Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-27
EASTERN.
MRS. Rosecrans Dead.

MfE. .hOstcfaus DeuO.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-The wife Of
General Rosecrans died yesterday Of Ger.
ebral hemorrhage, from which disease
she has suffered for a year past. The
funeral takes place from st. Aloysius
Church tomorrow, whence tho remains
will be taken TO Mount 0liyet Cemetery.
The following gentlemen, personal
friends of the General, will act as pail
bearers; Senator John +. Miller, Gen.
Phillip II. Sheridan, Hon. John r.
Glasscock, Gen. HoratioJ. Wright; Hon,
James s. Barbour, Col. Gilbert s. Knif-
fen, Gen. Henry J. Hunt, Judge Thomas
A. BARLEY.
RandaIfs Committee Com meme
Ing work.
WAsHIsGToN, Dec. 2G.--The House
Committee on Appropriations held its
first meeting this morning and decided to
prepare, If possible, the pension, fortih-
cations, consular and Military Academy
appropriation bills duripg the recess, 30
as TO be presented to the House when
Congress re-asscmbles. Bland, Chair
man Of the Committee ON Coinage,
Weights and Measures, favors the re-
coming of trade dolars into standard
dollars, and thinks the issuing of the lat.
ter should not be stopped. Bland is of
opinion that mint ought TO be estab-
lished in the Mississippi valley and, be.
cause of the advantages offered by st.
Louis, favors that city
Dissatisfied Committeeman.
WAsurNGToN. d. c., Dec. 20. Cox,
of New York, who was appointed Chair
man of tho House Committee on Naval
Affairs, informed friend, member OF
the House, that he will positively decline
to serve ON that committee when. Con
grcss reconvenos. The reasons assigned
for Cox d refusal are that the Committee
on Naval Affairs will hayecomparativ, ly
little before it the present Congress and
that twenty-five years service in the
House entitled him to the Chairmanship
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
His friends ray in that position he con
tenplated adding number OF reforms
in that line, reducing the number of
Foreign Ministers, vesting in Consuls
diplomatic power when necessary, and
improving the Consular system 30 as to
make it more powerful agency for the
advancement of the commercial interests
VI tho npiibEti NuO ucsiltu
the Chairmanship of the Committee on
Elections and who was made Chairman
of the Committee on Expenditures of the
Department of Justice, also contemplates
declining when Congress- reassembles,
giving as his reasons that both he and
his constituents were insulted by his
omission from all important committees.
Anaheim Promoted.
WAsHISGToN, Dec. 26. Under an act
of the last Congress the following post
offices were to-day made Presidential
offices: Anaheim. Cal, salary SllO0;
Port Townsend, w. r., $1,000.
Disastrous snow SIide--EIght Men
Killed and Two wounded Mail
Carrier Missing.
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 26.-The Repub-
leans Telluride, via Montrose, special
of the oath, says: AT noon to-day snow
slide came down into Marshall Basin,
carrying off the shaft house of the Mem
dota mire, containing fourteen men.
eight of whom were killed outright
Two were wounded and the other four
at present obtainable. A large body of
men will leave here for the scene of the
disaster In the morning.
Tie mail carrier from Silverton to
Ames and Ouray, due last Friday, has
not yet been heard from. 1t is supposed
he was lost in crossing the range.
Another Disastrous snow Slide
DENVER. Colo, Dec. 26,-The Repub
iicaa's Alma, Colo, special says: A
snow slide occurred near Montezuma
Monday, which carried John Headstrom,
John Ahlstrom and John Ling, three
miners, half mile down the mountain.
Ahlstrom and Ling were found badly
frozen and will probably die. Head
strom is still missing and must have been
killed.
sterling Exchange and Bonds.
New YORK, Dec. 2G.-Sterling bills
on London, sixty days, S4.S2; sterling
bills on London, sight drafts, S4 S5;
United States As Of 1891, interest quar-
torly, 81 .lls. United States Is Of 1907,
interest quarterly, Sl.24i. United
States 81, Sl.ol; Western Union Tele-
graph, 7Ss.
An Old Californian Dead.
NEW oRk, Dec. 2b.-Beverly u.
Sanders died at the age of IS, at his
home at Newark, N. j., yesterday morn
ing. Deceased WINS Collector of the Port
of San Francisco thirty years ago.
An Orange Procession Attacked
Three Men Killed ana several
MortaIIy Wounded.
ST. JOHN, N. T., Dec. 26.--The
Orangemen's procession at llarbor Grace
was attacked by mob and three men
instantly killed and several mortally
wounded. The riot at this hour tSP. N.Y.
is not quelled. Detachments OF infan-
try, cavalry and police are being dis
patched by train and steamer TO the
scene.
LU, the POOR lniian.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26.--Thc Press
denounces the gross injustice of the
treatment OF the California Mission
Indians as the blacbest of all the long
story of our Indians wrongs Referring
to the dispossession of little Indian set
Element near San Berrardino, it says:
There is, unfortunately, no reason to
expect that Congress or the public will
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