Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-13

UNITED STATES Minister Foster had q
long interview with the president on the 4th
inst with reference to Mexican matters, and
affairs on the Rio Grande border. 1t seems
to be very generally understood, here, that
the state department and administration will
be governed largely by the views of Minister
Foster on questions regarding the recogni
tion of Diaz. This statement, however, is
not authorized from any official source.
FORTY thousand bids have been received
for carrying the mails for the next four
years. In nearly all of that portion of the
United States lying west of the Mississippi
river, and extending to the Pacific ocean,
awards are to be made by March 30.
LEAvITT BURNHAM has been appointed
land commissioner of the Union Pacific
railroad, in place of Davis, resigned.
The third assistant postnsaster general
has tclegraphed to the postmaster at New
York that the trade dollar not being legal
tender, he is not obliged to receive them.
THE secretary of the navy has examined
the training-ship Saratoga. He found the
hull sound, but the timbers of the upper
works rotten. Twenty thousand dollars are
required to repair the ship.
THE president has appointed the follow.
ing gentlemen as commissioners to test the
gold and silver coinage of the United States
for the year 1877: Professor Charles w.
Elliott, of Massachusetts,; Professor Thomas
Egleston, jr., of New York; Professor Rob-
ert +. Rogers, of Pennsylvania; A. Louden
Snowden, of Pennsylvania; Hon. J. B. l..
Curry, of Virginia; Rev. S. A. Bronson. OF
Ohio: Charles NJ. Walker, of Indiana
Hon. B Newton ateman, of Iowa; Charles
Beardsley, of Iowa, and Hon. John W.
Twiggs, of California. The ex-officio com.
mssioners are the judge of the United
State district court for the eastern district
of Pennsylvania, the comptroller of the cur
rency, and asssyer of the assay Office of
New York. The commission will assemble
at the mint, at Phiiadelphia, on the 18th day
of February next.
THE EAST.
THn Mercantile Savings Institution, of
Boston, has been enjoined for the present
from doing business.
SWEET, Cool 4 Co., Buffalo, wholesale
boot and shoe dealers, have failed. Liabili-
ties $50, 900; assets not given.
EX-SENATOR HARRY GENET, of Harlem
court house notoriety, and one of the Tam
many ring fugtives, surrendered himself
at New York, on 4th inst, and gave bail in
the sum of $4,000.
THE National Bank of Commerce, of New
York, has entered suit against the National
Bank Of Missouri for 81 100000, on the
ground of loan made in 1866.
JOHN F. PHELPS, for thirty-fve years ed
itor of the Mayville, N. Y, Sentinel, died on
the I'd inst, aged SO years.
THE steamship Georgia, from Glasgow
arrived at New York on the LIST inst, having
on board 81 ,000,oO0 in gold and large lot
of United States bonds, the amount of them
being estimated by bankers at $1,000, 600 to
S., 100000.
The Providence county, r. L., savings
bank, at Pawtucket, is enjoined from doing
further business.
The assistant treasurer of the United
States, at New York, has refused to accept
the trade dollar from the postoffice. The
postmaster is seeking advice, as it causes
great inconvenience to the public, since he
is also obliged to refuse the trade dollars.
THERE is great excitement at Marlboro,
Mass, over the strikes of the Crispins. One
of the publishers of the Marlboro Adrertiser,
f. A. Townsend, WAS shot by one of the
strikers, for not using his influence to make
the girls leave the factories.
THE Pennsylvania Greenback committee,
On ha 20fh nj unpn,utaJ Hon II
Hughes, of Pottsville, and James Emerson,
of Beaver Falls, delegates to the Toledo
convention. They also decided to call a
state convention at Philadelphia on the 9TH
of June next
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| CORNELIUS GRlFFING, groceryman at
Memphis, Tenn, was accidently shot, on the
9th inst, by the jailor of the city prison at
that place.
WIN. ii. HUBBLE, a stock dealer at Wash
ington, Ind, was robbed of 5000, near his
home, by highwaymen, on the night OF the
4th inst.
The sheriff of Lee county, Tenn, is a de
faultes to the tune of $4,000.
THE body of James II. Daley wrs found
on the street at Boston on the night of ths
4th inst. He had been murdered and
robbed.
, A FIRE in a tenement at New York, or
the night of the 4th inst, suffocated fouI
children of Thomas Cassiday. Two of then
: were found dead, but the others will re
/ cover.
> THE almshouse at Freeport, Me-, burhet
.,,,t
ished.
chanicsville, N. Y, murderously assaulted
!, Mr.. and Mrs. James Walker, at Bemi
). Heights, on the 31st ult., and then commit
ted suicide.
!. JOSEPH BRANT and George Clemens, o
= Erie, Pa, were killed, and John Sutter, Tin
e Sullivan and man named Jones seriousl,
= injured, by a collision between afreight ca
4 and snow plow, at Cleveland, O., on the Is
inst.
The late storm along the Atlantic ha
been fearful, and dispatche& report damag
/. and disaster. At Cony Island there ha
been great destruction Of property, an
. eight lives lost. The scene of a great calami
q ty was at Manhattan beach, the property Of
% the east side of the island, where the storr
% struck with greatest violence, fairly sweer
ing everything before it. About half mil
east from the big hotel two shanties wer
upset and two women and three childre
killed. Three tidal waves followed in quic
succession, and the bodies were carried I
u the sea. The tide was FIVE feet higher tina
IL at any other point. The brig Tucker, Wit
81 a cargo of coffee valued at 1000, is tot'
loss at Asbury Park, N. j., and the schoont
Ella Haynes, salt laden, foundered with a
hands on Long Island sound.
THE signal service observer at Kit
Hawk, N. c., on the 3lst ult., report to tn
~ chief signal officer ~ follows: "The stean
90 ship Metropolis stranded on Currituc
rs beach, three miles south Of Currituck ligh
81 house, aud is total loss. There were tw
hundred and forty-eight persons on boar