The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-05
rHr LATE II IND Rrsr THINGS.

General John g. Fremont wants to be Min
istcr to Mexico.
Senator mn has distributed $1,000 copies
OF Ms Mahouc speech.
Mr.. Tilden contributes ,nastiff 10 the dog
show in New York.
Fred. Douglass h to be Recorder Of Deeds
for the District Of Columbia.
A large Iron steamship viii soon be built
at San Francisco, the first on the Pacific
coast.
mark Twain heads the list with 80 in
Hartford subscription for 4 testimonial to
John Browns widow.
It is rumorci that the Princess Dolgouru-
XII, the morganatic wife OF the late Gar, in
tends investing largely in American secure
ties.
Ex-United States Treasurer New has been
chosen director of the new Mutual Union
Telegraph Company, and will have charge Of
the western extensions Of the company.
At one point near Buford, Dakota, trees
two feet in diameter were cut through like
willows by the ice. Two men killed over 100
deer in a single day. The deer were hemmed
in, unable to escape.
When the gorge in the Missouri river, be-
low Man an, broke away, the railroad lost
every tie, TO the number Of about IS 600. The
ice extended in the streets in every direction
in solid chunks, closely packed, from three
TO eight feet thick.
Hiram Price, the newly appointed Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, is reported as
saying that he accepted the post because he
wanted to win for himself page in the
history OF the country as friend to the In
dams.
Bishop Simpson, OF the Methodist Episeo-
pal Church, expects 10 30 to Europe in June.
accompanied by his wife and two daughters,
and to attend the ecumcnical council Of that
denomination to be held in London in Sep
| TENDER.
Since the protibitory law has been in force
| in Portland, thirty-one residents Of that city
have paid nearly $4,000 in fines. OF this
sum 81 40 was paid by Patrick aud james
McGnciy. The fines were paid during a
period of twenty-siX years.
California. under the new apportionment,
will have six Representatives in Congress.
One plan of reappOrtionment, now before
the Legislature, gives the Republicans five
districts by majorities ranging from 300 to
| I 900. and the Democrats one di>trict-San
Francisco.
The steamboat Perrauh was picked up 10y
the floods near YanktOn, and pitched against
the machine shops, deinolishing them, after
which it settled on the prairies about a mile
from the present channel Of rhe river, where
il lies high and dry.
a man, supposed to be deranged, passed
down the rapid current Of the Des Moncs
river astride log, during freshet, keeping
an upright position by means Of an oar. He
shouted TO the spectators that he was bound
for New Orleans and hadn't time TO stop.
| One Of the public squares OF New Orlean.
has been named Thompson Square" in rec
ognition Of the munificeGce OF Mrs Eliza
beth Thompson, in connection with the crea
ton of the National BOARD of Health 10!
the prevention of cpidemics in Southern
cities.
An attempt TO evict some tenants at New
Palas, Ireland, failed utterly. There were
800 soldiers and police present, but a mob OF
5000 assembled and stoned the sheriff and hi,
assistants. Thep police charged.upon the mol
several tunes, but the bailiff's life being
threatened he refused to point out the houses
Of the delinquent tenants. About 20o Of the
| mob were armed with reyoivers.
| a columbus special to the Cincinnati Com.
m,rclal says that George II. Williams, the
| only representative of the co!ored race in
| the Ohio Legislature, has fallen heir TO $780,
600. by which be will be able to retire from
business and politics. and devote himself 10
the history he is writing, covering a period
from 1920 TO 1850, and entitled Negroes as
Slaves, as Soldiers, and a Citizens Will
| liams has gone to California.