Show NEWS OF THE DAY The strike among the Texas Pacific Railroad men continues and is a serious interruption to business The gross earnings of the Northern Pacific Railroad for February are reported at 569562 an increase over February of last year of 49477 The bill changing the name of Dor sey county to Cleveland county passed the Arkansas House yesterday and awaits the Governors signature Wednesday morning at Monroe N C masked men overpowered the jail and took out Lee Statten a negro and hanged him Statten was charged with rape The California legislature appropriated appropri-ated yesterday 25000 to defray the expenses ex-penses of the National encampment of the G A n to be held in that State in 1886 Rumors are current at Ottawa that the Imperial government has been asking how soon the Canadian Pacific Railway will be ready for the transportation of I troops The cigar dealers unanimously agree that there is no diminution in the cigar trade on account of General Grants cancer can-cer of the tongue and its obvious cause The Indian weed has too large a hold on the American heart The boiler of the steamer Ware exploded yesterday at Wilmington N C killing three persons and destroying the boat No official inspection will prevent pre-vent accidents of this kind so long as ignorant ig-norant engineers are tolerated Uneasy fellows seem still determined Ito I-to provoke conflict with the Jaws by forcible forc-ible entry and settlement upon the Oklahoma Okla-homa Indian lands The government of the United States is the stronger party and they will probably be compelled to give it up Mr and Mrs Schaeffer of San Antonia An-tonia Texas committed suicide together on Wednesday There was domestic unhappiness un-happiness but the inability to see beyond be-yond this mortal e leaves the question open whether they have improved their condition The daily defaulter dates today from Gloversville N Y He was town treasurer trea-surer and leaves behind his note for 5000 in full discharge of deficiencies Hinckley of New York who retreated to Canada on account of financial embarrassments embar-rassments returned to face his creditors credit-ors and was received with open arms The Denver Chamber of Commerce calls on the new Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the silver in the Government vaults This is good i and the members of that Board if they will present proper drafts at the nearest government depository depos-itory asking for payment in silver will undoubtedly be accommodated The New York Bulletin says the fire losses for February in that city were 10 000000 or 50 per cent more than the average av-erage losses in February for ten years past The moralist always finds food for sad reflection in the fact that there are many fires in years when business is depressed de-pressed many houses are vacant and rents not remunerative There is some surprise in New York that there is no demand among the poor for free soup In fact the country is confronted with the puzzling truth that with 100000 men out of employment discharged dis-charged mainly from the great factories there was never less demand upon the charitable than now The American workman is less improvident and saves his wages better than formerly The sudden improvement in the health of Gen Grant since his restoration restora-tion to his rank in the army excites much comment all over the country criticism being especially directed at the bulletins of the doctors The matter does look a little queer but no one suspects sus-pects GenCJ Grant of any unfairness in the matterinjudicious friends may have played false and this adds another burden bur-den to the shoulders of the great military chief Our dispatches of yesterday gave a statement somewhat in detail of the character char-acter and number of the visitors at tho White House up to 130 oclock A later dispatch says that subsequently the Democratic Dem-ocratic Phalanx of Albany called on the President in a body They were followed by detachments of clubs from Ohio New York New Jersey Maryland Kansas Missouri and elsewhere The President then gave notice that he would receive all who might choose to come between 10 time hun and 4 oclock and during that to dreds of strangers paid their respects the Chief Magistrate The President received them in the East room and shook hands with all The crowd passed through in single file and owing to the immense numberpre = senting themselves it was und necessary neces-sary to dispense with the formality of introduction The President however acquaintances in the recognized many line and greeted them by name There was a large number of colored people among the visitors The President bore the trying ordeal well and greeted each < with pleasant smiles and hearty P ersMi grasp of the hand The visiting militia and civil organizations which had not previously called in a body were well represented Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania and staff were prominent among the visitors All the members of exPresident Arthurs Cabinet withthe exception of Secreta J I ries Frelinghuysen and Teller occupied I their usual decks and attended to all business bus-iness requiring attention at their hands Secretary Frclingliuysen was detained at home by illhealth and Secretary Teller whose resignation was accepted yesterday yester-day was at the capitol Those on duty received many callers |