, 1881-02-25
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
HY TELEGRAPH TO DATE.

The senate has not yet reached the
consideration of the Chinese treaties.
A button manufactory at Waterbury,
| Conn, burned on the morning of Feb.
| 18th; loss, 100000.
| Officers are making extensive raids on
the low saloons in New York. The
! high" ones are unmolested.
! A safe in Garside & Ber,ian's iewelry
store in Paterson, n. j., was forced oren
and robbed Of over c60,OO0 worth of
goods.
Henry Kerr, Geo. Victor and John
Anderson, sailors, we're killed at New
York Feb. 18th while hoisting a mast
which broke and fell.
The La Fourche packet at New Orleans
exploded a donkey boiler, tearing away
part of the forward cabin; damage $1,000
One man was killed. one or two fatally
and eight more or less severely hurt.
The senate committee on foreign affairs
has referred to a subcommittee New
bury's resolution for joint committee of
the senate and house to investigate the
Canadian fishery frauds alleged by Prof
Kinds.
a meeting of the sympathIzers with
Ireland held in Faneuil Hall, Boston on
the llth was presided over by the mayor
&t4t !" I'D CoI w cuudll
Phillips and Gen. b. +. Butler made
speeches.
Gen. Herman Uhl, formerly business
manager of the New Yoik State Zeitung
and prominent member of the National
Guard, accidently and fatally shot him.
sell last Saturday at his home, Is East
Sixteenth street, New York City.
The breaking up Of the Maumee river
at Toledo, Ohio, and of the Potomac at
Washington, on the llth caused great
deal of damage. Both cities were badly
Hooded and huge masses of ice carried
along by the current sweeping away all
distractions.
special dispatch reports that the
Americad Dark I. +. Wilton, from Vic
toria, Vancouver Island, for London with
cargo of salmon and wool, went ashore
IN Marants Bay, near penzance, Cornwall.
tier crew of ten men We're saved with the
help of rockets.
New York dispatch of Feb. l1th says:
The present is the warnlest day of winter,
but warm sunshine makes bad odors from
garbage and filth in the streets more op-
and strench of decaying vegetables en-
dangers health.
All the regular appropriation bills have
now been reported to the house and
passed by that body, except the sundry
civil deficiency bills, which are in course
OF preparation by the committee on ap-
preparations, and the river and harbor
bills are now under discussion in COM
mittee of the whole.
A special from Marshall, Texas, says
That the county clerks office was entered
and the vote of nineteen of twenty-three
precincts stolen. 1t is presumed to be the
work OF some one connected with the
federal court before which large number
ofciIizens were TO be tried this week on
a charge of violation of the election laws.
The Whitaker court martial is in pro-
gress in New York city. Gov. Chamber
lain maze vigorous and pointed speech,
denouncing as unfair, unfriendly and
harsh the trial of Whitaker by a court of
inquiry, and announced he would give
the judge advocate all the trouble he
conld. The testimony was mere repeti-
ton.
Friends of Stanley Mathews have but
little hope now of his confirmation as
justice of the supreme court Only two
members of the judiciary committee are
known 20 absolutely favor his confirma-
ton and four of the remaining seven
members, namely, Thurman, Bayard,
Davis and Edmunds are unalterably OPP
posed to it.
The secretary of war has reported to
congress the recent destruction by fire
of the army headquarters at Prescott,
Arizona, and added that the general of
the army has submitted an estimate
recommended by the quartermaster gen.
eral. An appropriation of the amount
advised. Delegate Campbell, who has
been very active in procuring these re-
concentrations, intends to follow them
up before the committee on appropriations
and is confident that the desired item
will be included in the sundry civil APP
preparation bill.
Fort Buford on the 9TH inst. presented
an unusually lively appearance. At about
IL A NJ. Capt. Thomas Dewers with his
company, "a, I'd cavalry arrived here
from Col. Ilges command at Poplar creek
in charge of Iron Dog and his band, con-
sisiing of SO Indians. AS these poor,
WORKOUT creatures filed through the post
to the government storehouses TO receive
rations preparatory to going into camp, it
was hard to realize that they were a por-
ton of the formidable band OF warriors
which sent such thrill of horror through
the country in 1873 by the massacre of
Clusters gallant band, but such nevSrthe-
less is the case and Iron Dog ;a the soldier
who made his reputation by fighting in
times past the same troop that to-day
served rations to his band and Tonight
guard his camp while he sleeps in traa-
quillity. After receiving rations under
the supervision of Captain Clifford, this
band was taken to Calls village and Its
various people ordered to put their tepes
adjacent thereon, so that the necessity of
an additional number of sentries is OBJ
waited.
The house committee on commerce
have reported the river and harbor appro-
priatiOn bill. Among items interesting
to the people of the Pacific coast are the
following: For improving Oakland har-
bor, S600O0. and some money heretofore
appropriated for this improvement and
unexpended are hereby reappropriated;
but sums so appropriated and reappropri-
ated, shall not he available until the right
of the United States TO the bed OF the
estuary and training walls of this work is
secured free ofexpense TO the government
in manner satisfactory to the secretary
of war; for Wilmington. California, Sl2,O0O
for canal around the Cascades of Colum-
bia river. Oregon, 100000; improving
Upper Columbia river, including Snake
river. $4,000; Lower Willamette and Col
umbia river from Portland 20 the sea,
l,a Of 81 T.; -