The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-22
NEWS ZOE THE WEEK.
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The Mormons were never NOR
| peaceful.
-Maine-First ssnow of the season
NJ augusta, last W eek. Thermomete,
40 above freezing. = s
Ia . bar room fight, In Cincinnati
on Sunday might, q man named Bets,
struck WiliiaoI Marklard with ,
chair, and 4 iiisd him.
Ia the case Of Burke, who was are
rested at Windsor, Canada, for having
broken Jail 1t indianapolis, th,, Cana.
dian authorities have decided to sur
render him to the United States author.
ties under the extradition treaty. 81
-LOuisville-Two steamboatmen,
who on Saturday attempted. to cross
the river in . skiff in tow of ferry
boat, were drowned, by their boat
breaking loose and turning over.
-Brooklyn-The Lying-in Asylum
managers, charged with dismissing
he resident physician because heswss
g Cat holic, have appointed another
Cathc ,lic to the vacancy.
Indiana Several houses at
Charleston, Clark County, were burn
edop Saturday. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, SS,5OO.-Andes, Brookbank &
Co.'s large steam copper-shops at JEFF
fersGnvills were burned yesterda, .
morn ing. Loss, $4,000; insurar. zee,
$4,000.
"A despatch from Roches. ~ .ta,x..
that the barge Forest o,.,een, from
Saginaw, laden with lur .,er, while in
tow of the tug Burlir. .es.n during the
gale last night, was cut loose two miles
outside of the b..eakwater and is SUD-
pos ID to be .ost with all hands. The
bar ges f-entucky and Star of the
Nc nth, which were in tow of the tug,
W enc stse cut loose at the same time.
1 he sssmer water.Iogged and the latter
' sas brought in.
-Yhe police of Cleveland have cap
fnred twelve horses, six buggies, one
wagon and large quantity of harness,
all stolen by one man named Kritjca.
He commenced last April stealing the
horses in an adjoining county and sell
ling them in that city.
The steamer Katie stuck in the
wreck of the Lucy Holcomb, at
Helena, this morning, and sank in ten
feet of water. She had four hundred
bales of cotton and one hundred and
fifty passengers. No lives were lost.
The Katie was about two years old,
cost S193,OOO, was insured for SAC, 900
in Cincinnati and $50, 900 here, and was
owned by Miles Owen, of Memphis.
Private advices from Pomeroy,
Ohio, state that the coal miners have
struck for an increase OF wages from
80 to A cents per -bushel, and that the
salaried employees have demanded a
corresponding advance of pay.
The Union Pacific is shedding against
| the SHOWS.
Lafayette w. Graves, editer of the
Lexington, Missouri, L'atefligencer, was
shot and instantly killed, by Edwin
Turner, publisher of the Register in
that city. Political difficulties were
the cause.
Samuel Ashmore, living at Topeka,
Kansas, in drunken frenzy, Wednes-
day last, shot and killed his wife.
After which he chopped her breasts off
with hatchet in an insane endeavor
to take her heart out. 1t took ten men
to arrest and convey the mad man to
Jail so desperately and powerfully did
he struggle.
VIM. Lewbert, living i'm Ellardsville,
Me-, while iaboring under delirium,
occasioned by small pox, jumped from
a second story window last night, ran
q distance of two blocks and fell dead.
Col. Titus c. Rice, a recluse, suicided
last night at Fortress Monroe. by
shooting himself through the head.
Some twenty years ago he was a
prominent citizen of Richmond, Va,
and Colonel of the famous black horse
cavalry.
Little Rock. c. Roy shot and
killed George Cole, Deputy Sheriff
on Saturday.
-Philadelphia-The mint is melting
one million one-dollar pieces, to be re-
coined in larger denominations. Twen-
ty millions to be thus used.
New Hampshire-Great excite
ment prevails at Norwood over the
murder of young girl named Day.
One Franklin B. Evans pointed out
the spot where the body was conceal
ed. and it is believed has confessed the
commission of the crime. She was
only thirteen years old.
4 Ferdinand Kauffeld, an ex-Con-
stable of Birmingham, Pa, hung him
ELF with clothes-line in a wash
I IL Sc, in the rear of his residence, last
nie mt. He was aged IS, and leaves a
wife and four children. Cause: In
temperance.
Hurry alias VIM Graw, and Geo.
Thompson alias samuel Moody, two
notorious thieves, have lately escaped
from the Sing Sing prison.
The body of the late Secretary
Rawlins is still in the public vault at
the Congressional Cemetery, but few
days since General Babcock and q
brother of the deceased went to the
cemetery, and selected . site for the
burial Of the remains, in the southwest
section Of the inclnsure.
-Thet trial Of Mrs. Lloyd just termi-
mated, for the poisoningof her children,
still continues to be the staple topic OF
discussion at Leesburg. She finds pub
lie opinion 30 much against her, not
withstariding her acquittal, that she
avows her purpose to leave soon for H.
linois, where she has brother resid-
ing.
The portrait of Secretary Stanton
for tl,e old Washinrton City Govern.