The Wichita city eagle., 1880-12-23
rsAfHrRs FOR fm sAeIrs pIunAeH.
ToPIcs, POLITICAL, YmAnuAl AID sExERAL.

ToR1cD, POLITICAL, HuAMClAI AID eENERAL.
The capitalists Of Kansas City have organ
lied . barge line for the Missouri river sery-
ice. The capital stock is e2o0, 200. One tow
boat and six bargcs have already been pur-
chased, and another tow-boat and the neces-
essary barges are ordered from the builders.
It 10 proposed to start the line so soon as nav
igxtion shall open, and the freighting by the
Missouri to continue thcnceforth without in
terruption.
Three negroes were sold at public auction
at Liberty, Virginia, Monday, under an old
yagrsut Law. They were knocked down at
- each, which shows that the emancipation
proclamation has detracted from their mar
ket value in the South, if it has done nothing
else.
Mr.. Myers, Democratic Congressman
from Indiana, is curious about Gen. Grants
finances. lie has asked detailed statement
Of all the moneys paid by this governmental
the ex-Pres:deDt from the time he entered
the West Point Military Academy down to
the day on which he retired from the White
House.
Lord Beaconsfed's visit to Windsor Castle
is n fruitful theme for conjecture In England.
The popular Interpretation is that the Queen
is ready to send for the ex-Premier officially
SD soon as he shall have succeeded in bring
ing abont the overthrow of the Gladstone
ministry.
The New York Times states fact very sim
ply and iorcibly as follows:
1.-The alternative to the perpetuation of the
National bank system as now, is return to
some more or less guarded scheme of State
bank issues. or else the expansion and per-
manencc OF Government paper
II we may believe philosopher who writes
IN the New York Sun, a spot on the sun is
now visible to the unassisted eye--a little to
the right of and below the center of the suns
disk BY the aid Of smoked or colored glass
or, better still, an opera glass, the spot may
be more readily seen.
Representative McCord, of Iowa, intro
duccd in the House q bill to regulate COM
mercc by railroad between States. 1t pro-
vides. among other things. for arbitrary
schedules of rates for the transportation Of
freight and passengers, and prohibits, under
penalty, all combinations or pools to defeat
competition, rebates, determinations or fail
ures to furnish facilities to other intersect-
ing or connecting roads.
While Charley Foster was visiting General
Garfield, ut Mentor, one Of the chubby, curly
headed syns OF Garfield took up a piece Of
chalk and wrote ''329'' all over the house.
against the porch, the gable Of the barn, and
the fence. Garfield looked grimly at the per-
formancc, turned to Foster and said:
'.Charley did you ever see the ingratitude
of sons exemplified like that
Adyices from Mexico report an unwhOlse-
some condition of affairs in that republic.
President Gonzalez is unpopular. His inau-
guration, which occurred recently, was wit
messed with extreme Indifference by the peO-
pie, while ex-President Diaz was loudly
cheered when he left the palace after deliver
ing the executive departments to his success
or. Several of the journals complain Of the
conspicuous attentions shown to the French
Minister. They say that neither the United
States Minister at Mexico nor the Mexican
Minister at Paris has received such diplomat
ic treatment.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Erening Post says:
81 am told, and on good authority. that Jay
Gould is planning 10 get control Of the New
York Associated Press. He owns the En-
press. the World and the TriIune; and is ne
gotiating for either the Journal Of Commerce
or the Commercial Bulletin. He has recently
the Sun. at s4,5Oo. There are 215 shares, l
believe, in all, the par value being 81 900 each.
The control of four franchises gives him con-
troll OF the Associated Press.
jay Gould made his first stake in 1859, and
when the war was over was known to be
worth millions. When he went out OF Erie
he sold $4,000 shares of the stock OF that road
short at 6, and gathered them in at 49, The
next operation netted him million. lie
next bought $1,000 shares Of Cleveland l.
Pittsburg at 20, ana after the consolidation
closed out at net profit of S1.500,000. lie
was supposed to be worth sl0.OoO,O00 when
he went into Union Pacific, buying the stock
at 20 in 1873, and holding it until it is worth
o. He bought Wabash at ), and holds it at
so for the preferred and i5 TO 80 for the COM
mon. Kansas Il Texas, which cost him s, is
now as. Wall street men put his wealth all
the way from S20.000.O00 to 10000, 600; and
many believe that il he lives he will be the
richest man in the country, il not in the
world.
Ii is said that although the head OF the
Catholic Church at Rome sympathzcs with
! the cause Of the Irish people, they look with
disfayor upon the present agitation.
Last Saturday Antonio Tucker and wife.
living in Prince George county, Virginia.
locked their two children in the house and
went out to pick peas. During their absence
the building accidentally caught fire. was en-
tirely consumed. and the two children per-
ished in the flames. On returning home
Tucker and wife found the house in ruins.
The skull of the eldest child was the only
evidence left of their children.
Two coaches Of the Kansas City express
train. on the Missouri Pacific road, were
thrown from the track Tuesday night. last
week. near Eureka, Missouri, and about u
dozen persons were injured more or less Sc
riou>ly.
Lord Beaconsticld, ii is now stated, wrote
"Endymion" twenty-five years ago. and it
has been published with no material altera-
tion.
Col. lngersoli SAYS of civil service reform !:
II am in favor of it, want such civil serv-
Ice reform that all the offices will be filled
with good and competent Republicans.
The health of the Pope is said to be eaus-
ing anxiety. He breaks down occasionally
under the strain of continual mental labor,
and is liable TO frequent attacks of illness.
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