Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
lit is expected that the Grant family will
remain at McGregor until October l.

C-lt is expected that the Grant family will
remain at McGregor until October l.
The Tailors' National Union of the
United States is In session in Baltimore.
The Executive Mansion in Washington
now presents deserted appearance and dis
plays a sign on one of the entrance doors
with the word, ''Closed,' in black letters.
The Montreal Board of Health declares
that small pox is now epidemic there. The
city hospital contains thirty-six patients
and is crowded. A new wing is being built
which will hold fifty more.
Chief Bushy Head, of the Cherokee
Nation, issued proclamation to his people
soon after General Grants death, calling
him the red mans friend, giving hun credit
for inaugurating the Indian peace policy,
and recommending that his people observe
the day of his funeral with appropriate re-
lgious ceremonies. A copy of the procla-
nation, printed on mourning paper, has
been received at the Interior Department.
"A seizure of Peoria whiskey was made
yesterday in Philadelphia. There were fifty
packages, composed of funny" barrels, and
to just what extent the fraud has been prac-
ticed cannot be told, but the scheme is re-
garded as one of the most gigantic swindles
that has ever been perpetrated upon the
Government, 1t is said the entire country
has been flooded with crooked barrels. They
are so constructed that gauger's rods and
callipers do not give the true register of the
contents of the package. When the liquor
has been poured out into buckets, it has been
found to measure greater quantity than
the gauger's rods showed. This led to in
vestigation and seizure.
The Pacific Mail Company refuses to
carry the Central American mails without
49, ha lint ftnrn tir,ot
American steamship lines which were very
glad to take these Central American mails,
and they make twelve sailings month for
Central American ports. The result is that
the mails for Central America are now sent
by way of New Orleans, and reach ports of
delivery in about the same time. At any
rate, the time is no longer, while the delivery
is more frequent. The same is true of the
Mexican mail-that part of it which goes by
sea. But good deal of the Mexican mail
is now sent by railroad. Those who have /
correspondence with Central America ought /.
not to be displeased with this.
AT Belmont Park, Philadelphia, yester-
day, 5000 persons witnessed the match trot- |
ting race between j. L. Cases brown stallion /
Phallas and w. G. Francis's bay gelding .
Harry Wilkes, for a special purse of 81 600, /
of which 81 900 went to the second horse,
best three in five heats. Phallas was driven .
ny DibneI, Wnlle FRANK van Ness Helu tne !
reins over Wilkes. The track was in perfect |
order. The betting was brisk, Phallas ruling
a big favorite before the start at 100 to %,
and the same odds on the stallion were
forthcoming III any amount even after the
first heat had fallen to Wilkes. The race
was eventually won by Wilkes, who took
first, second and fourth heats, Phallas win
ming the third heat Wilkes breaking so
badly in the first 100 yards that he lost all
chance. Time, first heat, PIG; second, 2:20:
third 2:21119; fourth, 2;1S%.