Syracuse Daily Standard (Newspaper) - December 1, 1887, Syracuse, New York ESTABLISHED 1829 SYRACUSE N T THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 1 1887 PRICE 01 MAIL total number of places within tho privileges of this system to sin year The special delivery service docs not appear to commanded much increase uf patronage during the year Exact reports have not been received from other l lan but by auditor's allowances of compensation for deliveries and the sales of stamps the is of about a million and quarter of special delivery articles In Unit section of the report which deals with foreign is tlm following In transatlantic service where vessels of rival lines compute for patronage tlm swiftest have been chosen for nut from week to in accordance with the policy of the department Tho service ao secured is by lhat of any other country conspicuously to our advantage with the service inward from Great which is maintained at greater tost less efficiency by adherence to the system of contracting with particular lines for il subsidies The rates paid by the United States are highly remunerative to the principal companies whose swift ships secure thu heaviest mails probably yielding profit proportioned weight and expense than anything transported except jewels and precious metals if indeed they bu except ed TO note from tho latest compilation of general postal statistics by thu International Bureau of the Universal Postal union that although the United arc surpassed by Germany by Austria and bv France in the number of letters dispatched to foreign countries as be anticipated upon contemplation of those countries on the yet that in mailed to foreign destinations our country stands far in the lead amounting i i the single year to about pieces while France followed next hut much behind with and Germany dispatched less than NEXT IN AT MARCELLUS Dry of to Itic a Ko his afternoon by a ire which out at 2 o'clock at tho Mills A who was employed hi soda dry house irew some of thu into the drying nn nut it damp a volley of minute plosions were spattered on the lings of soda tho whole dry house was in iu An alarm uf tire was given at once but no could save the burning ind the attention of who was directed to preventing the or Marks tlm main noir tbe bouse aud in which of was stored This had just tilled w tli nitrate of soda the will be quite 0 K Ward tbe mills Miu would bo about upon which there insurance of Some on tlie Questions of lio 1 Mr Vilas Reviews the Fast Year and Suggests Several Reforms PENNY Select a fov NEXT YEAR'S CONVENTION Sirs Lord of Georgia uT Commit morning will print a series of with hundred members of upon questions which arc to bo to that body for during t le coming session and particularly those tho of surplus and a postal Carlisle the with groat Hit views arc especially important in view of tho responsibility will bu placed tbe of tho iu an reduction ot the surplus revenues into the treasury lie believes In thu taxes which produce these least His followers who voted with him and Mr Morrison in the lust Congress the same position Of the few Democrats who have sided with Mr Kaudall who nri now iu tho c ty Messrs McAdoo Merriman aud Lawler are quoted as a of heart The sentiment of tho northwestern congressmen is that the free trado sentiment is growing in that section Tlm lives from Minnesota ami highest that two states cno be the revenue reform of Ohio a Republican alt ho is a out for reduction oilier like Mr Lyman ij rre tint must done with the few Messrs and of New York and of Pennsylvania think nothing will bf session Many ways of reducing tlm surplus are Quitt a number of including nf ami Caruth mid Abbott of favor com promise such as taking tlm tax off and prefer tho tax on fruit brandies The to tax oil ar iy a question nf p sugar on tho free list sonio advocates but m duly among the to whom this is u very vital say is divided the northern portion in favor of the liulf opposed to it Tbe Democratic is largely in favor of tbe free list adding to it Bait 1 umbel and lint of Indiana thinks that to can be tbe of Mr Hind 11 unit adds that of thu west and are beginning to that they cannot longer oppose such a with political safety alive Thomas of Illinois Wilier and of Michigan an in of -a telegraph the latter tbe to for the purpose Mr of Nevada is in favor of the buying up linns instead of starting on n new basis On the other hand tho as given by Mr of Missouri and Mr Wise of Virginia Mr of Now York and a number of others are that tho government ought not to increase its civil list by telegraph operators that not to into private and that tho is unwise and undemocratic All of the however with one or two exceptions as Mr of Kentucky that a strong pressure will bo in ide to bring the matter present Congress and they seem willing to some timo to a thorough Not a is by cither Democrats or s as to In ition of President Cleveland as the arti of bis nicer Ion Tbe unanimous sentiment is Hint tin Democratic candidate for tn list romn the favor Governor Gray Mr Vilas has some friends in Texas UK 1 1 limns delegation is divided and Stevenson while Mr Blanch ard of Louisiana Cleveland as an invincible ticker Tbe usually fti vor Mr although Ohio lives Mr as v likely choice of parly if who was of committee when the Ke controlled fhe 1 louse think Mr could carry liU state than else but Hiys nil lass th candidate can rarry Niu Yoak ilio party will bit Settles an Point for DIFFERENCES IN tea unii Lite of tho Tlie A Nov 30 annual report for tlm iisral ending Juye M was public Following are some of tho more parts of the report prefaced by to the growth of ttm service the The expectation of aud improvement in thu affairs of service indulged in previous has been realized during the past In arising from an extension limits of matter of the fourth ordered to meet the of and from the receipts of i the special-delivery but chiefly from the greater of all postal facilities consequent upon tbe rising business prosperity of thw country full v in the postal the revenues gained tho preceding by nearly a height despite the restrictive operation ot reductions in the rates of increase of cash disbursements has It may therefore las that from this beginning of the current fiscal year thu postal sei vice has again substantially hulf and prediction bo ventured that if the revenues be not further nnd only a similar ratio of increasing expenditure be held the next fiscal will yield a surplus should under thu same conditions annually Thu limn is probably not di stint when if the wisest of economy be the rule of charge upon letters can be properly lowered to one rent an ounce and some permitted in the merchandise and other matter Hut the rate of this United States is now fixed at a rate below of all Other countries s one and when fhe of transportation are than in any other And tud all mail ter not of the clans fall far short of the coat of handling little claim for less improvements in the report the ami formulation of the 1 me principles and rules to govern tlm provision of for and to lix tlie and compensation of their and employes upon a just and discriminating basis the establishment ot a correct system for uniform of the administrative and clerical force in of the higher classes the of buildings for postulates in communities of such size as to require an independent of private the extension and perfection of ho system of free delivery until all communities enjoy its privileges which are so situ as to maUc it their due the thorough reformation of the system of inland pitying for transportation tlm establishment of additional fast mail until all the trunk lines of mail communication are so provided provision for the examination of persons for appointment In thu railway mail service enlargement ot tho parcels post system recently entered so as to countries which a retail trade will be advantageous to our people On subject of buildings for is the uniformity of design In their department should be provided an architect and practical builder io bu of ruction sonic of whose clerks KliouliL and three pet inspectors be assigned to his aid A moderate addition tothe inster of department will be amply uniformity of design bs required auJ followed the aid Supervising Architect of tho Treasury or and subject to proper approval a design for a post office should be so devised th it ilm modification in size only similar may built in cities without of number and all so designed and built so that while in its first rue rion the fairly prospective as well as needs of each shall lie entirely met gre it if not will be possible without impairment of the general plan or the utility of the portion constructed wlit n further development or growth shall necessitate such To this end as well as for proper security fire an of the rel dimensions of which ought to be prescribed by law should be in the beginning and as well as title properly ceded to the United States oc design and plan in the and generally of the interior also but with adaptable variations of ihu interior to only a small extent so highly desirable that it should ba established by law It is a measured equal justice to tlie ent localities it will alford to the eye everywhere instant advertisement of the character nnd objects of tlie as the national past it will the most serviceable as well as tend to uniformity of administrative service and especially it becomes a guarantee against in construction the limits of cost being thereby To a Geat decree capable even of detiuUion statute free delivery service was during the year extended to eight additional cities had readied t limits then required by law of receipts or population These were Birmingham in Wichita in Kansas in in Minnesota loliet and Island in Bradford In Pennsylvania and in Vermont Their addition Nov Tho National Contra of the Prohibition met to-day in Battery D There were probably MO persons present during tho day Thp principal ol j cis of the were to select a to the Into John TJ Finch chairman of tho committee to select the time and place for tlie holding of the National convention and to discuss means for on the Among prominent Uen H of New Jersey ex-Governor John P St John of Stewart of Ohio 1 and A 1 Julkins of D of Michigan uf the presided The treasurer's that had been paid out mr Governor St Julia's expenses A of seven was appointed to attend to political organ i ion and National committee was as L C V b K of Columbia A A Illinois A J J A Van Indiana John J ti Hughes 1C A Urady V G Kansas A M P St John Maryland John Lloyd U C Pitman C U Michigan D P O D Power e James D F M A C K A New H Anderson New York C II Mende 1 Jones Carolina Kev F F 31 J O'Neill Oregon J 11 Armas J W F Thomas H H II J W 1 B C W Clinton -I Smith Virginia Frank Hurt -I D at 1C Willard Mulher A A Hopkins The meeting was inure like a convention a political until an arose on a motion to nuke Mrs Lawrence Lord a from thu state of Georgia Georgia was not represented except bv ibis hab been in Chicago for three months and who has to tli ink nbe bad her Tlie subject was bronchi up by Lord that a of the A of the made to that into a discussion insisted that was no parly in and nothing to he were in ol admitting the a woman and took no much interest iu ihu work At this Mrs Loni and in a loud clear gave tlie gentlemen a stand here as a- and not as a worn in In lias wcr i i stand im equal footing with thu men 11 v and bv wo will vote with ilm men I ask to be placed upon this committee because 1 t work 1 will hark to Georgia and organize a have none now L the at and did not anticipate trouble in hero The lady almost won votes to her appointment but just as the discussion looked as it it would never end tlie motion was on the table without voted on At the afternoon session Samuel Dickey of Albion was elected to succeed Mr Finch and it to hold Ills national con volition during the first in June A by ihi n honor of the John the and of Cen U Fiske Of Xew Vork Nov Judge Tuley rendered an interesting decision in suit involving the liability of the Order of Foresters under policies The suit was n application of tho court of tho to it to arrive at an equitably of tho claim of thu indicated William H was v member of ho order in good standing and was inured for tbu policy being made out to his wife Ho died Iu wiving a will bequeathing of tho money to his two ions and thu to his Jis wife made a claim on the society for he whole and society tiled a o have the wife md two sons IK to this ownership In this peculiar case to-day Tidey courts a between thu benefit by mutual aid and thu the rules and law ifc policies in deciding arising under lit certificates In an ordinary life policy iu amount insured Ki expressly nadi to the or other named thu policy is leld to In a between tins in thu policy and changed thu consent nf ilio In the resemblance tlic courts to After Homo remarks as to tlm in cafes alluded to Was it this society to enter into a with tbu wife ot or was lit tin intent of rite society to enter the willi the Ko existed between tho and society but all that existed were and Tho certificate only as tho party Ho L accept this under tlm conditions n lined The y agrees not only that be in y direct to whom endowment shall be but that mav at hU pleasure that direction The only limitation to the power nf or direction as to whom the money Is to paid is that he shall direct jy his last will ami testament or by Mm endowment The that the power Is a member by the of lie society t the beneficiary at his pleasure and that he may by his last will testament his ultimate wish designate or direct who shall receive tho endowment fund indicates to my mind the intent that tho direction in ihu will prevail over previous direction ur appointment in tbe certificate or otherwise Tlm will go in n the CURIOUS CONTEST Long Inland L I Tuera is great excitement throughout over an attempt being made by to obtain from the s ate land a of under water lit Hay aud are being mado to bold a to protest against anv by stulo authorities with thu town's The liave absolute control the and lands under water within its limits by virtue of bv ami in irs and Ihu bavc at limes tho past Udil vears claims and have all non use lands under water claim that pi end all lamia under rol There is a prospect of both in ami out of thu courts tho matter is BY A WOMAN Tho Sensational Story Told In tho Court Nov 30 William formerly member of Parliament br the St A nst ell division of Cornwall and under secretary of the local government boird was yesterday in the bankruptcy court His amount to and liis assets to II n traced n of his his relations his of a month At tirst tho were made willingly but t 10 Money was extorted from him tlm worn in ful lowing him to Franco Spain and finally 10 Wales where ho was to her nnd her male companion The last was Trafalgar Square She was fit a whim him and slopping Hie calj made him In go with her to a and tr t thu him of lie had never committed and on one occasion o'clock in the morning forced her way into his wife's bedroom and told of her relations with Mr Since time he said his life had been made a misery j to him Alt he owed her nothing she still pretended to have claims against him At this point the examination was adjourned The rase is exciting much interest SUCCESSOR Take Nov After Mm raiding of President resignation tlm nf the and f be of will convoke a congress of tlm two chambers at on Friday for a to M of llin groups have a meeting of tho party nt mi Friday ruga n 1 Ing choice of candidate A is spreading among tha members of right to Vice Admiral 3 wbo is now a member of the Chamber of Deputies for tho department of Komine as a candidate tor tho Crime O Nov Tills Sara a colored teamster his wife and probably fatally wounded a couple of men He ft put attacked James teamster cutting his throat horribly from to oar His JoJin Fisher attempted to control him and was cut half a dozen limes tho jugular vein and windpipe being laid burc Me fhon cut his wife's Throat severing thu windpipe and vein lift is thought to be crazy an a result of injuries received at the hands of a lormer husband of his wife deed was committed with an ordinary pocket York State liar Association Nov committee appointed to malic arrangements for the next annual meeting of tlie Now York State Bar association to bo held in the chamber of tlm Albany on January 18 and met nt rooms of the association hero to-day and n very interesting programme of the proceedings was agreed upon An invitation from Governor Hill to a reception to be given the members of tho association by him at the Executive Mansion on Ian nary 17 was received A unanimous resolution accepting the invitation was transmitted to his It was also iu of this invitation to dispense win tho usual annual association DAVIS Davis Jier to Curry tho Mutter no Fin liter Ga Kov -Some time n movement was KOI on foot at ia to by popular subscription a Davis fund The project was heartily approved by tho promt and thu people and bade fair to bti a great success it has now fallen through The following from Sirs Duv s about the of the project It is addressed Col W II Macon Ga the chairman of the committee matter in If anything could me tn onr in it would IM the solicitude manifested for our welfare through thn love for my husband but my sir let inn you to let us thank you fur the effort but the accomplishment of ir my daughter and I have received education which would stind instead of money were everything to bo swept away but I don't predict and blessing uf and are dearer to us Mian wealth and and we should not be com under Ibis o to who have a far to my he trM I fr ii c with you as says It is yon and ir is I 1 hone you will act on my Trafalgar LONDON Nov Mr of Parliament for tho of Lanarkshire and Mr Jim socialist leador who were during tho riots near Trafalgar Square on Sunday the inst were and were committed for trial Tho the action of Col Sir Warren commissioner of the metropolitan in tlm meetings in Square was by common law of the crown to prohibit such meetings was fully promoted by The defendants were admitted to bail Their was for next session Criminal court of u BETHLEHEM Pa Nov The boycott decided upon by the Reading employes on is being enforced Coal that now comes from the Coal and Navigation company's minus is on the Jersey Central road and much of ft passes over the North The hitter company was this morning compelled to refuse tn receive it owing to crews on that road having declined to take out trains from This action will cause a reduction in the crews in service on the Jersey METAL for a Democratic Caucus Nov -A call for a caucus of the Democratic members of of to meet next evening for the purpose of the of the House to he elected next Monday has been prepared and will be authoritatively published tomorrow It seems to be generally understood among the Democrats the that S S Cus of New York is to be elected permanent chairman of the ill During tha the fallowing was To Dr of if tlic At the laic of National Woman s uni- n lield in ville Tosni liv We it and l by H French Tin Monopoly YORK Kov Considerable ex was at tbe Metal to-day by the receipt of the private from wher tho the Calumet and Heel mines are 1 Shaft 5 t verv tit c damage underground is very trntisartinns and vest onlay amounted to between The greater part of wan for export There was little change in the tin market to-d Trices were fairly still owing to Jbe of tlm French syndicate now controls the market Tins ruling prices were and but little tin could be had at these tin nq net Nov The Unionist banquet in Hall evening was a brilliant Thu merchants professional men and a of Catholic Unionists were Lord Mr given The to tlm Queen received with everybody ami in the singing of Ihu the of Wales person in of wv f states and five tune upon ill panics and the duly tif that tlie eall to f: tlint Mio of the North Hinith In anil is Uie war dead them as of the crv ol tlm I ot us liave Th rf n s was bv a rising vote bv the of It goes next to tbe American KEW HO of the American Copyright met this afternoon in Dr Crosby's study Stedman presiding It was announced that the net proceeds ol Uie authors readings were or more Resolutions were passed thanking Mr Lowell and his colleagues for their and the following resolution waa unanimously we regard tlic re ma for a system aa sin render of tli o ty of an b irs and we ai unfortunate diversion at the Till rs at Nov The budget passed its first muling in the Reichstag to-day and ft part of it was referred back to the committee Crown Prince nnd Princess went walking at San to-day and until rain began to fall and them to return to their Topics WASH third of the negotiators was held at the of Statts to-day beginning at ii o'clock and lasting until lato iu the Secretary Whitney has approved tho plans lor this new naval bv Architect Aunt and bids building will bo invited In a few days Exhibition Nov The American consul hero has applied to thu commission having charge of the arrangements for the exhibition to be held in Melbourne for feet of space fur American Western mind NKW VOKK Nov miin Ohio Telegraph o fti re was closed at G o'clock to-night the operators having to that nn November iri All of thf through wires vex to tbe Western Union buil ling and wires will bis Humor NKW VOKK Nov The Presidential centennial committee which is to arrange tor tlie celebration of tho centennial of t it of tho first of tin United Status held a conference with members of lib Chamber of and Historical A plan for UK celebration will bo Deputy asked u to tho truth of the report that vain pictures by Rembrandt and others missing from the gallery and antiquities from tlm N museum had been replaced with worthless imitations Herr minister of art that thu report not true but lie to maku au inquiry Nov Tho n the Sharp came Albany this Mr will tho order making judgment of the Court ot the order of the Supreme court and then an application for if you're wise Credit ulausible lies With comparing BOmo cheap article No dentifrice that's sold Spire of protestations hold Of resemblance has to it tho smallest Kov S Smith thi editor who was shot day by Dr L E Powell died to-day bus with
