The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned From. the Telegraph.
d March 90.

hichte tIc DpaHlbu nfOues
General Butler appeared III the Uni
ted States Court yesterday as counsel
for Sadie Wilkinson in her suit for
damages for breach of promise Of
marriage on the part of"Brick" Pom
eroy. The case is being tried on pre-
liminary questions.
A dispatch from Utica, New York,
says the arraignment Of Josephine
Mccarthy yesterday for the shooting
Of Milton Ii. Thompson and Henry
II. Hall caused quite an excitement.
The defense proposed a plea of insani-
ty and asked time to get ready.
Sumner gave his testimony yester-
day in the case of the U. S. sale Of
arms to the French during the late
Franco.P russian war.
The Supreme Council Of Scottish
Rite Masons will meet May 10th at
Louisville, instead Of San Francisco.
I The House of Congress refuses to
amend the. bill requiring all votes for
Representatives TO be by ballot.
In the discussion of the tariff ques-
ton in the y. $. Senate, yesterday,
Blair moved To make salt free. He
denounced the tax on salt as most un-
jnstifiable and oppressive, and spoke
ut length against a protective policy.
Speaking of the salt monopoly, he
stated, on authority of Mr. Wells,
that the Onondaga Company had in
one year made six dividends, n of
which was l2a per cent.
A Washington dispatch to the Her.
all says August Belmont, Chairman
Of the National Democratic Commit
tee, reached Washington yesterday
morning, and had an informal politi-
cal Caucus with about forty Of the
principal politicians Of both houses.
The question of holding 4 National
Convention was freely discussed by
C%asserly, Frank Blair, Stockton, Bay
ard and others. The feeling was un.
mistakably against calling a Conven-
ton or indicating any policy or position
until after the Cincinnati Convention.
Coalition with the Republicans, it
was admitted, must be made on the
question Of strength; there must be no
surrender of Democratic principles.
II was advised hat no Democrats
participate in the Cincinnati Convcn-
ton.
Prot Morse, inventor Of the tcle-
graph. is lying at the point of death.
Great preparations are making for
the National Liberal Republican Con.
v~ention which IN to assemble in Gin.
%ciuuati the first of Nav.
European mail advices state the
town OF Richrmakher, in Caucasus
was almost entirely destroyed by Il
recent earthquake. The number OF
persons killed was 1871. and the des,
truc;ion of property was very great.
A considerable portion OF the country
is converted into i desert. and the in.
hahitants are reduced 10 want by the
destruction Of the crops.
Saturday, March 50.
England had another numbering
coal mine explosion yesterday ir
which 80 men were killed.
The bark Nimrod was burned a:
sea. near the Burmnda, and the cap
tain, his wife and daughter, and Z sail
ors were lost.
The Liberal Republicans of New
York are moving against Grant.
Padncah, Ky, had a light earthquake
yesterday.
Wednesday night. in McCrake,
county. Ky, four men, named Buc
Jackson. Billy Coe, X. 7. Weather
ford and Jas. Vaughn went TO tn
house of n ~peaceable, respectable far
mer, named Shettle, forced him Il
swallow an opiate, and left him lyin:
~insensible, while they entered tn
house and attacked Shcttle's wife an'
: danghter-the latter aged fifteen
The women resisted, and were knock
ed down with butts of pistols. Tn
daughter was knocked down tire
times. aud finally both were tied dow
. and outraged by the villains. DurinI
the night jackson and Coe were cap
tured and lodged in Jail at Clinton
: and the rest will probably soon b
taken, as the ~exasperated neighbor
are prosecuting q vigorous search 70
D them.
The Massachusetts State Colore
Convention last evening chose six de
egatcs to the Central Colored Cor
vention, to be held in New Orlcan
April Both.
Sunday, March 81.
The smallpox hospital at Brookly
0 is crowded to overlooking.
The Tribune will tomorrow pull
lish n letter addressed to Colont
William NJ. Grosvenor, Chairman {
the Executive Committee of the Lii
eral Republican Convention of Mis-
souri,, signed by Horace Greeley, Her
ry II. Sheldon, +. y. Conkling. WI
Donscheimer, Sinclair, Toucey, an
about a dozen other Republicans, eS
pressing concurrence in the principle
lately set forth by the Liberal Reput
licans of Missouri, declaring their b,
lief that the time has come when gel
eral amnesty tor past political offense
should be granted; that Federal tax.
ton should be imposed and so adjus
ed as to tighten the burden on the il
dustry; further, civil service should b
so reformed as to relieve political a.
: ton from official patronage; that til
right of local selfgovernment, tn
foundation of American freedom
should be reassertcd and the encroacl
ment of Federal power checked, an
> that a special duty rests upon the PEI
6: pile to do away with corruption
Office.
% G. A. Dana, editor of the n. Y. Su
is under arrest for libel.
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