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I. H. JlttlAH Idltor.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
CURRENT TOPICS.
TnB Borlin Peace Congress termi-
nated IU sessions on the 13th when the
Treaty was formally signed by all the
plenipotentiaries. The proceedings
terminated with a grand court dinner at
Whitehall Palace at which all the pleni-
potentiaries were present save Beacons-
field and Gohschakoff. The Crown
Prince presided.
Gen. Howard's command struck
the hostiles on the 8th near the head of
Butler Creek charged upon them three
times scattering their forces and cap-
turing their provisions ammunition and
camp material. The fighting was quito
severe but the only casualties reported
are five men wounded and 20 horses
killed. The Indian loss is not known.
The brunt of the battle was borne by
Col. Bernard's 1st Cavalry who are
hii?hlv complimented for their bravery
Gen. Miles had an engagement
with the hostiles near Cayuse fetation
about six miles from Pendleton.Oregon
on the 14th. which lasted several hours
but was without decisive result further
than to hold the hostiles in check until
Col. Bernard came up with reinforce
ments which were expeotea on the 101
lowingday. The main body of the hostiles
seemed to be in that locality although
it was reported a portion had crossed
the Columbia River. The settlers in the
valley had all fled to Pendleton where
fortifications had been erected and other
means of defense provided.
The officials at the Indian Bureau in
Washington discredit the reports re-
ewdine the large number of Indians
on the war-path in the Northwest and
say that there are not really over 200
all told who are engaged in the revolt.
Tub connection between the Sutro
Tunnel and Comstock lode in Nevada
just completed is a most important
event to the mining interests as it gives
a new lease of life to the Comstock lode
and mines the products of which
amounting to hundreds of millions of
dollars in bullion from low grade ores
alone have heretofore been valueless on
account of thexpensive mode of min
ing.
The Missouri Democratic State Con-
vention held at Jefferson City on the
10th nominated Hon. E. H. Norton for
Supreme Judge James E. McIIenry
for Register of Lands R. D. Shan-
non for Superintendent of Schools
and A. M. Sevier for Railroad
Commissioner. The platform adopt-
ed demands the substitution of Gov-
ernment legal tenders for national
bank notes such issue of Government
money to be a full legal tender for all
debts public and private except where
otherwise provided by law and to be
used by the Government in the purchase
and retirement of interest-bearing
bonds; the unrestricted coinage of sil-
ver and the unconditional repeal of the
Resumption act. The platform also
declares its apposition to any further
contraction of the currency and to a
protective tariff. The decision of the
Forty-fourth Congress as to the Presi-
dential incumbency is regarded as a
finality.but that decision it is held.should
not prevent a full investigation of
the alleged frauds connected with
the election and which the Electoral
Commission wrongfully refused to in.
qure into. An equitablo appropriation
by the Government for the improvement
of the Mississippi and its tributaries is
demanded as both just and expedient.
Tub eclipse of the sun on the 29th
inst. will be total from Irkontsk Sibe-
ria through the western part of the
British possessions Denver Colorado
and northern and eastern Texas enter-
ing the Gulf of Mexico to disappear a
little southeast of San Domingo. The
exhibition will be visible as a partial
eclipse over all the United States Mex-
ico and British America that afternoon.
The Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention held at Detroit on the 10th
adopted resolutions declaring gold and
silver coin to be the money of the Con
stitution and that all paper currency
should be convertible into coin at the
option of the holder and deprecating
and further forcible reduction of the
currency. The Totter Investigating
Committee is endorsed. Orlando M
Karnes was nominated for Governor.
Hoekel who attempted the life of
the Emperor William has been cos-
rioted and sentenced to be beheaded.
Ctpbi s the island which Turkey has
just ceded to Great Britain in return
for a guarantee of protection by Eng-
land of Turkish dominions in Asia is
the most eastern of the Mediterranean
islands lying midway between Asia
Minor and Syria. Ita length is about
148 miles and width except in the
northeast extremity where it narrows
to 15 miles about 40 miles. Its area
is about 4600 square miles and present
population 110000 the majority of
whom are Greeks though there are a
large number of Turks. It has been un
der the rule of the Turks for more than
300 years having been taken by them
from the Venetians. Undor the veneti
ans the island had at one time a popu
latlon of 1000000 and attained great
splendor and prosperity but has greatly
declined under the Turks though of
late years its prosperity has somewhat
increased. It has great natural re-
sources. Its importance to England as
a military base of operations both for
enforcing the operations of the treaty
and for guarding her Indian posses
sions is almost incalculable.
The threatened distubances at Mont-
real Canada on account of the pro-
posed Orange parade on the 12th were
probably averted by the strong stand
taken by the Mayor in forbidding the
procession backed up by a large force
of special policemen and militia from
various parts of the Dominion. The
Orangemen finally consented to aban-
don their parade in the inter
est of the publio peace the Mayor
assuring them protection to their homes.
Several of the leaders were arrested up-
on warrants charging them with a con-
templated breach of the peace and were
subsequently released on bail. The
Orangemen and their friends complain
bitterly of the action of the authorities
in refusing them permission and protec-
tion for their parade.
Bv the direction of the Secretary of
War a Board of Engineers and Officers
is constituted to take into consideration
the improvement of the low-water navi-
gation of the Mississippi River and to
submit a plan therefor together with a
recommendation for the most practica-
ble measures to be adopted from time
to time in order to secure its earliest and
most economical completion. The Board
will consist of Col. F. G. Barnard Col.
Z. B. Tower Lieut.-Col. H. G. Wright
and the following officers in charge of
improvements or surveys of the Mis-
sissippi River during the consider-
ations of specified portions of the
river: For that portion of the river
above the mouth of the Illinois Col. F.
H. Simpson andMaj. F. U. Farquharj
for that portion between the mouths of
the Illinois and Ohio Col. F. H. Simp-
son and Maj. C. R. Suter ; for that por-
tion below the mouth of the Ohio Maj.
C. B. Comstock and Maj. C. R. Suter.
The Board will also take into consider-
ation and submit plans for the improve-
ment of low water navigation of the
Missouri River and the most practica-
ble measures to be adopted to secure its
earliest execution. For the consideration
of this subject Col. F. H. Simpson and
Maj. C. R. Suter will be associated with
the Board as members thereof. The
Board will receive its instructions from
the Chief of Engineers and make its re-
ports to him. The Board will assemble
in the city of St. Louis on the 14th of
August next or as soon thereafter as
practicable and is authorized to ad
journ from time to time subject to the
call of its presiding officer and may
meet at any point most suitable or con
venient for the prosecution of the duties
imposed upon it.
According to the statistics of Messrs.
Dun Barlow & Co. as given in their
last Trade Circular the failures in this
country for the last six months aggre-
gate $130000000 against $99000000
during the same months last year.
Among the new enterprises projected
in Mexico are a bridge over the river
Lerma a railway between Pueblo and
Iguveo de Matamoras a rolling-mill for
railway iron at Morella a paper and
cotton mill at San Miguel de Allende
and a railway and telegraph from Tan-
toyuquita to Valle del Maiz between
San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. Eliza Pritchakd formerly
rinkston It is reported has been subjected
to another interview and recanted her re-
cent statements regarding the killing of her
hucband by negro.
Cen. Sheridan is to take personal
command of the forces in the Black Hills
country.
The official returns of the California
election give the following ai the compost-
tin! of the Constitutional Convention: Non-
partisans CI; Workingmen SJ; Republi
cans H; Democrats 6; Independents J.
The Non-partisans elect all delegates at large-
Benjamin Notes President of the
National Life Insurance Company of Wash-
ington D. C convlrte l of conspiracy to de-
fraud the policy-holders of the New Jersey
Mutual has been sentenced to IS months
Imprisonment at hard labor in the New Jrr-
sey Penitentiary and to pay the eoU of the
suit. j
John L. Frisbie of Michigan hat '
been appointed Consul at Rio Grande
Brazil.
Jefferson Davis made an address at
New Orleans on the 10th the occasion be-
ing the presentation to him of gold badge
and certificate of membership of the Asso-
ciation of the Army of the Tennessee. He
reiterated his unshaken belief In the right
of secession and the duty of a citizen to bat-
tle for the cause of the State and charged
that " every evil which has befallen our In-
stitutions is directly traceable to the perver-
sion of the oompact of the union and the
usurpation by the Federal Government of
undelegated powers."
John L. Frisbie of Michigan has
been appointed Consul at Rio Grande Bra-
iil. The President has removed Gen.
Chester A. Arthur Collector of Customs at
the Port of New York and appointed Gen.
E. A. Merritt present Surveyor of the Port
in his stead. He also removed A. B. Cor-
nell Naval Officer and appointed as his sua-
ceBsor Silas W. Burt present Deputy Naval
Officer. The deposed officials were ad-
herents of Senator Conkllng.
Prop. F. V. Hayden of Washington
has been elected a foreign member of the
Royal Academy of Science at Rome Italy
and the University of Rochester N. Y. has
Just conferred upon him the honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Laws.
TnE President has appointed Alexan-
der Reed of Ohio Receiver of Publio Mon-
eys at Walla Walla Washington Territory;
Elliot C. Jewott of Missouri Commissioner
to the Parts International Exposition ; Cas-
par H. Stibolt of Iowa Consul at Cam-
peachy Mexico; Eugene Schuyler Consul
at Birmingham England.
James A. Long (colored) son of
ex-Congressman Long is under arrest at
Macon Ga. charged with robbing the malls
while acting as mail-agent.
Lieut. John A. Ruckeh was drown-
ed In Arizona on the 12th while attempting
to rescue a comrade Lieut. Austin Henley
who was also drowned. Both belonged to
the Sixth Infantry and had proved them-
selves to be brave and successful soldiers.
The Arkansas Greenback State Con-
vention held at Little Rock on the 13th ap-
pointed a State Central Committee au-
thorized to place in nomination a ticket of
State officers.
Justice Nathan Clifford of the
United States Supreme Court celebrated
his golden wedding at Portland Me. on the
4th Inst. he and his wife being surrounded
by their five children and 20 grandchildren.
Alexander H. Stephens is now en-
Joying better health than for many years
past. The secret of his strange vitality is
said to be a remarkably sound stomach
which.durlnghis long Illness has never fail-
ed to perform its functions.
Gen. Marcus J. Wright formerly
of MemphiB Confederate Post Commander
at Macon during the latter years of the war
has been commissioned by the War Depart
ment as an agent for the collection of Con
federate records for the use of Government.
The President's Private Secretary Mr.
Rogers is dangerously ill with consumption.
Kearney the leader of the Working-
men In California is coming East. He says
that he expects to help make Ben Butler
Governor of Massachusetts; and that he is
confident of carrying the next California
Legislature.
Daniel Sturgeon ex-United states
Senator from Pennsylvania is dead. He
served in the 8enate from 1840 to 182 with
Webster and the other great men of that
time and though an influential member of
that body and an indefatigable worker in
committee so rarely spoke that he was pop
ularly known as " The Silent Senator."
Isaac Friedlander the great San
Francisco grain operator died of heart dis
ease en the 11th.
The estate of Dr. .J. C. Ayer the
patent medicine man who has just died in a
private asylum at Lowell Mass. Is estimat
ed at between $15000000 and $20U0UUW.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Near New Lexington O. on thS 9th
two young ladies named Green and Murphy
were struck dead by lightning while picking
cherries.
Mrs. Mauz was fatally burned at Day
ton O. on the Otb while lighting the fire
with kerosene.
At the recent session of Congress a
change was made in the laws regulating the
compensation of Post makers of the fourth
class. The change makes the salaries de-
pend upon the amount of stamps canceled
in each office not upon that sold.
A contract has been closed for com
pleting the Texas Pacific Railroad from
Sherman to Whitesboro.
Gen. Sherman has issued a general
order of instruction to Army officers in
conformity with the recent act of Congress
forbidding the use of the Army as a posse
comltatus.
A daughter of Wm. Ryan aged 12
living near Omro Mich. was burned to
death on the evening of the-8th while at-
tempting to kindle the fire with kerosene. A
young man named Crook living in an adja
cent town was also dangerously burned In
the same manner.
At Amsterdam X. Y. on the 10th a
large broom factory In process of construc-
tion was blown to the gronnd by a hurri-
cane burying nine men In the ruins three
of whom were fatally injured.
A bricklayer named White was struck
by lightning while working on a church
tower in Forty-seventh Street New Xork
City on the 10th. He fell dead to the pave-
ment a distance of 60 feet below.
Two daughters of Hugh. Thompson
aged 11 and IT were drowned at Werner
Mich- while bathing oa the 7th.
A 6-year-old boy son of a Steuben-
tille (O.)salooa-keeperBsated JobaSlauc h-
tery th fatally Injured a the 10th by the
explosion of a partially filed whisky bar-
rel. The barrel had beta standing in the
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uoat ui ujo sun uw .v .urri.v.
plosive gas wm generated which was Ignited
by a match In the bands of the boy who It
Is thought wasslttlngonthebarrel and per
haps threw the match Into the bung-hole.
The little fellow died from bis Injuries.
A telegram from Sidney New South
Wales dated July 11 says that two tribes of
natives have risen against the Government
In the Island of New Caledonia and massa-
cred 125 whites Including women and chil-
dren. They have also captured two military
stations.
At Galesburg 111. on the 12th Mrs.
Spalding the divorced wife of Martin
O'Connor a well known citizen shot him
with a revolver the ball passing near the
heart and causing almost Instant death. She
then shot herself fatally it is presumed.
Severe rain storms on the 11th and
12th caused much injury to the growing
crops In portions of Iowa Wisconsin Ohio
and Indiana.
The accounts of the late State Treas-
urer of Georgia John JoneB are said to
show a deficit of $253000 for which suit has
been brought against his securities.
Mike Shaw was hanged at Milledge-
ville Ga. on the 12th for wife-murder; and
Hiram Fooks (colored) was on the same day
hanged at Wilmington Del. for the murder
of John Tyler also colored.
The recent excessively hot weather
was productive of numerous fatal cases of
sun-Btroke in St. Louis Cincinnati and
other places.
The discovery has just been made
that Bishop Ravellcs and other French mis-
sionaries are held confined in the capital of
Corea and are in danger of death. A call
has been made for their rescue.
Mrs Gray of Fort Worth Texas re-
cently took her three children to the Trinity
River and drowned them all and then her-
self. She left a note to her busbend saying
she was heart-broken and that she had been
accused of a crime of which she was Inno
cent.
Henry Wise was hanged at Walter-
boro S. C on the 12th for the murder of
Mercer Brown his rival in a love affair.
Mrs. Annie Stroupe aged 25 of West
Warren O. is a&other victim to kerosene
kindling.
At Chicago on the 14th Jeremiah
Kennedy an Irish laborer shot his wife
twice killing her Instantly and then shot
himself in the vicinity of the heart also fa
tally. Poverty and domestic discord are
supposed to have instigated the act.
Thomas Ballard known as the "King
of Counterfeiters" committed suicide In the
Albany (N. Y.) Penitentiary on the 11th by
stabbing himself with a Bhoemaker's knife.
THE ELECTORAL EfYESTIGATION.
Proceedings of the Potter Committee.
Secretary Sherman on the 0th addressed
another letter to Chairman Potter In refer-
ence to his (Sherman's) offer to furnish evi-
dence as to intimidation etc. in East Felici
ana and In reply to the letter of Mr. Potter
heretofore published announcing the deter-
mination of the Committee not to go over
the ground traversed by former Congres-
sional committees. Mr. Sherman cites the
fact that tne Potter Committee have already
admitted evidence tending to disprove that
fraud and violence existed in the parish and
complains that he denied the privilege of in-
troducing e.idence in rebuttal. He also
states that be Is now prepared at the con-
venience of the Committee to submit testi-
mony to repel the charges made against him
gersonally and has given his counsel Mr.
hellabarger a list of witnesses whom he
asks to be subpoenaed.
Ex-Gov. Kellogg of Louisiana was ex-
amined before tbe Potter Committee on the
11th. In answer to inquiries propounded by
Gen. Butler he expressed his opinion that
Packard was legally elected Governor to-
gether with a majority of Republican mem-
bers In botli houses of the Legislature. On
the face ot the returns the Democrats had a
majority but the Returning Board threw out
enough parishes on account of alleged in-
timidation to change the result in favor of
the Republicans. Gen. liutler produced ta-
bles complied from Returning Hoard figures
which showed that after the Board lulu
thrown outsuftlcient Democratic parishes to
elect the General Assembly it was found
there were still two Hayes Electors defeat-
ed whereupon the Returning Board threw
out parishes and precincts until they hud
succeeded in securing a majority of Hayes
Electors. Witners stated assuming the
figures to be correct the finding of the Re-
turning Board left the Genciul Assembly
Republican In both branches and still lett
two Haves Electors in the minority while
Packard's majority for Governor was 401.
lien. Butler question d witness regarding the
appointment by President Hayes of King as
Collector and asked him if he did not think
the President's motive in doing so was to
break up the quorum of the Supreme Court
of which King was a member in order that
Packard could not carry his case before iU
Witness admitted the effect of King's ap-
pointment but was unable to determine by
what motive the President was actuated.
Tbe examination of ex-Governor Kellogg
was further continued on the Pith. He con-
sidered Packard elected as fairly as the
Hayes Electors so far as Louisiana was con-
cerned. Gen. Grant had telegraphed the wit-
ness a day or two before ho went out of
ottlc. stating that he had hesitated recog-
nizing Guv. Packard in consequence of there
havl.igbeena commission appointed to in-
vestigate the result of the Louisiana election
(relerring to McVeigh's Commission). The
witness heard last fa 1 that the Sner-
man letter had been found among
Weber's papers and that Mrs. Jenks had pro-
cured possession ol it through her intimacy
with the Weber family. Mrs. Jenks had cull-
ed on him in New Orleans and spoken of the
Sherman letter. While explaining the con-
tents. ! the document Mrs. Jenks sat on a
sofa and pretended to be reading liim the
substance of the letter from a paper she held
In her band Being; very bu-y and not car-
ing to te connected with tbe affair he ad-
vised Mrs. Jenks to call on Mr. Packard
which he believed she did but be
was unable to relate what occurred further
than that Packard had said be did not attach
any Importance to her conversation. The
wltne-s being questioned by Mr. Hiscock
stated that the testiroonv of K. L- Weber.with
one or two exceptions. In so far as ft relates
to him (kelloKE) was entirely without foun-
dation. He had never been intormed by
Wetter and Anderson that the elections in
their parishes were peaceable and tbat they
could not make protest- on that aeeonnt.
Two letters from I. A. Weber to titer. kl-
kvc were introduced. In which tbe writer
sas that the colored voters tn the country
are prevented bv pickets from reaching: town
and that an attempt has been made to assas-
sinate him (Wer). i. IH yon know of any
ease where there was a faj-e lonred or an-
lair protest or any other nntair election pa-
per tbat was asrd befe the Rrtnrning
Board of !.? A. I do not. Q. Is there anv
letter whir k was written hy yon in regard to
tne canvas or action M tb- kxumma Hoard
that yaw o not wtstj made public r- A. No
an-; on the eontrarv if any me fa as any let-
ten wriuesj by me bearing oa tne tJecuoa I
hope they will not delay in publishing tat
same. The sooner tbe better.
The examination of ex-Gov. Kellogg WSJ
further continued on the 13th. He bad no
knowledge of intimidation In the Feliciana
parisUos other tbat what he had heard from
various sources; Mrs. Jenks did not visit
Washington in his behalf and he had no oor.
respondonoe either with Mr. or Mrs. Jenk.
prior to 1S77; had no reoolleotloa
ot Interviews with Mrs. Jenks iur.
ing the progress of the Eluotoral count.
Witness in response to questions stated no.
merous instances in which Republican offi-
cers were driven out of their parishes bv
Democrats previous to the election of
1S7U and said be would furnish tha
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sons killed banged and whipped for no.
lltlcal reasons If they so desired lie refused
to reply to the question whether or not as
Governor he had any knowledge that no
protests had been made from East or West
Feliciana other thun to say that tha
records would show. Gen. Butlur asked wit-
ness if it was a fact that all the members of
the visiting Commission with . one
exception ail the members of the Re.
turning Board all the Supervisors (except
Weber who was. killed) and Mr. and Mrs.
Jenks had been rewarded with Fed.
eral offices for their part in the
election or other causes. Witness replied
that with the exception of James K. Ander-
son he believed all the parties designated
had been appointed to office ; that he be-
lieved them to be competent persons and
good Republicans and there were still others
who ought to be appointed theCommit-
toe adjourned until the 23d of July to meet
at Atlantto City N. J.
The Louisiana Sub-Committee.
There was no evidence taken by the sub-
committee on the 6th on account of the ab-
sence of witnesses D. J. Wedge Chair-
man of the Democratic Campaign Commit-
tee of East Feliciana Parish La. testified on
the 8th as to the Republican leaders refus-
ing to vote at the election and advising the
negroes to do likewise. Anderson signed
the returns and witness paid him the
amount of his voucher for services as Super-
visor amounting to between t'iOO and $.100.
Thomas E. Williams colored testified that
Capt. Du Gray a leading Republican told
him it was no use to vote that the votes
would be thsown out. John De Lee testified
that De Gray and Campbell told him that It
was agreed by the leading Republicans that
there was to be no Republican ticket hi the
Held. John 8. Lanier Clerk of the District
Court testified that two tndiotments found
by the Grand Jury against ThoB. H. Jenks.for
embezzling $10000 as Tax Collector had been
nolle prosequied but a civil suit for the de-
ficit was still pending Mr. Cox took the
place of Mr. Reed as Republican member of
the sub-Committee.
Additional evidence taken by the Sub-
committee up to the 11th is as follows: B.
T. Hobbs testified that one Wilder told him
that he (Wilder) accompanied Anderson to
Notary Seymour's office when the Anderson-
Weber agreement was sworn to by Anderson;
Weber was not present J. F. Kelly Su-
pervisor of Registration in Richland Parish
testified that he delivered the returns of the
parish unaccompanied by any protest but.at
the solicitation of Kellogg and others finally
was induced to make a protest; did not make
oath to the affidavit published in Sherman's
report purporting to be sworn to by him.
Hiram Smedloy testified : Being shown
by Mr. Cox the Anderson-Weber agreement
he said "I saw the name of D. A. Weber
signed to that paper by J. W. Jones Notary
Publio in the back room of my coffee-house
on Exchange Alley. Jones spent most of his
time about my place." E. L. Weber was
examined by Mr. Cox as to his tostimony
given in Jackson Miss. in- 1870 before the
outwell Committee. Mr. Cox read
from the report of that committee the
questions propounded and answers
given by Weber at that time asking the wit-
ness whether they were severally true or
false. The witness said the statements then
made were not wilfully fulso but from hear-
say and imagination; liis intention was to tell
the truth; thinks in most .casos he told the
oommittee the truth as understood by him at
the time but he knows now that those state-
ments were false. Was never warned away
from the parish; had no information that
would justify him in making such statement.
In answer to a question of Mr. Cox as to the
si.nrmnn letter tlin witness said he found it
in a box sent from his brother's at Bayou
Sara to his father-in-law's warehouse ia
Donaldsonville; found the letter after Mrs.
Jenk's visit; showed it to no one ; tore it up
at once because It exposed ms oromers
wrong-doing; his brother told him there were
no grounds for protesting the parish.
E. L. Weber was further examined on the
12th. Cross-examined bv Mr. Cox in relation
to his connection with the Legislature and
his absence from the Packard Senate for W
days the witness stated his objeot was to
elect Plnchback United States Senator;
Pinchback paid the witness si(Jt ior ex-
penses. The witness then explained his re-
turn later to the Packard Senate and
1 n nn-ttrtn ftf III OOA nf WUrrantS
on the State Treasury received from Twitcliell
as security oi gooa mun to ran
lha uthoma nf na.uinar t.lin annrODriatiun BUI
of $5001 00 out of which Insane Asylumclaimt
ler if 10000 neia Dy tne witness were vo u p"
Tha wUnauH fill If n7 tSl irflt. hi elulmS Cashed
by reason of the collapse of the PackardGov-
eminent retained collaterals without being
able to give any very gooa reason w"J "
should retain them. The witness said l
T c..nnn.u ...Awk tfaoatAfl in tllS
$500OjO scheme and Packard promiseu
the bill when passed should De-
come a law. The witness stated he was
member of an association in tne wn
1S?K a ttrMnhinrlnilMHKnv. Atltoitie. T. 0. AU-
derso'u Twitched Burcu and othefs for cor-
rupt purposes. There were 19of them. l aer
reueiveu (wuw ior uussiiik "v V" '-h
fiO.000 for pasting the State House bill fcaca
member of the association received j2.J
the money. Twitcliell was rrcsiuein
C. Anderson Treasurer of the association.
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A Diving Dog.
The Ellenville (N. Y.) Journal says:
The captain of the canal-ooat P. H.
Hanley of Ellenville has one of the
most remark'ible dogs in the State. He
is extremely fond of being in the water
and is a noted diver. He is known to
have dived to the depth of 25 feet and
brought up a piece of iron thrown over-
board. On Monday a piece of wood
and a piece of iron tied together were
thrown overboard and to them was at-
tached a small line with which to haal
up the dog when he had recovered the
former articles. He gathered himself
up in the style of a man or a frog when
entering the water and after being un-
der for a long time appeared with the
wood and iron in his mouth and
hauled on board the boat hanging hj
his teeth to the wood attached to th
rcpe. He has only one known rival
this business the latter being a New-
foundland dog owned at Verplsnck
Point on the Hudson. Hanley's dof
a brindle bull-dog The distance Uj
iron was sunk on Monday was 19
The captain claims that the dog sve
him from drowning at one time.
Ix some countrieT a broken-ow
front gate prod need in court is
evidence a riri needs to insure a favora
ble re d ct To a breach of promise caw-
BrtakfaH Table.
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