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What 1t Costs to Ride In Special
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Laramie (WyOmtnql Boomeran


The passage through this city, and
over the various railroad lines of so many
specials, or, in other words, Pullman
and other private cars, chartered by per-
sons Of endless means or extensive in
duence, is so common an occurrence that
the following information in regard to
the charges for a car, including Services
OF a conductor, porter and two walters.
will be interesting: The Pullman Corr.
pany charges $85 day for the use of a
car, which includes the services of a
conductor, cook and two walters Be
sides this, the person hiring a car-or in
TACT any car-must buy eighteen full
tickets OF the railroad line over which
the car passes for hauling it. The car is
usually attached to regular train. and
II special engine is secured, which is
rarely the case, the cost is greatly in
creased. Provisions and liquors are sup
piled by the Pullman Company at cost or
the person to whom the car is let NAV
stock it himself. Sleeping cars are let at
the rate of sos per day, including a CON
ductor and porter, and hotel cars az s75
day, including conductor, cook and
two walters The Pullman COMPANY
also have two hunting and fishing cars.
One Is named the Davy Crockett and the
other the Izaak Walton. The charge of
these cars is $35 day, which includes
COOK and waiter for each. These cars
are provided with kennels for dogs.
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THE STAR ROUTE TRIALS.
M'SWEENEY'S PLEA FOR DORSEY.
Ridicule. Poetry. PARODY and Bold
AsserGIOR-M Mr. Merriek 10 Con
tinue for the Prosecution To-day.

WASHINGTON, August 23.-In the star
route cases to-day, Mr.. McSweeney con-
tinued his address to the jury In behalf Of
Dorsey in particular and the defendants in
general. His speech, which cannot be sum-
married. so as to DO It justice, was q half
humorous, half sarcastic, running com
mentary upon the evidence and speeches Of
the opposing counsel, freely interspersed
with illustrative anecdotes and parodies, and
bristling with quotations. He ridicuIed the
idea that Dorsey, a man Of character, stand
Ing aud high social and. official position,
would cast himself down from the niche
where bis good conduct had placed him, to
throw himself into an infamous conspiracy
to rob his country's treasury
by some little dirty, scrsggv
offcast mail route from Bismarck to
Tongue river. There was not, he said. a
particle Of proof that Dorsey had ever re-
ceived dollar Of profit from those scraggY
routes. He commended the frank, open
way in which he said Dorsey had conducted
his star route operations, praised some of
Brady's star route regulations, quoted
Shakespeare in order to bring in an spology
Tor laughing at what he called the t'obse-
quies" of the prosecution, and declared
that the governments course had not so
much as stepped on the coat tails of the
defense in the way OF giving cause for a
good fight.
Referring to Walsh's testimony, he said
be would not call Walsh liar. 1t was al
ways better to prove a fellow liar and let
the nomenclature come from the audience.
He then proceeded to show, as he said, that
there was plenty of proof in Walsh's testi-
mony to knock the idea of conspiracy
higher than a kite. He analyzed it in
detail, initiating the manner in which
it was given, and mimicking the
way in which the examination
was conducted. He recited a parody
of Poe's "Raven" to throw ridicule on
Walsh's story, and said the whole per-
formance was roaring farce. After pre-
senting humorous picture of Macahley's
New Zeslander sitting on Long Bridge and
sketchlng the ruins Of the capitol, ruins
attributable to one extra horse on the Bis
msrck and the Tongue river route, Mr.. Nc
Sweeney recited more poetry, and closed
with a rhetorical eulogy Of Dorsey,
who, he said, was the peer in honesty and
integrity Of any man with whom he asso-
cisted in the broad hall of his country's
Legislature.
The court then adjourned. Mr.. Merrick
Will begin his argument tomorrow.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-24
The New York STOCK market.

New YORK, August % The stock mar
ket opened generally weak, prices in the
main being IS to q per cent. lower than at
the closing yesterday, the latter for Rich
mond and Danville, and Richmond and
West Point. New York, Chicago and st..
Louis preferred opened at an advance of "a
per cent, and few others opened slightly
higher.
After the opening the market took a
downward movement, ranging from a to
2% per cent. IS compared with Yesterdays
closing quotations, the latter for Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, Reading, Oregon
and Transcontinental, st. Paul and Omaha
aud New York Central being also cOnspicu.
Gus in the downward movement. New York,
Chicago and St. Louis preferred, after open
ing Is per cent. higher, declined IL per
cent. to 35.
About noon the market became generally
steady. In the early part Of the afternoon
prices recorded q decline Of "a to IL per
cent, the latter for New York Central
Other stocks prominent in the decline were
Michigan Central, Delaware, Lsckawanna
and Western and st. Paul and Omaha. This
was followed by a slight recovery of "A to
= per cent. the latter for Denver and Rio
Grande.
After the recovery prices fell off, and
closed weak, showing decline of Il to 236
per cent, the most prominent being ST.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, 2& Der
cent. New York Central and Denver anu Rio
Grande per cent, and Reading Is per
cent. Transactions aggregated 237, 900
shares
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The Speed of Modern Steamships

Thirty years ago sixteen days was a
| fair allowance for the passage between
England and New York by steam. By
| gradual steps the point was reached
when eleven days was the minimum, and
this startled the world Then began q
rivalry between the Innan and White
Star Lines, attended by a succession of
runs showing gradual increase of speed
which proved a great advertisement for
these lines. In 1871 the average time of
twenty four crack voyages by these lines
was eight days, fifteen hours and three
minutes, The Adriatic's best westward
time was forty-three minutes less. It
should be remembered that the west
ward passage is generally longer
than in the other direction, owing to
westerly winds and the Gulf Stream.
In emulation of this speed, in 1877
the City of Berlin. of the Inman
Line, made the trip to Queenstown from
New York in seven days, fourteen hours
and twelve minutes, and IN the same
year the Britannia, of the White Star
Line, crossed from Queenstown in seven
days, ten hours and fifty-three minutes.
In 1879 new rival appeared in this field,
the Arizona, of the Guoin Line. This
steamship made the eastward passage in
1880 in seven days, ten hours and forty
seven minutes, and in one trip in 1881
she lessened this time about three hours,
This seemed to be about the best that
could be expected of these superb ships,
when the new Guion steamship Alaska
after a number of astonishing runs,
ACCOMPLISHED the westward passage be-
tween the two ports on April IS, 1882,
in seven days, six hours and twenty
minutes, actual time, against heavy seas.
In subsequent trip eastward she ran the
distance in six days and twenty-five hours
actual time. In this, the quickest
passage ever made across the Atlantic.
the Alaska travelled 895 knots. being
about an average of 41S4 knots per day
for seven successive days. It will be
observed that the increase of speed has
been graduated in proportion to the
gradual increase of size. The ships of
1850 were rarely much over 2, 500 tons.
and were barely 300 feet long. Now the
average length of ocean steamers is up-
ward Of 400 feet, while 500 eet is not
uncommon. The City of Rome is $50
feet long, and registers s. 1926 tons; the
Servia is $50 feet and $500 tons: the
Alaska is $50 feet and 6,932 tons; the
Austral, intended for the Australian
trade, is 474 feet long and 4S feet 8 inches
broad, and registers $500 tons. The
measurements of this vessel and of the
new Cunarder. Cephalonia, which is 44O
feet long by 46 feet beam, indicate that
the reaction against extreme length has
already commenced in the great ship
yards of Great Britain, being in each of
these cases less than ten beams to the
length.
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WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT OF.
FICES.
An Association Formed to Secure Re
cOgnitiOn for Deserving Women.

Washington Special to the Phladelphia Press
The Woman's National Labor League, an
organization Of recent but apparently vigor-
GUS growth, which had it's origin in the in.
dtgnation aroused among female Office
seekers at the dictum Of Secretaries Teller
and Lincoln, against the appointment of
women to Office in their departments, bids
fair, II there is anything in loud promises to
make 1t decidedly hot for certain Congress-
men and other government officials, whose
ways are not exactly straight, The
professed objects of the association are to
secure recognition for desc rving women in
the parceling out of government positions
and to expose the methods by which sp-
pointments are at present made. It is lust
possible that when a few of the leading
81 trits in this movement secure the recooni'
tion In the shape Of appointments that thev
feel is due them, the movement NAV cease
and the organization die out; but at present
there is no question of the earnestness of
those who are engaged in 1t. A weekly con-
tributor to the Capital, who is Secretary of
the organization, is given space In to-day's
issue to set forth the aims of the League,
and she says among other things:
1--WE are down on onem man power, and do
not intend to advocate q one-woman power;
but we do insist on equal and exact distribu
tion Of the loaves and fishes, and we protest
against young, growing men being put in
places that they ought to be ashamed to ill
when they should be striking manfully out
In life to be their own masters aud leave
deserving women to struggle. We protest
against the no-vacancy or the not-to-be-
copied medical term dodge to exclude
proper women who have claim, and then
run in some on an underground railroad
that runs through dark and gloomy
tunnels, and we mean In taka fbe
pen for a pick.axe and prv m those
night trainers-switch them of. as Il were
wish 1t distinctly understood that am moi
traducing the ladiss of the Departments,
There are as honest, true, deserving women
there as can be found anvwhere-refined
cultivated, educated; but that there ia also
another class, some who spend their salary
on dress, the money only being a side issue
is ract. so is 1t also fact that there arf
cases where members of Congress. wher
they go home to morality and PRAYERS. mi
nice little women, who have cheered them
tnrough an arduous session, into positions
iettng the government care for them until
the national circus begins again."
There is just slight suspicion of an at.
tempt to bulldose In the following sentences
Irom the platform OF the association, as ex-
planned by this writer;
"Our guns are aimed at the department,
and their circular-saw business, and let me
assure them and Congress it is not a blind
man's-buh game with US. We will pC
surely, and perhaps little slowly to work
Congressman are not hare nov, and 1 be-
lieve in fighting equare and openly. DonIi
hit man In the back In Instances where
It becomes necessary to call attention n
him It will do the most good to his home
and constituents"
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WORK ON THE PANAMA CANAL
A Dredging Machine which fs Rx.
Pected TO Accomplish wonders.
San francisco Bulletin.

Work upon the Panama ship canal ap-
pears from all reports to be pushed forward
with all the energy that circumstances will
parmit. Much of the work already done,
and much of the $40, 900 900 already expend-
ed, has been preliminary to actual work
upon the canal proper. The first work upon
the canal proper will be begun In Novem-
Der, and this Inauguration, II It may be so
termed, of an enterprise In which tie whole
world has q most lively interest, will be
special cause OF rejoicing to San Francisco.
inasmuch as San Franciscans will do tine
work, and with machinery made by San
Franciscans.
81. B. slaven, the druggist, M. A. slavep.
his brother, and P. Huerne, all of this cftv'
some time ago secured the contract fo1
dredging seven miles of the canal between
Colon and Gatun. This contract calls for
the excavation of 6,0O0, 900 cubic metres of
material. the amount received from which
work will be about $2,OOO,0OO. The con-
tractors were enabled to secure the work bv
reason OF their ability to supply dredging
machine that will work more efficiently and
more cheaply than any other that could he
brought to the notice of the canal authori
ties. The machine was invented In this citv.
and upon securing the contract Messrs
Slaven and Huerne gave an order 10 the
Golden state Iron Works for building one.
That order has now been filed and the ma
chine is now being delivered.
The dredging machine Is not an exneri-
ment, there being at present one of the
same kind but considerably smaller. In
active operation at Union Island. IN the
Sacramento river. This machine Is eanabIe
Of handling 900 cubic yards per hour. and IN
four months has dredged a canal 5s< miles
long, so feet wide, and IL feet deep. Such
a machine, but with almost double that
capacity, has just been built here for use at
Colon. The dredging machinery viii be
contained IN boat 100 feet long, so feet
wide, and IL feet deep. The machinery
itself is strong and massive, as well as
complicated. The principle upon which
the dredger is constructed Is that Of series
Of large buckets attached to an
endless chain. The chain Is COM
posed of links OF solid iron about 4 feet
long and inches wide, to every alternate
one of which a bucket containing one and
one half cubic yards is bolted. This line
contains 3S buckets, aud extends from a
tower so feet high near the centre OF the
boat down through q large slot r1npiar
from the bow many feet toward the stern
The line Of buckets, with is endless ehatn
passes over tumbleE, oS revolving cvlinder'
at the top OF the tower, and over anofhay
beneath and In front Of the bow Of the hoat
This latter tumbler is so supplied with pear
ings working from derrick, that it can be
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raised or lowered at will, thus making the
depth of the cut greater or less
~ Is capable OF making q cut about IS
Ieet below the water, In order to cut from
one SIDE to swing on pivot at the stern.
The pivot consists OF large poet passing
through the boat and driven into the mud
beneath. On this the boat is swung from
side to eide, and when new cut Is to be
made 1t Is raised, the boat Is moved forward
and 1t is sgain driven into the mud. The
earth that is excaS ated Is carried bv the
buckets to the tower so feet above the
deck, where 1t is emptied into 8 chopper
leading to 96 inch pipe. This pipe extends
from the tower across the bank of the canal,
anc 1t is over $50 feet In length. All the
excavated material is thus dumped along
the sides OF the canal, serving to make
them higher when naturally low. The ma
terial can also be carried over banks 40 feet
high and dumped far away from the canal
To run all the heavy and complicated ma
chinery that will be contained on the boat
four or five different engines are required.
The cost OF excevsting Is less than l cent
per cubic yard, and the capacity of the
dredger is about IL, 600 cubic Yards Der dav
As has been stated before, the machinery
for one dredger has already been built, ana
last week contract was signed for two
more, making three in all. This part OF the
work will cost $l50,000 The boats are being
built at Port Richmond, on the Delaware
river, and the machinery, which is made
here, has to be sent overland TO that poInt
and there set up. This Is necessary. for
Colon is on the Atlantic side Of the isthmus.
and the boats, which must be towed down
have therefore to be built on the Atlantic
coast. Machinery is now going forward for
one boat, which will be ready to begin ope-
ratiOns in November. When the machinery
is on board, the boat will be tOwed nv
steamer to Colon. If, In the course of the
voyage, storm should arise, she will be cut
adrlft to be picked up when the blow ia
over. The boat In her outward voyage will
be supplied with sails, and, being a verv
seaworthY craft, several Captains have
offered to take her down to Colon under sail
alone.
Once at Colon, work will be begun on the
canal. The route to Gatun runs through q
swamp, which has already been cleared
of trees, and such stumps SIS remain
will be pulled up by the stump
puller on the boat. A canal
100 feet wide and feet deep Will first be
dug from Colon to Gatun, In order to give
the canal company water communication to
that point, and when that is completed the
dredgers will proceed to excavate the re-
naming 65 feet in width, and will then
dredge the canal to Prerequisite depth of 80
feet. This work, 1t is estimated, will be per
formed in one year and one-half. At Gatun
there is a considerable elevation of the land,
and ss the dredgers cannot handle msterial
much over IL feet above the surface OF the
water, Workmen are now engaged IN level
ing the ground on the line of the canal SO
that dredging can be pushed ahead.
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THE TURF.
Results of Yesterday,a Races.

SARATOGA, August 23.-The weather was
showerY and cool this morning, but the at
tendance was good.
The first race, for $3.50. entrance free,
three-quarters of mile, London won, Pride
second, Patti third. Time 1:l5., Sam Bar
low was pulled up lame.
The second race, for S4OO, entrance free,
one mile and five hundred yards, Lila Stan
hope won, KenessW second, Bushwhacker
third. Time 2:1315.
The third race, for $3.50, entrance free,
one mile, Face won, Jake White second,
John Sullivan third. Time 1:43
The fourth race, free handicap hurdle
race for $500, entrance free, about a mile
aud half, over six hurdles, Revenge won,
Charlemagne second, Glasgow third. Time
2:4s
New YORK, August % The first race at
Brighton Beach, one mile, Ollvette woD,
Potomac second, Camillus third. Time
Isl
The second race. for beaten horses, one
mile, J. o. Nay won, Regicide second, Mrs
Chubbs third. Time 1:50.
The third race, selling allowances, one
and an eighth miles, Ida B. won, Tug
Wilson second, Major Hughes third. Time
2:Ol16.
The fourth race, for all ages, ive-eighths
of mile, Mary Warren woD, Kuights
Templar second, Hippogriff third. Time
1:O516.
The fifth race. a steeplechase. King
Dutchmau won, Moscow second, Falcon
bridge third. Time 2:49%
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-24
Congregational Nominations.

New YORK, August 3-Congressional
nominations were made in the various States
to day as follows: Charles A. King, nomi-
mated by the Republicans Of the Tenth Ohio
district; Gen. j. K. Young, by the Demo
Gratis OF the Eighth Ohio district. State
Senator Wood, by the Democrats of the
Tenth Indiana district Judge De-
Forest Porter as Delegate, by the Republi-
cans Of Arizona Territory; Gen. H. J. War
ner, bv the Democrats of the Fifteenth Ohio
district; E s Lacy, by the Republicans OF
the Third Michigan district; John P. Alli-
son, by the Democrats of the Eleventh Iowa
district
CHARLOTTE, N. Co. August 23.-At the
the Sixth district at Wadesboro TO-DAY
Major G. Dowd, the present Incumbent, was
renominsted on the twenty second ballot.
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Now noaRou.

Wilmington, N. c., August 23.-Two
bales OF new cotton, the first Of the season,
were received here to-day BY G. w. VIII
liams & Co., from South Carolina, and were
sold on the exchange to A. X. Greene for
shipment to New York, at 16 cents per
pound. The first bale was received last year
August 10Th.
NEW ORLEANS, August 23.-The receipts
OF the new crop of cotton to date from the
mississippi valley this year are only fifteen
bales against nine hundred to the same date
last year.
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raa my wagon on a heated summer
nv horses fingiug feet devour
avoice below shrieked out, it
@ uut you cannot 60 one half 50
f... .lsWe
.s-urf. 5utuo one there my straining
a---- urou the road; must have
90 ny feet heard distinct, a
-ase us. though you twice
-..-lrfE- ground
,.rr.a- ars,. but soon the fact upon
F1s-r.6 the wagon had thus to the
l -- Tie answer, and it came m &C
55 flrcser now before US than you
r--- Ll hour ag0.'
.-.t--s s.nder, but no further answer
~. rna-Is we're too busy, and the hind
-r-a.- we're tie same,
-s-.-r strained my hearing much, de
-----.a. 81. uy head,
r.r--.e rr by bind wheels not another
rl-l 9as -lll-
-. .-er SGT la thinking how in life one
rar-res with the words absurd
e-rUH--
---..-- claim as merit what is after all but
r Success that others make for them ex-
-lr-T e-ate.
r- wise sri mighty statesman just before
Hsfe -at,
.s a- fore wheel in the wagon, further
--u tie hind to get;
,-.s.arz u his clmplacence, as he thinks.
-ur-aTi fame,
rfatfr quincy ended, his position just the
same.
DE patient t0fier struggles, but 70 inch be-
rl1 E.IUr1-
All h- -rumb.es that, despite him, one pO-
.r.r IS Maintained.
g.--s r.s.-1- that the Owner. who can every
rl-- control,
gs.- m ever as the hindmOst for a fitting
purpose r1lI
speeds along the wagon. Ger the steady
roadway drawn,
ends rle weary journey, and the light OF
1aF has gone,
l-- 81. tls rvalries Of men, the quiet thinker
l..- as the quarrels Of the fore and hinder
-ThOmus Dunn EuqIisb
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THE FLAMES In SYRACUSE.
An Iron MIL Burned-Heavy Loss.

SYRACUSE, NY, August 23.-A fire broke
out in the main building of the Syracuse
Iron Works last night. The main mill was
destroyed, but the other buildings were
saved intact. The loss on the buildings,
machinery and stock is $500. 200; total in
surance $54, 600.
The fire originated In a freight car filled
with straw standing on the track beside the
mill. Two hundred aud eighty operatives
are thrown out OF employment. The mill
will be rebuilt at once.
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FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.
A Stage Drivers Desperate Fight
With Road Agents.

TUCSON, ARIZONA, August % "A Globe spe
cIal, of the 23i, says: "Andy Hall, Wells,
Fargo 81 Co.'s messenger, who was killed
on Sunday morning by stage robbers who
got away with S., 900 in funds consigned
to Waldridge & Co, was waylsid by two
men. They had a breastwork alongside
Of the road aud commenced firing as soon
as the express came in range. Hall had
eight bullet holes in his body, all in front
and when found he was mile from the
trail, and his pistol empty. He had followed
the robbers ten miles alone, fighting them.
Parties are on the trail of the murdeFers"
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weather indications.

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER, WASH
INeToN, D. c., August 23.-Indications for
Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, fair weai her,
southeast to southwest winds, stationary or
lower barometer, stationary or slight rise IN
temperature.
In New England and the Middle Atlantic
States, partly cloudy weather and light
rains, sOutherly winds becoming variable,
falling, followed by rising barometer, with
slight change In temperature.
In the Gulf States, Tennessee and the
Ohio valley, light rains and partly cloudy
weather. winds mostly from east to south,
stationary or higher temperature, stationary
or lower barometer