The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-05-17
TELEGRAPmIC ITEMS.

lem Massachusetts hanged himself yes
terday.
John 1. West was executed lat Boone
vile, Mo-, yesterday, for the murder of
tramp last October.
The French Government demands
from the Chamber of Deputies author
ization to prosecute Paul De Cassagnac,
member, for articles published in his
journal attacking the Government.
Special reports are received of the
burning of the business portion of the.
town of Farmerville, louisiana. The
loss is estimated at 100000; partially
insured.
General Sir Patrick McDougall,
Commander-in-Chief. of her Majesty's
forces in British North America, has
been called to England for special
service.
A special from the city of Mexicohas
lengthy interview with General Eris-
bic, formerly of California, in which he
says: The present annual production of
the Mexican mines is about $25, 600, eco.
A. c. Hesing, Of Chicago, who lately
has been interesting himself in Arizona
mines, started yesterday for San Fran
cisco, whence he will go into the min
ing districts. He expects to be absent
a4year.
On Tuesday evening next the Presi-
dent. land Mrs. Hayes will give a recep-
ton at the Executive Mansion to the
excursionaparty visiting Washinton I'M
der the auspicies of the Providence
Method st Episcopal Church of Scran-
ton, Pa, in celebration of it's 18th an
niversary.
Senator Thurman's speech yesterday
on the Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial Appropriation bill has proved
bombshell in the Republican. camp. 1t
is regarded as magnificent answer to
the clap trap in which the Republicans
have been dealing in the Senate. Not
a few of the more candid Republicans
openly declare it to be unanswerable.
Charles NJ. Peck, for some twenty
years. bookkeeper and confidential clark
with Redington & Co., wholesale drug
gists, San Francisco, and Secretary of
the Redington Quicksilver Mining Com.
pany, has absconded. He was last
seen on the steamer Australia, which
sailed for Honolulu and Sydney on
Monday morning last. The amount of
his defalcation TO the firm is not yet
ascertained,. but is said to be compare
lively small. The Quicksilver Mining
Company is loser by his operations to
the amount of. $4,000. Peck left
no. to his wife and childfea, simply
bidding them goodbye. The cause of
his defalcation is, said to have been
stocks.
The New York World has the follow
ING editorial: The work of ruin has be-
gun along the Pacific coasts. From
Panama to-day we have news of the
bollbardment of three Peruvian ports.
At one of these-Mollendo, the crea-
ton of the greatest railway king( Meigs),
which has supplanted Islay as the port
of Areqripa and the region beyond,
stretching to Lake ,Tihicaca and Bolivia.
The, Chilean men-of-war seem to have
destroyed extensive railroad works.
Iquique was the centre of Peruvian nj
trate commerce, and there, as well as
at Mollendo and at Pisaqua, the energy
of recent years has established those
railway communications with the in
terror which arctic Peru what naviga-
BILE rivers are to other countries. We
can see no reason why the Government
of he United States should not make
an effort at least to interfere in this dis
NAL South American conflict before it
becomes hopelessly envenomed, as an
impartial friend and umpire.
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