Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-22

surrender of their arms and ponies. Spot
ted Tail expects to be absent more than q
month, but will communicate with Gen.
Crook as soon as he reaches the hostile
camp The Indians think that there is a
strong probability that this movement will
be suceessfulin terminating the war.
Pheasant Gillian, James Page, Marion
stewart md Thomas Jackson were killed
by the explosion Of a saw mill boiler near
Noblesvifle, Ind. Aon the 10th. Three
other men were slightly injured. =
Charles b. WlkinsOn,~ef St. Joseph,
Mo-, convicted OF defrauding the revenue,
was ~pardoned on the 10th. ,gvA sd T..
The steamer Lizzie Bayless was burned
to the waters edge, at Alton, H., on the
night of the 10th. Her Captain, Oliver
CRUEL, was burned to death in his cabin, but
all the rest oil bosrd escaped.
Col. Henry Tomlinson, of Memphis,
Tenn, who had been visiting his family at
Bridgeport, Conn, and was on board the
unfortunate train that persisted at the Ash
tabula bridge, died on the 10th at A%sntabula
from the effects of his injuries. Col. Tom
linson was formerly a resident of st. Louis,
and joinedfthe Federal army at the break
ing out of the War. .. ,l..t .a-t 81.
Hon. James l.. johnson, of Owensboro,
Ky, formerly Representative in Congress
from the Second Kentucky District, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th, by shooting
himself through the heart with a rifle.
Mental depression, the effect of continued
i'll health, is supposed to have been the
cause.
A dispatch from Gainesville, Ga, 18th,
says Lieut.. Mcintyre, of the I'd Infantry,
was killed in the Frog Mountains by illicit
distlllers in ambush, the attack upon the
Government forces having been made by
distillers, 30 in number, under cover of
night. 3D..
Tassey Stewart, a farmer Of Yuba Coun-
ty, Call, is under arrest, charged with at
tempting to bride Secretary Chandler to
render a decision in his favor in the contest
over the title to a quarter section of United
States land. He wrote to Secretary Chand-
Ter, offering him $500 for a prompt and IA
vorable decision. The Secretary referred
the letters to the Attorney-General, who
ordered Stewards arrest.
A serious fire occurred at Dardanelle,
Ark, on the 18th. Among other buildings
DESTROYED was that Of the ArE0nSidn.
The South bound express train on the
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad was
thrown from the track about IL miles north
of Little Rock, Ark, on the morning Of
the 14th. The locomotive. tender and bag
gage-car were thrown down an embankmert
and crushed to pieces, killing the fireman
and fatally injuring the engineer. The re-
mainder Of the train was uninjured. 1t is
said that the rails were loosened, with the
evident design of wrecking the whole train.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Wishard, superintendent of
the Orphans Home at knightstown, Ind,
cut his threat at the St. James Hotel in
New Orleans on the 14th.
An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
Gov. Packard was made in New Orleans ON
the 10th, by q young man named VIM.
Henry Weldon. He entered Gov. Pack
ards private office just before noon, while
the latter was sitting at his desk in
conversation with several gentle
men, and as the Governor turned
around in response to his salutation, We'll
don drew a pistol and pointed it at Packard's
breast. The latter instantly struck the
weapon down and grappled with his assail-
anIs Inc plSLOA WAS ulecudEEeQ, Inc Dali
striking Packard on the right knee-cap, in
fiicting a slight wound. A number OF Pack
ards friends who were present i'm
mediately drew their reVolvers, and
one fired at Weldon, ~wounding
him in the left arm. He was aiken into
custody, and from an examination of papers
found upon his person it was ascertained
that his name was as above stated, and that
he was recently from Philadelphia. He
claimed to be a correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press, but hat paper denies
all knowledge of him. Being asked his
motive. he replied: ''Only patriotism -
He had only been in New Orleans "a hours,
and it was thought by many he was insane,
while others charged the attempted assas-
s~ination to political motives.
Reports from Deadwood, D. T., ON the
10th, were to the effect that q number of
Indian depredations had recently been COM
mitted in the Black Hills, and fears were
entertained of a general onslaught by the
hostile Indians.