Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-10
EASTERN NEWS.
ESPECIAL TO TIE DAILY sENrINEL-i
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
ING
Meeting Of the Supreme
Court.
Appropriations that will be
Asked for.
THE BORDER TROUBLES
OTHER ITEMS FROM THE
CAPITAL.
THE BORDER
n ITEMS FROM THE
CAPITAL.

VtCtOFy ucdIIy OOuSuts thoukh t"oy
commend his troops for bravery, and
within a year the Seventh Cavalry has
lost eighteen officers in action and the
friends of the officers in that regiment
are p%etitioning for their transfer.
The Supreme Court of the United
States met to day at noon; present,
Justices Waite, Clifford Swayne, Mil
Ter, Field, Strong and Bradley. The
call OF the docket begins tomorrow.
Attorney General Devens will ask
Congress to appropriate S2o5,000 10
cover the deficiency for the Depart
ment for the past fiscal year.. The re-
port OF the Secretary OF State is to be
presented with the Presidents u'es-
sage next Monday. The latter favors
this Government appointing q COM
missioner with IL assistants. aud an
appropriation of 500, QUO, to represent
the United States at the Paris EXPOSE
ton. Immediate action will be urged.
John Morrissey vii! be here in Ran
dAll's interest and begin pool selling
on Thursday, and will manipulate
them TO give the impression that Ran.
dali is sure to be elected. Kelly will
be here at the head of a large Tam
many delegation to work for Cox.
The Ccm Commissioner of the General
Land Office to day suspended all en-
treaties made under the Desert Land
law of July 18th, 1876, and will make
investigations of allegations that un-
der it valuable lands have been en-
tered in violation OF its provisions.
The scheme of electing an Admins
tration Speaker is deemed chimerical.
Nearly all the candidates are here.
Morrison has finally come out
against the Texas Pacific scheme and
has declared for the early resumption
and the reconciliation Of silver.
Official and private information re-
garding the FL Paso, Texas, uprising
shows it Is not OF an international
character, but confined to the Ameri-
can. Mexican and foreign residents
In that county. Ex- Delegate Elkin, of
New Mexico, has been anticipating
this trouble for some time. owing to
the infringement by the northern par
ties on the salt mines long since con
coded to belong to tho Spanish and
Mexicans.
The south Carolina swindIers.
COLUMBIA, Oct. 8.
Congressman Smalls to day had a
preliminary examination on The
charges against him. Woodruff testi
fed that he paid Smalls $1,000 as q
brIbe TO vote for q measure in 1873.
Smalls was held to bail to answer in
the Circuit Court, October ~. Max
we'll, the State Senator from Marlboro
oned on q similar charge. These
charges of bribery are connected with
the printing Of the swindlinR Repub-
lican Printing Company, Of which
Woodruff was the head center. His
testimony Is based upon a memoran-
dunn book he kept in short. hand.
patra's Needle.
New YORK, Oct. 8.
A special from Montreal says the
Teller in the Branch Bank Ct Montreal
has absconded with $40. He was
we'll known in social circles. and be-
lieved tn have been a heavy specu-
lator. The loss TO the bank 1t is pre-
sumed will be heavy.
A special from Montreal says sew
eral barges containing -four and grain
were sunk by collision. Loss, $Il3,-
900.
An engineer Offers through the
Tribune TO bring here and set up Cleo
pAtra's needle for 500 900. the price
asked. aud to raise IS 900 himself.
At this hour, $40 A. M, 1t Is raining
and blowing furiously. The tides are
high, but the rain fall is very accept
able. No apparent sjgn Of the abate-
ment Of the storm.
suss for Libel.
OMAHA, Oct. 8.
John C. Myers, ex-Consul to Shang.
hal. who was suspended by Minister
Seward, has sued tho Omaha Bee for
$50. 900 damages for calling him y
drukard, a monomaniac and other
base anies.
Travel on the railroad bridge over
the Missouri, at Atchison, has been
suspended, as the west stoDe abutment
which rests on q pile foundation has
sunk almost out OF sight. The cost of
repair will be $50 900, and 1t will lie q
month before it can be reconstructed.
Items from she city Of Mexico.
CITY oF MEXICO, Sept. 30.
Congress has authorized the Gov
eminent to expend $500 900 in the
construction of 2 factory for breech-
loading arms. The Government has
contracted for 500, 900 worth Of Rem
ington arms. The Government has
ordered the Collector Of Customs at
Vera Cruz to remit monthly to the
Uniled States Us 900 on account for
the payment of the American debt.
The Sufferers BY the Strike.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 8.
At a meeting to-day Of merchants
Who suffered losses by the late riots at
Pittsburg, a committee Of three was
appointed with power to employ coun-
sci TO represent all parties having
losses, the expenses incurred To be
divided among the claimants in DrO-
portion To the amounts involved.
Goa Miners Ges An Ad vance.
WILKEsRARRE. Oct. o.
The Susquehanna Coal Company's
men, at Nanticoke. resumed work ut
10 per cent. advance.