Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-02
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WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. August /.
Professor Hall, of the Naval Obser.
vatory, last night observed the comet
discovered by Borrelly, at Marseiiles,
France, July q. The position of the
comet is as follows: BY Washington
time, July 80, II hours and 81 minutes;
right ascension, l hour, Ii minutes
and % seconds; declination, I degrees
and So minutes. The south motion is
small, and a little to the southeast.
The War Department is advised ot
the death at Paris, July T., of Colonel
Lewellyn Jones, q retired United
States officer.
y patent for 6 600 acres of land being
heId by the Surveyor General of Cali
tornia in his office at San Francisco,
pending further evidence relating to
It, the patenteeS ~replevined the Sur
veyor, put the Sheriff in his office,
and threatened last night to blow
open the safe to obtain the patent.
The General Land Agent has tele-
graphed to the United States District
Attorney to take all necessary steps
to prevent any interference with the
Surveyor.
NEW YORK.
New YORK. August /.
The Ne,rs reiterates the statement
that the petition for the pardon Of
WalwOrth is in the hands of Cover
nor Dix, and that he has sent to the
District Attorney for the papers in
the case.
The will of E, S. Mills, late Presi-
dent of the Brooklyn Trust Conpa-
nv. was admitted to probate to-day.
His property is all devised to his
widow.
Petitions were filed in the Clerks Of
flee Of the United States District
Court to-day by Geo. A. Priest ask
ing to have the books of Simon Haas,
cloth merchant Plat & Boyd. crock
cry dealers, and Edward Bourke.
glassware dealer, seized, onthe ground
that have, on a fraudulent in
voice, got goods through the custom
house at % per cent? less than their real
value. In the case of Platte Il Boyd.
Priest charges a collision with the
officers and Appraiser Of the Depart
ment.
Berlin papers contain a letter from
Baron Won Khedaw. the divorced
husband of Madame Lucca, repudia-
ting and denouncing what he terms
Il villainous piece OF raScality prac-
ticed on him in New York in the di-
vOrce suit. He says: Leaving un-
touched all other shameful antece-
dents, l last Autumn laid before the
proper court in Berlin a complaint for
divorce, on the ground of malicious
abandonment; and this proceeding is
taking its regular course The actu-
satiOn raised against me and through
which. in connection with perjury
AND nj hnr y rIlC S1DnnDSC InS n,h =, -
emily been obtained. | declare to be a
most perfect untruth; as also are the
hearsaY declarations attributed to the
witness who is not even named. The
reason for Fastening the proceedings
commenced in such a sudden and
unileard OF manner, and by this act
OF violence in New York, can ONLY
have ground in the news reported in
journals that Madame Lnrca had
already again been married I o Major
Won Wallhofel. The Baron denies
having received notice of the pro-
ceedIngs begun for divorce in New
York, and states that he has moved.
in the courts which granted the de
cree, for its annulment.
The railroad controversy is con-
tinued, and manufacturers and ship
pers are eX pressing their disSatisfac.
" lIClEiIt IIlitS.
Benjamin J.. Sherman, Vice Chair
man of the Committee OF 10, and
President OF the New York Sugar Re
timing Company, states that unfair
determinations of the railroad com
panies in favor of Boston, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore, and aCains,
New York, were the principal grounds
for complaint on the part of New
York merchants; and that they are
determined to put an end to such I'M.
fairness. He says the railroad cor
pOratiOnS must nOlOnger he permitted
TO water their stock three or four
times and then charge eight per cent.
AS soon as cool weather begins, public
meetings will be held, and the subject
Will be pressed upon the attention OF
the people. Other heavy shippers
say the contest is continuation of the
night OF last year, and has been
brought up at this time in authorization
of the Fall trade. Agents of Ia iroad
and tOrwar ling companies state tina,
the rates fOr the shipment of freight
are lower now than they have been
for a long time past. First-.lass
freight is now charged se~venty-fpc
cents per hundred pounds to Chicago
and prOpOrtiOnally to all other points
Chicago being the basis.
Two Italian bows have appeared be
fore the Consul General OF italy, and
have asked to be protected ayains,
their padrone, Michele Carcone, whom
they charge with having inflicted
upon them the most barbarous cruel.
ties. The boys were given by their
parents to Carcone for the considera.
ion OF $40 a year, and that they be
we'll taken care of and taught music.