Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-24
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WASHINGTON, January 22.-Lieu-
tenant Commander Eastman, Com
mander Of the steamer Mantle, at
tached to the Pacific fleet, has been
ordered to proceed to the Bay of San
Michael, where his vessel will act rs o
depot Of supplies for the Darien Expe-
dition.
The Committee on the District Of
Columbia In joint session received the
delegation from the Woman Suffrage
Convention-about 200 in number
nearly all ladies. Mrs. Stanton, Miss
Anthony, Mrs. Hooker, and others, ad-
dressed the Committee, who listened
attentively, but gave no intimation
that they would grant their prayer for
female suffrage In the District.
NEW YORK, January N.-The meet
ing of the representatives Of the Ex-
press Companies adjourned this after
noon. The American, Merchants, and
Adams & Co.'S arrived ut a harmo-
nious solution Of all the questions at
issue, which is embodied in n general
agreement Of all the Companies, which
only awaits the signatures Of the
United States Company, not repre-
sented, to make 1t complete.
The New York Club have to vacate
the elegant Fifth Avenue Club House
on the first of May !; the owner re-
quires 5000 rent.
Rev. y. B. Hardinbroke, of the Re-
formed Church, died to-day.
The alleged swindler, POmeroy, has
been held to answer the charges of
| some of the papers on the report OF
fraud as high as $lOO,0OO!S
There are 207 cases of smallpox I'm
this city, and Is in Brooklyn. The
disease Is decreasing in both cities.
There is a rumor afloat that the
| Spanish agents have put in circulation
nearly one million bogus Cuban bonds.
| The Commercial says there Is every rea-
son to believe the report to be true,
though the Spaniards say it Is a base
falsehood.
Albany, january 22.-In the Assem-
bly, to-day Mr.. Littlejohn introduced q
resolution directing the Senators and
requesting the Representatives In Con-
gress to vote for the reduction of the
Compensation to Congressman to $1,000
per annum, and a reduction of mileage
and abolition of the franklng privi-
lege.
Helen NJ. Shafer, of Troy, was SEN
fenced to one year in the Penitentiary
for fraud, in drawing pension money
after her marriage.
PRovIDExcE, January 22.-Elias B.
| DskAl,n. q, ENrnYNtNnRf YifiVnN commit
ted suicide last night, in consequence
| of the failure of n firm whom lie
largely Endorsed.
PHILADEL.PmA, January q. - DR..
randis was sentenced to year i'm
prisonment and q fine of $1,000 for the
publication of obscene books.
ST. LOUIS, January 22.-The jury In
the libel suit of Eliza Buckley vs.. the
st. Louis Republican, for $25, 600, after
being out since Thursday, returned a
verdict giving the plaintiff $4,000
damages. .
|. Information has been received Mt
military headquarters 81 Indian dcpre-
dations In the Indian Territory, 90
miles south of the Arkansas River, a
few days ago. There L some appre-
tensions that there will be trouble in
the spring.
LoUIsvILIE, January 22.-George d.
Prentice died at 1 o'clock this morn-
ing, aged GS.
CHICAGO, January %. - The Ne~
Nation, the organ of the insurgents,
has commenced publication ut Fort
Garry. 1t says: "We regard the
Hudson Bay Company's government
obsolete, never to be resuscitated.
The Dominion Government, by GRIM
iGal plumbers and gross injustice, has
forever alienated this people; we con-
slider it too far distant to intelligently
administer our affairs" 1t thinks the
United States Republic offers "that
system of government which would
best promote order and progress, and
open up rapidly this country Of mag
nificent resources; but in our present
dependent condition we hold it our
duty to advocate independence for the
people of Rod River, as a curt for all
the present ills, and annexation will
follow in time"
HUNTINGTON, Pa, January %.
BONNER and Vanderburg, the muir
derers Of the Rugton family, have
been found guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced. Wander
burg declared that he was not guilty,
and knew nothing about the murder
until his arrest.