Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-05

tary Sherman, it is stated, declares unequivo
cally that no more government bonds will
be sold for redemption purposes, as the sue.
cess of the last 81, 900 900 ~ per cents as.
sures over $500, 900, 900 gold surplus before
January next, especially as our promising
crops and the large European demand foz
American products render any considerable
export OF gold this year highly improbable. -
ALL the indictments against ex-senator
Sawyer, ex.Commissioner Haines, and F.
W. Brooks have been dismissed as conse.
quence of their acquittal on the late trial.
GENERAL BUTLER will be assigned on the
sub-investigating committee to 60 to Louis
ana. He is particularly desirous of ascer.
tanning all the facts in relation to the Wayne
McVeagh commission, and the committee
will aid him in the matter.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS anneunces
himself q candidate for reelection from the
Augusta, Ga, district.
THE adoption by the house of the resolu.
ton calling on the attorney general for a
list Of pardons issued under the present
administration, and history of each case, is
likely to have the effect of causing the ad
ministration to discontinue the issue of
pardens. 1t appears that the number of
pardons already issued during the first year
and half of this administration exceeds
The number issued during the four years of
he presidents predecessors. As many as
seven pardons have been granted daily for
month. Many of these pardons have been
for political ofenses, and for violation Of
election laws in the last presidential election
! GEN. RUSSELL HASTINGS, of Rockford,
ILL.,, formerly marshal of northern Ohio, and
during the war lieutenant colonel of Presi-
dent Hayes regiment, and Miss Pratt, nece
of President Hayes, will be married at the
white house, the latter part Of next month.
The national democratic committee, in
session at the Arlington House on the
night Of the 23d, adopted the following:
| Resolved, That the action OF the house of
representatives in appointing committee
! fully empowered to Investigate and report
upon the frauds alleged to have been COM
/ mitted in the late presidential election, TO
the end that the truth may be made known
/ to the people and the repetition of such
| frauds be prevented in the future, meets the
approval of this committee.
THE senate confirmed the nomination of
Stephen B. Packard, of Liverpool, vice
Fairchild, transferred to Paris. There was
! brief discussion ever this nomination, and
the two consular changes involved in its
confirmation. 1t WAS confirmed by a strict
party vote, twenty-seven Republican against
twenty.three Democrats, comprising all
present except Senator Eustis, who withheld
his vote. The senate also confirmed Lucius
Fairchild, of Wisconsin, now consul at
Liverpool, to be United States consul.gen.
eral at Paris, vice Alfred T. X. Torbert, re-
called; Theo. Wagner, surveyor-general of
California.
THE EAST.
AN extensive forest fire has prevailed in
the vicinity of Wareham, Mass, since the
| 23d. Four or FIVE thousand acres Of wine
grapes and wood have already been de.
stroyed.
II. A. PATTERSON, formerly a well-known
speculator in the New York Stock Ex-
change, and at times a large operator, has
informed his creditors that warrant in
bankruptcy has been issued against his
estate upon his own petition. The liabili-
ties are placed at 100000.
SUPERVISOR EAGoN, of Troy, N. ", in.
dicted for mslfeasanoe in Office, for audit
ing fraudulent and bogus bills, closed his
trial abruptly on the 9th by pleading gull
ty. John Chase, who testified last week for
the defense, confesses to committing per-
jury.
DIR. LINDSAY, a veteran sporting report.
er, connected with the New York city press,
died on the Goth instant.
THE New York Erening Post announces
that the Stewart hotel for women will soon
be transformed into q general hotel, which
will be opened on the first day of June.
Eighty is the largest number of women who
at any time availed themselves of the hotel,
and that number has dwindled until there
are now but fifteen boarders. An attache
of the concern says that every day takes
$500 from the Stewart estate to maintain the
institution.
SIX accredited agents of the Russian gov
ernment reached Philadelphia from New
York on the oath. They visited Cramps
ship-yard and inspected preparations on the
State of California and steamer Columbia
They will visit Roach's ship-yard at Chester,
and it is rumored that the new steamer City
of Para, which was launched with so much
ceremony recently, is to be purchased by
the Russians.
THE Vermont Republican convention
nominated Col. Red6eld Proctor, of Rut
land, for governor. on the 23d.
| ANDREW H. DILL was nominated for gov.
ernor by the Pennsylvania democrats in
convention at Pittsburg on the Esd.
\ II,
taken steps to abolish colored schools, and
provide for the pupils at the public schools
with white children.
GRIMES AND cAsuALTIEs.
! TIM Brussells Hotel and six adjoining
stores were burned at Brussels, Ont, on
the 9th.
! w. II. SEENoE, ex.tax collector of Put
nam county, Ill.,, has been arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn, and held for requisition from
the governor Of Illinois, on charge OF em.
bezxlement.
1 DEAN TYLER, one of the most prominent
farmers in Barry county, Mich, shot and
killed John Pitts on the 26th. Tyler had
been criminaily intimate with Pitts wife,
finally succeeding in enticing Mrs. Pitts to
! his house where they lived for . time an
man and wife. An indignant populace
visited the gnilty pair one night and admin
istered coat of tar and feathers to each.
On the 26th Tyler happened to meet Pitts,
l when he Immediately shot him.
AN atrocious murder was committed at
Mendoza, ILL.,, on the 26th inst. Sam Carney,
a young man who had been refused permis.
sion TO visit Miss Culenbine, . young lady
of his acquaintance. went to her room, cut
her throat with q razor, shot her with re-
volver, and, being met by Mr.. and Mrs. Cul.
enbine on his way down stairs, shot the
father in the hip, cut Mrs. Culenbine severe
" with butcher kife, and, rushing out into