Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

A FIRE at Canton, N. Y, destroyed propert
to the value of 100000.
A SUIT OF Willis Phelps for 100000 dam
ages against the Republican is on trial
Springfield, Massachusetts.
CHEvALIER Won PEsTIL delivered his ere
dentials to the President on Tuesday as Min
lister Resident from the Netherlands.
THE grasshopper eggs in Minnesota are al
killed by the prolonged cold weather, and I'M
prospects for large crops are excellent
A TELEGRAM from Fort Wallace says tina
buffalo hunters arrived there from the plains
stating that they had been driven in by In
dams.
GEORGE ALFRED MASON, convicted in New
York for counterfeiting, has written lettel
to Sir Edward Thornton, claiming his pro
lection as an English subject.
OccIpENr and st. James, after short rest
were sent to Point Breeze, near Philadelphia
where they will go into training for the com
ing season.
JAMES LARNER has recovered $4,000 dam
ages against the city of Chicago for elosins
his slaughter house in 1866 and 1867. mo-
ton for new trial was overruled.
| TWENTY days extension has been granted
William NJ Tweed to file an answer to the
civil suits filed against him. The prosecution
decline to furnish bill of particulars.
A TOPEKA dispatch says 80 chiefs and head
men of the Cheyenne prisoners were ironed
and sent to Fort Sill to be tried for particlpa-
ton in the outrages last summer
THE ship Orifananae, from Lendon for san
Francisco, has been considerably damaged by
collision with the steamship c. F. French
| from New York to Antwerp.
THE Prince of Wales was installed as Grand
Master of the United Grand Lodge of Masons
at Royal Albert Hall, in the presence OF
large eoncourse.
The residence of Mrs. Lucy Blackwell, Sis
ter of the eminent naturalist Audubon, AT
Shelbyville, Kentucky, was burned on the
29th, together with the entire valuable library
of the deceased savant.
A FIRE occurred at Watertown, New York,
on Tuesday, which burned the whole business
portion of the town. The loss is placed at
100000; insured for $4,000. Several per-
sons were seriously injured.
JUDGES Brooks and Deck, in their charges
to the Grand Jury in North Carolina, declared
the criminal features of the Civil Rights Bill
lou, az me
socially equal.
The Massachusetts Temperance Alliance
has adopted an address to the people urging
them to take advantage of the clause in the
new liquor law affording local option as pro-
lection against the licensed sale Of liquor.
A COMMITTEE of the Prussan Diet have pre-
pared a bill declaring Old Catholics entitled
to share of Roman Catholic Church ccme-
teries and revenues proportionate to their
numbers as compared with other Catholics.
PROFESSOR JANNEY, United States Geolo-
gist is at Cheyenne fitting out for the Black
Hills, via Fort Laramie, where he will be
Joined by several companies of cavalry. Four
or five practical miners accompany the expe-
dition.
II. NJ. ATKINSON, Commissioner of the Kan
sas Indians, has returned from Mexico, hav-
ing fulfilled his mission by the completion of
arrangements for the removal of the remain
der of the Kickapoos from that country to the
Indian Territory.
THE Acknowledgement of New York has be-
gun suit against Henry Starkweather, father
in-law of Ex-Governor Hoffman for S105, COS
and interest. Starkweather at one time was
at the head of the Bureau of Collection of
Assessments in the Street Department.
The Paris Union publishes letters of SYM
pathy from Roman Catholic Bishops of Great
Britain to the Bishops of Germany and Swift
zerland. The letters to the Swiss Bishops are
especially severe in their condemnation of the
Old Catholic movement.
PLANTERS in Tennessee are suffering great
loss in horses, mules and cattle, from ravages
of buffalo gnats. 1t is estimated that within
the past ten days 100000 worth of stock has
been killed by them within a radius of one
hundred miles of Memphis.
IT is stated that the President first offered
the Attorney Generalship to Matt Carpenter,
but he declined it. Ben Butler was Grants
next choice, but Jewell, Fish and Bristow
made such vigorous opposition that he did
not even offer it to Butler. Judge Pierrepont
was the compromise man.
The investigation into State House repairs
in Boston has brought out evidence to show
that men have been employed on the work
and borne on the rolls, who have been trans
Ierred to work on the Postoffice and private
houses. Also that polishers for whom the
State was charged 81 per day, was paid but IS.
THE suit of the Emma silver Mining Com
'any against T. w. Park and Others has been
transferred to the United States Circuit Court
m petition of defendants, who state that their
o-defendant, Stewart, has not been served;
hat plaintiff is an English corporation, and
hat the claim is suit for $5,O000O0.
The Postmaster General has executed arti-
les OF agreement with the japanese Envoy
o the United States, providing for full pre-
payment of postage on newspapers and other
rtlcles exchanged in the mails. This arrange
nent is to take effect in July, after which date
he postage on newspapers will be four cents
Or each two ounces, or fractions thereof
The principal subject of discussion at the
'abinet meeting on Wednesday was the stu
ton on the Mexican border. No formal con-
fusion was reached, but it was generally un-
erstood that a note of protest would soon be
repaired to be presented to the Mexican Gov
as preliminary to the presentation
II u formal note.