Daily Republican., 1881-05-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE DOINGS OF A DAY CULLED
FROM MORNING EXCHANGES.
The Republicans at Washington to
be HsrmOnizcd-Catt Robbery
and Murder-Other News.

! az bIlt tH'SllllS VI llit
caucus, yesterday afternoon, discussion
of the contested nominations was re-
sumed, and finally resolution was
unanimously adopted by a rising vote,
declaring that "further efforts to har-
mOnize matters and avert the threaten
ed conflict i'll the party should be made |
| (by all the members of the caucus be- |
fore taking caucus action) upon any
phase of the subject as now presented.
The caucus then adjourned.
Julia +. Smith, the survivor of the
Glastonbury Smith sisters has paid her
tax this year, but not without II "solemn
protest against the iniquity Of taxation
without representation" and declaration
that she has not changed her principles.
During six successive previous Yeas She
refused to pay, and the collector seized
and sold eleven acres OF land, Il bank
share and II number Of cows.
1t is reported that ON the 9TH instant,
in La Plata county, Colorado, the rancho
of John Thurman was attacked, 40
| head of cattle We're run of and three
ranchmcn We're killed. Opinion is di-
vided as to whether the outrage was
committed by lnlianS or whites, but it
is generally aSCribnd to renegade In
dianS who acknowledge no chief.
Secretary Kirkwood decided yester-
day that the Northern Pacific Railroad
has the right. under its charter, to sur
vey ahd build its road across the Crow
Indian Reservation, ON the Yellowstone
river, in Montana, and the agent Of the
crows has been instructed 70 permit the
[ t't,bnnnN+ n m nlyn IFS 1nrnrI-
ingly.
The Postmaster General has just or
dcrcd Il diScOntinuanCc of unnecessary
mail service on eight steamboat routes
| in the South, thus etT"cting a saving of
about So, 900 per year. Other reduct.
| ions and diSContinuanCcS of unnecessary
routes will be made in different parts Of
the country from time to time
Lieut.. BulliS reports from "camp 10
miles below the mouth ofthc pecUS riv-
er" that nthc Sc, lat dayhreak, he struck
an Indian camp, "killed four bucks and
one sQuaw, and captured one boy, one.
wounded squaw and q animals" 1t
appears that the Indians thus punished
had killed IL family Of white settlers.
While Judge Colt, of the United
States District Court, was crossing the
ferry from Bristol to Newport, in Rhode
island, yesterday morning the boat
capsized and the Judge remained in the
water an hour before he was rescued.
He was taken hone,in an exhausted con-
dition.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
wri' ten % letter to Mr.. Thomas H.
! " ",1l nf thn I'IIn 1,
Hoop Iron Manufacturers, at Y0ungS-
town, Ohio, in which he adhrres to the
decision of Secretary Sherman of ,Janu-
ary last, ir relation to the duty on cot
ton ties.
Charles Jackson and John Anderson,
lost in dory from the schooner Mary
Ellen, of Rockport, Massachusetts,
during a fog on the Western Banks, ON
the 2Sth ult., We're picked up by a
schooner next day and landed at Hall
fax.
A fire in the Missouri Penitcntiary,
at Jefferson City, on Monday night,
destroyed Sullivan & Priesmeyrr's
sadde-tree shop, and Price a. Meyers
shoe shop With considerable machinery.
The roof of the new cell building was
| also burned on
George f. Williams, the only negro
| in the Ohio Legislature, has fallen heir
to $50, 600, and will retire from buSi-
ness and politics and devote himself to
a history he is writing entitled, "Ne-
groes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and us Citi-
Zens."
Governor Cornell, Of New York, yes
| ;,y,,nJ prprl lo IN nti ipp
all persons against violations Of the
State laws against lotteries. Among
the violations specified are advertising
lotteries and publishing lists OF the
rdrawingS.
Mrs. Garfield's illncSs-''a severe at
tack of nervous prostratlon, somewhat
aggravated by malaria lis said not 10 be
serious. Her physician says that care
ful nursing and entire freedom from all
annoyance will work a cure.
In the u. S. Court at Denver, ycster-
day, a motion to quash the Indictment
against Berry, Meacham and Cline, as
accessories after the fact to the murder
of jackson, was argued, and held under
advisement.
At Pottsville, yesterday, the jury in
the case of Samuel Garrett, Senior Com
missioner of Schuylkill county, charged
with embezzling the county funds, rem
dered a verdict of not guilty, the county
to pay the costs.
The old Camden and Amboy Railroad,
sh ms. at Borlentown, New Jersey,
which have been idle for several years
were leased yesterday TO New York
party for thirty years, for the manutac-
ture oflocomotives.
In Palmer e Sullivans camp, near
Acambaro, Mexico, last Saturday, En-,
pineer Sackereider became insane ana
Killed Engineers Martin and Jones'
Sackereider was then killed by Filley, |
chief of the party.
The unveiling of the Cowpens Mon
ument at Spartansburg, South Carolina,
will take place to-day. Senator Wade |
Hampton, and Colonel r. w. Higginson,
of Massachusetts will make addresses.
The Grand Council of Pennsylvania
of the Improved Order of Red Men met
Yesterday in Norristown. There was
street parade of members of the Order
before the opening of the Council.
The Mexican Senate has passed q bill
authorizing the President to make con
tracts for the construction of Railroads
during the recess of Congress. 1t is
thought the bill will pass the House.
1t can be stated, from an authenic
source, that Sir Edward Thornton has
accepted the mission to st. Petersburg.
His successor at Washington has not
yet been designated.
The time for presenting Six Per Cent
bond for continuance at the rate OF tnree
and half per cent. has been extenteu
by the Treasury Department until the
Goth inst.
Three children in Belleville, Ontario
were poisoned on Monday by eating ssnu snu'
and the youngest is not expected to re-
cover.
Irving Garfield, the Presidents young, IN :,