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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22
r1rpopEAN. FINANCIAL MARxETs

IoxpoS Dec 2l-l23O p. m-ConsOls 110era for money.
aud 00iato for the account tour and haf per cent
and Great first mortgage trustees certificates OIL
Jersey Central COnsOs Ill; Erie 4O4; Cen
trail l3s3t Illinois Central, 1895 Pennsylvania Central
g. Reading 284; New-York, ontario and Western 81 Mil
waukee and ST. Pau common. u.
LONDON. Dec 2l-2:S0 .. m-Par1s advces quote three
per cent renes 10 francs 20 confines FOR the
LONDON 2l3:0O mThe proportion OF the Bank of
England reserve TO liability which a,t week .
cent is now 39i2 cent The bullion theank OF Eng
land has Increased G46,5OO during the past week.
LONDON Dec. q 100 p. mAtantlc and Great Western
first mortgage trustees certificates 81 81 Erie 40ls Read
ing. 2Sis.
iOyDON Dec 2l.-i:0O D. m--The amount Of bullion with
drawn the Bank Of England balance today Is
tJO.O0U.
I0SDox Dec. 2I-f:OO p. m.-Pais quote three
322 confines the
Dec. 2l.-The weekly statement q
France SHOWS an increase of 100000 francs gold
a decrease OF 375 900 francs silver
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,ausa NJ the changes shown during the past year do
because of the continued progression IN deot anu
A. consequent steady increase In the hrse
.h.rces against earnings. The funded debt iast
year was increased $5,000,O00. The net floating
Jsht however. was decreased $l,090,O95: Gong
hack three years TO September 80, 1879, we
And that the funded debt Of the company has in
ERASED from $3.50, 733. 1913 to $4s, 473,033-an in
crease Of So 7S9, 7O0-and since September 80,
1850. the net floating debt has increased about
81. 600 OOO making total increase In the total
debt over cash assets of S1O,73e,700. OF course,
the other side of the account shows expenditures
even more than equal to the increased indebted
ness For instance, on September 80. 1850, the
cost of road and equipment stood charged at
sos OO7, O53, against $112, 756,935 on September
80 lss2-a very liberal expenditure for "oonstruc-
tion y on an old road without the addition OF any
new mileage. Last year 81, 666. us was charged 10
construction which is partlcuarized as follows:
Grading and masonry for third and fourth tracks,
Improvement at Rochester and Broadway crossing
at Albany. S44697O; IRON bridges for Rochester
Improvement Broadway crossing at Albany ana
other places $50 963; superstructure for new
wards. sidings, etc, 1921. 703 additional build
fngs for stations shops, warehouses piers ETC.. etc.
aud including new telegraph wire, New-York and
Buffalo. 1857, 724; passenger and baggage cars,
s1S.5OO; freight cars 2,10O), $1,3O6,25O; land
ut Buffalo. Rochester, Fonda, Canastota, Albany,
eto.. 1927. 112; engineering, Rochester improve
ment. So .345 total 81 79s, 56S less decrease IN
locomotives. S12S 800, and in floating equipment,
IS. 35O-S131, $50 net 81, 66671S.
The following is the company's balance sheet for
two years:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22

Tho snh.Treasury's IT statement to-day shows loss
on balance of S650,23j made up by com io 3s
of 1909 OSl less a currency gam or HoS,Sdo'
IT, doys transactions covered: Receipts, ssh Dos;
payments Exclusive of S457 .o91 checks gwen lIr
bonds and Interest,", 81 ,42o o33; sI[iency ICY, a Sa
Money on call ruled steady at per
cent. with exceptions at both 4 md per cent. Tine
domestic exchanges in New-lork az tne p,hccS
named are quoted as follows: Savannah ana Cnar-
lesion each Il discount TO par New-Orleans COM
merciaI. So 5O0S2 discount and bank par; st.
Louis rs cents discOnnt; Chicago, 80 cents JUS
count: Boston, 5Q17 cents premium =,
The Clearing House statement to-day IS as 1Ol-
lows: Exchanges, $l3l, balances,
S6.O20,546.
The United States Treasury at Washington to-
day received $i07 900 National bank notes for re-
denption The Gus .omi rec ,lpts were ,n Solo'olo
The foreign exchanges were decidedly stronger
and we revise quotations for business rs 1oll0Ws I:
Bankers bills - 81 and ~ - Tor long ana snort
sterling respectively; 1924 ana 52Ols Tor francs;
943s and 95ls for reichmarAs; 39's ana 10 Tor
guilders. ,-,-. .,..
ular weekly meeting tO-dar made no change IN the
banks mInImum rate for discount and it remains
M 3 Der cent during the weel; the bank gained
$4,000 bullion EaE Inc o er gdpSTcSd from
II b. TO 3gl per cent AGAINST $500 per cent at this
date las year. To-day tn. bank lost 100000 bull
ion on bal Ince. The weekly statement of he Bank
of France shows an increase OF 1.SI5.OOO francs
gold and a decrease of $4,000 francs silver.
A. the London Stock Exchange British cOnsOis
advanced 1s per cent to 100 GIG and TO 100 1l-l6
respectively for money and account United states
bonus were easier. American railways were dulI
and steady At Paris French per cents were higher
at 1921 francs.
The Mercantile Trust Company has declared
dividend OF per cent on its stock payable on Jam
uarv2, 1888. Transfers viii close on 'cembcr
rs.
The Mercantile Trust Company will pay on and
after January ., 1858, the coupons due them from
the new adjustment bonds of tine city oil Elizabeth,
n. j.
Attention is directed to an advertisement in an
other column OF the Oregon Improvement Com
pany relative 10 an additional Issue of sock.
The receipts OF flour and graln at the principal
A tInnA,n 1anrts this y at day d necemhnr MerD
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BANKING AND FINANCIAL.
OFFICE OF FISK 81 HATCH,
No. Nassau street,
NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 1882.

To those persons seeking cool inereSt-paying
per cent. investment at about par. we would
recommend the Chesapeake and OHIO y per cent
bonds, due in 1911, and the Elzabethtown, Lex
i gton. and Big Sandy skies, due in 1902.
Both of these bonds pay their interest regularly
in New-York City in gold. They are both First
Mortgages finished properties. with net earnings
largely in excess of their interest payments. and
both are listed at the New-York Stock Exchange
In this connection have just published n little
document Concerning the Chesapeake and OHIO
Railway" copies of which be had at our Office
FISK & HATCH
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A note at the foot of the report says: "Ihe gross
earnings for October, November and December,
1852, being the first quarter of the new year, will
show gain of $1,000 900 over the same quarter Of
last year.
To-day's stock market was very much like the
days weather-dull and drizzly. The transactions
amounted only to l74,7O0 shares, against 220200
shares yesterday. The only salient point on the
whole days business a rally in Western
Union stock, which, by sympathy, affected the
whole market in small degree. That was
accomplished by the circulation once more of the
report that all differences between the West
ern Union aud Mutual Union had been amicably
settled. There were also some favorable tissue"
calculations respecting the forthcoming reports of
the Vanderbilt properties. However it is
generally conceded that the Lake Shore
Company viii declare its usual quarterly dividend
of por cent. and 1t 70 expected that Michigan Cen
trail also will declare sdiyidend of per cent-the
FIRST dividend II it docs. since July. 1881. In the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22

steady High Mixed 55c No spot SCI Decem5er Mn
al ,he year pa January, pc bid: May .sJSc; oss
year January, $sc Nav. 3s,,c Receipts Wheat 2ioooS
Flour, Wheat $4,000 basai Corn 5000 bushs Oss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22

afternoon portion of the brokers organized foot
ball game and that caused suspension of business,
which was not resumed until few moments
before the hour for closing. The market closed
weak, although at figures something better than the
lowest of the day.
Governments were dull and lower for all except
the 3l2s. the bids for which we're advanced g per
cent; the others were ls off. The market closed
only steady at the following quotations:
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hIAINbD.
Good Ordinary ...... 7Ss Low Middllng. ........ 81
s trct Good Ordinary S3,a Middling ........... 81

Strict Good Ordinary. $50 9l3Is
F:Sls9 nas5 ASS
lO95 August ll0i oii7 Closing prices for contracts.
March lo4salo49 April o6oSlO.6l; May. 10 7z9lG7S
TraSsferable orders 1925
FLOUR AND aEAI-FLoUk-Marketl less active while
tesd held %er
bushes, for export mainly in Low Grades sales 1000
HG Of Which H sSo ss Te S D iGE s5gS ng
SO 500 bbls City Mil Extra. 50 pass 4O So bbls
asa 25i 1000 b6Is Spring and Winter Wheat Extra,
aa%s Tn No. he g. eT F0S ose@S
saneE1ne 81 oSsS so latter extreme Common to
Common 10 Good Extra Western 50 ooaSl 40 Good TO
Cho s. 45as7 40; Common GOOD Extra Round Hoop
Ohio SO SOC 80 GOOD 70 Cnoco do, 81 % $50 1s Com
M9tn1e Il 5Hg Vs. saSe E4T s. "a ras
- - 90 f1tea 20 49, to st. Louis Common 10
Patent Winter Wheat Extra. 50 7O@s7 Guy Min Extra for
Patent s. 66SG5I market closed dGil...,. soUTMEiS
fLOu steady Mh moderate ex orr ana ign1ns t5ds 5e'
Good to Choice . 1895 90 iucludi 700 export
SO S5ds3 3d. latter an ene...CORN MEAL Gui un'
c6a1ged; .:::;; BUcKwHEAT Flour selling at 80 lOs
c f4 les By o auction 400 case, yaen
GRHiN-wHEAT-sar about steady for cash lots, and
" &c lower 100 options closing steady at title above tne
inside prices very moleIae export demand scarcely
speenstys account sales los 900 bush future $1,000
Guiding migrated sl1ng. at use; Unsrsded Winter Red,
SlS 81 steamer No. 3 Red. 81. No.
Red. ~ u5io Steamer No Red 81 0js40Sl OF. latter
delivered No Red. u 09sgSl O9is for certificates,
81 lOi II lOl2 delivered; 40 Red. 81 lJl2 delivered
led canada VI 10 in bond Ungraded White 9lc asl l52i
steamer 40. White u 2@75c., steamer No. White,
Sci 40 White, ~ &c. 40. / White 81 on for cer.
tihcate5; No 2 Red December 81 O57,dSl o. clos.
ing y os. do January - 0Jtdsl O9al closing 81 oyit
~ l52asl L., closing 49, do May 81 i2esi lt9l.
a1oat steady options aG! c ower hight export and home
Iss.oo6 future 10000 cash including Ne@
UBgraded Western Mixed 5SdJ3c I'D co., u. Gl22c
80 :. 5s S5s &C.; steamer Mixed IS d6i &c 40 2, n
axe. In elevator; Old No. White, zoe. dciyeTed I'm
graded White. 63c; Ungradoi Yellow Zoe. > ats Yellow
7la1i 2c No Mixed seller ear, 7ld73c II sc
Crop Seller Year. II 724. closing Z c.: January
6jd67c. closng 65Lc.; February "a e6j &C.. closing
64ac; March, 81 Nd314 closing 6ls May B27s $780,
closing CSC. go. OATS cash lots IA &c better; options
closing rather steady sales. 1000
bush, including No ,j6!6@c.; No. g 466464c. Tor
tuca.es A. GAlyered No. quoted 46lac.: NO
Wnite 41c..aNO. q use No quoted bic: Mixed
Western i49i-c: White Western 4Sd52c.; Mixed
AZ i9c White State JO6J3c.: NO. Mixed December
4GG46i4c, closing fjlc do. January. l6hGlG4cr clos
ing 46ac; do February 4G5i d46'sc. closing as SC;
May. 46ei62c closing 4Gi2c....FEED steady, with
moderate business.
BEERBoHMs LONDON CABLEGRAM THE DIST INST
REPORTS QUANTITY OF GRAIN on PASSAGE As Fol-
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OF city bank stocks twelve shares Continental
sold at 12l. The bidding and asking prices on tho
first call were as follows:
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THE MARKETS.
TOTAL RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
Per North River. Vesseis and RaItro1ts
NEw-YoRK Thursday, Dec. 81. 1882
GENERAL MARKET REPORT.

ASHES-Quiet and unchanged. o,,
OOTTON-Spot Cotton dull and ltsc lower sales, 3i4
Delivered contracts 300 bales Receipts past week
36003 bales against bales day last week ana
49, l19 bales last since september 321bU3 Daes
against 2. s4s $40 bales same period last year.
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1--we srocK MARKETs-BY rELEGRAPH.

BUFFALO Dec. 2l-CArrLE to-day. 1886 head;
tota for the IOO46 head for time last
week GOA head consigned through cars; run 1ght
slim all classes OF buyers Light to Far Steers
~ 75dgj -: Mi yed Butchers SO 75G4 l22
SHEFP-Reeeipts to-day, 24Op head total TOT the week
thus 20,00 mead; for same time last week 100
head consigned Odgh cars maj ket ou ana uncnangeu
but the demand ~ auRud Fair 10
Good Western ~ "a go Western Lambs "a oJG$o 20 no
HoGs- Receipts to-day, 1900 head, total for the week
thus far $500 head for time last week, 30 900 head
consigned through ~ dull and dropping run light but
buyes hold Good TO Choice Workers. 50 80 $6
Light g. 759sj So Good Butchers aud Mediums,
So lOdS6 10. Good Heavy here.
CHICAGO Dec 5000 head ;nipments
ass Is; Heavy $6 O5ds6 7O Light so oOGSo 2o skps and
CATTLE - Receipts 5000 head; shipments 300 head
good and 0c higher Fancy Cattle So 2Jd So 90
Good Choice shipping So 2Ops6 Common TO Fair 81 %
10; 3Ja$i 2O Gamers and butchers buying
freely and Feeders in small supply and good de
lnGnd a ~ lOdS4 80.
large accumulation Of Common To Fair market glutted In
feror to Fair 50 70; Medium to Good So 50d$4
Choice To Extra, SiH5d$5
EAST LIBERTY Penn, Dec 2l-CATTLE - Receipts, 1907
head. mar ct slow at yesterdays prices.
HOGS Receipts. 3.400 hea market Slow Philadelphia
50 90 batimOTeS O6s6 10; workers. 30 6UdeJ 3D.
SEEP-Recepts $500 head market lalr at yesterdays
prices
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The company realized from the sale of 50, 100000
bonds increase in funded debt $6,090OOO, or about
80 per cent premium, and for the lease of its
Athens Branch (449 years. 100000, total OF
So 900, 900 in cash from sources other than earn
ings Yet there remains floating debt at the end
of the company's fiscal year. The following items
taken from the foregoing balance sheets show the
comparative financial condition OF the company at
The respective dates:
Ununded DEBT az per balance s5j566s3 s525S7O
otheT roads etc l429765 22l75i0
Net floating debt ,$Ii269ls So OssS2l
Additional dividends paid october 10 1900. ,-o-,
f0r quarter ended September 3D.. I''oo9fo I'ooo'o
True floating .s5,9l6,296 slS3 zO2
During the wear the track side mileage was in
creased 35l4 miles. The equipment was reduced by
IA locomotives and by 2 frst-class passenger cars
and il was increased by second-class and emigrant
cars. BY baggage cars and by 200 freight cars.
The result of the years business is shown below
in comparison with that of the preceding years.
The total number of passengers carried last year
was 030S, 979, against 5000, 249 for the proceed
ing year and the tons oil freight carried were
IL ,33O,3 1913 last year, against 11,o9l379 for the
preceding year. While the gross earnings from all
sources for the year ended September 80, 1882,
only ST. 49, 81 less than 1881, and So, 547 1872
less than in 1880. the decrease in passenger and
freight earnings were respectively $2,206,017 and
SIS 322 354 In comparing the earnings of last
year with those of the preceding year, it will be
mistake to make too great an allowance for
the railway war Of 1881. That event
did about as much injury to the business
one year as it did to that of the other it began in
1881, and ended in March, 1882; SO that really
each year ended September 80, shared about alike
in the effects of that BY reference TO the table
of traffic below it is that of the loss of 80 of
one mill profit per ton per mile from the business of
1881 was because of L mill less received and 4-10
mill increased cost. Aside from the operating ex
penses the first charges against the earnings of
the company show a steady increase. If the
interest charge last year had been no
greater than it was III 1880, the deficit
from earnings sufficient to pay per cent dividends
on the stock would have been less than 100000,
and the interest charged against last years
ings is less than the of interest for year
the present amount of the debt. BY the cOmpany'S
showing the years earnings were So AZ per share of
stock and dividend of per cent was paid The
deficit is 81, 4O1 500. The suboined tables explain
themselves:
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LysRrooI- Dec. o. 1920 m7cOtton dull and easier;
bales including 1000 bales for sDeculton export Re.
cents 1850 bales 1850 American Futures plands
December and January 800 d DO January and
February delivery, 5e4d; do. February and
delivery 5Sssad do May delivery 55d also
5SsAld; do June ana July delivery. Jeaeed July
6ea1d. Futures HAT.
day inciuded $500 bales Apsrlcsn. 'A'' Vi TUG
LIVERPOOL Dec 2I-4OO p m.-Cotton-Fntures-Uplau
do March and April delivery, 5sie4d - o''
OHARLRsTos Dec 2l;-Colton quiet; MddhnE 97sc;
5Gs s Sss F'': export: %
the Continent. - bales; 70 Great Britain, 49, bales;
Ds s ey GS d1S Ss
MddlIng, 9ase Good Ordinary. 9Ac receipts 622
bales: to France, bales; to the Continent bales;
cosstwse, - Bales salos 1850 bales STOCK. l22, S5s
NOZZLE Dec. 2l.-Cotton quiet; Kidding ss,c. Low
MlddlnG 9ei aooo ORDINARY 9lsc net receipts, 1855
sales 800 bales stocs. 1886 bsles i'iio O''s''
Low Middiine sc Good Ordinary ec peI Eees gso
1892 bales; gross 1856 bales export TO France 1880
1000 bales: stock, 287.24l bales
Mdsss Dec 9dc oansS Sus M ns no. LSy
bales gross 6iss bales exports cos:!wise bales
800 bales; evening 700 baesj stOos l3I 055
bales.
EUROPEAN MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL Dec 2i-Bacon. Cumberland Cut $50; Short
Rlo o30d Pork Prime Meas 9JOd DO western 81. Lard
Prime western 6sOd cheese American Choice 64Od Corn
o 100 S S a.sd old sp SsSd
for old Mixed Western Wheat 92dd94d Gal
fornia Club for Red Western Spring ssdasild
LONDON. Dec. 2l.-sDiri4 Turpeunns $500. Calcutta
per tun TahoH ~ per cWT Refined Ptroleuui easd1
xsrwsnf Dec alperrolsum II trano. 80 osn,,ms. 70,
Fine Pale American paid so oenmes sellsrs
wleohs Lard. ls2 frAnos w esuunss Der 100 kiies.
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I'VE STOCK MARKET.

for India as2ec for cOngou l2ha9sc for FOOchow and
l3Q23c EOfmOsa.
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financiaL
CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY


CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY
. No 10 Nassau-st, corner Of Pinest
And large surplus Invested in d. Bonds 100000
Allows interest ON deposits ret1mabe demand or AZ
zed act TIecSor AdusTaar Guardian or 'la sy
Also as Registrar or Transfer Agent Of Stocks and Boua
and as Trustee I ipT Fas1ss M05tsSSs sre.a.o,
P e e sFERM Z YLcorr' Vice. Presidents.
z. Il. 2 sn bABc6Gk, secrctary
GEORGE SHERMAN, ASST Secretary
,,.. BOA BOARD OF TRUSTEES: ,.o.
DAVID BOWS AALow.
sfiSSH# SSESAr H$ $tha SS#EEE
STSgeT sES6y. With N5THx APIStETSyi
Saf5hE HSE1 qrcor e%Sshlps as.. MIL
sAm,L D. BABoocx. oi''' q e tSsf scHwAB. =.
5 Hm6s EMO 6HoRSE MaREEN yTsSr
HENRY F. sPAULDING
JESSE c. W00DHULL,
city Railroad, Gas. Insurance, Bank Stock and Trust
Companies stock,
No. "a y Pnest. NewYork.
ILLINOIS css g1 I R.n EcA :, cSONPAyrl
,T'HE TRANSFER BOOKS Of the -Four Per
the 2Sd inst TO :e "a January The nrt
payment OF per cent WI PPIrfy
THE RAILROAD EQUiPMgNT CO.
J. CAPITAL Sl.5O0.00O PAID UP, 100000.
SIX PER f6 SEN GRTRSS a c5 q FIXES
OFFICE OF THE sAcBErT POW AND PULvERzER, co.
80 AND 92 BROADWAY NEW loRK, Dec. 10, 1882. J
VNHE ANNUAL MEETING of the STOCK
HOLDERS Of this Company f6I the election OF Board
OF Trustees for the ensuing viii be held at the oce OF
the Company 90 and o. BIoadw Room AZ CITY,
on the I'd OF January 1888 at cloek Polls open from
to p NJ Transfer books eo'e December o. and reopen
January 3, 1888. A. EBERT Secretary.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the stock
Il holders Of the WEST VIRGINIA CENTRAL AND
PITTsBURG RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the
Office Of the company No 90 BrOadwsS NewYork Tues
day January 8, 1888 at IL for the ction OF Directors
tor the ensuing stock books reopen January 10.
NewYOrk, Dec. H. 1882. A. BRERT Secretary,
OFFICES OREGON IMPROVEMENT CoMPASY)
MILLS BUILDING. BROAD-sY,
NETWORK, DeL o. 1882. \
THE MAJORITY OF THIS CCMPANY'S
4 STOCKHOLDERS having assented 20 the proposed In.
OF capital stock by the twenty thousand
additional shares Tecited In the
Board Of Directors passed December 1882 hodsrsQf
the first bonds Of this
that their respective privileges OF subscribing said add
onal shares the terms reced in said resolutions
be exercised Including January
g. SS3 at the offices OF the company in NewYork Port
land upon presentation Of the bonds which the privilege
claimed Further Information will be furnished upon app
~ T. II. TYNDALE,
Secretary.
OFFICE OF CHASE HTGGNsoS, 81 PISE-sT, NY.
offs tn Inv Or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22

State bonds were quiet. Tennessee 6s sold at 10 2
and North Carolina special taxes at 6l9 Annexed
are the quotations:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22

The following were the receipts and shipments at
and from Chicago and Milwaukee to-day:
RecelptA shipments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-22
Jesse c. Woodruff,

ILLIS0I3 IESTRAL RAILROAD CONPANY.l
NEw.YoRI- Dec. ~ 1887.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS Of the Four Per
Leased Iiue c4rcates Of this company
the 2d inst reoren :e "a Of January The
payment OF cent thereon will be de January 1888
l.. Y r. IN nOLPH
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-07

we're taken out or used. This idea
which has gone out that she needed
anything has emanated from her
own mind, owing to the fact Of
her insanity on this subject, and had
no real foundation. Her son, the
Secretary of War, is very sensitive
about the matter, and has done all he
could quietly to defeat any such action,
but his position is and he feels SO del
icately about the matter that he has
been unable to prevent the measure
coming before Congress. Of course,
patriotic consideration secured its
passage when it was brought formally
to the attention of Senator's and Rep
resentatives. 1t may be right in one
sense to have q bill passed because it
humors the within of a woman, whose
mind was wrecked through the assas-
sination of her husband while in a
public position, and she is afflicted
with a disease which certainly will
result fatally in a few months, and she
can live but short time anyhow, so
that it is, no doubt, Just as we'll that
the act was passed, but that she has
ever wanted anything is not true, nor
indeed is it possible that she ever
could want, with her own fortune and
the watchfulness of her son, to do
everything to alleviate her suffering
and cares, mental as we'll as physical
bereavements.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-07

woman with the unconscious spright.
illness of a child. Her style of beauty
is more Castilliau than Anglo-Saxon;
she has expressive blue eyes and white
skin, with dark hair; harsh English
angles are rounded off by the graces
OF her Spanish mother, and to that
infusion of Southern blood may be
attributed the mature womanhood
which is not developed until later in
the English bred girl.
At her debut party, Miss West wore
pink illusion over pink silk. with low
corsage of pink watered silk and sash
at the back of wide ribbon watered;
the front Of her dress was a succession
of narrow rufies of pink illusion. and
the fowors which garnished the sides
of the dress and corsage were wild
roses and honeysuckles.
Miss Edwards, who has so many
Paris toilets, wore a short dancing
dress of blue silk covered with illusion
Tuifes; the low neck waist was of blue
MORE antique, with scarf draperies Of
MORE; around the bottom Of the skirt
was ruching of the blue illusion
studded with single crushed roses;
blue silk stockings and slippers were
worn with this dress. Neither Miss
West nor Miss Edwards wore any Jew
elry. Both are debutantes.
Mrs. Logan, the eldest daughter of
Admiral Porter, wore train of amber
colored satin brocade, with side pan
els of crimson cloth of gold from Per-
sia; around her throat was a band of
crimson velvet fastened with dia-
monds.