Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-29
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
usiness failures in the United States

Business failures in the United States
and Canada last week numbered 1874, against
1S3 the previous week. Failures in the East
ern, Southern, and Middle States are light, and
about half the casualties are reported from the
West and the Pacific coast Bradstreefs re-
ports very general continuance in the season
ably active distribution Of merchandise,
with some exceptions At most OF
the larger distributing points fair
reassortment trade is reported, but q de-
cline is noted at New Orleans, Dallas,
Burlington, Iowa, and Kansas City, with no
signs of early activity in merchandise lines at
Pittsburgh. In the Southwest and West the
drought is largely responsible for the check to
business, and at towns in portion of the re-
gion indicated mercantile collections have
become less prompt At others, notably
Omaha, retail dealers stocks are known
to have been very much reduced while
awaiting the results of harvesting, and
wholesale dealers anticipate an active trade
in the early autumn. At st Louis merchants
report that rains have checked the drought
with more freedom at seaboard points and at
Chicago Prices are steady and 30 near the
importing point that an advance may induce
imports of foreign. The movement of cotton
goods continues fair; some makes are ex-
hausted, and prices are higher, notably in
print cloths.
The public execution OF Joseph
Jump drew to Gallatin, Mo-, a crowd estimat-
ed at 20, 600 persons, most Of them women and
children. The hangman at Fort Smith, Ark,
swung off white men and negro for muir
ders committed in the Indian Territory.
Foote'S Minstrel Carnival Concert
Company, which enjoys the reputation of be-
ing the best burnt cork opera combination in
the country, opens season at Mcvickers
among others Schoolcraft and Goes, Hugh
Dougherty, Sam Devere, William Arlington,
WEIGH and Rice, Howe and Doyle, Seamon and
Girard, Fox and Van Auken, Duncan, the ven
triloquist aud Thomas Dixon. The orchestra
comprises thirty instruments, and the chorus
numbers sixty voices
Mr.. HoARs resolution for an investigation Of
the election Of Mr.. Payne was defeated in the
Sepete- on July %. the vote standing yeas IL,
Hawley Conn., argued in favor of an investiga-
ton. He said the demand for it was not a mat
great cutlery from an oUJrugeu PUOffsfs.
were any truth whatever in these declarations
from the Legislature and from the Demo
cratic papers. He certainly could not SEQ
how, in justice and dealing with the
question ON broad considerations, the Senate
could refuse TO order an investigation. Senator
Evarts New York. closed the debate in an argu-
ment against further investigation. IL was not
to be doubted, he said, that the Senate was
nf ha nnaatiOn Oragpntpd. and WAS I'M
der no law restraint except that imposed Dy
the Constitution. But by the same reasons, the
scope and boundary OF the Senates mastery anu
duty were limited and fixed by the same firm
instructions of the Constitution. The Senate
had no power and no right to investigate the
conduct OF ono political party ut the request OF
another It had no power to investigate the dis
cords of a party Mt the request or invitation OF
faction OF that party. 1t had no power to meas
ure to estimate, any right or wrong that did not
touch the extent and authority and scope and re-
suit that was measured to IL by the Constltu-
tion While the Senate, continued Senator Ev.
arts, should have great Difference Tor great
State of 100000 of people, no constitutional
distinction could be drawn between such a
State and one the size of Rhode Island OF
Delaware. He then quoted senator Payne
letter to the Chairman OF the Ohio Legislative
Committee, inviting and challenging the
most thorough and rigid scrutiny and offer
ing for inspection his private correspond
Cowgills reply that IL there was any testi-
mony tending to inculpate him iPayne) III
any degree with any questionable transac,
tion his request would DO acceded to. Could
any person, he asked, require n more early,
a more prompt n more universal proposition
from the Senator? The fact that the
Ohio Legislative Committee did not call on
Mr.. Payne was proof that it did not consider
there was anything before 1t which re-
quired his examination. IL was clear
that from one end of Ohio to the other, In
all the agitation OF the subject, no imputa
ton had touched the Senator He was right
ths,l, in saying that the Senate must discard
that view Of the matter from its consideration
The oleomargarine bill, as amended by the
Senate, passed the House OF Representatives by
ia yeas TO 65 nays.