaries of life that ity to the general productive ty. The present severe re. ously demands every possi- st of the necessaries of life d our over-production, that rmanyv of onr most im- ; have enlarged markets, every extent consistent labor against the ill-paid »3. That would be t>~ re- business principles. It would of legitimate prosperity to— It is what the Chicago Dem- teaches, and it is what make the policy of his ad- yIL SERVICE. been any room to doubt stration will be Democratic at changes in the political Jeral offices, no one conid ivil Service policy without il make haste slowly, and levation of the Civil Servi He is a positive believer reform, and he is no ne ves that the first duty of rd office as a public i personal interests su ;and none who know hi psolutely apply his precep fepartment of the Govern-— Democratic spoilsmen ex certainly the only feast to ted. and they will profit by ites to enjoy the entertain- ito the bulk of the present. eland’s standard applied to netv-nine of every hundred of ‘a rule, flagrantly offended gnest civil service system. pointment will probably be lasts of Federal officials who power to base partisan of the men who —— honesty and competency ‘hose who follow the trade of »iis. I do not mean to con syeland despises the active ‘proad and practical and siy. But it is not difficult to party 1 stion between an ro ie Cleveland made Grover and ae Kg . Photographs the Nex, _ B he does not employ wordg q - remembered also that Service reform likely to _ by President Cleveland = « e \ Fy : \ i HS as , * > ; pa 4 : 9 ‘ . 9 , t > yr : ‘ an > -_ a ty alas % 33 oe be ' id ay * o (DLE, BUT ANXIOUS, The Vast Army of St. Louis People Awaiting a Trade Revival, Some Startling Statistics as to the Locai Victims of the Panic. Facts Compiled Through Actual Can. vass by Post-Dispatch Representa tives—From 542 Factories and Stores Over Six Thousand Employes Have Been Discharged During1884-—Other Interesting Revelations. The very iimited number of commercial and manu- facturing firms which have not shared in the general adversity of the past year find it difficult to believe that the prostration of business is as widespread as it really is. In fact, even among people who have felt the prevailing depression to some extent, there is a suspicion that many of the representations con- cerning the unprecedented amount of unemployed labor are the invention of croakers: and this sus- picion, has, doubtless, in a measured retarded the progress of, the charity movement in vehalf of the thousands of men and women whose willing muscles and skilled hands can find nothing todo. Onlya few days ago, a statement purporting to have the authority of Bradstreet’s Agency was published here by one of the morning papers, the effect of which was to show that the St. Louis labor market, as compared with that of any other large city, was in an almost prosperous condition, while to those who mingle much with the working classes, or to ‘those who watch the course of events in manufacturing circles, their statement was manifestly and grossly incorrect, the demonstration of its falsity was a matter of extreme difficulty. Within the past four or five days the Post-DispatcH has made a careful endeavor to secure accurate statistics within the principal business and manu- facturing districts as to the recent decrease in the number of persons employed therein, in order that the decrease in the entire city might be approx- imated. .Its canvassers visited factories, stores, warehouses, depots and public offices where any considerable number of men are conti liy em- - ployed, and, while they necessarily omitted to call ‘on the thousands of small firms which give employ- ment to only two or three men each, enough was learned to fully substantiate the strongest state- ments that have been made as to idle labor. In order that last year's statistics might not enter in TO CONFUSE THE RETURNS, comparisons were made between the present week and the corresponding week of 1883. It will be remembered that in January last the Post-DispatcH printed au article showing that during the two last months of 1883 from four to six thousand people were thrown out of employment within the limits of St. Louis, as many as fifteen hundred being relegated to idleness by the closing of one concern—the Vulcan Iron Works. It should be remembered, therefore, that the number of men who lost positions during the present year, as indicated by what follows, are to be auded to that large total; in short that not only have those thousands who were idle last December remained idle all of the year with all the distress which that fact infers, but their ranks have been joined by these other thousands. Of course this is only intended as a general or average assertion. That is to say, some of the individuals thrown out a year ago may have . secured positions here or elsewhere, but the totals remain unaffected. The district which the Post-Drspatcu has canvassed comprises the territory between the river and Fifth street and the Arsenal and the Water Works; aiso the territory between Frankiin and Park avenuesand Fifth street and Grand avenue; alsothe territory two blocks north and south of Cass avenue,from Fifth to Grand; also the outlying districts of Carondelet and Cheltenham. The establishments visited num- bered 542, and the list: embraces nearly every kind of industry represented in this city. The canvassers obtained the number of men, the number of women and the number of boys employed in December, 1888, and the number employed during the present month. These figures were all tabulated, and thus a very accurate comparison aud deduction was possible. A.very decided decrease in the namber of employes was the rule—an in- crease the very infrequent exception. As was ex- pected, those firms which handled iron in any of its many forms reported the most marked decrease. Of forty-two establishments of this kind in which any considerable change in number of bands was reported, THIRTY-TWO HAP REDUCED THEIR FORCE and ten had increased. The total reduction in the thirty-two concerns was 2,523 men. The total] in- crease in the ten other concerns was 242. This shows a fet decrease of 2,281 men, the iron con- cerns not comprised in these forty-two having just about held their own in comparison with last De- cember, | ture factories, chair factories, wagon factories etc. — the next largest decrease is noted, Of seventeen institutions of this kind which have materially changea the number of their enfployes, all but one have decreased the pay roll. The total de crease is 627, and the increase is only 15. , Belcher’s sugar refinery contributes 880 to the ranks of the unemployed, the Southérn Paper Bag Factory contributes 245, the stone quarries in the district mentioned add nearly 300 more, the flour milis swell the list by fully 150 more, and the St. Louis Cotton Factors’ concern released 810 men from employment. By t hese var- ious agencies the number of unfortunates is stead- ily increased until the totals are alarming. The only district which has maintained its prosperity of & year ago is that of Cheltenham. The manufact- ories of that suburb employeda year ago 1,338 men and 62 boys. This year they employ 1,825 men and 58 boys—a decrease of only 18 men and 4 boys. Carondelet, on the contrary, which a year ago em- ployed in her factories 1,398 men and 67 boys, this year employs 363 men and 3 boys—a decrease of 1,085 men and 64 boys. The trades which seem to have held their opera- ting strength more uniformly up to last year’s standard than others are the retail dry goods trade and the brewing industry. Sq far as the retail dry goods business is concerned, however, this indicates nothing, for the reason that the canvass was made in the holiday season, at which time aboit the same number of men are employed each year. The brewing interest, however, is in as thriving a condi- tion as the compariscn denotes, beer being one of those products which are the last to feel . ‘He EPPECTS OF DULL TIMES. With this analysis of such portions as are specially interesting, the final results of the Post-Dispatcu 542 firms who were interviewed showed that in De- cember, 1888, they employed a‘total of 30,500 men, 2,190 women and 2,513 boys, or a grand total of 34,708 persons, In December of the present year they are employing 25,823 men, 1,621 women and 2,000 ‘boys, or # grand total of 29,084. /This shows « de- crease during the year of 5,177 men, 569 women and 423 children, or a total decrease of 6,169 persons. It is altdgether probable that if all of the smaller concerns in the district mentioned were canvassed, the total decrease would be brought up to fully 8,000, while, if statistics asto railroad shop employes, street laborers, brick-yard men, journeymen painters, plasterers, bricklayers, etc., from ail of the other territory of St. Louis could be obtained, the total would fall little, if any, short of 11,000. These added to the number already without empioyment at the beginning of the year make a total of not far from 15,000 people who are dependent on their own labor, willing to work, but unable to find ogcupation. In this total are included vast numbers of skilled workmnen of nearly every calling that our directory represents. How long will this situation Jast? is the all-im- portant question. There are good reasons to hope that within the next four weeks the climax will have been reached. While some of our manu- factories have been compelled to shut down be- cause the market was overstocked, such was not the case witb the majority. The panicky conditions which prevailed from early summer til! now were the direct cause of the stagnation § in most of the industries. Capital got fright ened, people became economical, and the smal merchants thoroughout the country, through whom the products of our factories reach. the people, avoided replenishing their stocks, except where it _ WAS ABSOLUTELY IMPREATIVE todoso. The result is, that nearly all of the retail stocks inthe country have run down to about as low a degree as is compatible with the transaction of business at all, and when the work of building them up again is entered upon, as it must be in early spring, the factories will once more begin to hum, and the large handlers will need more hands. Before we see that improvement, however, we will see a worse condition than at present, for the reason that, with the completion of the holiday season the stores will rid themselves of the large forces of clerks temporarily employed for the holiday rush. Allowing that each employe in the above exhibit has at least two persons dependent on his labor, we have to contemplate the appalling proposition that, until the trade revival begins over thirty thou- sand people within our city limits are living along without any knowledge where their next week's support isto come from. Such a strain on our so- cial system isa tremendous one, and the subject is daily growing more interesting. The above list includes many skilled laborers of the city. In addition to this it should be stated that the last United Stutes census showed that there were 17,900 dav laborers in St. Louis: Itis safe to say that at least 50 per cent of these latter are also out of employment to-day. Keep Your Eyes Wide Open This Week. 500 men's finest corkscrew cassimere and worsted suits, some worth $12, some $15, some $18; all will go for $10 this weekin the great reduction sale, prior to taking stock, at the Gose, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue. TRICKY TILLOTSON. The Adventures and Tribulations of the **Lynwood’’ Combination. Deserted at Troy, N. Y., by the Author and Manager—A Self-Arranged Benefit— Mrs. Tillotson’s Generosity—How the Actors Got Home—The Kindness of Mr. Edward Thorne. By Telegranh to the Post-Dispatch New York, December 29.—The members of the Lynwood Company, which was stranded at Trov on Saturday, arrived in this city last night. The com- pany started out two days before Christmas, having been reorganized after a disastrous tour to St. Louis. Mr. J. K. Tillotson, the author, brought out the play last fall atthe Union Square Theater, and since then it is said his backers have lost $25,000 or $30,000. They drew out and he continued the enter- prise alone. He met with some success at Niblo’s Garden and in Jersey City, and organized two com- panies, one going to Philadelphia and the other to St. Louis. BOTH WERE SHORT-LIVED, and both were soon back here. Then, after a short interval, the Troy trip was started upon, Miss Bella Henderson. who played the part of Gay Carlisle, gave a spirited account of their trouble to your correspondent last evening. **We had been playing since December 19,” said she, “without any salary, and many of us had gone to considerable personal expense on the trip to St. Louis. The business was bad. All of us were entirely without inoney, and we left St. Louis, reach- ing New York on Tuesday before Christmas. Mr. Tillotson promised to reorganize us and hefiid, I understand he made the same promise to the Philadelphia company, which had also returned to New York, but luckily for them it was not carried out. We got to Troy at 4 o'clock on Christmas morning. We had a rehearsal that morning, played at a matinec in the afternoon and went through the regular night performance. Mr. Tillotson went along with us and on Friday WE DEMANDED OUR SALARIES.” *“*You must take whatever comes in,’ said Mr. Tillotson, cooly, ‘I'm tired of supporting actors.’ That was a pretty good joke wasn'tit? Well, on Friday night Mr. B. F. Hornton, who took the Jeading part when Mr. Eben Ply:mpton refused to go with us, declared he would not play uutil his salary was paid him. Then the business manager, Mr. Josh Ogden, informed us that Mr. Tillotson had gone to New York and taken all the receipts with him. Finally he managed to get $15. He gave this to Mr. Hornton with a promissory note for $20 pay- able on the next day; andthe play went on. Mr. Ogden telegraphed to Mr. Tillotson for money the néxt morning, and the reply came that he had none, That afternoon we played for ourselves and the re- ceipts were just $50. When we cameto divide this Mrs. Tillotson, who was the heroine in the play, REFUSED TO TAKE HER SHARE. Mr. Ogden declared that he had no money and wanted his portion, and Manager Rand, at whose theater we were playing. got disgusted and said he would shut his house up that night. The $50 gave each, including Manager Ogden, just $3 40 a piece. Mrs. Tillotson’s share was used in sending the bag- gage to the station. Mr, Edwin Thorne, the actor, heard of our trouble and sent his agent down to do everything for us that was necessary. Some of us had a little money to settle our hotel bills, bat six came down to the city through Mr. Thorne’s kind- ness. We not only received no salary, but we got no glory. The names of the Philadelphia company were on the programme and our names were not even printed.” , “We were told,” said another member of the company, “that the receipts were $300, when in reality they were $500. A printer's bill which had to be paid immediately was stretched to $150, and the per cent Mr. Tillotson was receiving was also misrepresented. Where Mr. Tillotson is no one knows. I have been told he has gone to California with all the money he could get together.” Among the other members of the company were Mrs. Tillotson, Miss Eleanor Merron, and Messrs, W, S. Marvin and Charles Rawiey. Buyers of Clothing, Look Here. 800 fine cassimere and worsted suits for boys up to 17 years; some worth $9, some $12, some $14; all will go for $7 50 this week in the great reduction sale, prior to taking stock, at the Grose, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue. ° Gallagher’s Kespito, Cn10aeo, December 29.—Tbe examination of Wil- Ham J. Gallagher for participation in the Eighteenth Ward election frauds, has been pustponed till Wed- nesday next. Comeang in Harrigan O.trve Brancn Lodge, K. of H., will elect their Officers for the queuing term to-night, at their hall, | @ Hart’s greatest success, Dan’s ulations, corner Broadway and Benton street. The commit- Trtyr. MATINEE ee on entertainment will also report. TUESDAY A : EVERY EVENING T 2:30. OUR NEW SPECIALTY AND NOVELTY DELEGATION IN A GRAND PARLOR ENTERTAINMENT, Introducing some of the MIOST CONSPICUOUS SUCCESSES OF THE VAUDEVILLE STAGE Holiday prices—20c, 850, 50c. “weaene’, D@ JALMA, Ladies’ and Children’s | TUESDAYS Matinees, 250, and THURSDAYS ~ BROADWAY & TREYSER’S NEW DIME MUSEUM, North Sixth Street, near Franklin avenue, THE WORLD'S GREATEST CURIOSITY. JO JO. . THE DOG-FACED BOY, Open New Year’s Day at 10 a. m. Admission, 10c. EF'OR PAIN. RES Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache, Gel4 by Druggists and Dealers everywhere. Directions in ll xn (Beceensers ve A. VOGELER & 00.) DIED. ares. Marriage and death notices will be inserted at the rate of twenty-five cents for three linea, Star Roller Skating Rink, CORNER OF NINETEENTH AND PINE S8TS., Natatorium pill now skates), apen meraing, efter, ngen aad evening |S eee eee the December 28, at 11 p.m., Extra, GALLIER—Sunda months youngest child of John and Nora Gallier, aged 14 and 22 days. Funeral Tuesday, December 3), at 1 oclock p. m., from the family residence, 2645 Arsenal street. RIDGE—Of diphthe . December 2, BRECKEN EaR.e, youngest child of George Breckenridge, aged B yeas and 11 months. Interment private. “OHIO RUG MACHINE.” AN ARTICLE OF PRUFIT THAT BARGAINS Ladies’ and Children’s Cloaks, Ladies’ Black Diagonal Dolmans from §275 to F. H. RORICK & CO., 616 Walnnt Street. St. Lowis, . a qk, Pot sale to ctty trade by Jacob Prank & Co. an N ». rappers from Sic to $1 Hi. BLANKETS AND COMFORTS. or tS T. F: MOLONEY, 618 FRANKLIN AV. parties. ——————————— o < sma — 8 ere age ome re ~ ee — a a Se ne el eee ne ee ee ee ee, a a Oe ee rte ~ ' : ' '
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tat en . =] ry i 7 34 ey s 3 i eal ett guasede alie ie Oe Ree wee ec ae & yee - . ; ae ee Oe a ne a vs . 45 $e os - ee tae tha i Maher ee ; eet Sa Tabane er’ ¢ Bos 5 Ne 4 ee NE og ee RE Sd + eae I, en v3 ‘i ae - Par : OA Ge Nia? s Sop “R ; i st te et ne ee en ry ee HSS 2 . FR ” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Blondap, December 29, 1884. ‘ im aE | es ad MUSICAL. - _ OMEY jp lun on gumaand pists fon Gite gon 05 for or sarap are wed: Genet 3 tion papers ; and the trades = ays day, Ge Sen” Cechare wae 314 Vine st.. & / SITUATIONS WANTED—FEMALE. SITUATIONS WANTED-MALE. ye ge es this of- ERSONAL—Youug gentleman of wishes to pais ace : means of some young lady or widow who is also in good ciroumseanges, with © view to matri- mony. Address in strictest confidence, GO tale olin PERSONAL —W the widow, ny man of Rabo one; chjeck, matrimony. A 57, this ml -_—-— Seem-Reepers. - aes from 250 Be to rit oad oes S. 4th st. 36 Clerks énd ‘Balesuion. Ww" ANTED—First-class, sober entry clerk with good | reference desires situation January 1. Ad wf 55, this office. m3i ANTED—A Situation by a young man for “office work; understands figures; wages low. Ad. Wm. MONEY to loan on all personal $10,000, at S. Van Raalte’s Arste, 835 8. 6th st. m37 ¥ ANTED—Situation by a young man, 21 years of age, W as clerk in a small and nd i oe J town; wages no onject at present: can give ref. E. M. Burrows, Astoria, DL W * ANTED—A young man, — pense, uick at wishes oun cea ment at cone inside cae |= will Se cheap. ‘Madress B. organ = t37 Wwe TAN Sap Rn; nsibie ition by middle-aged man perienced in office . Pe good refereuce and secur- ity can t ee. given. A Ad. N 53, this office. 37 Generas Housework. from some honorable LODGE NOTICES. _____ Clerksand Saleswomen. | PERSONAL—The baby & @ young ey. & a situation at copying or | ———_—_—— . " OLDEN CROWN LODGE, No; €2, K. of P. Weary Sais i a good band; ref, given | PERSONAL Asell Dari > Esaw S cage last “night jp Hal. & & cores Franklin av. and 1th if required. Ad. N 57 this office the pre ae bard tines: be hae been ous s when December 30, at 8 o’clock. sa ineted reece aa ts. My love of ilar eee or Dressmakers and Seamstresse® | © scans: ¢ take care of herself till I see her eo reg ~ ne vee - . E. COSGROVE, C.C. seamstress in city or coun “ic. HL, Brox, K. of R&S. W "food cutter and fitter of ladies’ aud children Pees ST. Why did you not meet ‘me Bar O)uNE BRANOH LODGE, NO, 0h ORE: dresses. av. pei the Post Dispatch, "E. Hl. mi eR Praceedy So} om and —— st., at mes . Housekeepers. EBON Lane Letter in Post Office for you. Vio- present, as b portance will come up for action. ED_Situa pectable working | SERSONAL—itrs. Wilcus, trucst fortune teller, [02 N. Ss Sr eae for ensuing term. Cor WANTED as “Saner wrote oy Sage 27 revved png “fy attend to 15th bet. St. Charles and and Washington av., can be y “, KURTZEBORN, Dictator. | ones ie oon entleman. PA. F 38, this 0 office. 857 Snes SS Bees tee anes” Ladies te E. 8. Hit, 7 9g : ‘ ANTED—By = Copan, meee ad ¥, position cxived only. mis — URI LODGE, 227, K. of yn thelr ball nt nav. m7 Pon, bar hae AL—A young German, man. wee Ras has a good L poal- coathwest corner and Franklin av., at 7 By a ss = a re ely anne Sis’ | the mage le ~ no ee Sere the acqua’ — a= eaten ee Sid time and Address F 53, this office, m47 gin, bebe between the eee of 20 and 25, and who crow gt oe oD 3, pe gene Dae ie thousand queries must pon By & young =tiee, @ situation as house- | » office, 2 ject, matrimony. Address fy invs — ek eee oe eee SEERE ess PERO ML: Be sure and be there to-morrow at in ‘ _mil By order NYROTH, Dictator. Tee ED IW situatio —- _sons H. BARKER, Reporter. Ww keeper for gna “ymchelor or commpeation for | er AL—A =a youn ts many of 24, good en —_ lady. Add. K 67, this office. - an: gen or See ee hans r, with a view to matrimony; ref. ex. G 58, this office. mt Wares ung girl mmabn @ uantion 00 do gen- oe ung girl smal] family. Calla 1289 N. CNTEDTA well recommended German gir! wishes 4 smanion for general house or up-stairs work. T 56, W TREES young girl wishes a place to do general ostewrerh, inasmall family. Please call at 230 ANTED—Situation by Gtemee eet girl te do housework VV or yr general housew 1805 N. 18th t4s Wy ASteD- a@ respectable married caiy aw Te the country for be peaepwore: havea little boy 3 years old. Address Mrs. Collins, 2409 N. Ninth st. “as. Pee ad dc a ddd pe att pa Mt Mi ~~ =... lla le tl lt ld teal Ne ANTED—Situation by a settled, good, honest girl, to wash and iron, and make ecar generally use- ful. Call or address S. W., cor. Grand and Page avs. m49 AV ANTED—Situation by traveling salesman a \ sale cigar house for Southwest Missouri and part of Arkansas. © 57,thiscfiice. 37 The Trades. ANTED—A first class baker and cook wants & job. Ad. Baker, 2327 Carrst. t38 Coacnmen and Drivers. TED—Situe ation by yo man as coachman; can go cy A pe Ad. X G. M904 St, Charles st. m3¥y “ANTED—Situation or first-class coachman; ref. L C., 1129 N. 6th st. m5 DS pete a BP npc ggg ascook in private family; is o good plain cook. D 57, this office. t49 N urses. j - ANTED—Young gist fond of children wishes a yo tion in a nice respectable family as nurse; where there is another gir! employed preferred. Call we ad. L. S., 1010 N. 7th st. thu W ANTED—A place as ladies’ nurse by an experienced —_—. *Apply at 1926 Franklin ev., in basket store. iToreiesiies oy. work. Apply tol rito nurse and do house Varren st. tv | ANTED—Situation by colored man to do a W of housework or coachman. Please Ad. C. Wright, right, 1104 Morgan st. m39 TY ANTED—Situation by a first-class coachman; first \ Gam ay oe Ad. G 56, this office. 389 Ww 4s TED—A first-class English coachman wishes a situation: sg reference. Apply at Van Blarcom, 613 N. 7th st, ¥ ANTED—Employment by a coiored man as coach- \ man: is willing te do hf kind of work around the house. Ad, 1311 Morgan st. ¥ ANTED—Situation 2 oe coachman; city refs. L C., 1129 N. 6th BS fag i TED—Ssituated = a eer mney ca taking charge of any large stable. Add. this office. ts9 Stenographers. ANTED—Short-hand writer wants a position; have long experience; accurate and trustworthy; own type writer. Add. T 57, this office. Boys. a ee + ANTED—Boy, 15, intelligent and able todo almost anything, wants place; good references. AdS 54, this office. m42 —“ Miscellaneous. We by a girl 12 years old. 2224 Lucas Wana A lady compositor would like a situation. BS Coe ‘K 55. this office. mi aD HELP WANTED-—FEMALE, Housekeepers. ws DOOD POL BPD PDI I PI PD DD j ANTED—A good, decent housekeeper to do general housework for an old invalid eens one who m wants a permanent home. 2¥2s Cass av. weneral Housework. v 7 ANTED—German woman for house worts no cook- ing or washing. 1444 N. 8th st. m66 yj foe TED—A gir! for general housework in small fam- ily; good wages. 3427 Olive st. m66 W ¥y ANTED—A tidy girl for general housework, German younarses, Apply at 2119 Eugenia st. Keterences required, m66 ERSONAL—Dot and Cricket: ket: Maxe co evening, stating time and for eis this office. piace. JS, wns Wee like to correspond would with young soars Ghana N 55, this office, ml FDERSONAL—We bh ave on handafew nice suits (un- Maguire & called for) that we will sell at cost. J. D. Son, southwest corner Walnut and 5th sta, 1 erty eo young lady who entered Cass av. car Sth and Waln ut st., Th p. m. i: eee in dark store and bowed to him, other side of car, piease and oblige? y, December 25. at 5 who noticed gent at corner of and then changed her seit to ‘send her address to G 55 this office, ERSONAL— Wanted. to meet and i tionate young lady 18 to 20 years of age; will be in the citv two weeks; one that can go out af ings. Ad. G 57, this of eet a handsome affec- ternoons or even- ce. tl ERSONAL—Will meet yourself and friend Weanes- day, Dec, 31, at 2 p. m.; could not make it sooner. Finger. mi P you, dated Dee. 27 and: Pe ™ pene, in Post Office for you, dated Dec. 27 ERSONAL—Go to 0 Gibson’s, —saoved to 2924 Olive st.. for New Year’s table supplies, at the y Ban prices. MISCELL HELP WANTED-—MALE. . PERSONAL FOR RENT-ROOMS. . under ne bens of “Peon” ave N. FOURTH sT.— Boum, © Court ee -Misceilaneous. ist . be 1 2 En apeaind People’s 2 ments with every convenience and good stten- SURTEENTH ST.—Two or three. SI py housekeeping. oe 210 8. HIGH GH (234) ST.—1 of 2 fur. Fes rooms; very moder Be 823 SCI superna 1108 & Dusnished ox sabarutehed rooms; single or 1121 Po eee eee Faisal 11°24 OLIVE ST.—Nicely fur front room; also . with fire, with or without board. D127 setieck rome Sea ai an ‘room with re 1 1? PINE ST.—Very nicely 2a-story furnished front room: also ab Il room, ml18 1310 me a rooms for light 1 £06 oon sé rooms, 2d floor. wi8 ‘ 1 4 1 An, ' suvarrs SEs. ates gum 4 ie 1513, Raver Sater 15203 ) () CHESTNUT ST.—Three unfurnished rooms. 1520 arises bees iwc, mid L622 ‘rooms. inet dag ight odd ow BN. , on [S27 SPU Se |e aiso dining room and kitchen for light heasthetsinn. oi si QO034 for » floor; | prices ty. ee mye a satin | : Bollman bros. 1104 and 1106 OLIVE ST.. Special Offer PIANOS! 15 per cent ayn ago from our already w Prices. 100 Pianos to Select From. Our Prices Defy Competition | Best of szarantees. Sold for Cash oron Easy Time Payments. 1104 & 1106 OliveSt. WEBER Pianos 7 known the best in the world. Western at H. Hath s. 1108 Olive street. =. BUSINESS WANTED. 2223 tor ior? w ASHINGTON ~~ fur. room suitable for 1 or 2 gents. 3908 Satna base oe ee DBS 25 TOE eM yao DG44 cease, sue ae ye tora DT VA RAST Thre ry rome gt oe DT QL] SASS Av Rica gt room Taw Fe IR RENT—Unfurnished rooms fora small family at 614} S. 4th s S.4thst. mil ANEOWS WANTS. . WULZE. 8. z corner 83d ana Market streets. BUSINESS LUNCH, 1 to 8 o’clock. The Lemp’s Beer. 26 BEST Wines, Liquors and Cigars. iness hours. Ad. J 57, this office. Ww ANTED—Typewriter—with mac machine—outside of bus- LOST AND FOUND. . OST—Last evening gold-framed spectac case; suitable reward, Dr. Jno, B. J place Fg or A 8 sts., near ng laced, n-top “ye 2181. Lucas OST—-Monday morning, a rubber coat and pair rubber gloves; lost on Pine or sar Ege sts. yy F owyn¥ sonand Grand avs.; finder w rewarded by lea ticles at 511 N. Main st. | diamond pinina box Tiffany & Co.: done up with a ar a the mae of oO “gr ter an handkerchief; probably on Olive st., near tinder will be liberally rewarded by returning the parcel to net, : W. M. Chauve st., upstairs. T OST—$5 poware-5 eoey Sen Sunda A o tween Scottav. and Fifth with $i6and five lesson tickets, 2°36 Scott av. mv nerega ail Gene Adaress ot fim, Garrison, y OST—On the corner - Lucas and Garrison avs., a black fur cape. and receive reward. will please leave at this OST—On Olive st. car, or on Beaumont st., between Olive st. and Lucas av., a portmonnaie containing = bill, about Sec insilyer, a cemetery ticket, a xpress receipt and some other papers; See reward to any one leaving it at 2648 Lucas av. ANTED—Good girl for general housework; must come well recommended. 2226 Chestnut st. t66 “"ANTED—A boy of 15 wants a situation of any kind; Vy food reference. Address 1242 Carr st. tA2 WY ANiED piri for housework. 319 Walnut st., up- F ANTED—Situation by a youth of 17, in wholesale or W retail grocery; has had one year exp.; can give best re. . Ad. M 5i, this office, | t42 Miscellaneous. PAAAAAAAAAR wenn OOo ees X17 ANTED—To address envelopes or other writing or W copying work; terms moderate, ‘Address D 68, this fice. m43 [TANTE D—A young Engtish man of of 2 years desires V work in some private family. Add. Geo, Taylor, w4s Freeman House, city. Vy ] ANTED—A young man wants situation in private family; care of horse and cow; wages no object; best of reference. Ad. L 57, this office. ta3 W an competent girl for general housework. Apply at No. 87i1 Evans av,, first street north of Page avenue and west gf Grand avenue. t66 \ Y ANTED—Immediately, first-class giri for general housework in smail family; $15 per month; only best need apply at 616 N. Beaumont. mt \j ANTED—A good German girl for general housework; 1500 Choutean av. m66 Ww TED—A good German or Swede giri to do general housework. Call at 114 14thst., new number. ee ee yj ANTED-Girl for general housework; family of 3. 2u15 Thomas st. m6 \j ANTED—A house girl at 3017 Chestnut st. m66 ANTED—Situation by a young man as hostler, por- ter, janitor or any place where the a rform- ance of duties would bring small wages; refs. Ad. Harry Holmes, No. 10 N. Levee. t43 W ANTED—Position as collector or some other place of trust 4-4 a reliable young man. Address H, 624 8, fith st. y ANTED—Situation by a young manta sdo an of work; understands the care of horses an Ad, 1129 N. 6th st. kind COWS; \ 7 ANTED—A good German girl for general housework; callatonce, 1718 Linn st. m66 ee ND—The most delicious noveity of the season, Mc VILED CRABS, a” meri DE them. Ask your grocer tor GNDTA small sum of —_— ner can have same 7. Owner pahanock st. on Rappahaa at Tower Seda es Grove Park stables. Frank OUND—A pocket-book on ee taiwene Washington and Christy avenues, containing $2 50. Inquire 1002 Walnut. m30 EE dee 3 TORAGE. (= Avenue Rak, ronan ge ps pe Four eau. Storage for furniture dry, cheap and secure, kind ag os clean, Money advanced on goods. 8& *TOKAGE—Furniture, household g etc.; clean (no ss US Olive low ai as U. Leonori, jr., & Co., {URNITURE, as etc.. sored; m desired; packing and Shipp with care. C. F . Betts, boxes, pianos, made, R. ney advanced when og & specialty, moving 208 N. deh Cooks. yj ANTED—Girl to cook for private family; references required, 626 Beaumont st. m68 city or country, 1)’ ANTED—Situation by youn man willing to do any- \ thing. Ad, H. G. B., 1117 Chestnut st. m4 Wie et good cook; no objection toa woman witha child, 2225 Pine st. 13 ANTED-—Situation of any kind by boy of 14; expe rience in grocery: can take care of horse; willing to work fer board andclothes, Cail or address Charley Jones, 4137 Olive st. m42 Aste ae architect of long practical experience ants to work in office periodically or otherwise. Ad. R 54, this office. m43 goods to W* ANTED—By young man situation to sell retail grocer trade. Ad. L. P., 2015 Carr - m43 wee good cook at 2301 Olivest. 68 Miscellaneous. OO tl all BS Boyan cape fd 1: Five young ladies to learn tel- egraphing and qualily for positions paying 840, $50 and $100 per month. Ap. to arn endent Union ong triic Telegraph Company, 102 N. 3d st.; use elelvator. w7l W ANTED—By a young man of 18, to do collecting and make himself useful around office; best reler- Ad. J. E. Campbell, 671 N. 5th st. : ANTED—By Mexican veteran, lace as wat eh- man; strictly temperate; the ay of references. Ad, M &, this office. s62 ANTED—Cattlemen, whether interested Ag Anew horns” or lon horns, to see our $5 pants, ws sui and 8 $18 ov “ese. made to order. Bauer & Lewis, ¥1 _ 4 ence. A ONEY to loan on all personal property from 2c to A $10,000, at S. Van Raalte’s loan office, 12S. 4th st. 43 eee we HELP WANTED—MALE. Clerks and Salesmen. PB BBB BMG OOOO owns ee_rlee eee AY, ONEY toloan on all personal property from 25c to $10,000, at S. Van Raalte’s loan office, 12S. 4th st. 54 \j ANTED—Experienced —— cirl. Sprague’s restau- rant, 716 N. 5th st. m7 Vy ANTED—Two young ios that are willing to work steady on a salary of $8 per week, to call on G Schill, 8u5%¢ Olive st., room 11. m71 Wai and gentlemen, in city or country, to receive light, simpie, easy work at home al! the year round; work one by mail; distgnce no objection; salary from $3 to $6 ay; No canvassing; no stamp re- quired for fon y. Address Union Manufacturing Co., box 5, 10U, QHORTHAND-¢s ny per month. On the Sth of Jan- we will start a special class in shorthand; buitt $5 0 00 per a, All entries to tnis class must be made pefo Sth of January. Barnes & Hayward, 506 Olive street. ye aa oe AGENTS WANTED. Coney |§ BUSINESS ANDSHORTHAND SCHOOL. cor. and Market streets. Open day and night. This (entieatien has 2 larger attendance than all other commercial schools in the city combined, and offers the best facilities for giv- ing thorough instruction in the commercial and branches and short-hand. For circulars, address Dr. W. M. Carpenter, President. 4 W. WULZE, 8. E. corner 8d and “Market streets, ¢3" BUSINESS LUNCH, 10 to 8 o’clock. The 54 * LEST Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Lemp’s a . Cooks. WASER rifictiat Ranta Soe oan fne Trades. \ “country. ADDIY to to Paddock dewley les Sree Oe. Meg 0S TJ ANTED-—A first-class horseshoer and wages and ony employment; Ad. Carriage Works. Ww. wuLEE obber; i oberly, Mo., H By Serna 86 and Market streets. e $2" BU SINESS L NCH, 10 to 8 o'clock. ie BiST Wines. Liquors aunt Cigars. Lemp’s Beer. eg Rn carver that cand waning y d. E 38, this office, m5S _ Miscellunvous. NTF D—January 1: Five young men to learn fele- Ws graphing, and qualif y for poattons ons $00, br and — per mont Telegraph w nion oe pay me ‘Soak ope & Rowse, 213 ald a INDIANA AV,—Cheapest hsiaae 1n city: , $18 per month; detached; 6 roo hall, bath, marble meee rge ern conven- w line, ail for less than $25; key next door, BRANTNER PLACE.—Six rooms — to’ «a front; $3. Wilham Keating, N 3139 Broadway. x F°, ARS TOS brick house, waterin kitchen; stable; No, 2423 4049 N. Grand and Mii Fallav. Call Kossuta | th avs., D. & COr, tlé 3 FP’. “RENT—2908. Gamble st., ht rooms, complete, with all late imgeoseme ements, RRY & SCOTT, 521 Chestnut st. FURNISHED HOUSES TO LE. W rotate charge of dining room and fe good meals u several “er & in the also da Pee toh HOR. this office. FOR SALE--MISCELLANEOUS. 200 Stoves on ‘Time Payments at Cash prices; no interest; no charges. People’s Furniture, Carpet and Stove Co., 219 ‘and 212 oN. Seventh. w5 By ee clothing in the city. Dunn’s loan offica, 912 Franklinav. 5 R trunks, mirrors, wringers and fluters goto Dunn's loan office, 912 Franklin av. 5 HANDSOME Plush Card Case, with 3 ene. printed, 4% $1. Howard Scott, printer, 810 Olive st. NEW GOODS AT COST FOR CASH. A $3” 5 game ge giass $25; a $45 French plate wardrobe an $18 mirror 310; one ce hall rack $12; one $25 chiffoniere $15; one $25 folding bed heater, in order, $8: one large Filley range $5). Carpet and Stove Co., 210 and 212 N. Seventh st. C4. MARKET HALL, 2137 Morgan s' st, ‘10 bushels, $1; direct from the cars. Send postal. People’s Furniture,Carpet oe Stove Co., 210 and 212 N. 7th st., near Olive. Time payments at cash prices. No interest; no charges. E. A. Sgeele. pres. a5 SHAW, 1417 Franklin av. Cook stoves, heating stoves; the best selection in the oity. Repairs for every stoves world, Old stoves taken ex- $15; one fire-place ore or range Carpets Tro 25e. to $1; Time Payments at cash prices; no interest; harges. People’s Furniture, Carpet ana Stove Co., 210 ‘nd 212 N. Seventh st. w5 ~ Watch Repairing — Done by the best workmenat Theo. Eagle, 204 N. 4th St. next Globe-Democrat. R SALE—A New Home, good as new ane | ae . for $15; cost $60. Address C 56, this o R SALE—A No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson, — as new, for $10; cost $60. Address B 56, this office. s5 “ar SALE—To pay storage, tine Howe sewing machine ALE “To Pay rder; $3. 1109 Clarkavy. w5 {OR SALE—A meng menage Sear eng pup 4 —— ola, pedigree, very c ~~ at owner leaving city. | Call lat 61 616 N. Beaumont m5 OR SALE—Cheap—A fine "sales fixture, with desk at- tached. Apply at 624 Washington av., $4 floor. w5 2 108 with privtings ot Keeping boarders Tent low oe sy ain stable. TO LET—FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES, R RENT—Large stable in rear of 2227 Franklin av. on alley; $3 a month. s17 % RENT—Two my Rae a yith Cg for manufacturing $s. Maine mal mi? THE TURNER “BUILDING. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. First-class Offices for rent. CHAS. H. TURNER, 706 Pine St. BOARDING. 62 floor. me fd ay, —Furnished room pom wn 1° if desired; front room on first 711 X,_EFTERSON th board. wl 100 CHOUTEAU A".—Two large furnisned rooms: one trent’ room; omy alsy one small room; first-ciass board; terms ; refer- ences exchanged. — al8 ere R SALE—Two elegant extra large French plate- giass mantel mirrors, oil wainut frames, ‘Ad. M 58, this office. sb R SALE—Platform hand eevatee latest patent; al- most new. No. 8 N. Broadway. OR SALE—Dry-goods, notions a7 faraisbiaw goods are selling out rapidly at the corner of 15th and Mar- ket sts. at 25c on the dollar. Call at once. Must be sold. £5 NDIANA block and best grades of Illinois coal still a oe 709 Pine and 1506 Franklinav. H.A. Bailey R SALE—Finest hammeriess repeating shotgun, 12 bore; shoots 6 shots in 3 seconds; Damascus barrel, highest quality; terrific shooter: great bargain; less price — any - og hammerless gun. 1012 Washington av., city. mD PICTURE FRAMES AND MIRRORS, Bensorn & Reden, 5z1 Locust st. Specialty, Fine Framing and Regilding. R payer soeiaaete qaeh good milker. Apply at 828 S. 9th wh WE are now prepared to fill orders and make contracts for sweet, boiled and , ome apple jelly and cider vin Clarksville Cider and Vinegar Ct, Clarksville, Pike C Co,, M St. Louis office, No. 35 N. 2d street. STOVE REPAIRS For every stove or range made in the United States,to be had at A. G. Brauer’s. 219 Locust st. 5 ns —s ™MPROV’D CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE 7 ' WASHINGTON AV.—A single or double parlor on Ist floor, suitable for a p or dentist; poegn r unfurnished: wili rent very low to good alee, geod ‘board if desired. — M18 27 3 WASHINGTON AV.—Nicely fur. second “> room, with or without ; all con- veniences. wil8 ra a hades End, 2a-story front room, weil fur. RA ony mora th board; Washington ay. line of door. Ad, P 54, this office. 18 UNEY to lothi v M 5 so teee an chothing Seema $8 te GAG, 00 ©. an BUSIN ESS FOR SALE. MONEY TO LOAN ae ae Sa oe lowest rates uis city real eatale, Avpilention ‘aL eae GENTLEMA A will loan 5 and wee ky on shoo hold pote me security. wishing ad Call at 1008 rgan st. By 8 ONEY LOANED—On furniture in residence; business confidential; no oe for making Voorhis, ill N. oth st. Brolaski & M ONEY to toan on from $25 to $il, MONE ng, hg Ay ha yee TO LO en ao $2,000 sii ca leetuatiee 31 JOHN LADY No. 805 Olivest., | PROFESSIONAL. R SALE—Grocery and sai where a large business Bimteston hee sha wt Fé SaLE—Frait, produce and and oyster oyster business; $100 P ag — x. FOR SALE SAND business caras, bill-heads or statements A for $i HOWARD SCOTT. Printer, 810 Olive st. ALL sORTS. cards HOW SCOTT, Printer. 810 Olivest. 9 A OPH , * 1006 Franklin av., St. Louis, Mo. Ne . SSA PATENTS °""horvest > MOODY, D:: K, MORGHER treats private and chronic male and female diseases: ses:only charge for medicine. 1515 Olive st. R. J. L. FITZPOR Nos. 26 S. i4th st. and 827 S. 7th et. Female and chronic diseases speciaites PERSONAL SUNDRIES. Bis. CARUS.—A set ra's fron bite inches, sent used os Resa’ . D act ant a ate nes ea will give spiritual sittings daily at 1422 Olive st,, no sign. S Sai mines ko Address postal AST-OFF clothing t by N. Barnett, 438 Locus HORSES AND VEHICLES. 1 oe Wanted. se blankets and Hor dlery Co,, 419_N, 6th st. AT COST! lap ae Heideman-Benoist Sad FPOR SALE—Cne sixecat fa carriage in ope f evaeias rh aes THEO. EAGLE, 204 N. 4th St. next Globe-Democrat. a cea and severe cases,not cured elsewhere, especially invited te call tH R SALE—A nice house and lot, 2805 Dayton st., ata bargain, mi; DOCTOR WHITTIER 617 St. Charles St., St. Louis, Mo. Aregular graduate of two Medica! Cen bas heen longer pe in the — han aay other Ps Physician nis Be Lewy ~ “pone ao Debiilty, Mental and piercer Weak s 5 igennetnn s and other Aflece tions of Throa ot ek Inor B Bones, B Ing, old Sores ant and ¢ guccess, 02 teers. are treated with tifle principles, osetia ra from indiscretion, Excess, Bately, Privately. , of the Exposure or or Indulgence wunese "deo ro come ¢ and defective mamery. pin oak e ° oes decay, ee mproper er (346 sagesjen the a Aft Te conied exvete pe, freete ong Gensuitation at of fee or by mail free, aad iavi Teh penetrate fen costs nothing. Office Hours, 8a.m to A Positive Written Guarantee given in every curable ense; where doubt exists it is fmnkly MARRIAGE 6 GUIDE, 260 Pages, van ot BOR reased ~ Bern Toews sett cease adult persoas, then * owe Popuiar edition, same, peper covet, 266. : ef at phe Hae aT a A ae & : : # a) HW a> it ee : 5 +E; z 5 i rE 2 i i HE HH: BEES : Bia g E i E E : : aPe Be 33 i fi cpt 4 How Christmas Was Miserves in the af Crescent City. The Sanitary Aid Con izes This Afte: Men, Women and Children Walking tie | Streets, Tooting on Tin Horns—A Stra Revelry—Children’s Day at the Exposi —The Northern Schoolmarms nge tien Mr. Jos. Specht the Pro! and R. J. Compton the Pr --Some Interesting sugge Their Werk Sha!! be Den Special Correspondence of the Post. ppg New Ortzans, December 25.— deal 3 space has been expended in te local the cholera during i188 j Here St. Charles street becomes Kue Royal: Camp every city will suffer according te street, Charles; Carondelet, Bourbon; Barrone 18 tO Say, it is a scientific fact that dom from garbage, and good, ch Kuaratntee against cholera in a me @ city that faiisto observe these Dauphine, and soon. At its intersection with St Charles, rises the famous Clay statue, which stands in line with a seemingiy interminable series electric lights, strung high im air and sh edding Ments will suffer accordingly. V¥ a mild influence over the thoroughfar. put it in the way of tha people of Last night these lights shone upon th vide ampiy for their own prote maddest, merriest crowd that ever walked ths Moderate cost t each indiv we bave done our part, the peu and do theirs, the a the mn There are about three th _ that part of the city which is wel thousand more in the sparely set! it is my idea that it at such a m pecnsee we were to appoint a col or each bieck that is entirely bui scattered districts a committee three blocks, fund could be accomplished days. Of course this plan wouk vices of avery large number of more the better, provided they « confusion. However, this is onl mine, and we may bear of some o noon’s meeting that will prove m The committee, so far as heard strongly of the opinion that if the proposed, it should not be devote street cleaning. but should be ap regions where there is something ‘MORE OFFENSIVE THA! to be removed. “I believe.’ said one gentleman confine our work almost entirely end celiars. In fact, | bel wise to appropr late a portion of ¢ of General Stevenson tor the éeorps of inspectors who would | examination of tenement hous backyards and basement: locate and describe cleariy done. That deing known, we «x oer fund could be used to vantage. ani could do the Much more of system and econor Deen informed that many of the our large Fifth street stores are} and muck— perfect reservoirs of ff ors should locate these spots, and ta generat cleaning UD was y- dela streets of an American city. Nothing short of aa election could ever evoke such a frenzy in any —— city, and even then a tenth part of the good cheer and spontaneity would not have bees present. A MONKEY AND PARROT TIME. Having received some intimation in advance that S eee fone time was to be ex. pected in that locality, I took occasion early in the evening to stroll in the direction of the above named Clay statue, with a view of learninganew way tw spend Christmas Eve. On the side streets an occa. sional fish-horn borrowed the breath of a straggli small boy to uiter a sort of premonitary how! in af vance of what was to come, and inthe distance equally unpleasant but more uncertain discon comesto hand. With nothing beyond these feebs evidences of a bullabaloo, I was fast lapsing into 4 state of curiosity piqued when, as the statue loomal in sight, a Chinese cracker, of about five hundred le-power, ed on the identical spot of pavement where a moment before I had contem- plated planting my right foot. The coincidence was a striking one, and, aided by a how! of fiendish de light from a group of small boys in a neighboring doorway, was sufficient to awaken a lively interest in the situation. I had scarcely opened my ie to a matteg what, when a very good look- ———. about 18 t a fish-horn into my face w a blast upon the instrument which. for the moment, —— all my senses into that of hearing. The young lady laug hed pleasantly at the incident and walked on. The point of her joke was not — and I should certainly have pressed her to Soe herself had she uot been joined immediate- ¥ y acrowd of a dozen young people, of her owa na the opposite sex, all equipped with fish-horns like her own, except that some were much larger and possessed of even greater volume of tone. Under these circumstances, remonstrance or inquiry was obviously impossible, and, seeing another group of musicians approac . 1 executed a rapid de- tour across the street an ” found lodgment in the pedestal of the statue. > Here I found a secluded corner oe by a very small boy. He, too, was ahorn, but it was a very weak one, which circumstance, together with his ows diminutive stature, emboidened me to assume We offensive,evict the boy and take — possession of the corner ‘The situation proved to be an excellent one, inasmuch as it commande) an uninterrupted view of Canal street in both diree- tions. Here, if any doubts had hitherto existed that something was going on, these doubts disap peared. Everyone in the city, to begin with, was on that street, and everyone seemed bursting wit an ambition to make more noise than his neighbor. the work A iG BATCH a Se a Judge Thayer Decides Seve: Suits To-Day Judge Thayer delivered a batch morning in cases pending before case of Einma Zeppenfeld agains man, he starts off by payinga gh the piaintiff's eminent counsel by « “ig so poorly drawn as to be alma The medium for the expression of this feeling was It appears that both plaint in nearly every case the same as that which | bad ent are judgment — credit seen in the hands of the facetious young lady, vu: and R. Ww. Zeppenfek atin horn. The horns varied somewhat in — of defendant levied upon and iad sod size and quality of tone, but also possessed the i trinsic properties of the fish horn. As to size, the variety ranged from a pocket edition of an ord! nary Q flat to an adult fog horn, borne on the sloul- ders of four men and yielding up its treasures of tone only under stress of extraordinary pulmonary exertion. Upon one of these latter I observed 4 y-baired veteran in an effort to execute * *Dixie.” e was planted erp | in the middie of the street, blind and deaf and impervious to everything et cept his own performance, at which be dis played a frenzy of eagerness measurable only by the distance by which he fell short of the tune. estate belonging to these latter chert tiff in this case wants that levy am because she allezes tuere was no imal suit under which F.yerman oly ment. Judge Thayer hols that «! atid an adequate remedy at law an ©quity, and as this is the third dem all of which have been .susta costs against ber. Thistle a lawyer pleading his own case and In the case of Donovan againat | will ranted. Jostling past him in an wholly indiscriminating mot he ae = of Wyatt agginst were the rank and file of the revellers. ld and murrer to the petition was overrule young, black and white, male and female, respect the case are tiiat there was a apie and otherwise—alt forget themselves, fendant's yard which was buproper in their ambition to swell the Soere | x: celebrate Was bo fence around the Christmas Eve. Such a sight and, Oh, Apollo! such a noise. It an at diel and has he entirely ceased yet. Nor wiil it, 1 am told, till after the New Year, when the spirit of revelry takes a nap until the grand awakening in Mardi Gras. CHILDREN'S DAY AT THE EXPOSITION On the Exposition wage py eday was celebrated more after tue of the North. The park was given up, in advance, to the children, who were, for the first time in the history of the fair, admitted at pecially invited, on those easy terms, to be present. At 5 o'clock the y Children frequentiy made the yar Defendant knew this and was w & little child, 3 years of age, Plaintiff, strayed into the yard, fell end was drowned. The defendant nd that plaintiffs child was time, and hence he was m Thayer hol is that while this defen the trespasser been an adult, it this case. and hence the defendant he can disprove the facts oungsters deraurrr: riothe answer wa gathered around a Christmas’tree in Music Hail, in the case of Louise Kleemey er This is a siander suit m sues for damages ‘injuries s = @ thief by the defendant Lodge, No. %. The def se ~~ gh Lee —— truth the sales that the pete that the Was true, and that « Vileged communica! i: for Lodge, is also bal. Mer fe iiis diitees Gath wade a the lodge in question it te amend ber answer within am tae days In Newman against the Missouri the demurrer is over-ruled on “s opinion the petition states in tbe Certainty to constitute @ Cause case of Ewing Wa meee ny within the ver ly t the eon Court. ; In Withoei! against Petzold then Was overruied Thayer bas adjourned un When law docket will be catleu. eo COOKED IN A VA -——-— — , It, December 29.— Mra. bly incendiary speech tv yesterday. it was full of
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Compton the Probable Secretary --Some Interesting Suggestions as to How | 3 : iQ | opened éperations that their . ; 3 4 NOW FOR WORK. LADIES’ LABORS. wns opened tietr, ipereticne by saying thes their | AVOID ALL RISK. | PLANOS and ORGANS Was Observed in | : : ee Veco bien, 1 cok tate ance bo. | ree S28" Piano hen you go We will undersell Having but one price, we ha | = : the | | | : ' | | fore.” Hegave a good deseription of the couple to We submit “the “Chass” Record IN bye Aon , eons any on to ok’ IT A CASH, jent City. @ The Sanitary Aid Committee Organ- District Convention of the Woman's | ‘ Police, who are looking for the men. scale) a ‘¢ POSITIVE PROOF First-Class Goods. ” mystery or bargaining about i yea | : a ‘ izes This Afternoon. Christian Temperance Union. : WASHINGTON GOSSIP. a purchase, as only a go 1 Plane Pp t ee ee ee | | ; fp Ohildren Walking the wisiidlapinaiileaicaiiassss: Theve lo no Piano made that can r € ef, — oS seat described : im Tin Horns—A ‘ ; vd _ | The Hot-Water Care in Congress—The Flag TOUCH, TON Sa et ee 807 N. Fifth St, : | Mr. Jos. Specht the Probable Chairman, Reports From Auxiliary Societies — Re- |}. is Still There—Notes. PRICE AND RE ogues Free, bet THE YEAR'S WORK. ——.- = — ¥ sitors have been freely aq. } Santa Claus’ beard woulg ‘_ ve themselves into a gar- p mild, though fruitful, in. eze; and that the runners on fm ‘by reindeers must accom. ms they cross Mason and agencies of a swift aay. I borrow these tropag pm) from the abundant store ty Southern journalist's out. ie, after this introductory An New Orleans is now in full enjoyment of it, and prises have been realized 48 perhaps a question. The put they shiver in the un- - & cold rain, and if Santa ‘ “in hock” as he mus. on his way south he price of his indiscre. vere cold. | New Orleans i ways balmy as to-day #t is an improvement-on the 1S below zero, to say the ® charitable spirit which _ season, might be much last night. It began every- before the da tablished rkness Teal me centre of the city—ge. yy, commercially ana soci- nobie thoroughfare. twice ats, that runs its majestic , parting the city in two, rom the new. It looks on Prican; on the other, over sreign interests of the place }becomes Rue Royal: Camp Jelet, Bourbon; Barrone, Atits intersection with St. us Clay statue, which stands ly interminable series ‘of high in air and shedding Over the thoroughfare. lights shone ywd that ever walked the city. Nothing short of an woke such a frenzy in any fen then a tenth part of the aneity would not have been ND PARROT TIME. Pintimation in advance that ‘sort of time was to be ex- Itook occasion early in the direction of the above named of learning anew way to On the side streets an occa- discord hing beyond these feeble b0, I was fast lapsing into a d when, as the statue loomed ker, of about five hundred ba on the identical spot of pment before I had contem- ht foot. The coincidence was ed by a howl of fiendish de- mall boys in a neighboring sient to awaken a senses into that of hearing. i pleasantly at the incident point of her joke was not rtainly have pressed her to fiot been joined immediate- young people, of her own. equipped with fish-borns hat some were much larger » greater voiume of tone. 5, remonstrance or inquiry ble, and, seeing another group ag, 1 executed a rapid de- | and found lodgment in the + Here I found a secluded small boy. He, too, was it was avery weak one, together with his own boldened me to assume the joy and take possession he situation proved inasmuch as it commanded of Canal street in both direc- joubts had hitherto existed bing on,these doubts disap-* he city, to begin with, was one seemed bursting with more noise than his neighbor. ‘pression of this feeling w same as that which . of er eettton inary pulmonary of these latter I observed a an effort to execute “Dixie.” in the middle of no en mpervious to everything ¢* once. at which he dis eagerness measurable ich be fell short of the tune. a whoily indiscrimina of the reveilers. O fe, male and female, upon the — | Wantage, and could do , much more of system and economy. Why, I have had . in the case of Their Work Shall be Done. ae - \4 At three o'clock this afternoon the committee of fifty which is to devise means for carrying ont the purposes of the Sanitary Aid Society meet at the Mercantile Club, The first business will be that of organization—the election of a chairman and sec- retary, and the appointment of an executive com- mittee. The gentlemen most prominently men- tioned for chairman are Mr. Jos. Specht, and Maj. C.C. Rainwater. Both of these gentlemen are averse to assuining that responsibility, but itis al- together probable that Mr. Specht, as the origina- tor of the idea on which the organization is based, will probably be forced to accept the honor and the work. Mr. R.J. Compton, the secretary of the temporary organization, is the only person men- tioned for permanent secretary, and he will doubt- less be elected. When the organization is com- pleted,the work to be accomplished will be discussed. The plan contemplates ‘the creation of a fund of $50.000 by individual contributions, and methods for eifecting such a collection will be the first thing to be thought of. One of the gentlemen whois taking an active interest in the enterprise, but who 1s too timid to figure in ews as an inventor, suggests that a good a would beto appoint one resident of every block in the city asa su mmittee, whose duty it shall be to visit each other resident of the bieck, to collect whatever is ble insums from a quarter to $100, and to learn and report what class of cleaning work can be done tq the best advantage in the immediate vicinity. In this way the interest can be made very general, the financial burden ean be much lightened on the indi- viduals, and.information can be obtained which, when classified, will be a reliable and perfect guide as to WHEN SANITARY WORK IS NEEDED, and its character. he Mr. Joseph Specht, who was seen this morning, discussed another plan. “My idea, said he, “is that we should organize an immense mass-meeting, to comprise every class of citizens, at which we would have this undertaking very fully discussed. The subject is’ one which appeals to every man and woman who has to live here during next spring and summer. It is now very generally accepted that the United States will certainly be visited by the cholera during 1885, in which case every city will suffer according to its deserts. That is to say, it is a scientific fact that cleanliness, free- dom from garbage, and good, clean sewers are a tee against cholera in a malignant form, and a city that fails to observe these sanitary require- ments will suffer accordingly. We now propose to put it in the way of the people of St. Louis to pro- vide amply for their own protection, at a very moderate cost to each individual. If. when we bave done our part, the peuple fail to respond and do theirs, then the result be upon their own heads. Thereare about three thousand blocks in that part of the yd which is well built up, and two thousand more in the sparely settled suburbs. Now it is my idea that if atsuch a mass meeting as i propose we wereto appoint a collection committee for each block that is entirely built up, and in more scattered districts a committee for every twoor three blocks, the work of raising the fund could be accomplished in a very few days. Of course this plan wov'd require the ser- vices of avery large number ot citizens, put the more the better, provided they can work without confusion. However, this is only a suggestion of mine, and we may hear of some others at this after- noon’s meeting that will prove more acceptable.” The committee, so far as heard from, seem to be strongly of the opinion that if the fund is limited as proposed, it should not be devoted at all to general street cleaning, but should be applied only to those regions where there is something MORE OFFENSIVE THAN MUD to be removed. “I believe.” said one gentleman, “that we should confine our work almost entirely to alleys, back- yards and cellars. In fact, I believe it would be wise to appropriate a portion of the fund to the use of General Stevenson tor the employment of a corps of inspectors who would make a thorough examination of tenement houses, stoves, ware- houses, backyards and basements in general, and thus locate and describe clearly the work to be done. That being known, we could tell just how owr fund could be used to the best ad- the work with been informed that many of the basements under our large Fifth street stores are half full of ashes and muck— perfect reservoirs of filth. The inspect- ors should locate these spots, and we could see to it « general cleaning up was enforced without delay. A BIG BATCH. Judge Thayer Decides Several Interesting Suits To-Day Judge Thayer delivered a batch of opinions this morning in cases pending before his court. In the case of Emma Zeppenfeld against Gottlieb Eyer- man, he starts off by paying a glowing tribute to the plaintiff's eminent counsel by saying the petition “is so poorly drawn as to be almost unintelligible.” It appears that both plaintiff and defend- ant are judgment creditors of Merris and R. Ww. —? feid and that defendant levied upon and had sold a piece of real estate belonging to these latter debtors. The plain- tiff in this case wants that levy and sale set aside because she alleges tnere was no service in the orig- inal suit under which Eyerman obtained his judg- ment. Judge Thayer holds that she has a complete and an adequate remedy at law and no standing in equity, and as this is the third demurrer to the peti- _ tion, all of which have been sustained, he awards treble costs against her. Thisis an instance of a — pleading his own case and the maxim ap- plies, In the case of Donovan against Canda a new trial will be granted. In the case of Wyatt agginst Sueking the de- murrer to the petition was overruled. The facts in the case are that there was a cistern in the de- fendant’s yard which was improperly guarded; that there was no fence around the yard and that children tly made the yard a play-zground. Defendant knew this and was warned. One day a little child, 3 years of age, danghter of the plaintiff, strayéd into the yard, fell into the cistern and was drowned, defendant demurred on the ground that _ plaintiff's child wasa_ trespasser at the time, and hence he was not liable. Judge Thayer holds that while this defence might be good had the trespasser been an adult, it will not hold in this case, and hence the defendant is lable unless he can disprove the facts. The dernurrrer to the answer was also overruled Kleemeyer against Caroline Hellmond. This is a slander suit in which the plain- over the body and eri in one foot. IL. ose sige | r —Geo Staley was rob Centerville of a Waton ¢ and revolver and was so badly beaten froze to death, & ge of yp te grandfather of his own child. His 18-year-old daughter was confined three days one’ and Huffman is alleged to be the parent of her CuicaGo, Itu., December 29.—Mark L. Crawford, whom the Trades’ Assembly sent into the Hocking Valley to investigate the situation among the strikers, is back, and reports that the strikers are all right, save that they need clothing and food, and that the rea) cause of the troubie is the imported eT ad labor. Edward Hickey came in on the ee Central un Saturday night and was ar- by the police. He had $4,000 worth of goods, ee during 4 recent burglary at East Saginaw, in n cLeansBonro, Int., December 29. — On Saturday the bodies of Mrs. Williams and her two little cbil- dren were taken fora a well. on the myer 4 premises, near D n, in Hamilton County. e was the daughter of a wealthy farmer, who, angered at her marriage with an indolent and shiftiess sort of man, gave all of his property to her brothers and Sters. She was in extreme poverty, and, grievin over it all, she threw her children inte the weil an jumped in after them. THE MEXICAN NATIONAL, Coustruction to be Recommenced—The Texas and St. Louis—Notes. Hon. Wm. Headen, right of way agent of the Mexican National, is in the city. His company is not at work on the “missing link” at present, but he says financial arrangements are now in progress looking to the closing of this gap of 365 miles before the close of next year. When this is dong Mr. Headen saysthe distance from Laredo to the City of Mexico will be over 300 miles shorter than by the Mexican Central. He says the northern division is doing an immense business, and as a matter of fact that while to a certain extent the northern part of Mexico has shared the business depression of the United States, traffic on the northern end has steadily increased. He stoutly denies any inten- tion at discrimination against St. Louis on the part of his company in favor of Chicago, and says if St. Louis, with its water route to New Orleans and its splendid railway connections, does not improve its relations with the “horn 8 Republic it is certainly the merchants’ fault, not that of the rail and especially roads, no blame can be attached to his company, for it is rca f willing and le es to haul anybody's freight for money. Mr. Headen, after predicting a bright future for Mexico and better relations be- tween the States and that Republic, bade the re- porter adieu. He returns to o this evening. W. R. Woodward, receiver general manager of the Texas and St. Louis, left for New York last night. It isintimated that the object of his visit is to make arrangements to build the Texasand St. Louis*from a int near Bird's Point, above high water mark to this city. This is done to protect the T. & St. L. against what is alleged to be a combina- tion between the Illinois Central and the Gould system against the T. & St. L. and Mobile and Ohio. A determined effort will be made to give the Paramore routea direct connection with St. Louis and then if the Llinois Central wants business to and from Chicago and points in the Lone Star State, they can secure a connection by fair dealing. Capt. C. W. Rogers, vice-president and general manager of the St. Louis and San Francisco, re- turned Saturday night from New York. He reports business reviving in the commercial metropolis, and says, while his road has not been starving for busi- ness, he looks fora big improvement within tne next fortnight, or month at the farthest. The death of Jehile S. Talmage, superintendent of stock yards of the Missouri Pacific, occurred yes- terday, after a painful illness of over a week, strangulated hernia being the cause of death. Mr. Talmage has been a railroad man for over thirty- five years, and was in every respect thorough ia his line. Heisa brother of Col. A. A. Talmage, gen- eral manager of the Wabash. The funeral cer- emonies took place this afternoon at the Park Hotel, from whence the remains were taken to the train for shipment to Ellsworth, Ohio, where they wili be interred. THE WEEK OF PRAYER. ] Topics Selected by the Evangelical Alli- ance—A Devotional Meeting. The regular monthly meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at the Y. M.C.A. hall this morning was unusually large. There was no topic for discussion, but in accordance with a resolution passed at the last meeting preceding, the entire time of the last meeting of the year was given up to devotional ex- ercises—singing and praying. Dr. Tudor presided, an rayers were offered especially for a revival of God’s work in this city, by Drs. Merrill, Brookes, Rhodes and Mays. Re- marks on the subject of the need of revival work were briefly made by Drs. Tudor, Finney, Niccollis and Rhodes. At the close of the devotional exer- cises a short business meeting was held at which the subjects and leaders for the daily meetings during the Week of Praver were selected. It was determined to leave the order for the evening to the choice of the individual churches, and to have union prayer ser- vices every day except Sunday at the Y. M. ©. A. Hall at 3o’clock. The following leadersand sub- ects were chosen: Monday, January 5—Rev. Dr. all; topic, “Praise and Thanksgiving; Tuesday— Kev. Dr. Brookes; sal we “Humiliation and Confes- sion;*’ Wednesday—Rev. Dr. Lewis; topic, “Prayer for theChurch of Christ ;Thursday—Rev.Dr. Harris; topic, “Prayer for Families, Schools and Colleges;’ Friday—Rev. Dr. Masden; topic, *‘Prayer for Na- tions.” No service will be held Saturday afternoon. The alliance adjourned to meet onthe fourth Monday of tne New Year. DENNISON’S DOCKET. A Number of Petty Offenders Severely Pun- ished by Him. Judge Dennison of the Second District Police Court had a large number of casesto dispose of this morning and inmposed several heavy fines. Thos. McClure,a patent medicine manufacturer, having rooms ata Morgan street boarding house, fwhich not The district convention of the W. C. T. U. met this morning at Dr. Rhodes’ church, Bell and Car- dinal avenues, Mrs. Anna Sneed Cairns, district president, being in the chair. After half an hour spent. in devotional exercises, a number of reports were submitted, the first being from the St. Louis Central Union, by Mrs. Belle Robert, which has the orincipal work of the general union in its hands. It was stated that 450 had signed the total abstinence pledge, and the Central Union now has 145 members. The great work of the past ten months was in providing sup- lies for the National Convention which met here fall. The ladies had asked for only $1,000 but $1,300 had been contributed, and so when every- thing was paid off the encouragin ce of was _ reported. nder the charge of Mrs. Fred H. Ingai!’s, the department of scientific instruction has been earnestly engaged in bringing the matter of temperance teaching in the schools before the Legislaturegof Missouri, and they rejoice in the fact that three sermons have already been hed by city pastors, other pulpit notices have honored the topic,which is fully set forth in the numerous petitions which are being widely circulated and which tre being quite favorabiy received. The report of the South Presbyterian Union was read by MISS ALMA BROCKSTE T, oD pesian showing a membership-of forty-five and 00 signers of the pledge. Meetings of that union are held every other week, and the interest has been sustained admirably; that the reading- roomof the Iron Mountain was supplied with temperance and religious literature only has resulted in the establishment of alibrary but has also brought m $300 to still further increase the stock of books. The district president, Mrs. Anna Sneed Pomtnee | then sduanntnd the legal and legislative aspects 0 the work, and said that she had sent out over 1,000 petitions throughout the State looking to the sub- mission of a constitutional amendment. The “Union Signal” work was treated by the re- rt presen by Miss M, C. Bignail. be Signal, published in Chicago, is edited by Mrs Mary B. Willard, sister-in-law of Miss Frances E. Willard, and is the official organ of the union in the United States. Three shares of its stocks, valued at $25 each, are hejd by the mem- bers of this district, and its subscription list in this localitf numbers twenty-five supporters. In the absence of Mrs. F. E. Holden, Mrs. Sutliffe gaave an interesting resume of _ her experiences in the Work House, where she evangelizes every Sunday. Some of her pathetic recitals of the sufferings of the utifortu- nate men who had been brought to the Work House by drink were sufficient to quite visible affect the eyes of her auditors. She, herself, told every portion of her story in a trembling manner, each word seeming to presage a deluge of tears. She managed to get through without any decided lachrymose exhibition, . : BUT HER DEEP FEELING for the condition of some miserable men was too much forthe president, Mrs. Cairns, who, at the end of Mrs. Sutliffe’s lameutations, took occasion to comment upon the singular absence in this city of any home forthe frendless, instituting a comparison with Chicago, where the speaker said there are four places where the erring women can be taken and cared for. “Here*‘” d Mrs. Cairns, “there is no place fora girl if she takes a wrong step, and leaves the path of virtue, and there is certainly in this respect a great need of reform. The training school for superintendents and the question-box engaged the convention's attention until nearly noon, each superintendent being privil- —— to any question that would assist her la- ors. The reports of the German, Carondelet and Young Ladies’ Unions were postponed until the aft- ernoon session Immediatety after the preliminary exercises the afternoon meeting ‘was treated to the annual ad- dress of the president, Mrs. Cairns, after which foi- lowed the deferred reports of the forenoon and a discussion on the methods of work, new unions, etc. After the re-election of Mrs. Cairns for president for the ensuing year, the fol- lowing programme was carried out: Report of superintendent of literature, Mrs. C. M. Adams; re- port of superintendent of scientific instruction, Mrs. Fred H. Ingalls; report of police matron, Mrs. Har- ris; report of railroad work, Mrs. May Bicknell; paper, “Education of Children a Factor in Prevent- ing Alcoholism,’ Dr. Mary McLean, superintendent of hygieve and heredity; reportof young women’s work, Mrs. W. L. G. B. Allen. This evening at 7:30 o'clock a mass-meeting will be held at the church, Dr. Rhodes presiding. The subject will be “Scientific Temperance Instruction in the Public Schools,” and on that theme addresses will be made by Rev. Drs. Boyd, Post and othefs. NOTES. There were more empty chairs than delegates this morning. The worthy president who handles the gavel with great felicity in making her comparisons in favor of Chicago should not say St. Louis makes no pro- vision for fallen women until ghe looks over the high wall at Seventeenth and Pine streets. ‘The ladies take hold of the temperance topics with a soleinnity that would make an undertaker’s face seemed wreathed in similes. At the meeting to-night the speakers ought to lead that only properly written text-books should used in the schools. The idea of a book on glut- tony would be no more ridiculous than special in- struction regarding alcohol. if the physiologies and books of hygiene don’t contain such necessary waruings the speakers will undoubtedly advocate the securing of text-boeks that do. VIOLATING THE MAIL LAWS, The Editor of a Mexican Weekly Paper Gets Into Trouble. For some time past considerable rivairy has ex- isted between two Spanish-American weeklies published in this city - under the names of E} Commercio del Valle and La Revista Mexicana, one of them, edited by the Mexican vonsul, John F. Cahill, and the other edited at present by Albert KE. Sanderson. Each paper pub- lished weekiy its opinion of the otber in its choicest terms and after the most approved Castillian court- esy and manners. [But it seems that Mr. Sander- son resolved upon a clandestine system of warfare which might not have been discovered for some time, but for the wily scrutiny of the Post Office officials. A large number of the Revista had been deposited in the Post Office destined for the land of the Montezumas, and. as is occasionaliy done in such cases to see that everything is all right, one of them was torn open, anid it wag discovered that in addition to the paper a circular printed in Span- ish was inclosed. Circulars are third class matter and the papers were mailed and paid for as second- class. This constituted an offense against the postal laws for which Mr. Sanderson is liable in the penal sum of $10 for each offense. Informations were filed and Hatch of Missouri, as he satin the dressing-room off the House lobby yesterday drinking a glass of hot water. “No,"’ he answered, as he set down the steaming glass. “Ever drink it? It’s very good for indiges- tion, very good, indeed. No, I don't look for a very large number of applicants for office. I see that the press of the country is educating the people to a proper recognition of the true situation—and that is that President Cleveland will act with great deliberation ip the matter of making changes in office. I have been trying to impress that idea upon all who write me with reference to office, and I think others of the party are doing so, too.” “You think that this will be President Cleveland's policy, then, to make haste slowly?” “I think so. Of course what the details of his policy may be, whether he will make removals for the sake of putting Democrats in the places or will wait until the terms of the office- holders expire, I don’t pretend to say. Indeed, I presume he has no clear determination on that subject himself, and will not have until hé gets his Cabinet made up and consults its members on that subject. I believe that he may with perfect propriety, under the ten- ure of office act, remove men at pleasure, for cause, without naming special cause, and appoint their successor, but whether he will do this or not is quite another question. Indeed if he simply at- tends to the appointments as the terms of office expire he wili have his hands full. Have you ever thought,” he continued, as he replenished his glass from the hot-water fountain at hand, “have you ever thought how great atask he willhave? Why, the number of postmasters appointed, alone, in the past year,in every year in fact, by the natural process of change, expiration of office, death, res- ignation, creation of new offices, etc., is at the rate of a thousand a month, or 12,.000a year. Then the post offices are, you know, not quite half of the en- tire uumber of offices under the Government, 6o the. number of offices coming forward by the natural process to be filled is a the rate of 2,000 or more per month, or nearly hundred a day, to say nothing of the accel- eration of that process by artificial means. So I conclude that it is safe to assert that President Cleveiand will not be in any hurry about making changes by way of removal.” “Do you receive many appeals for office?” “Not so many as one would suppose. The people are learning the situation and prospects as 1 rds this matter ene rapidly, and taking very kindly to it, too. 6 greatest scramble svems likely to be for the Internal Revenue positions, and Post Offices. Of course the Internal Revenue Collectorships are valuable, and as for the Post Offices, they are always « source of great trouble. The agony which can be worked up in the average country town over a Post Office that pays less than $100 a year is peér- fectly surprising. I get very few applicants for the Washington Department places. Occasionaliy a young man writes about them, but not often. he majority of the appicants for these place are from large cities.” e ) @ %e@ “Do many Congressmen driuk hot water?” your cofrespondent asked of the sable attendant at the fountain, as Mr. Hatch set down the steaming glass and walked out with a satisfied air. ** "Deed they do, boss, “deed they do. Lot of ‘em drinks it nowadays. Funny, ain't it? There's Mr. Hatch, he drinks a pow’ful sight of it, two glasses at a time, gen’ly. Mr. Breckenridge of Arkansas, he drinks a heap of it, too. Then there is Col. Hal- sell of Kaintucky, he’s a recular visitor to the hot water spring bere. In fact they most ali drinks more or less of it now.” “More than last year?” “Yes, the habit seems to be growin’ on ‘em. A goou many that didn’t drink it last winter does now, and them as drank it occasionaily then drinks itevery day now and sometimes two glasses at a time. What do they drink it for? Why, for every- thing. Dyspepsia, ergy Shes ae og heartburn, rheumatism, indigestion, headache, ‘most every- thing, in fact.” e*¢ The Sharon divorce creates little comment here. The fact is, that Sharon wads so little here during his term as Senator that little was known of him, personaily. During two vears of his term he was in the Senate chamber only once, and that for only a few min- utes. He came by here in one of his trips between New York and the West, and stop in to see that his seat was still there, and draw his salary, which had accumulated for some time. He lived at the Arlington what little time he was here, spent his money like a prince, and was considered a man of the world, who, to quote one of “the boys” who knew the =~ of most people of prominence at that time as he does now, “took things on the half- shell, as most of those rich Western fellows do.” a*s Every day during the sessions of Congress, when the hour of 12 approaches a neatly dressed man with white mustache and gray hair. makes his ap- pearance on the roof of the Capitol buiiding at the western end and takes his stand by the flag-staff as if awaiting some signal. As the bells ring out the hour of 12, and the Speaker's gavel falis in the House below, he pulls the rope and hoists the flag to the top of the rely feng te staff, and fastening it securely, returns to his duties on the floor. This is not much of an “act,” yet when it is continued for twenty-eight years, day after day and year after year by the same man, it becomes interesting, per- aps more so to others than to himself. For twenty-eight years years, through all sorts of weather, above all soris of administrations below, John T. Chauncey has hoisted the flag over the House andon the Capitol as the House assem- bled and pulled it down again when it adjourned. It isn’t a very agreeable duty, either in weather of the sort that Washington ts just now experiencing, On very cold days, when there is a dash of rain and then very cold wind, the flag freezes sometimes to the top of the pole, and Chauncey finds it necessary to climb to the top and loosen it. To climb to the top of a forty-foot pole with a winter’s wind blow- ing at a hurricane speed is no fun anywhere, and especially so when the pole is located on the top of the Capitol building. ' But it has to be done, for the flag must only fly when Congress is in session, or at half mast when’ some member is dead. Only once has it been up under other circumstances, and that was during the late war, when feeling ran high, and it was thought appropriate that the country’s flag should float over the Capitol all the time. Chauncey, whose hair was not white then, ran it up, enlisted in the Union Army, and marched away tothe wars, When bhecame back, the old flag, still fluttering from the staff, torn and weather beaten, but still there, was among the first things Additional Details of the City’s Busi- ness in 1884, The Iron and Steel Trade Reviewed—Lead and Coal Markets—Stoves, Hardware and Stamping. The following additional reviews of important branches of St. Louis trade will prove of interest to all citizens. The showing is not of dazzling bright- ness, but, “under the circumstances,” is by no means discouaaging: Iron and Steel. Probably no other interest has suffered as com- plete and Jong continued prostration as the iron trade. The depression began in 1853, and its most marked results manifested themselves just before the opening of the present year. The record of the twelvemonth has been adreary one of inactivity and gradual downward tendencies, The year opened with iron at the low price of $19 per ton, and it closes with a very small demand at the ex- céedingly low price of $16 perton. Steel rails at the opening of the year were selling at $35 and $36 per ton. Nearly all of the rail mills have been idle during the larger part of the year, and yet steel rails are selling to-day at $28 per ton at the mills in the East, $29 in Chicago and $30 here. These rates are very littie better than actual cost, They are, in fact, much below cost of a year ago, improvements in processes of manufacture during the year having much reduced that price. The chief improvement been a process by which ore is smelted and converted directly into steel rails, instead of being first made into pice or blooms. The pig-iron production has simply kept pace with the consumption, and pig-iron men have had a very uiet time of it. As one of the dealers put it, the ault with the market has been rather “under con- sumption” than “over production.” Indeed the “overproduction” explanation has been somewhat abused in connection with both iron and steel. The rail milis never manufactured, except upon orders, and — they never had any large stocks an on h suffer depreciation. As a matter of fact the producing capacity of the rail mills of the country was so vastly increased in 1882 and 1883, as to greatly exceed the consuming powers of the country. T railroads are the chief iron and steei users, their needs being largely in excess of that of ail other consumers. A very small mileage of newr was built in 1884, and railroad companies were forced by their extraordinarily small traffic to hold their repair expenses down to the very minimum. In fact there has been little replenishment of rolling stock in the three years. This of itself woul have insured a weak market. The ordinary consumption of iron and steel in the United States is about seven to the past year has been kindly furnished by John Wahl seven and one-half millions of tons per year, but the consumption of 1884 has been little, if any, in excess of four millions of tons. The Southern iron manu- facturers have much injured the market and them- selves by attempting to furnish a product at rates which, whe» all expenses were considered, were be- low actual cost price. There has been much talk of late of that product having invaded the Pennsylvania mar«xet, but it has been def- initely learned that there has been very little occasion for the flurry there, for the reason that the stock put on that market at such cheap rates was merely a surplus whicn the Southern manufacturers had to get rid of at any price. It did not represent any steady trade for the future, and the same men cannot supply the same material regularly at the rates which have governed recent transactions, The outlook for 1885 is very gloomy for iron men, as there is no probability that any large amount of new railroad work will be done, Lead. A comprehensive review of the lead market for & Co., who are the leading handlers of this article in &t. Louis. They say: ‘Prices of pig-lead have fallen off considerably during the past year, and it is safe to estimate that the average price for the year will be fully one-half cent a pound lower than that of last year. Prices have swung withina very narrow range, and have fluctuated very little ever since the big break which occurred in the early spring, namely, when prices were forced down by some of our large speculators from $390 to $3 40 here. Consumers purchased their supply in a hand to mouth way only, during the entire season, owin to the fact that that they never at any time ha sufficient confidence jn the market to lay in supplies ahead of their current wants; apparently every- body has kept close tothe wind. Stocks of lead, with the exception of the 10,000 tons held -by the Richmond Company, which is ey Fy out of market, are very light in all brands. Lead has been consumed about as fast as it has been produced during the past year, and the production of lead which had been predicted all alongas fall- ing short very materially compared with that of 1883, will most likely equalize the same; and the general impression seems to prevail tiiat it will show a slight increase. Consumption, regarding which the same predictions nave been made from time to time, is in about the same shape, and will also show an increase over that of iast year. The lead-pipe and sheet-lead men speak of the trade during the past year as very favorable. Sales they say are largely in excessof last year's. Prices have been low and profits small; but on an average the result has been quite a satisfactory one. Corroders speak of their experience in a similar manner. In saying that the production of tead for this year will probably exceed that of last, we must, however, adithatthe product of lead has fallen off very much during the past month, and is very likely to continue doing so during the next twoor turee months to come, from the fact that several large smelters have been com pelled to cut down their product on account of low prices, and partiy through the difficulty of securing ores, caused by severe cold and snowy weather in the mountains. Then there is another factor to be found in the present coke famine among Colorado smelters. Their men have all gone on a strike, and the smelters have been compelied to get their coke from the East atan additional cost of from $8 to $3 50 perton. We regard, therefore, the entering of New Year asa very favorable one, inasmuch as consumers are only supplied from hand to mou as no large stocks of lead are held by sellers; an there are no large stocks of bullion or ores held in i goods. Notwithstanding the money has Spparently been This conclusion is made from the genera! business was dul! the arms dealers report that the sale of y satisfactory the year. e Christmas trade was better than ex- poser. and the coming year is looked to with ope. During the past twenty days in many of goods prices have improved as much as 2 pe cent on the bottom figures of the year, but is not general enough to be consid a warrant that the expected boom after the first of the new year will be sudden. During this year nothing has oom spared to improve business as much as possible, Some of the houses sent men over new but without the expected success. The fruits this are expected during 1885. Stoves. It might appear at first blush that the national in- ference to be drawn in making a hasty review of the stove trade for the year was that the dealers had lost money. This would arise not only from the fact that there had been a_ general depression in commercial circles during the summer, but principally because the iron m throughout the country had been among those that were the most appreciably affected, and hence all manufactured products from the raw material would be expected to suffer a _ steep decline in prices. Such, however, was not the case. Whatever losses the stove dealers in the East — have sustained as compared with their py of former years, it is safe to say that the St. uis manufacturers have reaped a richer harvest in 1884 than any for several years past, It is true there bas been a decline dn prices, which is esti- mated by various dealers to be from ten to fifteen per cent less than those of last year, but at the same time there have been counteracting influences upon the trade which more than compensate for this decline. For instance, the importation of stoves from foreign markets into this country was very considerably less this year than last. Again the emigration to the West and Southwest, which is mostly St. Louis territory, was not by any means so large during the past spring and summer as in previous years. These two causes alone had a most healthy and exhilarating effect upon the stove trade of St. Louis. In the first place they created a larger demand for domestic stoves, the uality of which is soon recognized to be superior to thatof any foreign importation. In the second, they increased the sale of home manufactures, and, lastly , because of the decrease in immigration, the settiers in the territory tributary to St. Louis having used up the cheap stoves they bought at first purchased a better article and thus gave tone tothe market. There have not been as many stoves manufactured during the presentas in pre- vious years, but at thesame timethe sales have been larger, the overproduction, if such it may be called. has been worked off, the surplus on hand disposed of and the St. Louis factories enter upon the new year in better than for several years. will no large stocks to carry over—the trade for a stand- ard manufacture of stoves has been established, and whatever losses may have been incurred dur- ing the financial depression of the present year there is every assurance that they will be more than cov- ered by the business of 1885. Stamping. St. Louis isa large center of the stamping busi- ness, containing the largest manufactory of this class of goods, which itsends toall parts of the country and,in the matter of certain specialties, shipping them largely toEurope. The business is one into which, as regards the general line of goods, the element of competition largely enters, and this fact, together with the general depression of business, has somewhat curtailed the profits of manufacturers who have sold cost to their customers. The ranite ironware, which is the great specialty of the ge company already referred to, has been very satisfactory, and this fact places the business here in a better shape than is the case with manufact- ures generally throughout thecountry. Collections have been very good as a whole aren | the year and even in the recent dull times they have fair. The manufacturers are slow in making pre- dictions regarding the p for next year and state that it depends en upon the outcome of the tariff regulations. NOT A SUICIDE, An Insane Patient, Dies of Epilepsy. Last evening Deputy Coroner Hennessy held an inquest on the body of David L. Loew, a patient at the Insane Asylum, who died under unusual circum- stances. Night Watchman Mitchell testified that he saw the. deceased Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock, when Loew was in his usual health. He did not see him again until 5:30 o'clock next morning, when he was attracted to the deceased by He believed from the position that the de- died from an epileptic fit, to which he was subject. Henry Loew, a brother of the deceased, testified that David L. Loew was -affected with epilepsy and became uncontrollable. He frequently threatened to take his life, and on this account was sent to the Insane Asylum. Dr. Junkin, who hold a | ¢ wig tem examination, made a sworn statement that no glass was found in the stomach. A fellow patient wines bat tale dd oot apponr trams tae pout anette, Soke S. Tone, a nurse, was called on and. testified that he «new the deceased to be an e man who eng take woken - pon afterea seizure, if an o him lying on his bed daturday morning, after a fit, he su buton examina found that he was dead. A verdict of epilepsy was rendered. David Loew, - me ee ON ee AAnw en pga ea ae em emg sl Pew believed plokpooket, was fined $100 for introducing her hand that the shares at 2 shad ein utteted fe to a side pocket of a farmer visiti ng here. Thos, - pi sine 93 sl +h Pg repent of Lee, a “tough,” received a $100 fine for beating his ode gee Pahiping Lodge, is also bad. Mere belief is no de- on eb ly Ae et shee fair toe ontvteate e0 ea dhewartens: Page ous. cn fense, If the charge were made i an official capaci- enjoying a prize fight in Thunder Castle. re delightful _ “ @ ty to the lodge in question it should be set out more —, 3 ah spirit of Mitchell's i ‘¥!/y inthe answer. F , the Court holds that ag question in issue is the truth nT Se ee ee Consul in Mexico. A reporter of the Post-Dispatcu | Were & production of the war, too, After session | . t ar is rd English of the rge made as alleged Theref Sehe Reitman Asks for & Di- called at Mr. Cahill’s office, but found that he was | had begu.vsnnd the old flag was the subject of es- | ing the coal trade gam a ae ‘yp gee the the petition and in overru erefore Jo a out and would not return before 4 o'clock. pecial attention, it was suggested by Mr, Haskins /in the pool urred demurrer it grants the defendant leave to force From Her. of New York, atone time @ member from that | early part of May and lasted ‘ State, that the flag ought to float inside the House, and so a pair of small ones was placed above the amend her answer within ten days. Speaker's chair, filled then by Ha A. Grow, In Newman st the Missouri Railroad Com- pany the demurrer is over-ruled on the ground that Court's opinion John Zeltman brought a suit for divorce to-day. MORE ARRESTS. from his wife Sadie, whom he alleges he married in the petition states facts with suffi- | paltimore, Md., in August, 1875. His main aliega- | The Police Still Hunting for the Cass Av- | and the custom has been kept up ever since.” pcre > ory — had & setarkaile efece cient certainty to constitute a cause of enue Car Robbers. mark sent prices In the ease of Ewing Walker motion | tion is that Sadie went to the bad. She would leave upon the general ket, and t lower to quash an ap was denied as the a was vera oe at4 p.m, and potages at 4 . Se oh a pn Early this mdrning a detail of Capt. Huebler’s |. PAYING THE INTEREST. tuan they — a a i sty aunted tnaaueaens m any excuse or offering ex- an order f head- consumers ou a inse the ure within the jurisdiction of auslign of her unwifely conduct. In June of this ae ee eee sem of the decline and laid in heavy supplies for the quarters. Chief Harrigan received private inform- | The Directors of the East Tennessee Road | . when he was laid up with a fever, Sadie sailed a Hagen against Petzold the motion for a new out and abeented herself or ten days. | He believes | ation that Foley was implicated in the Cass avenue Don't Want a Keceiver. differences, the old rates overruled. : ig was not done without a pu au . Ww. Harry rest - —s viva gw docect wil opcaiog. "TOS * | thas ‘some gue wae waiting for, et a he garden | ei ae Pudiy Welsh wan | gp WAit Om™net, December The Hast Tonnes | Gf the bron however, the fall snd winter rade te. 6 0 bi ‘ see directors were © | was ve 5! at ’ poe ee pore ‘tae identit Foleo January pata en aivasanl bonds “a tine small as cout with those during + same ' | COOKED IN A VAT. lt a tga ecmeun Fives sean Fifteenth and Wash streets, where a ? the coupons on consol fives. They will dppose put ee ear nen tine een at this time nee | a , Decem _ Saturda ve m ; Mrs, Parsons, the Socialist — An Unlucky | eae ee nnn» establishment of orth, Or- | cold that while he believed Welsh was one. of the | # ‘ne Tow in the hands of beoslvet SS TP gr cayman vtcon & Co, was deatroyed by a fire which originated ceaeeee SE sows te tho yolics in seeentty Printer Kounds Safe portation rates were reduced from a iA McLeansporo, Itt., December <etewsae Ren. in the basement. It burned rapidiy, and the de- shoe A a term in the Pinetentlary | py Telegraph to thé Post-Dispatch. Ey peepee Reese om Ie glee my dagees mn ro . 4 dricks, cousin of Vice-President Hendricks, was dia well to keep the fire within its o tor stealing $12,000 in warehouse receipts from the , t is just 1 cent cheaper now than omy took Absolutely Pure. robbed of $1,840 last night by burglars, who broke | fimits and to save the P ose by. poeket of a messenger of the Mississippi Transpor- | Wasminotox, D. C.#December %.—A prominent your owing, in a great measure, to overproduction into fils nein Ss loss is over $100,000, well tation Company. Senator is quoted to-day as saying that he did not On all these reductions the consumer gets bene. believe Public Printer Rounds would be removedfrom | fit, Several strikes were during the Epwirbsvittz, Itt., December 29. — Mra. Burke . Tbe Usual Cut. broke her thigh by a fall yesterday morning. She his place, as he is the only government official who Prrrsuure, Pa., December 29.—The Fort Pitt Iron has appointed Democrats in equal number to Re- aires is 34 years old, and lives at Gillespie. signs of rapid decay and it is expected by river | and Steel Company's works have posted a notice or- ath inte cf Democrats ee ee ae ae ee — ) Cu1caco, Int, December 29.—Mrs. Parsons deliv: men that the gorge below here will all run out | dering @ 10 per cent reduction of the wages of all tie deoninws2, wath #s von By ER gay BN close of last year there 12 ce ered a highly incendiary speech to the Socialists of within the next twenty-four hours. Advices from | employes, a governed by yearly con- were —_ | this city yesterday. it was full of blood and dyn- | |. the Lower Missouri report the ice in @ very | tracts, to take January 1. . : | Se ee ee ae Some river men sation a muacter ber ten-hoct ies “He Would Not Bite. William shisinal wed eaiaat lant night on sus- fend) Degrees tft AY A. aoollnipe ace cree Reema daybreak to-morrow. So far no damage to H. McFadden of Waterloo, Ill., has pasted tas tenn | E D., O, & 0. R. Railroad was derailed on Saturday by oe cae SER ee ae i a ak ta a oe Se ee ee RR eT ee ee Ma nr! a ee ae —
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Dr. E. C. Chase, g2¢ Olive street. Set of teeth $4. ParvaTr matters skillfully treated, and medicine furnished. Dr. Dinsbeer, 814 Pine streot. ApveERTIsE in the Post-Dispates if you want help of any kind—three lines for ten cents. De. Warrrrer, 617 St. Charles street, cures diseases of indiscretion, excesses, indulgences. Call or write. BREVITIES, TELEGRAPHIC The entire French Budget was voted by the Senate. It is statea that Empress Eugenie’s crown jewels were false. The sub-marine cables of the world measure 68,000 miles. Hon. 8. J. Randall is at Louisville, to address the Board of Trade. The loss by the fire at Indianapolis Cotton Mills will amount to $100,000. Rev. Heber R. Newton,in his sermon Sunday railed against Monastic societies. The Bernamer tribe tried to relieve Kassala but were defeated by the Haddendowas. Horace Laurence of Issaquena County, Miss., was assassinated by some unknown parties. Dr. T. 8. Bell, one of the most prominent physi- cians of Louisviile, Ky., was found dead in his bed. The 25 per cent reduction of rent not being an- nounced, Limerick (Ireland) tenants refuse to pay any rent. The collections of internal revenue for the first five months of the fiscal year show a decrease of $3,995,736. The body of Alonzo P. Jones, of Boston, was found in the Charles river. It is supposed he com- mitted suicide. China has warned England against selling ships to France to be used for transporting the latter's troops to China. A gang of Mexicans murdered Thomas Merrill and wife at Sierra Bianco, Texas. Texas rangers are on their tracks. Hon. Thomas H. Hendricks has consented to de- liver the ‘annual address before the Yale Alumni and graduating class in June uext. Business troubjes drove to suicide the two head members of the large grain and importing house of Werlitz Brothers, Lemberg, Austria. Liebknecht, member of the German Reichstag, attempted to address some workingmen but was expelled from the city by the police. The British claims to St. Lucia Bay, Southeastern Africa, conflict with those of Einwaid, the German explorer, and complications may arise. Bismarck has specially urged France to with- draw her opposition to the neutralization of the territory of the International African Association. A sensation was created at Toledo, Ohio, by a rumor that Congressman elect Romeis was not a citizen of the United States. The rumor is denied. Some Anarchists joined a meeting of Socialists in Paris, Sunday, and attempting to override t others precipitated a fight in which several were injured. Sivaceff, during a debate in the Bulgarian Parlia- ment, accused the Premier of peculation, and was set upon by the latter’s supporters, who beat him almost to death. As the returns come in, the earthquake in Spain proyes to have been very fatal. Nearly 1,000 peo- ple were killed, and in some instances whole vil- lages were destroyed. Cc. B. Simmons, treasurer of the Louisville and Nashville road at Louisville, has skipped to Canada, $34,000 short. He is 50 years old and has been treasurer since 1871. The women of Germany have organized clubs all over the empire to protest against the snub the Reichstag gave Bismarck in refusing to establish a second directorship of foreign affairs. . . Three white men have been arrested near Vicks- burg. Miss., for complicity in the train robbery on the N. O. & N. FE. road Monday last. One negro has been lynched. and it is feared he was the wrong man. One of the heaviest fogs for a long time hung over New York harborand other portsalong the coast as far as Baltimore, completely suspending navigation. There have been no serious accidents so far. Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon Sunday, maintained the course he had pursued in the late campaign, and intimated that he would stand by the Ply mouth Church only so long as his services were wanted. Ha had no regrets. The Commissioner of Navigation in his first annual report states that the American Merchant Marine is second only to that of Great Britain. He recommends bounties for fast mail steamers. The Adams-Coleridge scandal in London is now foreuer closed, the Chief Justice having settled $1,500 a year on his daughter, who married A provided the latter does not reopen the libel suit. Maude Stuart Grubbs, the actress, who plays the blind girl in “Mrs Winthrop,” has had her husband, Ed Marble, the comedian, arrested at Indianapolis, for fear of personal violence from him. Marble de- nies the marriage, but Miss Grubbs sags they were united in February last. The agents of the African International Associa- tion have come in conflict with the French agents in the Congo country and serious trouble is im- pending. The association sent an armed force to attack some natives, when the French flotilla stopped the expedition for violating French terri- torial rights. Gen. Wolesley has changed his base from Korti to Meraweh and has abandoned the desert route for the Berber road. The changes place thé relief of Khartoum two months further away. Wolseley complains ofthe insufficiency of the transport service. The military critics in London ridicule the expedition as a failure, The Worst Urethral Strictures | apoegny cured by our new radical methods. Pam- e let, references and terms, two letter stamps. forld’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. See Our Boys’ Great $2 50 and $3 50 Suits. In the great reduction sale, prior to taking stock, at the Gong, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue. HOTEL PERSONALS. Judge O. H. Pitcher of Joplin; T.C. Wel ka; T. T. Clifford and Miss Isabel Dest of Be rome bag Franklin Sanford of Cincinnati are at the ancvers. B. S: “i hurston of Warrenton, Mo.: J. B. Donegby of La Plata, Mo.; L. H. Brown of Rich Hill, Mo.: Mrs. Judsou of New Orleans, and ©. R. Rilner of F. A. Flint and O. Derby of Cleveland, Tenn. : A. Martin of Moberly, Mo. O. Williamson of § a! City, Col.; J. H. Deome of Chicago, and E. H. Win- field of Bloomington, lowa, are at the St. James. S. J. Williams of Decatur, Ill; Henry Baer New York; E. H. Fritch of Jefferson City: D. R Deffendorfer of Lebanon, MG., and W. T. of Memphis, Mo., are at the Hotel Barn -Philadelphia are at the Laclede. R. H. Johnson of Council Bluffs; J. R. Renolds - Crestline, Ohio; G. 8. Smith of Little Reon, ? a Glover of ong G. W. ——— of Detroit; J. A Sons oe AT » Soan Reuirve by Dr. J ‘s Expectorant.’an old remedy for Bronchial a - monary Disorders. ~ See Our Men's Great 62 50 Suits, ‘drama. Tbe company THE THEATERS. Last evening was an excellent one for ducks, but as ducks are not fond of attending theaters, it was & poor one for managers. A mustard plaster at- traction could not have drawn peopie from their comfortable fresides ia the ponring rain which fell with drenching continuity until 9 o’clock. The au- CUSOR diences at the various h were therefore ex- tremeiy thin, even for opening night. s¢¢# The hilis were varied enough to suit every taste. There was thrilling cular on scale the Olympic: choice enough to suit tho most fastidious. There is no reason wh greatiy from glumness duri ff a laugh a charm to drive the holidays thé blues away. I believe myself that it is potent, and if I fou prety bad case I would SS an is pretty poem ee: esol tamed “ m $3 OWn,an en a. in “Humbug” which fits it admirably. The play is very well named, but the fun is real, and the few people who gathered at the theater last uight seemed to enjoy themselves im- ee¢ The plot on which the fun is based is not original, but it is welland pointedly presented, and is gar- nished with vivacious dialogue and bright repartee. The situation ws out of the attempt of two per- sons te sexes to humbug each other. Jack Luster (Roland Reed), a tricky, slippery and deceptive young man,has assumed the name of one of the first families of Virginia whose representative is in India, for the purpose of catching a wealthy widow, Mrs. nda Bertram Ponsbv, who ses Armi asthe relict of the heirof a great English famil and who has lofty aspirations. The pretended Jac Luster is in reality William Bartz, the sonof a poor German shoemaker, while the charming Ar- minda is of low origin and is not a Ponsby, but is the widow of a wealthy Chicago butcher with the plebeian name of Podds. The chief pur- pose of both is to keep the knowledge of their true characters from the other. The lady has a disrepu- table brother who makes her pay heavily for keep- ing her secret, while her husband meets acquaint- ances who keep him in constant hot water invent- ing devices to prevent his discovery to his wife. The real old man Luster returns from India and his real. son appears on the ne, which greatly ‘imcreases the pretended Jack ‘gs difficulties. The complications which arise from the circumstances furnish ample oppor- tunities to Mr. Reed to display his talents as a comical and resourceful r . The result is breezy, entertaining and laughable. - *e2 There is not a great deal for Mr. Reed's support, wee the exception of Miss Alice Hastings, who takes the part of Mrs. Arminda Bertram Ponsby, to do, but they are all satisfactory in their several characters. Miss Blanche Vaughan as Nettie Shaw gives a bright and sparkling impersonation. ees Bartley Campbeli’s spectacular melodrama, “Siberia,”’ which opened a week's engagement at the Olympic last night, is familiar to the St. Louis people and is one of the best plays of its kind. The plot of **Siberia” is a story of life in Russia founded on the persecution of the Jews and of the Nihilists in Russia, and furnishes splendid material for melodramatic scenes and situations It is resented by a good company with excellent scenery and finely arranged tableaux and nts. The situations are thrilling, but are not Oo artificial and unnatural,as is frequently the case in such plays. The interest is sustained and height- ened from beginning to end until the final happy denouement. e+? Miss Adele Belgarde as Sara and Miss Emma Vaders as her sister, Marie, are both excellent in their parts. Atkins Lawrence and Frank M. Nor- cross, the student lovers of the girls, give strong and sustained impersonations. C. aly has the vein of comedy running through the drama as Michael Trolsky to sustain, and he does it well. Miss Frankie McClellan, who appears as Vera, the flower girl, has picked up a most uettish voice and intonation and has mastered the difficult art of laughing musically and naturally, There is aripple in her laugh which is catching. x A very pleasing feature of the entertainment is the performance of Miss Alice Coleman and Mr. Charies Petit. Their cornet solos and duets are most charming musical interpolations and are thoroughly enjoyable. The entire perform- ance was warmly received by the audience last night. ie It is hardly fair to judge of the success of Miss Minnie Palmer's second week by last evening's bouse; that is, as far as numbers are concerned. In point of enthusiasm the _ audience which assembled at the People’s was far above the aver- age. Those who bravedythe inclement weather seeined to be amply rewarded by the entertaining efforts of the graceful little lady in “My Sweet- heart.” With respectable weather,a successful week may be predicted. ae The orchestra made a hit on its Santa Claus Overture, a medley of sounds to be heard during the holidays. The irrepressible tin horn, torpedoes and other noisy devices to amyise the boys were worked in with effect. *e2 “Crimes of London” is a new play presented by a new combination at the Standard this week. The author, Mr. Charles De Kress, who trikes the part of one of the principal villains in a company of vil- lains, has successfully searched the police records for incidents. The piay is the presentation of a low order of very low life. The streets at midnight, thieves’ dens, prisons and Police Courts furnish backgroucd for villainous incidents, while slugging and shooting play heavy engagements in the is net a strong one by any means, and the play has only the depiction of crime with of course a thread of human faithfulness to recommend it. It will doubtless catch on with those who like that sort of thing. ees The Casino had a good rainy night audience, and agree a varied olio with some excellent features it. including some favorite serio-comic vocalists, sketch artists, acrobatic and gymnastic feats and other attyactions. Prof. De Jalma’ gives an enter- taining exhibition of his mesmeric powers, which are remarkable in this line. The popular Tuesday and Thursday matinees will be continued this week, NOTES. W. H. Strickland, in advance of Shook & Collier's “Storm-beaten” company, is in the city. Broadway & Treyser’s Museum has a great at- traction this week in Jo-Jo, the dog-faced boy. One of the most popular resorts in the city is the Star — Skating Rink at Nineteenth ond Pine streets. srt od Ae offers the wild Australian children, the tattooed Turk, the giant skeleton and other good curiosities, with an excelient theatorium perform- ance, to its patrons. John J. Jennings, the well known newspaper writer and part author of “My Sweetheart,” will re- ceive a benefit at the People’s to-night. All benefit tickets purchased will be credited to him, and his friends should see that they obtain the right sort. One of the features of the entertainment will be an address in the original Irisi tongue by the bene- fic . A warm reception and a full house are pr for to-night. - — “TOO THIN,” JOHN R. ROGERS. Minnie Palmer, What Do You Think? Within the past six years, the Post-Disparcu has had to encounter some pretty hard citizens. But neverdid we see such gallas that of the manager for Minnie Palmer, viz., John R. Rogers. He had the nerve to ask us to setup a quarrel with some old prejudiced fossil for mixing up the names of Minnie Palmer and Lotta. Now, John, we are too old to be caught with your advertising move, as we are perfectly satisfied you paid the poor good-natured old sleeper to write it, that you might get us to start a controversy. While the Post-Dispatou has frequently admitted that on™ guered has no sues in her line of busi- ness, on orsing our opinions, we must John, your method is too thin. ws ite See Our Men's Great $5 Suits. In the great reduction sale, prio: to taking stock, at the Giosg, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue. A PAUPER’S BODY, An Old Woman's Corpse Dumped on Mor- fan Street and Reclaimed for Dissection. On Saturday night about 8 o'clock a woman lean- ing outof a window at Twenty-first and Morgan streets told a passing policeman that an undertak- er's wagon had run down the street and that she thought she saw a long white bundie drop out of it. The policemau and Lis partner walked down the street, aud at Seventeenth and Morsan came upon the ee an old woman wrapped oniy in a sheet in street. A patrol wavoa was the body dispate = to tho M orgue. i dopey ae — 5 ne Was asecrap of paper any one should suffer. the second week of i iH ie Z Jege authorities. f-* j NEW YEAR'S CALLS. Gentlemen intending to call should place their orders immediately for cards, 80 as to énsure their Ladies should ask to see and will surely want our new dainty novelty—the Autograph Calling Album. , Afermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company, Fourth and Locust. : A RELIC OF JACKSON, One of the Silken Nullification Proclama- tions Owned in St. Louis. It was stated in the Washington correspondence of the Posr-Disparon some days since that one of the sixteen original copies of Andrew Jackson's proclamation anent the South Carolina nullification attempt had been found in the possession of an old gentleman in Washington. The inquiry was at the same time expressed if any other copy of the original issue on silk was known to be in the country. Mr. Ramsey of the Union Stock Yards called at the Post-Dis- PATCH Office Saturday with another of the silken originals. When ident, J made his famous prociamat mber 10, 188%, a number of his friends had sixteen copies printed on silk. One of these was brought home by Congressman W. L. May of eae County, lil.,who gave it tothe late Capt. DeWitt. It is now the property of his son, Mr. Lon DeWitt, of St. Louis, and is avery valuable heirloom. =it consists of a sheet of white silk about the size of a page of the Post-DispatcH. The printing of the proclamation is as clear now as it was the it was printed. See Our Children’s Great $1 50 Union Cassi- mere Suits. In the great reduction sale, prior to taking stock, at the Grosz, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue. Do you want tosell anything or buy anything The Post-Dispatca is taken in more than half the houses in the city, and is read by everybody who wants to buy or sell anything. If itis not conven- ient for you to come down to the publication office, leave your advertisement at the nearest branch of- fice. : A Matrimonial Surprise. Mr. G. V. Bailey, principal of the Wayman-Crow School, and Miss Mary Saylor, a teacher in the same building, gave themselveseach to the other asa Christmas gift. There had been no preliminary symptoms of acase of matrimony, and to the few of their friends who have thus far learned of it the news came as avery great surprise. The couple started immediately after the wedding for New Orleans, whence they will return only in time to re- sume their duties on Monday. Boy’s Overcoats Almost Given Away. 800 finest cassimere and worsted overcoats for boys up to 17 years, some worth $6, some $8, some $10; all will go for $15 this week in the great re- duction sale. prior to taking stock, at the Goss, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue, .. - A TIMELY HINT. elegant Satin-Lined ‘‘Swallow-Tail’’ —w with Vests to match, ready for ew ceptions, at “‘Famous.” Also, a fullline of Satin Ties and Bows; Kid Gloves, in White and Opera Shades; Dress Shirts, with narrow plaited fronts, and unique. designs in Neck and Cuff Jewel Studs, ete. catches the worm.” and select your Dress Coat and Vest. ment. coats and Ladies’ Cloaks lower than ever offered in the West. Furnishings at tempting prices. FAMOUS, Interesting Personal, Social and News Ges By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. cl at Druids’ Hall, Saturday night. ton, Mo., died at the Hotel slipping and falling on Twelfth and O° on day, but was ex was the hip Saturday by falling on the corner of Four- teenth and Franklin avenue. day for stealing two hams from Keiser’'s grocery on Tenth street and Cass avenue. CITY NEWS. A Christmas festival was given at the Germania ub Saturday evening. The Electric Social Club gavea masked social ball Michael Flynn, a well ~~ es of Washing- un t ay. John Greene dislocated his shoulder yesterday by streets. A fire was discovered at 1521 Clark avenue yester- } tinguished before much damage one. Samuel Lewis sustained a compound fracture’ of Thomas Ryan was arrested and locked up yester- The Eastern Star Lodge of the Masons gave a Mattie Caldwell and Mr. O. T. Ralston took recently at Colorado Springs, Col. The bride is a peswed of Mr. S. H. Caldweil, formerly of Joplin. e and their daughter, Miss Maud Yeager, left yester- ad to visit friends at Fayetteville, Ark.——. tion arrived last evening.——Miss iting Mr. and Mrs. Bennett.——A boat is ons built at Wichita, Kan., on which six will float to New Orleans.——Mr. and Mrs. Ha Woodard of Drury College, Springfield, to ee holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Emma Shortess and Miss Cora Nevins have re- turned from attending the Southwestern Teachers’ Association at Nevada, Mo.——Miss Mamie Sim- mons and her cousin, Miss Alice Hunt. left for Terre Haute, Ind., for the holidays.——Miss Jessie Simmons returned special session at their hall on Twenty-second and Franklin avenue Saturday night, John Sullivan accidentally fell into the river terday at the foot of Eim street, but was rescued by Joseph Mitchel and James Deroy. A 22-months old child of William Renckel, resid- ing at 2325 Pine street, died suddenly yesterday of crawps under suspicious circumstances. A team of horses attached to a Health Depart- ment wagon ran away on Saturday and the wagon considerably before they were caught. A game of football was played at Union Park in the rain yesterday between the Canadian team anda a number of St. Louisans. The visitors won by 6 goais to 4, The five members composing the Donnely family, who reside at 909 Biddle street, were discovered to be suffering from small-pox Saturday, and were all sent to the Smali-pox Hospital. The inquest held by the Coroner yesterday on Garvey Chaplain, a young baby who died Saturday night at 722 N. Twelfth street, showed that it came to its death from infantile cénvuisions. Thomas Lee was locked up at Cote Brilliante sta- tion oa aay | fora brutal assault on his father, Michael Lee, living at Goode and Cote Brilliante avenues. Frank ton was arrested on the corner of Chouteau and Compton avenues on a similar charge. He made a vicious attempt to kill his father, D. H. Barton, on Saturday evening. The St. Louis Typographical Union held an elec- tion of officers yesterday with the following result: David Hayden was elected president; John Foley, vice-president; William H. li, recording secre- tary; Hugh McMurtry, financial secretary: James Friel, treasurer; Charles D. St. Vrain, seargant-at arms. Col. R. P. Yorkston was unanimously ins dorsed for Government Printer. Golden Rule Council, No. 35, Order of Chosen Friends, has elected the foliowing officers: Past C., Christian Wigart; ©. O., Mrs. G. Mathues;-V. C., Mrs. C. Deecker; R.S. and F.S.. Joseph Plotke; treasurer, W. H. Pauley; chaplain, Mrs. P. Sax; marshal, Conrad Deecker; inside guard, C. Spoona- inan; outside guard, Phillip Brown. Anchor Lodge, No. 443, A. F. & A. M., has in- stailed the following officers tor the ensuing year: Isaac M. Mason, W. M.; W. J. Thorn, senior war- den; Wm. Reipschiaeger, junior warden; C. ©. Rainwater, treasurer; R. H. The case of the State against Charles D. Bennett, accused of a. on the business of a private de- tective without license, came up in the Court of Criminal Correction Saturday before Mr. Joseph Lodge, who was chosen special judge to/ try the case The evidence showed Bennett's work in the French-Gray divorce case. Acting Judge said that the State hed made out its case, but beiug under some doubt as to law, he took the matter under advisement to look. up the authorities, At tie reguiar meeting of Heart in Hand Lodge No. 80, U. O. of H., Friday evening, December 28, there were eight candidates initiated, with sixteen more tocomein. The following are the o that were eiected for the new term: Past president, George E. Coleman; promdent, Sone Plotke; vice- president, Kate Kurtz; recording secretary, J. D. A. Trimp; financial secretary, Amelia Trimp; treasurer. L. B, Kurtz; chapiain, Elizabeth Vande- venier; conductor, Charles Piotke: inside guardian, Bianche Walker; outside g m. Stevens; medical examiner, F. B. Holmes, M. D. Knee Pants Almost Given Away. We will give away 1,000 pairs Union cassimere knee pants, worth 7 cents, for 25 cents, in the great reduction sale, prior to taking stock, at the Gross, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue, —_——— The Bethel Dinner. A splendid dinner will be given to-morrow at} noon to the boys of the town, at the Bethel, corner of Olive street and Levee. Tickets were given out y to at least 1,200 Parties who have samuel peaailanes are Sood to send them to the Bethel as soon as See Our Boys’ $1, $1 75 and $2 50 Over. coats. In the great reduction sale, prior io taking stock, at the Grose, 714 and 716 Frankiin aveuue. Do you want help? The Post-Dispatcs is read by every one in the city that wants & situation. If you live distant from the offide, go tothe nearest branch Office and save the trouble to hunt stamp gaan ¢ at Terre Haute. Sr. CHARLES, Mrs. Charles brated by a party at the residence of H. D. Bruns, her brother-in-law, Friday evening. _Rev. Irwin, of this place, filled the pulpit of the Second Pres number of valuable plants in the recent coid snap. ——There was a very enjoyable party at the resi- dence of H. D. or on Main street, Thursday evening.——Mme. forth Saturday night at the Opera House, to a fair audience of bald heads. B apd of railway officials, consisting of A. Kimball, oye manager, and T. F. Withrow, general solicitor tne Rock Island; T. J. Potter, J. S. Cameron, assistant, of the C., B. and Q., and A. A. Talmage, general manager of the Wabash, were here Saturday perfecting plans for the erec- tion of a union de pla terday.——George K. & St. L. Line, had his hand crushed while coup- oo Saturday.——City Engineer Conrad Em- Log Davis has been on the sick list during the past week. ——-Lizzie May-Ulmer in “Dad's Girl” to-night.—— Miss Mamie lodein by th li tilized yesterd } gs Oy the police were ulill y' ay clean- ing snow from sidewalks around city offices.——Dr. Bertram is confined to his home by reason of severe in tiie the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ww. — died Saturday, and was buried yesterday ternoon. This Will Surely Make Our Competitors Sick. and worsted overcoats, some worth $13, some $16, some $18; all will go for $10 this week inthe great redu ction sale, prior to taking stock, at the ein will celebrate the on New Year's Day. German-English instruction in Missouri. Several presentations students are requested to take F mae tion will take place at Oaxtleld. Mo., a leave Union Depot at7a.m. Those intending to be to ae are requested to send in their names to street, before noon, Tu y, Gentlemen will find several hundred ear Calls, Balls, Parties and Re- » Shirt Remember, *“‘the early bird So come in time Novelties in every depart- ae en’s and Boys’ Suits and Over- Shoes, Hats and Broadway and Morgan. RR gd ee OUR NEIGHBORS. sip from the Neighboring Towns Jopuin, Mo., December 28.—The marriage of — place mis from Ohio.—Mr. and Mrs. Yeager . and rs. J. W. Morgan and Miss Wheeler of Carl Junc- Cora Fisher of Summe oodard.——Miss Sallie Morgan Morgan.—— Miss this week from visiting relatives Mo., December 29.—The birthday of Donnerman, of St. Louis, was cele- Dr. suffering.” long struggle with Catarrh, the Rapicat Curse has conquered." — Rev, “T have notfound a case that it did not relieve at ouce.’*— Andrew Lee, Manchester, Mass. $i; better on we handle. have as many ribs as you’ll want, afid named by any house in the country. wouldn’t sell so many if we didn’t. In Rubber Coats we have an cxeellent assoriment, commencing with —as ought te be sold, up to a very fine article for ™ as lew, ade—$1 50 We understand the Umbrella business. TUMBRELLAS AND GOSSAMER ROBBER OFBRGARABIT There’s no better Umbrellas in the world than ours, because we k We're selling good Umbrellas that keep the rein cree better ones $1 25 to $3 50; strong, serviceable Silk, $4 and : » With rich, quaint and beaatifal handles, $7 to $15. All these Umbrellag | 23 extra fine the price in every ins as low AS ig 7. Should mind that we have ong, warm Overgarments with big, high collars, from $1: er rain and slush (at present writiug) turn into ice and hitter cold. please weep iy ty other kinds, and all cood, 37 50 to $50; warm Ta {5 to $50; Trousers, business and Dress, Mufilers, eter ress Suits, all shapes, $ Roys’ Suits and Overcoats, $3 to Warm underwear, Gloves, etc., of all sorts, at prices that you’ll find right—honest—low, to $1 the | lor-made a $s Lo $35, fos As there ’s no school this week bring the boys along—girls, too, and get them | one of our Electrical Instructors, and instructive; you will, too. } The little ones wil find BROADWAY, COR. PINE ST. ae a eee Thed M. Ward Furnitare, Stove and 1i1tS and (ittS Franklin Avenue. --_oO CO —_—_— AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF HOUSE- FURNISHING GOODS! Ou WEEKLY or MONTHLY PAYMENTS, at Lowest Cash. Prices. Cailand be convinced. Openevery evening unti] 9 o’clock. os SPECIAL NOTICES. annual meeting of stoockholders of the Mercantile Biock and Real Estate Association will be held on Monday, January 5, 1585, at the office of Dodd, Brown & Co, from $ to 5-p. m. for the purpose of electing directo for the ensuing year. M. D, DODD, retary. St. Louis, December 2, 1884. CFIO OTICE—The Third Nationa! Bank of St, Louis, December 10, 1884. The regular annual elec- tion for nine’(9) directors of this bank, will be hela on (the ay) J | 13, 1585, at the banking rooms. Polls epeafrem 12 m. until 2 o’clock p. m. . 4% T. A. STODDART, cashier. ——— — D D NOTICE—Union Savings Association, St. December 18, 1884.—The directors of this asso- ciation this day declared a dividend of four (4) per capital stock out of the earnings of the current payable to stockholders on demand, PETER NICHOLSON, President. Jas. B. Trve, Cashier. ( pryice of Helmbacher Forge and Roilin Election notice—St. Louis, Mo., Dec. annua! meeting of the stockholders of this company will be at the office of the Company, northwest corner Hroad- wayand Market street, Monday, January 12, 1885, for the of electing five directors to serve one year. Polls purpose open from 9 a. m. to 12 m. M. HELMBACHER, President. G. L. GOETZ, Secretary. G. F. VOGEL, “ MANUFACTURER OF Platform Wagons, Carriages and Bagsies, Trucks, Stake, Light and Heavy Spring Wagons. Every- thing on wheels made to order and repaired. Ss. W. Cor. Main and Spruce Sts., St. Louis Repairing and repainting promptly attended to. SNEEZE! cent 0g six TT SNEEZE! SNEEZE until your head seems ready to fly off; until your nose and eyes discharge excess- ive quantities of thin, irritating, watery fluid; untii your head aches, mouth and_ throat arched, and blood at ever heat. This is “Acute Catarrh, and is bottle RapicaL CURE FOR Complete Treatment with Inhaler $1.00. One bottle Radical] Cure.one box Catarrhal Solvent, and one po Inhaler, in one package, may now be had of al Rapbical CuRE. druggists for $100. Ask for SanFrorp’s “The only absolute specific we know of.”—Med. Times. “The best we have found ina lifetime of Rev. Dr. Wiggin, Boston. “After a S. W. Monroe, Lewisburgh, Pa, Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston. tanley’s Female Mastodons held Keokuk, Iowa, December 29.—A , of neral manager, and that has long been contem- ted. —-A January thaw prevailed yes- Matthews, a brakeman of the has gone to St. Louis.——Louis Immegart of t. Louis is visiting relatives here.——Frank W. ood of St. Louis is visiting Mrs. C. P. s here.——Tramps who had been furnished uries sustained from a fall Saturday evening.— 600 men’s finest cassimere beavers, corkscrews Grose, 714 and 716 Franklin avenue, Tue members of the Steines’ Oakfield Schulver- Iden wedding of Mr. Steines r. Steines is the pioneer of will take place, and all of his old The celebra- nd trains will T. Ledergerber, president, at 404 Market December 30. Tue Canada foot-ball team was tendered a recep- tion by the Hibernian Club at the residence of Mr. Dan Linehan, 1517 Clark avenue, last evening. —- This medicine, combining I For the relief and prevention. co LL i Ns: - instant it is applied,of heumatism. Neuraigia,Sciat- OLTAIC = ica Coughs.Colds, Weak Back, Stomach and Bowels, Shooting es, en at pany ‘female Pains, alpitation, \ Dyspepsia, Liver (€ — Biiious Fever. Malaria and Ep- Pp ELECTRIC @ idemics, use ee ‘ers (an Electric Battery LA STER- combined with a Porous Plaster) and lauch at pain. 25c. everywhere. ee = = Sal-Muscatelle. Sick Headache Cure iN AMERICA. The Crystallized Salts as extracted from Grapes and Fruit; a most wonderful product from Nature's Laboratory. Have it in your owe or —— opeaes and Gone — tage. Aspecificfor the Fa eary or Worn Ow Cures Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Bromach. Liver apd Bow el Compiaigts. Supplies the want of sound ripe fruit. ; Pre by the . LONDON SAL-MUSCATELLE COMP’Y, Londen, Engiand. Beware of imitations: the genuine in “! ue a ee For sale by Richardson Drug Comp’y, Meyer & St. Louis. : SE ELECTION NOTICES. ee — Notice of Election. OFFICE OF Simmoxs HARDWARE Co., St. Louts, December 22, 18%4. The annual election of directors of this company will be at their-offices on Monday, the 5th of January, 1885, the hours of 10 and }2 a. m. FE. C. SIMMONS, President. B, H. Stockton , Secretary. ice GARUTH & BYRNES HARDWARE CO. December 25, eye ne is he given Mills Co.— 1884. The | =|A SINGLE FACT IS WORTH A SHIP LOAD OF ARGUMENT. 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