The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-09-27
GENERAL NEUS.

Brazil and the United States.
Charles S. Gilmore, Esq, prominos.
citizen of Baltimore, died on Fri
! last.
The election in Montana Territorv ~
the 18th inst. has resulted in Democra.;
victory by majority of 1000.
The local elections in California ba,..
resulted in immense majorities for d,
Democratic and Conservative tickets
The Hartford Times says that ~
barns, for miles around that city ~
stuffed with tobacco, worth more tbar
a million of dollars.
The crop of apples in New York m.
season will be an average one, all renor,.
Of spectators to the contrary notvitb
standing.
\ call has been issued for meeting
the Virginia State Agricultural Societ,.
and of the farmers generally, at r.;
m ond, on the Goth of November.
\ heavy fire recently occurred at
Burning Spring, in the West Niraihio
ell region. -Four or five wells woe
stroyed, and three persons burned ia
death.
The Washington Repabtiean. Of satur.
day says: " We are happy to learn thai
the health of the Secretary of Stateeo
tinues 10 improve, and that he vii
probably be able soon to attend 70 Ii.
official duties.'
There was q frost in some of tie low
lauds throughout Illinois and adjoining
States recently, doing considerable
damage to vegetation. At Cleveland
ohio, there was a heavy White frost that
night.
1t is reported that the freedmen Of
Ameliaeounty, Virginia, held Il meeting
day or two since, and resolved 10 work
no more for the whites also thai they
would eountenanee no one who did.
4 spondent writing from Charlie
ton, S. G., says: There are six thous,
and eases of break-bone fever.here.
whole families and schools being pros
trated. It's Of Il very mild type, and
net regarded as dangerous.
! despatch from Washington T. tn
Philadelphia Ledger says: "The III
vestigatien thus far made into the re-
ported sale of negroes into slavery, in
Clark county, Alabama, goes to show
that the statement was without foan-
dation.
& shocking and mysterious murder
was committed in Philadelphia on the
10Th inst. An old lady, named Miller,
was found in her house with her throat
cut. The object of the murder Is I'M
discovered, as no robbery was di
covered.
The South Carolina Legislature adj
journed on Friday night last, after pass
ing Il law permitting negroes to enjoy
the protection of all laws as to person
and property equally with the whites,
and to suffer like punishments for Of
fences committed.
\ Washington despatch says that
Gen. Grant denies the report circulated
BY the Radicals that he expressed any
preferences concerning the vote in Penn
sylvania, and regrets that his name
should be mixed up with local politics
It says that the General is a warm sup
porter of the Presidents policy.
The e9uinoctiaI storm of last week
caused 4 great amount of damage
throughout the West. Railroad bridges
and tracks We're washed away. 20,000,o0o
bushels OF corn was destroyed in the
Miami Ohio valley alone. At Dayton
the destruction of property was immense
the levee being washed away, and parts
u the city ten feet under water.
SADNESS or lieMoRIsTs.-One Of the
anomalies OF literary history is that il
has been the lot of those men who have
contributed largely to the mirth or recre-