, 1874-12-24

EXCLUSIVELY TO THE DAILY DISPATCH.

Plvmpton street fire we're as follows:
Morton & Chesly, 100000, stock
5000, building; insured for $4,000 on
stock; 10000 on building. Badger d
Co., 25. 600 on building; q, ,O00 on stock;
Smith & Jacobs, builders, go 600, build
ing-stock. Nathanial Hunt, Carpenter
and builder, loss on bnilding 10000;
stock, $4,000. McFalta, 60,JOO. Pierce.
Futile & Gilman, table manufacturers.
10000. Basson ef Barsch, cabinet max
ers. 10000. A lumber-yard WAS entire,
N destroyed, Cook & Reed losing %, COO
and the New England Organ Go. 6,0Uo
worth of lumber. c. D. Clark. 5000.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Dee. 5. = The
Champion cotton press caught fire this
afternoon. In few minutes the whole
building was in blaze. About 80 eco
bales of cotton were burned. It is be-
ieved the loss of cotton is $500, 900, in
sured; $50.000 in press and building;
500, 900 insurance, mostly foreign.
DEs MONIES, Iowa. Dec. 15.--At two
o'clock this morning party of about
one hundred ar d fif y men. disguised
and with their faces blackened, went to
the iaiI where Chas Howard. yesterday
convicted of tie murder of John john
son some months ego and sentenced to
the Penitentiary for life, was conhned'
took him out and hanged him to Il post
His wife was in Jail with him and clung
10 him shrieking until forced away by
the mob. So far there have been no
arrests.
PH1LapELpH1A, Dec. 15.-The follow
ing was received here this evening from
New York:
Jones. Chief of Police of Philadel-
phia: Walter Ross identifies both the
dead men positively. Another witness
one of them sure.
(Signed) VIM. r. HUNS,
Captain Detective Police of Phila.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.-Robt. Stadt,
foreign exchange clerk for nrexel & Co.
of this city, was put under $4,000 bail.
to answer a charge of embezz,ement--
The allegation is that by means of false
entries and the registry of incorrect
amounts of bills of exchange, he had
placed to his credi, at a foreign exchange
house the sum of $4,000 which had
been drawn out at various times by his
agents.
New YoRK, Dec. 15.-The Times says
the Central and Union Pacific Railroads
have concluded contract for five years
with the. Occidental and Oriental steam
ship Co. OF California. for first class
hne ef steamships between San Fran
cisco, Japan and China.
A writ CT habeas corpus, returnable
on the 18th inst, has been granted i'll
the case of VIM. NJ. Tweed.
Steamship Colima sailed from Pana-
ma for San Francisco via Acapulco, on
the 18th.
BosToN, Dec. Is Cobb was elected
Mayor to day Ly $4,000 majority.
HAVANA, Dec 15.- A body of 1000
insurgents OH the Both of November at
tempted to take Fort Asaciarra. After
penetrating to the interior they were re-
pulsed. A reserve of 800 or 800 then
made an Intellectual attempt to effect an
entrance, when their commander and
a considerable number of subordinates
were killed.
BERLIN. Dec. 15-The arguments in
the Won Arnim case are concluded, AMI
judgement will probable be rendered on
Saturday.
SAN FRANc1sco, &C. 16.--John Banks,
one of the crew of the Oakland, lying
off the Vallejo street wharf, fell from
the maintopsail yard to the deck and
died in few minutes of the injuries re-
oeived.
Rock POINT, Ogn., Dec. 15.--J. L..
Colrig and James Birdseye have just
arrived from the new quartz mines,
some fifty miles below this place and
report things lively. The road IS lined
with men and pack trains, going to the
land of gold and silver. The mammoth
ledge is about 1870 feet in width and at
the point where Rogue River has worn
its way through. has a depth of about
500 feet. About 90 claims are no" TAX
en-. 1t has been traced for about twen-
ty miles through a very rough country.
GuiGes get from SO TO 800 day to
trace the lead. Colrig says he crushed
few pounds of the ore and it averaged
10 cents per pound in gold. A town
has sprung up in fey weeks. 1t is to
be known as Mammoth City. Hotels,
feed-stables, shops and other buildings
are being built, and all that is needed
now is tor capital to take hold.
CRY OF MEXICO, Dec. 15.- Congress
has decfeed the suppression of the or
der of Sisters of Charity.
New York, Dec. 16.--Benjamin D..
Sill referee in the Proctor-Moulton
ease, filed his report in Court. He re-
reports that the imputations and state
ments in the publication concerning the
character of the plaintiff are wholly
false. an 4 the defendent, by his couu-
sci. disclained malice in the puollca-
ton and admitted the untruth OF such
imputations and statements. He cites
the terms of the final settlement as be-
fore published.
HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. 16.- The
large mill on warehouse point, occupied
the Leinard Silk Co., and the Chapin q
Barber Silk Co., was burned this even
ing. Loss probably over half a million.
T. :. hol;ovad tho fro was Inceudiary.-