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The New York newspapers ofler an
exceedingly interesting piece of gas-
tronomic information, which is very
likely to have an influence beyond the
market and the table into broader fields
of modern civilization.

It seems that rabbits have lately be-
come a very popular article of food in

the metropolis. Hitherto they have
been hard to sell. They have hung in
the market from day to day, untouched
by any tooth but that of time, until no
one could fail to acknowledge in them
at least equal rank with other game;
often they were manifestly ranker.
And now of a sudden the situation
changes and the question is how long
will it be possible to find enough rab—
bits to meet the demand.

The Courant ventures to predict that
there will not in our day be an utter
failure of the supply. The conditions
of the revived demand give a promise
of large resources also. It seems that
hitherto housewives have been nnwil-
ling to buy the rabbits of traders be-
cause the creatures were sold with their
skins on. It is difficult to dress a rab—
bitt, which means undress it, and so
the article was neglected, Now the
marketmen are themselves skinning the
animals; they get a penny apiece for
the skins, and then they sell the meat
without any trouble for twenty-five
cents. That is the situation and it
means a great deal. '

Cut off the head and tail and feet and
remove the skin of the domestic cat,
and who can tell it from a rabbit?
Under that view of the caseNew York
city develops into one. vast warren.
The countrymen may beat the bush in
Long Island, Connecticut, New York
and New Jersey, fire guns, set traps
and otherwise pursue the coy and gen—
tle rabbit of the backwoods that cries
so piteously when it is shot. But what
is the sum of all their efforts, compared
with the reward awaiting those who
hunt not the backwoods but the back
fences, and who seek not the country
rabbit that cries when it is shot, but the.
metropolitan cat that cries till it is
shot?

Think what New York would be if
only its citizens would turn from the
wild cats in speculation down town to
the wild cats in meditation up town.
Loss of money and loss of sleep are
supposed to be the chief causes of ner—
vous prostration. How much money
have New Yorkers 10st through wild—
cat operations, and how much sleep have
they lost through tame cat operations?
If they abandon the wild and eat the
tame cat, why may not they put an end
also to this prostrating disease, which
has proved the source of so much dis-
tress?

No one can say just how many cats
there are in New York, both because
there would have to be a new count
every day and because the official
census does not undertake to enumer—
ate them. They have none of the quali-
ties of citizenship, and though one
variety, the strongest of the family,

too. is called the pole-cat, it is not
named with reference to the polls of
New York, albeit the keen scented
stranger of inquiring mind might think
so. As the cats cannot be counted one
can only roughly guess their value.
Assume that they are no plentier in
New York than people, or say 1,800,000
of them, that only half are females,
producing only five kittens, only twice
a year. Then the annual crop is about
9,000,000. We cannotsay whatbecomes
of them now, but in the new era. at a
cent apiece for the skins, they will
yield $90,000 for pelts and $2,250,000 as
a food product, beside whatever else
comes in as the result of carrying the
destruction back of the rising genera—
tion to that which, as we- learn every
morning, has already risen.

Let the good work go on. If New
York will eat up its own cats, that is
the important fact; whether they are
called cats or rabbits is only a question
in the terminology of trade.

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English Conservatism.

The careful and conservative spirit which
characterizes so much of the work done in
England is shown in connection with the
recent splendid piece of work, the City and
South London railway. IVhile many of
the details of the line are carried out with
the perfection of modern electrical skill,
there are some points in connection with it
which are so much behind modern prog-
ress as to appear in a measure inconsistent
with the enterprise which characterizes
the rest of the work. It appears that the
elevators leading to the underground sta-
tions are operated by hydraulic power.
There is a. good deal of dissatisfaction that
electricity has not been used for this pur-
pose. Nothing could be better adapted for
working lifts than motors, and the saving
in expense would have been considerable.

Unless the elevators are balanced there
is a plunger volume of high pressure water
wasted every time each hoist is used,
whereas if the motors were employed the
generator would need supply little more
than the power wasted in general friction.
Another fact which has been freely criti-
cised is the use of an air brake where elec-
tric power is available. It has been urged
that the block system arrangements, and
the cut off of the supply from a moving
train in case of necessity, are objections to
its use,

If these are obstacles they can be easily
overcome, and the special leads which sup-
ply thc carriage lamps could supply the
motive power for the brakes. It is argued
that this combination in the same plant of
hydraulic distribution, compressed air a nd
electric traction is a somewhat anomalous
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DAILY PNORWAL’K- GAZETTE.

THE RNMVERNORS

That Deadlock in Connecticut Draw- '
’ ing toa Crisis.

IT CAN’T LAST VERY LONG.

 

The Democrats Must Either Assert

Themselves or Ignominously Back
Down—The Constitutional Con-
vention Question.

NEW HAVEN, Jan. 27.—Tuesday’s meet-
ing of the state legislature opens probably
the last week at Hartford during which
the present state of affairs can continue
without some kind of coallision in the au-
thority of the rival governors.

Every day’s delay makes the conflict of
the parties more intense and complicated,
and the time draws near when the Demo—
crats must either assert their powers more
positively or back down in so ignoble a
fashion as to make them a butt for criti—
cism all over the state. But there is not
yet the slightest sign that the senate and
Democratic state officers will give way at
any point.

How It Stands.

, The report of the house investigating
committee on canvass of votes will, it is
reported, be handed in Tuesday. Its tenor
cannot be positively stated, as it may be
changed at the last moment. There is lit-
tle doubt, however, that it will be forced
to concede the election of Staub, and prob-
ably most, if not all, the minor Democratic
state officers.

This being the case, the Republicans
must either proceed to seat them or take
the position that the Democratic minor
candidates must, as a mere matter of party
tactics, be kept out of their offices until
the governorship question is settled. The
illegality of such a course is so evident that
it is doubtful whether all the Republican
majority can be forced to accept it. Action
on the report may be delayed for a day or
two, but it is hard to see how it can be
postponed much longer.

It has come out that last week Mr. Staub
was promised his seat by the Republican
leaders in case he would recognize Bulke—
ley as governor. He refused to do so, and
would undoubtedly have been deemed a
betrayer of the Democratic cause had he
made any such pledge. There are Demo-
cratic complaint-s, however, that their le-
gal counsel, J udgc Stoddard, is showing
too much vacillation.

Constitutional Convention Talk.

An incident of ' the coming week will
probably be the introduction in the house
of a resolution denouncing the force bill.
Last week Mr. Vfalkcr, of Hartford, pre—
sented it, but it was shut off by a parlia-
mentary point. Another measure, to be
put in by the same gentleman, will pro-
vide for a constitutional convention com-
posed of one gentleman from each town,
and twenty from the state at large, the lat-
ter to be elected by a system giving minor-
ity representation.

This topic of a constitutional convention
is now being widely discussed by the news—
papers of the state, the Republican papers,
led by The Hartford Courant, asserting
that the plan is revolutionary, as the pres—
ent constitution contains provisions for its
own amendment, and can be changed in no
other way. This plea is antagonized by
the theory that the people, acting in their
sovereign and independent capacity, can
always change their organic law.

The latter view was held by ex-Governor
II. D. Harrison (Rep), of New Haven,
when in 1873 he introduced a resolution
calling for a constitutional convention,
and other prominent Republican lawyers
in the state have agreed with him.

The discussion of constitutional reform
thus actively begun shows that public at~
tention is turning in that direction, and in-
dicatcsthe possible legislation which the
present broil at the Capitol may bring

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Her Throat Out from Ear to Ear.

Haw YORK, Jan. 27.—Mrs. Hannah Rior-
don, a widow living in the tenement 456
West Twenty-ninth street, was Monday
morning found on the floor of her room
dead, with her throat cut from car to car.
Her nephew, Thomas Clark, a brushmaker
by trade, has been arrested on suspicion of
having committed the crime. It appears
that Clark for the past three weeks had
been drinking heavily, and the neighbors
have frequently had to complain of the
many quarrels the two had had together.
Early in the morning one of the neighbors
heard the two quarreling, the aunt feebly
protesting or apologizing. A heavy fall
was also heard, and after a brief interval
the door of the apartment was slammed
and the nephew was heard to say as he
went down the stair, “I have no neighbors,
no friends in this house.”

Significant Changes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.—The revenue
cutter Bear is being fitted out for sea. here.
The spar decks are being strengthened,
and portholes cut and gun carriages put
down for two long 4-inch rifles. The
changes are commented on as significant.

BRIEF DIENTION.

A syndicate is seeking to purchase 1.,000
acres of land in the vicinity of Venice, Ills.,
for the establishment of a tin plate works
on a large scale.

“Bill” Silvcy and Henry Plunket fought
a prize fight in apublic hall in Indianapolis
for the smiles of a young woman whom
they both loved.

The meeting of the Industrial senate
takes place. at Trenton, N. J., next Sun—
day. It is proposed to unite the various
labor and agricultural organizations of
the state into a deliberative body, which
will endeavor to secure legislation bene-
ficial to farmers and wage earners.

The young wife of Matthew Ellison, a
wealthy farmer near Carthage, Ills., in a
suit for divorce alleges that her 80-year-old
husband has treated her with the utmost
cruelty, and once or twice nearly murdered
her.

Three citizens of good reputation have
been placed on trial at Shelbyville, Ind, to“
answer the charge of wrecking the saw
mill of Thomas Vandiver with a dynamite
bomb. _. '

President Samuel Gompers, of the Amer—
ican Federation of Labor, speaking of the
contemplated strike of the United Mine
workers for an eight hour day, says that if
the strike is begun it will be a ficrce’strug-
glc. The miners are well organized, and
number nearly 600,000.

John Bausinger, of Williamsport, Pa.,
has been able to lie in but one position
since his back was broken five years ago,
and his wife has since supported him and
their five children. They are destitute,
alpd substantial aid is being subscribed for

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CHARGED WITH CRUELTY.

Exeter’s Paupers Sufi‘erlngfrom the Pe-
nuriousness of the Town.
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Jan. 27.—For some
time rumors have been rife in the city that
cruelty was being practiced upon the in—
mates of Exeter’s asylum. Exeter is a hill

town in Washington county, somewhat

removed from railroads and difficult of
access. A Journal reporter explored the

'ice laden and forest fastnesses of the town

and learned that a pauper named Henry
Money, an old man, had died some time
since invat outhouse at a little distance
from the asylum. There was much indig-
nation expressed by those who criticised
the management of the poor farm at the
confinement of Money in this building
away from the asylum.

Dr. Kenyon, of Kingstown, who is the
medical adviser of the institution, states
that the man was confined in the out-
house by his orders, and that all his orders
concerning the patient were carried out,
the reason for such a course being that
Money ,was violent and incapable of re
gardin g the common decencies of life; that
it was necessary thus to deal with him.
The out building was warm and padded,
while the condition of the old man was
made as comfortable as possible.

Another pauper named Allen Rogers
died recently in a chamber of the asylum,
the temperature of the room being very
low, it is asserted. Dr. Kenyon denies in
this case also that there was any cruelty.
Rogers was buried without the services of
a clergyman. The authorities say that the
roads were icy, the interlocked, overhang-
ing branches of the crust laden trees mak-
ing locomotion impossible along the coun-
try roads, and after keeping the corpse
several days it was decided to inter it With-
out waiting further for a minister.

The charge is made that the town of Ex-
eter is penurious in its attitude toward the
asylum. The paupers themselves say that
they have nothing to complain of with re—
gard to the keeper, who is doing the best
he can with the present arrangements at
his disposal. The asylum ought to have a
steam heater, the citizens say.

THE CHILIAN REVOLUTION.

Coronel Bornbarded and a, Number of
Persons Killed and Wounded.

LONDOJ, J an. 27.—Advices received here
from Buenos Ayres state that the Chilian
revolutionists have bombarded the seaport
of Coronel, in the province of Concepcion,
and that during the firing several persons
were killed and a number wounded.

In the Coquimbo district the government
forces are concentrating with a view to sur-
rounding the revolutionists.

The town of Coronel has something near
6,000 inhabitants, is on the sea coast, and
is important only as being a coal producing
port. The coal is mined and shipped di-
rectly on vessels plying to Coronel. It is
possible that the interference with the
local coal supply by the insurgents may
draw out a protest from foreigners, but
the affair is apparently unimportant, and
may mean simply that the insurgent navy
has been denied a supply of coal and has
taken it vi et- armis.

Imprisonlnent for Life.

NEW YORK, Jan. :37.—John Curtin, the
young man who, with his younger brother
Cornelius, killed John Sloan on April 6
last at 35 Cherry street, was Monday con-
demned to imprisonment for life by Judge
Martino. Curtin was convicted of man-
slaughter in the first degree.

John L. No Longer an Elk.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 27.—Dr. Simon Quin-
lan, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent

and Protective Order of Elks, who is in the
city, has issued an order suspending John ,

Lawrence Sullivan, who is alleged to have
obtained admission into a New Jersey
lodge by misrepresentation.

Government Relief in Ireland.

DUBLIN, J an. ‘37.~—Balfour’s government
is now employing 2,700 laborers on the re-
lief works at W'estport, Ireland, and claims
to have paid them £1,500 for work during
the past week.
FINANCIAL AND CODIlVIERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock

Exchange.
New Youk, Jan. Bil—Money loaned at easy

rates today, viz., 3713 per cent. Exchange quietgl.

posted rates, :314.8:[email protected]; actual rates, $4.8m
LEW/L for (50 days and $4.57®l.87}4 for demand.
Governments steady; currency, (is, 109 bid; 45,
coupon, 1:30 bid; 995, do., 1033 bid.

The stock market was extremely dull this
morning and prices fluctuated within very nar-
row limits. The opening prices were generally
léfl‘v,‘ g per cent. lower, with exceptional declines
of 1 per cent. and 1% respectively in C. C. C.
and St. Louis and Wheeling and Lake Erie pre-
ferred. These losses were followed by further
material declines, Missouri Pacific leading with
a drop of :3 per cent. to 6%,, while Wheeling and
Lake Erie common lost 1, Chicago Gas 1, Bur-
lington and Quincy and Union Pacific {34. This
decline was followed toward the end of the
first hour by arally of 134 in Missouri Pacific
and a fractional recovery in the others. In
the hour to noon the market was again weak,
and by 1:3 o‘clock was down to the lowest figures
in most instances. Union Pacific was especially
weak and dropped 1%. At the close values
were unchanged and the market stagnant.

Closing prices:
West. Union Tel.. 78
Adams Express. . .140
U. S. Express ..... 65

Del. & Hudson. . . .131‘7é
Del. Lack. & W. “145%
Del., L. & West. . .133

0., C. C. & I ....... 60% Erie ............... 19
N. Y. Central ..... 100%; Lake Shore ........ 106%
Illinois Central... . 07 Northwest... . . . . . .104-%
Northern Pacific. 20% Do. pref ........... 132
Do. pref ........... 69% Pacific Mail ....... . 81%
Central Pacific. .. :30 Reading ........... 31%
, Union Paclfic ..... 42:32 St. Paul ..... .. 52%
Missouri Pacific... 2% Wabash ............ 9%
Texas Pacific ...... 14% Bur. & Quincy. . . . 87%
Alton & T. H ..... — Ore. R’y & Nav. . . —
Canada Southern. 48%, Ore. & Trans... .. ~—
Canada Pacific. . .. 72 Rich. & Terminal. 17%
N. Y. & N. E ...... 36% Sugar Trust ..... . . 78%

 

General llIarkets.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—FLOUR——Trading was
fairly active, with prices steady; city mill ex-
tras, [email protected], for West Indies; fine, [email protected];
superfine, [email protected]; Minnesota extra, 334060550.

VVIIEAT—Opencd strong and advanced 20.,
and further improved Vac. in the early trading;
from this there was a reaction of %c.; receipts,
25,800 bushels; shipments, 25,261 bushels; No. 2
red winter, 31.06%, cash; do., March, $1.06%;
do., May, 31.04%; do., June, 51.02%.

CORN—Opened firm and advanced %c., and
continued firm to noon; receipts, 44,200 bushels;
shipments, 10,3i0 bushels; NO. :3 mixed, 59%c.
cash; February, 6134).; May, 59%c. -

OATS—Quiet; receipts, 76,000 bushels; ship
ments, 78 bushels; No. 2 mixed, 52c, cash; do.,
J une, 52%;0.

RYE—Nominal.

BARLEY—Nominal. ‘

PORK—Dull: mess, [email protected] for new.

,LARD—Quiet; February, $6.08; March, $6.45.

MOLASSES—Steady; New Orleans, 15@3.?,c.

TURPENTINE—Dull at 39@40c. , _

ROSIN-Quiet; strained to good, [email protected]}{3

PETROLEUM—Nominal.

BUTTER—Dull; western creamery, fancy,
27@27}éc.

CHEESE—Quiet; western flat, 7%~@9%c.

EGGS—In light demand; western, fresh
26léc.; state, fresh, 27@27}{;c. . \

RICE—Nominal.

SUGAR——Refined, (lull and easy; cut loaf and
crushed. (ii-1c; granulated, 6,140.; mold A, 65-160

TALLOW—Quiot; prime city, 45/60.

COFFEE—Spot lots steady; fair Bio cargoes
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