Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-20
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Tea Culture in This Country.
Tho Diax Governments to be Recos.
ntZed.

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WASHINGTON. March ~.
A gentleman connected with a prom
inent tea importing house in Balti-
more, and VINO il All expert in all mat
ters pertaining to the culture and cur
ing Of tea, came to Washington last
week by appointment with the COM
missioner of Agriculture to inspect
! lO0, 900 tea plants growing in the prop
agating houses OF the Agricultural De-
parlment. This gentleman has trav.
eled in China and Japan in connection
with the business Of this firm. In the
latter country he remained one season
~ su superintendent of the tea plantations
and curing and packing establishments
owned by his house. He il therefore
probably as we'll qualified as any
American to pronounce upon the prar
ticability OF cultivatiny tea in this coun.
try. He expresses the utmost conf
| deDce in the success of the Commits
sioner's plans. and is surprised that
tea culture did not long ago become a
| profitable branch of American ndus-
try. The gentleman further says that
in his opinion two thirds of the labor
ex pended in China is useless, and that
with ons-tepth of the ingenuity dis
played i'm the invention of the cotton
gin, machinery can be devised here
which will snperceds every hand ma.
nipulation except that of picking.
and which will produce results more
uniform aud of hetter quality than can
otherwise be arrived at.
Schleicher'~ Committee will recon-
mend that Diaz be recognized. The
evidence taken by the Committee
shows that tie cattle and other raids
have greatly diminished in nunter
since the accession of President Diaz
We have now on the border 5000
troops, and this number is found suffi
cieni to guard the territory.
The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights aud Measures were to have
heard Representatives Davis and Wren
yesterday in opposition to the pro
posed abolition of the trade dollar, but
owing to the pressure OF preceding
business, the hearing was postponed
until to morrow.
The Technical Hole by which An
dersOn Escaped.
NEW ORLEANS, March 10.
The Supreme Court was yesterday
crowded with members of the bar,
politicians and other persons anxious
to hear the decision in the case OF the
State vs.. Thomas G.. Anderson. Chief
Justice Manning read a very lengthy
opinion. Alter reviewing the charge.
the verdict and sentence, the Court
took up two of the exceptions as being
the only ones necessary to consider in
rendering Judgment. These were that
there had been no preliminary exam
nation, and that it is moi the practice
to prosecute Ivy information. Both ex-
ceptions were dismissed the first on the
ground that preliminary examination
is not essential, and that prosecution
by information has been the common
rule in criminal proceedings fol many
years. The exception to the drawing
of the Jury was also dismissed on the
ground that a violation of the spirit of,
the law is not pretended. Relative to
! the otfense itself. the Court gave an
| abstract of the election law detailing
its requirements; the exact method
prescribed in the law was fully de
scribed; thu record offered in evidence
did not conform with that men
toned in the information; the
document offered was a con
solidated statement certified by the
registry of voters. not the original re.
| turns. and the statute Of our State does
not attach mucu value to this consoli
dated statement, the original return
not being altered would not changethe
result Of the election, and interfere
| with the interests of the people. The
paper offered in evidence is not the
paper charged as being forged. In
order to be a forgery, the instrument
which it is alleged is falsitied must, if
true. be legally capable of committing
a fraud. No where in the law is a con-
sOlidated return required. A declara
ton of the result, and the alteration or
modification, can in no wav effect the
elections. If every consolidated re
turn were forged. and the Returning
Beard complied by the law, and made
their statement from the Commission
er,' returns, no injury c"n'd re-
suit. Itdoes lot APPEAR that any paper
has been forged that is calculated with
law to change The result. 1t is the es
sence of the crime that should be com
| mitted by a public officer. and on a
document which would change the
result of the election. This was
not done. The letter of John
sherman. Stanley Matthews and
| others which appeared in the record.
was alluded to bv the Chief Justice,
who stated that it should he treated by
the public in like manne a. u member
of the House of Commons, who at
tsmpted to influence the decision of the
court in tho Tlchbnrne case. 1t was
ordered that the verdict of the jury be
set aside and reversed, and the prison
err discharged from custody.
Train Robbery la Texas.
HUTCHfNs, Texas, March 10.
The train due here At 10 O'Clock, vas
! robbed this morning by four masked
men. The express vas taken and the
mail plunder-d. About Is or 20 Shots
were exchanged. Express messenger
Thomas WAS wounded.
In n Poor. HOuse.
NEW YORK, March 10.
John P. Reed. a former sheriff and
County Clerk of San Francisco, is an
inmate of the Queens County Poor
house. His case excites considerable
sympathy.
FOREIGN NEWS.