Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-06
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ADJOURNED Ss"e 0s@
At Helens, Montana, there was
slight e., thquake yesterday.
-. The Chicago Ne,cs publishes an
int .rview with . physician, who says
there are five known cases Of weli-de-
foed lsprosy in the city.
The Free Thinkers Of the United
States and Canada are invited to gen.
eral convention in Rochest,r, N. Y,
beginning August %, and lasting i've
days.
go. Last night spark from loco
| motive set fire to . lumber-yard In
Union city. Iud.. and the whole west.
| ern part of the tow0 was destroyed.
Loss, about $3.50. 900.
Treasurer Marsh I. Polk. of
Nashville, Tenn, not having made the
increased bond t, secure his appearance
as required by Judge Allen, was yes
terday committed to jail, where he Is at
| present confined.
| The societies Of the Army of the
| James and the Army of the Potomac
| will consolidat, at Washington, at the
reunion, on May l6. All the leading
! railroads in the New England and Md
| die States sell round tickets a. reduced
| rat ,s.
| Slosson vii! challenge the winner
Of ~ tournament for from s., 500 to
$40. 900 side, champion balk line or
| cushion carom game, on 4 lx9 or 5xlO
table. Slosson claims to be the cham
pion of the world. Dion and Vignaux
will open the tournament.
The rotunda at Castle Garden,
New York, on Thursday was crowded
with men, women and children OF many
nationalities, and in great variety OF
costumes and colors. There were :, 81
immigrant passe ngers landed during the
day from the It sersgc Of five vessels.
Edward Criscc, living near Browe, )
Mile, n. c., willis returning with a
party OF young men from his sister 5
funeral, proposed horse race, and bet
money on the result. During the race
| Crisco's horse swerved and threw him
against tree, breaking his thigh aud
arm and eau sing severe ,nterns injuries.
Mayor Low has hired the Brook
| Ign Academy Of Music for the evening
Of May 81, the day on which the bridge
is +, be opened, when it is proposed
that the city give public reception t.
| President Arthur and Governor Cleve-
land as they will be present at tle
bridge opening exercises.
| Colonel Parker, Chief Inspector
Of ,e Postofiice at Washington, essi-
mat 5 that the government has been
losing 81 900 daily by the operations Of
"A, ro;JoI ~, No
York yesterday. There are similar
offices in operat on IN ether large cities.
but tts government is d.t.rmined to
close t them without delay.
ID. f. Walker was hanged yester.
day at Trenton, Tenn, Tor the murder
If S 5. Bardberger, on Grand Noun
lin, in October last. Walker died un-
moved, and made long spe' oh on the
gallows. A row +, Howell the hanging,
aud George Bird, a brother OF the
Sheriff, in attempting to que.l it, was
shot. Several were badly beaten.
The London Lar Jourani says !:
eft the United States holds that ~
nan. Walsh and Sheri Ian cannot be ea-
| trad,tsd under the existing treaty, and
if those gentlemen do not eventually
surrender themselves, they may, a ter
various formal writs of arrests have
been returned unsatished, be adjudged
outlaws, and their property declared
forfeited to the Crown
United States Minist er Morton,
at private interview with President
Grevy, in Paris vest .rday, presented
him wit q compliment speech and
album, forwarded by the citizens OF
Providence, r. T., as a souvenir of the
Frenchmen who died at Yorktown.
fighting for American independence.
The President was deeply touched b tn
at the gift and manner in which 1t was
presented, and requested Morton to
convey to the citizens Of Providence
his kindly regards aud thanks for the
patriotic gift.
Reports from the Lumber region
Of Aroostook show that the spruce
trees are dying eff at fearful rate. In
part OF one township. where zoe. QUO
feet were expected to be cut last VIM
ter only 5000 feet of sound spruce
could bs found. The rest of the 1--WE
: ship is in the same condition, as far as
can be ascertained. No worms at work.
The tops are dead and the trees have a
reddish color and look as though fire
had swept over them. There are a
number Of townships in which 1t Is
estimated that three.fourths of the
, spruce is dead No satisfactory theory
for this state of things has b7en
broached, and great alarm exists among
land owners. l. is suggested by one
lnmberman that the t.eea are dying OF
oil age.
In the House OF Commons, yes
terday, l. tsr was read from Brad
laugh, III which be announced that hs
: would, at the beginning Of business To-
: day, ask t. be permitted t, take tbs
oath N rthco.e sad he would pr
pose tat Bradlsugh b. prec,uded from
going through such a form. Ii was de
c.dgd 10 hear BradIaugh in his own he
half at the bar OF the House. Brad
laugh pointed oct that as the iionst
had tn 'ught tia lat evening rel c
the Affi nation bI', the passage a
r which would have enabled him to k,
his seat, it was now his duty to t. k
the oath. His exclusion was an act o
fiagrant ineQuisy. No act Of his ha'
/ justified the action which should Il
| clare his seat vacant, or pass q bs et;s