The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-01-08

ects boOut e4uaI iihpiii'ies, itrScly III
real estate.
B. n Ford, of the distilling firm of
Ford, Oliver s. Co, has gone into
bankruptcy. Secured debts, $1,000;
unsecured, $7,440. The United States
has q claim of $4,000, for the recov-
cry of which suits against Ford are
still pending. He is also responsible
on accommodation paper to the amount
of 10000, and his bills discounted,
equal $4,000. He has an open account
of sums due him sggregating SIG.
and on adjudicated claims value un-
known.
This week has been marked by heavy
bankruptcies. in Chicago especially,
but also in the north and west. Bad
roads, poor collections, and decline in
real estate, have been the prime causes
CHICAGO, Jan. THE Inter- Oceal's
Washington special says Speaker
Randall has just muzzled his anti-sub-
sidy friends by dismissing his clerk
Schudder, who he inherited from
Speaker Kerr and kept eighteen months,
and has appointed son of Beverly
Tucker, an ex-Confederate soldier, but
who is now Tom SCOTS Pacific Railroad
agent Among southern Congressman
young Tucker has been helping his
father and Scott and has not the least
qualification for the present place.
CINCINNATI, Jan. THE Enquirer of
Saturday has the following from its
New York special: A San Francis~s
banker Informed the writer tonight
that with q view of the alarming con-
dition Of affairs, and with view to re-
lieve the business of the people. who
are being driven daily to the wall, also
to aid the Secretary of the Treasury.
who has failed to effect a sale of the
gold four per cents. syndicate, to be
called the American Syndicate. is about
to be established in San Francisco,
composed of the principal bankers there
who will offer to take fifty millions of
the four per cents. at par and pay for
the same in silver or the silver dollars
of our fathers when remonetized. This
banker also tells your correspondent
that the people OF the Pacific slope will
require one hundred millions of remon-
cited dollars for currency, or more
than can be minted in three years. and
this demand with the renewed activity
of China and Japan trade, will bring
the silver dollar up to par with gold in
short time
WARRINGTON, Jan. 7.-Colonel Shat
ter, member of the subcommittee on
Military Affairs, to-day. said there was
less stealing on the Texas border dur
ing the past year, than in any former
year.
Jew YORK, jan. THE Suns WASH
ington special says Boynton, who was
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
has published the administration side
Of the story about the alleged bargain
ing between certain Southern Demo-
Gratis. intimate friends of Hayes. Gen.
Boynton squarely declares that South
ern Democrats deliberately proposed to
betray Tilden. and that their overtures
were accepted.
The Ieralds Washington special
says the President Will not send in any
nominations for New York. His friends
say the matter has degenerated into
a mere squabble.
A Charleston special says that Sen
stor Butler, in an interview. yesterday.
declared himself opposed to the repeal
Of the resumption act. The Senator
has not given the subject of remoneti-
zation of silver sufficient investigation
to form an opinion, and denies that he
has ever given expression to his views
of the Bland bill.
NEW YORK, Jan. dispatches from
various points in New England show
that the cold is intense this morning,
ranging from twenty-four degrees be.
low zero at Nashua. n. ii to forty -four
below at Fort Fairfield Along the
Hudson the thermometer marks several
degrees below zero In this city it is
fourteen degrees above zero and the
cold is increasing.
EUROPE.
LONDON Ian TT ia ranortad th.,