The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-07-30
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BREvITIES

The substance OF John ID. Lees comics
sion, in reference to the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre, is, that thirty Mormons, with the assist
ance of Il large number of Indians, deCOyed the
emigrants from their entrenchments by a flag of
truce, and that all were murdered except seven
teen children; that the deed was done under or
ders of a leader of the Mormon church, and that
he took the news of the massacre to Brigham
Young, who dcplored the transaction, and said
it would bring disaster on the Mormon people.
The special commission appointed to
investigate the proof of Prof. Marsh's charges in
relation to the Indian frauds met in New York
City on the 10Th. Prof. Marsh and Indian Com
missioner f. p. Smith appeared before the body,
accompanied by Gen. Fisk, Chairman of the In
dian Commission. Mr.. Marsh presented his
charges in pamphlet form. An investigation will
take place at Red Cloud Agency.
The jury in the case of ex-Treasurer
Parker, of South Carolina, have rendered a YER
dict for the State in the sum of SO 900.
THEPOStmaSter-Genera has commenced
suit against the bondslen of over forty default
ing mail contractors, and has confscated to the
use of the Government the certified checks of
other delinquents.
\ MEETING of the Cabinet was held on
JIG -I5I, tIlC l. w DCilS DiCStllt. IhC lll
cipal subject under consideration was the pro-
posed removal of District Attorney Fisher, the
President having requested Attorney General
Pierrepont to suspend action concerning him
(Fisher) until he could have an opportunity to
explain his official conduct. Fishers son has
handed in his resignation as Assistant District
Attorney.
The Nebraska Republican State Con-
vention will be held at Kearney City on Sept. -.
The Jury selected for the trial OF Lee,
| indicted for the Mountain Meadow massacre, is
composed of eight MormOns and four Gentiles.
THE,Maryland Democratic State Con-
vention nominated John Lee Carroll for Govern
or, and adopted resolutions favOring a tariff for
| revenue only and a speedy. return to specie pay
mcnts.
E. q. JOHNSON. Deputy Collector of IN
ternal Revenue and member of the Florida Legis-
lature, was shot dead ut Il still house about ten
| miles from Fernandina on the night of the 2lst,
by an unknown assassin.
The Irish rifle team won the ElchO
challenge shield at Wimbledon, on the odd. The
| score was-Irish, 500; Scotch, 1903; English,
SOP. The Americans did not participate in this
contest.
Hon. l.. q. G.. LAMAR has been rensmi-
mated for Representative in Congress by the
| Democrats of the First Mississippi District.
SIR FRANCIS BOND HEAD. formerly
Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, and
well known as an author, is dead.
MAJOR WIN. HENRY FORBES, for several
years Indian Agent at Fort TOtten, ID. T., is
dead.
GEN. JOSEPH G.. JOHNSTON, of Georgia,
has been elected president of the Arkansas In
dustrial University.
HERR SIGL, editor of the German Ultra
montana journal Idterhand, has been sent to
prison to serve out a ten months sentence for
REASONABLE utterances, and Baron Loe has also
been sentenced to six months imprisonment for
a reasonable speech made by him in October,
1873.
The following additional prizes have
been carried ofby the American riiemen in Eng
land The st. Leger sweepstakes. by Fulton; the
Rifle Association cup, by Coleman; and the seei