Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-20

Military Committee at W,ghirgton are
unit against Logans scheme to pd5 Grant on
the reti.ed list with tberank and pay Of General
GRS. MILLER, the Republican candi-
date, was elected United States Senator by the
California l.. gisIature, on the 18th inst. Col.
James G. Fair was elected Senator by the
Nevada LIE islatn, on the same day..
Gen. Plaiste has been declared Goyeinor Of
Maine by the Leeisl ture Of that State.
IL the Pennsylvania Republican Sen
atorial caucus, at Harrisburg, the Grow men,
h'ty-one in humber, finding themselves in the
minority, abseuted the rnselves by agreement
On the the third ballo' II. w. Oliver, Jr., the
Cameron candidate. was nominated for
Senator. Thomas e Platt WAS nominated for
Senator by the y " York Legislative caucus,
and MIR. McAlilla 4 wac named as his own sue
ccssor by the Errdbhcgn caucus Of the Mime
soto Lea islatur..
A DELEGATION representing the col
cred Republicans OF Virginia North Carolina,
South Carolna Georgia, Florida and Texas
visited Gen. Garfield at Mentor, and laid before
him the condition Of tho freedmen in the
South. T1eir spokesman was K. u. Elliott
Of South Car, Ina. The President-elect said
II MAS neither the time nor place for HIM
10 indicate his future policy u reg I'd 10
tie freedmen, but lac assured them that his
past utterances on that subject were based
on profound CONVICTION, leaving them ID infer
that lie was fully alive TO their interests He
encouraged them to make the oest use OF every
edu ational facility, AZ Their political salvation
! lay IN the requirement of knowledge which
1 would enable thenl to cope on more equal
terms with the triiued minOrities in their
States. Bishop Hood presented q short aG-
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| Methodist Eli eopal Church, 70 which Gen.
| Garfield replied very briefly.
Tng Chicago Iribmpe's Washington
correspondent telegrarhs that at dinuer par
ty in that city, 1" at which most Of the Leading
Republican Senators were pr. 3, mt it was stated
| to be fact with tn knowledge of a nuInb,r
that the following three positions in Gen. Gar
fields Ca binet had bt Ell tlxod upon They were
senator lHalDe, Secretary OF State Senator Al
I Ahon. OF Iowa. Secretary of the Ire; 5lry and
Levi Z. Nor On, Sic CT r. Of the Navy. Sec
Rotary Eyarts Low closes MS official letters TO
Amtr.ca reprcs eatatlyes abrold with the no
t flea don that luther core pJndeuce with re-
gari to diplomatic affairs vii be conducted by
his successor, Mr.. Blaine
GENERAL.
FIVE Mexican prisoners, heavily
roued, in charge of Federal Marshal. passed
through Chicago last week to serve terms Of
two years each in the Detroit House Of Cor
rection. They were the lenders of q party
! equipped in Arizona last August for revolu-
/ tlonary operations in Mexico, and wore SEN
fenced for violating the neutrality Laws.
/ One Of the number, Col Martinez, was the
| finest cavalry officer in the Mexican amy
John !. Swift, one of the Americaa Commits
sioners who recently negotiated the treaty
with China. says tue United States has re-
I servea tho right TO terminate at pleasure the
residence of Chinese hb0rer5 upon its sll. 1t
| il understood that no more Celestias shah be
naturaized i'll this country, and the papers al
ready issued shall have no effect.
The National Rifle Association, at its
annual meeting in Nes York, adopted a rcso-
! luton declaring it iutxpcdient to accept the
invitation OF Lord Stinhope to compete on
British soil.
Ii Is believed that the basis on which
the Western Union, American Union and At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies have
| been consolidated iB that the new company s
| stock shall DO $50, 600 90, of which the West
rrn Union is TO have S5s, G00, 900, the Amer can
Union g150o0,000 and the Atlantic and Pa
chic $1,000 100. JAY Gould engineered the
! whole scheme, and is said to have profted very
largely by the operation,
The value Of the petroleum exports
from the United States for The eleven months
ending Nov. 30, 1889, was S3I, GA, GOT, against
! 500, 295, 020 for the same period in 1879.
ADIsPATcHfrom st. Scholastique, Can
ada, says that Jean Daptiste Narbonne, who
confessed the murder of his brother Dan, with
bis father and step-mother (eaeh so years old J.
at whose instgatlon he committed the deed,
were each sentenced TO be banged on the 25th
OF February.
A PRELIMINARY report has been made
| to the Census Bureau upon the cotton indus
| try Of the United States. 1t shows that there
! are $50, 223 looms. end 1921, lat spindles
consuming 1868, 43l bales Of cotton, and en-
| ployLg 1871, 6Z3 persons The official figures
| give West Virginia population of 618, 1893, OF
! whom 500, 9TU are natiye-bOrn. Mlchigan's
| population is /, $3.50, 335, of whom l2I7 9S9 are
| uatlve-bom. The woJl-growers and manu-
! facturs rs IN convention at Washington passed a
! resolution urging upon Congress the import
1 ance OF establishing in the District of Column
! bia all experimental farm, at the expense of
| the Governm, mt, to acquire the best species OF
! d nestle ted animals for distribution among
the States. About S60J0,000 in Mexican
Central railroad Securities were recently offere
| on the Boston market, and twice that amount
vas subscribed The allotment made bv the
/ Executive unSiOstb IDS luCL LIlaL al
railway interests between Mexico and the Mis-
sissippi river have been pooled. Gould is to
| receive stock to the amount of 81, 997, 900 and
| Gen Grant subscrioes $4,000.
FOREIGN.
A CHRISTIAN Liberal club has been
formed in Berlin TO oppose the anti-Jewisb
| agitation A Japanese coasting steamer with
sixty passengers and crew OF TWENTY-FIVE
| foundered in an inland sea of Japan, and
! SiXty-four lives We're lost. A Bombay dis
patch announces that plot to depose the
Rajah and massacre all European residents il
| church has been discovered at Kolopore
! Forty-seven natives have been arrested.
A PLOT to kill Charles Bradlaugh has
been discovered in London. The intention wa
to attack him on his way home from the House
of Commons. "A Vienna dispatch announces
the renewal of the alliance between the Enpe-
| rors Of Austria, Germany and Russia All the
| great powers unreservedly approve of the arb.-
| tration OF the Greek question, but Greece ano
| Turkey refuse to have anything to do with the
scheme. Both nations are getting ready to
fight
THE Peruvians have placed dynamite
mines at exposed points outside of Lima. The
CHILEAN army Il encampcd nine miles from the
city, and battle is daily expected.
The prosecution having closed their
case, the defense Of the Irish traversers was
| begun at Dublin on the 18th inst. The court
! room was crowded. McDonough. who dehv-
/ cred the opening address, was almost the sole
survivor of the couns ! in the O'COnnell case
! Tie claimed that the Land League was legal
organization, and that the trayersers professed
| the principles of John Stewart Mill, and
but for the support of England the land
| lords would b. driven into the sen.
| \ theatcr at Cronstadt, Russia, was destroyed
| by fire, and the director and seven others per
! December. 500 agrarian outrages we're COM
mitted in Ireland.
DIVINE to disquieting rumors, the
commander Of the British navy has been sum-
moned to Dublin to confer with the command
er of troops in Ireland, in order to arrange for
cooperation at certain points in case of neces-
| sity After o land meeting on one Of the Ar
ran isles twenty-one bead of cattle we're miss,
ing. 1t is supposed the Land Leaguers drove
them ever the cliffs into the sea. An ATTEMPT
was made, it is believed by Fenians, 10 blow up
the armory Of the infantry barracks at Stafford.
! England, and get possession Of the arms
| Dynamite was employed for the pur-
| pose, bat it did no hsrm, save to blow meal
store to atoms. Parnell's amendment to the
| address III reply to the Queens speech was re-
| iected, in the House OF Commons by a vote OF
835 o 81. The anti-Jewish agitation has ex-
tended from Berlin to Saxony, Bavaria, Leip
| zig and Breslau. Forty thousand names have
| neen signed to the petition TO be presented 10
Bismarck
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