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MURDER By TRAMP. - Springfield, Mass,
Novem Der 2S.-Moses Dickinson, aged sixty
four, a farmer of Amherst, was found muir.
dered in bis house Saturday night, his head
being smashed in with an axe. The muir
derer was doubtless o tramp, whom he hired
two weeks before, and the murder was done
for money 80 ~ -.
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EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BEARpsrowN, ILL
Chicago, November GA fire at Boards.
town, Cass county, ILL.,, last night, destroyed
the Billings block, containing the dry-goods
store of ! Fl. B. Wilson, Drieson s. Co.'s
clothing store, the Central Illinois printing
office; alse the Nolle g. Mcclure block, con.
tanning q number of small stores. Loss,
$4,000. il II,5 .e: ! i i ;;s i
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New York Items.

New YosK, November 3d. Judge Barrett
has denied the motion TO stay the execution
of Charles Weston, William Ellis, and VA.
liam Thompson (uegroes), who VIII pe
hanged December 17tb. e .21 i.
The Government has commenced SUN
against the Flax-SpinniDg Company for $780,
600 for characterization. The company claim
that the goods were imported at full value.
A meeting of the centennial committee OF
banks, clearing honse, &C., to-day, was al.
dressed by Governor Hawley, of Connecsi'
cut, and BIGGER, of PENNSYLVANIA, showing
that 81, 500, 900 was yet necessary to open the
Centennial In May next. : -
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cave.,u or the Grand Tannel Mines.

Cave-in OF the Grand Tannea Mines.
WIlKEsBARRE, PA, November 29.-The
roof of the Chauncey, and Grand runner
mines Hin, covering one hundred acres.
Loss, one hundred thousand dollars. NO
lives were lost. Several hundred Workmen
are ousted. Mr.. Roberts, one OF the pro.
prietors, noticed signs OF danger, and OF
dered the men, one hundred and twenty-five
in number, out of the mines two hours De-
fore the fall. =, 49, i 1900.
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AN UNNATURAL MURDER.-Bufalo, No.
vember 2s.-A woman, eyed forty, named
Wihelmina Weik, was arrested this after
noon charged with numbering herstep'son,
aged fourteen years, who has been missing
since the 2d.instant. The body was found
in an old well on the premises in nude
state, except q shirt, with chains and other
weights attached to bis neck. Property be-
longing to the murdered boy and reYerting
to her own child in case OF his death is the
SupDosed cause istina ~ ~ ~
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Reported Death OF Charles O'Coner.
h NEW ;YoRK,5t, November 29.-Charles
sOConor, the lawyer, Is dangerously sick.
Later.-C Charles O'Gonor Is dead.
5! Latest.-A dispatch from Fort Washing
ton denies the report Of O'Conor's death.
and says he Is somewhat better.
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Viee.President WILSON'S Renatns fin
!; Il I. B0sson.
BosroK, November 29.-The day has been
fair. Immense crowds viewed the remains
Of Vice President Wilson. The ceremonies
were very impressive,
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The proprietor of the Unioasown ken
tacky) Local refuses e receive the amount
ot subscription in wild piums. BE says be
must draw the line somewhere, and he
eraTs it at wild plums. 49, III :7
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.Conyietfon or Election = Repeatars.s
S CHICAGO, November 39.-Frank Williams
and Charles Smith, ON trial here for :. re.
peatipg, . plead guilty. and were sentenced
to one year. b Imprisonment and one thou
sand dollars, fine.. 81
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HE BROKEN bASkS IN NEW 1 Ohh'-1 uCl o
was considerable excitement in New York
on Friday among the small uptown savings
banks owing to the closing OF the doors OF
the Manufacturers and Builders Bank, the
Security Savings Bank, the Peoples Savings
Bank, and the Central Park Savings BANK.
The first of these institutions, it is under
stood, lost heavily by the failure of Henry
Clews, and within the past year Its business
has been gradually declining. The cashier,
MIR. Morgan, says it is amply able to pay
every dollar owing to depositors within
sixty or ninety days. With regard to the
Peoples but few facts have transpired apart
from the announcement on the doors that
"this bank will 60 into liquidation and pay
all Indebtedness" The Security Savings
Bank early in the day placed notice on the
door to the effect that the bank would neither
receive nor pay out any deposits until the
examination of the banks affairs was COT.
cuded. A good many of the depositors ap-
pear to be Germans OF the working class.
As showing how unreliable statements are,
the Central Park Savings Bank in December,
1873, wishing to make good showing, per-
suaded the trustees to nuke deposits In trust
to the amount OF sixty thousand dollars by
giving checks for the amount. This had the
effect to raise the deposits to one hundred
aud thirty-nine thousand dollars-an appa.
rent sum. Thee entries were soon after
cancelled. In June the same course was
taken with regard to the July report. The
officers did not reflect upon the nature of
this act, but they have now concluded that
cit was not exactly right" and will not re-
peat it. @t
The New York Herald of yesterday says
from all indications the end OF the failures
among the various savings banks inthat city
has not been reached. Oa Saturday the Mu.
tual Benefit Savings Bank, incorporated in
1868, was also compelled to succumb, and it
says that others will have to follow the same
course within the next thirty days there, but
that healthier tone will then prevail is
equally certain. &a b. s.s.g5a.. ,..... 1870
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Fire.
Z 80

Bosres, November 2s.--The rubber.shoe
factory at Maiden has been burned. Lose,
three hundred thousand dollars Insurance,
ninety thousand dollars. Eight hundred ope
satiyes ousted.s ssss.s,s II ~.
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-Four HOUSES BURNIp. Boston, Novem-
Der 27.-Four houses ut Weymouth Land.
ing were burned to-day. Loss, S25, 600, 49,.
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.Burdett, State Treasurer. of West Vir-
gipia. has been inpeached by the Legisls-
lure, and will be brought totrial before the
Senate Bennett, the State Auditor, is also
TO be impeached unless the House Of Dele
gates rejects the articles against him.
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RICHMOND TOBACCO EXCHANGE
RICHMOND, November 20, 1875.


The breaks to-day were 40 hog,heads, ~ terces,
and boxes. 80, SIS, esIEl y 4 tslGt '4s'3 4
The offerings at auction on Change to-day were
~ packa ges OF which 80 were sold at prices rang.
ing from S1.6o to 49,; Bids on AZ packages re-
jected. c..f.:'. 60, s"% - e-..---
The business done on 'Changeto.tay showed some
increase, which was owing to there being no sales Of
loose at shockoe warehouse to attract buyers there
THE market, however, was dali - t:@s ~
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1lr.fRfIffr, A Ra 81 so TO o. per thousand at
NJ 81 DIsPATGH PRIATISG,HoUszh s. 8.
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EDUcATIol,sAL
,,S,SInnnMINIoN RusINESs GOLLEGE,

BUSINESS COLLEGE,
" l2I7MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, Va
students received ut any time. and Thoroughly IN.
sfrncted In Actual Contingencies Practice, Booa-
Ieenino In all Its branches, Penmanship lbOth
nsa9n and crnsmentalb Commercial Law. CONNER
ciai Srithmefic Rpsiness Customs, Forms, Cor
rsspondence, Common English. DC For part,cl-
Lars, s ssd,sssps ehoheh q. a1oo-
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]. a feature of the, Sunday dinners at the
California State prison is q tWelYe-huhdred.
pound bread pudding. 49, ~
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7iwnE4r.-Waae 1858 :bdshels. I Red 4 ,sssi
t coaS- Whtts 1856 busheiG gsaS,e, so bush
els. Lired "a bushels. : - "a {: .tAIt
MEAL.-S8 bushels 1'l'E y 80 - 81 ~
go, SALESs I'll +. : ~ ~ di.3 zig
WHEAT White, AZ, bnsheta at II SO: Jig bnsh,s
els: at 81 as; 14S busbelsat 9I.42s AZ bushels st
1927; bushels common al! GOES 30 busnais'
prime ct 81 10; 1SS bushels very good at s1.4S;
So bushels at 81 .324; SO bushels fair at u. Sc,
total, 702 bushels. Red, 80 bushels At 81 .3S; 232
bushels Of S1.40; 30 bushels very good az Sls43;
20 bushels prime al III As l32 busbeisat Sl.35i
81 bushels common at 81 IL bushels common az
ST. 5; 90 bushels very good at S1.42-total, SiS
bushels
CORN.-Hh0e, so bushels prime new at 6ec.; %
bushels very good new on private termsi 5O BUSH
Is prime new al Csc; ! 90 bushels prime new on
pri yate terms; 90 bushels very good old ut 7oc-
total 314 bushels. Iello,o, so bushels new on pm
MEAL.-60 bushels unbolted at Csc: l
gza RE-ENHIBITED. 4. gs, '3.t
WHEAT.-ReG 90 bushels, Il: 90
CoRN.-White, 94S bushels. feltolc, on bushels,
~ REMARKS. 49, u Ii. sisz
The offerings of wheat on Change from LIST July
to the Goth October, 1874, and from the 1stJ July
to the Goth October, 1875, we're: ..s,f..
1874. 1875.
.,t .#a,e. Bushels. : N s 4r.-> SuShets.
wheat-white.. 150,383 Wheat-White. .1s0,68s
Red. .209,963 Red....326,S7S,
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lS76. NOW =, g y TIE IT,; TINE " ? 1876.
- - iiaa rosuBsCRIBEss 80
d;+.si 9Gg isi3.;if t3igfE aag - 8sSs8R
i &,a3 ii j. TELL YsoEy sS'
l NEws.DEALER AND gooKsELLER,

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for all The Magazines pnbiishet In this country and
Europe, will send any Of the following papers and
magazines to any address fpostnge pGtdI On re-
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The Proposed Ship Canal Across tho
= asthFaus of DarseE.-
Tspeciai telegram to ,i,e I,i.,a.c,,


WASHINGTON. November 29.-The com.
mission to exsmine the various surveys for a
ship.csual across the 1stbmus of Darien have
submitted their report to the President.
They are of the opinion, after full inv estiga.
ton, that the Nicaragua route is the best.
They estimate that the canal from the harber
of Brite, on. the Pacific, to Greytown, on the
Atlantic, can be constructed at cost not to
exceed sixty.six million dollars. They find
objections Of an almost insurmountablen nature
In all but the Panama and Nicaragua route,
and notwithstanding the greatest length
one hundred and eighty.six miles they give
preference pit. Lske Nicaragua is on this
route. ~ ar.sl:i5 -, l.,!a...:5 ~ q
The commission, after abiding to the inn,
portance and feasibility Of the canal, say !:
&c Il Is now regarded as OF the highest inn
portance that The United States take some
action at once to carry out the feasible plans
Of the ship-canal in order TO prevent either
France or England from coming in and reap,
ing the honor and profit Of this great enter.
prise.n. The commission consists of General
Humphreys, Captain Patterson, and Cons
mod0re AmEen. ts - s.s1a
United States supreme Court Decl-
Efon-fs,.s ~ "a -. iit7Sss
WASHINGTON, November 22-The SUI
preme Court to-day confirmed tbe decision
Of the Court of Claims In the case Of the
limited States Us. The Union Pacific Railroad.
This confirms the preeeedingsin favor OF the
road and above them TO retain one half OF
the amount paid by the Government for
stranspertation. The case decided y for only
hair q million, but the decision will hold
good for the future and may involve large
The opinion affirming the decision In favor
Eosatbe Union Pacific Railroad Company Was
unanimous. g. large number of persons
Rsss PRESENT a sn Sc 4 rush Rs e sTnea'a's''
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~ ZION sthsI ynzIala,raOpla,J.

I. JAMEs A. HgApsIcE.t-,We hare known
him personally for over three years. and
,,peser g breath of suspicion catered our
bsair nor bad y ife and ctsiiareh any
ssno Hledge OF his lower of speech or the
sense of hearing. imagine our surprise for
him TO come into cur sanctun and corYerse
easily. he assured as he had never spoken
but twice In seven years. mot even when.
alone-and those two times BY accidenty
which canae near exposing him. We Trust
be may live Jet TO be a credit aud an honor
to his home aud county. He tias always
been liked and respected by those who
knew him. a IS. 81 a e E
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ToIusvuIR November 2y.-FIour quIeL auN uflp:
wheat dull at sl.10@t1.SQ: Corn active ana %
biet e new. sa@40c old, 69@oec; Cats dall a.
s8@3Sc. Rye quiet and uncfangso fso 9y sS6s
S 2ss RnIk. meats@Shoulders y@sYc; clear rio-
$sssss IoNaIITc.; clear sides: 11@1lhc: Last--
Here Her, isN@i4c.; key, I4z@l4ac. WnlaSey'
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-20

How A GEORGIA GIRL RESENTED AN
INsULT.-We have heard of a case of
civil rights that occurred few days ago
in Coffee county. A young lady had
been from home visiting a neighbor, and
on her return she was met in the road
by a rough, ignorant negro, who told
her the civil rights bill had passed, and
that it allowed him the privilege of
walking home with her. She knew it
would neither do to refuse or resist, so
she said nothing, and ne actually accom-
panied her home. When they arrived
she aked him to take a. chair on the piaz-
"a. He seated himself, and she went
into the house. When she returned,
she had her fathers double-barrel gun,
which she discharged at the villain,
blowing his brains out ON the spot. We
have given the particulars as near as
they could be related to us. The news
was brought up to Telfair court last
week, and was discussed there. The
names have been withheld. -,Sacaaaaah
Dispatch.
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THE LONGEST BALLOON VOYAGE
The longest balloon voyage ever made
has just been accomplished by some
members of the French Aerial Naviga-
ton Society, who have resolved to I'M
dertake series of night ascents for the
purpose of spectroscopic and electric OBJ
servations. The balloon which was
called the Zenith, contained five passen-
gers, and started from Paris, descending
near Bordeaux in IS hours. Several
valuable discoveries were made during
the trip. The aeronauts met with cur
rents of air in different directions when
sailing over the Lahdes. In the higher
regions hot wind directed them to the
ocean, and lower down, at 100 metres
(about 800 feet from the earth, cool
breeze took them inland. During the
night clear moon enabled them to see
the earth, and about 5 A. NJ. the moon
was encircled by a splendid cruciform
halo. The balloon crossed tire river
Gironde in 35 minutes, and four pigeons
were dispatched, none of which however,
have yet reached home. The lowest
temperature experienced was four de-
grees below zero Gent during the night.
Anent balloons, the cost of one in
France appears to be about e20O. The
silk for the upper part of the balloon is
worth Is. 4d. per yard, and that for the
lower portion, which must be considera-
bly, stronger as it has to hold the weight
of the car and ropes, about Is. Cd.
yard. The ropes and car come to about
eco and the labor to $40, and for bal
loon of similar size to the Zenith, which
made so successful a voyage last week,
1,29O yards of stuff are required. An
attempt to cross the Atlantic will be
made in the Autumn.-LOndon Graph
&c.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-20

Rich, But Nor PRoUD.-Mayor Har-
rison Ludington-may his tribe increase
is thoroughly democratic in his ideas
and manners.
Simplicity is the immediate jewel of
his soul.
He would rather give that blind organ
list at the street corner nickle, than to
dine with the President or he would
prefer walking three miles to view thor
eughbred Durham heifer, to driving out
with Queen.
He is that kind of man that likes to
go with his pants in his boots, and be
independent.
Yesterday morning, when there seem
ed deluge in the skies, "Bluff Old Hall
wanted two-year old steer driven down
to the South Side. There didn't hap
pen to be anybody around that cared for
the job, so the Mayor took it himself.
He turned.the animal loose, and, armed
only with his official gold-headed cane,
he began wading after that steer down
East Water street.
It was a sight to make granger love
his brother-or move into the city.
The steer seemed to be on friendly
terms with the Mayor and to understand
the drift of his conversation, for he mar
ched just where he was told to, and only
frisked his tail-instead of his hoofs-
when that officials gold headed cane tap
ped him ON the hip. The pouring rain,
the lively steer. the Mayor wading in the
mud, was a picture indeed and one,
that if the CHANGERS of Wisconsin could
have seen, would make it dangerously
probable that Bluff Old Hal would be-
come their favorite candidate for Gov
ernor Commercial Times
(DenaOcr0tic.)
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ABOUT ENGLISH oRTHoGRAPHY

If, merely as saving of labor, pho
netic spelling is to be enforced, we must
logically carry the same utilitarian prin-
ciple into style, and rigidly prune down
our sentences. to the boldest statements.
The terms that give color and round
ness; the phrases that ampify and ex-
pand; the touches that add grace and
charm-all must yield to the law OF con-
densation. If our present photography
occasions with writer's and printers
yearly loss of energy, as the Home
Journal estimates, equivalent to the ag-
gregate services of $4,000 men, then
much greater is the waste on account of
excuses of expression and e1uberance
of epithet. But the fact Is, life, and
culture and art are not to be brought to
this sort of mechanical compression.
They must have their ample spaces and
their free methods; and they initiate
nature itself in that abundance which
permits grace and beauty as we'll as
utility. But even on the ground of
pure utility there are formidable argu-
r1ents against reconstruction OF ORTIZ
ography. Phonetic spelling once made
common, all the books of the past would
become useless to the great majority Of
readers. Il generation or two, as
soon as the present spelling has become
entirely superseded, we should have to
reprint our Bibles, our histories, our
school-books, our poets, our classics
generally. This would be tremendous
cost, rather in excess of the advantage
of being able to compact current litera-
ture little.
We are very frequently told of the
difficulties of mastering our present or
biography. These are much exagger
ated, and the difficulties, such as they
are, have been enhanced by an absurd
use of the spelling book arbitrarily
memorizing words, instead of learning
them in sentences with association of
their meaning. In the acquisition of
language by foreigners the photography
is a small matter, the great difficulties
being the idioms and the pronunciation.
Learning foreign languages would be
comparatively easy we're the task merely
to learn the meaning and the construc-
ton of words. While upon this subject
let us say that, at least, something
might be done to obtain uniform
English spelling in all parts of the En-
glish-speaking world. Now, with many
words there is one method in England,
another in Boston, another in the West.
It is preposterous in the matter Of a
language that any one individual should
interpose his ideas and have his follow
ers, as we see in this country, where
Webster sets the authority for some and
Worcester for others. There ought to
be convention of delegates from Ok
ford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale;
this convention should agree upon the
correct photography of all the disputed
words, and it's declaration should be-
come the ultimate auth ority with us all.
-Appleton's Journal.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-20
AIJEE SAME MELICAN NAN.
The Chinese Held to be the Original
Inhabitants of America.

The attendance at the regular meeting
of the Academy of Sciences, says The
San Francisco Chronicle, was larger
than usual. DR.. Harknen presided.
The time of the meeting was p-inci-
pally occupied with the reading OF
carefully prepared paper by Charles ".
Brooks, on The Origin of the Chinese
Race, the object of the writer being to
prove that the first Mongolians came
from some part of this continent. prob
ably Peru. The argument may be sue
cinctly stated as follows: Central Asia
has hitherto had the credit of being the
cradle of mankind. Scientists say that
America is older, geographically, than
any part of the earth's surface. There
fore, in natural process of evolution, the
aboriginal man must have appeared on
this continent. in the vicinity OF the
first rocky elevation. The Chinese peo-
pie are unlike any other people on the
continent of Asia. They are hemmed
in by mountains, and the great wall
along the northern and western frontier.
They have had no other communication
with other Asiatic people from time
immemorial. According to this tradi-
ton. their first projeuitors landed on
the southern coast of China. In looking
for place where they might naturally
have been brought by favoring winds
and currents, our attention Is turned to
Peru. The records Of that country
show an immense antiquity. Their CIV
ilization was extremely ancient, and the
remnants of an almond-ey eyed race resem-
bling the Monaghan are found In the
Peruvian mountains and also about the
head waters of the Amazon. Peru had
an immense population 1000 years before
Christ. Early in the history OF the
world, the Peruvians possessed knowl-
edge of solar movements, the mariners
compass and hieroglyphics or picture
writing, An armed vessel or an invader
might have gone in sixty days from Peru
to the southern coast of China. Chi
nese records show that 1888 years before
Christ Fo Ri, stranger King, intro
duced the reconcile knowledge possess
ed by the Peruvians to the Chinese.
The lower roots of the Peruvian lido
crap are connected with the ZIG radicals
of the Chinese Language. These writings
occur all through Asia, and as far west
as the Pyramids.
The suggestions of these facts and
the many differences to be drawn from
them were elaborated with much speci-
fcation of detail. 1t was shown that
while Peru had at one time IL ,OO0, 900
of inhabitants. her inhabitants, her in
dustries had died out and her popula-
ton disappeared, China had gone on
increasing her population indefinitely,
and achieved high degree of civiliza-
ton. The paper was listened to with
interest, and applauded at the close.
The President stated that DIR. Guerin
would read an essay on the sewerage Of
San Francisco at the next meeting.
DR.. kellogg said a class was forming
for the purpose of studying the archiol-
ogy of America; he hoped it would be
well attended.
On motion of Judge Hastings, it was
decided to invite Hon. w. J. Shaw to
1. A f1o
regular meeting on hieroglyphles as ILL
ustrated by his own specimen.
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When does the sea remind of widow
hood9 When you see weeds upon it.