, 1881-11-18

lie will nut accept AfncVeagh's resignation,
n'id Insists that llo shalt re,nnfn until tho star.
routc anu n,ltteau cases dro disposed vi.
Sarah I,crnlnr.1t ID Indignant, indeed
more than indignant. nd tile statement Of
Mile. Co'o,nbier TINT st.o (Co!ombIcrl wrote
tta ''ook OF sketches OF American ~c1l,
women, and mattcrs which bcars :3arah's
namu rs author. DerIlI{nrdt says that tho
book was written by a toung man named
Gellnn Sudan, whom alla had brought with
ller to America, and who totteu down whit
s]1o told hin of ller Impressions Of th!s col,i-
Try. Sarah concludes BY saying, "If Colom-
bier WAS n nnan I'd smash her 1eNl."
During the last fiscal year about I. 300
miles of Subsidized and lalld-erant railroads,
subject IL tho supervision Of tile hallway
Dnrcau Of the Interior Department, were 1x-
a'nl,,ed and their books carefully compared
with tlIo reports published by tic companies
and rendered to tho authorities. IL marked
Improvement was noted I'll nearly all the
rnasls, their usefulness had Increased, the
accommodations wero better, and, notwiti,-
standing tho damage tlono by the toods there
WIS material increase In tho property OF
tho companies, In thoir business, a1u 1T net
and gross earnings.
Tho baltimore d Ohio Road las GULL
p'eted arrangements for new through
route between Now York and Washington,
having just purchased one Of the streetrrail-
ways OF Philadelphia, which has ci,ar-
tur allowing It to otrnnsfer stean-cars through
tito city. ald thus removing tile great OBJ
stacIe-tllo difficulty OF obtaining the right
Of way through PHILADELPHIA. The conlpnny
IIas nls0 secured tho Bound Brook route
from Philadelphia to Now York, and has
obtained the right OF way, or nearly so, be.
tween Philadelphia and Washington for
double track.
THE explosion on the steamer solway
not tho Severn, rs stated In Wednesday
nights t'spatclles-wns caused by tlle burst
Ing Of Il barrel of napttha oil. which ra.l
along the deck and caught fire ut stove in
tile steerage. Six person9, five sailors aud
one passenger, were cnvcloped in the flames
ard burned to death. Five other persons left
tile stenMer In q small boat at tue timo of tIla
disaster, and have not stuco been lleurd from.
The slip wns still burning when tho pilot
bont came to tho rescue. Tile sutfcrings Of
tile surviving members Of tie crew and tic
passengers were terrible.
-trho sa]oonkeeners in thu notsbhor.
hood of Pullman tinl coisit,ernb]o trn,,,,1a
in obtaining licenses from tha Hyde Park
Trustees. and two Of their number huve ap-
pealed to tho courts to help them out. They
claim that the ordinance yestlng discretion In
tic Board Of Trustees Is to tho number of
licenses to be Issued tends to create Il mo-
nopoly, aild Is therefore unreasonable, H.
legal, and unconstitutional Judge Barnum
granted MI c1-1Nirte temporary injunction ycs-
tcrtlay restraining the Trustees from shut
Ting up two saloons in thoyIctnlty Of Pull
man. Tic case will be arguud at full leuoth
at mn carly date.
-About fortv of tha nr,nctno1 .d;ati11aro
Of Illinois. Indfann. f}hin. III nthar 1V.stsrn
States met ut the GRAM, Pacific 1iofe, vestcr-
day for tho purpaso of tteyisinr ways AMI
means 10 advance thu wholesnle nrica of
whisky md alcohol. Buffalo" Miller, who
seems to bo the leading spirit In this matter
of spirits, submitted a series Of propositions
looking 10 limiting tile production for export
to half the capacity Of the distlIlcrles, the
paying of a bonus tn exporters Of ntcohol,
and general combination among tho dIst1tl-
ers to keep tip prices, and to aid each other
III competing for European trade with the
German dlstlllerS. These propositions In
modified form were adopted.
-Cl,arlcs II. RAYMOND tha o.ynnr of thu
Kentucky :-year-olti trotter PHI Thomnson.
offers 10 bac], hfs horso FIR 81 fo0 or sir, mn
agatnst tho California brcd.horso sweetllrnrt
or any other 4-ycar-old In the world. tina rnco