, 1875-10-15
LATEST NEWS
BY Telegraph and Mail.

over SIN inches OF snow had fallen
the night previous, and that it was
still showing.
The agricultural hall building,
for the Centennial, at Philadel-
phia, about one-third completed,
was blown down on the 18th inst.
Eight laborers were injured, seven
seriously and one fatally.
The N. Y. Evening Post of the
18th, states that trade is better
now than at any time since 1873.
Rev. Thos. Ryder, a Baptist
preacher Of Nottingham, Eng,
was found dead in his bed in
Hartford, Conn.,, at the residence
Of Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowe,
whom he was visiting.
The report of the treasurer of
the Peabody fund shows the total
amount available for approptia-
tons to educational purposes to be
$96,50O.
There was quite a large attend
ance at a woman suffrage meeting
held in Boston to consider what,
| if any, action should be taken at
the approaching election.
An attempt was made at Potts
vile, Pa, on the 9th, to destroy
the large West Brookside breaker,
owned by the coal and iron com
pany. The blacksmith shop, fan
house, carpenter shop and oil
house were burned down.
President Grant and party have
returned from Colorado and start
ed on the 10th for Washington.
Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi,
has telegrsphed to the Attorney
General to the effect that several
Of the dispatches relating to the
disturbances in that State are with
out foundation.
Moody and sankey propose to
cleanse Brooklyn and will begin
their revival work in that city on
October 31st. They will hold forth
in the sksting-rihk, which has a
capacity for 5000 persons.
6. w. Pemberton was hanged
Oct, 9Th in Charles street jail,
Boston, for the murder of Mrs.
Margaret E. Bingham on the 22d
Of March. He was little affected,
calm without being stolid or in
different. His death was instan-
taneous. The execution occupied
pne hour, when the body was Civ
ento his wife. a'r -5,
Admiral Wellesley and the Off
GERS of the British feet in the
Newport harbor, Rhode Island,
had q grand reception given to
them BY the city authorities.
The testimony in the Blumen-
berg case at San Francisco, forfeit
ters Of administration upon the es-
tate of ]. H. Blumenberg, de-
ceased, reveals a shameful state Of
deprayity on the part of Mrs. Blu
menberg, the widow, and the de-
tails are unfit for publication.
The announcement Of lengthy
review of Gen. Shermau's Mem
oir's made up chiefly from official
records of the war department.
has reached Washington. 1t win
make a volume as large as Sher-
mans is. Free access to official
files for the purpose of making
this compilation was given at the
department to the author. 1t is
by Gen. b. v. Boynton, and will
soon be issued.
Among the true bills returned
by the grand Jury at Washington
are eight in connection with the
recent robbery of the United
States treasury of over $47, 900, as
follows: Against Benjamin b.
Halleck, two indictments, one each
for larceny and embezzlement;
VIM. H. Ottman, three indict-
ments, grand larceny, receiving
stolen property and receiving en-
bezzled money; ]. w, Brown,
three indictments, receiving, con-
cealing and attempting to conceal
stolen money. 2'..- - -.ei
Another suit is begun in New
York in the name of the people
against Tweed to recover $685.
$40 alleged to have been fraudu-
lently paid on six warrants certi-
fed BY Tweed, and which forms
the principal allegation in the suit
against Peter b. Sweeney.
Judge ElcorI, of Philadelphia
has sentenced Westervelt, charged
with being implicated in the abb
duction Of Charley Ross, to seven
years in the penitentiary at solita-
ry confinement and a fine of one
dollar. Westervelt received the
sentence calmly.
The iron propeller Merchant,
which left Chicago last week for
Buffalo, having on board $4,000
bushels of corn, aud 1,200 barrels
of -four, struck a sunken rock on
Racine reef, and sunk in nine
lfatho,,s r,f ,yatar Tba Mo.abo.,4