The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ter I'D reply " Vu0 Avn" "A''
Of Cincinnati, in reference to southern
v.r claims: II was published by the AS
ISOLATED Press on the 18th. In 1t hetakes the
,round that all such claims are necessarily
invalid, and says that II he were President
he "would veto all legislation which might
come before me providing for the considera'
ton or payment Of claims Of any kind Tor
losses or damage by persons who were in re-
beilion, whether pardoned or not"
MINISTER CHKIsrIANCY has gone
from Peru to Chilli to present to the latter
Government certain claims for damage
caused to the property Of American cidzens
during the war.
IT il announced that Col. James &.
Fair. Of the Bonanza firm, has signified bis
WILLINGNESS 10 become the Democratic can
didste for United States Senator from Ne
vada, in opposition to Senator Sharon, who
10 . candidate for reelection.
THEME was . monster Republican
demonstration = Philadelphia on the night
Of the 18th. Senator Blaine was the prinei'
pal orator Of the meeting.
J.B. YEAGLEY, Greenback candidate
for Secretary Of State in Indiana, has with.
drawn from the ticket and announces that
he shall act with the Democratic party.
ACALL has been issued, signed by U.
8. Grant, Commander. in. Chief, for Con.
yention Of the Union Veteran Soldiers and
Sailors Of the United States, to be held ut In
dianapoIis, on Thursday, Oct. !, 1SSo.
PRESIDENT HAYES and party have
gone to Oregon.
OFFICIAL returns Of the Vermont
election: Total vote, 1900; Farnham
(Rep.), 1854; Phelps (Dem.), I'!2S;
Heath (Greenb.), LIS; scattering, IA;
Farnham's majority, D,O79.
THE Supreme Court Of Indiana has
oyerruled the petition for rehearing In the
ease involving the validity OF the Constitu.
tional amendments. Judges Riddle, War
rem AID Howk were against reopening the
case, and Judges Niblack and Scott in favor.
The State election will, therefore, be held
In October.
THOMAS ALLEN, President Of the st.
Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats OF
the Second Missouri District (St. LOUSY. 1t
IL understood he will accept.
GEN. GRANT, Gen. Logan, Senator
Conklipg and ex-senator Simon Cameron
attended the great Republican demonstra'
ton at Warren, o., on the 18th. Gen. Grant
presided At the main meeting and read an
address equal In length to about one.hali
column Of small newspaper type. Address
e. were also made by Senators Conkling and
Logan, after which oil Of these gentlemen
and some others proceeded by special train
to Mentor to call upon Gen. Garfield, where
they spent about half an hour. u
THE New York Democratic State Con-
vention was held at Saratoga on the 18th,
the two factions haYmonizing throughout In
oil the proceedings. The only candidate II
be nominated was Chief Justice Of the Cour,
Of Appeals, for which Charles A. Rapall'
was chosen.
The Greenbackers Of the Secont
Illinois District (Chicsgo) have nominated
Charles 9. Dixon for Congress.
The National Irish Republican Con
vention wa held n Saratoga on the eth
Resolutions we're adopted indorsins the Re
publican National platform and the candi'
dates for President and Vice. President
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
GEN. RoBEArs, Of Texas, and som'
other prominent residents Of the State hav'
completed negotiations with the owners o
he Great Eastern to run the mammoth shil
between Galveston and London, touching .
New Orleans. The vessel will bring out In
migrants for Texas, and take back cotton
Arrangements have been made for the recep
ton and location Of the immigrants, and tn
Texans expect to derive many advantage
thsrefron.
Duane the month Of August sc, 10
luuigsants arrived In THU country, mostl
tom European countries. Il Il now almoa
certain Mat the inmigratioa this year VII
exceed $4,000. The largest previous immi
grafton for say one year was In 1861, when
reached $1,000
tn spinner committee at Fal
2avsl5 Aass., have recommended Q geners
sRiks b case The proposed reduction q
wages b made elective.
A LATE Berlin dispatch says: Th
as'ks amoagst workmen here which bega
rseently Win The carpenters, has now q
ssadsd y tuyaers, weavers and other worn
IA, ~ b assuming serious phase.
0R1N3 AND CASUALTIES.
4 sEvEls shock Of earthquake occu,
rsd u Valparaiso o. August 10, causiag col
sSdefsble damage. II was reported that Il
town q Illspsl, in the interior, had been d.
sroysd By the shock and 100 lives lost.
Tns bodies Of the men who psrishs
bytAs ssvisg In 4 The Hudson River 7uuu
Il Jsfsey City several weeks ago have Anall
beeo reached.
A COLLISION occurred between . pas
senger and freight train on the vandali
aeadat Harrington Station, about nine mile
Wsst Of Tsrrs Hsuts, Ind, On the mornin
a TIE cath. causing the death Of two men
Oscar Rankin, engineer, and William Saun
Ian, fireman Of the passenger train. Thre
postal clerks were injured, ono quite ser'
susly.
TH1oDoRI GLAxcY, editor OF th
Santa Barbara (Cal.) Eseniag Press. wa
~ md probably fatally wounded BY Clar
90 Gray, Republican candidate for Dis
Haes Attorney, for publishing articles reflect
~ upsa III character.
TIE bodies Of two men, Tom McCar
9aA Ten Kelly, we're found In the ruin
q . a)esa burned At Buena Vista, Colo.
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