The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-11-11
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place and gave the alarm to the men in
the mine. 1t is supposed that Parker,
the engineer, had fallen asleep and per-
ished in the flames, as he has not been
seen since. There were four men, in
the mine at the time-Dunean McRae,
Arthur Jackson, Hugh Smith and john
Blake After the fire was conquered.
the foreman went down to the bottom,
of the shaft and found them all dead
from suffocation. All had families. but,
McRae.
Four troops of Hussars were, dis
patched from Dublin for Ballnrobe by
special trains yesterday morning. Four
hundred infantry have just arrived at
Ballinrobe and will encamp near Loughs
Mask. These precautions are taken IN
view of the intention Of the Northern
Orangemen to send laborers to harvest
the crops of Mr.. Boycott. Lord Erne's
agent, for whom the local peasantry, at
the instigation of the Land League,
refuse to work The government will
protect moderate. force of laborers,
but refuse to permit anything approach
ing an armed demonstration, which
would certainly provoke collision.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ca, says:
Governor Colquitt, in delivering his in
augural address, dwelt at length on
Hancock's defeat and bewailed it as an
evidence of the decline of the Republic.
He declared that. the main reason OF
! Garfeld's election was Northern hatred,
of the South, and expressed the fear
that sectionalism would be perpetual
because of Northern intolerance. These
sentiments (says Mr.. Simonton of New
Y ork) We're very chilling to the Repu5-
licans present, especially as the Repub-
licans helped materially to re-elec5
Colquitt.
The Chairman of the Ulster County
| New York; Democratic Committee has
served upon the Board of Canvassers a
protest against counting the Republican
Electoral ballots, claiming that said
ballots do not conform to the require
n,onts of the statute, in, that they con
tain both caption and Endorsement, and
that the names Of several candidates
are not printed ''in plain type with
letters Of uniform size" Ulster county
heretofore has been largely Democratic,
but on the I'd instant gave Garfield 100
majority.
An earthquake was felt yesterday
throughout Southern Austria, from
Vienna to the Adratic and the frontiers
of Bosnia. At Agram, in Croatia, the
shock was so violent that every house
in the town was injured. Several per-
sons were killed and thirty hurt. Many
buildings will have to be pulled down.
A large number of the inhabitants fed
to the fields.
II Ben. Hill has written to Congressman
Crittenden letter in which be deplores
the solidity of the two great sections Of
the country. He says he believes this
to be a Nation, and that he would like
to see great national party organized.
I He regrets that the New York Demo
Gratis have threatened to throw out the
Garfield vote in that State, and says
that the South will never consent to it.
/ President Hayes has appointed Chas.
W. Slagle, of Fairfield, Iowa, Otis p.
G. Clark, of Newport, r. l., and A. B.
Nichols, of Philadelphia, Pa, Commits
Isioners to examine and report upon 80
miles of the railroad constructed by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
west-of the Missouri river:
/ The impression is daily growing
stronger that the Garfield administra-
tion will have the support of many of
the Southern statesmen, and it is now
said that a movements on foot in the
South to have his election made as
nearly unanimous as possible.
The San Francisco Superintendent of
Schools reports that he has been waited
upon by committee of ladies at the
Mission, asking that the Board close
| the nnhlic schools during the nreya linz