The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-06-21
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show that the total amount Of one and two
dollar notes in circulation is S5l.4O4, ,51l.
The smount oTsuch 20 es in the Treasurer's
Office and reserved iOc use is $40, 183, ,387.
The smOuut in the Bureau Of Engraving aud
Printing, pfepafed or nearly ready for de-
livery 20 the Treasury, SO .704 g72. .....:... Con
tending factions OF the Republican party Of
Alabama called upon Attorney General
Devens recently regarding the Msrshaiahip
and District AttOrneyship OF that STATE, and
were advised TO reconcile their differences
aud agree upon proper sppOihtments.......:.
A delegation Of colored people from Lou si-
ana, which. has had two very satisfactory in
tervlews with the President also called on
Secretary ShermGn. The Secretary was
asked whether be Thought oDe-third Of the
patronage was too much for the cOl0Ted ptO-
pie. The Secretary replied that if men OF
integrity and intelligence we're chosen, he
thought they we're entitled to a fair share Of
patronage, and further remarked that he
would write to Collector King, at New Or
leans, upon the subject.
The publication Of figures showing that
Ohio has not yet received her quota of ap-
pointments in several of the most prominent
branches Of the public service has brought
large number Of fresh applications. Six
letters Of application were received to-day,
IN each Of which the writers had cut out the
newspaper statements of the relations be-
tween Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York,
shoinwg q marked lack in the numbers
from the first named State, and pasted it at
the head Of their letters for the information
Of the Executive.
southern Items.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas has de-
eided that the act under which about Sl6,-
100000 Of bonds were issued in 1869 in aid
Of railroads was unconstitutional and that
the bonds were illegal. The case was ap-
pealed from the Pulaski Circuit Court. The
supreme Court sfirms the decision Of the
western Items.
General Hammond, Superintendent Of
Indian Affairs for Dakota, with the balance
Of the Commission appointed to locate the
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Agencies, have
completed their mission. It is understood
that they have selected the ground at the
old Milestone Agency for one of the bands,
and that at the mouth Of Bad River for
the other, both being on the Missouri
River.
Captain Lee, Of the Tenth Cavalry, has
forwarded to General Sheridan from Fort
Griffin, Texas, an account Ofhis engagement
with a band Of Comanche Indians near
the 4th of May Four Indians were killed,
SIX squaWs and ifty-siX head Of mules and
horses captured, and fifteen lodges, with a
large supply of powder, lead, dried meats,
blankets, etc, were destroyed. First Ser
geant Charles Butler was killed.
The Secretary Of War and the Postmaster
General have written to the adjutaut General
Of the Military Division Of the Missouri,
officially recognizing the mail route from
Fort Pierre, Dakota, across the Sioux Reser-
Ystion, to the Black Hills.
narrowing accounts come from Oregon Of
q massacre Of settlers on the frontier by
Indians. Soldiers have been sent to the
scene and the hope is entertained that the
reports are greatly exaggerated. Sitting
Bull, finding that scalping and stealing are
attended with too much risk in the United
States, has concluded, it is said, to become
a British subject,
Disasters By Fire.
The extensive works Of the Jacobus and
Nimiek Manufacturing Company, on Dia-
mond Street, between Smithfeld and Grand
Streets, Pittsburg, Pa, were destroyed BY
IRE, about three O'Clock on the morning Of
June Is. The building was q f0ur-stOry
brick, with frontage Of one hundred and /
twenty-five feet on Diamond Street, and ex- l
tended back about seventy feet The com |
pany were engaged in the manufacture of /
light hardware, locks, bronzes, ETC., and their |
works contained a great deal Of costly and ]
delicate machinery, patterns, and manufac- /
tured articles, all Of which we're destroyed, :
The company estimate their loss at one hun I
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars, on I
which there is an insurance OF eight thou /
sand dollars, distributed IN small amounts 1
among numerous panies...... The West /
ern Stables, together with their entire con-
tents, including eighteen horses, were de-
strOyed by fire, recently at Fort Scott, Kan
sas. Loss from $4,000 TO $4,000. Sup |
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
Items IN General.
Mr.. a. A. Blood, formerly General Mana
ger of the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburp /
Railreed, and President and Vice. President /
Of other roads, and Solomon Il. Howe,
formerly Of the well-known dry goods
jObbing house of Howe, Pierce & Co.,
Boston, have failed, the former in 81 500. 600 |
and the latter for S4OO,0 O,0O0..Thomas Davis
and Lace jackson. colOred, we're drowned in 4
the NOncOnnah, near Memphis, in attempt
ing to swim their horses. The former was a /
noted local politician Eleven hundred /
employees, in seven collieries Of the Lehigh /
d Wllkesbarre Company, Penn, have struck
against reduction Of Wages......The Rev.
n. L. Rice, for fOrty-eigh years q Presbyterian
minister and late Professor of Theology in
the Danvile College, Kentucky, is dead.
The S,dr and Herald newspaper of Panama,
lately received at New York, confirms the
account Of the terrible destruction BIZ an
earthquake and tidal wave on the Pacific
Coast Of South America on Nav g. Ocean
waves sixty feet high swept over the land.
Six hundred lives we're lost. ten towns we're
almost entirely annihilsted, and the
destruction OF property is estimated at
$4,000 O,OOO...,,,Ihe execution Of George ".
Fletcher, for the murder Of James Hall, in
November, 1875, took place at MOyamensiDg
prison, Philadelphia, at 10 O'Clock, June IL.
Contrary to the hope be mas cherished for
months, William n. Tweed viii remain a
prisoner in the Ludlow Street Jail, New
York, till the judgment procured against
him in favor of the people Of the State for
S6iO00,O0O is satisfied. The endesvOrs which
his counsel, John ID. Townsend, had made I
to procure his release have failed utterly......
The suspension Of Frederick Prentice,
President Of the Producers Consolidated
Land and PetrOlvIm Co., No. "A Pine Street
New York, is announced. The amount Of
liabilities is not definitely known but is
placed a $500, 600. His losses were sustained
by the depreciation in oil, in which he had
rye transactions, and the failure of parties
LsaHa
Washington Cemetery, at Hagerstown,
where the Confederate dead killed in the
battles Of AntietGm and South Mountain are
inferred, was formally dedicated on June
u, with appropriate memorial ceremonies,
and the graves streWn with flowers An
Grafton was delivered by General Fitzhugh
Lee. About four thousand persons we're
present. A handsome marble monument
adorns the grounds, in which about two
thousand five hundred Confederate dead are
buried.
J. B. Guest, prominent retail coal dealer
ofNew York City, has failed. At meeting
of his creditors he stated that he had been
falling behind for FIVE years. His failure
was for S65, 1000; $4,000 is due coal COM
panies, $4,000 to the Reading Company.
The failure Of N. J. Steinberger & Son, 500
Broadway, New York, one Of the largest and
oldest houses in the millinery goods trade,
is announced. Liabilities about Sl5OOOO:
nominal assets as large, while their stock of
goods and outstanding claims are estimated
at a low figure to be worth 100000. It
thought that their creditors will realize
about seventy per CENT. Bauebing, Hill
q Co., importers and jobbers in millinery
uO1ds. New York Citv have gurnanded ]