The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
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CoNSTANTINoPLE,Apr 6 "A cor
don of 10000 Turkish troops has
been drawn around Haman district,
Syria, in consequence of the conflict
between the Druses and neighbor-
ing Mohammedans.
VIENNA, April 6.-The PfeSSe saws
that Russia after having accetled 10
the Austrian proposal for the unam-
nous recognition of the kingdom oi
Roumania, now, makes her consent
on the condition on the adoption oi
the measure against the Nihilists in
MOldayid. Fa 1..dvae.ut al'
LONDON, April 6.-While dozen
policemen were escorting a process
server, at Ballinemore, county Lu-
trem, they were attacked by thirty
women with stones and sticks. A
girl, aged twenty years, was fatally
shot, and another was wounded.
Several of the police were seriously
injured.
LONDON, April GA dispatch
from Paris to the Times SAYS: The
Hayas agency issues an apparently
semi-official letter, stating that Aus
tria having taken initiative and
drafting proposal to Turkey and
Greece. All powews have accepted
it, and il was to. be presented al
Athens the 9th inst. There are
three Of its stipulations, are, that
Greece shall acquiesce. For that
fortification of Prevesa shall be
raised, and that the navigation OF
the bay of Aria, shall be free, and il
does hot form part Ofthe portes. The
In -:-----f @s.l4.a 4l.AIsi
| therefore be communicated to the
| Porte. The note is so decided and
dwell so clearly on the impossibility
of further concessions, that il plainy
shows the Greece futility of object
ing to it. The present Greek minis
terry will probably resign.
a Berlin dispatch to the Time,
says the government OF Greece has
just instructed its agent here to ell.
gage twenty skilled surgeons foI
ambulance service.
CLIO, April 6.-The occasional
shocks of an earthquake are still
| felt here. All the open spaces i'll the
tower, are filled with the wounded
many of whom are in hopeles:
condition, there are numerous deaC
and wounded still under the ruins
The survivors are emigrating in al
directions, there are far more victims
of the~damage in the village than
in the town. Supplies arrive daily
bat they are insufficient TO cope will
the destilution. The crew of TIT
renclI-Inan-of-War, rendered valu
able assistance.
| LONDON, April GA Constants
nople dispatch TO the Reuters say
the latest account from Chic -csli
mate the number of victims at five
thousand, all foreign. The mel
who were stationed at Samcrina
started for Chic. United States Min
lister LOngstreet ordered the .Galeni
to proceed thither with supplies TO
the sufferers. ....-...
WASHINGTON, April 7.-SENATE-
| The Vice President laid before tn,
Senate a message from the Presiden
transmitting in response to the resO
lutiOns of the Senate of the 18th ult
the report. of the Secretary o
State with accompanying papers il
4 relation=tO the capitulation of tn
Ottoman Empire. Ordered printed
The pending business being res
olution for the election of Senate OF
ficers, was taken up, and on motion
to go into executive session, mad
by Pendleton, was, as usual, voteC
down by vote of 21 yeas to 3
nays.
Vance addressed the Senate on tn
subject of the state debt of Nortl
Carolina, DENYING that the debt ha'
been repudiated, and asserting tlIa
one of the, firstacts passed by tn
legislature Of that state, after th
war, had been providing for The pay
the force Of The recOnstrucIIOfI atrs
for The first time in the history o
North Carolina, she had found her
self c0mpelleGT- - rcpudia1c, aud OF
fer hcrobligations that she had Il
do il at the dictation OF the 10y a
non-repndiaIing, honest and viriu
Gus Republican parly OF the Norll
1t was mol Il voluntary action OF ih
people of North Carolina. lle pro
|
acts OF reputation. The legislatur
during the years 1868 and 1869, in
Atancing ilIe fact, among others, tha
that legislature had purchased 500
acres of land for a site of a penitcn
tiary. 81 1t had authorized the issn
of 81, 100000 of bonds for the pur
4 pose of constructing railroads, no
Il one of which had been built, am
had then passed on the act repudi
ating every dollar of The debt whicl
IT had contracted. From the da
that the citizens of North Carolin
had recovered control of the state
instead of trying TO pay debt ere
ated by carpet.bag government
and placed upon them in fraudu
lent manner. they had resOlutel!
\ turned their backs upon and neve
would try to pay 1T. 1t was fraudu
lent: it was not debt in any sens
of the word. The Republican side
he said, coming down to the ques
ton of the election of officers, ha'
inquired why the Democrats WOult
not vote for Riddlebargerf = Tha
was shirking the issue. The ques
ton was, could gentlemen or tn
other side support him? lie wa
"a rebel, an unrepentant rebel
He was also a Southern Democrat
an mrepenant Democrat, n Read
! adjuster and an unrepenant Read
adjuster, aud how could they for
give him; what was the object TO
their supporting him. He, Vance
objected to voting for any man VIII
called himself q Democrat, who hat
surname before The word Demo
I crat. He objected to the manner il
which the Republican party had un
dertaken to foist candidates on tn
Senate, because it was in defiance t.
the whole plan of political saliva
ton. Riddlebarger had. been 1akel
ND in his sins unrepented and un
shaven. and had been transmitted
in the Heaven Of Republicanisn
/ without having tasted OF death
/ Laughter. ga-, is ;fTg b
4 The Senator from Connecticut
Hawlcy, bad stated that this move
ment was going to break up tn
solid South. 1t reminded him o
the story of the boy who's
dog Tray had died, and who be
j that the angels would be scared
when they saw Tray come trottins
through the front gate. The soh(
South was to be broken up whel
FTray came trotting through tn
front gate [laughterl had SO grea
a an undertaking ever been inaugu
rated by such small means; die
anybody ever beforeilhear a part!
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