Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-12

efal Is not over sanguine as to the result.
sno says ne does not expect the jury, af-
the defendants guilty.
An Isfsh.AmeF1ean Arrested.
NEW Yosk, Aug. ia private dis
patch received here today Ssays that
stephen j. AcAny, the we'll known Irish
aRItator, was arrested yesterday at
Ernis, Ireland. He had jus. arrived at
Ennis, his native place, when he was
taken IN custody by the police. He left
this city Tor Ireland two weeks AGO.
Previous to his departure his friends ad-
vised him rot to 60 where be would be
liable 70 arrest.
Money for the Widow.
WAsErscroS, Aug. 1.-First Comp
troiler lawrence today signed a war
rant for S2265 In favor Of Lucrstia X.
Garfield.
4 severe Indietmens.
NEW YoEK. Au2. 1.-THE Spirit Of the
Times says editorially it now seems alb
solutely certain tnat in their coward,y
effort TO sneak away from a fair race
with the Hilisdale crew, tie English
Amateur Rowing Association have ad-
ded to their other crimes deliberate and
wIliful falsehood in regard to the letters
OF inquiry said To have been sent to
America. As no such communications
have been received here, and all this
while the English Amateur Association
waits for answers to their letters which
were certainly not sen: ~ announced,
and probably not yet have been written,
and these are representative English
mi x.<t he n.
Death Of Mrs. Brooks.
Mrs. Mary Louis,. Brooks. wife of
Congressman James Brooks of this city,
died at Versailles, France, today. after a
long illness. Her maiden name was
Mary Louisa Cunningham. and she was
the daughter Of An officer in the United
States Navy. Her first husband was one
the Kondolphs of Virginia. She first
met her second husband, Mr. Broods,
while shs was IAN inmate of the White
House during the brisf occupancy of
Gen. Harrison as President, to whom
she was related.
A S25.eoe stake.
The same paper announces that Col.
VIM. Edwards, Of Cleveland, has accep-
ted the challenge Of Johu w. Shaw, to
trot Trinket against Clinestone for $25,-
900 a side. The contest will take place
at Hartford.
Star Route Figures.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The footings
to the tables prepared at the POstoffice
Department, showing the amount paid
for expedition under the Second Assist
ants Tyner and Brady, are both inter
esting and significant. During three
years and a half fifteen star routes were
expedited. The annual pay was $3l2,-
276; the expedition $l44, 12a. Tyner in
the one year OF his service expedited
only five routes. The annual pay of
these were $27 ,53:j; expedition only x12,-
$50. Brady's record for three years
and ten months, only four months Ion
ger, shows he expedited 119 routes.
The pay of these WAS 500, ,l3.s; expedi-
tion xl All ,sSS.
Gathering Of Lawyers.
SARATOGA, Aug. H.-At the session Of
the American Bar Association today
Isaac M. Jordan, of Ohio, read an inter
esting paper on trial by jury, its de-
fects and remedies." The laws should be
changed requiring unanmi.y in the YER
diets of the jury. In States in which
tho change has been made, the best ro-
suItsfollowed. There is nothing in the
Federal Constitution which prohibits a
State from making the change. A reso-
luton was adopted recommending the
executive council to call the next annual
meeting of this association rs Greon
Brier Springs.
Vim. Al. Evarts advocated the adop-
ton Of the minority report on the relief
Of tho Supreme Court. Gen. Vim. Pres
ton, of Kentucky, Judge j. l.. F. Sneed,
of Tennessee, and +. B. Sherman of
Chicago. spoke in favor of the majority
report. The vote stood 30 for the major
ity, to - for the minority. Eyarts pre-
sided at the banquet in the evening.
End Of strike.
CHICAGO. Aug. 1l.-Col. II. c. CIowy.
General Superintendent Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, has received
official notification from j. j. Dickey.
Division Superintendent at Omaha, that
all the striking operators at Denver had
made application to bs taken back at
their old salaries, aud that but two or
three of them had been r0-instated, as
their places had already been filed, and
the company had all the force required
for the present.
Last or Long Struggle.
CoHoRs, N. Y, Aug. 1l.-As the result
of mass meeting last night. the execu-
tive committee of the Harmony mills
stay0uts claim a decrease Of - in the
force of weavers. and the promise of
more to quit today. Another struggle
will DO made on Monday.
4 Bohemian nceandrei.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 1.-THE police of
this city are notified by the authorities
of Prague. Bohemia, that Hermann
Ables, IS years old, owner Of a large
milling establishment In that city, has
with $250.OO belonging to
his creditors. The dispatch claims the
defaulter is at either Chicago, st. Paul
or Milwaukee.
a Califarnlana Paper.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. Il.-At tho Photo
Convention today McHall, of
California, read paper on the inhuen-
ces affecting the progress of American
art.