The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
News of the Week.
At Home.

for 81 day, and refuse to ship until
their demands are conceded.
Sarah Payson Willis, wife of James
Parton, otherwise known as Fanny
Fern, died in New York on the 11th
inst. The remains have been taken to
Boston for interment.
The coroner's jury in the case of John
O'Bryan, who shot policeman Daniel
McGonigle of Philadelphia, returned
verdict that the shooting was done in
sslf-defence.
Charles III Foster. a curostone broker,
has been arrested in Montreal, charged
with raising large sums of money in
BoiOn with forging notes. Applica-
ton for his rendition to Massachusetts,
officials under the extradition treaty
has been made.
The bark Florida has returned from
the Artic with oil and bone received
4 ON ships abandoned last year The
Captain reports that he left the Arctic
ocean September 6, and that the bark
Helen Snow, Captain MacComber, was
was abandoned August 10. The Ros-
coe, Captain Lewis, was crushed by the
ice August 10, and is a total loss. The
Sea Breeze, Captain Weeks, was lost
August %, off Point Barraco. No one
rom her yet
In the ease Of Stephen McKdlna. of
Boston, against the Metropolitan Horse
Railroad Company, the jury rendered
q verdict for plaintiff for 1888. McKin-
ra was injured by ear jumping the
track and coming In eor-s.sz- with hi.
wagon.
The cororner's jury in the case of the
railroad accident at Garrett's siding,
Pa, rendered verdict that the acCi-
dent was the result of crimiNRl de-
sign on the part of parties unknown to
the jury. The rails were forced apart
and blocked up so as to throw the train
from the track
The Mormon Semi-annual Confer
ence has adjourned to April 6. 1878.
The attendance throughout has been
large The necessity of paying tithing
WAS the burthen of the discourse of
brigham Young. He announces that
he will establish a city according to the
order of Enocb,, if the Saints will only
obey without question.
Twenty Mexicans soldiers, who kill
ed seven seatinels while deserting from
Puetea, were recaptured and executed.
A dispatch from Troy, New York,
states that the Saratoga County Bank
was robbed at an early hour in the
morning of over $500, 600, by gang of
nine desperadoes disguised in KukluX
uniform. The robbers secreted them
selves in the house of the Cashier in
the evening, and afterwards bound and
gagged the entire family except the
Cashier, whom they compelled to open
the vault of the bank. The loss to the
bank is about So 500. The specie de-
Fositors will lose about 100000 in T.
5. bonds and stocks.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
the Northern Pacific railroad party
have returned in good health to Port
land, after ten day absence. They ex-
plored all the harbors, bays and chan
nels, run four hundred miles round
Puget Sound. and examined the valley
OF the Columbia river three hundreu
miles, to the mouth of the Smoke river
They express the strongest admiration
OF the entire route, which they person.
ally surveyed. Strong parties have
made fa%eable proposals for the imme-
diate construction of the railroad on
the coast slso from the Columbia
eastwardR
A Washington dispatch says that it
is stated that the report of the Inspec-
tors, in the case of the disaster of the
steamer Dean Richmond, shows that
the accident to the Westfield was excu-
sable compared with thu circumstances
of this case. Although the boiler had
been inspected within tue year, yet
the age of the boiler justified more fire.
quent inspection. Ii is understood
that hereafter boilers over five years
old shall be tested several times during
the year thereafter that they arein use.
A horrible, unnatural tragedy occur
ed at Hickman's mills, Missouri. Will
liam and Harrison Young, SOUS o: Sol
oman Young, a wealthy farmer, quar-
relied about the proposed marriage of
their sister to man named Clemens,
which William favored and Harrison
opposed. Weapons were drawn, but
the parties were separated by friends
when Harrison rode home, got shot
gun, and returning met his brother rid
ing with Clemens and another man,
and shot him infiicting a fatal wound,
and kRed his horse. Clemens turned
and rode off, when Harrison fired again,
severely wounding him in the back.
The assassin then fled, but was arrested
at Independence. Great excitement
prevails over the affair.
Mayo Medill, of Chicago, has issued
a proclamation to the police authori-
ties directing them to enforce the law
foTbidding the sale of Intoxicating Ii
quors on Sunday. There is brick
layer strike in progress in Chicago.