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Show . NEWS OF THE DAT. 1 The Mississippi election passed off very quietly, the Democratic ticket being the only one in the field. - - The government yesterday purchased 200,000 ounces of Bilver for delivery at the Pennsylvania and New Orleans Mints. The California Sugar Refinery, San Francisco made a reduction yesterday of one and one-half cent a pound on sugar. j The trial of Perry Baine at Seattle, Wash- ington Territory, for the murder of two Chinamen, Chi-namen, concluded yesterday with a verdict of not guilty. Other alleged Chinese murderers mur-derers are expected to be acquitted. Secretary Lamar requested the War Department to remove the "boomers" from the Oklahoma land. The information contained con-tained in the Agents report is to the effect that large numbers of persons supposed to be "boomers." bnt elaiminfr to be f reichters. are crossing the Kansas border into the Indian In-dian Territory. ' An address to the range cattle and horse f rowers of the arid regions of the United tates, was issued yesterday, Northern Mexico Mex-ico and British Columbia commending the indorsement of the memorial lately issued by the cattle growers of New Mexico, and inviting all interested to meet in convention in Denver on January 20th for the purpose of organizing an International Association of Range Cattle and Horse Growers. Minnie Hauk, the prima donna, declines to receive flowers over the footlights. She said in New York: ""I think it is time to put a stop to the flower nuisance, and many people peo-ple agree with me. A little applause from a pleased audience is to me of far greater value than a mountain of flowers. I have written to my friends that I will be glad to accept such attentions at my room, but I will not have them handed over tome on the open stage." ... ' The New York Herald says Davenport's ambition to be Governor has cost him, it is said, $75,000. James W. Wadsworth, the other millionaire on the Republican ticket, put his hand in his pocket for $40,000 for the chance of being elected Comptroller for two years.. Joe W. Jacobus is $10,C30 poorer than he was before he was nominated for Sheriff. Roswell P. Flower has at different times contributed $5,000 to the State campaign cam-paign fund for the privilege of declining the nomination of Lieutenant-Governor. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Tem-perance Union adjourned in Philadelphia yesterday after passing the following resolution: reso-lution: "That the use of alcoholic wine in the holy communion furnishes a moral support sup-port to the liquor traffic, and is not in our judgment a proper type of the blood of Christ, and we would earnestly recommend the use of the pure unfermented juice of the grape at the Lord's table." The resolution as originally reported recommended "the removal re-moval of all that is unclean from the Lord's table." Colonel Howard, of Cleveland, O., has the latest. He says that President Johnson stopped in Cincinnati in 18GG. During the evening, in conversation, Johnson said, addressing ad-dressing some Southern gentlemen: "If the people of the South elect Representatives and send them to the House, they shall be seated at all hazards, even if it has to be done by force of arms." Judge Key sprang to his feet, and facing the Southern gentlemen, gentle-men, said: "Don't you for one moment hug any such delusion as that to your, bosoms. Such an attempt would create an uprising at the North, beside which the firing on Fort Sumter would be a mere baby." ' |