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FOREIGN NEWS.
SAC Trouble ln rreiand.

DUBLIN, December ssh.-So!ieitor Connolly
defended gane-keeper against charge of
shooting at farmer at Murroe. When Coz
molly left the Court. crowd Of people, nun.
bering fnliy LEGO, gathered around him,
booting and grooming vigorously, and raising
their sticks in the air. The state of affairs
became go threatening that Connolly had to
seek shelter in house. The doors were
closed. and il vas with tho utmost difficulty
that those within prevented the forcible en-
tory Of the pcpulace. While the uprcar
was at its hight, the local Secretary Of the
League appeared and informed the people that
Connolly was prepared to make an apology
for the part he had taken agains. the people
in the past, and would not do anything to
thwart them in the future. Shortly after
ward Connolly appeared, and mounting a
chain expressed sorrow at having acted pro-
fessionsHy for landowner who, it was al
legged, had made himself obnoxious to the
people. He promised that be would never
again serve an ejectment for rent. This
apology, however, did not allay the angry
feelings Of tie populace, and the of6cersof Il .
League had to form Gordon to protect him
from their fury. Mud was flung ut Com
molly, sticks were brandished over his
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a SOUTHERN VIEW.

TIE Richmond Despatch does not like
President Hayes message. In fact it ap-
pears to have hurt the feelings OF that jour.
nal very much indeed. Three points in
especial arouse its indignation. His refer
ence TO the Constitutional Amendments, to
Mormon polygamy, and to civil service re-
form. The Despatch cannot endure the
thought that the Amendments represent
the sense of the nation. This is to be re-
g.etted,- because these Amendments will
surely be maintained, and sooner or later
the South will have to obey them every
one, in spirit as well as in letter. The
Southern journal does not like the recon-
mendation of the President in regard to the
withdrawal of political rights from the
Mormons, because it says this viii serve as
precedent for regulating the South.
There is probably a consciousness of guilt
10 this apprehension which points tue barb.
The editor of the Despatch feels that the
South has been quite as in.ractable and
disobedient as the Mormons, ard it per-
csives that the argument which justifes
the removal of political rights from the lat
ter might be applied with equal force to
his own section. There is some force in
this idea, but it does not follow that the
President is wrong. The Southern obiee-
ton to civil service reform is less intelli.
gible, unless it arises from fear that the
destruction of the spoils system might
weaken the enthusiasm of the Democrats
hereafter. On the whole the Despatch dis
plays more spleen than sense. and if it rep
resents any considerable elementof South
ern thought there is certainly no immedi-
ate prospect of sn abandonment of the
solidity business there.
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SYMPTOMS OF UNEksINEss.

Speculation has lately assumed such
gigantic proportions at the East that cool
observers are becoming seriously uneasy.
As is always the case at such periods a
point has been reached when it is possible
to convert anything and everything into
a "boom," and this is invariably an
ominous symptom, for it implies the
abandonment of caution and a general en-
barkation upon reckless gambling. The
prevailing mania for speculation has sent
stocks of all kinds up to absurd prices, and
has absorbed SO much capital that the
banks, already pressed by the an
nual Western demand for money,
have been very seriously hampered.
The condition of many of them is
in fact actually critical, for they have en-
croached upon their legal reserves, and
have no more margin. The condition of
the stock market is such that crash may
come at any moment, and can hardly be
long averted, and though such an event
would not directly affect the legitimate
business CT the country, it would almost
certainly lead to panic which would
involve the prudent and the reckless in a
common ruin. For OF course banks
cannot be crippled by unhealthy
speculation without hurting great variety
of legitimate interests with which they
are directly or indirectly connected.
and prices now are at such figures that
their maintenance cannot be believed in by
the most sanguine. The tendency to spec
ulation SO marked in the Eastern money
centers is scarcely less pronounced in Eu-
rope, as witness the preposteroas rise of the
Panama Canal stock and various other en-
terprises. In short, the late depression
has been succeeded by one Of those fever
ish bursts of gambling winch have with
such monots1ous regularity occurred
heretofore, and which have accompanied
every conceivable form of financial sys-
tenn in all parts Of the world. If this
time we escape the panic which has always
heretofore ended similar outbreaks, we
shall be very fortunate, but that We should
escape it is not in cur opinion to be
reasonably expected. What goes up must
come down, and when the stock market
breaks it is hardly possible that it will do
SO without topping over enough heavy
operators to precipitate general catas-
trophe. Some day perhaps the world will
learn to enjoy prosperity without abusing
it, but so long as civilized mankind worship
the Almighty Dollar this must not be
looked for,
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THE ELECTORAL LAWS.

Again it is reported that Congress will
probably make no attempt to introduce any
reforms to the electoral system. Once
more the nation has escaped serious trouble
almost by accident, and once more Con-
gress seeks to evade a plain duty, and to
postpone the most urgent measure which
the national Legislature can have before it.
To-day there is no guarantee against the
most fatal complications in any Presi.
DENTAL election. So long as the solid South
exists there can be no real guarantee. Con.
gress therefore ought to lose no time in ad-
justing this question, and should SO
determine it that party passion will here
after be incapable Of tampering with the
m achinery.
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A Co,ucAL MIsTAKE.-A gentleman
from neighboring city was recently much
impressed by painting representing a
group of dogs, which was exhibited in the
window of one OF our art stores. His adj
miration was particularly excited by the
watchfulness with which the little dogs
regarded Fly on the haunch of big
mastif, tho principal figure in the picture.
He finally entered the store, boug ht the
picture and ordered it sent home. Shortly
after he wrote the picture dealers, ex-
pressing some comical regret that what he
supposed to be an artisticaIly. painted fly
in the picture had turned ont to be real
insect which had stopped there on busi-
ness while the gentleman was looking at
the painting Hartford Post
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THREE ORIGINAL STORIES.

During the coming gear, and commencing De
cepaIer fst, the WEEKLY UNION mill publish three
Prize Stories of California. The first, pub
lcation of arhich ioiu in the first tseek
of December, uciu be entitled, 1.-THE Ventures aud
Adreatuyes Of Charlie Gould" This is an tn
tenssly Interesting story Of the Stock GGs'a6ling
perio of California. and toas wriaen By EdsOard
F. Cahill, of Lo. Angeles The price Of the WEEKLY
UNION tciH be So so per Gnattna
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House..


WASHINGTON, December Sth-Fernando Wood
agreed to postpone the funding bills until the pend
ing debate on the electoral question is concluded.
Conger sarcastically said Wood should not allow
any important pubhc business to be interered with
by political discussion.
Wood moved to dispense with the morning hour.
Defeated, and committee reports were called Tor,
but nothing important was reported
Cook introduced JOINT resolution authorizing
the President to place U. S. Grant on the retirsd
army list with the rank and pay of General, as a
recognition of his services. Referred.
The bill relieving J. III. Herskill, of MARYLAND,
from political disability, was passed, but Conger
said he understood it had anoth object and asked
that it be re aimed on the Speakers table. So
ordered
The House then resumed consideration of the Sen
ate concurrent resolution relative to the electoral
count.
Willett and Robson discussed the electoral ques-
ton. The latter made constitutional argument
OF some length on the same line as yesterday. An
swerlng Hunton, he said the Vice President had no
authority to decide iu iciaiy whether any set Of
certificates presented were forged or not, nor had
the two houses OF Congress that right. They might
perhaps create tribunal for such cases.
Hunton made a brief speech, and Cox asked
whether the House would be poweTless in case the
electoral votes OF New York should be changed from
Garfield and Arthur to Hancock and English some
time while in transit between Albany and Washing
ton. How would the question of forgery be deter
mined?
Robson said the question was whether the Vice.
President had the power count the votes Ii they
were in legai form, 1t was the duty Of the Vice.
President to open them ministerially according TO
law and his action was subject to Judicial revision
thereafter Congress had the right TO provide the
revisory power beforehand but if they failed then
the ministerial action must stand unquestioned.
After being sharply Intercepted by various mem
bers and brushing aside of the queries as be-
ing puerile, he gave notice that he would offer the
following as substitute for the concurrent resolu-
ton:
Resolved That the two Houses will assemble in
the chamber of the House OF Representatives on
the second Wednesday in February, 1881, at Il
o'clock that the President of the Senate shall be
the presiding officer that two persons shall be ap-
pointed teers the part of the Senate an two on
the part of the House of Representatives to make
list Of votes as they shall be declared that the
result shall be declared by the President Of the
senate, who shall announce the state of the vote
a91 the persons elected TO the two Houses assem-
bed as aforesaid, which announcement, together
with the list .: votes shall be entered On the jour
nails OF the two Houses.
Reagan gave notice that as soon as the pending
matter was dispt sed of he would ask for consider-
ton of he interstate commerce bill.
Adjourned.
A iemocgatic caucus was held Immediately. A
Republican caucus was called for this evening.
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Gus Ito Frank, who is chatting him about
his thin legs): My dear fellow, we can't
all be cart-horses. Usefulness isn't every
thing, you know and there must be few
thoroughbreds here and there, if only for
the cake of ornament II Punch.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO TIE azcORD-UsIos.l
Senate.


WASHINGTON, December sth.-Morgan introduced
joint resolution for constitutional amendment
authorizing Congress TO establish rules for all mat
ters concerning the electoral vote and declaring the
result of an election for President, and for the gov
eminent of Congress, such laws not to be changed
or repealed within year before an elect on occurs
III any State.
By Telier-Proyiding certain regulations concern
ing the manner OF conducting Congressional elections
and public violations thereof.
Davis of West Virginia offered resolution recit.
ing the constitutional requirement that new ap
portionment be made after each census, and in
strucing the Secretary OF the Interior to communi-
cate to the Senate the returns OF population OF the
respective States of the Union, ascertaiued by the
tenth census. Agreed to-
Paddock introduced bill for the admission Of
Dakota into the Union.
Private bills were considered, and then the Senate
went iuto executive session.
When the doors were opened Randolph gave no.
tice Of the following amendment, in the nature OF
substitute to the bill for the relief Of Fitz John
Porter:
Be It enacted, etc, that the President is hereby
authorized in his discretion, to reinstate to the
army Fitz John Porter, who dismissed by sem
tence OF Court martial January 10, 1868; provided,
however, that such reinstatement shall give no
higher rank than Colonel on the retired list, and
provided further that said Potter shall receive
pay compensation or allowance for the time inter-
vening between his dismissal and his restoration.
Adjourned
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BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY.

BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY.
A Weeks Clearing house Transao-
tons at the Large Cities.
PASSENGERS PASSING OMAHA.
Fatal ARRAY Between TWO Policemen at
Louisville.
BOILER EXPLOSION In MASSACHUSETTS.
Shocking Tragedy in Newberry County,
South Carolina.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
shipwreck and Loss of Life on the Coast
of Newfoundland
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It is said that James Redpath has be-
come SO much in love with Ireland, that he
thinks Of changing his name to Greenpath.
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"Why is it your loaves are so much
smaller than they used to be-" asked a
Galveston man of his baker. al don't
know, unless it is that 1 use less dough
than formerly" responded the baker
TGalveston News.
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Fond wife to adoring husband: sob,
August, aren't you ashamed that l have
not, like oil my acqaairtances, a lovely
port bonheur, with the fashionable orna-
ment of hogs head on it, to remind me
of you every time look down tony ARM"
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GENERAL NEWS.

AsT NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO TIE RECORD.
UNION
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Mrs, SwIssHEL9G's TILT WITH PREM
TIcE.-The publication of Mrs. Swisshelms
: Half a Century" brings TO the surface
her sharp, sherss and decisive tilt with
George d. Prentice, which those who ever
knew anything about it have very likely
forgotten. She had just established her
anti. slavery Saturday Eoeamg Vistor, IN
Pittsburg, when Prentice gave her left.
handed editorial welcome in his louisville
Journal, wherein, among other remarks not
complimentary, he called her 9" a man all
but the pantaloons. To this she replied
il rhyme:
Perhaps you have been busy
uorsewhlpPipg Sal or Lizzie,
Stealing some poor mans taby,
Selling its mother, maybe.
You say-aud you are witty
That I-aud It's pity
OF manhood lack but dress
But you lack uanliness,
body clean and new,
A soul within it, too
Nature must change er plan
Ere you can be man.
This retort raised general shout of
Brother George, beware of Sister Jane ="
and he did.
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BORN.
DIED
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

knights OF the Red Cr0ss.-
Special assembly Of sacramento Com SEf
mandery, No 2, Knights Templar, at ~
the Asylum, THIS Thursday EVENING,
at o'clock. Sojourning Sir Knights wv
are courteousiy invited TO attend. BY order ofi
WIN. n. PETRIE, E g.
W. B. DAVIS. Recorder d9-t
no mirror ever yet threw back
a more repalsive sight,
Than teeth that are decayed and black
Or one more pure and bright
Than rows Of pearls that all may vaunt
Who put their faith in sOZ0DoNT.
d9.3.IhSTu
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Euormous .ailread Earnfncs.

CHICAGO, December Sih.-The Kaliiroad
and Warehouse Commissioners Of Illinois
make q showing of astonishing prosperity in
RAILROAD business during 1880. Retures are
complete except from the Baltimore and Ohio
and the st. Louis and Southeastern roads,
and show that the forty-six roads doing busi-
ness in the State have earned during the year
ending June so. 1880, $3.50 600, 600; the ex.
penses were S7S, 600, and the net income
SOL, 900, Co., The passenger business paid
S24. eco 0G0; freight, $101, 100000 There
were DIT persons killed and 706 injured by
the roads. The highest gross earnings in any
previous year was in 1872 when they were
$40. 600 600, and in the same year the net
earnings were s47, 100000. Six of the roads
carried over 9,000,00 passengers in one year.
Some of the roads doubled their net earnings
over the nreceding year
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS CT FOREIGN NEWS

shipwreck and Loss of Life on the Coast
of Newfoundland.
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Fatal ARRAY Between TWO Policemen at
Louisville.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Business of the Country Clearinghouse
TRANSACTIONS

Business of the clearinghouse
Transactions,
New York, December Sbh.-The Public.s
table tomorrow will show the business trans
actions for the week, as compared with the
same time last year, by means of Clearing
house returns. The following towns lost !;
Milwaukee, 20.5 per cent; Philadelphia, rs:
San Francisco, 19.1. All the others have
gained. as under: New York, 80 5; Boston,
2l5; Chicago, AZ A; Cincinnati. 1885, Balti.
more, oil; st. Louis, II /; New Orleans,
13; Louisville, So s; Pittsburg, 1872; Prov
idence, 16; Kansas City, A 5; Indian
apolis, 81 q; Cleveland, So; New Haven,
10 8; Syracuse, 8; Lowell, 4 1t is hardly
likely that the rest of the month of
December viii see this prodigious move
ment continued without abatement. The
cold, stormy weather, stoppage of naviga-
ton, approach Of the holidays and the con
dition of the money market viii ell contribute
TO cause some diminution in the transactions.
Already it has been apparent here that the
speculative movement of last week could not
be continued without some rest, if not reac-
ton. Deducting twice the market value of
the stocks sold, the other exchanges at New
York reached the enormous amount OF $780,
220 $685. and the average value OF the stocks
sold was SIS per share. Much of the re.
uerS. anu uiuSh VI thC Ca
changes at Chicago, were due to speculative
operations in grain and other products but
the week and month here reviewed may not
be equaled in amount of transactions for a
long time to come. The aggregate outside of
New York for the same time is regarded as
the best Indication of the volume OF legitimate
business, and is SO far beyond that of any
previous week The Public says: The ex-
changes in November amounted to s572, 1885,,
43S The vast increase of traffic is not
confined to New York. Philadelphia
and San Francisco are the only cities
at which even the extraordinary trans
actions of November, 1879, are not sur
passed. At San Francisco recovery seems
TO have commenced, for the decrease in ex-
changes is insignificant. At a few cities the
gain is small but in most cases the increase
is large and tbs transactions Of November far
exceeded those Of any other month since the
Clearing houses began their work. Indeed,
the great wave of commercial activity is felt
already on the other side Of the Atlantic, for
the largest exchanges ever known in assinSle
day were those of November 18th at london.
The Paris Clearinghouse, which reports
monthly, shows an increase, Of ACTIVITY in
October s
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LONDON, December Sth.-The dissatisfied
members of the Cabinet are believed TO be
the Earl of Seiborne, Lord High Chancellor,
and the Duke of Argyle, Lord of the Privy
Seal, the Marquis of Harrington, Secretary
for India. and w. E. Forster, Chief Seere-
tary for Ireland. There are also rumors that
Earl Cowper, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
threatens to resign unless coercive measures
a:e adopted.
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Shocking Tragedy in Hewberry County
South Carolina.
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BOILER EXPLOSION In MASSACHUSETTS.
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Cry or MEXICO, November 30th.-Boissy
D'Angeles, the French Minister, arrived at
the capital on the 26sh,, and presented his
credentials on the 10Th. When addressing
President Diaz he said the French Govern
ment had authorized him to declare that
France will make no reclamation whatever
for differences prior to the present re.estab-
lishment of diplomatic relations. President
Diaz in reply, made similar declaration on
the part of Mexico.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury
for the past fiscal year shows the total re-
ceipts to be SCI 20O0 600. In the former year
the average receipts were $16,000,00o.
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ST. JOINS IN. F.), December Ssh.-A dis
patch has just been received from st. George
Bay, announcing the loss of large timber
ladsn bark near Cape Anguille. name not
given. The captain, mate and one seaman
were saved, but were terribly frostbitten.
Several dead bodies have been found. The
ship belonged TO Merimachi.
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The Arnold RalIurc in New York.

Nfw YoKk, December 8th.-Tle assignee
of Arnold & Co. says be cannot state the
liabilities and assets YET, but that Arnold is
confident Of paying rything. Il is learned
elsewhere that the liabilities are about
s., COO, 600, of which from $500. 900 to $500,
600 are in single name, and 1t is estimated
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Weeks Clearing house Transao-
tons at the Large Cities.
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sbIuwrcsk and Lass OF Etfe.

yesterday u, 600 o00 francs worth of Panama
Canal shares had been applied for in Eu-
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The Deadly Trichira.

PALINGHf, December Sth,-Tha Italian
who ate of trichiua in saussges, thirty days
ago, Gied last night. His wife and children,
vino partook of the same, are not likely to
par
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WING PUMPS.

II IGHTBALL'S PATENT-THE BEST IN USE.
Ia Manufactured by
KEYSTONE PUMP WORKS,
%. 3p2m 40 Fourth street San francisco.
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BuENos AYREs, December S;h The city
of Buenos Ayges has been selected as the
defnitive capital of the Republic, and peace
is permanently insured.
p,D,r,n Ca,,I sr,o-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-15
A Mirage on the Virginia Coast.
From the Norfolk Virginian. IA

NOrIOlk N18ln1an.
In Watchapreague inlet, off the county
of Aceomac, on the morning of Novem-
Der 1, about 90 fishing boats were riding
at anchor. The sun rose behind thick
fog-bank. Presently the fog grew thin
ner until few pale rays shot up above.
ALI the crews were busy at their lines,
when a shout from one of the boats was
heard A grand transformation scene
had occurred in a single minute. APP
parently not quarter of a mile away lay
the island of Chincoteague, with it's tall
white tower, its dwellings,, its trees and
shrubbery, and little boy driving a
flock of sheep along the shore, and even
little girl sitting in the door of the light
keepers house with doll in her arms.
In another minute another fog-bank rose
up between them and the shore, shutting
out from their vision their own houses.
Imagining that by some anaccountable
and mysterious influence they had sud-
denly been transported distance of 80
miles from where they actually were, they
broke anchorage in the greatest conster-
nation, many of them Ia their fright
steering directly out to sea. An hour
afterward the mist vanished and the sun
shone out. The mirage had disappeared,
but there was no morefshing on that day.