Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-25

at seven per cent. shall be paid semi
annually and upon the failure to do
so within ninety days thereafter the
Trustees shall take possession of the
road, and further that if the Company
fail to pay the bonds six months after
same became due, then the bonds,
which are for thirty years, shall ma
ture. They allege the Company has
failed to pay interest for twelve
months and therefore the bondholders
have directed them as Trustees to fore
close the mortgage.
Death ofan Inventor.
PORTLAND, July "a. Isaac NJ. Sing
er, the inventor of the Singer Sewing
Machine, died here last evening aged
64 years.
A Husband kills Man.
ST. LOUIS, July 24.-John Berry, of
Johnson City st. Clair county, Mo-,
killed John Bancom last Monday for
attempting to outrage his wife some
time ago.
Bank Statement.
NEW YORK. July 24,-The bank
statement is as follows: Loans, de-
crease $1,000, 900; specie increase S554,-
500; legal tenders, Increase 81, ,2l9, 900;
deposits, increase $l,302, 800; circula-
tion, increase, $202, 900; revenue, in
crease 81, ,446, 400.
The CiiOrpeniinG Case.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 24.-The
Attorney General has sent the Presi-
dent long opinion on the Chorpend-
ing case, reversing all the various
acts of Congress relating to the veto,
and the various decisions of the Su-
preme Court and the Court of Claims,
on which principles this case has been
iudicially considered. The opinion is
that the $443, 900 found due by the late
Postmaster-Ge cannot be paid
since the repeal of the resolution
which referred the case to the Post
master General did not act as Judge,
but merely as Minister of Congress;
that his finding is not in the nature of
of an award by an arbitrator and that
the case does not differ in principle
from the case of Gordon VS.. the United
States; that the award of $10,975 here
tofore paid by Postmaster General
Brown to Chorpending, which was
found due under reference to the
Postmaster General by act of Con-
gress, did not bind Chorpending so he
could not appeal to Congress for more.
On the other hand, the Attorney-Gen-
eral holds that the present Postmaster
is not authorized to pay the additional
amount found due by the late Post
master General, for the reason that
Congress reported resolution of ref
erence before the money was paid.
He also holds that in the present con-
dition of the law the Conrt of Claims
has jurisdiction in the case, but he is
clearly of opinion that the amount
found due by the last Postmaster-Ge
eral is not an award which the Court
can enforce and that unless Congress
intervenes, the claim is debarred by
the statute of limitations.
yellow Fever.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-Yellow fe-
yer is raging in the barracks at Pensa-
cola, Fla. Twenty-eight cases are re-
ported.
Foreign Travel.
New YORK, July 24.-Six European
steamers left to-day carrying sixteen
hundred passengers, including many
CalifOrnians. The travel is nearly
over for the season.
President Grant.
NEW YORK, July 24.-President
Grant and Col. Fred Grant and wife
attended the funeral of George It.
Strong. Later in the day they
went to West Point by steamer.
Investigation.
WAsHINGToN, July 24th.-Isaac T..
Gibson, agent of the Usage Indians in
Kansas, is about to be Investigated.
Heavy Failure.
New YORK, July 24th.-A London
dispatch says Schultz & Loher, gen.
eral merchants, of London, have failed.
Liabilities, $1,50O,000.
RICHMOND, Va, July 24th.-The
cargo of the bark Sal paran, consisting
of tobacco for Liverpool, was seized to-
day by the detectives for irregularity.
Census-Shooting.
NEW YORK, July 24th.-The new
census will make the population of
this city 100000.
The Remington diamond badge was
won by II. S. Jewell, of Brooklyn.
Drowned.
OMAHA, July 4.-Lawrence Sharp,
a clerk in the First National Bank of
this city, was drowned this afternoon
while sailing with Joseph Lehmer, on
Florence lake, near here.
NEW YORK, July 24th.-The Ex-
celsior planning mills burning this af-
ternoon. Large lumber piles adjoin-
ing and tenement We're destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.