Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-17
DOMESTIC NEWS.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TEE REooBp-usIoSl
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Star Route Case Conclusion OF Car-
penter's Arxumcnt for the Defense.
WASHINGTON, August 16h.-Carpsnter.
of counsel for the defense in the star route
csse, resumed bis address to-day. He went
on and dwelt upon the importance of the star
route service, centerding that it was neces-
sary for the public good, and declaring that
the allegations to the contrary contained in
the Indictment were falsehoods FROM begin.
ming to end. In concluding, Carpenter said
When remember, as . matter Of popular
history, that all these charges against my
clients were created in tie newspapers of a
great political party during the heated cam.
paign, two years before this indictment was
found when remember that they were can.
vassed by the press on one side, ex-
planned or denied on the other:
when remember the attempt to CON
meet the lsse PRECEDENT Of the United States
with the very transactions to which this IL
cictment refers when remember the proud
pcsiticn my client occupied as o party leader
Il cannot but be reminded Of the evanescent
character of everything earthly. l cannot
but be reminded that in the near future we
AhdSs ah ichNcs &pu pklOE W IcAVtDR t1eCo Will
come moment when memory will unlock all
clasps and will turn over, page by page, eve,y
act OF your lives. You will have the ccnsola.
tion in that supreme hour TO call to mind
that though una~ed by popular clamor IN.
| shaken by prejudices defyipg the power of
the Government, you discharged your duty
and rendered decision in accordance with
the testimony in this Casa verdict of not
guilty.
JEFF Chandler, also counsel for the defense,
and especially for Brady, addressed the jury.
More OF the Dorsey Garfield Letters 10 be
Published.
WAsHINGToN, August 16 .h.-The Sunday
Gazette, in its next issue, will publish several
columns of additional correspondence pur-
| porting to be between ex-senator Dorsey and
| President Garfisld-the letters that passed
between them from tho date of Garfelds
| election to the time of his Inauguration. The
| publication of these letters will create sen.
| sation throughout the country, A prominent
Western Republican, who has seen and read
| certain of there letters, says they contain
sentiments indicating the p.ofoundest esteem
and warmest affection for Dorsey; that 10
one Of them Garfield refers to his heavy ex-
| penses, growing out of the campaign ana the
entertainment of thousands of friends and
| ofice-seekers who visited him at Mentor, bis
pressing need of money, and asking my
dear Dorsey for the loan OF few thousand
dollars. Garfelds request for a loan was
promptly responded to.
Death OF senator Hill.
/, ATLANTA Gal August 18th. About 2
O'Clock this morning Senator Hill was found
to be rapidly sinking. His breathing was
with difficulty. He continued to sleep, how.
| ever. and at the end of q few minutes after
his death occurred without q struggle. He
died from exhaustion.
SECOND DIsPATCHI
| ATLANTA, August 16 ;h.-For several hours
before Senator Hills 6eath it was evident
that the end was near. Soon after aybreak
his family were summoned to his bedside.
| There were present at his death the following
persons: Mrs. Hill b. II. Hill, Jr. aud
wife. DIR. K. P. Ridley and wife, Senator
nephews Of the Senator, and DR.. Wright, the
attending surgeon. Four hours before Sen.
ator Hilrs death he made sign for a
hyperdemic injection of morphine, which
was administered. He appeared to be awake
and conscious several times, but could not
speak. At 6:15 he was apparently awake,
when he closed his eyes gently and died with.
out even tremo-. The funeral will take
place Friday.
Precautions Against the Texas Cattle
Disease.
CHICAGO, August 10TH. H. Sanders, of
] this city, member of the United States Cat
tie Commission, says that for the six months
ending July 18Th, Chicago received nearly
| 1000 head of Texas cattle, a greater mum.
Der than ever before in the same length of
! time. They were mostly slaughtered, and
| those not killed were kept apart from do.
| nestle cattle. and are not likely to ipfict
them with the Texas cattle fever this year.
| although Eastern breeders who have not
I l1,r L~..r A. j. Al Al
troubled with it. Mr.. Sanders thinks the
| cattle fever in the East is from cattle shipped
north from Southern States east of Texas,
| where cattle are afflicted with the Texas
fever. MIR. Sanders and other members of
the Commission will start for Quebec to-day
to examine the quarantine system there, with
view of adopting similar one at Portland
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and B alti-
| more within two months. This will allow
direct importations of fine cattle from
Europe.
The kewanee Bank Robbers.
KEwANEE Ull.), August 16.h.-The bank
| robbers who took $40 600 from the bank Mon.
day night have not yet been captured. Par
| ties answering their description have been
| seen near Neponset. The job was executed
with the utmost GOODNESS. the robbers walk
ing eut of town in plain sight of large mum.
Der of people, with the booty in satchel be.
tween them.
| END OF THE FxoI7EMENT-ooNJKcT AND
SUSPICIOUS.
KEwASEE I'll J. August 16sh.-The excite.
ment over the late bank robbery has about
ended. ALI the scouting parties who have
been securing the country since the occur.
renee have returned, and the case has been
put into the hands of detectives. All sorts
OF cor lectures are INDUCED in, and in some
quarters there are ILL., defined rumors of collu.
| sion. There is suspicion that Chicago
drummer who YVES here about the time of the
robbery. but who disappeared suddenly after.
ward, was connected with it. The robbers
have got such lorg start that little hope is
INDUCED in that they will ever be caught.
The Released American.
WASHINGTON, August 16.h.-The State
Lowell that Stephen j. Meany, the American
lately arrested under the repression act, has
been released. Meany is New York
| newspaper man of some note locally.
Some months since he was sent to
Ireland as the special correspondent
OF the Star. he is an Irishman, and noted
more or less for exceedingly witty and laugh
able and occasionally incendiary talk. No
doubt upon his arrival in Ireland he exercised
all his American prerogatives of freedom of
speech and ventilated his opinions Of Eng
lands course toward Ireland. As soon as
his actions and intentions became known he
was released.
sullivan, the Prize Fighter.
NEW YORK, August 16th.-William Mad.
den, trainer of John l.. Sullivan, said last
night to reporter that Sullivan has been in
the city since yesterday, but notwithstanding
Captain Williams Is said to be looking for
him with a warrant, he returned unmolested
to Boston last evening. While here
kp siunad n mt fo-
weeks to exhibit with Madden at
all the principal cities Of the United States.
Sullivan will get $500 night, said Mad.
den, "and will spar anybody that is brought
to him. We will give precisely fuch exhibi.
tions as that which was to have taken place
at Madison Square Garden. At the end of
the twenty weeks Sullivan will give up fight
ing. He don't want any more of it.
Troubled Treasury OnieiaI.
WASHINGTON, Angus. 16sh.-At o'clock
yesterday afternoon a handsome carriage and
8 pair of horses stood before the Fifteenth
street entrance to the Treasury Department.
Within sat q lady elegantly attired, and with
pleasant face. Ga the sidewalk was o bare
headed, gray bearded man 10 his shirt. sieeyes.
glancing from one foot to the other, waving
one hand with a pen in it high in the
air, shaking his clenched fist in the face
of the lady through the carriage window.
while he sang out in tones audible at the Riggs
House, across the way. How dare you have
the impertinence to come to the Treasury
with an attempt to blackmail me. you miser.
able creature? / have mind to have You
arrested" The male performer was Hon.
Kenneth Raynor, Of North Carolina, Solic-
itor of the Treasury. The lady was Mrs.
Moeeley, one of the numerous class of lobby.
ists and female claim agents who bsset the
Treasury.
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