The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-01-12
General News.

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and Mecca
The State Grange Of Arkansas
meets on the fourth Monday ofJan
uary, 1878.
Two hundred and fifty immigrants
arrived at Denison on Thanksgiving
Day.
1t is estimated that not less tran
20 car loads of immigrants per day
are entering Texas.
The Tennessee State Grange meets
in the city of Nashville on the third
Tuesday in February, 1878.
The Speaker of the South Carroll
ma House of Delegates is only ~
wears old. His ability Is highly
spoken OF.
The new cotton seed OIL factory
at Baton Rouge is in successful OPP
GRAFTON. They manufacture about
twenty barrels per day.
The people of California are to
vote at their next general election
upon the question of continuing or
prohibiting Chinese Immigration.
A heavy snow storm prevailed at
Little Rock and Nashville on the
3d inst. At Little Rock five inches
were reported. and the storm still
= continued.
The people of Washington Terri
tory and Of portion OF Idaho
want to be organized as n State with
the name of Washington, and a
bill has been introduced in the
House to enable them to rise into
, Statehood. If the measure passes
+ the name of the new State should
be Idaho. Washington IS too com
mon. and the first President is al
ready importalized by the name OF
u the national capital.
" The board of aldermen OF New
York, on the 4tb. adopted reso'
: luton declaring that the greater
u beueit could be gained to the clty
5. by he discharge Of Vim. N. Tweed
;, from imprisonment, thanby his lon
ii ger detention, and recommending
s. the attorney general and corpora
Is ton counsel to release HIM IRON
he imprisonment after securing To-
's the city such property as he nov
" possesses, and after taking mean
to receive his testimony In any SUI
that might hereafter be brought b.
y. the city.
ri The Posts Washington specis
saws the silver men who have re
lied upon the vote of Senator be
II. Hill, of Georgia, in favor OF til
6 Bland bill, are very greatly al
% moved at his authoritative state
il ment as follows: 81 am unwilhn
RS, to have the Democratic party TAX
EN- a position which will injure the n,
10 tional credit, aud especially unwi
ling that the south should abando
IT, all her old positions and unique
lp- tionable interests, and JON IN tn
he mad demand for the silver dolla
we and indefinite postp 'nement OF IL
Zoo resumption of specie payments,
" a matter of policy, and protest tn
IT. the southern people shall not be p
ars in an altitude of even apparent be
led tihty to the national credit; Be
e ator Butler, of South Carolina, WI
" has been regarded favorable
use the Bland bill, has informed
on friends that he Is opposed to u
nay limited coinage He will undoul
nts edly vote against the bill IN
present shape.
rim There is threatened bread n
:, reported by telegraph from .
" Francisco. The facts are that
10 demagogue named Kearney, W
to has been holding nightly meetin
ons to agitate the labor and Chlnt
sd. questions, ADJOURNED one OF
meetings, formed the men m II
lna and marched 400 strong to
} be Mayors office. where they demaI
in ed work, bread or places IN
county Jail. The Mayor said Il
ona he had no work to give them, a
that every case of distress com
'ah' under his notice had been rellev
hers He advised every man to look
e to work himself. The procession u
,ect- moved of quietly and resumed
meeting Oh vacant lot
'.a movement was only pretense
fe" on the part of Kearney, who ne
arge new excitement to keep up the
i'm terest of his followers, especlall.