Tombstone epitaph., 1893-08-13
BY WIRE.

yesterday and Saturday aggregate million and hali, making five mil lions on the way to this country. Armour & Co. have bought $500. 900 gold in Europe for immediate impor- ta,ian. IL ia said to be the first pur- chase of the kind by a purely com mercial house. The company con templates further purchases. The move is said to be in the interest of relieving the financial stringency.
 The free coinage men of the house held caucus yesterday and adopted the following resolutions:
 Resolved, That we will support the bill repeating the purchasing clause of the sherman act and concurrently providing for the free and untrammel- sd coinage of silver, and that we will give full legal tender a quality of such ratio as will provide and maintain the parity between gold and silver. Be it further
 Resolved, that a committee of seven be appointed by the chairman of this conference to draft and introduce such a biil and take proper steps to secure a free and full discussion and consideration and vote upon the bill and all proper amendments.
 The. London press comments on, ,the presidents message are of the same tenor:
 The Post says: America cannot well stop at the mere repeal 0! the sherman act. The president throws no suggestion but says some action is certainly necessary.
 EThe Daily Telegraph says: Tester days proceedings in the United States congress and in the house of fcommons ought to read side by side. President Cleveland's striking picture oi the evil wrought by free silver in the United States constitutes and effects answer to MT. Chaplin's economic fallacies.
 The Times comments on the message and says it would be difficult to con- yict NIT. Cleveland of exaggeration in the face of the daily returns of Amer ican prices and exchanges.
 The gold in the treasury is $, ,l5l ,354 above the slOO, 100000 mark.
 Neal, free coinage Democrat, was nominated for governor of Ohio yester- day.
 Cholera is raging in Russia and is spreading to other European coun- tries. Two or three cases have reached New York.
 The tendency of silver, according to London advices received at the treas ury is upward" Yesterday morning it was quoted In London at $0.756 per ounce. The price paid by the treasury Monday was S0.726. This advance is accounted for largely by the heavy demand for silver in China to move the tea crop.
 The offer of gold to the treasury yesterday was 357 900 ounces at S0.7515. The same price was rendered for the remainde-. The price paid is an advance Of 4I cents over the price paid August ?, and } 1l-20 cents above the amount paid tor silver Monday. The purchases thus far this month aggregate s5I 900 ounces.
 The sum Of s495,0O ID gold was withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday for shipment to the United States. The Bank of England is charging premium on eagles and is holding bar gold at higher rates. The sum of es30.000 was shipped yester- day for New York on the North Ger man Lloyd steamer Laha Ind the White Star liner Britannic.
 A new phase of the silver question was presented yesterday in the shape of an apparently authorized proposi- ton from London bankers, backed by the English goternment, to leading New York financiers. in which it was ; asserted that if the United States would maintain the present Sherman law on the statute books England would renew free coinage of silver Tn India at the increased ratio of "A to l
 The silver and anti-silver men held conference yesterday to decide as to