Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-09-20

Brownsville to the Gulf. The cotton
crop is DESTROYED, and the Rio Grande
and Point Isabel Railroad rack has
been washed away for six miles and the
entire line is submerged and ruined.
The veterans of the Mexican war arc
celebrating the anniversary of the fall
of the City of Mexico. Delegations
are present from Baltimore, Washing
ton, Philadelphia and other cities.
Particulars Of the Assassination Of Gen.
McCOolS.
YANKToN, Dakota, Sept. 13.-Last
night Edwin S. McCook, Secretary of
Dakota Territory, and p. p. Winter
mute, banker of this city, got into an
alteration in billiard room in the st.
Charles Hotel, when McCook chastised
Wintermute. The latter subsequently
procured revolver, and later in the
evening met McCook at q railroad
meeting which was being held at the
hotel, and shot him in the left breast,
the wound proving fatal, McCook dying
at Z o'clock this morning. Wintermntc
was arrested.
Philadelphia Wool Market,
PunApELrurA, Sept. 12.--Ine WOO
market is active, but not quotabl> Ugh
er. California fine and medium. a. 80
M35c. California course, 5SW3H,.
miscellaneous.
WASHINGTON Sept. 13.--The Presi-
dent has appointed Alex. r. Sheppard
Governor of the District of Columbia,
vice II. ID. Cook, resigned.
The President on the 10th inst. ac-
ceptcd sixty-live miles of the Northern
Pacific Railroad in Washington Terri
tory, recently examined by the L. S.
Commissioners. The maps were sent
to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office with instructions to take
proper action as to the land grant.
The Evacuation of France.
PARIS, Sept. 12.-The evacuation of
Vcrdun by tho German forces has been
completed, and tomorrow there will
he great public rejoicing and general
illumination of the town in the even
ing.
A Horrible story OF the Slave Trade.
LONDON, Sept. 13.-Dispatches have
been received at the Admiralty Office
from the commander of the British
steam sloop Daphne, announcing the
capture in the Indian Ocean, near the
Sovchette Islands, of slave ship. upon
which there had been terrible suffering.
Smallpox had ragel on the ship, and
out of 300 slaves taken or board $50
had died. The remaining fifty were
terribly emaciated from disease and
want.
CoNsrANTINopLE, Sept. 10.--A violent
storm on the Black Sea last week was
very destructive to shipping. Seventy
vessels were wrecked south of the Boss
phorus and nearlyall on board persisted
At one point on the coast 2G5 corpses
have been washed ashore.
HALIFAX, Sept. 13.--Additional par
ticulars of the recent disastrous gale
are being received at Brooklyn. A
schooner went down off Magdalen' s
Islands, and all on boar,l-l2 in num-
her-werc lost Tho bodies of the
officers and crew of the brig Ellen We're
fonnd in the wreck. A coalladcn
schooner, with five persons on board
went down off Devils Island. The
ship !Scolin, laden with pine, is ashore
mt Port Rich, and the wrcckers appar-
emily endeavoring to do all damage
possible They threatened to kill the
crew of the Government schooner
guarding the vessel. Bodies are daily
washed up on the beach.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-lhe walls of a
building in the town of Stonehouse,
Devonshire, which had recently been
burned, fell this morning. killing eight
persons and tnjuring several others.
Dispatches ftom Australia report a
great fire in Auckland, New Zealand.
Fifty large buildings were destroyed,
the total loss is estimated at $40, 900
Sept 1G.-A full freighted schooner
sunk in the Mersey to-duy, carrying
down all on board.
Heavy rains have swollen the rivers
and streams, and caused an inundation
in part of Forfarshre. Much property
has been destroyed and tho damage is
considerable.
SAN FRANcIsco, Sept. 1.-THE de-
cline in freights has caused more activ-
ity in the lumber export trade. The
Chieftau cleared Monday for Burrard
Inlet to load with lumber for Shanghai.
The MenschihoF and Winduard cleared
in ballast Saturday for Puget Sound
and Oregon to load cargoes for the
same destination. The North Star and
lean Sands will soon sail for the north
the former to load at Humboldt for
Shanghai, the latter at Puget Sound for
Hongkong. Pine cargoes, better job
bling; retail rates have been advanced
one dollar per thousand