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26
Month
April
Year
1878
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William Pniu.irs, alias "Pat tho Avenger," the horo of tho I'ittsburgh riots of last nummer, was tried last week on an indictmont for miirdor. The jury rendcrod a vordict of arquittal, and ho was romandod to jail lu await trial on tho charco of pnrtioipating iu the riot and consequent doRtruotion of railrond and other property....Sam Hteonlmrg (oolored) wan eaeouted t Foüda, N. Y., on April 1!). for tho imvrder, in Novemtor laat, of Jncob S. Parker. TnK doath of Hon. William Orton, for the jm6t doven j'ears President of the Westorn Union Telograph Oompany, ia announced. It occurred in Now York city, and was causod bv apoploxy . . . . Georgo T. Hathaway, treamircr of toe liordor City and Snpamoro milis, of Fall Knor, Mass., is n deraultsr to tho amount of abont $700,000. Hathaway it, a relativa of K Antier Chaco, whoombozzlcd. Y500, 00(1 ui the t'mon milis fuuds. THK WEST. Iu-.PORTH frora ever 150 stations on the Unes of tho Chioago, Milwnukeo and St. Paul roada in TVisconsin, Iowa, and Minuosota Hay that the acrcage eown to whcat is from 20 to 30 per cent, largor than last year. The Northwestern National Bank of Chicago nnnouncos that hereafter uotcs o its om isBue will be redoomed at its counter in gold A militia company, af ter driiling at CoalCroek, Ind., regalod theniselves at a ualoon in tho vicimty. One of a party of uogroos went into the saloon, and, a few words pam-ing botwoen him and the mfiitlamen, he waa flied npon and ran ovit. Tho militiamon. pursuing, hot him (lead, and started through the town nhootinc at all the colorod men they foimd Phil Cozene, John Meyoro, and Thomas Cooper were killed, and Pete Artisbadly wounded. John Esnis, a Chicago pedustrian, has ancceeded, at Buífalo, N. y., in walljing 100 uiiles in 128 hours. Portions of Illinois and Iowa wero vieited by a moet disastrous atorra on tho 21üt of April. At Qalesburg, 111., tho hmricane was proceded by a funous fall of hail, many of the stoncs boing largor thn heus' egga, which plai od featíul havoo with window-paucu. At Pomoroy, Iowa, a small utation on tho Illinois Central railroad, forty miles nest of Fort Podge, tho tornado assuraed a frightful t1ocïty. Sevoral housos wore blown down, ionr or flvo perions Killed, and about twentv others wounded. In Jeffereon connty the storm did immeuse damage to dwelhugp, baras and feDCes. At Storm Lako, Momma ccunty, number of buildings were blown down and several people kiüed. Lops of life is roported at other localities in tho path of tho storm Takea altogother it was the most dis&stroua tornado ever experienced in tho Stato of Iowa THE SOUTH. A i)iPATc,H to the Galveaton JVews report? an Indian attaok on the muil-carrier ncar Fort Concha. Oue man was killed and the mail taken. Tho same day another party of Indiana capturcd thirteon mulea at fort Davis. Cavalry are in pumiit, Tlie Indiana ere supposod to be from the Fort Stanton reservation. Gkoroe Shoenberoer, a prominent citizen of Huntsville, Ala., was assassinated in cold blood. Bon Evans and Eph Hall, both colored, were arreated on suspicion. Theyconfessed to the deed, and raid thoy were'inatiKated thereto by a white man named Mike White. Tho infuriated popnlace therenpon gathered by the hundrede, forced opou the ]ail, took tho prisonors out and hu-je them to the limb of n, tree. Rokebt McEvot was executed at Aiken, S. C, on the 19th inat., for tho morder of Maj. Jamee Qregg, two yeara ago. Col. W. L. Salisbury, a leading citizen of Cohircbna, Ga., and owner of the EnquirerSun nowspaper of that city, wa8 recently asaasKinatcd by ono Dr. Palmer, at Soale. Ala. The murderor lied The first inatallment of colored emigranta for Liberia, under the aispices of tho nowlj-erganized Exodua Aesociation, consiatitg of 250 persons, aailed from Charleeton, 8. C, last wetk, in tho bark Azor Ilevenue Agent Wayne telographs to Comniiasioner Baum, from Greemboro, N. C, that a raiding party, rctm-nod from Grcenvillo, S. C, roports that IinfiiH II. Spriiigs, a Deputy Marshal, was shot and instantly killed by partios in ambush. . A dispatch to the Galveston Áics reports "a large body of Indiaas from Mexico raiding Fort Ewell settlementa. A large number of ranches have been plundered, and many livos lost. Soldiers and citizeos are in purguit." A dispatch from Memphis reports the drowning of four men la Bolivar county, Misp., whilo engaged in cutting away tho leveo to let off a heavy body of water that hal accumulatod. Jackson Edwarda, Weeloy Turner, and Alexander Brown, all colored, wero oxecutcd at Franklio, La , on the 22d of April. ■WASHINGTON. The Roloid dollar question is practica] ly Bottled, for tina session of Congres at least, the House Coinago Committce having decided to refer the matter to the International Monetary Conimission Tkere ha boen soniü niiaapprehenKioa about Secrotary Shermiui's late contract with the Syndicate. It was íirat stated that if 50,000,000 of i) per cent?, bad beeu positiveiy Bold to tho Svndicato, $10,000,000 to bo takon uow, and $5,000,000 a month hereafter. But it no nppoars that tho Syndicate takes oi-'t $10,000,000 uittright, and that all that ha been settled with regard to the balance is that tho Syndicate have the option of taking .5,000,000 a month at the agrnM vrico. It is believed on loth sides that tho balanco viil bo certainly taken, but it is not a matter of certainty, as lile first annonucemont indicated. If the Syndicate for any reason should fail to dispose of Ihe $10,000,000 tbey are bonnd to take, they would, no doubt, refuto to tako tho remáining í 10,000, 000. The arrangemeiit íb contingent, and not alisolute. A Washington tolegiam sajs the "House Committee on Banking have directed a sulpcena to be issued upon Socrotary Sliernian to compel him to appear beforo tlie committee and testify ae to the details of the negotiation ho has made with the Syndicate for the sale of i)4 per cent, bonde. SnbpunaH will alno be issued to members of the Öyndicato to testify on tho same subject." Edison, the inventor of so many wonderful instrumenls, isa great lion in Washington. He is contantly engagod iu giving audionces to Congressmen, who find language inadoqnato to expresa thoir enthusiaxm over tho marvelous pliouograph. Among hio othor late invenüons is au improved ear-trumpot. Edisou U very deaf, bnt by this trumpet ho can linar at tho back part of a theater with perfect distinctnoss The majority of tho Hoiiso Connnitteo on Agriculture has agrecd to tho Cattle Transportation bilí that has lxjen pending bcforo the committee during the last two or threo months. This provides that cattlo shall be unloaded and fed every twenty-four hoirs. The House Ways and Means Committee have completed tho Intemal Bevenue blll. It exempts from the income tax fnndft belonging to States on deposit in banks. Fnnds of savinga banks invostod in United States bonds are also exempted, except when doposited in the name of a single person. It levies a tax of 16 cents per pound on tobáceo ; $5 per 1,000 on cigars; $1.25 por 1,000 on cigan ttes not weighing more than Z% Dounds, and au income tax of 2 per ceutum on all sums over 82,000. POLITICAL,. At a meeting of the Cabinet in Washington, the other day, and bofore the Minister had formally proceeded to tho busiucsj of the day, the President submitted a platform which he eaid he blieved would reunite the Rcpnblicans and agiin secure them tho control of Congrese. Following is the platform in brief: 1. RcBumption oí specie paymenta in rold and uilver. 2. Kesistancc to all schemes for inflatlng paper currency. 3. A fair and moderate tariff that wiU aftonl roasonable protectlnn to American induBtricfl. 4. An amendment to the conatitution prohibitlng tbe nee of money raised by public taxation for tUe support of sectarian schools. 6. Hpcfidy coruplehon of all public workfl, Buch ae rivcr and harbor improvpmentfl, public building?, fortiflcaüonsi, etc., now that labor and material are chcap and woríiingmf u npcd rmployment, and a lilwra'. policy for the improvcroent of the great ïmUonal channelBof commerce like the Misissippi river and it tributarles. llombers of tho Cabinet coincided with the President, and, af ter Rome informal diBCUHsion, a sixth paragraph was a4ded, doclaring against the paymont of claims to disloyal citizens for dnmages and losats growing out of tho Itebollion, and the payment of poneions to persons wbo were disloyal during the war. With this addition, the platform was pronouuced to be a fair presentation of the views of the administration. The Orogon Eopnblican Ktato Convention was held at Salem, April 17. C. C. Beekman was nominated for Governor, and H. K. Hines for Congres "Gath" viows tho Presidential posnibilitioH from New York, and believos that Hondricks will bo nominated I cratic candidato for President in 1880 on the first ballot, and that Gen. Grant or Seoretary j Sherman will be the Bepublican candidato. Washington oorrespondents report that there is a schemo, which is to be urgod throngh the Hoiise Judiciary Committee, to reopen the invuütigalion of the Louisiana Betarnióg Board. " It is proposed that the mombers of tho board be summonod and compelled to aumv-ct these quofctions Were you tdvind by any "mie whom yon believed HMViTc-fui. lüu Ooveninioiit ut" Wftiingtui( or tho party ncw in p nver that it was neceanarv for you, ia the interest of tho natioiml wolfaro, and n disregard, ïf ro d bo, of tho lawn of tho State, unclor which you nctcd, to count out tho Tildón eleetors and count in tho Hayos oloctoi b ? Did 3 on thus count out and connt in, and in violation of what you beliovod to 1 the previsión of the law nnder which you hoM ofticu? GKN1CRAL. The Iutornational Snnday-School Convention lias jubI beon held at Atlanta, On. All the SHtOK, ïorritorios and Canadiau provinceB wore represeuted, about 450 delegates being in attendance. Gov. Colquitt, of Goorgia, prosidcd. Ex-Gov. T. J. Moseíi, of South Carolina, was reeently arroatod in New York, on a requi8ition froni Oov. üamptoo. Ho had heen convicted Of forgery, and ha beon taken back to Churloston to be sentonced. Information comes from Mexico that mi insurroction against tbo Diaz Government is Btoadily bat suroly ripening. Thkhk has beon a severe riot at an open-air political meeting in Montreal. "Jast Lefore tho meeting closed," say a dispatch from that city, " a mob on tbo outukirts made a desperate attack on the asnombbgo with etones, wounding a largo number. Noarly thiriy havo ))eon atttMided by doctors. Slany othors wero lcss seriously injurod." FOREIGN NKWS. A Beulin dispatch aya it is understood that, in oonsequence of tho slow pix)gross of tho attempted mediation, Princo Bistnarck has recommended frosh nogotiations between the powers themsolves. In roply, both AiiKtria and Ksigland iutimated theii ïvillingueiis to treat, but rofused to mako a doftnito sottlomout without a conference Switzerland and Groece havo acceptod the propofal of the United States to particípate in the international congress to fix the relativo values of gold and Bitter. Latk advices eay that the Turks havo an arnry of 70,000 mon in a position to dpfond Constantinoplo, and that thO occupation of tho city by tho Kussians, or any attenipt to forco thé Sultan from a neutral potition, will ha utrenuously rewinted .... A great strike of cotton operativos has begun in Englaud .... Austria has negotiated a loan of 55,000,000 florins in Paris. A cobbebpondest at 8t. Petersburg gaya tho sitnation is decidedly pacific. In oflicial circles it is believed that Germany'a modiation will vory likely be successful. A spEoiAi. from Berlinsays: "Private advices from JIobcow state that 3,000 student and workmen were involved in the disturbances of the 13th instant. Twelve wcro killed and twonty-fivo wounded. One hundred of them were arrested." An English surgeon, who has just retnrned to Constantmoplo from Erzeroum, saya 13,000 sick and wounded Turki-h soldier havo died sinoe the evacuation of that city, and the Ku8ians havo lost 21,000 menby aickneas sinee they enlered tho pluin of Krzeroum.. . .A telegram from Athens says England has arranged a truoo in Theaaaly. Tho Turks havo retired to fortresses and the insurgonts to Qreeco. A DisPATCH from Calcntta says: "All the enérgica of tho Government are coneentrated on war preparations in India. Tho nativo regimonti havo boon ordored to roeruit up to their fnU war Btrength immcdiately. Factoriea for tho manufacture of anus aro working lay and iiighf, Sundays and wook-daya. The SepovB havo reaponüed cheerfully to the siimmons for foreign service, and a number of rcgimcntB have spontanoously volunteered." A Jladrid telegtam says a heavy gale has prevailed alöng the northem coast of Spain. Numerous lüshing véasela were lost, and abovit 100 Bolineo flahernfon drownei. JFifty-six fishermen belongiiig to Santander wero also drowned. The Ialand of Tahiti waa lately visited by a violent hnri icane. One hundred and tweoly people wero killed and much proporty destroyed. A bei'OBt comes from Conatantinoplo that 80,000 Mussulmaus, presumably in the Balkan dUtriets, have armod thetnselves with tbc can non and riñes left bohiDd by Suloiman Paba at the time of bis retreat and attackcd tho Kus- sians. It is sid that tho Ruasians have lost 'J00 men and thirteou officers, and have askcd for roinforcementa from Adriauoplc.

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