Show DOMESTIC NEWS the legislative mills kept grinding out senators europe still pours her golden treasure into the bells of lynn king fire alarm V U telegraph to alie JuK OTio DEADWOOD D jan 18 A fire this morning destroyed the book store and art gallery of hamilton the loa on the stock and building is insurance knowles marshman drug tore sustained a loss of in i rance A a dry goods were damaged by wa tir loee probably fully inbur ed other email losses aggregate probably covered by insurance NEW jan 18 the san fan cisco JW having recently staled t lal california wheat is deteriorating E II 11 walker statistician of the pro dace exchange said that the state mint need create no alarm as to the count rys supply of wheat either for in or export as the deterioration ri of the california crop would have no material effect except in the return to the farmer the wheat kernel would not be as full and hence w auld not make so large a percent a e of flour but the loss by shrinkage not be greater than a pound in a bush elThe deterioration be attributes to the impoverishing of the land by growing upon the earn I ind year after year the same kind of crop without the use of fertilizers the same system ie practiced practised to a large extent in the northwest land aad the richness ie taken from the soil if there were a rotation of crop or if fertilizers were used the soil would be kept in good condition but fie fanner anxious to make aery cent possible spares every item ol 01 expense ei pense this was the cause of he deterioration the lands in new england and in this state for wheat growing purposes bu t now farmers practice either a rotation of crops or summer following fallowing or in other words let the land lie over one aea son and eow in clover and when il has attained its cummer growth plow it in for fertilizing A bi break FALLS jsn 18 early this morning the main feeding pipe leading to the reservoir water works company aurit the water washed away about twenty live feet of the cliff to the south ol 01 table rock besides doing other damage to property clifton which lias been for some time without a regular supply of water owing to the river being so low as to render the water works company unable to pump is now shutoff completely the break which is a very bad one will take some time to repair what NEW jan 19 superintendent walker stated that the estimate e I wheat crop of the united stater for 1881 is about bushel of which california and oregon would furnish between and bushels california and oregon would require for seed about bushels and for consumption for an estimated population of inhabitants lushell Lus hels for the rest of the united states there would be required about bushels for bushels for a population of about of people abia would make a total ol 01 about bushels for foo and seed leaving surplus of nearly lor export the average yield per acre according to walkers estimate is thirteen bushels while english banners secure about twenty eight bushea per acre simply from the freo use of fertilizers walker that in genesee county and other parts of thi state ago farmere obtained as much as thirty bushels per acre they now from twelve to fourteen bushels only ml NEW jaa 19 N Y and hale me were elected U senators formally to day it is unofficially elated that alo telegraph consolidation has been ratified tho blocks have gone far beyond the anticipations of a says the post the union pacific 1221 12 21 pacific northern pacific raci fic preferred common preferred pays per cent dividend and it is expected ht eventually this company will be part of the chicago fc Northwest cm the satt jan 19 no in to days ballot in the vote on U a senator froni pennsylvania grow and oliver being the strongest candidates di clooj fur wife Bri leri NEW jan 19 A bill was introduced to punish wife beaters ria uil chicago jan 18 the steamship gilbert from hamburg brought thirteen german socialists who were expelled from altona in of the state of siege declared in that city at the time as in hamburg the stale of siege empowered the authorities expel eny person impeded of in any form their rest measure was to banish ISO citizens two months ago this they followed up on january leand ban fahed thirty two socialists thirteen whom arrived to day the exile biad so little lime to colled ing debts and dispose hold good that barely sufficient remained o pay their pass to this country whither they all decided to come in preference to england or belgium many among tie new comers haye eft large families fam ilief behind them A committee beaded by justus schwab met the exile pt the landing and conducted with the usual display of revolutionary emblems to french hotel in bloton estreet where repast was awaiting them when all had partaker partaken par taken were in which was frequently mentioned A in former cae measures were taken for distributing the new comer mong socialist sympathizers all over the city in whose dwellings they ill remain until employment i found for them all the social aits who arrived here in november we obtained good situations either in this city or in st loan and jus confident that there will be no trouble as far as the present number is concerned NEW jan 19 abe special says s the governor ol 01 nevada in transmitting the vote of that state on the chinese question to vice wheeler accompanied it with a tion which be lud before tb senate with a view of securing more U regulation io reference to the chinese immigration than is pro aided vided in the treaty between the united states and clin recently communicated munica ted to tho senate by the president the herald concludes an editorial on what it ternie the nincompoop new york merchants who hare been inveigled inveighed ed into a petition to the senate against the chinese lira ty with the following language s we hope their names may be published in order that they may receive the kind of compliments which are duo to their peculiar zal for american trade an evening paper I he follow ing washington the committee on foreign lucions finding serious objections to the chinese treaty in reference to the trouble wilb it is that the language is EO obscure that it ii susceptible cep tible of various interpretations it gives the united states tho fole power to regulate the immigration if laborers making an exception other classes of chinese citizens un fortunately there is nothing in the language to define what shall be meant by laborers it does not ap pear whether merchants or artisans artia ans are to be include or not under the language used the chinese government might citie libat cigar makers or laundrymen or carpenters or expert miners or blacksmiths or any other similar class were not de barred from coming here this evidently does not meet the difficulty since the chief objection to chinese has come from such tradesmen as cigar makers shoemakers etc who claim that they cannot compete with chinese labor another thing has been overlooked as no mention is ade of females some of the committee think thero will have to be an effort made to modify the language so as to be made more explicit on chesi points even if the matter has to be referred back to the commission for further consideration by them and the chinese government the majority of the committee are so anxious however to get the matter settled in some shape at an early day that they are disposed to strain point of construction to tic capt the document gold new YORE jan 18 the steamship gallia from europe brought in british gold bars the steamship french cold coin and steamship gelleri french gold coin total jan 19 A bill was ins produced trod in the senate which provides that it shall be unlawful for any telegraph company organized under the laws of this state to lease ell or convey its property rights privileges or any part thereof to any other telegraph company except where the tines company run wholly to cities towns or villages not reached by such other company binn mass jan 19 abcar tins morocco manufactory burned this morning three hundred hande are thrown out of employment the loss is Lan casters factory is partly burned the building bo B martin and is worth both bull lings were pai aly insured the old revere beach de pot also burned seven dwellings were damaged the total loss being A lilar MICHIGAN CITY ind jan 19 A fire this morning ravaged a lumber district the aggregate sa insurance sr JOHN N jan 19 diphtheria is still raging on the grand manan john maggs lost eight children by the terrible scourge within few days NEW YORK jan 19 cable ob continue to coming of markets robbery jan 18 on the evening of the the stage was attacked eight miles east of fort by s band ol 01 thirty four supposed be indians the passenger were robbed it is reported four of of them ra killed the mail bags were carried off united troop pursuing it is rumored the robbers are disguised while men |