Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-09-21
HIS RESIGNATION DEMANDED.
Conduct Of n Campaign In Maine.
WASHINGTON, September 20.


WASHINGTON, September 20.
A tempest is brewing in the Republican
Congressional Committee. The course of
George C. Gorham is openly deprecated,
and there is talk of his resignation being
demanded by the Republican party leaders.
| He is charged with imbecility in the man
aeement OF the affairs of the Committee.
1t is claimed that he is responsible for the
weak manner in which the campaign was
| conducted in Maine, and it is further OBJ
jected that he is now trying to stultify the
party on the financial issues of the day.
The Chinese Embassy has arrived, and
soon after presentation to the President,
the chief ambassador, with a portion OF
those accompanying him, will go for a
| time to Spain and Peru, to organize the Chi
nose diplomatic service in these countries.
Reports of Collectors of Customs
WASHINGTON, September 20.
A statement has been procured in the
Treasury Department, made up from the
monthly reports of the Collectors Of Gus
IONS for the year ending June 80, 1878,
showing the receipts and expenses in each
collection district, and the number of per-
sons employed. The following are the ag-
gregates shown by such statements, viz !:
Total amount of duties collected in coin,
S128, 1928, 764 aggregate receipts from all
sources in coin and currency, S132, 624, 400.
Total cost of collection throughout the
United States, $685., 1877 /; total number
Of persons employed, 1866 average per-
centage Of cost Of collection, 4 ITO per
cent. The cost of collecting revenue dur
ing 1877 was Sc, 256, 514 cost Of collecting
revenue in 1878, $685., 1877, showing q
saving in az Of $3.50. 826.
by Rail Across the Con iinent.
NEW YORK, September 90.
The Tribune, speaking Of the projected
railway across Newfoundland, says: With
this road completed, the railway commu-
n~ication established over New Brunswick
and Cape Briton Island, and on into the
main land, the Californian longing for a
trip to Europe, might go by rail across the
Continent to st. Johns, and from there
over to Queenstown, and the;}ferry-boats
might take on board the original San
Francisco drawing room car, making one
all rail trip of it. The invention has net
reached the end Of its ropes.
A Revenue Collector Fired Upon.
NASHVILLE, September 20.
A special to the american, from Tracy
City, Tennessee, states that unknown per-
sons fired upon Captain j. NJ. Davis,
Deputy Revenue Collector, and severely
wounded James Spears, who was walking
with him, at noon yesterday.
Not Getting a Fall Rate OF Duty.
New YORK, September 30.
Fernando Woods Customs Committee
met again yesterday. Many & i'm
porters and rcfiners were present, among
them Mr.. Turner, Of the firm of Moses,
Taylor & Co. He believed the duties on
sugar were honestly collected. Scion
Humphreys, of E. ID. Morgan & Co., said
he believed that the Government probably
loses 81 400. 900 a year by no getting a full
rate Of duty on centrifugal or partly re-
fined sugars.
A Miner Falls nni is Instantly
KILLED.
SALT LAKE, September 20.
At midnight last night John Hudson,
a miner from Little Cottonwood, fell from
the third story of the White House and
was instantly killed. 1t is presumed thai
he got up in the night, and installing the
window for a door, fell ont. He arrived
in this city on Monday, and was supposed
to be in good circumstances.
Beecher Denounces.
OMAHA, Neb., September 20.
While Beecher was lecturing at the Bap
fist Church this evening, 500 laboring men
mechanics, etc, held an anti-Bcecher meet
ing at the Courthouse, and denounced hi
bread and water uttcranccs. Specche.
were made and resolutions passed con
demning him. A parade, with transpa
~rencies, was to have taken place had it no
rained.
The Main Camp of Robbers.
HoT CREEK, Wy, September 90.
Two packers, just in from the north
report the finding Of the main camp of thu
robbers who infest the Black Hills stag,
line, 65 miles north of here. There wcr,
IA men, and two women dressed in mem
clothes, in the gang. The packers saw tn
horses that were taken from Booth, tn
~freighter, in the camp, and afterwards me
three Of the robbers some distance thi
side Of the main camp.
A Bank Director Robbed.
BALTIMORE, September 20.
Colonel William M. Boone. President o
the Mount Vernon cotton mills and Direc
tor of the National Bank Of Baltimore. wa
robbed Of S27, S75 in bonds aud $37 900 y il
cash. The robbery occurred in broad day
light and at q busy time OF day; but so ia
as known there is no clue to the per
petrators. 1t is understood that the bond
and money were kept in an ordinary ban
box, but all the gentlemen connected witt
the affair we're extremely reticent yesterda
and kept the details secret.
Fast Time.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Sept. 90,
Although the weather was very unfavor
able, the track dusty, and the peopi
crowding around the pole SO that Splal
could not drive Rarus within four fest O
it, yet he made the two fastest consecutiv
and fastest second and third heats eve
made on q half-mile track. The time O
the three heats was as follows: 2:22A, 81
and 2:18. Lulu's special trot was post
poned on account of the darkness.
Edward McPhcrson Turned Editor
WAsHIGroN, September 20.
Edward Mcpherson, Chief OF the Bureal
| Of Engraving and Printing in the Treasur
Department, has become the political ed
} tor Of the Philadelphia Press. He ha
! resigned his Office in the Treasury, TO tax
effect on the appointment Of his successor
and will at once enter upon his editoria
duties.
Political.
TRENTON, N. j., Sept. 20.
The Republicans Of the Second Congres
sional District, have nominated j. Howar
; Pugh.
PATTERSON, N. j., Sept. 20.
The Fifth Congressional District Repul
lican Convention, has nominated Charlie
H. Voorhees,.
WILKEsBARRE, Sept. 20.
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