, 1875-07-03
NEWS
BY Telegraph and Nail.

testimony OF Beecher, andlt was
furnished. 1t has been mmored
around the courts that Lo.der, ar
rested on the charge Of conspira-
cy and perjury, has confessed that
his story and affidavit are untrue.
The National Monument Soci-
ETY. requests churches and Sab
bath schools all over the country
to take up a collection Sunday.
July 4th, to aid in the completion
of the monument.
Secretary Bristow has directed
the Treasurer to cause legal ten
ders to the amount of $l,292,42
to be withheld from the available
currency balance of the Treasury,
redeemed and destroyed, being so
per cent. of the additional circu-
lation issued to banks during the
present month.
DIR. Brand, young physician at
Memphis was shot in the back and
killed, while writing in his office.
No clue to the assassin.
In the House of Commons, Eng,
Stackpole moved that i. would
conduce to the advantage of the
Crown if the Queen should have a
permanent residence in Ireland.
1t is now reported that Jay
Gould is about to obtain a control.
ling interest in the Utah and
Southern Railroad, With a view to
extending it through to Southern
California and San Francisco, thus
giving the Union Pacific an Inde-
pendent line to the Pacific. This
story gains more ground and Gre
denee than the recent one attrib-
utiDg to Jay Gould, a purpose to
build a road from Ogden to Port
land.
At the Plymouth Church PRAYER
meeting last Sunday night, Mr..
Beechsr created a sensation by
referring to the trial for he first
time it went into court. He said
he would continue as pastor ol
Plymouth Church, because he felt
that no matter what the verdict
of the jury in the case might be,
his congregation would still have
faith in him and stand by him.
Six horses purchased at Boston
for Senator Jones, of Nevada were
shipped to him on the Goth. Two
of them are the noted trotters,
Sweetbriar and Lady Otis, for
which he paid the sum of $4,000,
A tornado on the 25th passed
over Mendeo, six miles above St.
Paul, Minn., unroofng a dozen
buildings, several of which were
entirely demolished.
A destructive tornado Occurred
at Detroit, Mich, on the dvehing
of the 25th, which passed DYER the
northwestern part Of the city. It's
path was about 500 feet vide, 80
houses, bridges and outbtildings
were demolished. Four persons
were killed and many Others in
jured.
The Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail Indians have signed an
agreement to relinquisl their
rights in Nebraska.
A terrible Asiatic plague is
spreading through the district. Of
Asia, it is destroying largo num-
bers, In three localities mention
ed in the dispatch the uumber.
were 500, 800 and 1000 respect
lively. Those who are struck
down with the disease generally
succumbed on the second or third
day.
Dispatches from Wisconsin and
Iowa say those sections werevisited
by a violent storm last week,
blowing down houses and fences,
washing away railroad bridges
and damaging growing crops.
A lengthy report of the Chicago
Custom House commission Just
published shows that fraud and
iIcompetency hourished in the con
struction of the building. They
find that the foundation is soft
and treacherous; that the layer of
concrete was not Of sufficient
width to equalize the pressure of
the weight above; that the stone
in the walls is of all shades and
that a most outrageous system Of
patching had been resorted to in
order to conceal defects.
James H. Costly was hung in
Boston on the 25th ult. He bore
himself with much coolness and
made no statement.
Wagner and Gordon suffered
the death penalty by hanging, at
Thomaston, Me-, on the 25th ult.
Both men protested their inno-
cence.
A telegram from San Francisco
says that Senator Mitchell of Or
egon, has been in that city for the
past two weeks taking depositions
in important cases now pending in
the United States Courts in Ore
gon against the directors of the
Oregon Steam Navigation Co. He
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