Show BY TELEGRAPH rca UMON i AMERICAN nav york 17 tomorrow to morrow the I lublic will publish its usual weekly table tabie from which the following comparison of business transactions this week with the corresponding week last year appears as shown through the clearing house exchanges losses at philadelphia per ceno san francisco syl Sym syracuse cuse all others h have ve gained as follows new york 3 boston ig lg 16 chicago cincinnati 27 lit yil baltimore altimore st louis new orleans 1 milwaukee pittsburg louisville pro vi dence kansas city indianapolis 39 cleveland 1 new haven lowell 6 1 the public comments we doubt whether the exchanges exclusive of those arising from stock transactions ever were larger than they were last week the aggregate outside of new york has been excellent twice during the week ending november ath and in december last but not greatly the aggregate in this city after deducting the sales of stock wasaji was an increase of per cent probably the exchanges not caused by sales of stock never were so large before within than they were last week the increase here was partly due to heavy sales of grain the sales of wheat amounted to bushels corn bushels oats bushels dealings in cotton were also large but all these account for but a small part of the exchanges which clearly indicate that the volume of general business has become larger than ever before ALBANY the state canvassers met today to day and adjourned till tomorrow official returns from all the counties but new york give the garfield electors the majority for hancock in new york is estimated at which will make garfielda Gar fields majority washington 17 the ohio senatorial cju clu question estin is likely to give the republicans much trouble and may los ios lose iose them ethem temporary control of the senate the person who succeeds to Gar garfielda fields place in the senate must have his claims passed upon before he be takes his seat beat r and now it is probable the demoes democrats ts will compel him to wait a long time it consists in a legal question as to whether garfield place in the senate is vacant whenever he chooses to withdraw or whether be he must first become actually before he can resign the r report of the lighthouse board will recommend the appropriation of to give the electric light a proper test before adopting it for general use in houses the amount necessary for carrying on the work of the bureau is 11 CLEVELAND 17 when vohen daniel burr a wadman waterman in a rail mill in the ward left home for work last night his hia wife and children were well and his three year old daughter followed him to the gate to kiss him when he returned this morning the house was locked and no sign of life Cli cil climbing tabing through a window he was horrified to find the whole family lying senseless A powerful odor of gas from a base burner steve filled the air his little daughter who last kissed him was dead the mother and 11 year old daughter in bed and ina lna in a faint and on the floor unconscious was a neighbors daughter and a woman friend of the family sitting sitt ing at the foot in a comatose condition the last as t named will probably recover but the others will probably pro babii babli die DEN VER 17 the tile times this af afternoon announces that a telegram received from new york states that jay gould has bas purchased the Denver south park railroad the purchase money something near having been paid over yesterday jay gould has been endeavoring to get ea control of the dender deader anio abio rio grande r ande railroad but has failed through the opposition of its president gen palmer and it is thought the purchase of the denver south park railroad is made with a view to dictate the policy of the rio kio grander grande f the two roads will have parallel lines to the gunnison country and gould hopes to bring the rio eio grande to terms through the in vitality of the south park DENVER 17 the weather throughout the state last night today and tonight to night was extremely cold heavy snow fell yesterday and sleighing is good but interfered interfered with by epizootic at eight this mercury in this city was 14 leg teg below remaining b beloy olom 01 bli all day hy and is 0 dos des holo ay ton 10 villi lilli hl nig nip it bains this morning the mercury ranged from 25 to 29 below lead ville 20 below tonight to night will be a repetition of last night louisville 17 an inch of snow and still coming St stlouis Louls louis 17 five inches of sno snow W mercury below freezing last night it is milder now chicago chicag 00 1 17 the thermometer was very near zero last night it is nearly as cold as the coldest winter weather little littie rock 17 heavy snow all day still snowing an unprecedented event ST PAU L 17 it is now believed that 23 is the exact number of patients burned in the insane hospital of sti peter thirty are missing and only six have been found but there is is reason to believe that quite a number of the missing have esca escaped ped to their homes some wandering about the country will probably die of cold gov pillsbury will supply bedding and temporary shelter to the unfortunates and also rebuild the burned portion of the hospital at his own expense CHICAGO 17 an acer ater oceans washington special says bays the director of the mint estimates the gold coin cola and bullion in the treas treasury november is bullion at the min mints Ls this does not include bullion held by mines and private parties the total silver coinage up to nov is NEW YORK IS 18 the thie tribunes washington special says gen vila the new luew minister from colombia said to a correspondent of the tribune yesterday that the government and people of colombia were intensely interested in the canal projects and are watching matters closely but beyond this nothing to his knowledge was being done by them everything depended upon the success of lesseps in securing finana finane financial ial lal support for his enterprise it was reported he be had already met with abundant success but this vila believed was premature As to the choice of routes the people of colombia naturally advocate that chosen by less aap kip lep e through their territory as the aly practicable route and they feel confident that ultimately the capit alises of the country will lend their to that route vila brings 10 special instructions in relation to the canal projects washington IS 18 the foil foll following owing is a copy of a telegram addressed to the chief signal officer from new orleans november 17 great anxiety is felt about the lugar district can you predict at an y immediate chan change ge you done noble service signed jos F GRIFFIN secretary sugar planters assoria the following reply was immediately telegraphed now raining throughout t the he western gulf states there will be edrict probably a heavy frost in the sugar district when the weather clears at this morning new orleans was telegraphed as follows weather will probably be clear tonight great damage from trost frost may be expected the temperature at dodge city at midnight was four degrees below zero which is 41 degrees 0 below mean tiie the cold wave dav e is moving south NEW YORK 18 the T following petition goes to the president today brooklyn nov to ros his excellency buther rutherford jord ford B waves hayes sir cadet J C whittaker is on leave of absence some of his friends propose a court martial others among whom we have the honor to stand think that as the case was not ent croven roven against the boy the ent by restoring him to his former place and position would only do an act of justice to a friendless youth the interests of hu manit yand give additional evidence of h his is purpose p to recognize q no color line in 0 our dealing with american citizens J HYATT SMITH member elect third cong district JUSTIN D FULTON Tn THEODORE EODORE L CUYLER COYLER and others the inter oceans new york telegrams and a london special says news from ireland continues continue i to be alarming the condition of that tb unhappy n L land instead of improving g seems to grow worse every day it is feared on all sides that there is only moo too much foundation fop foy khe the be re ro jhaj that t throng roq ron h the country are arming and are only waiting for a favorable opportunity to defy the authority of the government alarming reports are continually pouring pour ng in in from all parts ireland A dispatch from crauswell Crag swell states that a box containing six rifles belonging to a merchant of loughrea which arrived from limerick was robbed on tuesday night i on the same night according to a dispatch from bralo a party of men our brussels correspondent ele grap graphs s as follows I 1 have bave reason to pla pia place 1 implicit licit faith in the state statement mem which deac reached here a few days ago that some steamers took on board at two or three italian ports W etterle hetterle Wet rifles two or three thousand of them are magazine rifles and they are said to have been shipped for greece but really intended for tor ireland and were purchased eur chased in switzerland by some irishmen who halcome had come from the united states A san francisco letter quoted in the boston traveler says there has been a great falling failing off in population in that city and estimates show a decrease of more than the opinion is expressed that not less than more will be compelled to leave for want of industrial employment the city is overrun with young hoodlums of both sexes nursed in idi idl idleness eness enesi and having no ho hope in the future the writer attributes the gambling spirit that pravades pr evades the city much to its misfortunes and sees no hope of improvement pro until its anti antl gambling people shall displace the present paralyzed victims of stock gambling and until sixty millions of savings now entirely devoted to lot gambling gambli ng shall shail be invested to the expansion of industrial pursuits NEW ORLEANS 18 the mississippi 81 pi 1 river biver commission today to day adopted adopted resolutions calling on the house and senate to pass bill no now pending in the house for the improvement of the mississippi river also a resolution favoring the establish establishment men t by congress of a r regular and continuous mail servi service gervice e between new orleans and the west indies central and south american ports and brazil DENVER denyer IS 18 the republicans leadville special says about 4 welock this morning two policemen attempted to arrest two thieves who were at the depot ready to leave the city the thieves fired at the policemen without efrece effect and ran and the latter followed and returned the fure fire accidentally wounding Mrs Murdock who was near by the wound is not fatal the thieves escaped unharmed wilmington 18 non hon leonard reonard E wales associate judge adge of this county was violently assaulted in the public streets this evening by an unknown party he was approached from behind an struck on the head with a bludgeon the blow knocking him senseless his condition is not nott consi conni considered dered dangerous no effort was made at robbery and it is thought malice prompted the act washington 18 gen miles forwards a dispatch from kislingbury dated at camp mouth of Mussels heil hell nov ath as follows indians attacked us to day at about 4 p m some indians at a distance were discovered by lookouts coming towards our camp and scouts sent out were fired upon by a party in ambush about a quarter of or a mile from camp the scouts fought them well till forced to fall back which they thuy did without losing any men oneff one of the horses was killed and three wounded at the first volley I 1 am making my position as strong a possible 0 isible T they hey are bound to come baek back ga ck in force I 1 shall do the best I 1 can and they shall not get ii hi our stock until they get us all general miles adds that major ilges built a log jog hut and stockade at the mouth of the musselshell Mussel Mussels shell heli last summer that will hold all of kislin Kisling burys nien men and animals there is also a r rifle si 0 O pit around the their jr camp I 1 wil send major ilges adges ove over ftp to ala that t point to remain for a time to await the definite action of the remaining hostile camp near woody mountain A special to the baltimore american from wilmington yesterday says senator grover of oregon is is living here at a medical home under treatment for spinal irritation he will go to NV ashington washington next week to remain if his strength permits through the winter he does not speak positively of being able to attend regularly at the sessions of the senate and ho he will take no active part in the tile work of that body A letter received here says TI that a t gen harry white of pennsylvania penns yiva who has just failed to be reelected elc IW to congress will mackean make an active for fon tho the clerkship of will make three pennsylvania applications for the place ex clerk mo hio pherson gen white and S C forney it is said the camerons will use their influence against mcpherson because of the active part he took look in blaines Blar niam meys interest in 1876 and find subsequently at the chicago con ventik ventin u ST PETE 3 18 the official list of missing and ut at 4 furnished by the hospital h asp ital itai officers 0 as follows 8 pruden probably bur ed J C brennan missing believe belleve safe columbus mcmillan proba ly burned wm win callopie Call cali oplie ophe probably timed J E clinch probably burne burner C R barber missing A C alley missing C sick pro bly burned J E missing VV IV u 2 intz missing thought to have es and eloped T L ross boss missing P E fahey missing J S to mis missing sing Ring it godyn demented demente probably burned J P abraham rescued from the building but died soon after J R rescued from the building and died today H bickmore Dick more probably burned had resided in the hospital 14 years J dill rescued and died soon after from exhaustion J mckay missing E D gordon missing demented A allison demented L dube epileptic probably burned E mahoney probably burned P peterson epileptic missing D A obrien missing P e clancey CI ancey admitted las last t week probably burned catharina holman missing but probably safe those burned were demented and sick patients incapable of making any effort to save themselves st peter 18 thos oneil john t and fred leclere died this this morning from the effects of inhaling smoke and fron fro frol i exhaustion at the asylum fire A number are known to be dead in the snow seven were identified by name umme and six unrecognized bodies 10 more are reported probably burned and eight more missing NASHVILLE 18 judge key of the united states court in deciding a case in favor of the southern express company Cori coni pany against the louisville nashville railroad rall Bail road said the conduct of the express business as such business is no part of the duty ot of the railroad shtil within a recent period there has been in this country no effort on the part of the railroads to carry it on they have been content not only to permit mi t this business to be done for their lines by others but have fostered it by opportunities given until it has grown into a distinct organized branch of general business different in method and characteristics from the natural and legitimate transaction of railroad expressage it has grown into a public necessity the idea cannot now be entertained that a railroad directly or by indirection can destroy express enterprise by excluding exclude ng express companies from their lines or by fettering therewith them thern with unjust regulations or unfair discrimination nor can a railroad assume to itself the exclusive right or privilege of carrying express business over its own lines or any portion of them I 1 do not undertake to say a railroad may undertake as express men but if it should undertake to do so sa it must do so as |