Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-02-21
LATE KILOGRAMS, dc.

The bill of rights reported by the special COM
mittee to the join. Winnipeg Convention of
French and English delegates, to be presented
to the commissioner from the Canadian govern
ment a the basis of settlement, provides that
the Territory be governed by a local Legisla-
ture in conjunction with a Governor and execu
tive council; that a two-thirds vote shall over
ride the Governors veto; that universal suffrage
be allowed, &c.
Last Thursday night some soldiers from Camp
Douglas, while in Salt Lake city, beat an Indian
boy. The boy informed the policemen, who dis
patched party TO arrest the soldiers, taking no
police, but did no injury. The police then went
back To their quarters for arms, and on return
ing captured the soldiers, but not until police
man had been shot through the coat and pants.
Freshets are reported to have occurred in the
rivers Qf New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine
and caused great damage and loss of property
An Ice dam formed in the kennebec yesterday,
ana when u gave way carried with it several
railroad bridges. At Augusta the water rose so
rapidly that IT inundated stores before their
contents could be removed.
On Friday and Saturday tremendous storm
raged IN the West and Northwest. Six men are
supposed to have recently frozen to death at
Fort Abercombe, and others have disappeared
N endeavoriDg to travel through the snow.
Yesterday was intensely cold in all the Western
cities.
The latest news from San Domingo is that the
People were preparing to vote upon the question
of annexation to the United States President
Baez has received letters frem Venezuela ask
ing his influence towards having that country
Incorporated into the United States.
The Secretary of the Navy is said to have in
suucted Admiral Godon to enter into no ar
rapgement for the repair OF the war vessels Vic
tOrla and lealtad, at the Brooklyn navy yard,
until the result OF the congressional movement
on the neutrality question Is known.
The Brazilian soldiers returning from Para
quay have horrible story of finding thousand
PaTaguayan women in a furnishing condition
many OF them wounded by the scouts of Lopez;
while on the roads mary others were found with
their throats cut by the same troops.
hohler * kamerra, proprietors of the great
lager-beer brewery at Guttenburg, New York
charged with revenue frauds, have been held to
bail in 5000 each 10 await the action of Com
missioner Hoffman.
The Suget and Pualta plantations, in the
Sagua district, Cuba, have been DESTROYED by
rebels. Several skirmishers are reported re-
Gently IN the Cinco Villas district, in which
tWenty-nlne insurgents were killed.
Notice has been given by the ALBANY IN. "
employers that the wages of the brieklayers,
plasterers, and stone masons viii be -,.,iuced on
the lst OF March The workmen have resolved
to strike.
General Roman Cabrera. the distinguished
tarllst leader, refuses to take command of the
Carlist movement unless regular forces are or
ganized and basis of operations decided ON.
Commodore stephen Champln, United States
navy, the last remaining commanding officer in
the battfNof Lake Erie, died at his residence in
Buffalo, y. Y, yesterday.
coin, H., in 1T OF frenzy shot his wife through
the head with revolver on Friday night, and
then put an end To himself in the same way.
Brutal assaults on the Chinese are common in
San francisco, and there is a sensation report
that they are 10 be massacred 10y a secret organ
ization on or before ST. Patrick's day.
The ONein Fenians of New York have within
lew days, accumulated great number OF
arms at their headquarters, indicating it is said
an ca y movement on Canada
The report that a receiver had been put into
the p incipal Office of the Franklin Telegraph
ComIany Mt New York is officially denied BY the
president Of the company.
George Arensburg. a cOmpositor in the New
York Times Office. set 2 .0Gi ems SATURDAY. solid
typeSetting on record.
Calvin &. Clark, of Bell county, Texas, was
murdered on the 9Th inst. by desperate named
Sam Halsey, while on the road to Little Rock
with his family.
Seven hundred hatters in Orange y. j.. are
On strike To compel the employers TO dissolve
The society lately formed for their own protec-
ton against strikes
General j. j. Reynolds, military commander
IN connection with the United States Senator
ship for that State.
HE thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
mendments have finally passed both houses u,
the Texas Legislature.
grand military bill will be given at Brigham
Noungs theater. in Salt Lake city, OH the 2ld,
In honor Of Washington's birthday.
Acting Governor Lee has appointed Mrs.
Caroline Neil and Mrs. Ester Moores justices of
The peace for Sweet Water county, Wyoming.
Carefully compiled statistics place the num-
Der OF Chinese on the Pacific coast at 50 900.
The New York Assembly has agreed to pay
tie aIte-Rar debt the State m lin