Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-21


| aid with Gen. Crooks command telegraph.
| ed via Bismarck, on the 9th, that the hostile
| Sioux under Sitting Bull had broken up into
small parties and dispersed, with the excep-
tion OF his W personal band of about 400
braves, who it was thought, had succeeded
in escaping across the Missouri River and
probably made their way into the British
Possessions. -
The Ohio State Greenback Convention met
on the 18th and nominated a Cooper and
Cary electoral ticket. No State ticket was
placed in nomination.
The Kansas Independent Reform State
Central Committee, at a meeting held on
the 18th, repudiated the action of certain
other members of the Committee in with
drawing the name OF their candidate for
Governor, Mr.. Hudson. All vacancies on
the committee and the ticket were filed, and
arrangements made for an active campaign,
Ex-Gov. Henry a Wise, Of Virginia, died
on the 18th. .3'
There has been another serious outbreak
among the rice hands on the Cambahee, in
South Carolina. The laborers who were at
work have been attacked and severely beat
en-. Work is altogether stopped, and the
rioters refuse to allow the rice already har-
vested to be shipped to market. Governor
Chamberlain has dispatched a special Off
GER, who is ordered to arrest and imprison
the ring-leaders. .
Nearly all the buildings at Cheyenne
Agency were recently swept away by a
food, and all the records and papers We're
lost.
Hon. John Purdue, of Lafayette, Ind,
the founder Of Purdue University, died on
the 18th, of apoplexy. ...
The Nebraska Democratic State Conven-
ton nominated for Governor, Paren Eng
land; Lieut.. Governor, Miles Zeutmeyer;
Secretary of State, Joseph Richie; Audit
or, G.. P Thomas; Treasurer. Samuel
Wahr; Attorney General, D. G.. Ashby;
School Superintendent, J. M. Jones.
The veteran trotting horse, Ethan Allen,
died at Lawrence, Kan, on the 10th, aged
q years. u
Gen. Sherman is reported to have stated
at ~Leavenwo"th that in all probability there
would be a new Western military depart
ment formed, part of the territory of the De-
partments of Dakota and Missouri being
taken for that purpose. The headquarters
Of the new department will probably be at
the mouth of the Tongue River, the present
headquarters of the Fifth Infantry, and it is
presumed that Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Col.
onel of the Fifth, will be commander.
At a meeting Of the representatives Of
Western and Southwestern railways CENTER
ing in st. Louis, held on the 18th, it was
resolved to pool the freight business Of these
roads, in order to put a stop to the cutting
of rates. a.
One hundred PaWnee Indians from the
Indian Territory have recently gone to Sid
ney Barracks, Neb., where they will be
mounted and equipped, and then sent to
join Crook in fighting the Sioux.
William NJ. Burwell has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans OF the
First District of Louisiana in place of Fl. c.
Warmoth, declined.
A dispatch to the St. Paul Pioneer-E Press
from Bismarck, D. T., ON the 14th, says 3
complete enrolment of the Indians at Stand
ing Rock shows only 450 lodges, and a total
| OF not over 1000 Indians. Rations have
heretofore been issued ON a basis of 1000,
from which it would appear thatnearly 3, 900
are absent, or else a large
amount Of stealing has been DONE. The
Indians are known to have returned from
the hostiles, but so stealthily they could not
be caught, and the attempt to disarm the
hostiles has therefore proved abortiye.
Grass, chief of the Black Feet, has been ar
rested for harboring and supplying the hos
tiles. TIL Indians threatened to rescue
him, but the garrison was too well prepared
to resist, and so the attempt was abandoned.
Gov T1o1,Io,.los r.. -. .
by the South Carolina Republicans.
Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr., died in St.
James Parish, La, on the 14th, aged IS.
The express car Of Wells, Fargo 81 Co.,
attached to a train on the Utah Central
Railroad, was entered by two masked men
when about eight miles north of Salt Lake
City, on the evening of the 14th, VINO gag
ged the messenger and robbed the safe of
$4,000. The robbers escaped, but were be-
ing hotly pursued.