Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-11

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Indian Trouble. In Kansas.

Auutah AEouohsH ~
CHICAGO, August l1.-General Pope
~telegraphs Lieut.. General Sheridan that
the Indians who have been marauding
in Southwestern Kansas, for som
time past, have gone to the border
land Of Estocado; that the country is
filled with game, and that they have an
abundance Of ammunition. The three
columns OF troops now operating will
converge on the section named.
Unfounded Rumors-saie OF italian
Church Property.
NEw YoKK, August ia letter from
Rome says that n must put in quar-
antine for n few days some reports about
the dying condition Of two leading per-
sonages in the Vatican. Some Of the
opposite party are so impatient to have
the Pope and Cardinal Antonelh out Of
the way that they frequently put afoat
exaggerated reports which we disregard.
An official journal in Rome. published
occasionally, reports the progress made
in the sale OF coniseatsd ecclesiastical
property. The whole amount disposed
OF from 1867, when the law was passed,
up to the end Of June Of the present
year, is represented to DO iOG, OOO, 900
Of francs. The Government has come
into possession OF somewhat more than
800, OO0, 900 from this source.
A Dcrunct Institution.
A correspondent at SANTANA Bay writes
that the company is absolutely dcfunct.
Its property is becoming speedily ruin
ed, and soon there will be no traces OF
the once great corporation.
Negro Riots In Tennasses.
MEMPHIS, August lith.-Tho Helena
special says considerable fighting was
going on in Austin last night, between
negroes and United States troops. The
latter captured a body OF twenty negroes,
and while they were putting the prison.
ers in the Court House two OF them at
tempted to escape, n OF them being
killed and the other wounded. Suisse
q~uently large bodies OF negroes adj
vanced from the south and attacked the
town and Court House guard, but were
repulsed with a loss Of several killed
and wounded.
Major Chambers has arrived here to
charter q boat and take assistance to the
whites in Austin. He says a courier
from Major woodson, OF Austin, reach
ed fernando at daylight, stating that the
town was surrounded by about 1000
negroes and asking for help. About
1000 mon from fernando and vicinity
will be here at . o'clock, and, in COM
pany with volunteers from this city, will
start at four o'clock for Austin.
DIR. Smith. who is the unfortunate
cause Of the troubles there, reached here
last evening. Some three weeks since,
he was attacked in the streets Of Austin
by a negro, and drawing n pistol, fired,
but missed him and killed a little negro
girl standing by. This exasperated the
negroes to such an extent that they col.
lected in n mob and took DIR.
Smith to the woods to hang him,
which they would have done but for the
entrcaties of Mayor woodson and the
Doctors wife. Since that time he has
been a voluntary inmate Of the Jail to
prevent being mobbed, until last Friday,
when some friends came and carried him
10 fernando. ON tearing which tie
negroes collected in large numbers, and
notified the Mayor that unless Doctor
Smith was brought back and put in Jail
they would burn the town.