Show SEW NEW YEARS mm DAY asad one at the white how house IN THE SUNNY STONY SOUTH collections will bo be ma mi ado de for a monument for fol Jeffer jefferson davis special fo 0 o THE WASA washington INGTON dec dac 31 monday will be one of the quietest quieted new years days n the tha history of the house home the executive session is still shrouded in mourning and hence the deci decision siou 0 harrison Harr isoa to dispense with abs tbs tha usual official and general now new years reception iu generally esne rally acquiesced in while at the same time profound regret is ie manifested ovar the bereavement over the I 1 family fanelly thit that have clorn th of the tha navy ear of if its gala character th the C customary tomary breal breakfast dast to the diplo matic co corass rt at the residence of the secretary of state will also be dispensed with because it is held that one ona branch of the tha presidents danta ants official family cannot extend a public i i while the white house itself is on account of mourning mi it is understood that before comics comia toa to a goal final conclusion in this matter the president took tho th opinion of the me members member m of his calinet cabinet as well as his hou household ae opinion was that the customary cust Binay public and official iacob i cog 0 of aih ahe opening of the naw year with pr propriety be abandoned Siana tBt to la jeff ICE dim special to tue THE I 1 misa dec 31 in this state tat as well as all over the tha south ruth mou alon day dav next will be observed as a general contribution day for the of funds fonds for the monument to the memory of jefferson davis which it is ia proposed tn t erect at richmond va in november nov ambar embar I 1 ant act GOT stone ex gov GOT lewry gen flower and staphan D lee inqui inquirers bers of the mississippi committee for raising raining funds for the purpose in question met mat in this city and agreed that upon the first monday in tuft the ar year every resident of aliss diasis s a sippi should be naked to contri out twenty alya cna cents rr r more to the object in quest n th tha 1 met with a hearty response not only in ic thit this but in other skates states of women as well Ps as ot cf men man have bare babou organized in every district of the state and it is anticipated anticipate il from the th energy and enthusiasm that has bas boon bean manifest manifested sd in the tha movement that the tha receipts of monday will go a S dodl ways toward completing the mave picc anat t tur for aniu ory cry of the greatest injure figure of the confederacy trouble imen Li boari special to THE tha ill dec 31 there Is ia more or lea itea mourning here today over the tha fact that severi several score employees ot 01 the tha edkford ro Eo kford watch company find their occupation gone through decision of 0 the corporation to discontinue the baking aaben of balance wheels aad to import hereafter this part of the watch from switzerland it is in claimed that this th ia portion oaths of tha watch can be b manufactured fact ared in and purchased from switzerland the duty and freight thereon paid and ana the ahe m mechanism cha complete received in tois c ity city for a total of nine cents per wheel whereas on the american scale of wa wages ez it costs cost seventeen canto cants to produce each and every wheel put into a rockford watch it IS is in claimed by the operatives that the action of the corpora corporation tiou in patio nizine nicias foreign works to the exclusion of american labor is unfair and ald unjust especially especial Iv in view of tho fact that this branch of industry his hia baen a protected by legislation that a foreign complete com pieta in iti ita can n nit t be ba brought into this country for less than double iti ita coat abroad the corporation however not latif nad fled with the tha protect protection ioa thus afforded haa beon been casting around for ways and means of diminishing the cost of its it finished product through the fore foreign ign labar jabor market and aad the word has already sone gone out that other portions of the dished anishia product coming from the cantara of the pauper labor of europe are nov not being sought doubt for and that if the comi coriany any is successful in its quest several alveral hundred additional employees will be compelled to quit work before spring it ilia is interesting ins moreo moreover in in this connection to note that word has haa unofficially gone out among the w watch trade trad e t thai hat aba prices of the timo time kaep era ara p produced r by these works will be increased creased ten per cent cant on feb lit lat la 11 erml ciralo special D 1 0 dec mander charles charlea F train inspector of the tha fitch filch light house home dietr district ics acs i ir detached from duty today having bees been assigned to tho co namand coi amand of warship war ship Alic michigan higan he ha is by commander yates batea sterlins sterling Sterli cs Dg who assur laes the duties of the tha today having been detached ss as I a member member of the naval examining Exam suing board for this pur purpose posa coma dikert haec So ecial 1 ial totne EQ itaas cincinnati uee SI 31 hie members me cabera of the national burial ease cac turing association composed comp of whole sale bale manufacturers of coffins will its ab here on en monday next tho tha xa as has already decided that no exhibition of coffas coff li should be made at the tha woolda fair but that permission should bs be given to individual members member to exhibit caskets coating from oxe thon thousand anat dollars nt howards wards the tha members Z of the association are not favorably ably impressed with ith the idea that the advent aar adr ent ol of cli cholera olera next year would bri brine Z about A boon in the but incline incline to the ohirion that quick funerals would mean cheap funerals biilly ii idill special to tas dec SO 30 the condition 0 of mr batina still t to 0 show a slight but steady and encouraging coursing en improvement the maintenance of his strength is ia one ena of the most moat encouraging features fea turea of his hia case and gives the mem birs of his family ground for renewed hope |