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to be no more further trouble beyond
an occasional collision with roughs.

poisoning took place recently In the vi
entity of Palmyra, Mo-, the victims be-
ing temperance picnic party. A party
OF roughs appeared on the grounds, and
and acted in the most boisterous man
ner, insulting whomsoever they pleased,
and, before leaving the grounds, placed
a quantity of tartar emetic in the
spring. As soon as its effects COM
menced developing, the widest excite
ment and confusion prevailed, nearly
every member of the party being more
or less affected. The rumor that poi
son had been administered was at once
accepted, and many. of the party were
frightened almost to death. At last ac-
counts it was feared a number would
not recover.
A wretch named Rice is in custody
at st. Louis for abducting and horribly
maltreating girl Is years old, daugh-
ter of Mrs. A. 0. Fisher. While going
to church on Sunday evening, the 7th
inst, Rice seized her on the street,
gagged her, forced her into carriage,
and drove to a secluded quarter Of the
city, where she was thrust into a dark,
unfinished cellar. The fiend then
stripped all her clothing off, gave her
an old calico dress to put on, took four
rings off her fingers, cutting one off with
a knife, violated her person, and left
her with loaf of bread and jug of
water. The next day he returned with
more bread and water, and again out
ragged her, repeating the act on the
third day. On the fourth night after
her abduction he blindfolded her, drove
her round town in carriage, and left
her on the corner of Eighth street and
Washington avenue.
Foreign.
-Auber, the eminent musical com
poser, died in Paris on the 18th, aged
SO years.
The Homestead bill has passed the
Canadian Assembly. One clause pro-
tects debtors arriving in Canada for FIVE
years against creditors.
Special dispatches from Bombay
report a famine in Persia from lack of
rain, and that thousands of the inhabi-
tants are dying.
1t is reported that the Prussians
have shot two of the inhabitants of the
town of Yvetol. who had beaten Ger.
man soldier.
1t is stated in Havana that the SUI
gar crop in the district of Santiago de
Cuba will reach $4,000 hogsheads this
year, against A. 900 last year The de-
crease on the year for the whole island
will be about 10000 tons.
The Colombian insurgents threaten
the city of Panama, and there is great
CONSERVATION. The railroad depot has
been given into the hands of the troops
for protection. The United States
steamer Resaca will leave Panama on
the 10th, and the foreigners will then
consider themselves unprotected.
-Grousset. Federal Minister of For
eign Affairs, has issued protest against
the declaration of Theirs, that the Com
mune has disregarded the provisions of
the convention of Geneva in regard to
explosive bullets. and retorts that the
Versaillists have been guilty of the in
fractions of the convention which they
charge upon the Commune.
The treaty Of peace between Ger
many and France, just concluded at
Frankfort, abroSates the commercial
treaty between France and Germany,
and gives to Prussia control of railways
in coded territory, in consideration of
the deduction from war indemnity of
100000 francs. One clause of the
treaty provides for the acquisition by
Prussia of the railway from Thionville
to Luxembourg. The Germans have
stipulated to send back to France, at
once, all prisoners held in Germany.
Paris forts still held by German troops
are to be Immediately evacuated. The
cities of Nancy, Belfort, and Longwy
are to be retained by the Germans un-
til the conditions of the treaty of peace
are fulfilled. A French loan of one
milliard francs has been secured by
Frankfort bankers.
-Advices from Paris to the 10th are
! to the following effect: The western
and southwestern ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF
the city were uninhabitable. There has
been great loss of life and property in
these portions of the city. The Ger.
mans were concentrating toward Paris
he headquarters OF the fflnce OF sax
ony had been transferred to Margency
and the chief command Of guards re-
moved to Montmorency. The fall OF
Fort Montrouge was imminent. The
One Hundred and Forty fourth Bat
talon of National Guards refused tC
march outside of Paris. All males over
40 years had been called to work on the
defenses of Paris. Immense crowds ga
thered on the afternoon of the 10TH tc
witness the expected fall of the column
in the Place Vendome. Great efforts
had been made by the Communists en-
gineers to tear the column from its
base, but it had withstood their utmost
exertions. The column was finally
levelled at o'clock on the evening O.
the 10th. 1t fell lengthwise into the
Rue de la Paix. The Communist
made a sortie on the night of the 18th
meeting the Versaillists strongly posted
in the Bots de Boulogns, but were
forced to retreat with heavy loss. The
Versaillists have constructed q bridge
across the Seine at Puteaux. and have
brought over a great mass of artillery
The Cri du People states that chemica
preparations are ready to completed,