Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-03-08
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NEW York, March REV. DIR.
Clarke, of the Forty-second Street
Presbyterian Church, lectured last
night on the subject Of the Bible In the
public schools. He made a severe ar
gument againt the Roman Catholics,
and asserted that the cause Of this sec
tarian movement was that Papacy,
which Is growing weak In Europe,
seeks to recover vigor on u soil. He
warned the people of Divine displea-
sure In seeing Gods word baRislied
from the schools.
Rev. Mr.. Hepworth, Of the Church
of the Messiah, preached last evening
on the same subject. Previous to the
sermon, q petition to the Legislature
against sectarian grants was circulated
in the congregation for signatures.
Hepworth considered that we are on
the verge Of a revolution, whose results
would be more important than any
thing occurring in American history
since the Declaration of Independence.
He said his principle was the bottom
dollar for public schools, but not one
cent for sectarianism.
Some further facts have transpired
relative to John George Harding, the
Englishman who committed suicide In
n disreputable house in wenty-seventh
street, on the night Of February %.
He was a man Of some literary char
acter and author of q translation Of
Dante, copies of which were found In
his room. lie left England and came
to this country IN consequence Of do
nestle difficulty, squandered all his
money In gambling, and being penni-
less and miserable he ended all with
poison.
Six inches of snow fell in this city
last night the storm still continues.
The Ship Glad Tidings, from Glas-
gov, for this city, arrived last night.
She had a hard time In the late gales
and fields Of floating Ice. She was
caught on the 9Th Of February In a ter
rifle southwest gale and lost her fore
sail, mainsail, foretop gallant sail,
maintopmasts, staysail, three jlbs and
cross jack, from the yards. On the
18th she was In q large field of Ice,
with numerous small bergs closed up
around her, the smaller masses of ice
being crushed against her hull till her
progress seemed impossible. She was
headed southeast, and after sailing In
this direction and clearing the ice; she
continued In the same course and
passed through another field of heavy,
broken masses. She forced her way
slowly through these bergs. Near this
place her martingale was carried away.
Once through this field she experienced
10 further trouble.
CHICAGO, March7.-A 7'ri6ane's New
York special says several politicians
have been ~.canvassing the policy Of
running William II. Seward for Gov.
crnor Of New York OH q ticket Of
Union Conservative Republicans with
the best portion Of the Democrats.
The proposition appears to be favora-
bly, received, though it Is strongly
opposed by Tammany, which will
nominate Hoffman or Tweed.
Thirty thousand dollars in American
silver was shipped from Montreal to
New York yesterday, OH order Of
restaurant and saloon-keepers, who
intend to give silver change.
The captain Of the ship Greyhound
reports having seen q steamer near
the Azores Islands, February Goth,
which resembled the Inman steamers,
and there Is some probability that she
was the missing steamer City Of
Boston.
AMost Horrible Affair 10 Spain.
= NEW YoRx, March THE QaanLes
Ia Spanish. paper] gives an account Of
q horrible and mysterious affair In
Spain. which it says would not be
believed had not the details been con-
tirmed by letter from Its own CORES
pondent. The story is that OH the 18th
of February q band of people broke
into a house of the Alcalde, In a vii
laSe near Valencia, making a hole In
the roof. The owner of the house,
NJ. Baluda, was In bed with his wife.
The invaders pulled them out Of bed,
gagged both, and then went to the
rooms where six children we're sleep
ing, whom they bound with chords and
then, in sight Of their parents, tore cut
their eyes and tongues, and afterward
cut off the feet Of NJ. Baluda and his
eldest son, but purposely left the ten
dons near the heel answered. They
then hung them up, head downward.
and after this ransapked the larder and
made a good breakfast, jeeriRg at their
victims, and left the house at day.
break. Two Of the villains had been
arrested.
Capital Of WIsconsla.
CHICAGO, March THE Senate and
House Committees Of the Wisconsin
Legislature have reported against the
removal Of the Capital to Milwaukee.
Citizens Of tho latter place are still
hopeful Of the success Of the movement
and are working accordingly, A strong
effort will be made to pass the bin
next week. Nit tails, however, In the
next election for representatives this
question will be made the principal
one.
Political Affairs In vIrsinia.
CHICAGO, March 7.-Reports from
Richmond do not speak fvorably Of
the progress Of the new movement of
all who support Grants Administra-
ton against those In opposition. The
regular Republican Executive Com
mittee lately made q proposition leok-
ing to this union, but the Conservative
vino claim to he the only regular Or