Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-19
EASTERN NEWS.
A Bill to Prohibit the Importation
and Sale Of Opium.
REWARD FOR AscERTAlNINa THE FATE
OF THE GREELEY EXPEDITION.
Aid and Temporary Support
tor the Common Schools.
ANALYSIS OF CANDY KNOWN
AS RYE AND ROCK.
Milliken, the Murderer, Lynched at
ouchita, Louisiana.
GEN. GRANT DENIES THE INTERVIEW IN RE
GARD TO the FORTHCOMING CONTEST.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.

Opium.
WASHINGTON, March ia bill was in
troduced in the House by Representative
Budd to prohibit the importation and sail
of opium. 1t recites that the habit o.
opium smoking among the people of thu
United States is spreading with frightfu.
rapidly, under the fostering care of the
Chinese; that the importation of opium
has increased from 1880 755 pounds, in
1881 to 29S, 152 pounds in the year ended
June, 1883, and it is now proposed to re-
duce the duty thereon 20 per cent; thai
the habit OF opium smoking once acquired
cannot be overcome; that its victims will
not live in any place where the drug can
not be procured, and that nearly so pei
cent Of our Chinese population are slaves
to the opium pipe, and the cessation of the
importation of the drug would cause a large
exodus of that people. The bill provides
that the importation of opium, except in
aqueous extracts for medicinal use and
tinctures, shall be prohibited under the
penalties of a fine or Imprisonment, and
the sellers, or those who knowingly aid OF
abet in its importation or sale, shall, upon
conviction, be punished BY a fine not ex'
ceeding SIS, 900 and Imprisonment not ex'
ceeding FIVE years. The opium imported,
sold, or offered for sale, shall be declared
forfeited to the Government and destroyed.
Severe penalties are provided for the con.
cealment or connivance at the violation oil
the act by Government officers.
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, March 18.-In the Senate,
Hawley introduced q bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to offer a reward
of $25 900 for the rescue, or ascertainine
the fate of the Greeley Arctic Expedition.
Hawley said such a reward might induce
ships cruising 10 or about the Arctic seas
to keep a look out for the exploring party,
or to TURF occasionally out of their course
in order to gather information about it
The above is a plan suggested by Georgt
Kenan, the Arctic traveller, when called
before the Greeley Relief Board to give his
views concerning the rescue of Greeley
and his comrades.
A bill to aid in the establishment and
temporary support of common schools wa
taken up. 1t appropriates the first year
SIS, 900, 900, the second year $14, 000, 900
the third year $13, 900, 900, and 80 on fol
10 years, decreasing 81, 000, 900 yearly, tc
be extended to common school education
The expenditure of each State will be or
the basis of illiteracy.
Injurious Candy.
New YORK, March 18.-The Brooklyn
Health Department, at the request of thu
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty II
Children, analysed candy known as rye
and rock. The chemist found the candy
favored with essence of whisky or fusel oil
in the proportion of .074 grains to the
pound. A fatal dose of fusel oil is from
IA to 1-6 grains, or about the quantity
found in two pounds of the candy. A
small quantity produces dizziness, head
ache, sense of falling and suffocation. A
good deal of this candy is purchased BY
school children.
A Murderer Lynched,
MARSHALL, Tex, March 1S.-It is re
ported that one Milliken, who, with
fellow known as CLARK, murdered the 70
year-old couple named Rogers, in OUGHT,
Parish, La. II years ago, was lynched a
Pulaski, and that the citizens are in ho'
pursuit of CLARK. w. ]. Rogers, a son o.
the victims, is said to be with the posse.
A Denial by General Grant.
New YORK, March 18.-In a letter re
ceived from General Grant by one of hi
friends in this city he denies the recently
reported interview in regard to the forth
coming contest in Chicago, as being be
tween Blaine and Arthur. He says: 81
have had no interview with a correspon'
dent since / have been here. I have no
been interviewed by anybody"
Irish Societies Rejoicing.
OTTAWA, March 18.-The House sat un.
til $3.50 this morning debating a motion
that the bill incorporating Orange Socie.
ties be read a second time. 1t was defeated
by los to 68, causing great rejoicing among
the Irish Societies.
A Batch of Indictments.
CINCINNATI, March 18.-The New Lex
ington Grand Jury reported seven indict.
ments, involving 80 persons. One for muir.
der in the second degree in the Hickey
lynching case and seven for riot in the
McDevitt case. Father Oberlan was moi
indicted.