The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-04-08
MISCRt,I,ANgt,IIs,

1svssrioArIoS Into opium smuggling
operations recently detected In San Francis.
90, Cal, develop. q scnndalous coiisplfacy
10 defranl The Government on the part Of
certain city and federal officers. The con.
splfacy was revealed through correspond.
ence conducted In Tho Chinese language,
Just introduced AZ evidence,
TnE contributions toward the Garfield
memorial hospital In Washington have 40
far increased of late that uenerai sherman
and Senator Window have called meeting
OF the wives Of Senators and Representatives
to arrange for national board OF visitors
and select vice. presidents.
VIOLENT storms, attended with loss
Of HE and destruction OF property, are 70.
ported from Alabama, Georgia and Louisl.
ana.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL SWAIN
has submitted a report to tho Secretary Of
War on the Sergeant Mason ease. lie holds
that Mason Is not lawfully confined, and the
proceedings OF the court martial are in valid
WALKER HALL, the most beautiful Of
the Amhert tMass.) College buildings, was
burned on the 10Th, involving loss Of s25o,- :
00o. II contained the Shepard collection OF
minerals. valued at 10000, and which can
never be fully replaced; a full set Of physl-
cal apparatu, valued at $1,000, and fine
collection Of oil paintings. Tho building
was In the Gothic style Of architecture, and
was presented to the college by'a Prcvl.
dcnce (R. I.) gentleman, whose name Il
bore. Tho cause Of the Ore Is unknown.
BLoDGETT, an ex-keeper in Sing-Sing
Prison, n. u, testified before the legislative
investigating committee, March %. that he
resigned because he could not stand the
sight Of oil tho brutslitics prsctlced toward
prisoners.
ST. PAUL and Winnipeg dispatches
record heavy snow storms along the Cana.
dian Pacific, which block travelling until
warm weather. The storm at Winnipeg
was unprecedentedly severe. Pierre Du.
chain, aged sixteen, who started across the
country with yoke Of oxen, was showed
under near Cavalier, Dakota His body was
recovered.
REPORTS received at Assiniboine,
Montana, by a courier from Captain Kline,
OF the Eighth Infantry, in command Of tho
column operating against the half-brccds
and Crccs on Milk River, say: lie struck
the Indians, March IA, a half mile below
Medicine Lodge, where thiriy.dve or forty
lodges OF tho Little Pines band were en-
campcd. By forced marches he reached
the first half-brced village, and half an hour
later detachment of cavalry had destroyed
eighty or ninety dwellings. The leaders
had fed. The half-brccds were badly de-
morallzcd, and are going north. The cavalry
has been sent 10 the lower village, and this
movement will close the half-breed cap
paign, unless the Indians begin 10 slow
themselves on the north side Of tho tern-
tory, when Captain Kline will drlyethem
back over the line.
The Field monument to yajor An
DIRE, at Tappan. N. Y, was parry destroyed
by dynamite. March 20, Notwithstanding the
guard established since th,' DETACHMENT on
washington's Birthday,
Ex.GoyERsoR MssEs, Of South Car
olina, has again beenArrested In New York
on charge OF swipding.
TuE Governol at Alexandria, Egypt,
ordered the dsmolItIon Of the works and
warehouses otthe English railway, on the
ground thai they interfere with fortI6cs-
tlou., butlhe company will appeal to the
British sonsul-6eneral