The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-08-24
GENERAL NEWS.

The supplementary article and arsu-
ments of the United States counsel before
the Board OF Arbilrators at Geneva have
boen published in pamphlet form. The ar.
gumeuts of Mr.. Evarts cover hundred
pages, but those OF Mr. Cushing and Mr.
Waite are less extended
The specie in the Bank Of France in
creased one million five hundred thousand
francs last week.
A tavern keeper in Tours France. hav-
ing sued the French Government for the
Keep OF Prince Frederick Charles and his
staff (the Red Prince) in February and
March, lsIl, to the amount OF =, 600. has
had awarded one half OF his claim, 50 ,OuO
Alter len. thened private session. the
Court OF Impeachment: has pronounced
Judge Barnard guilty of violation OF his
oath, OF being unn'indiul OF the duties OF
his position, and of being guilty OF NAL and
corrupt conduct In his office, on nearly all
the articles voted on
Dispatches from Monterey say that 6 en-
hocha is en- route TO receive the surrender
OF lrevinos forces, others OF the reyolu-
tionlsis who refused to surrender. have
been surprised and captured Rocha now
says that he is positive that the revolution
has terminated
The Surveyor of Customs OF the port OF
Memphis has seized portion Of the track
o? the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
for unpaid dues on rail, amounting to St3..
900 gold AT last accounts, he was tear
ing up an inclined plane that leads to the
ferry boat.
Times have changed Kentucky is now
the torlorn hope Of the negro. the CITY of
refuge, the Canada OF the United Siates
Vive Kentucky
The Governor of North Carolina in a
blished letter says that from fifteen
counties on y partial returns have been re-
ceived of the late election. The result
will not be officially known until the Speak
er OF the House opens all the returns in
the presence of both branches of the Legis
lature, which will not meet until the third
Monday in November lie thinks his
majority will be from 500 to 2 800
Senator Cameron nj Pennsylvania. whose
loyalty 10 Grant, and whose shrewdness a.
a politician will not be questioned, recently
declared to Southern Senator that in bis
opinion Grant could carry only two South
ern States in Noyember-South Carolina
and Mississippi
|. A New York judge has decided that
signs and banners across the street are H.
I legal obstructions, rs street IL not the
mere surface OF the earth, but embraces al
so the light and air above it.
A dispatch from Washington state,
that claims, acgregating Sll7, 1900 100
have been filed before the Mixed United
STATES and British Commission, from Brit
ish sources, for damage sustained by the
seizure and confscation of blockade run
ners and their cargoes durln the civil war
by the United States Government
The last meeting Of the Cabinet seem.
to have been called TO consider the mo
mentous question, whether President Grant
should 90 10 Chattanooga or stay at Long
Branch. Aiter rerspiring over il the SOL
emn pumps wiped their brows aud mega
tived the proposition. 1t was about the
only business transacted
Later dates from Lima, bring particu
lars OF a bloody revolution in Peru during
which the most terrible scenes were enact
ed. Balta, the President, was murdered
IN cold blood The principal part Of th,
/ fighting was done IN Callao aud between
that city and Lima, during which som,
two hundred men were killed Finall,
the revolution was suppressed. the ring-
leaders were first hanged aud aiterward
their bodies were saturated with kerosene
and burned on the plaza in front Of the
I Cathedral
Tie proiracled dispute Of the people o
/ San Francisco with the Central Pacific
I Railroad Company about the Goat Island
/ project, has been at last settled on the la
sis Of a compromise Tue final terminu.
oi the road Is to he fixed at Mission Bay
and the city agrees to modify its survey.
there and give subsidy OF two aud halt
million dollars in SIX per cent bonds