The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-17
ITEMS Of INTEREST


for governor Of New York.
The Onited States navy is rapidly being
put IN better condition \ number of
almost worthless ships are now uu their
way home. Their places viii be supplied
IS new vessels, built and building. Ii
would cost more to put many OF the old
ships mo commission again than TO build
new ones Seven If the new sloops ot-war
ordered by Congress will be ready for sea
this fall Work has been resumed at the
principal navy yards.
The trial Of John D. Lee Ter connection
with the Mountain Meadow massacre Of
1897, in Southern Utah, at v hich time 40
emigrants. men, women and children. from
Arkansas and Missouri, were murdered.
will probably come up on the 10Th inst.
There are great many witnesses IN town.
twenty Of whom have addressed a commu-
nication to Marshal Maxwell. asking means
Of subsistence, and an examination IN
Chambers. that they might return home
To attend To their crops Gen. Maxwell
answered that mileage and fees was all he
could pay, and the District Attorney would
take hls own course IN taking the testl-
muny. Ii Is believed and hoped that tins
terrible crime, which has been charged Ia
the Mormon people for the past eighteen
years, will be dlspr1ven. or that the guilty
parties Will be brought to justice
The Democrat central committee Of
Jersey county have adopted the following
plan for the nomination Of candidates Tor
county officers t. be elected at the COMING
lavender convention. The Democratic
voters are requested to assemble AZ their
usual places # voting on SATURDAY. Sent
4, next, and select from their number
three judges and two clerks. Nh. Shall
open the polls and conduct the election IN
the same manner as the State election
The voter shall then cast his ballot for his
choice Of candidates. At the close ~ rba
election the Judges and clerks shall cast
up the ballots, and certify the same. and
on the following Monday assemble Al rb .
court house IN the city, and after choosIr
chairman, proceed To open and count n .
votes II all the precincts. and the pers,
receiving the greatest number uf y,t..
shall be declared the nominee II the party
for the office for which he was a candidate.
and after declaring who received the unni-
nations, they shall adjourn sine die
A dispatch from Rock Island. III saws .
Eve have municipal fight Of consider
able local interest on our hands A month
ago Mayor Davenport removed +. "
Boynton, superintendent Of the water
works, under assumed authority from the
new mayors act. His right Ia 10 thu Was
disputed on the ground that Boynton was
not properly city officer. his POSITION
having been created under the ordinance
creating board Of water commissioners
which especially gives that body the rigbt
OF the appointment Of a superintendent
and engineer, subject to the conucil's ar
prevail At the regular meeting last Tines
day, the council by resolution denied the
right OF removal, and reinstated Boynton
by vote OF seven TO three The NEXT
day the mayor gave Boynton another no.
tlce OF removal, which was disreparded
Last evening special meeting IF the
council was held, which. after approving
an act Of the water board engaging Boyn
ton for one year, passed a resolution of
censure on the mayor for his arbitrary ac
ton. The mayor announced that he
should appeal 10 the courts to prevent
Boynton from acting. The powers in the
mayors bill will thus be fully tested
The treasury secret service division has
received information Of the arrest AZ Or
vile, Cal, Of Matroni Sebastiano and
Augustine BuaZzi two members Of the
notorious Marysvllle gang of counterfeit
ers. These men were in Oroville DURING
the session of the democratic convention.
and took advantage Of the crowded condi-
ton of the saloons to get rid Of MANY bo-
gus quarter eagles. They got rid Of ten
before arouslng suspicion, and when
local officer apprehended Sebastiano onl,
one 81 90 piece was found in his posses
sion. An operative Of the secret service,
took hold OF the case at this juncture. and
after a diligent search discovered Buazzi
asleep, at O'Clock in the morning. under
tree. A search Of his pockets brought
to light 10 base quarter eagles. The pris-
oners were taken to Marysville. near which
town the mandatory was located. II was
a one story and half frame structure.
facing a slough which runs into the Feath
er river, and close to a dense swamp. In
this house we're found 30 unfinished omar
ter eagles, just as they had left the molds.
a quantity of mixed and unmixed cruci
bles, ladies, bottles of various kinds Of
acids, &c. The molds we're not there bnt
their capture was immaterjal since a
plaster mold can be made very easily in =
short time. The two men were finally
jagged in San Francisco, and. after a nre.
lIminary examination before United States
Commissioner OBeirne, were committed
in default Of bail for trial.
NV YORK, July 1.-The Tribune IN.
morrow will publish letter from Thurlow
Weed, in which he affirms. on Trustworthy
inform alton, that, on three occasions du
ring the first year of the rebellion, Queen
Victoria contributed essentially to the
preservation Of peace between this country
and England. On two occasions Her
Majesty discOuntenanced suggestions from !
the French Government which meant u-.r /
The first was proposition for the Joint 4
Intervention of France and England the
object being recognition of the Confed |
crate Government. The next was the in |
PRODUCTION into Parliament after an inter.
view by the English Minister with the |
Emperor Of resolution repudiating onr
blockade. The popular feeling in England |
was so strong in favor of. the Confederate
states that our friends in parliament and
IL the Cabinet, but tor the conviction that
their course was tacitly approved bv their
Sovereign, would have found themselves
unable to successfully resist those hostile
measures. When the dispatch demanding
the surrender of Mason and Slidell was
read by Lord Palmerston to the Queen.
and the consequence Of a refusal we're ex.
planned, Her Majesty was startled and dis
tressed at the idea of war with America
Taking the dispatch to the Prince Consort.
who, then in his last illness, was sitting
in his apartment, the Queen asked him to
read it, saying that she thought the langu-
age and spirit we're harsh and peremptory.
The Prince, conourriDg in opinion with
Her Majesty, subjected the dispatch to
erasure ADD interiineations, ia which
amended form II was returned Ia the Pre- !