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An. 1, 1 EVENING IltANSCRIPI FBI DAT. HAY 10, 1383. inhibition, can exercise a supervisory pows over expenditure because the committee on fire department, now, before any change has occurred, scrutinize its outlays. To keep the hands of committees ont of this business of controlling expenditure, and confine members of the City Council exclusively to voting needful appropriations, was the chief consideration which led to a new city charter.

And it may he found that this design has not failed when the instrument goes into effect. for intervention by stockholders and bnnaholders in the 8t. Louis A orcoiire proceeding. A large Rnd stock holders join ia this nh. rc for June 15, when the matter will be heard by the cirenit judge.

lht no default was made ia fL ASS whMiirolrito The following statement obtained from tk. South Carolina Railroad Commission tbe arose earning of tbe seventeen railroad 72 th2 State for SI arch, 1885, aa compared whhtneiara" lues of tbe corresponding montb in iwu tw.i earning March, 1884, 857658.72 same month. 1886, aggregate Increase, 887407.09: aggregate decrease, $887811; net increase, or an average ot 4.98 per cent, for ail the roads. The Union Pacific haa recently contracted for 17,000 tons of steel nils, to he used during tha coming summer. The price paid ia arid to be 826.50 at the mill.

UNLISTED SECURITIES. The closing quotations in New York Thursday of the leading unlisted securities were aa follows: nri m1 Mi-rchmis- gen. mtg 81 uew Moca .7 Hartford Jr fcsrto. old itooir Dearer Kio r7S- Denver. Rio Grande a Western i it jinn Ksnees Nebraska to tnut cttr it L.4N.

Adjustment Bonus Mexican National, common 'Z'L Mexican National r-raturreu I Mexican National, first Missouri Kan. Texas. InnumjTcnD Missouri Pacific old sto'k Missouri Fannie Unwdrv certificates 1W New York Mutual Union TOiegrapn stk Ohio Central. River Division. 1st isr Ohio Cemr-I.

Kiv. Ulns uu. Incomes Pensacola Atlantic stoca Pensaeola A AtlanUo. 1st mortgage B1VG Pittsburg A Western a7 Pittsba-K Western. 1st mtge 87 Postal xeienanh stock it Postal Tele mob 1st 6 per ceut Postal TMeemi-n Coble stock Southern Telegraph Stock Southern Taleeraph 1st mortg.

14t St. Joseph Western stock Tr Cer St. Josepo Pacific it Tr Cor Ill St. Joseph Pacine to Tr Cer 4Vs Texas Pacific scrip 188 Texas Pacific old scrip 83 Texas Pacific new scrip Teas A fat. Louis a A.

aa p'd iu. Texas A St. Loots M. A A. Div.

1st 13 VlekaburaAMerldiaxi 4 Vicksburg Meridian incomes is BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE FRIDAY. MAY 15. 1886. Corrected from the Official FlttST CALL. prayed for, has come at last.

The mills will not, of conns, increase production, bat this sale will allow them to continue to keep some of their machinery running, a condition of things which was in some doubt before yesterdays sale. The onlv fear expressed amidst the general hopefulness is that, encouraged by the success of this auction, other agents may endeavor to dispose of their goods in the same manner, and as It wonld bo difficult to get so large a company of buyers together again, the prices obtained might be considerably below those received in the present instance, producing a debilitating effect upon the market, A VILE CONTRETEMPS. Postmaster General Vilas is a eivil-servioe reformer of the Frank Hatton pattern. The latter indorses Mr. Vilas's confidential circular, which was published In a late edition of the Transcript of yesterday, by the observation I do not see anything very remarkable in the circular, taking it from a Democratic standpoint.

No Republican ol principle could hold office under Democratic administration and preserve his litiual Integrity. In a reforming view, Jay A. Hubbell's high-pressure squeezing process which he applied to officeholders, and Frank Hatton's post-office administration, atand on the same low level of political immorality as Vilas invitation to spoils hunters and public announcement that fourth-class post offices can be obtained in a certain specified way. This official proclamation takes us back to the days, not far distant, when office brokerage was conducted unbluahingly at Washington, and partisan leaden hawked federal patronage aboat as their Individual perquisites. The droular can be interpreted to mean that this practice will be continued by Democratic congressmen, or localized by conferring upon State representatives and senators the power of dispensing post-office favors.

What else could be done in States having no Democratic senators? But the end ia all the same, whatever version of this astonishing production uiay be correct. It puts up Government patronage as something to be fought for at every presidential election, anil makes it the spoils" of party sucres. Where does the civil-service reform come in If Vilas's methods are to obtain? Sagacious Democrats will be inclined to regard Vilas a being too small man for the conspicuous position he occupies. As a revealer of uncomfortable secrets ho aland unrivalled, hut is out of place in a reform Administration. of hia own aide, and It would be marked evidence of the advance In public sentiment and of what has been gained by and is expected of tide Admi nlarration if this confidential letter to esngreesmen should strike the public unfavorably.

Mr. Vilas haa placed himself too unreservedly in the hands of the Democratic congressmen, ae distributors of patronage, and he has given a needlessly political, partisan anil clandestine aspect to warrantable removals. In these two respects of avowed reliance upon the congressmen and of futile coafidenceo," Mr. Vilas has done a very stupid thing, wholly at variance with the purposes and methods of the Administration as whole. NO CHANGE Eton TBE REPUBLICAN STS TEA.

(From the Albany Journal, Bep. To Republicans the lapse of the postmaster general from the heights of reform to tbe depths of spoilt affords no surprise. It was urged throughout the campaign that the election of Cleveland meant no change of policy, but simply the substitution of Democratic for Republican officials. IS THIS "CIVIL SERVICE1' iFrem tbe Haverhill Oasette.) Whether this ia the definition of the term according to Cleveland aa well as according to Vilaa, we are unable to say, but if this ia civil service, we hope it may apply to the officeholders to be, aa well as to those that lie. JOTTINGS- theorlaers upon inherited trait have aomt thing of a setback lathe ease of Snowden, tbe fastest man in the New York skating race.

Ilia father was a cripple, with legs of unequal length. ricknell.the Boston landscapist, follows np hia triumphs in the Faria Salon with a mors distinguished one in the London Royal Academy, which ia more difflcnlt of access than the Sal-m. Mr. Ficknella best picture la hang on the line beside one by the president of the Academy. legislation has a queer effect on oils people.

A Lawrence member yesterday proclaimed that he should, la the event of the passage of the metropolitan police bill, fly to cottage end hide his head nnder a leaf. Bartholdi statue of Liberty Lighting the World" Is due at New York about the 20th. There have been severe storms since the laere sailed, and several vessels are missing. poet" headed the delegation which waited upon Sunset Cox end besought him not to go to Turkey. Cox determined to go to Turkey.

There ere no poets in Turkey. The last one was drowned for attempting to procure the publication of a poem on Bpring. remains of Colonel Lyford were not only irciiu-rated but interred, the nrn containing the ohei having been buried in a Washington (U. cemetery. bow the argument against "The Color Line in the Church," on page aix, leads np to the establishment of a separate church, whioh mill rid the other churches of the colored folk a thing very warmly denounced the other day by Rev.

Phillips Brooks as a discrimination on worthy of Christianity. Grant haa raised hia voice in protest against the Impolicy of trusting to luck for the defence of oar coasts. ia said that soma of the French citizens New York" are about to proteat against the selection of a German-American for consul at Havre. What kind of a citizen of New York la a "French Bartholdi statae will be lighted at night ly electric lamps at the base, the rays being east upward by means of strong reflectors. From the uplifted torch there will be thrown a vertical beam of licit, reaching the lower cloud stratum, from which it will be reflected far ont to sea.

The idea of rays atieaming from the diadem haa been abandoned. proposition to permit a committee of ladies to care for the tldmeea of the paths and rouer keeping of the public parts of the Granary Burying Ground seems to find favor. made Hans Richter a doctor of music at Oxford the other -day, and thereupon he directed a concert clad la gorgeous raiment, sifting of a flowered mb nr erMmobewt satin, setoff with cherry-colored sleeves of the tarns material, and tbs cos tomary college cap. games of bate ball between professional cluhe may be played on Sundays In Cincinnati, but woe he to the man who dares to ran a circus on that day, and even the Wild West show has come nnder the ban. Baltimore judge, la charging the grand jury recently, called attention to gambling at church fails aa a form of vice" which should not be lightly paaeed over, hut should be vigorously proseented.

Long Island sheriff thinks he is getting era with the reporters who have criticised him, by excluding them from the jail on the occasion of Rnpge execution. Bat the reporters dont mind. They won't have to see the execution, and their papers will have all the particulars. According to an Italian newspaper, an opera manager haa invented a method to check the encore fiend. At the door of his theatre appears tts following notice: Tnose persons who desire to encore portions of the opera or ballet are requested to inscribe their iiamee at the tx office, and after the performance the manager will happy to carry out their wi.h on their paying again the price of ad-misaiun.

A man in New York advertises his willingness to bet five dollars that he can eat a gallon or ox-tail soup inside of two boor. society adventurer who once ae Lord Pembroke" gulled many crednlon New Yorkers, is now an inmate of Sing-Sing. According to his own stoiy be once accomplished the impossible. He says he was In India in 1879. and saw tbe great mutiny.

As tbe latter occurred in 1857-88, he most have seen it with that retrospective glance ao l.Dalar with historians. PERSONAL. Fehmi Pacha has returned to Constantinople from Parle end London. Bev. D.

O. Clarke, for the past three years pastor of the Congregational church of Manoheater-by-the-Sea, has tendered his resignation, to take effect Sept. 1, as his health requires a change ot climate. baronetcy has been conferred upon Edward Cecil Guinness of Dublin, and knighthood upon Sheriff Wycherley of Cork, in connection with the recent visit to Ireland of the Prince and Princess of Wales. A statement made in a New York paper that President Eliot was to sail for Europe in a day or two was incorrect.

President Eliot la at home, and does not contemplate an immediate voyage across the Atlantic. A despatch from Santa Monies, last evening, indicated that General Sheridans condition was not improved. It la the general's intention to reach Los Angeles, today, and if possible to start at cnce for the East. The Board of Methodist Episcopal Bishops met at St. Louis Thursday morning.

Thera were present Bishops Thomas Bowman, W. L. Harris, K. H. Foster, 8.

M. Merrill, E. G. Andrews, H. W.

Warren, Cyrus N. Foie, William X. Hinde, John M. Walden and W. F.

Mallalien. The will of Jane Holmes, a wealthy spinster who died recently at the age of eighty-one yeara, was filed for probate yesterday at Pittsburg, Pa. The estate is valued at 81,000,090. and ahe distributes tally 8700,000 among local Protestant charitable and benevolent institutions. It ia proposed by those interested in the navigation of Massachusetts Bay that a proper testimonial be presented to Hon.

George Lunt, who has been largely instrumental in providing better ao-ceta to Scituate harbor and establishing it as a harbor of refuge on the long coast of the bay from Boston to Cape Cod. Mr. Morton, theretiring United States minister to France, yesterday presented his letters of recall to President Gr4vy. Afterward Mr. Me Lane presented his credentials to the president, and delivered an address, to which M.

Grtvy replied, welcoming the new minister, end thanking him for the sentiments expressed in his address. M. de Lesaeps relates that cm the occasion of bis marriage, the day of the opening o( the Siei Canal, November, 1869, hie father-in-law handed him as a present to his wife. At that time, be sods, Snes Canal shares were selling at 260f, or fifty per cent, discount. He Invested the present in these shares, on which he realised 1,500,0001.

A banquet in honor of Mr. Morton was given at the Hotel Centennial, Paris, last evening. Two hundred guests were present, including Minister MeLane, MM. Floqnet, Goblet and bade Carnot, members of the cabinet; M. Tlrard, M.deLes-sepe, Mr.

Monroe, president of the American Committee, all the prominent American residents, and numerous other notabilities. Tbe will of tbe late Rev. J. C. Jacocks of New Haven bequeathed (1000 to the trustees of the fund for aged and infirm clergy and widows and orphans ol clergymen ot the Episcopal Church; (500 to the missionary society of the Connecticut diocese; (500 to St.

Luke's, iu New Haven, for building a chancel, and 82000 as a permanent fund; 8500 to the University of the South at Suwanee, Tenn. 8500 and hia library to Trinity College, and all hia residuary estate, about 84000, to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church. A writer in the Salem Gazette Bays, When one thinks of the Essex Iter, and of Salem, and of Ipswich, ana especially of tbe Chebacco or Essex eud of Ipswich, he i at once reminded of the present best known legal family connected with these all by association. In Chebacco, in 1796, was born tbe late DrT George Choate of Salem, who graduated at Harvard, 1818. and wae in Salem as early as 1622, jast before bis brilliant cousin, Rufus, flashed like a meteor across tbe sky.

Dr. Choate's four sons graduated at Harvard. The eldest. Dr. George now deceased, was superintendent of the State lunatic hospital at Tan too, and afterwards manager of a private asylum near New York, where Horace Greeley died as one of his patients.

Charles F. Choate, a lawyer by profession, is tbe able and politic manager of the Old Colony Railroad. Joe" Choate, the junior of the famous New York law firm of Evarta, Boutbmayd A Choate, has a repot lion for wit and eloquence, quite Independent of the distinguished senior member, the lately elected United States senator; whilst the younger of this successful legal trio. William G. Choate, late United States district jndge for tne sou -hern district of New York, enjoys a high reputation for learning and Bound judicial discrimination.

Tie Tennessee Legislature ia discutsing the advisability ot telling the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's estate, to the Cnlted States to ho used aa a soldiers home. As it now is, tbe estate is neglected, and it haa few of the beauties it possessed when Old Hickory lived, and when he and his wife Rachel rode to and from it in hi 83500 coach. General Brinkerhoff, now one of the leading Democrats of central Ohio, was a tutor at the Hermitage immediately after the death of Andrew Jackson. Tbe Hermitage," said he, was a much different place at tbe time Jackson died than it is now. It lies twelve miles from Nashville.

It was a magnificent estate comprising 1000 acres of rich land, the moat of which waa nnder tha highest cultivation. It resembled one of the tine English homesteads of the present day. It waa finely laid out, and the mansion had in front of it a park of several acre ao arranged in drives and foot-paths that tha visitors entering It came to tbe house through avenues of cedar. Andrew Jacksone home was a large brick building, with a number of pillar at each end of it. It had long verandas, and a hall ran through the centre.

As you entered this hall at the left were the parlors, and back of them in a one-story wing was the dining-room. On the right were two rooms, the first of which had been tha especial property of the general, and the other, across a narrow hall, that of Andrew Jack-son, and hia wife. At the end of thia little hall was the library, which looked out upon the garden and tha tomb of Mrs. Jackson." 200 Boston Water Power Co a S-IO 10 oon Mexican Central gsO 8100. 1000 New Fork A New England 81009.....

II(W. 1000 Oedena Champ 8a. lm 850U0 Marion McPherson 7s Railroad Oompaniet. 110 Atchison. Topeka St Fe 714 1 mi estsesssaassssaesen ZwUe as niiiiti eeaaeeeee sessessss- Boston aAffienv SIChl.Bur(iuincv K.

12fe 2U0 Cm bandusky A Clave B. lovp 100 waeeeseeeee svUO 10V Kssssesssesssssssaaseesasssssssse Mmss-h essststssisas BIfrfi 100 Flint A Per Marquette aret 76 1U0 Mexican Central ih, 1 9 1 Vs 10 New York A New raunann 19 lie DaUa Pecifle boor BOVV 58 66Vk S4ac .1144 1984a iosVb 110 ISC Mexican Telephone Go so New England Teispiurae go Era At. BSUO Mexican Central serrp fal'MW New Korx a New England 8SOOO. Railroad Compaaiee Boa ten A Mama a. 4 American Ball Telesfione Go .14 2 1' I1V IIM ITT 4a .198 GENERAL FINANCIAL.

TELEPHONE MATTERS. An officer of the New England company says that he believes there will be an earnest endeavor to pay a dividend on New England stock this year, and he does not think that dividend payments wid he began unless there is a prospect of continuing them. The money for dividends is to come in part from postponing extensions which might be thought desirable, but which are not a necessity for the reasonable development of the company. For the year ended April 1, 1885, the earnings of the tiftutbern New England Telephone Company were 8iS8.2S6.07, the expenses being $181,774.75. The royaby paid the Bell company for the last six months was $31,128 61.

Tne net earnings were 8734P0.32, showing a rate of '4 per cent, on capital stock. Total construction far the year just ended was 52.588.16. The number of exchangee on April 1, 1884, waa 36. The number of on April 1, 1885, waa 5834, against 5615 for the re it eponding date in 1884. During the year 1149 instruments have been removed and 1179 placed with subscribers.

On account of the increased cost of carrying on the company's operations, two advances in rentals have been made during the year, and a general increase of prices in all the more considerable exchanges ia in contemplation. NOTES. The production of anthracite coal for the week ending May 9. as reported by the Coal Trade Journal. was 647,643 tons, against 84,233 tons last year.

The production since Jan. 1 waa 8,732,585 tons, against 9,138.412 tons for the same time last year. The trade ia quiettend over-production ia not likely this Buyers are still holding off. London, May 15. Consols, 98 15-16; United State bonds 4s, 124 Atlantic ft Great Western firsts, Illinois Central, 128; Mexican ordinary, 24: St.

Paul common, 70; New York Central, 85; Pennsylvania, 53 T. MININOBS OCRS. IN BAN FRANCI800. RITE co. SPECIAL SALE -OF- PARASOLS, COACHING AND SUN UMBHELLAS.

BARGAINS RARE EXCEPTIONAL For SATURDAY, May 16, and MONDAY, May 18. Lot I 250 20-inch Satin Coaching Parasols, 10-rib Paragon frames, Bamboo and Fancy Handles, and in Black, Brown, Cream, Baize, Garnet, White, Bine, Wood and Cardinal. Beg-ular price $2.50, At SI .75. Lot 2 185 26-inch All-Silk Bain Umbrellas, Paragon frames, solid sticks and with covers, regular $3.00 goods, at the remarkably low price of SI. 50.

Lot 3a 300 20-inch Satin Coaching Parasols, in all the newest colors. Paragon frames, Fancy Handles and trimmings. Regular $3.25 goods. At $2.25. Lot 4a 500 22 and 2f inch English Oil -Boiled, Twilled Silk Serge Sun Umbrellas, Paragon frames and Celluloid handles, regular $2.75 and $3.00 goods, At S2.00 and S2.25.

Lot 5- 350 22 and 24 inch English Oil-Boiled Silk Serge Son Umbrellas, Paragon frames and ivory handles, regular $3.25 and $3.50 goods. At S2.25 and $2.50. Lot 6. 350 20-inch Black Satin, Scalloped edge Parasols, with fine Harcelline Silk Linings, 10-rib Paragon frames, fancj handles and tassels, regular $3.50 goods. At $2.75.

Lot 7. 600 20-inch extra quality Satin Parasols, with Silk Spanish Lace Edge and finest Marcelline Silk Linings, In Black, White, Cardinal, Ecrn, Garnet and all the new changea-hies. Goods which are sold everywhere at $6.00 we shall offer at the SURPRISINGLY LOW PRICE of $4.00. We show a larger assort -ment of Shades than can be found in any other two stores in JSoston R. H.

Washington near Bedford. lt(4) my 18 mtmnatg anm comroroiaL RAILWAY INTERESTS. (Baa Fobs RAILROAD EARNINGS. Tha following are the latest reported railroad lamlnga: rtret 1885. 1884.

Iae. Bala. Indian. Blomington A Wetter. Hi 0B4 884 nrstwk 54104 41.4TB 17 0.4 from Wan.

1.... 804,185 771,994 S2.141 4 Decrease. END OF THE KATE WAR. Chicago, May 14. Tha Western roads have at last succeeded In settling their difficulties.

The trouble with the Missouri Pacific was settled, that road being allowed 11 per cent, of the business. Tha live-pool arrangement was agreed upon, the percentage being fixed forone year from Dee. 81 next. The new combination to be known as the Western Freight Association. John C.

Gantt, George M. Bogus and James A. Hill were appointed arbitrators to fix the ijrcent-aaea of the four competing roads. J.MFrir? thorn waa appointed commissioner. The general freight acentsof these roads and advanced tha rates on lumly to th basis of 18 cent, per 180 pounds from Chicago to Omaha and 14 cents to Coon oil Bluff.

sons. Application was m- da) to Judge Pardee In the fltateq Court to THREE CENTS A COPY. MSTKR TAJ AMR A TO. TODAY. Mi-kkvx.

Augustin Dilji Company. A Night iB. A Boston TnKATRK. Trank Mayo and Company, "itieeteof New York. Kijov Tn katrk.

Frank Daniel and Company. A Bag Baby. A clone Treats. Ilanlon Brother Company. -Fan Uu uia.

A Parr Theatre. Lester Waltack and Company. Dipknuary." T.U. Howard ATnnant. Oliver Byron and Company.

Aciom the Continent. A Trrxont TEanz. Conwt by the Flak Uni-imi ty nbileo Singer. 7.41 Im os ll all Swedish Operetta, The Peasant Betrothal." (Vermlaudinganie.) A Ctolorana Bnuuxo Trmnout and Montgom-ry. Battle of Gettysburg." 0 A.

M. to 11 P. 1L Columbia Skatiso Km-Washington, near Dover. Open afternoons and evenings. Nor re Blakesue's Gallebt.

Exhibition of Bare Lnavup. Chases Gallkkt Hamilton place. Paint and Clay Club Caricature Exhibition. l.rovAnos Gallert Brnmfleld street. Sale Exhibition of lRintines by John G.

Carter. DAILT HARBOR EXCURSION. Nantasket Beach axd Pemberton. Hull Kowes Wharf, Ml Atlantic avenne. (dee page A) Hisc.HAX.HrLL asd Dowser Landing India nhaif, south pier, (dee page 7.J MATINEES TOMORROW.

Bostos Theatre. Streets of New York." 2. Pare Theatre. Diplomacy." 2. Glone Theatre.

Fantasma." A Born Theatre. Bar Baby." A BosnwXiiErx. A Night Off." A Howard Athkn-eux. Aeioes Continent." A Tows Hall Brookline. 1Uro Recital by Mix Amy M.

Cheney. UOl RACES TOMORROW. Cltdk Park Brookline. Country Club Meeting anil Steeplechases. A A TRAN GSRS DIRECTOR T.

OEE TO TEE rFBLIO. Old State House Washington and State. Historical collection. A30 to A3A Natural Histort Boo xs Boris ton and Berko-ley. 9 to Wednesdays anddatnrdaya 19 to A Faxruil Hall Merchants row and Faneoll llall square.

Historical Paintings. 9 to 5 Buerox Public Library Hoyiston street. Open every day and evening. Including Sunday. Genealogical Boons 18 Somerset.

Library and Here Engravings. 9toA Closed Saturday at lsaTirr-riox for the Blind Broadway, South Boston. Thursdays at 11. Museum or Fix Arts St. James avenne and DutmontL 8A.M.M5P.M.

dnndaysltoA Aoasaiz MrsErx Cambridge. Natural History Collection. 9 to A Sundays 1 to 5 Old Soerx Washington street, corner of Milk. Loan Historic Collection. 9 to A Y.

M. C. Union Books IS Boylston. 8 to 19, daily. Y.

K. C. Association Book Boylston and Berkeley. 9 to 10 daily. TODAY'S IASI t-R PAGES.

Page Two. The Mornings News. Speech by Minister Lowell Customs Decisions. The NorthweetWar. Base Kali.

Christian work for Be men. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Tehnantepec Project. The Historical Society. Salems New collector Essex South Conference.

A Little Romance. Massachusetts Legislature. New Ragland New. Railway and Financial Interests. A Sad Case of Suicide.

Page Three. Poetry. Facts and Fancies. Scientific and Useful Scho'd and College. Page Six.

How to Take Florida. New Books. The Negro Then and Now. A Cabin Boy's Exploit. Art and Artists.

The Color Line in the Church. Fags Seven. Poetry. Foreign Summary. George Eliots Religion and Morality, etc.

The Weather. Something, in fact several things more agreeable than hare been known in several days, are recorded of today's weather. The bud has been bright, the iky bine, the atmosphere clear and the temperature comfortable 4S9 at sunrise, 67 at soon. The wind nt noon was southeast end the storm signal was flying. In nil the twenty-four hours, ended at seven o'clock this morning, the rainfall amounted to less than an inch in depth.

The Interest Account of New York city is S7.6M.1W; Boston interest account is SlASTjCOl. These figures tell of the coat of municipal government more elxuently than elaborate tabular statement of expenditure. The Attempts to break down the business In canned food have failed most decidedly, so far at least as the Baltimore packers are concerned. Yesterday there were sold by one Baltimore house forty thousand cases of tomatoes and ten thousand of corn, the biggest day's business on record. Salex Folks say that the seafaring old Honker who ha jest been appointed collector of that port (over the head ef the selection designated by the Democratic politicians) was fully as had a copperhead in bis talk during the war as bis predecessor lathe office, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or hia neighbor.

Dr. George B. Loring. But he fought for the Union in the navy, after hia ship had been taken by a rebel cruiser. Ir the Bill to relieve soldiers and sailors from the operation of the State civil-service, reform law passe, the art will be deprived of so much of it vitality that it will be of little consequence.

A similar attempt to exempt soldier and sailor in New York was opposed by large number of veterans aa class legislation, and as a reflection upon their Intelligence and manhood. Although the New York Assembly wan captured by bogna patriotic appeals, the Renata could not be cajoled into action directly at variance with civil-aer-Tirerefuiin. In our own State the lsw at present give preference to aoldiero and Bailors, otLer qualification being equal; but it ia-a'ata on competitive ex ami nations to ascertain the qualification of applicants for ottice. This i the provision relating to competitive examinations" for all citizens that it is at empted to repe.il. The Jubilatioxs at Rutland over the result of the Fag trial, the jury deciding against the Rutland Railroad and giving the ex-governor a verdict of 81 and coats, give the outsider nn id-a of the way in which political, social and mercantile lines cross la Vermont.

The Page men in Rutlaud illuminated their boues, and a torchlight procession paraded the streets in his honor. The verdict of the jury was greeted with cheers. All this time the anti-Page men withdrew into the strictest aeciiuion, after openly denouncing the verdict. The savagery with which the factions into which Vermont society is divided make war on each other is something which ha to be seen to he appreciated, ami -is embarraiurfng to- the newcomer, who is suddenly called to cast his lot with one or the other. The New Charter is likely to open discussion respecting the effect of that instrument upon committees of the City Government.

No one can deny that the purpose was to render every committee ssehii gflalo except so far as it may assist in purely legislative duties preceding administrative or executive acta. Committees are expressly forbidden any "part in the employment ol labor, the making of coutraers, the purchase of material or nupplie. the construction, alteration, or rcnir of any public works, or the care, eu1 oily ami management of the same, or in the ronduri ui any of the executive or administrative litini umia of the eify, or in ll expenditure of pnidie money," etc. All coutrai't excee ling 83)00 require the un) ora approval. Yet some wiseacres contend that do such a sweeping MASSACHUSETTS STATISTICS Persons of a statistical tarn wlU 9 wait the Msult of the census enumeration now in progress in this State with mnch Interest.

Taken In connection with the vital statistics of the year, the enumeration ought to throw additional light on the peculiar process of race decadence which must strike any one who examines the social statistics of Massachusetts. The word decadence is startling one to use, perhaps but if we are to accept the conclusion of many historians that the disinclination to marriage and the steady reduction of the percentage of the birth rate 1 are symptomatic of the degeneration of a people, no other word is applicable. For certainly during the past thirty years the tendencies which are held to be such symptoms have shown themselves in our vital statistics. Thus we find that in 1450 In Massachusetts, with population of there were 27.G64 births, while in 1840, the population having increassd to 1,783,043 (that is, nearly doubling), the births were 44,217, increasing GO per cent. Marriages numbered 10,345 in ltvX) and 15.558 in llMO.

Deaths aggregated 16,606 in 1850 and in 18-W. The excess of births over deaths which, in 1850, was 11,068, had fallen to K05 in 1880. The births to every 1000 persons ran down from 27.82 to 24.80, while persons married per thousand declined from 20.80 to 17.43. The proportion of deaths per thousand increased from 16.70 to 19.79. The net result of balancing these several influences deterrent and increasing shows that the rare of increase per 1000 had sunk in 1880 to 54)1 from 11.12 in 1850.

The ratio of births to marriages which was 3.99 in 1850 was 3.20 in 1880. There may have been some alight improvement during the last half-decade, hut the general tendency is undoubtedly in the same direction, although the absence of any total of population in the retains since 1880 prevents ascertaining exact percentage. That the war was a potent cauae of the diminished rate of increase is very evident when we find that the excess of births over deaths, which was 11,360 in 1861, was but 1731 in 1864. Thousand died of the war hundred of miles from the field, and we find the totals of deaths in the battle year IS 3 and "64 respectively, 27,751 and 28,750, against 23.068 in 18i. The mortality of 18'4 was not exceeded until eight years later, when it suddenly leaped to 35,019.

The marriages per thousand persons were 4.3 during the decade ending 1865, and the excess of birth rate over death rate hut 4.7. When it ia remembered that all the time that the war wai drawing our population to the front the process of the infusion of foreigners was steadily going on, one is prepared to learn without astonishment that of one hundred living births in 1883 40.23 were those of children of native-born parents, 41.92 of foreign-born parents, and 17.85 of parents of mixed nativity. The statistics of marriages show 64.43 per cent, of persons native born to 35217 foreign horn, but it should be remembered that the term native born" necessarily includes many who are the children of immigrants. The procrastination of marriage" was not so marked during the last two or three years as it was six or eight years ago. The everage age of bridegrooms was 28.8 in 1983, against 29.2 in 1879, while the average age of brides was 24.3 against 26.7 in 1879.

The counties where the old stock ia in the majority are those in which the decadence of population is most marked. tiie passage of the metropolitan POLICE RILL. The corrected vote on the efigroe-uneat of the metropolitan police bill was 121 to 90. Contrary to the predictions of the lobby, the majority increased on the engrossing stage, affording another of the many instances of the weakness of the third house of the present General Court. The injudicious conduct of the Boston Democrat in the House in challenging the right of the country members to legislate for Boston no doubt contributed to well the majority.

Country members do not question the right of Bostons representatives to take part in legislation affecting the towns, and the point mads in reply to the taunt of "hayseed" interference, that every citizen of Massachusetts has a direct interest in the well-being of Boston was a good one, and was at times tellingly put. The opposition yesterday rang the changes on violation of the right of local self-government, and cracked the party whip ou their side quite aa vigorously aa it was snapped on the other. The oratorical exhibition was a reminder of the days when Jefferson 'Scattering Batkins represented Cranberry Centra. The Democratic members certainly gave the opposition voice, and conjured with the name of Sam Adams, the memories of Bunker Hill, the traditions of Faneuil Hall and all the rest of it. The edge was taken off this invocation by the quiet remark of a country member that he voted for the bill in the hope that It wonld restore to Boston the law-abiding character it possessed in the days of Sam Adams and when the influence of Faneuil Hall was called np otherwise than in debate.

The bill to procure more certainty and fidelity in executing certain State laws, despite the floods of eloquence discharged against It, has commended itself to the good sense of the Ilouse of Representative in proportion as its enemies have displayed their peculiar tactics and rendered apparent that the enactment will not injure any law-abiding class. It has gained votes since the subject came before the popular branch. The prospect of Hu change in the control of our police ia welcomed by numbers of Democrats as well aa nine-tenths of the Republicans of Boston. There is no definite public sentiment against It, except that fostered by ward politicians and men who carry on an illicit trade in intoxicating spirits. We trust the Senate will speedily pass the House Mil, and allow the experiment to be tried of rendering tbe Boston police entirely independent of local influences.

A GLEAM OF LIGHT. Tbe extensive sale of domestic cottons by suction at New York yesterday has had tbe effect to stiffen np the market, and today a decidedly better feeling ia manifested by both manufacturers and jobbers. One wholesaler said that be considered his stock worth several thousand dollars more than it was day before yesterday. Tbe sale was began under somewhat discouraging auspices, especially because of a feeling among some of tbe mill treasurers that these manufactures wrre to be used to help dispose of tbe undesirable goods of other corporations; but the attendance at the sals was very large, contrary to general expectation, and the prices obtained were a genuine sunwise, in many instances being above the market rate for private transactions. This la not saying that an advance was obtained upon regular rates, hut an advance on regular rate" after the unual -discount has been deducted.

It is not snppoaable that there will be mar practical effect ji tl.e market, but tbe moral result i ULinUtakable, and is shown in the belief that ilia turning-point, to long Mr. CnAro is described by a Washington correspondent as watching tbe kicking and rearing of the Democratic leaders there with intense interest, and observing the persistency of the President with extreme surprise. Cleveland's unconventional way of dealing with party workers ia simply bewildering to ordinary politicians. He aims, apparently with many slips, of course, to reverse the old order of conciliating the workers with the best and letting tbe public take the leavings, by giving the heat things to persons not poshing for them, and satisfying the professionals with what is left. It is a pity he is nt supported better by his cabinet.

The United States Hydrographic OrriCB notes on tbe Iilot Chart of the North Atlantic for the current month several instances of tbs soothing effect of oil on the tronnled waves, reported to the office since the March chart wa published. In every case bnt one the experiment was successful. The exception was when relined petroleum was used, bnt in this instance the experiment was tried again with erode turpentine, with the happiest results. The fashion generally followed has been to fill a canvas hag with oil and tow it alongside. The oil finds its way out, slowly, through the mesh of the canvas.

Information concerning tbe dimensions and speed of deep-sea waves ia called for by the office. Ships of the navy have been engaged for some time in making these observations. It is noted on the chart that the longest recorded waves measure half a mile from crest to crest, with a period of twenty-three seconds. Waves of S00 or 400 feet, with periods ol ten to eleven seconds are the ordinary storm experiences on the North Atlantic. The highest waves recorded measured forty-four to forty-eight feet.

Waves higher than thirty feet are rare. The office has published two very fine maps. One is of tbe polar regions, showing the latest discoveries. Tbe other ie of the Bed Ms and tbe Nile Valley, with tables of disu nets, and notes on the navigation of the Nile. Mr.

C. H. Davis the Artist whose recent printings ere attracting such widespread Attention, was a native or Anu-abury, where his parents still reside. From a mere lad hi taste has been shown in the line which haa now brought him name and fume. But he has had many difficulties to overcome.

To him there has been no royal road. By hard work at a trade in bis native place he was able to lay by scanty means to pursue his artistic studies in Boston and to go to Europe to enjoy the well-atored galleries and the society and studios of the great artists. He was married a law yean ago In Paris and resides in one of its suburbs. Like Daniel Webster, he had hia head, filled with notions that did nt amount to nothing in a New England country town, and now he has gone off and they dont hear nothing more of him. But even as a young man he I enj iying worldwide fame.

Hia paintinge are calling forth praise from eminent artists end critics everywhere. The Dean or Denver, who has been much lionised In literary circles in New York of lute, ia to preach to ohlldren in St. Fool's Church on bundsy afternoon. The is a man of versatile character; a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, aa acceptable London a most successful sc hoot, master, a rrw of solid scientific acquirements, and a diligent Bible student. He ia able to speak to the little ones, not because he knows little, but he knows mnch.

COPLEY SKEW. To the Editor ef the Transcript It Copley square is to bo left in its present form, might it not bo well to suggest to the city changing its name to Copley 8kew, which might still be written a-sq. for that mat ter, or wonld Copley Corners be equally applicable and more euphonious? JUSTICE TO OLICE. Washington btar.l Three gentlemen from Kanaas called at the Star office today to ask a correction of the implication in the heading of an item about ex-Governor Gllck in yesterday's Star that ha is an applicant for office. Ho is not an applicant and does not want an office that is to say, ho is not and does not at the present time.

He wss end did up to about three weeks ago, when the last of the various appointments bo waa seeking waa given to BOinebody kiss. BIdgo then uo 1m not been seeking office for himself, bnt bae been urging tbe claims of other bleeding Kansans. We Lope this correction la explicit au-i satisfactory. If there is any doubt about it wo repeat ex-Governor Gliok of Kansas ia not an applicant for office, and has not boon for at least three week. TM ASTER GENERAL VILAS'S BLUNDER.

Springfield Bubllea.l ia circular instructs Democratic congress to bring forward their cases ot "effen-par sail ab ip among small postmasters ie extent of a sixth or a quarter of them tbe portiiianter general will attend to if Rood men eta offered in their 1. Mr. Vila give his iIa of wliat oon-tts offensive partisanship, to wit. edit-a llepuhllcfm organs tujup-peakinRf kiig on campaign exmuaittete, waking tna iN-iitit'Ml headquarters, aud worfc-tl'- cievkH for nulltinnl purpose a iirolHilily tl.e iniulest political uiiiv rvtr iuft (rtli by ioanmieMir iW'Guueoiiauj to the ceugioasiuea IN NEW YOKE. Cloeing print Mag 14.

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Co. 5Sa DUE lOOOa FOB BALE BY BREWSTER, COBB ESTABROOK, 35 Congress street, tern 7 11 Cor. Water aid Oragvese Sts. We call attention to the present high premium of Government Sends and the desirability of holders realizing the same. We are prepared to buy them for cash or make exchanges for other 'first-class INVESTMENT SKPCURI-TIES either of which nuvjbe done at our counter.

ASA 2 lOTTER, President. MWFCU Bill RECENT DEATHS. Hon. Peres blmmons. Hon.

Perea Simmons of Hanover, died yesterday of spinal disease, aged seventy-roar jeers. He was bora in Hanover in 1811, and was a lineal descendant of Elisha Bimmoiis, one of the passengers In the Mayflower. He waa fit ted for college nnder Rev. Samuel Deane of Scituate, and attended Hanover Academy. He waa for soma time with Boswell C.

Smith of Providence, entered Brown University in 1829, and while In college formed a lasting friendship with the late Senator Anthony of Rhode Island. Hs taught school in Scituate, Bridgewater and other Plymouth County town. After graduating, be entered tbe law office of Charles F. Tillinghaat of Providence, end waa admitted to the bar soon after, lie waa for some yearn connected with tha Providence Journal, and afterwards became partner In the firm of L. C.

Eaton of Providence, but the progress of political events dissolved the partnership. He took an active part in the agitation for a constitution and the extension of suffrage in Bhode Island, was intimately oonneoted with Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr, and waa among the leaders of the party which formed the people's constitution In Rhode Island. Soon after be removed to Hanover, where he established an extensive practice. In 1859-63 he was a representative to the Maasachnsetta Legislature; was sent to the Senate in 1859, and was among the delegates sent to the 'convention which revised the constitution in 1853. Wayman Crow of Sr.

Louis, one of the oldest and moat respected merchants of that city, who haa for many jsars passed the summer in and about Boston, ia dead at the age of seventy-even yean. Ho waa the head of the house of Crow, Hagardine St one of the leading drygoods firms of tha West. He waa president ot the charter commission from 1849-50, served lathe State Senate in 1840 and again in 1850, and took a prominent part in early railroad movements. His Interest In art and education waa shown in his friendship for Charlotte ashman, bis patronage of Mias Hosmer, the sculptor, and bis establishment of the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts.

He waa a prominent Union man during the war. Captain Benjamin Lovering died at Comoocook, N. yesterday, aged seventy-nine years. He had served the town a a representative and aeleei- Mr. Mean Orcutt, who resigned his position ou the Brookline police on the 1st last, after nine years of falthfnl service, and ha since assumed the janitorship of tha Public Library of that town, waa agreeably surprised yesterday by his former a sene la tea, who, through Chief Bowiuan, presented him with an elegant gold-mocmed ebony Cane an a token of their esteem.

Fancy Wood Maniela Atraine'a manufactory I on ilcnd street. But tha Watkrxan Charcoal-fackrd Refrigerators. Every one warranted never to become foul. Sold only nt 11 eud 13 Essex street. Scott's Exulsion of Cod Liver Oil and Hv-FOPBoarniTES ia a most remarkable remedy for consumption and waning in children.

Fox Ladies. A marvel of convenience. The Adjustable Draping Skirt Form. Ufpord, 43 West street. B.H.STEAMS&CO.

131 132 Tranoot SL, Boston. GREAT VALUE. 4-Threaded French Lisle Thread LAMES HOSE, Gray. NavFi Brown, Garnet 72 CentSy Former Frioe $1. R.

H. Stearns Co. HAMBURG EDGINGS, HAMBURG EDGINGS, At mnch the Lowest Prleee that we have ever seen each Roods offered. R. H.

Stearns Co. H. Stearns Co. 138 Tremont Street. KID GLOVES.

250 dos. e-Hatton Kid 18 4-Butlon Perlnote 1.95 SO S-Hnt. Moneqnetalre (splendid) l.R 20 8-Hutton (New FtwehCqlora), 1.50 Perlnots New Importation, BaduMd from 0ogft to Still perinoto suEDaa. Kew.beeatiful we think, ie quality. Also.

Remarkably Bargain I 95doa.DerR CoriTPertnot. Beat KuedM, 6-Uutton. end 8-Button Monsqueirire, et 01.25. R. H.

Stearns Co. DRESS TRIMMINGS. Mnch the Ylneet Line thmt we have shown. rillCEH MIGHT. R.

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