| Show GENERAL NEWS B W V l tilden hill A NEW YOUK feb during tho cipher investigation today to day tho following letter was rend 15 PARK 79 dear sir learn in alie public press that it is the dessire of your commit tco to terminate its in this city tho current week I take thin liberty of requesting eliat before you leave an opportunity bo afforded ine of appearing before sou to submit some testimony which I deem pertinent to the inquiry with which you arc cli arged yours very respectfully S J TILDES it was resolved that gov tilden should appear before the committee at noon tomorrow to morrow tint fob alio cabinet heard secretary shermans Sher mans letter on the application to ex collector arthur lor a position for the son of judge Ur adley ho thought it dishonorable in arthur to disclose a personal letter but would prefer himself now to have alie letter published if he heard of any moro personal letters of his being disclosed he would immediately publish them alie following is the letter washington jan 18 78 personal ir T a letter from justice bradley court strongly recommending hia on or ft position in the custom the young gentleman will call on you and explain more fully for manifest I would bo very glad to oblige mr bradley who takes this matter greatly to heart and I hope you may to give his son employment a lie no doubt is highly de ening anil would be a meritorious I leave promised mr bradley nothing definitely but leave the matter with you with alio sincere hope that you poablo to comply his re very truly etc JOHN will sot the grand jury by a vote of 19 to L today to day refused to find a bill eppa for an alleged anse in challenging columbus alexander feb cmadison JM adison louis M and J cas of returning lard fame appeared to d ay iy before the superior ih ninal court withdrew of not guilty and filed a demurrer to ilie information against them judge Cul loin their coun tol claims that under the dechon of alie court of march a 1878 in the case against C anderson they were entitled to a but the attorney general refuses to doit the aar Ar NEW YORK fob manton marble wa on the attaud today to day in the cipher investigation said he could not say he went to florida under instructions of the democratic committee had no conver aaion with gov tilden on alie matter thought am got alie cipher from pelton at alie eacrett aloie and subsequently used it ent to nor received from tilden any telegrams addressed dispatches to pelton the object in going to florida wa to take care of tho doctoral vote said alie ciphers published in alie new york tribune ro far as concerned himself were simply rubbish said lie had already published a statement of what lie did and did not do in florida said aliat he did not do was to buy jhb florida votes and they were tor nalo mr marble wanted to submit letters to alie committee but mr aleid objected and they were ruled out by alio choir said lie had none of the telegrams ho sent from florida NEW to cookin a lecture last night had substantially the following to buy on he chinese san franciaco Franci fco B bravo city hardly dares utter her mind on the chincio question when her aana lot oratory threaten conflagration riot and murder ers and boughs roughs led by a gang of shallow and foul mouth cheap jack mostly of foreign birth lill the cars of califor binns daily throats of fire blood and devastation I am a friend of lut not of rioters thieve sneaks and anti clubs crack alie defiant whip of lawlessness over the mayors cojei nors and senators this business may succeed for a day ami an hour in a city fumed once tor it deadly vigil aco committee but it will not succeed in alie long bourbo of evena it may one state under a corrupt legislature but it will not BUC aced with the nation san francixco is afraid of her sand fotr she has seen their new york is not but she w beheld alie nune vision applause and laughter alie leader of sand lot oratory by lita odious advocacy sunk an anturo popular leader beneath the ca of politics no political can erwim in eastern with hung around alit neck alio supporters in congress of alic unconstitutional bill gamt chinese immigration should ber that their notion may BOi hung about their nacka like a millstone and that they may with aa the politician did on the day of ahli defeat eliat lis principal ter was not only on tho sand lota but under klicin laugh tha oliree facea on this continent wo tho nc groos in diann and Cli inose that part of tho nation which did justice to the birst of these nicer will ultimately do justice to the othern thero is a eliat the camigi ant who ittem liim self for dannage on any A jeican veasel ahall whan embassy came alie pacific it had more than 50 in its train and could not have been brought on ona chip according to the proposed leg isolation if ever the aimee or should send another wo be obliged to bring hem on tic veral vessels under thin new regulation chinche emigration ho fur lia done more and far for this country financially than the irish did when the raco wa no larger applause the cial of california saya tho havo tho value of property in and thu property today to day ia held by white men have any irish done a much y i fo as eliat for california applause cheri is th s ind lot orator that dare say that his race on alie pacific coast has added in value within ten years to propel ty in california by white men applause these leave according to official statements reclaimed a million acrea of faifili innas which acro worth dollars an acre and arc now worth ten dollars an acre and each ono producing seventy five of wheat these enterprises have given employment to white men and these men now turn on their benefactors I undertake to say eliat there lias not been on tho face of the globe binco the first emigration of lie english to aliis country as profi table an emigration as these figures show applause talk about alie contamination of lie chinese vices there ii more money lost in a single year in tho white gambling saloons of san francisco than wan ever lost in similar places kept by chinese and no chinaman ever opened a whiskey mill applause when I biear men who are rolling in iniquity crying ont against chinese vice and I fee a crowd of adult hoodlum applauding alie younger ones who beit out the brains of a with yellow skin with brickta to when I see settlements burned down no police to shield or avenge the unfortunates when I oven nee murder condoned I feel almost like calling upon god to give us some where on the pacific ceisl biad almost said a riot largo enough to bring out alio entire military power so as to impress upon san francisco alio dignity of glicr days of vigilance committee loud applause theno CHICAGO feb inthe Reno case lee after hearing nome additional testimony announced the case closed so far as lie was concerned and reports of alio battle were then read defense then called wallace who testified that lie never heard of ileno drunk and lieutenant col M C sheridan alio gave boino interesting testimony descriptive of lie scene at the battle areld the year after alio memorable mataure mat acre import feb alie agricultural report just issued gives alie average price of alie cotton crop from the country at 81 cents a pound the value of alio crop for 78 ii tha average price of tobacco is 10 alio total crop for 78 is estimated at pound ii worth horses have increased three per cent but alio price hiis very materially decreased cowa show in increase in nearly all alio states and sheep leave increased about five per cent the price for gioga is ruinously low white alio increase se is about five percent increased about two per cent for th sargent took a prominent part in the ta ly preceded alie passage by alio senate of the bill authorizing lie admission of fenando lawyers to alio bar of alio united stales supreme court alie voto of two to ono by which alie bill waa pasca is n of great congratulation among alio washington friends of woman who consider it perhaps without sufficient reason a clear indication of the increased strength of eliat movement all the pacific coast senators voted for the bill except G rover the champion NEW YORK fab the deciding asime of alie billiard tournament was libed li tonight to night and was a most remarkable one resulting ina victor or jacob who is now champion of alio united states george alonson liis competitor and in hii sixth inning mado a run of placing his cicoro icoro at against 19 for euer later in ina t irth inning lie mado son mado but 12 in hi seventh inning and ended alie gamo with on unfinished run of tho score being COO to 71 alio winners av aho largest on the loserio lose rii average wart 85 47 alie second uve rago taker alio second sexton and daly the third and fourth gospee lively CHICAGO feb in the blodgett investigation thin morning E A II 11 bradboy and several other testified regarding judge blodgette tg actions in connection with t lie garden city insurance company and Fir emens ranee bankruptcy cases but no start ling developments were made kallod alli SAY feb in drunken marrol laal night william forsyth killed his paramour mary with a stove lid lifter alt SAX fob at dallob oregon today to day james cook was hanged for alio murder of craig cooks real name is unknown he refusing to the last to disclose it A number of including gome dozen women witnessed the execution |