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An important meeting Of the directors of the
American Rapid Telegraph Company was held
mt Boston on the I4th inst. 1t is rum0red that
n consolidation has been perfected with the
Merchants Company, bat this Is denied by
President Converse. -Four additional direct
ors were added 10 the beard, preparatory, as Mr..
Converse states to the extension OF the COM
pany's line to Chicago St Louis and the South
west. The board now consists of j. w. Con-
verse and Frank Morrison, of Boston; i. III.
May. a. w. Dimock, G. s. Mott J. X. Hoge-
man, George p. Smith and A II. Barny, New
York and George B. Chandler, Manchester n.
III. The new members are Messrs. Mott, Dim
ock Hogoman and Smith
All the members Of the Willard Northern
Pacific excursion party arrived at Portland,
Ore, September II. The procession in their
honor was two miles long. and represented all
branches Of industry. The public buildings
were handsomely decorated. Speeches We're
made by Hon. NJ C. George, representative in
Congress, President Willard, Carl Schurz and
ex-Secretary Evarts. General Grant declined
to make speech
A conference between a committee of the
strikers and the propretors Of the steel-rail
mills at South Chicago, owned by the North
Chicago Rolling Company, was held Saturday,
September 18th. The men presented a basis
for resumption of work, and an agreement was
reached TO last the remainder Of the year. The
mills viii resume work next week, giving en-
piOyment to about 1900 men.
The increased tonnage on the New York ca
mails under the system of exemption from toll,
is quite marked, the increase for the season TO
August 81. being 1896, ,799 tons, compared with
last year. AT this rate, it is estimated the Ca
mails by the LIST of December will have carried
6.50G.009. an increase Of over a half million
tons The friends of free canals are naturally
delighted over the increase.
A proposed gigantic land steal, enveloping
several millions dollars worth of United States
redeemed timber lands in the northern part Of
California. has been brought TO light in San
Francisco 1t is alleged that Government Off
cials are acting in collusion with the parties
engineering the scheme.
The New Hampshire Senate Friday last
passed the bill incorporating the Southern Pa
cifc Company. which proposes to consolidate q
number of large railroad and steamboat lines
connecting Texas and the South. The bill
also passed the House.
A railroad party, including W H. Wander
bilt, 4. B. Gowen, Hon. Simon Cameron, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and others, is now engaged
in inspecting the lines and coalfelds of the
Philadelphia and Reading Company.
The session of the American Pomological So
ciety in Philadelphia closed Friday last. The
society fixed upon Michigan as the State in
which the next annual convention in 1885
should be held, and adjourned.
The Secretary of State of Illinois, September
18th, licensed the incorporation of the Chicago
Elevated Railway Company, capital 5000, 600.
The line is to extend to the suburbs south Of
che city.