New-York tribune., 1880-01-10
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRE!GN-Iti is reported at Berlin that Russia
has engaged to uphold Servla in case she has a
dispute with Austria. - New proceedings are
to be instituted agaisnst the Rev. a. MackonOchie
- The row French cable is TO be in active use
by the first week in February at latest.
Observation-Disclosures of several mission
ary Societies presented their complaints against
the conduct of the Indian Bureau to the
Indian Commissioners and the President
60 The Greenback Conference at Wash
ington called a convention at Chicago on
June 9. -= Charges of bribery were made in the
lower House Of the Maine Legislature and an in-
vestgaJon was ordered; no quorum was present.
s- The Board OF Regents of the University Of
New-York elected DR.. Murray secretary. GO 4
large wagon factory at Racine, Wis, was burned !;
loss over $50 900.
CoXGEEss-The House held unimportant ses-
sion and passed number of bills of private
nature The Senate not in session.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-it was found that Benja-
min c. Bogert, the defautink treasurer of
the Produce Exchange, had committed suicide.
HIS frauds amount to nearly $4,000. -
Mr.. Beecher Mr. Pdrncl and Sir. Dillon spoke in
BrOoklyn on the distress i'll Ireland. 60 PietrO
Balbo's conviction was affirmed. - The inter
collegiate contest III oratory decided. -
meeting of j. Lloyd IaIghs crcdl-
tors was held - Recorder Smyth made
many changes. - 4 pretended French Count,
who has swipdcd cmany people, has been
exposed -=- Ms. Stuyyesant's will was filed.
-Ike investigation Of the Newark ce)uoid
explosion was begun. - Gold value of the legal
tender silver dollar (412l2 grains 500 cents.
Stocks irregular but generally higher, closing
strong.
TIRE WEATHER-TRIBUNE local observations indi-
cate cloudy weather. with light rains followed by
cooler and clearing weather. Thermometer yestcl-
day: Highest, 420; lowest. 38o: average 4Osoo.
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The Greenback Conference has called a Ma
tional Convention at Chicago for the 9th of
June-one week after the Republican Conven-
ton. The call itself is a good example of what
wind can do with the English language.
Further investigation into the accounts of
the late Mr.. BOgert, treasurer OF the Produce
Exchange, discloses an additional deficit of
more than $4,000. The first suspicious that
his death was his own act are now fully con-
frmed, and the tragedy lacks no element of
sadness and woe.
Recorder Smyth has ordered the removal of
thirteen out of fifteen employees in the Court
of General Sessions, leaving only two of Re-
corder Hackett's appOintees in their places.
This is exactly in accordance with Tammany's
ideal of the civil service, but not IN accord
Rnce with the pubic's ideal of the civil service
of courts.
The legacies of suicide are not often be-
neyolent. The late Leonard Case the eccen-
sric and kind hearted millionaire of Cleve-
land, who is supposed to have been driven to
suicide by suffering. is now known, although
he died intestate, to have made a handsome
provision for the advancement of science. By
trust deed he had set apart $250,O00, the
Income of which is to be used in the estab-
lishment of q school of applied science.
Lord Derby comedies that American compe-
tition is not to be lightly spoken Of" but in
Inmates that if we would only face Great
Britain in the open and not fight intrenched
behind q protective tariff, we might
be her most formidable rival. This sug-
eestion is about as disinterested as that of the
tailless fox but English farmers, at least, will
admit that American competition is now brisk
enough for them.
The attempt to implicate Mr.. Blaine in the
Munchausep stories of bribery in Maine. is the
height of political Stiffness. Every fair-minded