Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-01-17
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INTELLIGENCE E.
Arrested fer Mutiny.

Arrested fer Mudny.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. l7.-William
Thomas, William Calvin and John
Rodin were taken from the steamship
Tagus, from Liverpool, upon her ar
rival yesterday, and locked up, charged
with mutiny at sea. They assaulted
the Captain and other officers and beat
them violently.
Destructive Fire.
New YORK, Jan. l7.-Jones' dry
goods house on Eighth Avenue, was
burned last night. Loss, $l26, 900; In
surance, 800, 600.
Editors Dead.
Doctor Joshua Levitt, associate edit
or of the Independent, died in Brooklyn
last evening of apoplexy, while at the
residence of his son.
Rev. J. D. Tender, editor Of '.Frenoh
Almanac, ''and minister of the Congre-
gational Church, died yesterday at
Brooklyn.
STOKES Poisening Report.
New York, Jan. 1.-THE report Of
the finding of a bottle Of %strychnine in
the cell lately vacated by Stokes, was
somewhat erroneous. The drug was
nux vomica, and had been medically
prescribed.
SANTANA Bny.
The Secretary of the SANTANA Bay
Company says it is stipulated with the
Dominican Government that the Com
pany is protecting itself from outside
interference, but counts upon the SYM
patty and aid of foreign Governments.
The Company will first declare sama-
M Bay a free port to the whole world.
A Washington despatch to the Her
aid states that Congressman consider
the SANTANA Bay scheme impracticable,
and the Haytien Minister thinks the
American purchasers will fluid that
they have made a bad speculation, 1t
being fit for nothing but n naval sta
ton.
Tonnage Dues Abolished.
New YoRK, Jan. 1.-THE leyying
Of tonnage dues on American steamers
running between Bremen and the
United States having been stopped by
Germany, the same course wss adopted
at the New York Custom House yes
terday, by order of the Secretary of
the Treasury.
Mayor of New York.
The Liberal Republican General
Committee last night passed a resolu-
ton giving the support of the organi-
zation to Mayor Haremayer, whose
election It declared was n matter Of
generalization.
Civil Rights Bill.
TALLAHAssEE, Fla, Jan. H.-In the
Legislature yesterday, a Civil Rights
bill, similar to that Of Summers, was
made the special order for to-day.
Fa,nI Roller Explosion.
A boiler explosion Wednesday, on
Chattahoochee river, killed two per-
sons and wounded several others.
Aerial Telegraph.
WAsnINGroS, Jan. 1.-THE Senate
yesterday passed tho House bill to in
corporate the Loomis Aerial Telegraph
Company, and it only waits the sigma
ture Of the President to become a law.
Railroad Accident.
PORTLAND, Jan. 17.-Yesterday near
Wells Village, a construction train
containing n gang Of laborers, was
thrown OF the track against a rock
and broken in two. Twenty or thirty
men were injured.
The Wharton Poisoning Case.
BALTIMORE. Jan. lin the Whar-
ton trial yesterday, Mrs. Chubb testi-
fled to purchasing tartar emetic by re-
quest Of Mrs. Wharton. DR.. Williams
testified to the sickness Of Van Ness,
which resembled that from taking
s~srychnine, with partial recovery and
relapse. said relapse showing symp-
toms being caused BY tartar emetic.
Tho Tweed Case.
New York, Jan. lin the Tweed
trial this morning, a number Of war
rants and vouchers were read, the
counsel for Tweed Directing In a num-
Der of instances. Davidson Satan ties.
titled to doing work for the city In
1870 and sending bills to Woodward or
a claim for $40 He received 8
warrant to three times that amount,
but he only got a check for the flrs'
named sum-. He had no business deal
Ing with Tweed. Carney, the Ring
plasterer, was called for the prosecu'
ton, when the counsel for defendant
asked the clerk Of the Court for tina
Indictment against him.
Congregational Matters.
WAsmNGroS. Jan. 1.-THE Heus'
was engaged this forenoon OIL bills re
ported from the Committee on Claims
and disposed of a large number.
In the Senate, Schurz called up tn
Vienna Exposition bill. Carpcnte;
withdrew his amendment appropriat
$500, 900 to complete the Washington
Monument, as 1t was doubtful whethe
tho monument could ever be complet
ed, owing to the soitness of the foun
dation ground. The bill passed. Yeas
90 F.; nays, is.
On motion of Frelinghuysen, q bill
passed repeating the Act for the relic
of certain Indians, known as the Teto1
Sioux.
Morton called up his resolution In
structiug the Committee on Election
to inquire into the defects of the pre-:
ent ELECTORAL system and the bei
means for remedyins them. lie spok
at length upon it, faIorins direc
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