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1t seems that a correspondent of 8
Boston paper has at last succeeded In
figuring out the cost OF the long.
talked of Willard excursion. Instead
OF being two hundred thousand dol.
lars as has been stated, it was only
seventy-ive thousand. The road he
adds, didn't pay q cent of that
amount-the paltry sum being borne
by the land department in whose in
terest the excursion was made. This
momentous matttr being now settled
1t Is expected the inquisitive public
will feel relieved.
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China Preparing for War.

LONDON. Nov. .2O.-A Vienna cor.
respondent says he hears from rell-
able Chinese sources that the govern
ment at Pekin has sent a circular to
eighteen vicer0vs pointing out the
gravity of the political situation and
expressing a firm resolution to op-
pose to the utmost the French invsd-
ars. Therefore, it says, the services
ofl2O.000 men are required.
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Washington Notes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. A.-Bids for
condemned naval. vessels at Mare
Island exceeded thelr appraised
value, $4,000. No bid was received
for the Benecia.
Commander Wildes resumed his
testimony before the Prqteus court of
inquiry to-day, and, General Hazen
questioned the witness, who adhered
to his statement made yesterday con-
corning the crew Of the Proteus, and
the general lack of information
shown by officials of the Signal Ser
vice in regard to the equipment and
eneral wants of the expedition.
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Election Of Officers.

SALT LAKE, Nov. M.-At the an
nual meeting of the : stock
holders of the Utah & Eastern
railroad, held at the company's office
in this city yesterday, the following
officers were elected: President, Sid
ney Dillon; v~ice-president and man.
aging director, f, Dickinson; secre.
tary j. B. McMurray. The board of
directors chosen is as follows Sidney
Dillon, r. l.. Ames, s. H. H. Clark.
E. Dickinson, G. f. Wurtele, w. w.
Ritter, &. C. Chambers aud T. j. Al
r1y. The Utah & Eastern was built
as o competing coal road but now 1t
wont compete.
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Washington Territory has wheeled
into line with Wyoming on the wom-
an suffrage question. Both branches
Of the legislature have passed the bill
to strike out the word "male" in all
election laws, and the governor is re-
ported to be ready to give female suf-
frage his sanction.
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never heard this text properly ~
piled. 1t less attention were give1
to Jonah, and more to what this VII
gin incident really means, ther'
might be more wicks in lamps ant
fewer married men in the saloons
And I, instead Of yittingt up to u
all this on paper, might be employ
ing my valuable time il q DISGUST
ton calculated to settle some grea'
question and land me in Congress
Thus it is, Little drops of water
little grains Of sand" and q man
marries. half the time only to be In
strumental in saddling thirteen OF
fourteen other men with female dead
weights which will leave them In the
dark as sure as shooting. And even
when they do fill the lamp and put
In a wick, is 1t half trimmed? Not
for my use; but when some addle-
headed beau comes about the parlor
shiues like a new tin pan aud things
are as bright as dollar. I'll put q
stop to this entire thing yet. A re-
turn to candles at the Vesuvius man.
sion and Vesuvius at the Headquar-
tiers saloon for q month might bring
about a realizing sense of what's up:
and I IAN stand the saloon as long as
they can stand the candles. l tell
you the times have gone down hill.
1 remember how once thegirls would
just jump to get the hest tallow dip
for the cd man to read his "Con-
nect'cut Niger Worshipper' or his
missouri Bush whacker' by, and
the old lady would stand by him and
see him respected; but now how is
il? Snubbed by the "young ladies'"
he winks himself blind by a neglect
ed lamp, and expects the sympathy
of his wife only to find himself left.
The good old times went out with
talloW candles.
Of course such women as Mrs.
Miggles will remark that I'm always
growing. and that Miggles never
visits us without returning home SO
set up by my complaints that he's
unbearable for a week; but I leave it
to Largely aud Brown and Walton
and herds OF the me l of Butte to
come out like men and give their x
perience with this lamp business.
Isn't their candlestick everlastingly
in the cellar, and their oil al for
ever where it hadn't ought to be?
OF course I know what I'll get for all
tnis publicity. Til get (as this lie a
respectable paper l won't mention
the name Of the place. but I'll get it
all the same. How Granville Stuart
and ~Ingersoll and Anderson aud the
other scoffers can stick to it that
there's no such place-and right in
defiance of their domestic experience
lis more than / can understand.
I'm going home now, aud unless
there's some worthless beau in the
house, there won't be a light on the
entire premises that a man could
read a IA foot sign by. What's the
reason for this? They're careful
enough with most Other things. I've
been SO mad over it for IL years that
I've not taken time to think Of this.
I wonder if it can possibly be that
is done to get me of to bed?
JOHN VEsUvIUs.
BOHEMIAN, November Is. 1883.
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MANCHESTER, Nov. A.-The city
council and chamber of commerce
presented an address to De Lesseps
to-day. In response DeI4esseps stated
that a conference Of engineers will
be held in Paris shortly at which will
be considered a proposition to widen
tho Suez canal and secure a. depth of
forty metres. He also promised that
the conference would consider the
question Of canal dues,
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Washington News.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-Medical
Inspector Kenney has been dis
missed from the Naval Service.
John B. FuraJ, Posfofice In
spector at Omaha, has been removed.
Secretary Teller .sustains the deci.
sion of the Commissioned the Land
Office in refusing permission to GER
tain citizens Of 1eadville to bring
anti in the name Of the United States
to vacate placer mineral patents, is
sued to Stevens and Letter and 9TH
ers, which are typical cases, titles
upon which the greater part of the
land in Leadville is held.
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Grand Army Resolutions.

OMAHA, Nov. a0.-Custer Post,
g. A: r., Of which Paul Wander
WORT is a member, passed resolutions
last night denouncing the action of
the Grand Army reunion at Hast
lngs for attempting to uphold Van
derv0Ort in the face of his miscon-
duct In the railway mail service. The
resolutions have been pending for
more than six weeks. and were held
Over and Vandervoort made a fitful
attempt to prevent their passage.
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With the advent of railroads into
Mexico the brigands of that country
have developed into train robbers.
The Greasers are an initiative people
and are rapidly acquiring a knowl-
edge Of al the industries pursued by
brethren Of the road In the North.
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AewoRD O TARIFFS.

To the present generation Of me1
the tariff question is comparatively
but little understood. Away back il
the good old days of Democrats and
Wings when such men as Calhoun
an6 Benton and Clay and Webster
were champions of their respective
parties it was an e~ngrossing issue,
The Wings favored a high protective
tariff; the Democrats opposed the
policy. The Wings fought their las,
national battle, as a distinctive ma.
tional organization. in 1867, in which
they were hopelessly defeated. The
Know Nothing party first and then
the Republican party were built up
on the ruins Of the old Wing party.
And when the Republicans came into
power they naturally carried the high
protective theories of the latter party
with them. This was in 1860 and 1851,
when the country became involved
in q desperate civil wal. Of course
the necessities of the country were
imperative and a high pressure tariff
was the natural outgrowth of them.
The country laoored under the load
for over twenty years, and the people
scarcely murmured. They were led
to believe that it was, in part, the
penalty they paid for an internecine
war. The result of the policy was
the rich became richer and the poor
poorer. Instead of the government
being one ''of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people," it virtually be-
came in its operation a government
Of the capitalists, by the capitalists
for the capitalists. This is shown in
the fact that under Democratic policy
millionaires were not made. For
nearly sixty years the policy of that
party prevailed in the country
with scarcely an interruption
and yet not a millionaire was devel-
oped in the country prior to the birth
of the Republican party with the
single exception of John Jacob AS
tor, who gained his wealth by the
rise in New York real estate. The
people were happy and prosperous
and the country was a stranger to
grinding monopolies and labor
strikes.
But the situation is quite different
now. Millionaires are counted by
the hundred If not by the thousands.
Fraud and corruption find a home In
the highest offices in the land. The
United States Treasury has been
made the object of raids by Lnscrup-
ulous men. Treasure wrung from an
people have been reckless
ly squandered in defiance of the pro-
tests Of the minority. Class legisla-
ton has been the rule and not the
exception. The rich have been en-
riched and the poor robbed. In
view of these facts the question arises
to their cause. The thinking man
can readily answer. It is expressed
in four words. A high protective
And it requires nc lengthy
argument to prove it. The answer Is
written all over the face of the coun-
try-in the accumulating wealth of
one class and in the poverty of the
other; ia the exactions of monopo-
lies and in the strikes of working |
men. The people see it and are de-
a return to the polt.J 0
the good old Democratic days.
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THE NEW WESTERN POOL.

Under the caption .sSold Again
the San Francisco Chronicle, of q re
cent date, devotes q long leader to
the action Of the Northern Pacific
company in the new California pool
arrangement It is we'll known that
ut the October meeting Of Western
traffic agents at San Francisco, the
Northern Pacific declined to enter
into a pooling arrangement with
other transcontinental roads. 1t
seemed to think it held the stop
hand" III the game for through pas
senger travel and freights and pub
licly made known its determination
t. cut loose from other through lines
and run its road for all it
was worth. San Francisco mer
chants were jubilant as the
one hand and the Southern Pacific
and the Central Pacific on
action of the Northern Pacific offered
them On escape from the contract
system in which they had been forced
by the Central and Southern Pacific
roads. But it appears their Joy was
was of short duration.
An effort vas recently made to get
the Northern Pacific in a new ar
rangement by which competition be-
tween the Northern Pacific on the
the other would be averted. The eff
fort was successful. Under the terms
of agreement between the Pacific
railroad poo! and the N. P. the latter
Is to receive a bonus of 20 per cent. a
year of the earnings of the former If
it refrain from competition
with the other roads for the trade OF
San Francisco and the State of Cali
fornia. The bonus, it is estimated,
will amount to 100000. The mean
ing of this arrangement, says the
journal quoted, is that no passenger
can buy a ticket here or ship freight
from here by way of the Northern
Pacific to points on the Missouri or
{ asst of that river, without frst pay
ing the fare or freight on a separate
account from here to Portland, and
the rule works the same against per-
sons coming from or shipping goods
from the East to San Francisco or
any point In California by way of the
Pacific. Tickets and
will only be sold as far as
Portland, and from there down a
separate account Is to be kept and
charges made.
Ofcourse San Francisco merchants
are in high dudgeon over what they
call a surrender of the Northern Pa
independence of the Pacific
pool, and assert that they are just
$500. 900 a year worse off than they
were before the Northern Pacific was
built. And now they ask Congress
remedy the evil either by the en-
actment of a general law to govern
interstate traffic and regulate
rates, or by the same power author
Izing the Government to buy or
build a separate road which it shall
own, control and opcrate-not to
make money for the Treasury, but
in the interest of the people, and as a
grand regulator of all the corpora
lion roads. This latter plan simply
means that the Government should
run competing line to San Fran
cisco. Here is cheek which for tx
tent of area and adamantine hard
ness Is entitled to the palm. Fol-
the argument to its logical
we would find that the
Government would soon have its
full in building rail Dads all
over the country. Every city Of inn
portance, including Butte, would
want a road or two, and competing
ines could only be limited by the
to build them. It will not DO.
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Circumstantial Evideraa

LOCUST VALLEY, K. l., Nov. III
The soles Of the Shoes of James
Doyle, arrested on suspi ion of being
the murderer of the NJ ,ybee family,
correspond exactly with the casts
taken of the foot prints around the
barn.
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A heavy Su1C.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 0.--A suit
involving $40, coo 600 was commenced
to day by the widow and heirs of the
late John Bowie Gray against the
Quicksilver Mining Company, New
Almaden, California. Gray was one
of the three original proprietors OF
t 9 mine, and died in New York in
1851. The action is based upon
fraudulent administration of the
property by Robert J. Walker, for
merly Secretary of the Treasury, q
partner of the deceased Gray and till
lately the chief representative Of the
company.
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The fact that West Point has one
professor for every i've cadets sug-
gests the thought that the nataon's
pupils are q hard set % handle,
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Berlin Notes.

BERLIN, Noy. 20.-Fifty persons
in Thorn, west Prussia, are attacked
by trichiD@.
Count Vannousk,, Russian minis
ter, had a long conference to-day
with the emperor, who gave a Gin
ner.
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lie that hath ears let him hear:
Cadet Whitaker ia teaching school
in South Carolina,
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ar =
Republicans Working
mon7.

NEW YORK, Nov 2O.-The. Hack
ensack Republican will tomorrow
contain an interview with William
Walter Phelps. member-elect of the
next Congress, in which he gives ex-
preston to q general wish among
Republicans of the next House that
ex-Speaker Keller should refuse to
be a candidate for the empty honor
ofa nomination. 1t seems Phelps
has written Keifer at the suggestion
or members of different parts Of the
country, some of whom have served
before aud others who enter Con-
gress for the first time. They believe
their party will be strengthened by
taking a new departure and that the
House of Representatives is the best
place to begin a new movement in
the selection Of new names tor all
positions. 1t is said the reason why
Phelps was selected to carry on this
correspondence was because he
was not personally acquaint-
ing q New Jersey Republican he has
not been involved in any of the fac
tional quarrels of the party. He is
therefore acceptable 10 OOtn StatWartS
and Half re eds. In this interview
Phelps expresses the opinion that
the e~x-Speaker, having the welfare OF
the Republican party at heart, will
not fail to recognize that its future
success depends on united action,
which can only. bs obtained by mu-
tual, full and friendly concessions,
and the avoidance of any action that
will tend to keep up the disagree
ments of the past two or three years.
Phelps, in the name of the party
aud the country, appealed to Keifer
to announce to his friends that he
would not accept a nomination. He
felt sure that Keifer's example will
be followed by the Sergeant-at-Arms
add other officers of the last House.
Refers reilly is not yet at hand.
A Saloon Bowed Up.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2o.-The Daily
News Danville, Ind, special says:
Early yesterday morning unknown
parties inserted dynamite cartridges
under the Dew Drop In saloon. The
explosion blew the building to
pieces and shook the entire town.
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Republican Congressman
Want Harmony.
A Mining Suit Involving
s20y000,0 900,
Plain Talk by q Canadian
Journal.
The Annual Report OF Ad-
miral Porter.
of Poole, the AL
legged Murderer.
-~>A
A Heavy SUIT.

ETC. ETC.
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uipAtAeIla, exc. III Cney could be,
these terrors of every household will
be shorn of their fatal effects.
A writer who seems to understand
some of the workings of the human
heart says: 1t is not calumny or
sreachery that does the largestsum of
mischief In the world; they are con
tinually crushed. and are felt only in
being conquered. But it is the glist-
ehing and softly spoken lie. the
amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of
the historian; the provident lie of the
politician; the Jealous lie of the par
tisan; the merciful lie of the friend.
and the careless lie of each man to
himself, that casts that black mys.
terry over humanity, through which
every man who pierces we thank, as
we would thank one who dug
through a well In Q desert.
The Boston Traveller, one of the
most rampant Republican newspa-
Iers of the country, is authority for
the following dialogue:
Reporter - Senator Conklinp,
which party will elect the next Pres
Senator Conkling-The Democrtic
RepO rter-Can this party carry
New York?
Senator Conkling--It is the only
,arty which can.
Rep0rter--And the ticket.
Senator Conkling-The old ticket,
1t. Ti!den and Hendricks, sir.
What Is writ Is writ. I wish you
God day, sir.
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gong again. q there's enough Oil
spilled upon the floor to fill a dozen
cans, and the can is left in the hurry
where it was used, to be kicked over
by the first person who goes into the
kitchen, and everybody's hands are
covered with oil, and everybody is
out of patience, and the fire won't
recover, and the evening is spoiled.
and it's all because things are not
done right.
Why don't I see to the lamps nv
self Haven't I enough to do: Don't
l slave myself to death to provide
the funds to keep those lamps going?
Perhaps if there were less calling
and less Harpers' Bazaar, and less
Top-ofthe- Heap Sociables, and more
to business, there would be
less cause for utter despair with the
of families-or the hus-
bands and fathers Of families, to
speak moro correctly.
It was once remarked by some one
who must have had q lampl that
Men may be tyrannized more intel
'igentlY by their own kindred"
What he meant by intelligently I
don't exactly know; but if he meant
that a mans folks will pay 10 atten-
lion to his household complaints he
must have had not only a lamp but
4 family. For, / know that this
amp trouble is the curse of about
every house in the Territory. It's
been 80, too. There are fool
virgins" True. it says their
amps were not trimmed, but it's fair |
o suspect that, even though they
lad been, the wicks would have
proved short. the Gil scant, the fun.
lel mislaid, and the candlestick in
he cellar. ra
And here's another thing. I've
The Evening critic., 1883-06-06
Captain Turner Set Rirhs.

During the delivery of Judge Wilson's
argument in the star-Route case col
loquy ensued between him and Colonel
Bliss, during which the latter imputed cor
tain things to Captain Turner. Colonel
Bliss attention having been called to the
error, he. on last Friday, made the fol-
lowing correction in open court, as appears
by the record, page 55s3;
Mr.. Bliss the adjournment desire
10 say one word In order to make correction
In something said, as TO which my attention
has been called. In q discussion, In the course
OF Judge Wilson's remark as to Mr.. Turner
and an attempt to bring Mr.. Turner into the
case, Just at tho close OF IL 1 referred to Mr..
Turner as having indorsed the Jacket upon the
bismarck and Fort Keogh route. This was
one OF those oversights that occurred, be-
cause had talked with Mr.. Brewer about 1t
shortly before. I desire now simply to place
upon the record tho fact that the indorse nent
on the Bismarck and Fort Keogh route was the
Endorsement of Mr.. Brewer, and was not that
OF Mr.. Turner, and THAI 1 was in error in re.
gard to IL,
The Evening critic., 1883-06-06
Dudes I'm shakspeare.

10 the Editor Of the Erening Critic:
find the following paragraph in Tuesdays
Issue:
Sat the breakfast given to Sara Jewett
last Saturday she remarked in her address
that there were mo dudes In Shakespeare
Miss Jewett VIII play In Shakspearean roles
next season, and she made the statement with
out any sign OF regret at the fact"
Miss Jewett must have forgotten this pass
age In Henry ~, first act second scene:
Hotspur.-My liege, 1 did deny no prisoners,
But, remember, when the fght was done,
When was dry with rage, and extreme toll,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
Came there certain lord,neat, trinity dressd,
Fresh as q bridegroom; and his chin new
reap'd,
show'd like stubble land at haryest-home;
He was perfumed like q milliner
And 'twixt HIS finger and his thumb he held
a pouncet.box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose, and took 'taway again i.
And as tho soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves, unman.
nerly,
To bring slovenly, unhundsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Don't you think Hotspur describes pretty
good specimen OF the dude Miss Jewett ito
the contrary Notwithstanding" j. II. W.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-06

There was no necessary connection between
the civil and criminal cases. The accused,
enjoying as he did and should the ad-
vantage of the morciful doubts of tho law
in his favor, might have been acquitted,
while the civil cases would have been de,
termined by the preponderence of proof,
and the Government might, therefore, and
doubtless would, have been able to recover
its own.
Beyond the commencement of the civil
cases no effort ON the part of the Govern
ment seems to have been made to obtain a
judgment. The time for the Government
to compromise had not come. The relin-
quishment Of the right of the Government
to any portion Of this money can hardly
be called compromise it was voluntary
surrender
The Evening critic., 1883-06-06

Wall Street Daily News.
one OF those good old fashioned fathers born
and reared on a farm, but willing to see his
children 1.-Two an easier life, came down to
"York" TO see about getting HIS son Moses into
bank. He went to a friend, and the friend
sent him TO the cashier, and the cashier said;
'Isyour son quick at flgurcs?"
"Tolerably quick"
'Is he ambitious 2"
eyes; he wa ats to get on
us he a hard worker p
"well, Moses kin NOV his three acres OF
grass per day."
'.why does he prefer n bank to a store p
VI swami l never asked him why, but
guess It's because he thinks there's better
chance TO climb up. Moses Is right on the
climb"
"He is perfectly honest, OF course ~
"Well, now, that's the only weak point
Moses has got, and / was going to say to you
II you took him in that II you keep wire
fence between Moses and any money lying
around loose, and II you have rule agin boss.
trading, and II you don't allow shaking dice or
card playing, and If he will keep sober, Moses
will make one OF the most tremendous bankers
this country ever sawr'