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FRATRICIDE.
Man, Wife and Child Murdered
BY am Avarfcfous Brother.

BELFAST ME-, June 16.-Almon Gordon,
wife and child were found murdered in bed
at Thorndike, eighteen miles from here, this
morning. A brother of Almon G7rdon has
been arrested on the charge of killing him,
bis wife and chill last night and setting fire
to their house. A dispute about piece of
property is said to be the cause. ga
John Gordon, q man seventy years old,
had recently conveyed to bis son Almon his
farm worth 5000, taking back mortgage
for the life support of himself and wife,
The other son, John T, was dissatisfied
with the arrangement and probably thought
by the death of his brother and family the
property would fall to him. Tbs is the
only motive thus far assigned. At the time
of the murder the old people were absent
on a visit. The inmates of the house were
the murdered man, Almon M {, aged 25,
Emma A, bis wife, aged %, and their child
ren Ira B., aged 6, little Girl aged II
months, Anna niece aged 9, John Z, The
brother and hired man. 17t 1. b
About o'clock A. N. the latter was
awakened by the shrieks of the little boy,
and be Immediately discovered that the
house was on fire. he informed the neigh
bors and the flames were extinguishld d with
out much damage. The bodies of the
father, mother and infant, who occupied the
same bed, were soon found, mangled and
SO scorched as 10 be hardy recognizable.
The little boy who slept In crib in the
same rom was severely wounded, but may
survive. The bloody deed was evidently
committed with an axe, which was found
on the premises. The wounds of three
murdered persons were inflicted upon tie
head, and must have caused instant death.
q The brother, John T., arrested on sus-
plcioD, is % years old, a farm lahore, aud
lie maintains sullen indifler-
ence. refusing TO answer any question, but
saying that a. the proper time he will de-
fend himself. The coroner he'd an inquest
this afternoon. The prisoner will probably
be srraigned before the police court Of this
city tomorrow.
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WHO Is RELIABLE?

We publish elsewhere the statements of
private gentleman, taken from the Cincin-
natl Commercial Of the 18th, setting out
the fearful ravsges cholera was making here
Oh the 10Th anG l4.h. We have heard by
way Of Memphis, that we are having forty
aud fifty deaths day in this city, and still
more frightful tales have we heard by way
of Nashville ard Knoxville. OF course
they were each al d all The moDstrous ab-
surdi;ies bred In the brains Of fools, sensa-
tionalsts, and men, who, for the sake of
making people stare, would tell them hid
eous lie even at the risk of killing them.
This las made us suspicious of every chol-
era report from Nashville and Memphis
except it was printed as local news in a re-
liable newspaper. Private advices are in
their very nature, unreliable upon all sub
jects except such as it is the business of The
informant TO know ali about. They are
doubly to be doscredited when tbeg attempt
TO give The news upon that about which
every body is excited. 1t is the business
of the newspapers to give the news; and
they may ususty be relied on to state facts
exactly. Pay less heed 10 sensation mon
gers and read the newspapers for cholera
and q other news, and you will be much
less liable to act absurdly by working your
self into a foolish panic Chattanooga
Times, June IA.
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GREENEyILLE.
Alarming sickness and Deaths.-Is ID

Alarming Sickness and Deafhs.-Is ID
as a Cholera
From the Knoxville Press and Herald, June l5
Our Greeneville correspondent, who sends
the following, is a reliable and intelligent
citizen of that place:
MEsSRs. EDTToRs.-There is no longer
any question but that we have cholera in
GresneVille. Mr.. A. Piper, U. S. Deputy
Revenue Collector, was taken sick on Mon
dayl last, and died within forty-eight hours.
Some of our physicians pronounced the dis
ease cholera, Others said it was not. Then
the wife of John Arrowwood was taken
violently i'll, and died yesterday, her symp-
toms being unquestionsbly cholera. Ella
Glass, a colored woman, came very nearly
dying from the same disease, but the ply.
sicians succeeded in getting up a reaction,
and she is recovering. Last evening,
at q O'Clock, the wife of U. S. Dep.
uty Marshal w. S. Mitchell, was attacked
with The cholera, and died at 8 o'clock this
morning. Mrs. Mitchell was daughter of
MIR. Piper, who died On last Wednesday.
There are several other serious cases in our
town, and great many of lighter form.
Our people have not become panic stricken,
but treat the matter philosophically, prefer
ring to remain at home and live prudently
to fleeing to other parts. All of the serious
cases have been on the low grounds along
the creek that runs through the town.
L. c. r.
Greeneville,, Tenn, June ID, 1878. as..
'Ha LATER.
GREENEyILLE; June IA, 10:40P M
Special to The Press and Herald. d.--Since
A. M. Piper's death, his daughter, Mrs.
Mitchell, and also Mrs. Arrowwood have
died. About dozen persons were attack
ed, all of whom are cOnvaleseent but one.
The physicians call it sparadic or idiopathic
cholera. All precautions are being taken,
but there is no serious alar N. There we're
no new cases today.
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BROOKLYN.
Sunday Work in the City of Churches
Whisky Raid ON the Lava Beds.
The Tables Turned On Uncle Sans
Boys.

The MOOnshiners Make them Prison.
ers of War.
NEW YORK, June 16.-The reported
seizure in Brooklyn yesterday of fourteen
copper stills, twenty-five thousand gallons
of mash and other articles for the manufac-
ture ofillicit whisky proves not to have been
altogether correct. The revenue men
thought they could manage the affair with
out the aid of the police and made the seiz-
ure, but mob pelted them with bricks and
stones and the Illicit whisky distiljers coolly
procured cart and drove off triumphantly
with the stills and other property worth
preserving. Meanwhile one of the revenue
officers made his way to the police station,
asking tnat his associates. then confined IN
the abandoned distillery, be rescued.
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CINCINNATI.
Three Fatal Cases.

CINCINNATI, June 16.-The past 4S
hours have developed the presence here OF
three not fatal, part Of which had all the
symptoms of cholera, within this period,
were repor,ed at the regular meeting of the
Academy Of Medicine tonight. The an
nouncement in the papers this morning of
fatal case having cholera symptoms has
created no excitement whate er during the
day, the citizens generally not apprehending
the prevalence Of cholera as an epidemic
during this season.
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HENRY WILSON.
Serious Illness Of the Vice President.
Suffering from Credit mobrlIer Bile.

Suffering from Credit MObilIer Bile.
New YORK, June 16.--The Boston let
ter of tie Springfield RensblicGn says:
There has been much anxiety the past
week among the few who have known facts
concerning the alarming Illness of Vice
President Wilson. His attack was follow
ed by partial deafness and partial blindness,
ard The general characteristics of bis symp-
toms were such as to threaten a loss Of his
power and activity, if not of his life. He
is now improving, but is by no means out
Of danger. BE has been sojourning in Bos-
ton for some weeks, under caro- of DR. E.
I'll. Clarke, and he has seen very few of bis
friends. His lsbors in the last election,
followed by the strain and anxiety Of last
winter and accompanied by good deal of
work or his anti-slavery history, are re-
garded as the Immediate occasion of his
present illness.
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AsHoRT RIDE, AND WHAT wEsAw.

eSterday morning, Hon. Wm. STutcH-
field turned over TO us his horse and buggy
for drive. In company with Mr.. Walter
Carr, we visited Mr.. C's farm, looking first
at the wheat field, most of which was in
shock. The field is about forty-fve acres
In extent, and of the BoughtOn variety.
The stand on the ground is the best we have
seen. The heads, though short, are well
filed, and the berry very plump and fine.
1t will t'pan OUT shout twenty bushels to
the acre.
The cornfeld showed growths of from
six inches to two feet in height, representing
first, second, and third planting. The stand
of all the paintings now secured : good
and with favorable season, the third will
be equally as good crop as the first plant
ing.
From the fields we drove to the orchard,
where we saw the finest collection Of fIuit
TO be found in this part of the State. Peach
trees loaded with thrifty, healthy fruit,
their limbs bending TO the ground under
the weight; apricots, plums, cherries, rasp-
berries, blsckberries, grapes. Here and there
the thick shade Of thess fruit-lauen tr5es are
broken by patch of fine garden vegetables,
tomatoes, OF one variety and another The
orchard is flankel on all sides with some
b0lQS Ludb OlGleE Is, VI Wal Lci pold aLlE' n
bed Of Cabbage Eere, a line of strawberries
there, grape srbor in a conner. The whole
surface is utilized, and will produce enough
fruit to supply three families this year, and
big margin t. spare.
The greatest novely Of the orchard is a
peach stock bearing cn its boughs apricots,
plums and peaches, all in perfect health and
of perfect flavor.
Mr.. Crutcbfield has done more than any
man in tSis part of the State to deve'Op the
possibilities of fine fruit culture in this eli
mate. We have not room for description
of half the curious but successful expert
ments he has inaugursted in the compare
lively narrow area of Ills beautiful orchard,
A d as much as we favor the development
of "our manufactu ing interests il is with
g pang of regret that we look forward to
the time when this beautiful orchard will
be despoiled, that its sic maybe covered
with the dust and debris Of shops and fac
tories. Chattanooga Times, June ID.
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Bloody Battle with Burglars.
One Killed, One Captured and One
Escapes.

One Killed, One Captured and One
Escapes.
A bloody battle took place hers this morn
ing at the corner Of Hsllsed and Erie
streets between three police officers and
the same number of burglarsswhich resulted
in the shooting aud probable killing of Jack
Alien one of the most daring and notcri-
Gus thieves in the country, aud the capture
Of Dave Roggio, alias Rogers or one arm
Dave, q scarcely noted villain. The bur
glars were spotted last night by Sheriff
Mcdonald of Sioux city on the train from
Milwaukee, in which city they had on Sat
mday night robbed dry goods store Of
several tho usand dollars worth Of goods.
Mcdonald telegraphed to the police head
quarters here and three policemen me, the
train the depot, hut the thieves catching
sight of them jumped from the Car and run
off. The police however, overlook them
but met with furious resistance on att mpt-
ting to arrest. Allen drew pistol and fired
anE insffec5ual shot a. officer Sim
mons who returned the fire and one of his
shots struck Allen in the side, penetrating
the intestines and inficting wound which
it is believed must prove mortal. ROggiO
also fought desperately, but was finally cap
tured and is now in Jail. The third burglar
made good bis escape.
A Nightly Occurrence.
In South Evanston last night, Charles
BrantZ, young man, while walking with
two companions, was shot through the
head aud killed by an unknown man. Two
have been arrested on suspicion.
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POMEROY.
Pleads PoslpOnement.

TOPEKA, Ks, June 16.-The trial of
ex-senator Pomeroy for the bribery of
York, was postponed to-day until the De-
cember term of the District Court on mo-
ton of Pomeroy's counsel. Pomeroy
claimed to be ready for trial, but that his
counsel had not had time for preparation.
There were 35 witnesses present for the
State, ard none for Pomeroy. The prose-
cutting attorney urged in forcble manner
that the application for continuance be
daniad
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Instantly Killed.

GOSHEN, IND, June 16.-Edward Ben
ham Of Wabash was instantly killed this
morning on the train of the Cincinnati,
Wabash and Michigan railroad, six miles
south of Goshen. He was in the act of
throwing message from the platform to
some laborers, when leaning over too far,
his head came in contact with fence post
and he was thrown under the cars, fearful
ly mangled and picked. up dead. He was
General Freight Agent of the
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FOREIGN.
Persia,s Peoxresa.

LONDON, June 16.-The Shah of Persia
arrived at Brussel. to-day and viii reach
London Wednesday evening. Extrsordi-
nary preparations are being made here for
bis reception aud entertainments by the
court, the city, military and naval authori
ties and at the Crystal Palace, opera
houses and various theatars. The Shah will
subsequently visit Liverpool and Msnches-
tar
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Five PeFs0uk DraWnaH-

MONTPELIER, VT, July I6.-Wbile a
number of persons were on raft composed
oftAo boats and some plank, in pond in
Calsis, twelve miles from here, yesterday,
one Of the boats filed and the whole party
were thrown into the water. Five were
drowned, and about the same number were
taken from the water unconscious, but re-
stored.
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Condensed TeIesrams.


Salt Lake reports the weather unprece-
dently hot.
San Francisco burned a $4,000 candle
factory yesterday.
Twenty thousand more Chiusmen
are Cat sea" for California.
Jno. b. Weller, former Governor of Cali
foinia, lies dangerously i'll in New Or
leans.
Hon. Moses Bates, prominent member
of the Democratic party and for some years
Chairman of the Massachusetts State Cen
tral Committee, died at his home in East
Bridgewater yesterday morning. a
At Cleveland, o., yesterday, two painters
were seriously injured by falling from a
reckless scafolding.
All the billiard experts of the country
join with Ubassy in tournament in Irving
Hall, New York, Juge 90.
A very troublesome counterfaiter, of nu-
merous name, was nabbed at Sprinfeld,
H., yesterday. .r -eg-. ID
The New York street cars killed another
man Sunday night-fatally stabbed by the
conductor.
The Bundesturnfets of North America
is gathering toward Ci cinnati.
Uxbridge, Ontario, reports $4,000 fire.
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MEMPHIS.
ChoIeraic Chronology.

MEMPHIS, June 15-There were twen-
ty-one interments to-day, against twelve
yesterday. Physicians say the number of
cholera patients is increasing, but the dis
ease yields more readily to treatment than
during the past week.
MEMPHIS, June 16.--The weather to-day
hiss been very unfayorable for the improve
ment Of the health of the city, as during the
night the mercury fell twelve degrees, and
to-day it was raining and hot. The inter
ments to-day were 10, - of whom died
of cholera and cholera infantum. The City
Council this evening passed an ordnance
establishing a board of health,
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THE CROPS.

The news tbss reaches US from all the
States, In regard TO the gro Eing crops, is
anything but encouraging. Cotton has
been especially unfortunate. In North
M ssissippi, indeed, we might say through.
out the ) ate, new sparers and private cor
respondents agree that he caterpillar is
marching in larger numbers than ever, and
that the de truction is greater than has
ever lef0Ie b en- known. In Louisi Ba, 80
great has been the destruction by wet
weather, thst IT, Is feared impossible to
count~ract its influences before the pest,
which is usual result of It (the army
worm), makes its appearance and kills
what remains cf a Chance for crop. In
the western part Of this State the continued
rains and prevalence of an unusually humid
atmo phere are qOickening The growth of
the grass, and although planters are work
ing diligently to check il; & is feared that it
is already too far ahead and may succeed
in checking the growing plant.
From Georgia there comes tie same
complaint of grassy cotton, cat
erpillar aud possibly army worm; yet the
farmers re not esst down, but, are as busy
as beavers in their efforts TO chop out The
o-e and kill OFF the other. In Florida the
same cause for the ssms coo plants exist,
and the apprehensions OF planters ara fully
aroused, though the hope is INDUCED that
with such hot, dry weather as we in Mem
phis have been praying for, the threatened
damage may be escaped. Everywhere
throughout & ADAM the cry goes up, "Fhe
caterpillar! The ca,e'pillar!" And there
seems TO be no help for it. Rains have
been almost incessant, planters are indulging
in ha olrnpau 4rrh hpdinno and ho
newspapers are prognOsticSting dire calami.
ties in case of failure, since, as The Eufaula
Times has it, "there are NJ oa's, no corn,
no bacon; and all cur money is in little
weed that will nor blossom for three
some time ago, we had reason
TO expect better things, the story
of caterpillar, rain and possibly the army
worms comes with augmented force, and
the general feeln2 is that the cotton crop
will be short. The South Carolina papers,
too, are filed with gloomy accounts, and
they are unanimously iof The opinion that
the crop will be shor', the wet weather pre-
vailing there, as everywhere SlOns The cot
ton belt. Ia Louisiana, the sugar cane is
overurn with grass, and u reasonable hope
eau be enterts ned of satisfactory product.
Anent all this, and as an antidOte, We have
encouraging accounts of the wheat crop in
Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama,
and, generally, corn is doing very we'll.
From this il will be seen that any arrange
ments of spinners or buyers for big cot
ton crop are in fair way 70 be frustrated,
and that tn Sc who deal in futures"
would do well to discount largely the swell
Jog figures of the ulls."-Me7npbjs Ap-
peal, June IA.
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THIS personal paragraph has fresh sound,
but it takes ones thoughts bacR to very an
cient history: The restoration of the statute
of Diadumenls has just been completed by
Mr. J.D. Crittenden for the British Museum.
This statute was executed by Stephanos, by
order of Augustus Cesar, and is copy of
an original by Polycletus. --s
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NORWICH, Conn, June 16.Three men
have been arrested, charged with placing
obstruclions and throwing trains from the
track of The Norwich and Worcester rail-
road. A reward Of thousand dollars has
been offered upon conviction of those
guilty,
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Yellow Jack.

FORTRESS MONROE, June 16 The
Norwegian Bark Aspo from Havana for
HaVre arrived in the Roads to-dsy with yel-
low fever on board. One man died oustbe
passage. The Captain and three men have
the fever, butare convslesciDg.
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Very odd Fellows.

BALTIMORE, june 1G The Colored Odd
Fellows of this city celebrated the lGGh
UniyeTsary OF the organization in this State
to-day by grandparade. The display was
very fine and an honor to the Order.
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The Turf

New YORK, June 16.-The trotting race
at Prospect Park track to-day for horses that
had never beaten 2:34, was won by Jack
Draper. Time, 2:30, 2:275a, 2:30, 2:329.
Little Picton won the second heat.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 16.--Charles
Hohrenman, German carpenter, shot
himself in the right ear at u O'Clock to-day
and tied in an hour after.
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ST. LOUIS.
Maj. Ewing's Funeral.

ST. LOUIS, June 15.-The funeral of
Maj. Henry Ewing to-day was one of the
most numerously attended that has occur
red here for long time, citizens OF nearly
all classes being present. The remains
were escorted from the residence of the de-
ceased TO the first Christian church by the
engineer corps OF the National Guard,
where the funeral services were con iucted
by the Rev. S. A. Kelley. Leaving the
church, the remains were taken in charge
by the Knights Templar, and were followed
to BellefOnJain Cemetery by that Order,
the engineer corps, members of the city
press, attaches of the Times Office, compa-
MES A and B of the National Guard, and
long concourse of Carriages filed with citi-
Zens. AT the cemetery services were per-
formed according to the funeral rites of the
Order o Knights Templar, Rev. Sir Knight
X. A. Holland officiating as prelate of the
COmmandery.
The Great Railroad Suit.
ST. LOUIS, June 16.-Application was
made Saturday last 70 Judge Dillon, United
States Circuit Court Judge, sitting in cham
bers at Davenport, Iowa, by the attorneys
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad for an
Injunction to restrain Gov. Woodsor of this
State from advertising the Missouri Pacific
Railroad to satisfy State lien on the road
for some eight million dollars. The case
was argued length by Judge Baker and
Hon. John b. Henderson for the Railroad,
and Attorney General Ewing and Hill and
Bowman f. r the State. Argument closed
to-day, and Judge Dillon reserved his decis-
ion for five weeks, and the attorneys for he
State at the request ofthe Court agreed to
postpone advertising the road for sale until
The decision is given.
John Lechlein, German, suicided to-day
by jumpibg into the river.
IncendIary.
A supposed il cendisry fire at Mexico,
Missouri, yesterday, destroyed, frame stores,
involving less of $4,000. Insurance. not
stated,
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A l4ss Of Muse gee county, Ga, has a
sure thing on plenty of Christmas rocket
money. She has e!gbfy young turkeys,
which f Low her @r1u-d The yard, and
which. hr fsthcr says, SNAKE the hand
soonest train ynu3g person Of her sex ever
twirled."
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Mrs. Matte Mcclellan Brown is on her
way to England as the accredited represeIl-
tative of the Good TemplaTs Of Ohio.
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Sunday Work.

James Curtin, While drunk early yester,
day morning, quarreIled with bis wife
when 4 young and iGotic brother Of the lat
ter iuterfered aud struck Curtin with an
axe, fatally wOunding him.
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I. FoRNEY has published his "Anecd0tes Of
Public Men" in 400 page book.
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Another Cable.

The steamship Great Eastern has CON-
menced the laying Of the new Atlantic cable
from Valentia bay, Ireland, to Sidney, Cape
Breton. A dispatch from on board dated
noon to-day reports the great ship was in
latitude 81, p and longitude Ga, SO and had
paid cut 1867 miles OF cable. All was well.
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kellogg Explains How the People
Yield TO the Yoke of Grant

Commander Green h as been ordered to
the command of the vessel to be dispatch
ed for the discovery and relief Of the Polaris
with Lieut.. Commander White as execu.
tive officer. The Secretary is making. Sc =
lection of a vessel suitable for arctic naviga-
ton. Efforts are being made to start the
expedition in July. The Juniata is taking
ous her guns and provisioning for a voy-
age OtiLquiry and may leave the ast of this
week