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NEw ORLEANS MARKET.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 5.-Corn In fair de
mand; mixed higher; 5S. Oats in
good demand and firmer; a. 10 IS. Pork In
good demand. new scarce ard higher: SIS.
Lsrd higher; tierce, refined, Q Ia; key, Q 10
Bulk meats higher AMI IN good demand,
scarce: shoulders. packed, Is; long clear
aud clear rib. 9 10. Bacon In good demand
ana higher: scarce; shoulders, IL. long
clear and clear rip, 10 is. Others I'M
changed.
Sight on New York unchanged; Sterling
exchange, b. b.. ass t-2to is6.
kansas CITY IARKLr.
Kansas Cry Feb. 5.-Mneat steady;
sl1-s. cssh: ~ 10, bid March; $ Ii 10
/ s. 10 MAY Corn steady; 40 30, cash and
Febrra-v: asa May. Oats sui ani nom-
I inai: 29l2 usksd. Ctttie-R 90 3, 9l5'
ac'ive and firm: native s'eers. l.ls2 10 az
r0uuds .vera.-, s525 70 s6ys ieeasT-,
| $50 70 ss.7O; cows, ts.I 10 s4.b' Sheep
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ALrxaxDRrA, VA, Feb. 5-Mrs. Gather
inc z. Psttison, mother OF Governor Patti
SON. of Penrsyiyania, died this morning.
Governor Pattison was et her bedside dur
sue her last illness aud ~ lief oeatn.
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BHOwN,VILLE,

BsowEsv.LLs, Feb. 5.-TSpecial.I To
dsy is the anniversary OF the adoption OF
the present constitution OF Mexico. The
day has been observed in Mstsmoras by
the firing Of canuons AID the closing OF the
principal ihces ana s,ur.s.
Q Il. Miller has been appointed county
attorney pro tenn
Bishop Elliott LETT to-day for RIO Ora Gc
CITY. where he will unite IN marrate Miss
Only, the beautiful aud accomplished
dau ghtor of Msjor Only, officer m com
mand OF Ringgolu barracks, and DR.. Robert
son, recently appointed assistant surgeon.
Early this morning some parties broke
into the cable box OF tho telephone COM
psny on the Mstamoras side and cut every
wire, some seventy-fve, thereby shutting
off all communication on the Mexican side.
Mr.. Wilson, manager Of the exchange
promptly went to repairing the damages
and by 4 O'Clock every wire was connected.
No clue as yet to the perpetrators. The
authorities OF hatamoras have proceeded
to use every endssvor to discover the
parties
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-Rec,'o'~ roo; faidy act,y, ,3r G'os;
u,Hv., % % T.. pounds average, g. % to
Si1
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To RE SECRETLY REMOVED.

10 M sECRETLY REMOVED.
LONDON, Feb. GA number OF Irish con-
victs, including imprisoned Invincibles, will
be removed from English prisons by
man .of-war Their destination 10 secret.
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blackburn Nominated

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 5.-The senatorial eau
Gus met again tonight. Carlisle was with
drawn and Blackburn nominated on the
first ballot. The vote stood; Blackburn, s.
Williams, 81.
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MrLLcAU, Feb. 5.-l5pgciu. LA st
.ght between the hours OF an1 o'clock
the stores Off II P1yero.y ) A. Steele
aud ChiusSi a. Ward werc entered 1y bur.
glars - The entrance waa madc q. ,.a front
by boring through the doors and ..r5uc
Of the catches on the locks. Tla store o..
Chiuski e Ward was entered and robbed
OF its contents; loss, about 500, beverley
* Steele los. nothing. The accuracy
OF the job showed them 90
he crscksmen OF the iir4.clas5
u Is supposed they stole their way hero ~
freight train No. and left on passenger
train No. 4. The conductor Of the latter
was wired at Houston and answered that
they got OF at Hampstead. Deputy Sheriff
j. A. Steele and C.. J. Ward LETT immedi-
ntely In pursuit.; Of tnem. They are dc.
scribei as follows: The smallest 10 not
over five feet six inches; heavy set black
hair; black mustache dressed la dark
clothes, wooden over.shirt black hat. Tue
other is nearly six feet high; brown hair
black suit OF clothes and black hat. A
reward of $50 will be pSid for their arrest.
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coxerpor Pattison,s Mother Dead.

The best smoking tobacco lie Little
Joker"
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NEWS BY SPECIALS.
Austin Said 10 Have Secured the 4. u.
d. I. Temple
burglars Work ieXarkana and Milll,
can Very successfully.
A Bloody Fight aud \ Mystery a, san
Antonio.
Other Specials From sundry Sources.
THr rEMpLE BALLOT DALLAS
Other Specials From sundry Sources
THH rEMpIE BALLOT DAiIA
AmIsAn

TIIr rEMpLE BALLOT DALLAS
AHEAD.
FoRr WORTH, Feb. 5.-l5pccial J. AT
1890 a. IN. the grand lodge I. O. o. r. is
still 20 session billodnf for tbs location q
tbs Temple, with Dallas In the lead. 10 is
said that no decision will DO reached to-
night /. looks ike @ dead lock ugi In o,,.
ing ones say Austin will finally get g.
Dallas, however, only lacks six yo.es of the
two.thifds necessary TO Il choice.
a u. ma telephone message Ju1t re-.
ceiyCd irom the Pick wick hotel, Fort Worth,
announces that Austin has secured the
temple, receiving few votes iu excess Of
the necessary iwO-thirCs
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0REENyIIIl

Granville, Feb. ESPECIAL. l-District
court, Judge J. Green Clark presiding Il
still in session here. Much business ha
been transacted. In the case of T. J. Wood
or the killing Of Forgotson here two
years ago, Wood pleaded guilty TO murde
In the second degree and was sentenced to
tue penitentiary for Eve years In the case
of NJ. ID. Hart, for the killing Of DR.. Skin
ID. M. Oldham, charged with forging, the
Jury after Q few minutes absence brought
lin verdict Of not guilty.
Work on the new Methodist church,
which will be a handsome edifce, TO cost
81, 900, will begin this week.
The weather is cloudy but mild and
some gardening is being done.
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FORT WORTH.

FoRr WORTH, Feb. 5.-ISpecial.l-ln
reference to special on the lst instant. in
which the daughter OF Rev. J. ID. Murphy,
Of this place, was reported as having re-
ceiyed box Of poisoned candy sccompan-
led oy the signature Of one Of her gentle
man friends, this mach more has been
learned, that the name written on the slip
of paper accompanying the boz
Is very clumsy imitation ol
the genilemen's signature and i
pronounced forgery by Mr.. Murphy =
family as well rs al others who have seen
It.. 1t Is now thought that the attempted
poisoning was intended TO be SHIFTED on in
nccert parties.
3. y. Morgan. postmaster 81 Henrietta
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To Revive Our Shipping.

There is q ray OF hope for the American
merchant marine In certain remarks let fall
by the Hon. JOSEPH O. s. BLACKBURN at
Frankfort, KY, tho other day.
"As your Senator" said tho eloquent alb
sentee, II shall insist upon revision OF tho
navigation laws which have sunk our Amer
lean tonnage to only eleven per cent. OF the
volume once attained
This Is encouraging, provided tho navlga-
tlon laws are really at the bottom of tho
trouble. "It Is mistake" continued Mr..
BLACKBURN, "to say that tho war destroyed
our foreign tonnage. Our tonnage was as
great when the gallant LEE surrendered at
Appomattox as when the war first began"
Here Mr.. BLACKBURN Is very far away
from the facts. In tho three years between
the end of 1861 and the end of 1864 our foreign
tonnage lost moro than million tons.
Suppose that our merchants werc free to
buy ships anywhere In tho world. Suppose
they even got their ships for nothing. Could
we even then compete successfully for the
carrying trade OF the world? II Mr.. BLACK
BURN has distinct and satisfactory answer
to this question to offer, he will bo heard
with attention when he rises In tho Senate to
insist on the revision of tho navigation laws.
Hitherto we have heard a great deal OF talk
on tho subject, but little adequate knowledge.
The sun., 1884-02-17
A Strange Man to Talk About Good
Government.

Whenever there Is a public meeting Of
ornamental citizens Of New York to protest
against something which the enon-ornamental
majority, in Its Ignorance, believes In, tho
Hon. WILLIAM M. EvARrs Is always called
upon to warn, to comfort, and command.
The perennial Milo OF his talk unexhausted
by the thousand uses it serves, irrlgates and
fairly floods and submerges oil tho mass
meetings where the wise and good OF New
York city flout its municipal government.
The existing system OF our municipal ad-
ministraton is never good enough for these
ornamental persons or for Mr.. EvARTs, and
many alinear league OF speech has he tra-
yelled over, talking till his hearers eyelids
can no longer wng.
1t is all worry well for Mr.. EvARTs to desire
good government, but he Is not the man who
should be selected to recommend any system
as being good. or to criticlse any system as
being evil.
Good government rests upon the consent
OF a majority OF the governed. and Mr..
EvARTs has estopped his words upon that
subject from being OF any value to anybody
A man who helped to put in office and who
accepted Office from person notoriously a
defeated candidate for the Presidency, ought
to be very shy OF talking about good govern
mont. And majority OF the citizens OF this
town are not likely to look with favor upon
advocate In ono whose chief distinction in
public life was the product of a fraud upon
| the majority OF the whole people.
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TIE regular circulation Of THE SUN for tn
Neek ending Feb 10, 1884. was:
A Marked Difference.

During the late RoBEsoN Congress. Wash
ington was crowded with lobbyists. The
moral effect OF Democratic House Is al
ready plainly to be seen at the Capitol. Tho
lobby has departed from 1t In despair OF car
rylng any Of the proposed jobs.
Tho Whskey Ring mustered In force at
tho opening OF the session, but 1t is now dis
henrtened and demoralizcd, from the con-
viction that there Is no hope for the two
years extension of the bonded torn.
Mr.. HUNTINGTON appeared before tho COM
mittee of Public Lands to claim the grant
for tho Texas Pacific. which he had con-
demncd while opposing the late Mr. SoorT,
and to protest against the forfeiture Of an
other grant in which hc Is Interested. Tho
committee answered Mr.. HUNTINaToS by
bills forieiting these land grants, and these
bills passed without opposition.
These two cases of the whiskey job and
tho land grant jobs satisfied tho lobby that
their occupation was gono under Demo-
cratic House. If the hackers of such pow
erful interests, with the combinations they
could make, and the large sums of money
they could command, were unable to make
any impression, what hope Of success could
less influential jobbcrs entertain?
The present experience Is only repetltOn
of that which followed the advent OF n Demo-
cratic House in the Forty-fourth Congress.
While GARFIELD was Chairman Of tho Com
mittee on Appropriations, the lobby substnn-
TALLY directed legislation in favor Of Jobs.
The chiefs occupied the room OF the commit
tee as their headquarters until they were
driven out by Mr.. RANDALL.
During six years OF Democratic ascend
ancy in tho House, the lobby eked out a
miserable existence, and hardly put in an
appearance at tho Capitol. When the Repub-
licans succeeded in getting a majority in the
last Congress, there was a resurrection OF
tho lobby, as if the grave had given up its
dead. SEcoR RoBEsoN was at the front, and
his presence was the signal for a return OF the
plunderers. Now it is all changed.
The sun., 1884-02-17
Expert Testimony In Insanity Cases-A
PreposterOus Scheme.

A committee Of the Medlco-Legal Society
OF this city has devised remarkable scheme
for the appointment of expert witnesses by
the courts.
A list OF doctors skilled In mental disease Ia
to be made out by the Judges In each judicial
department. When any party to case.
civil or criminal wants to call an expert wit
ness Of this sort, he must apply to the Court
to direct how many and whom he may OK
anime from among those whose names are
upon the list; and he will DO permitted to
examine no othersl
These, according to tho Daily Register. are
the chief features OF bill prepared by the
committee we have mentioned. 1t may safely
be predicted that no such measure will ever
be enacted into law by the Legislature Of
the State OF New York.
The idea Of allowing court thus to pre-
scribe to litigants what witnesses they shall
call to testify concerning the questions, so
numerous and infinite in variety, which may
arise in reference to disorders OF tho mind
Is repugnant to the whole spirit of American
and English Jurisprudence. We doubt
whether it has ever met with much favor
except among medical specialists them
selves No recent law writer has considered
care than Sir JAMES FIrzJAMEs STEPHEN,
whose new and admirable History of the
Criminal Law of England ought to be studied
by every legislator in this country as we'll
as his own; and that distinguished Judge
writes as follows In reference to the topic we
are considering:
(which Is right-the present system, according to
which skilled witnesses called by each side at the
XAuined
nmined like other witnesses or proposed system, &C.
cordng which such witnesses should be appointed by
tho Court and occupy position more Or less resembling
that OF The matter has often been
| especially by medical men. have the strongest opn
Ion in favor OF the maintenance OF tho present system
Hero We have the testimony OF On eminent
Judge of exceptional learning and great ex-
pcrcnce. In the course OF the discussion
which follows the statement we have quoted
lie truly says that "to forbid a prisoner to
call wltless to say that in his opinion the
symptoms OF given death were not those
OF poisoning would be an intolerable denial
OF justice" Yet it Is plain enough that pre-
cisely such denial of justice might occur
under the preposterous scheme OF the Medi-
co-Legal Society. If the select experts whom
the Court permitted to be examined in be-
half of prisoner charged with poisoning
happened to be against him as to the synlr-
toms OF death, he would be debarred from
calling any other witnesses In his favor on
this point, though score Of skilled special
lists stood ready to testify to an opinion
which would tend to exonerate him from all
guilt. Such state Of things could not be
endured.
II this extraordinary measure ever gets
before the Legislature, 1t should be summa-
rily thrown out.
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What Is 1t For.

Last Sunday the Peoples Church was
opened in Boston, and at tho three services
held during the day and evening the temple
was crowded.
Tho church Is eligibly situated, and has an
audience room capable of seating $500 peo-
pie Accommodations for 75O more are pro-
vided in an adjoining chapel. which can be
united with the main audience room by tho
throwing open OF DOORS The seats are ar
ranged in semlcrcular form on gradually
sloping floor, like those in theatre, and
folding chairs are substituted for pews At
tached to the church is a parsonage.
All the seats are free, and membership In
the church, we are told. "rests upon broad
and catholic basis;" but exactly what that
means we do not understand, nor do we be-
lieve that those who have built tho church are
ready themselves to define very clearly
what 1t means. What seems broad and
catholic to one man or one set OF men is mar
row and sectarian to another.
Tho Peoples Church seems to be mainly a
Methodist undertaking. 1t was started and
has been carried through by Methodist
preacher. the Rev. Mr. HAMILTON, and the
money for the building OF the ediflce was OBJ
tained by him in small sums from nearly all
the New England States. When the corner
stone was laid few years ago, however, Mr..
MOODY, the evangelist, the Rev. PHILLIPS
BROOKS. the noted Episcopal Clergyman, and
the Rev. DR.. MANNING, Congregational
minister, took part In the services. Clergy
men Of various denominations will also assist
at services to be hereafter held.
But at bottom the Peoples Church is a
Methodist enterprise, as we have said. At
any rate, 1t is q distinctively evangelical un-
dertaklng, using evangelical In the narrow
sense In which 1t Is employed by the Protes-
tant denominations. The opening sermon in
the morning was preached by Bishop SNIP.
son Of the Methodist Church, the Rev. JC
Cook occupied the pulpit In the afternoon
and Methodist preacher discoursed in the
| evening
BROAD and catholic" in the view OF men
| like those means the union Of members ol
the so-callsd evangelical denominations In
the Peoples Church-that and nothing more
They hope to draw together as a nucleus
Baptists. Mothodists. and Congregational
lists; for they cannot look fol- recruits among
the Episcopalians. Roman Catholics will
not join them, as q matter Of course, and
Unitarians, who are so numerous in Boston
must be altogether outside OF their plan, which
will seem to many probably the majority o.
people, entirely lacking In catholicity.
Is there any need for new and large
evangelical church under Methodist manage
ment in Boston2 The churches OF the de
nominations from which its membership
must be drawn already provide &c,
commodatlons for more than will come
to them. No different theology will be pre-
sented at the Peoples Church. and II 4
succeeds In attracting large audiences thu
other evangelical temples Of worship arr
likely to suffer loss In their attendance. Tha
they cannot afford to do. for those churches
The sun., 1884-02-17
Bit. of Gossip from Warrington.

WASHINGTON. Feb 16.-The President gave
Thursday night his annual dinner to the Justices of
the Supreme Court The flower designs with which the
table WAS adorned were beautiful and unique. The
Temple of Justice the scales. and open book in.
scribed with the words Law and Constitution. were
all made Of flowers The President of course. escorted
Mrs. Waite, and the Chief Justice tucked Mrs MO.
Elroy under his Among those who In the Intervals
OF business surveyed the temple and the scales Of Jus
tce and feasted their eyes the volume inscribed
and Constitution. were Attorney. General Brewster the
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court known as
Aliunde joe and Luke r. Poland.
Senator Logan's campaign, which he 10 at this very
moment actively conducting 10 what celebrated capi.
talist recently described snOrter II 10 frgid day
when Senator Logan does not introduce demag
resolution In the Senate ostensby looking toward the
creation OF favored class OF exsodiers but really for
the benefit Of John Alexander Logan. Thursday was
to give soldiers the preference civilians In sppli
become law, and Senator Logan knew never could
but II is what Mr. O. r. Huntington would describe in an
epstoary way ss "a cheap and effective method of sd.
yertisng" Senator Logan isn't bothering about other
peoples hobbies Hes going In for John A. Logan aud
the soldier vote. He 10 letting his hair grow long and
practises the war whoop daily before the looking glass
Ex-senator Dorsey has been III at welcksr's for q
week or two but not dangerously So The ex.senator
made rather neat retort upon senator Chandler
time ago. Chandler gave him to understand that his
presence at the Navy Department desirable In.
asmuch as 1t might give rise to scandal and that the
Secretary desred TO maintain that brand OF rectude
which appertained to cesars wife Dorsey In reply,
collected everything he could md In the newspapers
garding Secretary Chandler and his methods and sent
them to Chandler implying that tho person therein do
scrbed need not be squeamish about his
Mr.. William Walter Phelps has Just bought seven and
half acres at the head of Connecticut avenue for
$4,000 and 1t Ia said will choose Washington for hi.
winter home.
The sun., 1884-02-17

Senator HAwLEY proposes to publish an
"Ot1lcial Gazette OF .he United States to
contain the advertisements for proposals for
contracts, the general orders and announce
ments by the heads Of tho executive depart
ments, the more important appointments,
and so forth.
The Senator from Connecticut, as the editor
of a political journal, must know that tho
matters which he would have printed in an
Official Gazette are now circulated far
and wide every day. and get more publicity
in one issue Of metropolitan newspaper
than they would in year OF this Gazette.
This scheme would conflne Information
which tho public at large is entitled to have,
to special and small class, and might prac-
tically exclude competition in contracts. 1t
Is an imitation of the British Gazette, with
different conditions that do not call for 1t,
and is step in the centralizing direction.
All such schemes as this start out with fair
promises OF economy. Estimates are con-
vcniently made to suit the occasion, as was
done when the Congressional Record was
transferred from private contract to tho
Government Printing Olllce, and with what
results tho public accounts show.
The cost Of the Government Printing ONlce
last year was S2,s6l, ,274.43-a quarter Of a
million more than the outlay for 1882. But
this enormous sum does not represent by any
means the total expenditure for printing.
Nearly all the departments. and tho Treasury
on very largo SCALE have private offices to
print special work. These departments were
allowed last year 81, ,Ol9.OO0 for printing and
binding to be done at the Government
Office, wholly Independent Of their own pri-
vate printing.
Some idea OF the magnitude OF the Govern
ment printing establishment may be formed
from the fact that over two thousand persons
are employed in 1t, and tho pay roll averages
about five Thousand dollars day There Is
no public institution in tho civilized world
where money is so lavshly squandered as
in this printing Office, and where the most
! expensive papers. bindings, engravings, and
Autographs are manufactured at the highest
prices, and are then sold in large quantities
| as common wastage to the trade. This
scandalous extravaganza has been going on
for many years, against constant rcmon-
STRANGE and complaint But the patronage
and the contracts associated with 1t have
overcome all protests.
Including tho ground, the buildings, and
| the plant, the annual cost of the Government
Printing Office may be fairly said to repre-
sent the interest on n hundred millions OF 8
per cent bonds, for which the people are taxed
| for minimum OF return.
The sun., 1884-02-17

are not able to hold their own even now. Tho
tendency in Boston Is to agnosticism. or un-
belief, on the one eide. and to ritualism on
the other. Even the Unitarian churches arc
falling of, many Of their members or nat
ural attendants either giving up churchgo-
Ing altogether or transferring their attach
ment to the Episcopal Church, with Its lit
urgy and It's appeal to aesthetic taste and
religious emotions. Meantime the Roman
Catholics are gaining rapidly In Boston.
Under such circumstances 1t seems to us
that the Peoples Church is q sort Of ffth
wheel to tho coach. II each OF the Baptist,
Methodist, and Congregational churches at
tends properly to Its Individual work, there is
no occasion for such an additional evangoli-
cal undertaking.