Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-16

ksrs in oppositian 70 the eommissiou-
err rules.
| A reporter found that soaIpers on
Broadway were selling tickets 20 st
Paul and Omaha at rates under the 10
duetions made BY the commission on
Friday, and told Commissioners Pierson.
We will meet thsm," vas tho Com mis-
sioner's reply.
The Lsaissana Contest,
Nsw ORLEANS, Dec. 15.-Ths city pri-
mAries elected 10 Ogden and AZ McEu.
cry delegates.
Very GeeA Grounds fer q Centest.
WAsHuoroN, Dec. l5.-Skinner. of
North Carolina. who received from the
Governor certificate of election a. A
member of the House, will present his
CREDENTIALS and ask 70 be sworn on
Monday. HIS opponent. Poole, CON-
tests tho seat on several grounds, one
OF which is that the vote in one county
In the district vas not taken, which
renders the election void.
CssGressosa Rlsnessy Again.
WAsHIMoroS, Dec. l5.-In An inter-
view today Congressman Finnerty ex-
pressed himself freely in regard 70 the
probable event Of O'Donnell being
hanged on Monday. He said be had
called on the President in regard to the
case within q few hours, but had OBJ
tanned no information beyond the a.
suranoe that action had been taken and
the result would be announced through
the State Department when a reply was
received from England. "The Presi-
dent did net express an opinion" Fin
noeA shv1t
although he appeared rather serious and
is hanged on Monday" continued Fin
nerty, cit will Do Q snub 20 the United
States. Tho House. BY resolution, re-
quested the President to ask respite.
II IL has been asked, which suppose il
has, and Ysfused, both tho executive
and the House, and consequently
the whole oouatry, has been mot
only snubbed, but insulted. We may
in that event acknowledge our govern
ment unable 10 obtain even the aliQhteet
concession in common justice 70 one OF
it, citizens from England. We may a.
veil sAY - Great B6tain: "You can ar
rest any American citizen whom you
may suspect, keep him Id Jail without
trial, and hang him outside without
even the forms Of y0or own Law. We
- q nation have fallen % Low that ve
can do nothing - hinder yea. You may
do. in short, with Our people anything
you please On your own dunghill." Sir
VIM. Vernon HAHoooYt will be tho me-
dunn through whom respits Would b
communicated. He 10 Home Secretary,
and detests Americans With that mar
rowness that only an insular English
man can develop. He u q sarcastic
brute, whose face always wears Q sheer.
Gladstone holds such man il that DO
sition on the Same principle. perhaps,
that man often keeps q vicious dog
he may b disagroeable TO others, but
useful to him. Gladstone c0uld never
get along without some oantankeIOus
person in his government"
what can Congress do IL VDonnell
II hung" was asked.
Fold its hands after quietly pocket
ing the insult. II you had asked mo
what any other nation of our national
strength would do under like circum
stances, might answer. in fact would
answer that it would suspend diplomatic
| relations with Great Britain until the
insult was explained or atonsd for!"
Would you vote for such proceed
inps?"
"What would bs the use IL I did |?
Commercial interests, az they are call
cd. will ever In this coautry be superior
to the idea Of national honor. might
stand nearly Alone in that position and
certainly do not desire practical isola-
ten. We are commercial people, but
were We q bslligerent nation. there
| would BE- music in the air before Mon
day night. We are the second Cauoas.
sian nation in population and territory,
yet We arc afraid to seek refuge in
the Stars and Stripes which is rapidly
In feeeign nations deRenerating into a
sort Of pocket handkerchief. In the
adopted citizen buainess it il more
Haunting lie than it ever was in the
worst days Of slavery. l am sorry to
have TO speak 80 rudely of the national
symbol. but frankness 10 sometimes
wholesome"
What remedies do You propose TO
restore the Stars and Stripes to their
ancient responsibility abroad 2"
"0ive some other element In the
country than shop keepers q chance to
reconstruct the navy. Send An Ameri-
can representative Of the United States
TO London and recall that weak sn0b
and dude of dudes. tho Lord Rector Of
the University of Edinburgh, an adopt
| ed SoOtchman no il pretty repreeen-
tative Of the United States in England"
A soushern Romance.
ATLANTA, Dec. 1.-The will Of David
Il. Dillon. who died in New York ON the
10th oi October, leaving an estate Of
over 81 ,O00, 600, Is under contest. During
his long residence in Savannah Dillon
Was noted for shrewdness and business
abilities. and succeeded in amassin0 a
large estate, He was for years pawn
broker for the impecunious people Of
Savannah. The story OF his life ID. one
Of romance. He became tho lover of q
handsome mulatto woman. and took her
TO live with him m his wife. ~ the
laws 1T Georgia were not kindly dis
posed 70 t,ose alliances, he applied in
1854 to tho Legislature for q special act
legal and give his offspring legal status.
The bill was favoeably acted upon. and
his several children leQitimixed. His son,
d. Il. Dillon, Jr., was sent TO Europe and
highly educated, returning 10 Savannah
in 1866. Meantime Dillon fell in love
With q young woman named Virginia
Enrich, Get her up in business a. q
fashionable miiliuer. and gave her the
most Of HE time and attention. This
reised row in tho family, and youaa
David sided With his mosher. tried -
shoot his father. and finally committed
cuicide on account Of the family tYoub-
lts amt his own blighted ambitions. In
1870 Dillon and his beloved Virginia
and her maternal family relatives moved
70 New York. Rachel Dillon. ths oolorsi
wife, sued Dillon for dessrtion and
Alimony. Her Case Vas Sustained in the
Supreme Court. In 1881 she commenced
action for divorce, which vas oompro.
missed ON the beloved virQinia recon.
svying b Rachel certain real ea1ate
given % Virgiaia By the old man. and
whom Dillon died IN October b. iost 4
will. The tessament4yy peovisaoa 81
which gave Ne balk oe HE property "a
hts Waite wife.
Tpess1ng Desso 0eoe1ess.
u Nsw YoRx. Dec. lh-The Natisual
Association Of Troesi1e Hosss BEsedssl
elected H. W. r. Mali, Of New York
Proddeot, Lsland 0sandfced, a Cali
J fognta, First vieo President I. D