Weekly News Review
THE KAST. Several doaths from yellow f ever havo occurred ia the Brooklyn navy yard l.. i. Oakley, the absconding eashier of the Mercbants' Exchangr National Bank, of Now York, :,r{,v elnding tbe vigitanco of the authonties for Feveral years, has at last been anested. His defaleation ainounted to $300.000 W. P. Tilton, iron dealer, New York bas faileri for $470,000. John G. Tappan, treasnrer of the Boston Belting Company, io short in his acopante iipnard of a million dollars. In coneeqiienceof thia little "irreguiarity," the corporalion ban collapsed. THE WKST. Thb stntuo of Hon. Stephen A. Dougias, which crowns tbo monument erectcd to his memory, in the sonthern part of Cbieago, was uuveiled on Tiiesday, the 16th of July. Chicago and Milwankee, which are usnally among the coolest cities in the country during the eummer solutice, have not entiroly ef caped the effeets of Ilie deadly heat so prevalent throughoiU the West. A number of casos of sunstroke, Eome of them fatal, aro reported from both cities. Some idea of the fearful weather that bas prevailed in St. Louis lately ruay be gained from the statement that 159 people of that unfortunate city died of sunstroke in a period of eeveu days. A sad accident happened near Johnstown, Ind., a few days ago. While moviüg a Bteam thresher on the farm of John Shackley. the boiler exploded. killing John Shacklev fianl; Junes, Patrick Johnston, and JohnClaübf-Dce. and dangercmsly wounding Albart MiAcl.-lej:, Heury Ashler. James Dixon, Alex. Uumphrey, Thomas Smith, and two others. A dispatch from Baker City, Ore., Bays "the Umatilla Indiau under Forsythe struck tho hostile camp about two miles and a half from Stark's rancho, Daley road, Uiting seventeen warriors and canturing twenty-five women and children and sixty or scventy' head of borsea. The hostiles aro much demoralïzed. A San Francisco dispatch reports the diecovery of rich placer diggings on the Colorado river, in Arizoua. Thebe were 254 deaths in St. Lonis froui sunstroke for the week onding Saturdav July 20. President Hayes and Attorney General Devens attended the soldiers' and sailorB' reunión at Newark, Ohio, last weck. Capt. V. A. Seatey lias been appointed Superintendent of the Chioago pólice forcé, vice M. O. Hiokey. The new Superintondent is epoken of as an honcst, efficiënt officer. THE SOUTH. Piper and Hemden, implioated in the of a train on the Tcxas Pacific railroad sonie timo ago, have been held at Austin, Texas, and sentoneed to Ufe iuiprieomnent. The Potter bub-committee in Louisiana bas signified its willingness to summon and hear all the witnesses on intimidation requested by Secretary Sherman. The entire business portion of the town of Cattlottsburg, Ky., has been swept away by fire. The loss is estimated at $250,000, upon which there was but a small insurance The land upon wnich the New Orleans Mint has been built has been deeded to the Government, and the final steps for putting the mint into active operation will soon be takea. WASHINGTON. The following assignments of Internal Bevenue agents have been made: F. Meyer, to diity at Omaha, Neb.: George W. Atkinson, to the District of Virginia and West Edward Leet, at Chicago. The Secretary of the Treasury has dotermined to venturo upon the disbnrsement of silver dollars at once in payment of various Government dues. He has Bsued a new order to Assislant Treasurers, anthorizing them to uso the standard silver dollars in their hands for the pajment of checks and pay-rolls : in exchange, in moderate amounte, for greenbaoks and cational-bank notes, espeeially of the denomiuations of one and two doüars The Potter committce has issued subpomas for the principal visiting statesmen on both pides inetndiog ex-Senator Trumbull, ex-Gov. Palmer, and all other Democrats, and for all members of the Louisiana Commission. Owing to numerous applieatioas for rjgistered 4-per-cent. bonds of small denominatioDS, the treasury bas been unable, with all the clerical forcé which could be eraployed thtreon, to fill orders as rapidly as received. Purchasers of bonds should understand, however, that interest will run from the date of payment for bonds and r.ot from tho date of their issue, and that the littlo delay frora timo to time on account of suddenly-increaeed orders will result in no loss or in jury. The Attorney General of tho United States decides that it would be Ilegal for the Secretary of thü Treasury to altempt the resumptiou of sp oie payments before tho time providid for by law- Jan. 1, 1879 Orders have been issued to all tub-troasuries and United Status dopositories to pay out silver dollars, and in comieetiou with this to restrict tlie ase of SI aud $2 bilis as much as possible, to force silver dollars into tüo place thev now oecuny inthe circulation. The case of disputed juriediction which bas ariten in Suuth Carolina relativo to tho iudictment ia a State court of four internal revenue cfficers upou a charge of murdcr was conpidered at a Cabinet meeting a few days ago, and it was determined that iirm and vigorous meamres be takon to assert the supremacy of the Federal over the State law Tho President lef t Waehington last week for a trip to Ohio. Gen. Chaelus K. Graham, of New York city, bas bean appointed Surveyor of Customs t that port, vice Gen. E. A. Merritt, appointtd Collector of Oustoms. k-Ei!ETABY ScHüEz is informed tlirough a letter from OgdeD, Utah, of the existence of an extensivo systom of eupplying hostile Indiaus with ammunition through the Mormon oo-operative stores throughout Utah and Botffli'errj Idaho. It is represented that the Hormon prieBthood are vigorously engaged in conyertjpg the Indiana to that faitb, and that tho savages, upon being taken into the Endowment Temple, aro sworn to become the allies of tho Latter-Day Saints. POLiriCAL A. C. Hesikq, the well-known Chicago poütician, has gone into bankruptcy Jamen K. Doolittle, Jr., of Chicago, has been nominated for Congress by tho Democrats of tho Third Congressicmal District of Illinoif. Tira Democratie State Convention of Colorado nominated W. A. H. Loveland for Governor, and renominated Thomas M. Pattersou for Congress- both by acclamation. The Kepubiican nomination for Congross in the Toledo (Ohio) district has been declinod by Charles Foster, who has conclnded to stand for re-election in his own district. GENEKAT,. The authorities at Washington regard the ludían troubles in the Northwest as wearing a Boiious aspect. Gou. Sherman is reportcd to be hasteiiiiig forward to the West all troops available for the purpose. Garrisons on the seaboard havé been withdrawn, and heavy artiltóry leginient?. have been armed and drilled as infantry, and aro en rontc to tho sea t of war Advicos from Sitka, Alaska, report a nbt araoi ;; Bldlans, with fOUT Mücd. The Indiana aro favoifibly diepoti.d to.vfiij lüo w)iitc.J. An old squaw wi( llaynd :Jivo and hanged by tho Judians for pricficing witcheraft. The nnmber of failures in the secon. cjuartor.-.f UITBjnthe Dominion of Canada is .'ü'l'. nitfi Ji;:biiiíii.i reachiug the sum of í !.- 407.80C. The total failures f er the first six months of 1S7S are 917, with liabüiües amounting to $]8,-ii8,78i). Tho DTnnbor of failures in the tirit, six months of 1N77 wèro 1,223, with liabilitios amounting to $15,151,837. Congressman Hunion, of Virginin, recently ohaltoigod Columbus Alexaoder, of Washington, ró mortal gombat; Tlio letter rlied in movere tc;rms, neither accepting nor deolkltag the challenge During a spree in the othor day, George H. Butler, late ConsuJ, 0f"iÍSÍi aQÍ' a nephew QÍ Beu Butler, tóok a siiit of clothes ou'. of a tailor's store, and was in consequencearrrested fur larcsny, convicted iu the I'olico Court aud fined Canada is now having au exetrtog controversy, as a seque) to tho roceut liattlo-of-the-Boyne anniver.-nry :ii Jloutrea!. Soveral Oraugemen wem arrosfiil in thr.t ofëaïiob, and aro now awaiting (rtal oh charge of'a riotoWáiaturbaucc of tho ))eace. The questiou iuvolved is iMhtte Oranj,'f]!ioii'i society i included among tho organizationsaTid asociations which aro X!rmliti'd by Uio law to inarcii in pro4M Aon n !he streets. The dcci&iou of lbo Commissioner oí the General Land Oflico at Washington upon tho Kansas Pacific railroad lands is a very inipnrtant one, The Conjmissioner rules in favor of a Btttlftr who han pre-empted a tract of railroad land which rcmained unsold at tne end of the third ysnr after the sompletion of that road. This Jccíbíou will affect the status of many thousand sales which have been made by the several Pacific riülroad compp.niex, whoso oharUrs containod the s&nio clause as that of tbe Kansas Pacific, providing that if anj oftbo lande grantedl.-. (lio (ovtrumeuf remain unsold by the raproad comca-uy at tho espiral ion of three yoars from the limo tho rond wasfinlshed, such lands skould be subject to horacstead entry at í1.25 an aero. FOKKIGN. LotiD Beacoxsfield rcturned to London last wctk, and was cnthusiasticaliy recaivcd bjr the Knglish poplace. His jonrney from Dover to London wa a perfect ovation. The Greek insurrection in Thessaly and Epirua appearn to be mainlained for tho purposo of compelling Tnrkey to proceed at once with the rtiformH that have beon domanded by tho Berlín congress. It is apprehended that, if the disturbante ceasee, the Turks -niil resort to the proerantination that comes o naturally to tbein, and allow all tho abuses of adminiHtration to be continued in the old way, rcgardleEB of the pledgea that have been made and of the stipuiatioDS of tho treaty of Bt-rliti Lokd Beaconsfeeld made his appearance iu the British Houso of Lords on the 18th of July, and explaiacd and defended hiseouree in the Berlin congress. Ho refrained from asenming in the sliijhtest degree a triumphaut or boastfiil air, and at the samo time left the impresfion to be gathered from his words that a Rreat viotory bad boen gained. It has been claimed that the giying of Bophia to the Bnlgariana left the line of the Balkans to bo eatily turned by tho poasible euemies of Turkey, luit Lord Beaconsfield held that the posseseion of the Ichtiman pans by the Turks was suflicient to guard against eu:h a contingeney. The Premier held throughont to the idèa that the congress had saved Tmkcy, and left it a great Eilropean power. Ho spoke contempla ously or the idea of the partition of the Ottoman empire, and quoted Bismarck as saying, wben the reteution of Uie line of Uie lï:ifkans wassc-cinvil. '-Turki-y n Europo stilloxists."... In tlie i-hooting for tbc Elcho challenge shicld, at YVimbledon, Ireland carried off tbe houo.v, the score standing : Ireland, l,G10; Eogliind, 1,EGO; Scotland, 1,552.... A Pari dispateh reporte a great strike of minors at Anzin, in Fiance. Five thouuand colliers left the pits, demanding higher wsges and eight hours as a day's work. Troop wero called out, and many arrcsts made. A pigeon snooTTNG match between Capt. A. H. Bogardus, of tlie United States, and Mr. Wallace, of Eugland, took place at London laat week, The terina wero to snoot at 100 birds for $lt)0 a side and a gilver cup. The match resnlted in a draw, each man killing ninety-seven birds Gortschakoff has returped to St. Peférsojrg to thwart the intrigues whii'ii are on foot for liis rotirement and the promotion of Sohouvaloff. Thb programme agreed upon by the Liberáis in tbc Eiiglish Parliament is outlincd in the cable disp'atíhes. The plan is to attack the Ministry upon the policy of neglect and indiffereuco puiud tovard tho Gronka by j gland in thr congres, an weJl as to oriticiae tho ternis and liabilities upou wbicb the acquiBitioiïof Ovprns was fecurod, upon the ground thaf grave rosponsibilities have been incurred without the previous knowledge of Parliament in the uodtfined engagementa relat-ive toa Letter adnriiiixtration of tbe Aeiatic provinces. While Uisiaeli is quite certain to carry the day in both houses, it will not bo without rociiving somo hard knockn in the course of the fray. At the anniversary of the establishment of the Liberal Association in London, Mr. öladstone mado a long spe.= ch, in bieb he begged to duc'iiie resuming the leadership of the Liberal party. Hu powerfully attacked the manucr in wbieh tho peóple bad lately been governed. No despuUo Government in Europo would have dared to do what tho Cabinet had done - a"scflpiting such rospoaBibilities unïaimvn to tlie people. lle crjticised the troaty of Bcrlin, wliereby l'.ngland cousented to replace uuAct the denpotiu rule of Ttussia, Bessarabia, which belODged to freo Houmania. He deQouucod the coavention with Tiirkey as an insano covenant, odious to eveiy valuable feeling of the country. England has taken fornial possession of the historie little itiand of Cyprus. Queen Victori greets h"ir ew subjects :is usual in a I mötherly spirit, ar.d informs them that "Bule firitannia" will bu tho Btanding order of the day in the island fur an indefinito period The island of Cuba is to be represented ia tho Spanish Parliamcutby forty Deputien and ten Senators. Earl Beaconfield haa received the higbest deenration poïsiblo to an Englishman, the Order of Gorter, which was eonferred upon him by Qiieen'Yictoria in recognition of his dibtiDguUhed servicefl in connection with the deliberations of the Berlín congress.
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