The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-07-30
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Louisville, Kentucky. yesterday.
The harvest in southeastern France
is nearly terminated, and in the SOUTH
west about half finished. The quality
is better than last year, but in quantity
barely an average.
a Washington special to the Evening
Post says: Gorham's new attitude in
California issregarded here with aston
ishment andsdisgust by his stalwart as
s)ciaties.
A dispatch from Fort Davis, Texas.
says: Major Courtney skirmished with
the Indians at the salt lakes, 70 miles
west of here, on Saturday. Two
soldiers were badly wounded and ten
horses captured by Indians.
There are $1,000 persons in the Dur
ham, England, collieries, the greater
part of whom will ls greatly affected
by Lord Derby award as umpire, re-
dacing wages one and quarter per
cent. in addition to the former re-
duction.
Ex-Congressman Rainey,. of South
Carolina, says the exodus of his race
will continue. 1t has taken deep root
in nearly all the Southern States. The
movement will be westward. He ridi-
cules the idea Of a colder climate limit
ing the migration. The negroes are
organizing emigration societies in the
South.
AID. Sprague, of New York, chal-
lenges Ferdermeyer, the San Francisco
swheelbafrow man, saying: "He may
walk or.run, and I will walk square
heel and toe. He may have strap,
and will wheel without any such aid,
the winner to take all the gate money
and pay all expenses, unless the de-
feated party covers $50 miles.
Ten additional cases Of yellow fever
were reported to the Board of Health
at Memphis yesterday. The special
policemen engaged in taking the census
of the city completed their task. The
result shows the population of Memphis
to be 1910; whites, 4,2S3: colored,
Il ,S2T; adults. 1851; children, $3.50.
Of the. whole 8,743 have had the fever,
leaving 1867 susceptible to the disease.
Atlanta, Georgia. officers. chased one of
the murderers of Defor ana his wife, with
bloodhounds. They captured him, and
he confessed to the murder being done
by himself, white man and another
negro. Asa Morgan, the captured man,
says he,held the lamp while the white
man killed the old people. Two officers
are after the other two. Morgan is in
Jail. He was badly bitten by the
hounds. He says large amount of
money was obtained by the murder.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Republican, Committee are having a
thorough canvass of all the depart
ments made, with view to finding out
what clerks, have right to vote in the
States, how often they have voted since
they have been in office, what ticket
they voted at the last election, and
what ticket they intend to 4vote at the
next. To,the amazement of the COM
mittee, one of the departments show
almost a Democratic majority of the
employees therein.
The coinage of standard silver dollars
will this month fall between $500, 900
aud 100000 short of the minimum
amount fixed bylaw--S2. 900, month
ly. The deficiency will be due to the
fact that on July the stock of silver
bullion at the San Francisco and Car
son minis had been so much reduced
that there was nothing to commence
work upon. Since then it has been i'm
possible to procure bullion for those
mints. Up to the 10th of June work
was pushed forward continually at the
Philadelphia and New Orleans minis so
as to run the coinage up to the $1,000,
GOO required for that month"; The
mint at Philadelphia will be run day
and night during August to make up
the deficiency