The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-10
BRIEF TRLEGRAms.

4 President Brand has started for
Harrismith to negotiate with the
Beers.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant breakfasted
with Garfield and family on Wednes-
day morning.
There was an unusually large
number of callers on President Gar
field on Wednesday.
In London $500 bales of wool,
chiefly Port Phillips and south, were
sold on Wednesday.
w. McDill was appointed by Gov.
Greer, of Iowa, to succeed Senator
KirkwoOd, resigned.
The arms bill was adopted in COM
mittee of the whole of the House Of
Commons on Wednesday.
The resignation of Congressman
Murch, as chairman of the green
back committee, has been accepted
Blaine says he never stated that
an extra session would be called, and
had never heard such proposition
discussed.
An amendment proposed to the
arms bill. giving persons arrested
under it the right to jury trial,
was rejected, 273 to 80.
T. NJ. Barker, clerk in the dead
letter department at Washington,
arrested for rifling dead letters, has
been in the department twelve
years.
The Crown Prince of Germany
has purchased Reubens Neptune
and Amplitude" from Count
SchOenben, Vienna, for 100000
marks.
A passenger train ON the Balti-
more and Potomac was wrecked, on.
Wednesday, by a washout; one fire
man was Killed and several persons
injured.
John Hay, assistant secretary of
the state department, has resigned
on account of private engagements;
he has consented to remain tempo
rdrily, however.
The exchanges of New York, last
week, exclusive of stock operations,
were the largest ever known, except
during the first week of the year, and
the first week in December 1880.
L. p. Morton called at the treas
ury department, at Washington, on
Wednesday, and spoke in opposition
to the surrender by government of
the legal tenders, as requested by
national banks.
The congressional committee of
the greenback party has issued an
extravagant and palpably false
statement regarding national banks
and attacking railroad. telegraph
and other companies.
In the republican senatorial eau
Gus at Madison, Wis, on Wednes-
day night, Angus Cameron was
nominated for senator. There is
great rejoicing among Milwaukee
republicans in consequence.
The appointment of Messrs.
Evarts, Thurman and Howe as the
United States monetary commits
Sioners to the international none
tary conference seems to give uni
versal satisfaction, especially that of
Judge Thurman.
The New York World makes
some very complimentary remarks
concerning Garfield and his wife; \
says he is destined to be an i'm
mensely popular chief magistrate,
and that four years will not end his
occupancy of the presidential chair.
Eastern commerce men are greatly
agitated over the report of British
Consul Crump regarding swine
cholera. He refuses to give his
source of information, and the opin-
ION prevails thai he is ignorant of |
the subject on which he has written |
and has been taken in.
At the close of the treasury bust
ness at Washington, on Wednesday.
Secretary WindOm had not rendered |
a decision ON the request of national |
banks to be allowed to redepOSit u. /
5. bonds in the treasury and with
draw the legal tenders recently de-
posted for the purpose of retiring
On Wednesday. Blaine addressed
a note to the Br, fish legation, calling
attention to the false statement of
the British consul at Philadelphia
in regard TO the prevalence of swine
diseases in the United States. and
declaring that, from all the Informal
ton at the command of the depart
ment, the report was entirely with
put foundation.
Three Uncompaghre chiefs and
officers of the Indian bureau, con-
eerred with Secretary KirkwOod on
Wednesday relating to the selection
If land for them under the new
.reaty. They asked for grazing and
agricultural lands, and said the
Grand River, the place assigned
hem, did not afford such lands. I
Their requirements were noted and
he conference adjourned for one
lay. L
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