Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-04-25
NEWS SUMMARY.

ANOTHER half million of Twccd's propert,
has been attached in Westchester county.
AGENTS of the French Government hav'
made contracts in Bohemia for 10000 horses
to be delivered next June.
GOVERNMENT journals in Berlin give tran
ouiIlzng assurances with regard to the rela
I.tions of Prussia with foreign powers.
THE spinners' strike at Great Falls, N. II.
ia oyer-the men returning to work on the
terms proposed originally by the employers
PEACE demonstrations are Increasing
throughout Spain. The feeling everywhere
among the people is in favsr Of . cessation Of
hostilities.
THE Solicitor Of the Treasury Department
has decided that the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has the right to examine the checks
of any bank or association to ascertain
whether the law has been violated with re-
spect to the stamping Of such checks.
TERRIBLE slaughter of Christians has just
been reported from Roumelia. The Turks in
large numbers made an attack on the portion
of the town occupied by Christians and dos
perate encounter ensued, in which go Chris
tians, many of them women and children, were
massacred.
In the British House of Commons, a motion
was adopted after long debate, summoning
the publishers of the Times and Mems before
the bar of the House to answer breach Of
privilege in publishing certain documents
which had been submitted to the select Com
mittee of Parliament on South American bub-
BILE loans
THERE is still no prospect ofthe settlement
of the difficulties in the Pennsylvania coal re-
gions. The miners of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre companies are fully determined not to
resume work unless their demand for an in
crease of 10 per cent. is granted. There are
10000 men Of these companies alone idle
In the upper house of the Prussian Diet, the
bill Withdrawing State grants from the Ro-
man Catholic clergy was debated. Bismarck
declared that since the Vatican Council Cath
Ole bishops were merely the Pope's projects.
He said he was not an enemy of the Catholic
church; he warred only against Papacy, which
had adopted the principle of determination Of
heretics and which was in enmfty with the
Gospel as well as the Prussian State.
SURVEYORS, with large staff Of assistants,
will leave Ottawa next week for British Co.
lumbia to locate the position of the Pacific
Railway from the Rocky Mountains They
will be employed chiefly on the Rocky Noun
tains. Other parties are also being organized
telegraph line from Edmonton to the Pacific
coast is not to be built until the railway is
finally located.
THE designs of the twenty cent silver piece
have been selected and approved by R. H.
Linderman, Director of the Mint The OBJ
verse design contains sitting figure of Lib
erty, with the word Liberty" inscribed on the
shield, the whole surrounded by thirteen stars.
Beneath the figure is the date 1878. On the
reverse is figure of an eagle, with the words
Twenty Cents" The edge of the coin will be
perfectly smooth, in order to distinguish it
from the twenty five cent coin.
A GENERAL meeting Of Presbyterian
Churches was held in New York last week to
discuss the nature of the Constitution to be
submitted to a joint meeting of European and
American Churches to be held in London, July
2lst. The object is the formation of con-
federation, founded on regular Constitution
so framed as to meet the concurrence and ap-
prevail Of the European and American
Churches Three drafts of Constitutions were
submitted, but an adjournment was taken
without action, subject to call by DR.. McCosh.
THE Secretary of the Interior has decided
that bona fide holders of patents for lands
located by Chippewa half breed scrip certif-
Gates are entitled, upon surrendering their
patents and paying 81 so per acre, to receive
new patents. This action is called forth BY
the decision of the Supreme Court of Califor-
MIA, that all patents founded on the location
Of said scrip in California are void on their
face, Congress having made it applicable only
on lands ceded by Chippewa half breeds.
ADvIcEs from South America state that the |
Jesuit College in Buenos Ayres had been
burned by rioters, and that some of the ring
leaders of the riot had been arrested Three |
persons are known to have died. The Arch |
bishop had returned to the city, and the news |
papers unanimously recommended him to re- |
sign. The Minister Of Foreign Affairs, in a |
circular addressed to the legations abroad, |
says the mob was headed by Spanish priest |
The number killed was not large, not exceed |
ing four, no priest being among them. There
are, however, some priests wounded.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Sullivan.
member for Leith, wanted to know whether
the law in regard to bearing arms in Ireland
would in any way interfere with the American
rlf1emen who are coming to Ireland to take
part in the international rifle match The
Chief Secretary replied that there would be no
with visitors, because II was well
understood that they had no intention of
breaking the law; but if necessary special
arrangement would be made to secure their
entire freedom of movement and exemption
from the law.
THE Pope has made representations,
through the Patriarch of Venice, to the EN-
peror OF Austria, that the position of the
church Is becoming more and more intoler
able, and that if the unreasonable demands of
Prussia are not resisted by the whole Catho
nc power, the latter will lose all their infiu-
'hee and become subject to the German Gov
'rnment which is endeavoring to bring the
Whole German nationality under one scepter.
NE Emperor, replying to this through the
austrian Minister at Rome, deplores the
truggle between the church and the State,
md advises prudence.