Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-29

the Woman's Christian Temperance
Association in twenty-three States.
Meetings to hear speeches are held
nightly. Miss Wallace, of Indiana,
Yesterday made a speech, as did also
Mrs. Latrop, of Michigan, and Mrs.
Levitt, of Cincinnati. They generally
favor arbitrary measures to suppress
saloons. To day resolutions were
submitted on juvenile work, the lee
ture bureau and on Bible wines. A
long discussion took place on the
resolution pledging members to alb
stain from partaking OF wine at the
communion service.
Expected Arrival of Tweed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 81.
There Is considerable excitement to-
day at the lower quarantine boarding
station, caused by the expectation of
the arrival of the United States frigate
Franklin with VIM. NJ. Tweed on
board. This morning the revenue
cutter Grant left Upper Bay for Sandy
Hook to await the arrival of the
Franklin.
whisky Thieves Sentenced.
LITTLE Rock, Oct. 81.
In the Federal Court to-day, Judge
II. G.. Coldwell presiding, four con
victed proprietors of Illicit distilleries
were sentenced; Newton Storms to
n years imprisonment and 81 200
fine; David Il. Inman to one mouths
imprisonment and 5 1000 fine; Frazier
Carr to enc wears imprisonment and
81. 500 fine; and Ames Il. Curtis to one
years imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
| upInuSn IF Eturn~ S..pv. fn.a Gfata
Prison.
AUBURN, N. V, Oct. %.
Edward 5. Stokes, convicted of
shooting James Fisk, Jr., was released
this morning from State Prison, his
term of sentence having expired. A
great crowd was at the railroad station
to see Stokes, who with his friends
started eastward.
Three Methodist Preachers Shot
by Illicit Distillers in ArAan.
LITTLE Rock, Oct IS.
Three Methodist ministers while
riding their circuit in Pope county,
Arkansas, were shot from the brush
yesterday by two illicit distillers,
named Hughes and Hale. 1t is be-
lieved that Hughes and Hale mistook
them for revenue officers and mar
shals, coming to arrest them as war
rants are now out for their arrest for
illicit distilling. One of the ministers
was morally wounded, and died in
two hours after being shot. The other
two were seriously if not fatally
wounded. There are a large number
of illicit distillers in that part of the
State, and six of these parties have
been convicted during this week in the
United States Court.
Population Of Savannah-Survey for
the Isthmus ship Canal.
NEW YORK, Oct. %.
The Worlds Savannah special says
the census just taken of Savannah
gives the whites 1853, colored IL ,6l4.
Commodore Daniel Ammen, chief OF
the Bureau of Navigation, United
States Navy, has prepared a paper at
the request of the American Gsograph-
ical Society which he will read before
that society in New York on the even
ing OF October 3lst. The paper will be
a review of the various surveys of the
American isthmus by United States
Naval officers under direction of the
Navy Department, with the view to
finding the best route for an inter
oceanic ship canal, and stating the re
suits obtained. This paper will DEM
onstrate the fallacy Of the grounds
taken by the Society Geographtque, OF
France, which assumes that no thor
ough survey of any route across the
isthmus has ever beer made, and for
which Leon Drouillet, French Ell
gineer, was recently sent to this
country.