Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-17
WEDNESDAY...........MAY II, 1876
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

The Democracy OF Nevada held their State
Convention yesterday and expressed them
selves emphatically on the Chinese question
as antagonistic to further immigration. They
are for Tilden first and Thurman next for the
Presidential candidate.
Dayton, Nevada, is moving on the Chinese
question, and at large meeting held yester-
day, resolutions were adopted to use none
but legal measures in exterminating the evil,
and a committee was appointed to memorial
ize Congress to modify the Chinese treaty, so
as to stop further importation of the hea-
thens.
The stockholders meeting OF the Bank of
Nevada county, which was closed several
weeks ago, took place on Monday. An as
sessment of five dollars per share was levied,
and committee appointed to wait on the
citizens and to solicit their subscriptions and
make arrangements with the depositors.
They have announced their intention to re-
sumo business on June 18th.
Nevada City will on Saturday next, cele-
brate the completion of the narrow-gauge
railroad to that point.
The Revenue officers in San Francisco have
unearthed another fraudulent pipe at the Bay
View distillery.
Santa Barbara has awakened and, ON Mon
day evening there was held In that city an
anti-Chinese meeting at which resolutions
were passed pledging all present not to pa
tronize any person using capital as means
OF making a livelihood who gives prefer
ance to Chinese labor over that of white.
The commissioners appointed to fix the
valuation of the land condemned for turning
the San Diego river have fixed the damages
at q little less than sixteen hundred dollars.
As soon as the findings are approved at
Washington, the work will be commenced,
probably about the middle of June, and the
entire work will be completed before another
rainy season.
The egroes and whites of Mississippi are
again engaged in hostilities.
Seventeen negroes are reported killed on
the line between Louisiana and Mississippi.
A fire at Niles, Ohio, Sunday night, destroy
ed the book store and news depot of A. H.
Mason, the boot and shoe store off, Bowden
and several other buildings. Total loss S40.-
600; insurance small.
About II o'clock Sunday night fire broke
out in the music hall known as Macs Folly,
belonging to s McDougall, at San Luis
Obispo. The hall contains a large autom attic
organ. The fire was discovered in the base
ment underneath the instrument, and was
checked before reaching the upper stories.
The estimated damage to the organ is about
$1,000 or $4,000; TO the building $1,000 or $1,000
fully insured. The fire is firmly believed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
Henry Mulled, q Fenian exile, commit
ed suicide Sunday in O'Donovan Rossa's ho-
tel New York. The Chaplain of Calvary
Cemetery informed the friends of Captain
Henry Mulled, that the body could not
be received into the cemetery, owing to
the laws of the Roman Catholic Church
in regard to suicides. deputation, head
ed by General Bourke, then called on the
Vicar General, and permission was given
to bury the body in Calvary, as the Coro-
ner's jury had rendered verdict that
Mulled was temporarily insane.
The number OF visitors at the Centennial
on Monday was larger than any previous day
A fire in Lexington, KY, Monday morning
burned stable containing six horses, and
wagons belonging to the Remington Sewing
Machine Company. Jas. Brickley, The agent
of the Company, was seen going into hay
NOV with lighted cigar, and he is supposed
to have fallen asleep and the hay caught fire
from his cigar Brickley was consumed in
the flames.
At Yelmanton, suburb of Lexington, a
IRE destroyed eight houses owned by negroes.
Total loss $4,000.