The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03


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proposed movements.
WASHINGTON. March 3i.-Csat. Z
: wsrd Omeagher C,Edpr, the FeuIa
has teen appointed To treasury clsI
shin.
= y Sumebts were commenced In Il
: OuEer-C imeTon suit to-day, and Il
case Will be given tn .he jury tG-mo
rOw.
WASHINGTON, April Col. Frencl
late sergeabt-St arms cf the Senal
was Frustrated today by the effects ,
recent mental excitement and ner,
Gus exhaustion, au'' remained fir Sc,
eral minutes III = cOnVg.Sina which E,
cited seri' III alarm among his rumeI
ons friends a. the Capitol. Erdic,
assistance being procured, he soon 7,
covered sufficiently 10 be removed {
his residence.
MARIT2BUKG, ~ Tch 1l.-NO GireC
or reliable intelligence from Col. Pa:
son hiss been. received. Anxiety
becoming grave, though III. lass con,
muuication was hopeful. Several ns
tive runners, induced by large re wsrds
started for EkoWe with dispa,chss
but are returning, reporting the road
destroyed, every approach commando,
oy military kroals and forts and III
country swarming with Z1lus. Witt
the utmost care C.l. Parsons supplies
1t is believed, will be exhausted b.
the end of March. The expedition il
course of organization on the Lowe
Cumgela for his relief now number
fourteen companies of regulars. A
soon as the native contingent is suffi
GENTLY strengthened the expedition
will be pushed forward.
ROME, March 31.-Psssanante. tn,
would-be assassin of King Humbert,
who has had his sentence committed
to-day, embarked aboard msn-ot-waI
for the Island of Eloa, where he will
undergo penal servitude for life.
LONDON, March 31.-A dispatch
from Lahore to the REUTERS saws q
small force under Major Humphrey
was attacked on the twenty-severth.
They were met In the Pishin valley by
5000 Afghans. The enemy were de-
feated with loss of sixty men killed.
There were no casualties among the
British.
LONDON, March 31.-A dispatch
from Lahore to the Times saws that
Col. Cavagnan, who arrived here OH
Wednesday to confer with the Vice
roy, still remains. The negotiations
with Zikoob Khan have continued.
but hitherto it has, perhaps, not been
the governments policy to press
Yakoob Khan to a final decision, for
the obvious reason that if his decision
proves unacceptable prompt advance
on Cabul may be our proper course,
and that at present, while the snow
covers the passes, such q step would
be impracticable.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 31.-A dis
patch to the daily Telegraph says four
hundred and fifty persons were arrested
On the night after the attempt on the
life of General Won Doentlern. chief
of gen d'armerie. Some of them were
Of such high rank that they were not
sent to the common prisons. They in
clude officers of the guard, the court
of chamberlains and two daughters of
The most prominent ministers.
A committee has been appointed to
inquire into the cause of the deaths of
Two hundred out of five hundred IL
mates of the Charkoff central prison
within four months.
CAPE Town, March 31.-There is a
tatement that serious breach has oc-
cured between Sir Bartle, Governor
md commander in chief of Cape Colo
y and Sir Henry Bulwer, Governor of |
Natal In consequence of harsh meas
Tres sanctioned by the former to con-
cript natives.
LONDON, March 31.-A correspon-
lent of the Manchester Guardian
elegraphs to that journal that for
months there has been a movement on
DOT among the leading members OF
roman communists to carry into
nancial matters the bond of the Cath
lie sympathy and confidence. The
reject has now assumed shape and
tile of the Anglo universal bank linz
ed with directorate in London and
'aris, and counting among its patti ons
ONE eminent British and French
atholic nobieEen. The design of the
ank is stated to be to take up and
xtend valuable foreign collections and
ssume more efficient protection and
evelopment of the Catholic banking
lterests throughout the world.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-HoUsE-
.tkins, of Tennessee, reported the
,gislative appropriation bill. 1t ap-
rOpristes between SIS, 900, 900 and
5000, 900 under the head of judicial.
- contains provisions repeating the
at clause of sec. 800 of the Revised
which applies to the State of
and section sol, s20,
II of Revised Statutes, and provides
lat all jurors, grand and petty, shall
, drawn from box, containing the
ames of not less than three hundred
ersons, possessing the necessary
which names shall have (
zen placed therein by the clerk OF the
'urt, and commissioner to be appoint
| by the judge, which, commissioner
lall be citizen residing in the die
let and shall be well known MEM
II Of the principal political party
'posing; that the township clerk
all belong to it also. Repeats
ctions 2016, 2O18, 1920 and
of the succeeding sections
WE to and including 2O27; and also I
ction 5522. 1t also strikes out of /
ction 2019 the words "for the pur- s
'se of engaging IN the work of can 4
sslng ballots" and strikes out of o
ction POPS the words ''or q deputy
arshal," and also the words "city,
wn, county, parish" 1t repeats sec b
IN 2031, except such parts of it as n
late to the pay of supervisors of il
ectlons. 1t repeats all other sections p
d laws authorizing the appointment 6
chief supervisors of elections and b
ecisl or deputy msrshsls of election.
lie bill was ordered printed and was
en- referred to committee of the r.
hole. The House then went into
mmittee of the whole on the 81
my appropriation bill, and was
dressed by B.lford, of Colo 4
ado, against the section for
1diDg the use of troops at the polls.
:. Bslford's speech was delivered 81
I'M manuscript. He declared that on n
itch Congress was now engaged the
esident might yield, but the R.pub-
an party never. He characterized =,
: Democratic party of the North as M
waraly and traitorous, and warned a
South against relying on it. All d
1t the Republican party asked of the C.
nth was q respect for the Jaws Of the e.
1ntry. They had been told that the &c
had CT ssed the P1tomac q
4 seized the capital, but the SJutk- :,