Show THE DESERET NES NEWS s GENERAL washington the following has been issued from the treasury department dated july 69 notice is hereby given that the secretary of the treasury by the tho authority of law has adopted a distinctive paper which will be hereafter used until otherwise ordered for all obligations and other securities of the united states one of its peculiarities Is the introduction of colored silk cotton and other fibrous matt material erfal erial into the paper while in the process of manufacture by law it is a felony for any person to have or retain in his custody or possession any of the paper adopted or the making of any such obligation obligations 13 or securities except under the authority of the secretary of the treasury or some other othen proper officer odthe of the united states the circular goes on to declare that all such will be punished boston A meeting was held today to day under the auspices of the boston national historical socie society to devise measures for the celebration of the centennial birthday of humboldt Humbold fc on september A committee was appointed to carry out the object A resolution yas vas adopted to establish a scholarship n the museum of comparative zo ol ogy agy to be called the humboldt scholarship agassiz will deliver an address yesterday afternoon a large wooden building the upper portion used as a hall and the lower as a market house at the corner of randolph and sheldon streets fell burying five workmen in the ruins and seriously injuring three the workmen men were engaged in remodeling the building and had carelessly removed the center supports the case of col vs august belmont and others for the possession of in gold belonging to the fenian organization came up again today to day the supreme court finally male made an order d directing reet ing the payment rayment of the money to thomas J barr arr arn who has been appointed receiver A cheek check was accordingly drawn for the amount further proceedings are adjourned to the dinst emanuel knight and Iless liess rs watts and blair mair indicted for usury plead guilty today to day five persons persona dersons charged with being concer concerned nelin in selling and using counterfeit revenue stamps were examined today to day to await the action of the grand jury cincinnati john meagher an express wagon driver struck his wife on the head with an axe several times cutting off one ear and fracturing her scull he then rushed to the river and drowned himself the wife will scare ly recover meagher has been very intemperate lately antony shot himself through gh the head in washington hall today to day he died instantly the supposed cause of the rash act is disappointment in a love affair I 1 alexandria va commodore S S lee brother to gen B R E lee died at his lis home bome home in Staff stamford stafford ord co today to day new york professor morse the distinguished telegrapher has sustained a compound compound fracture of the leg by a fall at hib his is residence near poughkeepsie on saturday evening louisville A mee meeting tin lin of leading wholesale merchants wasti was held heid eld eid here today to devise the best method of securing a 4 uniformity in the freight tariff from the east it was agreed to employ agents adnew at new york and boston to su per sen Ser biseto intend louisville the shipment of all new now york 22 frank W ballard secretary of the security insurance company is a defaulter default ef to the amount of speculating in wall street with the tee companas Comp anys funds is the cause of the defalcation the feniane Fen ians col warren and J D oconnell waited on secretaries boutwell and robison and attorney general hoar yesterday and related the wrongs inflicted on the fenian prisoners in england they intend to lay the matter individually before every member of the cabinet the attorney general genera was not at all gracious and intimated that the invaders of canada were a set of thieves and robbers john A roebling the well weli l known bridge engineer died today to day of lockjaw caused by his bis foot being jammed while surveying the ground for the east river biver bridge R D bogans the defaulting naval paymaster arrived today to day from galveston in custody of the marshal he will be tried in september daniel keely was arrested for killing his father yesterday while indulging in a family quarrel JB moston boston oston lie lle w il co commander in man aen den H B zeley of the steamer pawnee has been arrested at portsmouth N H and held to bail on two warrants charging him with unwarranted cruelty to several seamen on that vessel washington measures have been established for the organization of a company having in view the holding ofa of a worlds exposition of manufactures etc fete returns from the land office salt lake city show that during the first two weeks of june last declaratory statements covering a hundred and forty thousand acres were filed under the preemption pre emption act cincinnati last evening the prisoners in the j jail jall all ali at hamilton knocked the turnkey down and attempted to release griffin who is sentenced cad to be hung for murder today to day week an alarm was given and the plan failed four persons who escil es cited ed were arrested rearrested re professor of newport ky in boone county is digging for and has as secured a large quantity of mastodon bones for the cambridge university san ban francisco 22 arrivals from the cod fishing fleet b bring ng fish and report ten other vessels with an aggregate catch of up to july ath an eastward bound train on the central pacific road was delayed five hours last night near humboldt lake by a waterspout water spout washing away a portion of the road bed among the passengers by the steamer japan from china are a hundred and twelve chinese women sent here for the purpose of prostitution the customs off officers leers have seized over worth of opium on a china steamer for the violation of the revenue laws st louis at a meeting last night it was determined to celebrate the centennial anniversary of Hum boldts birthday as a festival the postmaster and express agent named Brough pacific city iowa has absconded with express money dayton ohio the printers of the dayton ledger office are on strike for their wages havana two citizens of the united states Prin tado and cabias cablas who have been in prison since february and senor gutierrez a mexican have been released through the intercession of the american consul gen 1200 estates belonging to the rebels have been embargoed to the present date jackson miss the trial of yerger was concluded today to day the verdict is unknown yerger has been brought before judge hill of the U 6 district court on a writ of meas corpus judge william yerger on behalf of the tile prisoner prisoner submitted a plea to which the judge advocate submitted return and yerger was remanded to the custody of the military the points involved having been heretofore passed upon by judge hill with the same result ban francisco 22 the republican state convention nominated lorenzo sawyer and 0 C pratt for judges of the supreme court they adopted resolutions the first of which pledges the support of the party to and endorses the acts of grants administration the second says the negro question has ceased to be an element in American pol itic sand the ratification of Fifteenth the amendment should be followed by an act of universal amnesty and the enfranchisement of the southern people the first regards with satisfaction the increasing immigration to this state from the atlantic states and europe but while giving preference to people of our own race holds that inoffensive emigrants from china are entitled to the full fall protection protection of the law but opposes chinese hanese suffrage in any form and an any change in the naturalization laws of the he venation nation the fourth recognizes the power of the general government to restrict or prevent chinese immigration by terminating our commercial relations with china and believes the closing of our ports at present against the chinese would be injurious to the material interests of the coast and a reproach upon the intelligence of the american people and contrary to the spirit of the age the fifth approves the eight hour law the sixth endorses the action of congress in rejecting the alabama treaty and considers it to be the duty of the general government to demand full fall reparation for injuries inflicted b by y the british government and people eople u upon unon on our commerce during the lite fate lato late rebe rebellion ion ton the seventh favors the equalization of taxation on all kinds of property of the state the eighth opposes grants of state aid to railroads boston the shore end of the french cable was landed last night and hauled into the telegraph house kingston Kingst 6 mass 24 the telegraph line to duxbury will probably pro probably babli babii be completed today to day to the offices of the he company A grand celebration takes place on tuesday quite a number of prominent individuals have arrived today to day including 11 tournay the french charge DAf mairs lairs the italian charge DAf mairs lairs and captain ward of the british legation it is thought that the land line will be spliced to the cable on monday charleston michigan great excitement prevails among the two wings of the republican party here D mackey late collector leads the native wing which includes the mass of colored voters while senator sawyer congressman bowen and geo W mark dark the newly appointed collector in place of mackey ackey 31 head the northern element the removal of mackey has intensified the bitterness between the two factions on thursday last clark dark called on mackey presenting r p benting his commission and demanding man pd i g instant possession of the collectors lec tors office mackey refused to vacate until he had taken inventories of the public property and had received a receipt from clark dark but promised to make the transfer on the dinst mark dark insisted on immediate surrender which being ref refused used ased he entered lackeys mackeys Mac keys office and attempted to act as collector whereupon he was forcibly ejected e acted by lackeys mackeys mae Mac keys subordinates yesterday yesterday mackey and other custom house officers were arrested on a charge of assault and obstructing an officer of the revenue they were bound over to answer before the U S court on monday during the hearing of the case oark dark with a posse of 30 men forced his way into the custom house and took possession which he still retains the partisans parti of clark dark attempted to serenade sawyer and bowen last night but the colored republicans rallied in large numbers and prevented re vented the serenade charging on te the epro procession cession and capturing its flag which they carried in triumph to mack ays eys residence utica A sand bank on the branch central railroad at lt ilion caved today and buried several workmen one of whom is sup supposed posed posea to be still beneath the sand several others are somewhat injured one it is feared fatally washington commissioner delano has appointed a commission of five gentlemen from his bureau to examine and report upon all instruments or contrivances for cancelling revenue stamps the instruments must be presented on or before sept lat new york beecher addressed the bulls and bears in the gold room today A special from the neutral lands in kansas says that a large armed force attacked the railroad workmen of burbin co on saturday afternoon and burned all the tho tents shanties wheelbarrows picks ac belonging to the workmen who were unarmed and could make no resistance the soldiers being twelve miles distant the same correspondent charges the recent outrages to the speeches of representative clarke I 1 who advised the people to stand united as one man and no railroad could be built without their consent said he suppose the prairie grass should take fire and bum burn the ties tents wagons engineers instruments ac could that be charged to you I 1 dont advise force to prevent this most damnable railroad swindle but these accidents will happen in the best regulated communities now gentlemen he concluded if an any such thing should happen you must ali sri afi ail be abed a bed and asleep when it happ ensor as soon thereafter as possible chicago last night about 12 dr hess business manager of Cros bys opera house while returning home on wabash Avenue found a young woman in the street in the throes of parturition by his assistance she was safely delivered on the spot and afterwards conveyed to his boardinghouse boarding house where the mother and child are doing well the girl was a german named berr haaran and was servant ina lna in a family on the avenue near by who cruelly turned her out of doors at midnight on discovering her condition the cable is said to be in good working condition the wire from rin ein kingston station to duxbury is nearl nearly Y lii III a all ali up san francisco legal tenders 74 dr beebe surgeon of this city recently removed a portion of the intestine four feet six inches long from the body of a lady the intestine had become mortified in consequence of a rupture the operation was performed 13 ago and the patient is now nearly re covered and she is permitted to eat freely and go about her room washington specials say that the union pacific yesterday rece nece received ved in government bonds for the twenty miles ending a thousand and thirty miles from omaha about fifteen miles more will bring the subsidy to ogden both cox and boutwell are entirely convinced that the company is doing the fair thing and mean to put the road immediately in first class order poughkeepsie the police force has been trebled here owing to the frequency of incendiary fires the mayor offers a liberal reward for the detection of the gillians vil lians chicago 24 washington specials say that dispatches from minister mcmahon were received ived yesterday he had received his letter of recall his nils dispatches give little information not already published in the newspapers he does not believe 1 however that lopez is near the end of his career he is on cordial terms with lopez and thinks favorably of him as a man and an official there is a story afloat that mcmahon will go to europe in the interest of lopez outside talk is not flattering to secretary washburne tor for taking advantage advant ake of his brief occupancy of the state department to recy neey recall mcmahon who has rendered the united states far better service than wash burnes brother several holders of irish bonds intend to bring a suit against the fenian m money oney in possession of belmont and if t the he suit is successful they will take similar action against prominent fe mans bans possessed of considerable property said to have been beer accumulated while managing the irish republic boston ata meeting of the city council last night on the recommendation of the mayor an order was adopted providing for the proper celebration on the part of the city of the successful laying of the french cable A committee was appointed to arrange the details oswego in accordance with the suggestion of the mayor of portland me a call for a transcontinental ballway railway convention to be held here will be issued soon all the leading railways from the pacific to newfoundland will be represented the first fruit car on the central pacific road left sacramento today to day loaded p principally I 1 I 1 my with plums and pears for chicago and boxes of new grapes for new york chicago 23 Koopman the chinese importer expresses his intention of bringing over the first cargo of chinese for the south next fall but he will do nothing till fully assured of their kind treatment and good pay eo so far fan faras as he is concerned there shall be no compulsion in the matter bt st louis louia 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