The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-18
Especial to the SrArEsNAS.l

| passed through MS hat. The mai
loss is unknown. Express loss Is about
$3.50. No definite track of the robbers
has been discovered. A rifle gun
and pistol have been found about two
niles from ..Mesquit, the scene of the
outrage. Public indignation is high,
and the impression prevails that these
rObberies will continue until the State
troops are placed in the field to exter-
inmate the villains.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The bill
introduced to-day by Senator Jones,
of Florida, in regard to the railroad
telegraph lines, is designed in its main
feature to embody the principle recently
laid down by the Supreme Court in the
case of the Western Union v. the PEN
sacola Telegraph Company. 1t pro-
vides that any railroad company now
or hereafter organized under the law
of any State shall have the right to
construct, maintain and operate for
general business lines of telegraph
along, over or under any line of rail
road which it owns or controls. The
bill also provides and authorizes the
railroad company to lease or CONSOLE
date such telegraph lines in whole or
part, and to appoint agents or lesees to
operate them for the transaction of
general Geographic business. 1t is
further provided, that before any rail-
road company shall exercise any of
these powers or privileges, 1t shall file
with the Postmaster General q written
acceptance of the restrictions and obi
cations, substantially as follows: First
The United States government mes
sages shall in all cases have priority,
and be sent at rates to be fixed by the
Postmaster General. Second - The
United States shall have the right, at
any time after five years from the en-
actment of this bill, to purchase all
the Geographic lines, property and
effects of any or all of such companies,
at an appraised value, to be ascertained
by five disinterested persons; two to
be chosen by the Postmaster General,
two by the company interested, and
the fifth by these four.
of Wheeling, West Virginia, accompa-
MED by W. II. Lamon and II. a.
Blackburn, applied to the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court for writ of er-
ror to judgment of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of West Virginia, IN the case
of the colored man, Taylor Strander,
who had been indicted, tried and
convicted, and was sentenced to death
in the courts of West Virginia, the
Supreme Court of that State having
affirmed the last sentence. Application
was made to the Chief Justice for a
writ of error to the State court on the
ground that the law of the State OF
West Virginia prohibiting colored clti-
zens from serving on juries in that
State is in violation of the Constitution
and statutes of the United States. The
Chief Justice took the papers and re.
cords of the case in court, and after
the adjournment of the Supreme Court
to-day, and after consultation with the
Associate Justices, he awarded the writ
of error. The first trial of this case
was In 1872. The same questions pre-
sented in this case were also presented
in the celebrated case of the negro
John Toliver, tried at Martinsburg,
West Virginia, but before the attorneys
in the case perfected the case for the
Supreme Court of the United States,
Toliver was taken from jail by q mob
and hanged. 1t appeared afterward
that Toliver was innocent of the muir
der of which he was accused. As West
Virginia Is the only State which pro-
Eibits colored men from sitting on ju-
ries, the case presented to the Chief
Justice this morning is an interesting
one.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-John w.
Easley is to be chief of the Bureau OF
Construction and Repairs and chief
constructor in the Navy Department,
with the relative rank of Commodore.
The nomination had been reported
adversely from the Committee on Ma
val Affairs, but the Senate confirmed it
by vote of 81 to II. The adverse re-
post was upon the ground that the
nomination had not been made in &C
cordance with the order of the SEN
iority.
New YORK, April 15.-The follow
ing letter, from Mrs. Tilton, will ap.
pear in the morning papers tomorrow:
Mr.. Ira d. Wheeler-My dear sir: A
few weeks since, after long months of
mental anguish, told, as you know,
few friends whom I had bitterly de-
ceived, that the charge brought by
my husband of adultery between my
self and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
was true, and that the lie have lived
so well the last four years had become
so intolerable to me that the statement
now solemnly reaffirm and leave the
truth with God, to whom / also COM
NIT myself and my children. II
know full well the explanations
that will be sought by many for
this acknowledgement = desire to
return to my husband, insanity,
malice, everything save the true and
only one--my quickeped conscience
and the sense of what is due to the
cause of truth snd justice. During all
the complications of these years you
have been my confidential friend, and
therefore l address this letter to YOU
authorizing and requesting you to Sc
cure its publication.
iSignedl ELIZABETH r. TnToN.
Brooklyn, April IS. 1878.
Gold, 81, 079, 54s.04; currency, $50,
5S9, 664- 81; paid interest, $15, 600; for
bonds $s55, 900; customs receipts, 4;
$57S, GEO.
MOBILE, Ala, April 15.-The COM
mercial convention assemblies in Mo- |
bile on the twenty-fourth, and prom
ises to be largely attended from WASH
ington City and from the manufactur-
ing houses interested IN direct steam
ship communication with South and |
Central America and the West Indies.
The names. of the delegates should |
be sent Immediately TO the President |
Of the Mobile Board Of Trade that |
may be furnished.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-SRSArR-l
Senator Wallace, Of Pennsylvania,
from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions reported favorably on Senate bill /
the issue Of passports free
70 colored citizens going to Brazil
Passed.
LONDON, April 15.-The PoSfis Berlin
correspondent says that il Is reported /
hat the new loan viii amount to 50,-
200, 600 roubles, independent Of 50,-
200 900 in treasury bonds 70 be issued
immediately.
A special to the Ifmes from Turn
SEVERN reports that 10, coo Roumanisn
troops are concentrated there. Prince