Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-22
EASTERN DiSPATc HE'S.
BY Overland Telegraph.
ESPECIAL. TO THE DAILY SENTINEL

[sPECIAI. TO THE DAILY SENTINEL
FaiIures-Mass Meeting Miscclla.
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NEW YORK. Oct. 81.
Isaac F.. Meyers u Co., dry goods
importers, failed yesterday and made
a consignment for the benefit of their
creditors.
b. Il. Smith, Jr., stock broker, has
given notice to TO the Stock Exchange
OF his inability to meet his engage
mentS.
Strauss, Leman & Co., importers OF
dry goods, who made assignments,
have filed their schedule. The whole
Liabilities are 1899, 745 in gold, and the
assets $l74,O3l; also sixty seven thou
sand pounds are due in England,
Us, 900 fiorins to a German banker, and
S57 900 IN goid in this city.
In the suit of Jose Schmidt & Co., to-
bacco merchants, against Fred'k FEET
Tee, the sheriff has seized several thou
sand dollars worth OF tobacco and
other merchandise at Fettee's house,
i'll Brooklyn. 1t is alleged that Fettee
has fraudulently purchased about a
hundred thousand dollars worth OF
goods on credit in several different
cities, and the suit of Schmidt IL Co.
against him is to recOver payment OF
certain promissory notes given by hin
for tOhaccO.
The argument in demurrer to an in
dictment charging II. Il. Ciafin " Co.
with dealing with smugglers has be
gun. Mr.. Evarts, of counsel for Olaf
lin II Co., in his argument, said the
statute, under which this indictment
was found, provides that whenever any
one shall lie found in possession of
snuggled goods, knowing them to be
smuggled. he shall he convicted I'm
less he Explains such possession to the
satisfaction of the jury. This Is Who'll
ly confined to dealing with shrugged
goods aud not goods which have
passed through the Custom house
| The courts treat sinuggled goods As not
introduced through the Custom house,
bui IN the evasion of il il he buys and
sells $50, 900 900 worth of goods every
year, and IL is but just il should have
some Information as tn where anu
when the silks they are charged with
dealing in were struggled and Without
such information the firm should be
considered culpsbie.
The great hall OF the Cooper Union
was filled last night with enthusiastic
men and women, who desire that the
Bible should be read in public schools,
and that the school Fund shall not be
used for sectariap purposes. On the
bust of George Washington WAS a
cape of bright red, owe which was
a blue necktie ornameDted with II white
star. Henry Clay wore a blue vest.
cut rather short. Daniel Webster'>
waistcoat was red, bound with white,
and the audience sang an opening ode
TO the tune OF the "Star Spangled Ban
ner." One of the speakers, Rev. DR..
Muller, noticing The gar5 of Washing
TON, said when he entered the hall he
turned to ask a friend whetherth III bust
was one OF Cardinal McCloskey
clothed in the scarlet of his office; the
blue and the white above the red.
continued he, alone spare George
Washington the profanity now fash
ionable among the women of New
York. You see them everywhere
badged with a rOsette OF scarlet O i
wearing a sash of red, and wearing II
because it is the color which the Car
dinal's men wear. Rev. j. 3. Willis
plead for the continued maintenance oi
The Bible in the public schools. 1t is
inseparably woven into the warp and
wool of The public schools, and MS II
mat err of policy the Bible should be
retained to instruct our youths I'm these
principles of morals that a liberal sys-
tenn OF education lays before them
prints can not be depended on, nor can
the churches. He said he was will
ing to accept Prince Bisnlarck's com
promise and allow Catholics TO he
taught from the Donati Bible and Pro-
testants from the ST. James Bible, tor
there is not much difference anyway.
The Fishery Question.
CHICAGO, Oct. 81.
A Washington special says the state
menL Is made that a new Commission
is about to assemble at HALIFAX to ar
range a final settlement OF the Canadi-
an fishery question. The Joint High
Commission when in session made All
effort to adjust the difficulties with
Canada and the United States, and
failing agreed to the appointment of a
new CONN., ission. one member to be
appointed by Great Britain and one by
the United States and one by the tw @
countries. They could not agree, and
Il was determined to leave the nomina
ton of the third Commissioner to the
diplomatic representative OF Austria at
London. The privilege commended for
by American fishermen was the right
OF taking, curing and drying fish in
the waters of the Canadian dominion
without being restricted to any partic-
lar distance flom shore, with permis-
sion to land to dry their fish and max
ing purchases, etc. The provisions
of the reciprocity treaty induced Cam
q la TO pass very strict laws against the
| American fishermen, and is calculated
to drive them from the usual
fishing grounds. and many vessels
We're seized and brought into Cana
dian ports as prizes in 1870. ,otwith.
standing the Canadians enjoy same
privileges on American waters ~
| Americans do. The American men,
Oers of the Joint High Commission
suggested that the United States might
be willing to pay a million dollars for
the privilege of fishing forever in Can
adian waters, but the British members
deem The sum entirely inadequate.
The Americans replied that they did
not regard the privilege AS valuable
but that the United States wanted II