The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
AT HOME.

NEWS SUMMARY.
AT HOME.
The Liberal Republican Convention
! nominated Horace Greeley for Presi-
dent, and Governor B. Gratz Brown,
of Missouri, for President. The
Democratic press of the South generally
favor the ticket warmly, while those
of the North prefer to wait for the
authoritative action of the National
Convention.
At Oakdale, on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, an entire family named Cook
were massacred and the house burned,
supposed to have been done by Indians.
Lieutenant Governor Gravelly, of
Missouri, died on Tuesday.
The Personal Liberty League Of Chi
cago, organized to contest the new
Liquor Law, numbers five hundred.
The Chicago Labor Unions will
make all eight-hour demonstration on
May 18th.
A party in California have received a
concession for railroad from Quay
mas, Sonora, to Tucson, Arizona, to
intersect the Texas Pacific Road.
Five men ON horseback entered the
town Of Columbia, Adair county, KY,
on Monday, entered the Deposit Bank,
and demanded that the Cashier open
the safe, on their refusal tn do SO they
shot him dead and made their escape.
The bill removing the duties on tea
and coffee after July 1st has become a
law.
The. Now York Assembly has re-
solved on the impeachment of Judge
Barnard.
The Columbia, Kentucky, bank rob-
ters got about $40, 600. mostly in bonds.
Congress has passed a hill postponing
until November the elections in Idaho
and Washington Territories.
Ten thousand acres in Laurens coun-
ty, South Carolina, are uncultivated
because the owners are driven away
from home by military tyranny.
The agricultural land scrip donated
by Congress to Virginia has been sold
for s205, 900.
The Baltimore NJ. e. District Con-
ference has found an indictment against
Rev. L. D. Huston for lewd and lascivi-
Gus conduct.
The Methodist General Conference
opened its session in New York
Wednesday. Seventy-two Conferences
were represented by 2S5 ministerial and
1872 lay delegates. Bishop james pre-
sided. The vote to ratify lay rcpresen-
tation stood 233 yeas to SO nays.
Horace Greeley has withdrawn from
the Republican General Committee of
New york.
A special from San Antonio, Texas,
says Gonzales train of six wagons,
seventy-five mules, nine men and two
women, was attacked by Indians at
HOward's Well, above Fort Clark.
The train and hands were captured,
and all burned except one woman, who
escaped. He says the Indiansnumber-
ed one hundred and fifty.
During April 1900 German immi-
grants landed at Castle Garden, ma
jority of whom are destined for Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Illinois. n
Merino sheep are being shipped from
Tennessee to California.
The Cincinnati nominations arc the
all-absorbing topic at Washington.
A fire at MarshAlltOwn, Iowa, Satur-
day afternoon, destroyed five elevators,
with vast amount OF grain in store, a
wooden mill, two hotels, four lumber
yards, the Northwestern depot, tanks
and pump building, five stores and
shops, and three dwelling houses
Loss about 100000.
The general tariff debate has closed
and the impression isnow quite general
that Congress can dispose of all it's work
and adjourn the 18th of May.
Libbie Garabrant has been convicted
of the murder of Ransom F. Burroughs,
at Paterson, New Jersey.
An Administration secret conference
has been held in Washington to con-
slider the question Of the withdrawal of
American claims for consequential
damages from the Geneva Board. 1t
is limited that a solution of the whole
question will yet be found in the adop-
ton by Congress of the Peters Resolu-
ton in favor ofs Withdrawing the
claim; but since it was broached, Eng
land has so snubbed the Administra-
ton that the proposition will most
likely lose ground.
ABROAD.
In consequence Of the report of the
Committee appointed to inquire into
the capitulations of French towns and
fortreases during the late war, the Gov
ernment has determined to put two or
three Generals who are censured by the
Commission on trial before a court
| martial.
The importation of arms and ammu-
milton by private parties has been pro-
hibited by the authorities of Cuba.
Two thousand cartmen of Liverpool
are on q strike.
A battle has been fought at TubeIa,
in Navarro, between the Government
troops and insurgents. TIE latter
were defeated with loss of three hun
| dred killed and wounded. Garten, the
Communist hostage murderer, has
been shot.
Minister Coulard has informed the
Committee of Liberation that the Ger
man troops will evacuate France inn
mediately, when the payment Of in
demnity is completed.