, 1878-04-13

- law, bnt he will vote in favor Of res
storing the income tax. which will be
made to bear as heavily as possible
upon large corporations.
WASHINGTON. April 5.-Pinchback
says Louisiana has now the best govern
or within his recollection and the people
are better satisfied than heretofore with
public affairs, although. as elsewhere.
there are complaints of hard times. The
only thing o: which Pinchback COM
plans is that few children nearly white
in the public schools in New Orleans
bave been required to leave. His own
children were included in the number
removed by the school authorities.
SAN FRANCI GO. April s. A morning
paper printed a report to the effect that
about forty citizens Of Oakland held a
meeting last Wednesday evening to con-
slider the course to be pursued with re,
gard to certain lands in the city which
the parties meeting assume are held by
certain individuals and corporations
without legal title. 1t is now determin-
ed to jump the lands in question. and
the first movement will be made upon
these held by the Central Pacific and
II. W. Carpenter. Those present at the
meeting signed roll pledging them
selves to obtain fire arms and deferd by
force :te land jumped. They claim 10
be in correspondence with parties in
San Francisco. ard they state that
within a few weeks they will number
one thousand men ready to dispute
their claims with their lives.
The Oakland Tribune will this after
noon print an article based on authentic
information that in fact number of
workingmen have been considering the
| feasibility of getting up n colonization
scheme to purchase tract of land and
divide it up among members cf the
company; that certain communist lead
ers selzed upon the occasion to announce
tina. the lands above referred to weie
not legally held by the possessors, and
urged those engaged in the movement
TO take action. A few credulous men
concerned in the original movement be-
lieved the statement and there may be
half dozen of them who would be will
ing to try the experiment of jumping
claims.
New YORK, April 5.-Colorel Mercer.
editor of the Oregon Granger. will ad-
dress the New York Press Club to- NOR
row evening in their club rooms and
impart information concerning Oregon
and Washington that may b. new to
eastern men.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. April 5.-The
New England Methodist conference, at
Wesiield. voted to-day not to admit
ministers in future who use tobacco.
VoLo, April 5.-The mutulated body
Of Mr. Ogle, the Times correspondent,
whose assassination was before eported,
has been found rear Portuari.
There are 100000 Turkish troops in
and near Vo,o. characterization among
them is increasing, and it is feared their
desire for plunder, stimulated by un~
punished outrage in neighboring villa
ges, may lead them to sack this town.
where thousands of women and childi en-
are refuged unless more foreign men>of~
war are sent.
New YORK, April Ex-Governor
franklin J. Moses. Jr., of South
Carolina, was arrested on Broadway
to night by Deputy Sheriff Connors
of Charleston, and locked up at po-
lice headquarters. He is charged
with having forged the names of J.
Woodruff for $316, and passing a
note upon one Jas. Amen. Conners
is armed with a requisition and Mo-
ses will be taken to Charleston in a
few days. The object in arresting
him is to get him back to South
Carolina to have him tried for crimes
alleged to have been committed
while holding a high official posi-
ton. Soon after his incarceration,
Moses sent one of his friends to
acquaint his lawyers with the trouble
which had befallen him. The mes
senger refused to disclose his own
came or the names of tho ex-govern-
or's lawyers Or friends in this city.
The Ira6une's Washington cores
pondent interviewed several sena-
tors on Blair's Maryland resolution
to unseat Hayes. Davis and Morgan
both agreed the supreme court Of
the United States, if the case was
brought to its attention, would hold
that congress had already exercised
its reserve power under the consti-
tuition to settle the presidential diff
Guilty by the creation of the elector-