Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-01
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WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, july 81,

JulN 81.
The public debt sta. ement to c
issued the LIST Of AuguSi, will not re-
port the iull aimoun vi new tivcs and
nNe-twentieS redeemed, Tor The reason
that all The Dunds redeemed have 10
pass thr ugh the hooks OF the Regis.
ter, Auditor and Conp;r, Her ueiure
being crc,iited to the Treasurer OF the
United States, from whose books the
debt statement is made uut. This me-
ceSSlty takes Il great zeal of time, and
more than usual, now that so many of
The clerks are away on their summer
leave OF absence. This reducing the
clerical force, which, when full, Is jus,
sufficient for the ordinary current
business, So that, although the 5,
cate have received and paid oil for
fifty millions OF new tiveS, but little
more than thirty millions can appear
III The CeU, statement.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. July 81.
y Madrid correspondent, writing
about the massacre ut Alcoy. says the
women played as conspicuous Il part
i'll the massacre us they did in Paris
during the reign OF the Commune.
Nothing which occurred i'll Paris,
eve i'll the last frenzy of desperation
and batiieG fury, at all EQUALS this
brutal massacre. When the Minister
of Foreign Affairs WAS asked in the
CorteS for Il statement of what really
happened, he declared that for the
honor of the Chamber, of the country,
and ofthe Republic. lie was Obliged
to refrain iron mentioning all thai
happened. According TO his accoun
II lnSl,rrectlon was gotten up by the
| tDnrll tfSfS lt.l .fl -,
Il strike. The strikers demanded Il
large IiSe in their wages-much as ~
per cent, aud when it was refused
they lett their work and assumed a
very threatening attitude, interfering
everywhere with work, and Spreau-
ing alarm among the peaceful inhab-
itanlS, especially those belonging to
the well-to-do classes. They finally
demanded the resignation OF the town
council, and the substitution of a
cOunci. of their own nomination.
This demand the Mayor of Alcoy,
Senior Augustine AlhorS, refused, and
was given three hours TO change his
mind. lie tool POSSESSION OF the
town hall, and with Il Jew civil ana
national guards and some friends.
tried to hold it against the
mob. The little garrison was
SNoAA ~ " u 90 tlI'I! .
burst in, and then followed IA scene
which the Minister declared it i'm
possible for him to describe. 1he d.
tenders OF the town hail. after icing
subjected 10 other horrible insults and
injuries, were stripe naked n
held from the balcony in full Jew Ut
the bowling mob below. Their nants
we're calieu mt one hy one, and the
mob was asked whether it would
have them dead or alive. According
to the IL! swer either their heads we've
cut OFT and the mutilatcd bodies
thrown down from the balcony. or ,
they were thrown down still alive,
the mob below trying to catch them
Us they fell, on bayOnets and pixies:
and everybody then rushing to assist
i'll dispatching what remnants of life
was lett, or, if too late for this. t,
further mangle and disfigure The
breathless bodies. One of the princ..
pal and most respectable inhabitants
was Sc Zed by the Insurgents, his
clothes s%prinkled with petroleum and
set on fire, and he WAS made to run |
while Sho;S were taken at him. Other
atrocities scarcely less terri ole are re-
ported.