Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-02
NEWS AND NOTES.


NEWS AND NOTES
a Summary of Important Events.
The House of Commons, by vote Of
115 toS0, has rejected bill for the aboli ior
of capital punishment.
The temperance question is assuming
p ramount importance in North Caroline
and threatens TO disrupt both political par
tics.
THE Republican State Central Com.
mittce at Richmond, Va, on the 2lst, de-
cided, by only one ds'enting vote, to call q
Convention ON August "a.
EX-GOVERNOR NELSON DINGLEY.
Jr., has received the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Second Maine District,
in place Of Frye, chosen United States sena-
tor.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY denies the re-
port that he has abandoned his residence in
Arkansas. He says he will build him q
house at Hot Springs and make that place
his home.
UPTON, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, has been sent on Ia Government
mission to Europe. Prior to his departure
he placed his resignation in the hands Of
Secretary Window.
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CONGRESSMAN SPEER, of Georgia,
who was elected as an Independent Demo-
crat, 1t is reported has declared his purpose
TO vote with the Republicans in the organi-
cation OF the next House.
The Italian residents of Marseilles
are quitting the city in large numbers. The
animosity between Frenchmen and Italians
has caused serious conflicts in various parts
of France, including Paris. Counter DEM
onstratiOns have taken place in Naples, Pal
ermo, and other Italian cities.
. ADDITIONAL removals of Post. Office
Department officials include Capt. w. II.
Turner, in charge of the celebrated Star
routes, and VIM. Sckles, also In the Contract
office. Turner is known to have been cog
nzant Of the frauds committed in his de-
partment, il not particeps crtmintS.
JACOBS, one of the Democratic candi-
dates for United States Senator in New
York, has withdrawn his name, on account
OF doubts regarding his eligibility, he being
momber of the Legislature. Clarkson b.
Potter, formerly Representative In Congress
from the Westchester District has been
substituted in his stead.
The Treasury investigation, it is re-
ported, has been summarily discontinued.
The damaging evidence disclosed against
Pitney, Upton, Power, Lamphere and other
prominent officials has been partially given
10 the public, but much il Is alleged, still re-
mains untold regarding the inside workings
of the Department,
In consequence or the Jrouules IN vllo
Indian Territory growing out Of the different
interpretations of treaty stipulations and OF
the Permit laws passed by the lneian Legis-
lature in 1876, (requirng all white men re-
siding in the Territory to pay yearly tax, }
the Secretary Of the Interior has been ap-
-pealcd to to suspend the action Of the tax
law until its validity can be passed upon by
competent authority.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, interviewed al
Long Branch on the DIST, in reference to the
Marshal.hip of New York, /. reported tC
have said: "If any one has promised any
Office in New York or elsewhere, it has beel
done without consultation with me and with
out my knowledge. may have spoken abou
the filling of the Office with a new incum
bent, but as for making any promise OF tn,
post it is absurd"
GENERAL BRADY, through counsel
made an application in the Washington
Criminal Court, on the 23d, for an immedi
ate investigation OF the public charges mad
against him in connection with the star-rout
-frauds Col Cook, Special Assis ant Attor
ney-Genelal, opposed the motion, on tn
ground that the Government had not We
prepared its case, and would not be read
before the September term. The Court de
MED the motion.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, at nearl
the last hour, granted a respite offour week
to the Talbot brothers, sentenced to b
hanged at Msryyile, Mo-, on the oath, fC
the murder of their father. The date Of the
execution is postponed till July %. EXtrG
ordinary efforts were put forth 10 obtai
executive clemency, and it is understood
some important evidence was presented
the Governor not produced at the tria
Twenty thousand people had gathered
witness the execution, and as threats
lynching were freely made the armed guar
about the jail was doubled.
JOHN |. DAVENPORT testified befol
the Investigating Committee at Albany,
Y, on The 23d. He corroborated substsl
italy the statement of Senator Strahan as
the tender of the Office of L. S. Marshal
the latter, on condition that he should vo
against Conklng, but said he had no autho
ity from President Garfield to act in the ma
ter. Had conyersed with the President r
garding il, but Strahan's position on I
Senatorial question was not mentione
He had received permission from the Pres
dent to freely disclose everything that To-
place between them in TefGFcnce to this
fair.
THE deadlock in the New York Leg
lature continued unbroken on the 2lst, wi
no signs OF any immediate solution
the Senatorial puzzle, Ex-Vice- Preside
Wheeler has come forward as leading Gu
didate agalnst Conkling, and It is undento
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