The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-11-30
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

The project inaugurated by the New
York Times newspaper. to provide
fund of $3.50, 600 on which to pension
needy ex-Presidents, has been conduct
ed with privacy and success. Cousid
erably over half of the money has now
been secured, and the remainder will
probably be raised during the present
week. Four men furnished more than
half the amount, John NJ. Forbes, of
Boston, for himself and friends, head
ing the list with $4,000, and Jay
Gould, VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt, and John
W. Maekay of Nevada, each putting
down S25, ZOO. Ex-Governor f. d.
Morgan, Congressman L. p. Morton,
w. B. Dinsmore president of the
Adams Express Company and Repub-
lican Elector i'll the State of New
York;, w. B. Astor, John Hoeh (of
Adams Express Company and several
others put down for s., 900 each The
fund will be managed by the contrib
tutors, who, in its investment, will vote
In proportion to their contributions.
There seems to be some mystery
about the shooting Of Lieut.. Governor
Robinson at Robinson Camp, Colorado.
The particulars, so far as heard, are
these: There was a dispute about the
possession of the mine there, and a
guard had been placed to watch it.
Governor Robinson and the Manager of
the mine went to it after dark. The
guard, not recognizing them, and not
hearing an answer to his inquiries as to
who they were, fired, he says, into the
rocks overhead. Governor Robinson
fell, shot in four places. He is still
living, though his wounds are believed
to be fatal. From the fact that there
had been trouble between the miners
and owners during the previous week,
the guards story and the pecul iarity OF
the wounds make the theory that it
was accidental unsatisfactory.
A Washington special says: Jewell
had consultation with Chairman Hub
bell and McPhersoH, of the Congress
, sional Committee, yesterday, and it
was decided to telegraph at once to the
Electors of the nineteen States carried
by the Republicans, requesting them
ON Wednesday, at the meeting of their
respective Electoral Colleges, to cast
their votes for James A. Garfield and
| Chester A. Arthur, and not for James
Abram Garfield, or j. A. Garfield, Oh
G. A. Arthur. This course is advised
so as to insure regularity in che returns
from every State sent tothe Vice Presi-
dent, and so. as to deprive the Demo
Gratis of any pretext for raising question
about the returns when she votes are
counted in February.
The distrabed districts, in Ireland are
flooded with constabulary and military,
and all the resources ttAe command Of
the authorities will be available when
required for the protection of life and
property, but the secret and complete
organization Of the Leagues enables the
agitators to anticipate the movements
of the eonstabulary, and In some in
stances defeat them. There can be lit
tie doubt but that the organization of
leagues is rendered most perfect and
Formidable by connection with the
Fenian system
Sherman will propose new way out
Of the silver dollar dilemma. He will
ask that the coinage of the present
standard dollar be suspended, and the
accumulation in the Treasury vaults be
recoined into dollars containing sufh-
cient siLyer to make them equal in value
to gold dollars, and keep the two coins
in circulation together The Secretary
says he will show that this can be done
practically without expense to. the gov
eminent. The President. it is said,
will support this suggestion in his mes
sage.
I George Kennedy, packer, was stab
| ned at Boise. 7. T.. bv San Francisco