The Lake County star., 1876-06-22

From tho Nationai Capital.

From tho National Capital.
]. THOMPSON, Secretary OF the Interior be-
fore the war, was lately served with process
in a civil suit to recover 81 900 900, principal
and interest of bonds taken from the depart
meut. and for the amount received by him
from the Confederate States, and which 1t is |
alleged reverted to and became the property |
of the United States, 81, ,000, 900 as interest. |
Thompson says that he noticed in the news |
papers some days ago that Secretary Chan. |
dler lad made charge that he had abstracted
those bonds but, now this charge has peen
abandoned, and civil suit instituted to
make him pecuniarily responsible ior the
acts of a subordinate clerk.
VIM. F. G. Shanks, city editor OF the New
York Tribune, testified before the Kerr In
vestigating Committee that he had an inter.
view with Harvey relative to the alleged
payment of the four hundred and nifty doi,
lars, and Harvey told him, 81 have never SAID
that there = was any mShey hIrn IN and r Danford
agreed to report exonerating Mr.. Kerr.
Robbins and Bass, the other two members,
il was thought, would concur.....The House
Committee on Appropriations restored the
pay of Brigadier General to the present
status, and added section to the Army Bill
providing for the designation by the Presi-
all complaints, charges, ETC., against ofhcers,
therein providing that no officer whose rank
or promotion shall be affected by the action
of such board shall be member OF 1t, ana
two Of said board shall be of rank higher
than the officer whose conduct may be under
investigation.
western Items.
A dispatch from the commanding officer
at Fort Laramie says a war party OF about
fifty Indians ran of twenty head OF horses
from Kelley's rancho, on Chumwater. Egan
was sent in pursuit.
Twenty head of horses were run of by the
Indians from Kelly's rancho, on the Chug,
fifty miles north of Cheyenne, on the 10th
inst. Captain Egan started in pursuit. They
crossed the Platte, nine miles above Fort
Laramie. Six companies OF the Filth Cav
airy, commanded by General Carr, with
Buffalo Bill as guide, left Fort Russell on
Sunday morning, and camped at night on the
Chug. Five companies moved north in the
morning, leaving one company for the pro-
lection of that valley.
Political.
The day before the Convention in Gin.
cidnati was an.exciting one. Speeches, pro-
cessions, and serenades were the order of the
day, and the different delegations labored
for their favOrite candidates in way that
showed their determination to win...... The
Delaware Democrats in the Convention
nominating delegates, instructed in favor OF
Hon. Thomas +. Bayard, and passed hard
meney resolutions .......The Maine Demo
cratic State Convention nominated John q.
Talbot for Governor, and Samuel j. Ander
son, Samuel Wall, Frank w. Hill, and S. D.
Lewett as Delegates-at-Large to the st. Louis
Convention. The resolutions adopted com
mend the services of the Democratic House
in instituting investigations and unearthiDl
corruption. The initiation of the nationa
currency is opposed, and the fourth resolu
ton declares Samuel j. Tilden, the able
Jealous, and intrepid reform Governor O
the Empire State, to be the first choice o
the Convention for President of the United
States, and his nomination by the NatiOna
Democratic Convention is recommended a
eminently fit and proper. They also passe,
resolution declaring that it is the sens
of this Convention that the rule adopted b.
the National Democratic Convention, re
quiring two-thirds of the delegates to concu
in making its nomination, being at varianc
with the well.established Democrat
principles of majority control, be aban
doned"
w. II. Miller has been nominated as
candidate for Governor by the Democrats O
Arkansas. Miller is native of IndepenG
ence County, and the present Auditor q
State, a position he has filed, at intervals
for six terms. The nominating Conventio
was one Of the largest ever assembled in ths
State.
Items In General.
Thomas Wallace and James w. Have
were killed recently by the explosion of tn
boiler of Perkins & Co.'s sawmill at Lawtol
Georgia......A duel was fought at Rive
Bend, Colorado, the other day, by Alfred ]
Jessup, jr., and a man named Davis, WI
were armed respectively with Winchest,
rifles and Colts navy pistols. Jessup W,
killed in the second exchange of shots....
DIR. +. w. Sehon, q noted preacher in Il
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died ,
Louisville, June z, of disease of the heart.
General Ben. Butler, having been accuse
of being instrumental in bringing the n
torious Blaine letters to light, gives an er
phatic denial of the statement. He says
he had been Mulligan's counsel, Blair
would never have got those letters. ..J osis
Caldwell has telegraphed from London tn
he forwarded the dispatch received by NJ
Knott.
The Women's International Temperan
Convention assembled at the Academy
Music, Philadelphia, June IL. Mrs. Margar
+. Parker, of Dundee, Scotland, Preside
of the Temperance Union of Great Britai
occupied the chair. The address of WELDON
was delivered by Mrs. Anna Wittemeye
which was responded to by the PresideI
A letter was read, sent by order of Que,
Victoria, declining to send representative
and saying that the matter must rest wi
the British public...... Sunday, June IL, II
congregation of the Catholic Church
sembled in their new but unfinished bull
ing, at Houtzdale, Pa. Just as Father Meag
began the services, the gallery and floor U
derneath fell with terrible crash, kill
ID. G. Nelson, the contractor of the bui
ing, and wounding thirty others, Sol
seriously.
Bishop Bourget, of Montreal, Canada, b
resigned, and his resignation has been
cepted by the Pope......Dr. George Coo
President of the Brigham Hall Insane A,
lum at Canandaigua, N. Y, was fatal
stabbed by an insane patient named Brow
The temporal and transverse facial arteri
were severed. He dieda few hours aft
being stabbed.."..Col. Meyer, Supervisor
Internal Revenue, returned to st. Lol
from his raid on the Illicit distilleries
Cape Girardeau and Ballenger Count
Mo. He has broken up about twenty still
destroyed large amount of property a
persons charged with making crook
whisky. Some fifty stills have been runni
in the above-named counties for abe
twelve years past, and allowing they OF
ran three months in the year the Cove
ment has been defrauded Of from $15, 900
$4,000 per annum.
On June IA, Mr.. Blaine had 80 far rec
cred from his illness, as to receive
friends and to read the newspapers.
also took q ride around the city of Washi
ton in an open carriage.
Notes from Abroad.
A religious riot occurred April "a,
Chung Kingfa, of the Szechran Provin
China. About twenty native Christi,
were killed, and some three hundred hou
burned.
Serious inundations have occurred
Eastern Switzerland, caused by heavy ra
and the melting of the snow in the mou