The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-02-21
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TO THE DAILY CLARION.
NOON aEP2RTs.
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, Feh. 20 0-SESkTE--Senate pro-
ceeded TO consider the calendar, aud besides
various private bills, the following were
passed:
For the delivery Of dutible articles in mails
and for indemnity for lost registered articles.
II authorizes delivery to addresses in the
United States under such regulations for col
lection of custom dues as may De agreed upon
by the Secretary Of the Treasury and Posi-
Master General. OF all mailable articles of
dutible matter received by mail from foreign
countries, and admissible under the rules VI
the Universal Postal Union, aud authorizes
the Post Master General to accept and execute
the provisions OF the Paris Postal Union, re-
specting the payment of an indemnity Of fifty
francs, in case otloss Of registered articles.
Bill authorizing the Secretary Of the Treas
ury TO appoint Deputy Collector at Lake
Charles Louisiana.
Bill to repeal provisions Of the Revised Stat
utes authorizing the advancement of Naval
and Marine officers to thirty numbers la rank
for extraordinary heroism.
HousE.-The House passed Senate joint res
olution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
to designate avessel OF the United States 10
carry free Of charge contributions for the re-
lief Of the suffering people'of ireland.
Washington Notes.
WAsHIEGTos, Feb. 20.-The Senate Commit
tee on Territories to-day decided to recom-
mend the passage OF the bill extending the
jurisdiction of the United States Courts and
| civil and criminal matters 10 the Indian Ter
ritory, and providing for the requirement of
citizenship by indians and allotment Of lands
10 thsm in eeveIai,y undcr prescribed condi-
tions.
! The Committee on the Inter. Oceanic
Canal had before IL this morning A. @. Memo
cal, United States Navy, one Of the civil engi-
gineers formerly engaged in making the sur
| vey of the lsthmus, and heard his statement
as TO the relative advantage and disadvan.
tage OF the Panama and Nicaragua route.
Menocal favors strongly the Nicaragua route
| as being 600 shorter than that Of the Panama,
as between New York and San Francisco,
and because of the greater salubrity Of its cli-
mate, better supply Of building material,
and its relative oheapness of construction.
| He expressed his opinion that the cost Of the
| Nicaragua canal would not exceed $700U0,-
600, while that Of sea-leyel canal at Panama
would not be less than s4O0,0O000O The lat
ter he regarded as commercially impractea-
BILE. He admitted that il it passed Mica
| raugua II would consume more time on account
of its greater length and large number OF
locks, and that the annual expense of main
raning it would be twice as great; but he
| thought that these objections were more
than set of by its relRtiye cheapness.
Strikes.
NEW YORK, Feb 20.-Five hundred cabinet
makers, in the employ of II. Herman, struck
yesterday for an increase Of wages.
Il st. GOttoad Tunnel.
LONDON, Feb, 20-Boring Of the St. Gottoad
Tunnel has been finished twelve days.
No Connection With NihiIism.
==BERLIN, Feb. 20.-Dispatches say Socialist
deputies, Bebel and Bader, stated in Reichstal
| that German socialism had no connection
whatever with Russian nihilism.
From France.
PARIS, Feb. 20.--Duc DsAudeffeit was receiv
ed into the French Academy on Tuesday. Tn
reception was a very brilliant affair
A grand banquet in honor of Gen. Fair
child, on his departure for Spain, was givel
by the American colony.
; Republican State Convention.
DETROIT, Feb. 2O--The Republican Stat
Convention Of Michigan will meet here on th
18th of May.
Jumped the Track.
. CINCINNATI, Feb. "a Bellaire specia
states that as an engine Of the passenge
train Of Bellaire aud Southwestern Narro'
Guage Railroad came on the trustle wor
: eighty feet high, near Jacobsb0rough Station
last night, jumped the track, throwing th
coaches and baggage-car down an embank
' ment and turning both bottom up. II is ru
A mored that ex-Congresman Dan Ford and
Mrs Caldwell are mortally wounded, and
D. Booth, mail agent, is badly hurt.
: Grand Army Of the Republic.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 20.--The Grand Arm
:, of the Republic, ct a meeting last nigt
}, passed resolutions repudiating the action {
the body styling themselves ex-Union Soldier
], and Sailors Association, in presenting M
!, mortal TO the United States Senate adverse
Z Senator Kellogg. The Grand Army protes
against said association, as it does not repre-
! sent the sentiments Of ex-Union soldiers on
d sailors of Louisiana.