Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-06
Wall Street To-day.

NEW ioRk, DEF h-ine following 3 from the
financial article OF the .rsn,ng Poa:-The stock
market continues ia a fever1sh, unsettled coudi.
ton There Is AN abundance or facts In the gen.
erh situation which afford good aTgu-
dend paying stocks, but the experience
OF the last year has ade the general public so dis
trust vi That Investors come into the irket very
cautiously. Nevertheless there Is moderate vol
uIne OF Investment buying OF stocks, though not OF
sutficf Il msgnit1de yet 70 have much Influence on
thee luctusrions. Capital Is proverbi lily unid
In rk 10 In scSfmentS, and II is always easier
TO create cistrust than to inspire confidence. the
efforts OF the professional spectators ON tie street
are mainly directed toward depressing prices The
spectators and brokers desire fluctuations
and movements OF the market in one
expected that as long as there is no decided
upward movement to the market, every sort OF
rumor will be invented and every fact eXagger-
ated. The market was both steadier and stronger
than yesterday and the result OF the trading up 10
IL 81 O'Clock was general advance over last night s
stocks except Tho group OF Northern Pacifics.
which were again exceptionally weak. and were all
lower. oregon Railway and Navigation declined 3
per cent
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA ELEcrIoN TRrAls-In the
the election case OF Mitchell was declared mis-
trial The trial OF the OF Horsey supervisor Of
regls.ral l ,, al charleston was begun district
ATTORNEY Melton again applied the standaside ruIe
TO fifteen white Jurors
THE MEXICAN LAND GRANT SUTT-At Denver,
Colorado. Yesterday, the government fled an
amended bill In the Mexican land grant suit The
new Dill gives specific detailed history OF the
frauds alleged TO have been committed. and impf-
Gates ext nited States senators ChafTee and Gill;
colt, OF Colorado, and Judge Holly, deceased OF
New Mexico.
CAPT. GoRDoNs CHILD SwEETHE.Rr-Capt Geo
D. Gordon, who abducted Addie Brannan, aged 10,
from her home Ia Astoria, n. y, viii be prose lted
In New Jersey for Sc iuction, II the evidence Is
sufficient The CIR! denies that he Is guilty OF that
Ofense but the police have obtained sufficient cir
cumstantial evidence TO variant him baIay held
Tor the crime. The queens county, Long Island
oihcials want him turned over TO them TO answer
10 the charge OF abduction The child SAYS that
she was induced TO leave her home by CapL Cor
don promising 20 marry her She says they went
cnned 10 unite them for the reason that no wit
nesses were present but she presuines that he re-
a% reos because OF her age Capt Gordon when
70 secure the payment OF his board
NCTT's TRIAL REMOVED TO PrTTsRURG-The trial
OF James W. Mutt for the murder or v L Dukes
commenced yesterday in Uniontown. Pa After ex-
hausting the panel OF eighty Jurors only three were
FOUND VINO declared themselves impartial The
counsel for the defense then made motion TO
change the venue. and Judge Wilson ordered the
viii TIE nIac We p 10 aensny COUNT The t
airy. Nuts friends are much pleased with line
change or venue The counsel for the prisoner state
that they viii base the defense upon the theory of
emotional insanity, and they have summoned many
witnesses to prove that the prisoner was imbued
With an uncomfortable desire to take lie.
THE THREATENED LYNCHING IN ALABAMa-
Another attempt was made I'm Birmingham Ala
to lynch Po5ey, the colored man who ass lulEed q
little white girl The authorities now guarding
the jail with $50 state troops armed WITH Spring.
field rifles, and bicked by eating and rife guns
The mayor Issued his proclamation yesterday call
ing upon the citizens to preserve the peace.
AUSTRALIA WANTS TO CONTROL THE Sourg pa.
ClFIC LANDS--The conference OF delegates OF the
Australian legislatures, callei TO cons Ter The gue
ton Of the annexation OF the New Hebridcs New
Guinea ana other South Sea Islands 10 Australia
declares that It is the unanimous belief OF the Con-
ference that any further annexation OF Pacifc
ocean regions south OF the equator by foreign now
erS would be highly Injurious TO the Interests
safety and weu-belng OF Australia and the British
empire.
committee OF New York aldermen reported YES
tcrday In favor III the passage OF an ordnance com.
pelllnX all electric lighting or Illuminating compa-
MES Within SIX months from the passage or the act
70 lay all their wires or conductors underground
The faculty OF Yale college are puzzled over the
sickness prevailing among students Two students
have died OF typhoid fever.
Miss Louisa de La Rance (''Ouids'1 writes let
ter denying that she has become a Roman Cath
Ole.
A dispatch from Baton Rouge. La SAYS that J.
8. Wtgby, q member OF the grand fury In that
place, was shot and fatally wounded by two I'm
known men while on his way home Monday night
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James r. Keene denies the report that be has