The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1882-10-19
TELEGRAPnIC ITEMS.

Paris, rendering his resignation as
Treasurer of the Land League, and CIV
ing statement of the standing of the
League. 1t shows that total oil
f244, $50 passed through his hands.
Of this sum there was disbursed, in re-
lieving distress in 1879 and 1850, ESQ,
900; in the defense at the State trials,
fl50,000, and in expenditures through
the general Land League and Ladies
League, fl4S, 900, leaving a balance Of
nearly f32, 900. Parnell and Davitt
were received with tremendous cheers
by the delegates. Nearly all the ex-
treme Irish members of Parliament
were present. The attendance OF dele
gates was large.
Ex-Rev. Geo. C. Min, formerly
pastor in Brooklyn, and recently sue
cessor of Robert Collyer as pastor of
the Unitarian Church at Chicago, made
his debut as Hamlet at the Grand
Opera House, Chicago, before large
and cultivated audience. His some
what sudden transit from the pulpit to
the stage engendered many partisan
antagonisms and friendships, and the
predictions of his success and failure
were equally divided. When Min
first appeared he was absolutely self
possessed, and had the ease of one to
the manor born. The entire audience
applauded demonstratively, and after
each scene he was recalled. The gen.
eral impression is that his Hamlet is
distinct and individual impersonation.
The joint Conference Committees OF
the Democratic organizations of New
York city, after long consultation, have
divided their ticket, so that the nam
ing of Sheriff goes to Irving Hall, the
County Clerk to the County Democracy,
and two Judges of the Superior Court
and three Coroners to Tammany.
A dispatch from Kearney, Nebraska,
says: Sheriff James Woods and horse
dealer, whom thieves had despoiled,
reached Menden Tuesday, and found
four of the thieves, who shot Woods
dead, and killed two citizens who inter
fered. They then fled, and are at
large. The whole country is aroused.
During the storm Tuesday night at
Fairfield, Iowa, wild ducks gathered
about the electric lights in great num-
bers, putting out all but one, and de-
molishing several globes. Nearly two
hundred ducks were picked up within
three hours.
Upward Of $50 Presidential commits
sions of Postmaster will expire by the
next session OF Congress. The princi-
pal offices are those of New Orleans,
Keokuk, Wheeling, Jackson, Mich,
and Harrisburg, Pa.
Colonel Thomas Reynolds was arrest
ed at Madison, Wisconsin, on Tuesday,
charged with forging pension papers
and defrauding the Government out of
So, 200 while acting as Pension Agent.
Senator j. w. Dorsey. of Star Route
fame, was at the Grand Pacific, in New
York, Tuesday. To Tribune reporter
he sent word that he was too i'll to see
any one, being confined to his bed.
George +. Sharp, of the firm of Sharp
& Sharp, aud well known attorney,
dropped dead while addressing jury
in Judge Sullivan's Court, San Fran
cisco.
The fastest long run ever made west
of Chicago was that on the Burlington
special train which brought the Wander.
bilt party from Burlington, POI miles,
at an average of 50 miles an hour.
Ohio specials indicate that there will
be contests in the Morey, Hart and
Mckinney Congressional Districts, in
which the vote was so remarkably close.
The Wall Street News says that ex-
Governor Stanford, of California, has
announced his intention to remove to
New York city to remain permanently.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, William Soube
Gardner, go years old, shot his son,
and then cut his own throat. Both are