The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

General Key to-day directed that letter
be prepared for transmission to the
speaker of the house of representatives,
foreshadOwing a discontinuance of the
postal car service in all parts Of the cOun-
try on the first day of January next, un-
less congress shall In the meantime
make an appropriation to contiue it.
LONDON, Dec. 6.-Sir Charles Dixie
will ask the government on Monday to
state the contents of the letter which
Lord Lytton on the I'd of December an
nounced that Major Caragnan had re-
ceived from the Ameer of Afghanistan.
1t is rumored that the Ameer therein ex-
presses wish to make terms of submits
sion. In the house of commons this
afternoon, Whitehead, Liberal, gave no
tice that he would offer a resolution dis
approving the Afghan war, and asked for
the appointment of a day for its discus
sion.
INDICTMENTS.
CHICAGO, November Ga Yankton
dispatch says the grand jury, discharged
to-day, found forty7four indictments
against Livingstone and other Indian
agents, government employees and tim
Der thieves. Livingstone, Richardson,
LeClaire and Russell7weEe arranged to-
day on one joint Indictment, and will
plead on the Esd.
SUSPENDED.
MONTREAL, December ga bank here
to-day received cablegram announcing
the suspension of the West of England
Bank, headquarters at Bristol, capital
one million pounds sterling It has
forty-nine agencies. The suspension is
probably caused by loss in the iron trade
THE NDIAE BUREAU.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 6.-The joint COM
mission considering the transfer of the
Indian bureau to the military depart
ment heard Secretary Schurz today. He
disclaimed any personal desire to retain
control of the Indian service under the
Interior department, No branch of the
departments business IS so troublesome
and thankless. He thought the Indians
were entitled TO humane treatment, and
that could only be rendered through the
processes of civilization, education and
refinement. This the military were not
fitted to promote. The secretary quoted
from the report of the Sioux commission
! ars, signed by generals Sherman, Terry,
Augur and others, setting forth, in effect,
that if peace with the Indians was re-
quired, the management of their affairs
should be placed nnder civil depart
ment of the government. Now, agree
with these gentlemen on this point. There
are great many officers of the army
who have excellent ideas on Indian at
| fairs; but it is another thing to bring
these ideas into practical effect" The
military arm of the government he did
not consider gifted with the patient Ia
Dor required to place the hoe in the In
dams hand and teach him how to use it.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-The scrapers and
cutters Of the Chicago pork-packing
house struck for increase of wages from
$2.75 to So per day. The Jim Keene
wheat corner is a mysterious affair
81 500 600 came from New York yester.
day to apply on purchases,
TERRIR1E FIRE.
NEW ORLEANS, December IA pri-
vate dispatch describes the destruc-
ton of fifty houses in the business
portion of the town of Macon, Mississip-
pi. Loss, 100000; Insurance sos, 900.
RELIEF COMMITTEE.
| MEMPHIS, December THE citizens
relief committee wound mp their affairs
to-day, and distributed the balance on
hand, $7,252, pro rata among four or
phan asylums In this city. By order OF
Quartermaster General Meigs and adj
vice of the Surgeon General, fifteen hun
bred tents shipped to Memphis during
the yellow fever epidemic, will be re-
| turned.
| THE INDIAN BUREAU.
The joint commission considering the
transfer of the Indian bureau from the
civil to the military department, to-day
heard the views of Col A. B. Meacham.
He holds that the only solution of the
Indian problem is in civiliZing and edu.
eating the Indians, that they may sup
port themselves. In the past twenty five
years he has not known a case where q
disturbance between the whites and In,
dians has occurred, except through the
breaking of treaties by the former,
SILVER BONANZA.
LEApvHLE, Colorado, Dec. THE
silver product of this camp exceeds the
expectations of the most sanguine. New
discoveries are reported daily. The pro
duct of the leading mines has increased
fifty per cent. within the last two weeks
Two thousand tons of ore, yielding 90.
600 ounces of silver, were delivered this
week, and three thousand tons high
grades are awaiting transportation. The
4 leading ore buyers estimate the net pro.
duct for the year of this camp, upwards
of three million dollars.
wHIsKY's DoINes.
CHICAGO, December AT 1 O'Clock
this morning, j. G. Hayward, of Fon du
Lac, Wisconsin, at present student in
the Chicago medical college, became en-.
gagged in discussion regarding the pay.
ment for some drinks in a south side
saloon, and shot James Mcmahon, own.
er of the saloon. killing him instantly
CINCINNATI, December AT Hamil-
ton, Ohio, at an early hour this morning,
ii. Weigle, owner of a beer garden on
Heater street, shot hls wife through
| the head, and then shot himself. Both
died Instantly, Financial and family
difficulties are said to haYe been the
cause.
CINCINNATI, Dec. Brew. Jas. Chal-
len, the leading clergyman of the Camp
bellites, and editor of the Christian An
nual, died this morning at the residence
Of his daughter, in this city.
THE POSTAL CAR SERVICE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Speaker Ran.
dali laid before the house of representa-
tiVes to-day, communication addressed
TO him officially by postmaster general
Key, IN which ne informs the house that
in order to keep the total expenditures
within the amount of the appropriations
he viii be Obliged 70 cause the railway
postal cars to be discontinued on and al
ter the first of next January, unless con-
gress should, in the meantime, make an
additional appropriation.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
The president nominated Eugene J.
Ball, of Indiana, consul at Pesth; David
Baily, of Ohio, consul general at Shang-
hal; Andrew ]. Mccormick, United
States Attorney for the eastern district
Of Texas. ostmasters-James W Mack,
Holden, and Ansel d. Brown, Burling-
ton, Kansas.
FoUR PER eEKF. SUBSCRIPTIONS.
/ Subscriptions TO the 4 per cent. loan,
81, 574, $50.