The Grange advance., 1874-08-12
FAITH, HOPE,

understood that uster has had any big
6ght.--A seoul. .drel named John Franks
is under arrest a, Fort Wagner, Ind, for
outraging the person of young girl at
Maysville named Elizabeth Baston. He
enticed the girl to ride with him, drove to
a secluded spo., accomplished his purpose
BY force and tAreats, returned her to the
village aud then fed to Fort Wagner,
where he wae arrested. Within a few
years the sale scoundrel has twice before
been arrested for rape. The people of
Maysville are disposed to lynch him, and
it was feared would try to take him from
Jail last night for that purpose.--rhe
President has appointed Peter Mantor Of
Mantorviile to be Register Of the land Office
at Bismarck, D. T.-Mrs. Ossian E.
Dodge, the heroine of the St. Paul scandal
last year, returned from visit to relatives
last evening and found that her husband
had lett her, taking with hin their two
youns vulioren, and probably over $40,-
600 in money, leaving her unprovided for
He las pretended reconciliation for year
and in the meantime has converted all his
property into cash under pretense of NOV
in East or to Europe, she imagining noth-
ing but that he was planning for her good
and happiness.
THuReDAY, August 6.-Mr. F. D. Moul-
ton, the confidential friend of Beecher and
Tilton, is to appear before the Plymouth
Church committee Saturday evening, pre-
sent the originals Of papers put in his
charge by each party and give copies of
them to the committee. The correspon.
dence preceding this determination de-
velops good deal of i'll feeling, lily sup
pressed. Beecher asks for the return of
bis papers and accuses Moulton of letting
Hlton copy them. Moulton declines to re-
turn papers to either party without con-
sent Of the other, and explains Tilton's
quotations from the papers. by saying, as
Tilton did in his evidence before the CON-
mittee, that the latter made uhonographic
notes of their contents when they were
read to him. -. The Ohio river steamer
Pat Rogers was burned near Aurora, Ind,
yesterday morning. There were about one
hundred people on board, Of whom about
thirty are missing and were probably drown
ed or burned to death. The fire caught in
bail Of cotton and is suspected to have
been the work Of on incendiary because Of
the tiller rope parting at the moment CT
discovery but more likely resulted from q
spark failing into the cc.:@n. The fire
spread quick::5 along the shore s;Ge Of the
vessel and most Of those who escaped alive
were more or less seriously burned.
FRIDAY, August 7. That excursion and
dinner ct Chester, Pa, on the occasion Of
the launch of the CITY Ct fekin, is said to
have s:ved the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company from Congressional declaration
Of forfeiture of its contract and now the
Postmaster General is advised by the At
torney General that he must treat the con-
tract as valid. That saves half q million,
the annual subsidy, to the steamship COM
pany.... Thomas N. Pugh, Of Mankato,
has been appointed Receiver at Fargo, D.
T. .... There were four thousand English
psople present at game of ball played by
the American clubs in England yesterday.
-. 1t is reported that Father Hyacinthe
has resigned his ouracy Of Geneva. :. The
business circles .: 81. LOUIS are much excl
ted over the discovery that the firm Of Al
exander, Dorman & Co., cotton brokers of
that city, have issued forged warehouse
receipts Of which $le7,ooo are yet out
standing, principally held by banks as Sc
curity for advances made. Mr.. B. Alex
ander, the senior member Of the firm, con-
fesses to having himself perpstrated the
frauds and employed 81: expert to forge the
signatures. His partners protest they had
no knowledge whatever of the matter and
Alexander cors.,r ms their innocence. AT
shepherdsville, Ky., and at Wilmington,
N. c., yesterday, ELECTION day,) serious
skirmishes occurred between mobs of
whites and blacks, and still further trou-
bic is5feared at the former place. Anoth-
q mob fight occurred at Rocky Point,
fourteen miles from Wilmington, which
was still going on Il Last accounts x. The
North Carolina election yesterday
resulted in TIA election OF seven
Conssrvativss to Congress and one Repub-
lioanj ) gain Of two for the former, who
are believed to have ovsr 5000 majority