The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-29
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

esAANs PsNJ POcitlOho WhA ~
filled out of this number. This hand
full is composed of ex-senator Chaffee,
of Colorado; ex-senator Howe, of Wis
consin; ex-senator Sargent, of Califor-
mia; 'ex-Secrctary Boutwell,, of Massa-
chnsetts; Chauncey 1. Filley, of Mis-
,souri; .ex-Marshal w. w. Dudley, of
Indiana, now Commissioner of PEN
sions; General Edw'd f. Beale; Emory
a. Storrs, of Illinois; General Long
street, of Georgia; Judge Scale, of
North Carolina; and ex. Governor Davis,
tof Texas. There are some indications
that Chaffee will secure the Postoffice
Department.
A London dispatch says: The Com
mittee of the Confederate Bondholders
state that their programme is primarily
by steady and persevering appeals, first
to the public, and then to the Legisla-
ture of the United States, to bring
about an opinion that the time has
come when the restriction imposed by
the Fourteenth Amendment of the Con-
stitution should be removed, as far as
it prohibits the Southern States from
etfecting just and equitable settlement
of their debts legally contracted. The
committee repudiated the idea of en-
barking in litigation to recover the Con-
federate property in Europe.
A Washington special says: Friends
of Keifer do not concede kasson will
enter the Republican caucus with the
strongest support from the West, and
claim their candidate will lead by many
votes. They claim Keifer will get all
the Republican votes from Ohio, Ten
nessee, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota
and California, and some from Illinois,
and that the contest is now practically
between Keifer and Hiscock.
The trial of the train wrecker still
goes slowly on at Auburn, Cal. Moth
ing of great interest occurred yester-
day. The defense has not finished
introducing its witnesses yet, and pos
sibly the whole of the week may be
consumed by one trial; after which
seven more indictments are to be tried.
Several clerks in the Sixth Auditors
Office and A. NJ. Gibson appeared before
the Grand Jury in Washington, yester-
day, in the case of ex-Deputy Auditor
Lilley. 1t is believed the case against
ex-Second Assistant Postmaster General
Brady and others were under consider
alton by the Grand Jury.
The Russian ambassador at Constan-
tinople, short time ago, proposed to
the Porte territorial arrangement, by
which the payment of the war indem-
nifty might be extinguished, but the
Sultan was unwilling to give the propo-
sition favorable consideration.
The resignation of Assistant United
States Treasurer Hillhouse has been re-
ceived at the Treasury Department. 1t
is understood the office has been ten
dered gentleman of high standing in
the commercial circles of New York
City.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
condition of the Pacific Bank of Boston
is so unfavorable that the United States
Controller yesterday requested the AS
ISOLATED Banks to nominate Receiver,
and wind up its affairs.
A Paris dispatch says Prince Murat
has been badly wounded in duel with
Baron Vauax, whom he challenged for
an article published in the Triboulet.
John Galus was arrested in Chicago
yesterday for the murder of Hoessel,
the bachelor farmer, at North Evanston.
He admits the killing.
The German Admiralty is arranging
plans by which German transatlantic
steamers could be transferred into cruis-
ers in case of necessity.
Ezekiel Smith and wife, aged fifty
FIVE, died at the same moment at Hunt
ington, Vermont, Saturday. 1t is sus-
pected they were poisoned.