Evening Gazette

              3fc». • T • w "V.Jpy fff NUMBER 1801 I Weakly Established 1860. j P1TTSTON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26. 1887/ 1 rwoomrr* | Ten Oanta Per Week VOTING FOR ABBETT. THE LONDON PRESS NOT A POUND OF COM, DIVORCE REFORM. THE NEW COMMISSION. TENNES8EE'3 NEW 8ENATOR. On Senator IdkrIIi' 8peech on the fllh- Bvn Chicago Said to bo Interested la Ex-Governor BM« Chosen by the Joint i)CPfAT8 BALLOTING wMlLE THI REPUBLICANS ARE 81 LENT. London, Jan. 2ft—The Post is sure that Reuittor Ingalls' bitterness does not repremit the views of tin American senate nor of I be peoplo, but adds that it is foolish to (hut our eyes to tlie importance of the qutfilion at issue. nrlea Question. PUT ABOARO THE OCEAN STE W Boston, Jan. 2ft—Rev. Samuel W. Dike, secretary of the National Divoroe Reform league, nmD up the league's work for th« six yean of lta existence ae follows: Moln» has struck her old, loon law* from th« statute book and put a radically different law in its place, reducing divorcee fully onf half. New Hampshire has collected her statistics and regulated the domicile of. applicants for divorce. Vermont has made several changes for the better, reducing he! divorces one half, and has made still furtheo legislation. Massachusetts has provided ten an excellent collection of statistics and for bidden the advertising of divorcee. In Con necticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Ohio the governors have urged reform. Ir most of the states and the District of Co lumbia organized work has been begun. New Jersey and Indiana now collect statistics of divorces. Pennsylvania has a new law; the Bar association of New York and others are urging it upon that state. Illinqis forbids the advertising of divoroee, and Chicago has prohibited the hearing of divorce cases In chambers; .The matter has been laid before the executive and legislative departments of the general government, and action in regard to the collection of statistics has nearly pass art through the pnstrt oeo- Foul ■  the Movement. A RUSH FOR APPOINTMENTS ON THE NEW RAILWAY BOARD. Nash villi, Jan. 98,-Thp senate and house elected ex-Gcreruor William B. Bnta United Statee senator, to serve six year1. Mr. Golliday placed Mr. Bate in nomination. Mr. Harris nominated the Hon. A. M. Hughes, Republican and ex-chairmna of the state Republican executive committee, predicting at the same time that Blaine would be elected preeldent and Hughes Governor next year. The. ballot resulted in Bate receiving 81 votes; Hughes, 45; the Hon. James D. Porter, assistant secretary of state, 1, and CoL A. 8. Colyar, editor of The Nashville Union, 1. Bate's vote in the senate was 21, and in the house 60, Hughee getting 11 in the senate and 34 in the house. Mr. Martin, Independent Democrat, voted for Colyar, and Mr. Trimble, Republican* for Porter. Convention. 6HIP8 AT NEW YORK. ■kw Jersey's Senate Mill Befosse to Otfinlu, and "tha Oanocnt) Swear TkausalTss IB—Tha Utar liamtm The Big Strike Spreading Ik An Dlreo- Mon Who May Enforce the Interstate Commel-oe Law—The Woman Suffrage The Chronicle thinks that the fact tliaS Mr. Ingalls' remark did not uirprise his fellow senators is more :erious than the dispute Itself. The artic'o further expresses tlie hope that a discliimo:- of sympathy with Ingalls' views will soon be heard from Washington.ttons—The 'Longshoreman lris|k| an Important Par* — VJgoroqs Beyeott Bill Defeated In the Senate—The aad the Speaker an Strike. Teentor, Jan. 98.—'The Democrat* led the Republican horse to water, but failed to ■take it drink. Having recently asserted the position that the legislature is, in a legal sense, "organised*" the senate, made up at members serving three years, being in a certain sense a continuous body, in spite of the refusal of the senate to elect any officers or " transact any other business, the Democrat* decided that the time tied by law for tha beginning of the balloting had arrived. The time fixed by law is the second Tuesday after organisation. By their majority In the aseembly they ordered the balloting there to nrnrord this afternoon. As a preliminary they got all the Republicans Into the chamber on a oall of the house, and then locked the doors. The Republi- Against the Old Domlslsi Company* Ladles in the Gallery. New Yore, Jan. 88.—'This is the situation alongshore as reported by the pickets of the Ocean Association of Longshoremen, Knights of Labor: Jan. 20.—While the president has not yet received the interstate commerce bill from the house, he has received a large number of applications from all sorts and conditions of men who rt id- t-D . e named as commissioners at sauu.aj of a year. It is evident from the way the mi or in has jet in, that the president is likely to be snowed under before the blizzard is over. ■ The candidacy of Senator Conger, mentioned a day or two ago, has lDeen supported by the action of the Michigan assembly. That body, having refused to re-elect Mr. Conger to the senate, appears to be trying to make*amends for its cavif ier treatment of him In caucus by indorsing liim for a place that is much more lucrative in salary than the office of senator. When congress has adjourned the president will find several good men "out of 4 job." Several of them, have bean spoken of aa qualified, aad more tharfone is said to be willing to nerve. Col. Morrison is one. Then Mr. Tucker is also spoken of and Mr. Willis, of Kentucky. Civil Service Commissioner Oberly Is being strongly urged by his friends for appointment as one of the commissioners. Mr. Oberly is aware of what his friends are doing, and it is understood that he has no objections to offer to their course. He has for yean been deeply interested in all matters relating to railroads and their management, and his experience as one of the railroad commissioners of Illinois gave him a wide practical knowledge of such duties as will fail to the lot of the national commission. He was closely identified with some of the work which brought about the interstate The Daily News thinks that the situation is not serious. American senators, it remarks, are ndt above playing to the gallery."Not a pound of coal was pnt aboard any of the ocean steamships in New York, Brooklyn or Jersey City. All coal is scab coal now, and the longshoremen will not load a ship that takes it on. Eleven grain elevators suspended business. Two of them are on the Hamburg and Bremen piers in Hoboken, and six in Brooklyn, at Prentice's stores and elsewhere. The elevator men refuse to load grain into ships that take Old Dominion freight No lighten are at work on the river front. The transatlantic steamers cannot sail on time if this oontinwe, and the United States mail will be delayed." The Standard says that President Clave land will probably have the good sense to veto the measure or agree to it merely in form and as a prelude to amioable negotiations. The Standard protests against either Canada or England being coerced. The dispute, it says, is one which is not beyond tha scope of diplomacy. Bate is a pronounced "revenue only" Democrat, with all the free trade tendencies that are involved in the term. He has always been a party man. As a political leader he lias originated no politics, hut has been found with the majority of his party when the sense of the majority seemed clearly Indicated. At a time when leaders were in demand, and when, in tha factional M'GLYNN'S FOLLOWERS. obtil, sticking to their position that there can ha no legal organisation of the legislature with an unorganised senate, protested formally against the balloting, and would not answer when their names wt're called. The Democrats scraped together thirty Votes for Leon Abbett, and then, tlie Republicans remaining obdurate, they adjourned until noon to-day, when they intend to get the • Democratic senators in, and have a Joint meeting to elect • United States senator, Republicans or no Republicans. As a preliminary to this the four Democratio The steamship companies are looking about them far new men. The Wilson linejup ad-; vsrtised for a large nnmfaer, offering high wagea Mr. Louis de Bebian, Ot the French line, notified the committee thai called upon him that be had no freight from the Old Dominion line, and that the 2,600 bales of cotton were from the Ocean and Morgan steamchips. The .'longshoremen went to work. Mo coal, however, was got aboard La Bourgogna. troubles of the party, tha ultimata resuit of contention was a matter of doubt, Bate was silent. His service for the party has been mainly in office. With great personal popularity he found friends eager to help him to the place, and he evinced his appreciation of their friendship upon all occasions. When the Question of the settlement of the state debt was engaging public attention, and Bate was a candidate for governor, he urged the readjustment of the debt in strong - terms, declaring upon one occasion that unless holders of Tennessee bonds accepted the figttres offered them they could "let their blank bonds rot' The remark has become history. The debt was settled at SO cents, with 8 per cent interest, and at the beginning of the preeent month the state was forced to borrow money with which to pay the semi-annual interest Father Donnelly Apparently Met Itqnal to His Task. Nrw York, Jan. 26.—The new locks which Father Donnelly put upon St Stephen's church were broken yesterday. It is supposed that this was done by the women who have been so active in making things unpleasant for Father McOlynn's successor. The usual disorganization was witnessed in the church services. EMILY BROWN'S MURDERERS. Anderson Perry on Trial for Instigating Baltimore, Jan. 26.—The trial of Burkar Anderson Perry, accused of having Instigated the murder of the white woman, Emily Brown, and selling the body to a medical college, was continued yesterday. The principal witness was Ross, who killed the woman, and who was convicted last week of murder in the first degree. Baas swore that Perry, who was Janitor at the Maryland university, had for three weeks broached the subject of murdering Emily Brown every time they met. The day of the murder Perry filled Ross with whisky and urged him to do the killing. Witness then, with perfect composure, gave the details of the crime, told how he met AL Hawkins and went to Emily Brown's room, where Roea smashed the woman's skull with a brlok and Hawkins stabbed her, put the body in a bag, took it to the Maryland university and delivered it to Perry. the Crime. The Brooklyn police authorities were notified that the strike had extended to the longshoremen employed on the Commercial and Clinton wharves, and also at David Dow% stores. The strike was caused because grain elevators had been* sent to Prentice's stores, which share the boycott on the Old Dominion Steamship company. The proprietors of all the stores to which the strike has extended bave asked for police protection, and gangs of Italians are to be brought from New York to the docks. A large police force is on duty on the South Brooklyn river front to-day. The 'longshoremen have offered no violence to the green hands so far. It is rumored that Father Donnelly will be Bent back to St. Michael's parish, as it is apparent that be has not the tact to deal with (he people of St. Stephen's. ••nators-elect, who had not been sworn in am account of the failure of the senate to organize, after the Republican senators had made their usual adjournment, took a ragged little Bible and some blank oaths of office, and sitting quietly around at the reporters' de ks in the senate chamber, listened one by one a* Democratic Senator Livingston mumbled the At a mass meeting of the letter carriers of this city resolutions were adopted declaring that Dr. McGlynn, their friend in times past, will always receive their hearty support Dr. McGlynn was active in supporting the eight hour bill in the interest of the carriers. commerce bill, and it is believed that if any Illinois Democrat is to hare a place on the new oommisalon, Mr. Oberly will have the indorsement of Mr. Collom. words of the oath, bent their heads down behind the desks, surruptitiously kissed the took, signed their oaths, and became, they believe, full fledged senators. While this woe being done the Republican officials of lbs senate and a score of others were passing There will be a workingmen's mass meeting to-night at which Henry George and prominent labor leaders are expected to speak on the McGlynn case. A NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL. It is believed that the appointments will be so apportioned as to give a representation on the commission from the east, the wes% the south, the northwest, and the Pacific coast Some of the Pacific coast people, who regard it as extremely doubtful whether the president can find a California Democrat upon whom all California Democrats will unite, propose to solve the difficulty by offering a Republican candidate. Their choice will be John F. Swift, the Republican candidate for governor in the last election. He has been Icnown as an anti-railroad man in the sense uf opposing the grasping tendencies of monopolies, but not a sympathizer with the sand lot notion that the railraads are public property and ought to be confiscated. He was one of the commissioners with Augell and Trescott who secured the modification of the Chinese treaty, under which it became possible to prevent th« further coming of coolies to the United States. If the Democrats put forward a candidate from California, it will probably be W. H. Foote, son of ex-Senator Foote, ef Mississippi. He Is a radical anti-railroad man, and has been a railroad commissioner of the south, bat it is regarded as almost certain that his appointment would be opposed by the entire conservative element in the Ctate and party. There wHl be a large crowd of scalawag applicants for the place, sad not a few of them will bs able to command strong support. Gnetano Basso Adds Counterfeiting to Grain elevators were towed around to the docks of the Old Dominion line, foot of Beach street. It was intended to load grain.. into the two ships at the wharf. The men on the elevators refused to work. ( Boston, Jan. 28.—Gaetano Ruaso, the Chelsea counterfeiter, now under arrest, has been identified as one of the most desperate criminals of the ooontry. He was obliged to leave Italy on account of his crimes, and is charged with having killed a countryman in Chicago in 1878 or 1879. He was captured in St Louis and taken back to Chicago, but never tried. A year or two later he was sentenced for life for arson in St. Louis, but he was pardoned for helping to quell a revolt of convicts. In 1885 he burned his house on the east side of New York in order to get the insurance, but his criminal career was shown up and he failed. His leif List of Crimes* about the chamber, but only two persons Mia the Democratic senators knew what A Bold Safe Bobbery. was going on. Previously the Democrats had caaouaed the question of a candidate. Thirty-six of the forty-one Senators and assemblymen Richmond, Tex., Jan. 26.—Three masked men overpowered the watchman at the Galf, Colorado und Santa Fe depot at 3 o'clock this morning and tried to drill the saf« Iieing unsuccessful in this, two of them went to Station Agent Hazen's house and got him out of doors by stating that the depot waa burning. They then seized him and compelled him by threats of shooting to go with them to the depot and open the safe. They took $1,400 and left, warning Hazen and the watchman that if they moved they would be shot. When Hazen Anally ventured put the robbers had escaped and there is no clue to their identity. A H. Hart & Co., proprietors of the Elm Flax mills in Fifty-seventh street and Tenth avenue, which employs 890 men, posted notices yesterday that they would probably shut down their works in a few days. Messrs. Hart & Co. say that this suspension is on account of the failure to get coal. Philadelphia, Jan. 88.—The loss on the cargo of the steamer Aries, which stranded on the shoals north of Barnegat Inlet, N. J., will reach over fl00,000, and is insured by Philadelphia companies. The cargo bU°gely consisted of dry goods. She was one of the oldest vessels running between here and Hew England ports. During the war she was in the Confederate service, and did effective work as a blockade runner. Nothing was received by her owners, Henry Winsor & Co., from her. It is said the vessel was not insured. . i A Valuable Cargo Last. got together and decided that Leon Abbett was just about the sized man they wanted. The absentees woKs Senator Chase, Senator MoBride, Senator Chattee, bpeaker Baird and Assemblyman Throckmorton. All of these have at one time or another been talked about as opposed to Abbett Acting upon orders Bent out by the Coal Handlers' union, the drivers of carts for Katterer & Hayes refused to work. . Whan the house met in the afternoon rumors of its contemplated action had got around and there was a very strained state Ct foaling. A oali of the house showed everybody present but Throckmorton. Meeeeagers were sent far him, but they failed to /etch him. Finally the Democrats said they would go an anyhow, and Mr. Hudspeth stored that the house go into a ballot for United States senator. Ex-Speaker Armstrong, on behalf of the Republicans, declared that such a proceeding waa unlawful. On the preliminary votea thirty Democrats voted ~ fee have the ballot, and twenty-six Republicans, two Labor men, and Bpeaker Baind against it When it came to a direct question Armstrong again protested. He declared that the Republicans believed that Utey would violate the law if they participated in the proceedings, and that therefore they won Id refuse to vote. The thirty Demoorats voted yea, and one Republican by mistake said "No" when his name was called. This made a quorum voting, and prevented the Republicans from raising the point ef "ho quorum" to effect the defeat of the mo- Residents of Canal street in the neighborhood of Pythagoras hall have notioed a great number of cabs drive up to the hall and deposit fashionably dressed.men. They say it is not uncommon for four or Ave cabs to stop between S and 8 o'clock in the evening. It was said last night that the fashionably dressed men were ooal operators. In the cigar stores thereabouts the attendants say that they appear very much excited. They ask after the leading men in District Assembly 49, and are impatient when they have not been quickly brought into their presenoe. Their consultations were held secretly, with only the official of the organisation present The coal shovelers at the Wallabout basin and Qowanus canal, Brooklyn, have notified the stevedores that'they will handle no more coal until the demands of the men at the shipping points hate been oomplied with. Lancaster, Pa., Jan. SQ.—S. J. Tilden's St Bernard dog was bequeathed to Miss Celeste Stauffer, of New Orleans. But the poor brute did not like the climate, and in spite of all .the efforts of his mistress ha drooped and grew thin. Change of air was recommended, and Miss Stauffer has sent him to her father's farm in this county. Came North (or His Health. PostolBoe Hecetpte and Expenses. Washington, Jan. 28.—A statement baa been prepared by Sixth Auditor McConviOe, showing that the receipts of the postoffirc da- I ailment for the first quarter of the fiscal year 1880-7, were 111,072,948, which is an increase over the corresponding quarter of last year of 11,045,687. The expenditures for the corivsponding period were $12,787,606, which is an increase over the corresponding quarter i.f $346,406; showing a net gain of $(89,002. If the same ratio of receipts and expenditures continue for the three remaining quarters, the deficit of the postoffice department for the present fiscal year will not exceed *3,000,000, as compared with $7,000,000 last year. Attempt to Wrack a Street Car. 8aD Francisco, Jan. 88.—A dynamite cartridge was exploded on the railroad track between the oar and the dummy of a train on the Geary street railroad, breaking a piece of iron out of the car wheel six inches in length. A number of passengers were on the dummy anP inside the carat the time, but no one was injured. Whisky First and Last. Omjlha, Jan. 26.—Patrick and Charles McDermott, brokers, were drank at Kloornington, and Patrick froie both hla legs and his arm a. Both of the brothers have died, Patrick from the effects of the amputation, and Charles from drinking whisky procured for the relief of his frocen brother. What the Terdlet Will Bo. Toledo, Jan. 8ft.—It is repotted that the verdict of the ooroner'i jury in the Republic disaster will censure the Baltimore and Ohio ooaipany, and will declare that the employee on the freight train were drunk, and that the engineer on the paaeengw train could have seen the head light of the fi eight at a distance of 3,000 feet Members of the National Woman Buff rage association who have been holding conventions in this city for nineteen years, in parsuit of the ballot for their sex, have added another to the long list of disappointments which they have been called upon to suffer. After the executive committee of the association had been in session for a abort time yesterday arranging for the convention, an adjournment was taken in order that the ladies might go up to the Capitol to see and hear Mr. Blair put through the Benate the joint resolution proposing a woman suffrage amendment to the constitution of the United States. The amendment had been trying to get a hearing for several congresses, with anything but encouraging results; but in the present congress the special committee ou woman suffrage gave it a majority report in the senate, and the distinguished ladies who were watching events had great hope that this meant substantial progress. They knew that Mr. Blair intended to ask for a vote on the resolution, and so they flocked to the galleries in large numbers. Among them were Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mm May Wright Be well, Mrs. Harriet R. Shattuck, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, Mrs. Elisabeth Boynton Harbert, Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell, Miss Phoebe W. Cousins, Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake and Mra Zerelda O. Wallace. Many of them had opera glasses, and all kept a close watch on Air. Blair, the special champion of their cause; Mi*. Palmar, who sflce made a speech in support of woms!i suffrage, and Mr. Brown, who la rC t ied as the most incorrigible of the eiiein D ► of their cause. The ladies were worriu. j little when Mews. Harris, Viet, Coke ami u few others opposed Mr. Blair's motion to take up the suffrage resolution, and they listened intently to every response to the roll call on that motion. Every one of their faces was adorned with D smile of triumph when it was announced that the vote was 86 to 10 in favor of the motion. If any of them thought the vote was an omen of final victory they were doomed- to disappointment. Then came the vote on tbe question of passing tbe resolution, and with it oame a great sun ow to llie ladies. As senator after senator responded with a "No" their countenances grew long and solemn. When the announcement was made that only 10 senators had goue on record in their behalf, and that 84 had vdted to keep from them the price they had been seeking so long they hurried out of the chamber with a poorer opinion of men in general and senators in particular than some of them had ever held before. Perished In a Burning Shanty, At South Amboy Mr. B. J. Berwind, of the Bar wind-White Soft Coal company, held a long conference yesterday with his 160 coal handlers, who struck on Sunday morning. The men would not admit to him that they had any personal grievances. Ihey said they went out at the command of the Knights of Labor. It is understood that at the beginning of the ooal troubles Mr. Berwind's men pledged him that they would not go cut if he would not sell soft ooal to those who had been using hard ooal. The men say the company -broke the agreement. They struck partly on this account The Berwind- W hite company is the company upon which almost all of the Atlantic steamship lines in New York rely for their supply of coal. John E. Berwind said in this city yesterday that in case the men refused to resume work by to-day the company would send down new men to do the work. The Natibnal line has notified the Berwind-White company that the GOO tons of coal which had been sent them for the Erin, which is to sail on Saturday, could not be taken out of the bargee, because their men had refused to handle it. The French line steamship, which has 1,300 tons moored alongside, was in the same predicament Belfast, Me., Jan. 98.—The trial of Mrs, Martha Crockett, for tbe murder by poison of her husband, ended In a verdict of guilty. The motive for the crime was Crockett's refusal to let Mrs. Crockett's son by a former husband live in the family. A Woman Convicted of Murder, Randolph, Mass., Jan. 26.—Franklin J. lloibrook, of Braintree, aged about 60, of dissolute habits, has made his home during the present winter in a small gunning shanty on the Upper shores of Great Pond. Late last evening the hut was discovered to be oil Ire and HolbroOk's boCSy was found amid the embers of the shlhty, the arips and legs having been fairly burned off the ciutrrwd trunk. It is supposed that lloibrook while intoxicated set his shanty on fire and then perished in the flames. Holbrook leaves several grown up children. Boston, Jan. 2ft.—A sled with four persons aboard collided with a carriage in Melroee last night Arthur Hockings, one of the coasters, received probably fatal injuries, and the three others were severely bruised. The carriage was wrecked, and its two occupants spilled in the road, but not otherwise hurt A Beriohe Coasting Accident. Mr. Hodapith named Leon Abbett as a candidate, and the roll call was begun, Armstrong entering a protest at every staga. The thirty Democrats said "Abbett," and nobody else laid anything. The Democrats demanded the enforcement of the rale requiring every member to vote unless excused. Speaker Baird declared that the rule Was as stated, and that every member ought to vote when his name was called. He -didn't vote himself, however, nor did the twenty-six Republicans and two Labor men. Borne of the Democratic fire-eaters wanted .to ribe force to ma Ira the Republicans vote, buf the cooler heads advised an adjournment, and they prevailed. lite Democratic strength now stands, -counting Throckmorton and the senators who swore themselves in; Thirty-one assemblymen and nine senators. The Republicans kave twenty-six assemblymen and twelve nsnstors, including three yet to be sworn in. There are two Labor men and Speaker Baird. The getting of the caucus nomination has greatly strengthened Abbett's chance, bat there is still a doubt as to whether he can ever get the solid Democratic vote. Both sides profess a belief that the struggle will be prolonged until the Republican senators give in. The fact that a Republican majority in the United States senate must pass upon the qualifications of the senator-elect before he can take his seat prevents the Democrats from going ahead and electing Abbett by all the votes they can get and giving him a certificate, regardless of Republicans or bolters. New Cars for the Wabash. Lebanon, Pa., Jan. 88.—The Lebanon Manufacturing company has just been awarded a contract to bpild 1,000 cars for the Wabash Railroad company. With the contracts already in hand the establishment will be kept busy for an entire year. Blend's Good War Keeord. Newport's Municipal Deadlock. Nkwport, R. I., Jan. 26.—The deadlock in the common council which has existed since the ltd inst., is to be settleA in a peculiar in inner. Both candidates for the presidency Imve agreed to appoint the committees together, then Capt Waters is to be elected nresident, and he will hold that office until July, when he will resign and allow Reed his opponent to be eleoted president for the remainder of the year. The organization of the city government will now take place, and the city employes will receive their pay. Niw Tore, Jan. 2#.— In the trial of Louis Bieral far shooting Surveyor Beattie Gen. Daniel K. Sickles testified that Bieral had been a brave soldier and bad been wounded in the bead at Ball's bluff while trying to rescue Gen. Baker's body from the enemy. The trial was not completed when the court adjourned. Weather Indications. Washington, Jan. 28.—Colder, northwesterly wind, fair weather, followed by snow, with a cold wave. TRADE BULLETIN. The 1st* Governor Cobnrn's Money. New York Money and Produce Ms Quotations. Augusta, Jan. 86.—'The executors think that from the combined estate of the late Governor Coburn and his brother Philander, $4,000,000, at least, will be realiaed, of which $1,000,000 will be applied to the payment of the governor's publio bequests and the balance districted among the heirs. New Yoax, Jan. IB.—Money closed at k per cent The highest rate was 4 per cent', and the lowest 2. Exchange closed Arm; posted rates, 88H; actual rates. 4.(4*04.84 for sixty days and 4.WH@4.8C1 for demand. Qovernmenta closed firm; currency 4s, iitji bid; 4Ms, coup., 110% bid; 4s, coup.. bid. Three Comets In Sight. The coal handlers held an excited meeting in Concert hall in South Amboy last night to iiscuss the situation, and the soft coal hand'ers voted unanimously not to go to work jntil the coal troubles were settled. Rocbhstbr, Jan. 26.—Director Swift, of the Warner observatory, received yesterday ■i telegram from Professor Barnard, of the Vufcderbilt university, announcing the discovery of another comet on right ascension, 1U hours 7 minutes 48 seconds, declination north 200 25.4 moving very slowly eoirt. This, with Brooks' comet and the southwestern one which is going to be very bright, makes three new comets discovered lu five days. The stock market opened strong, nearly tbe whole list showing advances ranging from M to 4 per cent as compared with last night's figures. The greatest advance was in Denver and Rio Grande preferred. East Tennessee first preferred, Rlobmond and Terminal, Canada Southern, Louisville and Nashville, New York and New England, Norfolk and Western and Wabash preferred were also conspicuous In the advauoe. There was a steady buying throughout the morning, and with the exception of a reaction of Ji to t per cent, caused by a raid on Richmond and Terminal, prices continued strong. The market was not so strong after midday. Tbe buying movement of the morning died out almost completely after 1 o'clock, and from that hour to the does trading was chiefly In small lota. The tone of speculate continued strong, however, and at the cloee tbe top figures of the day were generally current.  Rockland, Me., Jan. 26.—The 182 too schooner Lottie Wells, of Calais, from New York for Calais, with 9,000 bushels of corn, went ashore on the south side of Moaquito T.i.nH near Martinsville. The crew were washed ashore by the surf and saved. The vessel and cargo are a total Ices. Vessel and Cargo Loet The Delaware and Hudson and the Pennsylvania Coal companies in Weehawken, iuid the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western •/ompsay in Jersey city, are working with ftreea hands at great disadvantage and con- siderable expense, but they seem to be steadily gaining. The strikers hope to get the railroad brakemen and miners out They already have the help of the union boatmen. Balloting for Senator. Gen. Swift Burled. Charleston, W. Va.. Jan. 2d.—fallowing k remit of ballot In Wsst Virginia legislature (or the eenatorsbip: Camden, Dem., 40; Goff, Hep., 11. Necessary to choice, 46. Ten or twelve prominent Democrat* and Republican* received vote* ranging from 1 to U.  What will b* ths senate, if it ever organises. baa adjourned until Friday, and the Republican* admit* possibility that the coon will then comedown and the organisation be . completed. . Buzzards Bat, Mass., Jan. 96.—The remains of Burg. Gen. Swift, of the United States army, who died at Bermuda a year ago, were brought to Wareham for interment According to the laws in Bermuda the body could not be taken away until now. Gen. Swift served with distinction in the lute war, and waa well known not only in this, but in foreign countries. Coal is being removed to this city from Jersey City in all sorts of vehieles and under all sorts of pretences. At the Pennsylvania railroad docks and the Lehigh Valley coal docks coal was moved without the slightest interference from the strikers. AlwtMtw Mshermea Bojolelag. The 'longshoreman employed at Woodruff1* stores in Brooklyn went on strike yesterday morning as soon as they discovered that the freight they war* handling bora the Old Dominion Steamship company's mark. CONDENSED NEW8. Nxw Yoax, Jan. FLOUR—Closed dull and barely steady; winter wheat extra tS.lftQS.40; oily mill extra. $4.40®4.70: Ohio extra, tl.lS® 6.85; St Louis extra, D.1635.40. Southern Hour closed steady; common to choice, ¥3. General Markets. Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 86.—There is .(Teat rejoicing here among all classes over the passage by the senate of the Edmunds retaliation bill. Never before was there such a crowd of representative fishing owners and fishermen gathered together here as yesterday morning at the Merchants' exchange and in the streets in the neighborhood of the custom house and the postoffloa. The ao«ounts in the Boston dailies of the passage of the bill were read aloud and were received -with vociferous cheers. The measure was warmly commended on all sides. The opinion was generally expressed that while we do not desire to be unfriendly with Canada, our fishermen should have their commercial rights and treaty privileges. Oliver J. Booth ha* resigned th* rectorship of the Church of the Ascension of Buffalo. He is tha clergyman who was recently attacked by G*n. William Sooy Smith on a train between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. In his letter of redgnation Mr. Booth says: "Although I consider that I have fully Established my innocence with regard to th* recent charge made against me, I at the sam* tlm* feel that my u*efulne*s in the parish may be impaired." Horned la His Bobs*. Mount Mobrib, N. Y., Jan. 96.—The dwelling oocupied by Henry Higgins was burned at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. The charred remains of the old roan were found in the ruins Last Saturday he reoelved C600 pension money and as ha had soma of this in bis possession yesterday, there are suspioions of foul play. Two arrests have been mads, pending an investigation by Coroner Dodge. The oil works of Lambert & Ayers at Centervilla, N. J., ran short of coal last week and on Saturday they laid off 140 of their hands. No coal ha* been received since, and yesterday they were forced to shut down altogether.  WHEAT-Option* were moderately active, while prices were lower on the receipt of more peaceful news from Europe.' The decline ranged from lc. to ivjc. Spot lots dosed dull and fullv lc. lower. Bpot sales of No. 1 red Mats at tOHc., No. i da at P3c.. No. u red winter at Mo., No. 8 do. at tBu. and ungraded red at DOOttMe.; No. * red winter, #4e.; No, 3 do.. Mo.; ungraded red, No. 8 red winter. Fell, »S%c.: da March, ItipiUMHc.; do April, KkD. bid. Maxey Leading la Ten*. HA10AX, Jan. SO.—A terrific gals prevailed on tbs coast last night and tbs wind blew forty mllsa an hour dead on shore. The steamers Barilla and Borderer were off the harbor and pat to sea again to eaoape being driven on shore. The schooner C. Graham, however, from Bermuda, bad just arrived on the coast, and was driven ashore Bay Shoals and dashsd to pieces. She had a crew of six men, and possibly some passengers. All were lost. The shore is strewn with debris. She was oosnmanded bjr Capt Coleridge and owned by C. M. Creed and others of this oity. It is bsllered there were other disasters along the coast. All sa Board Lost. Washington, Jan. 28.—A private dispatch from Austin, Texas, received here to-night, give* the first ballot in Democratic caucus for senator among leading candidates a* follows: Maxey, 48; Reagan, 88; Ireland, 81; Terrell, 80. - Pilot Vineer, of the pilot boat which was wrecked off Barnegat on Monday, has arrived at his home In Brooklyn. He savs that Beddin, one of the men reported drowned, eecaped and is at life saving station No. 13. COHN—Options were dull and lower, closing at a decline of H'iZKc. Spot lota closed Hit Ho. lower. Spot sales of No. X mixed at andunKrndel mixed at 48®*Dc.; No. » mixed, Jan., 4»HC. bkl; do. Feb.. c. Philadelphia, Jiyi. 96k—▲ resolution was adopted at the meeting of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange, favoring a repeal of ali internal taxes; also favoring a reduction and discontinuance of wholesale and retail liquor dealers' licenses as applied to the drug trade, should it be found impossible to bring about a total abolition of the tax on ploohol. Drag Stove Utur Trade. Eightj-flv* girl* employed ion th* "Jinnies" in th* Elisabeth (N. J.) Cordage works hav* struck against a reduction from fourteen to twelve cent* a hundred for yarn. Their action throws nearly 600 other hands out of work. Tha strikers are very determined.OATS-Options were moderately active und lower, cloning MOKe. below reetorday*s prices Spot lots closed W3Dh0- lower. Spot sales of No. 1 white state at and No. t do. at SGa; \"a U mixed, Feb., SSHja.; da March, Sta; do. May, 8tt*c. Krnpire Order of Mutual Aid. A Boy's Terrible Death. Syracuse, Jan. 96.—The Grand Lodge of the Empire Order ot Mutual Aid is holding Its ninth annual session in this city. About iOO delegates are present, with Grand President Charles A. Gould, of Buffalo, in the ch*ir. The grand lodge officers' reports show the order to fa* in a flourishing condition. Daring tb* p*st fiscal year $150,096 have been paid in de*th claims, leaving a balance of $5,490.96. PmsracU), Mass., Jan. 26.—William Daley, aged 16, employed at the or* bed in West Stockbridge, was caught in the shafting last evening. His head waa knocked against a rafter and crushed to palp. BYE—Dull; state, KOMo.; western, MASTo BARLEY—Nominal. PORK—Dull; mess, f11.IBail.7S. LARD—dosed dull and steady; $6.80, cash; I«.80(»6.81, Feb.; $«.8.®«.87, March. Stay of for Maxwell. The North German Qaaett* (Prince Bismarck's organ) stats* that it is abl* to confirm the recent pacific declarations of the French premier, M. Goblet St. Loins, Jan. 28.—The Chroniole's Jefferna City, Ma, special says: Tb* suprems court hss granted a stay of execution in the r,nses of Maxwell at|d the Chinese high bindsrs until it assembles to consldsr an appsal m the 81st Inst. Interstate Hatlread Commission. -Boston, Jan. 98.—Hon. E. W. Kinsley, who is at present state railroad commissioner, it is said, has been advised that he will ha appointed one of tha interstate commerce commissioners if ha will accept Professor Edward Ooppsa Mitchell, of the University of Pennsylvania, tha distinguished lawyer, died at Philadelphia of pneumonia. Ha was 51 years old and a native of Savannah, Ga. rotherlagham's Trial. BUTTER—Dull; state, lSOKie.; western, m. B*. Iouib, Jan. 88.—Writs of habeas corpus will be issued to compel the attendance of Wittrock and Haight, the express robbers, as witnesses at the trial of Express Messenger Fotberingham. CHEESE—Dull, but firm; state, 10«a»ll»ic. western flat, 11®lijjc. A* Old OOfcadar In Trouble. KGQ8—Quiet and barely steady: state, Me western, (ft&tta. iiurFALO, Jan. 96.—A young man giving the nam* of Hubert Donnelly, but whose right nana is believed to be William F. K*iC/, was jailed bereyssterday for robbery. Ho recently Auisbsd • term la tb* Mssss ShasstU sum prison for stealing $«,499 worth tfsitosrtelMoa. Plukarton's Arasy Barred Oat. The First In Thirty-Taw Tears. SUGAR—Kaw dull, but steady; fair refining, 41M8c. Refined steady and fairly active; cut loaf, crushed, CMP-; granulated, 5 16-l«o.; mould A, to.; oontectkmers' A &M° ; coffee A, standard, 5T-l#®»Hc.; coffee off A, S^o.; white extra O. Of ; O, 4*9 •CP-i Larsim}, Mich., Jan. H—The hones today passed Mr. Oggs' bill preventing th* importation ot Pinkarton polios into th* state, and forbids their offiosrs within th* Concord, N. H., Jan. St.—The inauguration of the new city goveramont occurred here to-day. Tha mayor, Hon. John E Bobinsoo, I* th* first Democrat inducted into that oOm for thirty-four years. Effingham B. Morris, of Philadelphia, has been appointed as one of th* receivers of the Schuylkill Navigation company, in place of William M. Tilghman, who hasdaoluud UD* sppolatnusrt rso*ntljr imlrt to An la Mexleo. CrrT OF Mxxioo, Jan. 81—A slight earthquake shook wu felt in this city at aboat Uitt o'clock ysstarday iftag