The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Chairman Of the Ute Commits.
sion telegraphs the Secretary Of the Interior
that more than three .fourths Of the male
adults Of the Ute bands have signed the
treaty. As the law requires the signatures
Of only three. quarters, the Secretary will in
struct the Commissioners In regard to the
execution Of the treaty.
A VESSEL which has just arrived at
San Francisco from the Arctic seas reports
that nothing has been heard ofthe exploring
steamer Jeanette. Old whalers believe she
has been lost.
ANOTHER Irish landlord, Lord
Mountmorris, has been murdered, and one
Of bis tenant farmers, named Sweeny, has
been arrested for having hand In the COM
mission Of the crime. Sweeny had recently
received notice to quit. just previous to
his death Lord MOuntmorris attended 4
meeting Of magistrates, which passed res
olution calling on the Government to adopt
coercivc measures toward Ireland. The
affair has created great excitement, and 1t Is
believed the Government will adopt more
stringent measures.
ALAw just passed and gone into ef.
feet in the Chickasaw Nation imposes q fine
Of not less than 500 nor more than - 1000
upon every native for every white man EN-.
ployed by him in taking care Of and assist.
ing in raising stock, with imprisonment Of
not less than one nor more than twelve
months additional, at the option Of the
Court. An act has also been passed estab-
fishing the price OF license to marry 4 ma
tive at fifty dollars.
IT has recently been developed that
some time ago package Of $1,000 worth of
bonds was distracted from desk in the
Chief Clerks room, Second Auditors De.
partment, Washington. An investigation
satisfied the Secretary Of the Treasury tha:
the bonds were appropriated by Chief Clerk
Herring, now dead.
As near as can be estimated, the
number Of lives lost during the fiscal year Of
1880, from different classes Of accidents to
which steamboats, are subjected, will not ex.
coed 1Sj, against ~ in 1879.
THE Porte refuses to order the evacua-
ton Of Dulcigno and defies the Allied pow.
ers. The condition precedent to any fur.
Their negotiation is. that the naval demonstra-
ton be abandoned. This has been refused,
and as soon as Montenegro completes its pre-.
paration the battle will be opened.
The Howgate expedition to the Pc.
lar seas has been abandoned for the present
season.
POL1r1CAI agitation is rife in the
Scandinavian peninsula. The Norwegians
want republic.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Tines at Dublin says: "The murder OF
Lord Mountmorris has excited feelings Of
alarm little short Of panic among the re.
spectacle classes. Party differences are fol
the time discarded in the presence Of .
common and imminent danger. TIT
scene Of the last murder IL In q dis
trict which IL the very center Of tn
land agitation, and Is the result Of commu
nistic conspiracy Of the worst type. TIL
country Is fast drifting into anarchy. The arm
Of authority seems paralyzed, and the exec
utive utterly helpless. Although At presen
the panic is felt most keenly by land owners, I
Is shared by the employers Of labor, who SCI
the growth Of q refractory spirit among thu
subordinate class. Peaceable and wcll-dis
posed people are now alarmed and anxious
" look for some action on the part Of thu
Government.
FRANK BElRoN, a former land agent
Of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad
hos been arrested recently at Omaha
charged with having defrauded large mum
bers Of people In Michigan and In othe
States by selling them worthless land certi.
hcatcs. 1t Is said he has realized man,
thousands OF dollars by his swindies.
AFlRE at Fort Dodge, Iowa, destroyed
the First National Bank and adjacent build
ings valued at $4,000 and insured for SIS,
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