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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-07-26

The LEADER acknowledge, with
thanks, the receipt Of a compliment
tary to the Territorial Exposition,
to be held at Albuquerque, Oct.
9Th to llth. The premium list
may be had free, on application 10
the Secretary, VIM, Borchcrt. Al,
buquerque, y. NJ,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-07-26

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Grant, &,
County committees and especially
the chairman Of such committees
are particularly enioincd to see to it
that county conventions for the pur-
pose Of selecting delegates to the
convention hereby called are reg
ularily held in conformity with the
rules published herewith.
Under rule adopted by the last
general convention proxies can only
be recognized when held by resi-
dents of the same county as the del
egates for whom the proxy proposes
to act. y full attendance OF dele
gates is earnestly desired.
All voters who are in favor OF fair
elections and a fair countand return
OF the ballots Of the voters; of the
maintenance in fact as well as the
assertion by law ofexact Justice and
equality of civil and politcalrights
to all citizens of the republic; ofthe
proposition that our government is
the government of a nation, and
not a mere confederacy Of states;
OF maintaining the dignity of our
nation and our flag and the rights
OF American citizens everywhere;
Of protection to American product
ions and American industries and
tho us. enforcement Of all laws. for
the protection Of life, liberty and
property and the assertion and the
preservation OF the rights of all citi-
zens are urgently requested to dis
regard past party associations, to
unite with us and to atteud the pre-
cinctmass conventions of our party.
BY order of the Republican Terri
torial Committee:
William Breeden, Chairman
Max, Frost, Secretary.
Santa Fe, NM, July ., 1884.
Under the direction of the last
general convention the following
rules are prescribed for the holding
OF county conventions:
!. County conventions are to be
held after due notice through news
papers tor at least ten days pr.orto
date SET for such convention.
2. County conventions must I've
of delegates chosen at
precinct mass conventions.
3. County committees will ar-
range for and call all precmct and
county conventions and appoint.
times and places thereof. Ii is re
commended that where there is no
good reason to the contrary county
conventions be held at the county
seats and that precinct convention,
be held upon the same day in each .
county.
i. Where no committee exists /
the member Of the territolia! com
mittee for such county is charged |
with the duties ofthe county com
mittee.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS

In the Senate on the I'd petition was
presented from ex-Collector Wicker of Key
West asking an investigation of charges
on which he was removed. The bill re-
quiring Governors of Territories TO be for
ries in which they may be appointed
was reported adversely. A resolution
was agreed to calling for informa-
tion regarding alleged fraudulent
entries of public lands in the interest of
certain foreign corporations. Also resolu-
tion inquiring as to terms granted certain
companies for landing ocean cables. The
shipping bill was debated without action.
....I In the House the tariff discussion occu-
pied the afternoon, and a night session
was devoted to pension bills.
A TERRIBLE epidemic is said to be rag
ing at Bagdad.
JIM KEENE claims that his affairs will
come out all right.
JAKE DoDsoN, another of the West Vir-
ginia bandits, was lynched on the ID.
RUIZ GORILLA has taken his departure
from France at the request of the authors
ties.
HENRY W. CANNON, OF Minnesota, has
been confirmed by the Senate as Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency.
TRANSACTIONS on the New York Stock
Exchange on the I'd aggregated $4,000
shares.
THE King of Abyssinia has refused to al
low Admiral Hewitt's Bashi- Bazouks to
cross the frontier.
SHUT SING CHIN has been appointed
quis Tseng.
A FAVORABLE report has been ordered on
the bill repeating limitations to the arrears
of pension act.
A NEW labor organization with large
membership has been formed in the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) coke region.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made on
the 2d by two men to abduct the Mexican
midget from the Cincinnati Dime Museum.
A MEMBER of the Massachusetts Legis1a-
ture has been held for trial in bond of $1,000
for ballot-box stufffng at Natick.
THERE are hints that some foreign
power is encouraging Nubar Pasha to en-.
gage in intrigues against the British.
KHARToUM is still safe, but the Greek
merchants in the city are negotiating for
q trade agreement with the Mahdi.
MINISTER FOSTER says General Badeau's
statements about the Spanish commercial
treaty are unsustained by the facts.
ENocH BROWN was hanged on the I'd at
Halifax Courthouse, North Carolina. VIM.
McHugh was hanged at Cincinnati.
THE Pail Nall Gazette recommends the
creation of National defense fund to res-
cue Gordon and save the National honor.
In Spain the Government is very active
in checking Revolutionary movements, but
fresh plots are continually discovered.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
ON the Union 1-aclnc hg.rroad sala

| UN the Union Tacluc RafIroad saIa.
have been reduced from ten to fifteen Pc
4 cent. All officers and employees, except
engineers and firemen are included.
A NUMBER of dynamite cartridges were
found on the 30th in the Parliament build
ings at Toronto, Ont. They were provided
| with fuses in readiness for the match.
ON the 1st another dynamiter was arrest.
ed near Birmingham, Eng.
The S seamship Thetis, flagship of the
Greely expedition, sailed from New York
1 on the 1st.
ENGLAND's proposal for conference on
Egyptian affairs has been accepted by
France.
The British Government will introduce a
bill creating Minister for Scotland.
THE Toronto (Ont.) dynamite scare is
| thought to be the result of practical joke
THE telegraph wires and railroad
bridge were destroyed by insurgents at
Corona, Spain, on the 1st.
| The employees of the Union Pacific Rail-
road threaten strike if the proposed re-
duction of wages is enforced.
On the 1st the Pennsylvania Railroad
declared its semi-annual dividend of four
| per cent.
The blizzard which swept through the
Yellowstone Valley April 80 and 80 was
very destructive to stock, in some herds
amounting to a loss of ten per cent.
THE public debt on the 1st, less cash in
the Treasury, was $1,46l, ,030, ,733; decrease
during April, $5,232,075; decrease since
June 80, 1883, $4,000, 1872.
For April the coinage of the mints was
81, 40, 101, of which &, 800, 900 were standard
dollars.
ON the 1st the Treasury purchased 3O0,-
900 ounces Of silver for delivery at the va
rious mints.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the
United States Treasurer to forward frac-
tional silver coin to any part Of the coun-
try in sums of 5000, or any multiple there
Of, at the expense of the Government.
For several days extensive forest fires
have been raging along the Erie Railroad
in Mexican and Cameron Counties, Penn.
sylvania.
A REDUCTION in the output of New En-
gland mills has been inaugurated by the
Lowell companies, who now shut down
Saturdays, beginning on the Sd. OF the
100000 cotton spindles in the New En-
gland States, from 100000 to 100000
have agreed to reduce production.
A GOLD excitement has broken out in
Kaladar Township, forty miles from
Kingston, Canada.
THE Chinese Ambassador at Berlin left
that city for Paris to negotiate with Prime
Minister Ferry.
EXTENSIVE frauds are reported by the
Interior Department. in the methods of ac-
quiring title to public lands by certain for
eign corporations.
COMPLAINTS are made by the Spanish
Government that the French authorities
are not sufficiently vigilant in the super
vision of insurgents on the frontier.
CIRCULARS are to be sent out by the Sen
ate Committee on Patents to persons prom.
inently interested in patented articles, ask
ing information as to needed legislation.
THE consideration Of the river and har-
bor bill in committee is about concluded.
The amount recommended will be between
$12, ,000, 900 and $4,000, 900.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

ADvICEs state that the King of Siam has
notified Minister Halderman that he will
send exhibits to the Worlds Cotton Fair in
/ New Orleans.
The British House of Commons has
adopted compromise amendment to the
cattle importation bill.
The Committee on Public Lands of the
House has agreed on bill to repeal the
pre-emption and timber-culture acts.
THE British troop ship Crocodile, from
India, has arrived at Portsmouth, Eng.
| She had cholera on board during the yoy-
age.
ATTORNEYS have inaugurated new pen
sion swindle. 1t is worked through false
/ representation regarding bounty claims.
IN criticising the report of the Scotch
crofters' investigation, the Pail Mall Ga
zette saysit teaches the lesson that to expar
triate malcontents only increases the dif4b
Guilty.
IT is reported that a new company, with
a capital of 81 200, 900, is to be organized to
purchase the mills and furnaces of the sus-
pended firm Brown, Bonnell g. Co., of
Youngstown, Ohio.
THE guarantors of the Cincinnati musi-
cal festival are beginning to object to the
heavy assessments.
On the Goth four hundred and fifty chests
of adulterated tea were seized in New
York harbor on the steamer France from
London.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
18th the British police were awaiting the
arrival Of the steamship State of Florida
at Glasgow TO arrest some dynamiters.
As the vessel Twas several days overdue,
considerable anxiety was felt.
AN insurrection has taken place among
the slaves in Brazil.
For April the debt reduction is esti-
mated at $5,250,000.
In the British House of Commons the
bill to license crematories has been re-
ieeted.
ABAND Of insurgents in Cuba has been
defeated and twelve men captured.
ABBOTT, the Watertown bank cashier,
has been held to bail in the sum of $4,000.
DURING 1883 the increase Of the sale of
public lands over the preceding year was
as follows: Number of entries, IS, ,381; acre
age, 10,928, ,927; cash received, s., ,377, ,430.
THE transactions on the New York stock
board on the Both reached 1000 shares.
On the 3Oth S. F. Donaelly, reporter
for the New York San, died Of injuries re-
cefved at fire.
In the South African diamond mines the
police killed. Aseveral persons in suppress
ing the recei labor riots.
THflMexicsA Central Railroad directors
left Chicago q the 3Oth to attend the for
NAL opening their line.
The manud d3cturers of galvanized iron
are forming National AssociatgonEo con-
troll prices arAa production. eD
RECENT adv ces sss9me eBerbers are to the
effect that the Swn is stfrCunded, the gar.
rison acknowledgement retreat impossible.
On the Both a,colored convention met at
Louisville. KY, and appointed delegates
to the National Colored Convention at
Richmond.
i IT is reported that tine oldest bank in
Mexico closed its doors on the 30th, the
Government having made a peremptory
demand upon if for d sum of money be-
yond its immediate cash assets.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
FOND FARWELLS.

departure for Home of the Celebrated Art
1SIs Henry Irving and Ellen Terry-Tbev
20 with full Hearts {and Pockets " God
DAess the American People"-They VIII
come Agatn-ScaIchi ana CamDanipf,
among their Fellow Passengers.
A. New YORK, May l., ii
Mr. Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry
were carried back to England yesterday
morning by the Cunard steamer
Aurania. large throng of admirers had
gathered on the pier at the foot of Clarkson
street,to bid farewell to the distinguished
actor and actress. Miss Terry was a.
urea IN plain but neatly fitting TRAVELLING
dress, and wore black turban hat AZ
She allghted from the carriage and
was escorted up the gang plank by Mr..
irving many cheers broke from the crowd
ana all pushed forward to bid the tray..
elers goodbye and safe journey across
the Atlantic. The cabin table was fairly
covered with floral offerings, among the
most magnificent pieces being a harm.
bearing the inscription, "Our hearts 90
with you" and q miniature ship in.
scrloed "Miss Ellen Terry, bon VOYAGE
10 reporter Mr.. Irving said: "Wiu
you kindly give my regards to the Ameri-
can people. Do you know that really
Tor about the first time in my life am at.
a loss to express myself? What can I
say? The fact is it would take me more
than twenty-four hours to sufficiently say
how much appreciate the American peo--
pie. My friends in England are delighted
with the noble-hearted manner in which
Miss Terry and myself have been treated.
VIII you say, God bless the American
people for me;' will you tell them that
return to my native land comparative
young man through their kindness? Give.
everybody my love and tell them that I
hope to see them before long"
MISS TERRY SAID
that her heart was filed to overflowing.
"Say," she continued, ssthat love every
body in America. feel so sad at part
ing, but hope to come back soon. Mr..
Irving and myself have been so happy
here. Now, will you say farewell to all
my dear American friends, and say to
them that I said God bless them?n
There was great deal of enthusiasm
and cheering as the steamer moved out
into the river. On the deck, besides Mr.
Irving and Miss Terry, were Mmeo
Scalohi and her husband, General r. A.
Alger, DIR. Hamilton Griffin, stepfather of
Miss Mary Anderson, and VIM. Dodge,
Jr., and family.
At seven O'Clock yesterday morning
Sig. Campanini left for Hayre on the.
steamer ST. Laurent Mr.. Henry E. Alb
bey brought him basket of flowers, and
then, after bidding him good by, fastened
to the Cunard dock to see Mr.. Irving and
Miss Terry off. Sig. Campanini, before.
leaving, said that he was going directly to
Italy to rest, but would be back again in
August with companies of his own. He
would put two spectacular plays on the
road, while he. would sing in q company
with great prlma donna, whose name
ne would not yet mention. Sig. Campa-
mini was accompanied by his wife and his,
brother, Sig. Cleofanti Campanini.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the night of the 28th, near Charleston
w. Va, three burglars being discovered il
the house of John Woods, shot him ant
his son, the latter fatally. Woods daugh
ter wounded one of the robbers with pis
tol shot.
On the Goth building caught fire neal
Bloomington, Ind, containing a quantity
of blasting dynamite. An explosion oc
Cured, killing one man and woundin&
thirteen.
ON the 29th powder magazine exploded
across the bay from Havana, Cuba, caus
ing considerable damage and great con
sternation in the city. The gas works
were also destroyed. Many lives were
lost.
On the 30th the Poor-house of Van Buren,
County, Mich, burned, and fourteen in.
valid and aged inmates perished.
IT has been conclusively shown that the
recent terrible railroad disaster at Ciudad
Real, Spain, was purely accidental.
A CHICAGO drug clerk on the Goth gave
Mrs. Laura Williams by mistake a fatal
dose of morphine for quinine.
On the night of the Goth Allen ingalls,,
one of the murderers of the Taylor family
at Avondale, o., hanged himself in the Gin
cinnati jail.
THE robbers and murderers who have
been operating in West Virginia were
caught ON the Both and taken to st. Albans.
While being removed for safe keeping two
of them were taken from the officers and
lynched.
In Buenos Ayres terrible storm pre-.
vailed on the Both. Houses were destroyed,
rivers overfiowed and numbers of lives
were lost. The rainfall was the heaviest
in fourteen years.
WALLACE & Co.'s circus was mobbed by
gang of roughs at Montp elier, Ind, on
the 1st. One man was fatally wounded.
ONE of the walls of the Cincinnati Court
house fell on the 1st killing one of the men
employed on ih
THE gang of robbers who attacked the
bank at Harper, Kas., were caught ON the
1st and were promptly lynched. They
proved to be the Marshal and Deputy Mar
shall Of Caldwell, Kas., and two cowboys.
On the 1st large number of workmen
were injured by the fall of the wall of a
burnt buildingin London.
A SECTION of the stand at the Cincinnati
baseball park fell on the 1st under the
weight Of a crowd. Many persons were
hurt.
ROBBERY of the mails from British Col
umbia for Europe on a wholesale plan is
to have taken place on the North
ern Pacific Road.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

i The Receipts and Expenditures for April
Significant Facts Concerning the Public
Hevenues-The Monthly Statement of the
| Public Debt-The Decrease Goes 1Ierrily
On.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2.
The statement of the receipts and expend.
itures for April discloses some interesting
facts. The customs receipts were nearly
| $2,000,000 larger than they were for April
of last year, and the internal. revenue re-
ceipts larger by lMarly 100000, The
surplus for April was $3, 10000, while
for April last year the expenditures ex-
ceeded the revenue by over 100000.
During the ten months ended yesterday
the customs receipts were only $l3,000,-
600 less than they were for the COR
responding period of last year and
the internal revenue receipts were less by
$50, 100000. The surplus revenues for
the ten months were 6,0O0,0 900 as COM
pared to $I07, 200, 900 for the correspond
ing period last year.
1t is significant fact that although the
value of the dutiable merchandise i'm
ported during the last ten months was
less by 100000 than the value OF the
S.''n>'io0 ~, pol te'. "ui1i' 'lie w
pOndlng months OF laSG year, yeI bne
anoupt of c1S+oInc ravnnua yves Iess Nv
49, onO - Nu'1oAno - S'eN0S ""o 1Ss'
only S13, 600, 900.
EolIo,p;,,r i, +ha s+o4ar,an+ ,f +bn ,,ub-
Ho4ho wing 40 CA10 ~ ~'e'AsSlAAelAu Va ~ "AiS PAo
lie debt for April:
-
EOnr ana half per cents. .".....S Z5O,U0uU0V
Three per cents: ~. 25l,63l' $50
Navy pension fund. :. ....-....... 100000
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
Personal AND POLITICAL.


On the 18th the case Of Bill Jones, who
tried to kill Guiteau, was called at Wash
ington, and was continued.
A CALL has been issued by W. A.
Pledger, of Atlanta, Ga, for the meeting
Of a colored convention in Richmond, Va,
July 5, for the purpose of considering the
material, ,educationaland political. interests
of the colored race.
STEPHEN A. DORSEY has failed torespond
to a subpoena summoning him before the
Springer Committee.
Hon. ROBERT G. WINTHROP, who deliv-
cred the oration at the laying of the cor
ner-stone of the Washington monument in
1S48, will be the orator at the dedication
soon to take place.
ENGINEER MELVILLE said in the Jean
nette inquiry, on the Goth, that all the poi
son story amounted to was that he and DR..
rather than resort to cannibalism. They
left the ship in such hurry, however, that
they took no poison with them.
A RUMoR was current on the 30 th that
Abbott, the Watertown bank cashier, will
disgorge 5000.
SECRETARY LINCOLN directed Major Gem
eral Hancock to cause National salute of
twenty-one guns to be fired at Governors
Island in honor of the Siamese embassy,
which was expected to arrive on the 4th.
HENRY w. CANNON, of Minnesota, has
been selected successor to Comptroller
Knox, and James A. Connolly, Of Illinois,
to be Solicitor of the Treasury. Connolly
is at present United States District At
torney for the Southern District Of II
linois.
On the 30th the speculative markets were
considerably affected by the announcement
that James r. Keene had failed
OK the Goth, in the Kellogg Star-route
case, Ingersoll made arguments in favor Of
motion to exclude P rice's testimony.
THE Missouri State Democratic Central
Committee has issued its formal call for
the convention to be held in st. Louis June
24th.
THE Republicans Of Massachusetts de.
mand tariff reduction, but want scientific
investigation to determine how it shall be
accomplished.
On the 30th State Conventions were held
as follows: In Massachusetts, by Repub
licans and Democrats; Michigan, Repuhli-
cans and Greenbackers; Maine, New Hamp.
shire, Virginia, Vermont, Iowa and Svis-
consin, Republicans
DIRECToR.GENERAL BURKE of the
Worlds Industrial Cotton and Centennial
Exposition, considering it desirable that
State and Territorial Commissioners should
confer with the board created to take
charge Of the United States Government
exhibits, and with himself, has invited
.E.Ia IL. g..
ference, Wednesday, May Z.
THE trial of William Pitt Kellogg at
Washington resulted in an acqufttal on the
lst.
THE latest from General Gordon, Mr..
Gladstone says, indicated that Khartoum
was in no danger.
ON the 1st B. F. Swette was arrested in
Oberlin, o., for violating the United States
mail laws.
Ex-CoMPTRoLLER KNOX has entered
apon his duties as President Of the National
Bank of the Republic, Washington, .. G. |
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

THE Senate was not in session on the
18th In the House Mr. Cox asked leave to
aeport Joint resolution to allow Ensign Rey-
nolds of the Greely relief expedition to accept
D decoration from the Emperor Francis JOS
spE. Objection was made. The bill to encour-
age the foreign carrying trade was taken up
and read by sections. Several amendments were
adopted. among them one providing that for
eign built ships owned by Americans and des-
tined for the foreign trade may be imported
free and registered under the United States
flag. The bill passed. The bill amending the
Pacific Railroad sinking fund act was report-
AMI diplomatic appropriation bill was report
ed and referred to the committee OF the
whole. 1t appropriates $9T,T70.
In the Senate on the 2Sth a bill to regu-
late Interstate commerce was reported and
placed on the calendar. The bill passed to
consolidate the Bureau of Military Justice
and Judge Advocates of the army. The pleu-
ro-pneumonia bill was taken up and the pend
ing motion to recommft was defeated; the pro-
vision relating to slaughtering diseased cattle
was stricken out and the appropriation re
duced to $l5O,OO0. In the House Mr..
H witt, rising to personal explanation.
reiterated his statement that the Secretary of
the Navy had not complied with the law all-
thoriZing the sale of certain war ships. He
did not charge any dishonesty, but iAsisted
that the transaction was Irregular. Mr.. Cal
kins defended the Secretary and criticised
Hewitt. District of Columbia bills occupied
the remainder of the session. A tariff session
vas held at night,
In the Senate on the 29th the bill passed
providing for sale of the Iowa Indian Reser-
Vation, The pleuro- pneumonia bill passed.
Fhe shipping bill reported by Mr.. Frye is the
Eext special order... In the House the joint
resolution was adopted directing the President
TO bring the Wheelock claim to the notice of
The Venezuelan Government. The debate on
the tariff bill was resumed and continued
through an evening session. The army appro-
9riation bill was reported.
In the Senate on the 30th the joint resoIu-
ton relating to the Washington monument
dedication was adopted. Consideration of the
bill for right of way of the Cinnabar and
Clarks Fork Railroad through Yellowstone
Park was postponed. Bills passed: To bridge
the Willamette River; to ratify agreement
with the Flat-Head, kootenay and Pend Oreille
Indians. The shipping bill was debated at
some length. The Indian appropriation bill
was reported. . The House devoted the day
and a night session on the tariff discussion.
In the Senate on the 1st the bill to re-
lease members of the Fitz John Porter court
martial from the oath of secrecy was indet-
nitely postponed. The Washington Territory
ship canal bin was reported fayorably. Con-
sideration of the shipping bill was resumed,
Mr.. Frye speaking against Mr., Vests amend
ment. Mr.. Vest replied, and had the floor at
the time of adjournment. In the House the
tariff discussion progressed.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17

The Florida Democrats will hold their
State Convention In Pensacola June %.
THE Prince of Wales medal at Queens
College University, Canada, was carried
off by Miss E. F. Fitzgerald.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-05-17
NATIONAL FINANCES.

The Receipts and Expenditures for April
Significant Facts Concerning the Public
Revenues-The Monthly Statement of the
Public Debt-The Decrease Goes HIerrily