The Phoenix herald., 1881-01-21
THE scuLL RACE


 THE scULL RACE.
 LONDON, January 11th.-Hanlor and Laycock have agreed to hav' the boat race next Saturday If pos sible.
 COSTS OF WAR.
 LONDON, January 1Sth-State ment of the cost of the Afghanistar war is estimated officially at seven enteen and half million pounds.
 BOILED OVER.
 NEW York, January 1Sth.-The Oriental Tea Co.,. consisting of Law reuce Ehrenburg and Albert Daw- son. doing whalesale and retail gro cery business, have made voluntary assignment. Liabilities S25,000.
 SIX MEN DROWNED.
 SAN FRANeIscO, January 1S.--A Los Angeles dispatch states that Cap tain Sanford of the British bark Gas sandra Adams. lying off Wilmington harbor, started for the vessel ycster- day, with twelve men lie had shipped and two other men. The boa, cap sized and the Captain and four sail ors and one of the others were drowned.
 HANLAN AND LAYcoCA.
 
 LONDON. January 16.h. - The Hanlan and Laycock race has been postponed on account of the drifting ice in the Thames. It will be post poned from day to day until the ice and tide give the proper water The betting is three t3 one on Hanlan- Unless the water permits of the race taking place on or before Wednes- day, the race will not come of before another week.
 TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE. NASHVILLE, January 19.-The House Elections Committee earnest Iy favor the seating of MaKounell. Eight Republicans are in favor of seating Stewart, Demo :rat, and the Democrats on the con- nittee favor his retention and will 90 report
 Hawkes.. the first Republican Gov .rnor that Tennessee has had for ten -ears, was inugurated yesterday.
 TROUBLED IRELAND.
 DUBLIN, January 1sth.-The land eaguers in Kerry have held no mee.- ngs since proceedings were begun lgainst the officers of the Tralee )-anch.
 THE MoREY MATTER. CHICAGO, January 19lh.-Times New York special says: The Truth his morning says that a few days ,cforc the receipt of the forged | lorey letter by Truth, c Jayne earned by means of a conversation ,etween two men in the Astor House | o the affect that the letter would | oon appear. Jayne discovered the aen 10 be Colonel Hadley aud Stil- on Hutchins, editor of the Washing | on Post. Jayne. when the letter gas published, immediately informed Iarshall Jewell that Hadley had itber forged or was connected with he forgery, but Thomls E. Longer an. friend of IIadley and Hutch ns had forestalled him and convino- q Jewell that Jayne was wrong and hat the forgery was the work of Hadiey was the central gurc in the Mercy letter conspiracy Ie was the means of communication etween the forgers and the Demo ratio Central Committee He pro ured the perjured evidence to sus- in the forgery. He was the men -ho can tell the story and what Bar um knew of it, when he pretended , believe it genuine and can tell hich members of the committee to hom MT. Hart showed the tier tor verificatinn were dupes nd which were the knaves. He can II who instructed him to work up the erjury and witk Price in Maryland nd who originated Lindsey letter, hich Washington Post sent Truth, Id who composed the Mercy letter, ho wrote il, where it was first sent, ho sent it 10 Truth and what the Central Committee paid 1T the job.
 RAILROAD ACCIDENT. J LONDON, January 1S.-A railway cident occurred at Wakefield, York ire. Seven persons are reported He'd and thirty to forty injured.
 RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG. January 1S- ,neral SkobeloF estimates that the ,<ke Turcomaus number 40, GOO. ley have excellent rifles but only " old c;nnon. Russian artillery sn captured with their guns were massacred.
 INDIA. January TIA plot to . lssacre English residents of Kolo- { re was wild and certain of failure t it was seriously contemplated. 
 ENGLISH REFUSED. DURBAN, January 17.-It is ru- pred that the British troops made O sorties from Peterro and were N th times repulsed by the Boers.
 AIEXICO.