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MONDAY. JAM. 0. 1890. AMUSEMENTS.

Me VTCKZB THKATEB Je ffsrson andriorsne stS CHICAGO OPERA H0USE-8tnrt Bobson et 8. COLUMBIA at 8. HOOIJf.Y-8 THEATEB "Our Flat" at 8. GRAND HOUSE Poasart at 8. TtfAVLra'S THEATEB Nellie McHenryet hV PEOPL.E'8 THEATEB "Guilty Without Crime" at 8.

THE HAYMARKET The Suspect at 8. H. B. JACOBS' ACADEMY -Rag Baby" at ft. CRITEKIOM THEATER "Neck and Keck" at 8.

LYCEUM THEATER VandeTllle at A. H. K. JACOBS CLARK BT. THEATER Georse Wil- los Minstrels at H.

KEW WIN DSOH 47" at 8. THE STANDARD Mc Kee Rankin at OLYMPIC THEATER Variety at 3 And 8. EXPOSITION Art gallery 10 ajn. to 10 pja. ULBBY PRMOX Open day and renins.

KDEX MTJ3EE Open day and renins. EPSTEAJTS MUSEUM 10 ajn. to 10 p.m. KOHL MXDDLETOJTo SOUTH BIOS M08EUM-10 a.m. to lo pan.

KOHL MXDDLET05T3 WEST SIDE MUSEUM 1 to 10 pjn. SECRET SOCIETY NOTICES. THE MEMBERS OF ALDDfE LODGE. NO. las.

K. of are no tided of tbe death ot Brother George Koester. which occurred on Saturday. Jan. 18.

at 4 o'clock p. m. Member ol tbe lodge will meet at his late residence, lit) Booth I-esvitt street, at 1 o'clock. Tuesday. Jan.

VI. where the funeral ceremonies will be held, thence bycar- i riages to Roe Hill. Br order of the O. W. B.

NUTT. B. and B. THS BUSTBTSS WOSLB. "The machinery ot general business is working quite smoothly again.

Still Jan- nary is distinctly a month or anticipation and calculation rather than a period of great activity in commercial and Industrial affairs. There was less cessation In the absorption and distribution of commodi ties during the holiday season this year than usual, and the sales of all kinds of merchandise and produce nave almost universally grown out of actual consump tive requirements. This wholesome and satisfactory-con ditloa of the purely legitimate Interests is rather anomalous, in view ot the apathetic state of the various specu lative markets. As a matter of fact the masses of the people, who must support any sustained movement in speculation. have been educated in the trying school of experience to the risks and dangers It Involves The amateurs have been taken in too often by the professionals.

There is now neither novelty nor enjoyment for the average outside customer of the commis sion merchant in Chicago or the stock broker in New York to lose his hard-earned money because the veteran operators of these cities have the power to control the quotations of nearly every day of the year to their own advantage. Then, again. money is accumulated with greater effort each year in sections ot the country that are most thickly populated and eompetl tlon In business is more More fortunes are gathered together now by self-sacrlfloe, thrift, economy, and saving than ever before. When men become wealthy, or even prosperous, through the fortuitous circumstances of the rapid civ ilization of a new country they enter naturally into all sorts of speculative op erations and schemes. This class of people is comparatively small, however, and the toilers have suffered too much already from having their life's blood sucked away from them In tbe most unceremonious manner possible.

Whether this be the full explanation of the recent dullness In speculation on the recognized markets or not, it is very certain that professional manipulation on the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock Exchange has reduced the tabled goose to such weakness that she Is only able to lay golden eggs of very minute proportions. Capital Is generally employed, and must have sought the safer forms of investment. The institutions mentioned are not likely to enjoy their former prosperity igalu until publics that they can convince the their rules allow equal privileges to each man who trades on their Boors, and that they will -be honestly and rigidly enforced at all times. Conservatism has also taken pretty firm root in the conduct of mercantile and industrial affairs. The retail merchant, the Jobber, and the manufacturer have each learned to wait for the positive demands of their patrons before supplying them- staple articles.

Thus stocks ot merchandise or mineral products do not depress the general markets or seriously Involve -business houses in times of widespread- dullness In trade. Tbe bankruptcy record has not equaled expectations since the year began and this consistent plan ct placing goods on the market only after they are called for bv the consuming classes has done much to prevent Insolvency everywhere. -iS During tbe past week the colder weather has given quite a stimulus to trade In some staple commodities that have- been relatively neglected because of the nigh aver age temperature of the autumn and The continued activity and strength of the iron market appears to be entirely sound as it is said to be based upon the absolute requirements of The open weather, has per mitted railway repairs and construction in many quarters that are ordinarily snowbound at this season of the year. Struot- oral Irons, nails; and all kinds ot hardware are needed on the same account. Ballroad earnings show constant enlargement.

Operating expenses have been reduced, and volume of property being moved Is very large. The movements of grain, live stock, and" provisions "are liberal from the West, and cotton Is being taken In enormous quantities from the South. Our exports ot produce and cot ton are conspicuously large, but foreign bankers are still protecting their gold supplies by maintaining fictitiously high rates of Interest. Money Is somewhat more plentiful at our principal -markets, but the demands for It for commercial purroses have Increased. There Is no Immediate prospect tor cheap money at the West at least, DBaUTAGE TEUSTEE8 aSD THE STATUTES.

The drainage trustees seem to be some what dazed by the magnitude ot their re sponslbilitles and their own lack ot experience in publlo affairs. They met Saturday, all being present except Mr. ilotz. who still lingers in Europe. A.

temporary organization was effected by putting Dr. Gilmore, dentist, in the chair and making Mr. Wenter secretary. Judge Prender-gast is the one member of the board who has given much attention to the subject, and he really ought to have been made chairman. Ail that was done in addition to this temporary organization was the appointment of a committee on rules of action.

It consists ot Murry Nelson, Judge Prendergast, and John Ai King. The Judge wanted the board to adjourn to Wednesday, but the decision was to ad' Journ over to Saturday. Then the committee will probably report. It looks very much as if the majority wanted to delay matters as much as possible a vague hope that something or other would occur to relieve them from the present burden of responsibility. If these gentlemen would give the drain age act a careful reading thoy would find the line of duty therein laid down.

The indications are that they are hunting around for the best way to. bring a test case, as if it were their duty to call in question the validity ot the law. I On tbe contrary it is their duty to assumeHhe law to be constitutional in all its parts, and that the steps thus far taken were legal, nd that all the stops required by the statute up to date had been actually taken. If any tax-payer, individual or corporate, wants to bring in question either of these three assumptions well and good, but we want no bogus test case. No good eould come of such proceeding.

A bona fide test of all debatable points Is inevitable, and might as well be taken for granted The enemies of the Improvement are not silly birds to be caught by chaff-baited gins. One way to test the matter would be to sue for an injunction restraining the board from proceeding under the Btatute, and another to wait until a tax has been levied and is collectable. There are still other and less direct courses known to judicial proceedings, but we repeat that the board need give Itself no concern about that They form no part ot Its duty except in a purely defensive way. If the drainage trustees will turn to the twenty-seventh section of the act undor which they were elected and to which they are in subjection they will find something which seems at first to relate to the con clusion of their work but which in reality relates to Its very inception. It will' be observed that the drainage channel after being constructed can not be used until its compliance with the law has been certified to by a board of three commissioners, one of whom shall reside at Joliet, or between that city and LaSalle, and another at Peoria.

In other words, the works can not be used at all unless satisfactory to the Illinois Valley people. Not that these commissioners will have power to arbi trarily object and wantonly prevent the utilization of the work accomplished; but they may and must object to turning the water and sewage on unless the channel complies with the law. The language employed is, "and In case they shall find the work in all respects In accordance with the provisions of section 23 of this act they shall certify to the Governor, who shall thereupon authorize the water and sewage to be let into such channel. But, In case the said commissioners shall find said channel la not constructed In accord ance with the provisions ot this act, it shall be their duty to file tn any eourt of competent jurisdiction, on the chancery side thereof, in their name as such commissioners, a bill against said corporation. The reasons for asking an Injunction must be specifically set forth, and if sustained by the facts an Injunction must be issued, to hold until the channel has been made to conform to the law.

Obviously, then, the trustees must adhere from the very first closely to the act, ud that should be the burden of their anxiety. PRIVATE WBOffQ AID PUBLIC DISGBAGB. In one of his flings at Dickens and lau dations ot Henry James Mr. Howells remarks In effect that I in our day and land actual life does not furnish material for stories of sensational pathos, but The Iktxb Oceabt ot yesterday in its local columns gave In outline a tale of private wrong and publlo disgrace to which even the creator of Little Nell could hardly do Justice. Bight here in this city, in the midst of opulence and plenty, a poor woman was left to die of destitution, even though the authorities having charge ot such matters were repeatedly notified of the facts In the case.

In a city of a million Inhabitants there will always be occurring cases ot extreme destitution, the victims too proud to make known their wants, but when, as In this Instance, a well-known and reputable citizen gives the necessary notice no red-tape excuses can be accepted In explana-' tlon of. failure to afford relief. The victims of this monstrous inhu manity were four, two children, their mother, Mrs. Jewett, and their grandmother, Mrs. Fi6her.

They lived at No. 319 Wist Bandolph street. Their extreme destitution became known to Mr. Simeon W. King, the well-known lawyer, a week ago to-day.

The grand TffiE IDAHjY iOTEBi OCEAN, MONPAT; MOKNTNG, JANTJAIIX SO, 1890. mother was quite sick, and the mother far from well. The family was without fuel or food. Mr. King made provision for their immediate wants and then notified the authorities at the County Board headquarters.

That should have been The county, and not tbe city, assumes the responsibility ot meeting such wants, and has an agent, with, sub-agents, for that especial purpose. The family was so near the office of the County Agent that a few boors should have sufficed to bring relief, but as matter of fact Mrs. Fisher, whose death did not occur until Friday, was left to die, without anything being done, and that, too, although Mr. King made three different efforts to secure relief. Each time It.

was promised, and some excuse found tor putting it off. Boodllng on the county is bad enough, but homicide by the county is Infinitely worse; and that is about what It amounted to in this case. County Agent Foley excuses himself on tbe ground that be was bound hand and foot by red-tape rules; but whether the blame rests upon him or the Board of Commissioners It sertalnly rests on one or the other, and In either case the blood of Mrs. Ann Fisher is on Cook County. The Coroner should have held an Inquest on her body, and the jury should have brought In this verdict: Died of Cook County Inhumanity, A few weeks ago the people of Chicago were expending about $10,000 a sight In one particular form of amusement, and that feast of melody was followed by a ball in the name of charity.

The word charity was blazoned above the dancers in letters of. fire. AU this was right and proper, but surely a community which invokes the name ot charity In tbe climax of its expensive gayety should not be Indifferent to a system of publlo charity under which a re peatedly notified case ot extreme des titution couid be allowed to go oi un heeded until death brought relief to the senior member of the household. If our people allow this sort of Infamy to go on un reformed, then the next great ball should be given In the name of hypocrisy. There is another phase to this case.

It is represented that this family came to be in such destitution because great corporation, the Wisconsin Cen tral Ballroad Company, broke faith with Mrs. Jewett, whose husband received dis abling and finally fatal Injuries in its service. If the facta prove upon verification to be as stated yesterday, then that culprit corporation should be compelled to carry out its obligation to Mrs. Jewett In good faith. But whatever the facts may be in that matter, there can be no excuse for Cook County, and the Board of Com mlssioners should lose no time in reforming the present monstrous system of county relief.

THE AFBO-AMEBIOAHAal) THE SOUTH. The first Southern newspapers to take notice of the Afro-American convention lately held in Chicago are the Charleston AVtos a4 Courier and the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. "It was vile and misleading. says the latter Journal. No specification of its vileness, however.

Is made, but as to lis "misleading" nature, we are Informed that Mr. C. H. J. Taylor, (the Chronicle does not honor bun by the title of but speaks of him, as Southerners ever do of the negro, as one of the proletariat to whom the name ot Mister is not applicable), "has put a powerful ban of condemnation upon such a convention.

It was not representative, it was irresponsible, unau thorized, and unwise. The real leaders of the colored people In the South were not present. The real Interests of the colored people in the South were not consul ted. It Is not for twenty such men as Mr. Taylor, of Georgia, to put such a convention under "a powerful ban of condemna The proceedings of that convention are in print and have been read by tens of thousands and approved.

They are mod erate In tone, practical In method, set in "a form of sound words. We take It that Mr. Pledger, of Georgia, Is every whit as much ot a leader as Mr. Taylor, ot Georgia. Moreover, why did not Mr.

Taylor avail himself of the opportunity of presenting his side ot the case to the con vention? He would have been heard re speotf ully. The Charleston 2fete mnd Courier does accord to Mr. Taylor the ordinary title of polite society but, like the Augusta Chronicle, it Insists that because Mr. Taylor was not present and president and director general there fore the convention was "not representa But who made Mr. Taylor sole representative ot the negroes in the South? Wherein are his qualifications superior to those of Mr.

Pledger? But we observe that neither the Neyc and Courier nor the Chronicle reply to what was said during the convention. Mr. Fortune, Pledger, of Georgia; Mr. Hayne, who, by the way, is from South Carolina; Mr. who is' from Mis souri; and Mr.

Price, who is from North Carolina, surely can speak for the Southern negro as well as Mr. Taylor can, and none of them spoke with bitterness, though all with firmness. What was said was this: between fire and six millions ot people Inhabiting this Republic are not allowed to do the best that they can for. themselves, and this enforced degradation of so large a number Is a curtailment of the National wealth and a menace to the National safety. It is for the Southern newspapers to dispute this proposition if It can be disputed.

And as remedies for this ap palling evil It was proposed that the op pressed race should unite la a league for self-betterment. White workmen and farmers have united' in why not colored workmen and farmers? And also it was proposed that a more liberal pro vision for schools, to which, of course, the negroes shall be admitted, should be made in ail Southern States. Is this proposK tlon evil In Itself? The need of education' was the uppermost topio of the convent Uon. Is It dangerous topic? These are the facts and queries which the Southern press must deal with. It will not do to evade them by saying that the convention was not representa tive, because Mr.

Taylor was not In It, for Pledger represented Georgia, the eloquent Mr. Hayne spoke for South Carolina, the i scholarly Mr. Price for North Carolina, and Mr. Pelham for Missouri. So that four ot the once slave-holding States were represented.

Besides whloh. if it be said, as truly it can not be said, that the negroes ot the North had It all their own way, then this question is to be answered: If education has made the Northern negro a useful citizen, why will not education make the Southern negro a useful citizen? The convention has brought the negro question onto the high plane ot argument. "The superiority ot the white race" is' not In the debate. Whether the white race be superior or no, the proceedings ot the convention have proven that the negro race is capable ot the highest duties of citizenship; those of systematic organization, logical debate. methodical and dispassionate deliberation, to wit.

The Afro-American Convention was. as we believe, the first ot many peaceful and ever widening steps toward the perfect enforcement of the laws and Constitution of the United States. DEXOCBACT EXTLADTED. The following extract explains pretty freely and plainly the position of the fire-eating Democracy of the South: Becently. In a brief paragraph, tha Slate pretty plainly reiterated its views of the fourteenth sod fifteenth amendment, and.

prompted by a certain lament ot Tbb Ibtkb Ocxam. declared that it la true the amendments In the Sonth are "In the mnd." and that "Lha mad Is the place for them." Tills is taken from a lengthy and vulgarly abusive article from the New Orleans State. It is wholly unfair, ill-mannered, ungentlemanly and without a spark of patriotism. About the some date that this editorial was published the Montgomery Advertiser, commenting upon "the negro celebration of the emancipation proclamation," told tbe black people of the South they were not Indebted to Lincoln for their freedom, but the slaveowners themselves. Iu the territory mentioned by the Advertiser as especially excluded from President Lincoln's proclamation was a portion of the State of Louisiana, which the States desires so valiantly to represent.

The Advertiser says: They the alares were emancipated by the Bfates themaalres la 1863. and before tbe adopUon of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The net-roes wero enfranchised by these States before the adopUon of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. It would be well if the editor of the States would look Into this "tyranny of the North" that has foisted these amendments to the Constitution upon the unwilling people ot the South and "freed the niggers" and "enfranchised them." The Stales leaves no one in doubt as to ft sentiments. It is as defiant as before or during the war.

It is a fire-eater and a secesh In its full acceptation of the terms. The States says: We repeat, deliberately and coolly, and we peak for the Democracy of the Sonth. that amendments or bo amendments, election laws or bo election laws, the whites of the Sooth are bow controlling, and win henceforth continue to control, it political destinies. The only way for Tbb IKTXB Oczax sad It parry to prevent this Is to exterminate or expel from these by flra and sword, the whites, and tura the country oyer to the negroes, see These amendments are dlftgraoe to the Ameri-can people, they are a cars to the naerro, sad they bare paralysed, aa we have frequently said be fore, ail independence of political discussion and action ia the Booth. They are the outgrowth of the bitterness of the civil war; they are the crystal! zs ti on la the Constitution of the fierce fanatiaUm of the old abolitionists, of the venom.

ferocity, cowardice, and folly of the statesmen ot reconstrocUon, and of the humiliation of the Sooth. They are of that fool Utter of monstros ities which burst from the fcettd womb of re construction twins of carpetbags-ery. Judicial outrages boob personal liberty, baas political murder, vengeance, and hate. The States winds up its windy utterances with the following pleasing summary: When The Ixteb Oceab and the gang of traitors in and oat of Congress with whom it trains, and who, la their villainous purpose to solidify sad perpetuate the power of the Bepab-Ucsb party, are threatening to control the elections in the South by force and arms la violation of the Constitution, come to frame their iniquitous statutes, they had better provide, in addition to their supervisors, marshals, and regis trars, aa ambulance corps for each precinct to cart off their carrion when the polls are closed: for. with scanter courtesy than the stoat old eari accorded his false king, we ah all leave the dead bodies of their hirelings and rufoaa deputies to rot where they may bite the dustia their attempts to enforce the treasonable schemes of Bepublicaa revolutionists traitors, VOH-FABTEiAI TXaTERATOE.

A meeting which is likely to prove highly Important will be held In Cleveland on the 22d and 23d Inst. It will be the first National convention of the Non-partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, an offshoot of the Woman's Christian Tem perance Union rendered inevitable by the success of the St. Johnltes In making that once grand organization a tall to the Pro hibition party kit. Mrs. J.

Ellen Foster, the leader In this new movement, has been fairly driven Into taking this course by the contemptuous and unfair treatment she and her sympa thizers received not only In the Chicago convention last fall but continually for the last four or five years ever since, in fact. she and they refused to bow the knee to Baal Su John In 1884 In his ambition to be the founder and leader of a great polit ical party. There Is Imminent danger that the cause of temperance will be seriously retarded by demagoglsm, and this Cleveland convention. If Its proceedings are marked by common sense, will be of very grett benefit to the cause by arresting the reactionary tendency. There are some half a dozen States of this Union which are.

overwhelmingly Republican, and which have adopted pro hibition as their be tiled policy. Among these Is Iowa, That State has been brought to the precipice of Democracy by the temperance agitation, but It was by those who spell prohibition with a big instead of the ordinary lower-case letter used by common people. So long as the friends of the prohibitory pollc were content to trust implicitly the Bapubllcan party their cause was atfe! jsirrat'Hll and every con- iu -vie. wageaor oi woo wer -loudest-1 have tiuHei, hlrd Prty a powerful has set in. Fortunately Mrs.

Foster Is an Ipwin, and she has' been able to do much to stem the reactionary tide. She deserves the thanks alike of the prohibitionists and the- Bepubllcans. Her latest movement Is clearly in the Interest ot temperance legislation and of the Bepub- lican party as a political It was a clear oase of killing two birds with one stone, and both, "birds" of very great Importance. 8paklng recently of the perversion of the W. C.

T. Uj into tbe adjunct of a party Mrs. Foster said that party alliance had brought perplexity and controversy into the temperance ranks, and greatly injured the work of the union and hindered the progress of the cause. There can be no doubt of that. A conspicuous example of it can be found in New York.

That being a close State the third party holds tbe bal ance ot power. It casts its weight every time Into tbe Democratic scale, in favor of Governor HilL notoriously the pet of. the saloons. By co-operating with the Bepubllcans the Prohibitionists might place tbe reins of State government In the hands ot the party which has enacted prohibition in every State where It exists at all. and on which the temperance people must rely for It Is surely quite time for sincere and reputable friends of the cause of temperance to out loose from the party of St.

John and John Culver. This Cleveland convention ought to prove the beginning of great movement. Many women all over the country with strong temperance proclivities have been repelled from the old W. C. T.

U. by Its partisan drift and character who should now rally to the support of the Non-partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union. And this non-partisan organization ought to be broad and practical enough to embrace those who believe in local option and high license tor States in which the Maine law plan has free whisky as Its inevitable sequence. But the duty on quinine did not increase the price of quinine, the removal of the duty did not increase the price. Thb Ibtkb Occam.

Then what is the daty oa quinine wanted agala for? There is raid to restore that blood tax. but if it won't have say effect os the price one is at a loss to know why. lndinapoei ifotes. Let us tell you. To prevent the European makers supplying more than half the American market.

That is why. And that only. To keep the number of dollars now paid for European-mads quinine In the hands of Americans. Tbe price would not be a -quarter of a cent per ounce higher with duty than without It. It might be lower; it could not be higher.

Expert-enoe proves this. We had five quinine making firms In the United States during the duty period. Now we have but three, and two of these are making but little. Tbe repeal of duty has not cheapened the drug, but It has given half of our market to foreigners. The St.

Louis Republic returns to Its charge on the last Republican Legislature in Illinois for "whitewashing ex-Governor Oglesby's administration ot extravaganoe at the executive mansion." i The editor of the Republic claims that the charges proven. In that he is strangely at war with such Democrats as Senators Belter, Shutt, Higbee, Karraker, McDonald, Stephenson, and other members of the Stabs Senate, who heard all the evidence, and at every session of the committee continually broke tbe third commandment because Senator Shumway was trying to make the Democratic party responsible tor his stupid blunder in demanding the Investigation. Thb Dayton Journal complains that The Ikteb Ocbah, In speaking well of Congressman McKlnley's loyalty to Senator Sherman, does injustice to others by casting reflections upon Governor Foraker. Major Blckham is overseasitive regarding Governor Foraker. Thb Ittxr, Oceajt has never had an unkind word for the courageous Governor of Ohio who has Just retired from office.

It will be in evidence that X)olonel Brios was OBoe a citizen of Ohio" that he moved from thence to New York, aad lives In a palatial residence. No. 693 Fifth arena, has sworn that he was a red dent of New York, sad has voted there. He was named months ago as one of the incorporators of tbe world's fair la New York. He may.

however, be able to show that he was among the favored ones, able to hold a reatdeaee ia both States. The probabilities are that ho will be able to explain. jThe sttaatloa certainly seeds ezpUaatioa. Thb St Loois Republic wul not even agree to Senator Morgan's plan to send the negroes all back to Africa, Majah Jonee is so engrossed with his "irrepressible confllct-between the raosa" that he will agree to nothing save the oomplew annihilation of the black man. Bat the Majah was rsised in Florida, where tbe principal sporfiof Democrats Is to hunt black Republicans with shotguns and blood-hoaads.

He may in time become civilised, even ia 6 Ltouia. Tbb Bsv. 8am Jones, ia a sermon, prophesies that "1890 will be aa epochal year. Bam has evideaUy got oae year. It will be hard to excel 188 for its disasters aad remarkable areata." Bach prophecies made to excite the timid are only mischievous ia character.

People who are frightened into heaves sever get very fa inside the lines, sad when they get out, aa they generally do, ''their last oonditioa is worse than the first." A OBXAT many people who are poor are living sad walking over untold hordes of wealth. A farmer living In the southern part of Douglas CoaatT.Baaaas.hsa discovered a vela ot marble aad granite about thirty feet ia thickness aad about twenty-five feet below the surface. Successive strata developed different colors, betiaaiag with a mottled gray sad running thronsk blalah. pink, bine, red. and clear white.

Lady Btaxlat, of Prratoo, tbe first lady ot the Canadian Domlntoa. has decided to follow the exsmple of Queen Victoria, and ostracise divorced females, who are otherwise eligible to attend official receptions. This deprives the wife of the Canadian Minister ot Finance from such distinguished recognition, aad makes it embarrassing all around. It tarnishes the sensstios of the day ia the Canadian capital. tr the world's fair should com to Chicago the people can be tare of a good beefsteak.

On Chicago firm last year slaughtered OQ.OOO head of cattle, and did a business of over tea.000.00u, Chicago wul hare to furnish pretty much everything that is beet la the provision line if New York, with her allies, should succeed la cap taring the fair. The terms will be Oi D. every time, Ir Senator Morgan, of Alabams it, aa charged, "a bora Welshman," ought he set to be a little modest in arguing la favor of sending native-born colored men to Africa What right has this pompous carpet-bag American to be talking of driving native-bora black, red. or white American eftiams to a foreiga soil? He can leave at any time If not suited. Miss Biblakd was das in Havre on Saturday, aad Kelly Ely la dne ia Saa Francisco oa Wednesday.

Amerioan railroads are a little sorer than steamaaips, aad the ehanoes favor Nelly by a few hoars. BzeArss il is winter is no reason why the filth ot months should be allowed to aoosmalate upon the poblle streets. There has set been a week whan the scavenger eonld not do bis work ss effectually as la July sad August, There to shameful aegiect somewhere. The death rate la Chicago during the past month tell the danger. VJ thu eostCUOOO.OOOia to be built la Chicago, It seems not oa the Kast SWejjie was originally reportod.

i-eeia Mm- Chicago "know bo East Side." It 1 divided into "thwth," aad -North Side." They are aU one la favor of the hotel and the world's fair. Tbb Mayor of Frankfort, vetoed aa ordi-aanee against cigarette smoking oa the ground that any other colonel of Keatackyhae as much right to smoke cigarette as the Mayor haste smoke a pipe. It's aa unanswerable argument, bat one that has not always been 11 stoned to la Kentucky. Jnsr think of it The Fret JVest, Oeoaomo-woo, where the loe is usually two feet thick, says: Pan sis Is blossom 1b tbe garden la midwinter D- J. Thompson had a bed of them.

Saturday at least 900 blossoms were picked. The bed was covered with straw, and the flowers had Beeped ap through it. A GurjrzA ben and a coupla; of crows can drowa all the bird mnsle in the field aad woods. Aad so can two or three groaoers aad croakers la a community put a damper oa life sod busineaa. Send them to the rear; they sever yet helped themselves or anybody else to earthing that was good.

Wbejt Now York has to pool issues with Washingtoa aad Sk Jjouls to work oa the Issue of the world's fair site against I Chicago It furnishes a flatteriag testimonial to the strength of oar city. A peach orchard near Dover, DsL, is in bloom. The people who cheer the world with frosty announcements have their eye oa It ready to shriek "I told yoa to." A bxu. has passed tbe Massachusetts Senate to place a United" States flag in every school-house. Tbe good work started in Chicago goes bravely an.

Ex-Go vxbnob Pat.mxb declares the next Illinois Zaegislataro wul bo Democratic He made the same declaration about the Governorship two years ago. Srx.VBB threads among the gold would have bees the appropriate song for the banquet of the California -Forty-niner. Exoia-td appears to be posing aa a bully as far as Portugal is eoaeeraed. Thb decoy letter is the popular bait for landing postal purloin era. Thxb awning the Chinaman's greeting is: "Happy New Year." Good morning.

Judge Kohls sat; take the Probate bench I Wzbtbb makes its presence felt, with a dull drip. drip. PEOPLE AID EVE2TTS. TBB City Connral of Minneapolis has authorised too Minneapolis Street Bail way Company to substitute alectncity for cable power. Major Seefa Prjrro, whose conduct of Portuguese affairs in Africa has rouaed tbe ire of the British liott, is a native of Portugal mnd 44 years old.

He joined the Portuguese army in 1863. and has mads himself especially valuable to his country ia tbe general European scramble for dominion ia Africa, Tbb committee) of the American Society of Civil Bngineers who mads aa examination into tbe facts attending the bursting of the dam which resulted in toe Johnstown calamity have agreed upon a report; whiosi the society, bow-ever, ham decided not to make subiio, "because of the many suits ponding for Focb young lads, with ages ranging from 11 to 15 years, arrived la. New York last Thursday from too west coast of Africa, sent hither by a Methodist lady mission srj, to be educated in this coon try and then returned to assist ia edu cating and Christianising the African people. Xwo or toe ooye are eons or auxerons osuoie or wild and hoa'tbea tribes, who nave, one seven and one twelve wires. The boys have Christian names, and very fittingly one was named Gilbert Haven, after the deoeaeed Methodist bishop, who received his death from tbe seeds of African fever contracted in his Episcopal visiutioa to the dark ooouoeot The BIy-Bialsnd circumnsvigatory globe race is about drawing to a close.

Mies Bly is bow oa tbe Faeino bound tor Saa Francisco, where she is das Jan. 22. To accomplish her particular fee) seventy-fire days, tne time advertised, aha moat arrive in Saa Francisoo oa time, and make the trip across tbe continent at aa unfavorable aoacoa aad contend fng with de layed travel to Ave days ia order to reach mow York Jan. 27. as per schedule.

Miss Biaiaod should now oa oa too Allan tie, on La Cbam- rjacna. and is duo ia New York Jan. 2a. If she tons arrives she will have rounded the globs ia less than seventy-two days. Miss Elizabeth Bisxabs, who recently started at six hours notion to nuke a journey around the world for ths Cotmapolitan Mmgn- sto, is a New Orleans girl, whose) family was ruined by tbe war.

With a brave, self-reliant spirit shs went to New York, and by ths sheer vaioo of her talents made her way saooesafuliy oa tbe pre. She is now a beautiful young woman of 24, saving a noma ngure crowned by a sanerB head, with enough character la it to suoplv toe defects of a dosen court beauties. Her cosy homo in Mew York ia the center of a delightful group ot choice spirita, artists, writers, oto A Mere Dog-trot Pace for Chicago. Omaha Seimbltean; Chicago will ret too world's fair if she maintains too present pace, Bhe hag the money and the workers. Ohio's TJbiqultoaus Senator.

Boob ester Herald: Even Harp'm Weekly In a sketoh ot Mr. Bnos says his hpme is at No. 693 Fifth avenue, but he spends the summer at a Newport oottage. TJnpatriotio Bosh. Washington Evening Capital: The Charleston New mnd Courier ays: "We know that Mr.

Davis was a great man tbe ares test of the) century." This is eulogy rma mad. An Unanswerable Argument. Denver Tunes: The West demanda that the fair be held ia ths great Inland city of ths country, that ths foreign visitors may have the opportunity to see how great a land this is. The South Has Its Eyes Open. Maooa TeUereipki If New York gets ths world's fair it will always be a question whether Mr.

Depew's eloq nenoe or Mr. Flower' champagne did the business. It is reported that ths committee having the matter under eoasidsra-tioa wars greatly effected by both. The "Way to Get Beady Is to Get Bendy. Bochester Foet-Expre: Chicago ia going right on with her preparations for the world's fair; New York has beoriptioa list ot over $5,000,000.

bat ths Western city has already collected about $4,000,000 to cash, and money is supposed to talk, Murphy's Sway in Iowa. St. Louis Gloot-Detnoermii It ia certified that In five weeks' recent labor in Iowa Francis Murphy got 10.000 people to sign tbe total abstinenoe pledge. This signifies that Iowa bad 1 ..1 law and hire Murphy to take charge of her temperance interests, A Faithful Trust FudxUled. Detroit tree iV: Ths meeting of ths Johnstown Flood Belief Commission held at Pbiladei-piila oa Thursday practically sods ths edminie-tration of one of ths most remarkable trusts In the history of to world.

This vast trust was administered with the greatest economy and. it seems to us, with much wisdom, Ths same amount of money would not have been handled by any financial Institution for private par-, pose invested, for example, for private ao-coont without greater eoet There baa been some grumbling, to bo snre, but that was inevitable, for selfishness aad discontent are foaod everywhere, bat ths verdict of every fair person mast be that ths administration of tbe trust was worthy of ths generous liberality which gave it origin. The Negro II aa Romrthln tn s- St Louis Globe-Democrat: There to probably not a single colored man to the country who wants to go to A fries, svsa if he could have all his expenses paid, with "forty acres and a muie" thrown in. What is ths use. then, of talking abont tbe deportation of the whole raoo to that quarter Poetry and Arithmetic Newark Journal: From six you take nine, 1 and from, nine you take ton; then from forty take fifty, and six will remain.

SIX IX XL ix The Singer of One Song. on died bo more but that: A sinsle song end carelessly complete. He would not bind aad thrash hi chacce-growa wheat. Hot bring bis wild fruit to tbe common vat. le store the acid rinsings, thin and flat, squeezed from the Dress or.tiwM-n A Of-'SJi1 fcoD.y-.wet, Ditrsi ana spuiea ins TimvTb, soonest drops the heaviest thinrs i.LT Bl.

iu diamond long; bo through the poet's orchestra, which weave One music from thousand stops and strings, Pierees the note of that tmmorlll aoos High over ail the lonely basis rrievea." Henru Augumtin brere, off mot of EnaXUk LUemture tn Yale Cmvemtw. The Toung Giant's Prospect. Cleveland Lender: Ths majority of ths anti-Chicago oosiitioa is so very Blender that it eould not possibly be bald for any one of the other claimants of the Columbus fair. Half of ths New York men would prefer Chicago to 8t Louis or Waahinctnn and hum than" h.iv fit. Louie' supporters would choose Chicago instead of either coast city.

Washington has bo strength in the contest, save as compromise candidate, and it seems virtual' certain that Chioaso will win tbe fight too quickly to afford any chance for compromises. In the Senate, where In tie State count just as much as Ohio. Iilinoia or New York, the result may bs mors doubtful, bat eveu there it is not easy to perceive bow soy other city can defeat Chicago, aad tbe victory of that wonderful voting giant in the lower boase of Congress will go far toward carrying the day to the benate. We think that ths Columbus fair will bs held where ths Leader has said that it ought to be located in Chicago, the most American and accessible of oar great cities, I Kimd of Navy We Want, Boston Advertiser-. The United States do not require say such navy as that of Great Britain.

We do not aspire to bs "mis tree of ths seas; that is, not of any seas but our own. Ws have not for near neighbors congeries of nations, each one stronger by land than ourselves, aad all armed to ths teeth. There is no "balance ot power which we are pledged to help maintain. We are fortified by S.UOO mBee of salt water against the attacks of any power with which it is conceivable that, in this century, ws can bs at war. Wo not only do not nssd such a fleet as England needs or thinks sha does; bat, leaving national pride oat of the question, Datiooat safety can be sufficiently provided for by much smaller kennel of "sea dogs" than that which German v.

Francs, and Kflnaia lawrtll. mintuB Bat we ought to have a few ships of war equal to any that float, ships that no other eould oot-eail or out-maneuver, of no lees tonnags ti an the greatest 'of their poesiDle antagonists, ships that eould have no need to rua away, yet perfectly able to do so from ths Terror or the Al. SALT LIKE CITI POLITICS. A. StrosMc TIclcat Kemlssted by tTa I rhsaalg Salt Lake Crxx, Jan.

14. Special Corr tpondViscs. -One ef ths most Important con ventions ever held ia this Territory was held here to-day, when the liberals nominated of ficers for this wry, to bs contested tor in the election to take place Feb. 10 next From the inception of the Territory until to-day ths Mormons have had complete control of ths city, sad they have managed it to their own r-iwoliar way, biu wTvrj tauicuws promisee a etiangs and that "ths liberals will bs victorious ia the coming conflict. The only thing that can possibly prevent will be split among ths liberals aad dissatisfaction among the pioneers who have been Ignored in ths nominationa It Is so nearly aa equal thing between the gentiles and ths Mormons that every gentile moat bs eeenred.

sad some dependence has to. bs placed upon the young Mormons who voted ia the August election. It is therefore of ths utmost importance that a union of the gentiles be -maintained, aa a toes of an 7 will throw the victory to ths Mormon a. For ths past six months and mors, particularly sines Aagust. when, to the surprise of ths liberals themselves sua to the Mormous a tnanderooit.

the liberals Carried the city to the Territorial election. There has been real estate boom here surpassing anything your correspondent ever saw. lu nan wsiauoew uoiuiu ui vaiuo. oewiuee snc business and influx of strangers of every class tlon goes liberal in February some are wild enough to believe tne increase or population for the present year will be 5O.UO0L Ail this has been brought abont in everybody having confidence to the liberal success. Now, should they fail, it is easy to estimate ths disaster sad panto that will follow.

Colonel Merritt. who was mads permanent president of the convention, called ths meeting to order at 7 o'clock. Ths Grand Opera House, where ths convention was held, was crowded to its utmost capacity. Ths first business was tbe report of the committee on resolutions, which waa manly, nobis, and patriotic in tbe extreme, and which was received with unbounded applause. These resolutions, to unqualified terms, condemn all ths evils that have existed sad still exist in tbe management of municipal affairs bv ths Mormoua, and they promise free) poblie schools, all that is needed for health and public improvements, boneet government, the advancement of ths authority of ths United' States in this Territory, ths enforcement of ths laws; sod especially againat polygamy, the su-eourssntnent of all tbe industries and work fox Salt Lake City workiagmen.

jrouowmg tnis Began tne nominations tor Mayor. Thsrs were 135 delegates recent. In the first ballot there were three candidates Mr. George M. Scott, a prominent hardware merchant of this city, a gentleman of high and un blemished character; Mr.

Henry W. Lawrence, an apostate, a gentleman of independent wealth, respected by gentile and Mormon, and of unimpeachable" character; and Mr. Fred A. A or bach, a prominent merchant, a resident of twenty-five vears standing in this city, aa Israelite of wealth and paying tbe largeet tax to ths dry, of firm character, and a. generous, popular gentleman.

t. wtitah was east Manlied Rjvttt AA. Aurbsch, 24; Lawrence, the Hon, K. W. Baskin, Mr.

boon waa finally unanimously nominated. Mr. boots was found and mads' a ahnrt speech of thsukA Ths ether offices ara. not ot especial importance to your many readers. This is the first real political convention ever held to the eaty and the ticket nominated will be elected without a doubt No correct estimate can be made by aa outsider, what this saooess means to this city, and it is to bs hoped toai nothing will defeat ir.

It is perhaps proper to add that tbs liberal party ia perfectly organised nnder ths chair, zoanahip of ths liberal committee, Hon. W. Powers, ths champion organiser of the oountry. AtllITII II III ecBi. -i MoXMOCTB, lit, Jan.

19. Special Telegram. Ths jury acquitted Walter MoQailiin. oharged with stealing San "Franeisoo and New York tickets from ths Chicago, Burlington and Quincy office and selling them to Chicago and Omaha scalpers. Tbe defeooant and wife wept over the verdict and personally thanked eaoh Juror.

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