The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-11-06

From WashinEton.
recent washington dispatch says A" About
4NO Illicit dstillers and tobacco blockAders, nov
under indictment before the United states
curt Al slAtesville, n. O., have petiboned the
internal revenue bureau 10 have the same
clemency extended 10 them As was recently
extended 10 a number Of Illicit distillers ln
South Carolina- excepting only thos s1s w
had violently resisted the reyenus officers.
The clemency extended in the south Csrohna
cases was that upon the offenders coming into
court and pleading guilty to the indictments
preferred against them sentence would be sus-
pended during their good behavior. They
offer to pledge themselves. II the ciemehcy Il
granted, not only TO abstain from further vio-
iations ofthe internal revenue laws themselves,
but 10 use their influence to prevent others
from doing so. The department will probably
grant the request OF the petitioners
The chief Of the bureau OF statistics reports
that the commerce between the United States
and Brazil during the year ending June 80,
1878, was as follows Value OF domestic ex.
ports (all merchAndise), IS, $40, 64e value OF
Imports (al merchandise, except specie,
S8'OGS), sS2 g72, csc Total value OF foreign
exports to Brazil (all merchandise), S7G,O58.
Mr.. ia. Williamson, commissioner OF the
general land Office has completed his annual
report 1t shows that during the last fiscal
wear 8, CSC, I78 acres OF public lands were dis
posed Of, and sO4l oil acres were surveyed,
In addition TO the 721, 6lS, TAI acres previously
surveyed. The total number OF acres OF public
domain still unsurveyed is something over one
thousand millions. The disposals we're mainly
as follows Homestead entries, 4, AIS, 944 acres;
timber culture entries 1870. 434 acres desert
land entries, $40, 559 acres cash entries, ST7,-
$50 acres grants TO railroads, COG, $40 acres
swamp lands patented 202, 926 acres other
grants TO States, 2l4, 1872 acres cash receipts,
e. 022, $50 increase OF cash receipts over 1876
n, S5o9, 567. These figures show great increase
10 the quantity OF land taken up by the class OF
actual settlers as homesteads and for the pur-
nose OF timber culture. Commissioner williamson
recommends in regard to lapsed railroad grants
that Congress should either declare the grants
forfeited and restore the lands to disposal as
part OF the public domain, or extend the time
for the completion of the roads. An increase
in the working force OF the office Is called for.
Foreign News.
The British attack on Afghanistan is post
poned until spring.
Over $4,000, 900 damage has been done by
the insurrectionists in Santa Cruz, and the is
land is represented % ruined. About 100 per-
SONS have been executed,
| Cardinal Paul Cullen, Roman Catholic arch
bishop Of Dublin, is dead at the age OF seventy
| FIVE He was made a cardinal in 1885, and was
at the head Of the Catholic church in Ireland.
An attempt has BEEN made to assassinate the
king of Spain. He was fred upon by man in
a blouse, who was Immediately seized by
soldiers and taken to prison. The king wal
untouched, and continued on his way to the
palace amid the acclamations OF the people
| The wOuld-be assassin is cooper named duaT
Monease, aged twenty-throe, and he stated hi
crime was premeditated. He was rescued
with difficulty, from some women, who tried II
lynch him.
General Grant was witness to the attemp
upon the life of the king OF Spain.
The workmen connected with FIVE larg
shipbuilding establishments on the Clyde, II
Scotland, have struck against a proposed re
duotion In wages.
The Glasgow house Of John James Wright
Co. is bankrupt, with liabilities reaching 30,
900, 900 and mesger assets.
The field army with which the ameer OF AZ
ghanistan will cope with England number
10000 infantry, $4,000 cavalry and 200 cannon
Among recent bankrupts in England
Edward Payson Weston, the American pedel
trian, with IS, 200 liabilities.
At meeting of the British cabinet, Lor
Beaconsfeld was seized with an epileptic ct Thu
nearly terminated fatally.
, The Mexican minister OF public works al
nounces that the government is about to nom
nate commission to organize special exp
sition, to take place at conveniently ear
: date, for the exhibition exclusively OF Amer
can and Mexican productions, the same to
} held in the city OF Mexico, under the dire
Q auspices Of the government