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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT.
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THE WOKLD AT LAKGE.
Summary of the Daily Newa
CONGRESS.
After unimportant business in the Ben-
ate on the 17th a vote was taken on Senator
Hoar's motion to reconsider the vote by which
the Chinese Exclusion bill was passed and the
Senate refused to reconsider by 20 yeas to 21
nays. So the bill remains passed. Pending
debate on the bill creating a Department of
Agriculture the Senate adjourned....In the
House no business was transacted except
adopting several resolutions. Much time was
consumed in a fruitless attempt to secure a
quorum.
In the Senate on the 18th the resolution
offered by Senator Sherman instructing the
Foreign .Relations Committee to inquire into
the relations between the United States and
Great Britain and Canada was taken up, and
Mr. Sherman addressed the Senate, at the con-
clusion of which the Senate adjourned — In the
House a communication was received from the
Postmaster-General in response to Mr. Grosve-
nor's resolution of inquiry relative to the dis-
tribution of certain matter through the mails,
and the conference report on the Sundry Civil
bill was called up and led to a political debate,
but finally went over, and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 19th Senator Ed-
munds offered a resolution requiring the Pre-
siding Officer not to transmit to the House the
Chinese Exclusion bill until so directed. Laid
over. A joint resolution was passed appropriat-
ing $100,000 for relief of yellow fever sufferers.
After passing a number of bills of no general in-
terest the Senate adjourned After the read-
ing of the journal the House proceeded to the
consideration of the conference report on the
Sundry Civil bill, and when 9 vote was reached
no quorum was present and the House ad-
journed.
In the Senate on the 20fch the order of-
fered by Senator Edmunds to withhold the
Chinese bill was on his motion laid on the table
as the bill had passed beyond the jurisdiction
of the Senate. Senator Mitchell spoke for over
two hours on the subject of the President's
message, and pending consideration of the
Agricultural Department bill the Senate ad-
journed In the House the conference report
on the Sundry Civil bill was disagreed to, and
t further conference was asked on the Senate
Amendment to the Library bill. A little breeze
was raised by a resolution offered by Mr. Mor-
row. of California, inquiring why the Chinese
bill had not been presented to the President,
but the resolution was finally declared out of
order and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 21st Mr. Stewart
offered two resolutions having reference to the
presenting of bills passed to the President.
The House Department of Agriculture bill was
then taken up and the fifth section, transfer-
ring the weather bureau to the Department of
Agriculture, was stricken out and the bill
passed. A conference was asked on the
bill. The conference report on the Sundry
Civil bill was then taken up, the disputed
points discussed and the conferees further
instructed, when the Senate adjourned until
Monday In the House Mr. Dougherty, of
Florida, asked unanimous consent for the pass-
age of the Senate joint resolution appropriat-
ing $100,000 for the vellow fever sufferers, but
Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, objected. The Senate
bill forfeiting land grants to a railroad from
Ontonagon to Marquette, Mich., passed. The
bill to suspend the operations of the Pre-emp-
tion, Timber Culture and Desert Land laws was
reported with amendments and passed. As
passed the act affects railroad grants only.
Private bills occupied the remainder of the ses-
sion.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A number of women were before the
Senate Tariff Committee on the 18th under
the lead of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, president
of the W. C. T. U. Their testimony was
that their position as wage workers was
much superior to that of women in Europe,
which superiority they attributed to the
protective system.
The Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon
Railway Company has formally given
notice to the General Land-office of its
withdrawal of all claims to the land grant
opposite the unconstructed part of its
road.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
has tiled its opinion in the case of the Chi-
cago, St. Paul & Kansas City, which road
charged more for a shorter that for a longer
haul, in competition with the Burlington &
Northwestern. The Chicago road claimed
that the Burlington was carrying freight
from terminals at ruinous rates and want-
ed the Commission to order it to charge
higher rates or to allow the Chicago road
the benefit of "dissimilar conditions" in
the fourth clause of the Inter-State act.
The opinion was that the Commission
could not take cognizance of any rates
made by competing roads and could not
give the Chicago road the benefit of dis-
similar conditions which did not exist.
The President has withdrawn from the
Senate the nomination of John Fitzpatrick
as United States Marshal for the Eastern
District of Louisiana.
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. 'Folsom left
Washington on the 21st for a short stay in
the Adirondacks. They were accompanied
by Dr. Ward, of Albany, who had been a
guest for some days at Oakview.
Official information was received by
the President on the 21st of the rejection
of the amended treaty by the* Chinese
Government.
John G. Parkhurst, of Michigan, has
been nominated Minister to Belgium.
Orders have been issued to have the
United States steamship Boston, now at
the New York navy yard, made ready for
sea service. The vessel is under secret
orders to proceed to the West Indies, sup-
g>sed with reference to the troubles in
ayti.
THE EAST.
Hon. Levi P. Morton's exhibit of
Guernseys at the State fair at El mira, N.
Y., have been awarded two first prices,
two second prizes and gold medal for the
best herd. W ith those awarded Mr.
ifforton at Buffalo he has so far this season
been given seventeen prizes in all.
AT New York on the 19th General Su-
perintendent R. C. Jackson, of the New
York division of the railway mail service,
and Chief Clerk £. L. Chapman were re-
noved by the Postmaster-General. Both
are Republicans.
Suits have been begun in Boston against
Bowker, Toorley & Co., marble workers of
Boston, tor importing contract labor from
Italj.
In the master printers* conference at
New York recently, a communication from
the International Typographical Union,
asking for a conference, was reported upon
and a resolution was adepted to the effect
that there being no quarrel between them
the United Typothetae saw no reason for
any conference.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, was be-
lieved to be on his death bed at Boston on
the 20th.
New York will hold a great tobacco ex-
hibition next winter. There are 500,000 re-
tail tobacco dealers in the United States
and 500,000 workers interested in the man-
ufacture of smoking and chewing tobacco.
Patrick Tracy, aged sixty, baggage
agent of the Old Colony railroad at Hyde
Park station, near Boston, was killed the
other day while trying to save the life of
Mrs. Mary Young, aged sixty-nine, of
Sharon, who had fallen in front of a train
while crossing the track. Mrs. Young was
injured in a probably fatal manner and
would have been instantly killed but for
Tracy's action.
The silver jubilee of Archbishop Corri-
gan's ordination to the priesthood was
celebrated with much pomp at New York
on the 20th.
William Warren, the actor, died at
Boston on the 21st. He was born Novem-
ber 17,1812, in Philadelphia.
The engagement of Miss Dottie Zeraga,
of New York, to the Duke of Newcastle is
announced.
Charles F. Peck was found suffering
with yellow fever while riding on a street
car at New York on the 21st and taken to
Bellevue Hospital.
THE WEST.
A cable dispatch has been received in
Baltimore saying that the engagement of
Miss Virginia McTavish, of Baltimore, to
the Duke of Norfolk had been announced.
Miss McTavish is well known in Baltimore.
She is the daughter of the late Charles
Carroll McTavish. a descendant of Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton.
The nineteenth annual reunion of the
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
was opened at Chicago on the 19th with
about 150 members present. The address
of welcome was delivered by Major A. E.
Stevenson, of Chicago, and General Rose-
crans was made chairman.
Recent incendiary fires at Spokane
Falls, W. T., caused such serious losses
that a vigilance committee was formed
and bad characters were notified to leave
town. The saloons were closed and strict
precautions taken. In one of the fires
$150,000 worth of property was lost.
The carrier on the mail route between
Viroqua and Prairie du Chien, Wis., made
his last run last week, and the route has
been discontinued. In the early days of
Wisconsin Governor Rusk used to drive a
stage on this route.
The freight conductors and brakemen of
the Chicago division of the Illinois Central
struck on the 19th for increased pay.
For several days there had been trouble
brewing at Aspen, Col., between the Mid-
land and Denver & Rio Grande roads
about the right of way out of the camp to
the Utah line. On the 20th the employes
of the two roads fought a battle with picks
and shovels, resulting in several being
seriously cut. ®
William H. Jackson, one of the Illinois
Republican Electors, died at Fairfield, 111.,
recently. The vacancy will be filled by the
State Central Committee.
Judge Fairall, of Iowa City, Iowa, has
sentenced William Orcutt to ten years in
the penitentiary for attempting to wreck a
train for the purpose of robbery on the
Rock Island & Pacific railway a year ago.
The Marquis de Mores, who made a fail-
ure of the cattle and beef canning business
in Dakota, is now figuring on building
railroads in China.
George Sackett's warehouse and 2,000
barrels of cranberries at Berlin, Wis., were
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
$50,000".
Z. Brown, an old resident of Godfrey,
111., was induced to put $2,500 into the
hands of a swindler recently to bind the
sale of his farm. The latter disappeared.
THE SOUTH.
At Jacksonville on the 18th 156 new
fever cases were reported with twenty
deaths. The total cases to date were 1,203,
with 153 deaths.
R. H. Clarke, of Mobile, has been nom-
inated for Congress by acclamation by the
Democrats of the First Alabama district.
John Wright, a gambler, was shot and
killed by the city marshal of West Union,
W. Va., while beating the officer.
Charles H. Harris, the Santa Fe rail-
way agent at Coleman, Tex., was killed by
William Attley, a drunken cowboy, the
other day.
A report was current at New Orleans
to the effect that the late United States
Marshal R. R. Pleasants was a defaulter
to the amount of $53,000.
The story about the collision between
the Hatfields and the McCoys in Kentucky
is positively denied. No battle between
the clans has occurred recently.
The steamer S. Pisszata from Honolulu
arrived at New Orleans on the 18th. She
came from the same ports and the same
route as that usually followed by the
steamer F. S. Ward, long overdue. It was
thought that the Ward had been lost with
all on board.
The citizens of Augusta, Ga., have voted
an extra tax levy to repair the damage
done by the recent floods.
Hon. John G. Carlisle and Senator
Blackburn were speakers at a Democratic
barbecue at Erlanger, Ky., on the 10th.
An outbreak of yellow fever was re-
ported at Jackson, Miss., on the 20th. At
Decatur, Ala., ten cases were reported.
One hundred and thirty-one new cases
were reported at Jacksonville with fifteen
deaths.
John Brickley, an old and well known
citizen of Little Rock, Ark., who was
clubbed by C. C. Branch while endeavor-
ing to protect a lady and young girl from
insult, died the next morning. Branch
was captured.
S. L. Hallow ay, engineer on the Cin-
cinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific rail-
road, was run over and instantly killed at
Oakland, Tenn., the other night. He was
torn in twain near the center of the body,
and lived but a moment afterward.
A small cyclone passed over Mammoth
Springs, Fulton County, Ark., on the 21st.
Houses were wrecked, trees blown down
and corn and crops ruined. Several peo-
ple were injured, but no one was killed.
GENERAL
In the German army maneuvers the
Third army corps, led by the Emperor, was
repulsed after a hot battle in an attack
upon Berlin, which was defended by the
guards.
Several Greek war ships have been or-
dered to be made ready to put to sea. The
recent seizure of a Greek vessel at Chios
has been the subject of protest by the
Greek Government, but the Porte has re-
fused to give a Satisfactory reply.
W. A. Hatfield, of Yarmouth, N. S.,
formerly a shipbuilder, has made an as-
signment. *A fetv years ago he was worth
$1,000,000, but some four or five years ago
he went into the West India tr^,de with
others, the firm being known as Hatfield,
King ¿Co., and he is said to have lost
about all his money in this venture.
General Boulanger paid a flying visit
to the Pasha's palace in Tangiers, Morocco,
the other day.
The rains in Mexico have ceased. Eight
thousand soldiers were at work building
trenches and dykes about the City of
Mexico.
Smith, Fissell & Co., cigar manufac-
turers, of Montreal, Can., have assigned
with $95,000 liabilities.
It was recently rumored but not believed
that the Ameer of Afghanistan had died
suddenly.
Much indignation is expressed in Tahiti
over the seizur^of Easter island by Chili,
which proposes to establish there a penal
colony. This is the island famous for its
grand stone statues standing on huge
pedestals. The seizure was made by
Captain Toro, of the Chilian cruiser An-
gamos.
News received from the South Seas is
that there was savage fighting on the
Marquesa group before the natives allowed
the French to hoist their flag and take
possession. Two hundred French ma-
rines and several thousand natives were
killed. The natives retreated into the
mountains, where it was difficult to dislodge
them.
The Uzambura chiefs, headed by Sim-
boja, have revolted against the Germans
and dispersed Meyers' caravan. Meyers'
porters have deserted him and he has re-
turned to the coast. The other evening
some natives of Zanzibar, mistaking the
secretary of the British Admiral for a
German official, assaulted him and then
made their escape in the darkness. The
secretary's injuries were not serious.
All ports in Portuguese India have been
declared infected with cholera by tho
British Foreign Office.
Hundreds of lives have been lost
through floods in Algeria.
The Minister of Works recently laid the
foundation stone of a new harbor and ship
building works at Bilbao, Spain. Great
enthusiasm was manifested.
A dispatch from Paris says an explosion
had occurred in the melinite factory at St.
Omer. Before the flames were subdued,
six factories were destroyed.
The owners of the German paper, the
Social Demokrat, which had been pub-
lished in Zurich, Switzerland, have re-
moved its office to London to avoid threat-
ened suppression.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended September 20 numbered
228, ccmparec\ with 217 the previous week
and 183 the corresponding week of last
year.
Prof. Jamieson, who was organizing an
expedition for the relief of Henry M. Stan-
ley, died of African fever on tho Congo,
August IT.
THE LATEST.
An attempt to rob a train on the South-
ern Pacific, near Schulenburg, Tex., on the
night of the 22d was frustrated by the
trainmen. Engineer Toomy was shot in
the face by mistake during the melee.
Fulljames, the pugilist, died from in-
juries received in a prize-fight at Grand
Forks, Dak., recently. A man named
Barrett and other parties were arrested
for being concerned in the affair, but some
one let them out of jail.
The ferryboat Jay Gould ran over and
upset a row boat in the North river at New
York on the 23d, and two of the occupants,
Mathilde Hay, aged sixteen, and Jules
Glanglide, aged twenty-four, both of 180
Bleeker street, were drowned.
The Princess of Wales and her daughter
had a narrow escape of being run down
by a railway train at Gmunden, Austria,
recently.
The Ohio & Mississippi made another
cut on New York rates, making round trip
tickets from St. Louis $21 instead of $23.
A general slashing of rates was looked
for.
Five young men were drotrned in the
St. Lawrence near Brockville, Ont., on the
23d by the sinking of a sailing vessel. Only
one of a party of six was rescued.
The body of a richly dressed woman has
been found in a box in St. Petersburg. It
was thought she had been murdered by
Nihilists.
Clearing house returns for the week
ended September 23 showed an average in-
crease of 12.4 compared with the corre-
ponding week of last year. In New York
the increase was 13.5.
Business was active on the London
Stock Exchange during the week ended
September 22, with a tendency to weak-
ness. The Paris Bourse was quiet. In
Germany the bourses were quiet with
prices firm.
Bazaine, the exiled Marshal of France,
died at Madrid on the 23d.
Fears of riot are prevalent at Havana
on account of numerous strikes.
Calvin Du Binson and his wife, who
lived in a settlement called Catamount, in
Kent County, N. B., went to call on a
neighbor the other evening, leaving their
three children in the house. They had
gone but a short distance when they
noticed the house in flames, but arrived
too late to save the children, ail of whom
perished in the flames.
A mounted broadsword combat for $200
a side and gate money, between William
Henderson, of the National Guard, New
York, and Xavier Orlofski, of the German
army, took place at New Haven, Conn.,
recently and was won by the former by
two points.
Hog cholera is reported at Washington,
O., again. On the farms of Judge Gregg,
Adin S. Thompson, George Hays, Harlan
Hayes, and the Roebuck lands, over 700
hogs have recently died, and sick ones are
lying around by the score. Judge Gregg
has lost eighty head and thirty more are
sick.
PANIC STRICKEN.
POLITICAL POINTS.
The South in a State of Great Excitement
Over the Alarming Spread of Yellow
Fever—Extreme Measures Adopted to
Ward Off the Plague.
New Orleans, Sept. 22.—It is reported
that a portion of the railroad track be-
tween Harrison and Vicksburg has been
torn up by frightened people in order to
force trains to stop. There is good ground
for believing the report true. There is t
scarcely any fear that any refugees will:
be able to reach Louisiana or New Orleans *
by river, for Jackson has been isolated
and people from there have no means of
reaching the Mississippi river. Vicksburg
and Natchez have both quarantined most
strictly and railroads connecting them
with Jackson have been obliged to go out
of business for the present. There is evi-
dently a reign of terror in and about Jack-
son, and a gentleman on his way from
Birmingham to Vicksburg, who was forced
to come to New Orleans from MeridPian,
said that he never saw people so frightened
as the Mississippians who are panic strick-
en with fear that the scourge may become
general in their State. Special trains as
required will be sent to Jackson by the
Illinois Central to carry nocth all who de-
sire to go.
at jackson.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 22.—The fever ex-
citement was greatly increased yesterday
by four new cases. They are David Hippe,
Charles Daley, Joseph Bourne and Frank
Kavanagh, all workmen on the new rail-
road depot. It is generally conceded that
all the cases originated here and were
caused by excavations and disturbing
filthy sewers on the depot grounds dur-
ing the past two months. Three-
fourths of the white population
have fled. The stores are nearly all
closed and there is but little food in the
city for the "can't-get-aways." No trains
stop here, but a special train was furnished
last night for such as wished to go through
to the North, taking on passengers some
distance north of the city. The Red Cross
Society was organized to-day. John Lor-
ance, one of the three cases reported
Thursday, died yesterday afternoon. The
provisions have nearly all been carried
away and the merchants and people who
can not get away are in a bad fix. Nino-
tenths of the white people and a few of
the colored people have fled. A shotgun
quarantine is now in force on nearly all
the dirt roads surrounding Jfackson.
at jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept 22.—The offi-
cial report yesterday showed 118 new cases
of yellow fever and fourteen deaths as fol-
lows: Mrs. Susan Zeither, Laura McCrea-
ry, Miss Ella Oulahan, Susie Lamon, W.
Palmer (colored), J. W. Foster, Mr. Rea-
gan, M. Jenkins, Miss Lula Smith, John F.
Deely, Miss Conrader, Mrs. John Doyle,
Dr. Francis J. Gould and John Strachan.
Most of the new cases are among colored
people in the suburbs. There are compar-
atively few deaths among the negroes,
who usually recover rapidly from the
disease. The total number of cases re-
ported to date is 1,582; total deaths, 196.
A special from Gainesville reports one
new case there—a member of the guards
who went to Fernandina.
One of the most pathetic incidents of the
pestilence occurred yesterday. A little
nine-year-old boy named Storck was
brought in from the Sand hills where he
had recovered from yellow fever. Making
his way to his home he was told that his
father, mother and sisters had all fallen
victims to the dread disease. He is a
bright little fellow and will be cared for by
a gentleman who was a patient near him
in the hospital.
apprehension at memphis.
Memphis, Sept. 21.—There is no definite
news this morning from either Decatur,
Ala., or Jackson, Miss. While some
anxiety is felt here, yet most active and
stringent measures are being put in force
to keep out any infected passengers' or
freight. Memphis feels secure from any
invasion of the fever provided all the ener-
gies of the people are directed toward that
end by enforcing strict quarantine against
infected points. This plan is being carried
out, and at a meeting of the Cotton and
Merchants' Exchanges held this forenoon
a committee of six was appointed to co-
operate with the city authorities in the he-
roic efforts being made to protect Mem-
phis. The city at present is healthy, and
if money and vigilance are the only re-
quisites Memphis will continue so.
at nashville.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22.—The Coun-
ty Health Board to-day held a meeting
and decided to rigidly enforce the quaran-
tine. Any refugees coming from the in-
fected districts of the South within the
borders of Davidson County will be ar-
rested, fined and imprisoned, as the law
directs, and detained for a period of ten
days. Persons who harbor such refugees
or fail to report to the health board their
presence, when known, will be subject to
arrest, fine and imprisonment to the full
extent of the law. The law permits
the arrest and a fine of $50 in the case of
any person known to stop in Nashville
from the infected district.
shotgun quarantine.
Natchez, Miss., Sept. 21.—The city is in
a fever of exeitement on account of yel-
low fever reports, and the shotgun quaran-
tine will be established at once. A large
excursion party from Natchez, which
visited Jackson, are shut out from their
homos, all trains on the Natchez, Jackson
& Columbus railroad beyond Hamilton
having been stopped. A special train was
sent out at eleven o'clock last night to
bring in the Natchez people from Cooper's
Wells, Harrington and other points along
the road who have not been to Jackson.
at chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 22.—Chatta-
nooga has instituted a strict quarantine
against all infected points. No one is per-
mitted to enter the city without giving a
satisfactory account of himself. Quaran-
tine officers board every train and fifty-
one are thus employed. The City Council
has adopted ordinances inflicting a fine of
$500 on any one entering the city from any
infected district, and a large reward is
offered for the apprehension and con-
viction of any one harboring such refugee.
at montgomery.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 22.—In conse-
quence of reliable information that there
is a case of sickness supposed to be fever
in Greenville, the Montgomery board has
recommended quarantine against Green*
Tille, which was so ordered. '
Colored Democrats Call on the "Old Ro-
mans—General Harrison Visited by Im«
pleineut Men—St. John Disappointed—
Other Points.
Columbus, O., Sept. 21.—Yesterday af*
ternoon Judge Thurman received a dele-
gation of colored Democrats, who, through
W. H. Furbush, or Arkansas, presented an
address expressing their thankfulness for
avors fróm the Democratic party, ex-
pressing a belief in the division of the col-
ored vote as for their best interests and
stating a firm belief in the election of
Cleveland and Thurman. Judge Thurman
delivered a brief speech.
harrison visited.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 21.—Last even-
ing about 300 of those who are exhibiting
implements and machinery of one kind
and another at the State fair, called on
General Harrison at his residence, and
spent an hour with him. In response to
their greeting the General delivered an
address which was well received.
anna dickinson.
Richmond, Ind., Sept. 21.—Last night
for the first time in four years Anna Dick-
inson stepped on the platform to address
a public meeting. It was the first of ten
speeches she is to deliver in Indiana in be-
half of the Republican cause. Her argu-
ment was not on the tariff, but
the workingmen, on the history of
¿he two parties in their relation to
labor and laborers as human beings, and
also on the history of the two parties as
the champions of freedom, liberty and
progress. She said she thought it safe to
say of a party as of an army—fight or sur-
render—and she showed fight all through
her two and a half hours' speech. Her
audience was largely composed of women,
and men and women were turued away by
hundreds.
st. john disappointed.
Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 22.—Ex-Governor
St. John, Kansas, of visited the State Fair
yesterday, and addressed the thousands of
people there assembled. He came under
the auspices of the State Committee, who
paid him $50 for the visit. He was greatly
disappointed, however, when he learned
that the officers of the fair would not al-
low him to talk politics, but such was the
case, and he thought that his party had
done a good deal for the State Society
without getting any thing in return. The
local Prohibitionists all supposed St. John
would have the privilege of speaking, and
were likewise disappointed.
warner miller indorsed.
New York, Sept. 21.—The United Labor
State convention last evening indorsed
Warner Miller, the Republican candidate
for Governor, on the ground that his party
was pledged to electoral reform. The con-
vention elected candidates for the other
State officers, as follows: For Lieutenant-
Governor, John H. Blakeny; for Judge of
Court of Appeals, Lawrence J. McParlens;
Messrs. Clancy and McGlynn declined the
honor. District electors were also nomi-
nated. The vote on indorsing Miller was
124 to 103.
the treaty rejected.
Washington, Sept. 22.—The President
has received official information of the
refusal of the Chinese Government to rati-
fy the amended treaty.
TRADE REPORT.
A General Favorable Condition of Trade
Reported by 15radstreet.
New York, Sept. 22.—A nearly general
continuance of previously existing favor-
able trade with further improvement
in certain sections of the West and
South is reported in the special telegraphic
advices to BradstreeVs this week. At the
West the improved prospects of the corn
crop, increasing receipts of wheat and bet-
ter weather conditions have induced a
further improvement in general trade at
Omaha, Burlington and Detroit, and caused
a full average distribution at St. Louis,
Kansas City and Louisville. Progress in
harvesting in the lower Mississippi
has involved a larger movement of mer-
chandise at New Orleans. Cotton receipts
at Galveston are increasing with the cot-
ton crop reported fair. The fall dry goods
trade at New York and Boston is quieter
with a seasonable distribution in leading
lines. Wheat crop advices are conflicting,
but the corn crop is about saved, while the
rice crop on the South Atlantic coast has
been damaged by overflows. Money is
slightly easier at several points in the
West where Eastern money has been tend-
ing, notably Omaha and Louisville; Bos-
ton and Philadelphia are also easier than
last week. New Orleans and San Fran-
cisco are stringent. Money at Kansas
City is in active demand but not stringent.
The New York stock market is feverish
and unsettled. A • manipulative ad-
vance in St. Paul stock on its
oversold condition and rumors of foreign
stockholders opposing the present man-
agement, temporarily arrested the decline
in prices. Money at New York is fairly
easy with call loans from 2 to 2# per cent.
Bradstreet's special report of the earn-
ings per mile of ninety-seven railroads
during July, and seven months of four
years shows that the aggregate mileage
earnings from January 1 to July 31 are 7.6
per cent, less than in 1887, but are 3.9 per
cent, and 8.3 per cent, larger than in 1886
and 1885, respectively.
Wheat is steady but higher than two
days ago on account of reported damage
to the spring wheat crop in Minnesota and
Dakota. Corn is 1 cent lower on dimin-
ished danger from frost, and oats is 1 cent
lower on the week on increased movement,
while lard is 8 to 16 points dearer on
speculation and diminished prospective
supply, and pork steady and firm. Ocean
freights are firmer on scarcity of charter
room. Lake and canal freights are firm,
the rate per 2,000 pounds from Chicago to
New York on grain being $2.54.
Iron is in lighter demand at the West
but orders for pig already booked will
about provide for a full output for the re-
mainder of the year. Prices are now above
the basis of many of these contracts. Old
rails continue strong on light stocks.
Manufactured iron and steel is in moder-
ate demand and at unchanged prices*
Nails do not improve.
Wool is in good tone on a fair business*
Recent London wool sales have had &
favorable effect. Large mills are reported
fairly well stocked. Recent reports of the
great slaughter of sheep to secure profits
on the late advances are discredited *¡T
some trade authorities
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 1888, newspaper, September 27, 1888; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183580/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.