Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-23

dav by a committee Of Germans and
presented with resolutions thanking
him for services to their countrymen
during the Franco-G erman war.
Washburne thanked the committee for
the honor they had done him in COM
municating the resolutions, expressing
the sentiment of the Germans OF Wash.
ington, many of whom he had long
and favorably known. He was high
Nv honored by their kindness and he
should cherish with gratitude the rec
objection of their visit as charged
with the protection Of Germans. Much
of this success was due to the kind
manner in which the government of
the National League of France had en-
abled him to perform his duty, which
was u delicate aud responsible one.
Washburne then thanked The commit.
tee as the organ of the German-Amer-
lean residents Of Washington.
A POstofiice Thief.
CHICAGO, March %.
For some time complaint has been
made that business letters addressed to
Chicago merchants have been missing,
and the %supposition has been that n
steal has been going on i'll the Pos
office Department. The responsibility,
however, had not been placed on any
one until to-dav, when Frederick j.
Gross, the distributing clerk. who has
been suspected recently and quietly
watched, was discovered furtively
slipping letters under a newspaper and
then into a side pocket. He was i'm
mediately called to an interview with
special Treasury Agent Stuart and con
fessed to the theft, placing the amount
of his stealing at $500. Goverom.n nj
officers, however. suspect that the
sum is much larger. as his tranSac-
TONS have been confined to business
letters.
A. Oakley Hall-The New York Press
on the Louisiana Commission.
New YORK, March %.
All the journals, including the He
aid and Tribune, have long articles on
the disappearance OF A.. Oakley Hall,
but nothing new is advanced. Halls
life was insured tor 10000.
The World ~denounces the Commits
sion for the South and the Herald
the extremists of both parties are
The Herald closes its editorial
thus: "Of what use or authority or
force or consequences are Commission
Boards. They are screens. One thing
the President may depend upon is.
that when he sends the Commission to
Louisiana he pleaseS every d~einagogue
who hopes tn keep the Southern ques-
ton open for another foul years, an
he disappoints every nan who wants
to see the country back sale under
shelter of the Constitution.
NEW YORK, March 20.
One hundred Tor !ed Pa. life Rail-
road londs for one thousand each have
been put on the market TO day by II
gang of swindlers, " of whom were
arrested yesterday.
The Dnrien ship Canal Report.
New YORK, March %.
The Bulletins private advices from
the International Com mission If Eu-
ropean Engineers and Scientists. now
engaged i'm an actual survey of the
proposed DaTien route tor a ship canal
connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
lay they will complete the work about
the first of April. They also indicate
that they have found. the low pass
hitherto rumored to exist within the
aoidtC VI aiihtttN III WI tCkott ~ &c
much more favorable than any Others
hitherto examined by any engineers.
Arrested for Forging Bonds.
NEW YORK, March %.
James Fitzpatrick was arrested in
New York at his hotel on the charge oi
having forged bonds in his possession
He had $4,000 forged bonds of the
Missouri Pacific Railway, guaranteed
bv the Stale Of Missouri. The bonds
are almost perfect limitations of the
genuine and were to have been thrown
on the street forthwith. JOS. Mckay
was also arrested, being accused with
completely in the sa,ne transaction.
PurpOrtiny TO be Lees Confession.
New YORK, March %.
The Herald publishes what is pur-
ported to Ire an abstract of Lees con
ie,sion. the party in confidential pos
Session of the genuine copy OF the orig
inal, signed by Lea. declares that the
abstract is moi made from that doci-
nent.t though both contain some simi-
lar facts and The Herald SOM things
mt in tho ponuiup document.