Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-02-10
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General news.

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Report says that there Is deficiency OF
1000 in the fourth United States collection
district OF New Jersey.
The Olympic Theatre, In Detroit, was
entirely destroyed by fire Saturday night
Loss $40, 900; insuredfor $4,000 sr a.B
H-stanton's brewery, in Troy, N. Y. was
burned on tho 26th, involving loAs Of $40. :
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The IllinSis Legislature has passed a
bill adding 81, 600 to the salary OF Circuit
Judges.
There have been over one hundred deaths
in Montreal from smallpox during the last
five weeks.
| The treasurer of a German Protestant
church In Cincinnati, absconded three weeks
ago, a defaulteI TO tie church In $500.
The Bank of Montreal Is reported to have
lost $500, 900 from lending money to New
York apeculalols who became bankrupt by
the recent corner" in Erie shares,
A Denver dispatch reports the killing OF
man named MaguiTe at Georgetown, last
night, In saloon, by womon, who IL now in
prison. .r 3Ag
-Four largo brewers of Belleyille, Indiana,
have made contracts for barley In Germany,
and hereafter will obtain their supplies from
there M
| Con. Grant reviewed tho fire department
and police force OF Baltimore oil the 28d,
Subsequently he held reception al Darnum's
Hotel, and many called upoir him ,,,.
The Rnow is 30 deep in the lumbe1ihg re-
| gions OF Canada that II ia almost impossible
to get out timbor. The prospect for large
supply of lumber IL, therefore, hot fOvora-
BILE - s'H 're
| Tal,, . no 81 II
| O'Clock, Sunday morning. accomplished in
Chicago, the hitherto unparalleled feat in
this country, OF walking 1000 miles in 1000
consecutive hours, for wager OF 5000,
Henry Herbert, a sailor and butcher, was
shot and killed by Thomas Stewart, in a
house Of Ill.fame III Chicago, on Saturday
night. Stewart and girl named Eliza Riley
/ were arrested
| 1t is Estimated that there are at least one
Thousand distilleries in operation throughout
the country, and reports received at the
Treasury Department show that the number
viii be largely Increased.
| John Whalen and wife were fearfully
burnedln house on Sand street, Brooklyn,
SUNDAY night They went to bed drunk,
leaving candle burning near the bed, which
caught fire.
Tho tug Hercules on the Goth run down O
email boat i'll New York harbor, containing
Capt. Osborn, Of the British ship Yarmouth,
two sailors. Mrs White was drowned.
The Central Pacific Railroad is com
plotel 800 miles east OF Sacramento and IL
within n miles of Humboldt Welll, The
road will probably bo hnshed before the 18th
of April. a.ea ..
--Robbers attacked the house of ex-Sherifi
Reuben King, Of Robinson county, near Cum
bertsOu. n. c., and mOrtally wounded Mr..
| King and a visitor named s. Z. Ward. The
perpetrators OF the crime escaped,
--One thousand miles Of the Union Pacific
Railroad arc now completed and in opera.
ton. Ouly two hundred AMI sixty seven
miles remain to be built TO connect with the
Central road from the Pacific.
The safe of H. r. Monis, in Wurtzboro,
Sullivan county, N. L., was opened at a late
hour Sunday night By burglars, and robbed
of $40, 600 in five and ten collar bills, The
money belonged to tho town OF Mamakatine,
Revenue Detective Walters, OF CneDnR-
II, attempted to sel2o dlstillery Monday
night f'lfteen shots were fired ut linn and
his co npanons by the propretors The bul,
let's pierced his clothing, but inflicted no fur.
ther injury.
The boiler in Conra ls iron foundry, at
Newark, New Jersey, exploded on the 23d,
paI tally destroying the building injuring the
proprietor, Jacob Conrad, fatally, and scald-
ing aman named George RhinehaTt very &C.
Vorely.
Blaisdell and Eckel, convicted in New
York OF the illicit removal Of spirits, were
sentenced, respectively, to three years i'm
prisonmont in the Albany penitentisfy Me
Lean was eentencedto six months imprison-
ment.
Monday afternoon, Henry Ft2heibert
who had been arrested for larceny dashed
through the second story " ndow of Justice
Sits office, In Chicago, and fell upon the
pavement, sixteen feet below, He was 81
seriously injured that he did soon after,
Several heavy uptown merchants in New
York recently held n meeting with view IL
starting bunk, nnder the stale laws, with q
capital Of 81, 900 900, the bank to be located
in the vicinity of Union Square, and not to
bo bank OF issuc.
Tho wife OF Charles LelCerts, cotton
broker, residing in Brooklyn, eloped on the
23d with young man named Jared T.. Tom.
linscn, of Chicago. The lady took with her
jewelry and money to the amount Of $4,000
The parties sailed in the City Of Antwerp.
Tho statement, published some days ago
that Circuit Judge Pelham. Of Montgomery
! had decided that the Alabama Legislature
was an Illegal body, and that VIM, II. smith
} was not legal Governor, turns out to be O
mistake-no such decision was rendered,
The Governor Of Burgos, In Spain, was
! asaiI ated on the 18th, when about to take al
inventory of the goods in the cathedral IL
that city. The excitement ih intense. The
people generally sustaiu the government
Many arrests OF suspected parties have beer
made.
! On Monday night Il recently discharged
, lunatic from 81. Johns Asylum, n b., named
stephen Innea, killed his sister with an axe
He afterwards committed suicide, ripping hi,
bowels open and stabbng himself In the
breast. HIs mother only escaped by fleeing
from the room.
, Charles Brandon has instituted suit il
tho Iowa courts to recover $4,000 OF per
sons charged with acting vigilance Com
! mittee, which last fall took Mr.. B, from hi
residence at night and hung him to tree, ii
vain Efforts to eXtort confession otcomplcitl
with horse thieves.
The government, some time ago, order
ed act OF American coins, in aluminium, t
be struck for an exchange with England, Tn
work was done and the coins delivered ut tn
treasury. An examination, ON Saturday
showed that the box in which they were ly
, ing had been broken open and the coins sto
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: The notorious guerrilla, Cullen Baker
of Red River notoTiety, was shot and kile'
by his fathor.in.law, Moore Foster, at Ran
dali, Fayette county, ArkDneas, on the 10tl
inst. His body was turned over to body o
: Federal cavalry, to be taken to JeifeI son