, 1881-04-22

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rived in New York on the 18th, and for
the most part were soon on their way
west.
An elevator company has been formed
at Council Bluffs of which the managers
of abroad companies are directors. An
elevator will be built this summer with Il
capacity of a million bushels.
Earthquake shocks of considerable Nio-
lence continue in the island of Ohio.
Barely 20 houses remain habitable in the
whole island. Forty five villages are
destroyed and the population i'll many
localities has absolutely disappeared.
Floods in Hungary are increasing. The
waters soaked the undermined dykes
which are giving way. The latest news
from SZegedil is that other dykes are in
danger, and two thousand men are at
work strengthening them If tire outer
dyke fails the whole counter to the dyke
which immediately surrounds the town
will be flooded, and high winds, would
probably drive waves over the dykes and
cause great catastrophe.
An extensive snow and sleet storm pre-
vailed on the llth throughout Iowa, Ne
braska, Minnesota and Oak ota. In north
ern Nebraska about one foot of snow fell
the wind Was blowing hard and the snow
drifted. CntS on the Chicago, st. Paul
and Omaha road, between Tekamah and
Oakland, were filled by drifts to the depth
of two and three feet. The road from St.
Paul to Mankato in Minnesota. a distance
of 200 miles. was again blocked with
snow.
a courier arriving at Fort Buford from
Polar river reports that Capt. Mcdonald,
of the northwestern mounted police, with
a party of three Indians one a nephew of
Sitting Bull, arrived at that point to ar
range for the surrender of Sitting Bull.
Capt. Mcdonald says that should these
coming with him rep rt faVorably Of their
treatment and that of other captives at
Buford on their return to Sitting Bulls
camp, that the chief will undoubtedly sur
render Immediately, the whole camp prob
ably starting for Buford on his (McDon-
ald'sl return.
The Ute commission has adjourned. In
May, the committee which consists of
Moneypenny, president Russell, Mears,
Brownman and Meacham, and French,
secretary. formerly ysergeant-at-arms ofthe
senate, will be organized into three par
ties, one going to the Uncompahgre, one
to the Uinta and one to the southern Ute
reservation. their business will be to
view lands selected tor new homes for the
Utes and which lands are being surveyed
by contract. The amount ofland required
will be about 250,000 acres of arabic and
an equal amount of grazing land, If it can
be obtained in contiguity.
Parnell, replying to toasts to the pros
perity of Ireland at a banquet at Cork on
! the 10th, traced the history of the land
league. He denounced desertion of sey-
enteen members from the Irish party as
the cause of the coercion bill. The first
portion of the land bill he said was full
of doubtful points and pitfalls. He defied
anybody to tell accurately how it would
work. 1t will be the duty of Irish men,
bers to improve the bill as far as possible
in its passage through the house and seek
that its working be rs advantageous as pos
sibie to the tenants. The second porti IN
of the bill was by far the most important.
He looked thereto for very important
results, but he believed that compulsory
ex-propriation OF bad landlords would be
a far easier and more effective method of
protecting tenants. He strongly denoun-
ced emigration, which he declared was
scheme for clearing out small tenants
whose courage and sacrifices had brought
the question to IA point. No British min
istry could any longer overlook the fact
that any bill that did not largely reduce
rents would and ought to fail to satis..y
nants. PaSnell, addressing the people
afterwards from the hotel, warned them
against thinking that the battle was won,
and said that it had only just commenced.
The president in conversation with
renference to the New York nomination
is reported to have said that he had moth
ing whatever to reproach himself with so
far as Conkling was concerned. The pres
ident holds that Conkhng has really no
cause of grievance against the adminis-
tration. In Sunday interview between
the president and Conkling the president
was unreserved in his acknowledgment of
the obligations which he felt towards all
different factions of the republican party
in New York, for he realizes very fully
that unless they had all pulled together
in his behalf he would not now be sitting
in the White House; but he took particu-
lar pains to impress upon the senator that
he could not for moment think in his
public acts of recognizing divisions of the
party or of giving the patronage of the
government to any one of the factions i'll
such manner az to be considered as taking
sides with either. The president had
long conference with Il distinguished re-
publican senator, during the course of
which the whole situation in the senate
and elsewhere was talked over As a
result of this conference, the senator was
authorized to communicate to his associ-
ates that the president was ofopinion that
the subject was one for the senate itself,
and itself alone, to dispose of; that the
executive had no responsibility for what
had been done, and that he had no opin-
ion whatever to express in the matter.