Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-04-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

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A GENERAL reduction Of passenger rate
has been made on all the railroads running b
Western points. The competition Is expecte
10 force fares down still further.
TEE first lot of railroad iron for the Pana
mint Railroad was purchased In New York
the price amounting to 100000. The sectiol
from Santa Monica to Los Angeles will b
conf lsted by the lst Of July.
A TORNADO few miles below the town O
Little Rock, Arkansas, uprooted trees, unroofe'
houses, and played havoc generally. A Mrs
Jones was killed and her two daughters seri
ously hurt. Seven houses were DESTROYED.
CARDINAL MANNING opened the Catholi,
College at Kensington on Thurs Jay with al
address, in which he said he regarded himsel
as intrusted with a commission Of warfare TO
he believed the church was approaching
crisis the most fiery for 300 years.
A FEARFUL tornado swept through Edin
burgh, Illinois, on Wednesday, demolishing
church in which were some twenty or thirty
young ladies and gentlemen. About ffteer
had been taken from the ruins at the latest ac
counts. A Miss Porter was dead.
HENRY VARLEY, the London Evangelist, de.
livered his farewell sermon at the New York
Hippodrome to 1900 persons. His exhorta-
tiors were very effective and many persons
wept He intends to go to Boston and thence
returns to England.
NOTICE of action has been given In the new
six million suit against William NJ Tweed
The list of property attached embraces every
thing known to be in possession of Tweed at
the time of the exposure, and which he has
since passed into the hands Of other persons.
THE conflict between the Madrid Govern
ment and the University is &c ting serious, and
may cause the downfalLof the Ministry Sew
eral more professors have been exiled The
Kings chief physician has been offered the
head position in the University, but refused to
accept.
| COLONEL JOHN NJ POWELL, of Mississippi,
who committed suicide on Friday, was, pre-
vious to the rebellion, one of the wealthiest
and most Influential planters in Mississippi
Wendell Phillips once remarked of his estate,
that cotton and slaves grow spontaneously on
Powell's plantation"
THE walking match in New York, between
Daniel O'Leary, of Chicago and John De Witt,
of New York, 100 miles, for 81 900, was won by
O'Lcary, who completed the distance in %
hours, SO minutes and IA seconds The last
mile was performed in minutes and IS sec
onds. De Witt gave up on the tifty-seventh
mile.
In the New York Assembly, the bill to per-
nit wife to testify for or against her hus
band in civil actions and criminal trials, was
reported adversely by the Judiciary Commit
tee, and report agreeing to simlnr DISPOSE
ton WAS made of Speaker McGuire's bill, al
lowing wife to testify against her husband
or in behalfof another person in cases of Grim
con.
IT may be noticed remarks Paris CORES
pondent, that the new Republic cannot be re-
preached with want of responsibility, for
among its sponsors are to be found one Prince
Of the blood royal-the Prince de Joinville-
four Dukes three Marquises thirteen Counts,
three Viscounts, five Barons, and large num-
Der OF nobemen who having no title, have
the right to use the aristocratic particle de"
HE English army, exclusive of non -efiicients |
in the reserve forces, is returned this year at
considerably under half million. 1t COM
prises $4,000 volunteers, $500 yeomanry cav
airy, $4,000 militia, and 1881 regulars. OF |
these last there are 23,9l2 distributed through
out the colonies, 69,950 stationed in India, and |
lO0,059 ut home. No returns are given of the
number of native and colonial troops.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
received telegram from the Agent of the
Cheyenne River Agency, stating that he can
bring to Washington nine Sioux chiefs, incud
ing three orfour prominent Black Hills, when
ever needed for the contemplated negotiation
to buy that reserve. The Commissioner will
not notify them to come till he receives re.
ports from the two other agents in the Sioux
country, so as to have all the proper represen
tatives of the tribe at the same time.
A CONSIDERABLE portion of one DAYS ses.
sion OF the House of Commons was consumed
in debate on the bill by Fawcett, to enable IN.
married women to vote at elections for mem.
bers of Parliament Smollctt said the apto.
ton emanated from number of turbulen,
women in America. The bill, if passed. would
eniranchise women who gained their liveli.
hood by immortality. The House, upon di.
vision, refused to order the bill to A second
reading by vote of 1872 to lS7. Disraeli voted
with the minority.
A LETTER from st. Petersburg states that
The firm of Lindholm, of San Francisco has
oo'alned permission from the Russian Gov.
eminent for monthly communication be.
"eeh 'ladistock, on the east coast of Siberia
ma Japan, A steamer intended for this pur.
pose mas been built, and will start on her first
'oyage July lst. Vladistock will thus he
eached from st. Petersburg, via Japan, San
francisco, Pacific railroads and the Atlantic
fifty days, whereas the journey by land
hrough Siberia occupies at least six months.
ADDITIONAL particulars of the massacre of
ne English surveying party in British India
now that 80 were killed and 81 slightly
'oui died. 50 were unhurt. The Government
'tends to send two regiments forward at
nee when the massacre will be avenged. The
roers 10 these regiments are, to exterminate
II OF the villagers and villages of what are ,
hown as the sanua and Niniu villages of the
aga Hills tribes. The savages. nearly 200 in
omher' obtained access to the camp of the ,
lrveyors under r.tense of bearing presents {
nd of selling provisions, etc. ,