The El Paso Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 215, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 20, 1884 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. III. NO. 215
el paso, texas, saturday morning, i)ecember 20,1884.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY
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W. A. IRVIN.
o. o. niv in.
We have the most complete line of holi-
day presents in the Southwest, consisting
of Celuloid Sets,. Work Boxes, Odor Cases,
etc. A complete line of Holiday Books,
Papeteries, Writing Desks, Albums, Bibles
etc., also Toys and Notions, and are selling
them at St. Louis Prices.
W, A. IRVIN & CO.
Wholesale & Retail Druggists & Stationers,
B1 Paso - - Texas.
OUR MEXICO DISPATCHES.
COMMISSION AITOIXTED IIT 8ECKK-
TAKt DlfBLAX.
They ar« Charged With tlio Duly «f Set-
tling the EnglUli Debt Dillleultiet—
Variolic Other Interesting New.,
THE PIONEER HOUSE AND MOST EXTENSIVE
henry beneke,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
HARDWARE; STOVES AND TINWARE.
CUTLERY, GUNS, PISTOLS, MINER'S SUPPLIES,
AND AMMUNITION OF ALL KINDS.
Sole agent for
CHABTBB O-A-IK STOVES,
Paso Street. - - El Paso, Texas.
El
JOHN DOUGHER, Proprietor.
Tie Only First-Class Hob in to City.
Pleasantly Located in the Centre of the City.
Street Cars at tlx© DOor Livery
adjacent
A CREDIT TO THE CITY!
"W- 3VC-
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
HARDWARE, CUTLERY,
TINWARE pumps, WIND-MILLS, BLACKSMITH AND MINLI
SUPPLIES.
gjg~ Alwava to the front and prices reasonable. jg$]S
EL PASO ' - - " " TEXAS.
"Agent for the Laflin and Rand Powder company, Fairbanks &
The Mexican English Debt.
Special to the Tm i s.
City of Mexico, Dec. 19.—'The ad-
ministration of President Poiftrio Diaz
has at last taken the initiatory step tow-
ards a settlement of the financial troub-
les that have so long iutenupted amic i-
bie relations between Mexico and Eng-
land, and infuet other powers. The last
days of Gonzales' Administration were
made unquiet and disturbed by the riots
that arose about this very matter. Pres-
ident Diaz had evidently made up his
mind that during his term of office his
administration shall not split on this dan-
gerous rock, but that be will endeavor lo.
guide the ship of state safely around it.
As the first step in t'.is laudable end avor
Senor Manuel Dublan, the newly ap-
pointed secretary of the treasury, nomin-
ated yesterday a commission of leading
financiers and administrative experts
from among the best known citizens of
the republic, whose duty it will he to de-
vise a practicable method of disposing of
that troublesome subject—the English
debt—in a manner that wi. 1 be just,
equitable and acceptable lo all parties.
The commission will address i.self to the
solution of the problem as soon as possi-
ble, and the principal people of Mexico
are watching its deliberation with I he
utmost interest.
Mr. Hewitt, if New York, moved to
strike out that portion of the section
which prohibited posting. Mr. Hewitt
said while pooling might bean evil, there
were many evils which were remedies
for other greater evils. The evils which
pooling were intended to remedy and
which btotune Intolerable were the evils
of u..limited • competition. Pooling, if
hems conducted, gave stability in the
rate oi fn i iiit and i i|iial terms to every
customer. The abolition of pooling
would consign the country to a chaos
frent which pooliug had extiicatcd it.
Let it be lvjjulattd by the appointment
of a commission. The voice of New
York had been silent in this senate be-
cause the bimuess men of New York des-
pair of wise legislation on these great
commercial questions by this house.
Mr. Detwoilcr's large, grading outfit
came, into town yesterday, it is thought
on its way to the T'opolovampo railroad.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING!*.
t11k senate.
Washington, Dse> 19. —The chair
laid before the Senate a memorial of the
produce exchange of New York, urging
immediate and definite action in regard
to the Spanish treaty. Rsfened.
The Senate passed a bill making the
fourth of March of each presidential ln-
Co's. Scales, and Adams & Westlake's Oil Stoves.
EUGENE CAMPBELL
No. 8 San Antonio st.,
llanan & Sons' Hand Made Shoes.
Full Line of Best Makes
LADIES',
Misses' and Children's Shoes.
THE ULLMANN
Furniture Co.
LARGEST STOCK!
LOWEST IF 12/ I C E S
COMPETITION DEFIED.
No. 307 South El Paso Street.
The New Fashion
BILLIARD PAR/LOR
UNDER A NEW MANAGEMENT.
CHARLES BAGBY & CO., PROPRIETORS
T. P. Rippy'» four-year old Whiskies a specialty. Foreign and
domestic Winei, Brandies and Cigars constantly on hand.
Private Club Reomi up-»tair». Open day and night.
gentlemanly attend ants.
Stat* National Bank Building, San Antonio Street
Windsor Hotel,
Is the Finest Appointed and Best Furnished.
IlsT EL PASO,
With Cuisine of Superior Excellence
The Only First-Class Hotel in the City,
WM, H. CARTER, Proprietor.
figuration year a legal holiday in the
District.
The Senate passed a bill to accept and
ratify the treaty made in 1880 with the
Saoshou, Bannock and Sheepeater.tribes
of Indians on the Fort Hall and Tehama
reservations in Idaho, for the sale of a
portion of their lands.
The inter-state commerce bill was tak-
en up. George condemned the pooling
system by which lie said railroad com-
panies were enabled to extort outrageous
charges from the people all ovar the coun-
try,in order to make up for the companies'
fratricidal stiuggles at the few compet-
ing points.
Allitou, from the committee on appro-
priations, reported favorably the house
resolution, providing that when the two
houses adjourn on Saturday, it be to
Monday the 3th of January.
On Hale's suggestion it was laid on the
table for the present.
Hale, from the conference committee
on the naval appropriation bill, reported
the committee unable to agree, lit* re-
ported the House conferees insist that the
Senate must take the House bill as it has
been presented to the Senate, that being
a lump appropriation for the coining
year. The Senate conferees, he said,
thought that method an objectionable
method for passing appropriation bills
and had held to that ground. Ilalc mov-
ed that the Senate insist on the amend-
ments.
Bayard said, although appropriation
bills must originate in the house, the re-
sponsibility for their passage rested
equally on the Scuate and the House,
and for the Senate to pursue
the course suggested by the House
eonferees would be an abdication of its
responsibility, He moved that a vote of
insistauce be taken by yeas andnays,and
hoped there would be an unbroken ex-
pression of the Senate's voice on the
question.
The vote was taken ky yeas and nays
oh llale's motion, and was unanimously
Courteous and 1 agreed to, yeas 55, nays none.
Vest submitted a modification of ihe
resolution heretefore offered by him, re-
lating to the proposed Nicaragua canal
surveying expedition.
The modification declares it to be "not
expedient" to send out such expedition,
(the original resolution had declared it
illegal to send it without authority ol
congress).
Vest »nid he would call the matter up
to-morrow at the conclusion of the morn-
ing business.
The l.ot Wright Otter.
Washington, Dec. 10.—.Judge Law-
rence, tlrst eompttoller of the treasury,
was the first witness examined to-day by
the sub-committee investigating the con-
duct cf Marshal Wright in the Ohio elec-
tion. He s.iid that when he saw the re-
port thai government clerks acted as dep-
uty marshals as that election. I e directed
that the accounts of clerks lor such ser-
vice not be allowed. Witness wns Inter-
rogated ..i length lelaiivo i<»theimmi-
nent of men not residents of Cincinnati as
deputy marshals. The sections of the
revised statutes were read to the effect
that uo pel son should be appointed dep-
uty marshal not a qualified voter in the
voting precinct or election district. None
Should be appointed without ihe request
of two citizens. Judge Lawrence said
the accounts had not reached ku olliee;
that the legality of the appointment wits
a quest ion of law, and he did not Wish
lo express an opinion before carefully
examining the statute.
Thomas Cavanaugli, ex-deputy ser-
geant-at-arnis of the house of representa-
tives, was also examined. He was em-
ployed at the instance of Colonel Dudley,
and under the instructions of the Central
Republican committee, to guard against
repeating at the polls. The committee
did not, furnish any money,
lie received money from the
Lincoln club at Cincinnati, amount-
ing to several thousand dollars. 1 was to
use it at my discr •ti >n, and 1 understood
it was to be pa d to people to prevent
fraud on election day. Home, few men
[ were employed as United States mar-
shals. Cavanaugli said he met Dudley
at Columbus, and at hL direction report-
ed to Kathbohe at Cincinnati, who was
engaged In looking after the election.
Cavaiiaugh himself handled Ihe finances
and helped Ihe boys out. lie continued,
"The money was paid to take men back
to Chicago, who had come to vote the
democratic ticket. At least they said
they had come for thatv purpose, Tliey
got hard up and the party who brought
them there did not treat them right.
They gave us valuable information.
"Did you make any attempt to pre-
vent men from voting who came there to
vote the republican ticket T' asked Rep-
resentative Follett.
"The instructions were, to prevent any-
body from voting illegally"
i item new yokk. i Yesterday Batopilag sent through our
; town $'.0,000 in bullion bars, to be re-
The Fatal Fire. ! lined in the east. Weils, Fargo & Co.,
new York, Dee. 14).—a Brooklyn | freighted the valuable cargo. We pre-
Eagie extra states the tire marshal re- diet that before we are twelvemonths
I
ports twelve bodies found up to eight older, we wil be turning out bullion here
o'clock this inc.ruin;: among the ruins of in Lui Paso, and why not? The supreme
the l urned "St. John's Heme for Chil— j moment for El Paso, te move in this mat-
dren." Workmen arc still searching the , ter is near at hand, and the question is.
cebris. The utmost excitement prevails j will she have the foresight and enterprise
in the neighborhood of the. asylum. The 1 to see it and seize upon it ?
bodies found are so charred and black-
ened thai identification U alincst impos-
sible, It is believed most of the children
who perished were in the Ill-fated Jose-!
phiiie's ward. Men engaged in ex- j Supervising Architect Bell has made
mating the rui: ■ -i >dry found I his annual report, lie says congress is
the remains of n,. ... .. * two grown too niggardly and slow about making ap-
persons. Who the adults were is n<,t as- pi'opriations for public buildings,
eortaiiied yet. The sisters are Unwilling j
to be interviewed, but it is plain to be ]
seen that their list of inmates does not
come up to the full number, This is ex-
plained by the statement that children
may nave been cared for in private fam-
ilies and will turn up. The fact is that
last night only one child was admitted to
be missing, and over a dozen bodies were
found. These facts tell their own ghast-
ly slorv viith'a positiveness tinit is ap-
palling.
The Vienna banking troubles have had
a depressing effect upon all Europe.
Petersburg, Va., had yesterday
i coldest weather for ten years.
its
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
FROM CHICAGO.
A Sensible View.
Chicago, Dec. 19.—In the session of
the railway board to-day Vice President
McMullen, of the ('hieago and Alton.ex-
pressed the view that the railw ays could
not reduce the present tariff with any
consistency. They had not inc.tensed
ates when the pl iee of grain was high,
and the cost of operating the roads had
been in no wise lessened. He did not
think any further reduction of rales at
this time would increase the volume of
shipment. Corn was not matured, and
the time had not arrived for its move-
ment in any grout quantity. A reduc-
tion of freight rates meant a reduction in
salaries of employes and a curtailment in
the working department of the road.
General Superintendent Jeffrey, of the
Illinois Central, toek the same view.
J ROM DENVER.
\
THE HOt si:.
Washington, Dec. 19 —Tile inter-
State commerce bill was resumed. Mr
Everhardt offered an amendment pro-
hibiting the issuing of free passes, Lost, I retire".
Good for Marshall.
Denver, Dec. 19.—At Lcadville las
night Charles Linden, whi e attempting
to hold up James Y. Marshall on Iron
hill, was Shot dead by the latter. Lin-
den fired once at Mat shall, who wrench-
ed the gun from him and killed him with
it.
A Horrible Discovery.
New Yoke, Dec. 19.—An anonymous
correspondent wrote to the sanitary head-
quarters that there w as a small, grave
yard In the loft of house No. 11 West of
Third street. Heaps of mouldering hu-
man skulls and bones had been there for
years, and no one knew anything about,
them. The writer asks the authorities to
thiil out how they got there. An investi-
gation revealed the truth of the matter,
and it win turned over to the police. A
visit to the loft, showed the place to be
filled with skeletons and human bones.
All sort .--of rumors are rife, but none can
be traced to any reliable source. The po-
lice are Investigating.
I.ant ! ah men.
New York, Dec. 19.—The failures for
the last seven days in the I nitcd States
are 307, Canada 2>—total :t75. This is a
maiked increase on last week, when they
numbered 1148. The western and Pacific
stales furnish nearly, halt of the whole
number. '1 here, is a considerable increase
in the southern states.
The Asylum Horror.
New York, Deo. 19 —Blackened walls
and smoking ruins are ii'.i that remained
this morning of tile Catholic. Orphan Asy-
lum, which buried yesterday. Crowds
ef spectators gathered there to-day to
w lines,s tic firemen and police digging
in lite ruins. The Sisters in charge of
the asylum w ere of the opinion last night
that all the children had been got out of
the building, but persons who were on
the outside and assisted in helping the
little ones to escape, asserted there were
ninny lives lost. They said they saw
little ones in a room . on the third lioor
over the laundry when ihe flames made
llielr way to it and they knew the
■avenues to escape had been cut off. Two
or three grewn persons are also.believed
to have perished, and the . assertions of
these people are correct., fortius morn-
ing the diggers came on 1 lie charred re-
mains of a little group of four who ap-
pealed tujiave huddled together, just lie-
fore their cries for help had been stifled
in death. In the dorniifoty, directly over
the laundry, were only six boys. It is
not know n whether all were saved. At
a later hour this morning threw more
bodies Were discovered near where the
parage to the main building was leeated.
Some of the bodies appeared to be those
of adults. Shortly after 9 o'clock two
more b«dh s were found burned to a crisp
and their identity destroyed. The chil-
dren arc scattered all over the city, and
until collected, it is not possible fo identi-
fy the bodies. The police found many
of the, orphans on the streets half frozen,
and took ihefn to the station house. The
diggers ale still at work. It is thought
that other bodies will he recovered.
Four House Burned.
Detroit, Dec, 19,—The Lapeer coun-
ty poor house burned hist night at 10
o'clock. Thirty seven inmates were
turned out in their night, clothes. An
insane woman mimed Bertha. Koadwell
dashed back into the building and per-
ished. Another woman ran two miles
through the deep snow before she Was
recaptured. She was badly frozen and
may recover.
New York Stocks and Bonds.
New York, Deo, la.-Money easy at 1 to IK
percent. Closing, ottered I,
Prime nicrciintile |aaer4V to 6 percent,
Sterling exchange ntctidy *t MM; demand,
$i s,"> .
Government .bond* elogeitas fallows:
Extended lis lit;.,
Coupons 41,-i 118S
Coupons 4s.;. ... ...123."*
CI.OSlNii QUOTATIONS.
The following are the closing quotations ef
lending stocks eh tlio New York Stock Ex*
chance to-itar
f'ttettie.lis of 'U5....12S I It AW .10
CP lies... tja.'i Kansas ,t Tex,.,. 16V
Erie 2nds.......... j"1. Lake -Krle.A W.... 10!»
I. it \V . yj Lake Spore.... ... 13!,
l,aCon< Louisville ANiieh. 2S
Mo Hi 1«U;, liouisvil B,t Albany 10
St JoO.
.StP&SC .
leuu (is
Tenn lis 11,'W.
T I'land giants.
.110 jMar iv i hi lata...", 10
.. 111' ^ Ho 2nds i '
.. lil'j Meniplils.t Clntr.. t il.
.. 41'. Slieli ( entriil 5S
37S iliun ,t St 1 11
T P Kto Uran le.. ftS.'iDo pref
tl t' ists I III', Mo I'ncific 91
UiOen land grants.lwPjsMotdle AOiilo,..... "
I' Hinkins fuints .lis itoriis a Essex....115
Va lis as 'Nashville Chat.
Va■■eonsois ex-ma- -N J.Central 44V
mitured enups.. 3SV Norfolk & West ... liOti
Va eons deferred.. '< S'orthera Paelflc.. lti',
Adams Ex.........US Do pref 40V
Allegheny Central. 1< a1, Nortlnvesteru . .... Hi
AiKTII 'iO ,l)o pref, ...11!?,'
A k T 11 t••■i f 70 : N* Y Central ex dlv.
American Ex SS Ohio l'ent:al 1
licit A N OhioMiss IS
Canadii I'aetiic ... I41; l)o pref 60
Cumnln Southern,. -0 Ontario ft West.... 12V
Central racifte... !54 | iregon Navigation 71
Clies A Ohio 5'. Oregon Trans IXfi
Do Iht pr,'f. ... .. lo'4 urenton Imp II
l>o2nd pref 7 iPaehieMail. <. 56V
OA A .. 12!) iPanann. 91
Do pirf l t.i PeoHl Dec it K.... 121 i
Clt & M ....lMl'iirunburg 1811
CSt I, & N 0....
est E A P
tin pref
II s& c
<" it c
Del it Hudson.,
lad Lack & W.
D.VKO
Ei io..
Do p, of
East Tennessee
Do pref..,..,,,.,
ft Wayne
Ilall ,t M ,fott .
Do pref*
Harlem
llouMon .t Texas,. :1j
Illinois Central... IsS
' *Aski d.
Pullman. 107
.. tO-i'lioaiiini! il '
.. lllVjiioek Islaud ......lb"
.. 2;i Ist-t, ,«t San Eran,, ID
.. 32 ;.Do pref IS
.. 71' Do 1st ptef li
.. St, Paul. 74
,. 8 ', Do pref 105
.. 14 je si p m & m «•
.. 2s :StP ,v Omaha.... »V
.. :iv;i)o pref K«V
.. 6 iTexas Pai ille p2'v
..127 CaienPaeilie 4S1,
.. ;-S','C H Express 52
.. >Si Wabash 5J,
1>8 |1)D pref.,,...,,.,,, is
Wells Fargo Ex.... los
IW I' Telegraph ... fiSV
Mining Stocks.
Nkw Yuiik, Dei, lti.-The following are tke
ehiftlii'^ i|'iota'ions of st icks on the New Y'erk
Mining Exchange:
ll'ime-stake Doprefcrredf .'M
Iron Silver* Southern Paeitic*
ontarlof
yuli'ksllver
*.No sales,
MARKETS
* Satro*.,
t
tAsked.
11Y TKl.KGRA TM .
11
Wool Markal.
Boston, Dec 'in,—Wool, steady firm; Ohio
and Pennsylvania extras S2®:i,'>y Mieiiigan
Ileeees all; eonili ntr and delaine, .12w,J7; Caluur-
'"r Wool, spring 16®Jl; do fall !l,i ID; do pulled
Kansas City Live Stock.
Kansas Cixv, Dee. ID.—The Live Stock ladi-
eatorreoorts as follows:
CATTLE—Hocefpts, 1,12',, market quiet
export- a !,0'a i -,U; goo d lo choice shi|mj)ne
4 .»0'a4 70; common to medium 3Si£4 40 feeders
1 tin -it ■ e. cows 2 7'V'ai! ."io; grass range net
quo al le,
H0G«-Rei e fits, ltlioii; steadv loti 116 to325
Pounds, 3 8a« 1 05; bulks !)0,'g; 4!lj.
SIIKEP—Heecipu 2-so; Steady 2.".0»3 00 for
tan- to good muttons.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Pee, 19— Drover's Journal reports
cattle receipts e,.'U0; shipments, 33C0; eteadv
exports, a „.®ii SO; good to choice shlppinir
Ml common to fair 4 O aBI 00■ Texas
®ii 50
5 004
3 t)0ra4 W,
ltOtiS Keeeipt
closing 5to 10 lewer
A New Railroad.
Denver, Col. Dec. 19.—Articles were
filed to-day with the secretary of slate in-
corporating the Denver, New Orleans and
Missouri Pacific railway company, lo run
from a connection with an extension .of
the Missouri Pacific railway, twenty
miles north of the southwest earner of
Kansas, to a connection with the Denvei*
and New Oi l t.s railw ay, east of Trini-
dad. Jay Gould, Russell Sage, John
Evans, C. W. Fisher and C. 15. Kottnli
are directors for the first year.
Lubrie Bros., St. Loui-', dry goods,
failed f »r «110,000.
It is again said that Bismarck will soon
CONDENSED TKl.KGRA Me,
Lucius Jaimer, the defaulting Vienna
banker, embezzled one million dollars.
Unlucky speculations,
John (i. Brady has been made an
| Alaska coinniissioji'!!'.
I
T'lie conference committee on the naval
I bill can't agree.
Representative MeAdoo wants 125,000
appropriated to prevent the introduction
of cholera into New York.
The Wasingtou niotiument committee
I.as made his llnal report, to congress.
Sivaim testified in the court martial
that he knew nothing of Colonel Mor-
row's duplications mull read of it in
the papers.
Flour-
s-.iooo; shipments, 3300; steady
r; I'oiik'h packing 3 904(4 10:
p^kinyiidlupptiig 4 104)430; tight asO'ailiO;
sHl.EP —Iteeeiri-, 5COO; shipments, 1000-
eieady. inferior to fa|r2 i oa: ^medium touood.
2»clioieu to extra, lojia.ioo
Home Markets.
Oeeick oe the Daii.t Times,)
El Paso, Dec. 20.. 1884. f
The following are lo-day's ruling
wholesale prices, corrected bv CofHn &
Secton, wholesale dealers in Flour,Feed,
etc., in lOOOIbs lots:
floor and feed.
■Kansas, "White Fawn,"
per 100
Colorado, -Pride of Den-
ver", per 100.
Colorado, "Inter Ocean."
per 100
California. " Buckeye,"
per 100s
White and yellow, per 100
White, per 100
•' Mixed, per 100
Chop, per 100
Oats, per 100 J ^
Barley, per 100 j (55
Barley, rolled, per 100 1 75
Bran, per 100 j 5,,
Hay, baled, per ton .20 00a23 00
Beans. Bayos, per 100 4 50
" Pink and re<i, per 100 3 7&
" Lima nud Butter per 100... 4 25
" Navy per 100 .-... 4 00
■Seeds—Alfalfa 22 10
Millet uua
Meal-
Corn-
$1 75
2 25
2 00'
2 50
1 75
1 50
1 45
1 75
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