The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

no complaint to, make IL Grant should
be made Captain General, but simply
says that this is rank hitherto un-
known III. our army, and that Congress
would have to enact legislation to de-
fine it's duties and to decide who is to
command the army, the General or the
Captain General. Concerning the re-
tirement of Ord, General Sherman said:
81 did not protest against it, as has
been said but l simply wanted the
army to know that | had not done it.
Ord is one of the best soldiers in our
army. He has always been successful,
always been in the thickest of the fight,
has been several times wounded, and is
the support OF very large family.
This has kept him very poor. felt
that | was compromised by his retire
ment because Miles, who married my
niece, was appointed in.his place. Now
Miles is a very worthy officer
but | did not want every soldier
TO think so, ''Ah! Sherman did
that because he wanted to make
room for the man who married his
niece" Moreover, felt that if any
one had to be retired, General Mellow
ell was the one, for while Ord has alr
ways been successful, General Mellow
ell has not been so. Mcdowell is the
better officer General, but General Odds
the best fighting General, and it is. in
the field where we want our soldiers.
Lord Randolph Churchill, the leader
OF the Fourth-party movement, who Is
striking out boldly since Lord Salisbury
took him up, made a speech on the goth,
at Preston, denouncing the imbecilty
of the Government in dealing with the
Irish difficulty. He. declared that Mr..
Gladstone's Government on assuming
power had been advised by all the au--
thorities in Ireland to adopt, from the
outset, policy of coercion, and that by
neglecting this advice the Government
had caused and was responsible for the
present state of chaos,in the island. His
father, the Duke of Marlborough, when
Lord Lieutenant, would never have con-
scented to be responsible for the orderly
government of Ireland, if Lord Beacons-
field had not armed him with, special
powers.
Neil McGrews,. ruffianly and dissl-
pated young man, who recently served
a term of Imprisonment for theft, went
o-night to the house of his respectable.
married sister,. Mrs. Jane Carhart, in.
New York City. While there he quar-
relied with her, and Mr. Carhart ordered
him to leave the premises. Selling a
kerosene lamp he threw it at his sister,
when it broke, and the flaming oil
poured over her, burning her so badly
that her life is, despaired of. She was
taken to the hospital. McGrew made
his escape.
An effort will be made. in executive,
session to-day toedispose Of the motion
to reconsider the vote (which Judge
Woods was confirmed as Associate
Justice, so that be can take the oath
of offica and enter upon his duties i'm
mediately.
Governor General Kharkoffstatesth that
during the year 1879 about 1000 in,
habitants in that province died OF diph-
liberia, and $500, during the first ten
monthsof 1880. Typhus fever is increas-
ing in the south of Russia. There are
300 cases now in the hospital here.
Dispatches from Copetown, South
Africa, state that the Doors attacked
Potichefstrom on The 18th instant and
the Colonial military camp on the 10TH
No, details of the fighting have been
received.
tits stated that the Bantry branch Of
of the Land League has decided to
Boycott Lord Kenmare's agent and
baliff, Manning. the prosecutor OF
Healy, Walsh and other farmers.
Judge Fitzgerald, closing the Assizes
at Cork, Ireland, said that lawlessness
had not, diminished since the Assizes
began. He had received four threaten