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Show j Oxe of the pregnant 6urnea of the times is the withdrawal of so many English insurance and investment companies from business in the United States. Heretofore a large sum of En glish money has been emrjloyed here in this way, but possibly more in railroad building. The tendency will be to b ill further reduce our available sum of business money, as well as to tighten up times to a still greater degree. Or-dinarily Or-dinarily this announcement would be heard only with satisfaction but now anything calculated to reduce the cash balance is looked at with distrust and apprehension. The American companies com-panies so employing money will be tie gamers. 1Fb.ee coinage hasn't gained much by Tom Reed's acceseion to its forces. The circumstance is only valuable as indicating the probable direction in Which the cat is likely jump. Trust jkj, Ke d t? paltry f tfei taiicnicfcjj jloselv. Tom ie nursing a presidential tnom and knows what will win as well as any body does. Waitks electioneering schemes are original, as much so as is the man himself. Waite expects to be renominated renomi-nated by the populists even if he has to resort to civil war to accomplish it. There was never greater recklessness exhibited. Things are worse and worse at Portland. The old Columbia is on the rampage and still rising. The destruction destruc-tion is nearly or quite unfathomable. The floods in Colorado are also very destructive. . The great gold find over in Uintah excites a great deal of interest, and many people in this region have claims and other interests in the neighborhood. Tiieee is a Berious crop failure in western Kansas. The result will be a heavy abandoment by the Bettlere. Kansas is in a bad way. If the editor of the Herald ever pays a visit to Texas they ,w"ifl prob ably have another neck-tie party, in that neck of the woods. Free trade and free silver are near of kin propositions, as Mr. Thomas B. Keed probably knows as well as we do. They' are paying the Cherokees the strip money. The present payment amounts to over $6,000,000. Kelly's forces are disintegrating. The end approaches. |