Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
half of the colored people being dependent
upon the charity Of the whites.4 i ~

half of the colored people being dependent
upon the charity Of the whites. VI
g The pursuit Of the Minnesota bank rob.
bers, up to the 10Th, had proved unsuccess.
full. II is known that they separated dur"
ing their flight, and two of them very mar
rowly escaped capture. 1t is said that the
two dead robbers have been positively iden-
titled, by photographs shown to their ac-
Ter, two of the Missouri gang.
A Greenback electoral ticket for Arkansas
was nominated by a mass convention hello
at Little Rock on the 10Th.
The hostile chiefs Kill Eagle and Little
Wound, with 40 people, and all their arms
and ammunition, and about 100 ponies, sur.
rendered at Standing Rock on the 18th; 20
others also surrendered, all of whom were
in the fight on the Little Big Horn. A.
friendly Indian from the camp of the hos
tiles near the headwaters of Powder River
arrived at Standing Rock Agency on the
9TH, bearing a message from some OF
the hostile chiefs to the commanding
officer. They express a desire for peace,
but say they are only defending their hunt
ing grounds, which the whites have en-
deavored to wrest from them. The mes
senger says the hostile camp is composed OF
Ogallala, Brule, Sans-Arc and Minneconjou
bands of Sioux, with Cheyennes and Arapa-
hoes. He says they have immense quaint"
ties OF ammunition, n more guns than
they need, and that the most of these are
needle-guns.
6 Further disturbances in South Carolina
were reported on the 18th, growing out OF
the attempted arrest of a negro who was
charged with assaulting a white lady in Aiken
County. The arrest of the culprit, it is said,
was resisted by some two hundred negroes,
armed with shot-guns and rifles. The re.
suit Of the encounter was stated to be one
white man and six negroes killed. 1t was
further reported that the negroes had taken
possession of the Port Poyal Railroad; that
they had torn up the track and wrecked a
freight train, and that the Superintendent
OF the road had applied to the Governor and
to the United States military officer at Ham,
burg for assistance.
j. S. Mayberry, q revenue detective Iiy-
ing at Blount Springs, Ala, was shot and
killed by an unknown assassin, while sitting
in his own house, Oh the night of the 10th.
The general Impression is that the assassin
one of a gang of counterfeiters now I'M
der indictment and whose trial will soon
off. Mayberry was an important wit
ness against them.
The boiler Of a steam thresher on the farm
Of Peter Klein, at CaulfeId, o., exploded
on the 10th, instantly killing Noah Cum
mlngs, Daniel Fox, and Isaac Rhodes, and
seriously injuring Jerry Fox and another
man slightly.
The reunion of the ''boys in blue'' at
Indianapolis, which begun on the Goth, was
the occasion of a very large gathering, del
being present from seventeen
Among the distinguished officers
were Gov. Hartranft,
y pennsylvania; Gen. Logan,
II illinois; Gen. Burnside, OF
Rhode Island; Gen. Garfield, of Ohio; Gen.
ioodloe, OF Kentucky; Gen. A. B. Norton,
II Texas; Gen. Noyes, of Ohio; Col. SEQ
lille, of Cleveland; Gems. Negley and Pear
on, OF Pennsylvania; Gen.
Drake. of New Jersey;
Iol. 1. E. Dudley, Secretary of the
National Association of the Boys in Blue:
fen. Trowbridge, Of Michigan; Gen. Jas.
alta, Adjutant-G Genera Of Pennsylvania.
enator Morton made the address of well
which was responded to by Gen.
who read a letter from Gen. Dix,
his regrets at his inability to be
resent.
The trial of the Mormon Elder John D.
zee, for being a participant in the cele-
rated Mountain Meadow massacre in 1851,
ssulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in
hrst degree. The evidence adduced at
trial was entirely exculpatory Of Brigham
Dung, who it was shown had endeavored
save the lives of the emigrants.
Mrs. Minnie Beales Reade, a well known
.dy OF Kansas, who has been for three
ears prosecuting her musical studies abroad
II the purpose of appearing upon the /
stage, died recently in Paris. Her
usband is Lieut.. Philip Reade, of the Sig &
al Service. {
A grand Democratic State Convention of ,
MON soldiers and citizens is announced to
, held at indianapolis ON Oct. 5, for the {
Of the nomination of Tilden and 9
endricks. l
-Four OF the fugitive burglars who made an :
attempt to rob the Mortified a
dinn.) bank were finally surrounded in a
Vamp in Watonwan County, where, after I
aking a desperate resistance against the ;,
lrty OF 4O or 80 armed men which sur {
unded them, and one of their number be- p
g shot dead and the other three wounded, n
ey surrendered. 1t is stated that after be- g
6 taken into custody they confessed that 7
ey were the Younger brothers from Mis- il
uri. "
The Indian Commissioners had another .
unc1l with the Indians at Red Cloud +
5ency, on the 21st, but the latter could r
It De brought to assent to the proposed p
m offered by the Government. II u
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FOREIGN. n
armistice between Turkey and Seryia ca
IS agreed upon and signed on the 18th, Ia
q each Government issued an order for til