The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-05-15
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Secretary McCrary, in conformity
with the decision of Dundy, in the Pom
cas- habeas corpus case, has directed that
those Indians be released.
| Captain Eads has made application
for an additional payment of co. j,
claiming that he has obtained channel
at the mouth of the Mississippi % feet
deep and 200 feet wide.
The town of Halas, Hungary, has
been inundated in consequence of the
continuous rains. Much damage has
been done.
The New Orleans Times says: "The
Chinese are not the kind of people
wanted in Louisiana. They are of no
more value to the State than so many
mules"
Mrs. Mary Josephine Young, wife
of j. @. Young, of Sacramento, has
been admitted to the Supreme Court
The Chief-Justice wrote out the license
himself in 1ull, out of compliment to
the first woman ever admitted to the
Supreme Court Bar of California. Her
examination is said to have been severe,
and she passed it with full honors.
The resolution recently introduced
in the House by Garfield authorizing
the Secretary of War to issue rations
to colored refugees in Kansas was
called up ter action in Committee, and
proposition to report the measure to
the House with favorable recommends
tion was rejected This virtually kills
the measure.
The Philadelphia Tiraes recc1.' Y sent
correspondent to interview General
Suffer, the discoverer of gold in Cali
fornia, and prints a lengthy account.
The correspondent says he is living at
Little III comparative poverty.
In the United States Circuit Court
at Richmond, Virginia, a writ of
habeas corpus in the miscegenation case
of Edmund Kinney and Mary Hale,
now confined in the penitentlary for
violating the States statutes prohibit
ing inter-marriages of the white and
negro races, was refused by Judoe
Hughes on the ground that the United
States Courts have no jurisdiction over
questions of marriage.
An Englishman who has returned
from Russia to London says the effects
of the policy repression are hardly no
ticeable in st. Petersburg. He trav-
ersed large part of the city late at
night without interference or question.
Sunday, the 18th instant, being bright
day, the streets were thron ed with
promenaders, happy and light-hearted,
apparently, as those in any other con-
tinental city. He says Princess Dag
mar was driving through the streets
alone in her carriage and unattended.
The Finance Committee of the Sem
ate reported the bill providing for the
interchange of all subsidiary silver coins
and greenbacks or standard silver dol
lars without any change in the essential
provisions first framed and introduced
in c ngress by Senator Booth. The
Committee, however, amended the
House provision for the enlargement of
the legal tender power of subsidiary
coins by making it $40, ON any one pay
instead of $40, as proposed by the
House, or S., as provided by the exist
ing law. The bill will be promptly
passed by the Senate, and will I'M
doubtedly become a law at an early
date.
Henry Ward Beecher lectured at
Memphis to 400 people. He was in
PRODUCED by Colonel j. NJ. Keating, of
the Appeal, formerly bitter opponent
Beecher gave him check for $3.50 for
the Orphan Asylum. A great deal of
prejudice has been allayed by his visit
to Memphis. His Chattanooga and At
lata engagements have been Cancelled,
and Beecher returns to Brooklyn ON &C
count of his physical inability to fill
them. While in Memphis Beecher was
treated with the utmost respect