Daily Republican., 1881-05-07
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
NEWS GATHERED FROM THE
MORNING EXCHANGES.
Changing the Military Divisions
Letting the Indian Contracts
Ofher Interesting News.

An order will be issued, probably to-
uay' restoring the military di visions Of
t,ie country to the saIne status as before
tAe order of December 18th, 1880, which
created the Division of the Gulf This
| DIVISION will be restored to the Divi-
"lo'l of the Missouri, which will remain
| under command Of General Sheridan.
ana General Schofeld will be placed
Ctliporarily on waiting orders. The di-
visions on the Atlantic and Pacific will
| remain unchanged under Generals
hancock and Mcdowell, respectively.
Mr' Hiram Price, who is in New
YORK attending the annual letting OF
contracts for Indian supplies, yestsr-
DAY received his commission and took
She oath Of office as Commissioner of
lndlan Affairs. Ezra l.. Stevens. for
many years at the head of the "Ciyili-
zAtion Division of the Burea,I has been
appointed Chief Clerk Of the Indian Of
tee, and becomes Acting Commissioner
during the absence Of Mr.. Price.
Judge settle and Marshal Durkec ar
rlVed at Pensacola, Florida, last Sun.
uay, and the United States District
Court was convened on Monday. mol
U. y. District Attorney being vet COM
mlSSloned for Northern Florida, all the
criminal eases on the docket were con-
tlnued until March, 1882.
The libel suit ofcx-Congrossman Eyon
against j. II Hrrby, editor of the Min
eroyiIIe Schuykill Republican, was set
ticd yesterday before going to trial.
Mt; Hrrby will publish Mr.. Ryon's de-
MAJ That he ever misused the franking
priv lege and will also publish own re-
traction Of the statement against Ryon.
Ihe newspapers on the Pacific coast
the ratification of the Chinese
'rc%tlrS, but most of them regard it as
only "a preliminary point gained in the
great struggle to rid the country of an
mtOIcrabIe grievance.
News was received at St. Louis YES
tsrday, that some ScOundrel had cut p
hole in the Madison levee, lust before
daylight, since which water from the
river had been pouring into the bottom
land through an opening fifty feet
deep.
Serious difficulties are feared in the
Indian Territory, growing out of
heavy tax imposed on white laborcrs
IN the ChOCtaw country. In some local
tues iarn labor is stopped in cOnse-
lUencc, and the whites threaten resist
lnCe.
At Galveston, Texas, on Thursday,
William Rockford, for passing counter
cit money, and L.W. Jones, for viola
ing the postal laws, We're sentenced,
lie former to five, the liz ter to thr ee,
ears in the pennitentiary.
At Ithaca, New York, yesterday, a
new trial was refused to Joseph Abbott,
he young murderer; he was sentenced
be hung on the Il til Of June. He
lad killed fellow prisoner in the Ell
Mira penitentiary.
The present exigency of public affairs
las compelled President Garfield to de-
line the invitation to attend the centen-
lal celebration of the battle of the Cow ;
ems, Spartansbnrg, South Carolina on =,
Wednesday next,
The Grand Trunk Railway Company in fl
anadA yesterday compromised with its
.rlklng freight men, giving them 81 u "
er day, and 10 cents per hour for their
yer time. $
Assistant Secretary Bell, of the Inter
r Department. has accepted the invita- -
on of Post No. ,, Of he Grand Army
the Republic,to .vcr the DecOra- Ia
on Day oratiOn at West Chester, Penna. ,o
Mrs. Callen and her three year-old boy
ere drowned by tie capsizing ofa skitf' Dc
Benson, Minnesota, on Thursday.
NO men were drowned yesterday by 90
e upsetting Of Il boat in Galveston bay. as
The amount Of Six Per Cents re- =,
ived by the Treasury Department, l,
Sterday, for continuance at 3l5 per ~
Mt. was Sl2, 294, ,+0O--making the total ~
lount to date $50, ,64S, 800. rt
The printers on the Detroit Post and
ibune struck yesterday for an advance Il
> cents. Two-thirdS of their cases ,
We been filled by non-Unon hands Hi
Samuel Riley, "a horse thief and
Risky pcddler." was shot dead by "o
lrshal Smith, at Fort Gibson, in the ~
tian Territory, on Thursday. '"i
Some of the striking employees of the pre-
icago and Northwestern Railroad at +
lwaukee, resumed yesterday, at % Spr
5ht advance offered by the company, v
That true friend to all suffering with arg
DIS and coughs, DR.. Bulls Cough +
rup, will always help and never dis MA, n[o
)oint you, asdo other cough remedies. ~
sobelt Edwards, aged 1G, was killed par
strikinga bridge while riding on a w" ~
ght train near GiraIdville, Penna., irG G
terday morning. stre tS
hree children were killed by light Y,
, while playing under tree, at Win turn
&, Mississippi, on Thursday. 9th
Ion Thomas Thomson, Judge of the ,.a III
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