| Show RV HUHS pic nic ll A 15 JL AMERICAN washington 2 alluding to the failure of Congre aa to provide money to pay the fees of united states marshals attorney general genera devens said sald today to day that he would pursue the same name course that secretary mccrary did last year with howards army when congress fall fail ed to appropriate money to maintain the army it was sustained until the end of november without a dollar of appropriation the united states marshals know that no money has been appropriated to pay their fees ibes yet thoy they will continue to act and see that the courts are aro not closed up knowing that congress will have to pay them for services rendered nelc winter there will be embarrassment in some localities but it will not be general genera and in the main the courts can all ue ve kept rann running ing the democrats having failed to repeal the law relating to deputy marshals the marshals wiil will continue to appoint them whenever justice demands it and congress will have to pay the expenses benses thus incurred general devena devens said that a circular would be issued shortly to all the united states marshals notifying them officially of the failure of congress to provide money to pay their fees but urging them to continue to perform their duties and to assist justice in preventing crime and punishing criminals the senate committee on leges and elections have agreed to distribute themselves as follows for the prose prosecution cution of inquiries authorized by the senate in the spofford kellogg case and the ingalls ingalla investigation ti during the congressional recess the kansas subcommittee sub committee will wili consist of senators saulsbury bailey vance cameron of wis and logan they will commence their labors in kansas during the latter part of september the louisiana committee will be composed of senators hill of georgia and heuston houston as its democratic representatives ta tives and arld either cameron of wisconsin or logan as the representative bunta senta tive of the republicans senator haars engagements makes it impossible for him to serve the louisiana investigation will not be resumed until about the of november when the bub sub commit tee are to assemble in new orleans president and mrs hayes secretary and mrs thompson secretary mccrary and others will leave to morrow on the for nor folk and fortress monroe the party will ba be absent several days upon returning the president will go to the hold Sold soldiers lers home he will only be absent from the city for a few days at a time secretary thompson will leave shortly for tor indiana indians and secretary sherman goes to maine and ohio making oue one or two speeches in each state margaret shaw convicted of murdering her husband april apil has been leon sentenced to state prison for life BOSTON 2 general butlers physicians require him to retire temporarily from business DEADWOOD D T 2 lame glame johnny 1 11 on onti of the parties who robbed the coach near buffalo gap a short time ago while white on the way from old bed red cloud agency to rapid city in charge or of deputy sheriff smith of cheyenne was taken from the coach last night at a place near where the robbery was wag committed by three masked men and hanged banged to a tree near by CHEYENNE 2 the house of anthon fidler in the eastern part of the town was struck by lightning this evening and hirs mrs fidler was instantly killed jeremiah J quinn known in the army as john donovan corporal company K ath infantry was drowned at fort laramie laram ie yesterday while beining seining in tho the laramie river NEW 2 the fourth will be celebrated here more generally but less lees noisily than ever before coming on friday most of the business men of new york have decided not to resume work on saturday but to give themselves and all their employees three days rests rest most of the commercial exchanges have taken formal action on tho the subject and le leading firms do dealing allag n paints oils etc dry mireion merchants and jobbers leather dealers importers and wholesale dea dealers lerer grocers in front street and merchants engaged in nearly every branch of wholesale who lemle trade have entered into iao a compact with each other not to open their stores on saturday many of the largest retail dealers in the principal avenues and many lawyers and other profession professional xI men have made the same agreement tomorrows to morrows public bays says the first half balf of the year af after ter resumption of specie payments has closed with an unusual aati activity vy 0 of f industry and commerce and brigu brighter ter prospects for the future industrial establishments have not been as fully employed at any time since 1872 as they are now and though th the margin of profit is generally slender there is strong confidence that production now has a solid foundation to build upon and that the advance toward prose prosperity erity though slows slow will bo be sure I 1 in il many important branches of commerce transactions have ben of unprecedented magnitude in others although there hns hag been little improvement in the tho volume of business there has been much improvement in the character there are few departments of industry or trade in which the there thure has hns not been a perceptible improvement in the volume of business even if measured in value and not one of importance in which its quantities of products exchanged has not increased labor is more fully employed than it has been at any time lile sinco kince the panic and on the whole more satisfactorily paid the purchasing power of wage being considered evidence of obese changes though not lacking in other quarters is now here more convincingly presented than in tho the returns of exel exchanges langes at different clearing houses exchanges in june show an increase in the volume I 1 of business in comparison with th jun june 1878 at all the large cities except new now orleans and a gain gaid in the aggregate of 25 percent per cent the public adds on the whole the record of the exchanges bears witness to a very general and satisfactory revival of business since january and justifies a strong confidence in in the future with the promise of excellent crops with greater activity in theoal the coal eoal and iron trades than has been seen for years and with the substantial improvement in other branches of commerce and industry the country may reasonably hope to recover in a single year of specie payments nearly nearl v all that it has lost in the volume of legitimate business by the collapse of 1873 1673 diw new yoke 3 the worlds washington special saysie is being whispered about that the president will call an extra session in october the attorney general said iut last evening he was wainow now about to begin to make bricks without straw congress he said has left jeff I 1 do not care very much about that but I 1 do care because it has left me in abject poverty john demon aged 85 is deadie was one of the oldest and moat prosperous ship builders and built largely for the pacific mail steamship company the following is the suns leader in our opinion the democrats have made a very poor showing in the extra session of congress they began a noble contest for constitutional safeguards at liberty but hayes scared them with his popgun and like little boys who have often been whipped they gave up the great design however there Is some compensation for every misfortune and in politics the gain sometimes overbalances over balances the loss the republicans will have very little to bay say hereafter about the alleged revolutionary of tho the democrats they will also have very little to eay about the new capture of the union by confederate brig brigadiers adlers there will be comparatively ively little frightening of fools by the cry that the south is plotting to get possession of the government and run it in an au imaginary secession interest the fact is overwhelmingly established that the democratic party contains about the tho most soft harmless inoffensive obedient bet set of people ever seen in this world the worlds lV lV ashington washington says theall the sliver vermen men are threatening to renew the tha battle when congress reassembles they say they can demand tho reorganization of 0 all the senate committees at the beginning of the next bes Ees session cession sion slon and that they will effect their object by add ing two addition additional nal nai members to the finance committee and thus give it a decidedly silver complexion the tribune saye recently published dished statements that a new agreement had been made between the overland railroad and the pacific mail steamship company were nied entirely on tuesday iby by nent off mcara officers af at the union pacific and central pacific roads the sixty days notice of the reo resolution lution of the former contra contract et which was given by the off officers of the overland roads expired about two weeks ago CP C P huntington Hunti agton vice pre aident of the central pacific baid bald recently ithe the old contract has expired aud and payments of subsidy has ceased jno new contract has been forme formed dand and it is safe to say eay that none will bo until after my return from california what ulay may be done then I 1 cannot say it will be probably two months before I 1 return the matter was talked over here yesterday and captain riley niley called again today to day during the summer season business is very light and if one company secured the whole of ity its i t it ibb would not gain great advantage wo we thought it prudent under the circumstances fy y preb pree erve harmony among the companies until fall then we can tell better perhaps what is better for the interest of the companies the rate on the present business is certainly low enough john riley president of the pacific mail admitted no agreement had been made hiex Alex mexican ican minister informs the norald herald that the article in a san francico paper june concerning conce ruing the mexican tro iro was uhe tuo most moet nonsensical of all the ridiculous stories with which the people of the united states have lately been gulled its absurdity must be patent at a glance to any one with the slightest knowledge of mexican unalee names havo have been invented and the story is out of whole cloth negrete is not a general in the mexican army be is without a comman dand without followers rhe tho the manifesto was published in a mexican paper but negrete afterwards went to diaz and apologized for it the army is strong and loyal to diaz european capital and influence in la the darien snip ship canal project are actively discussed by the eastern press the herald da do less LesE lesseps epal declaration that while neutrality should be assured the canar can alcan can b ba constructed with the aid of a factor which has no nationality tiona lity namely money and thinks only the united states can give the gua guarantee mutee of neutrality and treaty conformity at isthmus upon which the capitalists in europe wish to invest we are strong enough to enforce and maintain such a guarantee aid anti anil jn in de defiance flance of european JEur leur opposition ve we shall never admit europa joany to any share in the control of the route of commerce in which we have so paramount an interest HELENA mont 3 second lieu tenant samuel H loder seventh infantry sui bui elded at fort benton beuton juno june by shooting himself through the head cause unknown john behring Behr lug a it miner in green horn gulch by strychnine this morning the supposed cause Is despondency over debts which he was unable to meet SCRANTON 3 A ladle of steel upsetting in a mill here burned jas hurley aed and henry lone the former la Is dead the latter is dying john humphreys of foreman gob gos mines was crushed to death bew KEW york YOEK 3 the temes times washington special L ays says the question whether wilether the law Is a dead letter ietter which enacts that no member of congress shall be paid the amount of his salary miary for tho the daya that he is absent from his official post except with leave or on account recount of sickness will probably be decided before long it is a notorious fact that sharon of nevada has rarely attended the session of the senate he has not been in his seat more than two months dince he qualified fl he left here on february last las after drawing the fuli full amount due him to that date having neglected to appear at the extra session of the forty sixth con congress gress greEs burch the new now secretary of the senate states that if sharon demands his salary for that session he will before paying paling the money submit the case tg the first controller of the tre treasury aBury and obain obtain a written decision from him concerning his bis duty in the promises the law however is so clear that it la Is doubtful whether any construction can be placed upon it that will give to sharon the money which he be never earned sections 40 and 41 of the bevi revised soil statutes expressly forbid the payment of salary or mileage to indra indru members bers who absent themselves without sufficient elent cau cause caum m washington S xi 0 remits the sentence ben een tence of cism larl darl dent court martial upon n capul rn ar T 7 rend Bend elbroch roch ot or the fourt fourth 11 cau caw 1 t ry he ile was found guilty of mib ml misbehavior fi before the indians and neglect of duty the court recommended cleme clemency nley nicy an account of the age of captain long nong and his creditable services and the fact that his physical condition showed him to be unfit foran toran for tor an active cam all statements telegraphed from washington that the tho president intend intends to convene congress Con kresa gresa to make appropriations for marshals fees before its regular december see seb session sion slon or that he now contemplates calling an extra beeston session for any purpose whatever political or other wise wlee are entirely without dounda tion the indian department announces that horses have been run off by white men from red cloud agency and the military authorities cannot interfere on account of the posse commit atus law of last year although the stolen horses are driven past an and robinson Bo binson FALL a 3 tho tho the mills shut down to tonight uj night ht for the remainder of the week A crowd of gathered around the doors and the spinners did not dare leave until the arrival of officers who escorted them home the crowd was the most threatening of any yet gathered va 3 miss loer BoIl boiling ing lug aged 20 daughter of col thomas boiling bollings of this city died this evening from the effects of burns received last night by her dress catching fire firo from a piece of burning paper SIOUX bioux CITY 3 A tornado struck the southwestern part of elkhorn I 1 D T about half past five yesterday afternoon blowing down three dwellings dwelling as that are a total wreck many barns and stables were ivere overturned and chimneys blown down the storehouse storehouses adjoining his hia mill was blown over the windmill of 0 the dakota bouthern southern railroad water tank was blown down and badly wrecked the only person injured as far as known was mrs woods whose head and limbs were badly bruised by the turning turn furn lot lor over of her house mrs morton was sitting in her house when the cyclone struck it the floor opened under her feet and she fell into the cellar the house being carried away beveral several rods toda she was not hurt A great number of trees some two feet in diameter were blown down and a number of buildings were moved from their foundation the cloud came up from went southeast but its course was wag irregular reports from the surrounding country show great damage has been done doney houses barns fences and crops having been destroyed the storm was seen keen to gather and approach the 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