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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21
FINANCIAL.
New York.

Special to the Globe.
! New YORK, Feb. 20.--The hardening of
values in the Stack Exchange made further
progress to-day when there was u very strong
undrrtone to share speculation, and the
highest prices of the year were established in
some stocks. The market is steadily widen
ing. The frmnrss recently displayed by
leading shares was in the face of heavy real
zations. having attracted to Wall street
many outsiders whose operations on the long
side Of the account exert an important in
fiuence on speculation. The fact is that con-
tidence has been restored to such an extent
that the market takes care of
itself. The market opened irregularly this
morning, as has been the case for
several days. There is no uniformity of SEN
! timent on the movement in Wall street now
that Gould is out of the deal The small bull
! pools operating in Vanderbilts and a few
other stocks make a
GREAT SHOW AND BLUsTER
in the market almost every day. They sell
out great pile of stuff in every bulge and
then retire and let the market drop off. This
morning the game was to put up New York
Central, Lake Shore and Lackawanna, and
under cover of this strength to sell out some
goods. Accordingly the first named was add
vanced TO 951T, the second to 664, and
the last to 100$5, and in an hour afterward
Central had dropped TO 945I, and the other
two had fallen away I@}l. The best
judges of the market believe the
present would-be bull movement is
utterly unreal, shallow and fctictious, and
that the railroad situation and the general
business situation OF the country is fully as
unsatisfactory and precarious as it has been
any time in the past year. Still the power Of
manipulation is such that few stocks can be
put up or down at pleasure and these are
marched up the hill and down again every
day to nystify and mislead the outside pub
lie. A first-class example Of the above is the
daily course of Lackawauna under the guild
ance of Deacon White. Mr.. Gould is reported
to have paid of 81, 500, 900 of loans lately, as
q part of his profits in the late Western Union
deal. and now another clique talk Of picking
it up.
AS A TRUMP CARD.
AffirmatfOns and denials of a settlement
of the difficulties between the West Shore
road aud its enemies and rivals abound on
every hand, and some believe some story and
some another. The probability is against
the truth of any reported settlement, as G.
Il. Pullman, Judge Hilton and the Grand
Trunk railroad will have something to say
! abont this matter. \ Vanderbilt broker says
that the old man has been buying his own
stocks lately and distributing points TO his
friends to buy, aud another party said Van
derbilt was taking no interest in the market
at present. Outsiders can pay their money
Readings floating debt are selling collateral
to indemnify themselves, as they can get
neither principal nor interest out of the COM
many
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21
The oun,.tionr.

Western Associated Press
caicAso Fec so.-F.Ssr UNCHANGED. Wheat
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21
San Francisco Mining.
New York Money

The feature of the market was rise in Martin
White
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Boston r ,ilroa and Mining,

BosToN. Feb. 2o.-Foilowine are the closing
prices at the Stock Exchange to-daY:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21
Receipts, SO cars, as follows:


Cstile-The cattle market yesterday was fairly
active, but transactions were limited. Prices
remain unchanged and still favor the buyer
No. Az VT Price
Il.-..---..--. ----------.---.l-lSo - W
OBS 20
325 50
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21

HO0IAIIUNs OF STOCrs AND 'VNDS'
Stocks and bonds closed at the followir g
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21
At TUE STOCK YARps

business was moderately Sctive. nearly all
stock tralss due cSsne along, but ali we're BE-
hind Sche uir time Tle eastern roads are
yet shurt OF stock cars. he; nearly sl are
nov Masking regular shipments. Fat cattle
vre in isir demSud aud steady. Hogs
wer- in sciive demand ard higher, the best
making $SG5. 20
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-21

CORN, OATS AND PORR-CHICAGO
Corn Oats. Pork.
Time
Mar May Mar May Mar May
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

II the Baltimore Il Ohio Telegraph COM
pany. which Is now making arrangements to
enter Lancaster, can show as good work in
its telegraph service as is seen in the beauti-
ful little book, "Electric l.. 4 o." the public
will be more than satisfied. 1t is an evidence
of the liberal spirit in which this corporation
is run that the book advertising its merits
should hc an artistic conception that cost not
a little. The whole history of messages, from
the slow and weary crossing Of Sahara desert
by a camel to the sightess cOuricrS Of the air
that fly over the present electric telegraph, IS
told in cuts that are models of artistic beauty.
To Mr.. J. g. PangbOrn, who conceived and
carried out the work, much credit belongs
for orignatinga Il book which will delight
the art-lOvor aud at the same time advertise
the merits of the Baltimore n Ohio company.
a copy may be obtained free of cost by for
warding address with stamp to the president
and general manager OF the Baltimore Il Ohio
Telegraph company, Mr.. u. II. Bates New
York.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
Gbe iautastcr 1l,trlligcutcr.
LANCASTER, AUGUST Is. 1886.
What Will They do About II !

Before the nomination of Quay, the |
Philadelphia Press, and other Republican
newspapers distinctly warned the party of |
the probable consequences. They informed |
the Ring managers that self-respecting Re
publicans, however strong in their parti-
sanship, could not be expected to vote for
man of his antecedents and reputation.
They asked "What are conscientious Re-
publicans to say in defense, when men
point to the jobbery and corruption of the
old State Ring, to the shameless plunder of
the state treasury under Kemble, Mackey
and Quay, to the railroad schemes to rob
the sinking fund, and to keep the people in
the shackles of monopoly, to the Riot Bill
villainy, and to the infamous pardon of
the convicted criminals; all of which are
representedby Quay, who is avowedly NOM
mated because he does represent Them
This is substantially what was said by
the better class of Republican journals be-
fore the nomination. They did not par
ticularly develop these monstrous scandals,
because they were matters of history and
general notoriety.
But the old managers of the Treasury
Ring and the railroad lobby paid no
attention to the Press and its cOad-
tutors. They declared that the people
were tired of honesty and economy
- and decency in official life; that the
masses of the Republican party sighed for
complete reinstatement of the Ring
bosses and would be satisfied with nothing
less than the nomination of the most dis
reputable of the lot that they wanted
machine rule, machine methods, with all
that they imply, including the morals of
the Riot Bill enterprise and of the Quay
pardon board and that they particularly
dssissesssj,n eminent exemplar of "iddi-
ton, division and silence at the head
of the treasury, so rs to revive the OLD
system Of plumber in all its ancient perfec.
tion.
They had their way. They nominated
Quay in spite of the avalanche of protests
and, to be entirely consistent, the com
mittee on resolutions sat down heavily and
incontinently upon Senator Emery's mild
little anti-discrimination resolution, thus
giving due notice that the Republican
party was formally committed to railroad
monopoly as well as to official profligacy.
And now what are the people going to
do about it ? When VIM. NJ. Tweed
with insolence no greater, asked this ques,
tion, Samuel J. Tilden, Charles O'Conor
and the taxpayers of New York, without
distinction of party, furnished him an
unexpected answer
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
A Scheme That ShOnId be RuripI.

1t is said that an effort will be made to
amend the rules of the House of Repre-
sentatives so as to take away from the ap-
preparations committee all the important
general appropriation bills except three
the legislative, sundry civil, and general
deficiency bills. Under this plan the In
dian committee would prepare the Indian
bill, the pOstotlice committee would have
the postollice bill, the committee on naval
affairs the naval bill, etc. 1t is ostensibly
an effort to rebuke Mr.. Randall for his
stern fight against all kinds of jobs at the
head of the appropriations committee.
The scheme should fail because of the
manifest advantage of lodging the appro-
prlatlon powers of the government in one
committee that will be held responsible
Tor them. 1t may be said that
this concentration of power has its dangers
also, but they are minimized by the check
OF opposing politics in the members max
ing up the committees, as well as by the
voice of an independent press, which ever
keeps an Argus-eyed watch over them.
The new plan would offer a rich field for
the jobber and lobbyist. Public attention
could not follow closely the work of each
committee, and the appropriation bills
would jump up faster than the mercury
does on hot day. AS the New York Sun
says: 1.-The history of the river and harbor
bill, after its transfer to special river and
harbor committee, shows how much can be
gained In this manner for the cause of eX-
trayagance and plunder."
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
PERSONAL,

MIR. THOMAS HUGmES will sail for Amer
lea on Saturday next
TALMAGE thinks that millionaire libcrtines
are the curse of the world.
THURMAN would refuse the Ohio rllber-
material nomination, if unanimously offered
BARON TENNYSON, on August q, cele-
brated the seventy-sixth anniversary of his
birth.
Poor JOHN MCCULLoUOH's appetite is
good, but his brain disease gets worse and
worse.
FRANK HuRD is certain of a denomination
to Congress by the Democrats of the Toledo,
o., district
SECRETARY MANNING, according TO the
PttSburg Dispatch, may he expected To resign
at any time, though in all probability he will
not do it until after the fall elections
JoHN LILBURN could not live without n
quarrel. II he We're left alone in the world,
he would have cut himself in two and set
John to fight Lilbun and Lilburn to fight
John.
JOHN B. GUTHRIE, twice mayor of Pitts
burg, member of the state constitutional
convention and for many years special agent
OF the United States treasury at Washington,
dled al Cresson on Thursday, aged seventy
eight years.
MIR. STURGEON declared of a captious auos-
tioner that If the constellation Orion were
pointed out to his vicar he would suggest
Immediately that the shape of it was DOOr.
and that the stars might be re-arranged on a
new principle.
GOVERNOR GRAY, Of Indiana, was driving
with his family in indianapolis on Sunday
evening when some miscreant fired a shot
through the carriage, the ball passing in
proximity TO tho person OF the chief eNecu-
i've; III Is not known whether the shot was
nred al random or with murderous intent
be found '
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

THE successful reopening OF the LonlsNllie
Exposition draws attention to the quicken
ing industrial life of the South. \ few days
ago it was noticed how suddenly the town OF
Abilene Texas, "rose like an exhalation."
The same growth, the identical variety OF
snap, is also visible elsewhere below Mason
and DiXon's line. The records in the Office
of the commissioner of buildings i'll New
Orleans show that for the four months ended
July 81, permits for the erection of buildings
valued at ST. 100000 were issued. This is
double the amount issued during the same
time last year. Durham, y. G., a tobacco
manufacturing town, twenty years ago was "A
small hamlet, with but 90 inhabitants, and
the total valuation of property was
only $4,000 A recently completed cen
sus shows a population of $50, and the
| assessed valuation Of tho property Is
| given at S3,00O,000. Again, it is stated
| that tobacco is being sold in Wake county,
| n. G., in the hill at Sl25 per acre, where 9
| few years ago the cultivation of tobacco was
| not thought of. These are instances Of sud
| den growth that are difficult to parallel IN
| the North While Northern railroads arr
| reporting decreased earnings and increased
| expenses, the earnings on the principal rail
roads in South Carolina Tor the month O
June, 1883, aggregate S29O,@3i-a net i'll
crease of SlG, l35 compared with the sam
month last year, the most favorable repOr
published for many months. The tim
seems to be close at hand when NOrthcrncr
| will need to go South to learn the lesson c
thrift and enterprise.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
Not In the Line of Reform.

The decision of the president and Secre-
tary Lamar that medical examiners of the
pension bureau shall be appointed after a
competitive examination is not good
thing for the service. The work is largely
technical and il is especially desirable that
men of good medical knowledge and attain
ments should be chosen to these places.
But the men thus far chosen are nearly all
small school teachers or other persons who
by the nature of their duties have been
compelled TO retain their knowledge of
books without any reference to its apl lica-
tion TO any practical purpose.
II this is to be the result of the civil ser
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
Best Treatment for DIphtheria.

The patient absolutely requires extraordinary
nutrition and gentle stimulation to resist and
oYerbalance the slow fever that consumes the
strength and also to countemct the deadly
growth of fatal fungus in the vital passages.
Immediate use OF DUFFYs PURE MALT WHIsKET
ILLS these grand essentials, and will produce
wonderfully magical results when faithfully
prescribed, No ease of failure has ever been
known. Protect the patient from exposure and
harmful excitement, but stick tenaciously to
the remedy until recovery Is complete.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

vice eXaminations-and the indications
certainly point in this direCtion-it will
take more time and work to establish them
in the popular confidence than any admin
istration can ever give. II will he ineVi-
table that the public service shall suffer,
the quick, strong, praCtical-minded men
who are particularly fitted for such work
are To be excluded from it, because they
do not remember their books we'll enough
to compete with the many slow and narrow
persons who have not developed the talent
nor found the opportunity of bringing their
sO-called knowledge to bear in the transac-
ton of business.
In this case there was no possible reason
for bringing the examiners under the rules
simply because they are paid 81 ,SO0a year
the salary of fourth.class clerks. There
are hundreds of active, efficient and we'll
trained young physicians 10 whom such n
work with its fair pay would be very wei.
| come for few years. They would moi
| only serve the country well; they would
have opportunities for perfecting them
selves in their profession, the improve
ment of which would do something to ad
vance the standard of the medical profcs
sion the country over. Civil service reform
is a very good thing but the country VII
want some assurance after awhile that
genuine article is being dealt out.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
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WOMAN'S ETNMOInGY.

When Eve brought noe TO all mankind
Old Adam called her pO-ndn;
But when she wooed with love so kind.
lie then pronounced her 1r0o-mdR.
But now with folly and with pride,
Their husbands pockets trimming,
The ladies are so full OF GhfBis,
The people call them uhim-D,eH,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

This comes from one whose case Is one among
thousands. Mr.. A. X. Jennings, of BaThaus-
vile, Va, had suffered from dyspepsia, but
cheerfully writes, Browns Iron Bitters can't
be beat in coming up To all that is clai med for
H." Ask any respectable druggist for Browns
Iron bittors. at u dollar bottle,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
Rub the Gums Well

with SOL0DONT when they become spongy or
detached from the necks of the teeth. Let them
bleed freely and so recover tone and health
SOLODOSr Is the best remedial agent tor dis
eased gums and teeth. Try 1t and learn.
aul7lWdeOd&W
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

STATISTICIANS have computed that since
Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson
came in, Republican has been turned out
every six minutes of every working day.
Fast enough, surely!
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

WHEN such a thick-and-thin Republican
journal as the Philadelphia NOTh american
is willing to tell the honest truth about John
Roach, it is high time tor Chairman Cooper
to put stop to his campaign rubbish that
sympathy for John will ALLEVIATE Irish. Ameri-
can votes TO the Republican party The
North american says:
1t is not pleasant to find that attempts are
still being made to arouse something like
public feeling against the action OF the
government in declaring forfeited the con
uaCts for the new steel cruisers at John
Roach's yard. The cry that this is a blow at
the working classes is grOundless and sayOrS
Of demagOgiSm. AS the work is TO be com
pleted by the government, with the same set
of workmen, lit is hard To see where the hard
ship comes in. The new paymastcr is GER
tainly Just as good. As for Roach, a glance
at the published statement of his assets and
Liabilities il sufficient to convince ANYBODY
that he is not an object for coincidence.
New YORK is big town, but it requires a
big purse to be property holder therein.
The tax rate last year was 225 per centum !;
this year it is =. 10 per centum, nearly one per
centum more than that of Lancaster.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

TIE "tarfl ghost has again invaded the
editorial sanctum of the New York 1ribuRc.
1t is proper that it should haunt this grave
yard of buried political hopes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18

If the railroad men think that because
there is no Legislation to enforce the constitu-
tons prohibition of the purchase, lease or
control of parallel railroad lines, let them try
il on,
The Mineral argus., 1885-01-22

"Ie-yes," said Mr.. Bsttledore, win.
ding II nudge from Sam.
well, / never sent il, after ell On.
y this morning I discovered il among
the leaves Of my blotting book. I for.
got to post il. !"
1T II Of NO consequence Of course.
chimesl in Mrs. Newell; "only you will
b the loser, Sam, Nrs. Battledore wrots
10 her husband to bay You . new cigar
case on my behalf, and to have your in.
itials engraved upon IL. Tomorrow.
You know, is your birthday"
Mr.. Battlsdore wss by NO means reas.
sured by these speeches. On the con-
trary, he realized that he was in . worse
fix than ever, since be would now b.
called upon to explain what he meant
by saying he had received the letter. A
sort d sickly feeling came over him %
his wife said:
"By the way. Joseph, you said you
had received the letter, and talked -
though you knew all about il"
And you, Sam. said Mr.. Battledors
had mentioned the subject TO You;
and I was vexed ct the time, - Of
course il Vas secret, T" intsrposed Mrs
Newell.
"Ths fact is," said Sam, coming gal
lantly 10 the rescue, for Mr.. BattledOrs
was q loss 10 find words, as Joe
said 81 me afterwards, We have been Il
cross purposes. We each had Q secret,
and We thought you had discovered
ours. Joe let out that blue was the
color he had chosen. When I tried te
and out how the land lay from my wife,
she nearly made me betray every.
thing by asking questions. However.
! dare say neither Of you guess what il
is"
mo, indeed!" cried both the ladies
considerably mystified by this incohereni
explanation, and ON tiptoe of excite.
ment.
well, here. Maria, he said. produc.
ing bracelet. like conjurer. "Em.
eralds, You see. Don't YOU remember
my saying il was Q sort Of BLUSH. green
or something. Well, Joe's offering, ]
believe, has blue stones -turqoises.
Mr.. Battletlore took the hint, and
handed to his wife the bracelet he had
bought ~ . peace offering. in wardly
at his old friends wonderful
TAFT aud impudence. and begin ming &c
breathe quite freely again. In fact. Il
vas evident that Sans extempors dis.
,ourse. followed up by the bracelets
had satisfactorily explained what wa
mysterious in their recent behavior.
md the secret Of the unhallowed expe-
iition to Paris seems unlikely ever 10 bs
'evealed. London Truth.
The Mineral argus., 1885-01-22
From the Chicago News.

bTou tne uicdgO News.
How can man who earns 81 q day
pay 81 a month rent, clothe, feed and
care for sick wife aud six little chill
dren?
We hate to see q horse pull till he
falls under the whip. What about q
man tugging at such load, year in and
year ont, with no one to lend hand?
But the women-the curse always
falls most heavily upen them.
On the South Side the other tlay q
woman was found on the floor beside
her sewing machine in o fainting fit.
She had been trying to finish Job of
twenty-six clOaks. for the making of
which she was to receive $26-$l Q
cloak. A poor neighbOr helped TO
bring her to and get her upon the bed
and then finished the cloaks for her.
Did the sick woman get her S2t to
pay her and buy food. Tor lack Of which
her strength had given way? Not one
cent OF 1t. The firm refused to nav her
anything because the finishing was not
done by herself. The Lord have mer-
cy upon them!
Said the visitor: II mover saw a bu-
man being NO full Of bitterness a. was
that poor sewing woman" At last she
gave great lurch Of soul to get out Of
the trough Of the sea and save her littlo
craft from gong straight 10 the bottom.
well, she gasped. "0Od lives, and
He IL just-and He caTes-even for me-"