LATER AMERICAN NEWS.

Marlborough Press, Volume XI, Issue 695, 11 May 1870, Page 2

LATER AMERICAN NEWS.

New York, Februarv 20. Correspondence from Salt Lake City "shows that the passage of the Act to give women suffrage in Utah was the work of botli Mormons and Gentiles ; the Legislature being Mormon and the Governor Gentile. The two parties •entertain different views of the way in which it will work.

Washington, February 22. The Indian Commission announce that they have.the sickening details of Colonel Baker’s attack on the Peyans in Montana, January 23rd. Of 173 killed, only 15 were fighting men ; 90 were women over 40 years of age. There were 50 children under 12 3 7 ears of age, many of whom were killed in their parents’ arms. The whole village had been suffering two months with smallpox, and a half dozen were dying daily. Mr Phillips, United States Consul at Santiago de Cuba, writes on February 3 that political affairs in Cuba are deplorable. It is estimated that 50 per cent, of the Spanish volunteers are disabled from sickness, and the hospitals are full to overflowing. It is generally known and admitted by liberal-minded Spanish officers that it is impossible to suppress the insurrection. Chicago, February 20. At Beardstown, Illinois, on the 17th Feb., a desperate character named Wilcox, was beating a drunken man in a saloon, when the proprietor of the saloon interfered. Wilcox drew a revolver and fired, killing one of the proprietors and mortally w r ounding the other. The murderer

•was taken from gaol on Friday night by the friends of the murdered men, who gathered quietly and eapturedthe sheriff. They took the keys of the gaol for the purpose of taking Wilcox out to hang him. He showed fight, having ■obtained an iron bar, when they shot and killed Kim. They took the body out and hung it to a tree. Sydney, Neb., February 21. A band of Indians, about thirty in number, attacked Moore’s section men at 10 a.m. to-day, at their station-house, six miles east, of Antelope station, on the Union Pacific Railroad. The men drove them off, and started to Potter station on a hand-car to report, when a running fight took place, during which one Indian was seen to drop from his horse, and the men feel certain that he was killed. Indianapolis, February 22. The Republican State Convention met here this evening. The resolutions adopted congratulate tliq country on the restoration of law and order in the Southern States, and the return of peace and fraternal feeling ; declare that the national debt must be paid in accordance with the letter and spirit of the laws under which it was contracted ; and denounce any attempt at repudiation. The following is taken from the Evening Bulletin of the 23rd February :—“ Among the numerous outrages and cowardly assaults on Chinamen yesterday, the one which occurred on New Montgomery-street threatened to be attended with most serious consequences. A crowd had attacked a Chinaman, and a gentleman named Flood interfered to protect him, when he. was himself attacked by over a hundred men and boys. He tried to escape, but was knocked down, kicked, and terribly beaten with cluhs and stones. At last he got clear, and ran towards the military companies which were drawn up for review on the square near Market-street. His appearance was that of a man beaten nearly to death. His face and head were cut, and his garments were wet with the blood streaming from his wounds. He ran towards the Wolfe Tone Guards, followed by scoundrels who would have torn him limb from limb The soldiers admitted him between their ranks, and yet the scowling mob pressed down on the fugitive’s track The ■commander of the company, with commendable spirit, ordered his men to the position of ‘ charge bayonets,’ and like a flash the gleaming weapons came down. The rioters did not like the threatened contact of cold steel, and stopped, giving Flood a chance to get away.”

The Southern Cross says :—“ We believe "September is the best month for sowing flax seed. Boiling water should be poured upon the seed before it is planted, and it should be allowed to soak for twenty-four hours. This softens the hard skin of the seed, and greatly facilitates its germination. Flax seed does not require deep cultivation, but may he sown broadcast and har-rowed-in. If treated in the method described, the plants will make their apperance in about a month’s time, and may be transplanted. The after-growth, however, is very slow, and if any person is desirous of cultivating flax on a large acale, we would advise them to use roots. These may he obtained by digging up native flax bushes, and dividing the roots into from 20 to 40 pieces. Three roots should he planted together, and covergd up very lightly. A distance of about •(> feet between each plant, and 8 feet between ■the rows, will lie found to answer best for cutting and carting. Considerable improvement in the quantity and quality , of the fibre, however, results from cultivation ; no plant, probably, varies more than phormium tenax, according to the nature of the ground on which it is planted.” Maravilla Cocoa. For Breakfast. The Globe says : —“ Various importers and manufacturers have attempted to attain a reputation for their prepared Cocoas, but we doubt whether an}' thorough success had been achieved until Messrs Taylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary qualities of ‘ Maraviiia’ Cocoa. Adapting their perfect system of preparation to this flnest of all species of the Theobroma, they have produced an article which supersedes every other -Cocoa in the market. Entire solubility, a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest elements of nutrition, distinguish the Maraviiia Cocoa above all others. For homoeopaths and invalids we could not recommend a more agreeable or valuable beverage.” Sold in packets only by all Grocers, of whom also may be had Taylor Brothers’ Original Homoeopathic Cocoa imd Soluble Chocolate. Steam Mills—Brick Bane, London.—Advt. ( Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Sore Throats, Diptheria, and Bronchitis —These medicaments boldly face the evils they profess to remedy. Local relief and general purification progress together ; disease is cured, while the whole system is cleansed. Holloway’s Ointment rubbed on the throat and chest exercise the most beneficial influence over sore throats, diptheria, and cough, whether- resulting from catarrh, asthma, or bronchitis. This nngent acts miraculously in arresting the extensions of sores, healing ulcerations, curing skin diseases, and com pletely stopping all destructive inflammation, irrespective of its exciting cause, character, situation, duration, or severity. Holloway’s Ointment, aided by lus Pills, gives most immediate and most marked relief to those irritating itchings and painful swellings of the shins occasioned by mercury or latent syphilitic virus.— Advt.