Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-11-09
TELEGRA 2 FL &c.
LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC STATES

the Norwegian Captains, Nibs and
Johnson, represent that johnson,
in exploring in August last in the
islands east of Spitzbergen, found the
seas free of ice to both eastward, and
indications of powerful oceanic currents
serving to keep open the higher Polar
seas. johnson went north to a latitude
of nearly so degrees. DR.. Petcrman,
the great German geographer, is short
~ to make public the discoveries of
johnson.
New YORK, Nov. Mrs. Victoria
Woodruff was arrested this morning
on warrant sued out by a. NJ. Chaltz,
charging her with gross libel. War
rants were also issued against her part
ncr in business on complaint of other
parties, on like charge. The same
parties were also arrested on Il charge
of sending obscene through
the mails, while they were preparing
for flight with copies of their publica-
tions in the vehicles with them. On
being brought before the Commissioner
the District Attorney charged that they
were also guilty of libcling. The Com
missioner decided to admit the accused
to bail in $500. No bail was furnish
ed, and they were sent to Ludlow
street Jail
LoSDox, Nov. BY the falling of a
Courtroom floor, 200 people We're pre-
cipitatcd twelve feet Several We're
instantly killed and 40 injured
seriously.
PMrs, Nov. about $50 persons
.+,r,l,,. ,{t,,l,ol n.4r,;,, tbo tnNu
of Bcsseges, and wounded IL number of
gems d'armes. The latter were com
PEELED to fire upon the assailants, sew
cral of whom were killed and wounded.
Troops were dispatched to prevent fur
Their troubles.
TumN, Nov. 1.-The Pc continues to
ri Sc and the inundation is spreading
rapidly. Families are IiyinG. and those
who cannot escape are starving on the
houSc-tops and on trees, whore they
have taken rouge. The streams are
tllel with the carcasae3 of cattle and
wrecks of hnuecs and barns. The town
OF Reggie, fourteen miles from Modcna,
has almost entirely disappeared be-
meath the Hood.
ROME, Nov. 1.-The Pope has rosolv-
cd to defend the cause of the Church
at Geneva against the decree of the
Swiss Government, forbidding The cy-
crci,os of hia Episcopal functions with
in Swiss territory of the recently
appointed Bishop Meimillod.
H>nrroRn, Conn. Nov. L. Howard
Brown, the private secretary Of Al
miral FarraSut at the battle i'll Mobile
bay, died at East Hartford yesterday,
aged 81.
New YoEK, Nov. 1.-The horse dis
ease is rapidly ahating, and the streets
seem to have the usual number Of
hoses. Large numbers, however,
still show slight symptoms of the dis
tie nper. There was not 50 great II
mortllity yesterday rs Saturday, but
tn re have been many deaths since the
disease began.
A great deal of talk is occasioncd
about the town this evening over the
ARE It of Woodhull and Clatlin. The
proceedings against them were first
taken by l.. G. Challis, we'll known
broker, who last night applied for
their arrest for grossly scandalous
article on him. Warrants were Accord
ingly issued, but before they could be
executed, some one acting on behalf of
Comssock, the famous enemy of OBJ
scene literature, had warrants issued
against the ladies by U. S. Commits
sioncr Osborne.
The two prisoners were taken to the
Commissioners Office in carriage
thence to Jail to remain until Monday
morning, when the hearing of the case
comes off. They manifested their
usual boldncss, and descanted on the
way to prison on the outrage of the
arrest and confinement over Sunday
They insisted upon suitable apartments
ut tho Ludlow-street Jail. The statu-
tory penalty for sending obscene litcra-
ture through the mails is imprisonment
for one year and fine of one hundred
dollars.
The Express says that the arrest of
Woodruff and Clahin for circulating
obscene literature was to be expected,
for nothing moro obscene in the way of
words and atrocious charges ever OBJ
tanned currency in any community than
tho attacks of these women upon dis
tinguished and honorable clergymen,
and the gross attack upon Rev. Henry
Ward Beccher and Theodore Tilton.
WAslHNGToN, Nov. "A restaurant
keeper was fined in the Police Court
today, 800, for refusing to entertain
co!ored persons ut his establishment.
New YoaK, Nov. Washington
specials say the Office of Indian Com
missioner is SO strongly urged upon
Assistant Secretary Cowan by the
President. Secretary Delano, the Board
OF Peace Commissioners, Young Mems
Christian Association and the NIetho-
dist Conference, that it is thought he
will feel bound to withdraw his refusal
to take the office.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-The horse disease