Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-02
EASTERN NEWS.
.rrp PRESS DISPATCHES


..socrArED PRESS pisPAN'hh
A senator 5 Talk.
ov March 1.-The House
WAshlsho und by the action of that
confrefear Itch had selected them,
body :. confer fully aud fairly with
e,uld NO. II was from profound
DE That was due to the coordinate
eDse 20 the Government, he and his
brsnca did what they believed with
;s,tent, and clear anu positive ~
- One of the privileges ana con :
e.rt;onal powers Vi the senate Is 20
os.s and exercise co-ofdinate snare
r.s;slstive power. The Government
IA never be, and could never be
sboui. 10 the individual judgment of
pole~absrs of the House itself. When
Mswouse had declared the Senate had
" -" nover to epgraft tariff legisla-
~ 1ue ;pternal revenue, il the confer
pon "a,nld not arrange at their will the
sDcs emphatic, clear expression of
fapma arza. the Senate confreres could
ne On such sensational and ca
p@ a nroceeding as this, and it was
doty to have submitted the matter
8 tho Senate.
Another Failure.
e~ruryyrLLE, Ohio, March 1.-Tbe
Island Furnace Company, operating
Is ''r ths Base Furnace IL Iron COmpa-
pD'ef ,iled this morning. Liabilities,
Y sa,o1O: assets from $4,000 to $4,000.
Who He Il.
v,v yogK. March 1.-The cook, Quin-
.!;nnste. whose wife stabbed Hauvett,
resident of San Francisco from
IN IN 1879, when he came here in the
n .U;,a of ]. r. King. He married his
~. IN Australia, who is the daugher of
snrosnerous gold miner. In Haavett's
sdeIst,. after his death, we're found Ger
ssa,es of 100 shares in the Lone
Nanutsin Gold Mining Company, of
California.
New Stocks and Bonds.
I'm the Stock Exchange yesterday
ssSyO.OOO of bonds and $l5,OO0,0 900 Of
xock were listed, OF which 100000
ere first mortgage bonds of the Oregon
bereavement Company, and $700, coo
~ its capital stock. Five million dol
iars of the latter are now paid in.
Tearing CeGtfas fAciHcs
Nrw YoRK, March 1.-Stockhoider
saw the continued weakness of the Cen
raj Pacific has of late attracted a great
DIAL of attention, and il is now said
that but for the recent European put
aliases of the stock quotations would
have reached a considerably lower lev
ii. Tho impression prevails In some
quarters that the position of the syndi-
cato which still controls the operation
Of the road. as regards Southern Paci-
&c lines, will sooner or later nece5s!tato
Abandonment of the former in favor of
the latter, 30 far as through freight Is
concerned. Ia view of tho showing
made in the statement covering compu-
tatious during 1882, the weakness of tho
stock il not SO surprising. When the
fac, is borne in mind that the capital
stock Of the company amounts to I59,-
$4,000, while at six per cent. the rate Of
dividends paid last year amounts to
SS,556.530. it will be at Onoe apparent
that the dividends we're not fully earned
This might be overlooked wera the flu
turs outlook brighter, but certainly
nothing on the Central Pacific horizon
osn DO discerned into presaging good.
Church Financial statement.
LAWRENCE, Mass, March 1.-The
Augustinian fathers make the following
financial statement of the Catholic
churches in Lawrence: Liabilities,
$4,000; personal accounts, SiUJ, 400;
interest outstanding in January, 1883.
$3l.400; mortgages. 100000; total,
$5G7, 300. Assets-St Mary's church
and grounds, $309, 900. parochial resi-
dence, $33, COO; Convent and grounds,
$4,000; st. Mary's schools and grounds.
$4,000: Immaculate Conception resi-
dence. $4,000; st. Lawrence church,
$4,000; st. Augustinian's chapel,
$4,000; cemeteries, $4,000; total, 1860,
100. This leaves, apparently, a Surplus
If $1,000, but AZ the market value of
lssets reach less than cost, there is a
rather than surplus.
Caught by a Train.
HoULToN, Nc, March 1.-Two men,
dcInley and Brown, with their wives,
attempted to drive across tho New
Brunswick Railway at Canterbury, N.
B., yesterday, in front of an advancing
rain. The train struck them, killing
both ladies almost instantly, and seri-
,usly iniuring MoInley.
Gloomy Outlook.
ST.. Louis, March III. b. johnson,
who signs himself as United States En-
pinesr, sends q communication to tho
Globe Democrat in which he explains
some pecularities of the floods on the
Lower Mississippi rivsr, especially as to
sha ~ Tar Mt nd
predicts a greater flood during tho pres
ent at and below Helena than the last.
1t may be several days before the maxi
mum hight is reached. He says when
it does come it will exceed that of year
ago. He says more water passed Cairo
than ever before; that the maximum
there Was maintained longer than evar
known, and that this water will have to
pass all points below this in conjunction
With high water, IA White, Arkansas
and Red rivers make it certain that this
higher marks of last year will bs in
creased during this rise.
Investigation suggested.
HARRIsBuRG, March 1.-Gov. Pattison.
In message to the Legislature, calls
attention to the statement by Repre-
sentative Gowen that L. q. Patterson,
employed by the State in an action to
recover taxes due from the Standard
Oil Company, that coin was paid by
officers of that company to suppress tes-
timony. The message IS accompanied
by documentary evidence, and suggests
IN investigation.
About Pllotaxc.
New YORK, March 1.-The Journal Of
Commerce and other mercantile journ-
ais here and in Boston still agitate
pilotaee. At Albany the Assembly Com
mlttse on Commerce have agreed to re-
port bill reducing Sandy Hook pilot
age fees one-third. The Commercial
bulletin. noticing similar movement
IN the California Legislature, says it is
stated that with the single exception OF
Bombay, San Francisco is the most ex-
pensiye place for shipping in the world,
ana JUS; here it may be well to ask
Congress if they have abandoned the
eaort to push through the bill intro
ouced IN the earlier part Of the session
70 make the suppression of compulsory
pilotage applicable TO all parts of the
country, and if SO. why?
Teld the Hundredih Time.
NEW YORK, March The Telegram
mas an alleged special from Raleigh, N
", announcing that arrangements are
completed Tor tie marriage OF Senator
laws with Miss Addie Burr, at the resi-
osnce OF Congressman Greene, at Fay.