The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-05-13
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be sentenced at Salt Lake on the 2lst
instant.
A dispatch from Lahore announcing
that the Ameer of Afghanistan has ac-
cepted all the British proposals, is CO..
tainly premature and probably entirely
wrong.
The Utah Post, of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has passed series of
resolutions strongly condemning, the
Mormons for trailing the American
flag in the dust on Tuesday in their
traitorous demonstration.
A st. Petersburg correspondent states
that the revolutionary newspaper Land
and Liberty is still being circulated
clandestinelY.. The last number, issued
on the morning of Eubrovin's execution,
contained an article against the Gar.
The French Minister of the Interior
has authorized Senator Martin, vice
president of the committee of the Franco
American Union, to organize lottery
of 300,00 one-franc tickets to raise a
fund for the completion of the statue
of Liberty to be presented to the United
States.
A delegation from the French COM
mittee to promote the Franco-American
treaty of commerce waited on Tierard,
minister of commerce, and called his
attention to Fernando Woods motion
in the United States House of Repre-
sentatives relative to commercial rela-
tions. Tierarci stated he was IN favor
of a reciprocity treaty and his depart
ment would. give the matter the most
serious consideration.
The second trial of William, Williams,
who was convicted last year of robbing
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S. express of SIS, 900,
is now progressing in Salt Lake City.
Williams accused Others of completely
in the robbery, and was granted new
trial. At the time of the robbery, he
was messenger between Salt Lake and
Ogden and was found gagged and
bruised i'll the express car, The money
was thrown out of the car, as it was
afterwards ascertained, by Williams,
who gagged himself, to convey the idea
that he had been robbed.
In consequences of the recent decisions
of the U. S. Supreme Court awarding
to the Denver and Rio Gfande Railroad
Company, the prior right of location
over the several routes named in its
charter, powerful syndicate has been,
formed to complete, as soon as
possible, the principal lines in Colorado,
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, in
Guided in the system covered by that
decision. 1t is announced that $1,000
900 OF the $5,000,O00 proposed for this
years operations has already been
subscribed and will be expended in
finishing up the line to Leadville aud
"Ten-Mile and in building forthwith
to Santa Fe and the San Juan.
In speech in Congress on tae silver
question, Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said
he was ready to remonetize silver at It's
present rate and make this country as
some had remarked, the great dumping
ground for silver. He called attention
to the condition Of France, serene amid
the perturbed nations of the earth.
She never had experienced financial
crisis since she had bi-metallic stand
ard. While the coming of the Gar
was heralded by the tramp of armed
Cossacks, while England found herself
in a position where she must abandon
all her financial theories or prepare to
trample down the suffering laboring
people, France remained in. a prosper
Gus condition, an example to this poor,
benighted country in monetary mat
tiers, and the continued building up of a
consolidated republic which everybody
hoped and believed would be an exam
pie to all nations of Europe.
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