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Show GENERAL. VIRGINIA CITY. fthat the ITIIuiuff Saperinten. rtcMiia Suy IronietM Good For ILurly Itesumptiou of Work, , The San Francisco Insurances San Francisco, 29. The Chronicle this morning publishes a report of an intorview at Virginia city with Col. Fair of the firm of Flood & O'Brien, superintendent of the Consolidated Con-solidated Virginia. In reply to questions as to the working of the bonanza, Fair said: "We won't hoist through the Curry at all; we will have machinery of our own again in as brief a Bpace as possible, perhaps in two weeks. We have one hundred men working now and have ordered all duplicates of the old machinery that we require. We can get all the timbere we want at a week's notice. We can run timbers enough in here to supply all the Oomstock mines and have a supply left then. Vou may just say that we have the whole matter fully in hand now about theee mines, and nothing serious that I can Bee can possibly Detail them." Curtis, superintendent of the Ophir . gives the oasurances of a speedy re-' newal of work. No danger of water in any of the mines. Flood in an interview says: The statement that no ore would be j hoisted until next spring is all bosh, tie would not say when the works would be replaced until he could know certainly. The condition of the local insurance companies, as near as can be ascer-, ascer-, tained, is as follows: The Fireman s Fund losses are within $75,000, will - pay probably; tbe Union about $10,-t $10,-t 000; California, $8,000; th Commercial, Commer-cial, with S200.000 naipd un canital. probably loses over $100,000; the Home Mutual, wifh a capital of $300,-QuO, $300,-QuO, two-thirds paid up, loses, it is currently stated, $150,000 to $200,000, the officials say less; the State Investment, Invest-ment, with a paid up capital of $200,-000, $200,-000, loses not to exceed $100,000, and said to approximate those of tbe Home Mutual. ' The Central A in eric no Ship Cauttl. Chicago, 29.--A Washington npecial says: Tho committee recently appointed ap-pointed by tbe president to examine the various inter-oceanic canal routes of central America, meets here early in November. It is composed ot General Humphreys, chief of engineers engin-eers of the United States army, Prof. Pierce, late superintendent of the United Statea coast survey. Commodore Commo-dore Ammen, of the United States navy. The committee will examine the officers who have made a survey over the Panama, Nicaragua and Tehauntepec routes, with the yiew of ascertaining which is the moat feasible. feasi-ble. They hope to have their report ready by the 1st of January next. When the report is completed, the president will transmit it to congress by a special message. It is also thought he will urge upon congress the importance ot giving substantial aid to tbe completion of this long talked of enterprise. The governments govern-ments of Colombia, Nicaragua and Tehauntepec are anxious that eur government should have precedence in this matter, but if it should fail to come to the aid of the enterprise within a short time proposals will be made to France and England to go on with the work. The aBnlletln"-"Call" Libel. SanFrancico, 29. The libel suit of the Bulletin vs. the Atta was up today to-day in the fourth district court, on a ruotion of defendants to strike out out that part of the complaint referring refer-ring to the Bank of California and the extent of the plaintiff's business. Alex. Campbell, for delendants, argued that there was much in the complaint not essential, and which the defendant should sot be called upon to deny; thought the plaintiffs could not compel an investigation of the aflairs of the bank or conduct of its officers; it was the duty of plaintiffs to state the libel charged and nothing more. Swift, for plaintiffs, -said in reply they had the right to institute a suit upon such portion of a libelous libel-ous article as they suw fit; there were half 'a dozen libels in the article; he intended to show the truth of the articles ar-ticles in the Bulletin, charging Rals-ston Rals-ston with attempting to swindle the city with the Calaveras and Spring Valley water schemes. Lake, for defendants, de-fendants, objected to stigmatizing the statement as irrelevant and atrocious. Swilt waived tbe point for the present, and entered into quotations of authorities. author-ities. The court took tho matter under un-der advisement. Indians Whipping; Soldier. 9t. Louis, 29. A Republican Kansas city special Bays news of a startling nature was received to-day in regard to the fight on Tuesday between be-tween If. S. troops, near Ft. Hayes, and a wandering band of Cheyennes. The Indians drove back tbe troopn and killed two. Fresh troops were sent from the fort. A dispatch received re-ceived at the office of the Kansas Pacific railway, to-night, says the fresh troops were attacked by the Indians In-dians while camped near Smoky Hill river, Thursday, and the Iudiaus were again successful, and made the Boldiers retreat, with thelosaofone man killed and one badly wounded. Uen. Carre's command had left Fort Hayes, by special train, for the scat of war. ThePuuuuia Railroad. New York, 29. The World report that the Panama railroad have deter-1 mined to run a through lino from 1 New York to San Francisco, and have appointed a committee to make tbe necessary arrangements. They are ready to purchase tome of tbe steamers of the Pacific Mail company, com-pany, or if that company is not disposed dis-posed to sell, Panama will purchase or build its own steamers. The Pacific Pa-cific Mail, in that case, can have its ,. business across the Isthmus trans-; trans-; acted by the Panama railway on fair and friendly terms. In Wall street this action iB variously re-i re-i garded, many thinking it only a stock-jobbing scheme to depress the Pacific Mail. Can Children I'lay Trnant to 4iio to Church? Montpelier, Vt., 29. In the supreme su-preme court this morning was heard the case of James Territter, et al., vs. James Tyler, et al. The parties live in Brattleboro, where on Corpus Obristi day, June 4th, 150 Catholic children stayed away trom school by desire of their parents and attended church. Tyler, for tbe school committee, com-mittee, would allow them to return only on the condition that they should not do so in future, to which the parents would not assent. The question before the court was whether the committee had power to exclude the children from the school. The decision was withheld. Escape of Prisoners. St. Joseph, Mo., 29. Between G and 7 o clock this evening seven prisoners escaped from the jail by sawing off the iron bars of ft window. The prisoners were Frank Brown, ; murderer, and sentenced to be bung; John B. Patten, Oscar Kirk, Charles i Reybant and Thomas Hannon, under sentence for grand larceny; Alex Broughton and Wm. Early, under i sentence for horse stealing, $500 is ottered for the capture of Brown. Another Gallows Victim F.E, iiishops. New York, 29. Chas. Weston, the third of the colored murders of Weis burg, the Jew peddler, was sentenced to-day to be hanged Dec. 7th. The house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church ended its session to-niitht. Rev. S, T. J. Schreschewsky was elected bishop of China; Rev. Dr. W. J. Clarke, ol Georgia, bishop of Africa. Four Persons Drowned, New York, 29. A Binghimpton dispatch says: While a party of sir were boating on the Susquehanna river at Unidilla, day before yesterday, yester-day, the boat upset and ill were precipitated pre-cipitated into the wter. Maurice Goodrich and wife, of Worcester, N. Y., and Mr. Morehouse and wife, of Unidilla, were drowned. The Good-richs Good-richs were on their wedding trip. Then the Cardiff Cilunt is a rnud. Boston, 29. In the suit of C. O. Gott vs. the Boston Herald, for $50,-000 $50,-000 damages for libel in calling the Cardifi Giant a fraud, the jury to-day rendered a verdict lor the defense. Obltnarj. Boston, 29. Hon. Amasa Walker died to-day, 76 years of age. |