The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-29
General News.

| UItDUS OI Llit huSSidho. - NphihS"
between the Russians and the Turks
was almost precipitated on Tuesday,
18th.
+ The Agricultural Bureau reports
the wheat crop for the present year
more than heretofore abundant. In
Alabama the area planted is larger
than ever, but the yield is not in
proportion. Reliable data thus far
puts the crops at 400, 000,0O0 bushels.
Work on the Pacific Railroad has
got down into IbeVille parish.
The grading is mostly dome to Rose
dale, on the Bayou Crosse Tete,
aud will no doubt be pushed on.
This road crosses the Crosse Tete
and the Opelousas Railroad a few
hundred yards from R0sedale and a
short distance below Plaquemine,
turns Oft eastwardly across the
swamps between the Crosse Tete
and the river to the highlands in
the rear of Brusle Landing, thence
following the general course of the
river through Plaquemine on to
New Orleans.
Railroad officials fear another
! general freight war. Cutting in the
form of rebates has been going on for
some time, and the prospects of
maintaining a fixed tariff much lon
ger is not considered encouraging.
The belief is that the New York
Central, after securing at the next
election the control of the Michigan
! Central road. will withdraw from all
pooling contracts and enter the field
for all freight offering at low rates.
| With its connecting line it can carry
freight lower than any other road,
and this action will provoke gem
eral railroad war.
The Y. O. Democrat has IA special
from Washington, under date of
June 18th, which says: The pas
sage of the Eads relief bill to-day
has inspired our Representatives
with some hope of being able to susS
pend the rules Tomorrow on tlH
levee bill. Eads is in high feath@r
to-night, and says he will immedi-
ately make his success felt in NeE
Orleans by enlarging the SCOPE ct
his operations and hasteDing the
comnletion of his work. The effect
of his relief will be to increase tie
amount of circulating. medium in
and about New Orleans dnring THIS
summer and fall, by about 81 100000
not to speak of the benefits of COM
merce, resulting from the more rapid
deepening of the channel. lt is
really "a matter of first class impor-
lance to your community.
Private information from Berlin
shows diminution of the sanguine
hopes entertained few days since.
A letter from an important source
says: The Emperor will die. No
beling will live to be killed. In the
excitement attending the decease of
the Emperor, which may take place
at any moment, the work of the
congress will be neglected, and
probably an adjournment will take
place for AN indefinite length of time.
Meanwhile, Austria strains every
nerve in warlike preparations. She
conducts herself as if she knew that
the congress would disperse with
the general cry ''To arms" On the
other hand Russia moves her troops
hlther and thither, but always to bet
ter strategic position and nearer to
Constantipople. The death of the
Emperor William would immediate
ly cause the gravest complications
in the domestic aud foreign relations
of Germany, and it is more than
questionable whether the ''Dnei kai-
ser-~und" can be perpetnated with
new Emperor on the throne.
An Oregon dispatch, dated June
18th. saws that Sarah Winnemucca,
daughter OF the head chief of the
Piutes, came in tonight. She was
sent by Capt. Bernard, direct by
Gen. Howard, to communicate with
the people, and reports as follows :
She found her father and his sub
chiefs, Oils Egan, aud three bands
retained as prisoners by horde of
renegade Bannocks, Nez Perces,
Shoshones and others, because they
would not join them against the
whites. The hostiles were very Bit
ter against them. There was big
council OF the Indians assembled.
The hostiles have a strong posi-
ton near Juniper Lake, i'll rugged,
mountainous country, and number
about 7On. Sarah was disguised, or
she would have been kill. Her
brother aided three white men to
escape, who were to have been kilkd
that night, aud escaped with them.
Sarah, her father, sister in-law and
few others escaped aftherwards.
Three hundred Shoshones have pass
ed through Bdwawa to join the hos
tile Bannocks. The county judge
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