Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-13
NIGHT
HARRY MEIGGS.
His Estate Bankrupt.
RETURN OF GOVERNOR HEN.
bricks.
Inveray Castle on Fire.
Inveray Castle on Fire.

NEW YORK. Oct. IL.
W. r. Grace. head IT the chief Per u.
vians in this city, speaking OF the fl
nancial condition of the late Harry
Meiggs al the time OF his death, says
he thinks that really nothing except a
mass of worthless securities and con
tracts is Left behind by Meiggs, aud
creditor of the estate. Everything of
real value, or nearly everything, had
been gotten rid OF by him some tins
ago. and what may he lett was prob
ably mortgaged to its full value.
Meiggs was a visionary man who car.
riet out vast schemes, but they were
often things that a sound, business
man would consider worthless, and he
thinks the estate cannot be settled so
rs TO pay his debts, let alone leaving
any surplus. The project OF contin
ulng the Aroya road tn the Cerro de
Passo mines has not been carried out
The road Is finished to about 90 miles
from Lima, al a place called Alchi.
having been pushed at an norm
Gus cost tn that place, which is
about ii 1000 feet above the level of
the sen The road is not doing any
business. As fer this project, the open
ing OF the Cerro de Paso mines and the
draining them of water. Grace con~id-
ers IT visionary in the extreme. There
is nothing new in the project. 1t WAS
n nursery fatle when Grace was a boy
in Peru, g % years ago, and was
thought about as feasible rs the dis.
covery and of the buried
treasures of the late lsmen'ed Captain
Kidd. One large English firm ruined
itself years ago on the same scheme.
The sugar hariendas on the line IF the
unfinished eliminate railroads no
longer belong to Meiggs, but are In
Possession of Dertiano, OF the house
of Drayfus & Co. These two estates,
OF which over a one million apiece
was TX expended in improvements, alone
were squandered and paid away as
com mission of sale OF Peruvian bonds
They are now paying. handsomely.
The Chimbote road Was expected / q
open up a rich mining country. but
failed / o do so. There are, however.
some coal and silver mining interests
about there, fairly prosperous. but
they have passed out OF MeiggS' hands.
His town house in Lima he never
owned, but his two neighboring es
,ates, Villejas and La Loqua. he owned.
subject, However, tn mortgages for
more, probably, than they will ever
realize. | do not know whether
Meiggs still owned his magnificent
house at Santiago DE Chill or not; La
Quinia he called II. / know he valued
it at $500 ,000, and put it up once and
ratified il off. winning it biinself. with
the luck tina has always followed him.
Governor Hendricks and wife and
Miss keene LETT this morning for home
by the Pennsylvania Central railroad.
They will make a short stay IN Phila.
delpbia.
A special from Glasgow says In
veray Castle. county seat of Argyle, Is
On fire and its destruction is threat
ened.
A Proposed New Court.
WAsHINGToN, Oct. l2.A
Randall Is pretty ure to ecure the
Speakership, all combinations of oppos-
ing elements having failed.
Senator Davis bill IL almost com.
pleted. 1t il similar to that OF McCrary.
which failed To pass the Senate last
session., providing Tor the formation If
an intermediate Appellate Court in each
United States Circuit; composed Of the
Circuit Judge and District Judges in
q Circuit. The full bench would be
composed Of five judges. This would
have jurisdiction in cases Of fact, when
yer The SUN in the suit is under SlO,-
900; also in criminal cases. At present
there IL no appeal from the decision Of
q Circuit Court in criminal cases. The
bar of all the Circuits and the Judges
have always telt that this was \ severe
responsibility. and il was their almost
unanimous opinion that Q Court OF APP
peals should he given power to review
the findings In criminal cas4s.
This Appellate Court would ~ have
Jurisdiction over any cases in which
ihe amounts involved exceeded SlO,.