Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-07
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SENATOR THuRMAM's LETTER.


WASHINGTON, January 6.
On Saturday Senator Thurman sent the
following supplementary letter to Senator
Teller, Chairman of the Select Committee
Of the Investigation Of Election Frauds
DEAR SIR-In further compliance with
the report of your Committee, communi-
Gated to me by yOu letter Of the 21st ult..
l have the honor now to iBclose to you in
stallment No. 2 of the facts relating to the
late election, especially the misconduct Of
the United States Supervisors and Deputy
Marshals, to wit: First-A letter from
James d. Paine, Of Jacksonville, Florida,
relative to the misconduct Of United States
Supervisors and Deputy Marshals at the
late election in the Second Congressional
District In that State. Second-The Aft
davit OF Owen J.. Sommers, Of Luville
county, Florida, relating to the same
| effect. Third--Tbe statements Of F. G.
! Randolph, of Montgomery, Alabama,
| showing the misconduct of United States
| Deputy Marsbals at the late elections in
| that State. I am assured that these three
gentlemen are citizens Of high standing
and responsibility, and / beg to commend
their statements to the earnest considera-
| ton Of your Committee. l nm, very re-
| specially, your obedient servant,
A. G.. THURMAN.
Here follows the statements referred to
in the letter of Senator Thurman /:
Paine's letter refers principally to the
employment Of United States Supervisors
of Elections and Deputy Marshals at the
| polling precincts throughout the counties
comprising the Black Belt of Florida, Mas
sau, Duvall, Alahua, Columbia, Swanee,
Marion, Madison, Jefferson, Leon and
Gadslon, and he concludes by saying that
the Deputy Uuited States Marshals who
were present on election day at the various
precincts in the Black Belt counties were
in NO sense genuine Deputies, but were
men solely engaged on a special service,
beginning and ending on election day
that there was no earthly necessity for
their being present at all, as the State and
municipal officers present were amply able
to preserve order and conserve a fair cleo
ton, as has been evinced time and again
before.
Owen J. Sommers, whose affidavit is al
luded to by Mr.. Thurman, deposes that
the colored Deputy United States Mar
shals in Duyall county, Florida, were en-
gagged on the 9th of November in distrib-
uting Republican ballots, and persuading
colored voters to vote the same.
Randolph's letter, concerning the con-
duct of the election in Montgomery coun-
W, AldD diuh hiItSco tidt tuC " hiSh
were forced by Deputy United States Mar
shals to vote the Republican ticket, and
that two United States Marshals, in viola
ton Of a State law, distributed whisky and
other refreshments among the colored
voters.
Dutch Charley Hanged by n Moi
CHEYENNE, January G.
Last night, at Carbon. Wyoming, 25 or
an rpauEaI man hro1ra nNan n hanpapa car
and took out and hanged to a telegraph
pole Dutch Charley, who was en- route to
Rawlins for trial, charged with participa-
ton in the Widdowfeld murder last fall.
He was O notorious character, and had
been identified with a number of stage
robberies.
Observation-Disclosures of Low Frcislts.
CHICAGO, January G.
Five hundred tierces of lard are being
shipped to San Francisco via New York
and Cape Horn. This is occasioncd by the
excessive demands of the tra%nscontinental
pork were sent to the same destination by
the same route.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Time.
NEW YORK, January 6.
A Post special from Cohoes, New York,
says: The Harmony Cotton Mills, employ
ing $500 hands, and producing 800, 600
yards of cotton goods a day, have reduced
the working time to three days a week, in
order to reduce the production and stifen
prices.
Unprecedented.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, January 6.
A drizzling rain, with sleet, fell last
night, the mercury falling to 80 degrees.
Everything is covered this morning with a
coat Of thin ice. This Is almost unpre-
cedentcd. Nothing Of the kind has been
known before for at least 80 years.
small Demand for Gold.
New York, January 6.
The demand on the Treasury for gold, in
exchange for legal tender notes. has to-
day, up to noon, amounted to less than
$ 5000.