The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-05

Deputy United States Marshal George
White and party, with their prisoner
Afford, while returning to Fort Worth
were attacked by three of Affords
brothers. In the ensuingstruggle Mar
shall White was shot in the groin, per-
haps fatally. Two of the Affords were
wounded, but rescued the prisoner, and
escaped,
Four unknown men, supposed to be-
long to gang of desper&does in Indian
Territory, rode into Coneyville, Kansas,
Sunday, robbed the Postoffics and COM
mitted other depredations. The citi-
zens resisted, and one of them, named
Fitzpatrick, was killed, and another,
named Roberts, was wounded. The
robbers then left, and shortly after
wards detachment of United States
troops started in pursuit, but at last
accounts had made no arrests.
A Washington special has a long de-
tailed story about Jasper w. Johnson,
of Oregon, returning to Washington to
reorganize a Liberal Club and devote
himself to engineering a movement for
the. reelection of Hayes. 1t is also
rumored that Jasper w. Johnson prom
ises Chief Clerk Crosby, of the War
Department, the votes of the Oregon
Senators for the confirmation of Nc
Crary as Circuit Judge of the District
including Iowa, if places are made for
the friends of the Senator'S in the De-
partment.
The New York Times prints the de-
tails of he,Rivers and Harbors Appro-
priation bill passed by the last Congress,
showing SO, 500, 900 divided up among
thirty-six States and three Territories.
Nevada is the only State in the Union
which does not receive direct pecuniary
aid from, the Act. 1t cannot be that
Nevada was omitted because there are
no streams of water in that State.
Perhaps the absenteeism, of her Sena-
tors, is accountable for, the omission.
The. Times says the President has the
power to check this shameful grab by
refusing to spend the money except at
the points where the necessities of trade
and commerce require it.
A Cape Town dispatch says: Grief
Monosi has submitted. The present
trouble with the Bosutos, therefore, is
settled; but much discomfort still ex-
lists. 1t is feared that there will be a
severe famine next year in Zululands as
it is now seed time and holland is being
sown, while. much seed has been de-
stroyed. and many cattle seized. Cete-
wayo,. when leaving the battle field of
Ululundi, told his chiefs to, look to
their own safety and seek terms of
peace as best they could. His army is
broken up, the nation dispersed, and
the King a fugitive. Zullland will
probably be divided into three or four
separate principalities each under an
independent noble.
Yesterday as General Badger of the
New Orleans Cnstom-house, was as
cending the stairway from the lower
floor to the main Office Of. the Custom
house he was suddenly met by William
Brown, an ex-metropolitan policeman,
who, with the remark, "Tve got you
now" drew a revolver and fred it at
the head of the Collector. He, seeing
Browns movements. caught his arm
and diverted the shot over his shoulder
General Badger then took the pistol
away from. Brown and threw it below
Brown lost leg on the l4th of Septem-
Der, 1864, under Badger, and was among
Badgers discrepancies as Postmaster
Becoming Collector, Badger left Brown
in the Postoffice,- where he failed to re-.
main. The COLLECTOR thinks Brown was
crazed by poverty to attempt his MUIR
der, and seems unwilling to prosecute.
Brown thinks the General should have
given him a place in the Custom,house.
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In Russia, as we'll as in Germany,
Austria, and one or two minor northern