Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-22

boarded, and soon after a loud cry wa
heard, and
sEvERAL SHOTS IN QUICK SUCCESSION
Ches then saw them pursuing Captain
Potts brother, who had jumped ashore
and firing On him. Whether he wa,
killed or not he does not know. Pott wa.
Che only q seen by Ches, and he think,
two other men, one of whom was named
Robinson, two women and three children,
were killed and thrown overheard. When
Giles and partner were called to the boat
they saw no one but Downing. Trumbull
and Hans, who broke into the bar and
- TIE ENTIRE PARTY GOT DRUNK
Ches remembers nothing more until the
boat was landed by the fisherman, as sta
tedlast night, when lie jumped ashore and
made his way back to Bradley's where
tho widest excitement prevailed, as moth
ing has been seen of Pott or his party,
while Downing and his party had disap-
peared :and, from the fact that the beat had
been plundered. it is feared the whole
party has been murdered. -gsa
MEMPHIS, August f9.-Captain Pott
and wife. of the steamer Helen Brooke,
arrived here last night. They report that
no traces can be found of the three chill
den. the woman. and man who were on
the steamer at the time she was boarded,
neither has Downing's party been heard
from. .-a
The Avalanche, in letter, says a re-
gro robber named John Brown was taken
from Jail at Colliervilie, Tenn, twenty
miles from Memphis, last night. and was
found this morning beaten to DEATH
The authors of the outrage are unknown.
WAsHINeroN. August 19.-The hest
here to-day has been excessive, the Their
mometer reaching "a degrees in the shade.
A colored man named Edwards last
night shot and Instantly killed Robert
Humbert, also colored, on account of al
legged criminal intimacy of the latter with
the formers wife, ob hvo8 egg
~ There is information from Geneva
which warrants the assertion that since
the Indirect claims have been disposed of
the business of the tribunal of arbitrators
has been favorable to this Government, |
and that several awards for direct dams
ages have already been agreed upon, and
further. the indications arc that on the
of the adjudication a gross sum
will be awarded to the United States,
avoiding a reference If the sub
ject to a Board Of Commissioners.
New YORK, August I9.-Oficial re-
turns from "a counties IN North Carolina
gives Caldwell 2,673 majority. There
ire 3 counties yet to be hearl from Off
BosTON, August 19.-James McElha.
~ yesterday shot bis wife in the temple,
,ausing death in fifteen minutes. and then
ihot himself, inficting severe but not ia
al wounds.
HARTFORD. Conn. August 1S.-The
wife of James Mclaughlin, of this city,
vas found to-day with a stab wound in
he neck, and lived but Il few minutes af-
1t is not known whether it is
case of suicide or murder.
BALTIMORE, August l9.-The Third
'~ational Bank, on South street, between
'ecend and Lombard streets. was entered
y burglars last night and robbed. it is
of 100000. A summing up is
ow going on. Entrance to the bank was
by cutting through the wall of an :
building. which was occupied !
) a man giving his name as Stabler, who !
to be a commission merchant. !
SECOND D1sPATCH-TuE Loss MUCH /
THAN AT SUPPOSED. !
BALTIMORE. August l9.-The officers [
the Third National Bank state their
'ss by the burglary as follows $4,000 in
.ational bank notes and g~reeabacks, of 4
hlch either notes were of $500 each, .
Id, twenty-IouI notes of $50 each of the :
bird National Bank, and the following
onds, held as collaterals. Northern Cen a
railroad, $500; North Carolina n
tate bonds, S11.5O0: Marietta and {
incinnati railroad, $1,000; United
tates 5-5's, 81 500; Western railroad,
100.
The bank offers a reward of $4,000 for
e recovery of the above, or pro ratu for
partial recovery
The individual derositors having private
'xes in the vault cannot be ascertained,
many of them are out of town.. Tie
IS will probably amount to several hun
ed thousand dollars as It's known that d,
veral boxes containing bonds and other &C
'curities, willamount to $500. bi
The first floor of Gitti1gs' bank build 8
from which entrance was made into tn
bank vault, was rented on the LIST of =
Inc by a man giving the name of E. q
ashburne, who paid a quarters rent sI