Show THE latent statement of the affairs oi the panama canal company is hardly calculated to cheer the hearts of those whose means aie in that enterprise the amount expended on the canal during alio fiscal year ending june CO 1888 was nearly and more will be needed to settle ill balances of cheso millions about one half was paid out for interest and the cost of administration owing to the partial failure of the recent attempt to raise money by a lottery the company lias about for use on the canal alie coming year according to the statement of expenses just made this sum will not be sufficient to pay even the interest and the cost of administration to say nothing of the cost of construction how failure can be averted for another year is therefore a question which waits to be answered As an instance of alie recklessness and extravagance which lias characterized the canal management wo append an extract from a letter written to alio montreal gazette by a gentleman residing at panama the company takes credit for worth of machinery an engineer informed mo that two thirds of it is absolutely useless trains of dumping cars are in the rank grasses A whole siding of locomotives has been lost to sight in the canal basins at colon all kinds of vessels maybe seen steam tugs steam launches barbes boats etc abandoned and useless some partly submerged a marine graveyard if the whole canal does not prove a financial graveyard it will not be the fault of management the new bill which recently passed the senate chinese officials teachers students merchants or travel lers for pleasure or curiosity will be permitted to enter the united states but in order to entitle themselves to do so they must first obtain the permission of the chinese government or other government of which they may at alie timo be citizens or subjects such permission and also their personal identity must be evidenced by a certificate to be made out by some diplomatic or consular representative of the united states in the country from which the person named in certificate comes after the new law goes into effect no chinese laborer in the united states will bo permitted after having left to return to this country again unless he has a family here or property of the value of one thousand dollars or debts of like amount due him and pending settlement the chinese laborer possessing the requisite certificate will be admitted to the united states anly at the port from which he departed and no chinesa person except chinese diplomatic or consular officers and their attendants tend ants will be permitted to enter the country except at ports designated by the secretary of the treasury any person violating tho provisions of the act will be subject to arrest and on conviction will be expelled from the country TUB chicago times is printing a series of articles on the condition of the work ing kocien of that city in order that an inside view might be obtained of the life in factories and shops where girls are employed a young woman reporter was sent out with instructions to act the part of a working girl to seek work and to perform it the revelations made as the result of these investigations are heart sickening it is the same old story told EO often but none the less dark and pitiful for that the story of cruel greed of merciless tyranny of misery and wretchedness and sin and woe one example is given where girls were employed in making cloaks at seventy five cents apiece that were afterwards sold for thirty five dollars a profit of more thanoor tha nour thousand per cent there is food for anarchy in this JUDGE the democratic Dema cratic nominee for vice president recently to a crowd of people in delaware ohio who demanded a he did not say much but what he did say told here is what he said on the tariff what is it is tax tax levied by the general government upon commodities modi ties that the la borics men as well as others use it is a tax that takes hold of everything from the crown of bour head to the soles of your feet that taxes your hat your coat your vest your breeches your boots your shoes that taxes each and every implement which you use in your mechanical and agricultural operations and now to tell me that to take a laboring man and to tax him from the top of hia head to the soles of his feet and to tax him on everything he uses in his trade is to benefit him seema to me nothing but an absurdity THE fisheries treaty bill has been rejected by the senate the vote being a strictly party one secretary bayard regards the action of the senate as a misfortune the british press is severe in its condemnation of the action ot the american senate ono influential london paper says this unworthy attempt io make party capital of a question which might involve two great countries in war is not likely to endear the republican party to the majority of the native born americans ADVICES from honolulu state that on july 24 by a vote of 35 to 10 the legislative assembly of the hawaiian islands passed a military bill over king Kalakau as veto by the bill the naval establishment is abolished and the arav reduced to sixty five men exclusive of the military band A handy little book for the presidential campaign is just out it contains finely engraved portraits and sketches of the candidates for president and vice president beep dem and pro electoral and popular votes in previous elec tiona and other useful information copies may be had free at the druggists or by sending a 2 cent stamp to C I 1 hood co lowell mass an excellent article entitled utah what representative caino saya ol 01 the people and territory published in the national effirm and Fireside P ci will appear to oar ewt isu rasmus bielson yi elson of hunter salt lake county was examined wednesday by commissioner borrell on a charge of un the severe examination the plural wife was subjected to by peters she burst into tears and questions were plied to her rapidly without giving her time to recover 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