, 1876-02-25
LATEST NEWS
Ry Telegraph and Mail.
Gold closed in New York, on the
gath inst, at 113S.

Alaska Fur Company, Of which he is
president.
1t is stated that the two compa-
nies owning submarine telegraph
cables will consolidate. If so, the
charges will be largely increased.
The board of supervisors Of San
Francisco will endeavor to have an
appropriation raised for the next
Fourth of July of $4,000.
Sargent's bill respecting pre-emp-
ton claims provides that they shall
not be defeated by reason of cancel
ed mortgages.
An official ukase issued in Russia
forbids women executing the func-
tions of barrister.
The Workingmen's Independent
Party, OF New York, have rendered
its nomination and support for Pres
! ident of the United States to Peter
Cooper.
The snow in Clover Valley, New,
avera ges S'feet deep. The unprec
cdent hard winter there will prop
ably kill thousands of heads of beef
cattle that were intended for the
San Francisco market.
A party of 400 men were organ
lied in Philadelphia last week too
Immediately start for the Black Hills.
Eleven car loads Of articles have
arrived from Sweden and Norway on
the Centennial grounds.
The bill to abolish the death pen
atty in Maine and substitute impris-
onment and hard labor for life pass
ed the Senate by vote of IS to II.
Larue g. Co.'S stock dealing firm
in San Francisco has collapsed by the
disappearance of the resident part
ner, who leaves lot of bills unpaid,
and taken stock belonging to parties.
Three Italians were hanged in st.
Louis on the 18th inst, for assassin
ating another Italian last April.
They asked the prayers of those
present; believed they would go to
heaven, and thanked God for giving
them fortitude to bear the execu-
ton.
General Phil. Sheridan was put on
the stand at Washington before the
military committee to give his views
in regard to change of the Indian
bureau to the war department. He
began by saying that if the changes
were made, thirty-seven millions of
dollars could be cut off of the ap-
preparation for the army; that by
placing the Indian bureau under the
control of officers of the army all the
rings in the Indian bureau would be
Immediately killed; and by allowing
the Indians to be directly under the
control of officers of the army,
wholesome influenza -Mnnld- -he-Ax-
erted and fewer of those fights on
the frontier would occur. Sherman
and Hancock are to send their views
in writing.
There is pressure from Oregon
and the Western Territories, upon
the House committee on Indian af-
fairs for the passage of bills for the
relief Of persons who have suffered
from Indian depredations. The
amount involved in some cases is
millions Of dollars. The committee
is powerless to reconsider the vote
Il by which it agreed to report ad-
versely or all bills of this nature.
Charlotte S~Cushman, i,e great
American actress, dieda
House, in Boston, on Il
She had been afflicted
for long time, but
she took short walk,
cold and pneumonia
Gen. Schenck, M
land, has sent ID his/
President Grant.
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was fifteen feet
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