, 1881-07-08

| EA-'oeiIetafy Ildllsty, u hHOm WIS
| assigned the work of examining into the
charges preferred against Superintendent
| Dodge of the San Francisco mint, has
| received his instructions
| Twelve hundred and sixty shade trees
| were blown down in Washington by the
| storm of the 29th, scores of buildings un-
rooted and damaged 400 street lamps
damaged and all gas blown out.
| The jury in the case of Architect John
| Clifford against WIN. III. Drake for max
| ing derogatory statements which pre-
vented plaintiff from getting the San
| Francisco court house 10 build, thus pre-
| venting him from making, as complaint
| alleged, a quarter of million dollars,
| brought in verdict of damages of 5000
| against Drake. Fifty thousand was the
| amount of damages claimed. The case
was tried at Chicago.
About 2 o'clock on the night ofthe 29th
| a terrific wind and rain storm burst over
| Chicago which did considerable damage
| in the way of blowing down houses, un-
| roofing buildings, nprooting trees, etc.
Several horses were struck by lightning
| and killed. At Austin, e suburban town,
an Episcopal church, not yet completed.
was Frustrated to the ground No loss of
| life Is reported. The storm appears to
| have covered a wide extent of country
The weather was sulIry, but after the
shower it became pleasant although rather
| warm.
A courier just arrived at Denver June
| 18th from Sierra LaSal mountains, Utah,
| reports an engagement between the May
party of ranchmen and band of Pah- Ute
Indians who had in their possession 200
head of horses which had been stolen
| from settlers. One of the party named
| Eskridge killed four Indians with a 45-
| caliDre revolver. The whites lost four
men in the skirmish. Reinforcements
| from Rico, Col, are Oh the way to Join
May. Everything is quiet at this point.
Gen. Mckenzie with six companies of
cavalry. is encamped near this place.
| Seven companies of infantry have been
ordered to this point from Fort Garland.
C. Chlausen, a swede, who recently ar
rived in San Francisco from Honolulu,
reports that several hundred Scandina-
| vians who went to the Sandwich Islands
| under contract made with Capt. Lorange.
| are held there in what is practically a
state of slavery. They are disposed OF by
lot among planters, are suffering from cli-
matte influences and held rigidly TO terms
of the contract on pain of penal serviiude,
although the other parties to the contract
have failed to carry out at least its spirit.
His story creates a sensation in the city
| and several communications have been
| sent to Norway and Sweden, warning the
| people against Hawaiian emigration
| agents.
The French and American claims conn
mission at Washington have rendered
decision in the case of Egle Anthey vs.
the United States The claimant. a col
I ored woman, was born in january, Ii 5u5,
in territory which was coded TO the u. 5.
| The counsel for claimant argue that at
| the time of the cession claimant WAS
| French subject, and, as under the eonsti-
| tutionS of the United States colored
person could not become citizen of
the United States, she remained a citizen
ofFrance, and as such wasenuitled to sue
the United States before the commission.
A claim was filed for $4,000 damage for
the loss ct property, etc. The court de-
| cided that there is nothing in the treaty
of the cessiOn to indicate that it was the
intention either of France or the United
States that the inhabitants or any of them
were to remain citizens of France. On
| the contrary, it was intended that they
should be citizens of the United States.
The claim is therefore disailowed. The
| decision in this case will hold in all SINH
| lar cases where the claimants were colored
| persons and citizens of France at the time
ofthe cession of Louisiana.
First Comptroller Lawrence has given
| Q decision in which ne maintains that the
act of February 22, 1879, as to the fees of
marshals and clerks does not change the
rate or mode of computing on mileage
on wrlts served by marshals, and that it
| prohibits constructive mileage ON Wits
transmitted and served by deputies, and
! mileage for travel not necessarily per-
| formed. The opinion further maintains
| that by force of the revised statutes, SUBJ
| penas for witnesses who are required to
attend any term Of circuit or district
| courts on the part of the United States,
IL Al
generally on behalf of the United States
and under such subpoena they are required
70 testify before the grand jury, petit jury
and court. Clerks of courts are required
by law to insert in one writ the names of
all such witnesses who at the time of is
suing the warrant are to be subpenaed
and who reside in one locality or in the
same direction from the place where the
writ is returnable. Marshals are entitled
to but one mileage for summoning wit
nesses whose name should have been in
serted in one writ. The decision author
ICES the proper accounting officers of the
treasury department to revise the ac-
counts of marshals and clerks of courts of
the United States, notwithstanding their
approval by the proper conrt. The stat
ute authorizing such revision Judge Law
renee holds is unconstitutional.
jeff. Chandler, a prominent lawyer of
st. Louis, has returned from Washington
where se was engaged as one of the coun-
sci against Brady and Dorsey of star
route notoriety. He gave Post-dispatch
reporter some new points in the case.
ain the event that the government is able
to procure evidence enough TO indct
Brady, what will be your line of defense?"
was asked. "I, is impossible to say until
the evidence is produced" he replied.
''The question of law lying underneath
the case, which / think settles it entirely,
is that there can be no element of legal
wrong in those contracts which the courts
r can inquire into after congress has by its
) special legislation regarding them cured
, them of all informa.ity. You know that
f congress appropriated 81 200 600 TO meet
5 these expedited contracts, and before do
D ing this investigated each one of the con-
tracts, and made the appropriation TO
carry them out upon the expedited prices
S This was in effect to declare by congress
| that the pOstoffice department had acted
, properly in expediting those routes, and
I i'll paying these additional prices" Re-
s garding the method employed by the
, government in procuring testimony in
Il the aasa Nj Hha,AIor -.