Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-04-24

| - 2-A A4 3A - A G4 A 4 4x | WASHINGTON, April 16.-To day wa the anIve=sary of the emancipation o the slaves m the District of Cclumbia and the event was celebrated in a some what unusual manner. The oolored peo pie disagreed among themselves as tC how the celebration should be conduct ed and as a result divided into two fac tions, each party made elaborate ar engagements for parade and public meeting at night and each endeavoreC to excel the display of the other. Party feeling ran high and 1t was feared thaI trouble would ensue in case the two pro sessions should come together. In view of the lack of harmony between the two parties the president positively refused to revisw either procession. Both pass ed m front of the White House, but mounted policemen guarded the gates and prevented them from entering the grounds. 4 strong effort was made tC reconcIlet the differences between tho two factions and have them unite in onG demonstration SO as to secure the honol of the President s recognition, but with, out success.
 PARIS, April 16.-The development of cholera at Brindisi has caused alarm in France, particularly along the Italian frontier. Precautions of a most strin- gent kind are being instituted to pre- vent the scourge from entering France.
 LONDON. April 16.-Mr. Gladstone has arranged to leave London tomorrow and go to his country seat at Hawsr. den where he expects to remain two weeks.
 NEW YORK, April I6.-Third Aven- ue at an early hour this morning was filled with police to prevent interference on the part of the strikers if the com psny should proceed to run the cars. Policemen are held in reserve at head, quarters and at the police stations along the line of the road. The strikers this afternoon issued q card to the public m which they say that the company has not kept faith with them and violating its promises tO work men only twelve hours by keeping the cable road men on duty twelve hours and half, and by paying trippers only Sl per day instead of Sl D as agreed. The company also refused to raise the pay of the line talk CTS from SIPS .O Sl.6j. It also charges the company with a heGrtless disregard of the condition of their employees The company to-day ran six cars mak- ing in ali thirteen trips. The leader of the strikers sent a message to the raIl- way commission at Albany asking its members to come at once to this city. 4 reply was received stating that the board would accord a hearing at 10 o'clock to morrow. The strikers say they expect the commissioners will in- sist on the running of the cars at once or declare the company's charter forfeit ed, And if the charter is forfeited we shall apply for H." said one of the com lnittee. Thus the matter is In abeyance until tomorrow. The company will run cars again tomorrow.
 WAsHINGToN. April l6-It is said that several important changes are about tO be made by the President. The report is that Post master General Villas Is to resign and that he will be sent as min ister to Austria, and that First Assistant Stevenson is to be mnde postmaster general, and John Jameson, superin- terdent of the railroad mail service, IS to be succeeded by New York man. v is also said that Rogers, of Buffalo, is to be made public printer on May lst, and that about the same time General c. w. Blair of Kansas, is Co succeed Land Commissioner Sparks.
 CHICAGO. April l6-All the union switchmen of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad went on q strike this afternoon. The difficulty grows out of the fact that the swi.chmen's union has demanded the discharge of few non-union "scebs and the refusal of the company to com ply with the request The local agents of the company say their objectionable men were taken into the employ Of the company at the time of the last strike and have been faithful workers and they thought the company would now staad by them. Between fifty and sixty men of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy swItchmen went out this after noon for the same reason. The Lake Shore svItchmen threaten to go out to- morrow.
 SAN FRANCIsCo. April 16-The Bull letin's New York specIEl states: O. F. Huntington sGys the tTanscOntiDental troubles are not settled yet. There was no agreement yesterday about the matter. He also says there is no truth in the report that certain of the Pacific Mail is being bought by Transcon- tinental interests. Charles F. Crocker Of San Francisco, writes to vice president Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific system that the cutting of trsDscoD- tinental rates was immense benefit to the company and the Pacific coast. He says he is ordering additional rolling stock and if he could get 1000 box cars immediately he could use them until far into the winter. Huntington said 1t was the intention of all the roads to le. the trouble cure itself. This meant that war will be kept up some time longer. He had received no new propositions of settlement from other lines and he dld not intend on his part to make any. General feeling of indifference as 10 the time of final settlement exists among several msnSgements.
 LONDON, April I6-GladstoDe pro pounded his Irish land bill to the house Of commons thIs evening. There was hardly any excitement attending the event. At 2 o'clock the house was crowded to its utmost capacity. Glad stone rose in his place at 5:3O and was greeted with cheers when he began to speak. He said the aim of the present endeavors of the government was direct ed toward securing contentment for the people of Ireland and Q permanent res torstion of social order. The land act was intended to go into effect on the same dsy on which the home rule bull would become operative. IL could not go on without the option oi the other which would provide a legislature ID Ireland Co appoint statutory authority tO deal with the landed estates and set between yender and purchaser. Fur chases would be made through the issue of GlS0OO0,OO0 of three per cent stock, Issued at par. These new Irish consols might, with the consent of the treasury, be commuted for the stock of lower de- nomination, if the stock could be issued forthwith, scrip of equal value would be issGed for the same purpose. The net was to give the landlords the option to sell out under its regulations. Its laws were confined to agricultural holdings and did not include mansions having demense and woods. The state author. ities acting between peasant and lsnd owner would purchase land from the lat ter and put the peasant in possession as l ahcofr,sa pr,prsasor c, biaek tO nnQu-