Show by telegraph AMERICAN washington II 11 in rea rem response to an application frum from general cowan assistant secretary of or the interior for an opinion from the attorney general as to the former can legally perform the duties of acting secretary after today the attorney general decided that he could not the of indian at fairs fitiris rece received ived the following dim dir dispatch patch today to day from walter P janney the black hill abed dated camp on rapid creek sept a egi have discovered gold in squall mail quantities in the bear lodge lode mountainy mountains about twenty miles est east of missouri butte bulte 4 in the northwestern north western portion of the black hills the heid held 14 limited in area not exceeding fifth square equate miles anti and Is wholly in ili wyoming being separated from the region about harney peak by red water valley the gold is derived from the decomposition of of feldspar and porphyry carrying oxides of iron ana and manganese no quartz being found in the region and the deposits deposit as far as examined are gravel ravel bars of limited area near the baad hoad head of the mountain flowing in belts from the river I 1 have nearly completed the work oi of the survey and expect to reach fort laramie on the return about oct 15 11 KANSAS crry CITY 11 president grant and party left this eity city at this thia afternoon by special traits for chicago auala ga it Alx arx al antler H stephens was taken ill III on oil saturday hh hii au frering suffering Is depre enad d as excruciating aal ani his condition Is criticaL he Is afflicted with atone stone in the bladder philadelphia 11 at the tile meeting of clergymen and und layt laymen bien tien this p m a telegram was received recelle a from moody bloody the thu reviva revivalist lists reading as follows havo have asked brooklyn to let me off I 1 will commence work in your city oct ocl gd gid willing 11 bas BAN I 1 athu I ithe thu the hoisting works of the utah mine virginia city were dee der destroyed troyed by ladt night loss a it quarter of a mil mii million ilou liou the works were recently completed with machinery to auk toa to a depth of or two thousand feet the tile engineer stood stud at iii ili his hii 4 post j t aud and ho hoisted listed the tile miners until he was badly burned four men remained below bolow when the engine was abandoned lut but thoy they through an old shaft NEW YORK 12 special from london says that a letter has been received recel vied from captain allen alien young one of the olli cers of the pandora dated disco diaco agust oth and Way cart gart august jtb tiie tige letter describes the voyage as pleasant lea iea beasant sant gant the pandora coaled at sit L disco isco there had been borne colli ciolll ions with louberge loe bergs berge but thu the vesel was not injured the tito letter describes the tiie crew as working well all on board fare alike at ariga tuk bay they saw baw the fox another london dispatch states that a duel wms was fought with words nt atVes Ve inet alnet near paris on sunday between two young americans named 1141 ned riggs riggie and patine paine the cause wu vaa an old family yer ver vendetta idetta which wax was renewed last thursday night in the Benais rennis sau the result of the duel wes was that paine was alight ly wounded in the arm th the evening post says aa to trade in this city we can only say that every firm from which we hear bear reports that sales this thia wason nason are ahead of thoe tho e of any seamie since on manufactured goods there have been ben to manufacturers but profits bavo bava been made for all through whose hands the goo goods have passo passed ol after leaving the manufacturers one of the largest dry goods hou houses bouses reports that its fialer salek during september sept aber were oue one million three hundred hun nun tred fred tholand tilou abejie ol 01 tile the in 1874 ISM this thia ihil imil exceptional caja railroad tonnages ten ton nageH nages were never uever la larger er on the trunk line tham than now which while hiie hile it dom dow nut not prove that the railroads are making lar large e nr art tits fits for rates are low does doos a show ow that the tile volume of trade h I 1 large washington vasio VASlO tos Toy 12 railway mail mall bas haa been twett ordered from pey vey lano by butter nutter neld to ballem Cal cai lem iem galoon gallon on the southern pacific railway 51 miles milts from november IA iss isa the attorney general is in daliy daily dalla receipt of advices advises from 3 dintini governor vernor amer amea is averse to arming the citizens of the state for their own protection for the redon reason that it would produce great excitement everything Is reported quiet mich 12 taxing the liquor business business was today to day decided by the supreme court to be constitutional the main points argued before the court were first fint whether the present liquor law taxing the business busi busl nes was not practically a license law and thus in contravention traven tion of the existing clau ciau clause claue e in the constitution which prohibit the legislature from passing any law licensing the rale palo of intoxicating liquors ile cond whether the tax being leing ing levied levied by authority of the is state tate late could be constitutionally enforced since it was applied to the tilo support of local municipal governments ern ments or if this were not BO po whether the tile levying of such a tax was not in violation orthe of the local right of self government costes ed by municipalities 12 about noon today to today day duy a high wind blew blow down the unfinished agricultural hall in the centennial gro rno grounds the building was about oue one third completed and mud was entirely of wood eight labor laborers ers were injured five seriously and und one fatally the tito building was under contract to be finished fluis hed on january firt nir fir t collingwood COLLI canada 12 ver fix nix inches of snow now fell last night and mud it was still snowing this tu illumine orning washington 12 an lai lat state statement ment went of the number of grain and iniss mula ses sea distilleries Ino in opere opera tion on the lt insl lost and their dally daily shows thu the number of di to be with witha a total dally spirit producing capacity of gllnn an Itic increase remse renso over sa september pl ember of or forty tive anve distilleries mud und gallons uail Lall 9 daily FOREIGN II 11 the varl mark lane leine frare express vi evening in ita its it weekly y review of the tiie produce markot market has hai the following the weather ha hat t been more broken there having been lial hall in ili flome places but the interruption bomm to tit fit nield field labor has only been partial the ess ebs ha hit interfered with thu the threshing and tile the condition of samples la Is generally had bad the rhe upward tendency in prices is continued though bu business 4 ineita I 1 la restricted the tile average averages ws compared with 1874 are lower lowers while in france they aro arc slightly higher there is 1 less leas doing at odessa ode bu but rates ratus are ma maintained dantzic is rather dearen dearer the receipts of wheat from india are unprecedented the quality lly ily fly is low however however but if tile the pay it places a vast acreage at tile the service of england 11 tiie tito general bells belis goes to switzerland spain intends to demand hia hin surrender as a robber the spanish minister to the vatican has hus pre presented tented a note to cardinal 11 relative to the concordat LONDON 11 12 A asocial from vienna to the aimes says that the european powers have exchanged ideas with regard to the flu financial ancial situation and policy of turkey france has not yet declared her opinion and none 0 the other powers see sec at auy any y grounds for remon the berlin respondent correspondent of the linvs telegraphs that a small russian sian force ha has hai been sent to karate miles r fouth south of english claim according to their ir official maps that la s in afghan territory the consul 0 of f L liberia leria lerla here gives the tiie preas a report of the progress of the war of the liberians liberiana LIbe rians with the barbarous tribe tribes 4 it states that five engagements have been fought in all of if which liberia has been victorious to the post reports that holland has sent five men of war to the carridean Carrl Carri bean sea frea the duke of parma won the race for the tile stake to ta daiv yun tun 11 the miniver of orein ti tir lr fluted stated in lit the chamber of deputies to today day thet that with to venezuela way was not such suet a as to caume caune disquietude clulo tude lude hut but serious enough to counse counsel prudence A prodigious coal mine e mine of mal ino inn N iann hani in county wyoming tie bie ner r carter station on oil the union 1146 iacino Ia cinc itle it wa waa 4 dicov di cov ered by mr fr cawker of or io ingall rail gall from information lie received frent front an old indian Indi in who tiow liow eil cil him a plem piece of tine flue looking coal chic lie ite I 1 found while hunting he lie otle olim rett d to allow mr crocker the l inee ince nee kee if lie would co cire him 10 which offer was read readily ll 11 accepted tho the ind I 1 nelmi then took hini hinl 1 m about fifty nilles t to on a spot about five aillet ml leq lei front the mine which mr crocker rocker found by vein lart fall pointed ted out to him tito the mine it is I 1 in it a aa and it d stone atone mountain about four and mid a half miles long running north and south facing east stid and about three miles and a quarter acm nels news the mountain dipping suddenly at each end there are sixteen veins of coal in sight tight the bottom one is ili the smallest being nive five feet the next 14 1 4 tile the lamert lament and tile tiie most ea emsy easy ty of noer no ac er yec yem and anti 1 Is up ward of seventy feet thick the next above Is sixty neet feet another of forty feet all au other ollier of about thirty feet tive five of about twenty feet fee teach each and five of sixteen reet fret each the the last one olio 14 1 4 about twelve altogether about AM feet of coal 0 ur and arid a half miles loni long rong long in fact it may be correctly terme termed a mountain of or coal the veins lie at an sit angle of 22 deg with ledges of or whito white sandstone intervening the coal I 1 very bright is to perfectly frue free fre from slate or dirt and Is fit mid said to be iso cannel coal A small quantity of or the cropp ingi from the seventy fe fee 1 t vein has ham been tested for coke ly by nil assayer who states that oke per cent when it Is considered that very large quantities is of coke are from front pennsylvania to utah and nerada nevada a of fir 2000 OW miles at a cos cost t of 35 or 40 per er ton for tile the purpose of smelt ing ing sliver ores it will at onee once be w seen of what immense value fit thi thia this mine is likely to prove to owner owners of low 0 w grade silver mines but hut who ther t h er tile the coal will coke or notie Is an ez excellent steam coal eoal one oue engineer who has used it says one bushel of it will make a aa much steam as three bushels of ordinary coal leaving ia less alim mules a klim lim than any coal he ever burned prore por sor geologist to the central 11 pacific a ha hes has 4 made an dinv inv hinves es of the mine anti and it as am the finest deposit of or oai oui oai oal out it in western america S P bank of england counte counterfeits e ts in the report of tile the parliament ar ary nry y select committee Cummi ltee on banks of ur i riho MIHO vry very curious information is given at out forgeries on the lank bauk of england a tab tau tabie tuble was prepared ared for the committee a by the bank lank officials nutting t lie tile number and kiuda kinds of forged notes presented at the bank for the tho past seventy f t evenly years year in ili the tile early part of tile tiie century ury these forgeries were of very common occurrence Thel the favorite with wilh counterfeiters counterfeit ers in ili 1820 twenty eight thou thousand land falbe false nott notes a of this denomination were presented at the bank with small proportions of higher nominal value since 1820 there has hab been a rapid decline in the circulation of counterfeits of all kinds on the bank of england and in 1874 1871 only fifty six counterfeited ZI 1 notes came to light and thirty nive five of other denominations the forged za 1 notes appear to be mostly the work of a former age for fifty years th the e bank has lias cased to issue lesue his denomination tiie new coun derfelt ter felt fellK which appear are chiefly of the 41 5 note of these 27 were presented in 1674 1874 against in lit 1820 the total face ace value of all lie lye tie kie counterfeits taken drota frota circuit tion uon la in the latter year was against la in 1871 1871 this remark able contrast la to almost wholly owing to the unsparing ing lug energy of the bank of england in discovering and arresting those who tamper with its issues and the very severe penalty inflicted on convicted counter counterfeit counterfeiters felters ers the paper papers the watermark the engraving and the signatures olter no obstacles to the ingenuity of rogues these can all be imitated but bold is that man who wiio dares daleli to take taka tak the chances of bringing the bank on his track they will follow him all over the world to catch dimand on oil his hid conviction lie he is sent fent ton toa to a prison aiom aich Is in no noes eai eal i ai r 0 9 h political influence or E executive C clemency if the tiie government of the tile united stat would exhibit a little more of this thia aptitude for chuang up and arresting counter felters fellers not at intervals Inter vala vula to make a Husa tion but continuous ty 1 vwe we should hear lirar but little com coin allut or of forked forged notes hotem in 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