Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-27
Eastern Dispatches.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The Attorney
General has decided that the Secretary
of the Treasury may withhold from a
railroad company compensation for
transportation services when such COM
pany has received from the United States
to aid in the construction Of its road
bonds upon which it has not paid the in
terest, though the services were rendered
upon another Of its roads to which the
Governments aid was given.
The President today sent to both
Houses of Congress the report of the
Centennial Commissioners, accompanied
with a strong Recommendation in favor
of the proposed Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia, and EXPIRE ssing the hope
that it would not be allowed to fail
through the negligence of Congress or
the people to give it proper support.
CHARLESTON, s. c., Feb. 25.-The ven
ereble Lutheran Pastor John Backman,
distinguished as the lifelong friend and
co-laborer of Agassiz and Audubon, is
dead; aged 81.
New YORK, Feb. 25.-This afternoon q
policeman named John Doyle shot and
instantly killed Miss Lawler with whom
he had been in company for some time.
1t is said that the officer was jealous of
the young lady and shot her after getting
drunk. The murderer was arrested.
The bondholders Of the Rockford,
Rock Island and St Louis Railroad met
to-day, and appointed committee to in
yestigate the condition OF the road, and
to suggest plan for reorganization.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 25.--The Gazette
special from Piqua, Ohio, says the
praying women on entering the saloon OF
the City Hotel this evening found tue
bar keeper, Stillwell, lisrobing. They
left and the men standing outside, told
the fact on the street, and the crowd
gathered in front Of the hotel and gave
Stlllwell an hour TO leave the saloon
The keepers came TO his defense, the
crowd on the street grew larger, aud a
dangerous riot was threatened.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.- Senator Gurkee
introduced in the State Senate to-day a
bill to protect peaceable citizens from
imposition by religious or temperance
fanatics and to make praying, singing,
preaching or swearing on or contiguous
to any premises without the consent of
the owner, nisdemeanor, punishable
by fine.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 90 Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, in an address before the
Radical club this afternoon, on the anti.
liquor movement, opposed the feature OF
the proposed praying bands of women.
She thought they should exert their in
fuence in other ways.
STCRGEs, Mich, Feb. 25.-The temper
ance men have succeeded in closing
every saloon IN the town.
BosToN, Feb. 25.-The Boston Grange
which was declared not to be in good
standing by the National Grange, ii
seems met tonight, and declared them
selves independent of the national order,
and adopted declaration of principles
and invited other organizations to unite
with them as INDEPENDENT Changers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Generals Sher.
man, Hooker and Whipple, of the Thorn.
as Monument Committee OF the Army OF
the Cumberland, have just concluded a
contract with J. o. A. Ward, of New
York, the designer Of the Shakesperian
statue and the Indian Hunter group in
Central Park, for an equestrian statue in
bronze of General George H. Thomas,
fourteen feet high, to be delivered in
Washington in three years, the model Of
the same to be submitted to the com.
mission in July next. for its approval.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.-The Roman
Catholic Total Abstinence Union in this
city had a grand demonstration at the
Academy of Music last evening. The
building was crowded, and large mum.
Der OF clergymen and laymen, together
with many Protestants, were on the
stage. The exercises consisted of ad
dresses and music, and the reading o.
encouraging letters from the Bishop,
throughout the country.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2G.-The Medica
Times states that the autopsy of th,
Siamese Twins was conducted on Frida,
last, resulting in some interesting discov
cries. The commissions found that til,
two livers which were supposed to b,
joined only by blood vessels, were reall,
one body, the parenchymatous tissue be
, ing continuous between them, so tina