, 1884-01-10

/ The following characteristic letter from
/ Mark Twain has Just come 10 hght:
Hartford. Ct, Jan. l., 1888. Gen. Gar
field, Dear Sir: Several times since your
, election people wanting office have asked
me to use my influence with you III their
/ behalf. To word it III that way was
such a pleasant compliment to RE that L
never complied. l could not, without
exposing the fact that | hadn't any IN
| tiuence with you. and that was thing
which had no mind to do. 1t seems 10
me that it Is better to have good man ;
Hattering estimate of my intluence-and
keep it than to fool 1t away with trying
to get him an office But when my broth
er, on nv wife's side-Mr. Charles y
Langdon. late of Chicago convention
desires me to speak word for Mr.. Fred
Douglass, | am not asked to use my III
tiuence,' consequently l am not risklng
ANYTHING. So [ am writing this as Il
simple citizen. | am not drawing on my
fund of influence ct all. A simple citl-
zen may express a desire with all pro-
priety in matter of recommendation to
office, and so | beg permission to hope
that You will retain Mr.. Douglass in the
present rffice of Marshal OF the District
of Columbia, if such course will not
clash with your own preference or with
the expediences and interests of your
administration. l offer this petition with
peculiar pleasure and strong desire, be-
cause | SO honor the mans blemlshless
character, and so admire his brave, long
crusade for the liberties and elevation of
his race. He is personal friend OF mine
but that is nothing to the point, for his
history would move me to say these things
without that, and feel them, too. With
great respect, am, General, yours truly,
L. CLEMENS"
POSsIBILITIEs.-A railroad man at st.
Paul, being interviewed last week as to
the movements in New York said: .:
''Messrs. Endicott and Coolidge are stock
holders Of the Chicago, Burlington X
Quincy, The Burlington is now build
| ing a road to st. Paul, and would be
naturally very anxious to affect some
agreement with the Northern Pacific
| that would act as an offset to the tri-
partite agreement recently made between
the Union Pacific, Milwaukee & S. Paul
and Rock Island roads. With Messrs.
Endicott and Coolidge, presidents of the
two Oregon roads, and SO heavy stock
| holders in the Northern Pacific, what is
going 10 prevent such agreement, when
the arrangements could be made equally
satisfactory to both roads? The Northern
Pacific would be violating no agreement
any more than the Union Pacific has in
the agreement it has made with the Rock
Island and Milwaukee & st. Paul roads.
You may depend upon it that the Bur-
lington people have such scheme in
view, and will work their Boston friends
for all they are worth to have such an
agreement made
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
railroad earned during the year 1888 the
sum of $23, 100000. This company owns
more miles of road than any othor in
the United States. The equipment in
every particular is frsU-class. The sleep
ing and dining car service is unequalled.
as every traveller from the northwest who
has taken the line from st. Paul to
Chicago can attest. Large additions are
made to the linss of the comp: ny every
year, radiating from Chicago to the west
5000 miles of road under one manage
ment.
GIoNINI TO HANG.-Governor Newell
lately visited Gionini, at Vancouver, who
is nnder sentence of death for the murder
of Ricco, to examine into his mental con-
dition. He was not known to the pris-
oner during the interview, which lasted
an hour, The Governor is satisfied that
he is sane and responsible, and will not
make any further postponement of the
execution,it is fixed for the 4th of March
next DIR. T. l.. Town, surgeon q. s. A.
who also made an examination, and DR..
Newell, Jr., concur in the opinion to the
entire sanity of the prisoner. Olympia
Transcript.
FALSE REPoRT.-The report tlat L. S.
Hewlett had been appointed Governor
and J. W. George United States Marshal
of this Territory turns out to be false, or
at least premature. These men are both
candidates for the respective offices
named, and both are strongly backed,
and from this fact the report of their ap-
pointment was was started. So for no
appointments for either of these offices has
been made by the President Arthur
Seattle Post-IRteGi9encer.
British journals bring interesting de-
tails of the industrial census of 1881. The
total population of the country is 253,-
S91 ,S21, and of this enormous number
only S5,544 persons are British-born sub
iects, and 56,946 are soldiers and 12,OSS
females. Practically less than 1900
male civilians, welding an army of &c.
600 men. control the vast empire. The
whole number of Europeans returned is
146, ,612.
The Sunday edition of the Seattle
Post st-Intefiigencer has been temporarily
suspended, because of the falling off of
advertising patronage. Its weekly has
been reduced in price from So to S2.25
per year, and the daily from 10 cents to
5 cents copy. 1t evidently is not de-
sirable to overdo business, even in Seat
tie.
Net earnings of the Oregon and Cali
fornia railroad for October were S68, SIG.
Those of the Oregon Improvement Com
pany were S179,45I. For eleven months