The Phoenix herald., 1879-05-28
IELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Indian Jack was hanged at Shasta,
 Cal, May 23d, for the murder of
 Clfinaman.
 It is reported that Vice President
 Wheeler is troubled with extreme
 nervousness and slecplessness, a dis
 ease that killed Greeley.
 The governments proposals will
 probably be adopted. The landed
 interest is now urging the protection
 of wool.
 Troy Dye, sentenced to be hanged
 May g, had violent attack and beat
 and kicked his wife in the most cruel
 manner while visiting him in the cell
 The keepers had some difficulty in
 controlling him and getting tine wo-
 man out
 In the election yesterday of Seyd- witz Conservative President of the Reichstag, the Liberals abstained from voting. Of 204 votes cast, Seydwitz received 19j. This vote, it IS believed, must be taken as an indi- cation of the future course of the Reichstag for q period which it would be rash to set limits to.
 An official dispatch has been re- eeived by the Minister of War an- nouDeing an engagement between the Turkish troops and the insurgents at PcrIasia. Tbessaly. The Turks lost 450 in killed and wounded, and the insurgents 70, including their leader.
 Twothousand underground conduc- tors will be laid in New York city by September, doing away with the use of 15,000 poles. The wires will be insulated in oil pipes, according to Brooks method. To test how long a line will work with this system, ter say City and Elizabeth City will next be connected with pipes full of oil.
 In the German Reichstag yesterday Bismarck made two-hoHrs' speech in support of grain duties. He strove to show that the imposition of duties by bettering the purses of the agricultural class would give an i'm petus to industrial activity. England, France, Belgium and the Neither lands were cited in proof thereof Bismarck disclaimed all intention of seeking to increase the imperial ex- chequer by corn tax. All he de- sired was justice to his long-suf1ering countrymen by removing to the iron tier in the form of consumption duty part of the direct taxes. The de- | hate was adjourned until Friday.
 The New York Times says: The new Senator from Oregon (Slater) has undertaken to regulate" the Chinese in America. He brought his whole i mind to the study of our treaties with other nations, and to that of the | Burlingame treaty in particular. | From this research he has emerged with the conviction that foreigners in this country are in possession of too many privileges, and that the Chinese may be lawfully excluded from all privileges not granted by treaty to subjects of ''the most favored na- ton" Slater accordingly proposes to exclude them. There is a novelty about this which suggests the fresh ness of Oregonian forests. The Chinese are to be put on level, so far as privileges are concerned, with subjects of other foreign powers. It will surprise our feIlow-cifiZens to learn that they have been governed by Flahertys and Muldoons in def ance of treaty stiplutions.
 The New York Tribune says: Cal ifornia could support 50,000,000 peo- pile without crowding; indeed, if as densely populated as Holland, she wonld hold nearly 200,000.000. Itre- dsireg not less than 10000, ,000 merely to dereIope her resources. It is not, then, 50 much a question what the Chinese will do as it is what Califor- mia will do, and especially how some of her wOrth1est enterprises will es- cape from embarrassment. Those who talk fiippentiy of overcrowding :, should reflect upon the fact that all the inhabitants Of the globe could stand oH Long Island in New York State, and each have ten feet of land. This is a curious comment on our institutions. this talk of expelling men, merely because they work too hard anf tue clieap, from country where not one acre in ten has ever Iseen fenced in. nor one in. twenty -o4ched by the PI2M-