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,7v,rrp TERw.-Ee'o York, July
'f,. ~ 20 midnight nearly 100 cases of
~. have been reported in the past
,.os'r"Ss, ,,r honrs ut police headquarters.
'-'o ,;,T an unusually large proportion ter
MAZE" ,fgu July l5.-The weather is
rag, The thermometer averaged rs
r'.S"j hiring the day. 1t has now fallen
q ~. ,.,,,,s;c, July l5.-The thermometer
'- @i % degrees There were hume
It's, ~. # supstroke, very few Of which
T"'' r,.al. Laborcrs are renerH'iy sus
'',G -. ,r'. work on account Of the extreme
l24S 4..,ore July l5.-Eight cases of sun
D -. arc reverted here yesterday none
., The thermometer reached LOG de-
'.'a.' ZIP. NJ. yesterday. At the Amera-
ICES =, at y o'clock to-day the thermo-
T n.,}<sfcr y. I, July l5.-There were
'.'n aosos Of sunstroke in this city yester-
I'll 80, Of which proved fatal.
49,, ,hcrnometrical record gives but
lux u, ;.Ioo n the extent of the heat which
Y" r,rayoiIcd in this vicinity within the
- tsw davs-indccd, since and including
l.sqf II july. Each day seemed hotter
,,sn tho preceding, and the figures recorded
mo Guardians of thermometers bore ont
=. ;5ca that Yesterday was the most op-
-..,.yc dav we have experienced for years:
"a mortality records will tell fearful!
,.-.v for the week ending next Saturday.
,;,ce 1924 the average heat during the
,r,b Of July has been about eighty-seven
..rrees. in 1888, however, it averaged
..re,r-two degrees. The general heller
,.at August is hotter month than July Is
-, horne out by facts, as the average TEN
,,rqtnre during August since 1924 has not
t,.cedcd eigh;y-fve degrees. During many
ears the average temperature during Au-
,,.. was seventy-nine degrees.
Since 1925 the hottest days OF the year
t,re occurred in July and the latter END
=, 1uoe, The two hottest days experienced
,.,,~ ,ha, time were jane 80, 1855, and
,,,r N 1888. On each occasion the mer-
,,,rc rose 10 1903 degrees.
vi Tsc temperature Of July IA, during some
.,,ho hottest terms since lS45, has been
.. r0llOys: =,
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PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS. ASKED FOR.-SEALED
PROPOSALS will be received Ut the once or
the Clerk OF Hcnrico County Court until tho STU
DIY OF AUGUST at 10 o'clock for rebuilding ths
r,iien abutnent OF the bridge over Olmonds creek,
on the Osborne Turnpike road, the contractor TO
replace the woodwork and eayth.work ~ before
the destruction OF the bridge.
Proposals will be received at this same tinlc for
the construction OF culyert the present site
of the bridge.
specifications Of all may be seen ut the ofiee OF
said Clerk by calling for report OF Commissioner.
In both cases tho contractor viii take Into eon-
sidera,ion the value Of the old material.
Address JACOB b. ATLEE,
Commissioner Of Roads OF Henr!co County;
JULY Is lsca. ~ 1S-ta
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ATLANTA, Ga, July l6.-There was no
session of the Senate to-day. 1t is believed
the committee will report adversely to the
expulsion Of members.
When the House met this morning the
chairman of the Investigating Committee
reported satisfactory progress in its labors,
and said that he hoped to report tomorrow,
and believed the committee would be unani-
nous, and that the House would be able TO
take speedy and final action. 1t is doubt
full whether anybody will be expelled.
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A new monthly journal called The Prac-
titioner, edited by two eminent hospital
physicians and lecturers in London--vlz.,
DR.. F. Anslie and DR.. II. Lawson-has just
appeared. We notice it for the very plain
admission of the editors that while our
knowledge of the state of disease as well
as of the facts of healthy physiological life
has made great progress Of late years, the
science of healing has remained very nearly
where it was when Rousseau exclaimed,
" Laisses moi mourn, nais ne me tuespaS."
Doctors, it is admitted, know tolerably well
,chat it is they have to deal with, but do not
know anything like so well nowto deal with
it. TO the poor patient correct diagnosis
certainly is not by itself very consolatory,
and we can only hope The Practitioner will
fulfil its promise and raise to its proper
Importance what it very naively terms AN
uJusHy neglected but all-important branch
of medical science"
The attention of scientific men in Eu-
rope and this country has recently been
turned to the deodorizing properties of dry
earth. The result thus far has been the
announcement that as an agent for this pnr-
pose it takes no mean rank. Many heathen
tribes take advantage of this property OF
earth by burying their clothes for few
days when they have been unfortunate
enough to come in contact with the odor OF
the skunk or other nephitic animals.
Five of the Japanese who came to this
country are now students at the academy at
Monson, Massachusetts,. They find good
deal of difficulty in speaking English, but
have learned to read it with some facility,
and manifestly understand what they read.
they are fond of studying the Bible and
comparing Christianity with the philosophy
of Confucius, in which they are thoroughly
grounded.
Nine. Rachel, who promised to make
moor Mrs. Borradaile "beautiful forever,
has been fully committed for trial. Mrs.
Rorradaile insists that Lord Ranelagh is
tho nerson whom Nine. Rachel introduced
n her az her future husband, and LORD
Ranelagh admits having met Mrs. Bora
dale at Nine. Rachel's. Everybody is ask
inc why Lord Ranelagh was there, although
both parties acquit him OF any share IN tne
alleged conspiracy.
The Vernon Banner records the fact that
there is living in that county colored man
named Grigg Harper, who was born in Vir'
pinia in 1886, and is consequently one
hundred and twenty-five years of age. II
is a remarkable fact that the colored per-
son in question was not "Washlngton's
body-servant." -
Frank Leslie, the well-known magazine
publisher, on Tuesday commenced SUIT
for a divorce from his wife.
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AN EXCITED MOB THREATEN TO BURN
WOMAN FOR WITCH.-Our readers
will be startled to learn that the famous
old woman of Endor has daughter in La
Porte-a spiritual if not lineal daughter.
Very early on Monday morning the grounds
about certain dwelling on street, in An
drew's addition, presented o sccne which
made one think of Salem, Mass, as Salem
was in the year Of Grace 1852. a Mrs. D.,
who domiciles there, is reputed to be q
witch-a veritable sorceress-who, though
not positively known to have ridden through
o keyhole on a broomstick, is said to have
tried her damnable charms with fatal sue
cess on one Mrs. r., who tabernacles on o
farm O little south of the city. Mrs. 4. ID
afflicted with commissions, and believes
Mrs. D. to be the cause of her epilepsy.
She has been treated by several medicine
men, but without any benefit, except to the
doctors. Recently she has been awaiting
herself of the professional services OF g.
man from New Buffalo, who, to the double
business Of healer and preacher, adds that
of exorcist. This man insists that not long
apo Mrs. D. confessed to him that she was
the authoress of Mrs. RS sufferings,
having by her black and diabolical
arts bewitched her. He was here visit
ing his patient at the time mentioned
and about "gray dawn" or little
after, on Monday, went in company with
several others, as we understand it, to the
house of Mrs. D., for what precise purpose
we are not informed. In the course of the
confab Mrs. D., 1t appears, plumply denied
that she had ever made any confession to
the preacher doctor, and denounced him as
n liar, Exactly what followed we do not
Iaorn bat in the mean time an excited
crowd of probably two hundred gathered
about the house, the victim Of the sososry
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Foreign Markets.

LONDON, July 16. = Noon. - Consols,
94%@942l. United States bonds, Tx.
FRANKFORT, July l6.-United States
bonds, 1873.
PARIS, July 16.-Bourse quiet. Rentes,
70f. 37c.
LIVERPOOL, July 16.-Noon. - Cotton
dull; estimated sales, 5000 bales. Pork,
IFS. Bacon, ass. Other articles I'm
changed. Afternoon.- Cotton easier.
Breadstutfs dull. Corn, 36s. Cd. Sugar
steady.
LIVERPOOL, July l6.-Evening.-Cotton
heavy but unchanged.
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THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE.-Ihe trst
shock of an earthquake ever felt in this
State since it's settlement by whites visited
us last night, and stirred up things quite
lively. The first intimation of telluric
collie was very faint tremor of the earth
about $50 P. NJ, followed by another
little more distinct at ga. Twelve and
half minutes afterwards asevere shock was
felt. which caused buildings to rock and
creak, chandeliers to oscillate violently, ia
BILE lamps to dance, and excited people to
rush into the streets. At 9:27 another,
equally severe but of less duration,-a
short, sudden jump-up, as it were, OF the
whole surface of the earth-sent everybody
pell-mell into the streets-women and
children screaming, men running in
all directions, and dogs bowling piteously.
Two other light tremors were also felt. The
third shock was the longest and seVerest OF
all, lasting about three seconds, and was
violent and undefnable " shake" o sudden
to the northeast with kind of jerk, terri
BILE rumbling noise and quivering farewell.
The fourth was violent and noisy, and pro-
duced upon persons standing square upon
their heels on solid ground the same sensa-
ton as if standing upon floor when blow
is struck from beneath with heavy ham
mer. The shake was felt at Sacramento,
Washoe, Silver City, Gold Hill, Fort Church
i'll, and Austin, apparently running from
the southwest to the northeast, and so far
as heard from was felt along this belt about
four hundred miles. The shock was felt at
Carson at Gil and in Reno ut ga.
The greatest anxiety was felt, amid the
CONSERVATION, for the safety of the six or
seven hundred men "delving in the dingy
caverns of Mount Davidson" in the vari-
GUS mines along the Comstock. And yet
but few of them felt the shocks, and paid
but little attention to the peppering of the
loose earth around them. The pumps of
the new Ophir and Savage works stopped
working from the sudden jar but the tim
bers stood the shake, and not cave occur
red. The shock was quite heavy, and created
considerable CONSERVATION in the l200-foot
level of the Chollar Potosi. The men start
ed up the incline on the doublequick,
thinking an extensive cave had taken place
in some part of the mine, and they say
their sensations while ascending were indie
scribable; sometimes the incline itself
seemed to be rushing upward and some
times descending. Many of the mines
piped all hands on deck, but work was soon
resumed as usual. In the Cole tunnel,
from which large stream of water has.
been pouring for months, the volume was
increased sixteen cubic inches by the earth
quake, and has been steady all day at that
figure, coming out steaming hot, where be-
fore the water was cold. Not more than
a mile awayn' many exclaimed, abiding
to the "upper level' of the Internal re-
gions.- Virginia (Nevada) Tre$paSS, May
both,
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9, !" La Crosse, Wis, on the 4th, Rev. W.
n'hoAS completed hundred mile walk in
."en'y'ihree hours and thirty minutes, the
, ~.'Y%I walking time being nineteen hours
,"H 'otty-hYe minutes. He is to walk ! 100
--'''' inside Of twenty-five days.
,,: run returns Of the strawberry crop Of
'NeI4ho' New Jersey, as near as can be
@s''s s al the present season, make total
''o,2S3 quarts, or 1852 bushels,
~sS'lSt ',f45 bushels last season.
throwing watermelon rinds on the side
20" 10 lookup offence in Savannah. So
i ought TO be in Richmond.
York. ~-' ''o''o - 1'e"
So, 4iSe strict attention to your own affairs
~-' consider your wife one of them.
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The Heated Term.

WASHINGTON, July l6.-The heat is un-
abated, and there are no signs Of rain.
SAVANNAH, GA, July 16.-The weather
here is very hot-thermometer ninety-two
degrees in the shade.
AUGUSTA, Ga, July 16.-The heat here
is intense-thermometer 100 degrees in the
shade.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-In the hall OF
Congress to-day at noon the thermometer
stood at ninety-two degrees, aud at adjourn
ment it stood OF ninety-four degrees.
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NORTH CAROLINA.

Governor Holden Slips Up on his First
Appointments - General Candy Won't
Aid Him-7Re Legislature, its Action
and Character-Democratic Ratification
Meeting, dc.
RALEIGH, N. c., July 1G.-The difficulty
about the municipal appointments of Gov
ernor Holden has subsidized. The old Board
Of Commissioners remains in office, and the
new Board does not seem disposed to press
their claims. 1t is understood that General
Candy refused to interfere unless Governor
Holden could show that legal and constitu-
tional authority was resisted; and this not
being shown, the proposed raid on the old
municipal authorities missed fire.
The Legislature, however, has before it
n bill to enable Governor Holden to make
municipal appointments. The Governor
seems to have started out with the same
ideas about appointing officers that he had
when he was made Provisional Governor.
The Legislature is not doing much yet in
general legislation. What it has done has
been of partisan character. The temper
of the body is decidedly against mixed
schools or mixed militia. n. Paige & Co.
have been elected State Printers. The ex-
cluded members were allowed mileage and
per diem up to-day.
There was a grand Democratic ratifca-
ton meeting at fuckers Hall last night.
Able speeches were made by Hon. Thomas
Bragg, General W. r. Cox, Colonel John F.
Hoke, W. NJ. Robins, and others. Resolu-
tons endorsing the action of the National
Convention were adopted with loud ap-
plause. A large number Of ladies were
present.
The heat continues excessive, and there
are great fears Of a general drought and the
destruction of the crops. The gardens
around Raleigh are generally parched up
AnOther Dispatch.
WILMINGTON, N. c., July 16.-The heat
is undated, and the thermometer stands al
from 95 to l0l in the shade in different
localities. Patrick Curran died to-day OF
sunstroke.
The crops of this entire section are suf-
fering greatly from drought, and the farm
ers seriously apprehend their failure.
The municipal election here excited nc
interest, the people being divided in their
opinion of its legality. The vote was small
and the Radicals took no part.
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The PARAGUAYAN STRUGG E.-Addl-
toual intelligence from the theatre of ope-
n,ious on the Parana represent that Lopez
Is as plucky and determined as ever. In
Stead Of having suffered any from the late
allied assaults, he is now meditating re-
sumption of the offensive. We have been
Informed that the women have FASTENED to
enroll themselves under his standard. 1t
Il now reported that boys down to ten years
OF age are rallying to his support. With
euch determined spirit, Paraguay can
never be subjugated.-Neao York CONNER
ciul 80
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GOLD DISCOVERIES IN NEW MExICo.-A
letter from the Cimarron mines, in New
Mexico, mentions the discovery of very
hcA guch diggings in the vicinity of Ration
Mountains. There are now about 5000
leoplc in the mines. The yield Of gold Is
from $40 to $50 per hand daily, and In
eome Instances it has reached $500. Ex-
''eongly rich quartz has also been found,
o"e Iole yielding seventy-fye cents per
found Of quartz, and in another, called
'oe Aztec, the vein is eight feet wide, OF
"ecompoSed rock, streaked all through with
wave or string gold, visible to the eye. The
''1e 10 several thousand feet in extent, and
appears to be equally rich all through. Mr..
-Hln'on, assayer at the United States mint
'' Denver, made an assay of some average
s@mlLeS and pronounced the yield Sl9,455
81 ., goa and sl99 of silver, or total OF
*Iy,j44 per ton.
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A FEARFUL STORY OF MURDER AND Re-
vENGE.-A shocking story of brutal murder
and swift, lawless punishment among q
party of miners travelling on foot over the
Rocky mountains to the Sweetwater mines,
is reported in one of our western exchanges.
Hess, Frenchman, and Armstrong, Nova
Scotian, had quarrelled, but apparently be-
came reconciled, when Armstrong re0pened
the disagreement, and threatened Hess for
taking some of his tobacco. During that
day the party entered dangerous and diff
fcult canon, through which they wound
along narrow ledge of rocks several hum
dred feet above the bed of the stream which
ran along at the foot of that fearful pre-
cipice. ...
At the point of the greatest danger,
where the party had to travel in single file,
and several yards apart, Armstrong
watched his opportunity to dodge behind a
ledge Of rock unobseryed, and thus fall be-
hind the others. Hess was the first man in
the file. AS he drew near the place where
Armstrong was sscreted, the latter stepped
forth and followed his companions without
seeming to notice him. Presently he knelt
down as if to tie his shoe, and Hess, unable
to pass, stopped within few feet of him.
The next moment, turning about to pick up
his bundle, which had been thrown aside
upon tho ground, by a sudden change OF
movement he seized the unsuspectlng
Frenchman and hurled him over the edge
of the terrible abyss. ..
Some twenty or thirty feet down from the
face of the precipice the wretched man
lodged in the branches of scraggy hem
lock tree which grew out of crevice in the
rocky wall, and might from thence have
been rescued if assistance had been nigh.
But there was none. How the murderer
could summon the hardihood to stoop down
and watch the fall of his victim from the
dizzy height we cannot imagine. Yet Arm
strong did look down the cliff, perhaps to
assure himself that his murderous work
was well done, and saw poor Hess still
desperately maintaining his hold upon
life, instead of lying shapeless mass at
the bottom of the canon. The tiendish
spirit manifested itself still further. He
rot fragments of rock and cast them down
upon the poor man until his lifeless body
toppled over the yawning abyss below; then
Armstrong arose and pursued his journey.
The whole act was seen from distance
by another of the party, who was apart
hunting for game ; and after they had got
into camp at night he told the story, when
Armstrong was seized and charged with the
murder, and he did not deny it. A part OF
the company were in favor Of taking him
with them through to the settlements, to be
tried by the civil authorities, but the ma
iority were determined to allow the muir
derer no chance for escape, and 30 about On
hour before midnight Armstrong was CON
Quoted to the top of q cliff which rose like
wall to the he ght of $50 or 200 feet, half
a mile in rear of the camp. Having bound
his hands and feet, they cast him over into
the black abyss, out Of which no cry re-
turned. .e
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poroyAc NAVIGATION lMPEDED.-The
draw in the Long Bridge is out of order
On! in consequence vessels Of more than
culinary breadth are unable to pass through
il. The freight brought last Sunday by the
steamer Columbia, for Georgetown, had to
he landed here because that steamer was
unable to pass the Observation-Disclosures
L.n-.tte
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DR.. 0. W. Holmes, having been called
upon and considerably bored by gentle
man who had devoted himselfto lecturing IN
New England without much ability for
doing so, inquired "What are you at about
this particular timer" The answer was,
" Lecturing, as usual. hold forth this
evening at Roxbury." The Professor, clap
ping his hands together, exclaimed am
glad of it; never liked those hoxoury
people,
We observe that tho northern papers
claim that General Blair, the Democratic
nominee for the Vice-PreSidency, is o gra-
duate of Princeton College, New Jersey.
This is an error. General Francis P. Blair
is a graduate Of the University Of North
Carolina.-Ralsigh Sentinel.
Two mad steers recently entered church
in ST. Louis, terribly frightening the con-
gregation, but, fortunately, injuring no one.
The Hancock Qllinois) County Court has
sent horse-thief to the State prison for
seventeen years.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, collected
$4,000 in England for the Southern Epis-
copal University.
Guizot has declined nomination TO the
French Corps Legislatif. de says Ills po-
litical career has terminated.
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The G0IumhuR Prisoners

ATLANTA, Ga, July l6.-Whittley, the
Government detective in the Ashburne
murder case, left for Washington to-day. 1t
is believed he will not return.
Mayor wilkins, of Columbus, and T. c.
Miller, of Lagrange, were on the stand to-
day. Their evidence is damaging to the
nrngncutinn
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TIE MINERS STRIKE AT PoTTsyILLE.-
F,ttsrWe, Pa, July l5.-2 p. M.-The
strikers have just arrived in town, and
marched to Potts Orchard Works and stop
ped the foundry. The bell rang for work,
tut the workmen struck. The strikers are
Row forming line TO march to Palo Alto
and Atkins's furnaces.
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Perorts from Nil parts Of the country in
di,a;r the same fearful condition OF the
weather that prevails here. No region is
,rr,nrt from it. The mountains and sea-
la.rI are alike hot and uncomfortable.
Vow that Alaska is in the Union, the tenn
eroture there will undoubtedly be marked
&, nnwonted fcrvor. There is very little
d., in with all this hot weather.-Neeo York
,ommsrciui.
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aitting in q buggy In the midat thereof.
The New Buffalo gent, who was theringleader
of the rioters, proclaimed from the mob that
if Mrs. D. would come out and show herself
he would upwitch her in trice and ever
more. But Mrs. D., not liking the look,
and doubtless thinking that the Doctor had
already more devils in and about him than
he could prosperously manage, declined the
kind invitation. This did not have the
effect to moderate the rising fury of the
crowd, and there were threats of burning
the incorrigible woman with fire. But just
in the nick of time the city marshal and
officer Dan Brown made their appearance,
and succeeded in dispensing the mob with
out much difficulty and before the commits
sion of any violence. An effort was made
TO arrest the New Buffalo mountebank, but
he had prudently decamped.-La Porte
(Ind.) Union.
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The Texas convention.

GALVESTON, TEXAS, July l6.-The Ne'os
has q telegram from Austin which says
THE Convention disclaims having the au-
thority to divide the State under the recon-.
struction acts, and has refused to consider
the matter unless by direct authority Of
Congress-
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BAD FOR RADICALs.-There is one fact in
connection with the approaching Presiden-
tial election which will have an exceedingly
damaging effect on the hopes and prospects
of southern Radicalism for success at that
time. The polls can be opened then for
only one day-the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der, which will be the 3d-and there will
be no chance of voting the Loyal Leagucrs
more than once each.-Lychburg Repub-
Econ
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The MoNGREL TICKET.-A "trooly Loil
Lege " Convention was held at Camp Soho
field yesterday, when the following nomi-
nations for the county were made.
State Senate.-S. D. Williamson (white)
House. of Delegates.-Sam Kelsoe and
John Garland (negroes), and William ID.
Lydick (white) .-Lynclburg NeaoS.
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MAIL CoxTRACT.- Virginia Route
lo4, contract i8 ordered with the Orange,
Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Com
I,ry-John 5. Barbour, presidential con-
ypy the mails from Manassas to woodstock,
evenly -four miles, at $1,000 per annum-
equal to fifty dollars per mile per annum.