Show THE GOLD PROBLEM the baiso statesman alluding to the fact that the gold reserve baa been drawn upon and that the treasury department part ment in wrestling with the problem of restoring it bays the dispatches show that there is detill a purpose to fasten responsibility for this drain upon tho dilver law the issuing of bonds it is said would be tantamount to mayine interest for gold to bo exchanged for silver is something about this argument that does not connect it is plausible but there is another point that is not taken into consideration it is admitted that the drain of gold is to supply the export demand when there is no demand for export there are no unusual withdrawals from the treasury it is not now contended that the demand for export arises from en exchange of silver that demand is created by the conditions of trade and the needs of austria the gold must go abroad until trade conditions etro changed balances evened up and the austrian demand stopped if the government were taking no silver the amount of cold cent abroad would not be a fraction less and it is entirely probable that alien as now the export demand would bo supplied from the treasury it the bankers did not have silver certificates to exchange they would exchange gold certificates if redemption of gold certificates were suspended sui they might present green backs in short the national treasury would supply the european demand just the same as it there were no silver purchase law and it would get nothing in exchange but even if tho drain from the treasury were stopped the gold would still go abroad and the country would bo in no better condition FOLKS claim that GO much of the glory of cincinnati as is comprised in the soubriquet has departed but euch is not the case says the minneapolis tribune which for authority quotes a letter written by a lady of cincinnati to the tribune of that city she writes let me tell you what I 1 think would bo a help toward the boom of cincinnati and that is to do something to prevent the driving of pigs through the streets my father thinks and he ought to know that the meat from pigs driven through the streets is not fit to eat besides it ia an unbearable and unmitigated nuisance to meet on the street where it elems singularly out of place a drove of great fat pigs covering the street irom currao curb sometimes lapping over on the sidewalk to the manifest annoyance of all passersby especially not infrequently to their terror or manifest injury to person and clothing tins one little thing I 1 suggest to the tribune while trying to get ideas with which to boom cincinnati yet the lady should not complain too bitterly long as the animals dont invade alie street cara A SAN paper gives currency to a report that tho contemplates building a new railroad from the oregon short liae at or near balse city idaho to san francisco such a line would pass through eastern the report comes from red bluff with the intimation eliat the new road may bo operating to that place by july 4 1894 and that at no other point will it cross alio track of any of the southern pacific lines the inference from this is that the road will cross the sacramento river at or near red bluff and keep down the west side perhaps to a concoction with the donahue road jt is reported that the line will follow the route surveyed for the union pacific a few years ago |