Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-31
LATEST FROM WASH.
INGToN.
SHERMAN ON THE PURCHASE OF bull.
LION.
A Bill Regarding the Metric
System.
THE NEW DOLLAR COUNTER
&. FEITED.
WASHINGTON, March 80.

One of the resolutions adopted Ivy
the San Francisco Chamber Of Com
nerce last week, anu sem to the Cali
fOrnia d.legat on in Congress, IA
based upon a totally erroneous un-
derslandlng as to the terms OF ths new
silver coin certificates. 1t is not true
that all such certificates are made re-
deenabie at New York, except those
issued in San Francisco. Secretary
Sherman says there Is no discrimina
ton against the place in the form Of
any of them. Each Is redeemable in
accordance with this Interpretation OF
the law at the place where the silver
coin which il represents Wa deposited,
hut that all certificates are receivable
enough everywhere in The United
| states for all public dues and taxes.
Hence The certificates issued
ut San Francisco being rereiv
able for customs dues at New York
| will doubtless find their way thither a.
a convenient form of exchange. and in
| the course OF lime, when the Govern
| ment needs coin, 1t may ultimately be
cOmpelled 10 transport coin from San
| Francisco across The continent. and
provide for the redemption OF all GER
titcates on this side. There is, how
ever. very little prospect Of extensive
coinage, and the accumulation OF legal
tender silver dollars on the Pacific
| Coast at present. Secretary Sherman,
in several conversations with Horace
Davis recently, has complained that
there Is a corner in silver bullion III
| San Francisco, silver being held Al
| higher prices there than Iva ran pur
chase it laid down in New York. The
| Secretary further remarked to Davis
| that If this state of things continues, he
| shall not buy silver in San Francisco.
at this disproportionate rate, but viii
pr ess ,he Philadelphia Mint to ,s ut
lost ca, q ity and urge the establish
| ment OF Minis el>ewhrre, and thus en-
deavor to comply with the require
ments Of the law, though not running
the San Francisco Mint ON 4l213 grain
silver dollars al all.
Secretary Evarts is placed in an EN-
barrassing attitude before the Senate,
and before the English Government
and Sir Edward Thornton, by with
holding the most important OF the
fishery correspondence written by o
retary Fish 10 Pierrepont, accepting
and indorsing Delfosse as the third ar
bitrator. Sir Edward has all along re-
garded the charges of undetermined
dealing as unjust and unkind and may
now be excused for complaining OF
similar treatment himself.
AstonistIingly accurate cOunterfeits
of the new sii,e dollar have been re-
| ceived at the Treasury, made of com
, posite base metal, that gives n clear
| ring and presents the appearances OF
silver. Director Linderman SAID to hav
that thew are better than Government
coin. Nobody but an expert would
detect them.
The bill introduced in the house yes
terday by Stephens authorizes The use
Of a modified metric system, and the
! continued use of any system now per
mitted by law, Is not prohibited. The
true intent and meaning of the act he
ing not to enforce any particular sys
tenn. but to provide for public con
| venience by the adoption of A system
agreeable to- its circumstances and exi
gencies. Following are the metric
tables az proposed by the bill: Meas
ures of length-A hundred hairs make
a nail; a hundred nails, make a metre
a thousand metres. make \ kile.
Measures of surface-Ten Thousand
| square metres, make q great acre.
Measures of bulk and capacity-A
hundred drops make a spoon; a hun.
bred spoons, makea quart; a hundred
| quarts, make a cask. Measures Of
| weight-A hundred seeds. make a
corn; a hundred corns, make a nut;
a hundred nuts. make a bipOund 81
bip; q thousand bips mako u ton.
Marvellous Feat Of the s.Grass'
Hopper"
ST. LOUIS, March 80.
Shafer has performed another mar
velous feat. Last night, in the match
with Dion, he made a run of 429, the
largest aver made in a three ball game
| with a cue. Sexton once made AIT.