The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-11-05
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NEW YoRK, Oct. %.


E.a. NEW YoRK, Oct. %.
Tho candidates of tho Independon
Grcenback party, for President and
Vico-Presidcnt, have issued to tho
voters OF tho country IN address
which vigorously arraigns both tho
old parties, and clearly sots forth tho
principles which the candidates of
the now party maintain. .... ...
There is considerable excitement
to-day ut the lower quarantine board
Ing station, caused by the expectation
OF tho arrival OF the United Suites
frigate. Franklin with William Nj.
Tweed on board. This morning the
revenue cutter, Grant, left the upper
bay for Sandy Hook to await the ar.
rival OF the Flnnklin.
Tho Worlds Savannah special says
tho census just taken of Savannah,
gives whites 1888; colorcd. II ,Gl4.
Tho Worlds Washington special
says Commodore Daniel Ammer,
Chief OF the Bureau of Navigation,
United States Navy, has prepared q
paper Mt the request of tho American
Geographical Society which he will
read hofore that body ia New York,
on tho evening of Oct. 8lst. The
paper will be q review of various sur-
veys OF the American Isihmns by
United States naval officers under
tho direction of the Navy Depart
ment, with view to finding tho best
route for m inter-Oceanic ship canal,
and stating the results obtained. This
paper will demonstrate the fnllacy Of
the grounds taken by the Societe
: Geogrnphiquo. of Franco, which MS
srnos TINT no thorough survey of
any route across the Istlimus has ever
been mado, and for which Leon
Drouillet, tho French engineer was
recently sent to this country.
60 AuDunS, n. Y. Oct. 2S.
Edward S. Stokes, convicted of
shooting James Fisk, jr., was released
t lis morning from the state prison,
his term of sentence having expired.
A great crowd was at the railroad
do1)t to SEQ Stokes, who with his
f:iends, started eastward.
RoMI, n. Y. Oct. %.
The Fort Stanwiuk Knitting Mill
owned by Nudge & AInes, burned
last night; loss, $4,000; insurance,
500, 900. Ono hundred operative arc
thrown out Of employment.
BosroS, Oct. %.
Tho report Of tho proposed Feninn
raid into CanalH, telcgrnphed from
st. Albums last night. ID pronounced
to bc without foundation. ..,
ANSAPoLIs, Oct. %. D.
Cadet Midshipman Homer G.
Pounls.ono, Of Virginia, convicted
OF "hazing," was dismissed ycstcr-
day from the Naval Academy. Cadet
Midshipman L. 4. Woodworth, of
California, and II. w. Barclay, of
Missouri, nro under arrest for the
same oifcnsc, and awnit trial by
court-martinl. ...... .... ... ...
LITTLE Rock, Oct. %.
Three ministers, while riding a cir 4.
emit in Popo county, Arkansas, were
shot from tho bush, yesterday by two
Illicit dis,illors named Hughes md
Hale. 1t is believed Hughes and
Halo mistook them for Revenue olTi-
Gers and Marshals coming to arrest
them, aS warrants nro now out for
tlloir nrrost for illicit diatilling. Ono
OF tho ministers was mortally woun-
dcd, and died two hours after being
shot. Tho othor two were seriously
II not fatally wounded. There nro
largo number of Illicit listillcrics in
that part OF Tho State, and six Of
these parties have been convicted this
week In tho Unitod States Circuit
Court OF this district.
NEw YoRK. Oct. %.
a Paris dispatch snys the Amcri-
cans nro exercised over tho publion-
ton OF lotior 10 friends in Germany
by M. Doisiommnrd, cliiof Of tho
French Commission to tho Contcn-
niAl Exposition. Tho lcttor IL sum-
married rs follows: "Accounls trans.
mittod to mo from my Deputy arc of
tho most grioyouB character. The
Americans themselves sot fro TO tho
building containing tho empty cascs
for French goods, hoping to destroy
tho Fronol merchandise aud articles
Tor exhibition stored in tho galleries,
Md n second attempt OF tho Bamo
kind has been m0do within tho last
month. Worse than all, tho police
employed by tho Centennial Com
,nis9ionors, aro purposoly chosen
from tho worst and most degraded
elomonts In tho United States. Thu
koopors aro thieves without excop.
hon; thoy stoal oponly from oxhibi.
tors IN tho Frcncl department and
oil othors. Thore oxists M under.
BtandinR bntMnnn tho knnyna. md