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Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27
PACIFIC COAST.
San Francisco News.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 26.-The
Grand Jury presented a final report
yesterday, and found a true bill on two
charges of embezzlement against Mil
Ter, alias Woodruff, the defaulting Sec
retary of the Contract and Finance
Committee.
The charges against Assessor Rose
nor were ignored. Referring to the
latter case, the jury say they have
been afforded every opportunity for
obtaining evidtAce by the District At
torney.
The Jury found true bill on three
charges of embezzlement against
Charles Kuchel, the "boy OPERATOR
in stocks, whose speculations caused
so much talk few weeks ago.
The Bank of California closed at
2:40 P. NJ.
For Los Angeles.
CALIENTE, Aug. 24th.-The follow
ing passengers left on the Telegraph
Stage Line for Los Angeles: +.
Holmes, Thos. Wheatley, A. Green
berg and boy, f. p. Howard. HI. L.
Bennett, Geo. G. Gibbs, Chas. Stein,
]. S. Vap.
a Joint Discussion.
FRESNO, CAL, Aug. 26.-P. D. Wig
ginton, S. 0. Houghton and w. w.
Pendegast arrived here this morning,
and will address the people this even
ing. Houghton will speak from the
same stand as Wigginton and Pende-
gaSt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27
Robbers Arrested.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, August 26th.-
Two of the parties who robbed the
Central Bank of this city of $4,000 in
June last have been discovered to be
Mrs. Marion E. Warren, of Charleston,
Mass, and one c. Thompson, alias
Stevens. During the past six months
they have disposed of forged railroad
certificates. In February they made
a raid on Simon Jones & Co., of st.
Johns, n. B., robbing them of $50, 900.
Thompson is now under arrest in New
York and the movements of Mrs. War
rem are watched.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
BANK ROBBERS ARRESTED.
ESPECIAL TO THE HERALD.l
EASTERN NEWS.
Land Office Decisions.

WASHINGTON, August Goth. = The
General Land Office has decided that
the State of California in indemnity
for school sections is entitled to select
double minimum lands.
This decision is reversal of the for
mer practice. of this Office. Solicitor
General Phillips has recently given an
opinion to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior relative to mining claims, in which
he holds that the qualifications of citi-
zenship applies equally to the original
locators, intermediate conveyance and
applicants for patents of mines, and
that any break in the manner of quail
ification would defeat the application
for patent.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27
Postponement of Sale.

THE SALE OF LOTS announced to
take place at Cotton, San Bernardino
county, on Wednesday, August 25th, is post
poned until further notice.
aul9tf H. B. UNDERHILL, Agent.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27

1--WE object to the Wilmington En-
terpriSe registering the heat for us at
1l70 in the shade; los degrees is the
highest the mercury has succeeded in
reaching, SO far as we can learn. When
we want to experience greater
degree of heat we go to Cabezon VAL
ley; there the quicksilver crawls out at
the top of the tube, and lizards pant
in the shade of some friendly mesquite
bush.
The Herzegovinian News announces
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27
Latest kilograms.


ESPECIAL TO THE HERALD. I
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27
!. M. BASSETT, Editor and Manager.

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation of any other paper published
in Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South of San
Francisco.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-27

The Herzegovinian News announces
the capture of five hundred Turkish
troops.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
Transportation Convention.
A Long String OF ResoIutiO ms

CHICAGO, Dec.17.-In the transportation asso-
citation resolutions were adopted, declaring as
follows:
That the great pressing need of the country
is system of transportation equal to the re-
quirements of the age.
That to the want OF such system is due the
present unsatisfactory condition Of trade and
commerce.
That the presence Of metallic currency is
the result and not the cause of commercial
prosperity. To restore such currency it is only
necessary to supply the means of exporting our
products at prices which will enable US to sell
them in other countries.
That this contamination can only be reached
by an adequate system of transportation
which only the cooperation of the people and
That new and moreextended class of trans
portatiOn is demanded.
That the corporate power embodied in trans
portation is so organized that it is now able to
dictate values to producers prices to consum.
erS and profits to manufacturers and traders.
That further extension of this power must
be prevented by building competing lines to
protect public interests.
That when national aid is extended it should
be done by contract with the lowest response
BILE bidder.
That as means to this end the national gov.
eminent should as speedily as possible under
take the construction of the lines of transport
tation recommended by the United States
Senate committee on transportation routes.
That national railway exclusively for
freight should be constructed from the grain
growing sections of the west to the Atlantic
seaboard, to the end that this great territory,
with its dense population, and the principal
distributing cities at the east and west may not
be wholly at the mercy Of existing railroads
when water routes are closed by ice.
If deemed expedient that the government
own this road it should lend aid in its conrtruc.
ton and supervise it as deemed necessary
thereafter.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

Capt. Antoine Fraser was lost overheard
from his vessel, schooner Olin A. Lewis of
Provincetowp, while on the way to the fishing
ground, Thursday.
Collector of customs Arthur, who has just
been reappointed by the President is the only
collector of New York who has served a whole
term within quarter of a century. Not one
complaint has been lodged against him.
Gen. Francis A. Walker. professor in Skef-
neld scientific school at Yale College, has been
appointed chief of the bureau of awards of
tae centennial exhibition. The appointment
OF Or. Pepper as medical director Of the ext BIZ
bition has been confirmed. ' Va
Ex-indlan Commissioner Smith has been
elected president of Howard University.
President Grant and VITA Fred Grant and
wife, Cabinet, Supreme Court, Senators, Rep
resentatives and newspaper Correspondents.
400 in all, arrived in Philadelphia
A rumor that papers important to the gov
eminent in the Babcock case had been stolen
is pronounced false.
Mexican bandits attemsted another assault on
Campo, yesterday, but finding the inhabitants
prepared, left without doing any damage.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
Books Received.

Autumn Leaves. By Christie Crust. Cloth, il
Illustrated, 139 PIP. Portland: B. Thurston g. Co.
Mar9ery Keith. By Virginia F. Townsend.
Cloth, illustrated, 15o PIP. Boston: Loring. Port
land: Loring, Short g. Harmon.
The German Element i'm the War Of Amer
lean independence. By George Washington
Greene. Cloth, 21t pp price $3.50. New York:
Hurd s. Houghton. Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon.
sNearer. MY God, 10 Thee" By Sarah Flow
er Adams. With designs by L. B. Humphrey.
Engraved by John Andrew 81 Son. Cloth, % pp.,
price So. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon.
Ballads of Home. Edited by George M. Baker.
With forty fupage, illustrations. Cloth, 166 pp.,
price $3.50. Boston: Lee q Shepard. Portland
Loring, Short & Harmon.
saxon Studies. By Julia Hawthorne. Cloth.
452 PIP. Boston: j. R. Osgood & Co. Portland:
Dresser, Mcclellan g. Co.
Letters and Social Aims. By Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Cloth, 31a PIP. Boston: j. R. Osgood &,
Co. Portland: Bailey & Noyes.
Jesus of Nazareth, His Life for the Young
By Joseph P. Thompson, D. D. Cloth, illustrated,
438 PIP. Boston: j. r. Osgood. Portland: Bal
ley & Noyes.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
NEW YORK.
The Murder of the Jewess Girl.

he Murder of the Jewess Girl.
New YORK, Dec. 17.-Brooklyn detectives
have succeeded in weaving strong chain of
evidence around P. f. Rubenstein, accused of
numbering the young Jewess in East New
York woods. Rubenstein admitted to-day to
his fellow prisoners that an intimacy existed
between him and the unfortunate girl. A. shop
girl in a hardware mandatory in Division
street, New York, identified Rubenstein az the
police headquarters as the man to whom she
sold a cigar knife on the 9th of this m onth.
The Jewess residents of this city and Brooklyn
are greatly excited over the affair."
The Gal.Ows.
Weston, Ellis and Thompson, the negro muir
derers, were hung at 9.35 o'clock this morning
There was large crowd around the tombs ex-
pecting to witness the hang ing, and quite
number obtained entrance.
Rev. Mr.. Garnet, colored preacher, prayed
with Weston, aud two Catholic priests with
Ellis and Thompson.
Weston and Thompson died without strug
gle, but the death of Ellis was frighttul. The
rope was not properly arranged around his
neck, and he had scarcely been hoisted into the
air when he gave 1nearthly screams, and writh-
ing in agony clutched the rope with both hands
notwithstanding they were bound, and draw
ing his body up cried Save me- Three times
in succession he raised himself up, to the hor-
ror of the spectators, and finally by his own eff
forts succeeded in adjusting the rope properly
around his neck. He soon ceased to struggle
and five minutes before ten the bodies were
taken down.
Plymouth Church.
AT the business meeting OF Plymouth church
tonight, Mr.. Vests letter was simply placed
on file. Prof Raymond then read and pro-
posed for adoption, letter dismssive for Mrs.
Mouton.
Attempted Wife Murder.
RoNDoUT, N. Y, Dec. 17.-Ths morning
Martin Ritter, living at Flatbush, six miles
above this city, attacked his wife with ham
mer, striking several blows upon her head.
Ritter then cut his throat with a razor and
lived about two hours. His wife is still alive
and there are hopes of her recovery. The par
ties led an unh appy life on account of religious
differences.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK, December 16-Evenlng. Flour receipts
II 1904 bbls; market was shade firmer for shippng
grades, with limited supply and fair demand 9th.
Superfne Western and State at 4EO@ Is: extra
Western and State at 90 a s So; choice do IS as
500; White Wheat Western extra at so "a 90;
P Fancy White n0 Wheat Western at 7o5 extra
Patent Minnesota extra good to prime at Is "a 1928;
choice to double extra at 30 q 90, including 51O0
bbls shipping extra at 25 a 80 Tor common: 6 90
625 for choice; ESQ bbls of nnsound extra at IS
40; the market closing. firm for shipping grades:
southern Hour at 5 IS. Rye -four is firm at
4 70 q 40. Cornmeal is more active at Is O 90.
$500 bush; the market is steady
sales $4,000 bush; 90 a OF for rejected Spring;
90 q 10 for ungraded Spring; II for No Mil
waukee in store and af1oat; % for Mo- Milwaukee
in store; 81 for prime No Minnesota in store; 20
"a l u tor new Winter Red Western; O5 for no
grade; As q so for good to prime White Western;
nominally % q % for No 3 Chicago; q a %
for No Chicago; 80 q SO for No Minnesota MIL
waukee and Sheboy IAN. Rye quiet. Barley is dull
and dropping; sales 1900 bush fair Canada West at
u. Barley Malt quiet and heavy. Corn-receipts
81 746 bush; market shade rmer with little better
inquiry for export and home use sales SO 600 BUSH
70 76lc sail for Western Mixed 7e q nc for high
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
Grimes and Casualties.

John Conner of Manchester, N. H., cut his
throat yesterday, but will recover.
Mrs. Martha Ackerman a lady of 50 years,
was burned to death in New York yesterday,
her clothes taking fire at stove.
A Fayetteville, n. c., despatch states that
negro murderer while attempting to escape
from officers last Sunday was shot and recap
tured.
John Barrett fatally stabbed Ira Mosely in
Albany, N. Y, Thursday night
Theodore Reed, charged with killing John
Walker, his step-father last May in New York
under exceeding provocation, plead guilty yes
terday to mansaughter in the third degree
and was sentenced to States Prison for 81
years.
The family of P H. Delany living in Olney-
vile, r. l., were nearly suffocated by coal gas
yesterday morning.
Francis Tuttle of Stowe, Mass, while fox
bunting Thursday, accidentally shot himself
fatally.
.A.lWoodward, defaulting county treasurer of
Shelby county, Tenn, has been arrested in San
Francisco.
A Mr.; Chamberlain of Ohio. shot and killed
his brother-in-law, William Hamilton, at Gan
nett, KS, Friday.
Henry Thomason was shot and killed by o.
car Barbric, at Georgetown, Ky, yesterday,
during an alteration.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS in MAINE
Especial to PresS.1
Accident.

Especial to Press.l
Accident.
RooKLAND, Dec. 1.-THE wife of Capt Ar
ehibald Spear was quite seriously injured by
falling down the cellar stairs this morning.
ITO the Associated Press.l A.
Train Rioters.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 17-In the Municipal Court
to day James Conner, Jacob Britt and Fred
Anderson of Augusta, and Frank Partridge of
Bath, were examined for riotous conduct on an
accommodation train between Augusta and
Gardiner, Saturday evening, and the former
committed in default of bail and the three lat
ter bound over to the March term.
Insane Hospital.
The annual meeting of the trustees of the
Maine Insane Hospital commenced yesterday.
The board reorganized by the choice of E. L..
Pattangall of Pembroke President, and Fl. A.
Shorey of Brdgton, Secretary.
Sudden Death of a Clergyman.
LEWISTON, Dec. 17.-Rev. S. w. Avery of
Lisbon Falls, an esteemed Baptist clergyman,
fell dead to day noon. Cause, heart disease.
His age was siXty-one.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18

The JEFFERSON BORDEN MUTINEERs Com
MUTED.-It is reported that President Grant
has commuted the sentence of the Jefferson
Borden mutineers, George Muller and Ephraim
Clark who are now in Jail at Boston, to impris-
onment in the Maine State Prison for life. The
petition was numerousy signed BY sea-faring
men and merchants through the influence of
Rev. Mr.. Wilson of the Seamen's Bethel. Hon.
Nathan Farwell of Rockland, has been to
Washington with petition from that city in
their favor, and was influential in securing The
Communication. A remonstrance was signed in
this city against the Communication.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
STEAMER BURNED.
Several Persons Missing-A Loss of $780,
900.

CINcNNATI Dec. 1.-THE COMMERCIAL
New Orleans special says that the steamer W.
S. Pike, from Bayou Sara with full load of
cotton, sugar and molasses, while lying at the
wharf, was discovered to be on fire about four
o'clock this morning, and burned to the waters
edge and sunk. One hundred and sixty bales
of cotton were removed from the boat last eve
ming. A portion of the cargo will be saved, but
damaged. Mr.. Bonnie, one of the clerks, with
several of the crew are missing. Others, in
Gliding two passengers are badly burned. The
boat is insured for $4,000 She cost six years
ago 100000 The cargo is valued at 100000
AS far as known it is insured here for $4,000.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
MARRIED..

In this city, Dec. Il, at St.lLuke's Cathedral by
Key. Q. s.. Pyne,. John II. Very and Miss Annie
Hilsey, both of this city.
In Paris, Dec. 16. at the residence of the brides
mother, by Rev. H. G. Estes, D. D.. Il. T. Snow ESQ.,,
of Portland, and Miss Mira M. Crocker Of Paris.
In Saco, Dec. II. Andrew W. Written of Cape Eli
zabeth and Miss Ellen M. Witham of Biddeford.
In North Berwick, Nov. 49, James Nj. Perkins and
Miss Emma Young, both of Sanford.
In Buxton, Dec. 3, Jos. q. Hanson and Mrs. Sarah
W. Harmon.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18

The French minister has notified our Secre-
tary of State that the governor of New Gale
donia has received information that prepare
tions have been made in Australia for an en-
means of vessels to visit the coast of the penal
colony.
The Lowell Times has passed into the hands
Of Charles COWley.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
WASHINGTON.
The Posaage Question,


WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Postmaster
General has before him an official paper pro-
posing that the present postal law remain pre-.
cisely as it is, except to exclude from the ope-
ration of the act of Congress increasing the
rates on third class matter, all transient news
and expressly for the rates of those as they
were before the increase.
Appointments.
The President today appointed George F.
Seward, Consul General at Shanghai, to be
Minister Plenpotentiary to China, vice Avery,
deceased.
Also James Binney of Michigan, Minister to
the Netherlands, Mr.. Stockbridge, who was ap.
pointed during the recess in place of Mr.. Cor
ham resigned, having declined.
National Home for Disabled Soldiers.
The board of managers of the National
Home for disabled volunteer soldiers, who have
been in session the past few DAYS, report 592
more persons under their charge than last
year; average ration per man has been % cents
per day and the average total annual expense
per man $165, which is claimed to be a less
sum than is expended for the same purpose at
any similar institution in the country. The
money appropriation is being limited and the
number Of inmates has largely increased. The
board adopted several measures, looking to an
economical administration, among others re-
ducing the pay of all officers and employees Is
per cent
The Sugar Drawback.
The following is copy of the letter address
ed today FROM the Treasury Department to COL
lectors of customs at the principal ports, and
containing the conclusion OF the Department
on the question of the drawback on refined
sugars and syrups:
The following rates of drawback on refined
sugars and syrups, wholly manufactured from
imported raw sugar, are hereby established in
lieu of those before in force. On loaf, cut
loaf, crushed, granulated and powdered refined
sugar, stove dried or dried by other equally
effective process entirely the product of foreign
duty paid sugar, three and sixty hundredtbs
per pound on refined white coffee sugar. un-
dried and above, No. 20 Dutch standard in
color, entirely the product of foreign duty paid
sugar, three cents per pound; on all grades
of refined coffee sugar No. 20 Dutch standard
and below in color, entirely the product Of for
syrup resulting entirely from refining of foreign
duty paid sugar, 63 cents per gallon-the allow
ances on sugars to be subject to the deduction
of per cent, and the allowances on syrup to
the deduction of 10 per cent as prescribed by
law.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Portland Wholesale Markets.

FRIDAY, Dec. 1.-THE wholesale grocery market is
very quiet with scarcely any change to note Pork
and Lard are dull and jobbers all are selling at re-
duoed prices Sugars are firm at the current prices
with fair demand. Flour is steady and sells slowly
Teas are firm and unchanged,
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
METEOROLOGICAL,

PROBABILITIES FOR THE NEXT TWENTY FOUR
HOURS.
WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL)
OFFICER, Washington, d. G.,
December IS, Il A. MY
For New England,
Lower Lakes and Middle states, stationary or
rising barometer, stationary or lower tempera-
ture, northwest winds, and clear weather with
occasional snow
Cantionary signals continue on New England
and North Carolina coasts
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
DOMESTIC PORTS.

SAN FRANCISCo-Ar 10th, ship St John, Scrb-
ner, New York.
GALvESToN-Cld 10th, ship Caledonia, Potter
Liverpool.
Sid 18th. barque Eva Fisk, Foster Rotterdam
-, NEW ORLEANS-Cld 18th, barque Frank Marion,
Eldridge, Antwerp.
MOB1LE-Ar 18th, sch Lama Cobb, Cobb from
Barbados
:, JACkSoNvILLE-Ar 10th, sch W Berry, Kane,
PASCAGOULA--Cld 18th, barque Ocean PEARL
Henley. Philadelphia.
SAVANNAH-Cld 10th, ship Valley Forge, Ames,
rietta, Hill, Daren.
~ CHARLESTON-Cld 11th scbs Jennie f Wiley,
Savannah. ~,
Sid l5th baraue Adea Carlton, for Liverpool
KlCHMOND-Ar 18th, sch Bonny Boat, Kelley.
Portland; Richardson. Pray, Philadelphia.
BALTIMORE-Ar 18th, sch Emma l. Porter, Chap
man. Boston,
Cid 18th, sch Lark Hutchinson Calais,
Ar 18th. brigs Anna M Knight, Davis, New Or
leans; N Showers from Savannah,
PHILADELPHIA-Cld 18th, sch T Woman
Urann, Charleston. "'N"H'
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
90 Boston stock Market.
fSaleS at the Brokers, Roard DEE II I
New York Stock aud Money Market.

NEW YORK. December 17-Evening.-Money OPEN
ed at q per cent. and afterwards advanced to 7
per cent gold but this afternoon, and call
loans closed at O. per cent. Foreign Exchange
was reduced from SO to S5A for bankers long ser-
ling, 80 to S93 for demand; considerable business
was transacted for to-morrow's mails.
Gold opened at 114s and closed atl la, the two
extremes Of the day. The rates paid for carrying
were 8, 81, and q per cent? but loans were alter
wards made fat and at 1-64 per diem for use. This
sharp change in the loan market had some influence
on Foreign Exchanges The clearances at the Gold
Exchange Bank were $2O,347 600. The Assistant
Treasurer paid out to-day $4,000 ninterest and $107
600 in redemption of bonds. The Customs receipts
to-day were $273,000. A matter which might soon
have influenced the Gold to lower figures is the
contemplated bringing forward of United States Al
per cent loan of $500 900 without waiting for the
proposed amendments to the act of last January.
Government bonds steady. In State bonds tran
sactions in Tennessees at IS for old 42 "a 424 for new
Missouri long Is sold at 1925 the remainder of the
list was neglected. In Railroad bonds the leading
feature was sharp advance in Union Pacific lists
and land grants. Dry Goods imports for the week
1865, SOL. The Union Pacific road wilt pay its Janu-
airy 81 per cent. interest $27 213 600 first mort
cages, amounting to S816,639. The stock market is
still letnargic attributed to great degree tofhe
rates of commissions, which force outside speculation
to leave Erie opened at 16 against 1861 at the close
yesterday, and afterwards luctuated between 15f "a
49, The decline in stock at London it is understood
was based on rumors about proposition of English
bondholders to asses the stock. At the close the
market was dull and steady. The transactions ag-
created &c, 900 shares.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18

Providence Print Cloths Market.
PROVIDENCE. December 17.-The Printing cloths
market was quiet steady and unchanged.
The Portland daily press., 1875-12-18
MARINE NEWS.
The Mu,:nous Crew of the Lennie.

LONDON, Dec. 17.-Engllsh detectives and
a force of English police are about to start for
France to bring back the crew of the British
ship Lennie, Capt Hatfield, from Antwerp to
New York, who mutinied on the 31st of October
and killed the master, mate and boatswain.
The probability is that the government will
despatch a gunbeat for that purpose. Eleven
of the crew of the Lennie will be charged with
murder. A large number of witnesses will al
Greek sailors will commence at Montez on
Monday next, the British consul assisting.
The Pacific Disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 16.-A despatch from
Victoria gives the presentment eff the grand
jury urging the Dominion government to i'm
press on the United States government the i'm
portance of thorough investigation of the Pa
cifc disaster, and recommending that the
clauses in the mail contract, empowering the
Postmaster General to inspect and approve the
steamers carrying mails and passeng gers under
contract between the provinces and San Fran
cisco or elsewhere, rigidly enforced and COM
pulsOry; also recommending that the shipping
act Of the imperial parliament of August
%, 1875, and the imperial and Canadian stat
utes relative to the investigation of shipwr cks
be extended to British Columbia, and that off
GERS he appointed to cary out its provisions
I'm General.
The schoonerJ c. Bowers, lumber laden, is
ashore near Barnegat Inlet.
The Etna, from Aspinwall, and Elysia from
Glasgow have arrived at New York.
The American fishing schooner Abby M.
Heath was recently abandoned at sea. Crew
picked up aud landed at Havre.
Steamship Vaderland, on the voyage from
Philadelphia to Antwerp, went ashore in
Sheldt, but is expected to come Oft.