The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-20

From the National Capital.

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From the National Capital.
George II. Seward has been appointed
Minister TO China, and Ayres p. Merrill
Minister to Belgium.....The House Com.
mittee on Appropriations had long session
on the Military Academy Appropriation
Bill, and completed IL for report TO the
House. They reduced the pay of cadets
from $500 to $3.50 per year, which will
diminish the item for that purpose some
$1,000. The pay OF professors Is reduced
twenty per cent, and numerous small re-
auctions are made in other items. In total
amount the bill is reduced about $4,000
from last years total Of $4,000.
On the 18th, a delegation of Cherekees,
Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles called
upon President Grant to pay their respects
and to talk of affairs In the Indian Terri
tory, which they represented to be in
peaceful and prosperous condition, with
abundant crops. They took occasion to ex-
torial government in their country, when
the President informed them that no bill
passed by Congress for that purpose would
receive his approval without ths consent of
the Indians.
western Items.
A recent decision Of the Secretary of the
Interior peremptorily closes all mining oper-
atoms in the Choctaw Nation for the present,
The principal sufferers are the Usage Coal,
and Houston, Dallas and Texas Coal Com
panies, employing two hundred hands, who
are thrown out Of employment, and must
seek the States for work, as there is no labor
for them in the Indian Territory.
During the session Of the Wisconsin State
Grange, which has just been concluded in
Madison, it is understood that measures
were matured to prevent the repeal or
essential modification of the Potter Law.
Resolutions were also adopted calling for
law to limit National banks to six per cent ;,
and for the repeal of the act increasing the
rate OF postage on transient printed matter
seeds, merchandise, etc.
A Woman's Suffrage Convention has been
sitting in Denver, Col. It's sessions, which
were largely attended, disclose an unex-
pectedly Influential element in favor of a
universal suffrage article in the Colorado
Constitution now being framed........A party
have reached La annie City from the Cen.
tennial mine, bringing in several thousand
dollars in gold and u large quantity of very
rch quarz, which, 1t is said, literally gilt.
twenty-sx miles due west from Laramie
City, aud everything indicates that it is the
richest gold NINE which has ever been found
on the Continent.
southern Items.
The Louisiana Democrats, in convention
have adopted long memorial to the Presi.
dent aud Congress, protesting against the
Kellogg Government, and urging that the
Wheeler adjustment In no way binds the
People If The State to the support of, or &C.
quiesceDce in said Government, and say.
ing: Aud now, speaking for themselves,
the people OF Louisiana do solen,nly affirm
that they have not acquiesced, and never
will acquiesce, in the Kellogg usurpation.
That IL is AZ repugnant to their wishes, aud
Interests, and sense of justice, as il was the
day Of Its Iawless establishment over then,
by force. That they recognize as the only
government entitled to their support. re.
sPect or confidence, that of which John Nc.
Emery and ID. p. Penn are official heads, an
they amsn that they have been patient and
gress In the hope aud belief that the present
Congress would listen to their grievances
aud grant the proper relief.
Items I'm General.
A sensation dispatch comes from Osborn
Mo-, on the Hannibal and st. Joseph rail.
road. The other night burglars broke into
drug store and stole bottle of chloro.
form, with which they drugged the whole
town. They went through both hotels. all
the stores and many private residen ces.
They secured several thousand dollars and
escaped......In the Texas convention the fol.
lowing nominations were made unanimous
For Governor, Richard Coke; for Lieuten.
ant Governor, Is. Hubbard: Presidential
Electors, d. e. Giddings and ID. H. Epner.
son; for Attorney General, A. II. Boone I.
State Treasurer, A. J. Dow; Controller
Stephen II. Dardin Commissioner of Land
once, ). ). Groos.....Three murderers were
hung In Tennessee on the 9TH of Januury 80.
Milton N. Mclean, at Jackson, for the mnr.
der Of Pope; Frank Scott, colored, at Mem.
phis, for the murder of Ransom Pbill;ns an
old negro, in 1874, at Wolf Bridge. for ninety
cents that he owed him; Bill Williams. col.
ored,' at Bartlett, for killing Joe Fields.
Williams denied his crime to the last. Scott
said he was convicted on false oaths. Nc.
Iiean said ne murdered his man and had no
regrets.
G. B. Bingham, brother of John w. Biny.
ham, convicted of crooked whisky dealing.
died at Patoks, Indiana, of aporlexy. suner.
induced by extreme nervous prostr,t;on
His disease was the result of shame and
modification from his family's connec,;on
with the ring" He was an Evansville
fined in the Baton Rouge, La, iail fo, LII In.
ing a white man, was hung by u mob on The
n,ght OF January 7..".J. H. Martin & Co
wholesale grscers and commission merchants
OF Memphis, have suspended. LiabiI;,ies
reported ut 100000; assets $4,000
Atthe opening of the United States Cour,
at Indianapolis, on the 1ith, Thomas 7
Robb. until ve,y recently a d;s,iII.r =,
PatOka, entered the pl. a of "pn;Itv al
through his attorney, Judge N,black. Of
Vincenpe', asked that the Court deal
Ienent,y Win him.. In fight among the
Hv,, ,ers AZ tylsn, New Hampshire, recently,
other was dangerously wounded. and several
were badly cut and beaten. The bodv nr y
laborer named Jehn White. WIS fonnS IN q
vat at the Chicago stock Yards. He was
hauling offal TO the watts, and IL IN sn nnoseJ
ne Tell Into the boiling fluid. His flesh was
almost entirely boiled from the bones At
the time OF the discovery of the BODY.
omceIs OF the Hannibal and st. Joseph
d d"oau 'eny me report telegraphed .ew
mehctd to place that road in the hands IF
receiver: Hon. VIM. Butler. prom;nen,,1
CONNECTED with State history and politics ~
iiiinois, Tor many years, died at Sprin06eId
January j., of pneumonia, being in his
seventy ninth yea,.. during = quarrel be.
Wen w., ' ., Knight and wife, at No. 343
through a glass door, aud was cut sn hor ,
bly, that she died Ia q short time. Shea.
man ana sterling, counsel for Rev. II. w.
beecher, in the suit brought against him for
malicious prosecution, BY Francis ID. MouI.
ton, served on Gen. Pryor, counsel for
p'ainun, demurrer, upon the ground that
to constitute cause Of action.
Mitchell. Green d Stevens, dry goods mer.
chants OF Boston, are reported failed.
The report Of the State Treasurer of Penn.
sylvania submitted to the Legislature shows
the debt Of the State, after deductino the 40.
sets OF the sinking fund, to be Si3, 766. 564...
Antoine Marines, q New York ciysr mss.r