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Thanksgiving In the East.


observance being dinners to the hungry poor
and procession of fantasticals in the streets.
DETROIT, November 25th.-Six Methodist
churches eighteen months ago formed an al
lance to pay off all their debts, and having
paid from 81, 900 to $4,000 each, held q
Thanksgiving service to-day and jubilee of
an unique kind. 20
ST LOUIS, November 25th.-To.day was
observed here generally as a holiday
Immense Passenger Movement.
New York, November 5th.-Nearly 200
passenger cars were sent out yesterday from
the Grand Central depot Eastward over the
connecting roads, carrying from 80 to so
persons each, or nearly 1000 more than were
carried last year on the day before Thanks
giving, and more than twice the number that
travel on ordinary days.
The New Chinese Treaty.
WASHINGTON, November 25th.-The Sec
Rotary Of State this morning received tele-
gram from the Commissioners at Pekln,
under date of the 18th instant, that on that
day two treaties were signed-one of COM
rnerce and the other concerning immigration.
Mr.. Prescott was to leave Pekin on the goth
instant, and bring home the treaties by the
first steamer.
BOOIh and the Passion Play.
New York, November 25th.-The Herald
cable special particularizes the Booth state
ment regarding the Passion Play here 81
am myself an actor, but could not rid my
mind of the purely theatrical aspect of the
performances seen at Oberammergau. In the
open air, amidst the mountains, and invested
with its native associations, it was one thing,
but anywhere else, and under any other cir
cumstances, it would be totally different
thing" He entirely disapproved Of all such
representations here.
The Future of Alaska.
New YORK. November 25th.-Lieutenant
S. Beardslee, of the United States sloop
Jamestown, stationed in Alaska from June,
1879, to September last, is paying, short
visit here. and gives highly favorable ac-
count of the character and resources of SOUTH
ern Alaska. He predicts prosperous future
for that country when emigration shall be
turned that way.
Will the Panama Canal Pay?
New YORK, November 25th.-The Time;
defends Nimmos moderate estimate of the
value to commerce of the Panama Canal, and
says If The Treasury statistician is correct,
it viii not pay for some time to come to build
canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
until presumably disinterested and, certainly,
shown to be in the wrong, the natural Infer
ence is that he is much nearer right than those
who have an evident personal concern in get
ting up canal company.
Westward Bound Passengers
OMAHA, November 25sh.-The following
through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 1915 P. M, to arrive in Sacra-
mento November och: Edgar Skinner, Jr,
and wife, Mrs. S. w. Knapp, DR.. VOORHEES,,
San Francisco George Bull, San Jose John
Hope, New York III. Parkman and wife,
Philadelphia Mrs. IL. l.. Drake, V. Mabel
Drake, Haddy Drake, q. Shepardson, Mil.
waukee Mrs. 2. e. Shepardson, San Fran
cisco A. 2. Loomis and wife, Iowa w. G.
Graves, Kansas City ; James +. Merriam and
wife, Springfield, Mass; Hiram Nye, North
Farnsworth, Mass.
Ring Government In philadelphia.
New YORK, November 25th. The Herald
says: Reformers on the other side of the
continent, in San Francisco, are having
their own trouble with their rulers. During
the rule of Dennis Kearney in San Francisco,
he succeeded Ill electing Kalloch as Mayor.
Kalloch promised ali manner of reforms in
the city government, and from all we can
learn of the condition of the city when he
entered into the Office, he had before him a
wide field of usefulness. Now, however
Kalloch himself is indicted by the Grand
Jury, and charged with having procured the
appointment of o person to position, and
then demanding from him a portion of the
salary paid him. If this can be proved
against the Mayor. it is q crime, but if all we
hear of Philadelphia is true, the custom of
dividing salaries is accepted there as matter
of course. There is one Office alone-the
Collector of Delinquent Taxes-the holder
OF which gets 500 or $500 day, and it is an
open secret that this vast revenue is divided
loch has been punished in San Francisco, it
might be well for him to remove to Philadel-
phia and become Collector of Delinquent
Taxes.
The Grain Business of Cincinnati,
CINCINNATI, November 25th.-From adj
vance sheets of the report of Noel Maxwell,
Superintendent Of the Merchants Exchange,
it appears that the grain business of Cincin-
natl for the commercial year ending August
31st exhibits an increase over the preceding
year, most marked, however, in corn and
wheat The aggregate receipts of all kinds
of grain were 13, 1000 600 bushels. In the
preceding year they were II, 100000 bushels.
This does not include through shipments,
which would swell the aggregate to upwards
of q, 900, 600 bushels. The aggregate ship
ments were 6.350,0 bushels, an increase Of
more than LOCO, 600 bushels over the preced-
ing year in corn and wheat. The business
this year was the largest ever transacted in
Cincinnati.
The Expelled Socialists.
New YORK, November 25th.-Konnecke,
a German Socialist, just arrived from Ham
burg, says he intends to remain in this coun
try only while the frontiers of his fatherland
are closed to him. His belief in the ultimate
deliverance of Germany from what he terms
"the yoke of Prince Bismarck is firm. A
number OF his compatriots are expected to
arrive to-day.
Suicide at New York.
New YORK, November 25th.-Richard J.
Schrivner, formerly agent for several cloth
manufacturers of Manchester, England, COM
mitted suicide in the Office of the Bedford
Manufacturing Company to-day. Schrivner
was q prominent member of the Masonic
fraternity, and his life was insured for about
$1,000.
Cause OF Failure.
NEW YORK, November 25th.--The Peru
Wan Legation was informed to-day, via
Panama, that after the delegates from Peru.
Bolivia and Chile had met to discuss terms of
peace through the mediation of the United
States, Chile demanded the concession of
large portion Of territory which Peru re-
fused to give up, and thus the negotiations
fell through.
Repeal Urged-Revenue Collections,
WASHINGTON, November 18th. The Con-
troller of the Currency urges repeal of the
laws taxing capital and deposits of national
banks, also the two-cent tax on checks. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue saws the
collections this year, except S11, 600, 600, are
from whisky, tobacco and beer. Remove the
taxes on banks and patent medicines. and
the tax en- liquors, tobacco and beer would
meet all the expenses and reduce the debt
500, 000. 900 annually. n
The West Point Irrffafion-Chicf signal
0nicer.
WASHINGTON, November 25th.-Officials
at the War Department are authority for
the statement that the present irritation over
West Point will result in RELOCATING the con.
troll of that institution to the engineers.
where it belongs by law, and that neither
Miles nor Terry will be put there, as has been
reported. The War Department has been
only waiting for proyocation to recover con.
troll Of the Academy again, given into the
hands Of the General of the Army by Secre-
tary Cameron.
So much opposition to the appointment of
Miles as Chief Signal Officer is evinced that
he will, it is understood, be assigned charge
of the Recruiting Office for while. It is
said that President Hayes personally prefers
Hazen for Signal Officer, backed by Stanley