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POSITIVE information warrants the Secretary |
of the Treasury IN assuming that the three |
hundred millions of five per cent. bonds can
be negotiated in Europe at an early day, and |
without fail
A NATIONAL TURNER'S CONVENTION assem- |
bled in Louisville on Saturday. Emil Wall |
Der, of Milwaukee, was chosen president for |
the ensuing year.
A LAD named Otis became entangled in
some shafting in Rose & Otis Touring mill
at Lansing, Iowa. on Saturday, and suffered
the fracture of both legs and an arm. He
died in short time.
A BosToN dispatch says that criminal
prosecution has been commenced against
Stannard, the defaulting collector of customs
Of the Vermont district. His accounts are
short about S42, 900.
In Newport, Ky, on Thursday night, an at
tempt was made by an unknown ruffian to as
sassinate Mrs. Carrie Robinson Pierce, the di-
vorced wife of VIM. A. Robinson. railroad
ticket agent at Cincinnati. Two thrusts were
made at her with q knife, one of which she
avoided. The second inflicted serious but
not dangerous wound.
The laborers who have worked on the new
Post Office in New York are about to take
steps to obtain pay for two extra hours they
have worked per day since the passage of the
eight-hour law
JOHN RICHARDS, well known Indian trader
of Fort Laramie, had a difficulty Saturday,
near Fort Laramie, with Yellow Bear, and shot
him. Richards was afterwards killed by the
rientis of Yellow Bear
IN New York, on Saturday, a messenger Of
fho Ill Mt D.
ing route was robbed of a parcel containing
$4,000 IN gold certificates and checks, and
S400 cash. The thieves are known, and their
arrest is expected.
JUDGE 5LATcHFoRD has granted writ of
obeas corpus, requiring legal cause to be
shown for the attempt of Gov. Hoffman to
send Carl Yoght back to Belgium for trial in the
absence of an e1tradition treaty covering the
crime of murder, with which Yoght is charged.
DURING the prevalence of the high wind on
last Saturday afternoon, skiff in Lake Pc
osta near Dubuque, Iowa, containing party
of six, three young men and three young
women, was upset, and three of the party
Nellie Connolly, Katie Lonergan, and George
Beck-were drowned. The other young
woman, Bridget Feeney, was saved, but lies
in a precarious condition, from fright.
TELEGRAM from Little Rock says the river
at that point lacks but four feet of being as
high as in 1847. The town of Argenta oppo-
site Little Rock is oyerfowed as also the de-
pot and tracks of the Memphis Railroad The
damage already done to plantations near here
is estimated at $50, 900. Thousands of acres
of cotton are under water, below as we'll as
above. In Jefferson, Ark, Desha and ChicOt
counties, large part of the farms bordering
along the river are covered with water.
AT Annapolis on Wednesday, while the
midshipmen were being examined in practical
seamanship by the Board of Visitors, in set
ting and furling sails, etc., on Board the ship
Dolt, nidshipman Fidecos Carter, of Illinois,
fell from below the foretopsail Yardarm,
striking the rigging in his fall into the water.
Midshipmen r. 81. Mclean of New York and
r. W. Gait of Virginia jumped overheard and
kept him af1oat until all were rescued by q
boat. Carter was not seriously injured.
RE1DER W. CLARKE died at Batavia, Cler-
mont county. Ohio, on Thursday, of dropsy.
He was member Of Congress from the sixth
Ohio district from 1864 to 1868, then was ap-
pointed Third Auditor of the Treasury, and
afterwards supervisor of internal revenue of
the southern district of Ohio. He has been
an invalid several years.
HENRY MADISON, engineer, and E, L. D oug-
lass, fireman, on a construction train on the
Pennsylvania Road, were killed Thursday
morning near GallitzIn. The construction
train standing on the track, and was run
into by freight train.
THE July election for Erie Directors is at
tracing attention, OWING to the supposed in
harmony among the foreign stockholders, who
control quite three-fourths of the stock.
A COAL mine, two and half miles south of
Waught Mills, in Mercer county, H., has been
on fire since the 10th inst. Water from ra-
hoped it will be extingulshed.
In breach of promise case tried at Provi-
dence, R. l., Friday, Julia E. Vallett aged
twenty-five, recovered $4,000 from Thomas
Grace, aged sixty-nine.
THE famous case of Dowlin vs.. the Second
National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, for the
recovery of $40, 900 in United States bonds de-
posted with the said bank in 1867 as a special
deposit, and abstracted by the late cashier of
that institution, was closed on Friday by the
jury rendering verdict for the plaintiff for
S13, ,339-the full value of the bonds, with IN
terest.
In New York on Friday evening othe five
story building, 1G2 and 164 West Twenty-sev
enth street, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$105,000, as follows Doench & Co.. cabinet
makers, $25, 900; Marvin & Co., safe manu-
facturers, $40, 900; E. c.. Robinson owner of
the building, SAC, 600. The safes falling
through the flooring crushed the boiler, which
was filed with steam, but no one was injured.
A Terrible tornado passed over Paoma,
Camp Point Cottsburg and other villages in
the country on Thursday night, unroofng
houses, barns, etc., and doing serious damage.
A freight train on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Railroad was brought to a stand still
and nearly thrown from the track.
A COLLISION occurred Thursday morning, on
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
near the crossing of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, in Quincy. Six cars were COM
pletely wrecked, and two engines and twenty
four cars badly damaged The freight train
from the west was standing On the track, when
she was run into by an extra and driven for
ward on to No. s. All three trains were badly
injured.
FEARS are entertained that the corn crop in
Iowa will be very light this year, as not over
one-halfthe corn has been planted, and the
weather is still cool. The season is about a
month behind that of last year. Many fields of
corn Will have to be replanted in consequence
of the seed rotting In the cold wet ground
Small grain of all kinds Is in good condition.
GEO. HERBERT, an employe of E. divers
rolling MILL in Pittsburg, on Friday fell against
revolving circular saw used in saving red
hot iron. fearful cash fourteen inches long
was cut IN MS Dach, penetrating TO his Dack-
bone and seyerlng portion of the yetebr9.
The Davenport and st. Paul Railroad Com
pany placed on file for record at the recorders
office at Davenport, on Thursday, a mortgage
to secure bonds Of that company I'd the extent
of 100000 900. Grading and bridging is so
nearly completed on the Muscatine Western
Railroad to the iowa river, that track-laying
viii probably commence next week.
On Tuesday of last week, J. B. Somers and
wife, P. B. Roberts and Susie Hoffaker, at
tempted to ford Neosho rIver at Council
Grove, Kansas. Their wagon was upset, and
all dro Yned.
THE claims Of Mrs. rs.,Fitzhugh a relative of
the family of Gen. Washington, for 1875, coo.
for wood and timber taken from her estate
for the United States army during the rebel
hon, has been filed before the Southern Claims
Commission. Among the papers is a safe
guard to the lady's family and property, from