Show BY telegraph odie odle ADIR AMERICAN ra 0 A 17 NEW 7 A dispatch from capetown dated june via london says the court of inquiry convened for the purpose ol 01 ex into the conduct of carri card in IR command of the scouting party t to 0 which the prince imperial was attached at the time of his bis death has reported the friends of the lieutenant eay say bo he did not understand der stand the position in which he stood towa toward rd the prince and say that be he was not aware he was to exercise any special guardianship or care over hla hia person the mccurt however goes on to censure hii hil him bim for proceeding upon his without sufficient escort for halting baiting and dismounting on dangerous grounds acts which betray cd ed a deplorable cepi cepl arabie arable want of military prude frude prudence rice tice the court regrets th that at no attempt was made by carri to rally his escort and to con front the enemy after arter the court of inquiry a court martial was organized gani zed to try the lieutenant carri sets pets up in his hia own defense that he was not in charge of the party when the prince was killed and the evidence dence deuce thus far submitted somewhat clears him of cowardice washington NV ASHINGTON 7 the secretary secie Becie tary of the interior has announced a decision reversing the decision dt 0 the commissioner of the general land office in the case of the iowa mining company versus verbus the bonanza mining alining company of ne nevada va and und laying down a new principle of great importance in mining controversies the bonanza company p any in january 1876 made application ion lon for feet of f the luck luek lucky y baldwin lode the iowa lowa company holding an adverse claim commenced suit thereon in april 1876 1 by filing a complaint in the farsi t district court orNeva of nevada ds and causing a summons to be issued it was shown however that us as late as may 1878 service had not been perfected on the defendant and that no further steps had be been e U taken by the plaintiff in prose c u cution of said suit sult the general office on this state of facts decided last october that the iowa c corn om X pady pany ad had waived its adverse claim by the failure to prosecute said suit with reasonable lea diligence and that the bonanza company was therefore entitled to receive a patent as soon as the ordinary requirements of the mining jaw should ba be com plied with secretary schurz re reviewing this decision says bays section 2326 revised statutes statute provides in plain terms that a failure on the part of an adverse claimant to prosecute his bis suit t with reasonable diligence shall be a waiver of his claim but bubil buvil it does not provide either in terms or by necessary implication that the general genera land office shall decide what whit con stitt ites utes reasonable diligence while the suit is pending in court the object of this law clearly was to require parties claiming an adverse into inte interest resin in laud included in an application for fon fora forn a patent to tr try y the right of possession and have the controversy determined by the state courts before the issuance of the patent the question of diligence in the prosecution of a suit is as much a question for the determination mi nation of tiie the court as any other question of law or fact which may arise in the prosecution of the case and one which after the court has acquired jurisdiction should be left for its determination the secre tary taly points out that otherwise the general iud land office might hold that tha treasonable reasonable diligence had not been heen exercised and issue a patent p abent while the court might give judgment for the adverse claimant thereby producing a conflict of authority and confusion of titles and as a consequence further expensive litigation etc he therefore says baye 1 I am of the opinion that the proper practice in cases ef of this character is for the defendant if it in his opinion the suit is not nob prosecuted with reasonable diligence to move the court to dismiss the case for want of prosecution and it the motion is granted will cause the judgment to be certified to mhd the general land office when a patent can be issued a it conflict with the jurisdiction of the courts or rights tights of parties interested it is bemi semi officially intimated today that secretary McC ap to succeed circuit judge n dillon will vill not be made until next ext y december and that consequently ho he will not retire from the cabinet until aften lafter his hib nomination for the judgeship shall have have havo been made to and confirmed by the too senate the question of selecting his successor as secretary of war is 1 8 therefore ex pecked to remaining rema remain inin in abeyance for beveral several months the names of ex senator hamsey ramsey of minnesota ae general manderson Mand ereon of nebraska and assistant secretary li hawley awley continue however to bo be prominently mentioned in connection with it all tho the members of the pacific coast delegation have left wash t ington and most moat of them are already en route across the continent for their respective homes representative dagge t when starting for new york a few days ago said he would probably arrange to return to the pacific coast by steamer delegate campbeli campbell will leave new now york yoris today to day cpr pr arizona via railroad to san ban francisco both thebe these gentlemen have laid excellent foundations during the extra session for useful congressional care careers ers ere each having formed extensive acquaintance with old and influential fluent ial members and having produced in all respects a highly favorable impression SAN francieco 7 tho the arctic yacht Jeannet jeannette tG is officially announced ced to sail tomorrow afternoon the california and consolidated virginia have passed their dividends this month milton J ban Safi banuard baunard fard furd ord urd son of reuben justice of alabama and himself prominent in law and politics in that state died in this city at the receiving hospital on saturday from fro hemorrhage orr hage with which bo he was waa attacked on the street A A dispatch from lemore tulare county to mr poole says the settlers there who have for a long timo time been litigating the title to their lands against the southern pacific railroad company are tearing up the track of the railroad wm JL ii moore was shot and ly killed last Friday while attempting to prevent a quarrel between michael welch and ana henry it t is uncertain who fired the shot both parties are in jail and the town is greatly excited lynching lunching Lyn ching is probable in the circuit court today to day justice field of the supreme court of the united states decided what is known as the queue cutting ordin ance invalid being in conflict with the fourteenth amendment amend ment the order prescribes that queues of all Chind men imp boned in the county jail lali for a petty of flanse be cut gnu off and was expected to prove a at strong detention to that class ot of criminals nn NEW w YOEK 8 A paris dib dis depatch bays A magnificent banquet was given last night at the grand hotel to lesseps leb Lee by the tho members of the old darien canal company in celebration of the signing of the transfer to him of the rights and concessions for a waterway water way across the isthmus general presided speeches were made by general turi les Lef lesseps nathan Apple appie appleton ton tOD isaac pereira and others percide proposed commander Self seif ridges health and announced amid great cheering that the next vessel of the compagnie would be called Sd fridge all the aspea speakers kelt kert s were emphatic emph atio in beclar ng t h the panama project was universal that not intended to give predominance to any particular national interest but was wag purely a commercial enterprise the times has a two column article on the coming mania it says indications are too many and too plain to be mi mistaken that the fever of R peculation is beginning in gold and silver mining stocks tue price of seats in the mining stock board has risen from 75 to some borne hundreds brokers who never touched this C iasa class of paper are arc no now w operating extensively in it new mining com canles are coming out with dis dle played advertisements in the papers the tho mames laamea of men well known in politics are paraded ai at the head of company prospectuses prospect uses every little exchange shop down town has its freshly written play card announcing that all kinds of mining stocks aio are bought and sold there inventors are to be found by the dozen who have a procesa process by which metal may be got out in the shortest possible time and at a nominal cost andy andi anddore an mote more cant than this a number of well known stock operators have gone or are about to start for the west for the purpose of buying up into mining ing inc properties old hands at the mining business look for a rage of speculation by next fall and are preparing to make their big strike at present of disturb ance are confined almost st exclusively to tu the speculating classes claes OU b ut if 0 the ft eling growa to a mania aa ats a anticipate it if will antl influence bence for go good 0 d or ev evil 1 and principally pilly the latter h hundreds and perhaps thousands duds iuds of innocent people who have small accumulations which they desire to place out to vantage advantage ld the suns washington special says an officer who hus has bied nied various parties in bearch search of a feasible route roule for a aali canal canal across central america say saye 8 nothing practicable can come from irom the present agitation in europe upon the subject unless this his government takes the initiative he bayhi also had it not been for hamilton fishes yielding to the influences of the pacific mail cu co the canal would already be under way with the united states government at the head he a d of the e enterprise he then r relates elates i how during grants adminis administration tra tion and under bib bis direction the commission was formed with admiral at its head which decided in favor of the nicaraguan route how bow esh fish invited the operation cooperation co of the european powers the nicaraguan aau government sending her ambas a dor to the negotiation and bow how the pacific mail seeing ruin for the panama railroad made such a pressure on fish that he abandon ud the scheme here the matter has rested EO so far as the is concerned the friends of the old plan are again trying to bring government to onee more assume the initiative claiming that it cannot afford to allow any foreign government to strike A spade in thib thin project except under the aus auspices epla efla c of f the united states but th the administration d does not take any interest in the scheme the world thinks grants probable change of plan about returning a part of a nale halo scheme to keep him out of harma harms way during the fall elections and bring him back with a boom just in time for the presidential summer mrs josephine A colton wife wire of a compositor killed herself today j jealousy eal eai ausy ia is the came st mft louis 8 urb mrs john bandy wife of the proprietor of the union depot diot diol hotel last evening shot shut L leonard nard Offer offerman mau late proprietor of the divoll hotel Of offerman and bandy married st fi alers lateia their mo ther lived for a time in Of normans formans family anu and fairs bandy sayd that bhe ahe learned ohis this evening of his outrageous treatment of the old lady and that she him for it one OLIO bullet shattered the right rihl arm the other passed in at the mouth and buried itself beyond the tho reach of tae probe heis reis he la still alive butis but is in a critical condition A few months a ao ago o three indians were tried and convicted of the murder of private leo bader sec ond cavalry and sentenced to be banged at miles city montana july ath the same day of the sentence two of them by hanging banging in their cells the remaining one was pardoned by the gover governor nor about a mouth month later another indian was tried and con evicted of the murder of a ranchman at ferlys ferrys landing and sentenced to be hung at the same samo time and place as the others on sunday night he was found also to have committed suicide by hanging the residents of huntington 3 long island gave a reception at suffolk hotel last evening to commander meade formerly of california and the officers of the ivan rvan dadia now lying there the van dalia dalice is the urdu united states vessel of war anchoring in the bay since the war of 1512 1812 some excitement was occasioned in wall street yesterday by the announcement of bf an early completion of the pennsylvania poughkeepsie and new england railroad understood to be one of the many branch roads controlled by the pennsylvania Ril rii railroad road thi this branch has been newly organized to connect harrisburg with the now new england roads via the tha proposed bridge over the hudson at poughkeepsie it is stated the road load to boston is SO 80 miles shorter than any other and a contract will wil wll be made with vanderbilt when the bridge is built for the transportation of through freight south and east along his bis railroads tho grain trade of boston is increasing creasi Dg at a rapid rate especially corn the receipts during durling june aggregating gre gating over bushels against in june 1878 the tunnel under the hudson will bo be prosecuted in Sep bep september r it t is aw bald under the auspices of a coln pany organized under the laws of f new jersey of which dewitt 0 ha hat hakina hakins kids kioa is fr aident hashing is interested in the panama railroad rail rall raad and is 13 the alleged owner of darge tracts of land in Calif cailo ornila orfila he bays fays that ample capital is available to prose prosecute cuto cute the tho tunnel regarding the proposed reduction of rare fare on the elevated road the birnes tp dby day sa say va s of trae company y esterday yesterday eat erday denied that there was waa any found foundation atlon for the factory but there substantial reason for believing it true oleary the pedestrian ran rau is here and greatly elated by his C chicago leago success he bays he will contest for thu the astley belt at the proposed international tournament in the fall fait it la ig stated that delesseps Da Lesseps fully expects V t commence work on the canal next new years day employing SO 30 or workmen some of tam them chinese and brazillian Bro zillian negroes degrees he announced this recently in akiens amiens the sixth avenue anzai annual convention of the union of the american hebrew congregation begun this morning there w nasr a large largo attendance and a great interest was taken Inthe in the proceedings ed inge FOREIGN londen 7 A A fira fire at russia on the ath burned holes homes houi hous ea the officials of tula have received letters threatening the burning of that town the strength or the egyptian army has been fixed at men and a large quantity of war mattil at ordered sold in consequence of continued high water the hooded districts of austria U cannot be rebuilt this thia year the inhabitants will alvoin jive in wooden barracks bar racks during the winter thirteen hundred sheep from infected with the foot and und mouth disease were slaughtered today at liverpool at yesterdays sitting of we the grman german at which bismarck presided td representatives of the different states stated arrived at an agreement respecting the attitude to bd observed by their respect respective ive iva governments in regard to the proposal of the committe that any revenue on excels of marks be distri distributed buted bated among the thy be parate separate states awo hundred and fifty emigrants rom tom iceland bound for minnesota have arrived at granon granton oleary the fenian has been permitted to visit ireland |