Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-22


soon as a sufficient number shall
have been coined for the purpose.
In the meantime payment will be
made at the latter places in gold
coin. This is intended to place the
holders of small lots of silver on the
same footing with the owners of
large amounts and to use the new
silver dollars in the purchase of bull
lion.
Information Quashed - Crevasses
Closed.
NEW ORLEANS, March 21st.-
Judge Whitaker to-day rendered
decision quashing the informa-
ton filed by Attorney General Og-
den against ex-Assistant Attorney
General Dibblee. Last June he
was accused of having refused to
pay over $4,000 collected by him
while acting Attorney General un-
der the Kellogg government. He
claimed that the settlement should
be made in State warrants, which
he rendered, together with instruc-
tions from the State Auditor to re-
ceive them.
State Engineer Hardy reports
the crevasses below the city all
closed.
Female suffrage Defeated.
BOSTON, March 2lst.-The bill
granting female suffrage at munic-
ipal elections was defeated in the
House by 127 to 90.
won't let Women Vote.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Match 2lst.
The House of Representatives
have defeated, 10 to 81, the consti-
tutional amendment to give un-
married women and widows the
same privileges as men in voting
upon propositions to impose taxes
or appropriate money or for City
Council.
Another Inaian Campaign on Foot.
ST. PAUL, March 21.-Great ex.
citement is felt in the northwest
territory over reported Q eombina-
ton by Sitting Bulbs forces, the
Sioux, Blackfeet and other tribes
to attack settlements In the Spring.
Many settlers are moving.
Attempt at Wholesale POisOnimg.
CLARKsBURG. w. Va, March 81.
A domestic of Judge Campbell at.
tempted to poison the whole family
Tuesday by putting arsenic in the
tea. The large dose administered
caused vomiting and saved their
lives.
DefauIter Sentonce ii.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 2l.-
Abiel f. Fifield, defaulting Water
Register, has been sentenced to
three years in the Penitentiary.
Missionary Interrupted.
OTTAWA, March 2lst.-While
the Reverend M. Picot, a French
missionary, was addressing con-
gregation last night, at Hull, he
was frequently interrupted by half
intoxicated men, one of whom was
an alderman. After the services q
number of Indian converts were at
tackled by mob and pelted with
stones. Picot was escorted home
by about a hundred Orangmen.
Stones were thrown at them but a
strong force of police coming upon
the scene riot was prevented.
The Tables Ereetuaiiy Turned.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., March 21.-
At Foster in this State, last night,
VIM. Ide returned home drunk and
badly beat his wife, who had also
been drinking. After the husband
fell asleep the wife took a double
barreled shot gun and killed him.
Kumeysd Indisn Com ,nSi"a,isu
DIscredited.
OTTAWA, March 2l.-The report
from Battleford to tho effect that
Sitting Bull had formed an ALI.
ance with the Blackfeet and other
Indian tribes for the purpose of at.
tacking the Northwest settlements,
is discredited by the government.
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, March 2lst.--
HoUSE-Roberts, from the Com
mittee on Commerce, reported O
bill for the reorganization Of the
Life Saving service. Ordered to be
printed and recommitted.
Waddell, Chairman of the Com.
mittee on Postoffices, reported a
bill to establish postal savings de-
positOries as branch of the Post
office Department.
Chalmers introduced bill for the
reorganization of the Mississippi
improvement Committee.
The House went into Committee
of the Whole on the. Naval Appro-
priatiou bill. The amount appro-
priated is Sl4,04S,6s4.
Willis, of New York, offered
an amendment reducing the pay OF
midshlpmen to $500. Rejected.
Willis also moved to reduce the
number of navy chaplains from "a
to IA. Rejected.
Willis moved to strike out the
appropriation for 43 mates and
abolish that rate. Rejected.
The provision in the bill prohib
iting appointments from civil life
of secretaries or clerks to COM
manders of squadrons or to com.
manders of vessels and authorizing
the detail Of subaltern officers for
such purposes. was discussed and
agreed to.
The provision directing the Sec
retary of the Navy to Institute a
rigid inquiry as to the present sys-
tenn of the civil establishments ol
the different bureaux of the navy
yards, that the civil force employed
therein may be consolidated and
reduced at least one half, was dis
cussed and agreed to.
European Gable News.
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