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Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-05
LOCAL NEWS.
The Parallel Road .

Interest of the New York and New E mx.
 land-Reported to Do Quietly Buying the Stock of the RIdgefieId and Portchester Road. The Railroad Commissioners continued
 their hearing on the layout of the proposed Parallel road at Norwalk, yesterday, and will meet at Ridgefeld today. The New York
 1fnes, alluding to the project, adds About
 ten years ago the Ridgeield and Portchester
 railroad company was organized under the
 laws of the State of Connecticut. The capital
 stock was fixed at g., 600, 900. The con
 tractor for building the road agreed to take
 one-half the stock Three hundred thousand dollars was subscribed and two hundred thousand was paid in. The road was sur veyed and work W as begun at various points along the line. The contractor, however, did not fulfill his part of the agreement The work was stopped and nothing has been done upon it since that time. For the last six weeks the New York and New England rail
 road company has been quietly buying up the stock of this road, and it has now secured a majority of it. The object which tho New York and New England railroad company has in buying up this road is to immediately be- gin work upon it and complete it. The company propose not only to build the road from Ridgefeld to Portchester, but to build on to Danbury, there to make con- nection with the main line, and also to build an entirely new road from Portchester to New York city. The road will go under the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road at Pelhamville, cross the Harlem river over the new bridge which is now being erected, and enter New York city by the Sec ond avenue elevated railroad 1t is not vet decided where the depot will be located in New York. The road is to be constructed in the best manner, will have steel rails and double track, and all the rolling stock will be the best that can be made.> a
 So quietly had this movement been made by the New York and New England railroad company that few outside of those who were directly interested in it knew anything about 1t, but as they have secured the majority of the old stock now there is not so much se- crecy about it. The new line will be pushed rapidly forward as soon as some necessary de- tails are arranged, and will in all probability be running in the course of few months. When completed the new line will make the long wished for connection which that road has desired to have with New York and will make it independent of other roads, The New York and New England company has re- gently completed it's road from Danbury to Brewster's, and there connects W ith the liar lem road to New York but that way is not looked upon with favor. It thought that the new road will be a valuable addition to the New York and New England railroad outside the New York connection, as 1t goes through section of Connecticut that will be very likely to give it large amount of business
 The investigation at Rye into the cause of the death of Conductor Latin, of this city, will be resumed to day, commencing at 1 o'clock
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Sailed, the Vandalia and Leasing for Hamburg, the State of Ne braska for Glasgow. Arrived, the State of Nevada from Glasgow.
 iladelphia-Arrived, the Illinois from Liverpool.
 Antwerp-sailed, the D. Steinmann for New York Arrived, the Rhynland from New York.
 Bremen-Arrived, the Donan and Sali r from New York.
 Ro terdam-Arrived, the Maas from New York.
 Liverpool-Sailed (the 3d), the Egypt for New York Arrived, the Wisconsin and Hell vetia from New York.
 Queenstown-Sailed, the Republic for New York.
 Hamburg-Arrived, the Silesia from New York.
 Southampton-Arrived, the Braunschweig from Baltimore for Bremen.
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THE PRESIDENT.

Another Day Nearer Recovery-The Doc
 tors Still COnfidenf-The Noon Bulletin
 Discontinued Unmeeessary-Nexvs of
 the Most Cheering Kind.
 WASHINGTON, Aug 4, 2 P. m.-Dr. Bliss au- thorizes the statement that the President is at this hour better in every respect than at the same hour on any day since the shoot ing. all rumors to the contrary notwith- standing. He states further that the Presi- ident's tongue has cleaner look and that his appetite for solid food is increasing. ..Do you think him out of danger ?'' was asked. sI think he will get well, but don't yet con sider him out of danger" is there not a general improvement in his case?" ssYes, indeed he grows better every day. He is getting along about as fast as he was yester-
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New York Produce Market.

NEW YORK. Aug. 4. FLoUR-Fair demand and prices held firm south ern four fair demand; s5 57a7 25 for good ship ping extras.
 EWHEAT-kc. higher and in active demand spot sales of No. 2 red winter at $I 26a1 26H of No 8 do at $1 21a1 23; of No. white at q 26a 26k of No. 2 spring at 21ka1 22H, and oi No. l red at $1 2s4.
 CoRN-More active, good demand for options spot sales of No. 2 at 5Sa59, of white at 61H; and steamer mixed at 54a55H.
 OATS-Fair demand and higher; Mo- white 49L; No. 2 do 46 No. mixed 45Ka46 No. 5 do, 46. RYE-Firm but quiet.
 BARLEY-Nominal
 PoRK-Fair demand and steady ordinary mess LARDGGood demand; spot sales of western steam Il 65, and city do Il 45
 BEEF-Unchanged
 wRISKEY-Nominal.
 spoT COTTON Steady middlings 12 1-l6; fu- lures firm BUFTER-Has generally quiet and liberal demand espe ,ialyin choice grades and prices are nr There is als fair export trade We quote: Western cream cry choice, at 22a23Hc; do good at 2la22Hc; Stafe and PennsylYania creamery, choice, 241xa25c.; dc good, at 21. ., PETROLEUM-T market is quiet and prices held steady; crude in bbls. at GAa7e; Naptha in bbls q l0c rehned in barrels cargo lots, T c, and united pipe line certificates, 76X.
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Mississippi.

Deadlock in the Democratic Convention.
 JACKSON, Aug. 4.-The Democratic State convention met in this city yesterday (Wed- nesday.) The entire day was spent in the contest over permanent organization. J. G. Hall (compromise) was elected chairman and ballot flor Governor was had at midnight, resulting as follows: Hon. Ethel Barksdale, 92; Governor J. M. Stone, the present incumbent, 1O5; General Feather stone, 24; Judge Calhoun, 19. The ballot ing for Governor was resumed this morning and continued throughout the day without result. The seventeenth ballot, just closed, gives Barksdale 9S; Stone, 101; Feather stone, 24; Calhoun, IT. There is no imme- diate prospect of breaking the deadlock and there is no guessing where the contest will end.
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THE WEST.
Kansas

Statement of the Crop Yield.
 TOPEKA, Aug. 4.-The quarterly report ot the secretary of the State Board of Agricul' ture shows an acreage this year in winter wheat of 1,O74 ,693, decrease of 241, ,254 acres compared with last year. The esti mated yield this year is 2s, 152, ,399 bushels, ol an average of nearly twelve bushels per acre The acreage in spring wheat this year was 1oS, ,1o7, decrease of 50, SIS acres. The acre age in corn this year is 4, I'll, 544, an increase of 717, 158 acres. The acreage in oats this year is BPS, 18O, decrease of 139, ,697 acres while there is marked increase in corn and grass. The acreage in cotton is 1885,, 200 acres, an increase of 51, ,366 acres. There is also large increase in flax and hemp.
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New York City.

NEW YORK. Aug. 4.
 The monster hotel at Rockaway Beach will be opened on Saturday next.
 The rate to Chicago continues $7. Both passenger agents and scalpers get that amount for tickets. The demand continues brisk.
 Shark fishing continues active in the North from the water. One measured eleven feet six inches and weighed $50 pounds. The other measured ten feet nine inches and weighed 475 pounds. They are on exhibi- tion and the owners are reaping large profits. One of the females, which contains young ones, will be sold Saturday to Professor William Draper for $50.
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North Carolina.

Vote on the Prohibition Question.
 RALEIGH, Aug 4.-The vote on the prohi- bition question o-day was light. The negroes, whose vote was an unknown element, voted against prohibition. The vote in this city stood about ? to against prohibition. The election passed off quietly.
 RALEIGH, August A. The election to- day passed of quietly. The anti Prohibition ists have swept the State by an unprecedent- ed majority, perhaps 5O,OOO. The returns come in slowly, but are sufficient to indicate a light vote with an overwhelming victory for the anti-P Prohibitionists. The strength of the Prohibitionists was conceded to lay in the towns. Raleigh gives 4O5 anti ma jority, Charlotte 452, Enfield TOO, Franklin town 2S0, Greensboro town and two town ship, BOP, Lewisburg $50 Littleton 400. The few country precincts heard from show greater majority in proportion for anti-pro- hibition. The Prohibitionists carry SO far nothing.
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Georgia.

The InternatfonaIC Cotton Exposition.
 ATLANTA, Aug. 4.-At the request of Di- rector General Kimba1l, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury J. K Upton has added Balti- more to the list of ports to which goods may be imported for the exposition, to be sent to Atlanta under provisions of the circular of the Treasury department dated June 25 last Professor O.. N Shepherd, State chemist of South Carolina, will exhibit full collection of fossils obtained from g phosphate rock formation near Charleston, also photographs of the methods of mining and samples of the various grades of phosphates prepared by the fertilizer companies
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TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.

The Transvaal convention has been at last signed and ratified, but the native chiefs still refuse to acknowledge the Boer government and insist upon their right and intention of maintaining independence.
 Franklin Reed, of Bath, Me-, was nominat- ed for Congress in the Second district yester- day by the Democrats. The delegates voted down a motion for @ fusion with the Green packers
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been excused from that duty, as he is desir- ous of being placed on the retired list of the navy. Rear Admiral Fairfax was appointed from Virginia and entered the service on the 18th of August, 1887, and has now been in the service forty-four years. He is now on duty at the government naval asylum, Phi1a- delphia. He will be retired about the first of October. Commodore Nicholson will be or dered to the command of the European sta- tion.
 Attorney General Macyeagh stated to-day that no such man as Grove, of Illinois, had become or was likely to become officially known to the Department of Justice in con- nection with the dynamite internal machines
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NEW ENGLAND.
Massachusetts,.
Los. or a valuable Cargo.

Loss 0f c Valuable CarRO. BOSTON, Aug. 4.-The ship Calcutta, of Boston, from Cebu for Boston, has been to- tally wrecked on the coast of Kaffraria, South Africa. She had cargo of 5000 piculs of dry sugar, 7, 400 piculs of hemp and IA piculs of sapan wood. There was an estimated insurance of $780, 900 on the cargo and $50, ,OOO on the vessel and freight. She was built at Portsmouth in 1867 and was of S43 tons register.
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Ohio.

The Prohibitfonists i'm Convention.
 COLUMBUS, Aug. 4.-The Prohibition State convention at the afternoon session nominat- ed 8 full State ticket except for attorney gen. eral. for which place Henry Camp, of Cash erton, was nominated. The platform adopt ed is the usual Prohibition one. While the effect of inc convention was to ratify the Loveland convention, the actual result was the nomination of the same ticket without g real endorsement.
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FINANCE AND TRADE.

NEW YORK. Aug. 4-3 P. M. Money closed at per cent ]; exchange closed steady at 4s3a4S5 ; governments closed steady. [Closing prices reported over the private wire of BUENELL & SCRANTON. Bankers and Brokers.l
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Rhode Island.

The Races at Narragansett Park.
 NARRAGANsETT PARK, CRANsToN, August 4. The closing days races of the August meeting at iNarragansett Park called out a small number of spectators. There were two contests on the card, resulting as follows:
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Intense Heat in New York.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-The heat to-day in this city and vicinity was oppressive, rival ing the hottest of the hot in May. But little air was stirring. The sun beat down from 8 clear sky and man and beast compelled to withstand its beams suffered. A number of cases of prostration were reported. 1her- mometer at a. m. 72, p. m. 92 midnight TT
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D. W. BLISS, J. J. WOODWARD, J. K. BARNES, ROBERT REYRuRN.

SD. m-At tbis hour the President is sleeping quietly. There is no change in his general condition since the official bulletin was issued.
 MDN1GHT-The Presidents condition is in every way as favorable as at the same hour last night with the addition of the effect of twenty-four hours steady progress toward 1e.
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Wonderful Trotting by Neud s.-A Half
 Mile in I:O2 1-2.

BUFFALO, Aug. 4-The big day of the Buff falo meeting attracted twenty thousand peo- pie to the park. W. H. Vanderbilt arrived at 1885 p. m. from Saratoga via the New York Central road. He was accompanied by Cap tain J. H. Vanderbilt, T. E. Eastman, s. G. Reed, Foster Dewey, John Newell, Senator Wagner, Edward Ellis, George Dickinson, General George Magee and William Turn bull. The party took seats on the judges stand, from whence they witnessed two heats trotted by the queen of the turf. Maud s. was accompanied by running horse. The wind blew gale from the southwest, slowing the first and last quarters. In the first heat she went around smoothly until she struck the wind at the home stretch, when she broke badly; time 334. | OIL 1:35a | 2:15. The mare trotted the half mile be- tween the first and third poles in 1:O24 or at the wonderful gate of 2:05. This is the fastest half mile ever trotted. The time in the second heat was quarter of a second slower than at Pittsburg; time 331, 1:O5, 1864, 2:1O8. Vanderbilt will take her to Rochester, then to Hartford and afterward to Fleetwood. Subsequently the mare will be used by him privately. After the second heat Vanderbilt left for the East
 The other events resulted as follows: The 2:21 race, for purse of $2, 900 divided, was won in three straight heats by Piedmont; j; time 2:2O4, 2:22, 2:22. The 2:24 race, two mile heats, was won by Amber, Grey Chief second, Wizz third; time 4:57, 4:55. The 2:36 class was won by Eureka in three straight heats, Pauff second; time 2:24.
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Fenian Attempt to Explode a Magazine
 LONDON, Aug. 4.-An attempt attributed to Fenian so ources was to-day made to blow up the Plumstead magazine belonging to Wool wcth arsenal A stranger was observed upon the roof of the magazine acting in suspi- cious manner and an effort was made to follow him, but he escaped. The police are endeav- bring to investigate the matter, but have only imperfect clues. The magazine is in the suburbs of London, and had the attempt to explode it beeh successful there must not only have been enormous destruction of property, but heavy loss of life as well.
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The Arabs have murdered a native son of the British consular agent at Hammamet, Tunis.
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THE OLD WORLD.
Great Britain.
The Iriah Land Bil1.

The Irish Land Bill. LONDON, Aug. 4.-Lord Carlingford, Lord Kimberly and the Irish Attorney General are to-day conferring with Mir. Gladstone re- garding amendments to the Irish land bill proposed by the Lords, and are endeavoring to decide which, if any of them. the govern ment would accept.
 The Freema7a's Journal of Dublin this morning says that it is in position to say that Mr. Forster, home secretary for Ireland, will resign that office immediately after the pas- sage of the land bill through both houses and it's signature by the Queen.
 LONDON, Aug. 5.-The House of Lords last night discussed the Irish land bill iu commit tee and carried some amendments of an inn portant character, including-one on the sev- enth clause by large majority against the government.
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NEW YORk.

The Death Sentence Against Greenfield.
 SYRACUSE, Aug 4.-Th ere is no reason now to suppose that the sentence of death, the sixth sentence passed, will not be carried out tomorrow against Nathaniel Orlando Greenfield, convicted of wife murder. A letter received at the jail on Tuesday night is still mystery and it's contents have not been made public. Nothing has been heard from Governor Cornell. Greenfeld's coun- sel say they have given up all hope and the prisoner is said to be preparing for death, although his very latest expressions have been hopeful and he asserts his innocence.
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France at the Yorktown Centennial.

France at the Yorktown CentenniaI.
 NEW YORK, Aug. At is now understood that the French government will be repre- scented officially at the Yorktown celebration. The French consul said to-day that he had received private advices from Paris to the effect that the people were very enthusiastic over the matter, and that the country might rest assured that the French nation is pre- pairing grand surprise for them. It is thought that at least two war vessels and a special delegation of French citizens will at- tend.
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The steamer JOHN H. STARIN, CAPTAIN MoALLISTER, will make the first trip of the season from New Haven to this beautiful island Saturday. June 25. After this date she will make TWO TRIPS each week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. VIII Starin's pier, foot of Brewery streethve min turning leave Glen Island at 3:30 nn, arriving in New Haven in time to connect with the o'clock trains.
 Glen Island is one of the most attractive day mer resorts in America. Improvements costing $134 have been made by MT. htarin since the close of last Everything done with an eye to com cers given daily by Joyces Celebrated 71st Regiment Band Old fashioned Rhode Island Clam Bake served arrival of the boat. Everything that can be had rates Elegant steamers between the island and New York nearly every hour. Excursion tickets will be sold from New Haven to New York via Glen Island, Fare, New Haven to the Island 50
 {" :. :. :. New York via the Island; @ 100 Island and pier 1s North River. 1.50 Liberal discount to large parties.
 Good music every trip by the Celebrated American Band Orchestra, George streit, Leader.
 No Intoxicating Drinks can be obtained on the boat which is sufficient guarantee that nothing occur to mar the pleasure of any who choose to avail themselves of these excursions.
 The Island well paliced- Ladies and children un- attended need not fear nolestation-
 MANHATTAN BEACH.
 Steamers JOHN E. sTARIN, Capt. McAIlister, and the regular New York Hne will issue tickets from New Haven to Manhattan Beach and return for the low price of $1.75. Passengers can leave New York every hour on one of Starns Manhattan Beach boats from Pier foot of Whitehall street.
 For further information apply to MCALISTER WARREN, T Church street, or
 RE- No Free List.
 W. B. MILLER Agent, starin Pier.
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A ..Crank., at the Custom House.

A
 NEW YORK, Aug. Hate yesterday after noon an unknown man called at the custom house and asked to see Collector Robertson. The collector was engaged, but the man forced his way into the collectors office, and failing to see the collector tackled Generals Palmer and Graham, two of the chiefs of the custom house, and demanded money. Failing to comply with his demand the unknown in- dividual became very demonstrative and abusive. He was either drunk or insane. Being ejected from the collectors office he howled like madman. Quite scene en- sued, for more than one hundred employees were speedily on the spot. The report flew around that another Guiteau had appeared and was desirous of assassinating the new collector. The man threatened to disem- bowel anyone who interfered with him. Vowing vengeance he shot out of the custom house.
 To-day the custom house was besieged by applicants for office. The collector said he did not propose to make any removals or ap pointments for two months.