Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-03-19
fELEcRAPHIc sUMMARY.
GENERAL NEWS.

a4n9 AIAAInl1bARHAa AANgA Au AAADUAPnin
was rising rapidly on Sunday.
Dispatches from Omaha say the Mis-
souri, river is open to that point. and bteam-
ers have arrived at Council Bluhs.
The Allegheny and Monongahela
rivera commenced to rise on Saturday, and
continued 10 rise Bunday.N
A Are at Oarondolet, six miles below
81 houis. Saturday night DESTROYED $1,000
worth Of property.
: Mayors express office, at Belleville,
Ill.,, was robbed on Friday night of two
thousand six hundred dollars. y
The post.office money order system
throughout the country 10 paying an annual
profit Of $1,000 dollars.
A prize fight has been arranged be-
tween McOool and Allen, an English ppgiliAt.
It is to come of on tho 18th OF March, near
st. Louis.
The Senate Finance Committee has
agreed 10 Senator Henderson's bill to inoreAee
the national bank circulation to s4O0, ,0OO,-
900
Sixteen thousand four hundred and
ninety-one acres Of land were disposed of In
the month Of February At the Humboldt
Kansas Land office.
Wooster's patent hoop skirt tape fac.
tory, at Birmingham, Conn, was destroyed
by fre Saturday night. Loss $50, ,0O0-par-
italy insured.
At meeting of the New York Board
OF Fire Underwriters held on Monday, il was
resolved unanimously that sebate OF l5 per
cent. be made TO the assured. --
One hundred and fourteen thousand
and four cres OF land were disposed OF at
the Brownsville, Nebraska, land Office during
the month Of February.
Reports Of damage by the floods
begin 10 come In from all quarters OF the
west and northwest. The damage mostly
consists in the carrying away OF bridges.
Three workmen were fatally injured
on the 10th, by the fall of an elevator 1t the
white lead works Of Bradley, Hall q Co.,
Front street, Brooklyn.
Large distilleries and rectifying es-
tabshment we're seized Sunday night by the
government officers in New York. The pro-
perty taken possession OF Is valued ut about
$500, 900.
Internal revenue agent Goodloe
writes from Huntsville, Ala, under date Of
March 7lh, that he la cTedilably informed
that there are fifty illicit distlleTies in opera
tion in thar district which have been ordered
seized and forfeited.
George 7. Brown, Sergeaut.at AIMS
of the senate, waited upon President John
son At m. Saturday, and served upon him
the summons 10 appear before the court OF
impeachment. The President replied that
he would attend to the matter.
The Ohio river was rising slowly on
the 9th. The Arkansas, Mississippi and
Missouri, and in fact nearly all the streams
tributary TO the Mississippi, have beeu rising
for the iast few days, but the damage 30 far
reported has not been very great.
A private letter from Fort Laramie
says that White Cloud and band OF Sioux
Indians had come In, and IL is believed that
greater probability exists Of making treat
les with all the hostile Indians this spring
than ever before.
The President has approved the act
providing for the non-exclusiOn from settle
mont under the homestead we OF even
numbered sections OF land along the route
OF tho Pacific Railroad, provided they be
rated at 80 80 per acre.
General Vickers, the new Senator
from Maryland, was formerly whig, but on
the demise OF that party, joined the dem0c-
racy. He Ia o man OF ability and reputation,
and has filed sevsral official posts. HIS 10y
atty is unquestioned, and there can be no
objection to his admission to the Senate.
A Washington special states that
Gen. Hancock, in dispatch 10 Gen. Grant,
asks TO be relieved from the command Of the
fifth military district, in view OF the non CON
currence OF the latter in his administration of
affAirs. The request will be forwarded TO
the President.
Immense frauds have been perpetrG-
ted In the export Of q trashy preparation I'M.
der the name Of ''ginger brandy" by certain
parties In New York. The principal has been
arrested At . private residence near Wash
ington and TAX to New York for trial.
Other eimilar frauds are being discovered IN
that city.
Reports from Fort Laramie say that
several thousand indians are gathered in
that neighborhood, and are expected ut n
council with the peace commissioners soon.
They still insist upon the abandonment OF the
Powder river country by the government,
but they manifest more friendliness than
they did last fall.
The amount of fractional currer cy
Issued for the week ending the 7th, s4s7, 900;
shipments of currency and United states
notes, 500 ,283; national bank currency is
sued, $1l2, 1870; amount in circulation, 299,-
A9766; fractional currency destroyed, 237,
0OO receipts of internal revenue for the
week, 6,48b, 500; for the fsc al year to date
1S4,S49,091.
A dispatch from Knoxville, Tenn,
says that two United States soldiers of COM
pauy b, Fifth Cavalry, were killed on the Q b
In an encounter with illicit distillers in Clay
bourne county, East Tennessee. The COM
pany was sent there 10 aid the United Stat Q
revenue officers in. arrestiDg d number oi
men engaged in swindling the government,
who were resisted by them.
There was q very heavy wind and
rain storm In the vicinity Of Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 9th. Large streams OF wster ran
along the streets. Many crossings were i'm
passable, and large number OF Easements
and cellars were hooded. The spre OF the
First Presbyterian Church was blown down
and portion OF the roof taken off. Several
chimneys and small buildings were demol-
ished. bigne, lumber and splinters flew in
all directions. The rain cut great gullies in
the newly made streets, and caused heavy
land alides in the streets where grading was
being done. It was the heaviest storm ever
known in that locality.
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