The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-17

requisite elcCllOuc Auu eu.ppiCSe Soiiup
practices should be among the measures
thus v ithdrawr, il will be taken as an
indie ton that another session OF the
present Parliament will at least begin
II, on the other hand, the government
should suddenly evince strong desire
to pass the bill 1t will be inferred thai
u general election Ia contemplated be-
tore February.
LONDON, July a The c0rrespOn-
dent of the Post At B-rlin says the gov
trnment cOnIsmplstes augmentipg the
number of recruits for the army by
% 900 yearly, which will require an
increased expenditure Of % 900, 900
marks.
Herr Won Gessler has heeD appointed
70 succeed D. FAlk as NJ mister of Ec-
clesiastical Affairs.
Toe Post says Prince Jerome Nlpo-
leon declined the invitation of Eugene
to visit her after the funeral of the
Prince Imperial.
A disps ten to the Daily Nelcs from
A'exsadria reports that the Egyptian
steamer SamanOt has been lost ut sea.
She was returning from Maurltius.
Twenty three natives and two Euro
peans persisted.
LONDON, July 14.-The Standards
Berlin correspondent announces that
the ConstItutIonalists will resume the
ant tariff agitation IN Augu They
will call national meeting Ia S .ptem-
Der, to prepare for vigorous campaign
a yainst the new tariff at the Piussian
elections in October.
The Standard, in its financial article,
says the coinage exIsenclee of Germany
are incompatible with the further
treasury sales of silver. It. is generally
believed that Germany will ultimately
return to the double standard, in which
case she would become purchaser of
yer.
NEW ORLEANS. July 14.-D'. S. S.
HerIick, who went RI Water Valley as
Inspector OF the N t;onal Board Of
Health, reports a case there extremely
questionable, lnasmuch as it's h story is
incomplete and observations made by
the attending physician imperfe'
DR.. Herrick says there is no other sus
picious case at w 4ter v Illey. The peo-
pie are recovering from the panic.
DR.. Loeber, physician in charge
of the Tnuro lntirmary, denies that
there was or Is a case of yellow fever
in said infirmary, as stat I'd in special
correspondence to Western papers.
MEMPHIS, July 14-Na new cases Of
yellow fever have been reported. NJ 8.
Tobin, residing on B afford stree t,
died this morning at o'clock anu
was buried at s. This leaves only one
person in the entire city, Judge Rays
SOD, who is reported dying.
The local stations on the Memphis
and Little Rock r lilroad have notified
: the Memphis authorities that if no new
cases develop by Tomorrow, the Quar-
antine will be raised between Mem
, phis and Lon ke, Arkansas, which Is
twenty-seven miles this side of Little
, Rock. The weather is still very warm.
WASHINGTON. July IA The follow
ing telegram from the assistant super
? intendt MT of the railroad mail service
1 at Memphis was to- lay received by the
Postotfice d paItment: M change in
D the @ larantiue since Saturday. Very
: little detention of mails. as they are
, sent by uuouarantined routes. No new
j cases reported to-day. This may have
: the effect of opening the river. Will
report changes as they occur. On ac-
i count of the quarantine against Mem
r phis mail matter for New Orleans and
s Texas will be sent via ST. Louis, as
e was done during the fever epidemic
: last year.
All outstanding ten forty bonds will
s be called up by the Secretary of the
u Treasury during TIE present month.
! One cali of $40. 900, 900 was made July
o 8, another for $3.50, 900 600 will be
/ made on the eighteen tn, and the re.
y msinder, amounting to $22. GEO 600 and
II a fraction, will be called on the TWEEN.
J. ty-tirst
: .OwKNfoN, Ky, Jd'y IA % the
u assembling of the court this morning
!. Col. Thompson, for defense, moved the
: discharge of the jury on account of the
e absence of the record from the Frank
Re lin Giro nit court. The motion was over.
e ruled. Several witnesses pronounced
e Buford a lunatic, one witness saying
;, that he had been insane since the day
y he was born. 1t Is thought the testi
l. mony will all be in by Saturday.
}: Later - The testimony for the de
t. Tense In the Buford trial is being rap
u idly pushed through. Twenty -nin'
81 witnesses were examined to-day, all o
whom testified as to Buford's peculiar.
&c tiles; some pronouncing him inssn
IN from the time he was born. The de
* tense will probably close their testi
"a nony tomorrow, aud the case will
10 then go to the jury on or before Sat
nt urday.
g. New YORK, July ID -JudgeWallace
IN in the United States Circuit Court to
"a day, rendered decision on the motto
cd for new trial in the suit of James A
CD Whslen v. Phil Sheridan, which wa
ly tried last fall and resulted in verdic
for the defendant. The suit was fo
ed some half a million dollars for tresDss
ed in the eviction of tie plaintiff froT
M Kllona plantation while Gen. Sherida
er- was commanding the Gulf Department
lis Judge Wallace denied the motion fo
new trial.
re NEW YORK, July IA --Chastine Cox
'r- the murderer of Mrs. Hull, appeared
ed court for trial this morning fl lshil
lie, attired, smiling and apparently happy
Dy A panel of 500 jurors had been sum
"a. moHed. The prisoners counsel, how
ever, objected to the manner in whic
ell the summonlng had been accomplish
re- ed, and moved that the panel b
ke quashed. Mr.. Robbins's demurrer
ew this Wholesale challenge, was sustained
WASHINGTON, July lathe Pres
n dent to-day suspended Tnos. Power
ID collector of internal revenue for tt
or Second District of N nth Carolina. an
he appointed in his stead Elisha A. Viii,
al ST.. LOUIS. July 14.-Wm. j. Levi
re- prominent merchant and banker
'ut this city, was Frustrated by the heat
Caroudelet, six miles below here, tn
IN morning and died in twenty minute
he Mr.. Lewis belonged to the firm OF Ba
IN, tholomew, Lewis s. Co., bankers; vi
AS president of the Commercial Bank, an
val one of the most active and ipt1uentl
to business men of the city.
re- CINCINNATI Onio, July IA "A mu
ur- lstto named John Breckenridge owe
N took Miss Mamie Berry, white, viii
ers on her way to church near Carlisl
on Kentucky, yesterday, and forced b
he into the woods where be outrageous
me assaulted her. Breckenridge was su
ms sequently captured and placed In j
ose AT an early hour this morning me
US surrounded the Jail, and, having forc'
IN an entrance, carried Breckenridge o
lso and hanged him on tree.
WAsHISeToN, July 14.-Gen. Brad
cen acting Postmaster General, tod
lay closed the contract for carrying of Il
ut mail, tri-weekly, from Bayou Sara
an, Rad River Landing to connect with {