The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-12-08

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dered two branch offices closed. The man
ayers were told to keep the offices open.
Chicago, Dec. Board of trade circles
were excited yesterday by the report, which
proved well founded, of the failure of Creigh
& Davis, an old firm which have been deal
ing freely of late years. Corn is the rack
on which they went down, prices of that
option having declined heavily in spite Of
large purchases by that firm and others.
Chicago, Dec. 3.-In the Scoville divorce
case step was taken Saturday which war
rants the belief that Mrs. Scoville will get
the decree she wants without further oppo-
sition. Scoville has withdrawn his ans
wer and his attorney withdrew his appear
ance. NJ. S. Robinson was then submitted
as Mrs. ScovilIe's attorney in place of
Blanchard. An amendment of the bill was
withdrawn and rule was made on Scoville
that he file an answer or demure instanter.
He failed to do SO, having just Withdrawn
his answer and default was entered against
him. The case will probably be heard ex
parte next Saturday.
Chicago, Dec 3--Rev. E. Bailey Smith,
of Connecticut, is here advocating new
faith and preaching that the time has come
for apostles to perform miracles again. He
claims divine power.
Chicago, Dec. 3-The Tribune says: In
formation was received yesterday that q
meeting between the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific roads and eastern trunk lines
for the purpose of agreeing upon rates to
San Francisco and California points, will be
held in New York December Ilth. As al
ready stated, the Iowa pool has appointed
commission ofsgeneral freight agents and
Commissioner Midgely to attend the meet
ing and urge the abolition of the present
contract system on California business.
This system was inaugurated by the Pacific
roads a few years ago to meet the compe-
tition of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany. Shippers who pledge themselves to
ship their goods exclusively by the Pacific
roads are given only about third of the
regular rates, while shippers who refuse to
bind themselves to ship exclusively by rail
must pay full rates, which are exhorbitant
in the extreme The fact that the Pacific
railroads can afford to take business from
contract shippers at one-third of the tariff
rates and make money shows how exhor-
bitant the regular rates are. The trunk
lines as well as the Iowa pool lines are
strongly opposed to the continuance of the
contract system, claiming that it tends to
demoralize business and does not help the
roads in the least. They said the contract
system does not stop competition by the
steamship company, but rather aggravates
well what contract rates are, and it meets
them just as it would meet regular rates if
such rates were charged to all shippers
What they want is that freight be made so
low as to induce shippers to ship by rail in
preference to ocean line, and that all ship
pers should be treated alike. They will
make strong effort at the meeting at New
York to induce the Union and Central Pa.
cifc companies to recede from the position
they have thus far taken.
Kansas City, Dec. 3.-Representatives of
the Pacific roads met yesterday for further
discussion on new pooling arrangements,
which will become necessary when the New
Orleans extension of the Southern Pacific
is ready for business. The extension will
soon be completed, and the Southern Pacific
will then have road from tide water at
San Francisco to the gulf of Mexico, $500
miles, which will be the shortest line be-
tween tide water on the eastern and that on
the western shore of the continent, and the
longest line under one management.
Washington, Dec. 3.-It is understood
that Secretary Lincoln will recommend a
slight increase of the army, but congress is
not likely to appreciate his arguments. No
more Indian wars are anticipated. The set
tlement of most of the western country by
the whites has progressed far enough to
render outbreak on the part of Indians un
likely. The strength OF the savages appears
thoroughly overthrown, and with the ac-
ception of little maurading bands along the
Mexican border, no further trouble is ex-
pected. The reasons for the increase OF the
army are that the disciplinary entirety of
the army is not large enough to give officers
the requisite practice in handling troops
The secretary is also likely to recommend
that the pay of soldiers be raised from
thirteen to sixteen dollars month, the old
figure. The policy of the secretary will be
to consolidate the different commands as
near as possible, and to abandon all the
little posts in order to get soldiers enough
together to make respectable showing
It is said that the secretary will dwell at
some length upon the subject of desertion.
Last year sixteen per cent of the enlisted
men deserted, and to fill their places it cost
the department $3.50, ,O00.
Washington, Dec. 3.-Gen. Robert Tombs
speaking of Georgia politics to-day, said:
ga great many of your best men are really
taking no interest in politics. The late
methods of obtaining political preferment
are very distasteful to our best citizens.
They won't take office. They look upon
politics with loathing. Geo. E. Brown,
who by an organized system controls $4,000
negro votes in Georgia. has entered into a
combination with certain democrats, or men
who call themselves democrats, but they
are not in truth, and they manage to con-
troll everything and distribute all the offices
to suit themselves. That is the way Geor-
pia Dolitics are run