The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24

or permit fhsn,Sto beg or steal =! "a bill was
introduced id the New Jersey Senate for the
creation OF State board of heath Mr..
Foster has withdrawn his, nam as q candidate
for the leadership Of the Lii ,ral party in Eng
land. zee. The German Federal Council has
empowered Prince Bismarck to conclude an
extradition treaty with the Udited States.
Great Britain has declined to send a repre-
sentative to the st. Petersburg international
Code Conference. .... "A dispatch from Vienna
says the Pope has thanked the Emperor Francis
Joseph for his considerate application of the
Austrian ecclesiastical laws. The bill
abolishing the State police and creating a
State detective force passed the Massachusetts,
Senate. ....-. Tho stomach of q bullock
slaughtered by John Mahan in the Jorsey CITY
Abattoir contained five hundred hair pns
mixed with the pndigested food. They were
not cor1oded, and only a fow of them were
bent. The number Of patients known to be
missing since the burning of tho Beaufort
Female Asylum in Quebec is now stated
officially to be twenty. Only two bodies were
discovered in the ruins. .... The now postal
law in Canada makes letter postage to the
United States three ccnts. Petitions ara
being circulated in Pennsylvania and Virginia
and III some parts of the West, particularly in
Missouri, praying tho United States Congress
to increase the duties imports, and not to
restore tho duties on tea and coffee.
The resolution offered in the PENNSYLVANIA
House OF Assembly, consuming Representative
Wolf, of Union county, for contempt, passed
by "a to 81. Charges have been preferred
in the New York Legislsture against the sheriff
OF Oneida county -. An avalanche. of snow
from Cape Diamond, Ontario, came crushing
down on n two story frame house occupied by
family named Gibson. It completely demol-
ished the building, buryihg tho family, six in
number, and child named Hothcrington in
the ruins The Legislature of Wisconsin
elected Angus Cameron, Of La Crosse, United
States Senator, by vote OF 6S to SO for Carpen-
ter. The election of MIR. Cameron was brought
about by the coalition Of the Democrats with
tho bolt,ng Republicans. The latter offered
the Democrats four names, from which they
might chose q candidate. Tho Democratic
caucus nominated Mr.. Cameron conditionailv
upon his acceptance of the platform that
includes hard money tariff from rovenue only,
and the supremacy.of civil authority IN time of
peace. Mr.. Cameron was born in Caledonia,
Livingston county, New York; In 1896. He
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in tho State Legislature, and Was Speaker of
the Assembly in 1867.
MIR. Ward, of new Jersey, succeeded in
securing the passage, in the United States
House, under suspension Of the rules and
without debate, OF his bill giving the same
bounty that was paid to men enlisted for three
years to the heirs Of soldiers enlisted for one
year only who were killed or who died from
wounds or disease received in the seryice.
This is an important bill, which will appro-
pirate some SG00,0 900 should it become law.
The accounts of the War department show that
about thirty thousand soldiers of the three
hundred and odd thousand enlisted for one
year Lost their lives in the service. The
bounty provided by the act is 5000 to the heir
or heLrs OF each soldier. The report on tie
status OF the Arkansas State government was
decided by the United States House special
committee on the subject in favor of the
present State government and with the con-
dusion that there Is no necessity for Congress
slonal action. ... The select committee ON
transportation Of the United States Senate have
decided to recommend the following appropria-
tons as amendments to the River and Harbor
bill: For improving the Mississippi under the
jetty system, 81, 1,50o, 900; Fox and Wisconsin
rivers, Hennepn canal, Ohio river, and James
river and Kanawha and Tennessee and Georpia
routes, S6oO,OOO each -. In the New York
Legislature the bill requesting naturalized
citizens to produce their papers eysrv time
they vote at the polls passed to third reading.
1.-The losses by fire in New England during
January amounted to S1,02s,O75.
In the course Of the OWL Rights bill debate
in the United States House, Brown. of Ken.
lucky, made severo attack upon Butler. of
massachusetts,, compelling the House to make
the cause of the latter it's own Dawes pro-
posed to have Brown expelled for what he
termed q gross violation Of the privileges Of de-
bate but he finally withdrew this proposition.
and motion Of Hale, Of New York, was passed.
by which Brown was called to the bar and CEN
sured.... Reports from the far West say that
many people have frozen to death from the ex-
treme cold. .... "A locomotive was thrown from
the track on the South Side railroad of Long
Island. On striking the water the boiler az
pioded, killing four men and injuring others.
......A bill is before the New York Legislature
providing more effectually for the punishment
Of peculaton and other wrongs, affectine the
public moneys and rights Of property. It
has been ascertamed that twelve female
patients Of the Beaufort (Ont.) Inf ane Asylum
perished in the FIRE there. -. General Hersev.
OF Bangor, Maine, is the fourth member of the
next United States House OF Representa-
tives who has died since the election took
place. The fatality among the members of tie
44th Congress is unexampled . "A mammoth
concert is TO be given at the New York Hippo
drome for the benefit Of Miss Linda albert,