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negroes present attempted to mob the man, but
caught an unufending German instead and
would have killed him but for the interference
of the police The negroes followed the police
| to the station house throwing stones and be-
having in very disorderly manner.
It is denied at the Treasury Department
that the 40 bonds in circulation. aud alleged
TO be spurious, amount in the aggregate to a
million Of dollars. The entire amount thus far
brought TO light will not exceed, il is said one
! hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars
| OF these the Treasury Department received
eighty thousand dollars but has since returned
the bonds to the parties who had sent them to
/ Washington.
The Republicans opposed to the Hunnicutt
ticket" attemptedto hold meeting in Richmond
| on Friday night. but the Radicals assembled III
such numbers that the milder party were over
awed. and a number of the Hunnicutt parti-
zaus took . possession of the stand and delivered
violent Radical addresses H. the crowd. They
were followed 10y several Radical Congressman
of the Committee on Southern Railroads,
whose speeches were also Of an infammatory
character.
A negro riot occurred in the Pickens Dittrict
of South Carolina, Saturday before last, near
| Perrysvile A number of armed negroes, in
pursuit Of white man named Smith, whom
! they alleged had iuterfered with a meeting Of
| the LOYAL League, attacked debating society
of young white men which was holding q
meeting in the place, fired on them, and killed
one of the members, named Hunnicutt. The
/ others escaped without serious injuris.o
A "loyal Bureaucrat, in Franklin County,
/ Virginia, recently prohibited q candidate for
the Convent n from running, on the ground
! that he was a Conservative Rebel and in
formed Gen. Schofeld Of the circumstance
The General replied, ordering him to revoke
the order immediately
CoyFIsCATED PRoPERTY.-It is stated that
Hon Caleb Cushing and Hon. Richard Merrick
are engaged in preparing some cases looking
toward the restoration TO its former owners of
all the property sold in this District under the
confscation law. Some of these cases are to be
taken up to the Supreme Court of the United
States on a writ of error, under the plea that
! Congress had no power to extend admiralty
jurisdiction over cases that were in reality rev
enue cases. and so demanded the iuterposition
Of Hash. Star, Oct. q.
A German newspaper says; 1.-TWO years
ago Mr.. Christian Segemayer became father 10
his fftv-eighth child. His first wife gave birth
to twenty-three. Of which six were twins and
eleven single born children. OF these fifty
eight Children twenty-eight are living, all being
daughters, and the man has never been sick,
and enjoys good health, as do his children
TIE ONO ELECTIoX.-Ge General Hayes ma
iority for Governor of Ohio is g, 25S-all but
eigbt counties official. The counties of Harden
and Van Vert return tie vote. Knox gives
3 and Washington majority for Hayes; High
! land / and Madison Is for Thurman. The
vote is the heaviest ever cast in the State.
The vote for Convention in Louisiana was
seveuty-fve thousand and eighty three. The
vote cast against Convention was four thou
sand and six. Special orders have been issued
by the military authorities, notifying the dele
gates elected to the Convention to assemble al
Institute Hall, New Orleans, on Saturday, No
vember the 28d,
One of the most extensive robberies ever
committed in St. Louis occurred there on sun
day night. The wholesale iewelry store Of
Meyer & Lope was entered, aud from ten tC
ff,sen tborsand dpllars' worth of watches aad
jewe.ry stolen.
The new Harlem railroad bridge, which has
been building for some SIX or seven years past
at cost oil nearly hi.I'yu oI J1.'I.'' 3 was
week. with appropriate municipal ceremonies
This brdgeis the connecting link between New
/ York and NeStChester County.
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u sell of their live $40 k, owing to the prcma-
ture exhaustion of the grass crop
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Ihi!adg' PIMA Inquirer say Jun. o', ''', $50
be Kept III jan t.' alI'I C,"1I''S '''1''S' "'''
application VIII De maze '"I '' e'"C ''i''.. %
a law u transfer "inn U s'"'o "'ij''Y''1 ,.",'
some lu,al State To try him here, as it is nnpos-
sib.e to obtain an impartial and unprecedented
Jury in Washington.
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q somewhat prominent io'uc'aH 'u '"' ".' '.'
ern part ct the State, was run over 0y traiu
near valley rai.s on FRIDAY ana killed. MS "ouy
beng "2rr'.y m9ngied. opecu'S9uo9iS, are r.''
persop unknown and his body thrown upon
the track.