Salt River herald., 1879-01-08

lers into so-call nonpartisan or tax payers organizations.
 Stocks-Tiptop, $l 30.
 NEW YORK, January T.-Will street gossip says that Vanderbilt ard Garrison are combining for the con- trol of the roads to St. Louis, the point of union being the Wabash road, be- yond which Garrison is master of the situation, while Vanderbilt controls the outlet to this side.
 JACKSONVILLE, FLA, January r. A drizzling rain, with sleet, fell last night. The thermometer marks 50 degrees, and thin ice has formed. There has been nothing of the kind for the last thirty years.
 ROCHESTER, N. T., January IA passenger train left for the cast about noon, the first railroad communica- tioon in any direction in three days. One track is now open at the scene of Fridays accident, seven miles east of here.
 WAsHINGToN, January "A deci- sion was rendered this afternoon by the United States supreme court, in the case of George Reynolds against the United States, brought here by appeal from the supreme court of Utah. The case involves the whole question of polygamy in the territo- ries, and the constitutionality of the law passed by congress for its sup prcssion. Reynolds was indicted by q grand jury for contracting big;- nous marriage. lie was tried in the third judicial court of Utah and found guilty. He appealed to the supreme court of the territory, and finally this court now aflirms the judgment of the lower tribunals and decides that congress had the power to pass laws prohibiting polygamous marriages in Utah, and that such laws are constitutional,
 NEW YORK, January G.-The PoSrS special from Cohoes, New York, says the Harmony cotton mills, employing $500 hands and producing 30O,00O yards of cotton goods per day, have r dlced their working time to three days Ter week in order to reduce the production and stitlen the prices.
 BERLIN, January 7.-The socialist democrats have lately elected their candidates around Leipsic.
 ST. PETERSBURG January 6.-The plague has broken out in Astrachan. It is known to have been introduced by CosSacks returning from Turkey
 SAN FRANCISCO, January 7.-Stocks -Tiptop. S1 25.
 CLEVELAND, January "A through passenger train for Chicago, the first since last Thursday, leaves Buffalo today.
 BATAVIA, \. Y, Janvary IA snow blow and five engines on the Few York Central railroad were try ing to force their way through the snow drifts, the blow and four locH- motives left the track, four miles east of here, when two of the locomotives exploded, killing three employees. Three or four other per. ons are miss ing, and it is not yet known how great was the loss of life.
 WAsIIINGToS, January 7.-Alexan- der II. Stevens had an attack of neu- ralgia last night, and is worse physi- cally than he has been Cor years.
 Justice Lunt, of the supreme court, is very low and his life is dcspaired of.
 The supreme court yesterday gave a decision in the case of the United States vS. the Union Pacific railroad, commonly known as the credit mo- bilier case. Tie decision of the low CT court, in sustaining the demurrer to the bill in equity, is affirmed and the governments suit is ordered dis missed.
 CITY OF MEXICO, December 3O.- Ex-Gov. Bravo, who headed q rising in Colima and Michoacan, has been killed, with fourteen of his followers.
 LONDON, January 7.-Ex-Presidcnt Grant arrived here today, and was formally presented with the freedom of the city. A grand banquet will be given in his honor tonight.
 SAN FRANcIsco, January S.-Silver, 2@2l5. Stocks-Tirtop, s1 30.
 The officers who were in pursuit of Lewis, the escaped mur derer from the Yuma penetentiary, have returned after a search of nineteen days. They T.