Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-13

canyon, in possession of the watering places
and passes north, and had to retreat. General
Hatch thinks the Indians will try to get
through the lines into the Wiemberes or Mo-
gcllon mountains. To prevent this, he has
disposed of his troops, under Colonel Buell's
command, along the road from Fort Cum
mings to the river Colonel Buell's head
quarters are now at Siocum's ranch, about
the center of the lines.
A Town in New Mexico Turned Into
Gold Niue.
SANTA FE IN. NJ. August 12th.-A sem
sation was created here yesterday by the an
nouncement of a rich mining strike in the
Mexican village of Las Placitas, about thirty
miles distant. The village is built of adobe
huts, and the corrals and foundations of the
houses are of rock. Prospector Jesse Martin
detected mineral in this rock, and pounded
up and hammered out seine of it, getting a
rich result in gold He located the streets of
the town where the gold rock was taken, and
had assays made, with the result of 81 600 in
gold to the ton. The lowest grade of rock
assayed S4S Governor Lew Wallace has
just returned from the place. He paced of
the lead, making it 81 PAGES in width. Sub
sequent assays in Santa Fe give from So, 600
to St, 600 per ton. The whole village is built
on the ledge, and rock worth So per pound
has been thrown about as worthless.
Affairs in Alaska.
CHICAGO, August 12th.-The Inter Oceans
Washington special says: The Treasury De
partment is dissatisfied with the administra-
ton of affairs in Alaska. They complain
that thousands of dollars are expended there
annually for revenue collections, and are SIM
ply wasted. They believe Collector Ball of
Sitka to be an honest, efficient man, but as
sert that he has nothing to collect. Sitka is
one of q half dozen ports where goods can be
and are landed, and half of the others he
never sees. He occupies his time, not in col
lecting and preventing smuggling, but in
keeping wild Indians in order. The Alaska
Commission, composed of the chiefs of the
Bureau. of the Department, recommend the
substitution of Justices of the Peace, with
extensive jurisdiction, for the present expen-
sive collection machinery. This scheme will
be brought before Congress next winter.
Surrounded by Indians.
GALVESTON, August 12th-The following
is Ne,cs special from San Antonio: a dis
patch received at the army headquarters from
the operator at Quitman says: The Indians
are all around us. 1t is impossible to get
word to General Grierson. The Indians are
driving off stock and Wandering everybody
along the route.
The Democratic Campaign in Indiana
Opened by Hendricks.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 12th.-Mr. Hend-
ricks opened the Indiana campaign for the
Democrats to-day at Marin, Indiana.
A Murderous Father.in.Law.
CINoINNATI. August 12th.-The Gasette's
special from New Albany says Roger Rus
sell, 20 years old, this evening fired two bar
rels of shotgun into the face and breast of
John Norman, his son-in-law, tearing both
eyes out, and inhicting mortal wound. The
alleged cause was the i'll treatment by Nor
man of his wife.
vice-Presfdent Wheeler ON the Stump.
ST. ALBANs (Vt.l August 12th.-Vice-
President Wheeler was among the speakers
at the Republican mass meeting here to-
night.
Disastrous Fire.
WHITEHALL IN. W, August 12th.-A fire
at Sherlock's Mills burned Sherlock's steam
mill and store and twenty dwellings,. The
loss is heavy. Insurance, $4,000.
The White House State Dinner Service.
NEW YORK, August 12th.-An evening
paper has the following Washington special
1t will be remembered that some time ago
the newspapers were filled with elaborate
descriptions of g State dinner service that
had been painted for the White House. The
set was to be distinctively American. and
Theodore Il. Davis, one of the artists Of
Harper Brothers, was charged with the
work Of painting it. Fish, fowl and vegeta-
bles peculiar to the American continent were
to be painted upon appropriate dishes. This
was done with much satisfaction to the occu-
pants of the White House, but not so as re-
CARDS the bill for the workmanship. The
gossip is that the White House people
thought that Davis and his brother artists il
France, who gave their time and skill to the
task, were doing so with only a desire of
recompense in the thought of having done
something patriotic, or, on the part of the
French artists, complimentary. Hence
misunderstanding and dispute that is now in
the direct line of a lawsuit.
Party Above Personal Interest.
New York, August 12th.-The Herald,
commenting on the Connecticut Republican
Convention, says A more admirable exam
pie of the subordination of personal rivalries
to the general welfare of party seldom is
witnessed in practical politics than that
which occurred yesterday at Hartford.
There, as in Indiana, and every other doubt
full State, the Republicans appear TO be shap-
ing and managing their canvass with more
skill than their adversaries.
Westward-bound Passengers.
OMAHA, August 18th. = The following
through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 1915 P. NJ. to arrive in Sacramento
August 10th: w. Watson, Mrs. E. L. Wat
son, Miss Lulu Watson, Titusville, Pa. Mrs.
Joseph Bocht and daughter, Oakland Joseph
Ganard, U. S. A; G. Il. Moore, Louisville,
Ky; Prof. 0. G. Marsh. New Haven Conn;
Lewis Reynolds, st. Louis; james X.
Miller, Canada George Trax, Philadelphia;
Henry Herndon, Baltimore.
Thirty three through emigrants were on
to days train leaving at 1915 P. NJ, to arrive
in Sacramento August 18th.
National Liberal League.
BUFFALO, August 12th.-The fourteenth
annual Convention of the National Liberal
League will be held in Chicago on the 17th
18th and 10Th of September. The most i'm
portant work of the Convention will be the
selection of Presidential ticket or the in
dorsement of one of the present nomina-
tions.