Tho compromise offer of Maddux, Ilobart
& Company, of Cincinnati, in tho matter of
tho offense of jllllng packages of whisky after
gauging, has been refused by tho commissioner
of internal revenue. It now rests
with" tho firm to make a larger bffcr than $ 130
or stand trial.
Drunken miscreants visited Pleasant Hill
ceraotery, in. Jackson township, Shelby
county, 0., Sunday night and overturned
twenty-four haudsomo monuments and headstones,
several of thorn being broken in falling.
, The 'damage is estimated at $'J,C0O.
Tho scoundrels wera tracked into the adjoining
county and arrested.
Tho president's proclamation, warning
Federal ofllco holders not to participate in
conventions or primary meetings, is said to
have been called out by representations that
the conduct of certain Democratic officials in
Indiana, in taking part in primaries, was
bringing discredit upon the Democratic party
and hurting the president's policy of civil
service reform.
Tho Central Labor union, of New York,
representing a hundred thousand working
people, has adopted u new constitution. The
declaration of principles hold that there
should be no private property in land; that
labor should share in the wealth it produces;
that it is the sacred duty of evory honorable
laboring man to sever his connection with all
pollticall political parties of tho capitalists,
and to dovoto his energy and attention to the
reorganization of his trade or labor union
and the concentration of all unions into one
solid body for the purpose of assisting each
other in all struggles, political or industrial
" ' '
i
The "Weather.
Washington, July 10. For Ohio and
Indiana: Generally fair weather, northerly
winds, becoming variable.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
Quotations of the Money, Stock, Produce
a ud Cuttle Slurkets, July IS.
New York Money 1 per ceat. Exchange
quiet, Governments firm.
