, 1879-03-29
Concentrations from Exchanges.

evening.
The Columbia Chroaicle calls wedding GER
tificates passports TO happiness Wouldn't
lottery tickets be more appropriate:
The Woo'en Mills at Dayton will resume
work this week with a force OF thirty men.
Everything is in order for successful run.
A correspondent az Cape Town says; Col.
Pearson, after repulsing the Zulu attack,
which occurred February 18th, burned En-
bamedis.
The Catholic clergy of Newport, R. l., are
in favor of taking up collections to aid Arch
bishop Purcell, OF Cincinnati, in his iinan-
cial troubles.
The Columbia Chronicle is determined to
make the business men of Dayton buy fire
engine for the boys at the earliest opportu-
nifty. No time like the present.
A Vienna dispatch says that the Russian
government has discovered plot to forcib!y
hberate the imprisoned Nihilists, and that it
has proofs of the revolutionary designs of
the prisoners.
A dispatch from Kimberly reports that the
Iulus have burned eight kraals belonging to
| friendly Caffres near Doornberg, and killed
the inhabitants All fears of a successful
invasion of Natal have disappeared.
The agitation in the Transvaal for inde-
! pendence has diminished Is the attitude OF
| tn tribes become more threatening. 1t Is
reported that Chief Secocoeni is preparing
to attack Seydenburg, IN Eastern Transvaal.
| Susan B. Anthony has been brave enough
| to tell the members of the New York legls-
! latnre that she made her first appearance
| before that body thirty years ago, when
most Z. those who now heard hes were at
school
4 London correspondent says: A .propo-
| sal for dinner to Bret Harte has been made
public in the Society yOmuai, owned and
! edited by E,lmund Yates. who says the date
| The chair will be taken by the Earl of Rose
berg.
When Don Marco \. Soto became presi-
dent of the Honduras republic he found the
| country bankrupt, but, with a remarkable
spirit OF patriotism, he used great deal OF
his own large fortune IN improving its con-
! ditiOn He, moreover, refuses to receive
any salary for his services.
The recent sudden thaw that proved so
! over into Montana. From the Deer Lodge
| Norh,rcN We learn that nearly all the bridges
| at that place We're carried away by the sud-
/ den rise Of the waters. Verify the Chinook
is 'sarching" in its qualities.
! Congressman Whiteaker arrived at Wash
| ington at 10 \ NJ. having made the fastest
| time on record betNe Oregon and Wash
ington. He kept his special train all the
/ way to Omaha, and then took 4 special train
at Council Bluffs over the Chicago, Brrlng-
ton and Quincy road, running 10 Chicago,
800 miles, in l24 hoHrs.
| The first of the week a report was in CIR
| cuiation III Dayton that the route for rail
road was being surveyed from Walla Waila.
! We have been unable IL learn whether the
report has foundation or not, or any further
particulars Ii it he true, We are prone to
rejoice, n viii all the people OF this section.
! Tie PROJECT IS said 10 be under the sUpervls-
! ioa OF Dr. Baker.
\ I.anfor,i rIu!are county) dispatch states
! that settlers there who have been Threatened
| with litigation and cjcctment hy the railroad
! cnmparv, have formed a battalion ot SIX
| companies, regularly Differed, mounted and
! armed. To resist the action Of the company
| Most OF the mea have seen actual service,
! and aver that they mean business
The T'rtJgne,s Washington special says ::
| Candidates for places about the Capitol, es
pecially those in the senate wing, are already
appearing in shoals. 1t is estimated that
! there viii he between 5000 aud 10. eco candi
dates Tor positions on the house and sen 'te
rolls by the time congress meets, and the
number will undoubtedly be nearer the lat
ter than the former.
4 dispatch from Omaha says that rs the
| east bound train arrived there, Clara Morris,
who was a passenger, urged her husband
| (Hiarriottl 10 strike 4 man in the depot who,
she said, had bowed to her IN street car IN
San Francisco. Harriott complied The
stranger made nc effort to cause Harrlott 5
| arrest, but declared he had never been IN
San Francisco IN his life The scene made a
| sensation.
The democrats make no concealment of
| their purpose in the extra session, frs: to
pass their political measures through both
branches o: congress IS independent meas
ures. ard if they are net signed by the exc
! cutive then 10 attach them to the two ap-
preparation bills which will be held hack for
| the purpose, and refuse all supplies of money
for the necessary expenses OF the govern
ment until their political schemes are ac-
| complished.
Last September, that portion of Dayton
lying across the Patti, and known as Brook
| lyn, did not contain a single dwelling. Now
| there are fifteen houses completed and being
built there. We ice the dwellings of u.
). Brewster, Rumpf and Dunkle and others
adorn the wheat field that was. Storer, the
! genial barber Is also building, and we learn
| that many of our citizens are contemplating
| to locate in that portion of the town.-CO-
| hgn,bid Chronicle
The Commercial Bulletin SAYS: The H.
| telligence that Chile is blockading Bolivian
| nitrate ports, and that the mines are to be
se;ze,l, Is confirmed by the Chilean Consul,
| who states that though he has received no
| official information, private dispatches have
| been saIt him - the effect that there would
| be no Immediate shipments of nitrate, III
| consequence of the war between the two
| countries. This gives Perm, which has al
most monopolized this article, an oDportu-
nifty to raise the price OF the product to any
point she may please. The Peruvian trade
amounts To about Sl4. 600, 900 per annum,
! aAii liAt ti'AlA ..iil w I-oD, wv, wv.
The captsin Of H. N. S. Osprey concludes
| his report on his trip to Sitka with the fol-
| lowing: beg 70 state that | feel certain
| that the presence of the Oliver Wolcott and
this ship has averted serious calamity, and
that it is my firm conviction that nothing
but permanent protection and some sort %
government having authority will enable the
white people to live here without no.esta-
ton from the Indians, to carry on their trade
and develop the resources OF the country,
and il | may venture to do so without being
thought presumptious, would sugge<t that
! the protection should take the form OF a
man f-war liz preference to troops, although
they might be combined with advantage.
The telegraph flashes ugly news that Rus
sia is angry with Germany, and Austria Off
cially declares that the plague has ceased,
and ranneSts her nejps- hors tn remnVe thz