The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-05

NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY S. 1879

tion of concentrating at Takhtipul for the
final advance on Candahar.
The most reliable reports state that only
three or four weak Afghan regiments and feQ
hundred irregulars, destitute Of artillery, or.
| at Candahar.
| PORT AU PRrNcE.-Advices from Port ar
Prince state it 10 reported that in Port de Pai1
| the river changed its bed and crossed the town
| overfowing the principal part OF it and de-
atroying many houses and lives. st. Louis
Del Nord, sit aated about three miles distant,
is said to be entirely destroyed by the food.
| UNITED STATES.
| WAsHINGToN.-Resumpt of specie pay.
| ments has been successfully accomplished,
| causing not the slightest excitement in any
| part of the country.
In the country banks of Massachusetts,,
| there was o tendency for few days to draw
out gold and keep it, but in ssventy-five per
cent of cases depositors, particularly those
| with large accounts, preferred bank notes.
Some few took parts of the money their checks
! called for in gold 'just to see how it would
| look" bat nearly all the coin thus paid out
osived it in the course of their business. At a
large Misunderstanding town in Massachusetts
the men we're paid off last Saturday night in
gold, and sixty per cent. of it was in tills of
grcoers and dry goods stores within forty.
eight hours. In Boston, the banking houses
found their customers preferred bank bills as
being more easy to carry. Persons drawing
money preferred bank notes to coin, aud in
case did tney desire gold, except in small
eums. In the West among farmers, there ives
rather more demand for gold, for many seemed
it was found to be offered rs freely as paper
by banks, the demand was Email, aud only Tor
amounts of one hundred dollars and under.
III ne Comptcaer uhaer h 19sni ophiof h;s rot OF
decision that the Blaine Investigating Com
mittee could not use the $50 900 left over from
an old committee of the same kind, and now,
having the necessary funds, the investigation
recently ordered by the Senate will proceed
with vigor. On the 2d, Sub Committee con.
sisting of Teller. Cameron and Kirkwood, Re-
publicans and Garland and Bailey, Democrats,
left for New Orleans.
GREAT FIRE IN CHARLESTON. - At three
O'Clock the morning of the 1st., the large
cotton and warehouses of the Union Cotton
Press Company were d. stroyed by fire, to-
gether with 10 121 bales of cotton. The pro-
perty comprised four cotton pres ,es, with q
capacity of pressing about $500 bales of cotton
per diem, and storage room for over IL. 600
bales Only two of the presses were running.
The building and press are valued at about
500 00O
THE WEATHER Louisville Jan 2.-There
has been a remarkable change in the weather
cory falling 81 degrees. Navigation is entirely
suspended.
Cleveland, O Jan. 2-Weather very cold, the
thermometer at o'clock marking 70 below
zero. driving snow storm prevailed this
afternoon. Passenger trains are from one to
i've hours late. The Lake Shore have aban-
doned all freights east of here.
MISCELLANEOUS.
$40 900 were stolen on the cad from the safe
of the disbursing clerk as the Government
printing @ fiji 20, Washington --Wells, Fargo
& Co.'s annual statement Of precious metz
produced in States and Territories west Of the
Missouri river, including British Columbia,
aud receipts in San Francisco from the west
coast of Mexico, daring 1873. shows aggregate
prodncts as follows Gold $38 956 931 silver,
$3s 746 391 lead. So ASP OOO the total being
less by $l7, ,267 132 than for 1677--There is
great excitement among the Bohemians of
Chicago because of the discovery that the re-
mains of girl 10 years old had been taken
from the cemetery and were found in the
Medical College. the great walking
in the six days to 357t made by Cempegns.
The gate money amounts to over $40 .00O.-
Eight two story stores were burned in Helena,
Ark, on the 3lst.
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