The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-05-08

Tnr laying 81 che last rail- and driving q
the last spike on the Central Pacific Rail-
road ID 10 take plsce to-day. la q few days,
Chicago will be IN railroad communication
with the Pacific coast "
TIA Erie cAasl 10 now generally ready for
navigation.
THs Philadelphia skating rink, IA ID 80 q
veiocipede school, was destroyed BY Gre
on Thursday plight, iDiictinga loss Of $780,
600.
Two locomotives passed through Science
tady, N. T., yesterday, on route for San
francisco. They viii 20 through ell rail.
San FranciscO kilograms announce the arri-
val Of srsons there only eight and one-half
days f. IN Washingto
IMPORTANT dispatches have been received
from Mexico. from Gen. Rosecrans. 1t 10
stated t. 1t he dwells At considerable length
on the purchasing by our Government
Of = slice Of the daily revolutioniEed" Re-
public.
THs Indiana Senate has amended the 81.
worse Law, by q provision requiring appli-
cans for dissolution OF the marriage tie
shall be s1Ad fde residents for two years 10
the eoanty wherein tie application may be
made.
THE Secretary Of the Interior has desi-
ded that an actual change on residence or
abandonment Of land entered under the
Homestead Act. for more than six months Al
one time, works forfeiture thereof to the
Government.
Ink great aquarium in Berlin Will soon be
completed Eight thousand living varieties
OF hsh, Holsters, crabs, star6sh, and other
forms OF marine life, have been collected,
and are now awaiting removal TO the crys-
tai palace which has been built for them.
ASSASSINATION has again broken out in
Ireland. Capt. Carleton,o OF the British army,
was shot at AthlOne or Wednesday. A riot
between Catholic and 0rangenen took
place at Londonderry the same day. Two
OF the rioters were killed and several
wounded by the police, who fred into the
crowd.
TES spanish Gen. ValmAseda has issued
a proclamation at Baysmo, Cuba, that every
native male found away from his ssidence
without sufficient reason will be executed,
that eVerv house not displaying q white Tag
will be burned, add all women away from
their homes Will be brought to Bayamo.
NAVI0ATIoE 10 the ST. Lawrence 10 now
open. The Canadian Government has IN
der consideration the propriety OF imposing
the same tar on American vessels as the
United States leviss on Canadian.
A D@PArcE from St. Louis says about half
of the toxa OF Helena, Montana, vas burned
on Tuesday night. Ninety eight business
houses and ahous forty residences were de-
stroyed. Lass half o million. The home
less people are encsmped on . hill ovsrlo1 *
ing the Iown, and are IN pisable sIate.
las Havana papers still continue TO an
nounce Government victories. The two
vessels captured day or two since, prove
10 be wrsckers. Tue GJvenmenG Of Porto
RICO has for0i den vessels entering the bar.
Dor OF San JAN after night. Tue revolu
tonists are becoming diasa,iehed With
Quesad', who 10 always organizing, but do
ing nothing There Is 40 exciting Iumor In
Havana that a coniict bad taken place be.
tween q monitor and Spanish men of war,
resulting IN the capture y one md the de-
stru0tion Of another Of the latter. The iu-
surgents have again torn up she railroad
near Ssgua Ia Grande.