Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-19
Overland Dispatches
lsPIcrAL 10 TIE COLD HILL DAILY NEws BY
THE WKsrERN uNIoH TELEGRAPH LNE.l
DATES No FEBRUARY IS.
n-ri.eenaneo.s Items.

WASHINGTON, February Is. The
Assessor of Revenue at Salt Lake City
reports that Brigham Young insolently
refuses to make ont returns Of the rev
enue Of the Church, which property he
holds as Trustee. The Assessor there
upon proceeded to assess the Church at
about $50, snd the tithes ut nearly
$a,000,000. He says many Mormons
tell him that these figures are not more
than reasonable; he believes the
Church leaders will evade the collec-
ton Of these taxes unless the Govern
ment is firm and determined in its pur-
pose. Officers of the Revenue Bureau
here have been to Gen. Sherman, who
says he will furnish all the force needed
to enforce the law.
New YORK, February 1S.-The Erie
Directors have declared the stamping
and taxing stock by the English Pro
tectiye Committee illegal, and an
nounce that they will not allow shares
so stamped to be transferred, In order
to protect the interests Of American
holders. 1t Is determined to assess
whatever expense the corporation Is
put to In resisting threatened legal
proceedings upon this stock, stock held
this side to be free from such assess
ments.
The first meeting Of the Long Island
Branch Course commences July Both.
Fifteen thousand dollars will be run
for during the meeting. A purse of
IS, 900 for a-fve-inile heat will he given
nv tho nrinp SNOiafu
The annual masquerade last night,
Mt the Academy Of Music, was largely
attended, the floor and boxes being
crowded. The house was magnificent
" decorated, and the ball was a great
success.
OF POO warrants recently issued by
the United States Commissioner
against lawyers, liquor dealers and
real estate agents, 73 were not served,
the parties not being found % were
discontinued, shown to have been
issued without cause the rest were
| settled with the Revenue Collector.
Methodist newspapers think the re-
port of the majority Of the Book Com
mittee cannot be implicitly believed,
and thinks the public will accept the
judgment Of the minority. The ma
iority Of the Committee, from an early
period, have been affected by q strong
bias, and the Church Is injured by this
evident reluctance to admit facts.
A mass meeting of colored soldiers
was held last night to get up q general
parade of colored men Of New York,
| and q demonstration Mt Cooper lnsti-
tute, upon the passage of the Fifteenth
| Amendment, as soon rs its ratification
Is officially announced.
A post mortem examination was
held Yesterday on the body of Mar
garet Sheridan, murdered on Wcdnes-
day night by her husband. Powers,
her paramount, the only witness of the
murder, has been arrested. The MUIR
| derer Is calm and collected.
Two suits for 800 each, brought by
Samuel Gregor, a Paterson express
man, against the Erie. railroad COM
pany, for alleged overcharges on trans
| portatlon of freight between that city
and New York, have been concluded
by q verdict for the plaintiff. Sum-
monses have been issued in thirteen
more suits to be tried OH the oath In
slant. Defendants appeal.
An important examination Is pend
ing before United States Commissioner
| Gifts, in the case Of Lewis p. Welt
more, United States Gauger Of Whisky
in bond, charged with having been
bribed several times by Gordon, Fell
lows, McWilliams d Co., wholesale
liquor dealers. 1t is alleged that Welt
more was in the habit of making
fraudulent returns, representing the
number of gallons ~ much less than
| they really were, for which service, IL
Is alleged, he was paid large sums Of
money. Winfield Tucker, formerly
cashier for Gordon, Fellows & Mc\Nil-
liams, testified that he had on many
different occasions paid money to
Wettmore as brides.
Southerners who went to Brazil after
the close Of the rebellion have petit
| toned the Government to send q ship
to bring them back home. 1t Is said
the coionists are in a very destitute
condition.
It Is stated on Wall street that Buck,
solicitor Of the English stockholders Of
the Erie Railroad, was closeted yester-
day with Daniel Drew and others OPP
posed to the recent mismanagement.
The Worlds assault upon members
Of the Tammany ring causes much dis
cussion among the political opponents
| of Tammany. They are steadily gain
ing strength. There have been several
important OBJECTIONS Of late. An ex-
ira meeting Of the Tammany managers
Is ordered for Saturday, when there
will be an earnest effort to prevent
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