Fair play., 1881-02-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
TIE New York Assembly has passed
a bill prohibiting consolidation OF telegraph
companies. r.-.
GIN. BUFORD, who killed Judge
Elliott at Frankfort, Ky, has been acquitted
on the ground OF insanity.
The consolidation of the New Orleans
Pacific and the Texas Pacific Railroads it il
believed will soon he effected.
THE PENNSYLVANIA Legislature took its
fourteenth Intellectual ballot for United States
Senator on the Ist, the vote bein.-Wallace,
-; Oliver, 80; Grow, 50; scattering, II.
SECRETARY SCHURZ, in response to a
request from the Senate, on the I'd transmit
ted 10 that body a large mass Of ofiicial.c0r-
re-pondence in reference to the Ute troubles.
IT is officially announced that the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe and the South.
rrn Pacific Railroads will begin running
through passenger trains by the middle Of
March.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the
sale Of the Minneapolis & ST. Louis Railroad
10 the Chicago & Northwestern. st. Paul
aud Minneapolis are terribly indignant, as
they anticipate the proposed change will
cut them ont as terminal points. -
The President has nominated another
i-Conkiing man, John w. .JacObus, to be
United States Marshal for the Southern Dis
trict Ct New York. The present Marshal,
Payne, an adherent Of the senior New York
Senator, was 4 candidate for reappointmcnt.
A DELEGATION of leading Indiana Re-
rublicans have been on a visit to Mentor to
present TO the President elect the claims of
their State 10 a seat in the Cabinet. IL is
said that Mr.. New was the first choice OF a
. majority Of the committee for Cabinet pO-
stion, hut no individual name was presented
TO Mr.. Garfield.
PROF. OSCAR c. HILL, principal of
the Normal school at Oregon, Holt County,
Mo-, il is said will be President Garfeld's
private secretary. Mr.. Hill was formerly
Teacher in the Hiram (0.) College when Mr..
Garfield was its President, and for many
years lived in intimate relationship with
him, both being likewise members Of the
same church.
The following are reported to be the
Chilan conditions of peace: Cession Of
AsiofaeaSta to Chill; surrender of the allied
fleet and payment Of $:s0,O00,089, whereof
Peru shall assume Sa0,00o,0o0 and Bolivia
$l0. 900, 900; Chilli to occupy Callao. and work
the cl,ano deposits and copper and salt
peter mines until payment of the Indemnity
is made.
THE President, on the I'd, transmitted
to Congress the report of the Ponca Comi,is-
sion. accompanied 10y message recommends
inc-I. The education Of Young Indians;
.. The allotment to the Indians of lands in
scyeralty::. Fair compensation for all lands
not required for individual allotment: 1. In
yesting them ultimately with the rights OF
citizenship.
AFTER n continuous session of forty
one hours OF the British House OF Commons,
during which the Home Rulers used every
parliamentary device to defeat the motion,
the speaker ordered the debate closed and
the Government obtained leave to bring In . |
lin for the protection OF life and property in |
Ireland. The Home Rule members then left |
the House in Abody.
THE public debt statement Issued |
Feb. l shows. a decrease Of the debt during |
January Of >..?ss.l65; cash in the Treas !
my, S..2l ,6,i 80: gold certificates, S6,a4i.-
~: silver certificates, SAG, s00, ,220: certifi- |
cafes Of deposit outstanding. Ss,63o,0O0: !
rcfunding certificates, Ss67,SJ0; legal ten |
ders outstanding, S3i6, ,t;Sl ,016; fractional i
currency, 81, 30, 1912; less amount esti.st
mated lost or DESTROYED. act Of June ., I
1879 tSS,3,a,?.H. S.,l44,4 IL.
SENATOR-ELECr PLArT and Governor
Cornell, Of New York, both close personal
and political friend, Of Senator Conkling,
spent Sunday, the Goth, at Mentor, IS the
guests of Pre>ident-elect Garfield, and at his
special invitation, as is announced apparent
ly by authority. The conference is regarded
rs one Of great political importance. rs the
probable relations between Senator Conkling
and the incoming Administration have been
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The Fifty-eighth British regiment,
under Sir George Colley, have been repulsed
in an attack upon the Beers at Drakenburg
Pass, losing Isl men killed, wounded or
missing. Gen. Dean, Mai. Poole and Lieuts.
Elves and Baltic were killed: Lieuts.
Hingcston, Loyegrove and O'Donnell
wounded. The Roers held strong position
and fought with great bravery. Their loss
is estimated at 800 killed and wounded.
TIE annual report OF the New York
Commissioners Of Emigration shows the to-
tai immigration OF last year to that port to
have footed up S'..2 $50. of which s2,.,s1l were
aliens. The tables Of nationality leave Ger
many with an easy lead Of 1o4, 4,a64,
while Ireland comes second. with
relatively reduced total Of G639a. Eng
land, Scotland ard Wales sent in round
numbers A. ESQ emigranls, while the Scandi-
na,ian countries Sweden, Norway and Dem i
mark-scnt abou: :0. 600 OF the arrivals,
13, .56I remained in New York, while s,ll9
went West, only q. ~, going 10 the South
OF the Western States, Illinois took by far
the greatest number-3s,sI ,sIl: Ohio and Min
nesota coming next, with 1859 and 1s,Gi0
respectively. f
The bin introduced into the House by
Representative Gillette, of Iowa, for the con-
struction bv the Government OF a railroad
from New York CITY TO Council Riuf,S Iowa