The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
TELEGRAPHIC News.
NOON DISPATCHES.


a surgeon in the Confederate State
army, died on the fourth instant, o
small 2ox.
WASHINGTON, June 4. - Dlspatche.
from all quarters report devotional ex-
ercises in the celebration of Corpu.
Christi and the Pope's golden anniVer
ssry. At st. Loris seventy or eighty
societies, gaily dressed III hundsOm,
uniforms and regalia, with forty band.
of music, were in the line of process
sion. At frequent intervals in tn,
! columns were large, finely embeilished
wagons filled with elegantly dressed
little girls and boys; also, numerous
carriages filed with priests and Off
cials of various grades. 1t is estimated
that 20, 900 persons were in the pro
cession, including the children. The
streets, on either side, were densely
thronged with spectators, and many
houses handsomely decorated with
American flags, the Pope's colors and
portraits OF the Pope, aud floral de.
signs.
ST. LOUIS, June 4. - The track OF
the st. Louis and SIN Francisco road,
$50 miles west Of st. Louis, was tam
pered with. The engine and baggage
| cars on the express train went down
q forty foot embankmeDt, killing three
persons. Pistol shots were fired at the
train, the flashes revealing men at the
side of the track. Two balls passed
through the cars, one through the con-
ductor's hat. The night was dark and
rainy, and the train running OILY ten
miles an hour, otherwise the robbers,
who intended throwing the whole train
down the enbankment, would Ger.
tainly have succeeded. No clue to
the perpetrators.
WASHINGTON, June At was GER
tainly the intention of the Executive
on Saturday to appoint no Democrat to
Office in the South, and to change at
his leisure all foreign representatives.
Gen. George A. Sheridan, of Louis
lana, has an Office under the Postoffice
Department.
A. n. Gibson, correspondent of the
New York Sun, abiding to the letter
which Gen. Garfield propounees for
gerry, says the letter written Gen. Gar
field by the President was shown by
him to score of persons within few
hours after he received it, and among
those favored with its perusal were
three reputable correspondents.
NEW YORK, June AIRS. Elizabeth
Ellet, the authoress, died here yester-
day. She was the widow of Prof. FL
let, formerly of Columbia College,
Charleston, South Carolina.
PHILADELPHIA, June NO opposi-
ton has been manifested to 4 general
reduction of wages on the Pennsylva-
MIA Central road.
LONDON, June At is stated that
the Russians lost 5000 in the recent
attack on Kars. A correspondent of
the DAILY Telegraph gives the follow
ing: Erzeroum, June al have to
record a most terrible event of the
present war. Two nights ago, 1000
Circassian cavalry, commanded by
Monshs Pashs, were ordered to pro-
coed toward Kars, entirely unsup-
ported by infantry or artillery. They
rested for the night at Bethel. Armed
Russians secretly organized a power
full force, and during the night sur
prised the village in which the Cir
cassians were, and only about fifty per
cent. of the entire fore, of 1000 Cir
cassians escaped the carnage which
followed. Monsha Pasha himself is
among the missing. The CIrcassians
fought desperately, and no quarter
was given.
Anthony Gardner is elected Presi-
dent of the Liberals.
A conspiracy in Servia against Milan
has been discovered, and many arrests
have been made.
BERLIN, June. At is reported
from Vienna that Russia's programme
on the conclusion of peace will be
self-government for Bosnia, Herzego-
yina, Bulgaria, and the Christians
of Lebanon. European commission
control of the European garrisons for
some time, and the cession OF the
territory in Armenia.
A cable dispatch says that it is now
known that on demand of Austri, Lit
lie Wsllachia will be considered neu-
trail ground.
LONDON, June 4.-Grant heard Dean
Stanley at Westminster. After allud-
ing to Motley's death, Stanley said ,
''Gen. Grant has just laid down the
sceptre of the American commonwealth,
after having, by military powers, still
more by generous treatment of COM
rades in victory and enemies in defeat,
restored unity to great and divided
people. England welcomes him as a
sign and pledge that the two nations
of the Anglo Saxon race are still one
in heart and spirits"
WASHINGTON, June 4, Secretary
Evarts has returned,
Secretary Key will arrive tomorrow
morning.
Col. White has resigned the collec-
torship of the port of Richmond, Vir-
GINA.
The Butler MscVelgh correspondence
has given the Louisiana marshalship a
scandslous interest.
The Star says Jack Wharton, an ap-
plicant for the Louisiana marshalship,
is in the city. The President is will
ing to give Wharton the PLACE when
Pitkin, the present incumbent, resigns,
and he has requested the latter's reslg-
nition. Pitkin, however, refuses to
resign, and says that if his Office is
wanted for somebody else the Presi-
dent must remove hiIA,
1t is held that the custom house in
vestigations and the directions by the
Executive to the collector suggested by
the commissioners, who have no legal ex-
istence, is no more nor less tn IN an i'm
pertinent interference with the legal.
rights and duties of collectors. The
President may nominate or suspend
collectors, but the details OF the opera
tions are clearly defined by acts of
Congress, and are properly, it is claimed,
beyond the Presidents interference,
WARRINGTON, June 4. Joseph
Franks, deputy United States marshal
from Macon county, North Carolina,
and who was arrested in this city on
Sunday night last, on a charge of de-
frauding the Uaited States govern
ment, had hearing to-day and was
committed to Jail in default of $4,000
bail. He says he wishes his trial in
Washington as he was arrested on
charges made by Marshal R. NJ. Doug
lass, because he would not comply
with his demand in making false
vouchers, Marshall Douglass, Mr..
Franks asserts, was to have oae-fourth
of all amounts raised in that way.
Douglass is the soa-in-law of the
United States District Judge, Dick,
before whom be would have to be
tried. He says that he will make
9 clean breast Of everything at the
proper time.
KEN Wrsr lima The Ameri