Eugene. City Guard I'AMI'lllM.f. IIHOTJIKUH rUBLISIIEKS. SATURDAY, MAKCH - - - 13, 1880, TELEGRAPHIC EASTERN. Death of a Railroad Man I.OKTOM. March 1. Joseuh Nickerson dintetor of the Atchison and Santa Fe railroad and president of tlio Pueblo and Arkansas Valley roail, lsel or apoplexy, at BrewHter, Massachusetts, Saturday night. Ha lee of Wage at Lowell. At Lowell there has been ft general ad vance of wages in all leading corporations within 8 fow weeks, and soverai mann fnrtnrinir establishments have joined in the Increase which has been agreed to by Ihe manufacturers without petition or other movement or workmen. A Rorlallet School. Xew Yoiik. March 1 The socialiHts of . New York opened a school yenterday on : :. u...!.... n? 'Pi... ..i.ii.i. niaiui'ii nruuv iiiiiiiuriiiik mi j" .mu re n have been recruited principally from ;rmunH. and it is stated that it ha been established to counteract the teachings of priests. lessons are uiven haturuay and Sundays only. Pork Parking at Cincinnati. Cincinnati. March 1. Pork packing for the winter season in Cincinnati, just closed amounted to $559,000 against last year's $(ii1,000; Uocrease this year 025. '.Hoflllt Punch" Kyelem. Richmond, Virginia March 1. Both houses of the general assembly to-duv passed a bill repealing the Mollilt bell punch liquor luw and re-establishing the license system to go into operation May 1st. Sunday Law In Jew York. New Yoiik, February 20. The Sunday law was enforced again to-day. Ihe Tliulia theater enmpuny a templed to vivo tho ".Seecudot" at the Central Park Garden to-night. An iininense audience had gathered, when a polico captain stepped in and stopped the proeocdings The audience, which disnoreod quietly were given tickets for Ihe next perlor inance nt the llmlia. AJ He loiu Itoiv. New Yoiik, M.ireli 1. Assemblyman lloganaud his brothor !nd nil ultorealiou to-day with Poliieinuu Carter, during which the latter whs knocked down with a slung-shot and kicked and beaten so badly Unit Uls reared thnt lie will die J login i represents the sixteenth district Klre at Pall lllvrr Fa i.i. Uivhr, Massachusetts. March 1 The liordur City mill caught lire this iifternoon snil ciuscd great consternation throughout Ihu i lly. I he IImiimii speed ily tixiingiiislied the ll.iuies which origin atud in Ihu pirkel house. The general tlaumue is blight but the belts are so In . j ured that the mill may stop. Intense excitement prevailed aid ni.iiiy weavers fainted. PlMilroiM Klre. Bi kkalo, March 2. The village of Ber gen yesterday morning wa aiattled hv t deep explosion followed by the bmning of three large buildings. Two explosions fillowed, and the entire west side of Luke street was soon in flame, whirh cominiiiiii'aliiig to the cut side, the whole village wai mid in ruins inuluding 28 places of business. The II ro was evidently incendiary. The explosions wore cuucd by ii fuse in Tally's block, communicating with keg of powder. Ihu work was nr ranged wilhmoht consummate rk ill mid r ue, and the bos ii placed at $100,00(1, Bergen is in Genesee county on the Ceii tr.d road. Halli-oail tfllltlaU KIciImI, St. Lhhs, March 2 The annua! meet ing of Ihe stockh'lcliis of the St. Louis and f-an Francimo Il.tilimd Company wan tn-lit this iiniriiHig mid -I the fdbiv ing director: Jus. I. l'i Ii, Jesse St llij iiinii. Fred lliiiterllelcl, Calvin Litileilchl, r. Hotkey, l C. Window and 1 1. Atluws, of New Yoik; Alfred Niekcrson. A bleu Spears and Francis B. Haves, of Bi.stiiii; James Baker and O.ms ilalley, of M. Lotus, twicers will li elected at a special meeting of tho board to lie held at New York shortly. Nickerson and Spears of Boston, represent the Atchison, Topeka and Srnta Fe interest. The Missouri Pacillc stoekholdci also held a meeting this morning and elected tho following directors: Jay Gould, S. II. II. Clark, llussell Sane, Sidney Dillon, W. B. Buckey, Thomas T. Kckoit, George J. . Forest and F. L. Ames, of New York: J. I. Stephens, of Booneville, Missouri; 1)1 i ver Garrison, 1. It. l er.-usoii and W. M. Samuel, of St. Louis The board then or t-aniiecd by electing Jay (iould, president; 8. II. II. Clark, vice president: . Arnold, secretary. A. 11. Calef.of New York, treas tirer ami assistant secretary. All the old ollleera of tho board were reappointed. A Strike. A i.i fatown, March 2. Work In tho rail mill of the Alleutown Boiling Mill Com pany shut down this m irulngon ace unit of lite demand of ihu employes for an in crease of 10 per cent. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment. Aull-lt, It. Mloni. Yankton, March 2. The Sioux are Iir. venling survey ors of the C. A N. W. K. K. from surveying aero- their reservation, two parties have been driven baik with llircata from the Indians. t'blnrM Protection. New Yokk, March 2 The IWi Wash ington special says: Keprevniatives from the Chinese six companies are now on their way I.i this city under instruction front the Chinese government, lo ask, through tho Chinese legal Ion here, if our goverumeitl mean to pioleethee.ietifii and industrious citizens of China who are resident in this country. They sru ili rected to get, If postiblc, an explicit mil awer. War an the Wire. Omaha, Match 2. Injunctions are liv ing back and forth between Ihe telegraph companies. ThU f,)h.n.ioii tl.a r ciflc applied to Judge Savage of tue dis tnctcourt fora teuipomry injnnctinn to restrain the I'nion I'aciHc from n'seixing the Atlantic A I'acitic line-. This injunc tioh wasgMutinlandtha VS'ctern ( nion served with proprr notiiv. This rier tioon the Union I'acitic w.u , rvcd with tiotiit of an injunction restraining them from interference with the Atltniic A I'a--itic in rae that rouiany shotdd attempt to rocovtT posM-ssioii or its line. Thi last injnn-tinn was granted by L'. S. ('ii cuit Judge Mi-Crary. at Kw.kuk, Ira, and was telegraphed to Omaha. This bring) the state and federal courts In con- Ilict, but the union l acirK maunain iuai the state court has jurisdiction, as the suit was commenced there first. This leaves the situation somewhut mixed. If the Western Union should attempt to re take the Atlantic & Pacific lines, a lively row may be exported. Death of Dr. Win. Maxwell Wood. Baltimore. March 2. Surgeon General IVillium Maxwell Wood. C. S. uavv. died yesterday at his residence, at Uwings Mills, Baltimore county, aged tl. Cowley Committed to the Penitentiary, New Youk. MarcL 2. Kev. Edward Cowley, ex-manager of the late Shep herd's Fold, convicted of cruelty to child ren, was taken to-day from the lombs to the penitentiary, me reverenn convict was at one timo chaplain of that institu tion. Nale of a Railroad. Augusta, Georgia, March 2. The Ma con and Augusta railroad, which was sold to-day under second mortgage amounting to $:70,000, was bought by the Georgia Kailroad Company ror fcsj.tiw. An Outrage Avenged. Charleston. 8. C.. March 2. An armed nccro. Louis Kinder, having assaulted and outraged a white woman named Byrd, was captured, Identified and imprisoned The guards were overpowered by tho woman's relatives and after some delay the negro was hanged und his body rid dlod with bullets. He confessed his crime, also to outraging a colored woman 01 years of uge. to killing a colored girl and com milting four burglaries and numberless thefts. The Brown Family. Iniiianafolis, March 2. The Sentinel prints details of the doings of the notori ous Brown family, showing the crimes committed by them to he more atrocious and appulling than those of the Bender ramily. iirown was recently muidered by his wife and her paramour, lo him and his family are traced live mysterious murders for money. A Newspaper In Trouble. Ai iianv, New York, March 2. Papers and ullidavits, signed by Charles Smith recent editor or the Albany Lvnung Jour' nul will bo presented to Justice Westbrook in the superior court to-morrow, asking for the appointment of a receiver for the Juttrnttl company. Tho alliduvits recite that Smith pu -c!ime 1 i onu-oiglith; Inter est in the Journal in 1870 for $15,500, on representations that the company was worth $125,0J0. Sinco purchasing he learns that the company owe lurge urns of money, mid petitioner prays for a re ceiver and tor accounting. Htrlk. St. I.OUIS. March 2. The Vulcan steel works started this morning, but the hands immediately struck upon being required to sign an ultimatum contract fixing tho price of habor on the same scalo of prices as oilier cities, and preventing labor unions. DeLeuep Rxplalna New Yoke, March 3. The Tribune prints a letter from DeLosscps expressing surprise at the statements attributed to him In his speech on Monday night that he would in certain coiitungencics protect the interests of the United State., should they need protection, in carrying out his canal project, lie says. "I said, on the contrary, that I conceded in my uiider- tiikuii:, us 1 do in all international uucst- ious, the interests of America us pre-emi nent. A i for the 1 unania canal, un all.ur nneiy industrial and commercial, I shall be liaiipv to call for the protection of the Uuiied States, should politics become mixed up with it." 1.1. ill. Hlu on the Inter-Ocean Cnuat. Lleuieiiant Wise, of the French navy. who holds a concession from the govern ment of the United States of Colombia for an inter-oceaulj catutl, said to-day before sailing for France: "I look upon it us a groat work in which nil nations should take part, und particularity America. Its great importance to tho United States of America cannot be over estimated. I think tho work should be carried on in accordance with the wishes of the people of this country. In the position I occupy I mint see that everything is done in m- lorduiico with tho concessions I have ob tained, if any attempts are m ule in other di i oct Ions. In my own interests, and thai of iIkmo vested in ine, we must and will protect our rights ror all lime to come. Should DeLesseps succeed in forming a company he will In all probability be el ected president, In his poslliuu of presi- cut he would ot course receive a hand some bonus in making any contract with the Colombian government. 1 foresaw the possibility ol a coming company in the land of llie Stars and the Striocs. Mv inlliienco with iH'l.o.-seps is not to day a'hat it was formerly, childly because from the lirst tune that that celebrated gentle man undertook to form u company our views on many points have not coincided. und also becauso among those who sur rounded him there are some w hose ores nice is much to be regretted. My iinme. diato interest) lie financially in the sue cess of Iel.esscps, but we have more ex tensive rights than he has and more time to accomplish the gigantic undertaking." The Tebauntrpe Railroad. The Panama railroad people are con cerned about the railwuv acres. the isth mus of lehauutepec. lor the construction of which a company has been organized ith a grant of land from the Mexican government. The line will be about DO miles long. It will have Iho advantage of terminal Pacillc Point 1250 miles nonrer San Francisco than Panama, while its astern terminus w ill tu no further from New York than is Aspinwall, and ubout TOO miles nearer New Orleans This en terprise may ehVt seriously both the Panama and the Nicaragiu canal projects The Suililra HUe Ktplalned. Tito extraordinary rise in Pacific Mail has the extraordinary reason that the president of Ihe company says that a quarterly dividend of I J per cent w ill be Kin July next. DeLreeepe (online; Writ. IVLesteps starts west to morrow via. Washington. Urnlrnrrd. Wakiikn, Ohio, Mirch .1. Fx Auditor Kennedy pleaded guilty to a ch.itge of embexxleiiii'iit and was sentenced to two year in the pciiiu-ntiary. To be Hanged. Iiot isviM E, March 1 Charles Webster, for outrage, and Anderson, a w ife mur derer, will be banged October 8th. K. a. Kearuer t'onarmed a Marshal tar Oregan. Washinotox, March 3. The aenste to day ron tinned It.e following nominations: United Statea Marshal, F S. Kearney, district of Dregou. Indian Agent, Chas. U. Belknap, Tulle river agency, California. Dead. Coii' t Litta, flrat secretary of the Ital ian legation, is dead. Saltanal Baak Taxation. A lupretus court decision was reudereJ to-day in several cases involving the question of taxing national bank shares. The general result of the decision wastbat the court holds that the systematic and international assessment of national bank shares at their full value, while all other moneyed capital assessed is fur below its true value, is a violution of the act of congress prescribing a rule for taxing shares. Admitted lo Practice Among the admissions to practice in the supreme court were Simon B. New comb, ot New Mexico, and Edward It. Taylor, of San Francisco. Kdleon on a Slew Scheme. New Yoiik, March 4. Edison's spare lime is spent in perfecting his process to obtain gold from tunings, lie has organ ized a company, and obtained at lrginia City and Leadvillb 50,000 tons. The pro cess is a secret, but quicksilver is known to enter, as also oxide of lead, carbonate of soda, charcoal dust and powdered glass, Why Agitation In California Thrive. A Herald Hun Francisco special has the following: Believing that Kearney has been fostered and encouraged by the publicity which the local press heretofore bus been giving to this agitation, all the leading merchants have united and nei inanded thut the intemperate folly of the press reports shall cease, vor they will withdraw their business patronage from thofce papers. But for the strife between the newspapers here trying to capture Kearney and the workingmen, he would have been in obscurity long sgo. The papers have. I understood, agreed to leave him hereafter unreported, and in doing so the present agitation will soon cease. It lives greatly on publicity, its orators delighting to read ol themselves and the reports of what they say. Lake Shore Stock Going up. Lake Shore stock has advanced to 111 on authentic reports of an immense in' crease in earnings and of a two per cent quarterly Uivideud, instead of 1 , as here' toforo' Rnilden Death. Buffalo. March 4. W. II. Ciimmings, eeneral western freight agent of tho New York Central, dropped dead at tho Tiff llouso lost uight. Ilretructlre Fire. CtRcLEViLLfc. Ohio. March 4. Fire de stroyed two coaches, eight freight cars and contents, furniture, plate glass and other valuable chattel property. Loss es tl mated at $40,000, which is probably light. Ciiicaoo. March 4. Ihe Iribunet Uav enport, Iowa, special says: Leh kinds brewery, two miles irom tins city, was burned this ufternoon; loss, $24,000; in surunce, $17,000. It contained about 11 uOO bushels of grain. Parnell at St. Loiil. St. Louis, March 4. The Parnell meet ing to-night was a grand affair. From $d0M) to $4000 were raised. Convicted or Murder. Cincinnati, March 4. A special lo the Umette says that t. (.iroseman and W il- lium Carson wers found guilty to-day of the murder of licrnurd Picker at Nun Wert, Ohio. Picker was murdered at his door one night in December last, and Ihe murderers then tortured his wife by iii.i cing her feet to u hot stove until she toh them where to find $15(Ki. When the men were arrested onu ol them shot the sheriU'iind constable, indicting serious in juries. Jl.inicl Harmon, tried with tho others, was acquitted. The t'te (in utlou. Washington, March 4. The result of tho final conferences yesterd iy and this afternoon between Secretary Schurz and the representatives of the various bands' of the l to Indians, has not vet been olli ciully disclosed beyond an announcement that a satisfactory agreement has been reached, which will bo submitted to tho house nnd senate committees on Indian ull'airs for their sanction. Aitotlirr of the IK' lis lb Caereto Come up The trial of Virgil Gully for the murder of ex State Senator John P. (tdmor, a vie tiiu of the Chisholm niassavue, will com. meiico at I'elvalli, Mississippi, on -Mon day next. District Attorney Ford will conduct the prosecution, nssisied by Judge re, U. S. district attorney for the soul hern districts of Miss. The widow of the murdered man leaves Washington to-morrow to attend the trial i" witness The l.coi'jjla uu line 1" ..ill I p. Miss Iiiiymond, i" . . . behalf Mrs. Uelva Lock wood y.-v.'iM iy liled p.ipen in tnis city in the suit luaiiist Senator Ben Hill lor seduction, furnishes to-day the following statement; Wasiiinoton. March .'1. Whereas, a suit has been liled by Bclva A. Lock wood, attorney at law, in the dis trict of Columbia in my namougaiust Ben jamin II. Hill, the same being an action of damages for seduction und support of u child, now of my own free will and con sent, without pay or reward or promise thereof, 1 declare that 1 have no claim whatever against Benjamin II. Hill, und that he is not my seducer; that tho papers tiled by said Lock wood were liled without my knowledge or consent and against un solemn protest; that they were never read over to me or by me and their con tents were unknown to lue, and no oath was put to me or taken by me in said case. Josk Haymonh. The lrh.ii famine "YVrll lu Hand." Jas. Kedpiilh, the special correspondent whom tho Tribune has sent to Ireland, writes that the famine is well in hand ami that all danger of general starvation seems to havo passed. Dlatraiu Wind at t'lrvrlnnd. Clkmci.anh, March 5. This morning gale accompanied by thunder and light ning and blowing :U miles and suddenly raised to tho velocity of i miles, grout damage. One man was killed an.) tavcrul injured. The Telegraph War. Ciiicaoo, March 0. This afternoon, in the U. S. circuit court. J mice Drummond entered un order in the case of the West ern Union Telegraph Company against ma iinuxM! ikinwitv i ompuny and the .mericiii union telegraph Com pany decreeing that the contract between the old Tok-ti, Wabash A Western Kail road Company, and Western I' nioa Co .i p iny is binding on the new Wabash rail road in ml respects except as to the right ! another Ule,-r.ipu tn;n;i.iiiy hav ing acquired the right lo build on the roadway. The court thereupon restrained the Wabash Bail sruy Company, its ollicers and sgjnts from interfering in any wav with ihe hues of the Western I'uioii Tel egraph Company upon the line of the rs-lroad and offices thereon. Omaha, March 0. The district court of this county heard tbtlav a motion of the Atlantic A Pacific and' Western Union Telegraph Company, to dissolve or modi fy its injunction, issued several davs ago at the suit of the Union Pacific It. k Co., restraining the telegraph companies from interfering with Hues leased bv the rail way In the Atlantic A Pacific. "Union Pa cific Company. It it claimed that its suit and injunction were prior to that of the j telegraph compauy's in the U. S. circuit1 court, in which Judge McCrarr signed an Injunc ion, against the railway; the state court modified its injunction so as to per mit the A. & P. to reconnect its wires where they had been cut by the railway and requires the cnmnanlea on both sides to observe the terms and provisions of tlner contracts, j bis leaves Judge w Crary's order in full power to relieve the controvesy of all question about priority of suit and injunction, and restores full use of the wires along the whole length of the railroad to the Atlantic A Pacinc let egraph Company. Fatal Kxploalon. Wilkesharrk, March 7. An explosion in No. 2 shalt at anticoke yesterday killed James Henry, Ldmund Morgan Joseph Andernott and David J' Watkins John F. Watkins was seriously injured The disaster was caused by a miner leav ing a door open, thus breaking the air current, bus accumulated and ignited from a naked light carried by Iho mine boss. The bottom oi the shalt was blown to pieces and several cars smashed. Five men were killed by the concussion and burns. Three miners, who attempted, to rescue the men, were overcome by OlucK. damp and were saved with gt eat difficulty Highly Important. New Yohk. March 0. The American Chess Association has debarred James Grundy und suspended Preston Ware for one year; cause, alleged fraudulent coiiu slon. 4 A Daetardljr Deed. Milwal'Kib. March 6. Lato to-night when August Feiger and his betrothed were passing the Luke Shore 1'arK, tney were assaulted bv .our unknown men who felled Feicer and dragged his com panion under a railway trestlework. Fei ger heard her screams us he ran for as sistance, but tier cries were soon nusiieu. Search by the polico failed to discover the girl, and it is thought thut she wus outraged and thrown into the lake over the breakwater. Journalistic. Piiiliiokm'IIIA. March 0. Edward Mc Pherson, editor of the I'rm, has been suc ceeded by Charles L. Smith, of the Al- bmy Evening Journal. Enforcing a Sunduy Law In Covington Covinoton, Ky., March 7. Much sensa tion was caused bv the universal observ ance of the Sunday law. There has been considerable agitation for some time past in the form of public meetings to entorce the law specially against suloonkeepers, and committees were appointed to rigidly prosecute all offender. Tho saloon keepers resolved to close their saloons to. day and dovote the day to gathering in formation against everybody who per formed common labor, and to-morrow thev will issue warrants for the arrest of such persons. Every place in Covington was closed except drug stores, and they sold only on prescriptions. The names of carriage drivers who brought people to church, and in some instances even min isters and onanists were written down for arrests. Street cars were running un der the provisions of the luw passed only ye-ferday exempting them from the pen allies of ihu Sundav law. i FOREIGN. Urbat on the Urriuan Army lilll. Buui.iN, March 2. In the debate which followed the introduction of tho German army bill in the roichstag, llerr Bichter thanked thanked General C.imenk for his dual statement. Ha said that it showed that tho views entertained in some quarters relative to tho relations of Germany und Kustua were unfounded. llerr Bidder, as a compensation for the increased burdens imposed by tho bill, firo posed a reduction of the period of mil iary service. He said: All our neighbors ure moro or less safe from an attack in tho rear and need only to present a front on ono side. They have stationed a con siderable portion of their land forces close to our borders. Gur regiments are dis tributed equally over the whole country. Since the conclusion of tho Turkish war Uussia bus considerably extended her military establishment, nnd France bus doubled her iiruiv. Meanwhile wo have kept our troops within t lie proportion of 1 per cent, ol our population, franco has an army of 4:7,Xk) men, while Germany nis only 4HI,'HMI soldiers. The peace strength of Knssia is twice as great as ours, j tie full term of service in Kussiu is I I and in France 20 years. In Germany it is only 12 years. Tho degree iu which our army is behind others can only be made up for by activity. lean only sin cerely deplore that iron necessity im pose a fresh sacrifice on the German nation. Wo must preserve and uphold peace abroad, even so far as our stren 'Ui ullows. We shall perhaps not stand alone in that position. In this there is no threat, but a guarantee for peace. With weak lorces this end cannot be attained ner.il Von Moltke's speech wus re- oived with prolonged cbeciing. Herr vichensperger, of the centre party, op pose I tho bill on the ground that tiie people's burdens were already sufficiently oppressive, ir, however, the measure was absolutely necessary, he hoped a two ear s term ol service would bo adopted, llerr Von Beuuincsen, who said he spoke in the name of an overwhelming minority of national liberals, npnroved tho bill In its essentials, but recommended that it be referred to u committee. The necesssty of preventing any vacillation in the military organization, had in 1874 imposed on the reichslag tho duty of re nouncing tho light of annually sanction ing the military budget, and ut present, when no solid majority existed, it was more imperative than iu LS74 to proceed in the course then adopted. 1 lie growth of tho rreni h armaments and piusluvistic agitation in Uussia ren ler the greatest caution indisnensable. 'riniv Bismarck's action last vear reuurdi ing Austria, formed an unf.uliinr leaf iu his glorious crown of laurels. Every party ippuomea me Austrian alliance, llerr tuhleropDosed the bill: llerr Treitschk. social democrat, spoke in support of tho measure, declaring that all party considt erutiou uiusi be ignored for it. MellkofT. Auallnnt. Sr. pKTKKsiin:,;, March 4. The man who shot at MelikoU' is a semi-idiotic terson who was pi-olttthly a tool in the bands of nihilist. Ho seemed to bo half drunk when arrested. The MrllkolT Auault. The assassin attempted to fire a second shot at General Melikotf before he was seized, but was prevented by a blow from the guard. The city is agtin illuminated. Quirk Proceeding. A converted Jew named Moedstky,who fired on Geucral Melikotf yesterday, has been tried and teutenced to be beheaded to-morrow. Kvery Point Guarded. St. ri.-rr.KTBi iki, March 4 Extraordin precajtions were taken on the anniver sary of the Cmr's accession lo preserve order. Every possible poiut of vantage m as guarded against explosion or conspiracy. e.eral Mellkoff Threatened. Vibkma March 4.-Generul MelikotT has belrMiuimoned by the eommiltee to abandon his post " preme executive of the commission w ithin " Modetsky snid at his trial that General Melikoff would be killed by some of his comrades, although his own attempt had failed, and that a second and ir necessary a third attempt would be made. The tluulan Celebration. BeDorts from the interior describe fes tivities and rejoicing as general. Inere were fetes on a grand scale ut .Moscow, Chakoff, Bigaand Tiflis und other large towns. There were no disturbances. The Ilartman Caae. A Puria rllanot,.!! anVH tllllt tllC FrCllcil cabinet are divided on the q'je"1,'0" ,of surrendering uartman. mc ." announces Unit a petition lo the chambers against the extradition ol uarimau is no ing prepared. Mrllie In England. Ijwrinv March 4. At Ashton-under Tyne 1000 cotton weavers have struck in consequence of tho refusal of employers to grant an advance of 5 per cent, on wages, which spinners recently ooinmcu. Emigration from England to America. Vmiariiiion from Oueenstown to Amer ica is stated to be increasing rapidly The rural classes are flocking thither, Large remittances from American friends have been received. An unusual rush to America is expected nhout Easter. Tht Mansion Ilouee lie lef Fund. Dr uu N, Slarch 4. The Mansion House relief fund to date amounts to Si,iwd. Terr ble Destitution. Lonpon, March 4. A correspondent on board the government steamer iiosnawg renorts that the inhabitants of Inneshark, county Mayo, Ireland, ate in a terrible state of destitution The Irish Relief Fund. In the house of lords the Irish relief bill passed through committee without amendment. PACIFIC COAST. Flood Belle his lUluIng Interest San riiANtisco. March 2. For several days rumors have been in circulation of a transfer of individual interests between the members of the bonanza firm. This evening it is ascertained on authority of J. W. Mackay, that he has purchased from J. 0. Flood the entire interest of the latter in the mining end milling properties of the firm on the Comstock. Mr. Mackay declines to make a definite statement as to tho amount of consideration, but leaves is to be inferred that it Is in excess of So,o00,0i)0. .Mr. Mackay evidently has faith in the future of the Comstock, as he states in Ins opinion its brightest day is yet to bo seen. Mr, Flood will devote his attention in the future to his banking interests and to the improvement of his an Mateo property. Continuation of the Pacflc Mall Sell-Oiit The private secretary of Leland Stunt ford, president of the Central Pacillc Kail road Company, and of the Occidental anil Oriental Steamship Company, confirms the report that, tho raei tic Mail gives up its China line to the Union und Central Pacific railroad, including the steamers City of Peking and City of Tokio. Kear ley Excluded from the sjtltol Sackamknto, March 3 In the assembly to-duv. after long debute, it number of attempts at amendment nnd postpone ment, a resolution excluding Penis Kear ney from the chamber, and all portions of the building under tho control of tho assembly, was curried by 40 to 28. A MessmentM. San FitAxclsoo, March 4. Julia 50 cents per share; Helvidere, 50 cents. San Frenelsro to have a Sand Lot Charier. Tho election commissioners to dav ap pointed March liOih as the day for a spec ial election for fifteen freeholders to frame :i charter for Sun Francisco. Registration begins to-morrow und ends on the 15th. iving citizens nine days to register. Hold Outrages by Robber. Ax.iiiKiM, March 4. Last Friday nicht A. W. Steinhart, cashier of the bankini! house of IUvid and Brother of this place, was stoppe 1 when going home bv three masked men, who bound and conveyed biin to n vinevurd to a remote part of the town, where three otber masked men were, and with threats attempted to cot tho combination of the vault from him. He repeatedly toll them that he did not have it; but they kept him there until 2 o clock Saturday morning und then let him go. They did him no personal harm. He went home and did not report the ullair until next morning. Last night at ahout o clock seven masked men lode up to the store of li. L. Crodes and bound the proprietor and liye men who .were lounging in the ftore. One of the men offered resistance and was knocked cown with a revolver bv one of tho robbers. They cot nbout four hun dred dollars in cash. Nothing was said about the ullair until this moraine, when it was too late to get any clue to the per petrators. Trial of the Mtmloclno Robber. Ukiah. March 4 Tho trial of II. K. Wown opened !y the introduction of Dr. Smith, of Mendocino Oily, who attended upon Wright who wus killed bv outlaws. Ho testified that he came to his 'death from tho ellects of gunshot wounds. Sam Ca rr was introduced us a witness for the state, and on motion of the district uttorney the indictment uirainst hire was dismissed. Ho reluted the connection of himself. i a- t .. I . ' uuuuiz, iirowu unit i Heeler, stating that they were called by W heeler by a letter to come to big river or Mendocino City ior iue purpose oi working a claim worth ubout fifteen thousand dollars. They were at. Bodie ut that time. Gauntz, Carr una minings an arrived at Uigriveron the same nay. tneyjiiad several conversa tions with Wheeler ut a Ktint called the Picnic Grounds at that place, nd a plan was disclosed of rohoery. Tax Collector vt neeicr lurnished guns, ammunition camp equipaire, etc. On the morning of me ioiii oi ucioner tnev were camped about four miles from fc'i river. After breakfast they packed up and removed from tho camp tire about ten or fifteen steps to a redwood In--, partly burned, be hind wliiih they accreted' themselves. About 9 o'clock they heard a party ap proaching, and when at the camp iire one of the possee stooped down to determine whether a tire had been made there that morning. At that time Lrown, who was recogomzed at the leader, gave the word to firu. Eleven shots were fired, four bv Gauntz, four by Urown and three by Pif lings. They killed one man and wounded another They left camp, and through dense brush made their wav towards Lourtnghta cabin, on Ten Mile river, where Carr gave out and sat down. This was the last he saw of the party until they were brought in here by officers. Chinese Wanted. , Sax Faso.co, March 5. The following is a copy of a telegram received here to day by William F. Dabcbct, president ai the chamber of commerce: 01 I ew Orleans, March j To William F. JJabcoek, J,id," of l Chamber of Commerce. San Francitcw bor can be had in sugar cotton u,.!t j' fields of Louisiana for lurge number Chinese. We surest if I rutmnri...... 1 I i . rr -v, union i. being furnished to get them out of a Francisco, thut they be sent to Xew o, irtllin. VIKLH XiLs&KV President of the Chamber of Commerce Wjl. CLNNIvrm,,, ' t........ f...... , President New Orleans Cotton Fxchan I tin Briiiiriiiru Bik-miia lue teh'ffra,. .tiu i..i ...r;.,,. .. ...i.. . . 'in UMimu..; ........ ...p r, 11111,1 prehension that S.iu Francisco is i.i viti the exnenses of these Ciiiuesn ,.;..'..' . .. . . - V,"'S'UUU uiciae oi a incairicai manager h. G. Cotton, a well known theatrical manager, suicided at Alameda last ni"ht in a vacant lot with a revolver, shootLr himself in the brain. The body was n0 discovered until to day. He left tt lt. to his wife saving that money matter ruuseo mo mi. muni louoey was him, which he could not collect and m, his debts, and rather than he a defaulter he killed himself. He lately organized i troupe that went through the intrm. which was unsuccessful and depressed' mm. no iirjucj naaiuuuu on 1118 pet. soil. Declelon lu a Mine Caw. The trial of the case of the North Xoo0. day Mining Company vs. the Orient Mining Company, which has occupied the United States circuit court since the loth ult., has been concluded. The case wai given to the jury yesterday (. .afternoon and they cume into court ibis morning with a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and assess the damage at $1. The action was to recover $5000 damages for ore re moved from plaiutiffs ground. Aweiament. The Beat Delmonte mine has been assessed ou cents, ueiiuquent April 10th Froxen to Death. Truckek. Marcli 5. Truman Griffith was found jrozen to ueutn about half mile from this place tuis evening. De- ceased was the owner or a small farm near Campbells' hot spilngs, Lake Tahoe. He started from the Lake Wednesday aiieruooiij u severe uo oniuii prevailed and his liorse became exhausted, was found dead ubout a mile back Griffith's, frozen. Griffith started town and losing his road became exlmas- crawled lOOyards on bis hands anJ knees. Deceased was the putative hut band ot an auunuoneu woman name. Jenny Stanley, who was found fioien t death in a brothel here two months sine? A Chinese Hotel. Hotels vary in China, and one or two in Manchuria have an air of spucion dignity about them, ami rooms that tt bright and lairly Kept; and some at. worse than that we entered now, for it aro on a high road where foreigners art becoming frequent. At tho upper enJ there was a small building for supenoi guests. It was divided into three com partuients, with earthen floors; the eai ing den had a broken table and a broki chair; the other two were for sleepinj: and a lump cast a dim light into the dark ness a tiny wick that floated in a sea i oil in an iron saucer crusted with the Jit of centuries. A meal under such circum stances was not exhilerating. The bet we bad carnod with us was so manure lated in the cookiug that it looked exact ly liko a dish of caterpillars; there tra; egg plant stewed in pork broth but pif and dogs are thfi scavengers of China there was seasoning of sea-slugs (a three shillings a pound) and of otht condiments that were spread at an ojh window in reach of tho cook s brum arm; there were messes iu bowls", ballsi soft cakes liko putty from a glazier J shop, and there was musty rice. TL trusty Li changed tho nneaten coiir with evident concern, und at last carr in triumph hot water for the tea, I against tho bowls which he suggested. tea-cups, lip, nose and stomach revolts and we withdrew to bod, cold and perless, liko naughty children. Tlio ma: trass was stretched upon tho hollo brick counter which served as a be stead, and underneath which we fori the usual tire, afraid of what the b might bring forth. We shivered throng the early hours of the night with our fe' to the baro, repulsive wall, and our kea to the passage . In the dull light seemed as if hideous things crept alon the ceiling, sliming things crept aloe the walls, and crawling things gnaw among the paper and straw ou the floor and as wo dozed and watched, the null' munched outside and, and the porte: talked, and tho querulous soug of son gayer spirit rose above tho other voice-, lucre was a patter of little feet, a squeal. a rat, more rats. They sometimes . down through tho thin ceiling, a fries said. e could stand it no longer. U Hall of ten thousand Felicities" h- become a "Temple of Horrors;" anJ r the third wutcu of the night we had tat' to tlio road once more, and saw, ucii tho frosty stars, the lamps of other cm as they sparkled over the plain. w words. TntxED Him Oct Bkcacse He Kim the Cook. Tho troubles in connect!' with Kev. Mr. Haferman kissing hisco I have already been described in the Sv ihe reverend gentleman is the pastor St. Mathias's Church, in Hobokcn, ' his flock embraces most of the wcalt l and respectable Germans of the pi1 Mr. Haferman 's excuse for kissing 1 1 cook was that he did it purely out o! desire to turn her from evil ways 1 1 companions, and that the kiss was onlj I fatherly one. The trustees of the cunr thonirht iliffomntli- on.l tov lwrame I palled at the idea of their pastor har': mssea a cook, iiio female nieniien the amtoeratio flock were especially ' dignant, and it was voted that the R llafcrman should lie sent from am0 them. A meeting of the trustees oi t church was held on Friday night at t house of Mr. Moller, and Mr. Hafertt was present. The matter was fully i cussed whether Haferman kissed t cook, if she objected, and whether it a paternal Kiss, a paroxysmal kiss, i tornal kiss, a pastoral kiss, or anv ott kiss. The trustees, after mature delib ation, decided, that it would not lqD the correct thine to have a cook Vi-- $ 1000-a-year pastor, and they dec to dispense wiUi Mr. Haferman s si n As the time to procure another proad was so brief, thev decided to keep H church closed on yesterday, and let 1 j uwa seea spiritual consolation m places of worshio.fXew York S Feb. 2J. t