Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-25
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
BULLDOSERS AT WORK
ASSASSINATION OF A PROMI
NENT COLORED MAN
Packard Gives the Particulars

Laws, colored, of East Feliciana
Mr.. DuIa, of East Feliciana has
reached New Orleans and has brought
with him the coffin that was placed
at his door on Saturday. and also a
bunch of Winchester rifle cartridges
which was placed with it. He also re-
lates that the crowd OF b~ulldosers, after
threatening him, went IN with the in
formation hat they would return soon
and put their threats into execution.
They proceeded to Jackson, and rode
up to the house of James Laws, col
ored, and found him seated on his gal
lery with his mother. They said
'Halloo, Laws, have you got back ?"
He rose aud answered them, and was
instantly shot dead. This was on Sat-
urday night. 10 reference to the as
sassination of Laws, Governor Packard
states that just before his return to
East Feliciana, Laws wrote to him,
stating that on % OF his presid-
ing at the only Republican meeting
held in East Feliciana during the
late campaign and his consequent en-
forced absence from the parish, his
business as a merchant lie feared had
beer destroyed, and begging Packard's
influence to get him a position in the
Custom-house. Packard further says
that Laws had told him his life was in
danger, as he had testified before the
Home Senate Committee, giving the
name of prominent citizens who
threatened his life and who, as he be-
lieved, had caused his store to be fired.
Packard further asserts that Laws was
II of the best and most conservative
colored men of the whole Feliciana
district, and had previously held sew
eral influential positions with the full
acquiescence of the people, and was a
tax payer owning $50 1000 or 100000
worth CT property. Packard has trans
mitted the original Laws letter, and
Weber, killed in the adjoining parish,
use.
CHICAGO, May %.
Aspec;al to the Inter. Ocean from
New Orleans gives additional facts of
the killing of John Laws: Deceased
was a Republican member of the Leg
islature, a prominent, intelligent, in
dustrious colored man. His crime was
having testified before the Senate Com
mittee last January against the bull.
dosers. All the colored men who testi-
fed before that committee will meet
the same fate. Governor Nichols is
powerless to protect them. Two intu-
entail Postmasters were run out of the
parish of Feliciana last week and no
action has been taken in the matter.
miuistration Protests Against
LawIessness I'm the SOuth-Ls.
grange to be Investigated.
WASHINGTON, May %.
A correspondent says that William
d. Kelley and Senator Jones are be.
lieved to have inspired the attack on
Secretary Sherman, in the Washington
Nation. They declare that Sherman is
running the country, and no doubt
they would like their own financial
plans adopted. Jones was once a sill
yer mar but he is now understood TO
favor the abolition of the National
Banks, the permanent abolition of
gold and silver Is currency, the issue
of i~rredeemable legal tenders; also as
many dollars per head of u popu.
lation, and a yearly census with an
increased issue of greenbacks based on
the increase in population. Jones is
confident that with such a system we
shall be happy and prosperous, and
as he finds Sherman incapable of see-
ing the beauties of his system, he ma
turally wants to get a new Secretary
IN his place. There are people hers
who say that Jones has not as much
influence with this Administration as
he had with the last.
Secretary Evarts is preparing a letter
to Governor Stone, Of Mississippi, set
ting forth in very decided terms the
opinion OF the Administratio on regard
ing the murder of Judge Chisholm
and family, and, it will be a notice to
Southern people of the position of the
President upon the question OF protec-
ton OF all classes of citizens through
out the South, and will furnish an in
ter probation Of his Southern policy
which the South does not seem fully
to understand. There Is great dissatis-
apathy, and the letter will not be par
ticularly pleasant to that official.
Linderman, Superintendent of
MINIS, will institute q private inquiry
into the charges made against La
Grange. Superintendent of the mint
at San Francisco. On the whole sub
ject Linderman Ia silent from official
reasons, but there Is good reason to
believe from other sources that La
Grange will be the beginning Of the
end Of the Federal ring of the Pacific
Coast, so far as it is fed by Federal
patronage. With all the variety of re-
ports and charges against La Grange,
old and new, no man is better ac-
quainted than Secretary Sherman, who
WAS chairman of the Committee on
Finance when La Oranges name came
before it.
Verdict Of the Coroner's Jury in the
COurt.h0use Case.
CHICAGO, May %.
The TTfbune's Rockford, Ill.,, special
says: The Coroner's Jury tonight,
after thirteen days. work, rendered a
verdiot IN the Courthouse case which
Is fully sustained by public opinion
here. They find that Henry l.. Gay,
the architect, through neglect TO pro-
vide tor the great amount Of weight
called for to com plete the building ac-
cording to his plans, Is guilty of the
deaths Of the deceased, and that the
Board OF Supervisors failed to use the
necessary caution in examining the
plans and specifications and acted un-
wisely In not employing a competent