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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-08

a foot in boot Their names are not known.
Mrs. Vannatta, in the 10Th Ward, was struck
by a boulder and killed. James Radden, a
boz in the Goth Ward, was struck by bouts
der and killed Quite Is number of other
persons were injured, and perhaps other
deaths may occur. One lady died from fright.
The cause of the explosion cannot be asccr-
tanned 1t is claimed that the men at work
were smoking. Others state some persons
fired q shot into one of the magazines. An
immense amount Of glass was broken through
out the city. The damage to glass alone will
probably be near $50, 900.
Two boys. one named Richardson and a
son of Archie Hill, went after stock this
morning, taking their guns. Enough OF
their remains has been found near the mag
azinc to identify them as the remains of
these boys. One of their hancs was found
clutching duck. 1t is now supposed that
they had fired into the magazine, causing
the explosion. 1t is stated that no men were
at work on the magazines.
Ferry Boat Capsize d.Thirty Lives Lost.
LONDON, April "a ferry boat, which
was being driven across the river Dec, at
Aberdeen, was capsized today in midStream
by the violence of the current. The boat
was crowded with passengers, and it is fear
ed that so persons were drowned.
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DEFERRED NEWS.
Frauds In San Francisco Custom House

SAN Francisco, April 1.-Recent disclo,
surs of semiofficial character render it be-
yond doubt that frauds of most extensive
character have been perpetrated on the GUS
toms department at this port. Close Obser>
walton and careful estimates show that goods,
the duties on which would amount to not less
than ST., 900, 900 or SC, 600, 900 annually, enter
the country without paying cent. The
largest part, perhaps, of this business, is car
ried on by the steamers of the Pacific Mail
line between New York, San Francisco and
Panama. Valuable merchandise is landed at
Panama, which is a free port, and in tran.
ages which have been shipped from San
Francisco to New York and vice versa as
coastwise freight, thus escaping duty. Large
quantities of Mexican wool are struggled
into the State from Santa Catalina Island oft
the coast of Santa Barbara There is an eX-
cellent harbOr there, but no customs officers.
The wool is landed there from Mexico, then
shipped here as wool shoIn from flocks on
the island. 1t is believed that these frauds,
in connection with other loose and corrupt
practices in the custom house here. cost the
government nearly 80 per cent. of the rev.
enue that should be collected here 1t is
probable that the matter will soon be brought
more prominently to the public attention by
action in Washington.
Protection for Foreign Residents of
MatamOras.
GALVESTON, April IA Brownsville special
SAYS it is reported that the President has di-
rected that the fOrign residents of Matamoras
shall be protected against the exactions and
oppression of the Mexican authorities The
above order came directly to Captain Johnson
and directed him to proceed at once to Mat
amoras and assist the council in protecting
American citizens. a special from Browns
will saws to day Tie naval force steamed up to
be ready for the protection of American citi-
zens in Matamoras. Daiz is on the edge of
the town and an attack is expected.
Pacific Mail and Panama.
NEW YORK, April 4.-The new board of
directors of the Panama r. r., has caused a
formal notice t. be served on the Pacific
Mail Co., proposing that al freight and pas
sengers of the company shall be charged ac-
cording to the current existing tariff rates
and that the company charge for lightcrage
service at Panama the same as Others and in
view Of the fact that it is largely in arrears
to the Panama company for such service in
the past, payment in advance is demanded.
If this threat is carried ont to its fullest eX-
tent. it will of course seriously emLarass the
Pacific Mail Co. us it will almost act as an
embargo preciuding it from doing business.
The counsel for the Pacific Mail Co. appeared
before Judge Gilbert in Brooklyn this morn>
ing and moved FIR reference in the case
brought by that company against the Union
Pacific II. Il. The court granted the motion
and appointed C;as. f. Strong, as referee.
The action is for an alleged breach of con
tract for the transportation of freight from
New York to San Francisco, and damages
claimed *150,00o.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-08
Three Terrible Explosions.

SALT LAKE, April 5.-This afternoon about
) o'clock the city was thrown into conster-
nation by three terrible explosions, succeed
ing each other at intervals of few seconds
The people rushed into the streets in terror
horses ran away, and CONSERVATION reigned
supreme. Windows were blown in, doors
blown from their hinges and chimneys in
jured. The cause of this terrible explosion
and shaking was not known until an i'm
menze volume of smoke was seen arising
from Arsenal Hill, Immediately north of the
city. Upon this hill were four powder mag
azines, one of Walker Brothers, agent of the
California Powder Company, containing one
and half car loads of powder; one
of Walker Brothers, for the Oriental Powder
Company containing half car load of powder;
Loins Co operative Institution for the Haz-
ard Powder Company, containing ten tons
Of powder; one of Ben. Jcnnin's for the
Dupont Powder Company. containing four
teen tons of powder. All exploded. There
were no buildings very close to the maya
zines The Touring mill and water works
buildings on City creek were riddled with
bouderS. Immense boulders fell crashing
through buildings throughout the city, some
falling a mile distant. There were three
men at work at one of these magazines; all
that can be found of them are small pieces
of flesh, the largas, piece being portion of
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Secretary Chandler Denies Bells State
nlCnt.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-Secretary Chandler
was before the Clymer committee to-day, and
testified that the statements of Detective Bell,
as Far as they related to himself, were wholly
false. To the best OF his recollection he
never had any conversation with him, and
did not know lie had been employed to help
BabcOck. He discharged Bell because h
believed him to be scoundrel, and gave per
emptory orders that his account should not
be paid by the pension office, because lie had
not been engaged in legitimate work. lie
was not aware until few days ago that he
had been paid. Lucky never spoke to him
about Bell, as alleged by the latter, and Bells
story in this respect is totally false. Chrn-
dler testified fully. and contradicted Bell in
every particular. In his answer to a question
by Clymer, Chandler said that, after the ter
mination of the Bebcock trial, he received
from ex,Secretary Borie letter saying the
expense of the Babcock trial was more than
$4,000: that Babe ock was totally ruined
financially. and desired that his friends should
contribute to dcfray the expenses of the trial.
Acting on this suggestion, he had sent to
Babcock check for 81 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16
ytROR EuBIRR1SSuENTS

Every dav, we regret to observe, multiplies
the Observation-Disclosures between Labor and
Capital, between the Employed and the En-
ploycr-lor MISUNDERSTANDING we are willing
charitably to consider them. With intclli-
gence and conscience and sense of justice
upon both sides, these wastcful and ruinOuS
ouarrcls would be next to impossible; but
what opportunity is there for calm reasoning
when scf-intercSt stimulates passion, and when
the fact that one party is clearly in the wrong
makes the other uncompromising and unchar-
itablel This is, therefore, a season of strikes
of all descriptions. The latest is that Of the
employees of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road. All the companies whose roads run
into Cincinnati have reduced wages. The
brakcmcm of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
have determined to resist this reduction, which
amounts to about fifteen cents per diem; and
they have prevented freight trains from max
ing their regular trips. There is trouble n
various points of the line and the whole ont
look is rather serious. In this city, worllmen
for whom there is no work continue to hold
meetings, to listen to speeches, and to pass
resolutions la Newark there is as yet only
partial adjustment of difficulties. Indeed,
everywhere there seems to be that uneasy
feeling which comes of bad markets and
general falling off in demand. Meanwhile the
roads are crowded with tramps who profess at
least TO be in search of employment while
crime, and that too of serious grade, is daily
increasing. The old problem once more con-
fronts us, with but small hope of a peaceful
and sensible solution. For it is not when men
are hungry angry, and smarting under
sense of injury that they are likely to come to
a pacific agreement.
At present, we can only hope for a mitiga-
ton of these troubles and temporary relief.
The causes of strikes lie too deep to be removed
by mere pallatives. The most which we can
hope for under present arrangements is for
bearance upon either side. 1t would be some
thing if the employer could always convince
his striking workmcn that the advance which
they demand is, in the state of trade, an inn
possibility. A plain statement OF the condi-
tion of the trade, of the market for goods and
for money, would often appeal to tho honor
and good feeling of the workman, while de
termination on his part to be really fair and
considcratc would always afford an excellent
basis for compromise. II is of small use FOR
EMPLOYERS to bully worlimcn, and this we be-
licve n majority of employers understand. IL
il of still less use for the strikers to refuse to
listen to reason, to stand upon etiquette and
punctilio, and to use no other means TO change
the situation than hard words and sangunary
threats. If both sides have brains, why not
use thcmP Why take it for granted that n
victory is necessarily Why not try for u truce,
treaty, and close allancef
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AursrMySTs-- Sd paGe-6tb column 80 -,
RISKING HOUSES AND BANKERS-Ifa Idfe-oih C"i"4n"
BoARr ANn HOOMS-3d Pdge-4tn ana ON cO'umnS
RI,sIYEss CuANCES-7M Pd0e-6th coumn
EUslsIss NoTICIS-fM TdGe-lst cOiumh
DEN1IsTRY-Ttk Pd0e-6th column
DIVIDEND NOTICEs-7H PdCe-6th cOuiln
my GOODS-3d PGIe-ith column. -, ,.,,,
EUROPEAN ADyEGTISEMENTS-6h PdJc-4th 0ViuNii'''
ExCURSIONs-.i8 PdQe-6th column
FISANCIAI-7M PdGe-5th and 6th colulhus
FCRSITUHE- Sd I0Gf-2d column
HrIP WAHED-}d PGCe-6th column ,
IIORsEs CARRIAGES, &c.-7h PAGE co uni ,n
Uorsps AND FARMS NANTED-3d Idge-ISt c"i"in"'
UOIEls-3d Pdge-5th cOunlp
leg CREAN-7Et Pd0e-6th column , an columns
ISs1RTcTIoN--6h PdGr-lSt, ID, 80, anu ftu 0oi''N"
LAW SCUoOIS-6h Idqe-4th column.
tTcu NnTiCEs-7th gGGc-6th couinE
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5M Pd0e--oth coluin"'
MfsCrILAS EOUs-SM Po9e-6th column
MUsIcAI ISsTEUMENTs-:}d PdCc-6th cuuinh
SKW PuBlCA TloNS-6M Pdge-lst co!ulnI' . ,,,,,.,, .
RFII TsT RATS FOR SALE-CITN-3d Id0s-lst COMM
Cou>TRY-3d PGge-1st column 10 hAChAN"L- 81"
Pa0e-Ist column. o,, ,
sstTs ny AUCTION-7h Pace 9th column , "
sITu ATOMS WANTED MALEs-3d PI0c-0th colulEh' TIE
mALEs-3d FU0e-Jth and 6th columns
sprCIAT NouCEs-5M PdGe-6th column -, - Oh
sTrIunoATs AND RAILROADS.&C. Idge--d anu 'u
sTgANEWS OCgAY-3d Pdgt--1s. column
sInNER RETRHATs-3d Pd0e-5th column
IyACIItEs-SM PdOP-4th column.
rur TURF-3d Pdge-6th column. =, o,,-,r.
10 IET-t'fTY PROFERTl-3d PdGe-lst C go I1.,
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list aud I'd columns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16

done. 1t camo into power with no recent ex-
pcricnce of its responsibilities, and no appre-
hension of its duties, and it has made long
and wcarisomc exhibition of its incompetcncy.
Mr.. Cox was quite near the front at the open
ing of the session. He has been many times
unpleasantly conspicuous since, and he iiSureS
largely and not very repntably III the
closing scenes. lie has made bad failure OF
it, but not worse than his party ana II may
be SAID in his defense that he has represented
the men who elected him in the. most thorough
manner. We may be pardoncd for saying
however, that he appears to much better ad-
vantage in a minority than in a majority, ana
that his party is of much more service to the
country acting as check to the opposition
than when it undertakes to shape legislation
or control the Government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16
THE JA1E SESSIO.

This Congress has been an unconScionahle
time adiourning, but mt last 1t has made a
finish of it. Few words are needed TO recall
TIE salient features of its work. Necessarily
it could do little in the way of positive lesiSla-
ton. since the Republican Senate and Demo
cratic House on the eve of a Presidential clcc-
tjon were even more than usually sure to work
at cross purposes.
But il has made a success i'll three dlrcc-
tons. 1t exposed corrupt Secretary OF war;
and drove him from office. 1t investigated an
unscrnpulous Minister to England, and scourged
him home. 1t reduced appropriations-some
times wisely, often unwiscly; but at all
events it reduced them, and so, Tor the
present checked the enormous expenditures
of public money. For these let this Congress
have all thanks; and LET us frankly say, too,
that the whole credit of them is due to the
Democratic House.
Against the three successes are to be set
good many failures. Congress not only ana
nothing to solve our financial problem, hut the
House. which ought TO have led the way, IN fact
dia everything in is power instead to make
confusion worse cOnfOunded. 1t repealed the
best thing in the Resumption act OF 1870
that fixing the date for resumption IN 1871
and left every vicious or useless thing there
was in it untouched. It's one step, therefore,
toward paying our debts was to declare that
it couldn'C think of naming any particular
time for beginning to pay them. 1t utterly
refused to touch the silver question 1t made
a ridiculous effort at tariff revision, and lett
the bill to die stillbom. 1t showed what
if understood Civil Service Reform To
| mean by turning out the oldest ana
most faithful employees the Government
| had and filing their places sometimes with
| incompctcnts, sometimes with speculaioIS'
sometimes with peculiarly blatant and offensive
traitors, always with elc'nhons. 1t managed
the most of ITS Investigations 50 poorly as to
secure little actual reform, while The
partisan unfai!ncss too often manifested
Lcouelt the whole business of invcs-
tigation into contempt. Its wcll-mcant
efforts at economy were so bnngling
that it once decided to Turn off the gas in oar
post offices; it kept the Government employees
living from hand to mouth on payments OF "a
third of months salary at time, crippled
the Signal Service, stopped the fast mails, and
made its most liberal appropriation i'll the
form of a myriad little steals disguised ao
river and harb0r improvements on rivers that
nobody nayigates, and at ports which have no
har5ors to speak of.
In some of these sins the Republican Senate
was full and earnest participant. 1t had
besides one OF two of It's own, like the attempt
to feyive the franking privilege. Finally, in
the midst of these hard times, both Houses
agreed to throw away two millions year III
order that Hawaiian sugar planters might find
a more profitable market in San Francisco.
Not much was expected from this Congress,
and it has fulfilled expectations to the letter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16
THE RETRENCHnENT MEASURES.

The Appropriation bills provide for an ex-
penditure of $147, ,210, against $177,3O3,-
$50 last year. The following shows the
amount appropriated by each of the twelve
regular bills last year, the amount as the bills
passed the House, as they passed the Senate,
and as they finally came from committees OF
conference and were adopted. We use the
figures given by Mr. Randall in his summing
ND on Monday in the House. There are some
trifing inaccuracies in them, as will be seen
by comparison with the tables furnished by
The TRIBUNE's Washington correspondent and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16

and even after the panic of 1887, when that
prolonged depression of industry came which
we have been wont to consider the darkest
period of our commercial history, this stock
never fell below $3.50. After 1889 it touched
par only once, in 1912, during twenty eight
years. The panic of 1857, sharp and severe
though brief, at one time caused this stock to
decline 90 5000, though it sold during the same
year for 81, 40, and in 1853 for $1,24O. In
1860 the highest price was 81, 205. Established
in 1923, when American prints, OF better
quality than the English, sold for % cents
yard this company produced about 2'5oo
yards daily in 1924, and in 1860 had grown
TO an establishment of $2,5OO,OOO capital,
S74OO spiDdles and weekly production OF
100000 yards of prints. The war, with Its
serious interruption of the supply OF cotton
and of the manufacture, at no time caused
this stock to fall below $3.50 ex dividend, and
during the same year Q863) it sold for $l,21o.
AS soon as the close of the war gave assurance
that the supply of material would not be cut
off. tie price went above 81, 100 at the lowest,
and thus remained. The highest and lowest
quotations each year since the war have been
Us follows
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16
Aem!a1ork Daily gribna1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16. 1876.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-The return of eX-Queen Isabella to
Madrid has revived the hopes of the monarchlS's'
and cabinet crisis is apprehended. - The
British Parliament was proroguod. -= The Nag-
ner Festival was postponed until to-day
DOMEsTfC.-Thc Connecticut Democratic Con-
yentioD will meet Sept. 16. - rumor of
Speaker Kerr's death caused great sorrow IN Wash
ington yesterday; the rumor was contradlcied.
- Gen. Terry will try to engage the Sioux IN
the Big Horn Mountains at once. - boy sup
posed to be Charley Ross, has been found IN Con-
necticut.
CoYGRFss.-Both Houscs adjourned sine die ut 1880
p. IN. yesterday; not very unusual amount OF bus-
ness was done; action the Bland Silver bill III the
House was defeated the bill to raise $500 more
regular cavalry was passed by both Houses and the
resolution for a Gold and Silver Commission the
President sent in message to the House declaring
that they had no authoTity to order the withdrawal
of consuls or foreign ministers; there was great
deal of disorder in the House during the day.
Cry AND SUBURBAN.-Judgo Van iIoeSen denied
the Injunction asked by the Ninth Avenue Railroad
Company against the New-YOrk Elevated Railroad,
and dismissed the complaint. 60 The New-Jersey
Rubber Works at New-Brunswick, n. j., were
burned, causing loss of $35O,OOC, and throwing
800 persons out of work 60 TIC little daughter
of q Hampstead farmer girl of only
nine years, was foully murdered. Two
negroes are suspected of tho crime. --
James Mulhcarn a boy of IT, killed his step-father
in Elizabeth-st. in quarrel == John, James,
and Patrick Cody brutally assaulted three working
men, fatally woundsng two of them. == The New
York Yacht Club started Oh its annual cruise. --
Gold, 1113s 111aS. 111o5 Gold value OF the legal
tender dollar the close, 50 80 cents. Stocks dull
and irregular. closing feyeriSh.
TIE WEATHER-THE TGlDUNE's local observa-
lions indicate clear weather. alternating with couuS
- In this city yesterday the day was generally
clear, but with refreshing rain in the afternoon.
Thermometer, SO, SO, 100.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16
TIE COTTON UANUFiCTURF.

Mcrrimack has fallen TO 1927 80. TO those
familiar with the prices of New England manu-
featuring stocks, this single fact tells terrible
story of Frustrated industry, reduced consllmp-
ton, and unemployed labor. For if Mcrrmack
cannot bring par, what must be the condition
of hundreds of weaker companies, or the pros
poets of that industry Since the war, the
Merrimack stock has not fallen to par until
recently; it sold for 81 600 per share in 1874.
and for 81, 1903 in 1875. Amoskeag, also,
which sold for 81 500 two years ago, has
fallen to $3.50, and Boot, which sold
for $1,752 80 two years ago, has fallen
to 81 $3.50. The Merrimack stock, however, il
one of the oldest on the list, and has commanded
high prices very steadily. Forty-one years ago
Mcrrimack sold for $l,202. and the lowest
price quoted in 1885 was SLIP. In 1886
lie highest was 1885. and the lowest $3.50.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16

Probably the rise and fall of this old and
wcll-known stock afford as fair an indication
of the general condition of the cotton manu-
facture as can be given by the fluctuations OF
any single stock. There are some exceptions
in the general depression. A few companies,
peculiarly favored by circumstances, have
avoided loss. or their stock being closely held,
have suffered no decline in quotations. But III
list of tifty-fve stocks quoted by The Boston
Adrcrfiscr, only four show slight advance III
price since July 81, 1875 or 1874, while the
quotations of seven have for two years been
unchanged. All the rest have declined; some,
doubtless from financial embarrassment, but the
greater number for reasons which affect TINS
manufacture generally. From The AdrertiSers
table we select some wel-lnown stocks, WIN
Tho n1icns IulY 81 Of the Ycars named:
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consequences may be very important. IL ms
long been conceded by the opponents or tue
schemes that Judge Scdgwick is likely 10 oe
souoreIy in favor of The Gilbert Elevated
Road rs TO the right of way through SIKH
ave. Against a double decision OF TINS soT' !.
will not be easy for the opponents OF raPIu
tr,nsit TO make effective resistance. lhe thou-
sards of people who are anXiOusIy waiting lor
tbc means Of quick conveyance to ana from
tbc;r homes viii be thankful that the courts
side with them that the laws OF the iahd 40
NOT conflict with the interests OF the pubic.
Important as the snit of this city against inc
Kings County officials may seem to the dwell
ers on tine islands in our bay, the law is less
likely to stop the deposit of dead eats and'dogs
on their shores than are the improved pro
cesses that may be employed for utilizing oilai
in This city. Our Board of Health have the
right theory about this business. TO drive out
of the city the establishments thdt would ocai
with offal and refuse is a mistake; 1t only re-
suits in planting nuisance OH the property Oh
orr ncigbbors. What is needed Is that these
concerns do their work i'll such way as not
to create any nuisance whatever; and then OF
course there can be no objection to having 1t
done in this city. Such programme is per-
fectlv feasible, say the chemists of the Board
of Health; and they propose to see that 1t Is
carried out to the letter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-16

The Hon. William Beach Lawrence has contrib
uted to The albany Law Journal an elaborate review
of the cxtraditon controversy Having waited until
he could have access to the papers laid before Con
grcss in the Winslow case and also to the documents
submitted to Parliament by the Earl of Derby, he is
now enabled to cover the ground thoroughly, and
tho result IL most eYhnllstivn and cOlnnrehonsiYe