The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-16

OF the steamer City OF Toxic, with
CRAM on board, being received the
Board would at once adjourn for the day
to enable members, to take part in the
demonstration. The Pacific Board is
expected to take similar action.
There IL great excitement at Sitka,
Alaska, about the mines. Claims are
being recorded daily. There are now
some so OF 40 miners at work.
A dispatch from Ali Kheyl gives the
following account of the massacre of
the British Legation at Cabul: Four
thousand men attacked the residence in
which the British Embassy was quar-
tered. The mutineers Brought up ar
tillery against it. Major Cavagnari was
stabbed in several places, and all the
bodies of the dead were mutilated. The
Afghan loss exceeded three hundred.
The Ameer had other troops who re-
manned faithful, but made no effort to
interfere, owing to the intimidation by
the priests.
The New York Tribune. says: A ma
tional society is to be formed at Phila-
delphia at the coming conference on the
nego exodus from the South, for the
purpose of supplying the colored people
in the future with accurate information
of importance to them.
Mrs. Bonesteel, residing at Shawnee,
Jackson County, (Mo.), killed two of
her children little girls) yesterday, by
giving them morphine, and then tried
to commit suicide by taking the same
drug; but not having enough to produce
death, she attempted to kill herself by
hanging, but was discovered before life
was extinct. The supposed cause is
mental arrangement, occasioned by do
mestic troubles
In an interview at Chicago, jay
Gould stated that rumors, current to
the effect that Vanderbilt had attained
control of the Union Pacific, and that
Gould would go out of the road and
extend the Kansas Pacific to Ogden,
were incorrect, and that he does not
believe that Vanderbilt holds one share
of Union Pacific stock.
Thirteen new cases of yellow fever
were reported at Memphis yesterday.
Seven deaths occurred.
A London dispatch says: According
to present appearances, the distress
among the working classes of thickly
populated towns in the northeastern
portion of England will be most intense.
The second ballot for member of the
Chamber of Deputies, in Bordeaux,
France, took place Sunday, and re-
suited in the defeat of Blanqu, Com
munist, by the following vote: Achard,
4,69S; Blanqm, 4, 440.
A great tenants rights meeting was
held in Mallow, Ireland, Saturday. 1t
was addressed by Sir Joseph McKenna
and other members of Parliament.
Twenty thousand people were present.
Resolutions were passed calling the at
tention Of the Government to the de-
pressed condition of Ireland, and sug-
costing the establishment of a State re-
lief and the general abatement of rents.
The Herald has an article on the Chi
nese in New York, from which it seems,
that there are, besides 300 laundries, 5O
Chinese grocers, 20 tobacconists and To-
druggists, with enough Nongolians in
Other. callings to demonstrate the adapt
ability of the race. From the article
itself the following is extracted For.
the past two years the Chinese lpopula-
ton Of New York has shown remark.
able increase. With cause for dreadine
the supremacy of the Workmpinens
party in San Francisco, and fearing the
unfavorable operation of the new con.
stitution Of California, they have been
emigrating to Eastern cities, principally
to New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
in large. numbers. In 1875 there were
only l57 Chinese in New York, but the
next census, next year, will show many
thousands, most. of whom have been
exiled by "the BRUTALITY of California