Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-29

NEW YoRK, August 2S.-A delegation Of
volunteers Of the Mexican war were among
the visitors to Governors Island yester-
day. General Hancock and the delegation
had q pleasant talk. The delegation was
presented to General Hancock by General
Gibson, and a cordial handshaking took
place. The General expressed his great
pleasure in meeting them. The CONVEX
sation ran away back to the crossing of the
Rio Grande, the seige Of San Augustine,
and the thrilling scenes Of days gone by.
Col. Tiball mentioned the name Of Col.
Cross, q comrade, whose death all deeply
lamented. General" said Major Alex
ander, ''there is one thing your old COM
rades look to have you do when you are
elected President; they want to see you
restore respect for the United States among
foreign powers, by protecting mercantile
marine sailing under our flag on the high
seas."
II feel very confident as to that and other
things" replied General Hancock. 1.-THE
people Of the United States want q change.
II it is their pleasure to elect me. ! will
give them such q change as will result in
u~pholding the honor and dignity Of our
country"
One Of the gentlemen asked General
Hancock concerning the whereabouts Of
Of the doctors attached to his regi-
ment while in Mexico. "Oh, he is doing
~well-very WELL" was the reply. HE is
in Southern California, and has 9 nice
practice there. I hear from him every now
and then, with . "reminiscences of old
times, and q friendly interchange Of ex-
pressions on current topics of the day."
A half-hour passed very quickly.
a COlOred Man Lynched.
BOWLING GREEN, KY, August 2s.-Green
Ellis, . colored man. was lynched near
Guthrie, KY, night before last. Mrs.
Duncan, who lives three miles from
Guthrie, went to town on Tuesday with
chickens and vegetables, while returning
home after having disposed Of her barter,
Ellis mel her IN the road and knocked her
from her horse. After she fell be struck
her several times more. As she fell she
drew . small pocket knife and inflicted
several cuts upon her sssailant. She,
however, by repeated blows, was rendered
insensible. Her pocket-book, containing
So, was taken from her. Her body was
dragged twenty-five or thirty yards from
the road and placed behind q huge log.
Her family commenced o search for her,
and when found at dark was in the condi-
ton above stated. She told her story and
identified Ellis as the party who attacked
her, and described the flesh wounds she
made upon him. Ellis was arrested, car
ried to Guthrie and placed in the calaboose.
Intense excitement and indignation at the
outrage were manifested everywhere, and
although some citizens and relatives coun-
seled moderation, and advised to let the
law avenge the crime, o body of men, over
100 in number, quietly rode to Guthrie be-
tween midnight and daylight yesterday
morning, forcibly seized the accused, car
ried him back some three miles distant to
the scene Of the crime, and swung him
from q tree only q few feet from where he
struck the first blow. This is the second
affair OF this nature that has occurred in
this county in the last year. Mrs. Duncan
Is highly respected. The criminal was an
idle and worthless negro.
Grant NJ Galena.
GALENA, August 26.-Last night Hon.
Philo A. Orton, in a speech 70 . Republican
mass meeting, gave his reasons for leaving
the Democratic party. with which he has
acted for twenty years. He introduced
Gen. Grant. who said I did not intend TO
speak when I came here tonight. am
very much like Judge Orion. I have
never made Q Republican speech in my
life, or any kind Of q political speech. / am
sure 1t would require some time and much
preparation to make one Of any length, I
can Of course, 60 . little further than
Judge orion, and say that I never voted q
Republican Presidential ticket in my life,
and but one Democratic ticket, and that
was many years ago, when ! was q young
man; but ! will pledge you my word, here
tonight, that II ! am spared, although /
shall be st some distance from you on the
I'd Of November, ! shall return to Galens
to cast one Republican vote for President
OF the United States. and I hope the city Of
Galens will cast Q round Republican vote,
suoh ~ II has never cast before.
Death or Miss Candace n. Olnsy.
NEW Yozx, August PA dispatch from
Paris states that Miss CandAoe NJ. olney,
once . well known milliner in New York,
. witness in the celebrated Newell divorce
suit in April last, killed herself in the
Hotel De France, at Pau. In a letter
written before her death, she says: I am
weary Of life and want rest, and asked to
be placed in her coffin with the dress she
wore when she died.
Reunion or Battery q.
MENTOR. o.. August 28.-General Car
field addressed some Of his veteran friends
at the reunion Of Battery @, Ohio volun-
teers Light artillery. His speech was hap