Show umon AMERICAN washington 15 president arthur arthar replied 1 I have genuine pleasure li lel heartily reciprocating the good wishes which you personally and d officially express it is with great satisfaction I 1 lehm learn that the welcome to our shores has been anit a fil fib exponent of the deep feeling of friend and sympathy which the I eople people of the two countries cherish towards one a other itis eminently appropriate that this feeling should beek week to in re reaper reaped forvour for your sour honored sovereign and in cordial greeting to you the representative dofher of her imperial majesty and the people over whom she ruled the people of the united States wll wil long remember the many words of affection and sympathy sent by her majesty and by the people of great britain and the Ame american rican heart cannot readily forget t how the igind red heart of your people throbbed with our own in grief at our recent bereavement the nation which you mr lV Ni nister inister represent and the nation to which you are accredited are bound together by stronger ties than those of blood or speech separated but not tendered antagonistic by the lapse of a hundred years friendly rivals in the domain of peace und commerce the prosperity and progress of bogli both are intimately connected by a common interest ina lna in a co ca inmon civilization I 1 beg to assure you sir and aud through you 0 1 your gracious sovereign and li her e r people that lie the government will in in all points and aud ab at all times use its best endeavors ende avora to promote and develop still m TO re the spirit of harmony ani aul goodwill good will which so 8 signally 1 g marks the intercourse ot of the two nations aside from froba your official rece tion I 1 bid you a most cordial per personal sonai welcome your reputation mir fir distinguished ser services vices in other fields ot of diplomacy has hns pre pro your coming to the united states and I 1 trust mr minister that your residence here hero may ba as ag agreeable yourself to as it will I 1 am sure prove valuable to your country the annual of of the in interior perlor is largely devot devoted e d to fresh decisions deci alons on tile the indian question he strongly recommends that liberal provision be made by congress for teach teaching ing lug indhar youths our that upon just terms to the indians the number and area of existing reservations be greatly reduced that on such reservations as are not well adapted to farming with irrigation irrigations efforts bo be made to teach the indans to become herdsmen instead of endeavoring to try to make them farmer that indian tit titles lesto to nedi redi reduced teed leed reservations be uz ed and thoroughly protected by law and that more civilized reservation indians bo be encouraged to abandon their tribal relations by setting up experimental forms of lo 10 al 90 government among them as nearly a may be to the system of county government prevailing in the states or territories in which the reservations are respectively located the department of agriculture report says bays the cotton yield is considerably sider ably below last year decrease in louisiana 33 per cent texas 4 arkansas 60 north carolina 30 south carolina georgia and sippi eipp iare lare are only a year bear the average yield per acre in 1831 was loi 10 bushels against last year decrease 20 per centi cents cent or bushels the severe winter the tho late cold drought and the ravages of insects caused a great falling ott in several of the interior western estern states but the quality is very good corn now returns an average yield of bushels per acre a failing falling off of 25 per cent caused chiefly by general and protracted drought during the gro growing wung season and by excessive rains afterwards CHICAGO 15 A Youn glown ohio special says jesilow baldwin of boardman township townships nive five miles south of this city the tho lunatic who created a sensation by appearing iu in the tho treasury department in ww washington h demanding gold for in bonds donds was robbed this morning at 3 lie ho kept his miney mines in an old fashioned safe under the stairs in the hally bally ray cay of his hia reside residence tice ilce the party parly of burglars numbered five the family slept rant sant the first intimation they d of the burglary was the furious noibe e made by the bios blowing ing pen open of the safe b by y powder geo lewis Bald baid baldwin wins son in law fired three at tile tiie robbers as they left the tiie house with the bags baga of gold in their arms the bourglais burg lats lais fired back nobody was hurt on either side the robbers had bad previously taken two of bald win and his best beat carriage from the stable and had them standing near the residence they jumped into the buggy and escaped going south baldwin has offered a reward of it Is just learned that the carriage broke down four miles fram Bald baid baldwin wins house the local manager of the mutual union enion telegraph company in answering gryk th the quest question loir how extensive will be the mutual union in its telegraphic communication bam sald we V will include every large city in the tho united state states sarn sari francisco new Orlean orleans sew ew york and chicago being the bentres centres of our lines we rim run entirely along the highways aad 0 ver open country not paralleled with r railroads asa as are rethe the western union wires arking our out service s much cheaper and N with no nd arbitrary delay of the railroad com cym Th the french eFrench visitors after being heing entertained here will go to ometha and thence to Zall california fornia where it Is bald said they intend to look into the wine question and on frence french commerce NEW 15 in the afternoon welles was wag again arraigned i accompanied by consul alge algernon aigernon anon sullivan and a number of relatives inspector bymes byrnes submitted a number of letters written by the acclis accused ed which wore were carefully looked over by justice bixby and consul sullivan after which the latter applied for a postponement of the examination on the ground that he being detained late in the afternoon he had not time to prepare the defense he abhorred the crime of blackmail and he was confident that ho he could explain his clients conduct by the va garles garies of ins insanity aulty anity inspector byrnes affidavit was then taken and in it ie le stated he believed jay goulds ife was in danger while the prisoner ner was at large and ho he requested his dete detention ution he also charged that the letters were written merely for the purpose of blackmailing the examination was adjourned until the judge judee bixby ordered the warden of the prison to treat his prison eras Insane the tribunes dib dis patch say J ho howard willis is 13 well known here and in baltimore besides the irregularities and crooked ness of or his hia transactions when commissary of subsistence here it is learned that when at baltimore he was a heavy operator opera torin in wall street keeping large sums on deposit in new york as margins for his speculations it was given out in baltimore that he ft ni as a very successful operator in gold at the time he was known in baltimore he spelled bis his namo name wells and ills his autograph in full round hand ia is J howard veils wells captain etc is well remembered by the accounting officer of the trea trva treasury sury and commissary the times prints an account of a trial yesterday in the presence of gen grant secretary hunt hunts chief engineers lorang and Henderson of i the united states navland nav Xav yand a dozen other distinguished officers and public men of Er Erics lessons sona torpedo boat the destroyer tho the novel feature of this boat libat is a submerged gun which discharges a torpedo with unerring certainty through the water feet in three seconds with 13 pounds of powder Yester yesterdays daYss was a sue suc cess by all who witnessed it it was th tho fifty second time the gun had fired the projectile and at no trial triai since the boat has been put in w aking order has it failed with the same charge to throw the torpedo feet in three seconds or less the french french officers were especially interested te in the experiment and though they athirst at first pronounced it impossible to operate a gun constructed ted on such principles and with a submerged muzzles successfully they were obliged to acknowledge that the theory had coved proved astonishment was ed in ever over every overy ances when they saw the projectile rie rio rise to the surface beyond the target after having traversed the distance frow from the muzzle of the gun and thit ugh the netting without mak mate ing lilg een even tile the faintest ripple on the skir surface face sa sald said jd a naval officer at seeing no the conclusion of the i rn ment nt give new york harbor a dezen such ve vessels sols which could be built at the colt of the inflexible or dudlo and wo we could successfully defy the combined navi navies of tho the seems me the to a complete revolution in naval construction st methods A fleet of cruisers with a couple of these des tro board boards ready to launch it st a notice could bid dol ance to ibe most powerfully iron protected fleet the hudson river tunnel construction st tion ilon company was organized in jersey city yesterday to build tho tunnel under tinder the hudson river between jersey city and new york novi now under construction with a capital of ta in shares of ac a meeting 0 of tie tre tle stockholders yesterday it was decad decided e ad to offer for subscription llon ilon only of this amount two thirds were immediately subscribed b bythe the directors the remainder will be offered for public subscription raj ral tion the directors chosen n are re T 0 mills john H jones charies charles G frilick lyn trenor W park and joseph joseh 0 mills the organization pany was wag completed by the thi tit election of trenor W V park as pr president side nt and frederic frederick B J jennings e innings I 1 see secretary detary and treasurer the contract for completing the tunnel has been made by the company tho the steg steamer me r bohemia which arrived I 1 to day brought jews they were assisted to this country by tie xie the Allian alliance cd israel Uni verselle the steamship agreed to provide provi lie ide these passengers with food according to the ali e ritual kosher beginning at their start from the russian frontier until their ardt ardy arrival al at new york and the agents of the tae ine ane oneco to cooperate operate with tho the Allia aiila alliance ncr in providing for their comfort to their destination the immigrants principally culturists and are aro strong and hardy men the steamer silesia duo due on wednesday next will bring more it is ls said that will emigrate this winter forty one smallpox small pox patients were in n the riverside hospital during the last two months the emigrant hospital received 40 smallpox small pox cases eases from the staten island tomato canning establishment where the german immigrants were EO so badly treated the hospital li at snake hill new nen jersey is so overcrowded with mall mail pok pox patients that the authorities are using tents for the overflow and new cases are arriving daily it is stated the pennsylvania company intend pt arting starting a limited express two hours after the departure of the fast train on the new york central road and get into chicago first mile nhea a russian debutante debutantes made her first appearance ppe aranco in america tonight to night at a brooklyn park theatre in the character of camille and achieved a decided success cincinnati 15 the distillers of this city and vicinity together with ff amiller BM B miller iller of riverton Bi verton ills who held the proxies of all the illinois distillers held a secret meeting this afternoon in lu this city H B miller was president and d edward edword stevens was secretary it was resolved to reduce the production to one half the registered capacity it was also agreed to form forma a permanent organization with an executive committee which shall have power to fix the amount of the reduction of each distillery it was also alto agreed to assess members for a fund to equalize losses which occur by reason of contracts for feeding cattle cattie the distillers are not able to reduce capacities at once to 50 p per er cent A meeting for final organization is to be had on thursday next at chicago BOSTON 15 the irish national Nat jonal LandLe luand sent to ireland last quarter california sent au an additional CITY OF MI XICO 14 congress has approved the transfer made hy by gen gea frisby of the mexican pacific railway commission to the tho yuma guaymas railroad kompany company the official government organs denies that the national railroad must withdraw from guadalajara on the route to the pacific another storm has occurred at Maz atlan seven vessels ancho anchored ted in tile the borbor were driven out to sea t two wo schooners ners were beached and two rafts with petroleum were de st royed no lives lost ATLANTA 16 the mexican Veter yeter veterans association association held beld their annual meeting today to day in the judges hall on the exposition grounds general walker in a brief speech introduced general fleury fl enry it jackson jaeb Jacb son bon of savan Savah savannah nah nab who delivered an oration on tile the history of the campaign against mexico general sherman being called upon vron made a short speech in course of which he c we have b eard an eloquent discourse from general jackson on the campaign in mexico I 1 thank thanh god that I 1 am all au american citizen that we are american citizens I 1 thank thanh god I 1 am one I 1 tell 1 I cau gu cwm any from maine haine to texas and stop whore where I 1 please so long a as I 1 behave myself and obey the laws of the places and that is the s spirit r it pf af the nii pil government and that fi at is what made us the united states of A america merlea and that is the foundation stone upon which governments are built for this continent we fought our mother country and acquired our independence and today to day weare all ali the same bame soldiers the i fame ame iame government ern ment 3 the same fia flamand gand fla flag and so far as a 9 1 I am concerned I 1 am just as pil fil friendly endly to as I 1 am to my own native state of ohio immense applause if you sou think georgia is a better part par of the country cou rou why stick to georgia and if it you want to go to california why go there that is the great value of our system of government ern ment it isa is a government worth fighting for I 1 have come today to day to look upon these bles bies blessius blessings sirs where ere once wo we had battle fields and I 1 delight more to look upon them than coook t 0 look upon the which was enacted here 16 years ago and I 1 say that every man and many kindly women over this broad land takes as much pleasure in your prosperity and in this exposition as do those who are sitting in jn this presence today to day I 1 did not intend to be brought out even this much but I 1 think we are now in a position to say that we thank god that we are each and everyone every one of us its great and small young and old amerlean american citizens Bs BOSTON TON larthe lothe r commission appointed to investigate the published charges against the ath regiment or their recent trip to Yorktown reports that much of the mischief was sport only but often boisterous and carried to excess some or it was from ignorance of good breeding and some clearly the result of over ind andul il gence in Or drinking Inking the acts were committed by ly a squad wandering about richmond under permission given because no preparation had been made the unexpected delay between the arrival and departure of th 0 o train for yorktown the commission recommends that the 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