Show BY TELEGRAPH PER WESTERN WISTERN TELEGRAPH lisl 1 1 1 A AMERICAN 11 E R 10 A N anew NEW YORK 15 the times says in in its review of the fruit market the fruit market presents something of a winter appearance summer fruits berries peaches pears and plums have all given way topp to applee apples les lel oranges lemons and bananas the almost total failure of the california 1 pear ar crop has been severely felt since for the past several years california pears have been maki makl making ngat at this season of the year the most attractive portion of market exhibits but although the golden state has lias failed to contribute her usual quantity of pears she has done far better than ever before with grapes rapes during this week some of the very nin fin est california grapes ever sent east will arrive here these grapey grapes are exceedingly tender of delicate flavor and generally very large perhaps the most attractive of all the varieties which come from hom that state is the black morocco As its name indicates it is very dark colored and it is generally of very large size the tribunes scheme to depre sent the passion pas on play at booths boothia is looked on with great disfavor by ohp the clergymen of new york the tribune reporters have talked about the matter with rev D drs rs henry potter john hall tho thos armitage J J P newnan H W bellow bellows edward mcglynn and rev robert colyer all are strongly opposed to the play and give their reasons for their opposition in a tem temperate p erate but impressive and forcible manner the subject in the episcopal presbyterian by terian baptist methodist unitarian and roman catholic churches of the city is indicated by thee theae interviews ter views and it seems plain that the purpose to present prent the play if carried out will be in opposition to public sentiment the worlds lV london special says so far as those not in the confidence of the ministers can judge the course of events in ireland is likely to to be about as follows if the boycott relief expedition accomplishes its object without bloodshed the government will not ak wk a suspension of the tho habeas corpus act but will summon parliament a month earlier earlien earh er than usual about the first week in january and bring down new and sweeping irish land meas ures should this be rejected as it very probably would be at least by the house of lords mr lur gladstone will promptly dissolve parliament and make an appeal to the country not a day being lost in bringing the whole question to a practical issue PANAMA 15 the lima correspondent of the star and J herald says commander lynch continues his raid through the defenseless northern towns and valleys of peru the damage done is immense and the people are panic panie stricken all that are able have gone to towns in tile tiie Cordi leras and on the other slope siope where it is hardly possible the chil jans ians will care to penetrate black mail has been extensively levied by commander com Oom mander lynch and all who have been requisitioned and not dot paid up have had their property destroyed raiders arrived in the vicinity of the plantation in the valley vailey owned by senor senon zo mo secretary of the government three days ago but are in receipt of a message from the prefect of the department senor solomon under a flag of truce in which he proposed to hold a meeting C with lynch to discuss matters lynch had demanded a dayment payment of the war contribution imposed by him upon and valley and he would re embark his troops the peruvian prefect communicated with dictator for instructions and enclosed a dispatch from the american minister V H kauffman iwho wiio wilo said that it was important import apt to all that the commander of the peruvians should come resolved and prepared to pay the war contribution which with perfect right has been been imposed by the chilian commander on tin the town of answered we pay our ransom with lead alone all ali you sou have todo is to defend yourself at all hazards and damage the invader as much as pos ros possible sibia it is absolutely necessary that the same should not occar occur there as in the rest of or the north and that thai the enemy should pay something P fo invading the dispatch of consul kauffman will be sent to the american legation in order that it and his government may appreciate as a it de deserves erves tile the term perfect sight applied to the chilian depredations which have no parallel in the usages in other nations this dispatch from the dictator puts an end to all attempts i of an arrangement A skirmish recently took place near roqueza Mo between peruvians and chiliano Chi lians resulting in the defeat of the latter some artillery accompanied by a norce force 2000 strong had bad left for roqueza Mo the chiliano Chi lians landed banded almost a thousand men on san lorenzo and are busily engaged constructing batteries during two days they were transshipping tran shipping plunder from the north to the south it is some satisfaction to the peruvians that whilst reaping a similar harvest in the south of chili they are destroying the villages and killing in g the inhabitants A sharp earthquake was experienced here and at callao on the loth at p in the tile shock lasted 18 second commencing with a slight trembling and tr terminating minati ug with a motion which frightened everyone into the streets no damage the tile peruvians devoutly wish a tidal wave may have again swept into arco bay and destroyed the chilian transports there A large torpedo was sent off in n carlos carios bay in the hope of destroying straying ying sing some of the chilian vessels it held three tons of powder when it exploded it threw up an volume of water and shook the whole IV hole hoie country the chilian challan fleet were made aware of or the danger and gave the tor for torpedo edo a wide berth following the brillan chilian force are hundreds of chinese lately employed on haciendas visited by chiliano Chil Chi lians lansi this horde complete the work 0 of rapine and plunder beg begun mun gun by the invaders the keystone case involving the que question adon anon whether tile the school land grant to the state of california rovers covers mineral lands was not decided by the united 1 states supreme court today to day but it is inferred that the tile opinion of the court will be announced next monday this morning the president re elved in official audience michael de Bartho lemi leml privy counselor in actual service and chamberlain to the emperor of russia as his ma ledys ferys envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary near this government the pres Prez president ident also received in like manner general ramon santa domingo vela as the newly appointed elvoy envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the united states of colombia on presenting their letters of credence the ministers delivered ceremonial addresses of the usual cordial character to which the tile president made appropriate responses befi befitting eting the friendly relations between the united states and russia and colombia ST LOUIS 15 F four our railroad men went into Flann igans saloon about half past eleven last night ordered drin drinks lik lis which were paid for shortly afterwards more drinks were taken and the party started to leave the saloon without settling for them flandi flannigan gan asked for the pay A row ensued 1 in which flannigan drew a revolver and shot tobias laughlin dead and fired a ball through the lungs of his brother daniel laughlin the dead body of tobias was taken to the morgue and his brother sent to his boarding house 1709 broadway tobias laughlin wag wai an engineer on the wabash road and had a wife and two children somewhere wherein in canada the congregational convention decided to appoint a committee of 25 on the subject of creeds dr edward Beecher beech er read a report recommending the present congressional representative from utah be not admitted to his seat in congress and that the territory of utah be refused admission to the union until polygamy be abolished there the report was received amid repeated applause but was wa not adopted for the reason that it was not clear congress had bad tile the right to exclude the utah delegate etwas ordered to be printed however new KEW YORK 16 judge davis at a late hour last night sent a communication muni cation to the newspaper offices in which he says lie is satisfied that in div giving ing a summary of joseph harts hart testimony in the tile philp case from his memoranda and recollection hefeli befell he fell feil antoan into an error which clias cilas as an injustice to mr hewitt it is his duty to correct he said that the text of the letter had been published and the lithograph or fac simile had bad not and it was to determine whether the letter should be litho graphed and published in fac jac simile that hart sought the opinion of hewitt and others as to its genuineness ina ing lna antery gery tery other particular the ilie judge says he lie believes the evidence and all information made by him irom it are wholly justified by the facts and then the judge goes on to show how the error happened to be made and to inquire whether it is of any material significance in forming a correct opinion of his conduct in the affair he says the letter ietter as at first published would have fallen still born as a silly and useless forgery if jr it had bad not been taken up and carried through photographs and lithographic fac similes on the shoulders of the national committee and mr hewitts dewitts He witts stronger character nobody charged or suspected hewitt of being guilty of the forgery but my belief was and still is that but for him and his course the forgery would never have been picked out of the gutter in which it was born and hurled int into the canvass with the deadly power of his endorsement and that of the national committee the judge then adds some portions of the testimony of hart tending he think thinks 41 to show that his judge davis mistake ewas was one at most of mere phraseology he then goes on to say that the testimony had not been written out and he had raised on his brief notes the most important points in conclusion judee davis says it is a great mistake in nir mr hewitt to suppose that his tec teg testimony and his conduct were not a le legitimate intimate suh sub subject jector of ludi ludl iudici cial elal al criticism w when hen he appeared as a witness under such circum st stan an cea and my opinion in the case for whatever it may be worth will stand unaltered as to him except in the single particular above suggested the steamer celtic was sighted Z from fire island at pm on sunday A part of the mail she had aboard was destined for tile the pacific states japan an and d Au australia Aralia the pacific express mail train was to leave jersey city uia via the pennsylvania railroad at that night this train was to carry the tiie mail for the next pacific mail steamer leaving san francisco the celtic could hardly be expected to reach her tier dock in time for the train and it seemed almost certain her transcontinental trans continental and australian mail wail would have to remain in newyork until last night postmaster james instructed d bupt supt waring to make an effort to get the celtice celtics mail in time for the pacific express train waring accordingly went to the white starline star line pier and here there arranged with captains perry and annard stannard Bt dock ma maters masters of the I 1 line ine to go down to quarantine wl tn the companas comp anys tender and take off thernell ther the mail nall aaring waring went with them and bags of mail were taken off in an incredibly short time and brought up to pier no 1 north river where they were met by the mail wagons from the general post office and carriel carried up to jersey jerkey city ferry in time to cross by the boat and catch the train by thi this extra service the mail will reach san ssan francisco 24 hours earlier than otherwise it could have doneald done and the steamer leaving that port with the asiatic and australian mail will not be delayed for lor it yesterday postmaster james jamet sent rent a letter to curtes agent of the white line thanking him for the services rendered by captains perry and stannard the sun says A rumor reached the district attorneys office latexes late yesterday afternoon to the effect that kenward philp who it is alleged forged the letter upon the chinee chinese labor question that was attributed to garfield having been dismissed from ahe the employ of the scurrilous newspaper that published the letter lias has determined to make a revelation in regard to the authorship of the jetter letter that would implicate others than tharl himself A special from mentor says garfield will go to washington to remain two or three days dayson on purely personal business the tiger club of greenville co south carolina recently celebrated the democratic victory in m that state and adopted the following resolutions that from henceforth we pledge ourselves ours ouri elves to discard any man white or black who voted with the radical party and that we will not rent our land lands to or have upon our premises such men until they prove their sincerity since rity to an honest government or the democratic party bywords by words and deeds we earnestly call upon the people of our county and state to loin join ta I 1 hands with us in this matter as the he anly only course for the people to save the tiie government from corruption and fraud that we beg the citizens and merchants of greenville city eity to di discharge from their employ any white or 01 black radical and fill their places with democrats that we discountenance any gny man who will violate any of the above resolutions and consider him wanting in loyalty to the party and spot him as an enemy to good government that no tenants whom we may have on our places shall be allowed to have in their employ r any white or black radical that any voter a stranger to us us who may apply to us for employment must produce satisfactory evidence that lie he is a democrat grant was the guest last night of W H beard brooklyn one of the presidential electors chere he met of the tile princ prine principal 1 K I 1 ci citizens it ize ns of brooklyn during trie evening in conversation v ersa ensa tion he denied in the most emphatic manner the reports of a secret meeting and bargaining between garfield and conkling at mentor he was present at the in but there was neither plot ting bargaining nor private understanding stai stal iding as reported nor any approach to either CHICAGO 16 the tribunes st peter special says at about half past eight last night it was announced that the insane asylum was on fire everybody was appalled at the prospect of over patients being turned out of doors during such a terrible night and the still more disagreeable prospect of going g 0 na more than a mile across a b bleak bieak lea iea prairie and facing the cutting wind our people responded ed nobly man many y made the trip on foot but a large number of wagons 0 and other conveyances were soon on the road while rumors of loss of life reached the tawn the sky in the direction orthe or of the hospital was lighted up and a dense volume of smoke rose over a spot and was carried across the river the probabilities are that the whole structure costing half a million would be destroyed the scene of the conflagration was grand the whole northern wing of the structure was one sheet of flame As soon as it was found that the nire fire was likely to prove serious dr bartlett the superintendent gave orders to have all the patients patient released and cared for as well as possible but before the fire was discovered ohie ofie one or two had become choked with the moke smoke and it was impossible to relieve all the patients no one knows how many perished but quite a number must have been burned |