| Show BY TELEGRAPH AMERICAN as NEW orr ORK 29 the po potter i ater committee convened heres here today to day and examined Governor ex palmer of illinois palmer testified to a full and free conversation in new orleans with kellogg we and anderson in which he urged upon them that civil war might follow this question of the presidential election elections and that it was proper to fill the vacancy on the board anderson wanted they disliked local democratic politicians and could agree an on nobody he learned that the democrats had bad made extraordinary attempts to capture the colored vote in the campaign of 1876 nicholls was much more respected by the ne groes than packard was he explained the peculiar way in which ohe che returning board conducted its bu business siness he was refused adm admission is although he thought hale and other republicans were admitted after taking a little more unimportant testimony adjourned till august the mail says the chinese embassy has arrived to capy spy out the land a laudable object the chinese have a right in endeavoring tornow to know the world as other people do and open their eye eyed to the condition of their countrymen everywhere the telegram says no unprejudiced person would wish to agnore the fact that the chinese in san francisco do not always behave themselves as aa well as they ought to or that taking them as a whole they are not an ornament or credit to that city but there is no reason why when the duly accredited representatives of the ubina chinese se government arrived in ban san francisco they should not be received with a dignity corresponding to their position and befitting to the terms F existing between the celes empire and the united states by omit omitting to extend a polite and hospitable reception the tho elvic elvie dig f nit uit arles aries of san ban francisco showed themselves to be wanting in tact right feeling and common sensa sense even intelligent americans are apt to imagine that all abla Asia tica are barbarous and that the chinese 1 because they wear queues and support certain ma manners liners and tolerate certain vices vice not openly coulten aneed in christian countries are arek only a degree removed from the brutes an hours houra conversation with a solitary Boli tary educated chinaman would go far to dispel this delusion and we hope the ban san francisco authorities ties will have an opportunity and so gather wisdom for a future 06 occasion caslon at 1 DES ades nois 29 reports from f v various rious portions of the state give v discouraging account accounts 6 of the wheat crop but claim a good yield for other cereals the in intense tense heat hiat and rains of the past week weel w nao oro kne ero cause cube ot of the damage to wheat some fields of hundreds of acres will not ba be worth cutting while others will yield from five to thirty five bushels according to the time of planting the winter wheat being generally cited as being an average crop of 35 bushels per acred acre but spring sown wheat Is estimated in different counties generally at one third and one half the crop of 1 farmers are aref worked night and day and sunday and although tramps have flooded the state men cannot be got to harvest for wages varying from to per day and board washl NaroN 29 A very dangerous counterfeit note on the pittsfield national Bank Pittsfield mass has just been discovered by the national bank redemption division of the treasury department it Is evidently made from the same plate plato as the recent counterfeit elate but bud ut is better printed the number in ing ins is excellent all ali nates notes of this iss issue ue will be withdrawn from circulation aa as rapidly as bosil possible ibie ible the united states indian agent at leahr idaho writes to the commissioner of indian affairs an noun cing a murder by two or more indians indiana belonging tol to the leahl agency lof Bannack John an old indian well known in that section as a desperado it rip appears pears that bannack Bann acte john murdered a s white man a few lew days ago oa on camas prairie and the indians indiana feared retaliation on the part of the whites the news reached one of 3 the indian camps that ten of their t number were murdered by whites in bound pound valley while hunting after hearing this slaughter blame was laid on bannack john and a fow few ew of the indians formed a con for his assassination which was successfully carried out several rioters were arraigned in the police court today to day and john H graham prominent in the disturbance tur bance was waa sent to jail for three months cohen arrested attested on satur batur i day night and who is regarded as a leading agitator was not ready for trial and his case was postponed until tomorrow to morrow it la Is not believed there will be any further farther serious trouble the police authorities continue to take extra precautions to prevent a breach preach of the peace mr hill supervising architect of the treasury has published a card concerning the work of excavating for lor the new bureau of engraving and printing in which he says 1 I understand that the rate paid to the contractor is from 1 to per day if on account of scarcity of employment and the number of of laborers unemployed a sufficient number of men are willing to work for these wages it is right to do so and no one ono has a right to or should seek to deter them 1 will so far as I 1 am permitted by law lawi see that the work is jeb jet so that the workmen may have fair wages and prompt pay but if by violence and riot the workingmen are prevented from making their con eon contract tract or fuli filling them when made the effect will be to delay the gerk werk and thus thua deprive willing workmen of the opportunity port unity of earning their bread NEW ORLEANS 29 the president of the board of health says the yellow fever is BO so prevalent that it would not be bd proper to issue to departing vessels clean bills of health total rota 1 cases to noon 80 deaths 53 GALVESTON 29 the board of health today to day deiy decided de elded to quarantine both by land and sea bea here after nit alt incoming trains will be boarded at highland station and persons from infected ports will be detained the steamer karlan harlan JH of the morgan line with freight from new now orleans kasnot was not permitted to pass the quarantine station and returned to morgan City without discharging the city is clean and I 1 healthy and the authorities are out extensive hanl Enni sanitary tary measures A san antonio special says information from the border says the mexican government is organizing the inhabitants both indian and mexican into companies to operate against americans the tho most notorious characters on the border hold commissions from the mexican government coroles a a notorious raider is in command of a company near newtown on the mexican sides side above pedras ne brij gras the kickapoo indians indiana have bien boen been enrolled to defend the town ef saragossa against mackenzie should ho he follow the raiders across the elo eio grande to th that thal a tp place lace there is ig almost a cessation of friendly relations between the american and mexican abue v acla 0 mexican paper at pedras negras degras announces that col nuncio has ample force to destroy the gringos Gri Grin ngos gos gop there has been beeri no modification tiou of the orders given regarding the fol lowing of raiders into mexico DENVER 29 astronomical parties aa as far as heard from failed to discover the planet vulcan vulcan although able to discover stars of the sixth magnitude prof young reported that he discovered no ultra red or ultra violet lines but at the moment of totality all the fraunhoffer Fraunho ofer lines were beautifully reversed this was the most result of his observation and confirms the observations made in slam both of the H lines were also reversed very bright lines were seen near the large JB which confirms gon aon firms professor pos sons sona observations vat ions he also saw bright line lines s at F and 1474 1471 Ed isona tasi meter failed to work 1 satisfactorily and he used a thermopile which caused an unsteady motion on the galvanometer i prof colfort reports that his hia observations ions tend to show that the moons path in the heavens laysa lays a little farther to the southward than indicated by the lunar tables or else that the estimate of the moons diameter is too large perhaps both the measure by mr east E ast ask erday indicated that the corona extended out on an average of about twenty six minutes of an arc are corresponding to a distance of fully miles around the sun it was strongly striated and in the direction of the ecliptic the rays were nearly straight while above and below that line they were markedly spiral in their char acter and some of the lines at the base formed an angle of not less lots than thirty degrees with a prolongation lon gation of the suns raye the was distinctly seen by professor hough indicating a thickness of some 2000 miles the were much less than at most of the recent eclipses two rather pale ones were seen on the western side ol 01 the moon mr thomas also lines but did not discover any new lines at idaho springs two observations were made by prof eaton of the packer institute and S V white of brooklyn nr X Y the day was cloudless and numerous sketches of bf the corona were made there was anen an entire tire absence of the pink flame usually aseen during total eclipses at central city were stationed prof holden and prof compton numerous drawings were made of the coronas corona but no report of the scientific results has been lec jec received elved Raw rawlins linss wyo 29 T the weather here today to day was fine sky clear and the observation a perfect suc sue success cesse Edi sons experiments with the were quite satisfactory dr dri draper of new york succeeded in obtaining several photographs of the sun during the eclipse prof watson of ann arbor and mr norman lockyer have hav just ejust returned from Separation where the total eclipse lasted 2 minutes and BO 50 seconds professor watson discovered an intra mercurial planet of the size of a four and a half magnitude star about two and a half degrees southwest of the sun mr lockyer says this eclipse was totally different the corona being ten times brighter this time from the one in 1871 showing a greater variation of the brightness of the corona be tween the maximum and minimum period of the sun spots he obtained a faint photograph of the continuous spectrum ot of the sun and saw no trace ot of lines or rings through mr Ruther fords grading lake charles la 29 the eclipse began at pm and end ed at the total eclipse occurred at 3 40 pm and lasted one minute the he cods bluds occasionally obscured the sunt lut but the view at the commencement for most of the mi ration C baart was wholly unobscured NEW YORK SO the commercial advertiser says the chinese embassy is creating a great deal of attention and the reticence of its members has produced the opinion in that city that the object is to hold the U united cited states to the strict letter itter of the treaty there ia is no doubt but that the chinese government understands the condition of affairs on the pacific slope just as thoroughly as the people there and if it is resolved that no change in the treaty can be made at present the agitator agitators sr will have a fresh lease of power powers and the community will be kept in a continual state of suspense china unhappily for the doola yo ota ola af nr Cail toinia who regard this question aa as so very serious has the iange jarge end of the stick and if jf she proposes to hold on to it will undoubtedly complicate the chi nese nose question i the sun suh says Gil mores band haa has been disbanded in paris and the treasurer has absconded the mom bers ben are writing home for money to enable them to return returns and some must depend on the american consul the tribunes editorial says the insurrection against all atlea and decencies of modern civilization liza tion enlisting thep prejudices the u d ices lees and arid pass of classes needs rich butler to foot the bills as well as arec kleA kearney to stir up the mob if any by man can come forward with a sensible statement of if the ireal needs of the laboring ma man ni and of practical rem rom remedies edless he ought to be hailed aa as a public benefactor by everybody and will be so welcomed by every intelligent capitalist or Ji sorer laborer but noboa nobody can answer the wild ranting lobody nobody can meet with reason men who do not know what they want why they want it the most mott dan berous force in society at present is the vague notion of bf the laborers that the har hardness driess of their lot ia 13 somehow due they cannot tell how to the unjust action or action fhy those who hold the savings and ard capital of society and that it must in some blind and incomprehensible way be remedied by eyer ever overturning turning things generally A herald portland 11 maine amfie affie dispatch says at a meeting ot othe the republican state committee blaine urged that in any resolution about currency the word coin should be substituted for tor or gold but he was overruled and the party will go into the campaign to try the con clu elu elusions with green backers on as an out and out bard money platform CHICAGO SO 30 the eclipse was discernible here under favorable conditions but observations were only taken in a private way J H for many years proprietor of Mo Vickers theatre and well known in the tho dramatic world has filed a voluntary peti alon in bankruptcy liabilities of this amount halt half a million is a judgment against him as one of the bondsmen of david A gage ex city elty treasurer who defaulted in a large amount to the city in 1874 of the remainder 95 is secured by mortgage on theatre and ali all the rest is variously secured with the exception of 2000 or he owes to mrs Mo mcvicker Vicker and to various eastern parties the theatre willbe run as heretofore by mr ir Mo mcvicker Vicker and all contracts which have been made with dramatic troupes will be carried out the general freight agents agent have shave raised the freight on fourth class claes freight from chicago to new york to 25 cents cants per pounds oneff one of the heaviest brainstorms rainstorms rain storms known for years has haa prevailed here almost continuous since esIx six yesterday evening evenings and is doing considerable damage the boston special on kearney says certain it is at the present that there is no such ism as Kearn eylam here that he ia Is under critical examination examinations and that he has to win his bis way to applause and support he seems to realize ali eady and most of his talk is to convince the boys as he calls the sons of toil toll that he is not the violent revolutionary fellow he is painted and that the damnable newspapers which he affects to hate with the same intensity that butler dh plays have misrepresented and maligned ned him it ia Is generally believed that he will strike a moderate tone in his opening speech and endeavor to make a good impression at the starl start there is much speculation as to his intentions towards butlers campaign he freely expresses his hib fond nesa neBa aw tenezar rma his desire to give him a lift in the campaign but he insists that he comes hereon here on his own and without consultation with the general the jarald says saye if kearneas Kear ideas are correct or reasonable be he shall be well reported he may prove to be a power in the all fall PORTLAND me SO T the he republican state convention was called to order today to day by senator blaine and after organizing reorganizing re recess was taken washington SO 30 the secretary of we the trek treasury sury will today to day issue a call for the redemption of live million 5 20 bonds ot of 1865 consola con sols of aj millions of coupon and aj millions registered bonds s |
