The Hickman courier., 1872-11-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
At Home.

Chief of Police McWilliams, of Jer
sey City, was admitted to bail yesterday
in the sum of $4,000.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has directed the Assistant Treasurer al
New York to purchase one million ol
bonds on each Wednesday, and to sell
one million of gold each Thursday du
ring the month of November.
1t is stated that bad health will pre-
vent Chief Justice Chase from attend
ing business. Unless he improves he
will take a trip 10 the Pacific coast.
The Treasury Department has issued
circular to the Collectors at the prin-
cipal ports instructing them to care
fully observe existing regulations
which prevent importation of neat
cattle hides from country where the
hoof and mouth disease is prevalent.
The Department received information
that this disease had again broken out
in the Argentine Republic.
The horse disease is extending West
ward, but is abating in New York
Its influence upon business in that
city, however, has been disastrous, and
the loss in consequence is to be meas
ured by hundreds of thousands. The
crisis in the disease seems to have
arrived, however, and in the next few
days it will probably commence to
abate.
The steamship Missouri sailed from
New York to Havana on Oct. Il, and
has bsen reported missing. An
arrival from Nassau states that she
-was burned at sea, and that of all on
|ncard 0IIly twelve persons are known
to be saved. Seventy-nine lives are
believed to have been lost among
them the Captain aud all but five of
the crew.
a special from Norwich, Conn.,, says
that great excitement prevails in the
seaport villages near that place, owing
TO the report ola vessel having arrived
at Stonington from San Domingo, with
cases of yellow fever on board. The
schooner Crown Point, which was
driven into port at Stonington, on
Sunday night, by stress of weather,
which had broken out during her voy-
age. The vessel was at once ordered
to quarantine in the lower harbor.
No new cases have occurred, but the
two sick men are at the point of death.
1t is understood that early in the ses-
sion Congress will appoint q commits
sion to take evidence with regard
to distributing the lump sum awarded
at Geneva among the claimants who
suffered from losses by the Anglo Con-
federate cruisers during the war.
Many claimants appear to be possess
ell of fear that the French spoliatioI
claims of 1903 would overtake them,
but there is no foundation whatever
for this apprehension.
Some eight thousand families, num-
beTing fifty thousand persons, of the
Jews of Roumania, who have of late
suffered so cruel prosecutions in their
native province, desire to found col
ony in the United States, and would
like the Land Office to give them title
to go. 900 acres in one tract.
The President has signed a procla-
nation declaring that all provisions of
the acts imposing determinations on
foreign tonnage and import duties in
the United States are revised, and
shall henceforth he and remain in full
force as relates to goods and merchan-
disc imported to the United States in
French vessels from countries other
than France so long as any discrimi-
mating duties shall continue to be i'm
posed by France upon goods and mer- /
chandise imported into France in YES
sells of the United States from countries 4
other than the United States.
Assistant Secretary Richardson says
that rapid repemption of the three per-
cent certificates was the occasion of
the recent issue of four millions of the
greenback reserve. The Secretary, he
states, will restore the greenbacks to
the reserve fund again during the next
fortnight.
Oxen appeared in Broadway yester-
day doing the work of horses, and in
Boston some of the street-cars were
drawn by men. The disease appears 4
to be at its height in New York City, /
almost every horse being disabled.
The Southern Claims Commissioners
to-day heard testimony in regard to
the claim of Elizabeth y. Gould, of
Alexandria, for S2s, $40 for wood cut by
the army on the Potomac river near
Washington. The point of public
interest in this case is the endeavor
made by the claimant to show higher
value for standing timber than the
price of one dollar a cord established
by the Quartermaster General, at
which rate similar claims to the amount
of several million dollars have been
from time to time settled by the Quar-
termaster's department. The claimant
is one of the heirs of the late Congress
man Edsall, of New Jersey, who
owned large9estates in Virginia.
%AbrOad.