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-y X, l'LA'H?MOUTll WEEKLY HERALD, TiiUHSDA Y, DECEMBER 20, lbSS. $hc Uliftzmonth $'crhbt )$rnld KNOTTS BROS., Publishers A Proprietors. THE I'LATTSMOUTU HERALD Is published every evening except Sunday Kinl Weukly every Til ursday morning. Kesls tered at the postolllee, 1 atte mouth. Nebr.. m-cnnd-clas matter. Olllce corner of Vine and Fifth ct recti. Tciephono No. M. TKKM9 POM DAILY. One copy one year In advance, by mall ?(J no One copy per month, by earlier, f One copy per week, by carrier, 15 TKKMS FOH WRKKLV. nne copy one year, in atlvance $1 V' Uno coiiy ell inoiiibx. In advauce 75 Our Clubing List. WF.KKLV HKBALUftHd M. V. World. ..$2 40 N. Y. Tribune. Oueiha ltep. . . N. V. I'res ... '1 .-III N. . l"ot 'J 3(1 Harpers Magazine 4 i:n Weekly. 4 I'.azar... 4 ' Young Peoplo 3 M Neb, Fanner 2 (Hi lieinorest's Month ly Magazine :i in Aniei'leuii Ma'zine 2 ' Send Uio-VWeekly Herald to souk friend in the east for a Christmas present. Pehuy S. Belmont 8 nomination as minister to Spain was confirmed the other day by the senate. Tift Burlington route hud orders one day last week for over a thousaud cars, to move mc of this year's corn crop. . The Nebraska State Grange has been in session at Hastings the past few day and it is reported that they had a good attendance. Jin. Ci.evki.axu has about decided to cm to Eurooe at the expiration of his term, where the atmosphere will lie mori congenial for bim. A Dakota paper suggests that it will be time enough for congress to talk ol admittim? Canada after the Territories o have been granted their rights. So say we. Jin. Viiitxey has sent the new navy all the way to llayti for a little practice. There was no need of it as tlu state oi Maryland will give the navy all it wants at its oyster pirates. "We have received a finely bound copj of N. W. Ayer & Son's American News paper Annual for 188, and it is one that every vspaper man should have in hi. on. 1. IIHH , urea movement on foot now to tl6h it ini'th New York and Calif orni i . v.iice four states out of the two. Ii xjy won't be done as we can't see as yet an good reason for dividing the states. The senate is proceeding with a con siderable degree of speed, to the cousid eration of the tariff bill. The democrats can hardly contend now that it was in trodueed merely for campaign purposes A Kaxsas woman has secured a di vnrop. from her husband on account ol desertion, the petition alleging that he went to temperance meetings six days during the week and on Sunday went to church. Beatrice Express. The census of 1800 will be taken ir about a year, and it will be taken under tl.fi direction of the republicans. This is another advantage to the county which is the result from the big demo rntio disaster of the Gth of last month. . Tue report that the British Govern ment has determined not to recognize Un united States until after the inaugura tion of Harrison indicates a very correct understanding: of the fact that the present Administration has ceased to have any vital relation to the affairs of this countrv. The Milwaukee Sentinel suggests that the federal offices in the south should be given to the best men in the republican party in the south, white and black. Cer tainly General Ilariison cannot afford to recognize the color line drawn by the brigadiers, and it is safe to predict that he will not.- Bee. One week from today is Christmas and you all should remember the needs of the worthy chanties. There are many both in this city and county that are needing help and are yet too proud to ask for it. Open your hearts and give to the poor and thus make both yourself and them happy. The southean statesmen are willing that the white vote of that section shall be divided only upon the condition that the colored vote shall be suppressed. That is to say, they do not so much ob ject to the way in which the negro is disposed to vote a they do to the fact that he has the legal right to vote in any way. The Christmas number of the Boston Musical Herald is freighted with valu able nd well digetted intelligence for all students of music. Its three choice Xmas Carol will be especially appre dated by Chorister, anl bunday-schooi .Superintendents. Subscription price, 1 J!.00 per year. Address, Uistan Musical jfejal l, Franklin Sqi are, Boston, Mass. 1 OUR OREGON LETTER. Speeial Correspondent of the Hkkai d. Great interest is being felt in the Gray's harbor country, n section of the coa?t region of Wasiirton Territory, rendered tributary to Portland by steamer lines by way of the ocean and the Columbia river. It is one of the most promis:ng of the newer regions being opened up to settle ment, and as such, your readers will no doubt be glad to have a brief descrip tion of it. Gray's harbor is the name of an inlet from thePaci lie ocean, indenting the shore of Washington Territory. The entrance is between one and two miles broad, hav ing a channel seven hundred feet wide. carryitig at low tide, a depth of twenty- two feet of water. The usual tides in the harbor are eight to ten feet, so the largest vessels, by crossing the bar at high tide, may enter ami depart in safety. Eaiptying into the; bay is the Chehalis rivi'f, one of the most important streams in Washington Territory. It drains an area of two thousand square miles. All streams have the choicest agricultural lands along their banks, and take their rise in the timbered hills of the interior. Some eight years ago the attention of lumbermen was attracted to the Gray's harbor region, and operations were at once commenced for the establishment of saw mills, to prepare for market the tim ber of tnat locality. With these move ments, a rapid growth began. The prin cipal town on the harbor, Aberdeen, lies at the mouth of the Wishkah river, and onlv four years aro last February the first house within the present corporate limits was built. Now it is a nourishing town of a thousand inhabitants, and it growing rapidly. It has four saw mills. the a-rirresrate elaily output of which is two hundred thousand feet of lumber, a ship yard, three salmon canneries, and n foundry and machine shop. The valley of tli2 Wishkah extends back into the interior many miles, and for fifteen or twenty miles ui) stream ranchers are located along the banks. The products of the valley are. floated down the stream, and find a ready market in the manufact tiring villages on the harbor. Montcsano, a town of about one thous and inhabitants, is situated on the Cheha lis river, fourteen miles from its mouth, and at the head of tide water navigation. There are two saw mills, a furniture fac to! v. a brick kiln, and a larre salmon cannery. The mercantile business is very large, as it is the most important town betw een the harbor and Puget sound Sea-iroinsr vessels take carsroe3 direct from Montcsano. The climate is generally damp, but is tnai ked by an entire absence of extremes of temperature or moisture. This is due to the proximity of the ocean and the warm Japan current that touches this cao.-t. Hops are among the most profit able crops. Most of the fruits common to t'c Pacific slope flourish in the Gray's harbor country, apples, pears, cherries, grap s, plums, prunes, etc. All Hit farmers have more or kss fruit, and the handsome specimens produced, indicate the possibilities of that locality in the fruit business. There are some nine mills constantly cutting timber, -which is fur-ni.-li d from the country along the streams flowing directly into Gray's har bor, and the daily output of lumber is about half a million feet. This is ship ped direct by water to ports in North and South America, Sandwich islands China and Australia, Th3 principal timoer or tue urysHHwlc '.'""-i' " i Swtni- harb r country is the fir, but spruce, cedar, pine and such hard woods as oak, maple ash, etc., are in the forests and ol good quality for manufacturing pur poses. The spruce grows to enormou siz , some trees twelve feet in diameter hayiag been cut, but their comparatively short length brings their lumber yields much below the average fir, which i extremely tall, as well as of huge trunk di '.meter. The spruce lumber has n sp.-cial use for small boxes, because it is fine grained and odorless. The cedar makes excellent shingles. Tiie chief fish of Gray's harbor is the sal mond, and hundreds of men are em ploy d in the work of catching and can ning it. A company was organized this year to prosecute deep sea fishing for haliout off Gray's harbor, aud the pros peels tor developing an extensive busi ness ia this line are very flattering. The fisheries of the North Pacific promise to become of more importance than those of the North Atlantic, and Gray's harbor is so favorably situated with respect to there fisheries, that it is likely to become the New Bedford of the Pacific. A number of railway enterprises sup plying communication with this harbor h ive been projected, but until recently these schemes have been of rather in definite character. The Tacouia, Olym pic & Chehalis Valley Railway Co. has been incorporated, to build a road up the valley of the Chehalis, across the Cascade mountains, forming a junction with the Northern Pacific at Centralia, and extending to some point in Eastern Washington, with a branch from some point to Olympia and Tacoma. Such a .Cut lral anJ timber country, and ve j,erpr ftCcess to one of the best lway woull rjn th -ougti a surpassingly shipping p joints on the Pacific c Bt. Iu S. CAUSES OF DEMOCRATIC DES PONDENQ Y. The most experienced and cicar-headed odservers at the National Capital declare that within the past f.niy or fifty years the magnates of no beat, u party have been so demoralize! and dishcaitcneel as the democratic party chiefs and con gressmen are at this moment. The lead- ers do not consul', with their followers, the member 4 of the two brunches of con gress do not confer together, while there is no consort of action in cither senate or house in the initiation of any sort of leg islation. Democratic senators sit dumb and spiritless while their repub ican an tagonists are passing their protectionist tariff bill section by section. A show of opposition, it is true, is made when the votes arc taken on the provisions of the measure, but it is of the most feeble and perfunctory sort. Charh s Nordhoff, one of the oldest and best known journalists in Washing ton, and a democrat himself, calls the democrats in congress a "mob," and says "when a mob is beaten it does not pick itself up." Testimony from other demo cratic sources is of a similar tenor. Un doubtedlv one cause of the democratic apathy is the aversion and distrust wl ich the party hA Is for the president. He was never popular among his supporters. Democrats voted for him in 1881 because they saw that his candidacy offered them a chance of restoration to power. They voted for him for the sake of the spoil and patronage which a republican can didate weak in the pivotal state would permit Cleveland to gain for them. And now, when his defeat makes it safe for the democracy to openly declare the dis like and contempt for him which had hitherto been concealed, the semblance of discipline and coherency which the party had previously maintained is cast aside. Another and perhaps the principal cause of the democratic demoralization is the hopelessness of the outlook for the party. Before the next presidential elec tion takes place the apportionment based on the census of 181)0 will have been made, and this will show a large relative increase in the strength of the republican sections of the country. The gain in pop ulation in the north is greater than it is iu the south, and this irain will he aug mented b' the admission t statehood of three or four territories which will choose republican electors. Cast their eyes in whatever direction they may, the democracy can discover no sign of en eouragement in the coming time. If there is any ray of hope, for them in the near future the party watchers on the lookout are unable to discern it. Under similar circumstances men with greater fortitude and broader and grander philosophy than the Clevelands. Millses, Carlisles and Vests possess would fed something of the same apathy ami discouragement .' 1 the democratic leaders experience to1. Globe Democrat. GEN. HARRISONS POLICY. The Grand Army Reviti" for ti.is month publishes an open letter to Presi dent Harrison elect regarding the rights of union soldiers to public offices, anel why they justly own the preference for servants of the people. The Review in the letter quotes the resolutions passeel by the Veterans' Bights Union in 1S83, wherein they declared: Third, That in our judgment no veter an soldier or sailor shoulel be eleuied a mcm SO long as mere arc oitee-s nu is fitted to fill, and no political party has the right to proscribe these men. Fifth, That equal capacity being as sumed, snch men should have preference in appointments under a government where statute and patriotic sentiment alike prohibit discrimination against them in the yarious departments of the public seryice. The voters of a majority of these United States haye this fall declared at the polls that the union soldier was worthy the support and honor of the American people, anel that men from union ranks should have their rights, by selecting as a leader of our government, a man from among them. And Presi dent Harrison in his administration will give the people a pure and patriotic form of government and will honor those de serving of It The coming president will not deceive the people who have made their ideas manifest by electing him, nor will he forget the men of his kind whom those who voteel for him love to honor. In considering the popular vote given in these columns of the IIeratd toelay it should be remembered that Cleveland's majorities are, as a rule, in states where the republican voters were not permitted freedom of action. In the twenty-two northern sjates (counting Colorado) Har rison's vote was 4,6Sil,lQ0, and Cleve land's was 3,614,489; Harrison's majority oyer Cleveland 4G9,6S Iu the sixteen southern states Harrison had 1,333.393 votes, an Cleveland 1,920,737; Cleve land's majority 5 7,364. The twenty two northern states cast 7,696,657 votes for the two leading candidates while the sixteen southern states cast only 3,274, 150, or less than half the number cast in the northern sv; tJ3. In tites casting 70 per cent of the vote Hani mn had a ma jority over Cleveland of 470.G81. AN EXTRA SESSION xNECES- SARY. The democrats of the senate attempted to defeat the tariff bill 6f that body by their motion to lay it on the table. This is an eyidence that the democratic party in congress has not correctly interpreted the people's voice as uttered a month ago at the ballot box. A tariff bill, in any shape in which it would be acceptable to the people, can not pass the House as at present constituted. The attituele of the democracy in the senate proves this. No sensible person can be any longer in doubt on this point. The division on the motion was virtually partisan, ami there is no reason to hope that when the bill reaches the House it will receive any better treatment from the democracy than it lias in the senate. The senate will pass the bill, and that, too, it is probable, be fore the holiday rececs, but it will be killed iu the House. This will prevent enactment of any sensible measure of revenue reform this winter. The necessities of the situation will un doubtcelly compel President Harrisou to call an extra session of the Fify-first congress. Thesurplus.it is ti ue. will probably be far less than Secretary Fair- child's estimate, for that gentleman fails to take into account the sinking fund in his guesses at the excess of revenues over expenditures in the fiscal year 1881). This fund will call for between $45,000,000 and $o0,000,000 in each of the next few years, anel this is a stated obligation of the government which nust be met while there are any funds in r.i i treasury appli cable to debt payments, long as the sinking fund law remains on the national statute book. The deficiency appropria tions also are heavy this year, and they will asssist in bring thesurplus below the secretary's figures. But making a fair allowance for these items, the natural in come can be reduced materially, with profit to the country, especially when we bear in mind that the surplus . already collected amouuts to about $33,000,000 or $ 4,000,000. Henceforth, at least un til the outstanding bonds become payable at p: r at the option of the government, there will be no popular demand to re duce the debt beyond the sum called for by the sinking fund. The revenue in excess of this amount should be cut off. All the reduction required can be made without injury to any American inelustry. It would be unwise to defer this reduc tion to 1890. Globe Democrat. TIIE REAL TARIFF SCARE. There was another tariff scare in the recent canvass besides that connected with the fear of free trade. The free tr.ielers themselves attempteel to create a panic over the tariff through the assertion that if it was not cut the country would be plungeel into hopeless elisaster through the accumulation of a surplus. Yet the natural, certain, dem ocratic way of guarding against such a catastrophe lay through the abolition of the internal revenue. Now that there appears to be no sur plus, no tariff scare of the free trade sort is possible forsome time to come. Never theless, the internal revenue should be abolished. Sun. ONE YEAR CLOCKS. An important improvement in clocks has been shown the British Association for the advancement of science by Mr. W. II. Douglass. The new feature is the torsion pendulum, which, with lever and escapement, may be applieel to ordinary works, and by its slow rate of vibration makes practicable the conversion of an eighf-day clock into one requiring wind ing only once a year. STANLE Y A PRISON E R. The great explorer has at last been heard from, and he is a prisoner in the hands of the MahJi anel will, in all probability, be killed unless England acts quickly, as a letter from ,Osman Digna states that if Sukin was not sur rendered within a given time, both Stan ley and Emin Pasha would be executed. The elirect tax levied on the states in 1861 and 1S62 should either be refunded by the government to the states which paid it or the states which failed to pay it should be compelled to call at the cap tain's office and settle. The former plan is the preferable one, but common justice and fairness demand tliat the latter shoulel be adoped if the other be defeated. Globe Democrat. Mr. Cleveland will veto the direct tax when it is presented to him anel it will serve as another proof that the people made no mistake when they elected Harrison president of these United States. The business men of New York City one day last week formed themselves in o an association to be known as the ." Business Men's Republican Association of the City of New York.?' They elected Mr. John F. Plunier their president. The idea of the leaelers of the movement is fljaf New York may be conyerted juto a republican city. rfhe process must necessarily be slow, and a vast amount of editorial work will be required. The new association is the outgrowth of var ious business men's clubs that did effec tive work in the recent campaign. THE HA YTIEN CASE. The alacrity of the admiiiUtration in ortlering tdiips uf war against an insig nificant country like llayti. upon what i-i at best aelou'dful point of offense, has a very absurd look when contracted with the we-k and truckling policy which was pursued toward Canada under cir cumstances of a much graver character. In the case of th J latter country, a direct insult was given and a loaitive wrong inflicted. The facts were beyond dispute in every respect. Congress discussed the matter thoroughly, and authorized proper measures of retaliation. But instead of accepting the chance thus offered to vinelicate the national honor and protect the interests of American citizens, the administration dallied and trifled in a fashion that was moit cowarbly and dis graceful. It not only tailed to assert its authority as directed by law, but it proceeded t( negotiate a treaty which involvetl a complete surrender of all the claims and rights that should have been defended at every hazard. In all the history of our diplomacy there has never been another such a shameful instance of tame yielding to a foreign power. The only explanation for it is to be found in the fact that the aggressor was strong, and that the administration was afraid to risk the possibility of a war. This view gains special force by reason of the proceedings in the case of llayti. This administration is epuick to assume the aggressive when a small anel helpless nation is to be dealt with. It is not at all certain that we have any cause of quarrel with llayti. She has seized and condemned an American ves sel, to be sure, but the circumstances of the transaction are not yet definitely known. The cejneleiuned vessel may have been engageel, as reported, in the transportation of insurgent troops, con trary to the plain provisions of interna tional law. It is not reasonable to believe that llayti has knowingly anel deliberate ly invited a conflict with the United States. She is not in a situation to fight even one of the smallest of nations; her strength is taxed to the utmost by the rebellion which she has on her hands. There is no necessity for haste on our part. The bluster and bravado of the admin istration brings only reproach upon our boasted love of justice and fair play. It will be some years, eloubtless, be tore the year 1S8S will he surpassed in Plattsmouth by the amount of public im proyement accomplished. During this year of republican administration in our city, sewer work and paving has been elone eeiuai to any in l lie state, liut it is not j'et time for rest, but to look around and say "What Dt xt?" The grading shoulel never be permitted to rest, but shouid be carried on till our streets are exactly what they ought to be; the old creek heds where water has gathered to the depth of several feet should be filled by the city at the point of law, if it can not be done otherwise, before January 1, 1889. Doubtless much of the siekness in our city is due to these stagnant pud dles, and if they are not done away with soon, the springtime will come and finel an excellent place to generate an epi demic of no mild form. Plattsmouth is proud of her improvements but it shames her pride to have these creek beds full of sickening accumulations. Every bit of grounel along the sewer way should be brought to the established grade, as quick as possible, then a complete and perfect drain will be h id and an epi demic can not be laiel to the hands of slow municipality. Ayer's Almanac for 1S89, published by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.. comes to us in the shape of a neat pre sentation book of about five hundred pages, being made up of numerous edi tions calculated for the latitudes of many lands. A score or more of nationalities are addressed in their own languages in this volume, and could they all be hc-arel clamoring together for Ayer'a Sarsapa rilla and Ayers Pills what a Babel would break forth! Ayer's Almanac, in its familiar yellow cover, has long been known as the most accurate and reliable of its kind; and if any one is ignorant ol the superior merits of Ayer's medicines, and suffers in consequence, it is not the fault of this enterprising firm, who scat ter their .'.'leaves" by the million, "for the healing of the nations. !J Ask your drug gist for Ayer's Almanac. Atlanta Is In a slate of social upheav al ovi?r the discovery that one of the del egates to the Forestry Congress there last week was a negrc, and that he was treat ed, both in and out of congress, on the same footing as a white man. Even at the hotel where he stayed he was not duicriniinated agaipst. What would have lappeped had tle discovery been made that he was of African descent before the pongress adjourned, it is hard to poncei ve. Now nothing seemingly can be done except to take vengeance on the hptelr keeper. Poor man! Life promises to b made a burden to him, and it is possible that he may be driven out of Atlanta, if not out of the state. THE OFFH'AL POPULAR The following table, is compiled fr . i the official re turn. fro nil tlm stati s. It gives the yote iu each stutc ef tlm elector at the head of the ticket, and for this reason it in ty vary a few votes from other like tables, ns it is well known that voters, for unaccountable reasons, some times scratih one or more electoral nanus from their tickets. But the diserejianriei are not great, and the table will be found to bo as accurate as can bo prepared at this time. We also give a comparison with the vote of 1884: IM. 8TATK.S. ISHX. Jtep. i ! ui. U p. j Il III. M .'.!! ! 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I ll Mi- KM .Toj i:t.74 4i; or.i' :tl.L':i.'l ti-'ci L'-.'.'i! 2 .'Mm las. SK Mllj 4r.i(i- l."rf).4:isi 7,4!l! ! 171,55.'!, 117 ::ii S.'..!ii;'j, 1I7.7J!!' .'!7,r,i7i 74 ii-.'ll lti 47S!! .'".I C,.rl , 1MI. 4!.! ;S.'.'7.'l! ii.oi:i i 1 7! X77'i lii-i.M" j; lsa.Hinp K".e:tj I 50 4l ! lie; inn:, l.M.w..'..: el.t,4(i !i:t ,i;t; " sr. 47H' liOl .!.- I j m. !"..-..; i B.I 111! I 4:i.4V.; ir.i.4n::'i :i".!n;v M7 i2!i :vm i.v.11 4 ni.'.nr 17 :M ii."..Hvr,i i."s."Mii! iM4 snail Hi 7'ili 1r,l !)7:!l Kentucky Louisiana. . . Maine M try land .... M a(-suebusets Mi )ii;aii M liuieKota . . . M isHissippl. . . M iifoiii i Nebraska Nevada .... New Mjiiiii N'e New Jersey . . New York Norl Ii C'arol'a Olito Oregon fennsy I vania Kliode Island South arol'a Tennessee . . . Texas Vermont Virslnia VV. Vircmia.. V isuoiisiu ( : :i:i l.V. 2.!L Total 5,4.K;.w7;o..r3i.4r..;, t.s.-.i w.i 4.s74:im Cleveland's plurality on popular vote, 97,820. The total prohibition vote this year was 24S.814, as against 150,::9 in 184. The labor vote has not been fully re turnee!, but it will amount to 140,000. Tiieue is a curious grave in the ceme tery at Dublin, Georgia, says the Inter- .1 Ocean, which has an interesting history. In 1840 Georgia voted for William Henry Harrison, and the people of Laurens county were enthusiastic suppoiters of olel Tippecanoe. When President Har rison elied, iu 1841, a casket was interred in the cemetery at Dublin, to the memory of the president, nnd for many years the grave was visited annually ami decorated by the ladies of the town. Since the war the grave has b ,-t n neglected, buf the election of the grandson to the presi dency has revived the interest in the little mo"nd. The passage of the direct-tax bill in the house by a vote of 178 to !)6 shows that but little more than half the detno- -crats of that body were oppi-sed to it, , altho'igh a small fraction of them suc-1 ceeded iu delaying final ncth.n upon it forseveial months. The amendments which the house adopted will compel further action on it by the senate. Its adoption, however, by both branches of congress is now certain. The president may veto if, but if he does it will delay its enactment only one year at the farthest.,, Sr Loos has made such progress in all directions, the necessity of the erection of an eleyated railway to give rapid transit to all classes is becoming evident,' and the benefits of such a railway to the city are being vigorously explained by an eastern company which is desirous of having a franchise passed in their, favor. The company offers the city good inducements on their part, with only a five-cut fare, and in all proba bility St Louis will be the first western city to have transportation by an eleyated railway. Bank clearances last week were 18 per cent better, taking the principal cilira of the country as a whole, than they were In the corresponding week in 1n7. Out side of New York City the increase was 33 per cenf. This is the best bhoitirm that has been made in many weeks past. Speculation is not brisk, but legitimate business of most kinds is about as active now as it has been in this season at any time within the pat fear years. Now it is the secretary of .state of Tennessee who is exalting himself as the possessor of a little bik-t authority. Governor Taylor has signed the certificate of election of Mr. Evans (Pep.) in the Third congressional district, but " Secre tary Allison refused to affix the seal of the state. Such an expedient easr. ong avail tq defeat the will of the peo ple, and it will not prevent the rightfully elected majority from controlling the next house of representatives. The direct tax bill was dsssp1 ltf week by the house, by a vote of l t,, rw: but, having been amended, it mut be re turned to tha senate. All the nenfivp votea were cast by democrats yet 40 dem ocrats voted with the republicans iu far of 'the bilj. It is 'the geperrd belief j'A rashirgtoa that President Cleyelind !1! vi-tn llift measure vt tiic ti II ! . n .. - r. ., n he elirect tax nuestion tn ii V;.l . r 3 - - .'-. W II for the next congress to settle. If is now report cei that ti.e Americar. navy has gone into dry dock t Key West to get out f the way of th 'soli tary Haytien gun boat, but it lack? ruu-firmation. ) r J i i - ;A- T I '(Vif, ,' i ( t .'.!; 'j ... i i iK