The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-27
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SIX prisoners escaped from fail at North
ampton, Mass, on Tuesdoy evening. H.Ig
Judge B. w. Bonney, Of the Supreme Court
ofNew York, died on the 18th, aged 50.
Reverdy johnson, American Minister TO
England, arrived in London on the. 18th.
The Chinese Embassy spent Wednesday
night in Worcester, Masss and were treated
with great consideration.
The number of deaths in. Brooklyn last
week was 260, including 80 from cholera in
fantum.
The order Of Red Men met in Philadelphia
on the 18th. Delegates we're present from
Gen. John A. Rollins ia sick in Washington.
He was attacked with hemorrhage OF the
lungs on the 18th. ..... ....r
There is another rumor that the Fenians
are assembling near 0gdensburg with a view
to another raid upon Canada.
The number of deaths in New York for the
week ending the 18th was CAB, one hundred
loss than last week.
man named Rafferty, was run over and
killed by a railroad train in East Cambridge,
Mass, Saturday night. .
In Coucordia, N. H., on Sunday, @. w.
Roberts, charged with bigamy, committed
suicide by hanging himself.
J. A. Brigham, late Deputy Collector of
Richmond, Va, attempted suicide, caused by
disappointment in not being reinstated.
Il il reported that Mr.. Cobalt, connected
with an non establishment in Philadelphia,
had proved a defaulter to the amount OF $780,
600.
Mrs. Trumbull, wife OF the Senator from
Illinois, died in Washington on the 10th.
Her remains will be taken to Springfield for
interment. rrr C
J. NJ. Humphrey, Collector Of the port Of
Richmond, and member Of the City Council,
was removed from the latter position by mill
tary authority on the 18th
Captain Dennis was found in Chowan Riy-
or. last Thursday, with his throat cut and his
vessel in a neighboring creek. He had been
robbed of 81 900 and murdered.
Revs. AIessrs. Parmalee, Pierce, Smell,
Wheeler. and other missionaries, destined
for tho East indies, sailed from New York on
the 18th in the steamship Erin for Liverpool.
VIM. Tapley started to walk IA miles in two
hours, at Wilkosbarre, Pa, Sunday. He
walked eight miles in one hour and four min
utes, and was released from his engagement.
The next annual Unitarian Conference
will be held in New York city October 9th.
The best methods for christianizing the
masses viii principally occupy the attention
Of the conference.
The cattle disease has appeared at Dun
das, Canada, and is supposed TO have been
introduced by cattle conveyed through on the
railroad. Measures win be taken to prevent
its spread.
The annual convention Of the Diocese Of
Western New York was opened in st. PauPs
Church, Buffalo, Wednesday morning, Judge
Cox presiding. There were l2i clergymen
present.
A great meeting Of tho English tory party
was held at the Crystal Palace, London, Mon
day evening. Resolutions were adopted eN-
pressing in general terms the determination
OF the party 10 support the Church and the
Constitution.
A negro has been committed Tor trial for
rape upon a white child in Hudson, N. J. A
mob tried to obtain possession OF the fond,
but finally loft him at the jail in charge OF
the authorities.
Tho Chinese Embassy visited Buffalo on
the 18th, and wcro shown about the city. In
passing over an old wharf a plank broke and
precipitated Sun-Ta-Fu into the water. He
was rescued by a sailor.
Tho conservation Of Rev. Thomas A. Beck
or, as Roman Catholic Bishop of the now Sec
of Wilmington, and Rev. james Gibbons 81
Vicar Apostolic Of North Carolina, took place
in the cathedral in Baltimore on the 10th.
The Toronto Globe processes to have posi-
tive information that extensive preparations
arc making on the American side for n j enian
raid. 1t also states that furloughs have been
withdrawn from regular officers and the
forces in garrison have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness at q moments notice.
A Yalkings match between Weston and
Young Payne, the Albany pedestrian, takes
place in Rensselaer, Park, Albany, N. Y, on
Friday and Saturday. The Park oilers a
purse of 81, 900 to the one who first accom-
plishes 100 miles, provided 1t is done within
"a hours.
Several Of the New York bricklaycrs have
been arrested by the master masons IN order
to test the law against strikers. A meeting
Of master employers was held Tuesday, haV-
ing for It's object the expression OF sympathy
and n desire to cooperate with master masons
in the contest with their former employees.
Plans to dcfraud the Government ont of the
whiskey tax have been discovered at the Rev
enue Bureau, by using false heads to whiskey
barrels, which can be removed with the stamp
uncanceled, and the barrels re-filled with
whiskey. The heads, with stamps and marks,
can be used in this way repeatedly with only
one payment OF tax.
The railroad bridge across the Mississippi
ut Burlington is completed, thus connecting
tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
with tn Burlington and Missouri River Rail-
road. The first train passed over the bridge
Saturday.
Norman Fruite has sued the ST. Louis Dem
ocrat for libel in connection with an article
recently published in that paper about a suit
brought against Fruite by Miss Millie john
son, of L~eavenworth, Kansas, for breach Of
promise. Fruite claims s30O,OOO damages.
On the evening of the 18th a collision oc-
Cured on the Oh Creek and Allegheny River
Railroad between a freight and construction
train, resulting in the death Of G.. W. Mar,
shall, James Holt, Michael Elliott and Michael
Porter, and the %wOunding OF thirteen others.
The following-namod additional paymasters
Of the army have been mustered out and
honorably discharged on account Of their
services being no longer required; Rroyct
Lieutenant Col. Thos, II. Gardner, Brevet
Lieutenant Col. W. s. Holt, and Brcvet Lieu
tenant Colonel II. p. Woicott.
VIM. Rooney, and n gang Of rowdies, as
saulted a picnic party on Thursday afternoon,
at Staten Island. While ondeayoring to de-
fond themselves from the roughs, two men
were shot, one In the forehead and another
in the arm and mock, by Rooney. The latter
was arrested and held Tor trial.
Three carloads Of lumber in t%ransitu, on
the Chicago and Alton road, were burned at
Alton early Saturday morning, The cars and
their contents were totally destroyed: Loss
$1,000. The fire is supposed to be the work
Of an ineendiary. The lumber belonged TO
Mr.. Ritter, Of EdwOrdsville, Ill.
The democrats of Clinton Co., Ind, had a
rally at Frankfort on Thursday night, and du'
ring the speaking some one threw a stone in
to the crowd, which struck Mrs. John Rama
on the temple, injuring her 80 severely that
she died the next morning, The perpetrator
OF the crime was not discovered.
A young man named Hardin Burton, living
at Georgia, Lawrence Co., Ind, was assassi-
mated Thursday evening by VIM. II. Burton,
a cousin, on account Of jealousy, The muir
derer escaped, but the citizens, at last ac-
counts, had turned out in force, and the
probability was that il Burton was caught
they would lynch him.
At a meeting of the master masons of New
York on the 18th, Mr.. Conoyer stated that he
had been threatened with assassination, II
these threats should be carried out the result
would be the abolition Of every trades union
in the United States. The general express
sion Of feeling was in q firm understanding
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