The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-05-30
TELEGRAPmIC ITEMS.

dency.
Washington special says that through
some think that the session will collapse
by the middle Of June, there are stronger
reasons to believe 1t will last well
on towards August.
President Hayes vetoed the Legisla-
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropri-
ton bill. The House refused to pass
the bill over the veto, yeas 1l3, nays 81
not the necessary two thirds in the af
firmative. The message has been re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
The Grand Pacific excursion train,
consisting of nine Pullman cars and one
day coach, will arrive at Ogden on Sat
urday and remain over at Salt Lake On
Sunday. There are nearly 500 ladies'
and gentlemen aboard, most of whom
are delegates to the grand Sunday
School Assembly in Yosemite Valley
from the It'll to the 10Th of June.
Anew Haven special announces the
arrival there of the iron steamer Nor
man Monarch, twenty-six days from
Constantinople, bringing the two hand
some gray Arabian stations given to
Grant by the Sultan of Turkey. They
are in fine condition, and will probably
soon be sent to their owners farm in
the West. The Norman Monarch will
take back to Constantinaple $1,000
stand of arms for the Turkish Govern
meut. The cargo viii be worth about
81, OO0,0
At Newark, near Island Pond, Yer
mont, party OF nine children drank
water from "a brook, the water of which
had been polluted by the carcasses of a
horse and several sheep, and were
poisoned, from the effects of which
seven died soon after, their bodies be-
coming putrid and demanding imme-
date burial The others cannot sur
vive. A Mrs. Morse lost two, Mrs.
! Carpenter lost three, and two more are
the ones referred to as dying, taking
her entire family. Mrs. Aldrich lost
two. There is great excitement in the
community about the matter.
The bill making subsidiary silver
coins interchangeable with greenbacks
or standard silver dollars passed the
Senate to-day by a majority SO large
that there was no demand for roll call
or even a division. The amendments
adopted by the Senate do not affect the
main purpose of the bill, which, in the
provision above indicated, is practically
identical with the measure originally
introduced by Senator Booth in the last
Congress. The bill now goes back to
the House for concurrence in the SEN
ate amendments. 1t will undoubtedly
become law before the expiration of
the present session.
The New York Herald prints char
acteristic letter from Denis Kearney to
a citizen, which closes thus: "The
Workingmen's party of California will
elect full State ticket next Septem-
Der besides four Congressman and the
Legislature, which chooses a United
States Senator to succeed Booth. 1t
will also place third party in
the field for the Presidential campaign
OF next year, and California wall cast its
electoral vote for the party. This will
throw the election OF the President into
the House of Representatives, and Cali
fornia will nominate her man. | would
like to see John Swinton occupying the
White House"
The Wallace Senate Committee ex-
arnined T. j. Mackey, Circuit Judge in
South Carolina. He supported the
Hayes and Hampton ticket. Side by
side with Hampton he canvassed the
State for Hayes, but he voted for Til
den indorsing on his ballot, as the
reason for doing so, that bayonets were
brought to the polls to secure the
election OF Hayes. The witness wished
to say that jury of the State Courts.
composed wholly OF Republicans, would
convict the most prominent Republican
| who should wrong a Democrat and a