, 1875-04-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Rio Do Ja1eiro Ia going to have a'paid Fize De-
partmout, composed Of about 400 mon, III ogh-
teen companies, organized In tho same manner
~ the force In this city. A fro.nlarm Telegraph
will be opoFatsd IN connection witt tho Firo Do
pastmeut. Al Of tho apparatus will 10 sout
from New York "a rapidly ID 1t eau 10 GuiAhod,
Yesterday tho "OntaEio" took On board ono
hook.and-ladder truck two flro-extsngufshor
trucks, ono hose carriage, and = aHall chemical
by tho next steamer. Tho chief Of tho now do
partnoHt will bo Dr.. Norris n. Kohnt OF Hart
ford Conn.
4 number OF tho businessmen OF Bristol.
Pa, have formed m association for tha purpose
OF protection ngainst such customers who pa
tronlza their shops aud who cannot or will not
Eay. and who ind II cheapor to move thnn pay
rent. Tho na.ncs Of al delinquent debtors aro
printed In paper, With the amounts they owe
attached to their nasnoa. Tbis paper ID sont to
each member of tho assocfatlon for his informn-
ton, mud it frequently has tho effect Of bringing
d tough customer up to tho mark, WHO finds ho
cannot obtain credit until old bills aro aettled.
The New York Bulletin makes bold to nsy TINT
- Ihe time 10 close at hand when 9 per cent must
bo accepted aB the goypnIng rental" upon real
cstato iu New York Considering tho complete
security Of N investment IN buslnesa block On
QUO Of tho principal streets OF tho metropolis,
anu that 4 o. 8 pes cent IL tho average rate Of
similar property In London, this Is not, perhaps,
ortrayagaus. Tho World says thai, along Broad.
way. f.om bowling Groom to Fou1tcensh gtreot,
tho card ITO raut," there boiug many wholo
stored aud buildings vacant. Tho victorian real-
eatato broker, John Lloyd, "nevet knew 50 dull
ecaaon." and Is making no lonnh 1t all, declin.
Ing to offer ady but temporary engagements At
the prosont rates. which are from 90 to 40 per
cent OF. From Chambera Htroet 10 Unlon square
arc many whole storoH aud parts Of stosos which
hayo waited from Que to nix yoars without ten
mt. A loft, which haa been tcntod Tor years
past fot el6,0eo, Ii now refusoa at $4,000.
It has already besn stated Ia the American
iloWapapeEs that the friends OF thu ato Roy.
Charles Kingsley III En9laud wess generously
subscribing to memorial fund, 10 DO devoted,
tirst to tue enlargement and improyoment Of
Evorely Chapol-whcso ho lies burfed-After bis
own plans; second, the erection Of memorial
chapel at tho nclghboetog village Of nrannahlll,
who1e he had established 4 service aud, third,
for marble buHts to bo placnd ln Westminster
Abbey and Cambridge University. Several thou
ssna dollars have alreaay bssn sNbsetibea IN
England for these PURPOSES and It ID desired that
bis many American frlunds and admirers should
Join In such happy tributes to hla memory. We
cannot doubt Of cordial response TO this foeling.
Ihs msy hysFy properly BE- sde he
New York. We Aro suro, would aggregate and
forward them through lta London representative,
Als. Smalley, and tho Republican may be made
the medium for any gifta from its readers TO this
holy purpoae.-sprin9deM (4uass.) Aepub'iea".
The Pacific RsIlroaa oonspl1Ators ags!nst tho
Pacific Mail got 30 far Ia their bohr policy Of CD
tahlishing the rival Oriental + Occidental Btesua-
ship Company that they can't back out, having
entered INTO Contracts tor tho uso Of three White
Star stcamHhlps. Tho railroad managers will
simply run tno companies iustesl Of one. Ill
earnings being pooled into : oomnon fund.
President Dillon. OF tho Union Pacific, an-
ticipatas business enough to occupy both Lines.
Tho Pacific Mail Offices Ia New York sre being
retrenched severely, aud, according to tho talk
Of tho nsnago1B the Wall ttzeet building Is 10 be
sub-let, thu business will 90 down on to tho dock
and superduous otllcers are being discharged.
The parties who bought tie Pacific Hal! dock
property It San Franoleco sold halt Of It At an
advance OF $4,000 within six weeAs. What
these changes Ut that point Indicate IL not vory
clear; but tho Ca!itoxhians open theIr eyes to
SEQ Jay Gould master both at New York and Haa
Francisco. and anticipate either quarrel bo-
tween tho two roads of = complete eonsumma-
tion OF tho HAe Of the Coutral Pacific. which lss
beon attempted ones before. Tho Government,
By the WY. announces tta dissemination to 81
! on with the suits sgainst all the Pacific HALL
roads, to recover per cen. Of their net earnings
Btnce compilation. Tho unlou Pacific suit Is for
over $1,000, 400, aud will be tried ut Boston.
With Attorney Qenassl Hilllams to the fore, It Ia
impossible to expect much In ANY eysat.