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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13
CALIFORNIA And MAINE.
A Mixed Ticket Elected in Califor-
Mo MIA.
The Vote for Governor very Close
in Maine.
Result on Governor in Doubt.

PORTLAND, Sept. 9.-The result is
in doubt on Governor. Three hun.
dred towns show Davis, Republican,
$500 behind, against 5000 behind last
year. If the other three hundred
towns show corresponding gains, the
Republicans will have 1000 majority,
The House is Republican; the Senate
in doubt. PORTLAND PRESS.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13

The yellow fever continues to spread
at Memphis. Sometimes as many as
twenty new cases day are reported.
There is not much hope for an abate>
ment of the scourge for six weeks yet.
Destitution is appearing among those
who remain in the city. The call Of
the Howard Association on the coun>
try for assistance is meeting with re-
sponses. Jay Gould of New York
sent check for $1,000, with authori-
ty to draw for more if needed. The
Savannah (Ga. Benevolent Association
sent check for $500. The Towards
have expended all their funds, and are
going in debt to provide for the sick.
They are working vigorously, and
use. economy in their expenditures
W ere it not for this association, the
sick would be without medical or other
attention. People exhibit a careless
ness and recklessness as to yellow fever
which is truly remarkable. They visit
and attend to the sick regardless of con-
sequences, and laughingly jest about
taking the fever. The poor fellow
who attended the bedside of his friend
to-day goes down himself tomorrow.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13

The returns from Maine so far are
not full enough to determine fully
the result of the election, though
Blaine claims that the Republicans
have elected the Governor and ma
joity of the Legislature. 1t was the
most, hotly contested election ever
held in that state, and if the Repub-
licans win it is by sheer desperation.
As Maine has uniformly been Repub-
lican since 1854 nothing else could
reasonably be expected.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13

WE DO WORK CHEAPER
~ than any other printing Office In
West Vi.xiniA
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13
Saturday, September Ii, 1879.

General j. B. Hood, soldier of
the Confederacy in the late war died
of yellow fever ON Sunday of last
week. He leaves helpless family
to mourn his loss.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13

A great deal is being said just
now, says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
by Republican stumpers of a change
in the times for the better; that, hay
ing touched bottom, business is tend
ing upward. We hope that this is
true. We want to see better times.
And, not being able to get lower, hav-
ing reached bottom, we do not see
any other direction for business to
take, if it change at all, except to 60
up. If what is said is true, the panic
of 1873 has worn itself out, after hay
ing ruined tens of thousands of hon
estmerchants, driven money capital
from business and industrial enter
prise into Government bonds, shrunk
the values ofproperty nearly one half
brought ruin and misery to homes,
and women and children without num-
Der, starved labor, forced riots and
instituted the tramp. 1t lies now ex-
hausted on hard-pan, too feeble fol-
further mischief. Suwarrow, after
having butchered forty thousand
Poles, men, women and children, sent
word to his Imperial mistress, Cathar-
inc, that '.sOrder .reigned in Warsaw.
So the panic, the otfal of vicious fl
nancial policy, having slain its thou
sands and tens of thousands at the
command of the Money Power, the
Secretary of the Treasury announces
that confidence is again restored, and
that business is reviving. The coun-
try is to be congratulated that, after
all the sad experiences it has gone
through, on account of the crimi
nal financial laundering of Republic
can Administrations it can be-
gin to see the daylight of prospect
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-13

LAzEAR, FINNELL Il Co. have re-
ceived another lot of goods in addi-
ton to the piles on their 5 cent coun-
ter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
YELLOW FEVER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-The commission ap-
pointed by the President to proceed to Cuba
for the purpose Of collecting information in re-
lation to yellow fever, has submitted prelim.
mary report to the national board of heal h.
The report says the most general result is that
yellow fever prevails in every place ia Cuba
from which reports were received; provided
these places are of any size or commercial i'm
portsnce. and contain any considerable number
of unacclimated persons, who fur
nish food for widespread poison.
In this particular the medical authorities
as we'll as intelligent residents of Cuba, have
for most the part misled the profession. Be-
fore leaving the United States most absolute
assurances were given by natives or ex-residents
Of Cuba, and even in Cuba itself these assur-
ances were confidently repeated, that yellow
fever never occurred in this, that or the other
place. Dilgent inquiry was made for all such
places and dilisent investigation invariably
proved that these assurances were
false, and that they were found
ed upon comparatively slight prevalence
of disease due in large measure to small
number of unacclimated visitors or residents
in such places, detailed reports of these facts
are possessed in abundance, it is very certain
that prevalence of yellow fever is not equally
marked in all places, this varies greatly in diff
ferent places and in different years at some
places and this variation is at times indepen-
dent apparently of amount of unacclimated
material.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
RENO'S TRIAL.
Plea of the Accused Adjournment of the

Plea of the Accused--Adjour of the
Court.
DEADwooD, Dec. SIN the Reno court mez-
tial. to-day, Major Reno delivered a lengthy
argument in his defense, in which he claims
that he did not 60 beyond the bounds of be-
coming conduct; that in striking Lieut.. Nichol-
son he did so after being driven beyond the
limits of patience by repeated tsunts of Mich
olson; that in looking through the
window of Gen. Sturgis' house
he was actuated by the purest motives, and
his note of apology should be sufficient re.
pairation for an unintentlonal offense he
says that all witnesses agree that he was in the
possession of his mental faculaties in all oc-
casions brought into question; that if
under the influence Of liquor at all
he was regarded as good humoredlY drunk,
and his knocking money on the floor and
breaking window lights was done in q frolic.
He claims that it has been his misfortune to
have obtained widespread notoriety
through the press of the country,
and that greater degree of attention is called
to his acts than those of other officers, and that
a conviction upon the charges against him
would be a sacrifice of his commission, which
is the reward for over twenty two years Of hard
and faithful labor to his country. He quotes
the eighty-third article of war, and says
the intent is to preserve the character and
honor of the army by excluding disreputuble
characters and not to inhict punishment for
youthful follies or trivial devotion from recti.
tude. The court then adjourned sine die.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09

year 1878 is estimated at four hundred and
eighteen millions, or nearly as much as the
total value of imports into the United States
from foreign countries. With respect to such
manufactures, these cities naturally exercise
much larger degree of control over tho
Southern trade, than with respect to their
merely distributive commerce. The cities of
St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati now draw
their supplies of domestic merchandise
principally from ethe Atlantic seaports
of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Balti
more, and from manufactures in the New
England States and in the Middle and Western
States. Imported goods sold at these three
cite" of the west are chiefly received from or
through Atlantic seaports where they are trans
ported by rail. The city of Cincinnati will
probably greatly enlarge her southern trade as
a result of the recent completion of tho Gin,
clnnati Southern railway to Chattanooga, Tenn.
at which point 1t connects with the railroad of
the Atlantic and Gulf States.
There has been q rapid growth in tho ship
ment of cotton from the cotton growing
states, through st. Louis, Louisville and Gin
clnnati and thence over east and west trunk
lines at Atlantic seaports and 10 manufacture
ers in the New England States and other States
of the Atlantic seaboard. These facts indi.
cate an important diversion in the course OF
trade of the southern Statee
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
LABOR AND CAPITAL,

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Hoar intro
duced bill in the Senate,
today, to establish labor
committee. 1t provides that the President,
with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint
committee of five persons to inquire and re-
port as to the extent to which machinery and
labor saving processes have entered into the
production and distribution of products in
general and consumption among the people, to
the displacement of manual labor. Also,
whether any causes are in operation to bring
about the ownership and cultivation of lands
in large tracts instead of small
farms and homesteads. Also, as to the con
dition of persons employed in agricultural,
mechanical, manufacturing and mining labor
in this country, and especially whether any
causes are at work to change for the better or
worse the condition of such persons, their
hours OF labor, the education of their children
and the proportion received by them of the
profits of the occupations in which they are
engaged. The commissioners are to hold office
for two years, receive An annual salary of
$4,000 each and be allowed expenses of travel,
have authority to employ secretary and three
clerks, and report to Congress annually through
the secretary of the interior.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
INTERNAL COMMERCE..

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Joseph Kimmo, Jr.,
chief of the bureau OF statistics, has Just sent
to the President report on the international
commerce of the United States, in the prcpara-
ton of which he has been engaged for more
than year. This report embodies the results
of extensive Investigations of commel cial and
transportation affairs in various parts of the
country. The following is q synopsis Of the
report: The growth of traffic on railroads i.
indicated by the fact that the total freight
movements of three of the most important
trunk lines connecting the West with the sea-
board increased from 10. sos, 989 tons in 1868 to
Is, 272, 755 tons in 1878. The average cost of
transportation on ten of the principal lines of
the country fell from 1910 cents per
1878. Seven-eighths of the surplus produe-
tions of the trans-Mississippi, north of the
State of Arkansas, now cross the Mississippi
on railroads at and between st. Louis and St.
Paul, and are transported directly east to the
markets in the country and in foreign coun-
shipments from St. Louis by rail exceeded the
Southern shipments from that city by the
Mississippi river. The cities
of ST. Louis and New Orleans were formerly
closely identified in all their trade interests,
but they are now sharply at rivalry with re-
spe,t to the trade Of southern Mississippi. Ar
kansas, northern Louisiana and a large portion
of the trade of Texas.
The four principal East and West trunk lines
leading from the Atlantic .seaboard, with their
western connections to Chicago, st. Louis,
Louisville and Cincinnati now constitute the
most important avenues of commerce in thi,
country, and the trade curren, which pass over
them largely influences the course of our for
eign trade with respect to the ports at which
foreign goods are imported and domestic pro-
ducts are exported.
This great east and west current of trade has
led to radical change in the course of trade
| of States sithated south of the Ohio river and
south of the State..of Missouri T he cities Of
St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati now con-
| troll at least two-thlrds of the trade of these
States in general merchandise, and have there
fore become their chief commercial entreport
for this trade. These cities compete actively
with Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston.
In the aggregate, st. Louis, Louisville,
and Cincinnati greatly surpass Mobile, New
Orleans and Galveston in population, in the
magnitude of their commerce and in other ele-
meuts of commercial power. In competition
for the trade of the States referred to, the
three interior cities possess an important adj
vantage in their rapidly developing manufac-
| turing industries, the value of the
! products of which during the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09

whether one mile above or below s.id oity in
snch manner as to accommodate the large
trade and commerce crossing the river at that
point, and without material injury to the nav
being always kept by bridge-owners to assist
any craft when required. They convened At De-
troit the first Thursday of Oct. 1879, and were
required by Con. Sherman to complete and
submit their report and recommendations to
tho chief of engineers before December. The
hrst hve days of the session were occupied in
hearing statements apd arguments of persons
bridge Or tunnel, and then, at the urgent re-
quest of all parties interested, the board ad-
iourned to enable them to collect statistics
bearing uponthe subject. On the 18th of No.
vember they reassembled and proceeded to
consider the matters referred to them. The
thus briefly stated. At Detroit two immense
direct ' iDterfer en'f'' nam ei' l one
by water and the other by railroad.
The problem before the board was tc SO ar
range by either bridge or tunnel that these
might Cross each other with the least injury to
both and in such a manner as to accommodate
railroad traffic and at the same time do no ma
terial or undue injury to tho interests of navi-
cation. The magnitude of these conflicting
interests at this point may be realized from
the official statements marked in the report,
WHICH enOW tnat tQe nQmDer OF vessels OF va
rious kinds passing Fort Gratiot light house
during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877, was
~, l59, and that the business of the railroads
crossing the river at Detroit during the year
was az follows: 128, 113 passengers, 12,75S pas
ssnger cars, 1878 baggage cars, aud l04,35
freight cars.
Tho report of the board of engineers ap-
pointed in 1878 to investigate this same sub.
ject, is alluded to: This former board stated,
among other things, that no bridge with draws
should be tolerated. The board, in their con-
illusions on this point, say: There is proba-
bly, no difference of opinion about these con-
illusions except as to one, referring to a bridge
with draws. The form OF the bridge consider
ed inadmissable by the former board had open
ings of l66 feet on each side, the remainder
to be built upon piers of masonry 200 feet
apart, and it was believed that draw openings of
l66 feet we're the greatest then considered
practicable. Draws of more than 200 feet
have been since constructed and it is now pro-
posed by bridge builders of high reputation to
construct them with openings of 800 feet on
each side of pier, or of 400 feet between the
two piers. The board, though unanimously of
The opinion that tunnel offers the most COM
plete solution of the problem, presented no ar
gument in favor of it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
PERSONAL.

Il. @. Gray Taylor's Falls, at the Clarendon.
James Lincoln, Wabashaw, is at the Claren-
don.
Judge Lloyd Barber, Winons, at the Mer-
chants.
Mr.. @. q. Whipple, Faribault, at the Mer-
chants.
Hon. R. F. Hersey Of saltwater is registered
at the Merchants.
F. w. Kinglar, Duluth, is among the arrivals
ut the Clarendon.
q. O. White of st. Cloud and q. D. Post of
Lake City are at the merchants.
Hon. VIM. Lochren, Minneapolis. was in tbs
city on legal business yesterday.
Horace E. Horton, Rochester, and B. +.
Thanbut, Mankato, registered at the Mer-
chants.
Hon. Felix A. Borer, L.. sueur. the nominee
9 T the Democrats at the last election for score
tary of state, is in the city. 81
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BUFoRD's CASE.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. ga Frankfort special to
the Courier Journal: The special court of ap-
peals for the trial of the case Of Thomas Bu-
Buford vs.. the commonwealth this afternoon
rendered an opinion reversing the decision OF
the lower court. ] ohm Felland presented the
decision of the court, which reverses upon
these grounds: First. the lower court erred
materially in overruling the motion for con-
tinuance by appellant on account of the alb
sence of large number of witnesses at
the July term of the criminal court.
Gale and DR.. j. @. Keller as experts was i'm
properly excluded. Third, the giving of Ger
tain instructions, especially those requiring the
jury to be satisfied from the evidence of the in
sanity of the deceased before they could acquit,
and that requiring defendant to prove to the
jury his insanity to their satisfaction. The text
of the opinion occupies fifty pages of man
lengthy.
DEATH WARRANT SIGNED.
New YORK, Dec. S.-The death warrant is
convicted after third trial in Syracuse, for tho
murder Of his wife. He is sentenced to b
hanged Friday next.
CONTINUED.
CINCINNATI, Dec. SIN the police court this
morning the cases of the ffty-three proprie-
tors and attaches of the theatres and variety
shows violating the law forbidding the per-
formanoe of common labor on Sunday, were
continued to Decen Der 16
DROWNED HERSELF.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.-Mrs. Mary Kissel. widow,
of Newport. Ky, drowned herself in cistern
this morning. She had lost tho pension papers
of her late husband, and fear that she could
not recover them led her to this act.
OswEao, Dec. 8.-Daniel Searls, eolored, for
the murder of Elbridge G.. Rervey, while at
Newark valley, June Is last, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged Jan. 81.
DROWNED.
HALIFAX, Dec. s.-Miohael Wraylon, of EN-
erald Isle, his daughter Cassie, his son Lowell
and q man named Jacob Sears. of Woods Har-
Dor, left Shag Harbor in small shallop for
Pubnico, to attend church. The vessel foun-
dered on entering Argyle sound and all were
drowned.
FLOUR MILL BURNED.
ST.. LOUIS Dec. S.-Tho Touring mill Of
Samuel Hill & Bro, New Athens, ILL.,, burned
to-day. Loss on mill and machinery, $25, 900.
Insured: Home, New York, $1,000, Fire &
Marine, st. Paul, $500. The mill contained
between 10000 and 10000 bushels of wheat
and some -four, valued about $25. 900, on which
there is 20 insurance.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
An Agreeable Judge.

FaE7ERBuRa, Me-, Dec. 8.-Judge Virgin,
upon agreement of Parties hiss consented to
conduct the hearing in the mandamus case
against the secretary of state and governor at
the capitol, Wednesday, the 10th inst. The
court will not finally adjourn hero until this
case is disposed of.
AUGUSTA, Me. Dec. 8.-Petitions from various
cities ind towns in the State were presented to
the governor and council to-day urging the
necessity of investigating the charges made by
Chas. 8. Rounds. The petitions are signed by
numerous prominent Republicans, and are
emphatic in their appeal for examination of
the charges alleging corruption and official
malfeasance, and all declare that the investign-
ton prayed for should be accomplished before
the certificates are issued to Senators and Rep
resentatives elect.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
Chamber of Commerce.

At the meeting of the chamber of COM
merce yesterday w. L. Wilson, from the
committee appointed to confer With the city
council relative to railroad crossings, sub
mitted report, the essential points of which
were as follows:
Assurances were given that the roads would
erect gates at the principal crossings as q tenn
porary expedient; that such gates were on
the way here and would very soon be put in
position. ~
It is obvious enough to any one who gives
this matter even slight attention, that it will
require considerable time to prepare approaches
and erect the bridges, for which no doubt tho
public will patiently wait If due diligence is
exercised, and if in the meantime all safe
guards which can be provided by watchmen
and gates are assiduously employed.
MIR. McClung moved that the special
committee on funding the city debt at q low
rate of interest report whether, in view of
the recent sale of our per cent bonds, it is
not practicable to change other portions of
our debt to this low rate. The motion pre-
vailed, and the matter goes to the committee
composed of VIM. Dawson, II. Thompson,
J. W. McClung, D. r. Noyes, Jr.
Gen. Sibley announced the following as
the committee to present to the city council
the resolutions adopted at the last meeting,
relating to the levee: j. w. McOlung, j.
B. Sanborn; Il. W. johnson, D. d. Merrill,
F. Willius.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Tke following decis-
ions were filed to-day:
No. 6S-County of Cass, plaintiff in error.
Solomons Gillet in error to the circuit court Of
the United States for the Western district of
Missouri. This was suit brought to recover
interest on coupons of certain bonds of Cass
county, Missouri, issued in payment of SUBJ
scriptiou to the capital stock of the Clinton &
Kansas City branch of the Jebo Il Neosho rail-
road. This case is almost precisely similar to
that of tho county of Henry vs.. Nicolas, report
tant Assignments of error fall within the deois-
ion in that case or that in the case of Schuyler
VS.. Thomas, 178 United States 1897. The
judgement of the lower court is affirmed with
costs and interest. Justice Bradley delivered
the opinion. Justice Harlan deseuted.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
THE GLOBE HOROSCOPE,
A. 1t Casts its Light Upon tho Chicago Mar
k0f. .-....' ..rr

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Dec 8.-Oables this morning were
higher. Latest Eastern advices say triae
lower but the clique are not selling. The
clique in our market gave the screw turn and
the result was January took two turns up.
closing on the curb at $l.2914. ~
Corn was generally more active, with liberal
trading. On the curb May brought ~ and
and January 4211S.
On provisions the packing fraternity and oil
their friends took q turn ut hammerina tho
market on pork and lard but without much
effect, rs it was whispered that they could not
get enough cut meats, taking all that was Of
fered.
Pork closed strongly. The deal is gamey
and heap of .monkeying is going on, lots of
our traders being terribly bored by tho deal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-09
Nominees of tho virssni. Readjusters.

RICHMOND, Dec. 8.-Ths readjusters of the
general assembly were in caucus tonight until
midnight making nominations for State Of
fcers, with the following result: Secretary of
the commonwealth, T. T. Faunt Leroy; first
auditor, J. E. Maseie; second auditor, 81. II.
OLSON; treasurer, n. Reynolds; register of the
land Office, J. W. Brock; superintendent of
public printing, r. F.. Walker; superintendent
of the penitentiary, b. 8. Williams; railroad
commissioners, J. w. Phillips and 81. 81. Dis
son. The nominee for second auditor is the
only Republican nominated. The election of
these officers will take place tomorrow.