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ing the government OF custom mouse duties to |
the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. |
The Alleged frauds extend from August, 1867,
to November, 1869.
DAVID MCCORMICK, q business man of De- |
troit, hung himself the other day. 1t is now
ascertained that he was a forger of indorse-
ments to his not es for various sums ranging
from s400 to 50 600 aggregating $50, 900; pos
sibly more. a banker discovered one forgery.
and tnreate ned McCormic with arrest unless
the note was taken up. This was probably the
incentive to his suicide, as he went Immediate
and hung himself.
THE War Department has issued an order
announcing the death, of Gen. Ihayer and
directing the usual salutes to be fired and the
observance of other ceremonies.
EARTHQUAKES, accompanied by underground
explosions, have occurred in Owen County
Valley, California.
EMILY PETERSON SCALES, of Mound. H.
while on her way to Gelena, Friday morning,
in company with some companions, to attend
the 10 Davies County Fair, was run over and
instantly killed by the northern bound morn
ing express on the Illinois Central road
The New York Times says petition is i'll
circulation in Germany praying the Govern
ment to acquire territory on this side of the
Atlantic, to which the stream of German emf
grafton may be diverted, and the fatherland
thus save the annual loss of thousands of her
sons.
LARGE dry goods firm in West Broadway
New York, having numerous Western connec-
tons, ls reported one Of the suspended. Its
liabilities are represented as very lar ge and it's
assets disproportionately small
DURING the past two weeks there have beer
in and around New York, about fifty suicides.
actual and attempted, more than have been
known IN the same time for many years This
destructive epidemic continues.
MARION EASTMAN, Archbishop, of the Dio-
cese of Massachusetts, died Thursday morn
ng.
DISPATCHES from every station on the Vino
ma and st. Peter Railroad, estimate the dam
age to wheat by the late rain at one-fourth to
one-third Of the entire crop. More than one
third of the crop is still in the shock The
damage to wheat in stack is very light The
average yield in Southern Minnesota is from
eighteen to twenty bushels per acre.
THE Border Commissioners report that
bad condition Of affairs exists all along the
Texan border. On the downward voyage the
Commissioners saw large quantities of smug-
gled goods on the Texas bank. SmuggIers
with small boats were on both banks. The
continued murders and thefts, which the diff
ant attitude of the Mexicans, produce feeling
of insecurity.
FIRE at Brownsville, Minnesota, on Mon
ay night, destroyed Il. Bells warehouse and
h111l Tbo
worth SS,OOO-insured for $1,000 The Dem
ocrat printing establishment located in it.
was wholly consumed also the editor, r. W
brakes household goods. Loss 50, ,DOO-insur-
ance s1,4O0. The adjoining buildings we're
worth 81 900 each. Total loss 81. 1000.
NJ. DUvERGIER DEHANRAUNE has pronounc-
ed false the report of his engagement to Miss
Nellie Grant, which first appeared in the
Figaro.
FOUR citizens of Chambersburg, Pike coun-
ty, ILL.,, were arrested a few davs since upon
the charge of having, some time since, broken
into j. Metz q Co. 8 dry goods store in tnat
town, and robbing a safe of 81 co. One Ct
the parties has confessed, duplicating the
Others
The steam tug Agnes exploded her boiler
Tuesday afternoon near Jordan,s Point five
miles below City Point, on the James River.
Captain Griffith Johns, of the bark Lucy. who
was on board en- route for his vessel
b. Emroughty, engineer, two colored
hremen and the Wheelsman (coI-
ored) were killed.and two colored men wound
ed. Captain Lawrence, who commanded the
tug. was blown some distance into the air. and
fell into the water, but was only slightly in
Jured. The schooner Mary Minis. which was
alongslCe the tug, was badly amaged. The
tug Is complete wreck.
DANIEL GLEASON, of North Adams. Mass. b a
been sentenced to be hanged for the murder
of his wife last spring
VERY large amount Of lumber the property
OF H. B. Rathbun & Son, was burned at Mill
folnt, Canada, on Saturday. Loss estimated
at $40, 1000; no insurance
IHE President has issued proclamation
abollshIng all duties on imports from japan in
Japanese vessels so long as Japan observes a
similar rule IN relation to exports to that coun-
try from the United States.
TRE jury in the case of Chris. O'Rafferty. on
trial IN Chicago for the murder of Officer
O'Mara, brought in a verdict of guilty, fixing
the penalty of death by hanging for the
crime.
Two MEN engaged in the tunnel now con-
structlng under the river at Detroit, Duncan
Mcpherson and Frank Astenburg, were killed
on Thursday by suffocation in the American
shaft. Mcpherson was foreman of the La
Sale street tunnel in Chicago, when building.
IHE Raleigh Messenger says the cotton crop
IN that state has sustained injury in the coun-
ties OF Wayne, Dublin, Johnson Edgecombe,
Lenox, Wilson, Greene, Pitt aud Sampson.
Ihe drouth and rust have damaged the pros
poets very much, and the ravages Of worms in
many parts will still further reduce the crop.
The prospects are at least twenty-five per cent
worse than was generally anticipated a month
ago.
Two freight trains colided on the New York
Central Railroad, three miles east of Albion
demolshing both engines and six loaded cars
besides producing fire which burned other
cars. Fortunately ne one was injured. Loss
S25. 900.
AT Passaic Village, N. J., Monday night,
Watson & Sons bleaching and Canton Flannel
Mandatory was burned. The loss will be
about $125, 900.
THE citizens of New York are becoming ex-
asperated at the rapid increase of lawlessness
and crime in that city, and propose to take
immediate steps to secure the prompt and
severe punishment of all offenders.
Abroad.
A coAL-PIT near Herplal, Belgium, on the
Mense, was accidentally flooded recently while
the men were at work. The inundation was
so sudden that Twenty-Five miuers were drown
ed in the pit
In Ironton, Lawrence county, Ohio, last
week, Geo. Height shot at his wife. but missed
her and killed boy named Rumbach.
AN Irishman named Navy was shotin the
back in a saloon row at Ishpenning, on Thurs
day night. A saloon-keeper named Anderson
is under arrest for the crime.
WITHIN week two poor lunatics, both home