The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TIE beer saloons Of Buffalo are to b
close Or Sunday.
GgN. CANDY has issued an order for hold
ing an elecuon 10 Virginia on the 6.h of
July, in accordance with the Presidency
proclamation.
LEWIS II. DOUGLASS announces that he
vii remain in the Government printing Of
fee until removed. II is his younger bro
thyr, Fred Douglass, Jr., who has been
appointed clerk il the office # the Cry
K Ster.
HEREAFTER one of the Atlantic cables will
he used u transmitting ard the Othe- IN
receiving messages, and there j. no longer
any reason Ehy kilograms should not be sent
Amos instantaneouzly between L0od.n aad
Nav YORK.
IT is reported that the French troops will
evacuate Rome in September.
TIRE Au-trian Cslsul q, Leghorn was as
sassinated o. Tuesday last, Ehile walking
Wilh a friend. The blow was intended,
Il is said, for the latter.
CINcINNATI was visited With a terrible dis
asIrr Friday. From s1me unknown cause a
meter Containing SIS, 900 feet u gas vac ex.
pl0ded. One man was killed and three or
four mere or less Injured. The loss to The
n company Is estimated a. $4,000.
THE Liverpool. Chamber Of Commerce, at
ueling last evening. adopted an address
Of welcome 20 Hon. j. LOthroP Motley, the
new American Minister.
CLtvELASD, Ohio, will Immediately begin
the construction II tunnel, similar 70 ours
IN Chicago, to procure water from Lake
Erie. TIE estimated cost is 100000
A HAVANA telegram says Dulc5 has issued
an order for the seizure Of ali horses in eirut
distress The other advices are merely con-
tirmatory Of the landing Of expeditions at
Nipe and near Nuevitas.
Ir is stated that the State Department has
tinaly become uneasy al the continued 81
l~nce Of Minister Modahon 10 Paraguay
A letter Of recall was sent to him several
months ago, but no answer has been rrceiv-
ed John Cochraue will probably be az
pointed to succeed hun.
THE letter ia the London Times Of the
18th inst, over the signature Of can An
rrlcan Cuzen," respecting the A abama
claims treaty, and which had exercised a
soothing influence IN England, was cOnmu-
nicsted BY Senator Grimes, u Iowa.
THRLE japanese families arrived at San
Francisco Thursday; thirty seven more are
on the way, ana eighty additional intend
coming. They propose to purchase govern
meut lands and cultivate tea, SIX, &c.
They were driven out Of Japan in conse-
qurnce OF the civil war 10 the northern par
81 the island.
A ROW BOAT, concerning eighteen men, !
psi zen OF Saturday, below Nv Orleans,
and eight men drowned. Eigtt aremeu
rrre severely injured, and several other-
I slightly hurt, By the falling Of tie walls Al
fire n New Orleans, o. Saturday night
\ Two OF the men are reported d. al.
/ THE New England Labor Reform League
met IN Bost Tuesday, ana passed a series
/ Of resolutions touching the finances OF the
/ ye-nment, amo' ( others, urging the
! sbuIis ment Of the National banks and the
substitution of Treasury cer iicsies Of ser
\ wee for tie present government currency.
Y ADvIcEs from ST. Thomas state that the
Brazilian stes nship Mississippi was wreck d
OF Martinique ca route FROM RIO Janero for
T New York. Her cargo was valued 81 some
$500 600, and insured. TIE steamer va
not. Ii i supposed she will prove q total
4 loss. Tie passengers and crew we're saved
/ by q French man-oi-war.
A SALT Lake correspondent of the Nation
al Inteiiqencer says that the Pacific Rail
road Is one hundred miles shorter Ioan til >
company claim il to be, and that they have
received bonds and grants on this one bun
dred miles to which they are not entitled
He further alleges that on the two hundred
and City miles IF the western portion of tie
road the work II constructing frst-class
raIiv has scarcely commenced.
lrBEE thousand invItatiors 20 witness The
ina, suralion OF the Suez Canal will be sent
to representatives OF the press, and to oIher
notsbIlitles at the West. The VIceroy a
Egypt is to send iIigate TO Franco to taxi,
the visitors from thai ana nelgbbUring coun
tries, and will return them home In tue sam,
manner.
ADvIcEs from revolutionary sources il
Cuba confirm the defeat Of the Spaniaris il
the recent engagement near Puerto Principe
The same authority states that several yes
sells, since returned to the United States
, had landed arms and ammunition. A
Havana telegram states that three hundre,
fiEbusters had landed near Gibra, after
desperate fight with the coast guard Their
) are runners Of fighting near Trinidad an
Cieniurgos, with heavy losses on both sides
The jurisdiction Of Remedies Is in state
J anarchy.