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THE PLAGUE.

vienna, February 2O.-A telegram from
the Austro-G German Plague Commission,
at Tsaritzen, says: The Commissioners
meet with the greatest opposition from
the Russian authorities in the execution
: Spotted typhus Is anniouacsdl prevailing
In Eastern Galicia. A{f Z II
DoYS on TIE dAios.
Sr. PETERSBURG, February 2G.-Tle sale
Of the Gdtos on the streets has been pro-
hibited. The authorities declare its plague
news false and exaggerated.
An official messenger states that a
toot,pan here is suffering from slight
attack OF the Astrakhan disease himself
and IS OF his associates have been isolated
and their effects burned.
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ToLspo, February 91-Wheat-Dull; OK.
ia white Michigan held at 81 ol3l; amber
Michigan March held at 81 0oA April 81 O9X 4
asked, 81 o?H hid; No. 2 ned Winter qyt
lIixed seller May SIC; No. 2 seller May Ssc;
rejected 3ixc.
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~. M EHASc'scO, February 90.-Tho Ne.
tDs.!,' .a "aaS today sold 100000 ounces Of
nj osi',''SF to the Government, to be deIIy.
l,foarr"' eiC,' Fan Francisco Mint, at lOsf
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~SUWNVH
TO TIE DAttY ESTBLLIGEYcER.
GENERAL NEWS.
The House Grows Sweet and
Discusses Sugar.
The Senate Wranglss Over Federal
Supervision Of Elections.
Dom Platt Wakes Up the Wrong
Passenger and Gets Thrashsd.
Russia suppresses the Plague News.
Destructive Storms on the Continent.
WASHINGTON.
-FOUR PER cEST. suBscRIPrIoSs.

-FOUR PER CENT. SUBSCRIPTIONS.
WAslnSqTog February 2f-The sub.
scriptions 10 the four per cent. loan since
yesterday were SSl, $3.50.
A DIVIDEND.
The Comptroller Of the Currency has de.
clared dividend Of Eve per cent. in favor
Of the creditors Of the City National Bank
OF Chicago, making q total paid to said
creditors of50 per cent.
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''1'0 Prop''rs ma Intrrns,ionnI Exit.
bltI0u.

DItlOu.
!. ML0rIs, February 2G.-JOhn F. Cahill,
Az'ean Consul in this city, has Just re.
sTe' a Telegram from the City OF Mexi.
. NatIaS that Minister of Public Works,
I'R' Vieaie'lsiya ralacios, has given or.
Ss = Tor The erection Of n building for the
siefnaiiOnal Exposition, which Il TO take
s.:s ~ IN 1850 Che work iS progressing
..pdIyy, and all ma:GrialstOr tlIe construc.
~ ~ o. o. The building will be purchased in
s5 We United States. WLilc this exposition
tM Oe International in character, exhibits
IVY ,.i' IalS country IRE specially invited,
~ IN Mls expected that .!mericans will
~; ny numerous and fine displays OF their
'"''us goOdswares and machinery, &c.
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coLuNpus, February 20.-The Stale
Board Of Agriculture have decided to 10.
cato the stats Fair IN this eIty for tho next
two years, Dayton was tho only other
contestant for the Pair,
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GERMANY.


BERLIN, February 97.-The North Ger.
man Gqsdis denounces as inventions the
reports attri6utiDg to the Emperor re-.
marks unfavorableto President Grayy and
the new order OF things in France.
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Financial and Commercial.
By TRLEGRAPH.


NEW YoRE, February 8.-MoNEY-AIarket
active at BAL per cent Prime mercantile pa.
per 3ab per cent Sterling Exchange Bank.
ers' bills steady at 81 S5K. Sight Exchange
on New York at 81 SSK.
GovERSAENTs-Quiet and steady.
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New Orlenns

NEw ORLEANS February %. s.-Coffee
steadyi Rio cargoes, ordinary to prime, lila
lONc. Sugar Strong; inferior TO good com.
mon 41a5c; common to good common 5Na
6Kc; yellow clarified 6ISa7Xc MolaSes-
Steady and ingO0l demand; ieEnenting 22a
2Sc; cistern bottoms 2SaSsc; common 2(A22c;
fair 2Sa25c; centrifugal 20a27c; prime 10
strictly prime 27u3lc. Rice Firmer: Louisl.
ana ordinary to choice 61SA0Nc.
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Cincinnati Hoe Market.

CINCINNATI, February 26.-Hoos- Steady
Ior light heavy quiet common at $3 26a
wi light s. S5a4 10; packing 81 10a4 IS A;
butchers 81 4Oa4 CO. Receipts $500 head;
shipments none.
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PoLITICAL NOTES.


CnctSxAri, February 96,-The Reppb;
lican Executive Committee OF Cincinnati.
have appointed Marph 20th rs the date OF
holding the spring eonYentlon.
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The bullion withdrawn from the BIl
Of England, entbslqAee, teSlas amelps'
10 El00,000.
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SPRISaRtRLp, ILL.,, February 28.-The
Senate to-day by vote Of lSto 10, adopted
a concurrent resolution thanking the Sen.
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Speaker Randall telegraphed to the
editor of the Philadelphia ledger to-day
with reference to ari extract from letter
Of Special Agent OF the Treasury H. VIII
liams, dated September I'd, 1876, and ad-
dressed to Major Wm. D. Moore, Super
vising Special Agent Of tho Treasury at
that time, and asserting that the evidence
is in the Treasury building to show that
two appropriation warrants were illegally
signed to get money to continue the ope-
rations Of the Engraving and Printing
Department, which was directly in tho in
terest OF Samuel J. Randall, who is n
large stoekholler in the paper mill which
Is alone authorized to supply the bureau
of Engraving and Printing with paper for
bonds, bank notos. etc., and was accom-
plished through the influence Of Messrs.
Randall, Wm, Hemphill Jonas and Geo.
B. ,McCarter, thatthere Is not one syllable
Of truth inslrillianls' statement nor q sem
blance OF Justification for such an Infamous
SANDER as fur as | am concerned or know.
The speaker also asks that the editor OF the
Le9ger publish tomorrow full and un-
cQuiYocal contradiction.
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The President has nominated Walter
=. Coxfo Washington, for Associate JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court OF the District
Of Columbia; Peter A. Williams, Unit ed
States Marshal for the Southern District Of
Florida, and Dennis Eagan, Collector OF
Internal Reyenuafor Florida.
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DOM pIArr oErs rnRAsl1ED.

Analtereation occurred in the Senate
lobby, about ten. o'clock tonight, between
Dom Piatt and VIM. MoGarrihan, which,
though OF very brief duration, resulted in
Piatts being badly punished about the
head and face. The alteration grew out
Of a personal allusion to McGarrlhan pub.
ltshed editorially in the the Sunday Capital.
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Chicago cattle Market.

UHIuAUOl FebFuAfy 2B.-Ihe UroVerS journal
reports:
HoOs-R Receipts q, 900 head; shipments 8, 900
head. Slow and shade lower; choice heavy
81 OOal 50; light S sOaS sS; mixed IS sOaS az
CATrLE-Receipts 1900 head; shipments
$500 head. Dull and lower shipping a 0Oa
o 90; st stckers IS 70a4 20; butchers steady;
cows g 2OaS 40t bulls 81 40a450.
sHEEP-Receipts 1900 head: shipments
100 head. Steady at g 62IiA4 70.
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PrTTsBuRGH, February 2e.-PErRoLEuM-
Steady; crude at 81 16N at Parkefs for
immediate shipment; refined 9hc for Phila-
delphia delivery.
II oIIosDOS, February 9a-praoLruu-spirits
lOl.
4, AsTSEnr !, " February 9a-prnOlrun = Re.
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ANTI-CHINESE.
The Pressure on the President
Grows Heavier.
Illinois Approves the Bill and Com
mends Her Congressman for
Voting for II.
The California Press on Chinese
immigration.
Resolutions of the Nevada Leulsla-
ture.
The Presidents Veto Considered Certain.

SAN Francisco, Februara ga Port
land special dispatchsaysi Alta meeting
.oithe Board Of Trade the following reso.
luton was adopted:
ResOled, That the Board Of Trade Of
Portland, Oregon, heartily endorses the
action Of, Congress in passing the Chinese
Restriction Immigration Bill and earnest.
ly soliCits the President OF the United
States to approve the same, believing that
In so doing he will not only confer on the
people OF this northwest Pacific coast, but
on the American nation, now and hereai.
ter, the greatest benefits which can posi-.
bly, follow to the tfade and commerce Of
the United States and to society at large.
The resolution was forwarded by tele.
graph to President Hayes, signed by the
President and Secretary Of the Board.
The Republicans OF the 7th Senatorial
district have telegrnphed to the President
asking him to sign the Chinese Bill as a
measure to promote the happiness and
Of the Golden State.
! THE PRESSURE oS THR PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, February Ex-senator
and Representatives Luttrell, Wigginton
and Patterson to-day urged tile President
TO Sgnthe anti-Chinese bill, and present.
cd arguments and reasons for so doing.
The Presidents answer was similar to that
given the Republican Congressional dele.
Cation yesterday. The Democrats, like the
Republicans, loft the White House with
the impression that the President will not
sign the bill.
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THE CENSUS BILI

The census bill as it passed the House
provides that the enumeration shall begin
on the first Of June, and the returns shall
befofwardedto the supervisors on or be.
fore the ilrst OF July, 1880; and in any
city having over ten thousand inhabitants
tho enumeration shall be taken withintwo
weeks from the first Monday in June.
The President, by and with the consent OF
the Senate, is TO have the appointment Of
supervisors OF the census, whose number
is limited to one hundred and City, who
are to receive Us compensation $500 each.
The sum Of $1,000, 900 (S25000 OF which
is hereby appropriated is limited as the
maximum cost OF the census.
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NEyADA SENATE.

The Nevada Senate to-day passed by an
unanimous vote q resolution and memo.
rial praying the President TO sign the Chi.
nese Bill.
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Gtors and Representatives at Washington
for the adoption Of law for restricting
Chinese immigration.
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The steamer Memphis. from Liverpool
for New Orleans, ashore ut the entrance Of
the harhor Of Corunna, has been aban-
doned. She is considered a complete
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BERilS ASD ALsATIAI
cArErowN pIsAsrEn ExpLAlEEp.

LONDON, February 2G.-AIail advices
from, Capetown explain the recent disaster
to the British forces, The Zulus attacked
Col. Durnford's column before il reached
the encampment where Maj, Pullein0 was
in command. Maj. Pulleine went 10 the
assistance OF Col. Durnford and was him
self cut off by the ZuIHs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-07-16

loud word. We are informed
by DR.. Hull that he is now attending the
first cases of diphtheria that has been in this
part for quite long time. Ole RasdaIe has
little girl that is not expected to recover
from it, and many more that we could men,
ton.
Henderson (Sihley county, Independent,
July 4: On Sunday afternoon last. Eliza
Henke, about twelve years of age, daughter
OF VIM. Henke, of Transit, went over to the
house of Mr.. Zarnoth, neighbor, to spend
the afternoon with Mr.. Zarnoth's little girl,
some six or seven years of age. The little
girls went up stairs to play, and while there
Mr.. Zarnoth's little girl found gun belong.
ing to her brother, standing IN the corner,
and thought she would snap it as she had
seen her brother do. The gun was loaded
and the contents were discharged into the
shoulder and breast of the Henke girl, killing
her instantly. The young man who owned
the gun on hearing of the accident became
insane, and is now under the care of q doc
tor. Es.9
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the State board Of health this morning estab-
lished inspectors Of trains and passen gers.
Hereafter all persons and trains leaving
Memphis will be required to have certificates
from an inspecting officer. All trains arriving
and departing will transfer passengers bag
gage at a point five miles distant from the
city. Judge Rays condition Is uniinproyed,
but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.
His son also lies in critical condition. No
new cases have been reported within two
days.
All the free delivery cities have been di-
vided into two classes, with view to classify
ing letter carriers. First class is Albany, Bal
timore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, indianapolis,
Jersey City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Newark,
New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia. Pitts
burgh, Providence, Rochester, St. Louis, San
Francisco and Washington. All the other
cities where the free delivery system is in OPP
Grafton, sixty-five in number, are second class.
The salaries Of carriers of the second class
cities have been fixed at $3.50 per annum, ex-
GLIDING auxiliary and subordinate carriers
and their back pay is left for the adjustment.
The postmasters in the first class cities will
soon designate carriers for first and second
grades.
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CURRENCY STATISTICS.

Something About tho Tols.,.e and Valme of
Currency II, This and Other Countries.
Gen. A. J. Warner, of Ohio, has prepared
an elaborate table compiled from official
treasury statements. He shows that the
volume of currency in 1866, when the vol
ume was at the maximum, was 1888, 1913 ,695,
with population of 25,OOO,OOO or over $3.50
per capita. In 1873 the total volume was
$75O,062,36S, with a population of 42,OO0,-
600, or q little less than $18 per capita. In
1878 the volume actually in circulation was
$6Ss, 597, 275, with q population estimated at
1900, 900, or $14.5O per capita. In 1879,
an actual circulation of $69S, 424,64s. Gen.
Warner says: s'In addition to the above
there was coin in the treasury April 80, 1879,
according to the secretary's report to the
Senate, $13S,00O,O0O, but plainly neither
this coin nor other currency which has beeh
purchased by the sale Of bonds and held I'M
der the resumption act as hoard, or
gathered in the treasury as the re-
suit of an excess Of revenue over ex-
penditures, ought to be counted as part
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purchases property on reasonable and fair
speculation If he has made mistake he
will pay his losses without whining, as those
who are trying to thrive BY bearing the mar
kst and depreciatipg other peoples property
have no right to blame others for their own
mis' axes !" r
Son what does Mr.. Keene pin his hopes
Tor rise in No. spring wheat?"
I'm the crop prospects. Europe wants
al! the breadstnfs We can supply, and will
take them at much higher prices. Why
should we not have the benefit of it? The
reports from abroad generally show light
crops and an increased demand fully equal
to our capacity. The granaries are empty
here and in Europe. All the grain is in
sight, and the whole crop, almost, has been
soraped together for the June deal. Spain,
France, Italy and Russia report much small
or crops than last year, and this country
must be the only source of SUPPLY
Then you believe that wheat will contin-
ue to advance?'
eyes. The fact is that the combination
control, and have controlled for months
past, all and more than all the No. 2 spring
wheat in the market. It would have
been the easiest thing in the world to have
plnched all the shorts months ago,
ssAAN WOuAO udVo uOu0 IL TOO II i
had been running the deal. If you have
any wheat, keep it. And, for that matter,
If you have any land, keep that too. The
farmers will not always be bears on their
own produce. It is really worth something
and when they begin to realize this, and that
it is all wanted for actual consumption, we
will have better prices, healthier trade, and
more general prosperity
ibid that houna 6iopotch hovo oru Cd oroo
effect on the new deal?''
"Well, should say it had. Europe was
all ready to buy, but when that news first
went across the water as genuine it broke
the market all to pieces. Now We are lust
getting back to where we were before. Mr..
Keene was sorry that innocent dealers lad
suffered by this fraudulent use of his name,
but he doesn't believe, and neither do I,
that the gully parties made much out of it.
At the moment, no doubt, they realized
something, but in the end they must have
suffered
"Have you had any idea as to the author
ship of the dispatch p
''Why, of course we have. That dispatch
was instigated of course in Chicago. We
went to the telegraph Office and saw the
handwriting, which corresponded with
specimens of letters which had in my Office
We couldn't prosecute, however, for the tele-
graph company refuses to give up any dis
patches.'
Mr.. Hatch left, with small party, last
evening for Leadville, where he goes to take
general view of the mining districts. He
is firm believer in the future prosperity OF
that district, and considers it as certain that
Chicago is destined to be the centre for all
reatmining interests of the section east Of
the Rockies.
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Of the circulation, for certainly it can have
no effect whatever upon prices. Taking the
present population of the United States at
$4,000, 600 the above volume ($689,424, 643)
gives $l4 per capita. No account in the
statement for either of the above periods has
been taken of the gold and gold notes NOV
about 81, 100000 of the latter In circulation
on the Pacific coast. The coin in circuIa-
ton on the Pacific slope has been variously
estimated from $15, 900 900 to 1926, 1000, 900;
but whatever it may be, it has not changed
enough to change the comparison of the diff
ferent periods given" Accompanying these
statements is compilation she wing the cir
culation in England, France and Germany.
England in 1878 had an actual circulation of
$9l Az, 900, with population of "a, OOO, OOe,
giving nearly 1927 per capita; France had q
population of 37,OuO,OOO. and an actual cir
culation of $1,642,OOO,OOO, or $44
per capita; Germany an actual
circlation of $86O,6 900, with population
OF 43,OOO,OOO, which gives 1923 per capita.
General Warner says: "While these differ
ences in the money volume of different
countries exist, it nevertheless is strictly
true that prices depend on the relation of
the money volume to commodities and trans
actions and it is a matter of the most vi
tai Importance to understand that the VOL
ume OF money in any country can never be
materially contracted without breaking down
prices, checking enterprise, sitting produc-
ton, and producing idleness, bankruptcy,
and the long train of miseries that follow.
There is no other cause of the present pro
longed stagnation Of trade and business in
this country but the reduction of the vol
ume of money. First the reduction of the
paper volume, then the reduction of metal
lie money from gold and silver to gold
alone. This change was nothing less than
high crime against the whole people,"
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CASUALTIES,

At Charleston, S. c., on Saturday, July
70, ten whites and five colored persons died
from slmstroke.
The Atlantic & Greatwestern railway
freight depot, and other buildings at Cleve-
land, o., were burned July s.
Nearly whole square in Houston,
Texas, was destroyed by fire July 9, caused by
the explosion Of a lamp. Loss $600OO
Two men were severely injured at
Durhamville, N. T., by the premature dis
charge of a canon, their condition is critical
At Youngstown, Ohio, July 18th, the
stock house of the Nimrod furnace fell Loss
about $4,000. Five men were injured--none
fatally.
On the evening of July 10th at Calitor-
MIA, Ohio, near Cincinnati, duringa thunder
storm, two countrymen with teams took refuge
undera bridge. The bridge was struck by light
ming and both men and four horses were
killed.
1t is understood there will be general
election for members of the Prussian diet in
October next, when Bismarck intends to APP
peal to the country on the great questions of
financial reform and on the purchase of pri-
vate railways by the state.
A fire broke out on the 10th inst, sup
posed from spontaneous combustion, in the
third story Of Potter & Bass furniture store,
corner of Sixth and Jackson Streets st Paul,
MINI. The fire was confined by the fire de-
partment to the third story, but good deal of
damage was done by water to the rooms be-
low. Loss Of all parties some $4,000, mostly
insured.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

July 8, Miss Bette Kldwell, aged II,
of Franklin Wells, Fleming county, KY. killed
herself with poison. Disappointed love the
cause ss .-=
Barclay J. Smith, ex-treasurer of the
Philadelphia, Newtown Il New York railroad
company; ex-president of the Newtown In
surance company, a fugitive from justice, was
arrested the other day, at Helena, Montana
on charge of. embezzlement, and passed
through St. Paul in custody on the Northern
Pacific railroad, boundfor Newtown, Bucks
county, Pa, the scene of his swindling cx-
ploits.
VIM. Teets, a well-known, respectable
farmer living ten miles southwest of Musca.
tine, Ia, was murdered July 8, in the hay field
with club in the hands of VIM. Pickering
The cause Of the dastardly act seems to have
been family troubles. The murdered man.
Teets, was a son-in-law of Mrs. Dickerson, a
widow who employed Pickering as a farm.
hand on her estate, and between whom i'm.
proper intimacy has been charged, an imme-
diate marriage being expected.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Reports of the cotton crop are exceed
ingly favorable.
Quarantine has been established at Cairo
against Memphis. Refugees may pass through
but cannot stop in that city.
The Mayor of Vieksburg has issued a
proclamation ordering a strict quarantine
against Memphis, by land and water.
Moulders, 40 in number, at the Read
ing, Pa, hardware works, struck for higher
wages at the close of business, on Saturday
July IL.
The common council of Cincinnati, o.,
admonished by the prevalence of yellow fever,
South, have just appropriated $4,000, to put
the city in the best possible sanitary condi-
ton.
At Cleveland, O., on Sunday, July 10,
one Of the mills of the Cleveland Paper CON-
pany was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000,
fully insured, including $4,000 in the st. Paul
ton.
The Damascus Commande1y of ST.
Paul, entered upon their camping ground at
White Bear Lake on SATURDAY night July 10.
The camp will be occupied a period of one
month. All arrangements have been made
| fora very enjoyable time.
The negotiations between Russia and
the United States relative to the fisheries near
Alaska, resulted in an arrangement by which
vessels of the United States are allowed to fish
in Russian waters in return for the payment
OF money compensation.
The breaking out Of the vel low fever a
Memphis has produced great excitement in
southern cities, and quarantine regulations
are being established against the infected city
People are still fleeing. It is estimated that
full 5000 people left Memphis july 10th. rail.
road trains Were crowded to suffocation.
] Advlces from Memphis, of July 10 say