, 1881-12-16


The government will send Hon. VIM.
Prescott and Walker Blaine commission
ers to arrange the trouble with Chill and
Peru.
1t IS reported at the treasury depart
ment that the assistant secretary of the
United, States treasury will probably ten
der his resignation in a day or two.
Seven prisoners, including John ].
Webb, under life sentence for mCxrler,
and Dave Rudab~ Il Gh, escaped from jail at
Las Vegas, on the Sd. Rudabaugh was
a member Of the notorious BILLY the
Kids" bend, and was sentenced to hang
for murduring jailor in an attempt TO re
lease Webb
The president refuses to express any
opinion on the speakership. To q gentle
man VIII" was trying to commit him INTO
saylpg HIseock was distasteful TO him, he
said. Il want these dissensiUns in the re-
publican party healed. There in no sense
in keeping up political fight, and / re-
greet 10 see factional spirit obtruding into
the speo kership race. Select good man
and elect him. | have nothing to say
about Candidates"
The report of the secretary of war re-
cDmn ids an increase of the army to 3d.
700, a. Sherman suggests. Various topics
and rumors of change in army chiefs are
commenced on in the report. Present at
Lention Is given 10 coast defenses. which
are REGARDED by the secretary as very es-
sential. He believes in a very high stan
dard for admission into the military acad-
emy. Expenditures of war department
for Ihe fiscal year ending June 80. 1881,
S42, l22, 900; appropriations for 1852 were
S44, ,SSg,OO0.
The department of state is in recent of
a mi n ilot nat,la d.
daaux, relative to the exhibition of agricul-
tural and industrial products to be held
at Bordeaux from june lst ID November
1st, 1852 The exhibition is regarded of
especial interest to American vine grow
ers and distillers, as from ravages of
phylloxera in the most productive vine
growing districts of Europe, there are
strong probabilities of an im mportant mar.
ket being created for American wines and
spirits.
A daring thief captured box from The
Commercial national bank At Cleveland
containing SLY 900 in bonds, from which
he had just cut the coupons. Tney were
Milwaukee & st. Paul, Chicago & Milwau-
kee, and Chicago & Atchison Bridge Co.
bonds. The man had been sitting in the
office, aud when the coupon cutting WAS
finished and the bonds replaced IN the
box, he quietly Whisked the box from the
table and disappeared, being gone half an
hour before :he bonds were missed.
President d. p. Eel was responsible for
the careless manner in which the securi-
ties were exposed. The bonds are all ne.
gotiable. The man was short and stout,
with short cropped whiskers.
The New York Times says: An order
has been made and will soon go into ef-
feet. which cuts of every.other-day trips
nj fh.a 70 Il -
burg, Oregon. This is a daily line, and
contractors having been paid for three
and halt trips per week in addition to
these, extra trips. Contractors were re-
quired to carry third class matter, but
this matter has been carried up from San
Francisco by special steamer, and there
was no order for this method of convey
ance. The annual pay for this route has
been $4,000, and IL Is in the hands of the
Barlow party. Tyner showed in his sup.
pressed report in 1879 that the contract
was violated so far as these extra trips
were concerned, and other reports were
made by special agents. The order cut
ting off these trips reduces the annual pay
nearly $4,000.
The comptroller OF currency ia his an
nual report, says the recent failure of the |
Mechanics bank of Newark had called |
the attention Of public deposiiors to the !
duties o. bank directors and of examiners |
of national banks. The duties of the |
board OF directors are plainly defined, |
and however innocent they may be of
any intention TO wrong, they are respon-
sible for the safety of the funds committed !
to their care. If 1t can be shown that any
of them had.notice OF illegal transactions
IL Is q serious question whether they are
not also liable for losses which may occur
from neglect of duty, even without notice.
Examination should be periodically made
by competent committee selected from
the board of directors. They have the
whole resources of the bank at their com
maud, and if they have any reason to sus.
pect dishonesty or fraud, it is their busi-
ness to investigate it thoroughly. and they
should employ an expert TO assist in SO
doing. Number of banks passing divl
dends the present year, l75.
On the morning of Dec. 4th fire broke
out in the milling district of Minneapolis
destroying, before it was Subdued, four
large flour mills and one cotton mill, and
causing the death of at least four men.
The fire broke out in the Pillsbury Il
Touring mill, owned and operated by c.
A. Pitlsbury & Co. 1t communicated to
the mill owned by Dorilius Morrison, and
operated by d. A. Pillsbury & Co., and to
the Minneapolis mill, owned and operated
by Crocker. Fisk & Co., which exploded,
killing \. Frederlcks, first assistant en-
gineer oi the fire department. The fire
then communicated to the Empire mill
owned by L +. Watson, of Massachusetts,
and operated by G. A. Pillsbury d Co. A
street having been reached at this point,