The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

i'E election for mrnbers Of the French
Corps Legislatif sill take place on Nav 80.
BILL for Ghe abolition Of impr'sonm ent
for debt has passed the 5ritIsh House Of
Commons to a second reading.
TEE telegram companies Of Great Britain
and ireland own 100, 900 miles Of wire aud
manage 8, l69 stations.
TaE printers strike aich has continued
70 long 10 New York as been settled BY
mutual concessions
snoCk Of an earthq Ike was felt AZ San
was done.
THE Welland (Canada) canal viii be open
ed for navigation on the 2Ist inst.
THEEz are 10000 applications for Office
ID the New YORK Custom House.
TRE charges against Governor Fenton are
% b. made the basis Of a criminal prosecu-
tiou.
Mas. Senator Sprsgue il always ia the
gallery when her husba ia speaks, anu
watches him with great intentness.
A SAN Francisco telegram says ii il un-
derstoOd that the North and South Pacific
squadrons are to be consolidated.
tbs nomination Of Gen. Longstreet a.
Surveyor Of The post Of New Orleans has
been confirmed by the senate.
DuRISo 1868, 1873 persons were aceiden-
tally injured on the New jersey railroads.
10 l04 cases the injuries proved fatal.
THE father Of a cash boy 10 a Louisville
dry goods store, has bro ght action az srnst
salesman for Shaping the urchio, laying
damages AZ s. 600.
SPASGLER and Arnold, two Of the par
doned conspirators, lately serving out a
sentence ~ the Dry TorEugas, have arrived
ID Baltimore.
THE New York Central railway robbers
have been arrested and the gang broken up.
II IL thought their plumber, since the com
mencem ut Of operations, will amount to
folly 100000.
EASTER Sunday fell this year On its orig
tnal day March 2S This Is a singular o.
incidence, a. \ has not fallen on the 2Sth
ID IA years.
THE Central Ps9i6c Railroad IL completed
70 the 649th mile post, east of San Fran
cisco. Track laying progresses at the rate
~ hve miles per day, and Ogden will be
reached 10 twenty days.
THE 0ffer of our Government to act a.
mediator between Spain on the one hand
and Chill, Peru and Bolivia on the other,
has been accepted, and ,he commissioners
will meet At Washington ID June next.
A PRIVATE dispatch from Augusta, gu,
states that Alex. ii. Stevens, Vice Presi-
De-. 81 the late rebel government, has suf
fered a relapse, and Bis lie Is now Despair
ed Ot.
The Postmaster General has written a
letter on the subject Of ocean postage,
sho Eing that the whole influence Of bis ds-
partmsBt will be used 10 bring about cheap
eF rates.
THE match game Of billiards for 8 900 a
sid, 200 points, push barrel, PLAYED last
Tuesday ID Montreal, between Dion, Of that
city, and Foster, Of New York, was won BY
the former By Us points
IN consequence OF the fears growing out
Of the lynching operations in Seymour,
lad az ordinance was adopted which for
bade any person TO stop there for more than
two days without some regular employ
ment
THE naval committee Of the House have
agreed 10 report a bill providing that there
shall be no reduction 10 the wages OF the
en- ployees az the navy yards on account Of
the reduction Of the hoars OF labor.
Tus price Of balloon passage from New
York To Europe Is fixed al $3.50, and the
plueky French aeronaut, NJ. Chcvlier, who
will make the trip this month, says be has
already one hundred applications for pas
sage.
A ST.. Paul telegram announces a terrible
tragedy which occurred near that city On
Tuesday morning. In 4 ct Of insanity, a
nan named Gray killed bis wife and four
children. lie Is under arrest.
IT il said 10 Paris that If the Duke de
Montpensier should not succeed 10 obtain
ing the Spanish crown, the whole Orleans
family wnald be bankrupt, the sons or
Louis Philippe having Invested aIl their
funds 10 bribing the public men Of Spain
for the purpose Of making their brother
M0ntpensier successor 10 bis sister-in-law
Isabella.
GENERAL Castar has made lengthy re-
port detailing his operations against the
Indians. He succeeded Ia releasing two
white women held as capuves BY the Indians.
He now hclds captive Cheyenne chiefs as
hostages for the good behavior Of their
tribe He did not lose any Of bis command.
ALABAMA has a new seal. The words
I" alabama" and "Great Seai'' are near The
edge. Jn the centre, an eagle with three ar
rows 10 his left talons, and raised wings, il
alighting on the national shield, and 10 his
beak bears streamer with the legend Here
We Rest"
PLANTATIONS continue to be burned BY
the Cuban insurrectionists. They are SAID
10 have left the jurisdiction Of Sagna Il
Granje, aad things are becoming more
settled in consequence. the Spanish flee
Of gunboats consists OF ten, but is TO b,
increased by thirty Of American manutac
ture The Vdsd de CEb5 advocates con
6scasion Of the properly OF ibsentees, OF
4 the ground that they are disposing Of 1t
The demand Of the English Consul Geners
for the Mary Lowell has not been accedet
to.
ADvIcEs from Paraguay Ola Il sbon. stat
that the Brazilian Commissioners &c Para
quay had arrived ut Asuncion, and wa
endeavoring TO bring the war to o close
He had made propositions Of peace to Par
aguay, with the following conditions: Tha
the indepel ence Of Paraguay shall not
impaired; that the freedom OF navigation
Of the Paraguay and In P.ata De guaran
teed and that Lopez renouncs his claim
70 that portion OF the Chaco rerfitor
known % Matte Crosse.