The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-05-04
General News.

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year.
Chicago is doing more building at
the present time than in any previ
Gus spring since 1873.
Mrs. Brooks intends to exhibit a
full length model Iolanthe, in butter,
at the Paris exhibition.
The Khedive of Egypt will visit
ConstantinOple in two weeks to pay
his respects to the Sultan.
Lewiston, Maine, complains of an
abundance of counterfeit dimes,
made of lead aud silvered:
A dispatch from Shanghai reports
that the famine in the northern
provinces of China is increasing.
A dispatch from Vienna says: 1t
is stated that formal invitations to
attend the Congress have been issued
to the powers.
The arrangements for the opening
of the Paris Exhibition on the first
of May were settled at Cabinet
council on Wednesday night, April
18th.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says: The revolutionary movement
throughout Russia is increasing. and
it is probable that the government
will proclaim state of siege.
A dispatch from ConstantinOple
says Il mixed commission Of Russian
and Turkish officers are to investi-
gate the local conflicts that arise be-
tween armed Turkish and Russian
soldiers.
Montgomery Blaii's Maryland
proposition to reopen the presiden
| tiai controversy was Introduced in
the lower house of Congress last
Monday, and the prospect is that it
will be unceremoniously rejected as
soon DIS it shall come to a vote. AL.
exander H. Stephens, of GeOgia,
takes the lead in opposing it.
If peace he firmly re-established,
the Gar will intrust the reins of
| government TO the CzarOwhich for a
year aud a half, during which time
he will travel throughout Europe.
This would he great event in Eu-
ropean political history. as it would
afford AN opportunity for its rulers
to express their congratulations to
the Gar in person.
The hanging of the three muir
dere,s, Aleck Brown, Jackson Ed
wards and Westley Turner, took
place at Franklin, La, ut II o'clock
April Odd, in the presence of at least
5000 people. The best order pre-
vailed, nothing but u sentiment OF
awe could be traced upon the 5000
silent faces that looked anxioGsly on
to the last of the doomed men.
The production of precious metals
in America is nearly S1,000,OOO per
annum. During the past eight
months we have shipped abroad 81
SIC, 900. in gold and silver bullion
more than we have received from
Europe. Other years, during the
same length of timr. we have ex-
ported from S35. 0OO, 900 to $40, 0J0,-
900. There is a heavy balance in
our favor, and gold and silver are
rapidly accommodating. Oar exports
for the last eight months amount to
S46I 600, 900, gain of S36, 10000
over those of any former year.
The nomination of George l..
Smith to be Collector of the port of
New Orleans OccasiOned considerable
surprise even in administration cir
cles. The nomination was not made
out at the Treasury Department, as
is the rule with all appointments
under the Secretary of the Treasury,
but was made out at the White
House and sent direct to theTreasury
Department. Secretary Sherman
NAV have been advised Of the fact,
but no other member of the Cabinet
had any knowledge of it. The fact
that Packard left for New Orleans is
taken as evidence that he has given
up the fight and augurs favorably
for smith.
Delegate Maginis, of Montana,
Territory, has received letter from
the frontier from one of his scouting
constituents, giving some facts as to
1.-THE location and the strength of the
hostile Indians. The writer is an
old Indian fighter, and says that
Sitting Bull has been working all
winter to form an alliance of al the
hostile Indians for a concerted move
ment against the whites this summer.
Sitting Bull is now camped near the
hills with several hundred lodges
that he has gathered under his fold
during the last two or three months.
The Indians are well armed and
well supplied with ammunition,
some having improved needle-guns
They are full of the war spirit and
suh;ect tn Sitting Bull. i'm whom