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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

MADRID, Oct. 11.-Miss A. Middleton
Brown, a native of Chicago, and aged s6
years. committed suicide yesterday by
saooting. 1t is supposed that she was
deserted by young Portuguese noble
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

MONTREAL, Oct. H. Sir John ]. C. Alb,
bott, expremier of Canada, lies very i'll at
his residence in this city, and it is expected
that his life hangs by mere thread The
ex premier has been in delicate health for
some time, but the exact nature of his
present illness is kept profound secret.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.-Among the NOM
..fations sent to the senate by the presi-
dent is the name OF J. d. Hall, of Connec-
ticut, to be consul of the United States at
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, Oct 11.-Miss Eta
Gum and Josephine Dresser were struck
by Wabash train. Miss Gum WIS killed
instantly and Miss Dresser was injured So
that she cannot live.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE University
of Pennsylvania football eleven defeated
the Georgetown college team in an excit-
ing and we'll played game yesterday by q
score of 2to0.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

CHICAGO, Oct li.-Henry De Wolf, treas
urer Of the Illinois Central Railway com
pany, died suddenly in his Office, in the
Park Row station. of heart failure.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

VIENNA, Oct. 10.-Three anarchist work.
tngmen living in Zabedoy wero arrested
for trying TO blow up railway train near
Bidschow, Bohemia.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

WASHINGTON, Oct. III. Willis Menard,
the first colored man to run for congress,
has jsst died in this city, aged about 81
years
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

CHICAGO, Oct. 1l-Ex President Benja-
min Harrison arrived in the city last
evening to attend the national meeting of
The Loyal Legion.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11

N"s Sas'er Lntt nut sihtoeh boiihrs.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 1l.-Exnerts yesterday
opened the safe of the BanA OF Hunting
don, and instead of finding pile of money
and securities just SIC was there. Nothing
has been heard of Cashier Trusloy.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28

science has been sufficiently debauched
to witness without any very violent pro-
test the presence of toughs and keepers
OF dives in theaBoard of Aldermen and
IN the legislature, but no party has dared
before this year to offer for the bench any
thing but clean candidates. But embold-
ened by its success IN foisting men after
Its own heart on to aldermanic boards
and into the legislature, Tam
many is now essaying to put one
of that character upon the bench
of the highest court of the State.
Having captured the executive of the
State and made itself almost Supreme in
the Legislature, it is now reaching out
for the judiciary. 1t is today colonizing
toughs from neighboring cities in saloons,
drilling repeaters and in other unlawful
ways preparing to seat Maynard. The
first step is always the hardest. If it
succeeds in getting Maynard on the bench
to get a second one like him there will
be much easier, because the public will
have got used to the spectacle of
tainted judiciary. 1t is not too much
to say that if Tammany succeeds in
electlng Maynard the people of New York
may as well make up their minds to
surrender their courts to that corrupt
gang. The question before the voters of
New York today is therefore whether
the judiciary shall be kept free from
tainted men or whether it shall
go, along with their legislature and
the governmental boards of their
great cities, into the hands of the
most corrupt and unscrupulous political
gang in this country. All has been lost
already but the judiciary, and that is in
danger No wonder, then, that the de-
cent people of New York are aroused.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

= The present United States consul al
Annoy, China, is full-blooded Chinese.
In his official capacity he has power to
try Americans there resident.for breaches
of the United States law to which alone
they are subject. His name is Lun g
Chun, he was educated in France and
at Yale, and has served as interpreter at
the consulate. The consul and vice
being the ranking official.
H.Schneider, of Nicaragua, an exporter
OF mahogany, who is now in New Or
leans, says that the chief market for the
wood is in France The. high price is
due to the fact that the mahogany tree
grows in swamps where work is difficult
and dangerous, that nothing can be
done during the rainy season of six
months, that none but natives are availa-
BILE for it, and that they can live with
out work, and are therefore hard to get
and hard to hold.
Edward Wheary, deaf mute charged
with murder, will soon be tired at St.
John, M. Four juries will be called,
the first to find whether he is deaf or
felgning deafness, the second to decide
whether he is capable Of pleading to the
Indictment the third to decide on his
sanity, and the fourth to try him for his
life. In the last instance the trial will be
like any other except that all the evil
dence must be translated to him.
Lord Elgin, who has just been appoint
ed viceroy of India, will receive salary
OF $500, GOO a year. He is one of the few
men who have held this office to whom
the salary is important THE former
lncumbe of the office were so rich
that they refused either salary or allow
ance from the national treasury
The George B. Mcclellan Memorial AS
ISOLATION of Philadelphia, the members
of which have since the death of Gen.
Mcclellan in 1885 been engaged in an
effort to perpetuate his memory by the
erection of an equestrian statue in bronze
at the northwest corner of the public
buildings in that city, has at last reached
point when the success of its undertake
ing is almost assured. Only So, 500 is
needed to clear the association of indebt-
edness, and, as Gov. Pattison, it is said,
has promised to call a public meeting, it
is likely that enough money will be
raised to complete the fund.
Of the late Lucy Stone, William Lloyd
Garrison wrote from Oberlin, Ohio, to
his wife August 2s, 1s47: Among others
with whom I have become acquainted
is Miss Lucy Stone, who has just gradu-
ated, and yesterday left for her home in
Brookfeld, Mass. She is very superior
young woman, and has soul as free
as the air, and is preparing to go forth
as a lecturer. particularly in vindication
of the rights of women. Her course here
has been very firm and independent, and
she has caused no small uneasiness to
the spirit of sectarianism in the institu-
ton,
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28
A CRIMINAL FOR JUDGE.

The people of New York were treated to
spectacle on Thursday night which
has very seldom, if ever, had it's coun-
terpart in this Countrywide assemblage
of the most distinguished lawyers of the
State and of the land to protest against
candidate nominated for high judicial
office by "a great political party on the
ground that he was untitled for the Office
for which he was a candidate by reason
of the commission of crime. The men
who gave voice to the protest were not
members of the opposite party to which
Maynard belonged, but to the same one.
They were all Of them Democrats, and
most distinguished Democrats, too.
Among them were the Hon. F. r. Cou-
dert and the Hon. James G. Carter, who
represented this country before the Beh-
ring Sea tribunal, Hon. Seth Low, Presi-
dent of Columbia College and former
mayor of Brooklyn, and Wheeler H. Peck
ham. The arraignment which those men
made of Maynard was not vague or in
definite. They accused Maynard, in terms,
of stealing, they denounced him as a
thief and proclaimed his unfitness for
the position for which he had been nomi-
mated. Lawyers are the most conservative
OF people. Of all men they are slowest to
denounce member of the judiciary, or a
man who may become a member, for
the obvious reason that such denuncia-
ton is likely to prejudice him against
them, and therefore injuriously affect
their cases. When, therefore, the great
majority of the lawyers of New York city
stand forth in public place and in the
presence OF thousands of their fellow
citizens, denounce candidate for Judge
nominated by party which generally
succeeds in electing it's nominees, it is
evident that an emergency has arisen of
o most extraordinary kind.
A criminal holding Office in New York
is not an uncommon sight. A consider
able per cent. of the rulers of New York
city have at some time during their
careers been indicted for crime. Some of
the men who go to Albany each year to
make laws are well known toughs and
proprietors of low saloons and brothels.
But this is the first time that any politi-
cal party has deliberately attempted to
place upon the bench of the highest court
OF the State man who had been pro-
nounced by SO distinguished a body of
men as the New York bar association
after a full Investigation Of the facts
guilty of crime. There have been dis
reputable judges on the New York bench.
but their character was not known when
they were put there. But the attempt
to put Maynard there is made in the
face of the knowledge of his criminality.
Herctoforessth the leaders of all the parties
have agreed that the character of the
men VIII are to constitute the judiciary
LIQUID be unsullied. The public con-
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28


final day when the sea shall give up its
dead"
Such tragedy had never before been
known in the nations history. Nothing
was left of the lovely isle but few brok-
en- brick pillars to mark where life and
beauty had died SO awful death. For
weeks patrol boats along the mainland
shore found nothing but ..dead bodies.
In one instance the corpse of q woman
was identified by nearly $50, 900 worth of
diamonds she had worn that fateful
night. The only two survivors were a
powerful negress, who blindly caught on
to door floating by that was carried to
the mainland The other was tiny
girl baby not more than IS months old.
She had been placed upon billiard
table, which fioated, and therershe was
found on the Lafourche..shore 4S hours
after the storm. Nearly every household
IN southern Louisiana was in mourning,
for $50 adults. besides children, were
lost.-From Corr. N Y. Times.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28

Senator Hills bright man and gen.
orally makes all there is out of poor
case. But when he undertook to dis
credit the attack on Mayard by ascribing
it to dudes and briefless barristers he
made himself a laughing stock. Freder-
lex r. Coudert, James G. Carter and
Wheeler III. Peckham are not briefless
barristers, but among the foremost
lawyers in the country. And they are
all Democrats too.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28
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The cause of-woman's suffrage seems to
be getting good many hard blows from
the courts. The other day the Michigan
supreme court held the woman's suffrage
law of that State unconstitutional, and
now New York judge has knocked out
the municipal suffrage law of that State.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28

We suppose the silver senators are talk
ing now because they think they have
something to say that is worth saying.
But the country would (. be. very much
obliged to them if they would stop talk
ing and get leave to print anything they
have on their minds which they regard
as important.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2S.

1t appears that the credit of knocking
out the silver compromise which the
Democrats had agreed upon belongs to
Senator Sherman. He convinced the
President and Secretary Carlisle of the
dangerous character of the measure.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28

Lot Beaver Jackets Double
Breasted close fitting front.
Cuffs, Collars and Cape edged
white Fur. A Bargain at
$9.98
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-28

A Finer Quality Beaver Jack
cts, 81 inch long DOuableBreasted
front, COlOrs Black and Navy
Blue, very Stylish
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-04
MOBETARY COMMISSION.
Report Of the United States Monetary
Commission, Appointed by AIT Of Con-
grea0 August Is, 1879.
NO. XVII.

10Etb Europe and OOitb OTHER parts OF tho
lOOrId compared.
1t is often said that we should con-
form our money standard to that Of the
commercial nations-that is to say, Of
England and western Europe rather
than to that Of Asia, Africa, and Central
and South America; and that we should
have the gold standard because England
and Germany have it, and because the
same standard will, it is predicted, be
adopted by the other nations Of western
Europe.
This suggestion involves two ideas,
both erroneous; first, that trade with
commercial nations is specially advanta-
geous and more worthy Of cultivation
than trade with non-commercial nations;
and, second, that trade between COM
mercisl nations is facilitated by uniform
ity in their money standards.
The traditional ideas of mankind have
certainly always been that it is the
greater or less degree Of commerce with
the eeast which determines the commercial
position Of nations. It is familiar and
general belief that it was the control Of
the trade Of the Orient which aggran-
died Tyre and Alexandria in ancient
times, the italian cities of the middle
ages, and, after change of the route to
the east by the doubling of the Cape Of
Good Hope, first Portugal, then Holland,
and finally, and to the present days,
England.
1t was in pursuit Of the prize OF the
oriental trade, to be reached by new
route to the Indies, that Columbus dis
covered America, which he did not seek.
It was the control of the oldest route to
the Indies that fred the ambition Of
Napoleon and suggested his Egyptian
campaign. 1t is because England knows
that it's commercial supremacy depends
upon Asistic trade and upon keeping
open the road to India, that it made the
sudden purchase, a few months ago, Of
an interest in the Suez canal, at cost OF
S20,O00,000. The danger that the threat
ened war between Russia and Turkey
will not be confined to those two coun-
tries, is the certainty that England will
defend Its connections with Asia against
all comers, and especially against any
territorial advance of Russia which may
menace them. When that vital point is
assailed, England will bristle with war,
to be waged with all it's forces by land
and by sea, with or without allies, tooth
and nail, to the last man and to the last
pound sterling.
Being in the same general climate, on
the same plane Of civilization, and with
q near equality in the perfection OF the
industrial arts, the western nations OF
Europe seem to be naturally our COM
mercial rivals rather than our customers.
And this is so, with the large exception
which arises from our ability to supply
certain raw products and agricultural
staples.
Describing our situation summarily, it
it may be said that our commercial inter
course with western Europe consists Of
two parts:
First, the export Of articles indiSpen-
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-04

Whlcn c0nuuCS 70 6nlS unHCEmlby Oh QS'
sire are very diverse, as also are the
modes proposed to accomplish the object
sought. Some propose protective tariffs
and high duties as the best means. 9th
ers maintain that the better il not the
only way to keep out European manu-
facturers is by the production in this
country of superior articles at lower
prices, and that this is only possible with
free trade or simply revenue tariff and
cheap raw material. But by whatever
way it may be reached, a diminution,
tending always to an extinction Of inn
ports from Europe, is universally desired
in this country.
It is in trade with other parts Of the
world, in less advanced stages Of civili-
zation, or with essentially different sys-
tens Of civilization, or with essentially
different raw products resulting from
marked diversity Of climates that we
find the natural outlets for our manu-
Ractursg, and in many cases the oppor-
tunity for q mutually advantageous
exchange Of native productions. It is
not perceived that that trade can become
too large. All interests and opinions
favor its expansion, and, unlike the trade
with western Europe, it's existence and
extent depend upon the wisdom and
vigor Of our efforts tosecure and increase
it. Our trade with England would be
but little affected if we should be en-
tirely passive in relation to it. With
China, on the other hand, we have nc
trade which we do not actively seek
Commercial nations will seek after ouI
trade. We must ourselves seek after
trade with the non commercial nations
It is by no means clear that trade be
tween nations is either increased oI
facilitated by q concurrence in theil
standards Of money. But evenif it were
so, the double standard would meet al
requirements better than the single
standard. It would tend to keep CON
stantly available q sufficient stock ol
both metals for the trade Of either gold
or silver standard countries.
However it may be in respect to trade
with non.commerciRl countries, it haE
never been shown that diverSities ol
money, however arising, whether from
single sta ldards Of q different metal, OIL
from systems of irredeemabls paper cur
rency, are any hindrance to trade be-
tween commercial coun Whatever
the moneys Of such countries may be,
they are always interconvertible at known
and not widely variant rates. There is
no property on sale in London for which
the holder would refuse payment in sill
YER or in greenbacks at the current rates
Of exchange; and there is no property on
sale in New York for which the holder
would refuse payment in Bank Of Eng
land notes at the current rates Of ex-
change. Greenbacks are not a legal
tender in London. Silver is not tender
there. Neither are American gold eagles,
and both greenbacks and silver are as
readily convertible into sterling money as
gold eagles are. The irredeemable pa
Nor ourrancv axistinO in this country
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-01-04


but the large trade Of both with Eng
land, having a single gold standard, was
carried on during those periods with
undiminished facility.
The long and still continuing differ
ence Of currency between England and
its greatest dependency, India, is
striking illustration OF the fact that trade
between distinct peoples "a not obstructed
by the difference in their money
standards. Both are parts Of one em-
pire, and the coinaGeS Of both are i'm
pressed with the head Of the same ruler,
but the British sovereign is not a good
tender for debt in Calcutta, nor is the
Indian rupee a good tender for debt in
London. Cases are said to have occurred
of such extreme financial pressure in
both those cities that loans Of money,
that is to say, silver, have been refused
at Calcutta on q pledge Of sovereigns,
and that loans Of money, that is to say,
gold, have been refused in London on q
pledge Of rupees. No difficulty has ever
arisen in the immense trade between
Great Britain and India from this differ
ence Of currencies, although this is
doubtless due in part to the exceptional
circumstances which have gwen to Eng
land a large and constant supply Of sill
yer, Notwithstanding that it's standard
money is gold.
A fact, less striking in some aspects,
but more so in others, is The difference
in the actual currencies Of the Atlantic
and Pacihc states of this union. The
difference Is not made by law, but is q
matter Of choice on the part Of the peo-
pie Of the Pacific slope. They judge that
it has advantages for them, and both
they and the people on the Atlantic per-
ceiVe that it is not in the least degree
obstructive to their mutual intercourse.
There is no more difficulty in translating
the greenbsck prices Of New York into
the gold prices Of San Francisco, than
there is in translating pounds avoir-
dupois into French Kilograms.
A distinguished writer, j. E. Cairnes,
professor in the University college Of
London, IN q recent work 1874) on DO
litical economy, says:
ut appears to me that the influence
attributed by many able writers in the
United States to the depreciation Of the
paper currency, as regards it's effects on
the foreign trade Of the country, is, in
great degree, purely imaginary. An ad-
vance in the scale Of prices, measured in
gold, in a country, il not shared by other
countries, will at once affect it's foreign
trade, giving an impulse to importations
and checking the expectation Of all COM
modities other than gold. A similar
effect is very generally attributed by
American writer's TO the action on prices
Of the greenback inconvertibls currency.
But it may easily be shown that this ia
a complete illusion. Foreigners do not
send their products 10 the United States
to take back greenbaclrs in exchange.
The return which they look for is either
gold or the commodities Of the country;
and il these have risen In price in pro-