, 1881-03-04
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
BY TELEGRAPH TO DATE.


Smallpox is getting to be epidemic in
many places in the east.
The president has nominated Daniel S.
bash; OF Illinois, major and paymaster in
the u. :. army.
Eight Indians and several hundred
! ponies were drowned at Fort Buford re-
Gently by sudden freshet
! Nine hundred Sioux Indians part of
them belonging to Sitting Bulls band
have surrendered to the military in Da-
! kota.
Hon: Fernando Wood a prominent
democrat and member of congress from
| New York died at Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, Feb 18th.
The value of hogs marketed in Chicago
IN 1850, was 81, l31, 900. In 1879 1t was
Sl6,GiO,OOO. The value of cattle III 1850.
| SlI ,O26,OOO; in 1879, Sl6,751 600.
A delegation of women visited the
Missouri assembly and addressed the
constitution committees urging the extern
sion of the ballot On the school question.
The heavy ice, over twenty inches
thick, IN the bays and harbors about Long
Island has done much damage. Wharves
have been swept away and vessels injured
Three children were fatally burned at
)anie!sonville, Conn.,, on the 10Th by
| was seriously injured in trying to save
them.
The ew York Sun says: The four prin-
c.DaI boxes for the fancy dress ball of the
Purim association sold for S400 each. The
| total proceeds of the sale of boxes was
about $4,000
General Hancock, answering an invita-
ton by Colonel Co-bin, secretary of the
inaugural committee, says he will notify
fl.a In H.
present, with his staff, at the inaugural
| ceremonies.
petition signed by 30,4O0 people of
California for the pardon of the Mussel
Slough settlers who were convicted of OBJ
structlng process of eviction issued by
the United States court has been for
warded to President Hayes.
Senator Grover has introduced bill
appropriating $4,000 for the purpose of
repairing the military wagon road be-
tween Camp Stewart and Fort Klamath
and $4,000 for similar repairs between
Camp Stewart and Scottsburg Oregon.
\ dispatch from Kansas City says:
Professor O.. G. Hill, principal of the
Normal school at Oregon, Holt county,
Mo, will be private secretary to President
Garfield. Professor Hill was one of the
faculty of the college ut Hiram, Ohio,
when General Garfield was president of
that institution"
new national bank has been orpani.
zed in New York with the following di-
rectors: Gen U. 5. Grant, HI. Victor New
comb, IL. I. Vail, president of the Ma
tionai Bank of Commerce; Morris r. Jes-
sup, Henry B. Hyde, president of the
Equitable Life Insurance Co.; Logan Z.
Murray, VIM. Il. Travers and John J.
McCook
The society for the suppression of vice,
held its annual meeting in New York
Feb. 18th. Anthony Comstock read his
annual report. 1t stated that for selling
obscene literature, 472 arrests had been
made; l47 years Imprisonment inflicted,
and S55.650 fines imposed; %, 1854 pounds
Objectionable prints; .495 pounds plates
and l,3l4.O .OS4 songs, etc, destroyed.
\ Washington dispatch states that Sem
ator Eaton intends moving to discharge
the committee of foreign affairs from all
consideration of the subject of inter-
oceanic canals and railways, and press the
resolution, i'll order that congress NAV
stand upon decided ground in that resolu-
tion in favor of the right of the United
States government to maintain the con-
troll of the isthmus canal and similar
works.
Senator Pendleton in report to the
principal that while a political party in
power mas the right and duty of filling
higher official places with persons who
represent its principles and policy, and
who will conduct the departments in the
interest of the party, yet ali subordinates
should be selected with sole reference to
character and fitness. He favors COM
petitive examination and hopes the spoiIs
system will not prevail.
Greenbackers are working hard for the
purpose of holding the balance of power
in the next house. Weaver and Gillette,
whose terms soon expire, will devote
their energies to keeping the forces Or
ganiZed and insist that all greenbackers
will vote together, working apart from
either party. The republicans lack one
of the number necessary to organize the
house, and the greenbackers will force
the democrats TO join them. Leading
republicans, however. Say that Brumm of
Pennsylvania, and Fort of Missouri, will
certainly vote with them.
Special figures of the New York oek
market: Northern Pacific, common, has
advanced to S43s, and preferred to $724
from S70l. 1t has been an open secret
for some days that a strong combination
has been picking up and preferred and
yet keeping prices down. A pool was
III iiiC y Col III
has only a speculative value. They ad-
vanced the price from $32 to $40; mean
while preferred, which representing the
old Jay Cooke mortgage bonds and being
receivable at 500 in payment for bonds
bought from the company, advanced very
little. The present movement an ticipates
placing the stock in London and conti-
mental exchanges.
Chicago dispatch says: Mr.. ]. w.
Morse, general passenger agent of the
Union Pacific, has just returned from New
York, where be and other officials of the
road have been perfecting arrangements
for the construction of Il new line from
Granger, Utah, station on the Union
Pacific, to Baker City, Or. where connec-
ton is TO be made with the Oregon rail-
way now in course of construction to
Portland and other points i'll Oregon. 1t
is the intention of the Union Pacific to
get ahead ofthe Northern Pacific in reach.
ing Oregon points, and provide compel
ing line that it is claimed will be 800
miles shorter to Portland, Or. taking
Chicago as a common point, than the
Northern Pacific. The new line will start
from Granger station and run northwest
TO connect witliFthe Utah Northern, also
controlled by the Union Pacific. The
ITtah Nnrthern might have been Used all