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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-17

yesterday appointed quartermaster of the Second regiment, With the rank of first lieutenant, by Colonel h. F. Bur pee of Waterbury cOmmandant of the regiment, MT. Dillon is a member of a prominent Irish family in this city and a shoe merchant of the Hanan- Dillon Shoe company. He succeeded Lieutenant Colonel Elliot of Middle town.
 Articles of corporation have been filed by the Magnetic Manufacturing com pany of this city, ..
 The girls of St. Mary's Sunday school earned the barrel of candy for selling the most tickets for the parish fair. The candy was distributed to them on Saturday, but some friends of the boys, not to have their efforts unrecognized, will have a barrel distributed to them on Friday afternoon at the church school rooms.
 The cost of the Consolidated road improvements at Norwalk is $500,000 all of which will be paid by the com- pany.
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OF LOCAL INTEREST.


 Hon. N. D. sperry will come home 10 spend the holiday recess of con- gress
 Kohn & AaI yesterday sold for about s27,0 the tract of land and six houses at the corner of Lafayette and Prince streets to Sampel Lapidee and Annie Barman. The land embraces 13S feet on Lafayette street and g feet on Prince street. At the corner the new owners are soon to build several stores.
 John I. Hutchinson, ex-colleotor of in- ternal revenue, was in town yesterday.
 The Social Twenty, the well known organization of WestvilIe, have arrang- cd for another in the series of dances. It will take place in Masonic hall, West vile, tonight.
 John Maher of S05 Grand avenue. who was seriously injured by falling from a street car in Grand avenue a week ago, was better yesterday, and probably will recover.
 State Attorney DoolittIe did not ten der his resignation to the judges of the supreme court in session here yester- day. as a report from Hartford stated he intended to do. The full bench of the supreme court was in session.
 Benjamin J. Dillon of this city was
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taken as certain that some bill of the kind will now pass; that We have all oyerestlmated the French dislike to a reduction of inhentances; and that the Jealousy of the rich oVercomes the ap- prehensiou about children's pecunlary future. For the bill is levelled directly at the rich. The lowest death duties, those paid by lneal descendants, which for sums under f4OO pounds are only 1A per cent, and for sums under E4000 only 1% per cent, rise for all sums above fS0,000 to per cent-a years income, which among an unaceustomed people will be severely felt, This Is the lowest scale, but when q husband or wife inherits, the rates for fortunes above fS0,0OO will be 9 per cent; when d brother or sister, IA per cent; when an uncle or nephew, 16 per cent; and when more distant relations or strangers in blood, 20 per eent--two-tenths of the entire property. The last is a ruinous rate and will partly defeat itself, as nobody, upon those terms, will leave money to strangers, or even to the great charities or ecclesiastical estab-
 
 deprived of one great resource. Prop erty in France, it must be remembered, cannot be left away, as regards it's greater portion, when kin exist, and the indraught of the statute as regards all heirs but children will be very consld- erable. The grand injustice of Sir William Harcourt's scheme, the de- mand from the legatee of even HOO of a percentage not proportioned to his i'm heritance, but proportioned to the to- tai property of the deceased, is. indeed, avoided. for it would have Struck the logical Frenchman as direct robbery; but on the other hand, widows and wid- overs are treated as if they were twice as far removed from their husbands or wives as they are from their children.
 The details of the scheme however are of little importance Its seriousness consists in the fact that the majority of Frenchmen have accepted a progress i've death duty, rising as maximum to one-ffth of the toal property of the rich Such an example is certain to be adopted by the liberal party through out Europe, and therefore by all gov ernments in financial straits. It does not matter what We English may doin our insular eccentricity, for we are people to be avoided, not copied but French ideas catch on. We fully expect to see every liberal party on the Con- tinent add the progressive death duty to its program--thus by the way catch ing part of the socialist vote-and we have no confidence whatever that gov ernnents will resist They have nrass.
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Eirsamc,aI
Railways, for the First Time in Weeks,
 Figured Prominently.

Railways, for the First Time in Weeks,
 Figured Prominently.
 New York, Dec. 16.-Stocks were ac- tive to-day, and business was better distributed than of late, the railways for the flrst time in weeks figuring prominently in the dealings. Manhat- tan was the special card, rising from lc2M to 107 on extensive coverings of short contracts All the old rumors about the property were revived, it be- inG stated that the company will re- ceive important concessions from the city; that bids had been made for a controlling interest by parties friendly to traction interests and that leading capitalists had bought back their stock. Nothing of a definite character | developed except that long outstand- ing short interest had taken fright and covered up,
 The spurt of activity in Manhattan affected the bears in other railway is- sues. and there was a general covering movement all along the line. In the rise which followed the grangers, an thracita coalens and the Vanderbiltfs were most conspicuous and improved from F to per cent.
 The long delayed Reading plan was given out after 3 o'clock. The assess ment on the stock and bonds and the manner of distributing the new stock have already been printed. It provides for voting trust for five years and thereafter until the new first preferred stock shall receive 4 per cent. cash div | idends for two consecutive years Fixed charges under the new plan aggregate | $9,S17, 173 against $10,035075 at present. The heindustrials were feverish through out, owing to salets to realize profits. Leather preferred and Tobacco were in- clined to weakness and sold down to l 673s to 7S1s respectively, Chicago Gas rose to 71as and receded to 70M@& Sugar was weaker and oa moderate trading receded to 1oSh@M.
 In the closing dealings Manhattan which had run off from 107 to 106A returned to 107 and the whole market left off firm. Net changes show ad- vances Of A to 5 per cent, Manhattan leading. Sugar lost 4, Leather pre- ferred 7s and Tobacco 21s per cent In the inactive issues Bay State Gas rose 21s to 251a and Erie Telephone 21s to 641s.
 Bonds were inactive and strong Sales footed up $1, 964, 900.
 Following are the closing pricesare ported by Prince & Whitely, bankers and brokers, 46 Broadway, New York l and 15 Center street, New Haven:
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He Tadpole in scienca.

At the close of the last century Gal
 vani astonished the world with the ex- periments he performed on frogs. There is no doubt but what his work, as far as the development of engineering was concerned, almost retarded the pro-
 gress, at least for very short time;
 buthehas opened field which to future generations may be of as much, pos
 sibly of more importance than all the
 practical applications of electricity to- day. We refer to the physiological eff
 fleets of the electric currents.
 Now, as we approach the end of an- other century, another experiment on Etadpoles has been made, which in our
 minds eye may have tremendous con- sequences. Dr. Waller has observed that tadpoles face the positive pole
 when an electric current is sent
 through the trough in which they live. This is certainly q remarkable fact, and we hope sincerely that this matter may not be taken up as matter of ridiieuleor of play, for there may be hid- den in this simple experimental fact a
 vast deal of knowledge not that we want to prophecy, but on the face of it lit does not seem impossible that this simple fact should be the commences ment of a knowledge of electro-p -physiol- Eogy. which in a hundred years from now, might in perfection fpe second tc none of our descriptive sciences. Max Osterburg in Electric Power.
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Football in Africa.

Englishmen are proverbia1 for talk ing their games with them into what ever part of the world they go. Golf, as We know, is played in the shadow of the Pyramids and in the very heart of the Himalayas, but football in the mid- dle of Darkest Africa" is something of an innovation. Yet football is rap idly becoming popular on the shores of Lake Nyassa; and at Kotakota, which 6 few years ago was notorious as the greatest depot for slaves on the west ern shore of the lake, mixed teams of black and white meet every Saturday with as much regularity as do our home teams, though the local chron- icler omits to say whether Rugby or Association has won the suffrages of the Nyassa teams. One startling fea- ture Of the game is that the black play CTS decline to hamper themselves with boots, and find, apparently, no dncon- venience in playing with bare feet London Correspondents Mancheste Ter Guardian.
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A BIrt!'s Revenge,

A lady who was one day watching a pair of redstarts as they worked in a Iltree was startled by a violent commo- tion that arose in the shrubbery hard by. Catbirds screamed, wrens scolded and the robins shouted Quick" with all their might. A chipmunk was drag ging a baby catbird by the leg from it's nest, and all the birds rounda bout had | come to help make a TOW about it, in cluding a Baltimore orole The scream l ing and the swish of wings as the birds darted about made the squirrel abandon his prey, and then the conn motion subsided as quickly as it had lrisen. All the birds but the oriole went about their business elsewhere. The oriole had not said a word so far, and, beyond countenancing the hubbub by his presence, had had no part in it. 1 The squirrel, having dropped the baby catbird, cooked itself upon a limb and began to chatter in a defiant way, while the oriole sat not far away look ing but doing nothing else. But in a few minutes the squirrel left it's seat and ran out on the limb it had been sit ting on until it had to use more care to keep its hold, and then the orioles op- portunity for a terrible assault had come. Flashing across the space, he
 struck the chipmunk in one eye with
 his sharp pointed beak, and then, turn ing instantly, struck the other eye in like manner. Quivering with pain the squirrel let go the limb and dropped to
 the ground, where it rolled and strug-
 gIed about apparently in the throes of
 death. The oriole flew away to its fa- vorite elm, where he sang in the most brilliant fashion. The lady put the
 squirrel out of its misery, and then saw
 that the oriole had destroyed both eyes. Public Opinion.
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Contiaental DeatI, Duties.

The acceptance by the French Cham. Der of M. Bourgeois's proposal of 3 progressive death duty is a very sari- ous event. It is very easy to say that the new premier was protected by his arrest of Arton, the great intermedi. ary in the Panama scandals, and the fear of the Opportunists lest Artor should give up their names, but the majority was too great for that expla. nation. The duty was carried by 34; to 176, that is, by two-thirds of the house, and no such vote could have beer given if such a tax were known to bt unacceptable to the country. II may be
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-17
New York cntton rrohnnr 70.
x ilramcial.
MvES TMENT BONDs.

. 10000 Bethel, Cty School District per cent. bonds.
 5000 So. N. E. Tel. Debenture 5's. 2,500 Swift 6 Go. 1st mortgage G'a. 5000 Waterbury Traction Co. 1st mg. 5s. 5000 Winchester ANRRCo, list mtg 5s. 4,000 Bristol, Ct, 4 per cent. bonds 5000 City of Waterbury, Ct, pc bds. 5000 Meriden, Ct, Street RR. Co. pc,
 bonds 5000 Jewett City. Ct, Water Go, 5pc, bonds.
 5000 Winchester Ave. RR. Go. 6 per ct.
 Debentures. For sale, by
 H. c. WARREN & co, Bankers and Brokers. l03 Orange street
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Mrs Newrlch-Henry, you save your- self away badly at the dinner table Co, night. Do you know you were actually eating with your knife? MT, Newrieh- No! was I, though? I hope none of our guests noticed it. Mrs. Newrich-uh. I don't care so much about them--but our English butler did-Puck.
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Salvation Army.

The Salvation army will hold a great district rally in English hall, corner of State and Court streets, this evening at 8 o'clock.
 The rally will be led by Brigadier Evans, assisted by officers of Connecti- cut and New Haven troops.
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ing need of large new revenues for their immense milIhay expenditures, to increase the allowances of their wretchodly underpald civil establish Ass, to provide the yearly increasing cost of popular education and to create funds for the many experiments by which they are seeking to supply the want of drastic poor law. London Speclator.
The morning call., 1895-02-06
The Great Danger in the
Lateral Thrust"
THE PILES CAN'T HOLD IT.
so Thinks the Man Who Planned the
SeaWall.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE SAFE.
Sharp Criticism Of the Plan Of the FOun'
datiOnS, With Reasons Why-The
Expert at Work.
THE PILES CAN'T HOLD IT.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE SAFE.

P. j. Donahoe, who is the expert engaged
by Governor Budd to examine and report
upon the foundations of the new ferry, was
out in a boat early yesterday morning with
another man and drill digging into the
concrete uprights. He says he will con-
tinue at the work until he has tested every
one of the 103 piers. He will have asso-
ciated with him Stephen P. Doyle, one of
the presidents of the Builders Exchange.
His report is to be submitted to the
engineering heads of the State University,
which has also been enlisted in the inquiry.
Mr.. Donahoe is young man with ex-
perience covering wide field. He is
graduate of the School of Art of Paisley,
Scotland, class of '78 and has been at the
head of big building enterprises in New
York, Minneapolis, Spokane, Tacoma and
other cities of the Northwest. He became
acquainted with, and favorably impressed,
Governor Budd during short residence at
Stockton.
When seen at his home, 1925 Mission
street, last evening Mr.. Donahoe was non
committal as to his discoveries of yester-
day. "There is big sum of money to be
spent on the ferry, and the Governor is de-
termined to know all that may be learned
about the foundation before anything is
done on the superstructure he said, mot
that he doubts the ability of the men in
charge, but all men are liable to err, and
The morning call., 1895-02-06
DISAPPOINTED in ORMONDE.
lie Is Not a Success in the Ranks of
Breeders.
So Says Sir TattOn Sykes, an English
Sportsman and Traveller, Who
Is in This City.

Sir Tatton Sykes of England is guest at
the Palace. He is tall, slender gentle
man of commanding presence, quiet in
manner and of a very observant DISPOSE
ton. Sir Tatton finds his greatest pleasure
in travel, and his wanderings have extended
over period of twenty years, during which
time he has visited almost every country
on the globe.
81 have just returned from very pleas
ant trip to the country" said he, having
been down to look at Ormonde, that piece
of horsetlesh once the pride of all English
men, and which they still believe stands
without peer in any country"
Sir Tatton said that great many Eng
lishmen were interested in the success of
the horse since he had been withdrawn
from, the turf and given over entirely to
breeding purposes,
"You know we all think there, is only
one such horse" he said, land | was
anxious to see how he is getting along"
The Investigations Sir Tatton made were
disappointing in their results, he said, as
only one yearling was found which is the
get OF the great stallion.
We discovered three foals among the
Stanford mares" said he. ''but the result
here was also Disappointing as nine We're
expected. 1t looks as if Ormonde is fall
ure as a BREEDER
Mr.. Sykes expects to go from this city to
Japan, in which country he will spend
several months.
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From a photograph

lowed, the work allowed to stand until it
had thoroughly settled, and then a wall of
masonry could have been put in instead of
piling on the outer face, and there could
then have been no doubt of its standing
for thousand years"
Referring again to the piling upon which
the concrete piers are built, Mr.. Allardt
said: "How are we to know even that they
are perpendicular? A pile is driven until
it is buried in the mud all except the head,
then another is spliced to it, and the driv-
ing goes on. Suppose the first cants off at
an angle and is driven further in that di-
rection by the second, which is quite likely
to happen in such cases, it makes pretty
foundation, don't it? Wood is seldom, if
ever used, in engineering works of this
character. The seawall at Cherbourg,
France, and the Delaware breakwater are
built with broken stone in the manner de-
scribed, as is also the Oakland mole, COM
ing nearer home. On the other hand the
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HUNTINGTON'S PASSES
They Are Likely to Get Him
in Trouble.
GRAND JURY WILL DECIDE.
Knight Will Place Evidence Before
That Body.
OLEEY GIVES HIS IDEAS AT LAST.
The Acting District Attorney Explains
Why an Indictment Is to Be
Desired.

The question as to whether G. P. Hun
tington will be arrested, brought to this
city and tried for violating the interstate
commerce law will rest with the next Fed
eral Grand Jury.
Acting District Attorney knight received
letter from Acknowledgement Olney yes
terday in regard to the matter. The letter
compliments Mr.. knight on the stand he
took when Attorney Monteith demanded
that warrant be issued for Huntington's
arrest. Oiney agreed with the suggestion
of knight that the proper body to investi-
gate was the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and went on to say in the letter
that knight should take such steps in the
matter of the prosecution of Huntington
as the case seemed to warrant, virtually
leaving the matter to Knights discretion.
The letter concludes by saying that
Knights action twas wise and proper in
every particular" and that sit has been
favorably commented upon in letters re-
ceived from several attorneys of San Fran
CISCO"
In speaking of the plan he would pursue,
Mr.. Knight said: "rhe same action will
be taken in this case as in those of the
strikers. 1 will go on and place all the evil
dence have, or can get, in the case before
the Grand Jury, and it will rest with that
body to decide whether an indictment shall
be brought against Huntington.
"In the cases of the strikers District At
torney Garter communicated with Attor-
ney-General Olney. He then received in
structions to present the facts before the
Grand Jury, which he did. The jury found
many bills and ignored others. In the
case of Huntington reported the matter
to the Attorney-Generala and have received
an answer from him to-day. 1t can hardly
be considered letter of instructions, but l
will place all the evidence can secure be-
fore the Grand Jury and will see that the
jurymen are instructed by the court as to
the law in the case. If the jury sees fit to
indict Huntington a certified copy of the
Indictment will be sent to New York.
"Upon this certified copy of the indict-
ment a complaint will be made in New
York, warrant will be issued on the COM
plant ana it will be served on Huntington
there. He will be arrested and brought to
this city for trial.
''I could not have issued warrant for
the arrest OF Huntington on Montelth's
complaint. 1t was defective. There would
be no use in getting warrant from Com
missioner Heacock, as it could not be
served outside of this district.
1.-THE proper way to cause the arrest of
Huntington is by an Indictment of the
Grand Jury, provided that body sees fit to
indict. The new Federal Grand Jury for
the February term of the District Court is
now being summoned. asked for venire
this morning from the court. The venire
is for fifty men, out of which jury of
twenty three will be selected. The venire
is returnable on the 18th inst 4"
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is not his plan. AS to the cement, have
no doubt it is the best. But with the best
material and the best workmanship, with
out foundation it avails not at all.
ssThere is another contingency, little
remote, if you please, but which ordinary
engineering prudence should not over
look. In the old times when the harbor
line followed the ms and outs of the terml-
nal blocks of the streets, there were eddles
in the slips that left an accumulation OF
drift. When the seawall was Strengthened
out there was instead a strong current
upon it with the changing tide. Now this
often shifts the mud so that it would be
quite possible for it to uncover the piles at
places If it should, the teredos would get
to work and in a season throw the whole
heavy and costly structure down. A few
days ago one of the arches fell. They said
it was because it was green and the weather
bad. But those arches are to be covered
with people as thick as they can get to-
gether, and if one of them should go down
at such a time-well, live in Oakland and
l don't like the thought"
''And how could solid foundation have
been secured?"
"The seawall has stood firm for thirty
years. We know that that method would
have done it, and, therefore, why expert
ment? We do not even know how cement
will act under the action of salt water.
When the seawall was to be built, borings
were made by Thaddeus H. Brooks to get
at the depth of the soft mud. 1t ran from
80 to 100 feet all along from the foot of
NJ 10
were made to that depth, and broken rock
was filled in until the surface was reached
and facing of heavy rock placed on the
breast to meet the wash of the waves.
Where wharyes were to be built, short
piling was driven into this to extend out
nearly to the line of the base of the filling,
and with a little excavation of the mud
there a sufficient depth of water for deep
sea vessels is secured. The same plan as
to the rock filling could have been fol-
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THE NEW FERRY DEPOT MAY TOPPLE OVER.

buildings have been erected, and these are
constantly multiplying, with an ever
increasing weight, with consequent ten
dency to push the earth into the bay. l
am told that from recent measurements it
is shown that the shoreline has moved
out some two feet. am talking the plain
truths of engineering. This made ground
cannot move toward the hill, but it will
move toward the line OF least resistance as
the weight upon it increases.
''These piles sticking in soft mud cannot
stay the pressure in any way. There is no
doubt about their ability to meet the verti-
cal strain-the weight placed directly on
top of them. But that is not the difficulty.
The danger comes from the weight which
pushes laterally from the shore to the sea.
Have you ever noticed pile, the top of
which is little above the trend and in the
water, how it will swing with the tide and